LISBON CLASS OF 2024 CELEBRATE COLLEGE DAY

Lisbon ? The students and staff at Lisbon Community School celebrated College for ME Day on December 2 by wearing college t-shirts and hearing about what college had meant to their classroom teachers. ?The hallways were decorated with pendants organized by our Assistant Principal, Ryan Patrie.? Pendants depicted the various colleges attended by the adults in the building,? shared Principal Carlene Iverson.? ??Throughout the event students were encouraged to think about continuing their own aspirations after high school.? Each kindergarten student received a t-shirt featuring logos from all of the colleges and universities in Androscoggin County, as well as their year of high school graduation, 2024.?? ?Several students and staff who assisted with the program proudly wore their favorite college shirts and helped to make this day a success.? FMI on other events and programs for Lisbon Schools visit http://www.lisbonschoolsme.org/ or email mmillhime@lisbonschoolsme.org or call 754.0021.? Like us on Facebook at Community Resource News in Lisbon Schools.? Photo by Monica Millhime.

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Dropbox It, Get Directions, Fill Your Bag, and Running Moonshine [Video]

Dropbox shot up to version 2.0 and got some amazing features. You can finally figure out which app has the best turn-by-turn directions. Run moonshine on the bayou in a high-speed fan boat, and I bet you've always wanted to be a bag boy.

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GWAR Reviews War Horse

I can?t believe it either, but I?ve chosen to accept GWAR ? the satirical, Grammy-nominated heavy metal outfit ? as real film critics. In a new clip, the costume-loving dudes both praise and rip on War Horse, unleashing a fiery badinage that Ebert and Roeper would have killed for. Just watch it, dammit.

?I think they should change the name to Snore Horse!? Nice to know that heavy metal icons also enjoy pejorative puns as much everyday film critics. In fact, they should go by punnier monkiers: Might I suggest LOLnard Maltin and L.M.A.O. Scott?

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Iraq orders vice president's arrest after TV 'confessions'

BAGHDAD ? Iraq's Shiite Muslim-dominated government ordered the arrest Monday night of Vice President Tariq al Hashimi, a Sunni, after televising the reputed confessions of three bodyguards that implicated him in a string of assassinations of leading Shiite military and government officials.

The arrest warrant and the broadcast, both of which appeared to be initiated by Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, a Shiite, intensified the political and sectarian crisis that erupted over the weekend just as the last U.S. forces rolled south to Kuwait, ending the nearly nine-year American military presence here.

Massoud Barzani, president of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region, warned that the escalating tensions threatened Iraq's multi-party coalition government. Without serious effort to bring about a broad political accord, it could lead to the "collapse of the political process," Barzani said.

Without mentioning Maliki by name, Barzani chided national police for detaining Hashimi and several other top Sunni leaders at Baghdad airport Sunday evening as they were en route to dinner with him. The episode, he said, was "irresponsible and inelegant," and he added: "The security side should not be politicized or used for other purposes."

Hashimi was last reported to be in the Kurdish city of Erbil, and several members of parliament said they thought he might try to flee the country for Turkey. Turkey has had close ties with Hashimi, and Iraqi parliamentarians who just returned from a trip there said that Turkish officials were highly concerned that Maliki was taking extreme and unconsidered measures against prominent Sunni politicians.

The airing of the "confessions" in prime time on state-run Iraqiya television flew in the face of an order by a five-judge committee not to put them before the public until the panel had fully investigated the charges. The U.S. Embassy and many leading political figures had urged the same thing, but in vain.

After the confessions aired, an Interior Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Adel Daham, waved a copy of a document before reporters that he said was a warrant for Hashimi's arrest. Iraqi television reported that security forces ? which have sent hundreds of troops and dozens of tanks, personnel carriers and armored Humvees into Baghdad's Green Zone ? earlier had raided Hashimi's offices.

Although several members of parliament said they believed there was a serious case against Hashimi, the staging of the trial-by-television could backfire against Maliki.

In more than half an hour of grainy black-and-white video recordings, three men described as Hashimi's bodyguards detailed bomb attacks they carried out going back to 2009 that were directed against government security forces. The weapons used were bombs and pistols with silencers.

The men spoke in monotones, and it was impossible to determine if their statements were of their own free will, as claimed by Maliki aides, or coerced. It appeared that a small selection of their interrogations was presented, evidently edited to provide maximum support for the government position that Hashimi headed the chain of command of what amounted to assassination squads.

