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Alternate name: Wright's Trefoil, Scrub Bird's-foot Trefoil
Family: Fabaceae, Pea view all from this family
Description A dark green to gray green plant with several stems, erect or prostrate, and deep yellow flowers on slender stalks growing from leaf axils.
Habit: native perennial herb.
Height: 8-16 in (20-40 cm).
Leaf: alternate, palmately compound, stalkless; 3-7 leaflets, very narrow, 0.25-0.5 in (6-12 mm) long; appearing as small, separate, whorled leaves.
Flower: yellow to orange to red,
Fruit: long slender pod, red, 1 in (2.5 cm) long.
Flower April to August.
Habitat Open rocky slopes, forest openings mainly among pinon and juniper, open woodlands, meadows.
Range Southeastern California to southern Utah and Colorado; south to New Mexico and Arizona.
Discussion Also called Wright's trefoil, scrub bird's foot trefoil. The latin names Lotus argyraeus and Acmispon argyraeus are also used. Wrights Deer-vetch is a favored browse for deer and domestic livestock. Like many species of the pea family, it has an intricate method of pollination that generally requires the aid of insects.


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We're in our prime fog season. It's gray, cold, and wet today. To see the sun you have to hop over the hill south to LA or west to the coast.
We're in our prime fog season. It's gray, cold, and wet today. To see the sun you have to hop over the hill south to LA or west to the coast.
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Got about 10 inches of snow last night....roads were fine today for the drive into work
You'll be sorry, Pee-Wee Herman!
Its sleeting right now...we were supposed to get snow. Maybe later on tonight. Its been funny to watch people act if this is a major blizzard though.
Treat your stepmother with respect Pantera, or you'll be sleeping in the streets!!
My section of MD is supposed to get hit with the white stuff on Tuesday...hope I'm home when it starts.
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
We've got cold rain here in NW Florida. It's only 39 degrees out. But of course people act like it's thirty-below. Personally, I spent the weekend in a T-shirt, jeans, and flip-flops.
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Holy carp it's cold in West Texas today....
For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.
Still foggy and overcast with the temps in the upper 40's or low 50's. My wife went to her cousin's wedding shower yesterday in LA where the temps were in the low 80's. It's only 100 miles away from here but geography really makes a difference!
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Today is a beautiful Martin Luther King Jr. Day: supposed to be upper 70s, clear, sunny.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Its been snowing since 7:30 this morning, at the moment I'd say we've gotten about 4ish inches.
Ugh, the annoying upper 70s temps and clear blue skies are so frustrating. I mean, I'd much rather be huddling for warmth and shoveling snow and forgetting what the color blue looks like.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.

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Go ahead and try dried cranberries or cherries instead of the apricots.
For a tidy stack, be sure the breads are similar in size. They'll stack evenly and can be cut into uniform triangles.
Add a bit of green to these sandwiches by tucking in watercress, mâche, romaine or oakleaf lettuce leaves.
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Term: astral double
Astral body: The astral body is a composite, made up in varying proportions of a physical (or semiphysical) body and a "spirit" body. During its projection the second body draws "astral material" from the first body through the silver cord that connects the two.
source: The Truth About Astral Projection
Astral body:
Also known as the "Astral Vehicle," the astral body is equivalent to the Sanskrit Kama-Rupa, the extra-biological part of our being, which exists as a conscious, intelligent, and indestructible entity.
It is the third Vehicle ("upward" in the general scheme) or level of consciousness, also called the Desire or Emotional Body, or Emotional "Envelope." In the process of incarnation, the astral vehicle is composed of the planetary energies in their aspects to one another to form a matrix for the physical body. This matrix is, in a sense, the true horoscope guiding the structure of the body and defining karmic factors.
The Astral Vehicle is the Lower Self of Emotion, Imagination, Thinking, Memory and Will—all the functions of the mind in response to sensory perception and emotional reaction. It is the field of dreams and the subconscious mind. It is the vehicle for most psychic activities.
Yet, a distinction must be made: The Physical Body is the field of ordinary conscious mind and the Astral is that of the sub-conscious mind, and a doorway to the super-conscious mind and the collective unconscious.Carl Llewellyn Weschcke
Astral Double:
An alternate term for "astral body."
