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The stuntman will front "Bam's Bad Ass Game Show" on TBS next year.
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According to a release about the show, contestants will engage in "incredibly demented, potentially dangerous and occasionally painful challenges," and the loser of each challenge will be eliminated until there is one sole survivor left standing.
Margera's "Jackass" pal Steve-O launched quirky game show "Killer Karaoke" last year. On his program, members of the public have to sing their favorite songs while tackling stunts.

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Thanks to the support of the European Space Agency (ESA), broadband Internet access via satellite is being offered to passengers on the Thalys train running between Brussels and Paris.
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"Everyone is eager to begin accessing the Internet onboard trains," explains Mr. Fermin Alvarez Lopez of ESA Telecom. "21Net's technology is certainly making this become a reality. And the collaboration between all involved is clearly a strength of the project."
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Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — Wall Street banks are deflating pay expectations to avoid a replay of last year when cutbacks on bonuses and increased deferrals surprised bankers and traders.
Almost 20 per cent of employees won't get year-end bonuses, according to Options Group, an executive-search company that advises banks on pay. Those collecting awards may see payouts unchanged from last year or boosted by as much as 10 per cent, compensation consultant Johnson Associates Inc. estimates. Decisions are being made as banks cut costs and firms including UBS AG and Nomura Holdings Inc. fire investment-bank staff.
Some employees were surprised as companies chopped average 2011 bonuses by as much as 30 per cent and capped how much could be paid in cash. That experience, along with public statements from top executives, low trading volumes in the first half and a dearth of hiring has employees bracing for another lackluster year, consultants and recruiters said.
"A lot of senior managers won't have to pay up because they're saying, 'Where are these guys going to go?'" said Michael Karp, chief executive officer of New York-based Options Group. "We're in an environment where a lot of people are just happy to have a job. Expectations have been managed so low that people will be happy with what they get."
More modest expectations reflect a new reality as total pay is about half what it was in 2007, Options Group said in a report last month. Firms are struggling to earn the returns shareholders demand amid higher capital requirements, a proprietary-trading ban and lower deal and trading volumes. Of the 10 largest global capital-markets firms, the only one trading at more than book value is UBS, which eclipsed that mark after pledging last month to shrink its investment bank by half.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the investment-bank divisions of Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co., UBS, Credit Suisse Group AG and Deutsche Bank AG set aside a total of $37.9 billion for pay in the first nine months, down 7 per cent from a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Industries. Those firms have cut more than 9,000 jobs in the past year.
The compensation figures include money allocated for paying salaries and bonuses as well as costs from deferred bonuses in previous years coming due. Wall Street firms typically reserve a portion of revenue throughout the year for employees and sometimes make adjustments in the fourth quarter, such as when New York-based Goldman Sachs reported negative compensation costs by cutting its accumulated pay pool in the last three months of 2009. Spokesmen for the banks declined to comment.
Traders' Pay
Total pay for investment bankers and traders industrywide probably will fall 8 per cent, according to the Options Group report. Traders in fixed-income businesses can expect to see a 6 per cent increase in compensation, while pay may decline 17 per cent in equities and 13 per cent in investment banking, the report shows.
Credit traders in loan products with the title of vice president, the third-highest at most banks, probably will receive compensation averaging $800,000 this year, up from $720,000 for 2011, according to the report. Cash-equity traders with the same title may get $290,000, down from $370,000.
Employees were stunned by the 2011 bonuses in part because some banks changed their pay structure, said Joseph Sorrentino, a managing director at New York compensation-consulting firm Steven Hall & Partners. Morgan Stanley capped cash bonuses at $125,000, while Barclays Plc limited them to 65,000 pounds ($103,000). Credit Suisse paid employees a portion of last year's bonuses in bonds made from derivatives to help the Zurich-based company cut risk and improve its capital position.
Clawed Back
Some banks clawed back previous years' pay as they handed out smaller or no bonuses, which traders referred to as "negative bonuses," said Paul Sorbera, president of Alliance Consulting, a New York-based search firm.
About 17 per cent of global banks clawed back compensation from previous years in 2011 as European and North American regulators pressured them to impose penalties on employee risk- taking, according to a survey of 63 companies conducted by consulting firm Mercer LLC and released in August.
Bankers also were surprised last year because expectations had been built up during a strong first half, recruiters said. The 10 largest global investment banks produced $91 billion of revenue from advisory, underwriting and trading in the first half of 2011, according to data from industry analytics firm Coalition Ltd. That plunged to $50 billion in the second half.
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"Last year, the first half was much, much better than the second half, and people got a little carried away early in the year," said Richard Lipstein, managing director of New York- based search firm Gilbert Tweed International. "This year, it's been a generally crummy environment. It's been a year of managing expectations."
Low expectations this year have been driven in part by a lack of companies willing to poach non-star traders as banks exit some capital-markets businesses, said Options Group's Karp.
UBS said last month it's winding down much of its fixed- income trading and cutting as many as 10,000 jobs. Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc said this year it was exiting most merger advisory and equities trading. Nomura Holdings, the Tokyo-based bank that added employees in the U.S. after the credit crisis, has pared jobs in its Americas equities division as it seeks to reduce costs outside Japan.
