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In some ways Thanksgiving 2012 seems not much different from the Pilgrims� landing on a craggy slab of Massachusetts coastline long ago.
In some ways Thanksgiving 2012 seems not much different from the Pilgrims� landing on a craggy slab of Massachusetts coastline long ago.
The Pilgrims of four centuries ago were facing a world of which they knew nothing � just as the current economic and geopolitical landscape seems a scary one with which many of us are not wholly familiar.
For the Pilgrims, most anything that could have gone wrong on their journey from religious intolerance to the New World did; Murphy�s Law applied exponentially.
Beyond the miles they had been willing to foray on foot from the sea and their ship, they knew nothing of this land they had come upon, nothing of what and who might be there. In fact, initially the thought never seemed to have crossed their minds that there would be anybody there.
The ground was not suitable for crops, at least not with the rudimentary tools they carried and their lack of knowledge of the soil. The viability of what they knew to grow back home in Europe was in question.
Game seemed scarce. The weather conditions atrocious even for hardy men and women of the English and Dutch stock they were.
They were literally in what to them must have seemed the Land of the Lost.
How that seems familiar to the environment of today, a different sort of rocky terrain.
An environment that save for those of a certain generation none of us have experienced, or at least not to the degree that is experienced in the 24/7 din of today.
Chronic unemployment that can not be captured in the monthly reports that do not capture those who for various reasons are not, can not or will not seek employment in a business climate buffeted by forces that seem � as with those Pilgrims � beyond our control.
Political fissions, religious fissions, the growing chasm between those who must worry about whether there will be food on the table that night and those who don�t � they all serve to divide, just as the harsh conditions came to divide at times the men and women of the Mayflower.
There is much to make us anxious. This will be a difficult Thanksgiving � hardly a holiday for far too many.
But the Pilgrims were taught a valuable lesson by the Native Americans � savages as they initially saw them � who inhabited those shores of the bay in which the Mayflower ultimately anchored for safe harbor.
For while these men and women weren�t big on modesty in what passed for their dress, and talked and behaved in ways foreign to the Pilgrims, they were also large of heart, human beings no matter the color.
What is little understood, but is explained by Nathaniel Philbrick in his fascinating book �Mayflower� is that while there might have been a feast of some kind on a date sometime near the end of the Pilgrims� first year in the New World, it was a product of a bond of community formed between people of different color, religion and outlook on life.
Thanksgiving, and they did not know it as that and it would become a holiday only centuries later than that 1620�s sit down, was for the Pilgrims something that was played out over more than 24 hours.
The previous winter their very existence was in the balance. The Native Americans could have easily killed them, just as the weather and disease depleted their ranks.
Instead, those Native Americans would teach the newcomers about the land they had arrived at, about hunting, fishing and farming.
They taught the Pilgrims survival and stewardship of the land.
In turn, instead of choosing arrogant isolationism in their new quarters, the Pilgrims reached out to the Native Americans, establishing a bartering system, sleeping in their wigwams, choosing to learn, coming to understand these were just human beings.
Only later, when, what else, territory became an issue, did tension and ultimately bloodshed come to those first Anglo-Saxon arrivals and those there to greet them.
So today, hopefully, is a day to put aside the loose ends of life which isolate and divide us to remember the things that bring us together.
The community that exists in this county emerges during the toughest of times and this year will be no different.
There are the slew of volunteers who will spend their holidays providing sustenance and cheer to, literally, hundreds who would otherwise be without a warm meal and fellowship on a day all about warm meals and fellowship.
And a Sheriff�s Office, and other organizations, with a mission of meeting the Christmas wishes of needy children and families in the county.
That is just a sampling � a small sampling � of what a unique and special community Gulf County can be when the sledding is most difficult.
And on this day that will be difficult for many, we find thanksgiving in that community, that sense of not being alone.
Discovering that at their most tested they were not alone made all the difference for the Pilgrims long ago.
Our hope on this day is that understanding the value of that sense of community today can make a difference in all our lives.


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With eight holes left in Tiger Woods' round Sunday, everything was setting up for him to bid a victorious farewell to Southern California.
Woods led by four shots over Zach Johnson in the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge, which benefits Woods' charities. This was the 15th edition of the event and the last one at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks before the tournament moves to Florida next year.
But Johnson had other ideas, and after a dramatic turn of events at the 18th hole, Johnson defeated Woods on the first hole of a playoff to win the World Challenge and its $1-million first prize.
"This is as good as it gets," said Johnson, 37, an Iowa native who twice had finished second in the tournament. But he added that there was "a bit too much drama at the end."
Johnson had climbed even with Woods at 13 under par for the tournament when they came to the final hole of regulation, a par four.
Woods, who'd begun the final round with a two-stroke lead, hit his second shot at No. 18 into a bunker in front of the green, seemingly giving the advantage to Johnson. But Johnson promptly gave it back by hitting his approach into a pond in front of the green.
Then, after taking a one-shot penalty, Johnson hit from the drop zone and holed out with a pitching wedge from 58 yards to save par. The crowd surrounding the 18th green erupted and Johnson threw his wedge into the air.
"I'm trying to get somewhere around the hole to make five," Johnson, who shot four-under 68 in the final round, said of the shot from the drop zone. Instead, he added, he got "very lucky."
Woods then blasted out of the trap to within about two feet and made par as well and set up the playoff, a replay of the 18th hole.
This time Johnson made a routine par. Woods hit his approach into the same bunker and blasted out to within five feet. But his putt for par — and to extend the playoff — curled out of the cup, giving the win to Johnson.
It was only the fourth time in his career that Woods failed to win after leading by at least two strokes going into the final round.
Nonetheless, Woods said, "Overall it was a great week for us . . . it was pretty exciting. I think everyone was pretty entertained."
Bubba Watson and Matt Kuchar tied for third at nine under par, with Watson shooting a two-under 70 on Sunday and Kuchar a five-under 67. Webb Simpson (68) finished fourth at seven under.
Despite being four shots back with eight holes to play, Johnson said, "I didn't think I was ever out of it."
Indeed, he made four birdies on the back nine to catch Woods, which made Johnson's errant approach on the 18th hole all the more shocking.
"It was just a bad swing — got caught up in the moment," Johnson said. "I mean that was the worst shot I hit all day."
He rebounded with his best shot of the day.
Woods' reaction to seeing Johnson's shot from the drop zone go into the cup? "Whatever happened I had to make four," he said.
"I figured he was going to probably get that up and down for five and I would have to make four either way to win the golf tournament," Woods said.
Woods, the world's top-ranked player, won five PGA Tour events this year. He has also won the World Challenge a record five times.
His primary charity, the Tiger Woods Foundation, announced last month that the World Challenge would move next year to Isleworth Golf & Country Club in Windermere, Fla.
Attendance Sunday was announced as 24,922, a record for any round in 14 years at Sherwood.
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Wisdom from an Irish poet and patriot
Capitalism is not the free world.
Capitalism is a term devised by Marxists to describe what they thought were the worst aspects of our freedom.
We should never let any corporation or bank or computer company pose as the embodiment of our freedom.
Crises for large corporations are not crises for the free world.
Our freedom will endure and grow as long as we continue to elect our governments, to uphold Christian values, to promote small businesses, to permit citizens to own their own property and their own lives, to raise our children with dignity, to be polite to each other in the streets, to contribute directly to each other with charitable hearts, and to care about each other as a community.
As long as these fundamentals are a part of our culture, the fate of soulless corporatist entities is not going to matter...
-- From "what me worry?" by James Healy, The Heelers Diaries, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008.


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real talk now.
Eli = 100% 1st time ballot HOFer w/ 2 Super Bowl rings.
Peyton is debatable.
crazy how things turn out.
To say Peyton Manning is debatable is very disrespectful to the guy. He's 3rd in passing yards, completions, and passing TD's ALL TIME. Eli Manning is a very good QB and deserves to be mentioned in the elite group of QB's, but he has two superbowls to his brother's one. Other than that, thats all he has on his older bro.