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Introduction. The purpose of astral outsourcing is to acquire new growth resources through astral plane interactions, often with the aid of discarnates and astral intelligences and guides. Here is the procedure: Step 1. Outsourcing ...
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Title: Blue Mills, Missouri, Sibley Road
Description: View down Sibley Road in Blue Mills, Missouri.
Date: September 24, 1915
Photographer: Unknown
Item Type: Photograph, b/w
Collection: Transportation Photograph Scrapbook (P26)
See finding aid: http://localhistory.kclibrary.org/u?/Local,36853
Location: P26, Box 1, Folder 16, Number 53
Local Subject: Roads; Blue Mills
Digital Format: JPEG
Barcode: 10012139
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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
That felt an awful lot like a video game, but surprisingly NOT Republic Commando. I can't imagine a commando bothering to mark every droid he kills on his armor, they're disposable and stupid.
You would think that after so many years of warfare, they would introduce the terms "cover" and "concealment" into the Battle Droids' programming. I've always found it funny how everyone in this show just stands up directly in front of their targets, leaving themselves completely exposed to return fire.
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Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Maybe it's the number of times he's taken out bigger droids, or something? Based on the CVI panel, they're going to go into his backstory, but I don't think they'll explain the hash marks. He's in a four-episode arc where the Jedi Council sends a covert ops team of four astromech droids, a pit droid, and a tiny alien to infiltrate a Separatist base.


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A step is any activity that helps promote diabetes awareness, improve the lives of people with diabetes or promotes healthy lifestyles. Everyone is encouraged to submit their steps to our custom designed platform. Our goal is to reach 371 million steps, representing the amount of people currently living with diabetes.
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Sign this Petition! Tell Brixmor to Restore Packard Plaza.
The petition below is for anyone who has ever driven by Packard Plaza in Cudahy and felt some level of surprise (or disgust) by the lack of business and the quality of the buildings.
Hopefully we get a lot of people to sign this.
For me, this petition basically says that we are opposed to having a coorporate neighbor, Brixmor, Corp., ignoring the upkeep of their property and ignoring the concerns of good tenants, causing many of them to leave. For our city (and the surrounding cities), Packard Plaza is a lot more than a tax write-off than can be dismissed and ignored.
This petition was started by a member of the Cudahy Town Hall Facebook group. Thank you Luanne Peterson for starting this!
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This is why I love Belize so much!
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"Belize's Barrier Reef has been named one of the Seven Underwater Wonders of the World and can be found on the World Heritage List." Last week we had the pleasure of having Rodolfo here with us. He is a truly passionate diver and a great photographer. The Belize Barrier Reef offers superb diving and snorkeling; the following pictures, to say the least, are just a small glimpse of the amazing underwater world that you can discover while diving with us at Portofino Beach Resort! We hope you enjoy! And thank you so much Rodolfo that we can share the pictures with our Guests!


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It's never too early to be specific about what we think'll happen, so how about focusing purely on the opening crawl part for this thread?
Obviously (at least, to me), the text needs to be yellow, moving up from the bottom of the screen, beginning with Star Wars Epsiode VII: [Insert Subtitle Here]. * It should likely end with an ellipsis. Or should it?...
* That's the exact subtitle I think they'll use, too!
So, how should this newest film provide all of us introductory info.?


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RI National Guard Vets to walk Boston Marathon,
raising funds for the Wounded Warrior Project
When most people join the Boston Marathon, it's in running shoes and running clothes, with a goal of finishing as quickly as they can. But for these Rhode Island National Guard Veterans – the goal, and attire, is much different. They will walk the 26.2 miles in full gear, raising money for the Wounded Warrior Project in honor of Sgt. James C. Dube, a Rhode Island National Guardsman who served in Iraq and died in 2007.
In anticipation of their "march," the Guardsmen have been accepting donations, hopeful of raising significant money for the Wounded Warrior Project. They are asking people to sponsor them with donations that go directly to the Wounded Warrior Project on the Web at http://goo.gl/XBJkt.
The Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit, was founded a decade ago to raise awareness and enlist the public's aid for the needs of injured service members; to help injured service members aid and assist each other; and to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet the needs of injured service members.


