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DROGOSCH; Shot-Down on the 447th very first Mission; 20 March, 1943 (at Sea)
MISSING IN ACTION on 20 March 1943 on Sea Sweep Mission Between Tunisia and
Sicily. Attacked By Enemy Fighters~SHOT DOWN at SEA.
One Crew Member Killed Before the Crash, The 5 Surviving Crew
Members Made it to the Life Raft, Rowed to Shore~EVADED ENEMY CAPTURE~Made
it to Friendly Lines, Were Treated for Minor
Injuries, and RETURNED to the 447th Squadron on 27 March
1943, ALL 5 Were Wearing British Uniforms.
A/C No. 41-13171 "Trigger" (shot down)
Ackley, James H., 2Lt, pilot
Duke, Albert (NMI) "Al", 2Lt, pilot
Orr, Douglas C. "Doug", 2Lt, bombardier
Drogosch, Robert C., T/Sgt, radio-gunner
Govoni, Harold F., S/Sgt, engineer-gunner--(KIA)
Noble, Francis L., S/Sgt, armament-gunner
FANTASTIC Account by LT. McDuff:
447th BS: War Diary of: McDuff, Daniel R., 2Lt, pilot: (although Lt Duke &
Crew didn't return to the 447th until 27 Mar 43, this entry is placed here
for continuity)
Wednesday, 19 May 1943
447th BS War Diary: Nine of our planes participated in a raid on Villacidro landing ground in Sardinia today. Bombing results excellent. All our planes returned safely. There was a group meeting in the granary. The Group Commander commended the men for the manner in which they had done their job and presented medals to those who had earned them. Seven of our men received the Purple Heart. They were: Lts. Ackley, Orr and T/Sgt. Drogosch, S/Sgts. Ludtke, Osowiecki, Noble and Perpich.
They were flying No. 4 position of a flight of four ships and were
flying it close. Oil was leaking out of the right engine and going back over
the wing. They had had a little trouble with it during the attack, but it was
working O.K. on the trip home.
But the oil on their wing was their ruin. Enemy fighters
(ME-109's-yellow nose jobs, indicating Goering's prize squadron) picked Duke's ship as a
possible cripple, and concentrated their attack on them. They were doing
O.K. in holding off their attackers, Sgt. Noble, the turret gunner shot down
one ME-109 and Sgt. Drogosch the radio operator on the waist guns, shot down
another. One Nazi, however, paid no attention whatever to the fire power
concentrated on him and came boring in in spite of it. He did a good job.
His fire raked the ship from one end to the other---a 20 mm shell exploded in
the navigator's compartment, tearing things up generally. But other than a
few cuts on their hands and faces, did no damage to Duke and Ackley. A string of 20mm
shells hit the right engine, going back across the wing towards the fuselage
and the tail section. That was the burst that did the dirty work. The
engine caught fire and quit. The wheel assembly came down out of the nacelle
and hung there. The right wing flaps came down and fell off. The right wing
itself was badly shot up and weakened. The tail section was riddled, and
Sgt. Govoni, the engineer on the tail gun, was killed. He never knew what
hit him.
Ackley, James H., 2Lt, pilot
Duke, Albert (NMI) "Al", 2Lt, pilot
Drogosch, Robert C., T/Sgt, radio-gunner
Govoni, Harold F., S/Sgt, engineer-gunner
Noble, Francis L., S/Sgt, armament-gunner
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We are a leader in the healthcare staffing industry with a primary focus on providing nurse, allied, physician (locum tenens) staffing services and workforce solutions to the healthcare market. We provide retained physician and healthcare executive search services. In addition, we are a leading provider of education and training programs specifically for the healthcare marketplace. In 2014, Staffing Industry Analysts anticipate a rebound for the healthcare staffing market, projecting year-over-year growth of 7 percent.
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* Excellent listening and communication skills
* Strong strategic thinking and decision-making abilities
* Conflict resolution skills and ability to maintain personal composure when priorities quickly change
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Most government IT professionals − by a wide margin − would rather be trapped in an elevator for 24 hours than have their networks hacked, according to a recent survey.
This could explain why cybersecurity is listed as the top area for expanded IT spending in the coming year, with 59 percent saying they expect increased security spending, topping cloud computing by 14 percentage points.
The results from a survey of 400 federal, state and local government officials conducted for Cisco underscore the foundational importance of cybersecurity. Being stuck in an elevator would ruin your day. A breach of your network or data could ruin your career − and 71 percent said they'd rather be stuck in the elevator. If your security does not work, nothing else really matters.
Feds tend to be more conscious of this than those in state and local government. Improving security is the second place technology goal in the overall survey at 22 percent, behind reducing costs (28 percent), but security is tops in the federal sector. Budget constraints are the top threat to IT infrastructure, at 35 percent overall, and cyberattacks come in second, at 17 percent, but attacks are seen as a bigger threat in the federal sector than among state and local organizations. This does not necessarily mean that federal networks are more vulnerable than those in state and local systems, but the U.S. government is a high-profile target for hacktivists, criminals looking for valuable intellectual property and other nations engaged in espionage.
Cybersecurity professionals are in an almost no-win situation. In just about every assessment of security they come up looking bad. If they are graded on compliance with regulations, they are told that they are ignoring real-world security. If they focus on practical security, compliance is likely to slip. And complete security is impossible in a dynamic environment in which the functionality and configuration of hardware and software change on a daily basis. The best they can do is manage an acceptable risk. But no risk looks acceptable after a breach.
The professionals surveyed know that there is no simple answer to improving cybersecurity. Twenty-one percent of them listed better technology as the most effective way to improve security, followed by better enforcement of policies at 18 percent and better employee training at 15 percent. But most of them refused to single out one factor for improvement; 42 percent said that all three were equally important.
One factor not addressed in the survey is stability. It is hard to secure a system while ensuring its operational availability to users when you don't know from day to day, let alone year to year, what financial and manpower resources are going to be available. The chaotic state of government over the last few years, illustrated most recently by the government shutdown forced by political hostage-taking, erodes IT security along with every other measure of performance. I imagine that if it had been offered as a choice in the survey, a rational Congress would top the wish list for IT professionals.
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TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR VS HAVING THE NETWORK HACKED?!?! That is the most ridiculous comparison and is only by a strong stretch of a dimented imagination even closely related.
"...forced by political hostage-taking, ..."...REALLY??? You betray your clearly political BIAS. A truly fair and objective view would not conveniently ignore the inexcuseable and dictatorial attitude and actions of OBAMA! (and let's not forget the "noble" SENATE morons!!)
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Houston, TX – The Battle of the Piney Woods rivalry football game between Sam Houston State and Stephen F. Austin will continue to be played at Reliant Stadium through the 2017 season.
The Southland Conference schools will play for the third time at Reliant Stadium on Saturday.
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Kolkata, Sep 8 (IANS) A young, unwed mother and three other people were arrested Sunday for killing a newborn baby girl in West Bengal's Howrah district, police said.
The killing of the new-born took place in Mali Panchghara in the district, seven km from Kolkata.
The suspects were arrested from near Howrah railway station.
"We arrested four people, including the mother of the child. The unmarried woman gave birth to the child in the early hours of Sunday. There are strangulation marks on the baby's neck. It seems she was strangulated before being abandoned. We are probing all aspects," police said.
The baby was found lying motionless on the roadside by morning walkers who informed the police. After questioning people, police learnt about the four people who had abandoned the baby and arrested them.
