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gedmatch.com is a website with tools for genealogy research. At gedmatch it is possible for Family Finder testers to go "deeper" in comparison of their autosomal test results to others. You also can compare your results to other gedmatch users who tested through 23AndMe. If you are willing to fuss around with a computer and a not-too-easy-to-use website, you can go further with your autosomal test results. In gedmatch tables I have seen people who may share ancestry with me as far back as 11 generations by gedmatch's calculation.
In addition, you can compare your uploaded data with others in the West Cork & Kerry ancestors project.
In my own case I think my match generation calculations are too generous, and should go back further. For example, I have a match who "should" be a third cousin according to FTDNA but we cannot even find a surname or geographic area in common, much less figure out how we are supposed to match. So if I see a match labeled, say 4.3 generations in gedmatch, I tend to think it is more like 6 or 7. But that is just my experience.
There are two files you need to download from FTDNA once you've logged in to your account:
1) Under Family Finder | Matches, at the bottom of the page it says "Download Raw Data." Download the CSV file. That is a file of your matches. The file will be named starting with your kit number, then "_Family_Finder_Matches_" then a date and then the file extension is CSV. e.g.
2) Under Family Finder | Download Raw Data, you want to download "Autosomal Raw Data." It is in GZIP (compressed) format. It will be very large, maybe 24 megabytes. The file will be named starting with your kit number, then "autosomal-o-results" and then the file extension will be .CSV.GZ. e.g.
3) You will need something like Windows Zip utility or gzip (decompress option) to unzip this file. After you decompress the file, the file extension will be CSV. e.g.
Now point your browser to gedmatch.com.
4) This page is to upload your large file of your autosomal DNA.
You need to fill in your email address, the donor name exactly as it appears in the FTDNA account, and the kit number. You can also add an alias if you wish to. There are more questions, then at the bottom of the screen on the left, click CHOOSE FILE to select on your hard drive your large autosomal results file. Then click UPLOAD on the bottom right. Be patient and wait for this to upload.
5) To upload your matches data, go to this page:
You answer some similar questions. Your Family Finder test was likely run on the Illumina chip so leave that selected. At the bottom left click CHOOSE FILE to select your matches file and then on the bottom right click UPLOAD.
Check to see if the download is succeeding. You will see error messages on the screen if it did not.
In that case, you may want to open the CSV file in a plain text editor and make sure that every field is surrounded by double quotes " ", then separated from adjacent fields by a comma. I have seen problems with this file before, however the last time I tried it there were no problems.
The field names are:
"Full Name","Match Date","Relationship Range","Suggested Relationship","Shared cM","Longest Block","Known Relationship","E-mail","Ancestral Surnames (Bolded names match your surnames)","notes".
6) This is entirely optional. In your FTDNA account there is a third file you can upload. Under Family Finder | Download Raw Data, save the file under X Chromosome Raw Data, which is in GZIP (compressed) format. I have seen only one of these files but after decompressing it the size was about 600K. You can upload that file here:
Note: FTDNA and other testing labs are still experimenting with this data to see what might be available through it. X chromosome data comes through fewer lines than the full-blown autosomal data, however because the contributing father's X chromosome does not recombine from his parents, in daughters his X chromosome will have survived a generation without recombining. I don't know what to make of gedmatch's interpretation of generations, to be honest. We have no information yet about this result.
7. You may also want to upload a GEDCOM file. You can do that here:
8. Once your data has been uploaded and you've been able to play with the triangulation tool a little, point your browser to the home page, click a link called Ancestor-Projects.Com. Then click Details where it says "West Cork/Kerry Ireland."
9. Email the contact person with your kit number and your GEDCOM ID number, if you uploaded your GEDCOM. Once the administrator accesses your data, you can compare your results with others in the West Cork/Kerry project.
Update: GEDMATCH has been upgraded and is back online, however Curtis has plans for further upgrades so please support him if you can.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Squeeze more juice out of your Family Finder DNA test
Posted by sb10 at 7:45 PM 0 comments
Sunday, August 26, 2012
O'Hourihane DNA Projects Announcement
The O'Hourihane DNA Projects have been launched.
The project home is at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~skibbgirl/HourihaneDNA/
Shortcut: http://tinyurl.com/HourihaneDNAProject
If you know people named some variation of Hourihane, Hanrahan, Horgan, Horrigan, Horan, or one of the myriad ways these names may be construed or misconstrued, please give them a nudge and send them our way. And if one of these names shows up in your ancestry, please come join us in this DNA study. In addition to Y-DNA tests, we are accepting A-DNA (i.e., Family Finder) tests for those of us who are not direct male descendants but otherwise have relatively recent ancestry of interest in our family trees.
The website contains the project background and goals; a distribution map of surnames of interest; direct links to surname forums; small collections of extracted genealogy records, and other goodies.
While the geographic area of interest is most of Munster plus Co. Galway, these names have been spotted in other counties so our geographic curiosity is already expanding.
The project is a 100% volunteer effort, and the administrator does not receive any compensation or commissions from testing laboratories.
In addition to the project home on Rootsweb, there is a sister site at: http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/ohourihane
At Family Tree DNA the project is at: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/hourihane/
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Rangers 5, Astros 4
Elvis Andrus had never stepped up to bat with a fifth infielder
staring in at him. He still knew exactly what he wanted to do when
it happened to him for the first time Wednesday night.
With the bases loaded and one out – and with Astros left fielder
Chris Carter moved in to play first base – Andrus sent a ball
soaring into left-center field for sacrifice fly that scored pinch
runner Adam Rosales and lifted the Texas Rangers over the Houston
Astros 5-4.
"It made it easier. You don't really have to hit it anywhere,
you just have to make sure you hit a fly ball," he said. "I had
to stay focused and stay sure of my swing. He threw me one high
enough and I was happy to be able to bring the run in and win the
It was the Rangers' major league-leading 40th comeback win of
the season and the fourth game-ending hit of Andrus' career.
The AL West-leading Rangers (74-53) moved a season-high 21 games
over .500 and hold a 2 1/2-game lead over the Oakland Athletics in
the division.
"We feel really cool in that situation and that's the kind of
games that are going to teach you a lot," Andrus said. "That's
the kind of games you're probably going to play in the
During a wild eighth inning, Rangers reliever Tanner Scheppers
gave up three hits, one walk, hit two batters and threw two wild
pitches to surrender the lead. But closer Joe Nathan (4-2) shut
down the Astros in the ninth to get the win.
The Texas pitching staff has allowed five runs or less in 20
consecutive games. But it looked dicey at times as both relief
pitchers Joakim Soria in the seventh and Jason Frasor in the eighth
came on with the bases loaded.
Only one of their combined six inherited runners scored.
"It's very comforting," Rangers manager Ron Washington said
about Soria and Frasor. "You can't say enough about experience,
and that's exactly what they have."
Chia-Jen Lo (0-1) took the loss for Houston, which was swept in
the series and has lost eight straight to the Rangers.
Scheppers allowed a hit to open the eighth and quickly erased it
by getting L.J. Hoes to ground into a double play. Then the bottom
fell out for the Texas right-hander.
Jose Altuve singled, advanced to third on the two wild pitches
and scored on Carter's bloop single to pull the Astros to 4-3.
Scheppers then hit Matt Dominguez on the left shoulder to load the
bases before throwing a pitch that glanced off Max Stassi's
shoulder and into his face, knocking his helmet to the ground.
Jason Castro scored to tie the game 4-4 and give Stassi – who
was clearly bleeding as he was led off the field – the first RBI of
his career. He was taken to a local hospital for further
"We will get a full report once they run all the tests,"
Astros Manager Bo Porter said after the game. "We don't have an
update right now but it was definitely a scary situation.
"That is a very painful way to get your first RBI."
Craig Gentry homered and scored three times for Texas, one on a
perfect squeeze bunt by Andrus in the seventh that gave Texas a 4-2
Castro homered and scored three runs for the Astros.
Texas starter Derek Holland pitched six-plus innings, leaving in
the seventh after giving up a single to Castro and consecutive
walks to load the bases with no outs. Soria came on in relief and
got Stassi to ground into a double play, scoring Castro to trim the
Astros' deficit to 3-2.
Holland gave up four hits and two earned runs while striking out
five and walking three.
Astros starter Erik Bedard pitched 4 1-3 innings, giving up two
earned runs on five hits with four walks.