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Arizona – September 20, 2010
The content below was excerpted from the Arizona Appendix (PDF, 32 pages) of GAO's most recent bimonthly review of the Recovery Act.[1]
What We Did
We reviewed three specific program areas—the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants (EECBG), and public housing—funded under the Recovery Act. Our work focused on the status of the program area's funding, how funds are being used, methods used by program managers to monitor projects to ensure proper use and safeguarding of Recovery Act funds, and various issues that are specific to each program area. (For descriptions and requirements of the programs we covered, see appendix XVIII of GAO-10-1000SP.)
We selected these programs because they provided different views of Recovery Act spending in Arizona. For example, the Recovery Act provided a significant addition in WAP funding. We reviewed how this increase in funding was being managed and identified challenges the Arizona Department of Commerce (ADOC) faces in meeting spending deadlines. Furthermore, it provided an opportunity to determine the state and local procedures in place to ensure monitoring, tracking, and measurement of weatherization program success.
The EECBG program afforded us an opportunity to assess how the state is managing a program that had not received funding prior to the Recovery Act. The program provides federal grants through the Recovery Act to local governments, Indian tribes, states, and territories to reduce energy use and fossil fuel emissions, and for improvements in energy efficiency.
We revisited three public housing agencies—we previously reported on these agencies in 2009 and 2010—that received Recovery Act funds directly from the federal government to see firsthand the progress these agencies were making in expending their funds. We also visited the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) Phoenix Field Office to discuss its efforts to implement their second year monitoring plan for Recovery Act funds.
Our work in Arizona also included monitoring the state's fiscal situation, as well as the city of Phoenix's use of Recovery Act funds. The city received nearly $400 million of Recovery Act monies and was chosen for that reason. Also, because of the significant amount of funding the Arizona Department of Education received, we followed up on the actions it is taking to monitor the use of Recovery Act funds and found that it is better prepared to monitor the funds. Further, to gain an understanding of the state's experience in meeting Recovery Act reporting requirements,[2] we examined documents prepared by and held discussions with the Governor's Office of Economic Recovery (OER) and ADOC. Finally, we spoke with OER and Office of the Auditor General officials that have oversight responsibilities for Recovery Act funds. In assessing all of these programs, we spoke with local and state officials responsible for the programs, reviewed records, and visited locations where weatherization, energy efficiency, and housing improvement activities were underway.
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Weatherization Assistance Program
ADOC was awarded $57 million to weatherize an estimated 6,400 homes. The weatherization services being performed consist of a wide variety of retrofitting measures, such as improving heating and cooling systems, applying air sealing and weather stripping, and improving insulation. Currently, because the average cost to weatherize homes has been less than expected, ADOC faces challenges in expending all of its weatherization funds by the March 2012 deadline, and, if average costs remain the same, may be able to weatherize about 1,200 more homes than originally planned. ADOC is exceeding some U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) requirements for monitoring the use of Recovery Act funds and estimates that weatherization of homes in Arizona will result in up to $2.8 million in annual energy savings.
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants
The State Energy Office received $9.5 million in EECBG funds and distributed the funds to 64 cities, with populations less than 35,000, as well as the 5 smallest counties in Arizona. In addition, 32 larger communities received $54.2 million and 21 tribal communities received $8.9 million in direct funding from the DOE for energy efficient programs. Recovery Act EECBG funds are being used in Arizona to finance a variety of projects, such as energy assessments and the installation of energy-saving devices and equipment. Other planned activities include retrofitting energy efficient street lighting and installing renewable energy technologies in or on government buildings.
Public Housing Formula and Competitive Capital Funds
Arizona has 15 public housing agencies that have received about $12 million from the Public Housing Capital fund. To date, the agencies are expending their formula funds by the mandated deadlines. Arizona also received one Capital Fund competitive grant, which the city of Phoenix housing agency plans to combine with other funding to renovate 374 housing units. This project has faced challenges stemming from a more complex bidding process and historical preservation issues. These are potential obstacles to the city's ability to meet the September 23, 2010, obligation deadline.
Arizona's fiscal condition
Recovery Act funds helped Arizona to balance its fiscal year 2011 budget by enabling the state to save the equivalent amount of approximately $815 million from its general fund. The state has enacted a budget for 2011 assuming the passage of two ballot measures in the November general election. The state legislature is awaiting the November election results before deciding on possible contingency budget solutions.