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NEW YORK (AP) — In the spring of 2012, as the off-Broadway run of the Holocaust play "The Soap Myth" was winding down, its director wasn't ready to let go.
Arnold Mittelman, who also is the producing artistic director of the National Jewish Theater, felt "more had to be done with the material because of the power and impact it was having."
So Mittelman decided to film it — even buying out a performance, "something a producer never does" — so it could have another life. He credits the playwright, Jeff Cohen, with being open to take his leap of faith.
Now both men are about to see the play take its own digital leap: The recording will become available for streaming and download across the globe on Monday, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"It's kind of the next generation of opportunity for material of this kind," said Mittelman, who co-directed the film version with Ron Kopp and is thrilled at the idea the play may soon be seen on laptops and tablets. "I call it an Anytime Playhouse."
"The Soap Myth" is a tough look at the longstanding notion that the Nazis used the fat of dead Jews to make bars of soap during World War II. The play probes the questions of how history is manufactured and how we understand truth.
It centers on a concentration camp survivor who swears he saw a casket full of the soap bars. He turns to a young reporter after being unable to get Holocaust museum officials to accept his view. They fear that if they accept something that's not 100 percent provable, it will offer ammunition to Holocaust deniers.
The four-person cast captured on film performing the play in an off-Broadway theater were Andi Potamkin, Donald Corren, Dee Pelletier and Greg Mullavey, who played the affable husband in "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
The broadcast will be available from Digital Theatre of London, which specializes in putting plays and musicals online for download or streaming for a fee, which starts for as little as $7 a stream. On Monday, the play also will be broadcast on a PBS affiliate in South Florida and the hope is more will sign up.
Mittelman, who points to the current global controversy over some sports stars making an inverted Nazi salute, fears those who wish to teach about the horrors of the Holocaust are in a race against time.
"Within five to a maximum of 15 years, we will have lost the last of the living survivors. So these primary spokespersons for those who died and for the events they witnessed won't be eyewitnesses any longer in person," Mittelman said.
"To me, as a man of the theater, the notion that we can use theater to replace what is in fact irreplaceable is the smallest contribution I think artists can do, but one that we must do."
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Equities: The SEP13 E-mini Nasdaq did indeed make a new 2013 high this morning, trading up 22.75 points to 3088.25. Our next market profile target remains at 3103. We believe this target could be hit this week, especially if the Fed issues a particularly "dovish" statement tomorrow. The SEP13 E-mini S&P 500 (CME:ESU13) is lagging the Nasdaq this morning, trading up just 1.5 points to 1684. Even with this, we would not be surprised to see this market try to make another run to the 1700 level. We believe the Fed will be dovish on Wednesday with their language, potentially indicating that inflation is not a concern at all and that they will actually perhaps mention a concern of deflation. This would likely be very bullish news for the equity markets. Something that could cause the equity markets to really reverse course by the end of the week would be a very high GDP number tomorrow morning, and/or a very high jobs number on Friday morning.
Bonds: The SEP13 U.S. 30-year bond market (CBOT:ZBU13) is down 9 ticks to 133'28. This market is now below its key pivot level at 134'00. We believe in the longer term bearish story of the bond market, and believe that this market will experience some serious downside this week if this Friday's jobs report comes out with a much higher jobs number than forecast. However, we also will be watching for a big short covering rally in bonds if we get a disappointing jobs or GDP number. Our key line in the sand level remains at 134, and 133'18 is a very important support level that has held up to multiple tests this month.
Commodities: Not many commodities are having excitingly bullish days today. Soybeans futures continue their descent today, with the NOV13 contract (CBOT:SX13) trading down $.12 to $12.08, approaching the key $12 level. We would not be surprised to see this level breached soon. AUG13 gold futures (COMEX:GCQ13) are down $5 to $1,324, but do seem very resilient. We would not be surprised to see gold rally tomorrow if Bernanke is very dovish, and especially if the morning GDP numbers are below expectations, thus potentially fueling speculation that the Fed will not reduce the stimulus in September. SEP13 Crude oil is down $1.68 to $102.87.
Currencies: The currencies will potentially see some big movement this week, as there are three central bank meetings to digest, starting with the U.S. FOMC statement tomorrow. The gauge of consumer sentiment for the European Union climbed from 91.3 in June to 92.5 in July – its best level since April of last year. The mortgage approvals data coming out of the UK was a downside surprise, thus fueling a 123 tick sell-off in the SEP13 Pound/USD. The inflation data recently released out of Germany also was slightly above forecasts, thus likely being supportive for the SEP13 Euro's strength, pushing it above 1.33 before some profit-taking occurred. We believe the Euro will continue to be strong, and our key target at this point is 1.3388.


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Name: Pete McDaniel
Age: 61
Family: Wife, Angela; Sons Shawn, 45; Demayne, 39; Marc, 39; Tristan, 29.
Residence: Conyers, Ga.
Occupation: Writer and interim director of alumni relations at UNC Asheville
When did you first become acquainted with the Woods family?
In the fall of 1994, Tiger Woods had entered Stanford University after winning the first of three consecutive U.S. Amateur Championships and was being named Golf World Magazine's "Man of the Year." I was dispatched to Stanford to interview him for the cover story. His father, Earl, liked the article so much that he asked me to help him write what would become "Training A Tiger.'' Tiger won the Masters by 12 shots in April of 1997; the next day he and Earl were on the Oprah Winfrey Show promoting the book... instant bestseller, instant credibility for yours truly, and the rest is history.
How did the idea for the book "Uneven Lies" come about and how long did it take to write it? What was it like achieving the notoriety once the book was published?
A friend of mine and sales rep for Titleist Footjoy Worldwide, Craig Bowen, approached me about a documentary on African-Americans in golf. His boss, Wally Ulhein, supported the project. However, after a film crew shot the black golf tour events in Knoxville and the Skyview Open at Asheville's Municipal Golf Course, Wally decided we were getting the horse before the cart and commissioned me to write a book first. That was in 1998. Two years later, "Uneven Lies: The Heroic Story of African Americans in Golf" was published. The book has afforded me an opportunity to speak around the world about diversity and leveling the playing field in the golf industry. For that I'm deeply honored.
Where are you originally from? Talk about your experiences growing up, your high school and college years and your career path to become a journalist.
I was born in what used to be Mountain Sanitarium Hospital and reared in Arden. I was a typical "country" boy, going barefoot in the summer, fishing and swimming in the creek and lake at Christ School, where my parents worked. My life changed, though, when as an 11-year-old I started caddying at Biltmore Forest Country Club. That's when my love for golf began.
I played golf and basketball at T.C. Roberson High and UNC Asheville. The constant, though, was my love of writing — first poetry and skits, then lyrics dreaming about someday becoming a great songwriter — all for attention from girls, of course. Instead, after graduation from UNC Asheville, I was hired as a reporter for the Asheville Times. Later I moved over to the Asheville Citizen, then to the Times-News, then to Golf World and Golf Digest.
What years were you here at the Times-News? Talk about your experiences in the sports department and some of the big stories that stick out in your mind.
I started at the Times-News in 1979 and left for Golf World/Golf Digest in 1993. Buddy Chapman, my mentor and close friend, was transitioning out of the full-time sports editor position there and Steve Parham was moving up. Both were wonderful journalists who, along with executive editor Meade Parce, taught me the ropes. In fact, Parce accompanied me to my first Henderson County football game — at East Henderson. He gave me a crash course on using a camera, patted me on the back and left me there to cover the game... baptism by fire at its best. We prided ourselves on covering the heck out of prep sports, so I'd have to say my big stories were state playoffs in every sport.
