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Nice drums look sweet if they are actually like that. Anyone know? I have not seen the actual drums yet.
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Joe Satriani - Musterion
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Happy Birthday Agozer. You are now offically a quarter of a century old. Have a good one.
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It was perhaps the first great advertising tracker purging system, and may have single-handedly redefined the public's notion of malware. Now, Ad-Aware is growing up, becoming more of a fully-fledged anti-virus product.
What it means to have "secure" computing, from the perspective of the consumer, is changing -- perhaps evolving -- as users perceive unwanted advertising and spam as a more directly pressing issue than malicious payloads. As a result, the different categories of "anti-malware" packages are continuing to merge, as evidenced this morning with the addition of anti-virus capabilities with the commercial editions of Ad-Aware.
For years one of FileForum's most popular downloads, Ad-Aware's free 2008 edition premieres this morning. And starting today, the key premiums for paying customers of Ad-Aware Plus and Pro editions ($26.95 and $39.95, respectively) will include general anti-virus capability, which will also encompass new rootkit detection features, and live scanning of incoming Web streams for Pro users.
In BetaNews tests this morning, we confirmed that the Free edition of Ad-Aware 2008 still contains the ability to automate scans for tracking components at system startup. Essentially, the executable file for the free and commercial editions (at least for the Plus edition, we believe) appears to be the same one, the difference being that paid users will enter their license numbers during installation, while free users will click the Use Free button instead.
The difference there may be only slightly shocking: One of the installation options that appears to be available even for Free users -- maintaining a constant scanner in the system tray, like a real anti-virus program -- forces the Free edition to respond later with a warning that the option isn't actually available.
Ad-Aware's Free 2008 edition, here seen in Windows XP SP3
The new front console is big and self-explanatory, unlike the comparably miniature panel of earlier versions. Though the capability to perform customized and scheduled scans appears to be present at first, they're really...well, they're ads, to be honest, and now you're aware of them. Those features are only available with paid licenses, which is fair if only a little...ironically annoying.
Although our initial tests only involved Ad-Aware Free 2008 on a relatively clean virtual XP SP3 system, we did notice the signature scan feature appeared to be faster than before. Deep scanning of the local system registry remains one of the slow features, as is scanning inside .CAB archive files, though the process still appears thorough.
This is great news and about time that it became more of a true anti-virus type of software.
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UPDATE
China's post-quake challenge: 5 million homeless
China is grappling with the next massive task in the aftermath of its earthquake — how to shelter the 5 million people left homeless.
Many were living Tuesday in tent cities like one at the base of Qianfo mountain in the disaster zone, offering some stability — along with food and medical care — to those whose lives were upended.
"After the quake, we couldn't sleep for five days. We were really, really afraid," said Chen Shigui, a weathered 55-year-old farmer who climbed for two days with his wife and injured father to reach the camp from their mountain village. "I felt relieved when we got here. It's much safer compared to my home."
But there's not enough room to go around.
The government issued an urgent appeal Tuesday for tents and brought in the first foreign teams of doctors and field hospitals, some of whom were swapping out with overseas search and rescue specialists.
The switch underscored a shift in the response to China's worst disaster in three decades from an emergency stage to one of recovery — and for many, enduring hardship.
On the second of a three-day national mourning period, the authoritarian government appeared to be moving to rein in the unusually free reporting it allowed in the disaster's first week. Most major newspapers carried near-identical photographs on their front pages of President Hu Jintao and other senior leaders with their heads bowed — a uniformity that is typical when state media censors direct coverage.
The May 12 earthquake's confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000, with at least 10,000 more deaths expected, and officials said more than 32,000 people were missing. The State Council, China's Cabinet, said 80 percent of the bodies found in Sichuan province had been either cremated or buried.
Authorities rushed to dispose of corpses, burning them or laying them side by side in pits. Vice Minister for Civil Affairs Jiang Li said officials had begun collecting DNA samples from bodies so their identities could be confirmed later.
