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After gaining momentum over the past four years, the Fifth Annual Dirksen Derby at Mt. Bachelor, Oregon blew away all previous events. Over 300 competitors showed up, more than double last years crowd, helping to raise a record $18,000 through entry fees, a silent auction, and water bottle sales. The proceeds were given to Tyler Eklund, a promising rider who was paralyzed from the neck down in 2007 while riding in a USASA contest when he was just 14. The Derby's namesake, Josh Dirksen, started it all to benefit Tyler, and in the process created a grass roots contest that keeps growing because of the vibe.
"It's just fun putting a smile on Tyler's face, and fun putting a smile on everyone's face here," said Josh. "I love seeing Tyler stoked and hanging with his buddies."
A testament to the event's reach, Terje was in attendance this year and took his timed runs along side everyone else. Despite his living legend status, no preferential treatment was given, and on Saturday Terje had to qualify for the finals the next day along with the other 179 men (Terje, of course, placed in the top ten). Of those riders, the 45 with the fastest combined time after running the two hand-dug banked slalom courses moved on. Only those who made the top three in previous years were exempt from Saturday's qualifiers, racing in their own elite division on Sunday.
The difference between making the cut or not was a matter of half seconds and as many egos were surely bruised as the asses of those that blew out of the tightly built berms. But perhaps the hardest part was less physical and more mental–the clocks at the end of the course were removed on race day, keeping riders in suspense as to how they had done until the official results were revealed.
Midway through the day, runs were put on hold for the splitboard division to practice before their race on Sunday. A sort of biathlon, splitboarders hiked from the bottom of the course to the top, assembled their boards, and then dropped into the slalom. At the same time Josh, Ryland Bell, Forrest Shearer, and Adam Haynes pulled Tyler to the top, giving him a chance to ride.
"Tyler does the Derby course on a sit ski—with someone driving—but he definitely feels it," said Josh. "You can watch him, he's banking into the turns with this head. He feels it just like we all do."
More than just a contest, Josh conceived the Derby as two days worth of events that continued off hill. On Friday night the kickoff party was held at the Poet House in Bend and on Saturday the Aaron Robinson (RIP) movie, Manifest, played at the Seventh Mountain Resort. Although mostly upbeat, featuring solid shredding by Aaron and crew, it also provided the weekend's one somber point, especially the scene of Aaron's memorial in Chile. The film's creator Sam Tuor hasn't decided how it will be released yet, but it's worth checking out once it comes out if only to see one of snowboarding's most passionate and most missed riders in action.
On Sunday, timed runs were once again put on hold for the splitboard race. Differing from practice, the actual race started with a sprint uphill from the top of the course around a stand of trees, followed by a Chinese downhill to the bottom where rider's disassembled their boards, then a splitboarded back to the top. Once racers had put their boards together they had to high-five either Scott E. Wittlake or Sam Hiltner, who guarded the drop-in gates, to lock in the dropping order.
After the sprint Forrest Burki got a huge lead on the pack by dropping in one-footed to the Chinese downhill, but soon slid out of control and was passed. Reaching Scott E. and Sam first was Ryland Bell, followed last years splitboard winner Adam Haynes, and Ralph Backstrom in third. That order essentially determined the winner as it was nearly impossible to pass on the course.
No doubt this race is a lung burner from hell. Last year, Ryland had to be hooked up to oxygen after his run, and this year almost all of the competitors were hurting for hours afterwards.
"I'm stoked," wheezed winner Ryland at the awards ceremony. "I didn't know if I had it in me. Adam's a seriously in shape, ripping dude, so it was tough. It really came down to how fast you could change over from splitboard mode."
Shortly after, it was revealed that the fastest rider on the course proper was Curtis Ciszek, who took the W from roommate and defending champion Austin Smith with a time of 57.55.
"It's great," Curtis said of kicking Austin's ass. "I had to live with his gloating for a year, now he's got a year to think about it."
"It's tied one-to-one," chimed in Austin. "Next year's the big one."
As for Tyler, he loved it all.
"It's cool that everyone could come do this," he said. "To see everyone come out and have fun, it's awesome."
Men's Elite
1st: Curtis Ciszek – 57:55
2nd: Austin Smith – 58:39
3rd: Scott E. Wittlake – 59.29
1st: Knut Eliassen – 57:94
2nd: Blair Habenicht – 58.22
3rd: Dustin Anderson – 58.25
4th: Terje Haakonsen – 58.29
1st: Maria Debari – 1:04.38
2nd: Macy Price – 1:04.74
3rd: Tie, Desiree Melancon and Kelly Underwood – 1:05.21
1st: Van Allen –1:03.41
2nd: Rayan Bailey –1:10.97
3rd: Peter Christensen – 1:13.27
Older & Wiser
1st: Gerry Lopez – 1:11.21
2nd: Reuben Valdivia – 1:15.00
3rd: Terry Luzier – 1:20.04
1st: Ryland Bell
2nd: Adam Haynes
3rd: Ralph Backstrom
Sit Ski
1st: Ravi Drugan – 1:16.47
2nd: Austin Sanders – 1:25.32
3rd: Melissa Sween – 6:43.65
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|Dev: Artdink
|Pub: Namco Bandai Games
|Release: January 28, 2014
|Players: 1 (2-8 Online)
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Cartoon Violence, Comic Mischief, Mild Language, and Mild Suggestive Themes
by Joshua Bruce
For years I have waited for a Dragon Ball Z game that could capture the essence of the series. A game that could bottle the sheer power, grit and fighting that spans several planets, dimensions, and times; a worthy game for a great anime series beloved the world over. Sadly, it looks like I'm going to have to keep waiting, because Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z is not that game.
Not that I expected it to be, as I have a lot of experience getting let down by DBZ games. The only ones to ever emerge that were worth more than the disc they were printed on were the Budokai games and maybe a couple of the older GameBoy Advance titles (like the Legacy of Goku series) that functioned kind of like a top-down RPG's. I mean, is this not clear to everyone in the gaming industry? Namco Bandai has an amazingly popular franchise with Dragon Ball Z, full of rich characters and storylines that could go on for an entire game series if done properly. But, for whatever reason, nobody has been able to nail the formula for the definitive DBZ game.
Battle of Z is no exception to the rule either. It is bland, boring and relatively poorly executed.
Prior to playing the game, I had a semi-optimistic outlook on it. I had heard that this game actually included story, had tons of characters, open-area fighting, and used cards like those from the CCG (Collectible Card Game.) Sounds pretty good right? Well, let's start with story.
The story of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z is only a story in the academic sense. There are things that happen, people speak words, ya'know that sort of thing. But it's about as interesting as staring at the sun for long periods of time, and almost as painful. Yes, Battle of Z does follow the story of the series, but following the story in this game is little more than a string of fights and boss battles that largely play out the exact same way every time. If variety is the spice of life, then Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z died in production.
The saddest part about this game is that it could have been good. If only it were more than selecting a few characters to go into pre-determined missions, on maps that look almost identical, for hours on end. Give us an open-world Dragon Ball Z experience please! Let me fly around as Goku trying to find all seven Dragon Balls; now that would be a game! But I digress.
There are several game mechanics that could have lent a helping hand to the waning game, if only they were utilized properly. Most notably the team focus that's woven into the game. On each outing, you will be able to select other Z fighters to aid in your battles. You can select up to 4 characters to face any mission, and while the extra firepower is welcome in some cases, in most it is wholly unnecessary. Most times, your cohorts will basically act as meat-shields or medics, healing you and taking damage so you don't have to. Sometimes they will send some energy your way so you can use better attacks, but never when you want them to and certainly not when you need it. Instead you will be cursed to use the same basic ranged Ki attacks until you recharge your energy meter enough to do some more damage. You can change the attack posture of your fellow fighters from aggressive to defensive and such, but I saw little difference in how they operated, so I never really found it necessary.

