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For just shy of four decades, Linda Cardoso has molded the young, developing minds of over 1,000 students in the same classroom at Luther Elementary School in Live Oak. But after thirty-nine years teaching third and fourth grade at Luther Elementary, Cardoso says it is time to say so long to her first and only job.
For just shy of four decades, Linda Cardoso has molded the young, developing minds of over 1,000 students in the same classroom at Luther Elementary School in Live Oak. But after thirty-nine years teaching third and fourth grade at Luther Elementary, Cardoso says it is time to say so long to her first and only job. Cardoso's passion for education and teaching began long before she was hired to teach fourth grade at Luther in 1974. A native of Colusa County, Cardoso was raised on a ranch in Princeton, CA. She says her love for reading and language arts were greatly influenced by two teachers she had in fifth and sixth grade. As a student at Princeton High School, she began tutoring elementary school students. It was during this period that she noted that her desire to be an educator began. After graduating from Princeton High School, Cardoso attended Chico State University, where she received her BA in English and her teaching credential. In 1974, she started a twenty-three year long journey teaching the fourth grade at Luther Elementary in the same classroom she teaches in today. The only time she did not teach in that classroom was after a devastating fire destroyed her classroom in April of 1978. For six weeks Cardoso taught in a church, as well as a temporary classroom for three months while her classroom was being rebuilt. Cardoso noted that she loved the fourth grade curriculum and teaching students about the history of California. While teaching fourth grade, she went on twenty-three trips to Sutter's Fort in Sacramento. Cardoso said she took a brief pause in her career in the 1986-1987 school year to stay at home with her two children. In the late 1990s, Cardoso began teaching third grade to enjoy a reduction in class size. "What a dream…having twenty students," said Cardoso, "and third graders were just as endearing." Now Cardoso says that it is time to pursue other interests as she heads into retirement after thirty-eight rewarding years as an educator at Luther Elementary School. "I have loved teaching in Live Oak and have taught generations of many families. I have met many wonderful people in the community and love the small town feel." Cardoso commented that she enjoys seeing her many students, years after teaching them, as parents and responsible members of the community. She says she will miss working for Luther Elementary, her colleagues, and the daily laughter and joy of children. "Nothing quite compares to a child's discovery of the power of reading, writing, mathematics," she said, "and the wonders of art, science, and history." According to Cardoso, she does not intend to completely leave her life as an educator behind her. Among other things, she plans to do some substitute teaching. Cardoso noted that one of her plans for retirement is to do a lot of traveling, including a trip to her parents' homeland—Portugal. Cardoso and her husband, Jerry, have lived in Yuba City since 1975. She and Jerry have two grown children—a daughter Jeralin who is an attorney in San Diego, and a son Nathaniel who is a teacher at Lincrest Elementary School in Yuba City. She says that she and her husband look forward to spending a lot of time with both of them. Luther Elementary School is set to have a retirement party honoring Linda Cardoso's thirty-nine years of service today at 6PM at Ruthy's, located at 229 Clark Avenue in Yuba City.


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Tasty, stylish Arezzo in Westport
The jinx has been broken. This seemingly wonderful location, with waterside dining and a comfortably spacious interior, has been home to more doomed restaurants in the last decade than we can remember.
But we think that the arrival of Arezzo has turned the tide.
Big, robust, confident and experienced are adjectives that accurately describe the decor, the service and the food here.
Arezzo is an Italian restaurant in the tradition of the best of New York's Arthur Avenue, but with the sophistication to please today's tastes.
No silly "farm fresh" or "locally sourced" produce menu accolades here -- it is winter, after all, and not a whole lot is locally sourced from Connecticut farms at the moment.
Instead, the ingredients are, as with all fine Italian food, the best that can be obtained, prepared with simplicity and care, and presented in abundance with style and gracious pleasure. It is an old-fashioned concept of simplicity that is especially welcomed in today's hyped world.
Named for a city in central Italy, Arezzo has the feel of a fine ristorante anywhere in Tuscany. The high-ceilinged, expansive dining space is rustic, with rough-hewn wood beams, soft-peach rubbed plaster walls, flattering lighting and formally set tables with a slightly odd note of white paper tabletops in an otherwise impeccable and warmly inviting atmosphere.
Service is big, bold and attentive throughout the meal, even when the place is packed on a Saturday night. Noise level is energetic, but conversation is still possible.
Arezzo's menu is entirely traditional, but the presentation and quality is anything but ordinary.
We started with a minestrone soup that was filled with brilliant fresh vegetables, al dente pasta and beans in a rich, homemade broth accented with fresh herbs. A house specialty of polpettini, or mini meatballs, arrived atop a bed of romaine and a bright, fresh tomato saucing. A flourish of freshly grated Parmesan and we devoured this with memories of my Nana's Sunday kitchen.
Grilled spicy Italian sausage is lovely served alongside crisp-edged polenta fingers and ultra-green broccoli rabe.
Other starters of note are perfectly crunchy fried calamari and zucchini tossed together and sauced with peppery marinara. The fragrance of a heap of mussels and clams steaming in garlicky wine broth wafted from the table next to us, and our tablemates also praised the house salad of green beans, red onions, bacon, shrimp and toasted walnuts.
Pastas are all intriguing upgrades on classics. Fettuccine is smothered in a medley of at least three kinds of wild mushrooms and a dribble of truffle oil.
Lobster-filled ravioli are perfectly cooked and served in a bright cherry tomato sauce instead of the heavy cream that usually smothers this delicate dish.
Saffron-flavored garganelli is sauced with light veal ragu, while pappardelle is perfectly paired with rich oxtail ragu. Wild garlic gnocchi is potent with a rich tomato sauce and shaved ricotta salata. A really nice note is that each tomato sauce is different and suited to its presentation instead of the "one sauce fits all" theme in so many Italian restaurants.
The main course menu lists some fine meat and poultry dishes, such as chicken roasted with rosemary and garlic served with roasted potato and baby onions, or probably the best version of veal sorrentina that we've tasted in years with the finest prosciutto, burrata mozzarella and enough rich Marsala sauce to cover the accompanying mashed potatoes.
But seafood seems to be a chef specialty, as evidenced by the outstanding cioppino, lobster arrabbiata with garlic and pepper.
Desserts are house made and simple in the classic Italian style. Bread pudding is dense and rich with an almost burnt caramel sauce. Panna cotta is cooling and simple. Tiramisu is soft and creamy in the style of an old-fashioned homemade pudding cake.
Arezzo is an important new addition to the fine Italian restaurant list in Fairfield County.
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HOURS: Lunch daily 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Dinner Sunday-Thursday 5-10 p.m.; Friday, Saturday 5-11 p.m.; brunch Sunday10 a.m.-3 p.m.
RESERVATIONS: Accepted
PRICES: Appetizers approximately $15-$8; main courses approximately $30-$14; desserts approximately $9


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This contemporary operationalisation of urban resilience has materialised, for example, in Singapore, where researchers and practitioners have responded to both the AVA (Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore) and the Singaporean Institute of Architect's (SIA) call to increase Singapore's future food security via architectural/urban design solutions. The result of this has been hypothetical developments which integrate communal food systems into apartment living, thereby alleviating Singapore's fragile food security issues. This outcome is emblematic of contemporary efforts to achieve increased urban resilience by cross-disciplinary collaboration – uniting permaculture experts, NGO's, urban planners/designers, architects and community members. [37]
Before Edison commercialized the light bulb, illumination has been a metaphor for how innovation lights up the dark. Scans of our brain show neurons literally "lighting up" the screen when we think and consider ideas.