Talk about how you got the job at Golf Digest. How long were you with Golf Digest and what are the articles you remember most?
Like the Times-News and around 40 other regional newspapers around the country, Golf World and Golf Digest were owned by the New York Times Company. I was looking to expand my horizons and the magazines were looking for a minority with golf writing experience. They flew me up to New York to cover the 1993 U.S. Open at Baltusrol in New Jersey and interview for a job opening. Lee Janzen won that year and, as good fortune would have it, he resided in the coverage area of the Leesburg (Fla.) paper, which was also owned by the New York Times.
Under deadline pressure, I wrote a lead and notes column for the Times-News, plus a feature for the group. I guess I must have impressed the editors at Golf Digest and Golf World because the interview was just a formality. I was with Golf World from 1993-1997, when I moved over to Golf Digest to cover Tiger exclusively until 2013.
My most memorable piece at either magazine is probably coverage of the 1996 U.S. Amateur at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club near Portland, Ore., that detailed the "miracle" comeback by Tiger to beat Steve Scott and claim a sixth consecutive USGA amateur title.
Describe how you achieved your current role at UNC Asheville as the Interim Director of Alumni Relations. What does the job entail?
As an alumnus (class of '74) of UNC Asheville, I've remained relatively active in university affairs, especially athletics. So when I was asked to serve in that capacity, I jumped at the opportunity. I will always have a special affinity for UNC Asheville. I believe the education I received there was instrumental in my successful career as a journalist.
The job entails reaching out to alumni in an attempt to get them re-engaged with the university. Fundraising is also a major part of it, too. That's the key to securing future educational needs of our young people, and alumni gifts go a long way toward helping us in that effort.
What does the future hold for you now? Are you planning any future writing projects?
As I get further into the back nine of my career, my focus is on service. I have 13 grandchildren, and I would dearly love for them to have even better opportunities than I to live their best life. I hope that I've created a legacy as a sports/golf writer that will inspire young minorities to believe in themselves and not be afraid to chase their dreams.
As for future writing projects, I am the lead writer for an exhibit on African-Americans at the World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum, scheduled to open the first of May. I'm also writing biographies for legendary golfer Calvin Peete and my youngest son, Tristan. And I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't an autobiography in my future.
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The .cmd and .bat files were blocked because the use of cmd.exe was blocked.
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myhexhax wrote:Why do you need a way to run cmd or bat files? There are plenty of free HTTP/SOCKS/CGI proxies out there that you could run on your computer at home, and connect to it from your school computer, and browse the internet with only the restrictions of your home PC. Do you have a computer at home with an internet connection? Even running Apache, PHP, and a CGIProxy would be enough to get it running for you. Then enable it to run under SSL so that content filtering doesn't work, and you'd be home free.

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Inmates on the move at federal prison in Danbury
DANBURY -- Situated high atop sloping fields, set back from Pembroke Road by a curving, tree-lined drive, the property offers the added privacy of a stand of pines that all but mask the barbed-wire fencing behind them.
But the Federal Correctional Institute's most significant value is not in the prime real estate it sits upon but in the hundreds of beds it holds inside its low-security walls.
After the activation of a similar facility in Aliceville, Ala., introduced more than 1,500 new low-security beds into the federal prison system earlier this year, the Bureau of Prisons settled on FCI Danbury as the site that would undergo a "mission change" -- transferring out the female population for males to alleviate crowding across the entire federal prison system.
But over the course of about three months since that announcement, a range of obstacles have limited the female Danbury inmates' exodus.
First, letters from congressional members bought some time to reconsider the plan. Then the partial government shutdown put another hold on the transfers. Now the action is conditional on the outcome of a meeting to be held in the coming weeks between U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and a delegation of Northeast congressmen.
Should the mission change resume, despite the intervention, it will mark the first time in nearly two decades that the neighbors on top of the hill on Route 37 will be men.
Through the years, many famous people have called FCI home, albeit reluctantly, while local people drive back and forth on the busy street outside.
In terms of the physical plant, there is not much that will change, if anything, to effect the switch.
"Really no major changes other than the gender of the inmate," said Ed Ross, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons.
The only significant expense required to accommodate male inmates in Danbury amount to $260,000 in clothing and "general inmate care items," as BOP Director Charles E. Samuels Jr. explained in a letter responding to an inquiry by U.S. Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Conn.
"The BOP does not have to remodel, construct, or make significant changes to FCI Danbury to accommodate male inmates," the letter read.
Programs geared toward inmates' education, vocational training or re-entry into society will continue to be offered for the new population as well.
"All those kind of things -- the programming that goes on at any prison -- that won't be changed because the mission is changing," Ross said.
But converting the prison back to a male facility after almost 20 years as a female facility will naturally have a certain effect on the day-to-day operations inside FCI Danbury, according to a federal corrections officers union representative.
"There's a difference obviously in aggressiveness. Male inmates even at the low-security facilities can be more aggressive," said Philip Glover, northeast regional vice president of the council of prison locals.
Violence among inmates and gang activity are likely to increase, problems that the staff at FCI Danbury will have to deal with on a more frequent basis if the conversion to male inmates is completed.
"Those kinds of things happen at even low males," Glover said.
Another difference for the staff will be the manner in which certain operations, particularly inmate searches, are carried out.
"There's a difference in how you pat-search an inmate," Glover said. "The requirements of how you can search a female inmate as opposed to a male inmate. Cross-gender issues are much more highlighted because of (the Prison Rape Elimination Act)."
But, as far as the corrections officers are concerned, changing to a male population could be a benefit at FCI Danbury, which Glover said "has historically had trouble getting enough female workers."
"Cross-gender searches will eventually be prohibited ... which makes it more difficult obviously to run a female population when you have a large number of male staff," he said.
Glover said he could not gauge the staff's collective feeling on the conversion because the start-and-stop nature of the process thus far has made it difficult for them to come to a consensus.
"Obviously, there's a mix. The female staff I'm sure would rather keep things the way they are. The male staff, it'll probably be easier for them to work there," he said. "There really hasn't been a chance to sit down as a union and say `OK, what are our issues here' because they started it then they stopped it."
Of course, for the voices speaking out against the conversion, its potential effect on the staff is of much less concern than its effect on the inmates and their families.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who previously served as a U.S. attorney, said the separation of a female inmate from her family could strain her rehabilitation and eventual re-entry into society -- "particularly for mothers."
"Separating them from their children really imperils and endangers a bond that is vital to their coming back to a normal life and avoiding repeating criminal activity," he said.
As of July, 59 percent of the women housed in FCI Danbury had children under the age of 21, said Samuels, the BOP director, in his letter to Murphy.
And an increased distance from their mother could increase the likelihood that those children will one day find themselves incarcerated, Blumenthal said.
"Separating mothers from children creates more crime and more criminals with much larger, longer-term costs," he said.
In his letter to Murphy, Samuels conceded that the transfer of female inmates from Danbury would cause some women to be further from their "release residences."
But, ultimately, Samuels contended that the transfers will result "in the transfer of a much greater number of women closer to their release residences."
That is also true of the men who would be transferred into FCI Danbury. A total of 7,421 male inmates in the low-security facilities across the country would be closer to their release residencies if transferred to Danbury, though there would only be room for several hundred of them, Samuels said.