NOTES: Rangers rookie RHP Nick Tepesch, on the DL since July 6
with right elbow inflammation, said he felt good after a bullpen
session. He expects to throw live BP on the team's road trip that
starts Friday. … LHP Travis Blackley will apparently stay in the
Texas rotation. "As of right now, he's going to get his next
start," manager Ron Washington said. Blackley threw 66 pitches
over four innings Tuesday night in place of injured Alexi Ogando.
The next turn for that spot is Monday night at Seattle. … In the
second, Bedard took an Adrian Beltre come-backer off the inside of
his right ankle, but he stayed in the game after being evaluated by
team trainers. In the seventh, Holland took a Jason Castro line
drive off his left forearm, but he also remained on the hill after
being examined. … Alex Rios stole second in the sixth inning,
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Regarding stolen firearms case
Jay Lee Hager, 21, of Auxvasse, was sentenced Friday to 58 months in prison involving his possession of more than 24 firearms and ammunition that had been stolen between August and September 2011 in Audrain County.
The following co-defendants were sentenced in November: Ashleigh Louise Jeffries, 28, Fulton, was sentenced to 36 months in prison; John David Branham, 31, Auxvasse, sentenced to 60 months in prison; Darrell Barnett Jr., sentenced to 36 months in prison, and Jackie Lee Clayton 33, of Kingdom City, to 12 months in prison. All appeared before United States Eastern District Judge Catherine D. Perry.
William Kirk, 36, of New Bloomfield and Michael Dunbar, 41, of Auxvasse, pleaded guilty and await sentencing later this month.
This case was investigated by the Audrain and Callaway County Sheriffs offices and the Prosecuting Attorneys for Audrain and Callaway counties. Assistant United States Attorney Tom Albus is handling the case for the U.S. Attorney's office.


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Eclipse Source Reference Headers
During 3.6, PDE introduced the Eclipse-SourceReferences header to bundle manifests. The header provides a list of SCMURLs that reference the source code associated with a binary bundle. PDE build has extensible support for generating headers and tooling in the IDE provides support to import projects into the workspace corresponding to binary bundles. Often a bundle has only one SCMURL associated with it. For example, following is a header included in the "org.eclipse.debug.ui" bundle from the 3.6 M7 build:
Eclipse-SourceReferences: scm:cvs:pserver:dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/eclipse:org.eclipse.debug.core;tag=v20100427
Importing Projects from CVS
The SCMURLs generated in the Eclipse SDK refer to projects in the Eclipse CVS repository. To import projects from CVS use PDE's import wizard (use the File > Import action and select Plug-in Development > Plug-ins and Fragments on the first page of the import wizard). For this example, we'll import from the active target platform. Choose the Projects from a repository radio button at the bottom of the wizard page and press Next.
All bundles with published SCMURLs will be available for importing. Select the bundles you want to import, and press Next. For this example, I have selected bundles related to the debug platform.
The last page of the wizard allows you to import the specific versions of the projects that were used in the build or from HEAD. For this example, I will choose HEAD. Pressing Finish imports the projects into the workspace.
Extensibility: Generating and Importing Source Reference Headers
PDE build optionally generates source reference headers during a build. This feature is turned on by specifying the following property:
generateSourceReferences = true
The headers themselves are generated by fetch factories. PDE build uses fetch factories to fetch source code from repositories (there is an org.eclipse.pde.build.fetchFactories extension point). Each repository (CVS, etc.), provides a specific implementation of an IFetchFactory. To include source reference headers a fetch factory must provide a KEY_SOURCE_REFERENCES property when parsing a map file entry, in the implementation of parseMapFileEntry(String, Properties, Map).
For example, the CVS fetch factory implementation sets a {key, value} pair in the map for each project being fetched, like:
{"sourceReferences", "Eclipse-SourceReferences: scm:cvs:pserver:dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/eclipse:org.eclipse.debug.core;tag=v20100427"}
PDE provides two new experimental / internal extension points to support import operations in the SDK:
- org.eclipse.pde.core.bundleImporters - A bundle importer is capable of creating a project in the workspace based on specific entries contained in a bundle manifest (implements org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.importing.provisional.IBundleImporterDelegate). A bundle importer is provided with the manifest (map of header value pairs) of each bundle. For each bundle that the importer supports, it creates and returns a bundle import description (org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.importing.provisional.BundleImportDescription).
- org.eclipse.pde.ui.bundleImportPages - A bundle import page provides a wizard page used in the Plug-in import wizard to configure settings for bundles to be imported by a bundle importer extension (implements org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.provisional.IBundeImportWizardPage). The page is provided with any bundle import descriptions associated with bundles the user has selected for import. The page can then modify/annotate/further restrict the bundle import descriptions. The resulting importing descriptions are passed to the bundle importer when finish is pressed.
Since the extension points are experimental for the 3.6 release, the interfaces implemented by the extensions are in the internal (non-API) namespace. The SDK provides implemtations of all three extensions for CVS. For example, the CVS bundle import page adds information to bundle import descriptions if the user decides to import from HEAD.


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Julian Castro on Running for President: Never Going to Happen
For those spinning visions of San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, the 37-year-old has this to say: Not so fast.
Castro, who made history by being the first Latino to deliver the keynote address for the Democratic National Convention, says he plans to be Mayor Castro for many, many years to come – even if there is now a #juliancastro2016 Twitter hashtag.
"I'm flattered," he said of the hashtag and the all that it implies, "But that's never going to happen."
"I'm the mayor of a city," he told Fox News Latino in an exclusive interview at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. "I want to be in San Antonio to make it an even greater city, if the voters will have me."
Castro said he did not depart from his written keynote speech, but one of the high points of the convention for him was listening to someone who did – often and at great length – former President Bill Clinton.
Clinton made numerous detours from his speech, and spoke nearly twice as long as he'd been scheduled. He ended up getting rave reviews, from longtime fans and political foes alike.
"Getting to hear the First Lady, getting to hear President Clinton, and having their words resonate with the American people, that was very moving [for me]. They did a great job."
Castro laughed when asked if he and his identical twin, Joaquin, a political success story in his own right, step in for each other and try to get by at times getting people to think one is the other.
Joaquin, who accompanied his brother to the convention and introduced him Tuesday night before he gave his much-anticipated keynote address, was frequently stopped by delegates and politicians and journalists who mistook him for his brother.
Julian Castro admitted to having played the twin-switching game in high school, but not in general.
He said the wedding ring gives the brothers away.
"He's not married yet," he said. "[Joaquin] also says that I'm not quite good looking enough to impersonate him."
And what about American's new sweetheart, his 3-year-old daughter, Carina? Before millions of transfixed viewers, the toddler famously twirled strands of her hair and looked this way and that as her father delivered the speech of his life (so far).
"Going into the speech, [Carina] knew that her dad was going to make a big speech," Castro said, "and she stole the show in the end."
But someday Castro hopes that the little girl who found the loopy convention hats and glittery outfits and bright lights and huge arena at many moments more attention-grabbing than her daddy will understand and feel proud of that historic moment.
"My hope is that when she's a little bit older, she's only 3 now, she'll really appreciate the moment when she was with her family [in an important national event] and that she stole the spotlight."
Finally, Castro had words of advice to young Latinos.
"Keep working hard. . .their dreams will come true if they work hard," he said. They must keep in mind "that the America we live in in 2012 is an America where all of our founding documents mean the same thing for them [as for other Americans]."
"Just as I was able to achieve my dreams," said the son of a civil rights activist, who raised her children as a single mother, and saw him and his brother go on to Ivy League schools, "if they work hard and they want to be an astronaut or they want to be a doctor or a teacher, they can achieve that."


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SOURCE: OCZ Technology Group, Inc.
January 23, 2013 08:00 ET
Senior Sales Executive Brings Solid-State Storage and Enterprise/OEM Sales Expertise to OCZ
Senior Sales Executive Brings Solid-State Storage and Enterprise/OEM Sales Expertise to OCZ
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - January 23, 2013) - OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced the appointment of Wayne B. Eisenberg as Senior Vice President of Global Sales. Eisenberg joins OCZ with over 20 years in sales management and a proven track record for growing corporate revenue and successfully transforming global businesses.He spent 16 years at SMART Modular Technologies, a developer of memory and solid-state storage subsystems, where he held various sales management positions including 9 years as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing Communications.
"We are very excited that Wayne has joined our team as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and believe that his drive, integrity and knowledge of solid-state storage will provide immediate benefits to our Company," said Ralph Schmitt, CEO of OCZ Technology. "As our Company continues to evolve, having this level of executive talent and proven track record for success will help us achieve the sales goals that we seek during this next phase of OCZ's growth."