We have this image of an isolated genius, hunched over his desk, where a glowing bulb flickers above his head in a dim, empty room as he composes, paints, or invents some masterpiece. Even Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists of the 21 st century said, "Without solitude, no serious work is possible."
But science suggests that no serious work would be possible without socializing either, that our brains are made for relationships and innovation is just a by-product of what we really use our minds for—community.
Listen, Act, Respond: Three Steps to Improving Driver Retention
By Max Farrell
We're all reading the same things: driver shortages, driver turnover, a fire-hot freight market, etc.
Now more than ever, trucking executives are wanting to take advantage of the business opportunities provided by the industry. But there's a roadblock: it's tough to find and keep truck drivers.
For too long trucking companies have focused strictly on recruiting. But with recruiting metrics favoring the advertiser and not the trucking company, driver retention is being revisited.
In December 1982, Pres. Ronald Reagan faced a problem that feels eerily familiar. Four thousand miles of the not-yet complete interstate system was in need of resurfacing and 23,000 bridges in need of repair. The gas tax, which had been levied to fund the interstate system, had not been increased since three years before construction began. And it no longer covered expenses.
In the Transportation Assistance Act of 1982, for the first time in 23 years, Congress more than doubled the gas tax, raising it five cents to a total of 9 cents a gallon. The bill authorized $71 billion for highway construction, road repairs and mass transit.
Game On
By Al Heringer, IV
Almost 25 years ago, my family expanded our business offerings to include a petroleum-hauling common carrier operation under the name of Star Transportation. After I graduated from college, I joined the business which at the time had only six trucks. Running a trucking company hadn't been part of the plan I had for myself. Like most people who play high school and college sports, I thought I was headed to the pros – specifically, the NFL. But I found my path redirected in ways I couldn't have imagined when I hung up my cleats for the last time.
I have a similar feeling when I think of how differently the trucking industry looks a quarter-century later.
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Eighty-four-year-old Elsie Eiler pays taxes to herself, grants her own alcohol licence and is the only remaining resident in Monowi, Nebraska.
The middle of nowhere, and like nowhere else (Credit: Will Francome)
Five miles from the South Dakota border in the remote northern reaches of the US state of Nebraska, a long dirt road cuts through rolling prairie grasslands and golden wheat fields towards downtown Monowi, a place you can see in its entirety by climbing any of its hay bales.
An abandoned church, whose empty pews are now filled with tractor tyres, stands opposite the decaying skeleton of a grain elevator. Weeds and brome grass twist around the rotting remnants of homes that are collapsing in on themselves. And inside a white, squat building with paint peeling off its frame, 84-year-old Elsie Eiler is flipping pork fritters and cracking open beer bottles for a pair of regulars under a sign that reads: "Welcome To The World Famous Monowi Tavern. Coldest Beer In Town!"
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Eiler's life as the only resident of a ghost town is truly singular. Each year, she hangs up a notice in Monowi's only business (her bar) advertising mayoral elections, and then votes for herself. She's required to produce a municipal road plan every year to secure state funding, and then raises about $500 worth of taxes from herself annually to keep the town's three lampposts flickering and its water flowing.
"When I apply to the state for my liquor and tobacco licenses each year, they send them to the secretary of the village, which is me," she explained. "So, I get them as the secretary, sign them as the clerk and give them to myself as the bar owner."
She also keeps track of the list of nearby vacant residential lots, in case anybody wants to move into one of the decaying buildings and double the town's population.
"I'm happy here. I grew up here" (Credit: Will Francome)
I'm happy here. I grew up here, I'm used to this and I know what I want. It's just hard to change after so many years," Eiler said.
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Situated in the region of Central Macedonia, Thessaloniki is the 2nd largest city in Greece and a precious cultural center. Built near the sea, this modern metropolis used to be the crossroads between east and west, and houses some of the most amazing Byzantine and Ottoman monuments.
This lively city is full of large avenues, green squares, stunning Neo-Classical buildings and stylish shops. The White Tower of Thessaloniki is an imposing landmark on the waterfront and is the symbol of the city - a reminder of old times.
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Famous for the traditional taverns, restaurants and "ouzeries", the Ladadika neighborhood is the old Jewish quarter, filled with picturesque narrow streets. It's an ideal place to try some famous Macedonian specialities like bougatsa, souvlaki, and the delicious 'Panorama triangles'.
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Building a powerful network that benefits the next generation of college students as well as facilitating achievement among young professionals is at the core of Minds Matter, a successful mentoring program started by a group of Baldwin Wallace alumni.
In its fifth year, Minds Matter is comprised of young professionals who volunteer their time to provide mentoring and academic training to underprivileged high school youth. Over the course of their three years with the students, the volunteers provide a foundation that helps them garner admission to college.
Michael Lagoni '06 heard about Minds Matter while living in Boston and was inspired to start a chapter in Cleveland. He enlisted the support of two fellow alumnae and guidance of Associate Professor Phil Bessler at BW to bring his idea to fruition. A successful businessman, Lagoni will graduate with an MBA from Harvard Business School this summer and will go to work for Amazon.
Joining him in the organization's formative years were Kristen San Marco '06 and Meghan Pethtel '07. San Marco is vice president of Carleton McKenna & Co. and will attend Harvard Business School in fall of 2012 and Pethtel is a marketing product manager for Amazon.
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Students who apply and are accepted spend five hours every Saturday in downtown conference rooms supplied by the Sherwin-Williams Co.
There they get an extra push to excel through intensive lessons in math, writing and critical thinking. "We help them improve their grades, help them improve their SAT scores and give them the experience of college through some great summer programs," said Lagoni.
"But the program is much more than simply getting high schoolers into college. It's about helping the future leaders of this city," said Lagoni.
Two of the students from the Minds Matter class of 2011 began their freshman year at BW in August 2011.
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Bessler was a key connection for the group of alumni and became a founding board member of the Cleveland chapter. He said there is a strong BW connection within the chapter through the founders, professors who serve as board members, and the alumni network from which the organization recruits volunteers.
Through starting and successfully sustaining an organization, the founders have gained valuable skills for the current market. "They gained skills in leadership, critical thinking and mentoring that every employer wants," said Bessler. This is evident in the support and contributions made by the employers of the founders and the volunteers who helped make this program a successful reality.


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There is a certain irony to the fact that Robert Menendez has just become the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Menendez has been making news for the wrong sort of foreign relations: sex with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic. You probably know this, because you don't depend on the liberal media for your news. The allegation, which was uncovered by The Daily Caller, is pretty grim:
"That senator also likes the youngest and newest girls," the woman wrote on April 21, 2012, according to an English translation provided to The Daily Caller by a native Spanish speaker. …
The DC is not disclosing the woman's name because she may have been a minor when her alleged sexual encounters with Menendez occurred. Four different Spanish speakers who reviewed The DC's translation of her letter all said her Spanish writing indicated someone who was very young and unsophisticated. …
That young prostitute [i.e., a second one] said she had sex with Menendez "three times at least" in 2009. "The first one in February, and then in May and June. I recall his visit in June so well because that month was my 17th birthday."