A number of the female inmates now at Danbury could also remain at the minimum security camp on the site, which will remain female, if they qualified for the appropriate reduction in their security level, Samuels said.
Across the system, the shifting of inmates between facilities if Danbury becomes a male prison would reduce crowding in low-security female prisons by more than half and low-security male prisons by 2 percent.
One thing Samuels stressed and Blumenthal later reiterated was the need to review individual inmates on a case-by-case basis to determine what effect any transfer would have on their relationships with their families.
"The numbers are almost irrelevant," Blumenthal said. "These decisions should be made woman-by-woman, case-by-case ... I'm not in favor of keeping women in Danbury, per se. It's the women who can be kept in the Northeast who should be kept in Danbury."
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According to the experts at Tuesday night's East Hampton school board meeting, it's going to cost somewhere in the vicinity of $100,000 to replace the ceilings in five classrooms and another small room at the middle school, where more problems came to light, literally, as ceiling tiles came crashing down during a mid-July weekend brownout.
Brendan Broderick of the environmental firm J.C. Broderick and Associates explained to the board that heat and humidity caused some tiles affixed to the plaster by "glue dollops," which contain asbestos, to loosen. They landed on the suspended ceiling, causing those tiles to fall as well.
"All air samples came back clean," said Mike Guido, the middle school architect, who spoke with Mr. Broderick. "The only thing hot is the glue, but it is not friable and does not readily come out." Mr. Guido heads his own firm.
Since the glue dollops contain asbestos, by law they have to be handled by a certified asbestos removal company, and that puts the cost of replacing the ceiling in those six rooms at approximately $71,000, with additional expected necessary work bringing the total to "just under $100,000," said Eric Woellhof, the plant facilities administrator.
The work would be performed by Branch Services - D.K.I., which offered the lowest bid to the board through the Board of Cooperative Education Services.
"This would come out of the $320,000?" Alison Anderson, a board member, asked Isabel Madison, the district's business administrator, referring to the reserve fund. Ms. Madison concurred, noting that an additional $650,000, part of the budget vote in May, would remain in the reserve.
Also at the meeting, the board discussed a ceiling of another kind, the abolishment of the position of head clerk when Geri Fromm retires in mid-September. If that happens, then, for the time being, the highest position in the district would be principal clerk.
The board reluctantly agreed to approve the superintendent's recommendation. Initially, both Patricia Hope and Alison Anderson were opposed to the motion, "out of respect for the position," said Ms. Anderson. Ms. Hope agreed. "It's not a lot of bucks we're talking about," she said of the salary differential between principal clerk and head clerk.
"Adam [Fine, the high school principal] has faith in this decision, we should respect it," said Jacqueline Lowey, a board member. George Aman agreed. "This is a case of micromanagement," he said. "This is a reasonable recommendation, it's not gross mismanagement."
It was explained that keeping the civil service denomination of principal clerk while jettisoning head clerk would allow the board to hire from within the district, since there is currently no one locally who would be able to step into Ms. Fromm's position. And, the board agreed, time is of the essence, so that Ms. Fromm can lead someone new through his or her paces before she retires on Sept. 19.
"I know there are some bad feelings among the staff about this," said Ms. Anderson, but she and Ms. Hope changed their votes after hearing that the job of principal clerk would allow them to "hire from inside," said Kerri Stevens, the district clerk.


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Rush's Fountain of Surround, Part 2: Moving Predictions
"It's a timeless record with so much detail," says surround-sound remix guru Richard Chycki about Rush's 1981 masterpiece, Moving Pictures. "I'm glad you've clued into all of the nuances." Chycki is referring to what I said to him last week about the PCM 5.1 and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mixes he did for MP's 30th anniversary reissue. Today marks the release of the CD+DVD version, something certainly worth getting if you're not equipped for Blu-ray — but the much preferred Holy Grail CD+BD version won't be out until May 3. (At the top of that week, I'll post our song-by-song dissection of Chycki's landmark 5.1 MP mixes.)
In the meantime, I've unearthed this related 5.1 treat. Back in February 2009, Chycki and I talked exclusively about his surround work for both the audio and live video releases for Rush's 2007 album Snakes & Arrows. That interview was initially intended to be a companion piece for my interview with Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, but for various reasons not worth getting into, it remained on the virtual shelf — until now.
First, you may want to check out yesterday's post, in which I chronicle Rush's gradual, decade-long ascent to full-on 5.1 embrace. All up to speed now? Good. Here, Chycki and I delve into the band's possible 5.1 future. If Moving Pictures 5.1 is a great success, we're both hoping some, if not all, of these predictions and projections will come to fruition.
When I talked to Alex about R30 back in 2005, I asked him if Rush had discussed either reworking some older material in surround. He said the band was open to the possibility of doing so with something like 2112 [1976], using the waterfall during "Discovery" as a great example for something that's perfect for that environment.
Yes, that's something that's been coming up in repeated discussion. We just have to see when the powers that be want to pull the trigger to do it. That's one of the things I'm pretty much lobbying to mix in surround. It would be absolutely fantastic since 2112 is such a strong thematic record on par with The Dark Side of the Moon. It has that essence. It would be absolutely fantastic to take the triple tracking of Ged's [Geddy Lee's] vocal and put that in a three-dimensional environment. I'm waiting just like everybody else is to see if they want to move ahead. And I'd be more than honored to fly the ship if they decide to have me do that.
You're familiar with the entire Genesis catalog having been redone in 5.1.?
Yes. There's no reason that Rush couldn't do the exact same thing. It would be a great idea to do that. So much of the old material lends itself to spread everything out into that new environment. The listening experience would be absolutely fantastic.
Agreed! I see you in the Nick Davis role — he's the guy who did the surround mixes for Genesis. I can see the parallels: You know the Rush catalog intimately, you work with them really well, and you're the perfect sounding board to say, "Hey, let's do it the right way."
Thanks. The more esoteric material would do really well, you know? Caress of Steel [1975] would be stunning to do in surround, as it's a frightfully dry record. To maintain that dryness in surround, the placement would be so critical. I think it would be a very angular project to listen to in surround because when stuff "disappears," there's so little ambience; you get that suction, with the tail flattening stuff out. Doing something like Caress in surround, with all the motion, everything would be very extreme. But it would be a treat to sit and listen to — especially at extreme volumes.


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Because of the negative nature of discussing the realities of fast food, he also produced a "Supersized Special" of the video where he took the camera crew into his garden, an expert vegetarian chef's kitchen, and filmed people's positive reactions to the organic, locally grown, entirely plant-based meal they gave out at the McDonald's after filming the music video. There's also an interview and a few other tidbits aimed at giving a comprehensive look at food issues as they relate to climate change, environmental catastrophes, animal welfare, and human health.
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At an automotive assembly plant in Vance, Alabama, Handling Specialty custom engineered and manufactured scissor lifts that were integrated into the production line for the welding of structural components to automotive bodies. The transfer process in and out of the workstation dictated a change in elevation along with a high degree of accuracy and speed.
Using a mechanical ballscrew drive, the design allows the simultaneous movement of the robot and lift using PLC controls. The conveyor line delivers the body onto the lift via power rollers. The lift then lowers the body onto locating pads and continues its downward motion leaving room for the robot to weld the body. Once welding is complete, the lift raises and picks up the body which is then transferred to the conveyor belt.