Dan Marino was a first ballot hall of famer and won ZERO superbowls. If Manning retired today, he would have a very impressive resume, being top 3 in quarterback stats, plus a superbowl win to his name and much more. He's going first ballot no doubt.


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Phelps signs with new suit company
BALTIMORE -- Michael Phelps has been linked with Speedo throughout his swimming career, most notably collecting a $1 million bonus after he won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games.
Now, as he comes back from retirement, the most decorated athlete in Olympic history will have a different look.
Phelps is announcing Tuesday that he has signed a deal with Aqua Sphere, a company that has extensive experience with triathlons and recreational swimming but will be designing a racing suit for the first time.
"Throughout my career, I've been able to do a lot of things with Speedo. The relationship was great," Phelps told The Associated Press. "But we came to a point where we had an opportunity to really change the sport and grow the sport even more."
Phelps and his coach, Bob Bowman, will be working with Aqua Sphere on a line of products beyond racing suits, all carrying the swimmer's name. In addition to success in the pool, they hope the Phelps brand will lure more people into swimming and reduce the number of drowning deaths.
The deal is a huge coup for Aqua Sphere, which is now represented by the winningest athlete in Olympics history as it tries to carve out a niche alongside more established swimsuit companies such as Arena, Speedo and Tyr.
Phelps had been sponsored by Speedo since he was 16, and starred at Beijing in a high-tech suit the company designed with help from NASA. The deal ran out at the end of last year.
After receiving offers from all the major companies, the 29-year-old was intrigued by the idea of going with a firm that would give him and Bowman substantial input into the design of everything from racing suits to gear that could be used at the grass-roots level.
"It's all hand-in-hand with not only my goal to grow the sport of swimming, but to help kids live healthy and active lifestyles and learn to swim," Phelps said. "It starts from there."
Don Rockwell, the CEO of Aqua Sphere, said his company began talking with Phelps' representatives after learning the deal with Speedo was ending. At the time, they weren't sure he would actually return as a competitor. Of course, there were no complaints when he announced his return in April.
Now Aqua Sphere will have one of its suits on a swimmer with 18 gold medals and 22 medals overall.
"Once we heard he was coming out of retirement, we stayed on the same track," Rockwell said. "But this is a big opportunity for us."
Under FINA guidelines, any new suits must be approved by the governing body and can be worn in competition starting Jan. 1. Even with that relatively short time frame, Aqua Sphere is confident about designing a suit that Phelps will be comfortable in and allows him to go just as fast as he would in the Arena suit he's been wearing since returning to competition.
"To be able to partner with the foremost experts, with the best competitive swimmer of all time and one of the most technical swim coaches to help us in that process, that alleviates any sort of pressure in terms of developing this new product," said Todd Mitchell, who manages the swim business line for Aqua Sphere.
Last week in Baltimore, Phelps and Bowman held their first extensive talks with Aqua Sphere's engineers and designers, providing their feedback on products that are merely prototypes at the moment. There is still work to do before there's a suit, cap and goggles that Phelps will be ready to wear in competition, but they say the initial tests were encouraging.
Phelps said the suit "felt great," and he provided suggestions on ways to modify the goggles to meet his needs, especially the range of vision it provides.
"It's really just an investment of our time," Bowman said. "I think they have all the wherewithal and infrastructure to make it happen. It's really exciting for us to actually be able to create some things whereas normally it's just something where we pick out and use it. Now, we can tailor and make some things to the way we'd like swimming to go, the things that we think are important."
Terms of the contract were not released, but it runs through the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Phelps has made no commitment to swimming past the Rio Games in two years, though both sides insist this is a long-term relationship that will carry on beyond his time in the water.
"The barrier to getting into the sport and the barrier to Michael's efforts to grow the sport relate directly to product," said Phelps' agent, Peter Carlisle. "The motivation is there for both partners to really change the approach that's been taken, to take a much more inclusive approach to it. We think a big difference can be made."


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Nearly one year after the release of the Nexus One, Google, in partnership with Samsung, has released its second official phone the Nexus S. It has some fancy
gimmicks features that separate it from other Android phones on the market, such as a curved display and the newest 2.3 Gingerbread update.
That's great and everything, but we wanted to see what makes this baby tick. So stay tuned as we dig deep into the Nexus S!
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The Nexus S is a variation of the Samsung Galaxy S, sporting more or less the same hardware specifications as its brethren.
Notable changes to the Nexus S include NFC (Near Field Communication) support and a Super AMOLED Contour Display.
Tech Specs:
1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 Hummingbird Multimedia Applications Processor based on the ARMv7 architecture.
16 GB internal storage capacity
512 MB total RAM
5 MP rear-facing camera and a VGA (640x480) front-facing camera.
Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
A side-by-side comparison of the Samsung-made Nexus S and its HTC-manufactured older sibling, the Nexus One.
It's not just an optical illusion, the Nexus S is smiling at you! This is the first smartphone to feature a Contour Display, meaning the display glass is slightly curved to be more comfortable for users.
Without any further ado, let's start tearing this phone apart!
The entire back cover comes right off without a fuss, giving us a first glimpse of the battery.
We used a plastic opening tool to peel the NFC antenna module off the back cover. According to Google: "Nexus S can read information from 'smart' tags, or everyday objects that have NFC chips in them. These can be anything from stickers and movie posters to t-shirts."
Looks like something straight out of Tron: Legacy.
The battery is extremely easy to remove and comes out next.
The 3.7 V, 5.55 Watt-hours Lithium ion cell provides up to 6.7 hours of talk time on a 3G network, and up to 14 hours on a 2G network.
The battery inside the Nexus S is rated at 1500 mAh. That's slightly higher than the 1400 mAh rating of the Nexus One's battery.
Don't feed this battery to a baby.
After removing six screws with our trusty Phillips #00 screwdriver, a little prying with a plastic opening tool lets us remove the inner case.
Taking out the motherboard requires removing three Phillips screws and disconnecting a few cables here and there.
Can you be more specific on "few cables". =D
Victor Araujo
We are more specific when we write repair guides. However, as we state above, "teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions."
Just changed my screen according to this guide. There were two cables.
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A handy plastic opening tool helps separate the SIM card reader from the rest of the motherboard.
The Nexus S is unlocked right out of the box and can be used with a Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900) GSM carrier and is Tri-band HSPA (900, 2100, 1700) compatible.
NXP it is NFC chip, also it loop like it support SWP ( SIM as secure element for Mobile paying systems )
Much like the Samsung Galaxy S, the Nexus S features both a rear and front-facing camera.
Interestingly, the two cameras share the same connector on the motherboard and can be removed as a singular unit.
The front-facing VGA camera provides a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels.
The EM-Tech EME1511AFRC integrates the earpiece speaker, loudspeaker for speakerphone and media use, and a sensor bank all into one unit with a singular shared data connector.
This is definitely a win for integration, but at the same time forces users to replace the entire unit if only one component malfunctions.
Big players on the motherboard include:
Skyworks SKY77529 Tx Front-End Module for Dual-Band GSM / GPRS / EDGE
SanDisk SDIN4C2 16GB MLC NAND flash.
Samsung KB100D00WM-A453 memory package and S5PC110A01 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird Processor.
Infineon 8824 XG616 X-Gold baseband processor
Wolfson Microelectronics WM8994 ultra-low power audio codec.
Hidden underneath an EMI cover is the Broadcom Wi-Fi chip.
The chip reads: BCM4329GKUBG TE1043 P21
According to UBM Techinsights, the chip is a low-power package with 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1, and FM capability.
Variants of this chip have been around for over a year. We first saw it used in the 3rd generation iPod Touch.
Removing the display presented us with the first stumbling block in our disassembly. A heat gun made quick work of the front case assembly, though.
what heat gun would be good to use??
Shameless plug: iFixit sells one.
Here you can see a side view of the Super AMOLED display and front glass panel.
You can definitely see that only the front glass panel is curved. The rest of the components are flat as a board, just as any other phone on the market.
There's also a small PCB on the back of the display with an Atmel MXT224 touchscreen controller on it.
Nexus S Repairability Score: 7 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair)
Battery is very easily replaceable -- just remove the back cover to swap it out.