Rescues — becoming more remarkable by the hour — continued on the eighth day since the quake, but the trickle of earlier days had slowed to a drip.
A 60-year-old woman was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed temple in the city of Pengzhou 195 hours after the quake, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Wang Youqun suffered only a hip fracture and bruises on her face during her eight days in the rubble, Hong Kong-based Phoenix Satellite Television reported, citing air force officer Xie Linglong.
Jiang said 5 million people were homeless and that the government was setting up temporary housing for victims unable to find shelter with relatives. He said nearly 280,000 tents had been shipped to the area and 700,000 more ordered and that factories were ramping up to meet demand. Sichuan's governor said 3 million tents were needed.
In this encampment in An Xian, hundreds of large blue tents dot the flat farmland where rice and barley are being grown. The dried furrows provide orderly markers, lining up the temporary shelters with military precision in the fairly tidy area the size of a football field.
Some 4,600 people are being housed here, 90 percent of them from the mountains around Chaping village, about 20 miles away, which remains cut off by road, said camp director Yang Jianxin.
"All these refugees have lost their homes — their clothes and possessions are buried," he said. "We are doing what we can to help them."
As he spoke, the ground rumbled with the latest of what he said were hundreds of aftershocks felt in the past week. Refugees nearby gasped, and some ran from their tents in confusion, before calm settled after the 10-second tremor.
The entire quake zone is jittery. The Sichuan Seismological Bureau, one day after triggering a panic in the provincial capital of Chengdu by issuing a public warning of major aftershocks, said in a statement Tuesday the city was not a high risk area and was strong enough to withstand big tremors.
In the An Xian camp, more people are expected to show up in the next few days as more survivors make their way down from the mountains, Yang said. Some 500 people are either dead or missing from the Chaping area's main town, which still has about 1,800 survivors living in the mountains, he said.
Many of them, like Chen, made the 10-hour-plus hike down from the mountains with only the clothes they were wearing.
"We didn't sleep until we got here," Chen said. "I carried my father on my back part of the way, and then others helped me carry him down."
The camp has a clinic, food distribution points, toilets, a trash dump, and even plans for a temporary school. A red banner reads "Love is all around. We never feel lonely."
A giant, colorful pile of donated clothing lies in one corner, and dozens of women looking through it. Men in red vests regularly sweep and clean the area. Another area is a donation drop-off for a stream of well-wishers.
Among them was Tan Xuqiong, a 36-year-old teacher with a shiny black Prada bag slung over her shoulder, who came with her 18-year-old son to drop off boxes of water, food, and medicine.
"My hometown was only slightly affected. When I see these people living like this, I think it's so miserable. The contrast is shocking," said Tan, who is from Deyang city.
Each person in the camp receives regular daily rations: three bottles of water, a package of instant noodles, bread, and some crackers. Families also received small radios and copies of the local Mianyang Daily newspaper.
Loudspeakers regularly blare announcements about hygiene and reminders to get daily health checks — a precaution against possible disease outbreaks.
The clinic is staffed by eight physicians and six nurses — all volunteers with China's Red Cross. Running from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., the medical staff sees about 1,000 patients a day, said Dr. Ye Mao, a 51-year-old orthopedic surgeon from Guangdong province.
"The biggest problem is the density of the camps. If an infection breaks out, it can spread very quickly," he said. No outbreaks have been reported.
After initially refusing foreign help, China is now allowing in medical and rescue teams. A Russian mobile hospital arrived Tuesday in the provincial capital of Chengdu, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said, and other medical teams were headed in from Taiwan, Germany, Italy and Japan.
The disaster has raised some sensitive issues for the government about building standards, especially for schools, and about whether authorities did enough to reach survivors quickly.
Xinhua reported Tuesday that 129 students and 10 teachers who were trapped in the village of Xu Yong were flown out two days after local officials said all outlying villages had been reached.