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The dual planets of Venice are the combined capitol planets of the The Police State of Venice.
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Location: Barely outside the Akkadian sphere of influence
Type: Water world connected by floating highways called "Canals"
Size: large X2
Resources: Large amount of fish, illicit technology, and mafiosi
Controlled by: The Police State of Venice
Inhabitants: Humans, Squidheads, Fish
The Dual Planets of Venice were merely a pair of synchronized orbiting water planets near the center of the Roman Quadrent, they were two unassuming colony worlds through most of Roman Expansion. At the height of their decadence and corruption, they took upon themselves a project of connecting the two with a giant Space Elevator. The overseer of the project, a Senator named William, began a rebellion with the help of several conspirators, using the Space Elevator as their base of operations. After I highly successful campaign of conquest, almost all of the military power and former territories of Old Roma had fallen under the control of Doge William and his advisers.
The Planets are mainly water covered, with the few islands having massive floating cities stemming from them. These cities are connected by floating super-highways called "Canals", which are based on old sea routes from ancient times.
Places of interest
The Cathedral of Syndicate Ascension The Mega-Space Elevator that connects the two planets. The Eye of The Storm The combination of a Capitol City, Fortress, and Palace for the Doge, it is at the center of the Cathedral, where both ways are up.


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This week we celebrate the one-year anniversary of enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: a law that righted a terrible Supreme Court decision and set the stage for the next fair pay law we need -- the Paycheck Fairness Act.
In a recent speech before the staff of the U.S. Department of Labor, First Lady Michelle Obama emphasized the Obama administration's support for the Healthy Families Act and other work and family policies.
So, what's wrong with the workplace wellness programs included in the Senate's health care reform bill? That's a fair question, and one you may have asked yourself if you saw some of the recent coverage of the issue.
If you haven't seen the latest episodes of Desperate Housewives, you have missed more than just the usual melodrama swirling around the residents of Wisteria Lane. A new storyline may be all-too-familiar to many viewers — a woman facing pregnancy discrimination on the job.
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(Jim Thorpe) -- The surviving sons of American Indian athlete Jim Thorpe have long fought to get the remains of their father moved from the Pennsylvania town named for him to tribal lands in Oklahoma, where he was born.
They recently won a crucial legal victory that put them close to their goal.
But Jim Thorpe isn't letting its Olympian namesake go without a fight. Residents and business owners are helping to raise money for the town's appeal, saying they have honored, appreciated and respected a man long considered one of the 20th century's best athletes.
Gift shop owner Anne Marie Fitzpatrick keeps a donation jar on the counter that says ``Keep Jim Thorpe in Jim Thorpe.'' She says the town is proud of its connection to the man.
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After a week of hard-core SQL Server saturation at last week's Windows DNA Readiness Conference in Denver, you'd think I'd have a zillion things to talk about, but my brain is fried from information overload. I'll need several weeks and many late-night sessions with my conference DVD before I begin to absorb all the new information.
Microsoft developers and program managers presented 91 sessions over the conference's 4 days, and I attended 15 of them. What about the 76 sessions I didn't get to? Normally, I'd be mad at missing out on so much great material, but I don't care this time. Why not? Because for the first time that I'm aware of, Microsoft is sending attendees all conference session content in PowerPoint format and as NetShows (full audio/video DVD). Attending a conference is much more pleasant when you don't have to scribble furiously to capture every word of your favorite presentations. And you don't have to pull out your hair in angst when two killer sessions are offered at the same time. I hope Microsoft receives enough praise about the DVD offering that it provides the same benefit at all future conferences. When such practices become the norm, even third-party conference companies will follow suit, and the world will become a much better place for geeks.
Note that the DVDs won't ship for about 60 days. I also understand that Microsoft plans to ship all of the NetShows along with the SQL Server 2000 beta 2 CD and post them on the Web. I'll let you know how to find this valuable information when it becomes public.
Although my brain is still spinning, I came away from the conference with two key thoughts. First, speaker after speaker stressed RAS as a common theme, and this time we're not talking Remote Access Server. RAS stands for reliability, availability, and scalability—the keys to SQL Server's acceptance as an enterprise-class database platform. Does SQL Server 2000 have the RAS pedigree to be a serious contender? Can SQL Server 2000 provide two or three "nines" of availability? Will Microsoft vanquish its Oracle and DB2 foes? Time will tell. But in some ways, the perception of whether Microsoft can deliver RAS is more important than the reality. I'm convinced that Microsoft can deliver the goods when it comes to SQL Server RAS, but Microsoft must convince you as well. Expect Microsoft to focus its formidable marketing engine on this topic, serving up RAS case study after case study. At the same time, expect other database vendors to poke as many holes as possible in SQL Server's RAS story. Ultimately, you'll make the call, but you'd be foolish to bypass SQL Server 2000 for ultra-high-end enterprise consideration just because "it didn't used to be" competitive in that market.
The second key thought? SQL Server's data mining enhancements showcased at the conference were incredibly, amazingly, and indescribably cool. I'm reminded of a line from the movie The Graduate: "Plastics." Data mining is the future of value-added database technology. I'll explain why in an upcoming issue.
In the meantime, check out two new white papers on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) SQL Server Developer site:
- Microsoft SQL Server Query Processor Internals and Architecture
- Microsoft SQL Server MegaServers: Achieving Software Scale-Out
Kalen Delaney and Hal Berenson cowrote the query processor paper. As most of you know, Kalen wrote Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and is a columnist for SQL Server Magazine; Hal is part of the brain trust responsible for the relational engine within the SQL Server development team. The MegaServer white paper drills down into key features used to achieve the stunning TPC-C numbers Microsoft announced two weeks ago. Both are must-reads.


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LONG BEACH >> The Long Beach Comic and Horror Convention helped thousands of fans celebrate the Day of the Doctor on Saturday by streaming the 50th anniversary episode of the BBC's wildly popular show "Doctor Who" on the opening day of the pop-culture event.
"We were going to come after the show, but when we found out they were going to have it here, we thought what better way to watch it than with a bunch of other people dressed up like the doctors and tardises and companions?" exclaimed Angie Rogan, who was dressed as the seventh doctor with his familiar, long, multicolored scarf.
Rogan and her friends were a little annoyed at the technical difficulties that arose during the simulcast but all in all said she had a good time.
Fans of the British television series, known as whovians, attended decked out as many of the 11 doctors, but the most popular at the convention were the 11th, 10th and fourth.
Doctor Who was well-represented at the convention and was a big seller.
"It's very popular and really cool," said Joey Andrade, owner of Pen 2 Paper Entertainment, a vendor at the event. Tardis cookie cutters garnered a lot of attention at the convention.
Andrade and his wife, Maria Andrade, have also written a children's book, "Elfbot," which was turned into an e-book featuring Jane Lynch, Mark Hamill, Jim Cummings and Kenny G as Elfbot.
Fans took the opportunity to meet their favorite artists, and many happily spent several minutes chatting with fans.
Hannah Nance, an artist for the Adventure Time comics, sketched fans' favorite Land of Ooo characters.
"I love to draw, and I think anyone who enjoys it should just continue to do what the love and keep at it," she advised young fans and artists looking to work in the industry.
The convention also helped spread the word about new comic artists, books and organizations like Prism Comics, a non-profit organization that has served as a vehicle to help promote gay comics.