Prior to joining OCZ, Eisenberg served as Vice President of Sales for Leyden Energy Inc, a developer of Lithium-ion-based energy storage solutions. Prior to his employment with SMART Modular, Eisenberg was an Area Sales Manager in the Computer Systems Division at Toshiba America selling portable computing products for the enterprise where he doubled business growth in this area. He also served as a District Manager for GRID Systems selling industrial portable computing solutions.
"Joining OCZ is a great opportunity for me as the Company is highly regarded for its extensive SSD portfolio for consumer and enterprise markets, as well as its industry-leading performance, and technological innovations," said Wayne B. Eisenberg. "I'm very excited to be part of this evolving Company and feel that we can propel the global sales operation to new heights, expand our enterprise and OEM footprint, and increase our overall market penetration throughout the world."
Eisenberg holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Journalism from California State University at Chico with a minor in Business Administration.
About OCZ Technology Group, Inc.Founded in 2002, San Jose, CA-based OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (OCZ) is a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of high-performance solid-state storage solutions and premium computer components. Offering a complete spectrum of solid-state drives (SSDs), OCZ provides SSDs in a variety of form factors and interfaces (i.e. PCIe, SAS and SATA) to address a wide range of client and enterprise applications. Having developed firmware and controller platforms, to virtualization and endurance extending technologies, the Company delivers vertically integrated solutions enabling transformational approaches to how digital data is captured, stored, accessed, analyzed and leveraged by customers. For more information, please visit: www.ocztechnology.com.
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About RBC > Media Newsroom > News Releases > RBC to announce first quarter results and host Annual Meeting in Calgary on February 28, 2013
TORONTO, February 14, 2013 - Royal Bank of Canada (RY on TSX and NYSE) will release its first quarter results for 2013 and host its Annual and Special Meeting of Common Shareholders on February 28, 2013.
Q1 2013 Results
Information related to RBC's first quarter financial results will be available at rbc.com/investorrelations. First quarter results are expected to be released at approximately 4:00 a.m. Mountain Standard Time (MST)/6:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST).
The conference call is scheduled for 7:00 am (MST)/9:00 a.m. (EST) and will feature a presentation by RBC executives followed by a question and answer period with analysts. An audiocast of the call is available on a listen-only basis at: rbc.com/investorrelations/ir_events_presentations.html or by telephone (416-360-2217 or 866-696-5910, passcode 1853457 followed by the number sign). Please call between 8:50 a.m. and 8:55 a.m. (EST).
Management's comments on results will be posted on RBC's website shortly following the call. A recording will be available by 5:00 p.m. (EST) on February 28, 2013 until May 30, 2013 at rbc.com/investorrelations/ir_quarterly.html or by telephone (905-694-9451 or 800-408-3053, passcode 3629188 followed by the number sign).
Annual and Special Meeting
RBC's Annual and Special Meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Calgary, Alberta and is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. MST /11:00 a.m. (EST). The event will be webcast live with video and audio, and will be available at rbc.com/investorrelations/ir_events_presentations.
Information related to the Annual and Special Meeting can
be found in RBC's Management
proxy circular at www.rbc.com/investorrelations/pdf/2013englishproxy.pdf.
Shareholder participation is very important to us and we encourage
shareholders to vote.
For further information, please contact:
Investor contact:
Lauren Hopkinson, Investor Relations, 416 955-2137
Media contacts:
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Andy Johns
The younger brother of famed Olympic Studios engineer Glyn Johns, Andy Johns has a list of clients as impressive as they come, both as an engineer and later a producer. After first starting out as a tape operator at Olympic Studios, Johns had moved on to working as Eddie Kramer's second engineer on classic recordings by Jimi Hendrix and many others by the time he turned nineteen. By the late 60's, Johns had the opportunity to work with the best of the British Rock bands such as Led Zeppelin, Humble Pie, and The Rolling Stones, to name a few. He is most well known for his incredible work on arguably two of the greatest masterpieces of the classic Rock era, Led Zeppelin's IV and Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones. In fact, during The Rolling Stones impressive hit streak from 1968-1973 and leading up to the completion of Exile on Main Street, Johns actually traveled with the band to the south of France, documenting the personal mayhem and manic creative spirit that resulted in the classic Exile on Main Street album.
Johns left London around 1975 and soon after, got to work on some successful projects with Rod Stewart and Eddie Money. Since moving to L.A. in the mid-'70s, Johns continued to be a much sought after engineer and producer, working on such hard rock projects as Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, which won a GRAMMY® for "Best Hard Rock Performance," as well as Joe Satriani's The Extremist. Most recently, he has been involved with projects by Steve Miller, Willie Nelson, and Godsmack's IV album, which debuted at number one and has been certified platinum. After 40 years in the business, Johns is still one of the best in the business and still strives to create those perfect musical moments where, as he says, "...the music [is] so good, it just takes everything away, and you feel quite happy. I don't care what happens to me later, this is ok… I'll live for this."


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The global financial crisis has provoked a profound and necessary questioning of the prevailing political and economic orthodoxy. So pervasive is this disillusionment with the current order that it is hard to find anyone prepared to defend it. Disorder is the new order; disequilibrium rules, and old assumptions no longer hold.
As Kuhn's theory might suggest, the rank contradictions of the current political-economic paradigm—gross inequality and massive environmental destruction—are so great that a new paradigm should emerge: a system of thought and method of political action that can address these ills, and indeed offer a better method of organizing and understanding human society.
As a diplomat in the British foreign service, I served deep inside one bastion of conventional politics—the world of international diplomacy. I helped propagate "top-down," government-dominated politics across the world, including in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo. I resigned because my government ignored available alternatives to violence and dissembled before the Iraq invasion (I had been Britain's Iraq expert at the UN Security Council). This breach triggered a deeper questioning of the way things are done. I concluded that top-down management was not working and that conventional political models, including representative democracy, were producing not stability but its opposite, an increasingly fractured society at home and around the globe and a perilously vulnerable environment.
In my former career, I saw how governments attempt to enforce order on a world that resists their methods. But complex systems, such as a world of billions of dynamic connections, cannot be frozen as if on a chessboard, intelligible and susceptible to step-by-step command and control. Indeed, governments by their own admission are less and less able to control the massive, heterogeneous forces now making our world: dramatic economic transformation, mass migration and climatic change.
Worse, and this helps explain the failure, these attempts exclude the people most affected—ordinary people. It has become clear that even in our supposedly iconic democracies, government decisions do not reflect the needs of everyone but rather those who enjoy privileged access: large corporations, the superwealthy, the elites—the 1 percent who benefit from this disorder, like the speculators who play volatile markets, companies that profit from the absence of price on environmental destruction and the cynical politicians who exploit the growing anxiety and disaffection with crude and atavistic certainties.
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A new politics is needed, and in the early weeks of Occupy Wall Street, I saw signs of its emergence. Some would see the Occupy protests as yet more evidence of disorder, not its solution. But to my jaded eye, the beacons pointing to a better method were bright indeed. At the UN Security Council and other diplomatic forums, I had taken part in high-stakes negotiations on everything from Iraqi WMDs to Palestine to the future of the Balkans. But the experience of hundreds of people listening to the voice of one—anyone!—through the "people's mic" moved me more than any of those worldly negotiations. This was a politics of the many, included at last, at least in the small square of Zuccotti Park, if not in our distant capitals. Here I saw true respect, not the pretend respect of diplomacy. Here I saw involving and passionate debate, not the childish antagonism of Internet debate or the partisan rancor of Washington. The crowd was gripped by an unfamiliar emotion, a shared sentiment that others were listening and that their decisions truly mattered.


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Mobile ads to pay for free texting
Cellphone owners look to ditch landline
Mobile phone users are being offered the chance to send text messages for free in return for viewing ads on their phones.
The service is due to be unveiled later this month with the firm behind it busy recruiting punters to take part in beta testing. Exactly how many free texts peoplewill receive depends entirely on how many advertisers are prepared to give away.
I-movo - a mobile marketing company whose clients include Nectar and All Bar One - has hooked up with mobile technology provider i-text to launch the service.
"In an industry where results are typically difficult to quantify, this system is set to provide some real benefits," said i-movo md David Tymm.
"It goes way beyond the traditional 'pay per click' models established by search engines to provide much greater measurability of all advertising success."