Which would mean that Menendez hired the girl twice when she was 16 years old. You might think this is one of the juiciest scandals ever, but you would be wrong. To my knowledge, not a single feminist activist has commented on it. Coverage in the Democratic Party media has been subdued, to put it mildly. The New York Times mentioned the allegations in a brief story that highlighted Menendez's denials:
In a statement, the senator called the allegations involving prostitutes "false" and "manufactured by a politically-motivated right-wing blog." The senator's office said Wednesday night that Mr. Menendez had reimbursed Dr. Melgen $58,500 for two flights that he had taken aboard his private jet in 2010.
The senator also called Dr. Melgen "a friend and political supporter."
Dr. Melgen told The New York Times last week, "I can assure you that all of the allegations are false."
So ends the Times account. Will the Menendez scandal have legs? Not if the Democratic Party media have anything to say about it. Don't expect any reporters to descend on the Dominican Republic to interview teenage girls and try to get the facts. It won't happen. That's just one of the many advantages of being a Democrat.


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- 1 Background
- 2 Tools
- 3 Scenario 1: Make an m4b file from multiple audio CDs
- 4 Scenario 2: Make an m4b file from a single mp3 file or from multiple mp3 files
- 4.1 Method 1. Predominantly using m4baker
- 4.2 Method 2. Using only CLI tools
- 5 Scenario 3: Add chapter marks to an existing m4b file without them
An audiobook for iPods is nothing more than a discrete audio stream + metadata wrapped together in an m4b container. The audio must be an aac encoded stream and the chapter-index metadata has its own Quicktime standard. Multiple tools can be used to create these. Template:Wikipedia
GUI based tools
- m4bakerAUR - Used to combine a group of already ripped audiofiles into a single m4b file with chapter marks.
CLI based tools
- neroaacencAUR - Aac encoder.
- lame - Mp3 encoder/decoder
- gpac - Needed for manipulating mp4 files.
- mediainfo - Displays many aspects of audio and video files.
- makechapterlistAUR - Makes a chapter list automatically.
Scenario 1: Make an m4b file from multiple audio CDs
1. Extract audio from CDs and making multiple tracks, one per chapter
Use one of the many fine CD rippers available to extract and encode the many CDs in a typical audiobook into aac encoded files. (Out of scope for this tutorial).
2. Use m4baker to assemble the indiviual tracks into a single m4b file
Usage of m4baker is very straightforward. Detailed usage is explained on the [project wiki].
Scenario 2: Make an m4b file from a single mp3 file or from multiple mp3 files
Method 1. Predominantly using m4baker
Users have several options to define chapter marks. One is to define arbitrary "chapter markers" using a set time interval (i.e. 10 min) to define the chapter breaks. Another method can make use of silence detection to automatically break up chapter points. In either case, a single file is required.
1. Make a single mp3 file
If not already starting from one, simply concatenate them into a single file:
$ MP4Box -cat 1.mp3 -cat 2.mp3 final.mp3
2. Split the file into chapters
Split the single file into chapters. In this example, a contains time of 10 min is used:
$ mp3splt -f -t 10.0 final.mp3 -o @n
See the mp3splt manpage for additional options and for an explanation of the options used above.
This example uses the auto silence mode wherein the file is scanned for periods of silence and split points generated from them.
$ mp3splt -f -s -p -min=3 final.mp3
Method 2. Using only CLI tools
1. Decode and make aac formatted file(s)
Since iPods require aac formatted audio, mp3 files need to be transcoded into aac. First, decode the source mp3 file to wav. Repeat if multiple mp3 files constitute an entire book:
$ lame --decode book.mp3
Encode the wav file(s) to aac:
$ neroAacEnc -q 0.7 -if book.wav -of book.aac
$ for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode "$i"; done $ for i in *.wav; do neroAacEnc -q 0.7 -if "$i" -of "${i%.*}".aac; done
2. Optionally combine multiple aac files into a single file
Multiple aac files need to be concatenated into a single file:
$ MP4Box -cat 1.aac -cat 2.aac book.aac
3. Create metadata for chapter marks
Determine the overall length of the aac:
$ mediainfo --inform="Audio;%Duration/String3%" book.aac 19:04:53.874
In this example, the file is 19h 4m and 54 s long.
Create a chapter list to break up the file into "chapters" or more digestible parts. The list itself is nothing more than a text file in a specific format (Nero chapter format to be precise). Use
makechapterlist to make this automatically.
The example file calls for roughly 19h 5m of content, but the script uses 10 m intervals so a sane value is simply 19x6=114 chapters.
$ makechapterlist Writes chapter files using a 10 min interval for each chapter
How many chapters are needed: 114 Done! /home/facade/chapter.list written.
4. Hardcode the metadata into the audio file
The next step is to merge the metadata in
chapter.list with the audio file. This is accomplished using
$ MP4Box -add book.aac -chap chapters.list book.mp4
The resulting file now needs to be converted to Quicktime chapter markers using
$ mp4chaps –convert –chapter-qt book.mp4
5. Rename the merged file
The final step is to simply rename the mp4 file to the m4b extension:
$ mv book.mp4 book.m4b
Users can now optionally edit the tags in the file with any number of tools. Using vlc is easy. Simply load the file and hit Template:Keypress + Template:Keypress to bring up a tag window. Save the metadata before exiting.
Scenario 3: Add chapter marks to an existing m4b file without them
Details: This process is identical to steps 3-5 detailed in Scenario 2.


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Company of Heroes Online, WWE Online Canceled
Although Company of Heroes Online also saw life stateside, THQ has decided to scrap the entire project across all regions in one fell swoop. Also cut due to this adaptation reevaluation? An unreleased, free-to-play WWE Online title, exclusive to Asian territories.
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The real sword & shield are wit and personality. Sharpen one & Polish the other!
Make it available and I will watch.
Great choice, this series is a masterpiece, and the only real flaw that it has is that it's too short. It's a philosophical, artistic masterpiece that makes you think in addition to entertaining you. Don't get me wrong though, it's very entertaining to the point where it's riveting. Like I said in my review of this anime, THIS is the kind of anime I consider "adult". That is, filled with deep meaning, plot, characterization and nuance that takes a more adult mind to fully appreciate if you ask me. I don't mean adult in the sense that there's like 10 girls fighting over a guy in their swimsuits and/or underwear because he's meandering around being clueless, and doing nothing in particular. Not to say that there's anything wrong with guys being clueless or doing nothing, just that this series is very interesting and thought-provoking and worth watching.
There are a couple pleasant and fun surprises that can sneak up on you that you might not expect if you watch this anime. The plotting is clever, and not at all cliche.
It was absolutely amazing. I still have the files from back when you could download episodes for a dollar or two, back when crunchy was young haha. Definitely one of my ultra-favorites.
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Time of Eve handles the Three Laws better than Isaac Asimov himself.
It is truly an anime master piece!
I disagree but I thought Time of Eve was a superb look at the 3 laws or robotics.
Rather, some of my favorites are Runaround
and Little Lost Robot
Another decent one is Liar!
which although not quoted is a good one to know when watching Time of Eve because it establishes that yes, Robots CAN lie when upholding the first law.
I adored this show! It isn't explosive or full of moe points as a lot of other anime are nowadays, but it's got a lot of heart on top of an interesting premise.
I watched this like 20 times. Though it is short, I love it~
yeah its been a while since ive seen this but it is a good show definitely worth a watch
If you're too lazy to start anything, you may get a reputation for patience.
this show deserves more attention! I first found out about early 2010 and it's still so low on the popularity order!!!