The motherboard comes out easily once you're inside, as it's held in place by regular screws and connectors.
A lot of the phone's components are modular, meaning that they're simpler to replace, but will cost more as replacement parts.
Front panel is attached with adhesive instead of screws, so it's harder to take off than on the iPhone.
If you shatter the front panel glass, the SAMOLED has to be replaced as well -- they're fused together.
The "few cables" made me cut the earphone contactas of the EM-Tech EME1511AFRC part, have to use it with the speaker to hear anything...
Besides the screen is heavily glued onto the front case (not kept in place by the outside "ring" of the phone), since I can't glue it, I gave up with my brand new screen & packed it back. Now, the screen is damaged and the earphone is off.
Too bad I did not see the "teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions." thing !
Hint for Step 9: The earpiece-ribbon-cable-assembly and loudspeaker are actually two separate pieces, you can buy each one individually (e.g. on ebay).
I just disassembled mine to replace the screen bezel. Thanks for the teardown, it really helped me!
Thanks for this good guide!
I was trying to know the correct voltage of the battery on step 10. Mine is 1.8 Volt
My Nexus S is not booting anymore. I had to reboot multiple times to have a chance to boot but actually it's dead.
The problem is that it cannot mount sd card.
I'll try to put the PCB in a oven to repair this.
Can anyone comment on the location - and replaceability – of the cell radio antenna? Note: I am not asking about the Wifi, GPS, or NFC antennas. The phone I have has gone deaf on its cellular radio only. I am hoping it's something as simple as a cold solder joint, but I need to know where the cellular antenna is in order to track this down.


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Replacements used: Lise Arricastre (Lons) for Ezanno (48 mins), Laetitia Salles (La Valette) for Mignot (53), Jessy Tremouliere (Romagnat) for Le Duff (54), Julie Duval (Ovalie Caennaise) for Portaries, Elodie Puoblan (Montpellier) for Izar (both 58), Laetitia Grand (Lons) for Djossouvi (60), Sandra Rabier (Ovalie Caennaise) for Koita (69). Not used: Yanna Rivoalen (Lille).
Replacements used: Paula Fitzpatrick (St. Mary's/Leinster) for Fleming (60 mins), Stacey-Lea Kennedy (Cooke/Ulster) for Egan (63), Grace Davitt (Cooke/Ulster) for Murphy (65), Hannah Casey (Saracens/Exile) for Baxter (70). Not used: Fiona Hayes (UL Bohemians/Munster), Kerrie-Ann Craddock (Saracens/Exile), Amy Davis (Blackrock/Ulster), Jackie Shiels (Richmond/Exile).
France made an explosive start with winger Marion Lievre touching down within six minutes, and they repeated the trick early in the second half thanks as prop Elodie Portaries crashed over.
Centre Shannon Izar notched a third try for her side, leaving Ireland 19-3 behind, but the defending champions showed a huge amount of fight with two maul tries from hooker Gillian Bourke.
Niamh Briggs converted the second one in the 71st minute, giving the visitors a chance of completing what would have been an excellent comeback at the end of a very entertaining tussle.
But despite the best efforts of Nora Stapleton and replacements Grace Davitt and Hannah Casey late on, Ireland were unable to get back into scoring range and the free-scoring French sealed their clean sweep of victories.
Ireland, who won the toss and elected to receive, came under immediate pressure after a kick from out-half Stapleton went out on the full.
The bulky French forwards built serious momentum through a lineout maul on the right and somehow Ireland held out, with key defensive contributions from Claire Molloy and Lynne Cantwell.
The hosts pressed further with Marjorie Mayans held up over the line, and Koumiba Djossouvi was then called back for a forward pass from her influential back row colleague Safi N'Diaye.
The pressure eventually told when the Irish defence was sucked in on the right and Jennifer Troncy and Christelle Le Duff released Lievre for a run-in from the corner.
Agricole missed the conversion and Briggs and Alison Miller led the Irish response, running hard out wide. Briggs scuffed a long range penalty attempt after Marine De Nadaï was caught offside.
It was nip and tuck again as Molloy came up with a brilliant ruck poach and Agricole miscued a penalty effort after Cantwell was ruled offside at a kick chase.
The dangerous Miller made headway on the left again, shrugging off try scorer Lievre, and French number 8 N'Diaye countered with a typically powerful carry.
The high tempo of the first quarter was replaced by a real arm wrestle up front, with both scrums seeking supremacy and Ireland patient in possession albeit without the required territory.
Good competing in the air from Siobhan Fleming prevented France from building a lineout platform, and fellow back rower Molloy did well to tackle Lievre into touch on the half hour mark.
A number of refereeing decisions went France's way - some of them questionable calls - but Ireland's defence held firm as they went in at the break 5-0 behind.
Crucially, N'Diaye provided the momentum for the hosts on the resumption with a bulldozing run and deft offload. Mayans ran hard in the Irish 22 and prop Portaries duly plunged over for her try from a close range drive.
Agricole managed to add the extras to open up a 12-0 lead. Ireland hit back with a high quality run from Miller which took them back into the French 22, the net result being their opening score - a successful penalty goal from Briggs.
But Ireland failed to clear their lines soon after and the French capitalised, trucking it up through the forwards before Agricole's inviting offload sent centre Izar darting through a gap and in under the posts.
The conversion followed from Agricole for a 19-3 scoreline. There was no sense of Ireland throwing in the towel though and they showed more directness as they found their rhythm in attack.
They sent two kickable penalties to touch and were rewarded when Bourke made the try-line at the end of a very well orchestrated maul, wide out on the left. It was the first try France had conceded in the entire 2014 tournament.
Briggs' conversion attempt stayed outside the right hand post but there were further encouraging signs for Philip Doyle and his coaching staff on the touchline.
Stapleton sent the French back into their 22 with a clever kick towards the left corner and Ireland got their jumpers in the air to disrupt the home lineout.
Then, a terrific broken-field run from Miller in the 68th minute should have led to a try. She reached the 22 and combined with Bourke, but Heather O'Brien failed to find Ashleigh Baxter out on the right wing and the chance was lost.
Ireland made up for that with an excellent maul try three minutes later, the pack driving brilliantly in unison and diagonally towards the posts for Bourke to touch down. The simple conversion was added by Briggs.
That set up a grandstand finish and Ireland kept the foot on the gas as Davitt hared onto a clearance kick and Stapleton pulled out another rewarding touchfinder.
However, France managed to retain possession this time and they went close to adding a fourth try - Ireland needed a tremendous tackle by Sophie Spence and good covering by Casey to keep them at bay.
Doyle's charges did end the game in possession, but France's blue-shirted defence closed down the space near halfway and made certain of their fifth successive win of the campaign.
TIME LINE: 6 minutes - France try: Marion Lievre - 5-0; 10 mins - Ireland penalty: missed by Niamh Briggs - 5-0; 15 mins - France penalty: missed by Sandrine Agricole - 5-0; Half-time - France 5 Ireland 0; 44 mins - France try: Elodie Portaries - 10-0; conversion: Sandrine Agricole - 12-0; 49 mins - Ireland penalty: Niamh Briggs - 12-3; 52 mins - France try: Shannon Izar - 17-3; conversion: Sandrine Agricole - 19-3; 59 mins - Ireland try: Gillian Bourke - 19-8; conversion: missed by Niamh Briggs - 19-8; 71 mins - Ireland try: Gillian Bourke - 19-13; conversion: Niamh Briggs - 19-15; Full-time - France 19 Ireland 15
Referee: Leah Berard (USA)
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Brother of 1969 murder victim waits for justiceBy PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 26. 2013 7:37PM
For 44 years, Kenneth Blakeslee has waited for justice for his sister Luella, a 29-year-old French teacher at The Derryfield School in Manchester who disappeared on the Fourth of July in 1969.
Her partial remains were found 29 years later by two people hiking in the Hopkinton woods. The medical examiner ruled her death a homicide, but it was never determined how she died.
The man Blakeslee believes murdered his sister, her boyfriend Robert "Bob" Breest, now 75, may know soon if he will win his freedom after being imprisoned for 41 years for the murder of another young woman, a Manchester teenager killed about 19 months after Luella disappeared.