Elsewhere, research from Strategy Analytics found that one in five mobile users in Europe would consider ditching their landline altogether and stick instead with their cellphone.
One in five homes in Europe is already "mobile only", says the report, and cellcos should be encouraged that such a large numbers of punters would consider pulling the plug on their fixed line phone.
But the research found that those most likely to cut their ties with a fixed line operator were younger people - especially if the cost of calls fell to landline rates. Older peeps and those with families were more likely to plump for triple pay services.
"We found massive interest in the ability to call from home on your cellphone at landline rates, something both cellular operators and fixed-mobile operators can offer," said David Kerr, a VP at Strategy Analytics. ®


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As House republicans meet today in a private meeting to strategize on their approach to immigration reform, all eyes are watching and urging them to steer away from unpractical solutions and enact commonsense immigration reform.
The Wall Street Journal issued an opinion editorial today naming evangelicals as a critical group at risk of being "ignored" if House lets the bill die. The Journal writes:
The dumbest strategy is to follow the Steve King anti-immigration caucus and simply let the Senate bill die while further militarizing the border. This may please the loudest voices on talk radio, but it ignores the millions of evangelical Christians, Catholic conservatives, business owners and free-marketers who support reform. The GOP can support a true conservative opportunity society or become a party of closed minds and borders.
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WORCESTER� More than four years after she allegedly killed a pregnant friend, cut the fetus from the woman's womb and tried to pass the newborn off as her own, the murder trial for Julie Corey is about to get underway.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Thursday in Worcester Superior Court for Ms. Corey's trial in the slaying of 23-year-old Darlene Haynes, whose body was discovered July 27, 2009, in her apartment at 94 Southgate St. The victim was eight months pregnant when she was killed, and her fetus was missing when her body was discovered in a bedroom closet in the apartment.
When investigators overturned a mattress in the bedroom, the underside was soaked in blood. An autopsy determined that Ms. Haynes died from skull fractures caused by blunt force trauma, asphyxiation by strangulation with an electrical cord found wrapped around her neck and a 9-inch incision in her abdomen.
Ms. Corey, 39, of 3 Henry Terrace, was identified by investigators as the last person to be seen with Ms. Haynes. That was about 8 p.m. on July 23, 2009, when she allegedly gave Ms. Haynes a ride to a package store.
Two days after Ms. Haynes' body was found, Ms. Corey and her boyfriend, Alex Dion, were located by authorities in a homeless shelter in Plymouth, N.H. They had a newborn baby girl with them who was later determined through DNA testing to be the child of Ms. Haynes and her boyfriend, Roberto "Tito" Rodriguez.
Mr. Dion was not charged in the case.
The child, now 4 years old, lives with Mr. Rodriguez, according to prosecutors.
Ms. Corey's lawyers, Louis P. Aloise and Michael C. Wilcox, filed an unsuccessful motion two years ago seeking the dismissal of the murder and kidnapping charges against their client. The defense lawyers argued that there was no evidence linking Ms. Corey to Ms. Haynes' death.
Judge Janet Kenton-Walker, who will preside over the trial, denied the motion, finding that the evidence presented to the grand jury, when viewed in a light most favorable to the prosecution, was "substantial."
"Haynes was eight months pregnant with a baby girl when she was last seen alive with Corey. Fingerprint evidence suggests that, at some point after Corey and Haynes stopped at the package store, Corey had been in the bedroom where Haynes was found dead with her baby cut from her body," the judge wrote.
Investigators said Ms. Corey's fingerprint was found on one of two wine coolers Ms. Haynes had bought at the package store.
The judge referred to evidence that Ms.Corey had been telling her boyfriend and his family since late February 2009 that she was pregnant, but refused to allow Mr. Dion to accompany her to her doctor visits because, she said, she was afraid he would take the baby from her once it was born. Judge Kenton-Walker also made reference to evidence that Ms. Corey called her boyfriend about 10:30 p.m. July 23, 2009, to tell him her water had broken and she was going to the hospital in Framingham to deliver.
Metro West Hospital in Framingham and seven other area hospitals had no record of the birth, according to the judge's decision.
"A couple of hours after Corey was last seen with Haynes, Corey told others that she had just given birth to a baby girl. Her stories were riddled with contradictions that cast significant doubt not only on the circumstances of her supposed delivery, but also on whether she had been pregnant at all.
"DNA evidence established that Haynes was the mother of the baby girl that Corey claimed was her own," the judge said in her ruling.
Assistant District Attorneys Daniel J. Bennett and Elizabeth Brennan will prosecute the case. Opening statements by the lawyers are scheduled for Jan. 27 and it is anticipated that the trial could last two to three weeks.
Prosecutors are planning to drop the kidnapping charge against Ms. Corey as "duplicative," according to Timothy J. Connolly, a spokesman for District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr., and go forward only on the murder charge.
Judge Kenton-Walker heard several pre-trial motions last week. When asked after the hearing about Ms. Corey's defense, Mr. Aloise said, "The defense is she didn't do it. Others did it. She had nothing to do with the homicide at all."
Mr. Aloise did not dispute that Ms. Corey was found with Ms. Haynes' baby, but said she came into possession of the newborn "by lawful means." Ms. Corey, who has pleaded not guilty, remains in custody without bail.
Sixteen jurors, including four alternates, will be seated to hear the case.
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The Mazaka known as Massagetai to the Greeks are a fearsome tribe of nomads. Raiding deep into Median territory and eastern Balkh the Mazaka strike fear into the hearts of even the strongest men. Moving like lightning they come from the wilderness of the north to pillage and loot whatever they can find. Despite the wild differences in lifestyle the Mazaka were related to the Median and Persian Indo-Iranian family. However this blood tie is so long lost that it will not stop the searing arrows of the Mazaka from striking the heart of any Median citizen. The Median Empire lives in constant threat from these ferocious tribesmen.
But when not on campaign in the search for booty the Massagetae can lead the peaceful life of a nomadic herdsman, following the cattle and living on the open steppes with a freedom many city dwellers only dream of. Under the command of their stern Queen Tomyris the proud warriors are both gruesome to behold in battle but also serene to witness in peace. Their territory is harsh and unforgiving, with few settlements to bring in vast amounts of money. This is what will lead any confident commander to raid the rich southern lands and supplement his people with precious treasures.
The Mazaka fight the characteristic style of steppe warfare, which makes them hard to pin down in battle and engage on the usual terms. Swift horse archers can deal terrible damage to the enemy whilst luring them further out. Once exposed, the enemy fall prey to the thunderous charge of the Mazaka noble horse. Strong Spears and heavy armor make this wall of metal a fearsome sight. Whilst running rings around the enemy a good commander must remember not to get pinned down at any point.
The Mazaka stand proud in the harsh wilderness that surrounds and protects them. Would a foolish king dare risk his life in a hardy campaign against them? Or will the Mazaka rain a storm of arrows on the decadent southerners!


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Plaistow selectmen, town manager at odds over land purchase proposalBy ADAM SWIFT
Union Leader Correspondent
November 24. 2013 10:08PM
PLAISTOW — Some selectmen are concerned about the lines of communication with Town Manager Sean Fitzgerald over a proposal to buy four acres of private land as the home for the town's highway garage and salt shed.
For years, the town has been looking at a more suitable site for the garage and salt shed. Over the past year, the Plaistow First Committee has been looking at potential sites and solutions to the garage problem.
At a meeting earlier this week to discuss potential warrant articles for the March Town Election, Fitzgerald presented an article that would ask voters to raise and spend $100,000 for an as-yet unnamed parcel of land as a new site for the garage and shed.
Selectman Michelle Curran was among those board members that were less than pleased that Fitzgerald had drawn up the warrant article with little input from the board and before it got to hear a report from Plaistow First.
"I take offense at this," said Curran. "Not because it's not a great suggestion, but we've been talking for weeks about having Plaistow First coming in and having a presentation, and to have this show up now with just a blurb, it's not preparing us or giving us a presentation we've been promised for almost six months."
Fitzgerald noted that the warrant article is not finalized and is a placeholder while the town looks at a potentially suitable piece of property. He said the Plaistow First Committee has been involved in the process and added that he has been keeping selectmen up to date through emails.
Selectman John Sherman moved to defer action on approving the warrant article for inclusion on the Town Election ballot.
"I think it is appropriate when we are talking about this to know what parcel we are talking about," said Sherman.
Selectman Dan Poliquin agreed with Curran that the article should not have been brought forward the way it was.
