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That relative did not want to be named but said he was not surprised to hear the details in the search warrants for the girl's home on Miller Chapel Road.
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Carlyle Sherrill -- who is the attorney for Erica's adoptive parents, Casey and Sandy Sherrill -- said the family was doing everything possible to help investigators find the girl, who the parents say went to live with her biological grandmother two years ago.
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Investigators believe the parents fraudulently continued to collect state benefits for the girl even after she was gone.
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By Tim Krohn
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— As Mankato civic, business and government leaders purposely guide Mankato's transition from big town on the prairie to real metropolitan area, it's useful to step back and take a look at what we have to work with.
There are all sorts of ways to take the measure of a city. A Seattle land-use lawyer, who writes extensively about urban landscapes in The Atlantic Cities (TheAtlanticCities.com), has some interesting takes on what he thinks are the top 10 things that make an urban area a rich place to live and work in.
Wolfe can get a bit esoteric, but his list is more interesting than the normal lists of "safest cities" or "best places to raise a family."
Here's a few of his urban must-haves.
Wood-framed storefronts and proud displays
It conjures an image of the dark-wood, warmly lit storefronts displaying top hats in old English cities.
Mankato doesn't have a lot of wood storefronts, but there are plenty of brick and stone storefronts, which are natural materials and should count the same.
As for proud displays, the Old Town stretch has the most. The dramatic effect of lights in the Denco Lighting storefront, Nicollet South Bike Shop and others on the Old Town stretch qualify as proud displays.
The new Tandem Bagels on Second Street downtown creates a quaint storefront, and the new ballet school in the old Earthly Remains building on Front Street, with its large windows, fits the bill.
The city has a decent start on the storefront front with the most potential along Riverfront Drive, Front Street downtown and Belgrade Avenue in North Mankato.
Water features that emulate nature, in context
On the plus side, we don't need to emulate water features — we have a big river rolling right through town. And we have Hiniker Pond and Spring Lake.
But, to not be under water every few years, we have a concrete flood wall that makes the main natural water feature a bit less natural — or enjoyable.
We've made it better with a bike/walking path inside the wall and the new Riverfront Park where people can enjoy the river.
Still, for a river town, we could do better. A good river overlook for starters. Some fountains would be nice. Maybe a small, re-created stream wending through part of downtown, emptying into the river?
Children in public squares
This is, of course, the safety issue. We got this one down cold. Kids can romp anywhere they want here without any real fear — other than the fear conjured in helicopter parents' minds.
Other than domestic abuse and date rape, which is no worse here than anywhere, 90 percent of the people who get beat up, robbed or otherwise harmed in Mankato are: A) drunk, B) out somewhere way too late where they should know better than to be, C) up to something illegal themselves, or, all of the above.
Spectacular examples of shopping tradition
Not sure about this one. We have a nice mall, plenty of stores to go to, some nice independent shops, but "spectacular" isn't exactly the word that comes to mind. The last great shopping spectacle was Brett's Department Store.
Classy blokes in front of classy places
Wolfe suggests allowing open-air seating areas in front of bars and restaurants, where having a drink is allowed, provides "ambiance and interface with daily life."
Mankato has more of this than in the past and Wolfe is right, it adds a communal atmosphere when people drink and dine outside — even if all the blokes aren't classy.
Commercial porches, with color and vantage points to the street
Wolfe calls them "Architectural styles that mix commercial and residential uses, and offer 'eyes on the street' from open verandas above."
Great concept.
We don't have any.
Culturally indigenous engravings in the built environment
Wolfe says designs should reflect important cultural aspects of its builders. He points to Portugal where a common feature of public squares reflects the ocean.
We lack the engravings, but we have plenty of beautiful Kasota stone in our buildings, a nod to the oldest business in Mankato — quarrying of the unique limestone that lies buried in the area.
We could do a lot more to incorporate the milling, farming and river cultures into our architecture and public spaces.
Tim Krohn is a Free Press staff writer. He can be contacted at 344-6383 or tkrohn@ mankatofreepress.com.


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With the release of Linux 1.2.x, there have been a lot of questions on the newsgroups asking what needs to be done to upgrade a stable 1.0.x system to a stable 1.2.x system. Fortunately, this is relatively easy and painless.
One thing you should note is that you should upgrade to the 1.2.1 kernel, especially if you are using firewall software. Version 1.2.0 was somewhat broken in this respect.