A Merrimack County Superior Court judge is reviewing motions relative to new DNA and other evidence in that case.
There is little that Blakeslee, living in England, can do. His long wait for justice is slipping away for his accomplished sister, the valedictorian of her class at Pembroke Academy, a Tufts University graduate and a student at the Sorbonne in Paris.
"They don't have the evidence to charge or convict him (Breest) in Luellas's death," Blakeslee says. "They never did. There is no smoking gun."
Final hours
Before she disappeared that Fourth of July, her father talked to Luella as she stood in the kitchen of their modest Hooksett home ironing an outfit. She said she was going on a date with Breest, her boyfriend of three years, according to Blakeslee and then deputy and later Merrimack County Sheriff Ronald "Dana" Daniels. Her father headed out the door to visit friends. He never saw her alive again.
Investigators theorized she was smothered in her bedroom or was taken from the home, killed somewhere else and then buried in Hopkinton, about a mile from a farm owned by Breest's aunts and where he stayed for weeks in the summers as a boy.
New York City attorney Ian Dumain, representing Breest in his quest for a new trial, notes Breest was not charged with Luella's murder, that he never saw Luella that night and that there was another suspect. Daniels said Luella had gone out with another man during that time, but investigators cleared him. According to Daniels and Blakeslee, Breest was the one in the picture, pressuring Luella to continue their relationship.
"Breest wasn't the only suspect to stand out, but he was a key suspect," Daniels said.
Prime suspect
Daniels said state police investigators focused on Breest because of the statement Luella's father gave them. Daniels, who now lives in Las Vegas, became involved after Luella's father asked him to investigate. He knew Breest and had arrested him earlier for burglary. Breest was in prison for a short time for that incident. Blakeslee said his father brought him some books to read, but Luella never visited him.
Luella's remains were found in 1998. The entire skeleton was never found, and not much of her skull was left. Months would pass before she was positively identified.
Two months after Luella disappeared, Breest was arrested for allegedly assaulting a young woman from France, said Daniels and Blakeslee. Breest allegedly picked up the young French woman and a companion as they were hitchhiking, He told them he had to stop by his house in Hooksett to check on his mother and took them there, recalled Blakeslee who attended one of Breest's court hearings. Breest's mother was not home, and when one of the young women went to use the bathroom, Breest allegedly assaulted the other. One of the women ran out of the house to a neighbor's home, and soon police were on the scene and arrested Breest.
At one point, as he was awaiting trial, Breest ended up in the New Hampshire State Hospital. Ultimately, the charge against him was dropped when the women refused to return to New Hampshire to testify.
Blakeslee is speaking out now because he believes there is a perception that Breest is an innocent man unjustly imprisoned for a crime he did not commit - the murder of Susan Randall, 18, of Manchester in 1971.
Randall, an aspiring fashion designer, was last seen hitchhiking in Granite Square when she was picked up by a driver in a white car. Her frozen body would be found about three days later on March 2, 1971, on the ice-covered Merrimack River in Concord. Someone had tossed her from an Interstate 93 bridge.
Her liver was torn in two from being beaten and kicked, and from the 25- to 50-foot fall from the bridge. Breest, who had been in Manchester that night on the West Side and drove a white Ford, was arrested and convicted based on witness testimony, paint chips and a single hair from Randall's antique horsehair coat found in his car.
In the area
Police honed in on Breest when they learned he had been at a Kidder Street residence on Manchester's West Side that night, not far from Granite Square. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to 40 years to life. Breest always maintained his innocence, even when he was up for parole. All he had to do was admit to the murder, complete a sexual offender program and admit to any other crimes, convicted or not.
He refused.
"My intention is to try and get the whole story out so that he's not loosed," Blakeslee said. "Bob was very clever, very much so. Look, he's considered to be the prison lawyer and helping all the other people there." Breest is imprisoned at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Shirley.
Daniels doesn't believe Breest will ever be released. "I don't think there's a chance in the world that Breest will be released or they will retry the case," he said. "Witnesses are dead."
No DNA testing
He said while there was no DNA testing at the time of the trial, there was other evidence that convicted him.
Breest, in an interview with the New Hampshire Sunday News in 1998, blamed Daniels for being wrongly convicted.
Daniels, he said, had a vendetta against him and one time stuck his finger in his face and said, "I know you killed Luella, and I'm going to get you for something if it's the last thing I do."
Daniels maintains it was Breest's mother who testified at a hearing that Daniels said he would get him. He doesn't recall ever saying that.
He had been an old-fashioned investigator, one who did a lot of snooping into Luella's disappearance because her father, George, asked him to do it, he said.
When Breest obtained an attorney and investigators were told they could not talk with him anymore, Daniels instead would stop by his mother's house and sit and chat with her.
"They didn't say I couldn't talk to his mother," he said.
Daniels became very close to the Blakeslees, and when George Blakeslee moved to Florida a couple of years after Luella's disappearance and Kenneth Blakeslee moved overseas, Daniels took Luella's dog to live with him and his family.
"I was hoping he'd learn to talk, but he never did," Daniels said.
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The Sixers on Friday signed free agent center Kwame Brown to a two-year, $6 million deal, according to a report that first appeared on Yahoo Sports.
Brown, 6-11, will get the opportunity to start if he can beat out Spencer Hawes, last season's starter. Hawes and the Sixers have reached agreement on a two-year, $13 million deal.
Last season, Brown appeared in just nine games with Golden State before suffering a torn pectoral muscle in his chest. He has season-ending surgery in January.
Brown was drafted by the Washington Wizards with the first pick in the 2001 draft. He was the first player to be selected out of high school with the top pick in the draft. Current Sixers coach Doug Collins was his first NBA coach.
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Four races within the state of Indiana, including the season-opening Crusader Open at Sunset Hills Farm, will prepare the Valparaiso cross country teams for the Horizon League Championships as head coach Mike Straubel announced the Crusaders' 2010 schedule today.
The Crusader Open will be contested for the 22nd time in 2010, and for the 17th straight year it will serve as Valpo's season-opening meet. Action at Sunset Hills Farm on Friday, Sept. 3 begins at 5 p.m. with the women's race, set for five kilometers, while the men's 6K will follow at 5:45 p.m.
Two weeks later, Valpo will make the short trip to West Lafayette to compete at the Indiana Intercollegiates, while on Oct. 1, a brief jaunt to the east is in the cards as the Crusaders will run at the Notre Dame Invitational. Valpo's final tuneup comes on Oct. 16 as it travels downstate to cover the course at the Evansville Invitational.
With four races under their belts, the Crusaders will aim to be peaking for the 2010 Horizon League Championships, hosted this year by Cleveland State University and scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 30. The NCAA Great Lakes Regional is slated to be run Saturday, Nov. 13 in Bloomington, Ind., and if any Crusaders qualify for the NCAA Cross Country Championships, they would compete Monday, Nov. 22 in Terre Haute, Ind.
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Joshua Jackson: 'Fringe' Series Finale Airs January 18!
Joshua Jackson takes a quick break between takes to eat a snack on the set of his show Fringe on Monday (November 5) in Vancouver, Canada.
The 34-year-old actor's Fox series is currently in the middle of its final season and the air date for the show's conclusion has been announced.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Joshua Jackson
Fringe will have its series finale in a two-hour event on Friday, January 18 at 8/7c. The series finale will also mark the show's 100th episode!
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LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) - A state appeals court has overturned a decision that Kilauea Irrigation Company would not be responsible to defend claims brought against the state in the aftermath of a deadly 2006 Kauai dam break.
The Garden Island reported Tuesday the state Intermediate Court of Appeals ruling says Kilauea Irrigation has a responsibility to defend claims against the state regarding care and maintenance of the Ka Loko dam and spillway prior to the disaster.
Seven people were killed after the dam collapsed and hundreds of gallons of water rushed downhill.
Various lawsuits were filed after the break. Some are still pending.
The ruling sends the Kilauea case back to Circuit Court. The company didn't file a challenge to the state's appeal.