One guard, Ahmed Abdul Kareem Mohammed, who said he was an Iraqi army officer, denounced Hashimi as "a criminal" who had destroyed the guard's life and that of his family. He quoted Hashimi's secretary as saying: "The vice president assigned you the mission of killing this officer, and I want you to be brave." Mohammed said he told him, "I am ready."

Along with three other guards, he said he waited for the target on the Mohammed Al Qasim highway in Baghdad. After waiting 10 minutes, he received a phone call from a man named Abu Ahmed, who said the officer, named Ehsan, would drive past in a white pickup in about 10 minutes.

"He is a Rafidhi dog," the caller said, using an epithet for Shiites. "After about seven minutes, the target came and we killed him," he said.

Mohammed said that three other men joined him in another operation in April, the assassination of a security officer identified only as Col. Mustafa. The setting was the same Al Qasim highway. He said he was told: "When he passes you with his car, chase him and kill him."

"After six minutes, the target arrived, and Ali Mahmoud killed him," he said, referring to another guard.

Mohammed said he was willing to go before the Iraqi parliament and answer questions live on television, providing evidence of "the previous and new crimes."

Ghassan Abbas Jasim, another officer in the vice president's security detail, also directly implicated Hashimi. He quoted the vice president saying that if another officer, Maj. Ahmed Shawqi, issued an order, "it means these are my orders, and you have to implement them."

The first operation he described targeted security forces near a restaurant in Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood in 2009. He said that he and his brother went with Shawqi to pick up a bomb from one of Hashimi's residences and planted it near a sidewalk. They detonated the bomb when the street was crowded, he said, and when security forces arrived at the scene they detonated a second bomb.

In another operation that same year, he said, Shawqi told them to go to a restaurant in east Baghdad and plant a bomb inside a plastic garbage bag.

"When a convoy came, we detonated the bomb. Later, we knew it was the convoy of the minister of health," Jasim said.

The third officer, identified as Marwan Mtheber al Dulaimi, said he was paid $500 to carry out his first operation, against Iraqi army vehicles in the town of Bab al Sharji. His second was to kill Col. Ehsan.

He also confessed to joining a plot to plant a car bomb against Shiite pilgrims observing the Ashoura holiday earlier this month.

(McClatchy special correspondent Laith Hammoudi contributed to this report.)

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Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/12/19/2862274/iraq-orders-vice-presidents-arrest.html

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AMD Radeon HD 7970

The perpetual war for supremacy between AMD and Nvidia constantly leaves enthusiasts dodging shrapnel: When you want the best video card you can afford, why buy one now instead of waiting for the better one the competing chipset designer will undoubtedly release in a few months? This leaves reviewers in a tough spot, too, as we're constantly proclaiming that nearly every new card is the fastest ever. But because you can only live in the world you live in, we're obliged to go there. So, here goes once again: The just-released AMD Radeon HD 7970 ($549 list) is the latest fastest and most feature-rich single-GPU card ever, surpassing our previous Editors' Choice winner, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 580.

Though we have little doubt that Nvidia will yank back that title with its next generation of cards, the 7970 is an impressive achievement for the moment.? (It's?rumored to become widely available by early January of?2012.)? The inaugural member of the Southern Islands family, it utilizes a fresh architecture AMD refers to as "Graphics Core Next." Based on a new 28nm process technology and utilizing more than 4.3 billion transistors, Graphics Core Next uses a revised instruction set architecture, gives each compute unit the ability to simultaneously execute instructions from multiple kernels, and delivers an increased number of instructions per clock cycle per square millimeter of GPU space. The result, so AMD claims, is "designed for high utilization, high throughput, and multitasking."

We'll examine how well the 7970 achieves those goals in due time, but first we should look more deeply at what the card offers on a component level. The maxed-out new Southern Islands GPU (the 7900 series, code-named "Tahiti") can contain up to 32 compute units (CUs) supported by two geometry engines and rasterizers (one of each for every collection of 16 CUs), one L2 cache up to 768KB, four render back-ends (offering 32 color ROPs per clock and 128 Z/stencil ROPs per clock), and a 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface with bandwidth up to 264GBps. Cards in the 7900 series can also make full use of the newest and speediest PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 x16 bus interface.

AMD didn't stop with just internal developments. The company promises that the Southern Islands cards will offer improved cooling and acoustics, by way of a new sixth-generation vapor chamber and a wider fan with new blades that are capable of wicking away more heat than before. Power issues have received plenty of attention as well, with PowerTune technology for intelligent monitoring of energy usage on an application-by-application basis when the proper electrical and thermal headroom are available.