I agree, this series is definitely one of the best in the Science Fiction genre. It slowly attaches strings into your heart and plays with them like a puppet master in the later episodes. I was literally crying during one scene because it was just executed so well. It looks amazing, the voice actors do an outstanding job and the mood is just fantastic. Although the "How human can machines be" theme isn't really fresh nowadays, the way how it is handled here definitely is. Must-watch for everyone who isn't just after action.
This was a really good anime. I wish it were longer though...
I watched "Eve no Jikan"/"Time of Eve" right when it was released, and enjoyed it so much, that I have watched it several times since then (mostly enjoying a cup of coffee myself, while watching ).
It's a really great series, though the end always felt to me like there was more to come (one day) eventually...
One of, if not the, best thing on Crunchyroll. There's also a film comp on iTunes with added material that gives a small hint of more background.
Yoshiura also had a design credit for Eva 2.0 and a movie (Sakasama no Patema) is slated for this year. Looking forward to it and anything else he puts out in the future.
I really loved watching that series. It was so well done, and the whole of the show was beautiful.
I'm baaaaack ~
Great show, it was the reason I started my subscription to Crunchyroll. I loved it so much I have the series on Blu Ray and the movie on iTunes (the movie is the compilation of the series with a few little extra scenes thrown in) ..


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at $400
this could be the replacement for my not "so trusty anymore" Asus EeePC 901 :)
Are there any information about linux drivers?
HP has updated its 11.6in notebook-not-netbook machine, the dm1. The new version is specced with a choice of new AMD E-series dual-core 'Zacate' CPUs with on-board GPUs - and discrete Radeon HD graphics chips - or Intel 'Sandy Bridge' second-gen Core i processors, also with on-chip graphics but no discrete GPU too. HP dm1 11. …
this could be the replacement for my not "so trusty anymore" Asus EeePC 901 :)
Are there any information about linux drivers?
Now if they'd go back to the wonderful keyboard they had on their first attempt at a netbook (The 2133 MiniNote - everything except the keyboard and screen were absolute trash, and the screen only gets by because they fit 1280x800 pixels in 9" diagonal,) instead of that chicklet "hey Apple does it, it must be better" keyboard, this would look just right.
Apparently Lenovo is the only company reliably putting actual keyboards on laptops, and I imagine they're only doing it because they'd alienate all 4 remaining loyal Thinkpad customers if they do anything drastic.
Did I miss something, other than a title? Wasn't HP flipping off... I mean, spinning off the pc part of the business?
It will be at least £100 more over here. HP's 10.1" netbooks go for more than £250 with weedy Atom processors.
E.g. a CPU, GPU on same chip, does it need an external 2nd GPU? Since the APU can do full 1080p anyway, what is the point?
AMD giving away GPUs?
This is a mistake in the article. The HP press release uses the standard AMD wording for the E-series APUs - "discrete-class graphics", i.e. the integrated HD6320 DX11 GPU. There is no discrete GPU.
Will be interesting to see benchmarks comparing the AMD and Intel versions of this item - particularly considering the price delta.


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"The Addams Family" is not the first musical whose first national tour has been infinitely better than the Broadway production that gave birth to it: such past shows as "Big" and "The Civil War" were also greatly improved. But in most of these rare cases, different directors have retooled existing material. It's hard to think of another show that has been revised so heavily and, for the most part, successfully, by its admirably indefatigable original authors and composer.
"The Addams Family" that returns to Chicago this week, and this week only, does not come with Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth and the sense of must-see excitement and pumped-up pizazz that pervaded its pre-Broadway engagement at the Oriental Theatre in 2009. That's the downside. But if Gomez, Morticia and the crew do not arrive like rock stars, this enjoyable if visually simplified national tour features many different songs from the Chicago tryout and a significantly improved and far more satisfying story.
And yes, it is plenty different enough that fans of the "Addams Family" franchise, especially those who have followed this show through its various traumas and trajectories (which we've extensively reported in these pages), might find it worth buying a cheap seat at the back and seeing what has gone on since Uncle Fester last fell in love with a Chicago moon. If you're interested in seeing how multimillion-dollar shows can morph, you'll find it quite fascinating. And I'll guarantee you one thing: it won't seem like the same show.
Finally, the director Jerry Zaks (who replaced Phelim McDermott during the first Chicago run) has been allowed to finish his kind of classic musical-comedy approach, most of the buzz-killing structural issues in the book have been resolved and, perhaps most importantly of all, everyone on the stage now comes off as sufficiently loose and relaxed that the zesty one-liners get to do their collective thing, and the show is actually allowed to be unpretentious and funny. This third shot at the piece by writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and composer Andrew Lippa most certainly has the most charm and efficacy. If only everyone had started somewhere near here. But then, if this stuff were easy, everyone would do it.
In case you missed the long version, here's a short list of what's been done, chez Addams.
Like the original Chicago-to-Broadway version, which closes this weekend in New York, the Addams Family of a topsy-turvy Central Park are rocked on their heels by the news that their beloved creepy Wednesday (having grown so fast that she might as well be Thursday) wants to marry a square Ohioan, who is bringing his parents, the Beinekes (Martin Vidnovic and, at Tuesday's opening, the amusing Victoria Huston-Elem), to dinner. But whereas the Beinekes (and an amorous squid) used to steal the show from the family on the marquee, the new version has them playing supporting roles, which is good, since no-one came to the theater to see the invented Beinekes.
In 3.0, the main conflict is (as it should always have been) between Gomez and Morticia, a couple whose practice of sharing everything is undermined by Wednesday's decision to tell only her puppy-dog papa about her pending inappropriate nuptials, and the father-and-daughter pair's decision not to tell creepy mama. This puts Gomez (now played, with lower status but considerable charm, by Douglas Sills) in a guilty bind, aided by a zesty new number from Lippa called "Trapped," and causes his Morticia (the very game and sexy Sara Gettelfinger) not only to lament the sudden lack of trust in their marriage but to deny Gomez his regular bedroom favors, which does not go down well. Things develop from there.
It's hard to overstate how crucial that seemingly simple change in the set-up turns out to be — mostly because it gives the Addams parents the internal conflict that allows them to assume the center of their own show, letting the Beinekes off the narrative hook. It's not the only improvement. The ensemble of ancestors, a group of characters who were both perplexing and redundant in the first two versions of this show, now make some actual sense, since it's now Addams family cohesion that is being threatened and the ancestors, who are much better-used now, have a vested interest in preventing that from happening.
There's more. As played by Patrick D. Kennedy, Pugsley finally has both creepy charm and a note of vulnerability, while both Fester (the warm-centered Blake Hammond) and Lurch (Tom Corbell), two characters that were strong from the start, remain free to have fun with the audience and enjoy the new lighter atmosphere. Cortney Wolfson is a decently caustic Wednesday (whose role feels a little smaller) and Brian Justin Crum's Lucas is now more of a geek, and thus funnier. Only Grandma (Pippa Pearthree) seems to have lost some of her potency, but then it's tough for anyone to follow Jackie Hoffman in that particular signature role.
The producers of the show have said that this new version will be the model for future international roll-outs of the piece, including plans for London. In that case, they'll need to amp and scale the show back up and regain the sense of occasion that greeted "The Addams Family" when the curtain first rose on their creepy lair. Stakes will have to rise again; the show feels less ambitious now, and all that will need to be reconciled. But this time, everything can happen with those upside-down Addams fundamentals finally in place.