The first thing you should realize is that a new program, bdflush, is required by the 1.2.x kernel. The program arrived early in the 1.1.x series and replaces update, implementing a style of disk caching that is a bit more efficient than the older style. Without this program, your disk caching will not work as well, and you will be warned: "Warning - bdflush not running".
The networking tools should also be upgraded. The new versions have been upgraded to support improvements in the kernel networking code. Do note that normal networking programs do not need to be upgraded; only a few special programs, included in a single kit, are affected by the changes.
I have built a package that includes all of these programs. It's called "The Linux Upgrade 1.2", in a file called linuxupgr-1.2.tar.gz. It is available at sunsite.unc.edu and its mirrors in /pub/Linux/system/, and at tsx-11.mit.edu and its mirrors in /pub/linux/binaries/sbin/. Download this package along with the version 1.2.1 kernel, which should be available nearby in the file linux-1.2.1.tar.gz. Sunsite and its mirrors have the kernel in /pub/Linux/kernel/v1.2/, and tsx-11 and its mirrors have the kernel in /pub/linux/sources/system/v1.2/.
Back everything up! Back up your system just in case of any problems along the way. In case anything goes wrong, you can always go back to a stable system. At least back up your data files.
Make notes about your system. The kind of filesystems you have, extra cards, sound card information, and so on.
From this point on, you should be the root user with few users logged on.
Move the linux kernel tar file to the /usr/src directory. mv linux-1.2.1.tar.gz /usr/src
Back up the old kernel by moving its directory tree to a directory with another name. For example, if the old kernel is a 1.0.9 kernel, you can (in the /usr/src directory) mv linux linux-1.0.9. This way, you still have the source to the old 1.0.9 kernel available.
Uncompress and untar the kernel file by running tar xzvf linux-1.2.1.tar.gz You should see a list of files being sent to the screen. They should all begin with "linux/".
Change to the linux directory and run make config. You will be offered options, for which you will need the information you collected from step 2. In many cases, you can take the defaults, unless you have a specialized system. Issue 7 of Linux Journal had an article, "Linux Performance Tuning for the Faint of Heart", which specifically covers how to compile new kernels.
One specific item that is not covered in that article is the new IDE driver in Linux 1.2. In the Linux kernel source, there is a file drivers/block/README.ide that you should read if you have a large IDE drive, multiple IDE controllers, or ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drives. Nearly everyone will want to answer "Use new IDE driver for primary/secondary [interface]" with yes. The only reason not to is if you use MFM or RLL drives, since the new IDE driver supports only IDE drives.
Once the configuration is ready, make the dependencies needed by gcc to build the kernel correctly. Run make dep.
At this point, if you're using lilo, you can run make zlilo and the makefile will automatically begin building the kernel and installing the new kernel in LILO. If you boot off a floppy drive, you can just run make zdisk, and put a blank formatted 1.4 (or 1.2) MB disk in the drive and makefile will build the kernel and install it on your floppy.
NOTE: My preference is to install first to a diskette, and boot from that. If there are no problems, then I go back and run make zlilo. Another option is copying the current Linux kernel to another filename (such as vmlinuz1.0.9) and making a new LILO entry for that file. If you reboot with the first kernel and have problems, you can reboot again, get into LILO, and boot the older kernel. If you feel comfortable using LILO, this may be easier for you.
You will also need to tell the kernel file to mount the root device read-only so that it can run fsck if necessary. If you're using a floppy, run rdev -R /dev/fd0 1. If you're using LILO, run rdev -R /vmlinuz 1. Using the capital R here is important. If you are using LILO, another option is to use the read-only option for the boot image. This is covered in the excellent LILO documentation.
Once the kernel is built, install the Linux Upgrade Package. From /usr/src, run tar xzvf linuxupgr-1.2.tar.gz. This will create a directory called upgrade which has the bdflush and other assorted files in it. Read the README file for instructions on installing the upgrade files.
Reboot the machine. If you did everything correctly, you should have a successfully running 1.2.1 kernel. If you do run into problems and you are using a floppy disk, you can pop the floppy out of the drive and reboot with the old kernel.
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All is Well
12 comments:
- Jamie Jo said...
Well, for those of us who don't do Facebook, we thank you for letting us know!! I think of you often and am glad you are doing good.
God bless you!
- November 11, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- Kimberlee said...
Same here (not on FB)! It was so delightful and reassuring to catch a glimpse of your beautiful family over at Suzanne's. You've been on my mind and in my heart and it is so good to know All is Well! God bless you all.
- November 11, 2011 at 10:08 AM
- Jeannine said...