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Finn, played by Jeremy Shada, is an adventure-seeking 14-year-old boy in Pendleton Ward's hit animated series "Adventure Time." (Cartoon Network)Link
Jeremy Shada, who voices Finn in "Adventure Time." (Darren Michaels / Cartoon Network)Link
"Adventure Time" creator Pendleton Ward, left, storyboard artist Rebecca Sugar, Jeremy Shada (Finn) and Tom Kenny (Ice King) attend 2012 Comic-Con International in San Diego. (Cartoon Network)Link
Lumpy Space Princess, Finn, Slime Princess, Jake, Hot Dog Princess and Wildberry Princess in a scene from "Adventure Time." (Cartoon Network)Link
Finn, Marceline and Jake in a scene from "Adventure Time." (Cartoon Network)Link
Jake, Finn and Key-per in a scene from "Adventure Time." (Cartoon Network)Link
A scene from "Adventure Time." (Cartoon Network)Link
The snail, Finn and Jake in a scene from "Adventure Time." (Cartoon Network)Link
Jake and Finn from "Adventure Time." (Cartoon Network)Link
The Emmy-nominated cartoon "Adventure Time" follows 14-year-old hero Finn and his pal Jake, a shape-shifting dog, as they face off against evildoers in the magical Land of Ooo. The show has become one of Cartoon Network's most popular programs, attracting both kids and adults to the whimsical and darkly funny world created by animator Pendleton Ward. The show, which kicked off its fifth season last week, continues Monday. Hero Complex caught up with Jeremy Shada, the 15-year-old actor who voices Finn, to talk about "Adventure Time" and more.
HC: How did you land the role?
JS: I got a call from my agent whenever this started way back three years ago, or something like that. We recognized it and it sounded familiar, and we realized that my older brother Zack [Shada] had done the pilot for it three years prior to this, to the audition, so then I looked it up on YouTube, the original pilot, and I was like, "Oh wow, my voice sounds a lot like his." So I kind of even matched his voice more than I normally would when I met with Pen, the creator, and all the producers.
HC: Had you done a character like Finn before?
JS: It was pretty new for me. I did a lot of voice-over prior to that, too, but it was definitely a cool new thing to be the lead in an animated series. I'd never done anything like that. So it was cool coming back every week and getting to grow the character overtime.
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HC: He has such a strong moral code. A good alignment.
JS: That's one of the things I do like about the character. He's just always trying to do the right thing. And even though sometimes that might not happen, or things get pretty crazy, that's his main goal.
HC: Are there any cartoons that have informed your performance as Finn?
JS: I grew up watching a lot of stuff, like "Teen Titans." But for performance of the character, probably not as much. It's really an extension of myself for the most part. It's turned into something more than that. It started off just kind of my normal voice, but now it's become more of a character.
HC: You'd done voice-over work for "Batman: The Brave and the Bold."
JS: Batman, the character I did was a very well-known character. I got to play Robin, so there are plenty of people who played him in the past, and plenty of things you could kind of go up and look at. Plenty of character reference, as opposed to Finn, who was this new character, at the time when I was doing it, at least was not very known, so I kind of got to make it my own.
HC: How much creative input do you have in the show?
JS: When I'm dealing with my character, I do. I don't have a whole lot of input in the story lines and stuff. I just get the script every week and I go in and record, and I just kind of do what I will with that. I have no input in what gets put in front of me, though.
HC: When you get a script, and you're reading the plot, can you visualize it? Or is it too wacky?
JS: If I'm looking at the storyboard, it makes sense. If I'm just reading the script and the lines on it, I'm like, what is going on? When you're going through it, even when I get it and I'm just looking through it, I can totally just hear the characters and their voices in my head doing the lines and stuff at this point.
HC: Do you record separately or together as a cast?
JS: We all record together most of the time, or at least we try to. All the other actors, they all have pretty busy schedules, but for the most part, we all work together, which is really cool, 'cause you get to play off the other people, and I think the reads are better that way. A lot of the shows don't record together, they record at separate times. We've been lucky enough to have everybody there most of the time.
HC: Are you a fan of Dungeons & Dragons and the other geeky stuff that inspires a lot of the show?
JS: I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it. When Pen mentioned it [as an influence for the show], it totally, totally makes sense from that point on.
HC: How are you and Finn similar?
JS: Well, me and Finn are both sort of terrible at math, so I guess there's one thing. We're both pretty easygoing guys. He's just a happy-go-lucky kid for the most part, and he just likes to have fun and go on adventures and stuff. He's just kind of an animated, post-apocalyptic world version of myself.
HC: Speaking of a post-apocalyptic world, the show has taken quite a few dark turns. Are you surprised by these developments?
JS: I think I'm constantly surprised by everything on the show. I cannot predict what's going to happen the next week or so. I never know what's going on half the time until I get the thing. I guess by this point, I'm almost not surprised anymore because it's so surprising every week, that I don't even know.
HC: Did you have any inkling "Adventure Time" would become as popular as it has?
JS: Honestly, I did not have any idea. The things you think are gonna be super huge a lot of times won't be. And the things you're like, 'Oh this is cool,' I had no idea what it would be, and then it turns into this huge phenomenon, and it's just spiraled upward from there, and it's crazy. I loves it. It's awesome.
HC: What's it like seeing such devoted fans show up to conventions in costume?
JS: That was awesome. The fans just love it, and they show their support so much. They just go crazy over it. They don't care what they look like when they show up. They all wear the Finn gear and stuff. It's awesome. There's a lot of people that wear even other characters now, too. They'll make homemade costumes for Ice King, Princess Bubblegum, the Fiona hats and stuff. They'll just go all out. And so it just really reminds us how much they love the show, and how big it is.
HC: Do you ever attend conventions in "Adventure Time" cosplay?
JS: Me personally, no I don't. I've never dressed up with a Finn hat. I don't know if I ever will.
HC: Who's your favorite "Adventure Time" character?
JS: Probably my two favorite would have to be Ice King and LSP. They're awesome.
HC: Why do you think kids relate to Finn and Jake?
JS: Above everything else, it really is about their relationship and about them being two best friends for the most part. I mean, you'll have these crazy adventures and everything else going on around them, but it really just focuses on Finn and Jake's relationship and them just being best friends and having these funny conversations you would have when you're just chilling with your buddies.
HC: What about that age gap between Finn and Jake?
JS: I think it's just kind of playing off like it's him in dog years. He doesn't look down on Finn in any way, shape or form. They're definitely equals. But he does kind of play that older brother role, in a sense.
HC: Why do you think the show is so popular among adults, as well as kids? It's pretty zany.
JS: I think I was probably more surprised by it when I first saw it. Now it makes perfect sense to me. I mean the show itself is very silly in the way that kids like. It's got tons of silly humor, and even the animation style is very colorful and bright, which the kids love. But it does have a lot of over-the-head humor as well, and a lot of things that parents and adults and college people will get that kids aren't likely to get.
HC: You get to do a lot of singing in the show. Is that something you were expecting?
JS: I didn't anticipate any singing whatsoever actually. That was something that just kind of came up on the spot, and I was like, 'OK.' It's not supposed to be like the most amazing, Grammy-winning performance. It's just supposed to be real, on the spot.
HC: Would you want a career in music?
JS: I would definitely not be opposed to it, that's for sure. I'm pretty open that way, as far as most things go. I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.
HC: I saw you covered a Justin Bieber song on YouTube. Would you like to be the next Biebs? You are a cutie-pie.
JS: Nah, no, hahaha… If that happened, that'd be great. He's a lucky guy. He's been very, very successful. It's a little bit of a lighthearted parody. It's funny, but shows off some of my singing skills at the same time.
HC: What's next for you? Some on-screen acting?
JS: I've actually done a lot of on-screen, live-action stuff prior to "Adventure Time." That's actually what I got my start in. Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as much as I could, and even if I ended up doing only that for the rest of my life, and I could be successful at it, that would be great. But I think my real dream is to do films and live-action films. I have a new live-action series I'm doing, which I'm one of the leads in, called "Incredible Crew." It's a live-action sketch comedy project. It's supposed to start airing in early 2013.