When: Through Jan. 1
Where: Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St.
Running time: 2 hours, 25 mins.
Tickets: $37-95 at 800-775-2000 at www.broadwayinchicago.com.


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The Faerie Queene
Book VI. The Legend of Sir Calidore
Canto X
Calidore sees the Graces daunce
To Colins melody:
The whiles his Pastorell is led
Into captivity.
now does follow the foule Blatant Beast,
Whilest Calidore does follow that faire mayd,
Unmyndfull of his vow, and high beheast
Which by the Faery Queene was on him layd,
That he should never leave, nor be delayd
From chacing him, till he had it attchieved?
But now entrapt of Love, which him betrayd,
He mindeth more how he may be relieved
With grace from her whose love his heart hath sore engrieved.
That from henceforth he meanes no more to sew
His former quest, so full of toile and paine;
Another quest, another game in vew
He hath, the guerdon of his love to gaine:
With whom he myndes for ever to remaine,
And set his rest amongst the rusticke sort,
Rather then hunt still after shadowes vaine
Of courtly favour, fed with light report
Of every blaste, and sayling alwaies in the port.
Ne certes mote he greatly blamed be,
From so high step to stoupe unto so low.
For who had tasted once (as oft did he)
The happy peace which there doth overflow,
And provd the perfect pleasures which doe grow
Amongst poore hyndes, in hils, in woods, in dales,
Would never more delight in painted show
Of such false blisse, as there is set for stales,
T entrap unwary fooles in their eternall bales.
For what hath all that goodly glorious gaze
Like to one sight which Calidore did vew?
The glaunce whereof their dimmed eies would daze,
That never more they should endure the shew
Of that sunne-shine, that makes them looke askew.
Ne ought in all that world of beauties rare,
(Save onely Glorianaes heavenly hew,
To which what can compare?) can it compare;
The which, as commeth now by course, I will declare.
One day as he did raunge the fields abroad,
Whilest his faire Pastorella was elsewhere,
He chaunst to come, far from all peoples troad,
Unto a place, whose pleasaunce did appere
To passe all others on the earth which were:
For all that ever was by Natures skill
Devized to worke delight was gathered there,
And there by her were poured forth at fill,
As if, this to adorne, she all the rest did pill.
It was an hill plaste in an open plaine,
That round about was bordered with a wood
Of matchlesse hight, that seemd th earth to disdaine;
In which all trees of honour stately stood,
And did all winter as in sommer bud,
Spredding pavilions for the birds to bowre,
Which in their lower braunches sung aloud;
And in their tops the soring hauke did towre,
Sitting like king of fowles in majesty and powre.
And at the foote thereof, a gentle flud
His silver waves did softly tumble downe,
Unmard with ragged mosse or filthy mud;
Ne mote wylde beastes, ne mote the ruder clowne
Thereto approch, ne filth mote therein drowne:
But nymphes and faeries by the bancks did sit,
In the woods shade, which did the waters crowne,
Keeping all noysome things away from it,
And to the waters fall tuning their accents fit.
And on the top thereof a spacious plaine
Did spred it selfe, to serve to all delight,
Either to daunce, when they to daunce would faine,
Or else to course about their bases light;
Ne ought there wanted, which for pleasure might
Desired be, or thence to banish bale:
So pleasauntly the hill with equall hight
Did seeme to overlooke the lowly vale;
Therefore it rightly cleeped was Mount Acidale.
They say that Venus, when she did dispose
Her selfe to pleasaunce, used to resort
Unto this place, and therein to repose
And rest her selfe, as in a gladsome port,
Or with the Graces there to play and sport;
That even her owne Cytheron, though in it
She used most to keepe her royall court,
And in her soveraine majesty to sit,
She in regard hereof refusde and thought unfit.
Unto this place when as the Elfin knight
Approcht, him seemed that the merry sound
Of a shrill pipe he playing heard on hight,
And many feete fast thumping th hollow ground,
That through the woods their eccho did rebound.
He nigher drew, to weete what mote it be;
There he a troupe of ladies dauncing found
Full merrily, and making gladfull glee,
And in the midst a shepheard piping he did see.
He durst not enter into th open greene,
For dread of them unwares to be descryde,
For breaking of their daunce, if he were seene;
But in the covert of the wood did byde,
Beholding all, yet of them unespyde.
There he did see, that pleased much his sight,
That even he him selfe his eyes envyde,
An hundred naked maidens lilly white,
All raunged in a ring, and dauncing in delight.
All they without were raunged in a ring,
And daunced round; but in the midst of them
Three other ladies did both daunce and sing,
The whilest the rest them round about did hemme,
And like a girlond did in compasse stemme:
And in the middest of those same three was placed
Another damzell, as a precious gemme
Amidst a ring most richly well enchaced,
That with her goodly presence all the rest much graced.
Looke how the crowne, which Ariadne wore
Upon her yvory forehead that same day
That Theseus her unto his bridale bore,
When the bold Centaures made that bloudy fray
With the fierce Lapithes, which did them dismay,
Being now placed in the firmament,
Through the bright heaven doth her beams display,
And is unto the starres an ornament,
Which round about her move in order excellent:
Such was the beauty of this goodly band,
Whose sundry parts were here too long to tell:
But she that in the midst of them did stand
Seemd all the rest in beauty to excell,
Crownd with a rosie girlond, that right well
Did her beseeme. And ever, as the crew
About her daunst, sweet flowres, that far did smell,
And fragrant odours they uppon her threw;
But most of all, those three did her with gifts endew.
Those were the Graces, daughters of delight,
Handmaides of Venus, which are wont to haunt
Uppon this hill, and daunce there day and night:
Those three to men all gifts of grace do graunt,
And all that Venus in her selfe doth vaunt
Is borrowed of them. But that faire one,
That in the midst was placed paravaunt,
Was she to whom that shepheard pypt alone,
That made him pipe so merrily, as never none.
She was, to weete, that jolly shepheards lasse,
Which piped there unto that merry rout;
That jolly shepheard which there piped was
Poore Colin Clout (who knowes not Colin Clout?)
He pypt apace, whilest they him daunst about.
Pype, jolly shepheard, pype thou now apace
Unto thy love, that made thee low to lout;
Thy love is present there with thee in place,
Thy love is there advaunst to be another Grace.
Much wondred Calidore at this straunge sight,
Whose like before his eye had never seene
And standing long astonished in spright,
And rapt with pleasaunce, wist not what to weene;
Whether it were the traine of Beauties Queene,
Or nymphes, or faeries, or enchaunted show,
With which his eyes mote have deluded beene.
Therefore resolving, what it was, to know,
Out of the wood he rose, and toward them did go.
But soone as he appeared to their vew,
They vanisht all away out of his sight,
And cleane were gone, which way he never knew;
All save the shepheard, who, for fell despight
Of that displeasure, broke his bag-pipe quight,
And made great mone for that unhappy turne.
But Calidore, though no lesse sory wight
For that mishap, yet seeing him to mourne,
Drew neare, that he the truth of all by him mote learne:
And first him greeting, thus unto him spake:
Haile, jolly shepheard, which thy joyous dayes
Here leadest in this goodly merry make,
Frequented of these gentle nymphes alwayes,
Which to thee flocke, to heare thy lovely layes!