I am so pleased you are doing well! Thank you for updating us. It was lovely to see you pop up in my reader. You will be in my prayers, and I will continue to enjoy your archives...such beauty there. I must make that pumpkin cheesecake!
- November 11, 2011 at 5:59 PM
- J.C. said...
Happy to hear that you and your family are doing well! Definitely miss your blog posts. God bless!
- November 11, 2011 at 7:35 PM
- Elizabeth C. said...
I also saw you enjoying some fun with Susanne. Funny how you seem to know someone by following their blog posts. BTW, your beautiful Madonna and Child pieces were loved by my family and goddaughter! Thank you for sharing that gift!
God bless!
- November 12, 2011 at 12:43 AM
- Jenny said...
Ask & you shall receive! Yesterday Jen asked which blogger you missed hearing from and I said you! Today I wake up to an update in my reader! :) Glad to know all is well. I appreciated you sharing about your beautiful family and your simple, joyful style of living. All the best!
- November 12, 2011 at 7:06 AM
So glad to hear from you. Was just thinking of how sad the holidays would be without you, your beautiful family, and all your graceful traditions and decor. Blessings to all!
- November 14, 2011 at 5:43 PM
Glad to read all is well. I have so missed your postings.
- November 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM
- ellie said...
So glad to hear from you. I do indeed miss your blog (and am also not on facebook), and thank you for leaving a little update. Peace and blessings to you ...
- November 19, 2011 at 1:17 PM
please keep blogging. you have a gift of writing and many believe that it is your calling to influence the lives of other moms through your blog. you help us, the Catholic moms, to sanctify our daily work. please keep lighting up the pathway.
- November 20, 2011 at 12:18 PM
- Kristen Laurence said...
Thank you, everyone. Bless you all!
- November 22, 2011 at 7:11 AM
ditto to what everyone else says! You have bee a gift. I especially love the call to simplicity you have-- unique and inspiring. God bless you!
- November 22, 2011 at 9:17 PM


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Air will not blow out the front vents, goes from floor to defrost and rear air works fine. All the lights and switches seem to work accept air vents. The switch motor actuator by the gas pedal changes, I removed it and manually moved it, no change same results, the outside air motor actuator changes, and the temp mixer air flow motor actuator moves when you change temp. Is there another damper some where? This model doesn't seem to use vacuum at all with in the cabin. Does some one have an idea what the problem could be? I'm out of ideas.
I have the control swicth panel out and it looks good, have removed radio and cd player and still can not see what could be wrong or where some thing else might be hiding.


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TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City Light and Power board members will discuss qualities they seek in a new executive director during am upcoming meeting.
Mary Grover, a consultant hired by the board, interviewed TCL&P board members, employees and city commissioners regarding qualities and traits the community seeks in the next director. The board also will accept suggestions from the public when members meet Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. at the Governmental Center.
The board committee directing the search reported they found consensus on most of the qualities they want to include in a job description, based on the interviews, but couldn't agree on all of them.
The board will address areas where the committee is divided and also discuss the next steps in their search.


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Tickets are $75 each with 201 printed and 200 sold. Prizes: $3,000, $1,000, $300, $200,and $100!!! The prize drawing will take place at the Mackinaw Area Historic Festival August 2, 2014. You need not be present to win. To participate use our Contact Us tab. Complete the contact info and submit.
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west of Mackinaw City, visitors can enjoy discovery trails, historic buildings, a
covered pavilion, a restored log home, a sawmill and much more. Heritage Village's period is
from 1880 through 1917, a time of unparalleled changes in lighting, transportation,
communication, housing, health care and nearly every other aspect of Straits-area living. It
also reflects an era from which a precious few buildings are still standing, and stories told
by parents, grandparents and great grandparents abound. During the summer you may visit
the village any day. For tours conducted by docents we are open Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
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|Women's Tennis » Schedule » Roster » News » Coaches » Season Statistics
Crusaders Record Third Straight Mid-Con Shutout
Saturday, April 10, 2004Valparaiso won for the sixth time in seven matches on Saturday morning, including three straight to open Mid-Continent Conference action as the Crusaders swept Oakland 7-0 in Chicago.
The Brown and Gold opened by securing the doubles point as Mara Sonkin (Wheaton, Ill./Warrenville South H.S.) and Whitney Chada (Downers Grove, Ill./Downers Grove North H.S.) posted an 8-3 triumph at the top spot. Monika Danko (Northfield, Ill./New Trier H.S.) and Christina Scala (Glenview, Ill./Glenbrook South H.S.) won second doubles 8-2.