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Looking for a stylish new logo & symbol for a new brand of sneaker accessories called Shoeture. - see http://www.shoeture.com
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What Can We Learn About Doing Content-Based Educational Research on Teaching and Learning from the 30-Year History of Research in Chemical Education?
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This talk is based on the assumption that one of the functions of the National Center for Learning & Teaching is to promote basic research on teaching and learning within the content domain of nanoscale science and engineering. In order to understand what this might involve, we will look at the field of chemical education research, past and future, to see how research in that field has evolved over a period of slightly more than 30 years.
George Bodner is the Arthur E. Kelly Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Education, and Engineering at Purdue University. He began his academic career as a history/philosophy major at the institution now known as the University at Buffalo. He found, much to his amazement, that chemistry was fun, and changed his major under the mistaken impression that jobs were easier to find as a chemist. After a mediocre career as an undergraduate (B. S., 1969), he entered graduate school at Indiana University (Ph.D., 1972) where he apparently did well enough as a double major in inorganic and organic chemistry to gain an appointment as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois (1972-1975). Two things became self-evident during his tenure at Illinois. He found that teaching was fun, and he realized that his research could best be described as searching for definitive answers to questions no one ever asked. When the time came to leave Illinois, he therefore took a job as two-thirds of the chemistry faculty at Stephens College where he lasted for two years (1975-1977), teaching general, organic, inorganic, and biochemistry. He moved to Purdue University in 1977 to take a position in something known as "chemical education." He is the author of more than 120 papers and 48 books or laboratory manuals. His interests include the development of materials to assist undergraduate instruction, research on how students learn, and the history and philosophy of science. Several years ago, he was selected to receive the Nyholm Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Pimentel Award in Chemical Education from the American Chemical Society, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from his alma mater, the University at Buffalo.
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Microsoft: Office Mac Malware Only Affects Older OS X
Microsoft researchers analyzed a recently-discovered Mac backdoor Trojan and discovered that only users running unpatched Office for Mac on older OS X versions were vulnerable.
As Security Watch reported earlier, a Mac backdoor Trojan posing as a letter from a Tibetan leader to the United Nations Commission for Human Rights detailing China's human rights abuses allowed attackers to remotely control Macs and execute code. The booby trapped Word document (.doc only, not .docx) exploited a stack-based buffer overflow in Office for Mac, Microsoft Malware Protection Center's Jeong Wook Oh wrote on Apr. 30.
However, the exploit works only for Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard, and earlier. Mitigation technologies built in to OS X 10.7, or Lion, cause the exploit to fail.
"This target address is important, as, with Snow Leopard, we could confirm that it was used to exploit a specific location on the heap that is writable and also executable. The point is, that with Lion, that specific memory address can't be written, so the exploit fails," Oh wrote.
Malware Targets Older Software...
It shouldn't be surprising that older Macs are more vulnerable to malware. It's the same in the Windows world. Windows 7 is considered to be more secure than Windows XP or Vista.
At the moment, there are more users running Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) than Lion (10.7), which was released mid-2011. Apple claims over 30 percent of users running Lion in comparison to just under 50 percent for Snow Leopard. A quick check on Statowl.com shows the numbers closer to 50 percent for Snow Leopard and 28 percent for Lion.
Apple added "quite a few really cool features" to Lion, "some of which are why this threat does not work on that OS," Intego's Lysa Myers told Security Watch. This malware is yet another example why using outdated software is a "dangerously bad idea," she said.
Updating to Lion would protect users from many types of threats, but users need to start proactively updating installed applications, as well. Exploiting OS X is not all that different from other operating systems, according to Microsoft's Oh. "Your protection against security vulnerabilities has a direct correlation with updating installed applications," he wrote.
Microsoft recommended users running Microsoft Office 2004 or 2008 for Mac or the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac apply the patch.
...And Older Vulnerabilities
There have been a lot of reports recently about how malware writers (in the Windows world) tend to focus on vulnerabilities that have already been patched instead of zero-days. Cyber-criminals bank on the fact that users aren't patching the software on time, making it lucrative and easier to target older and already-known security issues.
The stack-based buffer overflow in Office for Mac being exploited by this malware was fixed back in June 2009, noted Oh.
"Malware authors can get away with using ancient vulnerabilities because many people are not taking care to update their software," Myers said.
The latest Flashback outbreak in April was another example of Mac users being targeted for running outdated software. That Trojan exploited a Java vulnerability which Oracle had fixed in February, but Apple did not roll out the patch to its users until almost six weeks later. Russian antivirus company Dr. Web estimated that nearly two-thirds of the Macs infected by the Flashback Trojan were running Snow Leopard.