Fitzgerald said he took responsibility for how the article was presented and added that Plaistow First has been working diligently to explore potential sites for the highway garage and salt shed throughout the town.
"I think the committee has done a great job, this is not about the committee," said Curran. "We haven't heard what the committee has to say, so it's hard to put a lot of stock in this."
Fitzgerald said he asked Plaistow First to give him several more weeks to negotiate with the landowner before the committee makes its presentation.
"Maybe you should be coming to us to see if we even want you to negotiate," said Poliquin.
Curran said she wasn't surprised by how the information came forward.
"It just would be nice if the board had a conversation before actions take place," she said. "When the ball is rolling to this point, you are in a position where you force your hand to go one way or the other because you have not presented all the information. We are just being given one option packaged and tied."


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I've been trying to write a script that checks the cost of all six tiny plastic sword drinks, then overdrinks one for me. Ideally, I'll like to run through an array of the six drinks finding their costs, then find the largest one and drink it. I don't seem to be able to do that - I've read the bits about maps, including 'A Noobs Guide to Maps', but I'm getting nowhere. I've trawled through a variety of scripts looking for parts where maps are defined, and I still don't seem to be able to work it out. Rest assured I've not given up after two minutes and registered an account for an easy ride - I really am completely stuck.
You'll see how stuck I am when I reveal that I've resorted to the following, totally inelegant hash-job, which won't even drink the thing at the end because I seem to be passing back a string instead of an item or something, so putting overdrink(1, drink) doesn't work. Any help at all would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
Code:void main() { int cherryCost = mall_price($item[cherry]); int jumboOliveCost = mall_price($item[jumbo olive]); int limeCost = mall_price($item[lime]); int dirtyMartiniCost = mall_price($item[dry martini]) + jumboOliveCost; int vesperCost = mall_price($item[dry vodka martini]) + jumboOliveCost; int sangriaDelDiabloCost = mall_price($item[sangria]) + cherryCost; int cherryBombCost = mall_price($item[old-fashioned]) + cherryCost; int bodyslamCost = mall_price($item[tequila with training wheels]) + limeCost; int grogtiniCost = mall_price($item[grog]) + limeCost; int currentCost = dirtyMartiniCost; string drink = "Dirty Martini"; if (vesperCost <= dirtyMartiniCost) { currentCost = vesperCost; drink = "Vesper"; } if (sangriaDelDiabloCost <= vesperCost) { currentCost = sangriaDelDiabloCost; drink = "Sangria Del Diablo"; } if (cherryBombCost <= sangriaDelDiabloCost) { currentCost = cherryBombCost; drink = "Cherry Bomb"; } if (bodyslamCost <= cherryBombCost) { currentCost = bodyslamCost; drink = "Bodyslam"; } if (grogtiniCost <= bodyslamCost) { currentCost = grogtiniCost; drink = "Grogtini"; } print ("Buy a " + drink + " for " + currentCost); }


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Canine Partners of the Rockies breeds help for the disabled
Sometimes Frank falls and is unable to get up. In the past if Frank's cell phone happened to land out of reach, he's had to wait until his wife came home to help him up. Frank's service dog was taught to retrieve the phone and give it to him so he can get help.
But, after being together for over a year, Frank's service dog figured out another solution. The dog wedges himself between Frank and the floor to raise Frank's torso and get him in a sitting or kneeling position. From there Frank is able to brace on his dog and a stable object to get off the floor.
After going to bed with the help of her aides, Nicole is by herself. Due to her mobility limitations she cannot move the covers on or off herself. She would often get hot or cold and not be able to do anything about it.
Her service dog can. The dog was taught to turn the ceiling fan on and off as well as pull the bed covers up or down, which makes for a much more pleasant night.
Canine Parners of the Rockies has helped create such scenes since its founding in 2002. It has placed 34 dogs and training for the 35th placement starts later this month.
The organization prepares dogs to help people with motion-limiting conditions such as cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. It also provides therapy dogs that help professionals deliver therapeutic services to people with disabilities.
There's one more benefit, says Joanne Cole, development director.
"When people encounter someone in a wheelchair they tend to look away," Cole says. "People in chairs are often emotionally isolated. The dogs break down the barriers."
The Aurora-based group does things a little differently than other service dog groups, which typically train homeless shelter dogs for service.
Canine Partners breeds its own dogs. Cole says she doesn't know of another group that does that.
"(Our) intentional breeding means puppies come from parents who are known for their intelligence, reliability, physical soundness and trainability,' Cole writes in a press release.
Canine Partners is reaching out to the public now because it has a new litter of pups and the organization is seeking volunteers to help train them.
Volunteer puppy raisers, who are supervised by a professional trainer, train the young puppies from about age 2 to 18 months. The raiser teaches manners and basic commands and introduces the puppy to a variety of social contexts.
Canine Partners provides full instruction, including weekly obedience classes, in space next to its Aurora office.
"While raising these dogs is a great commitment, the ultimate reward comes in the form of the final placement of the dog," says three-time puppy raiser Barb Cardell.
Anyone interested in volunteering should go to the website, www.caninepartnersoftherockies.org and fill out an online form.
Besides training, there are other volunteer opportunities available. (Information: the website or 303-364-9040.)
The time commitment is based on the volunteer opportunity. Puppy raisers give the most volunteer time. They raise a puppy for 18 to 20 months and attend weekly classes.
Puppy sitters have the same responsibilities as puppy raisers but without the same level of time commitment. Puppy sitting assignments can be anything from an afternoon to 5 weeks.
Cole says the preferred breed for service dogs are Golden and Labrador Retrievers.
"These are dogs with soft mouths that like to pick up things," she says. "They are consistent, solid and dependable. They just want to work for you."
The pups are donated to Canine Partners by breeders as a community service, Cole says.
Once a fully trained dog is turned over to a recipient, that's not the end of Canine Partners' involvement.
"We offer continued support for human and animal," Cole says. All animals go to recipients in Colorado.
Not all the intentionally bred dogs qualify to be service dogs, she says. Those that don't are adopted out, or fill roles such as bomb-sniffing or rescue dogs.
Animal tracks – Sunday's PARADE magazine (inserted in the Denver Post) includes an article featuring the Humane Society of Boulder Valley and its role in PetSmart Charities' Rescue Waggin' dog transfer program. In early October 2011, Boulder Humane received the 50,000th dog transported through this program since it began in 2004. Since joining the Rescue Waggin' program in 2007, Boulder Humane has taken in and found homes for 8,294 (nearly 17 percent) of the 50,000 dogs transferred. . . .
The Planet Dog Foundation, Planet Dog's non-profit arm, is awarding $68,580 in grants to 10 assistance dog, therapy dog and other canine service programs across the country. Freedom Service Dogs in Colorado is receiving a $7,500 grant to help them rescue more than 150 dogs within the next year and place more than 30 with a disabled partner.
http://www.freedomservicedogs.org . . .
Morris Animal Foundation offers a number of holiday shopping options that also help animals. These include: Holiday eCards, shopping at partners that donate a portion of the proceeds to the foundation, visiting the Morris Animal Foundation Marketplace, a one-stop shop for the animal, and sponsoring one of the founation's studies. Information:
November-December – The nonprofit arm of Banfield Pet Hospitals is holding a pet food drive for needy animals. For every time the company receives a "like" on its Facebook page in November and December, Pedigree Brand and Royal Canin will donate a pound of pet food. The drive is collaborating with a network of local partners. Information:
November 19 – J&T Feeds in West Greeley, 6380 W 10th Street and Saint Michael's Companion Animal Hospital are hosting their bi-monthly vaccine clinic from 9-noon. Information: www.jtfeeds.comor or
970.378.0240. No appointments are necessary.
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An entire future generation of Australians will benefit from a new dental scheme aimed at improving children's oral health, Greens senator Richard Di Natale says.
As parliamentary debate on Labor's proposed $4.1 billion scheme got underway on Monday night, Senator Di Natale said it was just the first step towards what he hoped would eventually be a universal dental health system.
Australia used to be a leader in children's oral health but had slipped to the point where the nation's young were suffering because of the cost of care, he said.
However, the current reforms would be the biggest in dental health in Australia's history.
The six-year package includes $2.7 billion for children aged two to 18, $1.3 billion for adults on low incomes and $225 million to expand services in outer metropolitan, regional and remote areas.
"For the first time, Australian families will be able to take out their Medicare card and get dental treatment for their children just like they do at the doctor," Senator Di Natale told the Senate.
"This focus on children is a good investment of the future dental health of the country."