Chen, the farmer, said refugees in his camp are getting what they need to survive, and they are grateful for the help despite the crowded conditions. His family shares a tent with 10 other people.
His 46-year-old wife Liu Yingchun was wistful: "I still feel bad because I can't forget all the things we lost. I used half my life to get all this and then suddenly I've lost everything. I don't know if I can ever get back what I had."
It just gets worse and worse. I had no idea that this many are homeless. This country has a task on their hands. Would not want to be a leader there.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was forced to duck for cover during a talk he was giving at a university after an irate student stood up, shouted abuse and hurled three eggs at him.
The incident, which was captured on video, took place at Budapest's Corvinus University on Monday.
Ballmer had just began speaking when a man wearing a white shirt emblazoned with the hand-painted slogan: "Microsoft = Corruption", stood up and started shouting at the American visitor.
"Give back the money of the taxpayers!" he yelled, before launching three eggs at the stunned Microsoft boss.
Ballmer winced defensively as the first egg flew past him, hitting the whiteboard. He then ducked for cover behind the desk at the front of the lecture theatre as man - later identified as an IT student - let fly with two more eggs.
The student, who was sitting in the middle of the room, five rows from the front, then voluntarily left his seat and was escorted away.
Ballmer watched in stunned silence, a rare spectacle for a man who likes to cavort around the stage in a high animated fashion as he rams home his message.
But the usually unflappable Ballmer quickly regained his composure.
"It was a friendly disruption," he said, with a grin. "That broke my train of thought."
The attack is apparently being linked to controversy over Hungarian Government deals and tenders, which critics say favour Microsoft and lock out the competition.
At least Ballmer was able to dodge the missiles.
Ten years ago, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was attacked by two members of Belgium's notorious "entarteurs" or pie throwers, who evaded security and mashed four fresh cream tarts into his face.
Man after my fits with Vista I have felt like doing this to a Microsoft executive or two.
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AMD launched a new initiative today, dubbed AMD Game! (We will henceforth ignore the stupid exclamation point), that's intended to clarify which OEM PCs are and aren't built for gaming. AMD claims that 61 percent of Americans, 49 percent of Europeans, and 49 percent of Chinese (not all of them gold farmers) are at least interested in buying a gaming PC. Those customers, however, receive little to no guidance on how to properly evaluate any given system to establish its gaming capabilities. If AMD Game catches on with OEMs, that situation could soon change.
The program is divided into two subcategories: AMD Game and AMD Game Ultra. AMD Game Ultra is the highest tier, and requires that a system be built with the following minimum specifications:
* AMD Phenom 9600/9650 X4 (2.3GHz) processor
* 2GB PC-6400 (DDR2-800) RAM
* Radeon HD 3870 512MB video card
* Motherboard based on AMD 790FX/770 chipset
System components for the standard AMD Game tier are more relaxed, and allow for the use of an Athlon X2 5600+ (2.8GHz) and a Radeon HD 3650. 2GB of RAM is still required for both tiers, but the DDR2 in a non-Ultra AMD Game configuration can be PC-5400 (DDR2-667). Surprisingly, AMD's well-regarded 780G chipset makes no appearance here. When we inquired about its absence, AMD confirmed that current program requirements mandate the use of motherboards based on the 770 or 790FX chipsets, but noted that future boards based on a new spin of the 780G chipset might qualify.
AMD Game's component requirements are designed to maintain at least 30 FPS at 1280x1024, while AMD Game Ultra mandates the same 30 FPS at a resolution of 1600x1200. Unfortunately, AMD has yet to reveal individual game detail settings or information on how each game was tested. Hopefully such information will become available as the program continues; Sunnyvale has nothing to lose by revealing such data, provided the original testing conditions were properly rigorous and graphic detail settings in each game were applied as uniformly as is reasonably possible.