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This motorcycle is powered by a 500-plus-hp V10 from a Dodge Viper. It is not a Dodge Tomahawk. Some crazy British guy built this sucker, and the loony bastard actually rides it. Awesome.
The motorcycle you see here made a surprise appearance at Cassington Bike Night near Witney, England. It was built by Allen Millyard, the man who appeares to be sitting on it in the image below, and the same guy who once built a V-12-powered '70s Kawasaki. The bike isn't news — it made the bike-blog/magazine rounds in summer of last year — but it's still pretty awesome.
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Portage woman pleads guilty in fatal hit-and-run
VALPARAISO, Ind.
(AP) - A judge will decide June 24 whether to accept a plea agreement
between prosecutors and a northwest Indiana woman in the hit-and-run death
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Malta and Libya on October 18, 2011. Secretary Clinton was the first Secretary of State in the United States to visit Malta in more than two decades. She met with Maltese Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and thanked the government and people of Malta for their extraordinary response to the events of this last year and to reaffirm the strong partnership and friendship between our two countries.
There are three main purposes to the Secretary's visit to Libya. First is simply to offer on behalf of the American people and government, congratulations and best wishes to the Libyan people for what, through great hardship, sacrifice, and courage, they have achieved in opening the door to a more promising future for Libya after 42 years of the Qadhafi dictatorship.
The second area of focus for the Secretary's trip will be the whole range of transition-related issues, the way moving forward. The third area that the Secretary is going to want to talk about is for an expanded deeper partnership between Libya and the United States, both at the official level and between the Libyan people and the people of the United States.
You can follow the Secretary's travel here on www.state.gov.
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Caption this photo; "Diplomacy in motion"
Kind of reminds me of Bono and the treasury secretary of the last Admin stepping off the plane in Africa after getting the Pope's blessing for AIDS relief like the Blues brothers on a "mission from God", shades and all.
And this trip marks a new beginning in US /Lybia relations as nations just as with many who benefit from America's willingness to help bring societies hope for a better future in solidarity with common principals.
If Lybia serves as a model for anything, it is in a people's universal desire for freedom and the latest example of what it sometimes takes to achive that.
And until Ghaddafi is found hiding like a cornered rat, then the stage has not been properly swept clean for peace of mind to sink in, and nation building is the only thing on people's minds.
It's not about any example of functional clarity and economy of rational acxtion brought forth by the international community, but the simple fact that the Lybian people have shone folks worldwide how to get the job done, in the most dire of circumstances, and folks will still be citing their victory over oppresion in comparison with the battle of Brittan in terms of significance a hundred years hense.
If they can maintain pride in their solidarity, then the debates over what nation the want to create won't be settled by live fire, unless verbal from a bully pulpit, and hopefully that of a voice of common sense.
Just as anyone would hope transpires continually in my own country...(chuckle).
If I were the President wondering about his chances for getting re-elected, I'd be lookin' at that multi-million dollar war chest and what use I might put to it, to improve the lives of a few people...$ 5,000 -10,000 to every soup kitchen in America would do a lot to assure the less fortunate among us get fed through this winter, and I wouldn't need to line the pockets of the corporate media to get re-elected 'cause I'd be calling that "capaign finance reform" and bloody well getting away with that, 'cause all of America would know I'd juist taken a creative approach to having folks back when thge chips were down, and that's not a liberal thing...that's conservation of a society at play, folks.
Oh, and it might set a pretty fair example for other world leaders in model respects.
Feed people and you earn their respect.
Free people, and you earn their friendship.
It's simple.
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Florida Keys Real Estate - Market Update for September 10th thru September 16th, 2012
It was a busy week last week in the real estate market, with 62 new listings coming onto the market, 51 properties going under contract and 37 properties closing!
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I have seen bad drivers. I have seen drivers weave, I have seen drivers bob, I have seen drivers head directly into oncoming traffic. I have never seen a driver so bad, so awful, so head-shakingly silly, that they actually manage to set off a chain reaction of other accidents around them.
"Flee! Flee, your life depends on it," the other cars seem to scream. No, not the drivers, the actual cars. Because at some point, the innate drive for self-preservation, if it's strong enough, will animate even mechanical objects.
First, the Crazyvan heading to Crazytown smashes into the car in front, and then it backs up for another go. Desperate to get out of the way, other cars start dinging up each other.
Finally, Crazyvan heads directly for the intersection, where it's promptly hit by a trolleybus, putting it out of its misery.
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This a review of a paper by some reasearchers who have developed a method of translating the sound of keystokes into text. The method requires only fifteen minutes of recorded material to be useful. Apparently passwords are somewhat difficult because the program is designed to take advantage of characteristics of English, but it can produce a short list, and as it says, one which usually includes the actual key. Presumeably if the program was modified to take into account period of time around keystrokes, picking up passwords would be much easier.
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Watching the first scene of Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out," anyone who ever saw the 1950's musical "Damn Yankees" might take one look at the six baseball players lined up in their pinstripes and expect them to burst into the barbershop harmony of "You Gotta Have Heart." But this is quite a different sort of baseball story.
That is clear from the moment its hero, Darren Lemming (Schuyler Yancey), a biracial golden-boy player for whom everything goes right, holds a news conference. "Any boy can go out and become a ballplayer," Darren announces. "Or an interior decorator." Darren's coming out as gay sets the play's events in motion.
The Broadway production, which won the Tony Award for best play in the 2002-3 season, was outstanding. And in some ways, the Theaterworks version (a co-production with Hartford Stage) is even better.
The smaller theater creates a helpful intimacy in a story that is at least partly about the difficulties of emotional and physical but not sexual closeness. The tiny space could have made the full frontal male nudity in the play, which is considerable, seem blatant. But Mr. Greenberg was smart enough to make the first nude scene a particularly comic one in which the character's casual nakedness is the better part of the joke. Then the play has the marvelous audacity to stage a scene in which half a dozen naked men shower together and deliver meaningful, plot-advancing dialogue at the same time.
And make no mistake. "Take Me Out" is meaningful, in its questioning of destiny, identity, morality, responsibility and communication. It is also blissfully funny. In fact, it is so consistently humor-laden that when a sudden, fatal accident occurs in Act II, some audience members at a recent performance laughed, apparently interpreting it as just a wacky moment of physical comedy.Continue reading the main story
Michael Balsley is flawlessly cast as Shane Mungitt, a good ol' boy up from the minor leagues who stirs up a public relations crisis when he casually shares his feelings about his new teammates -- their various ethnicities, nationalities and sexual orientations, that is.
But Nat DeWolf is the highlight of the show as the lovable Mason Marzac, a gay Chelsea accountant who finds sports distasteful until he takes on Darren as a client and discovers a passion greater than any he has known before: baseball. (Denis O'Hare won a featured-actor Tony for the same role.)
Mr. DeWolf's Act I monologue, which shows off Rob Ruggiero's expert direction, is a joyous emotional crescendo, as Mason observes, "Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." Mason also waxes rhapsodic about the fact that when the ball is hit out of the park, there is no real need to do anything but tally the score and bring on the next batter, but (and this is what he loves) the home-run hitter circles the bases anyway.
No Exit
A few blocks away, a four-person cast is making wondrously clear just how theatrically satisfying mid-20th-century French existentialism can be.
Your reaction to "No Exit" (originally "Huis Clos," or "Closed Doors"), Jean-Paul Sartre's eternally remarkable 1944 comic drama about three dead people on their first day in hell, may depend on how fragile or tortured you're feeling at that particular moment. But even the most peaceful of mind and soul can appreciate its lighter sides.
Hartford Stage's superb new production stars Will LeBow as Garcin, a pacifist newspaperman whose good works have not bought him a ticket to heaven; Karen MacDonald as Estelle, who is pretty sure she is being punished because of an unfortunate incident with her new baby; and Paula Plum as Inez, who left her husband for another woman, then was involved in a double suicide.
The three are joined by the cartoonish, rotund, unblinking Valet (Remo Airaldi), whose finest moment involves an electrocution.
The use of a seesaw platform as a stage could have been a distracting gimmick, but Jerry Mouawad (who both directed and designed the set, which he first employed at the Imago Theater in Portland, Ore., in 1998) uses it as a powerful visual comment on human interdependency.
The three "absentees" from life, as they decide to call themselves, learn a great deal about the nature of eternal damnation during their first hours together. There are no torturers wielding horrible weapons, as they had feared. The torture, they realize, is mostly self-inflicted. "It's like a cafeteria," Inez says, "where customers serve themselves."
They also find that they can see what is going on back on Earth among the living. "It's so far away," Estelle says, with a hint of Thornton Wilder poignancy. "I can't hear a sound. So. That's it. The end. All over."
Garcin is involved in two of the play's crucial revelations. When Inez asks why he hurt his wife so much (he was openly unfaithful), Garcin answers: "Because it was easy. Anything could make her cry." And when escape suddenly seems a step or two away, Garcin cannot bring himself to leave his prison -- not until he can convince Inez that he was not a coward, which makes Sartre's message, at least this part of it, something about the pure but seemingly unattainable redemption in learning to let go.
Old Wicked Songs
The playwright Michael Christofer and an impressive newcomer, Joe Paulik, have real chemistry in the Westport Country Playhouse's absolutely lovely new production of Jon Marans's "Old Wicked Songs," directed by Loy Arcenas.
The formidable Mr. Christofer (who ought to act more) plays Josef Mashkan, an Austrian singing teacher who, for sad reasons revealed later in the play, has only one student. That student is Stephen Hoffman (Mr. Paulik), an arrogant young American piano prodigy who is being forced to take this course as part of what he hopes will be his comeback.
The play, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is set in Vienna in 1986 when Kurt Waldheim, whose Nazi background had recently been revealed, was running for the presidency of Austria. Anti-Semitism is the theme here. Mashkan makes comments like "Why does everyone harp on the Jews?" and suggests that "The Merchant of Venice" was an accurate reflection of Jewish character. Stephen, who has said he is Protestant, ultimately acknowledges that he is Jewish and announces his plan to visit the death camp at Dachau.
Judaism is hardly their only conversational topic, though. Mashkan tells Stephen, during their first meeting, "I'll bet you're lousy in bed," and, at another point, "You're stranger than you look." But other observations run deep.
The two men's differing opinions on contemporary architecture, for instance, lead to a discussion of Mashkan's belief that "streamlining" simply means removing beauty and significance, and to his conviction that great music comes only from a blend of sadness and joy and that because "England has not had prolonged national suffering," it has had, in his opinion, no truly great composers. The haunting music of Robert Schumann, which is a rich element in "Old Wicked Songs," proves that Germany has certainly had its share.
It was a very good week in Connecticut theater.
"Take Me Out" is at Theaterworks, 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, through Dec. 3. Information: (860) 527-7838 or theaterworkshartford.org. "No Exit" is at Hartford Stage, 50 Church Street, through Nov. 12. Information: (860) 527-5151 or hartfordstage.org. "Old Wicked Songs" is at Westport Country Playhouse, 25 Powers Court, through Nov. 5. Information: (203) 227-4177 or westportplayhouse.org.
Correction: November 12, 2006, Sunday A review on Oct. 29 of Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" at Hartford Stage mistated the theater company that produced the play. It was the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., not the Hartford Stage.Continue reading the main story


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Well, things are obviously quite a bit different. The account bound mounts, pets, and acheivements are pretty cool.
The new talent trees are kinda meh. They are the same for every single spec from what I have seen. No different choices one way or another. There are some fun ones, but overall it seemed pretty meh.
I have only played my Rogue in a run through BWL. It was about the same playstyle except I now get combo points from using fan of knives. FRICKIN SWEET.
I also find that the new glyphs are quite fun. I am also selling a lot of them. One douchebag who has been in the market a long time pushed them all down to 50 gold on the second day after the patch. He is a little bitch.
My wife had fun with some of her Druid Shenanigans such as turning into an Orca and actually being able to ride mounts in Boomkin form. A Boomkin looks hilarious on some of the mounts.....well, make that all of the mounts.
I wont be able to play as much over the next few weeks (or be posting as much for that matter unless I decided to pre-write some) due to having friends come up to visit.
On an unrelated note.....I got into a game of MW3 yesterday where there were a couple of blatant ass hackers. They didnt just aimbot, they had godmode. You could not kill them. I dont know what the point of that is. How can that possibly be fun? Running around and quick scoping (terribly might I add) while being unable to die. We still beat their ass in drop zone 7500-2500. Kills dont mean shit and I always play the objective. It made for a pretty weak K/D game, but it is always satisfying beating dumb ass hackers.