The City of Phoenix's use of Recovery Act funds
largest city in Arizona, Phoenix manages a diverse portfolio of Recovery Act funds to mainly support short-term, one-time projects in infrastructure development, energy conservation, public housing, and other areas. Phoenix has been awarded $382 million, of which 62 percent was awarded directly from federal agencies while the remaining 38 percent was awarded to state agencies that in turn passed the funds to the city. Officials said that Recovery Act funds have helped to fund jobs and are expected to yield beneficial outcomes to the city, including better infrastructure; increased services to communities, such as Early Head Start; and energy savings from energy grants.
The Arizona Auditor General released the fiscal year 2009 Single Audit[3] with audit coverage of Recovery Act expenditures from February 2009 when the Recovery Act was passed through June 2009. Only 2 of the 28 significant internal control findings that were related to federal funding awards were specific to controls over Recovery Act funds—one was a lack of maintaining documentation and the other was not having current central contractor registrations documentation prior to awarding grant money. Corrective action plans for both are in place. The OER has begun implementing its monitoring of subrecipients of Recovery Act funds, as well as providing technical assistance to state agencies on procedures to detect fraud, waste, and abuse.
Full September ReportBack to top
- Recovery Act: States' and Localities' Uses of Funds and Actions Needed to Address Implementation Challenges and Bolster Accountability
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 344 pages) Accessible Text
- Recovery Act: States' and Localities' Uses of Funds and Actions Needed to Address Implementation Challenges and Bolster Accountability
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 573 pages) Accessible Text
- [1] Pub. L. No. 111-5, 123 Stat. 115 (Feb. 17, 2009).
- [2] Recipients of Recovery Act funds are required to report quarterly on a number of measures, including the use of funds and estimates of the number of jobs created and retained. Recovery Act, div. A, § 1512. We refer to the reports required by section 1512 of the Recovery Act as recipient reports.
- [3] The Single Audit Act of 1984, as amended (31 U.S.C. §§ 7501-7507), requires that each state, local government, or nonprofit organization that expends at least a certain amount per year in federal awardsi-currently set at $500,000 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)-must have a Single Audit conducted for that year subject to applicable requirements, which are generally set out in OMB Circular No. A-133, Audits of States, Local Governments and Non-profit Organizations (revised June 27, 2003, and June 26, 2007).


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The Buddy-to-Buddy (B2B) program was designed to help returning Michigan OEF/OIF veterans deal with the many challenges they may face when readjusting to civilian life.
Behind the program is a simple concept: military service is unlike any other human experience. No one knows more about the issues facing a veteran – in combat or on the home front – than another veteran.
If you or a service member you know needs help, call the Buddy-to-Buddy program at 1-888-82-BUDDY (1-888-822-8339). You'll be matched with a veteran trained to help you find resources for a variety of readjustment issues, such as financial benefits, educational goals, emotional challenges, substance abuse, legal or job issues.
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FSF Europe
On May 29 I met Georg C. F. Greve (greve), Xavier Noria (fxn), Matthias Saou (Thias), Xavier Drudis and Kenneth Peiruza in Barcelona (ES). Georg was invited by the Univeristat Pompeu Fabra to discuss about Free Software with the officials of the university and he gave also a talk to explain the current issues of software patents in Europe and how the FSF Europe is working to stop them. People involved with the Free Software movement agreed with Georg that before starting a FSF Europe chapter in Spain, we should create an associate organization.
It was really easy to convince Georg to give another talk at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya on June 2. He talked about the benefits of Free Software and the drawbacks of software patents and I introduced him to some of the officials of my university, who seem very interested in promoting Free Sofware.
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Published the Catalan translation of issue #50 at the same time as the English and German versions. This is the table of contents:


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Necrotizing soft tissue infection is a rare but very severe type of bacterial infection. It can destroy the muscles, skin, and underlying tissue. The word "necrotizing" refers to something that causes body tissue to die.
Necrotizing fasciitis; Fasciitis - necrotizing; Flesh-eating bacteria; Soft tissue gangrene; Gangrene - soft tissue
Many different types of bacteria can cause this infection. A very severe and usually deadly form of necrotizing soft tissue infection is due to Streptococcus pyogenes, which is sometimes called "flesh-eating bacteria."