AMD expects to periodically update both the games it tests and the program's hardware requirements in order to keep the program relevant. Overall, the AMD Game program is impressive—it's definitely got both potential and a worthy goal—but the degree of OEM participation is currently low. Alienware, iBuyPower, Tiger Direct, and Cyberpower are the biggest names on AMD's list of partners, and that's something that would have to change in order for the company's initiative to have any chance of impacting the overall market.
The success or failure of AMD Game will depend on how carefully the company can balance three separate factors. First and foremost, the program needs to be attractive to OEMs. The problem here is that OEMs will inevitably push to qualify as many systems as possible, as cheaply as possible, which directly undermines the program's relevance and its ability to serve as a performance metric. AMD will also have to find a way to balance between the two forces in order to maintain a program that's both attractive to an OEM and meaningful to a gamer.
Last of all, there's the question of what hardware is even capable of qualifying for the program. Current AMD Game systems are built on AMD hardware, top-to-bottom. This, of course, makes perfect sense from the company's perspective, but it doesn't address the needs of OEMs who might be interested in the program, but aren't willing (or can't) commit to only using ATI video cards. AMD has already given a nod to this problem by certifying nForce 500-series chipsets, but has yet to release any information on GeForce cards that qualify for the new program.
There are still a huge number of points to be addressed, but it's good to see a major company tackling the complexity of what is or isn't a gaming PC in a comprehensive way. OEMs have never shown a sustained interest in solving the problem, as anyone who has ever browsed the specifications of a so-called "good for gaming" mainstream PC can attest, and many PC users who would like to purchase a desktop with at least some gaming capability have little in the way of readily-available guidance on how to do so. Hopefully, that's set to change, with AMD Game serving as a starting point for such evaluation programs.
AMD Game's component requirements are designed to maintain at least 30 FPS at 1280x1024, while AMD Game Ultra mandates the same 30 FPS at a resolution of 1600x1200. This seems good but wonder what the cost of a said machine will be.
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EA DICE announced early this year that it would be releasing a free, ad-subsidized version of its Battlefield franchise by summer. Sign-ups for the beta of this upcoming game have opened.
Battlefield: Heroes has drawn a lot of comparison to Team Fortress, taking what would otherwise be a serious game, and turning up the cartoon factor. The result is like if Pixar did a version of "The Longest Day." The story is ridiculous, and the characters are over-the-top.
Since the game will be free, it has been designed around monetization, much of the initial setup of the game must be done on EA DICE's Web Site, and it must be visited each time the user wishes to launch the game client. This, however, eliminates the need for in-game advertisement.
To sign up for the beta, click here.
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Terrorism may be unpopular, but speaking one's mind about the subject is free speech: That's the basis of a response this morning to one prominent US senator's call for YouTube to remove terrorist-oriented videos.
"While we respect and understand his views, YouTube encourages free speech and defends everyone's right to express unpopular points of view," answered the YouTube Team, after Google, the company that owns YouTube, received a letter from US Senator Joseph Lieberman (I - Conn.) asking for removal of all videos on YouTube produced by terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda.
"Islamist terrorist organizations use YouTube to disseminate their propaganda, enlist followers, and provide weapons training," the Senator wrote in his letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
"YouTube also, unwittingly, permits Islamist terrorist groups to maintain an active, pervasive, and amplified voice," according to Lieberman, who has previously supported other censorship initiatives around video games, movies, and other entertainment, and is Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
In a blog entry posted on both YouTube and Google, the YouTube Team responded by saying the members have looked at numerous videos pinpointed by Sen. Lieberman's staff as potentially violating YouTube's policies.
"We examined and ended up removing a number of videos from the site, primarily because the depicted gratuitous violence, advocated violence, or used hate speech," according to the blog entry.
However, most of the videos identified by the Senator's staff did not contain violent or hate speech content and "were not removed because they do not violate our Community Guidelines," wrote The YouTube Team.