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UN experts leave Syria as US prepares to attack
U.N. experts investigating a poison gas attack in Syria left the country on Saturday, paving the way for the United States to lead military strikes to punish President Bashar al-Assad.world Updated: Aug 31, 2013 22:13 IST
UN experts investigating a poison gas attack in Syria left the country on Saturday, paving the way for the United States to lead military strikes to punish President Bashar al-Assad.
US President Barack Obama said the United States, which has five cruise-missile equipped destroyers in the region, was planning "limited, narrow" military action to punish Assad for an attack that Washington said killed 1,429 people.
"We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale," Obama said on Friday after Washington unveiled an intelligence assessment concluding Assad's forces were to blame for the attack.
The August 21 attack - the deadliest single incident of the Syrian civil war and the world's worst use of chemical arms since Iraq's Saddam Hussein gassed thousands of Kurds in 1988 -has galvanized a reluctant Washington to use force after two and a half years on the sidelines.
After laying out the case in a televised speech, US secretary of state John Kerry spoke on Friday to the foreign ministers of European and Gulf allies and the head of the Arab League. He and other top administration officials were due to hold a classified briefing for Democratic and Republican senators on Saturday, the White House said.
France is also expected to join any US strikes.
"The chemical massacre in Damascus cannot and must not go unpunished. Otherwise we'd run the risk of an escalation that would trivialise the use of these arms and put other countries at risk," French President Francois Hollande said on Friday.
The team of UN experts drove up to Beirut International Airport on Saturday after crossing the land border into Lebanon by road earlier in the day. No Western intervention had been expected as long as they were still on the ground in Syria.
The 20-member team had arrived in Damascus three days before the Aug. 21 attack to investigate earlier accusations. After days holed up in a hotel, they visited the sites several times, taking blood and tissue samples from victims in rebel-held suburbs of Damascus and from soldiers at a government hospital.
Other UN agencies have also pulled staff from Syria, and countries have warned citizens away from neighbouring Lebanon.
"Most of the mid-level and non-essential staff left on Thursday. The heads of the various agencies have stayed behind, together with a skeleton local staff," a UN source said from Damascus on Saturday.
Washington says it need not wait for the inspectors to report, since it is already certain poison gas was used and convinced Assad's forces were behind it. The inspectors mandate is to determine if chemicals were used, not who used them.
Polls show military intervention is unpopular in the United States, France and other Western countries. Obama acknowledged that Americans were "war weary" after 12 years of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the longest wars in American history.
Rebel provocation
Such weariness cost Washington the support of its closest ally: Britain has also backed action but was forced to pull out of the coalition after Prime Minister David Cameron unexpectedly lost a vote over it in parliament on Thursday, straining London's "special relationship" with Washington.
Kerry said Washington must act to protect itself and its allies, including Syria's neighbours Turkey, Jordan and Israel, from future use of banned weapons.
"If we choose to live in the world where a thug and a murderer like Bashar al-Assad can gas thousands of his own people with impunity" it would embolden others, such as Iran, Hezbollah and North Korea, Kerry said.
Syria and its main ally Russia say rebels carried out the gas attack as a provocation. Moscow has repeatedly used its UN Security Council veto to block action against Syria and says any attack would be illegal and only inflame the civil war there.
"I am convinced that (the chemical attack) is nothing more than a provocation by those who want to drag other countries into the Syrian conflict," President Vladimir Putin said.
Syria's foreign ministry repeated its denial that the government had used chemical weapons against its own people.
Kerry's accusations were a "desperate attempt" to justify a military strike. "What he said was lies," the ministry said.
Washington says the Syrian denials are not credible, and the rebels would not have been able to launch such an attack.
Syria neighbour Turkey backs the use of force. The Arab League, whose members mainly oppose Assad, has said Syria is to blame for the chemical attack but so far stopped short of explicitly endorsing Western military strikes. Arab League foreign ministers are due to meet in Cairo on Sunday.
Iran, Assad's main ally in the region, has condemned plans for strikes and warned of wider war.
Read more: Obama weighs 'limited, narrow' action against Syria
Residents prepare for strikes
In Syria itself, Damascus residents readied for a strike.
A man named Youssef carried a small plastic bag bulging with personal documents. "Do I put them in my parents' home? My in-laws? At work? I don't know which area is safer, I don't know where to hide them," he told a friend.
Doctors in the outskirts of the capital said they were training up teams and trying to secure shipments sent in by aid groups of atropine and oxygen to treat poison gas victims.
"We worry about another chemical weapons attack should foreign powers carry out the strike, as some kind of revenge," said Abu Akram, a doctor in the rebel-held suburb of Arbin.
Rebels said they were planning to take advantage of a strike to launch an offensive. Qassim Saadeddine, a former Syrian army colonel and spokesman for the rebels' Supreme Military Council, said rebel groups had been sent a military plan of action.
"The hope is to take advantage when some areas are weakened by any strikes. We ordered some groups to prepare in each province, to ready their fighters for when the strike happens," he said by Skype. "They were sent a military plan that includes preparations to attack some of the targets we expect to be hit in foreign strikes, and some others we hope to attack at the same time."
Syria's civil war has killed more than 100,000 people and driven millions from their homes since 2011, when Assad's forces cracked down on street protests and his enemies took up arms.
The war splits the Middle East on its main faultline between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims and has already spread to neighbouring Iraq and Lebanon, threatening to reignite their own civil wars.
Despite demanding Assad step down, the United States and its Western allies have not provided rebels with arms to unseat him, much less intervened along the lines of NATO air strikes that brought down Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
After rebel gains, Syrian government forces returned to the offensive this year with the aid of fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah Shi'ite militia. Limited strikes of the sort Obama envisions would do little to end the stalemate.
The rebels are mostly majority Sunnis, fighting rule by Assad's Alawite minority sect, an off-shoot of Shi'ite Islam.
They are armed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia and train in Turkey and Jordan, all ruled by Sunnis. Assad is armed by Shi'ite Iran.
Some of the most successful rebel groups are fiercely anti-Western Sunni Islamists allied to al Qaeda, and the West is wary of arming the opposition for fear of weapons reaching them.
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Attorney General Zoeller touts Indiana 'Do Not Call' registry
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller is urging shoppers taking advantage of
on-line sales to add one more item to the list: signing up for Indiana's Do
Not Call registry.
Zoeller said he extended the registration deadline from today to 11 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 26, to give Hoosiers more time during the busy holiday to
sign-up their cellular and landline phone numbers.
"More than 2 million phone lines are registered on the state's protected
list," Zoeller said in a statement released on Tuesday. "Signing up will at
least fend off legitimate telemarketers from calling or texting you and
allow you to file a complaint with the Attorney General's Office if you
receive an unwanted call."
The Attorney General's Office has obtained 50 settlements or judgments since
2009 against robocallers and Do Not Call violators. The total awarded to the
state since 2009 is more than $4.8 million and the total collected is more
than $670,000.
Consumers who have not previously registered can do so on their landline,
cell, VOIP or prepaid wireless numbers at no cost. Zoeller said the updated
list will take effect Jan. 1, 2013.
To sign up or to confirm a number is already on the list, visit
www.IndianaConsumer.com or call (888) 834-9969. Out-of-state area codes can
also be added as long as the billing address is located in Indiana.
Consumers do not need to re-register unless their addresses have changed.
Indiana's Do Not Call registry is updated quarterly on the first of each
January, April, July and October.
Zoeller recently launched a new portion of www.IndianaConsumer.com which
includes information on robocalls. Consumers can find out what the Attorney
General's Office is doing to combat the calls and what to do if you receive
a robocall by visiting
In September, Zoeller conducted a series of roundtable discussions with
industry experts, elected officials, and consumer groups to find more
effective ways to prevent Hoosiers from receiving unwanted calls and text
messages. Zoeller recently presented ideas from the roundtables during a key
panel at the Federal Trade Commission's Robocall Summit in Washington, D.C.