Necrotizing soft tissue infection develops when the bacteria enters the body, usually through a minor cut or scrape. The bacteria begins to grow and release harmful substances (toxins) that kill tissue and affect blood flow to the area. As the tissue dies, the bacteria enters the blood and rapidly spreads throughout the body.
Symptoms include:
Other symptoms can include:
Your doctor or nurse may diagnose this condition by looking at your skin. You may be diagnosed in an operating room by a surgeon.
Tests that may be done include:
Immediate treatment is needed to prevent death. Treatment includes:
Other treatments may include:
How well you do depends on:
This disease commonly causes scarring and skin deformity.
Death can occur rapidly without proper treatment.
This disorder is severe and may be life-threatening, so contact your health care provider immediately if symptoms of infection occur around a skin injury, including:
Always clean the skin thoroughly after a cut, scrape, or other skin injury.
Stevens DL, Bisno AL, Chambers HF, Everett ED, Dellinger P, Goldstein EJC, Gorbach SL, Hirschmann JV, Kaplan EL, Montoya JG, Wade JC. Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections. Clin Infect Dis. 2005;41(10):1373-1406.
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Is it true that we know more about the dark side of the Moon than we do about the oceans?
It's true! Why do you think so? The oceans are deep, dark, frigid, and under extraordinarily high pressure at all but the surface. It's hard to imagine an environment that's less hospitable to human life! Yet, as you will see, we know quite a bit about the oceans and this is due mostly to technology. Rovers, like the one pictured, allow scientists to go to places that are too inhospitable or dangerous for human life.
Studying the Seafloor
Scuba divers can only dive to about 40 meters, and they cannot stay down there for very long. Although this is good for researching the organisms and ecosystems very near a coast, most oceanic research requires accessing greater depths.
Seafloor Bathymetry
How do scientists create bathymetric maps like the one of Loihi volcano in Hawaii shown in the concept "Maps"? Early explorers mapped a small amount of the seafloor by painstakingly dropping a line over the side of a ship to measure the depth at one tiny spot at a time. Then, during World War II, battleships and submarines carried echo sounders to locate enemy submarines (Figure below). Echo sounders produce sound waves that travel outward in all directions, bounce off the nearest object, and then return to the ship. By knowing the speed of sound in seawater, scientists calculate the distance to the object based on the time it takes for the wave to make a round trip.
This echo sounder has many beams and creates a three dimensional map of the seafloor. Early echo sounders had a single beam and created a line of depth measurements.Echo sounders now have many beams to get a more detailed and more rapid picture of the seafloor.
Sampling Remotely
Samples of seawater from different depths in the water column are needed to understand ocean chemistry. To do this, bottles are placed along a cable at regular depths and closed as a weight is dropped down the cable. The water trapped in the bottle can be analyzed later in a laboratory (Figure below).
A Niskin bottle being deployed off the side of a research ship.
Scientists are also interested in collecting rock and sediment samples from the seafloor. A dredge is a giant rectangular bucket that is dragged along behind a ship to collect loose rocks. Gravity corers are metal tubes that fall to the seafloor and slice into the sediments to collect a sample. The research vessel, the Joides Resolution, drills deep into the seafloor to collect samples of the sediment and ocean crust. Scientists analyze the samples for chemistry and paleomagnetism.
Samples of seawater and rocks can be collected directly by scientists in a submersible. These subs can take scientists down to make observations. The subs have arms for collecting samples. The human operated vehicle Alvin can dive up to 4,500 m beneath the ocean surface and has made more than 4,400 dives since 1964 (Figure below).
Alvin allows two people and a pilot to make a nine hour dive.
Remotely Operated Vehicles
To avoid the expense, dangers, and limitations of human missions under the sea, remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs, allow scientists to study the ocean's depths by using small vehicles carrying cameras and scientific instruments. ROVs were used to study the Titanic, which would have been far too dangerous for a manned sub to enter. Scientists control ROVs electronically with sophisticated operating systems.
- Most of the ocean is less well known than the dark side of the Moon because it is inhospitable and inaccessible.
- Echo sounders use sound waves to make bathymetric maps.
- Submersibles and ROVs allow scientists to view otherwise inhospitable regions either directly or remotely.