In singles play, Sonkin posted a 6-2, 7-5 win at the top spot, while Jill Dierberg (St. Louis, Mo./Lutheran South H.S.) was a 6-0, 6-3 winner at second singles. Danko needed a super tie-break but notched a 2-6, 6-1, 10-6 victory in the third slot, while Chada tallied a 6-2, 6-2 win at fourth singles. Scala breezed to a 6-0, 6-0 win in fifth singles, while Kate Evangelist (Glen Ellyn, Ill./Glenbard West H.S.) rounded out play with an easy 6-0, 6-2 win in sixth singles.
Valpo (7-5, 3-0 Mid-Con) will return to action on Sunday morning to battle Centenary at 9 a.m. in Chicago. With the loss, Oakland falls to 1-4 overall and 0-2 in league play.
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Linda McMahon (R): David Collins from The Day wrote about the perceived tension between McMahon and Mitt Romney's newly running mate Paul Ryan. He says this comes from McMahon's refusal to support Medicare changes..
Chris Murphy (D): Murphy predicts that rival McMahon will outspend him in the general election campaign, reports the Norwich Bulletin. "I'm going to be outspent five- or ten-to-one in this election," Murphy said.
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Hello everyone, My name is Roger and I am aspiring to begin a career in law enforcement. I recently acquired my associates degree in criminal justice and I am searching for a job in the field. I understand that the market is tough right now and I am trying to be patient. I would like to think that the my degree would help substantially but there is one problem. About six and a half years ago I was arrested for driving under the influence. I was found guilty of the lowest level offense and my drivers license was suspended for one year. I guess what I am looking for is information from anyone who knows someone or is someone who has wanted to work in law enforcement but has DUI on their record. I have s few friends who work in law enforcement and they keep telling me to "stay positive, it will happen. It is just going to be a little harder than someone who does not have a DUI on their record". I believe this and I appreciate their support but I am not sure. I need some outside opinions. I appreciate any information that anyone can give me.
Be honest about it when asked. What region of the country?
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I live in Western North Carolina. I will be 29 in February. I would like to start out working in a detention center in order to become more familiar with confrontation and the types of people that I would be dealing with on the streets. Like I said before, I think that I am just being impatient. I understand that these types of positions take time but it makes me worry. In 2009 I applied with the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service and I passed the initial test, the first interview and made it through the panel interview but after the background investigation began, I received a letter stating that I was no longer being considered for employment. I assume that it was because of the DUI as they will not tell you why they are no longer considering you. I guess I just want to know that their is someone else out there who has been in my situation that has been able to have a career in law enforcement.
We have one or two guys in our area that have had one. In Wisconsin, first offense its just a forfeiture, not a crime, so while frowned upon, its not as big a deal. Not sure where you live exactly (small town, or bigger city) but around here, it helps if you go and talk to the chief of a smaller town, ask them if they are looking for some help, and see if you can get in there on a part time basis. Around here, its pretty much expected you will have to work for 2-4 years part-time before you will get a full time spot, and thats with a 2 or a 4 year degree. If I were you, I would get a few part time police jobs, work them for a while, and prove that you can be a good cop, that should help open a bunch of doors for you. You may have to focus on applying more to smaller agencies at first too... around here, they tend to be a little more flexible. With bigger cities, I think they get so many applicants, they will axe ya for even minor issues. Once you get a few years in a smaller agency, then the bigger ones may open up for you. Good luck.
PS Of course, I am speaking to the way it is around here...in Wisconsin. Things may be completely different where your at.
Whenever I interact with high school seniors who are interested in law enforcement and talk about getting their Criminal Justice degree, I tell them not to. It's better to get a degree, I think, in something else.
Let's face it, you're going to be competing for a job in an economy that has astronomical unemployment rates against other people who have degrees- most of which will like be in Criminal Justice- and the difference between you and them will be a DUI on your record.
I'm not saying you'll never get a job, because honestly I'm sure just about every cop on this board knows of someone who got a job under more dubious circumstances. What I am saying is that you have your work cut out for you.
Apply anywhere and everywhere you're willing to commute to and don't be too proud to start in a jail or in a dispatch room.
As others have said never lie- even by omission. And never give up. Just my 2 cents.
Best of luck."If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." -Gen. George S. Patton
I work with an officer or two who has a DWI. It's not impossible.No one has greater love than this, to lay down ones life for ones friends - John 15:13
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It's possible for you to get hired -- but as others have noted, you'll have to cross the hurdle of your history. But PDs aren't into hiring angels. Most of us have something or other in our background that's not perfect. One of the things my chief really looks hard at is attitude: how do you respond to your mistakes? Do you accept responsibility or look to blame someone else?