Team members also noted that hundreds of thousands of videos are uploaded to YouTube every day.
"Because it is not possible to pre-screen this much content, we have developed an innovative and reliable community policy system that involves our users in helping us enforce YouTube's standards. Millions of users report potential violations of our Community Guidelines by selecting the 'Flag' link while watching videos."
According to Community Guideline policies, videos "flagged" by users are then reviewed by YouTube, YouTube staff determines whether to take down the flagged videos.
I can see this leading to censorship of more websites along the way if say a bill gets introduced and passed on something of this matter. All though I don't like what they post I am not against it either as long as it does not hurt someone.
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Fusa Build 41
Get it HERE
Change LogBUILD 41:
* UMD compatibility improved
* Every game now works fine while plugin is disabled
* Fullscreen mode # 1 added (Tested with SAMSUNG LCD 16:9 - works fin:) )
* No more crash on exit
Now it "works" with Iron Man, read README for more details!
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Happy Birthday Gryph. I will have 1, 2 , 3 mas tequila for you. Anyway hope you have a good one.
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First, those are a RAR archive library. Extract the first file, and you'll wind up with a file with the extension .gcm or .iso. (GCM is a disc image file, for Gamecube discs).
As for playing it on your PC, not happening buddy. Gamecube emulation hasn't progressed enough for that game to be playable on ANY PC.
uhmm i sit on a pc with 2 gb ram new nvidea videocrad.. and intel core 2 duo processor . i can play need for speed pro street on it stranglehold wow bioshock all things i want. my pc is not bad so i thoght i work out ..... is something in the future maybe for playing this game ... i mean it must give something... it cant be impossible
Well then unrar the files and you should have a iso file to load into emulator.
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You got to be kidding me...if not. Well all I got to say is.....smack.
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VisualBoyAdvance-M SVN515 is a Nintendo GBA and GB/GBC Emulator'
Get it HERE
Change LogQT:
Fixed up Qt4 project file
Started preliminary Qt4 directory dialog in options
Linux:
(new/changed functionality is mostly described in the new file doc/ReadMe.SDL.txt)
Reworked rewinds
More schemes for save/load keybindings
Savestate backups
Per-gamepad autofire (binds to a button on the real pad/keyboard)
Allow adding cheat codes from commandline
Allow adding IPS patch files from commandline
Fix bug in configuration for pad 4
Configurable default scaling of window size for openGL (when filter=0)
Assorted code cleanups (using DEFINEs instead of literals, factored-out chunks of code
from the big switch to functions, ...)
New switches for muting sound (CTRL+S), toggling cheats (CTRL-E)
Added timestamp to console messages
All messages go to console, even if they go to screen
Some messages no longer go to screen
Added new options:
Joy#_AutoA, Joy#_AutoB, openGLscale, saveKeysSwitch
Fixed maximum value for rewindTimer.
Win32/MFC
Updated about info
Added GBA_LOGGING for debug build
Added some fun.......
Credit and thanks goes to mudlord over at vba-m.ngemu
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Watched and liked it. Good job all the action/violence from the film. Best scene is gut slice in the end.
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Hello Kitty — Japan's ubiquitous ambassador of cute — has built up an impressive resume over the years. Global marketing phenom. Fashion diva. Pop culture icon. Now the moonfaced feline can add "government envoy" to the list. The tourism ministry on Monday named Hello Kitty as its choice to represent the country in China and Hong Kong, two places where she is wildly popular among kids and young women.
Officials hope that tapping into that fan base will lead to a bigger flow of tourists into Japan, and closer toward their goal of attracting 10 million overseas visitors every year under the "Visit Japan" campaign.
Last year the number of foreign tourists traveling to Japan hit a record high of 8.35 million, up 60 percent since the government began the marketing effort in 2003.
Arrivals from China and Hong Kong, who accounted for 16.5 percent of visitors to Japan last year, are poised this year to become the second-largest group of tourists after South Koreans.