The impact on morale and the amount of grumbling following decisions about 2011 compensation also has led firms to take a more active role tamping down expectations for employees, said Rose Marie Orens, a senior partner at New York-based Compensation Advisory Partners LLC.
Vesting Period
"It'll never be a non-event, but if you can take the surprise out and allow people to say, 'Yeah, that's within 5 per cent of what I expected,' it becomes less distracting," said Robert Dicks, a principal at New York-based Deloitte Consulting LLP who focuses on compensation and benefits. "It means less hallway chatter and ultimately more productivity."
Banks also have been discussing pay more in public, Dicks said. Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest lender, said in September it will increase the vesting period for deferred bonuses for top management to five years from three.
The bank, based in Frankfurt, last month named a panel of business executives and a former German finance minister to review compensation as it addresses criticism on pay. CEO Anshu Jain urged investors in September to hold other firms accountable for instituting longer deferrals and clawbacks.
'Please, Please'
"We're taking a step in the direction that you wanted us to take," Jain, 49, said at a conference in Frankfurt. "Please, please, please, now go see my competitors, go see the boards that come to you and ask them this question as well.
"Let's level the playing field," he said. "It's in your best interests. It's in our best interests. And I would even go far enough and say it's the society's best interests."
James Gorman, 54, CEO of New York-based Morgan Stanley, said in a Financial Times interview published last month that banks need to cut staff and compensation as "the industry is still overpaid." Goldman Sachs said in July it plans to trim $500 million in annual expenses, mostly from compensation, on top of a $1.4 billion reduction earlier this year.
Pay at all levels will continue to fall, as "the readiness among shareholders to accept very high salaries has certainly decreased," Credit Suisse Chairman Urs Rohner told Basler Zeitung in an interview published Nov. 10.
"Five years ago, compensation wasn't the topic of conversation in every town hall, in every public statement that senior leaders made," Dicks said. "Senior leadership is providing much more broad-brush, organisation-level information about the direction of comp and the vehicles that comp will be paid in."
More Palatable
Wall Street banks probably won't make changes to the structure of bonuses on the scale they did last year, Steven Hall's Sorrentino said. While that will make pay packages more palatable, it also means employees will continue to get less cash than before the financial crisis, he said.
"Most of the changes have been made already in terms of lengthening vesting, holding back some pay in the form of deferrals and stock and the continued use of clawbacks," Sorrentino said. "A couple years ago, if I told you your comp was $100, you got $100. Now, it's $50 in your pocket and $50 if you're here in three or five years."
Traders of cash equities and equity derivatives will have the biggest drop in compensation, both down at least 20 per cent from 2011, according to the Options Group report. Traders in securitized products and emerging markets will see at least a 10 per cent jump in pay, the largest gains, the report shows.
Bonus Expectations
Still, almost half of Wall Street employees expect a bonus increase this year, according to a survey of 911 employed financial professionals conducted between Sept. 26 and Oct. 3 by job-search website eFinancialCareers.com. A smaller number, 27 per cent, said bonuses will rise in the next three years, while 31 per cent saw no change and 42 per cent anticipated declines.
There have been signs of optimism in recent weeks, as the nine largest global investment banks reported a 38 per cent jump in third-quarter trading revenue from a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Companies also may start adding positions they had been waiting to fill until after the U.S. elections, providing some competitive pressure on pay, Alliance's Sorbera said.
"Firms haven't been doing anything for a few years, and you have some pent-up demand," Sorbera said. "Management is guiding people low because they don't know yet, and people are expecting it to be like last year, so there could be a surprise to the upside, though it won't be a big one."
Below is the compensation expense for the first nine months of 2012 compared with the same period a year earlier at Goldman Sachs and the investment-bank divisions of Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and UBS, as compiled by Bloomberg Industries.
9M2012 9M2011 % Change Goldman Sachs $11 Bln $10 Bln 9.5% Morgan Stanley $5.2 Bln $5.7 Bln -8.5% JPMorgan Chase $7.0 Bln $7.7 Bln -9.4% Credit Suisse $5.4 Bln $6.0 Bln -11% Deutsche Bank $5.3 Bln $6.0 Bln -12% UBS $4.1 Bln $5.3 Bln -23%
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Stratford, Conn.-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation's X2 Technology demonstrator has completed two test flights that included full engagement of the unique propeller for the first time. In one hour of testing conducted in two flights, the aircraft flew at speeds reaching 52 knots in one test and 42 knots with the propeller providing forward thrust in the second flight. The X2 Technology demonstrator is designed to reach speeds of 250 knots, twice as fast as an average helicopter travels today. The demonstrator has accumulated more than three hours of successful flight time at Sikorsky's facility in Horseheads, N.Y. The aircraft will relocate to the company's Development Flight Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., before the end of July for continued test flights leading up to the 250-knot speed record.
The X2 Technology demonstrator combines an integrated suite of technologies intended to advance the state-of-the-art, counter-rotating coaxial rotor helicopter.
It is designed to demonstrate a helicopter can cruise comfortably at 250 knots, while retaining such helicopter attributes as good low speed handling, efficient hovering and autorotation safety, and a seamless transition to high speeds. Sikorsky is maturing this technology in preparation for emerging missions, including rapid air medical response for the civil market and reconnaissance, attack, and special operations missions for the military market.