Regarding degrees -- my advice is similar to Rhino's. Study something that interests you. Outside of fields like engineering or medicine or teaching, the degree is often unrelated to what sort of job you end up with. Especially a bachelor's degree...Voting against incumbents until we get a Congress that does its job.
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One of the hiring boards I was on here a guy had a DUI from several years back. He was straight about it. Didn't try to give any excuses, had a clean record since then. Hired him without a problem. Don't harp on it in interviews, but don't hide from it either. The main thing I was looking for going into that interview was no excuses. I didn't want to hear, "well I was just a .09. or I was 10 feet from my driveway, etc.." I hear that from drunks all the time. I want somebody who will own up to a mistake, show that the haven't done it again, and moved on.
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SEATTLE – Microsoft announced Monday it is partnering with Swedish company NetClean to provide image-matching technology free to law enforcement worldwide to help them identify instances of child sexual abuse online.
Microsoft says its PhotoDNA technology "creates a unique signature for a digital image, something like a fingerprint, which can be compared with the signatures of other images to find copies of that image."
In short, the technology allows police to more efficiently sift through the billions of images online to find new cases of child abuse that may normally go undetected.
PhotoDNA will be made available on a new version of NetClean Analyze, which is already being used for free by police agencies around the world. PhotoDNA is also being integrated into the Child Exploitation Tracking System,
Microsoft and Facebook began a similar partnership last year to detect images of child pornography online.
PhotoDNA was developed by Microsoft researchers and Dartmouth College.


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By Keith McShea
I was unable to cover it this year, but here is the rundown from Thursday night's Niagara PAL/ACE All-Star Classic at Niagara Falls. Both games featured impressive performances by Canisius guards, one graduating (Aaron White), and two seemingly poised to step up as they heads into their junior (LaTerrance Reed) and sophomore (Howard Washington) seasons.
Falls coach Sal Constantino reported that the Freshman/Sophomore game that tipped off the night was "the best game we've had since I have been involved" with the games.
The East beat the West, 95-91, in TRIPLE-overtime. "It was a tough game all the way through, and at the end of regulation and the OTs, kids kept hitting clutch shots," said Constantino.
East High sophomore Percy Bryant (22 points) and Canisius freshman Washington (16) led the winning East side while Canisius sophomore Reed had 30 for the West, including many clutch shots in the late going.
Freshman/Sophomore box score (full rosters here):
West: Stone 4, White 2, Cieski 10, Cieslak 11, Littlejohn 6, Williams 4, Reed 30, Ford 5, Lamar 5, Lewis 16.
East: Staton 1, Bryant 22, Fogan 9, Clough 13, Anderson 4, Washington 16, Panebianco 7, Cheatom 6, Jones 5, Miner 10.
3-pointers: Cieski, Cieslak 3, Reed 3, Ford, Lamar, Bryant, Fogan 2, Clough, Washington, Panebianco. Team MVPs: Reed (West), Bryant (East).
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In the Junior-Senior game, the North won, 88-83, behind a 22-point effort by Canisius senior and team MVP White, who battled all night with CSAT senior Darnell Carson (17 points for the South). Riverside junior Willie Smith (11 points) earned MVP honors for the South.
Junior/Senior box score (full rosters here):
North: White 22, Belton 11, Leonard 8, Rath 2, Weir 13, Bibbs 7, Lucas 9, Turecki 16.
South: Henley 9, Carson 17, Oliveri 9, Mulcahy 4, W. Smith 11, L. Smith 11, Nix 6, Crumpton 13, Gilhousen 2, Fron 1.
3-pointers: White 3, Belton, Weir 2, Lucas, Henley, Carson, Oliveri, Mulcahy, Crumpton. Team MVPs: White (North), W. Smith (South).
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New Layoffs Are Harbingers of Broader Economic Changes
Many once-secure jobs are likely to disappear from the workforce.
The private sector added 91,000 jobs in September, according to payroll firm ADP's monthly employment report—a modest gain, but a welcome increase after last month's news from the Labor Department that job growth was stuck at zero in August. At the same time, however, new figures show that layoffs skyrocketed last month. Those newly unemployed workers now find themselves in a job market that is not only stagnant but increasingly uncertain, as that slow growth coincides with broad structural changes.
[Read analysis of Ben Bernanke's latest congressional testimony on jobs.]