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The broken nose Clippers guard Jamal Crawford suffered in Toronto on Feb. 1 still is a bit of a nuisance to him, but not any more of an annoyance than the mask he had to wear to protect the injury.
He's ditched it.
"The mask? No," Crawford said before Wednesday's game against Houston at Staples Center. "The mask was the best defender I've seen this year.
"Honestly, I was like 'Oh, no.' I couldn't even see my feet."
What is hampering Crawford the most occurred on the same play, when he also injured his shoulder.
"Right now the shoulder (hurts most)," Crawford said. "I find myself even when I'm home doing this (simulating a shot) just to try to keep it loose.
"The last trip was probably the most banged up I've been in my career, like different things. I had a thigh contusion; I can talk about it now. Back then I didn't want to talk about it. It seemed like you're just a true warrior or something."
Crawford played in seven of the eight games on the Clippers' recent road trip, which pretty much was out of necessity with Blake Griffin, Chauncey Billups and Chris Paul healing from injuries.
Crawford, naturally, hit the first shot he took against the Rockets.
"I'm hoping it stays stiff a little while longer the way he's shooting it," Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said.
Where are we?
The Clippers played their first home game since Jan. 27 and go back on the "road" tonight to play the Lakers. Then they'll have a week off for the All-Star break before resuming with a three-game homestand.
"It seems like we've been gone forever," Crawford said. "I'm just sitting here taking it in. It felt weird shooting out there."
Three Clippers are headed for Houston this weekend for the All-Star festivities – Griffin and Paul for the game and Eric Bledsoe for the slam dunk competition.
"We want them to enjoy the experience but also make sure they get their rest," Del Negro said. "They've missed some games but we want to make sure they get their therapy, but also enjoy the weekend."
He's back
Caron Butler was a game-time decision after missing Monday's game with a sore lower back.
In the first quarter against Houston, he went 7 of 9 from the field, including making all three of his 3-point attempts, and scored 17 points.
His season high heading into the game was 33 points on Nov. 26.


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Now that the snow on the ground last time Apple updated Mac OS X in November has finally begun to melt (if you're somewhere Northerly, anyway), Apple has finally gotten around to releasing yet another Snow Leopard update. Version 1.6.3 brings a number of updates to speed, security and compatability for OS X users.
What will it do, exactly? Glad you asked. According to Apple, the 1.6.3 update will:
- improve the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X
- address compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
- address an issue that causes background message colors to display incorrectly in Mail
- resolve an issue that prevented files with the # or & characters in their names from opening in Rosetta applications
- resolve an issue that prevented files from copying to Windows file servers
- improve performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode
- improve sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand
- address a color issue in iMovie with HD content
- improve printing reliability
- resolve issues with recurring events in iCal when connected to an Exchange server
- improve the reliability of 3rd party USB input devices
- fix glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight camera
Full information on the exact security fixes can be found on another Apple support document. The full update weighs in at a whopping 719MB.


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Who's that peeking in the window, Kobe Bryant?
From a distance, some would say it looks a little like Father Time.
Chris Webber, knows what it feels like, too, having piled up the accolades during a star-studded NBA career that spanned nearly two decades, only to succumb (like so many) to FT on his way out of the league. So when he says he had to turn off the TV as he watched Oklahoma City All-Stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook attack a defenseless Kobe or that he sees things in Kobe's game right now that make him pause, we should all listen up and take note of his observations.
Same goes for his insights on Mike Woodson and the New York Knicks, life after basketball and host of other topics that he was kind enough to discuss with us on Episode 142 of the Hang Time Podcast. Our last show of the calendar year also features the longtime "Voice of the Pacers," Mark Boyle, who shares his insights and wisdom about one of hottest teams in the league.
Toss in Lang Whitaker's sit down with Will Ferrell and the cast of Anchorman 2, and we should have you covered on Episode 142 of the Hang Time Podcast featuring Chris Webber and Mark J. Boyle.
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Though Google's autonomous vehicles have made progress in recent years, several large technological barriers stymie researchers.
Self-driving vehicles are the future, according to futurists everywhere. And perhaps having Google at the forefront of autonomous vehicle development partially accounts for our level of confidence in the technology. But according to a Business Insider writer with ties to someone "close to the company," Google is facing some problems with its self-driving vehicles.
Here are the three challenges the company is currently facing with the cars, according to Business Insider:
Snow: The vehicles, like humans, largely rely on the use of visual sensors to navigate roads. But snow is reportedly problematic for Google's vehicles because it can cover lane markers and other visual cues needed by the vehicle to continue driving safely.
New or Changing Roads: One of the advantages of Google's automated cars is that they contain every road, highway and sidestreet documented in Google Maps. When a Google autonomous vehicle comes across a road not yet entered into its map system, however, the car can get lost. Someday, autonomous vehicles may be able to learn and improvise in such situations, but solving such a complex artificial intelligence problem may take some time.
Taking Human Direction: Google's autonomous vehicles also have trouble navigating through areas where traffic is being directed by a human using hand signals, such as a construction zone or a crowded parking lot, according to Business Insider. Much of Google's work in making its autonomous vehicles work well has been a matter of designing the car's sensors to identifty signs and combine "knowledge" of maps and data with discrete sensory input. The problem of decoding human behavior and ambiguous hand gestures is a separate problem that engineers may need to overcome before Google's cars are considered safe enough to enter mass distribution.
And according to an engineer Business Insider spoke with, none of these problems are insurmountable. The engineer's view, according to the article, is that self-driving technology will enter cars gradually and eventually progress toward the fully-automated electronic chauffeur.


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Ca$h Out Reveals 'Exclusive' Song With B.o.B., Talks Kendrick Lamar Support, 'Keisha' Mixtape
Ca$h Out knows the secret to rap success: delivering a product that forces people to believe in you, whether it's onstage or on a record. That's how he became a fan of Kendrick Lamar. "When I went to Kendrick Lamar's show in Arizona, I had a set before him that night but I stayed to watch," he tells TheDrop.fm. "His set made me go buy his album the next day when I got back to my city."
The Atlanta rapper admits he wasn't too familiar with the Compton emcee's catalog previously but knew 'Swimming Pools' was taking off on radio. "I wasn't a fan a day before the show, just being real, but I definitely am now," the 22-year-old Georgia native admits. "Once I had that show with him, I was just like, 'Man! I gotta go buy his album and see what he's talking 'bout…'"
He's perfected his own stage show since arriving on the scene this year. One particular performance in New York City stands out the most. Ca$h Out says that set cemented his place amongst the most exciting new rappers in 2012. "I performed 'It's My Time' in New York and you know that's a hard crowd, but I had a great show," he recalls. "I did 12 songs and I was like, 'Man, this is my first show in New York and they know the whole tape!'"
"Then I did the new song, 'The Curb' and…," he pauses. "I guess it's just how I deliver a show. People just gravitate to my show, whether or not I perform a song that they know or a song that's new. They just feel my vibe, I guess, and they're like, 'Well, we gotta rock with him.'
The Epic Records signee has hopes to build an even bigger brand with the release of his new mixtape, 'Keisha,' released this week. The effort features guest appearances from French Montana and fellow Atlantans Diamond and Gucci Mane. The latter became an instant fan of the young spitter after hearing the Wale-assisted 'Hold Up,' off his previous mixtape 'It's My Time.' "Me and [Gucci's manager] Coach K are good friends," Cash continues, incredulous. "He heard the 'Hold Up' record and was like, 'Get me in touch with that guy.' When I played the 'The Curb' for him, he was like, 'Man! You know this beat right here is my type of flavor.' He just went in there and did it ASAP!"
The decision to move on 'The Curb' is one of the best choices Ca$h Out could have made to close out the year -- the song is quickly gaining popularity. "It was just a track for the streets," he explains. "Even though it's catching on like it's a single, but it's not, it's just something for the streets to keep that street foundation still under me."
There's something about him that makes other artists want to take notice. Wale stopped by Ca$h Out's 'Keisha' listening session in Atlanta last week, and B.o.B. signed on to collaborate on a track for his upcoming debut LP, 'Patience.' "B.o.B. really believed in me as an artist," he shares. "When he did the song, it wasn't no 'Hey, give me this money,' or 'Hey, do this or do that.' We met up in New York and he was real genuine.
With the money he has, you don't expect people to be like that, but I love real people like that, that have that amount of success and they be all overseas and can still come back to a dude like me -- a new up-and-comer in the game -- and be like, 'Let's work.' "
Although Ca$h Out isn't at liberty to give too many details on the album, he vows that it's "a great, great body of work." The lead single, 'Exclusive,' features a verse from Bobby Ray that inspired him to modify his own lyrics. "I had to get B.o.B. on there with me," the rhymer states, "And just bring his fan base from that world into it." Then with a chuckle, he adds, "He actually went harder than me, just being real. I had to go in and change a couple things."
Watch Ca$h Out's 'The Curb' Video