— Noelene Clark
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The Worst Romance Novel Covers Ever
Are you secretly addicted to romance novels? If you are, you have to admit some of them can have pretty hilarious titles and covers (in addition to the actual stories). If you don't read romance novels but love to make fun of them anyway, read on to see our picks for the top 10 worst romance novel covers of all time. You'll realize that the novel you've been working on forever has to get published, if a novel such as The Ghost Shrink, The Accidental Gigolo, and The Poltergeist Accountant can get published.


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James C. Adamson (Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired)NASA Astronaut (former)
Selected by NASA as an Astronaut in 1984, Adamson became qualified for
mission assignment on Space Shuttle flights. In November 1985, he was selected
to the crew of a Department of Defense mission, which was subsequently delayed
due to the Challenger Accident.
During the Shuttle Program reconstruction period Adamson was one of eleven
astronauts selected to hold management positions within NASA. He served as
Shuttle Program Office Assistant Manager for Engineering Integration. In this
position he was responsible for the initial development of a reliability based
maintenance program for the Space Shuttle program. He also initiated an
enhancements program for Shuttle ground processing.
In February 1988 Adamson was assigned to the flight crew of STS-28, the first
flight of Columbia following the reconstruction period. Columbia launched from the
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 8, 1989. The mission carried a
classified Department of Defense payload and a number of secondary payloads.
After 80 earth orbits in 121 hours, this five day mission concluded with a dry
lakebed landing on runway 17 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on August
13, 1989.
Following STS-28 Adamson once again returned to
management. This time he was assigned to the Kennedy Space Center as Director of
Shuttle Processing Analysis. He served in this post from September 1989 until
October 1990 when he was assigned to the flight crew of STS-43. During this
period Adamson developed risk based processing and scheduling programs which
resulted in reduction of processing times from 80 days to 50 days.
The nine day STS-43 mission aboard Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center on
August 2, 1991 setting a new world record for payload weight lifted to orbit.
The five member crew deployed a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-E), and
conducted 32 physical and life sciences experiments. During this flight Adamson
performed the first flight test of the Orbital Digital Autopilot following
Shuttle retrofit with new General Purpose Computers and new software. After 142
earth orbits in 213 hours, the STS-43 mission concluded with a landing on runway
15 at the Kennedy Space Center on August 11, 1991.
Following Adamsons retirement from government service in
June 1992 he continued as a management consultant to NASA and the aerospace
industry. Until September of 1994 he served as management consultant and
strategic planner for Lockheed Corporation in the area of Human Space Flight
Operations. He was also selected by the NASA Administrator to serve on the NASA
Advisory Council.
In September 1994 Adamson joined Lockheed Corporation as
Executive Vice President of Lockheed Engineering and Science company (LESC)
where he was shortly promoted to President and CEO. In late 1995 he was selected
by Lockeed Martin to start up and become the first COO of the United Space
Alliance (USA), a joint venture with Rockwell International Corp. USA
subsequently won the Space Flight Operations Contract with NASA to operated the
Space Shuttle Program and grew to $1.5 billion annual revenue in the first
In 1999 Adamson was recruited by Allied Signal
Corporation to be the President of Allied Signal Technical Services Corporation.
He remained in that post through Allied Signals merger with Honeywell until his
retirement in March 2001.
Adamson is still active as a consultant and board member
for the aerospace industry and still serves on the NASA Advisory Council for the
NASA Administrator.
A veteran of two space flight missions, Adamson has
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SPA204 Intermediate Spanish II
Continued opportunities to improve listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Review of grammar and introduction of additional vocabulary needed to express ideas and opinions related to Hispanic culture and literature. Concurrent enrollment in Spa 214 lab is required. Prerequisite: SPA 203
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a car bomb exploded on a commercial street in northern Baghdad, killing at least six people.
Monday's attack comes as the visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called on Iraq's leaders to "address the root causes" of a surge in bloodshed as al-Qaida militants battle government forces and allied tribal leaders for control of a volatile mainly Sunni province west of the capital.
Police and hospital officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information, said those killed were civilians and 13 people also were wounded.
Violence has surged as extremist militants have tried to position themselves as the champions of Iraqi Sunnis angry at the Shiite-led government over what they see as efforts to marginalize them.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
The U.N. chief has arrived in Baghdad as an unprecedented standoff is underway between Iraqi troops and al-Qaida-linked militants in western Anbar province.
Ahead of Ban Ki-moon's visit on Monday, the Iraqi government said the U.N. secretary-general would discuss a number of "regional issues, especially the crisis in Syria" next door.
Iraqi security forces and allied Sunni tribesmen in Anbar have been battling al-Qaida fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant but have yet to recapture the city of Fallujah and also part of the provincial capital, Ramadi.
The extremist militants, emboldened by fellow fighters' gains in the war in neighboring Syria, have tried to position themselves as the champions of Iraqi Sunnis angry at the Shiite-led government over what they see as efforts to marginalize them.


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MSI GTX 650 Power Edition OC Review
Usually new series start off with their high end offerings and then work their way to mid-range and low-end graphics cards, followed by a refresh. The performance of the high performance cards entice customers and set a pace for the series. Most consumers opt for the more affordable cards. NVIDIA has begun filling in the mid- and low-range cards where it previously had a gap. Coming in above the GT 640 and below the GTX 660 is the new GTX 650 up for review here! The GTX 650 is very closely related to the GT 640 as it too is equipped with the new GK107 core. The card has 384 Stream Processors on a 28nm die with 1GB of GDDR5, a step above the GDDR3 of the GT 640. Memory Bus is still 128-bit. The GTX 660 is quite a bit above in terms of performance since it has 960 Stream Processors, to start listing the differences.
MSI has taken the GTX 650 and applied its Power Edition styling to it similar to the MSI HD R7770 reviewed earlier in the year. A higher clock speed, improved PCB components, and a large heat sink that is able to be custom tailored for short length or high airflow suggest that this card should perform and overclock far better than a stock reference offering!
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The MSI GTX 650 box is primarily black, blue, and green. A large golden "P" sits in the center since this is a Power Edition card, meaning it is overclocked and equipped with the customizable TransThermal cooler. MSI provides a three-year warranty to North American customers as shown at the top right. The lower half of the front boldly states the model – GTX 650 Power Edition, and a few specifications: 1GB GDDR5 memory, PCI-E 3.0 connection, and Microsoft DirectX 11 supported. Flipping over to the back side shows some of the features and specifications listed out, with some of the key features listed out in 30 languages. At the top left a badge shows that the MSI Military Class III components are equipped on this card. These DOD certified components include Hi-C Capacitors, Super Ferrite Chokes, and Solid capacitors that aim to increase reliability and efficiency, and run at lower temperatures than standard components. Some of the features include RoHS compliance, full MSI Afterburner software control, and output through Mini HDMI, Dual Link DVI-I, and Dual Link DVI-D. A minimum of 400W is suggested for the power supply. A QR-code sits at the bottom right.
The top and bottom, and left and right sides each match their opposite sides. Each side is nicely decorated and lists the card model, 1GB GDDR5 memory size, PCI-E 3.0 compatibility, and DirectX 11 support. The shorter sides are black, green, and blue like the front while the longer sides are all blue and similar to the top half of the front.
On the front of the box is a flap that can be opened to peer at the graphics card through a window , and read about some of the key features on the Power Edition card including the Military Class III components and TransThermal Design. The TransThermal Design utilizes improved fan impeller design for more airflow — 22.55 CFM versus 18.7 CFM according to MSI. These fans encorporate Dust Free Technology where they spin in reverse for 30 seconds to pull out any dust that has accumulated in the cooler. This feature is quiet nice as one of the big killers in rigs is dust build up suffocating the hardware! The heat sink can be customized into one of three possible modes: the standard single fan mode is how it ships, this form is compact and more efficient than reference designs. The second configuration is Dual Fan Mode where the fan shroud slides back and allows a second fan to fit next to the original. The third is Double Airflow Mode where the second fan stacks on top of the Single Fan Mode. MSI testing shows that either of the two-fan configurations out perform the single. Both operate very closely in temperature and noise so this means that either setup is ideal — the Dual mode is better if the case is long enough to accommodate it whereas Double Mode is better for shorter cases that don't need to use the nearby expansion slots. The inner flap explains that this card is Triple Over-Voltage by MSI Afterburner compatible, this means that the core, memory, and PLL voltage can be increased! The PWM design has been enhanced to deliver more stable power for better overclocking. This card utilizes the Military Class III Components to improve stability, efficiency both thermal and electrical, and lifespan. Components include Hi-C Capacitors, Super Ferrite Chokes, and Solid Capacitors.