According to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, U.S. employers announced plans to cut 115,730 workers in September, the most layoffs since April 2009. Government and the financial sector were the largest sources of the announced layoffs, followed by education, energy, and transportation. Many jobs being lost are not coming back anytime soon, and changes in technology and economic realities are also changing the nature of those jobs being added to the economy, making for fundamental shifts in the U.S. job market.
"I just think we're in a paradigm-changing, era-changing, watershed—whatever you call it—time," John Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, tells U.S. News.
Though the spike in layoffs is alarming, the bigger story in the numbers is what they presage for the future, says Challenger. He says that September's increase is not directly related to any new economic weakness, pointing out that 70 percent of the job cuts came from Bank of America, which just announced 30,000 layoffs, and the United States Army, which announced 50,000 job cuts as part of a five-year troop reduction plan. More alarmingly, the future for both the larger finance industry and public sector looks grim: "Bank of America is not the only bank still struggling in the wake of the housing collapse. And, the military cutbacks are probably just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to federal spending and layoffs," he said in a statement accompanying today's release.
Those potential future cuts are signs that the job market has changes ahead of it that will render it unrecognizable to older generations of workers. "It would appear that there are certain structural changes that are going on that are not necessarily cyclical." says Mike Lubansky, senior financial analyst at Sageworks, a company that develops software for the finance industry. "But there are always structural changes in the economy. We just happen to be at a time where there may be more than you might see at other times."
Government has been one major source of job losses in the U.S. economy over the last year and a half. And with more austerity coming, government jobs that were once mainstays will become more scarce. "We're going to see some of these core jobs, the most traditional jobs, safer jobs, the ones that you had more chance of a long-term, if not lifetime job, like being a mailman, soldier, teacher, being reduced in a large way," Challenger says.
In addition, cuts in military personnel—which do not contribute to Labor Department unemployment figures—and the winding down of two wars will continue to add people to the workforce. Finding employment is already a problem for America's youngest veterans. As of August, the unemployment rate for veterans who served from September 2001 to the present was 16.6 percent.
Lubansky cites technology as another force that is shaping the job market during the downturn. Automation has already led to cuts in many industries, and it may yet threaten even the healthcare industry, one area that has been a rare source of consistent job growth, says Challenger. "Healthcare is going through a furious change in its operating system," he says of the transition to electronic medical records. The increased efficiency of that system, says Challenger, would eliminate the need for the infrastructure of people who process paper records.


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Let's talk power. Not the type normally associated with EDF.
Overbearing corporate power that fixes gas prices, and bullies governments, taxpayers, and protesters. EDF (Électricité de France) is the worlds 2nd largest energy utility company with 2011 profits of €14bn on €65.3bn in sales, and is majority owned by the French Government.
George Osborne, EDF, and the big six energy companies want to commit the UK to expensive gas-fired energy for the next 30 years, building up to 40 new power stations – in a 'dash for gas' that would make it impossible for the UK to meet its legally-binding climate change targets. Watch the video and sign and share the petition for EDF to drop the civil action lawsuit against no dash for gas protesters.
EDF is flexing its corporate power by suing No Dash For Gas protesters for £5m after they occupied West Burton power station for a week last October. The £5m lawsuit represents just 10 hours EDF profit, yet could result in protesters being saddled with life-long debts and losing their homes. It's a scare tactic, to deter more people from taking urgent action to stop climate chaos. This is not the first time EDF has been embroiled in controversy for its dealings with climate activists:
Energy price hikes are forcing millions of customers into an impossible choice between heating and eating. This winter, EDF hiked their prices 11%, pushing an estimated 440,000 UK households into fuel poverty.
EDF is one of the 'big six' UK energy corporations - EDF, E.on, Npower, British Gas, Scottish Power and SSE - enjoying a monopoly position controlling UK gas & electricity prices.
The big six energy cartel make a killing from an energy market rigged in their favour, and are currently under investigation for suspicious gas price-fixing activity.
Meanwhile, Government, under influence of energy lobbyists are cutting crucial fuel poverty lifelines, and privately plotting a 'dash for gas' that will increase our dependence upon dirty and expensive imported gas, pushing fuel bills even higher.
According to Ofgem, £100 of last year's £150 rise in the average household's energy bill was due to rising gas prices.
Despite the impact of gas on our energy bills and environment, the governments 'dash for gas' would see a new round of up to forty gas-fired power stations built.
Gas reliance spells disaster for the climate. Government's own Committee on Climate Change recently wrote to George Osborne to say that increasing our dependence on gas would be illegal due to existing climate change legislation.