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Felony Theft Under Investigation in Missoula [AUDIO]
Sometime on the evening of Sunday, March 3, one or perhaps more individuals broke into Missoula Concrete Construction and stole two valuable pieces of equipment.
Missoula County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jason Johnson said these suspects cut the lock off a storage container and took a Dewalt air compressor worth about $400.00 and an Onan portable generator valued at over $1500.00. Johnson said the generator probably took more than one person to carry, so it is suspected that at least two suspects took part in the alleged break-in.The total value of the missing items constitutes a felony theft.
Johnson said other tools and equipment were also taken from the business.
Anyone with information about this alleged theft is asked to call the Missoula County Sheriff's Department at 258-4810 or Missoula Crimestoppers at 721-44-44.
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Note: Tom Robertson's research into the Robertson and allied families came to an abrupt end on the 18th of June, 2010, when he died unexpectedly following what should have been routine surgery to remove his gall bladder. He was 59.
Apart from the thoroughness of his research and the passion he had for the precise transmisson of history through the medium of genealogy, Tom was simply one hell of a guy. He was enigmatic in a time when it is usually all too easy to categorize people into neat slots. While we differed in opinions on many topics -- most notably politics -- we saw eye-to-eye when it came to genealogy and the need for rigid scholarship in the field, something often sorely lacking in the plethora of unsourced material so prevalent on the internet. Quite simply, Tom was my friend, my compatriot, my research partner. I have put off the task of reworking portions of this site -- even of commenting publicly about his death -- simply because the subject has been too painful.
Through the generosity of several people interested in his research into the Robertson lines, the continued existence of this site has been assured for several years to come. This is, without a doubt, the finest memorial he could have asked for. Control of these pages has passed to me, and it is a monumental responsibility. I have begun simply, by performing a little house-keeping. I have done a little cleaning up of the HTML code to remove all the code that generates new windows for links (except the links to PDF files) and adding notes to off-site links. I also hope to add new resources (such as newly-available military records) as they come to my attention. I will not be making any major changes to the work Tom has done; that would be more than a little presumptuous, given his superior talents in that arena.
If you have corrections, additions or comments of any other kind concerning this site or the information housed here, you can contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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AMD Radeon HD 6670 and HD 6570 Graphics Card Review - Turks GPU is sub-$100
Introduction and the new Turks GPU
It seems that the graphics card wars have really heated up recently. With the release of the Radeon HD 6990 4GB and the GeForce GTX 590 3GB card it might seem that EVERYONE was spending $600 on their next GPU purchase. Obviously that isn't the case and the world of the sub-$100 card, while way less sexy, is just as important.
This week AMD has announced a slew of new options to address this market including the Radeon HD 6670, HD 6570 and even the HD 6450. Topping out at $99, the Radeon HD 6670 offers good performance, strong HTPC features and low power consumption. NVIDIA's competition is still reasonable though as we compare how the now price-dropped GeForce GTS 450 sits into the stack.
A Set of New GPUs - Turks and Caicos
The new GPUs from AMD are actually new die spins, complete with unique codenames of Turks and Caicos. Based on the HD 6800-series Barts achitecture, Turks is applied to both the HD 6670 and HD 6570 while Caicos is the handle given to the lowest cost HD 6450 offering that was actually released last week.
As with most graphical competitions at this low of a price point, AMD spent most of their time talking about how the HD 6600/6500/6400 cards can upgrade the experience of the users when compared to integrated graphics of Sandy Bridge or even previous Lynnfield-based platforms. Even with the vast improvements in GPU performance found on the Sandy Bridge platform, the truth is that there is a lot of room for expansion and upgrades from NVIDIA and AMD.
This screenshot compares Battlefield 2: Vietnam running on a Core i5 processor versus on the same CPU with the AMD Radeon HD 6670 handling the graphics load. Even at a resolution of 1366x768, the game runs much better and creates a much better gaming experience on the discrete solution. A framerate of 7 versus one of 42 is more than noticeable.
Of course, you can likely PLAY BF2: Vietnam on the Intel-only solution by decreasing image quality settings to a level below that of the discrete AMD option but this is a solid apples-to-apples comparison.
HQV is a video quality benchmark that can be somewhat subjective, but AMD is demonstrating that even with the improved video processing engines in the Sandy Bridge based design, a discrete solution can provide a better experience for upgraders in more than just gaming.
For our testing today we are going to be looking at the Radeon HD 6570 and the HD 6670, saving the HD 6450 for a separate piece. The HD 6570, otherwise known (by me) as Turks Minor, is a DX11 GPU capable of handling up to 3 simultaneous display outputs and also Eyefinity cross-monitor gaming. Obviously running more than one display on a lower cost, lower performing card can cause some headaches as we probably don't recommend it, at least it is an option for those of you with low resolution monitors. The card will be offered in both 512MB and 1GB options (though our testing sample is a 512MB variety) and will also come in both GDDR5 and DDR3 options.
The HD 6570 is a 40nm GPU of 716M transistors and 480 stream processors. Those computing cores run at a reasonable but modest 650 MHz at 60 watts for the GDDR5 model and only 44 watts for the DDR3. All of the specifications remain the same across both card options except when we get to the memory bandwidth that jumps from 4 Gbps (64GB/s) on the GDDR5 card all the way down to 1.8 Gbps (28.8 GB/s). This difference will without a doubt result in significant performance differences so if you are looking for a HD 6570 card in the future, make sure you lean towards the GDDR5 options available.
The Radeon HD 6670 card is based on the same GPU technology but can support 4 displays (add-in card vendor design specific though) and runs at a slightly higher 66 watt maximum power consumption.
Turks Major (again, I just made that up) still sports 716M transistors at 40nm and 480 stream processors, but increases the clock speed up to 800 MHz and the GDDR5 memory speed up to a full 1.0 GHz. Pixel and texture fill rate numbers increase only based on the clock speed changes as the rest of the specifications including texture unites and ROPs mirror those of the HD 6570.
What do you get for this amount of graphics horsepower? AMD targets that magical 30 FPS at 1080p resolutions and finds that quite a few games including Call of Duty: Black Ops and Metro 2033 are able to hit it. We have our testing to get to of course, but for a $99 GPU that sounds pretty good.
Can this tiny GPU bring in some much needed cash to AMD?
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Ryan,check the rendering of this and the 6790 previews in ff4 with basic styles on,apparently a flay rod has gone askew on the tredle
What are you seeing exactly? Can you check if you have the text size if FF4 non-default?
Try hitting "Ctrl+0" and see what happens.
Odd ok it may be at my end on a mac running ff4 everything is squeezed to the right side of frame only 1/3 of graphics show all text shows but in a very narrow column, checked on win7 systems and the reviews look fine ,if i turn off basic page style on the mac and go to no page style it looks ok looks good in chrome on win and mac . i will check more over the weekend and see if i see any other glitches
Appreciate the help. Any more updates, screenshots, detail you have I would appreciate it!
guys please tell me that my 6670 is giving 44c on idle while it is giving 62c while playing sniper elite 3 nowadays...so my question is that is it ok for me?? or a cause to worry about?
WTF! My 6570 got a score of 860 on graphics and 1100 on crossfire.