The opposition has criticised the changes because they involve closing down a chronic dental disease scheme (CDDS) set up in 2007 by then health minister Tony Abbott, now the opposition leader.
Liberal senator Sean Edwards said the closure will leave thousands of people in pain and unable to get help for 19 months until the new scheme starts for adults.
He dismissed government claims that the scheme helped wealthy Australians receive cosmetic procedures at the taxpayers expense.
"The end of the chronic disease dental scheme would put the health of many older and lower income residents at risk," he said.
"80 per cent of patients under are concession card holders and they are being left stranded by this government."
He and fellow Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells also blasted the government scheme as being unfunded.
But Labor's Senator John Faulkner said the government's scheme will address the inequalities that had prevented thousands of low-income Australia's from receiving basic dental care.
"Unfortunately it is true that dental health in this country has been a luxury for the haves, and a dream for the have nots," he said.
"I am very pleased to speak in support of this important legislation which I believe will make that concern a thing of the past."
New investment in dental care was one of the main conditions on which the Greens pledged its support for Labor in forming a minority government.
Debate on the Dental Benefits Amendment Bill 2012 has adjourned.


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Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (UK - BD RB)
Marcus prefers the Major with purple hair and less CG but still enjoys GITS...
Ghost in the Shell 2.0, (which isn't the renaming of the sequel Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, but actually a reworking of the original Ghost in the Shell movie from 1995—slightly confusing choice of title I thought) tells the futuristic story of Major Motoko Kusanagi (Atsuko Tanaka) and the specialist team of Section 9 as they seek to discover the truth behind sinister brain hacker the 'Puppet Master'.
Told with as much philosophy about the human/cyborg condition as thriller style action sequences, Ghost in the Shell set a new standard in the anime global market and now with its status being celebrated the movie has had a digital makeover or 'remix' as it's being funkily labelled, with all new CG scenes, a more effective re-recorded soundtrack and of course a home on the new Blu-ray format.
I'll start by saying that despite being heavy into my Manga phase when this original movie hit, I was never a massive fan of Ghost in the Shell and didn't really get into its world of implants, USB connections and hacking until much later with the simply astonishing TV series Stand Alone Complex. I found the movie to be a hard world to penetrate unless you were willing to endure its many layers and dialogue heavy explanations and as the movie closes, I found myself wondering 'Is that it?'.
Jumping forward to the Stand Alone Complex TV show (and with my tastes in what I love about anime a few years evolved) I began to see the point in all this and just how much more Ghost in the Shell had to offer me. I now eat up all of the discussions about how human these not quite human characters' conditions are, even with their many upgrades and new bodies and use of the wonderful technology around them. I find this vision of the future one that feels totally plausible and even more than that, one I love hearing the many different view points from the characters and while we're on the subject of the characters, GITS has a whole host to love.
From Bato to Togusa I love every single one of the Section 9 team, but to get even gushier I'd probably go as far as to say that the Major has grown to be my favourite female character in all of sci-fi (bold words I know). She's deliciously bad-ass and a great lead character to follow through the franchise's evolution and while she's not as well depicted in this original GITS movie (maybe it's the lack of purple hair), she's really the key element of what makes it so interesting to me.
Re-visiting the first Ghost in the Shell movie after bathing in the world via the TV series for so long, I have to say that I enjoyed it more than I used to, even if it still feels like its keeping its audience at arm's length rather offering them a welcoming open hand. I still found the story to be over before it really gets started and compared with what came later with the franchise it's a little undercooked in regards to what it's trying to say.
In a hindsight respect, I love seeing how the technology used here has naturally evolved since this first glimpse into Section 9's world and just how well these characters were depicted from the get go. It shows a real sense of history on an artistic level and shows of a real dedication from everyone involved in the ever growing franchise. Of course there's another element to focus in on here. What makes this version 2.0 different from the run of the mill GITS?
Basically the overhaul makes a bit of a tragic mistake and one that you'll either love or hate. Much in tune with the likes of the E.T. special edition, it decides to CG overhaul some of the most memorable scenes and like with E.T. I personally don't think it's entirely worth it. For starters, the now classic money shot of GITS (the Major dropping off the roof and slipping into camouflage) has been completely 3D CG-overhauled, which essentially means it looks like a bad computer game cut away sequence in comparison to what it used to look like. Sadly these new 'remixed' scenes (which thankfully there ain't many of) stick out from the rest of the movies original 2D animation like a sore thumb and frankly I found it completely unsatisfying.
This 2.0 HD overhaul is certainly the best GITS has ever look, but at the same time I don't think it's the best it could look. The entire transfer is wonderfully clean while retaining the grimy, dark tone that it was always meant to have (with even a few scenes re-coloured for extra effect). Colours have never looked so vibrant and of course the new CG shots glow with wonderful computer generated sharpness.
The downside is that the image is often quite soft and while some of the time this is intentional or unavoidable due to some of those mid nineties techniques and their limitations, a lot of the time it dates the movie's look somewhat (especially when compared with GITS 2: Innocence or some of the work in GITS: SAC).
Overall I was impressed with this new HD transfer but far from blown away. The artwork on show here has never looked so good, with much of the city street work looking exquisite, the attention to technological detail captured wonderfully and the animators work glowing off of the screen (even in those irritating CG additions). I just feel like there's still room for improvement.
I'll jump straight to the point here. The new 6.1 DTS ES tracks here are a hell of an upgrade. For starters the newly recorded score is crystal clear, dynamic, full of power and the clarity in the choirs chants utilise the surrounds with impressive results.
As for the sound effects, it's here that the real differences in the 2.0 remix shine. The car drive bys are thoroughly effective with cars disappearing off behind you as they shoot by. Small whirrs and digital blips of machinery fill quieter scenes and most impressively the gunfire on offer here is fantastic.
Every single piece of artillery used here sounds incredible. From the Uzi gunfire of the escaping hacker, through to the shootout between the Major and the tank in the closing scenes, it all punches with a grand amount of bass and great realistic clarity.
Dialogue wise, it's not quite as impressive and in all honesty doesn't really do much to call attention to itself. For the sake of this review, I attempted the English dub as an alternative to begin with and was floored by just how appalling that dub is. Not one character sounds how I'd image them sounding (with the Major being the most underwhelming). Also as a side note and something I discovered while trying to switch back to the far superior Japanese dub. For those who watch the English dub with subtitles on, beware! The subtitles hardly ever match with what's being said and it all seemed a little weird.
Well thankfully the original version of GITS is included on the disc, though while in 1080i it looks exactly like the old DVD transfer. Dirty, soft and a world away from the 2.0 remix.
'The Making of: Production Report'(26:40 SD) is the old American making of that treats newcomers to anime like idiots and explains every one of the animation processes like an episode of Sesame Street (is it obvious that I never liked this extra feature?).
The theatrical trailer (01:44 SD) is a bit of joke, selling the movie as a roller coaster ride of action with a silly voice over and then all that's left is the text based extras (Creator Bios, Character Profiles and the Glossary) which have interesting facts and details but are so painfully dull to look at that spending time with them isn't that welcoming.
Oh and just to highlight a niggle, there's nothing on these special features to show how, why and when this 2.0 remix was done, which is a little weak in my opinion.
Considering where this franchise has gone in the last few years, the original Ghost in the Shell feels more like a glimpse into the vast possibilities the world of Section 9 can offer as opposed to the ground breaker it was once considered by some.
The Blu-ray feels a little half assed affair and it's worth will really come down to how much you appreciate the subtle and indeed dramatic changes that have been made to the remix. From an objective point of view, everything looks and sounds better than it ever has but as a passing fan of the original movie I just couldn't warm to the all new CG shots. On top of that, the dull and frankly out of date features make this a title I can't really recommend because it just left me wanting much more from it.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page.
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So does this have the same English dub as the 1990s version or is this a new dub? Wish it had the English voice cast from the episodic version of Stand Alone Complex.
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To be honest I'm not too sure. The only copy I ever owned is the Korean DVD with no English dub (but plenty of features). Anyone out there in DVDactive reader land got the answer for this one?
Gabriel Member Join Date: June 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 106
Thanks for the review anyway, though. Was interesting to hear your thoughts. Pretty much agree with you about how SAC really showed the full potential of the concept! That said, I like to watch animation in my own language if possible, unless the dub is truly horrific (the first Akira dub and Ninja Scroll being prime examples!) so I'm interested to know what they've done this time. For a start, the sex of the Puppet Master's voice has changed in the Japanese version, apparently. I wonder if anything similar has been done to the English-language version.