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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook — Save 50%
Over 60 simple but incredibly effective recipes for taking control of Joomla! templates
With the widespread empowering of website owners being able to manage their own website's content, there are a huge number of content management systems available. Joomla! is one of the most popular of these content management systems with a large user base and active community who are constantly working to improve Joomla! for new and future users.
In the first article of the three part article series by Richard Carter, author of Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook we will learn:
- Styling the search module
- Styling the search component
Although we've seen how to alter much of our Joomla! website, there's still much we can do to improve and polish our Joomla! template to perfection.
Styling the search module
Joomla! is a powerful content management system which is capable of supporting websites with hundreds and even thousands of pages. When websites become this large, it's often important to provide your website's visitors with a search feature as a means of locating the information on your website that they are looking for. One option that Joomla! provides for your visitors to search your website is the search module, which is a block displayed within your template.
Getting ready
Identify the class or id assigned to your Joomla! template's search form, which is assigned by a jdoc include statement within your template's index.php file. In the rhuk_milkyway template—the one that we've been working with—the search feature is assigned to the user4 block by default with this jdoc statement:
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="user4" />
It appears to the top-right of the template:
If we now look at the page's HTML source, the HTML generated by Joomla! for the search feature looks like this:

<form action="index.php" method="post">

<input name="searchword" id="mod_search_searchword"
maxlength="20" alt="Search" class="inputbox"
type="text" size="20" value="search."
onfocus="if(this.value=='search...') this.value='';" />
<input type="hidden" name="task" value="search" />
<input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_search" />
<input type="hidden" name="Itemid" value=1 />
This means that we can apply CSS to #search to style our template's search box.
How to do it...
Open your template's primary stylesheet file, which is usually called template.css, and is located in the templates\rhuk_milkyway\css\ directory of your Joomla! installation. The rhuk_milkyway template already defines the style for the form as follows:
#search {
float: right;
margin-top: -20px;
margin-right: 30px;
height: 40px;
overflow: hidden;
By adding CSS to change the search field's state when a visitor focuses within it, you can help improve your Joomla! template by orientating visitors to their whereabouts on the page:
#search input[type='text']:focus {
border-color: #09C /* blue */
Once you've uploaded the altered template.css file, you will now see a blue border surrounding the search field:
How it works...
By using the CSS pseudo-class :focus, the browser changes the attributes we define to make it clearer to our website's visitors that their input device (for example, keyboard) is focused on the search input field.
Internet Explorer versions 7 and below do not support the :focus pseudo-class. You can provide support in Internet Explorer for this feature of CSS with the use of JavaScript; see http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/fixing-focus-in-internet-explorer/.
See also
- Understanding Joomla! template positions
- Styling the search component
Styling the search component
Along with providing the search module, which is embedded within your Joomla! template depending on the module position it is assigned to, there is the Joomla! search component.
Getting ready
Firstly, you need to access the search component on your Joomla! website. You can do this by visiting http://example.com/index.php?option=com_search, assuming that your Joomla! installation is installed in the root directory of the example.com domain. With the rhuk_milkyway template as your currently enabled template, you should see that the search component looks like this:
Open your template's primary CSS file; for our example, this is templates\rhuk_milkyway\css\template.css. It is also worth studying the source of the search component page; you'll find that the search form is contained within a >form< element identified with an id of searchForm.
How to do it...
In your template's CSS file (template.css), begin by styling the overall form first:
form#searchForm {
background: #E5F1FD;
border: 1px #0C3A6D solid;
border-radius: 10px;
padding: 10px
Some browsers do not yet support the border-radius property in CSS, so you may just see the search form with squared corners.
This changes the look of the search form as follows:
Next, you'll style the search query field, which is identifiable by the #search_searchword id:
#searchForm #search_searchword {
border: 2px #0C3A6D solid;
color: #0C3A6D
This helps to distinguish the search field from the other fields in the form:
Lastly, you'll add some padding to the table cells used to lay the search component form out to provide a little more space between inputs to prevent visitors accidentally clicking:
#searchForm table td {
padding: 5px
That's the search form styled!
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By applying CSS to the relevant elements generated by Joomla!, it's possible to redefine what the search form provided by Joomla!'s search component looks like.
See also
- Styling the search module
- Using template overrides in your Joomla! template
Using template overrides in your Joomla! template
You can use template overrides in your Joomla! template to redefine the output HTML that Joomla! creates for the modules and components on your installation. This can be useful when you are unable to achieve the style you want for your Joomla! template with the markup provided in the base template that you are using.