- How does an echo sounder work?
- Why is an ROV better for some tasks than a submersible? Why is a submersible better for some tasks than an ROV?
- How do marine geologists collect rock and sediment samples?


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On the Java licensing front, two observations:
1. Gosling says that the Java specification grants rights for any complete implementation of the specification, and that right extends to patents. See bullet 4, http://today.java.net/jag/page7.html#59.
2. The Sun JCP licensing explicitly grants a "perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, royalty free, limited license (without the right to sublicense) under any applicable copyrights or patent rights" to *any* implementation of the specification (which they further define as fully implementing the spec in its entirety, not extending the spec, and passing the relevant TCK for the specification). See http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr129/j2me_pb-1_0-fr-spec-license.html for an example.
So I think Miguel's claim that there are no guarantees that Sun won't sue an open implementation of APIs are somewhat overblown relative to the .NET problem. Plus, Sun has licensed the TCK to ObjectWeb and Apache for free.
The JCP has a bunch of problems. Still, it's not a terrible start, and it's improving.


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Look like not working on iPhone 4S.
Works here. It's been annoying me the whole time. I wonder if it was an increase in battery life not updating it always being there
Nice tweak - although I just deleted the OTA daemon with all the other slower downers
When will untethered jailbreak come out for ios 5.1 A4 devices :-O


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Arrgghh!! What's up with TAC? Either we got spoiled with saga last year or hasbro is really cutting the distribution of the new stuff.
Arrgghh!! What's up with TAC? Either we got spoiled with saga last year or hasbro is really cutting the distribution of the new stuff.
I feel exactly like you do CommTech.
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
Full pegs of Saga today at Burbank Target. No signs of TAC figures or ships.
Yup, we had all the Saga stuff restocked. It's an active skew (waves 9, 10, and revisions) until the end of May I'd been told. (So get your Kashyyyk Clone army, etc.)
I got the newest GALACTIC HEROES today. I bought 3 sets of 4 two-packs (one set each for my pals James and Darren - RScummers who are local here that I've traded with for 11 years).
A guy in a Navy uniform came in and bought Boba and Jango Fett from the Saga Revisions. I wonder if he's doing like I'm doing - making a Mandalorian squad - or if he thought they were the "hot" Fett figures and he was going to try to scalp them instead of the Concept Coin Figure from TAC?
Another guy who said he's from Riverside County (Temecula area likely) was asking me all kinds of questions. He said he was in town to take care of his injured brother. Maybe. His questions made me sort of cautious, as he sounded like a scalper looking for info. My store's actually out of Lushros Dofine or I'd promote him as "the super-rare and VHTF Separatist Commander" . But the guy was nice. I was a stranger to him, but he talked to me a lot. He'd been in the Hot Wheels isle first, too. So I wonder. He was also holding a Tantive IV Battle Pack and when I told him it was $20, he put it down fast! He'd initially been excited because it came with Darth Vader. But I showed him he could get a single carded Darth Vader figure from the Saga wave because they're rare and VHTF . He asked me if I was going to sell the Galactic Heroes I was picking up. I'm sure I was snotty when I explained I almost never sell and rarely buy anything on eBay and explained that I was only there at the store opening because my friends and I like to get the stuff for retail cost and won't ever pay more at all. Like I said, he was nosy but nice enough. I honestly don't know if I should have been friendlier. But my instincts weren't telling me that this guy was just a collector like a lot of us.
However, leaving with 3 of each 2-pack or a stack of a dozen GHs, I'm sure I didn't look as innocent as I am. But I phoned my friend while I was in the store and he asked to meet me Saturday and pick up the rest of my load from me. So, that's the way we do things. Except for the Hoth Troopers, I have no further plans to buy Galactic Heroes at the present time.
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
Burbank Target also had the new GHs. Cute buggers, all of 'em! One TAC peg was empty, the other had a Kashyyyk BD set and CW Kit on it, overflow from the packed TSCs. Anyone wanna army-build R5-J2? You can there! There was also a red-holo Rieekan, one of the only truly 'rare' figures of TSC. The helmetless Combat Engineer seemed to be gone... maybe Hootie caved the other day?
Picked up the Brown Variant Bantha BP at Burbank TRU today. It was the last one on the shelves. Looks very different from the light colored set.