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A wise man once said that "Everything Changes," and for the second time in the past few weeks change is afoot once again in the Foundry...
Starting with the sad news, Gimil has decided to step out of his Blue Suede Shoes, and will be resigning from the Foundry and TeamCC in general, in order to focus on other things and real-life projects. Gimil has been an amazing Volunteer for Team CC for over 16 months! [insert tribute filled with puppies and love and bananas to Gimil here].
Gimil, your support and guidance in the Foundry will be mist [sic]; we wish you all the best with life outside the Foundry!
With the disappearance of Gimil to pastures anew, MrBenn will release his iron grip of death on the Drafting room to take up the Graphics-Stamping lead. A crack-team of Foundry Assistants (thenobodies80, TaCktiX and our old friend oaktown) have been assigned to the Drafting Room, and will take responsibility for issuing the first of the Foundry stamps on behalf of the Foundry community.
This brings us neatly to the result of the Foundry Stamp Competition... There were a number of terrific entries from mapmakers old and new -- this place oozes creativity! Congratulations to everyone who took part, but especially to fumandomuerte who devised and created the winning design (which will go live soon):
The new stamps will be handed out by the Foundry Assistants, whose eyes and ears should ensure that each stage of map development is covered. We hope that with a more 'team' approach to stamping, fewer maps will fall through the Foundry's cracks. Areas of responsibility have been assigned as follows:
- Drafting Room: thenobodies80, TaCktiX, oaktown
Gameplay: iancanton, Incandenza, DJ Teflon
Graphics: MrBenn, wcaclimbing, the.killing.44, samuelc812
Forge / Beta: Forza AZ, the.killing.44, TaCktiX
Many Happy Bananas to everyone, lets party...with Bananas.


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The launch of BlackBerry 10 is getting closer and closer and we're starting to get more information about the new BB. Here is another demo video that shows off some of the unique features of BB 10. The video is in Spanish, but you will see all that you need to see.
The Lock Screen looks interesting. It looks like RIM took a page from webOS's wave, but put a twist on it. BlackBerry Flow also looks good.
The hardware looks rough and bulky but I'm hoping that's just because it's a developer model. Hopefully RIM will launch some BlackBerry 10 devices that don't look so big.


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SMILA/Documentation/HowTo/Create a bundle (plug-in)
This page describes how to create a new bundle for SMILA.
The description on how to add a test bundle to test the components of the new bundle can be found in How to create a test bundle (plug-in).
The following steps must be performed to create the project base:
Select the New Project wizard
Launch eclipse, invoke the New Project wizard (menu File > New > Project), and click Plug-in project.
Click Next.
Now you have to fill in various metadata and settings for your plug-in project. You can edit these later on by opening the MANIFEST.MF with the Plug-in Manifest Editor.
Define Plug-in Project settings
Set the Plug-in Project settings:
- Enter a project name (you should use a fully qualified name, for this example we will use org.eclipse.smila.integration.bundle).
- add code to the source and output folder:
- set Source folder to code/src
- set Output folder to code/bin
- set Target Platform to an OSGi framework: Equinox
Click Next.
Define Plug-in Content settings
Fill in the metadata information for the new bundle.
Set the Plug-in's name as ID, your bundle's version, a reasonable bundle name and the information about the provider (i.e. you).
For our example:
- ID: org.eclipse.smila.integration.bundle (in our example)
- Version: 1.0.0
- Name: Example Bundle Plugin
- Provider: Example company
- Exection Environment: JavaSE-1.6
Unless you need an activator, uncheck this option.
Click Next.
Unless you want to use any of the given templates to create your plugin, just uncheck the Option.
Click Finish.
Check the result
When you're done with the above, your actions should have resulted in a new project with (in our exmple) the name of org.eclipse.smila.integration.bundle, that now shows up in your workspace. Just check your Package Explorer for the new bundle.
There should be an empty code/src package, a META-INF folder containing a MANIFEST.MF file and a build.properties file.
Open the MANIFEST.MF file and click through the panels and you will recognize most of the settings, we did above.
Now you've created your bundle, you can add your components and you should not forget to add a test bundle.


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Suzandy needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 111 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
We are a not for profit organisation looking for a fresh vibrant logo to launch our ventures.
Sovereign Community Trust
Description We need a new logo for our Charitable Trust located in New Zealand. We raise funds to aid the underprivileged and suffering both in New Zealand and in the Third World. We have a Christian background - but we are non demoninational and welcome support from people globally from all walks of life.
Our functions:
Aid to relieve poverty
Provide medical aid and support
Provide education and opportunity for those in need around the world
:• professional look appealing to wide age range
• not too fussy, crisp, modern and clean
• modern font and typeface
• Emphasis on "Sovereign Community" – perhaps with Sovereign in capitals and Community in lower case fonts
• No more than four colours but would prefer three
• Design to work in colour and greyscale
• need a neat graphic representing community – going forward with one common goal
• organisation represents all races and nationalities
• the word "sovereign" invokes feelings of strength, supreme power, royalty
• the word 'Community" invokes feelings of unity, one purpose and moving forward together, we would like to capture these feelings in the logo.
• Some thought that a concept including a 'sun'/rays of light or similar could be considered
• Also some thought about using a 'globe' in the logo symbolising world and community• We are not overly creative ourselves!!! – and want to appreciate your ideas and expression – we will give good feedback to help with this!!
Colour Ideas:
no brown, red, purple or pastels thanks.
we do like, orange, green, silver, blue (not necessarily all together!!)
we would like our logo to work well on white background, and also on dark backgrounds
Graphic requirements:
We need the logo in three formats: JPEG (lossless or 100% quality), PNG and PSD (with layers to work in Photoshop, i.e. not flattened)
Not wanted:
• don't want fancy images.
• don't want fancy squirly fonts.
• don't want religious symbols.
• don't want clip art
• don't want cartoons
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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With Gig back in town and summer still very much in the air we decided to hit up the city for some Friday evening fun. Initially swung past Chin Chin in the hope that they could squeeze the two of us in for dinner but when that failed we headed to Pelegrini's for a not so fabulous but equally delicious spag bol...loving having my 24/7 friend back!
Address Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Australia
Loved My butter with a side of bread!
Skirt Nasty Gal
Shoes Jeffrey Campbell
Socks Da Sein
Clutch Sportsgirl
Rings Viktor and Rolf