The card and accessories are kept in place safely inside by a piece of black foam that has been cut to hold them. Underneath this is a cardboard hatch that holds the CD and manuals. The standard antistatic bag protects the graphics card from ESD and contamination.
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MIDDLEBURY — Eddie Havens has spent the past 28 years making sure the Middlebury Union High School building has been in tip-top condition for teachers to teach and students to learn.
But recent months have seen Havens, a 52-year-old custodian at MUHS, do a little teaching of his own while tidying up the campus. And it's a lesson steeped in courage and built on a real-life testimonial on the dangers of smoking.


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At a programming forum that you regularly visit, you see a post asking for help
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Ryan White @ AIDS 2012: The World Links
July 26, 2012
African nations and American agencies, particularly Ryan White programs, are using some of the same techniques to engage people in care, like follow-up with clients, peer advocates, technology. All are seemingly good ideas. The trick is to determine what works, in what combination, and with what individuals and populations. Here are some findings from Starting and Staying on Course: HIV Linkage and Retention in Care (WEAE02) and observations on similar work in the U.S. under Ryan White.
- Peer Support: The first HIV drug regimens in the 1990s were handfuls of pills, some taken with food, some without. With combination drug pills, things are much simpler now. But adherence still matters and is still tough going for some people, whether it's managing high cholesterol or HIV disease. South Africa uses community-based adherence-support (CBAS) workers to conduct home visits and deal with adherence challenges (Community-Based Adherence Support Associated with Improved Virological Suppression in Adults Receiving Antiretroviral Treatment, WEAE0204). Their results show that the cohort receiving added support achieved better rates of viral suppression, statistically-significant, as compared to non-supported patients. Similar projects exist in the U.S. and are typically called peer educators and treatment advocates.
- Tracking and Follow-Up: Malawi's Back to Care project uses an electronic data system (with unique identifiers) and patient tracing (via phone calls and home visits) to engage and re-engage children in care through their caregivers. After tracing, the project reduced loss to follow-up by 62% (Risk Factors and True Outcomes of Children Lost to Follow-Up from Antiretroviral Therapy in Lilongwe, Malawi, WEAE0203). Equally important: the data system is helping Malawi learn what factors are causing loss to care so that changes can be made in response. The same can be said for the client level data system (RSR or Ryan White Services Report) of the Ryan White program, which is providing grantees with new tools to monitor and improve their work.
- Improving Lab Services: While the U.S. and Africa are using similar techniques to engage people in care, African nations have an added set of unique system challenges, like laboratory services. In Nigeria, people were being lost to follow-up because of inefficiencies and long wait times for processing of CD4 results by laboratory services. Data clerks now fill out lab request forms instead of very busy and scarce doctors. Lab technicians underwent extensive training on use of automated equipment to record CD4 results. CD4 results can now be turned around in 24 hours instead of 7 days. And more. Their results are impressive. For example, the percent of clients lost to follow up went from 58.7% to 10.7% (A Laboratory-based Approach to Reduce Loss to Follow-Up of HIV-Positive Clients, WEAE0202). On the Ryan White side, integration of laboratory data tracking in part of the CAREWare software system that is used to manage and monitor clinical and supportive care.
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Talk softly and carry a big hit
Pass by Joey Rhattigan in a Neuqua Valley hallway, it's been said, and you might not notice him except for a little smile and a soft hello.
There was nothing soft about Rhattigan on the football field. As the going got tough in the Wildcats' best season in history, Rhattigan got tougher. He ran, as offensive line coach Clayton Figi said, "with reckless, punishing abandon."
There certainly were other elements that drove 12-1 Neuqua Valley to its first Upstate Eight Conference title, this time in the Valley Division, since 2006, and its first undefeated regular-season record and state semifinal appearance in its history.
The defining individual wearing navy and gold, however, was No. 36, tailback Joey Rhattigan. The captain of the 2012 DuPage County All-Area Football Team left an indelible imprint.
"I have a son (Michael) who is a junior running back at Joliet Catholic," said Bolingbrook coach John Ivlow, whose Raiders allowed 5 often-unbelievable Rhattigan touchdown runs in Neuqua's 44-33 Class 8A second-round win on Nov. 2.
"He told me, 'As of Nov. 5, I am Joey Rhattigan.' Is there a bigger compliment than for someone wanting to be like you?"
The 6-foot, 200-pound Rhattigan definitely created admiration. Three touchdown runs in that Bolingbrook game displayed the range of his abilities that earned Wildcats game, season and all-time rushing records.
There was an 84-yard model of offensive execution. Left tackle Andrew Geers, left guard Jason Vandermyde and center Nick Bilgri cracked down, right guard Kyle Bryant and right tackle J.P. Quinn trapped left and fullback T.J. Scruggs scraped the backside tackle. Patiently -- in split-second football time, of course -- Rhattigan let that all happen, burst through the line untouched and outran five defenders on the way to the end zone.
There was the scrum. Rhattigan took the handoff at the Bolingbrook 5-yard line and was hit shoulder-high, a mistake, at the 6. He shrugged that off but encountered one, two, three Raiders at the 3. They lay sprawled at his feet as Rhattigan (with assistance from behind by Geers and fullback Andrew Fraczek) pushed a 12-man pile across the goal line for the go-ahead score.
"I thought to myself, just keep driving myself and good things will happen," Rhattigan said.
Then there was the 53-yard touchdown Wildcats coach Bill Ellinghaus called "the best high school football run I've ever seen."
Rhattigan went up the gut, broke an arm tackle at the line and stepped out of an ankle grab only to fall into the grasp of two other Raiders. Seemingly stalled, he kept the legs churning till the tacklers fell off just as another Raider whacked him full speed. That guy bounced off, Rhattigan veered to the sideline and beat pursuit to dive in for the final score.
"I felt like clapping for him," Ivlow said. "I hear he is a real classy kid also, which is what I like to see."
Rhattigan -- Figi called him "a humble and hungry young man" -- said that was a play he won't forget. He assessed it honestly and shared the wealth.
"It was a really good effort by me, but if you watch the play I'm kind of getting tackled by three, four guys and one of my linemen (Bryant) just kind of cleans house. It's really cool."
Breaking records
This fall Rhattigan cleaned house of Neuqua Valley rushing records. He established career marks with 536 carries, 3,703 yards and 56 touchdowns.
Those 5 touchdown runs against Bolingbrook tied a school record and his 346 yards rushing set another. His 294 carries for 2,226 yards and 33 touchdowns this year all established new marks, the carries record dating to the Wildcats' first year as a varsity program in 1998. Rhattigan also caught 2 touchdown passes and had 2 kickoff returns for touchdowns, of 85 and 99 yards.
"I'm more motivated to win a football game than to set a record. You're proud of yourself and you're proud that you can contribute to a big aspect of a team," Rhattigan said. " ... My goals coming in as a senior were just win as many games as possible and be the best team Neuqua's seen. I think we did pretty well at that."
The Bolingbrook game obviously wasn't in isolated incident. Rhattigan ran for 261 yards against Naperville Central, 228 against Naperville North in the first round of the playoffs and 292 yards on 40 mud-caked carries against Waubonsie Valley in the quarterfinals.
"He basically put us on his back and said let's go for a ride," Ellinghaus said of the Wildcats' second win over Waubonsie.
"He will run 4.6 in pads after breaking seven tackles and running the ball 35 times. That is something you just won't see."
A two-year varsity tailback who also got some starts at fullback as a sophomore, Rhattigan earned Illinois High School Football Coaches Association Class 8A All-State honors. He was the Upstate Eight Conference Valley Division's co-offensive player of the year with another wonderful tailback, Waubonsie Valley's Austin Guido, who set 12 of his own program's rushing records.