"The program is progressing extremely well both technologically and from a future applicability standpoint," says Mark Miller, vice president of research and engineering.
"Certainly we've got much more to do, but interest continues to grow among both the military and commercial sectors in how this technology might improve current operations and enable new missions that today are simply not possible with the current helicopter flight limitations."


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Glenn Thiessen is the owner and broker for Fast Reality in Hillsboro. His job depends on selling homes.
He said he would advise young couples to start with rental property so they can build up a nest egg.
"I advise people as a parent; I'm more involved with you as an individual," Thiessen said. "I have two grown adult children — I advised them the same way."
Don Noller is the executive vice president of Marion National Bank. Part of his job is establishing residential mortgages. His son is 29. When he talked about purchasing a home, Noller told his son to consider paying the mortgage on half the couple's income. What if one of them lost their job? What if their car broke down? They may not be able to borrow money to buy a new car.
"You need to sit down and go through their finances," Noller said. "There is so much uncertainty out there."
There are certainly benefits to owning a home. If a person has a stable income, limited debt, and solid credit score, interest rates are low, averaging about 3.4 percent on a 15-year mortgage and about 4 percent on a 30-year mortgage.
There also is the opportunity that the house will appreciate over time, although values have stayed stable over the past five years, Noller said.
The first few payments on a mortgage are primarily on interest, with most of the principal cost being paid in later payments. Payments on interest can be written off on income taxes and equal thousands of dollars.
"You can't rely on that 20 years from now," Thiessen said. "They may not always be there with administration changes and tax changes. I'd never advise anyone to buy a home just to save on taxes."
There are other costs to consider besides a mortgage. Residents will have to pay property tax and insurance.
Thiessen said those costs combine to average about $5,000 a year. There is a closing cost of about $3,000. Title insurance can cost $1,200.
There are also costs for maintenance. Thiessen put it this way, when looking for a home would you rather buy the house with a brand new furnace or a furnace installed in the 1970s? The same thinking goes for windows, air-conditioning, and a roof.
The exterior of the house is important. The siding and landscaping may seem like superficial modifications but Thiessen said the house with the well-manicured lawn is likely to sell faster.
There are other things to consider before buying a home. Location, location, location, and city is not the only factor.
Thiessen said that even in Hillsboro some neighborhoods are better than others.
While not everyone can afford the estates off Indigo, the homes on the east side of town off Wilson, Jefferson, or Kennedy, near the schools, are in nicer condition than their counterparts on the west side of town, Thiessen said.
Thiessen and Noller both recommend having a sizable amount of money available when purchasing a home. If a buyer can put 20 percent of the cost down, they avoid a monthly mortgage insurance payment that most lenders require.
Noller said the lowest down payment is a 3.5 percent using a Federal Housing Association loan. He added that mortgage insurance is less if a buyer can put down 5 to 10 percent.
Thiessen said the most important thing for buyers to do is to pay their bills on time to keep their credit score in check.
Once the buyer owns a home, Thiessen and Noller recommend staying there for five years.
Thiessen said all of those maintenance costs are easier on a gradual basis. The fees to the real estate agent to advertise and sell the home are steeper than people realize.
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Jul 21, 2019
Sister Hazel, Heartland Highway
Rock Ridge Music, Oct. 12
By Eric Saeger
These happy-ass Hootie-bridesmaid second-bananas from the turn of the century have one major US hit to their name, 1997's "All For You," the get-this-thing-out-of-my-brain dentist-rock classic that commonly gets waiting-room-trapped people looking up from their 6-month-old issues of People to wonder if they're hearing Hootie or Van Morrison, being that it's a little of both. Sister Hazel's (they're all boys, you know, isn't that weird?) Peavey amps remain set to move-that-soccer-mom-butt level all throughout their 8th album, no samples, no technical whiz-bang-ery, no surprisingly innovative chill, no curveballs, no Black Sabbath, no nothing, just one more brick in the Great Pyramid of Doctor's Office Rock, stuff to read last year's Vivica Fox interview by ("wow, she got old!") while you wait to see if you've got the cancer or the diabetes, which, if either's the case, at least you're not in this band. I mean, they're nice guys and stuff, you know, and they give Goo Goo Dolls' "Name" an enthusiastic leg-humping during "The Saddest Song," which, you must admit, does stand as irrefutable evidence they're possessed of keenly refined taste in unflavored gelatin. B- — Eric W. Saeger
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Greenhouse gas inventory: Data that makes a difference
28 Jun 2013
We just launched a brand new inventory of national greenhouse gas emissions developed to help fYR Macedonia meeting the requirements of the International Convention on Climate Change. We're all convinced that the information in this database will be valuable for policy-makers in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change.
The level of data accuracy has significantly improved and for the first time many new sectors have been included.
Aviation is one of the new sectors included, with data on emissions at a level of detail and accuracy only achieved by a few developed countries in the world!Some of the most interesting findings about greenhouse gas emissions from other sectors:
-Approximately 74 percent of greenhouse gases are emitted by the energy sector. Most of these emissions come from the use of lignite to produce electricity.