Tell me, what mote these dainty damzels be,
Which here with thee doe make their pleasant playes?
Right happy thou, that mayst them freely see:
But why, when I them saw, fled they away from me?
Not I so happy, answerd then that swaine,
As thou unhappy, which them thence didst chace,
Whom by no meanes thou canst recall againe;
For being gone, none can them bring in place,
But whom they of them selves list so to grace.
Right sory I, saide then Sir Calidore,
That my ill fortune did them hence displace.
But since things passed none may now restore,
Tell me, what were they all, whose lacke thee grieves so sore.
Tho gan that shepheard thus for to dilate:
Then wote thou shepheard, whatsoever thou bee,
That all those ladies which thou sawest late
Are Venus damzels, all within her fee,
But differing in honour and degree:
They all are Graces, which on her depend,
Besides a thousand more, which ready bee
Her to adorne, when so she forth doth wend:
But those three in the midst doe chiefe on her attend.
They are the daughters of sky-ruling Jove,
By him begot of faire Eurynome,
The Oceans daughter, in this pleasant grove,
As he, this way comming from feastfull glee
Of Thetis wedding with Æacidee,
In sommers shade him selfe here rested weary.
The first of them hight mylde Euphrosyne,
Next faire Aglaia, last Thalia merry:
Sweete goddesses all three, which me in mirth do cherry.
These three on men all gracious gifts bestow,
Which decke the body or adorne the mynde,
To make them lovely or well favoured show,
As comely carriage, entertainement kynde,
Sweete semblaunt, friendly offices that bynde,
And all the complements of curtesie:
They teach us, how to each degree and kynde
We should our selves demeane, to low, to hie,
To friends, to foes; which skill men call civility.
Therefore they alwaies smoothly seeme to smile,
That we likewise should mylde and gentle be,
And also naked are, that without guile
Or false dissemblaunce all them plaine may see,
Simple and true, from covert malice free:
And eeke them selves so in their daunce they bore,
That two of them still froward seemd to bee,
But one still towards shewd her selfe afore;
That good should from us goe, then come, in greater store.
Such were those goddesses which ye did see;
But that fourth mayd, which there amidst them traced,
Who can aread what creature mote she bee,
Whether a creature, or a goddesse graced
With heavenly gifts from heven first enraced?
But what so sure she was, she worthy was
To be the fourth with those three other placed:
Yet was she certes but a countrey lasse,
Yet she all other countrey lasses farre did passe.
So farre as doth the daughter of the day
All other lesser lights in light excell,
So farre doth she in beautyfull array
Above all other lasses beare the bell:
Ne lesse in vertue, that beseemes her well,
Doth she exceede the rest of all her race;
For which the Graces, that here wont to dwell,
Have for more honor brought her to this place,
And graced her so much to be another Grace.
Another Grace she well deserves to be,
In whom so many graces gathered are,
Excelling much the meane of her degree;
Divine resemblaunce, beauty soveraine rare,
Firme chastity, that spight ne blemish dare;
All which she with such courtesie doth grace,
That all her peres cannot with her compare,
But quite are dimmed when she is in place.
She made me often pipe, and now to pipe apace.
Sunne of the world, great glory of the sky,
That all the earth doest lighten with thy rayes,
Great Gloriana, greatest Majesty,
Pardon thy shepheard, mongst so many layes
As he hath sung of thee in all his dayes,
To make one minime of thy poore handmayd,
And underneath thy feete to place her prayse,
That, when thy glory shall be farre displayd
To future age, of her this mention may be made.
When thus that shepherd ended had his speach,
Sayd Calidore: Now sure it yrketh mee,
That to thy blisse I made this luckelesse breach,
As now the author of thy bale to be,
Thus to bereave thy loves deare sight from thee:
But, gentle shepheard, pardon thou my shame,
Who rashly sought that which I mote not see.
Thus did the courteous knight excuse his blame,
And to recomfort him all comely meanes did frame.
In such discourses they together spent
Long time, as fit occasion forth them led;
With which the knight him selfe did much content,
And with delight his greedy fancy fed,
Both of his words, which he with reason red,
And also of the place, whose pleasures rare
With such regard his sences ravished,
That thence he had no will away to fare,
But wisht that with that shepheard he mote dwelling share.
But that envenimd sting, the which of yore
His poysnous point deepe fixed in his hart
Had left, now gan afresh to rancle sore,
And to renue the rigour of his smart:
Which to recure, no skill of leaches art
Mote him availe, but to returne againe
To his wounds worker, that with lovely dart
Dinting his brest, had bred his restlesse paine,
Like as the wounded whale to shore flies from the maine.
So taking leave of that same gentle swaine,
He backe returned to his rusticke wonne,
Where his faire Pastorella did remaine:
To whome, in sort as he at first begonne,
He daily did apply him selfe to donne
All dewfull service, voide of thoughts impure:
Ne any paines ne perill did he shonne,
By which he might her to his love allure,
And liking in her yet untamed heart procure.
And evermore the shepheard Coridon,
What ever thing he did her to aggrate,
Did strive to match with strong contention,
And all his paines did closely emulate;
Whether it were to caroll, as they sate
Keeping their sheepe, or games to exercize,
Or to present her with their labours late;
Through which if any grace chaunst to arize
To him, the shepheard streight with jealousie did frize.
One day as they all three together went
To the greene wood, to gather strawberies,
There chaunst to them a dangerous accident:
A tigre forth out of the wood did rise,
That with fell clawes full of fierce gourmandize,
And greedy mouth, wide gaping like hell gate,
Did runne at Pastorell her to surprize;
Whom she beholding, now all desolate
Gan cry to them aloud, to helpe her all too late.
Which Coridon first hearing, ran in hast
To reskue her, but when he saw the feend,
Through cowherd feare he fled away as fast,
Ne durst abide the daunger of the end;
His life he steemed dearer then his frend.
But Calidore soone comming to her ayde,
When he the beast saw ready now to rend
His loves deare spoile, in which his heart was prayde,
He ran at him enraged, in stead of being frayde.
He had no weapon, but his shepheards hooke,
To serve the vengeaunce of his wrathfull will;
With which so sternely he the monster strooke,
That to the ground astonished he fell;
Whence ere he could recovr, he did him quell,
And hewing off his head, it presented
Before the feete of the faire Pastorell;
Who scarcely yet from former feare exempted,
A thousand times him thankt, that had her death prevented.
From that day forth she gan him to affect,
And daily more her favour to augment;
But Coridon for cowherdize reject,
Fit to keepe sheepe, unfit for loves content:
The gentle heart scornes base disparagement.
Yet Calidore did not despise him quight,
But usde him friendly for further intent,
That by his fellowship he colour might
Both his estate and love from skill of any wight.
So well he wood her, and so well he wrought her,
With humble service, and with daily sute,
That at the last unto his will he brought her;
Which he so wisely well did prosecute,
That of his love he reapt the timely frute,
And joyed long in close felicity:
Till Fortune, fraught with malice, blinde and brute,
That envies lovers long prosperity,
Blew up a bitter storme of foule adversity.
It fortuned one day, when Calidore
Was hunting in the woods (as was his trade)
A lawlesse people, Brigants hight of yore,
That never usde to live by plough nor spade,
But fed on spoile and booty, which they made
Upon their neighbours which did nigh them border,
The dwelling of these shepheards did invade,
And spoyld their houses, and them selves did murder,
And drove away their flocks, with other much disorder.