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
I think it all comes down to what you heard in it first. I grew accoustomed to GIT SAC in Japanese and had real trouble accepting the UK dvd dubs as they seemed to miss the point a lot of the time. As for Akira, I can't watch it in anything but the original US dub. It might be because it was my gateway drug into Manga/anime and it struck a cord that has lasted for years but that original dub is the only way I can watch it and it still feels like the Akira I know and love. Other than picture and sound, I hated that re-dub for the DVD release, even if it's closer translation.
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It cannot be exactly the same dub as the previous (1.0) version because there are editing differences in the two versions. A second more here, two seconds less there...
Also, for some parts the music and effects have been redone. Sometimes to put more emphasis on a certain scene, but sometimes also out of necessity because of the aforementioned nips and tucks. It would be very odd if the English dub wouldn't reflect those changes.
However, it's possible that they just re-edited the old English dub (they'd have to otherwise there would be no synch in the sound) instead of recording a wholly new one. And hearing it being called "appalling" in this review makes me think this is indeed the case, as I have no love for the old English dub either.
Totally emotionless drivel...
Also, for some parts the music and effects have been redone. Sometimes to put more emphasis on a certain scene, but sometimes also out of necessity because of the aforementioned nips and tucks. It would be very odd if the English dub wouldn't reflect those changes.
However, it's possible that they just re-edited the old English dub (they'd have to otherwise there would be no synch in the sound) instead of recording a wholly new one. And hearing it being called "appalling" in this review makes me think this is indeed the case, as I have no love for the old English dub either.
Totally emotionless drivel...
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Release Date: 26th October 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS ES 6.1 English, PCM 2.0 English, DTS ES 6.1 Japanese, PCM 2.0 Japanese
Subtitles: English
Extras: Original Ghost in the Shell, Making of Ghost in the Shell: Production Report, Theatrical Trailer, Character Profiles , Creator Biographies, Glossary
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Director: Mamoru Oshii
Cast: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ôtsuka, Kôichi Yamadera
Genre: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi and Thriller
Length: 83 minutes
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|Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved friend and fellow laborer,
to the beloved Apphia, Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers,
But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.
For perhaps he departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him forever,
no longer as a slave but more than a slave--a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
If then you count me as a partner, receive him as you would me.
But if he has wronged you or owes anything, put that on my account.
I, Paul, am writing with my own hand. I will repay--not to mention to you that you owe me even your own self besides.
Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in the Lord.
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
But, meanwhile, also prepare a guest room for me, for I trust that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
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If you happen to surf over to C-SPAN when it is replaying the debate between Bernard-Henri Levy and Bill Kristol, you should keep the dial there. Levy is a leading French intellectual and he plays one to the hilt on tv. A reformed Marxist, Levy remains a man of the left in some ways, but he is also perhaps the leading French anti-anti-American. Most of all, he is an intellectual performance artist, if not a rock star.
Levy has written a book called American Vertigo in which he purports to follow in the footsteps of the great Alexis de Tocqueville in an attempt (in the words of his publisher) to "begin a new conversation about the meaning of America." Levy sampled a wide variety of Americana, ranging from an interview with Bill Kristol to a visit to a lap dance establishment. It is the former experience that led to his appearance with Kristol and Francis Fukuyama at Johns Hopkins University, where he presented his take on American neo-conservatism.
Levy began by commending the neo-cons for their refreshing embrace of democracy. He then moved on to his three main quarrels with neo-conservatism. First, he complained that the neo-cons have devoured the entire Bush administration menu — not just its defensible, democracy-centric foreign policy, but also opposition to abortions, defense of the death penalty, etc. ("when I go to my favoreete restaurante, I ordere a few courseizes, not zee entieyare menu").
Second, and along the same lines, he expressed astonishment that the neo-cons are so sympathetic to religion. As a professed admirer of Tocqueville, Levy had to admit that religion can play, and has played, a salutary role in American life. But, according to Levy, that was traditional religion — the kind that recognized the wonderful mystery of a God who both speaks to us and is silent; who is simultaneously imminent and transcendent (Levy was at his flamboyant best here). But in the American religion of today, "God eez with you when you arrr mowing zee lawn; ee speaks to you all zee time; ee eez yourr best buddie." Levy sees this form of religion as a threat to democracy.
Finally, Levy is concerned that, as ex-Marxists, the neo-cons still are Hegelians who believe in historical inevitability. Instead of the pre-ordained triumph of the workers and of Communism, they believe in the pre-ordained triumph of democracy.
Levy's critique is basically a seductive recitation of certain familiar talking points of the American left. The seduction lies precisely in the ways in which his presentation differs from the American left's — the lack of overt animosity, the philosophical references, the wit, the charm.
Kristol, of course, was not seduced. Dry and somewhat deadpan, he presented himself as the anti-Levi, even disavowing any status as an intellectual. And he easily punctured each of the Frenchman's constructs. First, he has not ordered from the entire Bush menu, and to the extent he agrees with Bush on issues like abortion and the death penalty, he formulated these positions decades ago, when Bush was still carousing at Harvard Business School. Second, the religion Tocqueville observed, and found helpful, was not the philosophical Christianity in which Levy finds merit; it was largely the revival-meeting style version that has Levy so worried. Third, Krisol was never a Marxist and he does not think that democracy inevitably will prevail. He just thinks democracy has certain important advantages over its alternatives, and thus he's optimistic over the long-term.
Wittgenstein said that philosophy is like a ladder. It enables us to climb, but after we've reached the top we can throw the ladder away. Here, it was more a case of Kristol knocking Levy off the ladder.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Caesars Entertainment Corp. says it plans to replace Las Vegas' shuttered Bill's Gamblin' Hall & Saloon in the spring with a swanky 188-room hotel renamed the Cromwell.
The Old West-style casino closed last year and was to open as the Gansevoort, but Caesars ended its relationship with the Gansevoort Hotel Group in the fall after the state of Massachusetts questioned the partnership.
The Cromwell, located in the heart of the Strip, is expected to have a subtle Parisian theme. It will include a rooftop pool and Drai's day and nightclubs. Caesars is calling it Las Vegas' first "luxury lifestyle boutique hotel."
Caesars had been a partner in a Massachusetts casino bid, but it withdrew in October after Massachusetts Gaming Commission staff raised concerns stemming from a background check.
A commission report, among other things, raised questions about Caesars' licensing agreement with a subsidiary of New York-based Gansevoort Hotel Group. The report said a Gansevoort investor has been under scrutiny, though not charged, over alleged ties to Russian organized crime.
The renovation of Bill's cost $185 million. Among other things, Caesars added hardwood floors, black and white tile shower walls, and plush seating to the hotel rooms.
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Most moviegoers don't notice what studio is behind any particular movie. We see the studio names flash on the screen in the opening credits and then they're gone. Even to avid film lovers, it's the movie that matters most. Sometimes the director, often the actors. But the studio for most people just isn't a piece of information worth retaining, if even worth noticing in the first place.
Over the last couple of decades, though, the name of one studio just refused to lurk beneath the surface. It kept hitting us film buffs again and again, flashing briefly on the screen before movie after movie. And not just on any movies, but those kinds of movies that you talk about with friends, and that stay with you for days afterwards. It just kept repeating itself with a sort of resonant frequency, powered by a host of amazingly talented new creative voices, the raw energy of doing things that were truly new, and a certain taste that defied definition or categorization. Movies that weren't just entertaining, but that seemed to truly matter.
That studio is Miramax. To anyone who really loves movies, the name Miramax matters.
If they didn't get you in the early days with Cinema Paradiso or My Left Foot, then they got you later with Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Clerks and Sling Blade … or The English Patient, Trainspotting, Good Will Hunting, and Amelie. Movies that mattered just kept coming with the Miramax name attached. And it wasn't just "serious" films that Miramax did well. They even managed to make genre films like Scary Movie and Scream break the mold for such films in a way that we just had to notice.
At Hulu, we spend a lot of time thinking about innovation and how to foster it. Apart from how much I love these movies themselves, that is another reason I have so much respect for Miramax. They innovated, and they were absolutely relentless about it for more than 30 years. So, I couldn't be more excited to announce today that Miramax films and more are coming to Hulu and the Hulu Plus subscription service. On Hulu Plus, 27 titles are available today, with hundreds more to be added steadily over the next month or so. For those of you who are Hulu Plus subscribers, enjoy playing Pulp Fiction and many other great Miramax films in HD today on your Internet-connected TV, phone, or iPad. If you're not a Hulu Plus subscriber, it's a great time to try the service free for a week. And, in addition to all these great movies being added to Hulu Plus, starting in mid-June, we'll be showcasing a selection of Miramax titles each month for free on the ad-supported Hulu service. This is the first time Miramax has made films available to movie fans on an ad-supported, on-demand streaming basis.