"Sometimes the stereotypical gay is the ultra femme boy," said Long Beach artist Steven H. Garcia. "In my comics and a lot of the ones that Prism promotes, these are superheroes who happen to be gay."
Others used the convention as a way to cultivate a shared interest with loved ones.
"This is just a really great way to spend a Saturday with my kids doing something we love," said Brian Reed of Baldwin Park who brought his son and daughter to the event. "I have always loved comics, and ever since my kids were young we'd watch a lot of the cartoon shows that I did in high school like X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman. That whole Fox Kids line-up was great. Now they have The Justice League, Teen Titans and Superman, and we all just really like watching that stuff together. Here we can meet some of the people who help create their favorite shows and characters."
But almost as popular as the artists are the cosplayer, or costumed fans, that show up at nearly every convention. One of the most popular included a Loki that made many do a double-take as he walked the floor with Lady Thor.
"For a second I really thought it was Tom Hiddleston," squealed Rogan. "I nearly swooned to the floor."
While there were many members of the 501st Legion, an organization of Star Wars fan dedicated to the creation and display of Galactic Empire characters, there was one stormtrooper that really knew how to make an entrance.
Brashly standing out from his fellow troopers in red armor with Adidas logos on them and carrying a bright, red boom box blasting out Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith's "Walk this Way," the Hip Hop Stormtrooper even made two Long Beach police officers stop and smile.
"It's all about having a good time," said Victoria Paege, an actor and cosplayer who was dressed as Dr. Mrs. The Monarch from The Venture Bros. "It's great to see what people create."
The convention will continue today. Doors open at 10 a.m. and tickets can still be purchased at the door.
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When the LSU men's basketball team faces UC Irvine on Tuesday to continue its pre-Christmas road swing, the Tigers will find themselves coming off a loss for the first time during the young Johnny Jones era.
Jones said his team just needs to rebound.
Rebound from the setback? Of course.
But Jones will pay closer attention to how the Tigers hit the glass and secure missed shots.
"We have to make sure we're warriors on the boards," he said.
LSU entered Friday's game at Boise State having outrebounded five straight opponents since being clipped by UC Santa Barbara on the glass 41-40 in the season opener. The Tigers rank 20th nationally in rebounds at 41.7 per game, but Boise State pounded LSU underneath, securing a 44-27 edge on the boards en route to an 89-70 victory.
Now the Tigers (6-1) face a UC Irvine (5-6) outfit that averages 44.5 rebounds, which ranks fifth nationally.
"This will be a good game for us to see if we've gotten better in that area," Jones said.
Adam Folker, a 6-foot-9 center, and Will Davis II, a 6-8 forward, both average more than six rebounds, but UC Irvine's success on the glass is mainly a team-wide initiative, with three more Anteaters averaging more than four. That will make it all the more important for LSU big man Johnny O'Bryant to stay out of foul trouble.
O'Bryant played only 22 minutes against Boise State before fouling out with 8:58 to play. He finished with 15 points and five rebounds, snapping the sophomore's streak of three straight games with a double-double.
"We were disappointed in the type of fouls he picked up. It was unfortunate, but I think he's done a good job of playing good, solid defense," Jones said. "The fouls he picked up were on the offensive end, mostly away from the ball. Just some cheap things that happened."
Jones said he likely will reward freshman point guard Corban Collins, who came off the bench Friday to score a team-high 19 points, with his third start. Andre Stringer started the past two games at point as sophomore Anthony Hickey was punished for disciplinary issues.
Hickey played 13 second-half minutes Friday after being suspended for the game against Chattanooga last week. Jones said Hickey will play Tuesday, but he will continue to come off the bench.
"If he continues to make strides, he could be back in (a starting) role soon enough," Jones said.
"We've got to reward the guys who have done what they're supposed to be doing on a daily basis."
The Tigers, who left town Thursday for the first two legs of their three-game road swing, will return to campus Wednesday before hitting the road again to face Marquette on Saturday afternoon.


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My thoughts were that you could plug it into a TV at a hotel, for example. Although, yes carrying a keyboard and mouse around with you would be a bit of a problem (unless you had one of those roll-up or laser keyboards, which would be sub-optimal for gaming).
The said specs are too lacking.
And the RAM is unified - shared 8gb but ddr3. The latest graphics cards use is GDDR5,while by the end of 2013 ddr4 memory will become available.
The "7xxx series" graphics card is also way too general information. There are models of the 7000 series ranging in quite a large spectrum of performance and prices.
7450 can't even get Skyrim or Mass Effect 3 to 30fps on 1280x720p with everything been on lowest detail,while 7990 can play Crysis 3 at 60fps on 2560x1440p on ultra settings.
Buyers who have any knowledge of PC specs and do a market research before they buy,will hardly consider buying a machine without knowing exactly what it is capable of. I only see people with lots of money who don't do any research on products before they buy and just got to a shop and saw this looking like a piece of fashion to consider buying it.
They should make the specs more detailed and concrete,so people know what they are being told to buy.
I don't understand what everyone had been expecting. This is a pretty impressive rig for its size (granted we don't know its GPU yet). Alienware's M14x sells for $999 and the poor thing comes with a pitiful 6GB of RAM, a GT650M (not amazing by any stretch of imagination) and a mechanical hard drive. If I were to choose between the two, I'd probably go with the piston.
Damn, whoever put that video together is really confused and they're not helping to clarify anything.
First, they show footage of the Xi3 Piston, THEN they show an entirely different unit, the X5A Modular Computer, which looks exactly like the Piston except it's their low-end PC (the blue one).
The X5A (model X5A-5342US) is blue by default and has Display Port/DVI video out.
Even the website that user Dryk got his photo from incorrectly shows the cheaper, low-end Xi3 desktop model under the headline "Valve's own Steam Box prototype to start shipping by July". It's all very confusing.
I beg to differ, blue line is a pair of mechanical Samsung F3s in Raid 0, red line is a single Vertex 3.0. The Samsungs are clearly faster. Okay I've had to Raid the drives but it is in fact possible for mechanical drives to be faster than an SSD.
As for the Piston, if this in fact the fore runner to Steams own 'console' then it looks like that MS exec was right when he said that Valve proved to be no threat in the console market.
I'm always glad to see devices like this, because it means in a year to 18 months, we'll have much cheaper options available. I have no interest in it at that price point, but if a company wants to manufacture luxury gaming devices and they have customers lined up to buy them, I think that's great. The amount of connections on the back is just crazy, too. That's a seriously dense piece of hardware.
I imagine the actual, official 'Steambox' will be no more than half this price, at most, and marketed to people who don't want to be bothered with the admittedly easy task of just hooking a laptop or MPC up to your TV to achieve the same effect.
Way too expensive. You pretty much HAVE to get the 512G one since the other sizes are way too small. 2 grand for a computer that isn't basically a small super computer? I'll pass.
IDK, but isn't 250something MB/s in sequential read a bit subpar for SSD?
It's a two year old Sata 2 model and it seems to have gotten a bit slower than it was over the years. When it was brand new it was just about able to outpace the Mechanical HDs but it's gotten a bit slower with age. My Mobo only has Sata 2 ports so no point in going for a faster drive I am holding out to see what the Asus Raidr brings to the party.
Ooo, I agree on performance, but I've had two pc drives manufactured by Samsung go phhhhhht! Suddenly and without warning.
I was never going to look back but I had to revive the old drive they replaced.
At that price point, I'm not sure that last bit will hold true.