Picked up the new wave of Galactic Heroes today at Burbank Target, along with an extra Gunner/Royal Guard pack and an extra Ponda/Snags (need to paint the extra Snags blue of course).
Stashed the other Gunner/Royal Guard pack - if anyone wants it, PM me.
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I can't find them either Turbo. They were all gone that day I got the Sith Infiltrator (that I know you want so badly )
Anyway, I get the feeling one of the Hot Wheels guys and the other regular Star Wars collector at my Target don't like me.
I've never done anything to them, but I may be (at least for the past 18 months or so) the new face at "their" Target since I've moved away from my old "lucky" Target.
Now I say "hello" and talk to some of them, some of the time, but I think they resent me for 2 reasons:
1) I'm new on their turf - which might have been "their turf" since at least 2004 or earlier, and I arrived late 2005. (not that I touch the Hot Wheels at all anyway)
2) Because I don't work. Those guys are off to their jobs after they hit the stores, but from talking to me, they know I go home and get back into bed. They know as well as some of you might, that I kind of have to. I know I'm lucky to be in my financial situation, but I don't need to suffer more stress and blood pressure issues (which nearly killed me in the first place) so that I can have solidarity with the rest of the world that works. If you were in my shoes, you'd be making the same choices that I do in that regard.
But anyway, since I don't butt into their conversations much or anything of the sort, I'm not even annoying by my behavior or conversational additions. I mean I know I like being a pariah at times when I'm trying to be, but when I feel like I'm being relegated that role without any reason for it, that can irk me.
I thought about it today because the one Hot Wheel guy brought a retail bag over to the Star Wars guy's car before they approached the door for "the waiting." They glanced my direction (could have been at the door - but you know me and my paranoias), and though I suppose it wasn't my business, I asked what was in the bag when they approached. They wouldn't tell me and joked that it was "crack." I didn't get upset (visibly) but I just instinctively thought to myself, "clandestine toy deal."
Any ideas what's up?
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I got the Bantha set today at the Montebello TRU. I think it was the only one left. I don't know whether it was the variant one or the regular one. They had remnants of TAC 2, only 3 each of Han and Luke. This was around 6:30 p.m.
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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of Twitter (TWTR) are up $2.14, or almost 4%, at $59.14, reversing days of decline all last week, after Goldman Sachs's Heath Terry this morning reiterated a Buy rating, and raised his price target to $65 from $46, writing that the company is "accelerating the pace of product innovation," by which he is referring to a 4x increase in the "number of enhancements" to products over the last quarter.
Terry provides the following chart of 23 new products introduced in Q4 of last year, including "Tailored Ads" and "Reading Lists" (click for larger image):
"We expect these initiatives to impact Twitter's three levers of growth – usage, engagement and monetization," writes Terry.
Terry raised his 2014 estimate to $311.7 million in "monthly active users," up from 292 million estimated previously, although he cut his estimate for "timeline views" per active user to 3,095 from 3,133, which nets out ad revenue per 1,000 timeline views of $1.22, up from $1.14.
That gets Terry to a revenue estimate this year to $1.23 billion, up from $1.1 billion, and adjusted Ebitda of $137 million, up from $126 million.
Terry offers the following observations about some of the individual product innovations:
Direct access to direct messages ("DMs") via the navigation bar at the bottom of the app along with the ability to share photos in DMs add messaging as a use case for Twitter, as the company aims to become more ubiquitous and grow its user base. We believe the new direct messaging functionality makes Twitter more competitive to messaging apps such as WhatsApp, WeChat, and Kakao talk, as well as to Facebook's messaging app. Messaging has seen significant user growth, with WhatsApp at 300mn monthly active users and WeChat at 200mn, for example […] In December, Twitter revamped the mobile product so users can swipe between 3 or 4 timelines: home, discover, activity, and currently in beta, popular photos and nearby. We believe timeline updates, trending TV shows and popular photos simplify the product, improve ease of use, and drive adoption of new functionality that in aggregate likely drive user and engagement growth […] To further its use case as a news source, Twitter now allows users to save links to read later within the mobile app. In 3Q, Twitter also launched related headlines in the permalink of top tweets, to further its integration with platform partners. We believe this, and similar enhancements, improve the ubiquity of the Twitter platform, as it becomes relevant for any user who wants an aggregated source of news and current events […] Twitter is testing new discovery mechanisms in beta, where a series of notifications guides the user to the newly updated 4 different timelines. We believe the size of Twitter's audience will ultimately depend on its ability to easily onboard new users and effectively surface relevant content, making the new discovery mechanisms conducive to further user and engagement growth.