Amongst the rest, the which they then did pray,
They spoyld old Melibee of all he had,
And all his people captive led away;
Mongst which this lucklesse mayd away was lad,
Faire Pastorella, sorrowfull and sad,
Most sorrowfull, most sad, that ever sight,
Now made the spoile of theeves and Brigants bad,
Which was the conquest of the gentlest knight
That ever livd, and th onely glory of his might.
With them also was taken Coridon,
And carried captive by those theeves away;
Who in the covert of the night, that none
Mote them descry, nor reskue from their pray,
Unto their dwelling did them close convay.
Their dwelling in a little island was,
Covered with shrubby woods, in which no way
Appeard for people in nor out to pas,
Nor any footing fynde for overgrowen gras.
For underneath the ground their way was made,
Through hollow caves, that no man mote discover
For the thicke shrubs, which did them alwaies shade
From view of living wight, and covered over:
But darkenesse dred and daily night did hover
Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt;
Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover,
But with continuall candlelight, which delt
A doubtfull sense of things, not so well seene as felt.
Hither those Brigants brought their present pray,
And kept them with continuall watch and ward,
Meaning, so soone as they convenient may,
For slaves to sell them, for no small reward,
To merchants, which them kept in bondage hard,
Or sold againe. Now when faire Pastorell
Into this place was brought, and kept with gard
Of griesly theeves, she thought her self in hell,
Where with such damned fiends she should in darknesse dwell.
But for to tell the dolefull dreriment,
And pittifull complaints, which there she made,
Where day and night she nought did but lament
Her wretched life, shut up in deadly shade,
And waste her goodly beauty, which did fade
Like to a flowre that feeles no heate of sunne,
Which may her feeble leaves with comfort glade
But what befell her in that theevish wonne
Will in an other canto better be begonne.
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De Chirico, Giorgio was born in Volos (Greece), 10 July 1888 and died the 20th November 1978 in Rome
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Excommunication literally means 'out of communion' and is the removal of a member from standing in a church body. Most excommunications are automatic under church doctrine, as in the automatic excommunication for facilitating abortion.[1]
Priests can be automatically excommunicated. If, for example, a priest ever reveals the contents of a confession, then he is automatically excommunicated.[1]
Excommunication is a drastic step that may result in cutting ties with other members of that church as well. In the Roman Catholic Church, to be excommunicated mainly results in being prohibited from receiving the sacraments (but not removed from the jurisdiction of the Church). If certain conditions are met, the order may later be lifted.
The concept of excommunication is discussed in the New Testament and was made famous during the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods in references to the Catholic Church. It continues to be practised into the 21st century. It is also utilized by churches such as the Conservative Mennonites, Amish, and Jehovah's Witnesses. The former two practice 'shunning' and the Witnesses refer to their practice as 'disfellowshipping'.[2]
Recognition of an excommunication can occur even after someone has passed away.[3]
Excommunications by Pope Francis
Though portrayed as liberal by the media, Pope Francis excommunicated an Australian priest who was pro-same-sex marriage and favored allowing women clergy. The excommunication was in Latin and reportedly did not provide an explicit reason, but the bases were well-understood.[4]
Excommunication for pacifism
At the Council of Arles in A.D. 314, which was the first conclave of Christian bishops in the Roman Empire in the West, excommunication was established for pacifism, for those "who throw away their weapons in time of peace."
See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/strong-medicine
- ↑ Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. "Discipline That Can Yield Peacable Fruit" in The Watchtower; (April 15, 1988) [1]
- ↑ http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05678a.htm
- ↑ http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100237450/pope-francis-excommunicates-pro-gay-marriage-priest-hes-not-the-liberal-the-media-thinks/


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So on November 13th, President Obama, after winning re-election held his first news conference in 8 months. It wasn't until the eleventh question asked that the attack on Benghazi came up. The question was not about the lack or denial of security requests, it wasn't about the stand down order from the CIA to the two former Navy SEALS who ultimately lost their lives while protecting the consulate and the annex, it wasn't about the fact that the White House had real-time intelligence that the attack was pre-planned and perpetrated by Al Qaeda, nor was it about the ignored calls for help from those on the ground who never received that help. No, instead of all those questions that all of us seem to want the answers to, the question to the President was about the attacks on….wait for it…..Ambassador Susan Rice and the possible nomination of her for the Secretary of State position. What came next was nothing short of a stunning exposition of playground tactics and a strange revelation. First, here is the question from Jonathan Karl (video of the comments here):
"Thank you, Mr. President. Senator John McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham both said today that they want to have Watergate-style hearings on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and said that if you nominate Susan Rice to be secretary of state, they will do everything in their power to block her nomination. As Senator Graham said, he simply doesn't trust Ambassador Rice after what she said about Benghazi. I'd like your reaction to that. And would those threats deter you from making a nomination like that?"
Now, here is the Presidents response:
"Well, first of all, I'm not going to comment at this point on various nominations that I'll put forward to fill out my Cabinet for the second term. Those are things that are still being discussed.
But let me say specifically about Susan Rice, she has done exemplary work. She has represented the United States and our interests in the United Nations with skill and professionalism and toughness and grace. As I've said before, she made an appearance at the request of the White House in which she gave her best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her. If Senator McCain and Senator Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. And I'm happy to have that discussion with them. But for them to go after the U.N. ambassador, who had nothing to do with Benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received and to besmirch her reputation is outrageous."
President Obama's defense of Ambassador Rice, was commendable, however he truly did her a disservice. He acted like a playground defender of a victim of bullies when stating that Senators McCain and Graham should go after him instead of her. Then basically labeled Susan Rice as a small player in the scheme of things by stating she "gave her best" understanding of the intelligence that had been provided her, and was simply making a "Presentation" but "had nothing to do with Benghazi".
This statement by the President immediately opened up questions about Susan Rice's role and why she went on the Talk shows on September 16th to begin with. I mean seriously, why put her out there if she had nothing to do with Benghazi, and if she had nothing to do with it, then she wouldn't have any information of consequence. However, there was a CONSEQUENCE and a big one . She, the US Ambassador to the UN, representing the US and the administration went on 5 Sunday Morning Talk Show's purposefully armed with a narrative that was a total and disgraceful lie. She set the wheels into motion that began the cover up of the events of the Terrorist attack that killed our Ambassador and three other Americans.
These were her words to Jake Tapper with ABC:
"Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous — not a premeditated — response to what had transpired in Cairo. In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated."
These statements were repeated four times more throughout the day without much variation. The narrative did not waver. It was a spontaneous reaction to a You tube video that spawned the outrage. Moving on…nothing to see here.
After the press conference with President Obama, a slew of defenders came out of the wood work. MSNBC's Chris Matthew's while having a conversation on the subject with Rep. James Clyburn (SC) all but said Susan Rice is just a young naive girl not ready to play with the big boys of politics by this statement:
"Well, let`s talk about motive here because, you know, it does seem when a person makes — even if you think a person made a mistake, they were given the wrong brief and they offered up the brief — they don`t think she — they haven`t said she made it up.
I mean, why is there this hostility to this young public servant, who isn`t really much of a — isn`t a politician even? She serves in the foreign affairs capacity. She`s not in the arena with you guys. Why are they treating her like she`s somebody to punch?"