At a press conference, Sanrio Co. President Shintaro Tsuji called Hello Kitty's new appointment "an honor" and pledged to "work hard to attract many visitors."
Japan's other goodwill tourism ambassadors include Korean singer Younha, Japanese actress Yoshino Kimura and Japanese pop/rock duo Puffy AmiYumi.
Although this is the first time the tourism ministry has tapped a fictional character for the role, the foreign ministry in March inaugurated blue robo-cat Doraemon as Japan's "anime ambassador."
Designed in 1974 by Sanrio, Hello Kitty first appeared on a plastic coin purse. Her image today has become one of the most powerful brands in the world, adorning some 50,000 products in 60 countries.
In China, Kitty-fever has already broken out.
A multi-million-dollar musical featuring Hello Kitty opened earlier this year in Beijing and is in the midst of a national tour. "Hello Kitty's Dream Light Fantasy" is then scheduled to travel to Malaysia, Singapore and the U.S. over its three-year run.
According to her official profile from Sanrio, Hello Kitty lives with her family in London. It does not mention how often she visits Japan.
Now I really can't wait to go to Japan.
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The highly anticipated game will launch first at its company store in New York City on Monday, and will roll out across its entire retail channel by Wednesday.
Wii Fit has already been a huge hit in Japan, where it launched over the last holiday season, selling 1.4 million units. Nintendo says it expects to sell three million copies here in the US.
Like the Wii console, Wii Fit will be hard to find. Many retailers are already sold out of their initial stocks, and some have completely sold out of their allocations through pre-orders, according to news reports.
Retailers are also heavily promoting the launch -- a full page of Best Buy's weekly circular was devoted to the product, and others like Circuit City are selling the device alongside promotions for related items and accessories.
The game, which comes with the Wii Balance Board, retails for $89.99 in the US. It is likely to become the next big hit of the year for Nintendo, following Super Smash Brothers: Brawl, and Mario Kart Wii. If it is as successful as retailers are expecting, it will become the first hit game designed around health and fitness.
The balance board is something of a variable pressure switch, able to detect movements such as leaning in different directions and crouching due to the shift it detects in weight disbursement. It connects wirelessly to the console.
Nintendo says it plans to tour the US and Canada over the next two months to promote the product, allowing consumers to get a first hand look at the game.
I have looked at this and thought about getting one, but with my big ass I would probably break the board.
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An American soldier has been disciplined and ordered from Iraq, the U.S. military said on Sunday, for using a copy of the Koran for target practice at a shooting range near Baghdad.
Such an act of desecration of the Muslim holy book could inflame anger against the U.S. military presence in Iraq, but an Iraqi community leader told Reuters an apology by senior American military commanders had helped calm tensions.
Saeed al-Zubaie, head of a U.S.-allied Sunni Arab tribal council in the area where the Koran was found, said the book had been used as target practice. It was peppered with 14 bullet holes and offensive language had been scrawled inside, he said.
"I was feeling bitterness, but as long as they apologized we are OK with them. Our anger has cooled," said Zubaie, adding that Sunni Arab tribal units who work alongside U.S. forces in the area had threatened to quit unless the military took action.
The U.S. television news network CNN said U.S. commanders were met by hundreds of protesters when they went to the village of Radwaniya near Baghdad to deliver the apology.
Colonel Bill Buckner, a U.S. military spokesman, said commanders were ordered to swiftly investigate after Iraqi police found the Koran on May 11 at a firing range in Radwaniya.
He described the incident as "serious and deeply troubling."
"Coalition commanders have briefed local leaders on the results of the investigation and expressed their deep regret," Buckner said in a statement.
"They have also undertaken disciplinary action against the soldier who was involved and he has been removed from Iraq."
Besides being shipped out of Iraq, it was not clear what other disciplinary action was being taken against the soldier.