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ADDISON COUNTY — The Vermont State Police in New Haven are investigating the theft of a 2005 Polaris 700XC snowmobile from a Route 7 home in New Haven. The theft occurred sometime after 11 p.m. on Jan. 4 and 8 a.m. on Jan. 5.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the VSP at 388-4919. Information can also be submitted anonymously online at www.vtips.info or by texting "CRIMES" (274637) to Keyword: VTIPS.
In other recent activity, troopers:
• On Dec. 31 received a report of a burglary at a home on Four Winds Road in Ferrisburgh that had occurred between noon and 1:45 p.m. that day. Police said the perpetrator broke a sliding glass door in the rear of the house and took an assortment of electronics. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the VSP.
• On Jan. 1 at 10:46 p.m. responded to a one-car crash in Bristol. Police said Robert R. Randall, 20, of Lyndonville, Vt., was driving a 2000 VW Jetta northbound on Route 116, entered a left hand curve, lost control of the car, and traveled off the west side of the road. The car then rolled onto its passenger side. There were no injuries. Police said speed was a contributing factor, and the trooper issued Randall a ticket for failing to drive to the right, which carries a $214 fine and four points on insurance.
• On Jan. 1 at 8:47 p.m. stopped a motor vehicle driven by Jeremy Tindall, 19, of Brandon on Route 30 in Whiting. Police cited Tindall for possession of marijuana.
• On Jan. 1 at 8:25 p.m. stopped a motor vehicle driven by James Bishop, 27, of Salisbury on Route 30 in Whiting for traveling at 83 mph in a 50 mph zone. During the stop, the trooper found that there were three young children in the vehicle. He cited Bishop for speeding.
• On Jan. 2 at 8:49 a.m. stopped a car driven by Ashley Lane, 25, of Bridport for a condition of vehicle violation on Seymour Street in Middlebury. Police cited Lane for driving with a criminally suspended license.
• On Jan. 2 at 12:30 p.m. responded to a report of a vehicle in a porch on Adams Ferry Road in Panton. The trooper said her investigation revealed that a Vergennes woman was driving a red Chevy Cavalier and attempting to enter a residence when she lost control of her vehicle and slid into the front porch of the residence. Police said alcohol was not a factor in the collision but that slippery road conditions were a factor. No criminal action is pending.
• On Jan. 2 looked into a report that between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. that day someone had broken into a Route 22A home in Panton and stolen two rings of sentimental value to the resident. Anyone with information is asked to call VSP.
• On Jan. 2 at approximately 9:02 a.m. responded to one-car crash on a snowy River Road in Bristol. Police said a Bristol woman lost control of the Subaru Legacy wagon she was driving, went off the road and struck a tree. There were no serious injuries, but the driving suffered minor facial injuries from the airbag deployment.
• On Jan. 3 at approximately 11:42 p.m. cited Khalid H. Jaafar, 20, of Colchester for speeding on Route 22A in Shoreham.
• On Jan. 4 at 5:30 p.m. responded to report from Lower Notch Road in Bristol that a pickup with a plow and towing a trailer had attempted to turn around and struck a fence causing an estimated $400 in damage. Anyone with information is asked to contact VSP.
• On Jan. 4 at 11:19 p.m. received a report of an intoxicated motorist leaving a residence in New Haven and traveling toward her own home. The complainant reported the driver, identified as Sarah Durant, 32, of Middlebury, was intoxicated when she left. VSP and Middlebury police checked the area for Durant and located her at her residence in Middlebury shortly after the call came in. Durant reported to troopers that she drove her car to her residence. Troopers cited her for driving under the influence, second offense, and driving with a criminally suspended license.


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Author Caitlin Rother said she decided to write a true-crime book about
Thursday she was on the receiving end of a different kind of outpouring as the victims' families and others angered by "Lost Girls" triggered an online firestorm that included trashing the book's ratings on Amazon.com.
Brent King, Chelsea's father, and Carrie McGonigle, Amber's mother, issued a joint statement criticizing Rother for profiting from the girls' deaths. They called on her to donate the proceeds to charity.
McGonigle also attended the official "Lost Girls" launch event at the Barnes & Noble in Mira Mesa Thursday evening. It drew about 100 people, many supporting Rother and others questioning her motives.
McGonigle arrived with a half-dozen others wearing orange T-shirts that said "Team Amber," the organization she founded to help search for lost children. When Rother saw her she said, "I'm sorry for your loss."
Although Rother said "I hope you can find something in the book that will help you," McGonigle said she's already read it and "there wasn't much in it."
At a press conference later, McGonigle said, "Some of the details that she put in there, it's just wrong." She said she thought of Chelsea's parents and teenage brother learning about what's in the book and being upset. "It's nobody's place to write those kind of details."
At the bookstore, Rother was asked by someone else about donating her profit to charity. "I spent 18 months doing research on this book and I don't think it's very realistic to ask me to spend that much time writing a book and not be able to pay any of my bills," Rother said.
The book, which came out Tuesday, documents Gardner's troubled and increasingly violent life in sometimes lurid detail. It includes a five-hour prison interview with Gardner in which he discusses the rape-murders.
Rother said she wrote the book in the hopes of preventing other murders by helping society understand what turns someone like Gardner into a predator.
The victims' families declined to be interviewed for "Lost Girls." In their joint statement, McGonigle and Brent King said, "With the publication of an unauthorized new book, our families are being driven backwards at a time when we're all working so hard to move forward. We have already been through the most devastating storm of our lives so, although weathering this new one pales, we are deeply hurt."
The statement was posted on the Facebook page for Chelsea's Light, the nonprofit organization her parents founded after the 17-year-old Poway High senior was ambushed while jogging in a Rancho Bernardo park in February 2010. Amber, 14, was abducted a year earlier while walking to school in Escondido.
Within hours of the posting, almost 1,000 people had "liked" it on Facebook and more than 100 had added comments critical of Rother. "Just when my faith in human nature was on the verge of being restored, this terrible book came out," Tricia Ross Lucia wrote.
Several posters suggested criticizing the book on Amazon, even though they hadn't read it. By early evening, more than 40 people had given "Lost Girls" one star, the lowest rating, and quickly swamped three earlier five-star reviews. "Please don't buy this book!" one wrote. "This is disgusting!" added another.
A few commenting on the "Chelsea's Light" Facebook page were supportive of Rother. Former journalist Chris Saunders wrote, "These terrible crimes that tear apart families and our community need to be written about because there are many lessons to be learned from their chronicling."
Rother spent 20 years working for the U-T and other newspapers. She has written five other true-crime books. In a statement Thursday, she said, "I wrote this book knowing there would be some controversy — not to make boatloads of money but because I feel very strongly that this was an opportunity to educate people about sex offenders."
She said she's tried unsuccessfully to organize charity events around the book.


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Bitter melon tea has been used in Asian traditional medicines for treating diabetes since a long time, since this sort of melon lowers blood sugar level, cholesterol and is even used as a prophylactic against cancer.
Our readers often ask us about green bitter melon tea recipe and its health benefits which we'll discuss below.
About Bitter Melon
Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) is a mine of vitamins and iron, widespread in China, India and South America. This elongated vegetable has a bitter taste when fully ripe, so only immature fruits are usually used for food.
Its juice is poisonous, but helps from helminths, arthritis, skin diseases, diabetes, asthma and rheumatism, it causes increased appetite and improves digestion.
Bitter melon is much more useful than many vegetables. For example, it contains twice as much beta-carotene, calcium and potassium as broccoli, spinach, and bananas.
Bitter Melon Tea against Diabetes
Fresh juice and extract from the immature fruits of bitter melon have antidiabetic action. This was confirmed by the studies carried out on humans and animals.
During the study scientists prepared various powders and extracts from fresh and dried fruits and compared their hypoglycemic characteristics in diabetic rats. They found that an aqueous extract of fresh immature whole fruits reduced the blood glucose level by 48%. This effect is comparable with the effect of taking glibenclamide, a known synthetic drug.
Thus, bitter gourd extract powder is a safe alternative that can be used for reducing the glucose level in the blood. Furthermore, it can be concluded that the extract enhances the effect of oral hypoglycemic.
The plant contains some active antidiabetic agents. For example, scientists extracted insulin-like protein known as insulin-P or polypeptide-P, which showed hypoglycemic properties when administered subcutaneously to patients with diabetes type 1. In addition, momordica harantskaya contains harantin – a complex steroid substance, which is a powerful hypoglycemic agent.
Clinical studies have shown that taking the bitter melon extract is highly effective in reducing blood sugar levels in patients with diabetes type 2.
Learn more on health benefits of bitter melon tea bags for diabetes.
Bitter Gourd Melon Tea
Since ancient times, people have been making infusions and decoctions from all parts of the plant. Infusion of leaves are usually used for high blood pressure, colds, cough, and headache.
Leaf tea helps regulate blood sugar and it is recommended for diabetic patients. It necessary to pour boiled water on one tea spoon of herbs, infuse for 20 minutes and take a cup of tea three times a day. The tea is rather bitter, but it is better to drink it without sweetening.
Discover the powerful benefits of bitter melon and how to make a healthy bitter gourd melon tea recipe here.
Watch this video about the health benefits of Bitter Gourd Melon Tea
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