- Most emissions from industry originate from the processing of mineral and metal products, with the cement industry and the production of ferroalloys responsible for over 90 percent of total emissions.
-Emissions from the waste sector account for seven percent of total national emissions. The average share of the waste sector in national emissions in developed countries is two to three percent.The country's forests absorb 1.77 million tons of carbon dioxide each year. In 2007, however, some 39,612 hectares of forests and grassland were affected by fire, resulting in significantly higher emissions
Why is this database important?
By presenting the proportion of emissions produced by each sector of the economy, the inventory provides valuable information for prioritizing efforts and designing technical solutions to reduce greenhouse gases.Altogether, the inventory provides important guidance for policy-makers to reduce emissions and help inform the public and media debate on this issue.Reliable greenhouse gas inventories are essential at the international level for assessing national efforts to address climate change and make progress towards meeting the ultimate objective of the Convention on Climate Change.
Comparison with other countries fYR Macedonia has 1.7 times lower emissions per capita than the European Union average, and emissions are nearly four times lower than highly industrialized countries like the US.
This level of emissions per person is similar to rates in Latvia and Turkey.Another relevant indicator is energy intensity. According to the greenhouse gas inventory, the country's carbon intensity is 4.3 times higher than the average in European Union countries. The development of the inventory was possible because of the support of the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, and the close cooperation with many other governmental institutions and private companies.


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Greenbox Home Energy Monitor in Trials in Oklahoma
For most people in the US, there's no easy way to ascertain why the power bill is so high. There's a meter outside the house or in the basement that measures energy consumption, but why it reads the way it does remains a mystery, as do techniques for reducing those bills. But power doesn't need to be this complex, and Greenbox is just the company to make it all understandable.
Greenbox was started by Jonathan Gay and Robert Tatsumi, the inventors of the ubiquitous Flash multimedia technology. The company provides utilities with a Web-based interactive energy management platform that they can then deploy to residential customers. Using smartly designed interactive online tools supplied by Greenbox lets people understand how and when they are using energy. Tools include custom usage analysis, historical visualizations of energy use and email reports and alerts. According to Gay, "Just as Flash enables hundreds of millions users to experience multimedia on the Internet, Greenbox enables households to experience and understand their energy usage in ways never before possible."
Last week, the company announced the first trial of its technology, in partnership with Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E). Deploying an advanced power infrastructure isn't a simple thing, of course. Greenbox worked closely with Silver Spring Networks, which provided the network infrastructure, data collection, and integration via its Smart Energy Network. According to the company, "the web-based platform receives, displays, and analyzes 15-minute interval data for each home every day on a continual basis. Households simply need to log into the website via their browser to understand how and when they are using electricity."


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Introduction to Vascular Ultrasonography
Saunders, 2005 - Medical - 723 pages
Here's the 5th Edition of the classic textbook on vascular ultrasound-thoroughly updated to include a new, full-color format, a new co-editor, a new team of contributors, and cutting-edge diagnostic procedures. Five well-organized sections span nearly the entire spectrum of arterial and venous ultrasound, progressing from basic concepts and instrumentation, through cerebral vessels, extremity arteries, and extremity veins, to abdominal vessels, and the pelvis. This 5th Edition also features brand-new coverage of cerebrovascular arteries, peripheral arteries, intravascular techniques, and much more.
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Living Columns & Blogs
From The Beacon: Haunted hunt leads to library
My name is Wilbur and I'm quite unique, you see.
I'm the ghost who knows the library is the place to be.
I spend most of my time in the branch on the island of Hilton Head,
Where I study the many resources long after you are at home, asleep, in bed.
On nights of the full moon I might borrow the library van,
To visit other branches to see what they have on hand.
One night in October of two thousand and ten,
I felt a strong urge to pick up a columnist's pen.
I found what was a "Beacon" submission so boring, so drab,
And I knew, for Halloween, it had to be better -- so I took a stab.
So here it is for you to read, the tasty fruits of my labor,
A trick-or-treat library-scavenger-hunt-quiz for you to savor.
It has questions to satisfy both young and old,
And the library staff will help you find answers quiet and bold.
So come on into your local library branch,
You can solve the challenge! (If you give our resources a glance.)
Some of the popular items may be checked out and not on the shelf,
But still figuring out what they are will be good for your intellectual health.
Once you solve the puzzles, come into a branch, fill out and submit an answer sheet.
Because next week there will be a drawing and a lucky few will win a special treat.
For the kids, your challenge is simple,
Just give a title that best fits the riddle.
1. This compilation of ghost stories will have you on your knees. These are the favorite tales of the author who wrote "The BFG."
2. When Michael Rex wrote this parody of "Goodnight Moon," he may have not thought about whether bedtime was soon.
3. To trick or treat our senses must be Keene. The hoax in this book won't fool children's literature's reigning detective queen.
4. So far you've only had to hunt for books. This 1995 movie that pairs my dear young friend with Christina Ricci is worth a look.
5. The library can help bring factual knowledge to spooky mystery. Now find an article on Halloween history. (Hint: use the reference databases.)
For adults and teens, the task may not be as easy.
Name a title, author or library resource if you want to please me.
1. I like this author's multitude of works at this time of year the most. Although I'm sad to say I wasn't mentioned in "South Carolina Ghosts."