CNN, which said it was present on Saturday when U.S. commanders made the apology in Radwaniya, said the soldier had been dismissed from his unit. His whereabouts were not immediately known.
In his statement, Buckner stressed that the U.S. military respected Islam and the Koran.
CNN said when Major-General Jeffery Hammond, the commander of U.S. troops in Baghdad, and other officers arrived to deliver the apology to local leaders in Radwaniya they were met by hundreds of protesting Sunni Arab tribesmen.
"I am a man of honor, I am a man of character. You have my word this will never happen again," Hammond told the crowd.
"In the most humble manner, I look into your eyes today and I say, please forgive me and my soldiers," CNN reported on its website.
It said Colonel Ted Martin, a brigade commander, held up a new copy of the Koran which he kissed and touched to his forehead as he handed it to the tribal elders.
"I hope that you'll accept this humble gift," Martin said.
Give me a flocking break. If this happened over here and say someone from Iran shot up a bible. Do you think we would make a big deal of it or call for a apology? Hell no, so he shot it up big deal. This is what happens when soldiers get bored. We are trying to help them and be their saviors. But oh no don't dare step on someones religious beliefs. WHATEVER. Also the Brigade commander kissed the new Koran. Telling you if I was that commander I never would have no way in bloody hell.
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UPDATE
China declares 3 days' mourning for quake victims.
China declared three days of national mourning for earthquake victims and ordered a suspension of the Olympic torch relay, as the search for survivors of the disaster grew bleak Sunday.
The State Council said the mourning period would start Monday and include three minutes of silence observed nationwide at 2:28 p.m., the time the quake struck.
Beijing Olympic organizers said in a statement that the torch relay would be suspended "to express our deep mourning to the victims of the earthquake."
The relay already had resumed last week after the quake on a more somber note, with runners starting with a minute of silence and asking for donations along the route. Organizers have said the relay would go on as planned in quake-hit Sichuan province next month.
In the disaster zone, efforts appeared to shift Sunday from searching for buried survivors to clearing corpses from shattered buildings as the government said the confirmed death toll rose to 32,476.
Another 220,109 people suffered injuries, according to a statement from the State Council, China's Cabinet. The government has said it expects the final death toll will surpass 50,000.
Near the quake's epicenter, few hopeful relatives were seen in Beichuan, where several dozen corpses in blue body bags lay in a street. Soldiers regularly pulled more dead from the wreckage.
"It will soon be too late" to find trapped survivors, said Koji Fujiya, deputy leader of a Japanese rescue team that pulled 10 bodies from a flattened school Sunday. "We hope with our hard work we will find more people alive."
A "slightly bruised" man was pulled out alive from a collapsed hospital Sunday after being trapped for 139 hours, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Experts say buried earthquake survivors can live a week or more, depending on factors including the temperature and whether they have water to drink.
A Malaysian rescue team in the town of Muyu, further north, sifted slowly and methodically through the wreckage. However, they were not tapping on the debris in hopes that survivors would hear and respond as other crews had done earlier — instead using giant cutters to split steel girders.
Dozens of students were buried in new graves dotting a green hillside overlooking the rubble, the small mounds of dirt failing to block the pungent smell of decay wafting from the ground. Most graves were unmarked, though several had wooden markers with names scribbled on them.
Zhou Bencen, 36, said he raced to the town's middle school after the earthquake, where relatives who arrived earlier had dug out the body of his 13-year-old daughter, Zhou Xiao, crushed on the first floor.
Zhou cradled his wife in his arms, holding her hand and stroking her back while she sobbed hysterically. "Oh God, oh God, why is life so bitter?" Liao Jinju wailed, over and over. The couple's 9-year-old son survived.
Chinese President Hu Jintao has urged rescue teams to reach remote villages battered by the earthquake where the level of damage remained unknown, according to Xinhua.
That was reinforced by a group of about 15 people who surrounded an Associated Press reporter at a gasoline station in Mianyang city Sunday, appealing for help for their village, Xiushui.