The M14x is a laptop. It's useable on its own. The Piston, on its own, is a paperweight. Its function is to be hooked up to a TV, a task for which size is almost always going to be irrelevant. Sure, it's more portable than a PS3 or whatever, but how big is the market of people who are hooking up their console of choice to a different TV every few days? And remember, if you don't also carry around a mouse and keyboard, it's still a paperweight.
Can someone tell me what the point of this was? Can't most modern computers be hooked up to a TV (assuming the TV has hi-def support) for use as a monitor? Why would someone need to buy a separate (and incredibly expensive) rig if they wanted to play Steam games on their TV? Also the tagline of "bridging the gap between PCs and Consoles" is kind of silly given that the original Xbox did exactly that in 2001. Heck, modern consoles are essentially gaming PCs with limited operating systems and no modularity.
Their website ( http://xi3.com/buy_now-piston.php ) clearly states "3.2Ghz Quad Core (R464)". The R464 is identical to the AMD A10-4600M.
Source: http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2012/2012052302_AMD_announced_embedded_R-Series_processors.html
It's not even a real Quad-core, but a 2-module "Trinity"-APU.
Unless the Xbox has some hidden ability to run PC games that nobody told me about, then no, it really didn't. I mean, sure, it's similar to a low-end PC hardware-wise, but that means nothing to the user.
The point of a competently-developed PC/console hybrid (i.e. definitely not the Piston) would be to combine the openness and power of a PC with the simplicity and price point of a console.
When the original Xbox first came out, that's what Microsoft was pitching it as, a then-modern gaming PC that could be plugged into your television. It's one of the reasons why so many PC/Mac titles (Halo, Morrowind) ended up on the Xbox.
It still strikes me as pointless though, as someone could buy a cheap PC, mod it and plug it into the TV. Or they could just buy a super gaming rig and plug that into their TV. The only way I could see a console/PC hybrid being made simpler (without stripping out modularity and becoming a console) is to redesign the internal components so that they can be easily swapped out for newer version (similar to a gaming cartridge).
Well, the idea of gaming on a laptop doesn't appeal very much to me (I hate the position of the keyboard relative to the screen)so I can definitely see what a portable desktop has to offer. Being able to bring my gaming along when visiting my family would be heaven!
Also, a keyboard and a mouse will easily fit a backpack or a suitcase, so it doesn't look like that much of a problem to me.
Yeah, if they stick an Nvidia Titan in that thing I'll consider it.
if you go for RAID, then you need to apply the same for the SSD(s).
So basically it's a $500 PC that you're paying $1000 for.
Marketing doesn't make something so. The Xbox is very purely a game console. The focus on porting is a positive trait, but it doesn't make it a PC.
A lot of people don't want to put in the effort to learn how to mod a PC, or what to look for in a good PC. They just want to buy a thing and play games on it.
That's fair. I'm sure this system is great for some people. I'm just not sure how big the "I want a portable PC, but not a laptop, and I don't mind lugging around a keyboard and mouse" market is.
Sure, the market for it is VERY niche, but my original comment was specifically about the pricing, which is pretty fair when compared to a laptop (and allowing for a little bit of overpricing due to the whole market pioneering thing)
EDIT: Also, it's not like carrying a mouse/keyboard is any more cumbersome than carrying a gaming laptop.
I need mechanical hard drive. I have 5 terabytes of storage, it's nearly full.
Sounds like Apples pricing model for adding more space. Seriously I can buy a 512GB SSD for $300 and they want us to pay $750?!
this isn't the valve steam box, the author is being very misleading to make the story more interesting, this is a form factor PC that's going to be utilizing the steam format, now does that just mean the big screen function or the whole kit i doesn't say.
and people in general need to get alot smarter about console costs. consoles are always sold at a loss the idea is they massively over charge per game bought to recoup that loss.
if i were to replicate my library on console my 2k high end gaming pc would be about 3-4k cheaper than a ps3/4
As to what the steambox or the range of products falling under the umbrella do or are no one knows yet we haven't seen one but i think its pretty unlikely they would go in competition of the current consoles, the loss leader console make it back on licences wont really work because steam box games will be 30 bucks more than the pc version.
i would expect valve to follow the same type of practice they always do my complete guess is something like buy the steambox for XXX and you get 100 games of your choice free. it fits their model accounts for their strength and would blow the competition out of the water price wise.
Alienware is a poor comparson choice
like apple they overcharge and under preform in terms of performance. You are better off comparing it to a high end dell,because they are the same thing(Dell owns AW),it's just cheaper and less LED's.
IMO this thing is gonna bomb hard unless they drop the price way down. At it's current price I just don't see a market for this.
Probably the best point in favor of this thing. It's crazy portable. I could see a few people getting a lot of use out of something so small
This is a pretty ridiculous screwup on these guy's part. I mean, seriously, expecting people too shell out a thousand bucks before they've even told us what sort of GPU the thing has?. It could have an Nvidia 8600 in it for all we know. Besides that, the thing is just overpriced as it is, I understand wanting too make a novelty top range mini-computer but this is not the way in my opinion.
Honestly? If I was involved in Esports or needed a portable computer for LAN events and such then the Piston here is going to do it's job.
However the question really is how exactly in the market is it going to fit for consumers regardless of your hobby towards video games or not.
I can see it working but I'm just having a hard to envisioning what audience is meant to go out and buy this aside from people who need a computer to bring to LAN events to which you would still need the keyboard and mouse and monitor. But hey better than carrying a rig that weighs 30lbs or more.
Without more detailed specs I don't think we can draw any conclusions on value for money.
There is a PC graphics card on the market right now that costs $1000 all on its own.
Yes it is. Mind you, some game developer allowed pre-orders on an unrevealed game recently, so go figure.
Exactly. The smaller you make a PC, the more expensive it gets.
Okay, so it's going to be about as expensive as a normal computer of the same specs. Erm... what was the point of this again?
I have 5.5 TB storage. My gaming partition is 300 GB and I really don't have a lot of stuff installed. Good luck gaming even with the 512 GB drive.
And 1000 for this... Really...
You were seriously expecting it to be smaller AND cheaper? Engineering isn't magic...
They are also far more reliable than solid state drives. I'd take reliability, low cost, and more storage over an (marginal) improvement of data transfer speed any day.
I can buy a more powerful PC for less. I can also do a lot more with that 1k PC than this Steam Box. Case in point
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227444 (It just might explode on you or be the wrong computer entirely, or be put together wrong, or anything else really, but shit, what do you want for 700 bucks?)
I do like the name though. It's powered by Steam and is called Piston, that's just perfect.
I think in this case it is the size of the object.
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This photo was just labeled "Mrs. George Pulskamp". My great-grandfather George Pulskamp is on the right, but I'm not sure who the older gentleman is on the left. I think my great-grandmother Mary Gast Pulskamp is the 3rd from the right in the back row. My grandmother Anna Lee and her twin sister Emma Lee are the 2nd and 3rd girls in the middle row.
I recognize the woman standing next to George from one of my mystery photos! I still don't know who she is, but at least I know now that she's connected to the Pulskamps. My grandmother was born in 1910, so I would guess this was taken sometime in the 1920s in Ohio.