2. If you know how to use the catalog, it's as if you can pull the answer to the question above right out of a hat. But to find the author's biography, what library resource would you use for that?
3. The biographical resources the library offers are such a blast, now tell me what the library offers to help customers dig into families' pasts.
4. If you look in Beaufort County a copy of this 1971 classic just isn't there, to find Blatty's thrill you need to understand the SC Lends concept of "everywhere."
5. This vampire series with a male lead rivals that of "Twilight." In the first book we learn the eighth grade can really bite.
Next week you will find the answers listed right here, so tune in next time for some of the library's Halloween cheer!
Wilbur is the library ghost for the Beaufort County Public Library System. His whereabouts are never really known.


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May 2, 2011
BRIDGEWATER, MA-Junior Brittany Eldridge (Raynham, MA/Bridgewater-Raynham HS) pitched a two-hitter in the nightcap and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's softball team defeated host Bridgewater State, 3-2 in the second game and earned a split of their non-conference doubleheader at Alumni Field Monday. The Bears won the opener, 5-4.
The Corsairs scored twice in their first two at bats in the nightcap. They took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning when freshman shortstop Emily Pontes (Tewksbury, MA /Essex Agricultural HS) doubled and junior third baseman Tracie Calvert (Sandwich, MA /Sandwich HS) singled her home.
UMass Dartmouth went up 2-0 in the second when Pontes drove in a run with a bases-loaded infield grounder, but the Bears came back with a run in their half when right fielder Heather McPherson drew a bases-loaded walk.
The Corsairs scored again in the third on Eldridge's RBI single. BSU scored in the bottom of the third on a wild pitch by Eldridge, but that was all they could muster as Eldridge blanked them for the final four innings. Eldridge earned the win and improved to 9-21, while BSU's Meaghan Dunn took the loss and fell to 11-7.
In the first game, UMass Dartmouth scored twice in the second inning and twice more in the fourth to go ahead, 4-1, but the Bears tied it with three runs in their half of the fifth inning and won it in walk-off fashion with a run in the bottom of the seventh. Eldridge, who relieved starter Ashley Felaccio (Jr. Acushnet, MA/Fairhaven HS/Massasoit CC) in the sixth inning, took the loss.
"It was an exciting way to finish the season, and we finished on a high note," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Amy Sasin. "It was disappointing to lose the first game, but we fought back in the second game and came out with a win. We were diving everywhere and trying to knock everything down. Hopefully, this will help us to build confidence and carry it into next year."
The Corsairs finished with an overall record of 12-27, while the Bears are now 17-21. BSU will visit Westfield State Thursday in a MASCAC playoff game. The games were the final contests of the season for UMass Dartmouth.


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Lyndon B. Johnson
News about Lyndon B. Johnson, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. More
Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 -1973
Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, declared that he wanted to be "the President who helped the poor to find their own way," the "President who helped to end hatred among his fellow men and who promoted love among the peoples of all races, all regions and all parties." During his administration he would sign into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the most comprehensive civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, and his Great Society reforms would lead to lasting changes in education, medical care for the elderly, and social welfare.
The Vietnam War, however, would sink Johnson's presidency. Despite early doubts about the war, he would commit more and more troops to that conflict - which would eventually claim the lives of 58,000 Americans and three million Vietnamese. As the war ground on, with no end in sight, Johnson found himself increasingly under fire from both hawks and doves, the right and the left. On March 31, 1968, he announced he would not run for re-election.


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The Making of Lucky Luke on CD-i
>> Friday, July 27, 2007
The multi-layer background of Lucky Luke was also something I never thought it would be possible on CD-i. How did SPC Vision do this rain and snow effect on CD-i? Which parts were not possible without the DVC extra memory? Lucky Luke doesn't show any full motion video, but it doesn't play with the emulator. "Lucky Luke was done in 1994/1995/1996. It uses the DV cartridge for its sound effects, which is the reason why it won't play without. The multilayer thing is relatively simple: use both CD-i planes to contain graphics, and overlay them with sprites. This requires background restoration on each frame but that was made possible by the extra memory in the DV cartridge. SPC used background erase in most other titles, which is faster. Also, I think that Lucky Luke as a 25 Hz frame rate, not 50 Hz, but I might be wrong here."
Apparently Philips used to have different plans with Lucky Luke. According to the crew it was planned to look more like Zelda than your traditional horizontally scrolling game. However, these first developments never got any far as both changed plans radically. Work on Lucky Luke started in 1994.
"It was a painful release. I will go into some detail below because it was quite typical (Dimo's Quest, Steel Machine and The Apprentice had similarly painful releases but for different reasons). I did the release handling, but PixelHazard did all the programming (Arjen and Luke had already left SPC at this point [to form PixelHazard]).
I have bugfix lists for v1.01 and v1.02 dated January 23, 1996 and March 10, 1996, respectively. These were "normal" bugfix releases, as was typical for game titles: a screen flash here, a crash there, an unplayability elsewhere, and pretty soon you have an unreleasable disc Version 1.03 had most of these fixed.