Rep. Clyburn, went further with the opining by revisiting her history and roots from South Carolina, speaking of his close friendship Rice's father, and then it went to this:
"This is a young African-American woman, I`m going to say…And this is the kind of stuff that happened to Colin Powell. Colin Powell was given information. He went to the United Nations with information that we found out later was flawed. It was not his fault then…"
So here comes the eluding to Racism in the questioning of her competency . However, the super hero's for Susan Rice didn't stop there…to continue along the path that Rep. Clyburn created, fast forward to Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, who happens to be the next chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told reporters on Friday that "It is a shame that anytime something goes wrong, they pick on women and minorities."
Rep. Gwen Moore, D-WI, sealed the deal by saying,"To batter this woman because they don't feel they have the ability to batter President Obama is something we the women are not going to stand by and watch."
So now you have a new narrative. Sorry Senator's McCain and Graham, but your questioning of Ambassador Rices "presentation" on the Sunday shows, will officially be turned over to the race defenders, and sister soldiers. They have it covered across the board…you guys are picking on the YOUNG, INEXPERIENCED AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE.
However, I hate to burst the bubble some are trying to place Ambassador Rice into, but maybe they should take a look at this "young African-American woman" and realize…She knew exactly what she was doing on those shows.
First, stop with the "young public servant" stuff. She is two years older than President Obama was when he was elected President. She's been in this Government Game of thrones since at least 1988 when she was a foreign policy aide to Michael Dukakis during his presidential election run. So she also has more experience in Foreign affairs then our President.
Second, Rice served in the Clinton administration in various capacities: at the National Security Council from 1993 to 1997; as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping from 1993 to 1995; and as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs from 1995 to 1997. Madeline Albright, recommended Rice for the post of assistant secretary for African affairs in 1997. After her appointment, senior politicians came out in disagreement with having a young woman in such a post and disagreed with placing her in the position; citing she may not be able to hang or deal with the older, more seasoned big boys. This is what Rice had to say about that:
"They have no choice but to deal with me on professional terms. I represent the United States of America," she says. "Yeah, they may do a double take, but then they have to listen to what you say, how you say it and what you do about what you say."
When Rice was Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping she was faced with what she called a "Most searing experience". Rice came face to face with the Rwanda Genocide and commented:
"It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen. It makes you mad. It makes you determined. It makes you know that even if you're the last lone voice and you believe you're right, it is worth every bit of energy you can throw into it."
It was these experiences that ultimately led her to her post as Assistant Secretary for African affairs. This was also where she became very educated and informed with the actions of the extremist group, Al Qaeda; she was the top diplomat for African issues during the 1998 terrorist bombings of our US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
Susan Rice is also not inexperienced in the dealings of controversy. The former ambassador to Sudan Timothy Carney flat-out accused her of bungling the chance to take out Osama bin Laden when Sudanese officials offered him to the USA during the Clinton years. However, the 9/11 commission said there was no credible evidence of this. It did not stop Carney and Monzoor Ijaz, a news contributor, implicating her and then Counter Terrorism Czar, Richard Clark in a 2002 Washington Post Op-Ed piece regarding the missed opportunity of getting Bin Laden.
So, we now know she has the feminine proverbial "cohones" to deal with the big boys, she has more knowledge of Foreign affairs than our President, (which I find amusing) and has more than enough experience dealing with the workings and tactics of Al Qaeda. So much for Chris Matthews theory of "not being in the arena".
These failed attempts by the mainstream media, and congress men and women alike, only prove a flawed attempt to disqualify Ambassador Rice as a formidable opponent. Yes, she is young, relatively speaking so are many in the Obama administration, but do not attempt to insult the intelligence of the American people by claiming she is just a bit player in the administration. She knows this game and seems to be more than willing to play. She also had a keen idea of what it would mean to the Obama Administration having the words 'IT WAS AL QAEDA WHO KILLED OUR AMBASSADOR', come from her lips before the election. This, from an administration who so artfully spiked the Bin Laden football and said that "Al Qaeda was defeated."
I will refer back to the Rwandan Genocides from 1994 when Rice reportedly said, "If we use the word 'genocide' and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?" Now, regarding the heat Ambassador Rice is now feeling from Senators McCain and Graham, I will leave you with another reflection from the Ambassador which I personally feel is quite appropriate at this time. In regards to the inability of the Clinton administration to do anything to prevent or stop the Rwandan genocide, Susan Rice would later say:
"I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required."
Well Ambassador Rice….the flame is on, the water is about to boil over.
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I've downloaded and started working with D'Ooge(seems very good so far, think I'll make D'Ooge my main textbook). At time of posting I have completed up to Chapter 2 and have found the book(e-book?) excellent so far.
My question is this: How quickly should I move through the book? A chapter per day, week, month? I find at this early level it takes about an hour- hour and a half to complete a chapter, do the exercises and check them with the key, and several 'bouts of maybe 20 min in flashcard form to learn the vocab for the chapter, but I'm expecting it to be much slower going as I get further into the course. In your personal experiences with D'Ooge, what has been the best rate for you to progress at(I realise my milage may vary)?
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If you're into app customization — "Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) was released as an integrated component of the 2007 Office system earlier this week and is now available to both Office developers and ISVs!" http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/vsta/
protest: the tester's box
[protest] First off, business reality dictates that as unique and individual as we all are, for someone in every company (let's pick someone in HR), the job of a tester boils down to a black box. Job descriptions often read like a "spec" of what inputs and outputs are hooked up to the job. Maybe…
VSTS Tip: No Late Fees on Channel 9
FYI – just got word that VSTS has its own category on Channel 9 making it easier to browse through what's available, here are the links: VSTS All [ Web ] VSTS Videos [ Web | RSS ] VSTS Screencasts [ Web | RSS ]
protest: the status wiki
[protest] Over the past year or so I arrived at a nice way to report status that finally works for me, and has earned its keep in the protest system. The way this works is just set up a private wiki page for just you and your management chain. I am lucky to have access to…
protest: bug tracking basics
[protest] There are tons of interesting queries you can do with a decent bug database (subliminal message: buy TFS). Managers and leads have all sorts of ways of looking at the data. And it can be entertaining to pull out gems from your bug database every now and then just like Google and MSN Search hacks can…
Michael Howard on the Silver Bullet Security Podcast
Here's the link… http://www.cigital.com/silverbullet/show-006/
CERT Secure Coding Standards
"This web site exists to support the development of secure coding standards for commonly used programming languages such as C and C++. " https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/CERT+Secure+Coding+Standards
application responsiveness
Joe Duffy just got an application responsiveness article posted at Dr. Dobbs that's worth reading: http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,b25572f1-ff84-4acb-865c-112b5d21af00.aspx


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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A spokeswoman for Cyprus' Defense Ministry says the country is offering 2,364 assault rifles to an African-led military force to fight Islamic extremists in Mali.
Elena Fysentzou says the Zastava assault rifles, currently in storage, can be "immediately available."
Fysentzou said Friday that the Yugoslav-made weapons, which fire a 7.62 mm cartridge, may be delivered "as soon as possible" but could not be more specific.
French-led forces have ousted al-Qaida-linked militants from northern Mali, including the three northern provincial capitals of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu, following a three-week campaign.
But the militants have escaped with their weapons into the vast surrounding desert and it's feared that they are poised to mount counterattacks on the cities.
The Malian army and other African troops are expected to take over from the French.


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