"He has tremendous power, he has incredible balance on his feet," said former Neuqua coach Bryan Wells, now an assistant at Aurora Christian. "He also has a very high football IQ, but more than that, he's a lot like his older brother, T.J. (now at Penn State), in that the ability to play fast, aggressive and tenaciously combined with that competitive greatness makes him a special player."
Big numbers off the field
Joey Rhattigan's numbers are special. A bench press of around 320 pounds, squat of 420, a 250-pound power clean -- and a 4.0 grade-point average. He's gotten straight A's throughout high school, which earned him an official visit to Princeton this weekend and one to Cornell the next.
"It is pretty time consuming," Rhattigan said of academic and athletic demands. "You've just got to set your priorities straight and manage your time well and get the job done."
Harvard, Penn State and Boise State are also on the radar, and Rhattigan, who has a younger brother, Jon, in eighth grade, has applied to the Army, Navy and Air Force. Both his grandfathers were Army men.
"I think there are appropriate times to be real serious and appropriate times to kind of relax yourself," Joey said. "I think my personality would work fine being at one of those schools."
Perhaps his personality, described by those who know him as a combination of earnestness, confidence, humility and respectful regard, was forged by his family starting in his birthplace of Pittsburgh. Shortly thereafter Father T.J. (Thomas Joseph) moved the family to another football hotbed, Ann Arbor, Mich., before settling in Naperville when Joey entered the first grade.
"He's got that workman's mentality that, I'm going to go to work and do my dead-level best no matter if it's a Thursday practice," Ellinghaus said. "He was going to give us his best each and every time he was out there. Coaches can say that, but when you've got your best football player working hard each and every time on the field, that's going to do volumes for the team."
Figi said Rhattigan's success never got to his head.
"It's really easy for a teenage boy to get excited about his status as a player and to be disrespectful," Figi said. "People in the hallways just flocked around him. And he could abuse that power, but he doesn't.
"I'm inspired by it. It's pretty darn impressive."
Rhattigan kept his head, kept his feet, kept his will to win and kept Neuqua Valley moving toward the best season it's ever had.
"I can't stress enough how much of a team we became through that season," Rhattigan said. "It's easy when you're winning games, but win or lose I built some great relationships with some people I didn't know very well before the season, and I'm very thankful for that. It was just a fun year. It gives me a lot to reflect upon over my high school years."
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On Dec. 8, five weeks after MF Global filed for bankruptcy, former MF Global Chairman and CEO Jon Corzine came before the House Agriculture Committee to tell them he was "stunned" to discover on Oct. 30 that there was a shortfall in MF Global customer-segregated funds.
Corzine's testimony broke a long silence — he resigned days after the filing — but didn't offer many answers to the thousands of customers whose lives had been turned upside down five weeks prior. Not that many of the members of the committee knew what questions to ask. They did know one: Did you move customer money? Corzine said "[there was] no intention to ever authorize the transfer of customer funds."
Asked the question in numerous ways, his response was basically the same each time: There was never any "intentional comingling of funds," leaving the option that funds may have inadvertently been moved into a house account.
More revealing was testimony from CME Group Executive Chairman Terry Duffy who stated, "At about 2:00 a.m. Monday (Oct.31), MF Global informed the CFTC and CME that customer money had been transferred out of segregation to firm accounts."
While stories citing unnamed sources claimed MF Global comingled customer funds with the firm's capital and a curt release by CME Group on Nov. 2 hinted at the firm's wrongdoing, this was the first clear statement of it. It had for more than five weeks been an official mystery. And the mystery was growing as three weeks into the process, Nov. 21, the liquidation trustee, James W. Giddens, doubled what had been a firm estimate of the shortfall. After weeks of work and sporadic communication less was known, except that the shortfall could be $1.2 billion or more instead of $633 million.
Another revelation at the day's testimony was acknowledgement by the trustee of the rights of customers. Trustee counsel James Kobak, citing bankruptcy law on customer-segregated funds said, "It is crystal clear. I don't think it is just a priority; it really says customers have exclusive right to these funds."
Up to this point, trustee pronouncements of a claims process had frustrated customers and their representatives who believed customers' interests were not being defended and the trustee did not understand the meaning of segregated customer funds.
This was a good day for MF Global customers and if not the end, the end of the beginning.


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The number of Federal jobs that rely on STEM talent is amazing. More than 300,000 people comprise the Federal STEM workforce nationwide– from scientists researching cancer cures at the National Institutes of Health to astronauts putting satellites into space at NASA to web developers helping people access mortgage information at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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A fugitive ex-Los Angeles cop sought in three killings was barricaded in a cabin in the in the San Bernardino Mountains on Tuesday after a shootout with authorities that wounded two officers.
BIG BEAR, Calif. | The man believed to be fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner never came out of a California mountain cabin, and a single shot was heard inside before the cabin was engulfed in flames, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
The law enforcement official requested anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
A fourth person — a deputy — died earlier in the latest confrontation with America's most-wanted man, which seemed to be coming to an end.
Officials were waiting for the fire to burn out before approaching the ruins to search for a body.
"We have reason to believe that it is him," San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Cynthia Bachman said.
The cabin was on fire and smoke was coming from the structure in the late afternoon after police surrounded it in the snow-covered woods of Big Bear, a resort town about 80 miles east of Los Angeles.
Bachman didn't say how the fire started but noted there was gunfire between the person in the cabin and law enforcement officers around the home before the blaze began.
TV helicopters showed the fire burning freely with no apparent effort to extinguish it.
Authorities have focused their hunt for Christopher Dorner there since they said he launched a campaign to exact revenge against the Los Angeles Police Department for his firing.
Authorities say Dorner threatened to bring "warfare" to LAPD officers and their families, spreading fear and setting off a search for him across three states and Mexico.
"Enough is enough. It's time for you to turn yourself in. It's time to stop the bloodshed," LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said earlier in the day at a news conference held outside police headquarters in Los Angeles, a starkly different atmosphere than last week when officials briefed the news media under tight security with Dorner on the loose.
If the man inside the cabin does prove to be Dorner, it will lower tensions among the more than 40 targets police say he listed in an online rant.
Until Tuesday, authorities didn't know whether Dorner was still near Big Bear, where they found his burned-out pickup last week.
Around 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, deputies got a report of a stolen vehicle, authorities said. The location was directly across the street from where law enforcement set up their command post on Thursday and not far from where Dorner's burned-out pickup was abandoned.
The people whose vehicle was stolen described the suspect as looking similar to Dorner. When authorities found the vehicle, the suspect ran into the forest and barricaded himself inside the cabin.
The first exchange of gunfire occurred about 12:45 p.m.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a statement that one of its officers traveling down Highway 38 recognized a man who fit Dorner's description traveling in the opposite direction.
The wildlife officer pursued the vehicle and there was a shooting in which the wildlife vehicle was hit numerous times and the suspect escaped on foot.
There was then a second exchange with San Bernardino County deputies, two of whom were shot. One died and the other was expected to live after undergoing surgery.
"We're heartbroken," Big Bear Lake Mayor Jay Obernolte said of the deputy's death and the wounding of his colleague. "Words can't express how grateful we are for the sacrifice those men have made in defense of the community and our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families."
Police say Dorner began his run on Feb. 6 after they connected the slayings of a former police captain's daughter and her fiance with an angry Facebook rant they said he posted. Threats against the LAPD led officials to assign officers to protect officers and their families.
Within hours of the release of photos of the 6-foot, 270-pounder described as armed and "extremely dangerous," police say, Dorner unsuccessfully tried to steal a boat in San Diego to flee to Mexico and then ambushed police in Riverside County, shooting three and killing one.
Jumpy officers guarding one of the targets named in the rant in Torrance on Thursday shot and injured two women delivering newspapers because they mistook their pickup truck for Dorner's.
Police found charred weapons and camping gear inside the truck in Big Bear.
Helicopters using heat-seeking technology searched the forest from above while scores of officers, some using bloodhounds, scoured the ground and checked hundreds of vacation cabins — many vacant this time of year — in the area.


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