However, for version 1.03 weird, unrepeatable freezes and crashes were reported on several players, most notably Mono-II, at random points in the game. After some deliberation Philips sent us a set of driver updates to include in the disc, and this became version 1.04. This did not fix all the problems, so we switched from PCM (CDDA) music to ADPCM music for version 1.05 (at some loss in music quality), but left the driver updates in there. This turned out to be a mistake (the drives fixed some bugs but apparently introduced others), so we took them out again as requested by Philips, making no other changes; the result was version 1.06.
Version 1.06 appeared to fix the random freezes, but now we got random dirty disc messages on some players, especially the Roboco (450) with ROM version 1.1. These were very hard to reproduce; at SPC we didn't succeed at all and PIMC reported that the problem went away when they attached the NIRD (Non-Intrusive Realtime Debugger) to the player. Later, however, they could provide us with a few crash traces. We worked around the problem (some calls returned seek error codes; we just retried them in this case) and this became version 1.07 which was released to manufacturing (i.e., pressed).
The saga doesn't end there, however. Version 1.07 still has occasional crashes on some players; I won't bother you with the details. I ultimately diagnosed the problem, but a version 1.08 was never produced.
Note that after version 1.04 no changes were made to the game itself; only initialisation and music/sound effect playing. This is also typical. As an extreme case, midway during testing The Apprentice was restructured to run as two separate processes to fix a problem with the interrupt scheduling of the Mono-II players; this restructuring left the game itself largely alone.
The problems were usually related to the "extreme performance" approach that SPC took to games; the game programmers sometimes took shortcuts that appeared to be legal from the documentation but then turned out not to work on some player models due to hardware differences. After the Dimo/Steel/Apprentice releases we instigated procedures and safeguards to avoid such problems, but they were apparently not foolproof.
Anyway, we learned how to effectively debug CD-i titles on a consumer player; We were, I think, unique in this respect; on at least two occasions SPC programmers were baffled when Philips engineers had problems downloading into a consumer player, which we did quite regularly at SPC.
I can also remember the discussion about Lucky Luke being allowed to smoke or not, but I think this was quite late in the development..."
Thanks to an ex-member of SPC Vision


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Kunitz's two goals lead Penguins past Sharksby Wes Crosby
PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said he thinks the San Jose Sharks are the best team in the NHL. If that's the case, Pittsburgh beat the best team in the League by four goals on Thursday.
The Penguins used a four-goal second period to beat the San Jose Sharks 5-1 at Consol Energy Center. It was Pittsburgh's fifth straight win.
Sidney Crosby, who had three assists in his 500th NHL game, sent a pass back to Brooks Orpik at the point to help set up Pittsburgh's first goal. Orpik shot the puck into the crease, where Pascal Dupuis deflected it past Sharks goalie Antti Niemi to open the scoring 27 seconds into the middle period.
"I think that we were definitely motivated knowing that [San Jose] is a good team," Crosby said. "They generated a lot of chances, and we knew they had a lot of depth and we were going to be tested. I think every guy had to step up, and we did a good job."
Dupuis left the game about five minutes into the second and did not return with a lower-body injury. He will be further evaluated before an update is provided, Bylsma said.
Jayson Megna wristed a shot past Niemi 2:07 later to extend Pittsburgh's lead to 2-0. Chris Kunitz added two goals to push the Penguins' lead to 4-0 with 12:44 to play in the period.
James Neal chipped a puck off the wall and out to Crosby leading to Kunitz's first goal. Crosby snapped a shot off Niemi's shoulder, and Kunitz backhanded the rebound into the net for the Penguins' third goal 5:27 into the period.
Neal was also instrumental in Kunitz's second goal. He carried the puck to the goal mouth, leaving another rebound for Kunitz, who roofed his team-leading 16th goal into the top of net.
Alex Stalock played the third period after Niemi allowed four goals on 27 shots.
San Jose cut Pittsburgh's lead to three when Tomas Hertl sent a shot into the crease and Penguins defenseman Deryk Engelland knocked the puck into his own net, cutting the Penguins' lead to 4-1 at 9:27.
The Sharks outshot Pittsburgh 24-15 in the second period and 45-30 overall, but could not capitalize on three power-play chances. The Penguins' League-leading power-play unit (26.5 percent) was 1-for-2.
Bylsma remained impressed with the Sharks despite his team's four-goal win.
"They're a team that does a really good job of getting pucks and bodies [to the front of the net], and they did that with the power plays that they had," Bylsma said. "They did that repeatedly, put pucks in the crease and got second chances. They did a very good job of that."
Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, who stopped 44 shots, made several diving saves throughout the final 10 minutes of the period to maintain the three-goal lead. But Sharks forward Logan Couture said he thought Fleury was not at his best Thursday.
"I don't think Fleury was that good tonight," Couture said. "He gave up a lot of rebounds and a lot of shots. He looked shaky."
Sharks coach Todd McLellan agreed that the Sharks left several chances on the ice, but was more complimentary of Fleury's play.
"I don't think we should kid ourselves with many of those [shots]. Fleury did makes some really good saves," McLellan said. "We had some chances in and around the blue paint, five maybe six legitimate ones, but let's not get tricked by that number there.
"Their 28 or 30 they had, they made them count. The shot totals that counted at the end of the night were the five and the one, and we weren't even close."