Also new is ZeroCore Power Technology, which shuts down the GPU and turns off the fan during long idle states, for a reduction in idle power usage of up to 95 percent. According to AMD, this delivers additional benefits in CrossFireX configurations: Secondary GPUs are always in the ZeroCore Power state when they're not in use, with the primary GPU joining them during long idle periods, thus saving even more power in systems that traditionally suck it up with party-animal abandon.

Like all of the company's video cards, those in the 7900 series support the full range of AMD's proprietary technologies. Eyefinity is back, but with a twist: Though it still makes for an easy way to run multiple monitors, the 7970 is the first card capable of driving three stereoscopic 3D displays by itself using new monitors that support DisplayPort 3D; the 7900 series isn't even limited to a single audio stream, but can out multiple independent streams at once. Other new Eyefinity features introduced with the Catalyst 11.10 driver update include new monitor configurations (5-by-1 landscape and portrait), full support for setups using multiple 1,920-by-1,200 and 2,560-by-1,600 monitors, and flexible bezel compensation.

If the 7970 sounds beefy from a spec standpoint, it is indeed. The card's 250-watt TDP hasn't changed from the 6970, but almost everything else has been dialed up. The card is driven by an astonishing 2,048 stream processors and has a 925MHz engine clock; AMD estimates the card delivers 3.79 teraflops of compute performance. Thirty-two ROPs and 128 Z/stencils max out the GPU's capability. Memory has been packed on, too, with the 7970 housing a remarkable 3GB of GDDR5, twice what the GTX 580 carries; the bandwidth is the aforementioned 264GBps, the memory clock runs at 1,375MHz, and the overall data rate is 5.5Gbps. (The last two specs are not increases over those of AMD's last-generation top single-GPU card, the Radeon HD 6970, for what it's worth.)

Video outputs are a strong collection as well, with two Mini DisplayPort jacks (supporting the DisplayPort 1.2 standard), one HDMI 1.4a port, and one dual-link DVI port. The last is beginning to look mighty legacy, as both the Mini DisplayPort and HDMI ports are now capable of driving the 4K displays that are almost certainly coming in the next generation or so. (AMD touts its cards as being the first on the market to support this new hardware.) The typical downsides to such a powerful card are here, however: You will need to run two additional cables from your power supply (one eight-pin, one six-pin), and the card's oversize fan?heat sink unit means it blocks an adjacent expansion slot. But because the card is of a reasonable length (11 inches), these are minor annoyances well in keeping with video cards this high up in the enthusiast spectrum.

What does all this mean in terms of gaming performance? A lot. In our testing (on a system set up using an Asus P9X79 Deluxe motherboard running the Intel Core i7-3960X CPU) we saw some significant jumps over both AMD's own 6970 and Nvidia's GTX 580. The 7970's overall 3DMark 11 score was 2,734, an 861-point increase over what we saw from the 6970 (1,873) and 619 points higher than what the GTX 580 earned (2,115). The 7970 triumphed in almost all of our gaming benchmarks, often by large degrees, at least at 1,920 by 1,200. When we tested Aliens vs. Predator at that resolution, for example, the 7970's result of 55.1 frames per second (fps) was well ahead of the 6970's 47.2fps and the GTX 580's 43.6fps. The 7970 barely eked out a playable 31fps against the GTX 580's 27.2fps in Total War: Shogun 2 at 1,920 by 1,200, though the GTX 580 couldn't even run the game's benchmark with all the details cranked.

The 7970, it should be noted, didn't ace every test. The GTX 580 did marginally better in DiRT 3 (69.5fps versus 66.9fps) and HAWX 2 (140 versus 130), both at 1,920 by 1200. And a lot of the 7970's impressive leads dropped at 2,560 by 1,600, with only about 7fps separating the cards at Aliens vs. Predator (34.7fps versus 27.5fps), 1fps at DiRT 3 (47.7fps versus 46.7fps, the 7970 winning the competition here it couldn't quite at 1,920 by 1,200), and 12fps in Just Cause 2 (40.6fps versus 28.6fps, as compared with the wider gap between 60fps and 36.8fps for that game we saw at 1,920 by 1,200). And looked at beside either AMD's or Nvidia's dual-GPU gaming cards, the Radeon HD 6990 and the GeForce GTX 590 respectively, the 7970 looks like small performance potatoes. (Though, for the record, the GTX 590 couldn't run Total War: Shogun 2 at 2,560 by 1,600.)