"The government is doing nothing to help us," said one man, who identified himself only by his surname, Chen. "If I gave you my complete name the government would track me down."
Chen did not say how many people lived there. He handed over a note signed "by the people of Xiushui," reading: "Please go to our village of Xiushui to cover the situation. The government is doing nothing to help us get water or housing."
More international aid was arriving, with two U.S. Air Force cargo planes loaded with tents, lanterns and 15,000 meals landing Sunday in the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu.
The World Health Organization said conditions for homeless survivors were ripe for outbreaks of disease and called for quick action to supply clean water and proper hygiene facilities. Chinese health officials have not reported any disaster-related outbreaks so far.
Also in the quake area, three giant pandas were missing from the world's most famous reserve for the endangered animals.
All the pandas at the Wolong Nature Reserve were first reported safe Tuesday, but an official with the State Forestry Administration now says three are missing, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.
Panda houses at the reserve were severely damaged and five staff members there were killed, forestry spokesman Cao Qingyao told Xinhua.
The 60 other giant pandas at the Wolong Nature Reserve were safe, according to the agency. The reserve is 18 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake.
Phone calls to the state forestry administration and to the forestry bureau in Sichuan province rang unanswered Sunday night. Fixed phone lines to the reserve remained down. Officials have been able to call the reserve only by satellite phone.
Meanwhile, flood threats from rivers blocked by landslides from the quake appeared to have eased after three waterways near the epicenter overflowed with no problems, Xinhua said. County officials diverted released water as a precaution.
The quake damaged some water projects, such as reservoirs and hydroelectric stations, but no reservoirs had burst, Liu Ning, engineer in chief with the Ministry of Water Resources, told Xinhua.
Nuclear facilities jolted by the quake were confirmed safe and troops were sent to reinforce security there, air force Maj. Gen. Ma Jian, deputy chief of operations for the military's General Staff Headquarters, told reporters in Beijing.
China has a research reactor, two nuclear fuel production sites and two atomic weapons sites in Sichuan province, the French nuclear watchdog has said, all located 40 to 90 miles from the epicenter.
This will take years to rebuild and to get back to some sense of a normal life. My heart goes out to all these people.
Source HERE
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GNR - It's So Easy
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Louise Glover
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WinUAE 1.5.0 Beta 19 is a amiga emulator.
Get it HERE
Beta 19:- lha/lzh archives with directory entries ("-lhd-") crash fix
- GUI chip ram 8M option was unavailable (b17)
- joyportx and input panel parameters (except input mappings) supported via uae-configuration
- less useless logging in fullscreen alt-tab
- GUI autoscroll fixed when using fullscreen mode smaller than 640x480 on non-primary monitor
- non-AR cartridge emulation problems fixed
- dont emulate chip ram mirroring if JIT direct is enabled at startup (OS can detect wrong chip ram size, JIT does not support mirroring)
- emulate "bus noise" (very far from real thing currently) when ECS Agnus but only 512M RAM configuration (512k chip ram, 512k bus noise, 512k chip ram, 512k bus noise) In theory 1M/2M Agnus configuration should be implemented because 1M Agnus + 1M chip = 1M chip ram + 1M chip ram mirror but 2M Agnus + 1M chip = 1M chip ram + 1M of "bus noise" (for example A500Plus) Later..
- Picasso96 state file support fixed (not compatible with old states)
- development PC CPU updated to Q9450 quad core CPU, 3.2GHz currently, more/less overclock later (old CPU was E6600)
Credit for this goes to Toni Wilen over at eab.abime.net
Guitar Hero 4
in Gossip Café [/offtopic]
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Sweet if Rock Band does not improve theirs in the next release I may have to go with GH4. I have GH original and GH2 but never bought GH3 since Rock Band came out. I love Rock Band but this drum set for GH4 looks flocking sweet.