Kris Letang added an insurance goal when he wristed a puck through traffic and past Stalock from the point 3:30 into the third.
The Penguins, who were without Evgeni Malkin (second behind Crosby in the League scoring race) after he left their morning skate Thursday with a lower-body injury, have gone 18-4-3 against Western Conference teams since the 2011-12 season and have won five of their first seven games against West teams this season.
The loss to Pittsburgh was San Jose's second in regulation in 11 games against Eastern Conference teams this season.
"Right from the first shift [in the second], from that point on, they scored four in a row, and it's just real, real tough to catch up from there," Sharks captain Joe Thornton said. "In the second period, we just lost the game."
Pittsburgh had the opening period's best scoring chance during its first power play. Matt Niskanen sent a snap shot ringing off the right post behind Niemi. The puck was cleared before the Penguins could pounce on the rebound.
San Jose forward Tyler Kennedy, who spent his first six seasons with Pittsburgh before being traded during the 2013 NHL Draft, made an impact 1:48 into the game when he sent Orpik to the ice with a heavy hit nine seconds after Orpik lowered his shoulder on Kennedy. Orpik retaliated with two equally devastating hits throughout the rest of the period.
It was Kennedy's 400th NHL game.
Pittsburgh led in hits 18-10 after the first period, which is when McLellan said he thought the Sharks began to allow the game to slip away.
"I go to the first period. Before we even got to the second, I didn't think we established ourselves in a speed game or even in a compete game," McLellan said. "They had their nose over the puck a lot more than we did. They fought for ice, and they fought for loose pucks a lot stronger than we did.
"We got away with it in the first, but not in the second."


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WASHINGTON — A federal court threw the future of Internet regulations and U.S. broadband expansion plans into doubt Tuesday with a far-reaching decision that went against the Federal Communications Commission.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the FCC lacks authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. That was a big victory for Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable company, which had challenged the FCC's authority to impose such "network neutrality" obligations on broadband providers.
The unanimous ruling by the three-judge panel marks a serious setback for the FCC, which is trying to adopt official net neutrality regulations. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, a Democrat, argues such rules are needed to prevent phone and cable companies from using their control over Internet access to favor some kinds of online content and services over others.
The case centers on Comcast's actions in 2007 when it interfered with an online file-sharing service called BitTorrent, which allows users to swap big files such as movies over the Internet. But public interest groups stressed that the ramifications of Tuesday's ruling are much broader. That's because it undercuts the FCC's ability to prevent broadband providers from becoming gatekeepers for many kinds of online services, potentially including Internet phone programs and software that runs in a Web browser.
"Today's appeals court decision means there are no protections in the law for consumers' broadband services," Gigi Sohn, co-founder of Public Knowledge, said in a statement. "Companies selling Internet access are free to play favorites with content on their networks, to throttle certain applications or simply to block others."
The decision also has serious implications for the massive national broadband plan released by the FCC last month. The FCC needs clear authority to regulate broadband in order to push ahead with some its key recommendations, including a proposal to expand broadband by tapping the federal fund that subsidizes telephone service in poor and rural communities.
In a statement, the FCC said it remains "firmly committed to promoting an open Internet and to policies that will bring the enormous benefits of broadband to all Americans" and "will rest these policies ... on a solid legal foundation."
Comcast welcomed the decision, saying "our primary goal was always to clear our name and reputation."
At the heart of the court case is Comcast's challenge of a 2008 FCC order banning it from blocking subscribers from using BitTorrent. The commission, at the time headed by Republican Kevin Martin, based its order on a set of net neutrality principles adopted in 2005.
But Comcast argued that the FCC order was illegal because the agency was seeking to enforce mere policy principles, which don't have the force of regulations or law. That's one reason that Genachowski is now trying to formalize those rules.
The cable company had also argued the FCC lacks authority to mandate net neutrality because it had deregulated broadband under the Bush administration, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court in 2005.
The FCC now defines broadband as a lightly regulated information service. That means it is not subject to the obligations traditional telecommunications services have to share their networks with competitors and treat all traffic equally. But the FCC maintains that existing law gives it authority to set rules for information services, including net neutrality rules.
Tuesday's court decision rejected that reasoning, concluding that Congress has not given the FCC "untrammeled freedom" to regulate without explicit legal authority.
With so much at stake, the FCC now has several options. It could ask Congress to give it explicit authority to regulate broadband. Or it could appeal Tuesday's decision.
But both of those steps could take too long because the agency "has too many important things they have to do right away," said Ben Scott, policy director for the public interest group Free Press. Free Press was among the groups that alerted the FCC to Comcast's behavior after The Associated Press ran tests and reported that the cable company was interfering with attempts by some subscribers to share files online.
The more likely scenario, Scott believes, is that the agency will simply reclassify broadband as a more heavily regulated telecommunications service. That, ironically, could be the worst-case outcome from the perspective of the phone and cable companies.
"Comcast swung an ax at the FCC to protest the BitTorrent order," Scott said. "And they sliced right through the FCC's arm and plunged the ax into their own back."