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What a great group shot. A good reminder that I need to go and write names on my group photos!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Skip to comments.Iraq Documents Prove Saddam-Osama Relationship, Meanwhile Congress Bans Use of Jewish Bullets
Posted on 04/18/2006 3:38:54 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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Iraq Documents Prove Saddam-Osama Relationship, Meanwhile Congress Bans Use of Jewish Bullets April 18, 2006
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I got a note today from a friend who wanted to alert me to an interview given by Thomas Joscelyn, who is a blogger to FrontPageMagazine, David Horowitz's place, about the Iraqi intelligence documents now being combed through. It's all worth reading, but especially this part. "One document which describes Iraqi contacts with bin Laden himself also shows that Iraq was in contact with Dr. Muhammad al-Massari, the head of the Committee for Defense of Legitimate Rights." That's the CDLR. It's a known Al-Qaeda propaganda organ based in London. There's no dispute about it.
"The document indicates that the IIS was seeking to 'establish a nucleus of Saudi opposition in Iraq' and to 'use our relationship with [al-Massari] to serve our intelligence goals.' The document also notes that Iraq was attempting to arrange a visit for the al Qaeda ideologue to Baghdad. Again, we cant be certain what came of these contacts. Just recently, however, al-Massari confirmed that Saddam had joined forces with al Qaeda prior to the war. Al-Massari says that Saddam established contact with the 'Arab Afghans' who fled Afghanistan to northern Iraq in 2001 and that he funded their relocation to Iraq under the condition that they would not seek to undermine his regime. Upon their arrival, these Al-Qaeda terrorists were put in contact with Iraqi army personnel, who armed and funded them.
"Obviously, this paints a very different picture of prewar Iraq than many would like to see. Interestingly enough, the existence of this document was first reported by The New York Times in the summer of 2004, several weeks after the 9-11 Commission proclaimed that there was no operational relationship between Saddams Iraq and al Qaeda. For some reason, the Times decided to sit on the document while splashing the 9-11 Commissions conclusion on the front page." So now we wonder, do they give Pulitzers for deciding when all the news is fit to print as well?
Did you see those Pulitzer Prize winners? I'm not even going to go through it. Anybody who got a Pulitzer Prize for their Katrina coverage just mocks the whole Pulitzer Prize. Do you know how the Pulitzers came to be? Joseph Pulitzer was a yellow journalist. He was in the mold of William Randolph Hearst. The guy was not respected at all. He had one paper that was respected, St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was maligned, he was impugned, he was thought to be very unprofessional. He established the Pulitzers as a way of reestablishing his reputation and bringing his reputation up from where it was, and so now, not that that's relevant to anything today; it's just a little history lesson. By the way, I mentioned this Iraq story only because at the center of the get Rumsfeld and get Bush movement is that weapons of mass destruction weren't there and the prewar intelligence was all wrong, that we shouldn't even be in Iraq, we should be in Afghanistan bombing Tora Bora again à la John Kerry and therefore Bush squandered the opportunity to go after the war on terror and so forth. You go through these documents that we have found and the administration finally released, and there's eye dropping, jaw dropping evidence that there was all kinds of contacts, operational and otherwise, between Al-Qaeda and Saddam as far back as the mid-nineties. So you see the 9/11 Commission is the Bible on this, and the drive-by media has its action line, and whatever contradicts the action line is going to be purposefully ignored -- because we're not interested in facts or truth.
We've got an action line here and the action line is Bush gotta go, Bush started the war, Bush created terrorism, we're all in danger, we're all imperiled, and Bush is irresponsible, messianic complex, you can say whatever you want about it, you've heard it all and that's why we are in the process of going through all of this rigmarole. It's all based on lies, it's all based on a giant trap and we'll see how far they get with it. (story) "Israeli-made bullets bought by the U.S. Army to plug a shortfall should be used for training only, not to fight Muslim guerrillas in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. lawmakers told Army generals on Thursday. Since the Army has other stockpiled ammunition, 'by no means, under any circumstances should a round (from Israel) be utilized,' said Rep. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, the top Democrat on a House of Representatives Armed Services subcommittee with jurisdiction over land forces.
"The Army contracted with Israel Military Industries Ltd. in December for $70 million in small-caliber ammunition. The Israeli firm was one of only two worldwide that could meet U.S. technical specifications and delivery needs, said Brig. Gen. Paul Izzo, the Army's program executive officer for ammunition. The other was East Alton, Illinois-based Winchester Ammunition, which also received a $70 million contract. Although the Army should not have to worry about "political correctness," Abercrombie was making a valid point about the propaganda pitfalls of using Israeli rounds in the U.S.-declared war on terror, said Rep. Curt Weldon. 'There's a sensitivity that I think all of us recognize,' Weldon told the Army witnesses, including Maj. Gen. Buford Blount, who led the U.S. Third Infantry Division that captured Baghdad in April 2003. Blount, now the Army's assistant deputy chief of staff, said the Army had sufficient small caliber ammunition to conduct current operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. But taken together with training needs, the United States had strained its production facilities." So the bottom line here is that we are indeed imposing politically correct requirements on the fighting of a war. We cannot use -- what are these, Jewish bullets? We can't use small caliber ammo manufactured by an Israeli company because it's politically incorrect.
That will really make 'em mad out there. It might make the people that are trying to kill us, that blew us up on 9/11, yep, it might make 'em really mad and they're shooting back at us and what do you bet if they've got an Israeli bullet they'd use it, they didn't care as long as they could have it. So we can't use -- (Laughing.) The interesting thing here, folks, is understand how this happened. Congress tells the military what it can and can't do. So the next time something controversial comes up like Abu Ghraib or whatever, and the next time a bunch of congressional committees start grandstanding and act like they have nothing to do with it and they didn't know what was going on, understand they can micromanage all they want even to the extent of ordering commanders not to use Israeli, slash, I guess Jewish bullets against the Muslims because it would present a propaganda problem. For crying out loud. END TRANSCRIPT
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God I love Rush.
Rush needs to spend more time on the Docex project. There is not enough people invested in how important these documents are. I would bet half the people at Free Republic are clueless about what these documents contain. There probably more concerned about the news out of Aruba.
If I provided rifle ammo to the U.S. Army in Iraq, the bullets would be lubed with bacon grease.
Yep, I saw that. You can send a post to the admin mod and ask them to correct the title on an active post instead of reposting.
Or the Duke Lacrosse team.
Neil Abercrombie is Senator Inouye's water boy and still a 60s anti-war hippie. His role as Inouye's waterboy is even more revealed now that Time magazine has named Hawaii's junior Senator - Senator aKAKA - as one of the 5 worse Senators. aKAKA, elected to office by the people of Hawaii for 30 years and as a Senator for the past 16 years, is a nice, loveable guy but a lousy Senator.
Abercrombie can say anything and do anything without fear of not being reelected.
Jeez louise, talk about micromanaging.
What do you do just put Moderator in the send to box? then ask for the correction?
Put admin moderator in the box then ask them to correct whatever needs correcting. They usually get to it pretty quick.
That's pathetic. I guess we don't want to "offend" Islamic terrorists by shooting them with bullets made in Israel.
Fill the little, hollow points with lard.
Okay, fine, but who is Thomas Joscelyn and how does he know?
I would say the more activism there is on providing knowledge to this topic including 20 million listeners I say "all the better."
If we are going to win the war on terrorism we need to take away any propaganda assistance the drive by media happens to be giving to our enemy. We need to make relevant information of connections between Saddam and Al Qaeda supersede lowbrow news that even we as Republicans and Conservatives tend to generate even here. We as well as our liberal counterparts can improperly prioritize our news.
Yes, but what I'm asking is how Joscelyn gets the information.
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