Getting ready
In this example, you'll be changing the search component's Search button, as displayed at http://example.com/index.php?option=com_search, assuming that you have Joomla! installed at example.com:
One such thing that you may want to change is the Search button. In this example, we'll change it to a <input type= "image" /> so that we're able to use an image for the Search button rather than the browser's default rendering of the <button> element that we can see in the previous screenshot.
How to do it...
Save the search button graphic that you want to use in place of the Search button in the templates\rhuk_milkyway\images directory as search.png:
Next, you need to copy the contents of the default_form.php file located in the components\com_search\views\search\tmpl directory of your Joomla! installation into the templates\rhuk_milkyway\html\com_search\views\search directory. You may need to create the I subdirectory and its child directories (view and search) if they do not already exist. Locate the line that reads:
<button name="Search" onclick="this.form.submit()"
class="button"><?php echo JText::_( 'Search' );?>
Replace this line with:
<input type="image" name="Search" onclick="this.form.submit()"
src='//dgdsbygo8mp3h.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/blank.gif' data-original="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>templates/rhuk_milkyway/
alt="<?php echo JText::_( 'Search' );?>" />
Your new search component form now looks like this:
How it works...
By default, Joomla! looks in a component's own directory within the currently enabled Joomla! template for a custom template override. If Joomla! fails to find this file, it looks in the /components directory for the relevant file with which to generate the required HTML by the component.
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- Styling the search module
- Styling the search component
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State Sen. Pete Brunstetter announced Thursday he will not seek the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Kay Hagan.
The Winston-Salem Republican's announcement comes days after Senate leader Phil Berger decided against a bid. It could mean the Republican field is set but some GOP operatives still see room for a vibrant challenge from the party's right wing.
Brunstetter, a chief state budget writer, said he gave the race – with encouragement from Berger – serious thought.
"For me it was more of a personal decision than a political decision," Brunstetter said in an interview. "Although it is fairly daunting to put together something as significant as a U.S. Senate run this late in the game, it's more personal than anything else. These state-wide races, you have to be willing to give your entire self to it. People talk about the fire in the belly and total commitment. You have to look at the particular time and place. I was not at this particular time ready to make that commitment."
Brunstetter said the fact that both he and House Speaker Thom Tillis have close ties to the business community was not a factor in his decision.
"I thought it was politically doable," Brunstetter said.
He said he will likely endorse later in the race.
He also thinks that Hagan is vulnerable.
"North Carolinians historically are pretty quick to pull the trigger on an incumbent senator," Brunstetter said. "My analysis is once you got to the general election, it is anybody's ball game."
The most prominent candidate in the race is House Speaker Thom Tillis. Rev. Mark Harris, a Charlotte pastor, is expected to formally enter next week in a statewide tour Oct. 2. Two other lesser-known candidates – Greg Brannon of Cary and Heather Grant of Wilkesboro – are also running.
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The Wake County GOP seems to think so. In putting out instructions for poll workers for the upcoming elections, it provides some helpful hints on what voters to approach with a conservative voters guide and what voters to just offer a friendly smile.
"Keep an eye on the vehicles coming into the parking lot," said the GOP instructions on their website. "You can probably let the driver of the Prius with the peace bumper sticker walk past with a smile from you, but be sure to stop the driver of the mini-van with the fish symbol and "families first" stickers. Ditto for NRA members and (usually) pick-up drivers. Moms and dads with kids during daytime hours may be home schoolers – good prospects. You'll get the hang of it.
"People clutching sample ballots from the N&O or Independent get a smile and a nod as they pass by. Don't bother them – you have better things to do."
And it adds: "Busloads of people clutching scraps of paper as they enter the voting site – we can't do anything about them either! PLEASE CALL the emergency number and report the location. Precinct, time of day and information about the bus. Also include what is written on the bus to identify it."
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr was involved in hammering out legislation this week designed to help ensure the safety of compounded drugs and to track all prescription drugs from the manufacturing plant to the drug store.
Burr, a Republican from Winston-Salem, is part of a House-Senate bipartisan group that developed the legislation this week. The group began meeting a year ago, after a meningitis outbreak caused by contaminated compounded drugs from the New England Compounding Center.
"Securing our nation's drug supply chain is critical to the health and safety of the American people," Burr said in a statement. "The American people deserve the peace of mind to know that the medicines they buy are safe and effective. This bill establishes a uniform system that improves the security and safety of drug for consumers."
The group was led on the Senate side by Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn, Al Franken, D-Minn, Pat Roberts, R-Kan, Michael Bennett, D-Colo., and Burr.
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