Where the 7970 really distinguished itself was in terms of power usage. AMD's efforts in this regard really paid off, as our test bed was able to idle at an impressive minimum of 99.8 watts; that's less than we saw with either the 6970 (107.8) or the GTX 580 (117.3). But when running under full graphics load the 7970's full-system power draw rose to only 245.9 watts?again, this is below the results we got from both the 6970 (249.8 watts) and the GTX 580 (264.6 watts), and the 7970 gives you the most polygon-pushing power.

So, folks, it's that time again to declare a new Editors' Choice and a new "sensibly priced" (as opposed to the dual-GPU models, anyway) enthusiast video card. No matter what game you want to play or, within reason, what resolution you want to play it at, this is the one-GPU card that will excel most at the job best. Its price may still be steep, and you may be able to find GTX 580 cards on the market for less (around $500), but if full-tilt gaming without compromises?is what you crave, you can't do better than the AMD Radeon HD 7970. At least for now.

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Kremlin rights council urges Khodorkovsky review (Reuters)

MOSCOW (Reuters) ? Russia's presidential human rights council on Wednesday recommended to investigators that jailed ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's second sentence, which will keep him in prison until 2016, be reviewed.

The recommendation is the strongest sign of support from the authorities since Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man and ex-head of oil giant Yukos, was arrested in 2003 after he ran foul of ex-President Vladimir Putin in a case critics said was politically motivated.

"(We) suggest that the Investigative Committee should initiate a new inquiry into newly revealed circumstances (of the case) and study the grounds to review the criminal case due to fundamental violations," a statement from the Kremlin human rights council said.

The council is an advisory board preparing recommendations for the president on key human rights issues. President Dmitry Medvedev wanted the council's lawyers to study Khodorkovsky case, the council head Mikhail Fedotov said in February.

The report by the council is not legally binding and thus will have no impact on Khodorkovsky's fate, said Andrei Piontkovsky, a political analyst.

"As long as Putin remains our country's dictator, Khodorkovsky will stay in jail," he said.

Khodorkovsky's prison sentence was due to expire in 2011. But last year a Russian court handed Khodorkovsky an additional seven years in jail. Later, the term was reduced to six years on appeal.

The conviction and sentencing of Khodorkovsky deepened doubt about Mevdedev's commitment to improve the rule of law and reaffirmed perceptions of Putin's dominance.

Putin, now prime minister, who agreed to swap jobs with Medvedev in September and is almost certain to secure a return to the Kremlin next year, gets irritated when asked questions about Khodorkovsky. He says the ex-tycoon should remain in prison.

His protege Medvedev, whom Putin steered into the Kremlin in 2008 because he was constitutionally barred from serving a straight third term as president, said earlier this year that Khodorkovsky's release from jail would not be dangerous for society.

Days after Medvedev's comment a court reduced the ex-tycoon's 14-year sentence by one year.

A lawyer for Khodorkovksy said the case had to deal with politics rather than justice and thus only a political decision taken at the very top could get him out of prison.

"Of course, the case should be reviewed...but neither the case, nor the sentence have any relation to justice," Karina Moskalenko told Reuters. "(The final decision) does not depend on the presidential council either."

(Writing and reporting by Thomas Grove and Alexei Anishchuk; Editing by Matthew Jones)

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Gaming Holiday Promotion: Hat Dash! - Blog ? Stack Exchange

To celebrate the holidays,?Gaming Stack Exchange?is throwing a little holiday party ? specifically, a Hat Dash:

Between December 16 and January 6, users can unlock hats for their gravatars on gaming.stackexchange.com?by asking and answering questions, voting, sharing links, etc. ?For more info, read the full blog post:

There?s also a related contest around the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic?with some cool hats and?prizes.

Why Hats?

Well, once you see it in action you realize that those gravatars are basically begging for cute little hats. ?But video games have a long history of vanity items, and a few years ago?Team Fortress 2 really brought hats to the forefront. ?Since so many Gaming users play Team Fortress 2, hats have become?something?of?a?meme?on the site.

Why Gaming?

Gaming has been one of the top Stack Exchange sites in the network for a while, and really?took off a month ago with the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. ?Since the holidays are traditionally a big time of year for video games, we thought we?d put together a fun little promotion to try to bring in some new questions and users. ?And who knows? ?If it works well, there?s always the possibility of hat-related promotions on other sites (where appropriate!).

I hate hats

Then this promotion is not for you! ?Just click the ?I hate hats? button at the bottom of every page on the Gaming site to make them go away.

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Well, then? try?one of the other 70+ sites!

I love video games and?hats!

Then come to gaming.stackexchange.com?and ask or answer some questions! ?You?ll earn your first hat in no time. ?But hurry up: after January 6th the site returns to a strict no-hat policy.

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