There are some films that give you a jolt the first time you see them. The really great ones hit you hard each time you watch. With moments like Uma Thurman and John Travolta's Batusi dance scene, Samuel L. Jackson's "Royale with Cheese" French lesson, and Christopher Walken's warped story about a watch, Pulp Fiction is one of those movies. Each time I see that film, I discover something new, another level of detail from the mind of Quentin Tarantino. Now that it's available on Hulu Plus, I plan to watch it yet again and see what comes to the surface this time. I hope you do the same: It plays as well today as it did the day it was released. A warm welcome to Vincent and Jules. Great to see you again.
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June 30. 2013 12:36AM
The biggest surprise in Saturday's CHaD East-West All-Star Game? It had to be how well each defense performed in the West's 13-7 overtime victory.The defenses were so dominant that University of New Hampshire-bound Ricky Holt - a defensive player from the losing team - received the Bo Dickson MVP Award. Holt, a defensive tackle who played at Portsmouth High School, made 8½ tackles, including a sack. He also blocked a field goal attempt as time expired.
"I knew (UNH coach) Sean McDonnell was here and I wanted to leave it out on the field to the best of my ability, and I think I did that," Holt said. "Thankfully he let me play in this."
The East completed 2 of its 5 pass attempts for 26 yards. The West recorded two sacks.
The West averaged 2.7 yards in 42 rushing attempts, and was held to 97 yards passing. The East had four sacks.
Nashua North linebacker/defensive end Deric Wagner recorded a game-high 10 tackles. The West received 9½ tackles from Bedford linebacker David Cannone and 7½ from Stevens linebacker C.J. Gosselin.
"We were a little undersized, but the kids really stuck in there on defense," West coach Jim Schubert said. "No. 71 (Holt) was by far the best player on the field. We couldn't handle him. He disrupted our three-step drop and our five-step drop so we had to start sprinting out in the third quarter.
"When you only have 10 days (to prepare) defense is always going to dominate. If you can look at film of a defense then that's different."
Two veteran high school and college coaches ran the defenses Saturday. Ken Sciacca was the East's defensive coordinator, and Paul Lavigne ran the West defense.
Sciacca, who ran a 40 defense, has coached at Salem, Trinity of Manchester, Manchester Memorial, Kennett and Haverhill, Mass. He also served as the defensive coordinator at UMass-Lowell.
Lavigne, who ran a 50 defense, coached at Stevens of Claremont, Milford, Manchester West, Manchester Memorial and Inter-Lakes of Meredith. He also coached at St. Anselm and Plymouth State.
"Two outstanding defensive coordinators - Paul Lavigne on their side, Kenny Sciacca on our side," East coach Bob Camirand said. "They had outstanding receivers and big-play capability."Each team punted six times.
"It was definitely a defensive game," West running back Connor Benjamin said. "Holt tackled me quite a bit today. He was all over. He played a great game. He's an outstanding player."
Entering the game Exeter's Logan Laurent seemed to give the East an edge in the kicking game, but Souhegan of Amherst's Tyler Ford was one of the West's unsung heroes because of his punting.
Ford punted six times for an average of 47.3 yards. He had one kick travel 74 yards, most of it in the air.
"In pregame my punts were OK, but they weren't going that far," Ford said. "Then when the game started the adrenaline kicked in and I started feeling it."
Laurent, who will kick at the University of Massachusetts, put one of his two kickoffs out of the end zone, but missed a 35-yard field goal. Laurent had a 35.7-yard average on six punt.
The West averaged 3.6 yards per play. The East averaged 3.5. ... According to CHaD officials, the game raised $301,500, which included $48,000 in in-kind donations (uniforms, food, etc.). ... This year's attendance was 1,591. A crowd of 1,202 attended last year's inaugural game.


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Just reading through your post again and notice that you have Vincent starting on 25/12/22 (Christmas day) !
You also show him as working in the Hendries Dept. Any idea what that might be as I can find no trace of what Hendries are.
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Colombian-born Willy Ramos, who lives and works in Valencia, Spain, paints large-scale works in oil paint that explore ideas of nature and celebrate color, rhythm, and light. With their loose, expressionistic brushstrokes, simplified forms, and explosions of bright color, his garden scenes look back to Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" studies with the added exuberance of Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse and the Fauves, while his lush nudes and sculptural female figures call to mind the Tahitian paintings of Paul Gauguin. In addition to his work as a painter, Ramos is a teacher at the Escuela Bellas Artes in San Carlos, where he himself studied.
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UPDATED: House approves medical marijuana billBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
March 20. 2013 9:32PM
CONCORD — After years of trying, proponents of medical marijuana received a boost Wednesday when the House voted overwhelmingly, 286-64, in support of establishing a New Hampshire program.
House Bill 573 allows the terminally and chronically ill or those with debilitating conditions to use marijuana to help relieve their conditions.
Proponents say this will help many people who now suffer needlessly because other medications fail to relieve them of the pain and suffering of terminal illnesses.
Rep. Donald "Ted" Wright, R-Tuftonborough, said his wife used marijuana to combat the side effects of a drug that essentially cured her of breast cancer.
She participated in a clinical trial and was told she would have to stop taking the drug, even though it was working, because the nausea and vomiting were causing her to lose too much weight.
She tried marijuana and it solved her problem instantly, Wright said. "This is a tightly crafted bill that will help those patients that really need it," Wright said.
'Drug-soaked culture'
But opponents, such as the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police and some medical officials, say legal medical marijuana is a problem for law enforcement officials, who have trouble distinguishing between recreational and medical users.
They also said debate on the subject tends to make the drug more acceptable and will lead to more widespread use of marijuana and other controlled drugs.
Rep. John Cebrowski, R-Bedford, said there are better drugs than marijuana to address side effects. He said the program would stretch law enforcement in the state and would encourage young people to use marijuana and other illegal drugs.
"I believe in compassionate care through good medicine, not bad medicine ... not home-grown deliveries," he said.
"America is currently a drug-soaked culture with both prescription and illegal drugs. This exacerbates the problem. I do not want to be part of the cultural and social disintegration of our state."
Tight controls
Rep. Stephen Schmidt, R-Wolfeboro, heads a sub-committee of the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee to revise the bill. He said the program would be the most tightly controlled in the country.
"This bill will only assist 600 to 800 patients; that is the universe we are talking about," Schmidt said "This will not be the California experience of a head shop on every corner."
He said the program is intended to help people who are in great pain, suffering from their diseases and not responding to traditional medicine.
The governor's position
Gov. Maggie Hassan has said she supports medical marijuana, but has not said what she would do with the current bill.
Her communications director, Marc Goldberg, said: "The governor believes any measure permitting the use of medically prescribed marijuana must ensure that the method of distribution is safe and tightly regulated and has concerns about the ability to properly regulate a home-grow option, but she will continue to listen to the concerns of advocates, law enforcement and legislators as the process moves forward."
After the vote, Matt Simon, a legislative analyst for the Marijuana Policy Project, said: "This overwhelming vote comes as a great relief to patients who have been waiting years to legally follow their doctors' advice. Patients should not have to live in fear of arrest in the 'Live Free or Die' state, and it's a great relief for them to see such strong, bipartisan support from the House."
Illness and symptoms
The bill lists illnesses that qualify, such as cancer, glaucoma, AIDS and hepatitis C, and the permissible conditions — such as significant weight loss, severe pain or wasting syndrome — for a patient to qualify for medical marijuana. Patients would have to have both the illness and symptoms.
Patients would be allowed to grow up to three marijuana plants and 12 seedlings or purchase up to six ounces of the drug at dispensaries.
But the bill does not protect patients who drive under the influence of the drug, nor does it protect anyone from prosecution under federal law.
The program would serve only New Hampshire residents; someone would have to be a doctor's patient for three months before he or she could qualify. Bill drafters say that would end the doctor-shopping other states have experienced.
The bill establishes an advisory committee to make a recommendation to the legislature if the program should continue after five years. The bill now goes to the Senate for action.
A similar bill passed the House and Senate last year, but was vetoed by former Gov. John Lynch.