The battle over the FCC's legal jurisdiction comes amid a larger policy dispute over the merits of net neutrality. Backed by Internet companies such as Google Inc. and the online calling service Skype, the FCC says rules are needed to prevent phone and cable companies from prioritizing some traffic or degrading or services that compete with their core businesses. Indeed, BitTorrent can be used to transfer large files such as online video, which could threaten Comcast's cable TV business.
But broadband providers such as Comcast, AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. argue that after spending billions of dollars on their networks, they should be able to manage their systems to offer premium services and prevent high-bandwidth applications such as BitTorrent from hogging capacity.
For its part, the FCC offered no details on its next step, but stressed that it remains committed to the principle of net neutrality.
"Today's court decision invalidated the prior commission's approach to preserving an open Internet," the agency's statement said. "But the court in no way disagreed with the importance of preserving a free and open Internet; nor did it close the door to other methods for achieving this important end."
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A New York man who cut off his ankle monitor before killing a woman and raping her 10-year-old daughter was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in federal prison for possessing more than 11,000 images and 1,100 videos of child pornography.
U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian said 30-year-old David Renz will begin the 30-year sentence after completion of whatever sentence he receives for his guilty plea in state court for the murder and rape. U.S. District Judge Norman Mordue went beyond the 19 to 24 years recommended by federal sentencing guidelines.
Sentencing on the state charges is scheduled for May, but it has been postponed several times while the U.S. Department of Justice decides whether to charge Renz on a federal carjacking statute that could carry the death penalty if he is convicted.
Renz, of the Syracuse suburb of Cicero, had been fitted with an ankle monitor while awaiting trial on the child pornography charges but cut it off before abducting the mother and daughter at gunpoint from a mall parking lot last March. He has pleaded guilty to those charges but has the option of withdrawing the pleas if a federal death penalty charge is added. The Associated Press generally does not identify victims of sex crimes and has not identified the woman to protect the identity of girl.
Renz didn't speak when given the chance before sentencing on Wednesday.
Assistant Public Defender Randi Bianco asked Mordue to stay within the federal sentencing guidelines, saying Renz has endured a lifetime of pain, bullying and isolation because of a severe facial deformity.
Renz was born with a congenital condition that reduced the size of his jawbone and lower face, and underwent numerous surgical procedures from birth to age 25. One side of his face is partially paralyzed, pulling his mouth to one side.


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DAVIS, Calif. - Despite four players recording double figures in kills, including a career-high from All-American Stacey Schmidt, the UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team lost a close and hard-fought match on Friday night to UC Davis.
After winning the first set 25-20, the Gauchos dropped the three subsequent sets 27-25, 25-23, 31-29, dropping to 12-11 overall and 5-5 in the Big West.
The Aggies, who had to beat UCSB in the closest way possible in all three sets, improved to 19-6 overall and 5-5 in conference.
Schmidt had a career-high 24 kills for the Gauchos, who hit .220 for the match, as the senior from Huntington Beach, Calif. hit .417 for the night.
Leah Sully continued her impressive sophomore campaign with 16 kills and 20 digs while Kara Sherrard also had a double-double with 15 kills and 13 digs. Lily Lopez added 10 kills for UCSB.
The attractive box score didn't end there for Santa Barbara as freshman setter Hanna Nielson doled out 63 assists, ranking her in the top-five in school history in the category during rally-scoring rules.
However, UC Davis was just a little bit better. The Aggies hit .238 and had nearly twice as many team blocks as UCSB did (13.0 to 7.0). UCD also had a little fortune on its side.
Tied 25-apiece in the second set, a kill from Betsy Sedlak (13 kills) and a hitting error by Lopez gave UCD the game, tying things at 1-1.
In the second set, Sully was set three consecutive times but managed to put just one away as UCSB couldn't rally from the 23-22 deficit.
Finally, after a Sherrard kill on match point gave the Gauchos new life, a Valerie Brain putaway and a Schmidt hitting error allowed the Aggies to sneak away with the closest win imaginable.
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In an effort to show their appreciation, the softball team will be assembling care packages for deployed troops and they are asking fans for their help and support in bringing as many care package items as they can.
Care packages are composed of items preferred while in deployment and contain such things as chewing gum, cookies, beef jerky, canned nuts, corn nuts, sunflower seeds, canned or dried fruit, coffee, shaving cream, white or green socks and game books.
The Georgia Military College Prep School Color Guard will be in attendance, as well as invitees from the Georgia War Veterans Home (GWVH), which is located in Milledgeville. A member of the GWVH will be throwing out the first pitch.
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For some women, there is nothing they wouldn't do for their man. Although love should be unconditional, many women feel the need to prove their love to a man, even if it means compromising their beliefs, safety or even their freedom to show them what a "down A$$ chick" they are. However, a man who truly loves you will never ask you to do anything you're uncomfortable doing in order to prove your love to him. Your love and devotion should simply be enough, and couples who share true love will never have to prove anything to each other. However, if your man begins a sentence with, "If you loved me, you'd…," run because most likely, nothing good can come of it. Showing your love shouldn't be shameful, painful, humiliating or illegal, and while you may think you're assuaging his insecurities, you're actually just allowing him to manipulate you. Think there is no limit to showing him how far you'll go to prove your love? Think again. Here are 10 things no woman should do for a man, simply because he asks her to.