Terry thinks the stock can trade above his target if he's right that it hits monthly active users about half what Facebook has currently:
We believe this price target has the potential to prove conservative if Twitter is able to continue to build on its role as a ubiquitous real time communications platform. While the upside case that our target is based on assumes revenue grows by 100% annually on average, that scenario only requires Twitter reach 600mn MAU's, less than half Facebook's current audience. While requiring solid execution, we believe as Twitter focuses on ease of use, reaching that audience will come naturally given the platform's broad application and the growth in mobile usage. Therefore, we remain Buy rated and believe Twitter has the potential to be one of the best performing stocks in our sector in the years ahead.


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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 324, September 9, 2005
ARSC User Training and Physics 693
Classes have begun at UAF and ARSC staff along with the UAF Physics department are once again teaching Physics 693. The Core Skills for Computation Science class serves as an introduction to the basic skills required to operate in a modern high performance computing environment.
ARSC users are encouraged to attend any lecture the would find beneficial. Physics 693 lectures are the only formal ARSC user training scheduled for this fall.
The following classes will be taught in the next two weeks.
|Writing Batch Scripts
|Lee Higbie
|Introduction to Fortran, Part 1
|Lee Higbie
|Introduction to Fortran, Part 2
|Lee Higbie
|Visualization and Complex Data Presentation, Part 1
|Roger Edberg
Classes occur in the West Ridge Research Building (WRRB) Room 009 on Tuesday and Thursday from 9:15 - 11:15AM.
For a complete schedule visit the Core Skills class website at http://www.arsc.edu/~cskills
X1: Executing OpenMP Programs
Launching an OpenMP application on the X1 using the
aprun "-d
option, for instance (for a program compiled in SSP-mode):
aprun -d 16 ./omp.SSP.a.out
can result in profoundly faster execution than launching it with:
$ export OMP_NUM_THREADS=16 $ aprun ./omp.SSP.a.out
The latter method doesn't inform the scheduler of the number of threads (processors) you want. To the scheduler, it looks like a 1-SSP job. On busy klondike, this will almost certainly result in your job sharing a node with other programs, and running its 16 threads on fewer than 16 SSPs.
Here's Cray's relevant bit of documentation, taken from the "Cray Fortran Compiler Commands and Directives Reference Manual":
-------------------------------------------------------------- 6.5. OpenMP Program Execution The -d depth option of the aprun command is required to reserve more than one physical processor for an OpenMP process. For best performance, depth should be the same as the maximum number of threads the program uses. This example shows how to reserve the physical processors: aprun -d depth ompProgram If the program is compiled for MSP mode, depth must be less than or equal to 4; for SSP mode less than or equal to 16. If depth is not specified, the aprun command defaults depth to 1. If the OMP_NUM_THREADS environment variable is not set, the program behaves as if OMP_NUM_THREADS is set to the same value as depth. The aprun options -n processes and -N processes_per_node are compatible with OpenMP but do not directly affect the execution of OpenMP programs.
Storage Management
ARSC has two Sun Fire 6800 systems which act as the hosts for the long term filesystems ($ARCHIVE). The system "nanook" acts at the archive host for SGI systems and iceflyer, while "seawolf" acts as the host for klondike and iceberg. The Sun package which manages the archive filesystem is called SAM-QFS.
When a file is written to $ARCHIVE it will automatically be written to two different tapes after an hour or so. Eventually the on-disk copy of the file may be released from disk leaving only the tape copies. Should the file be accessed in the future it will automatically be retrieved from tape and restored to disk. Since $ARCHIVE is NFS mounted on most systems you might not ever need to log into the Sun storage systems. On the other hand, since files can be offline the $ARCHIVE filesystem acts differently than normal disk filesystems. Here are some things which can improve the responsiveness of $ARCHIVE.
- Use tar files when possible to avoid storing many small files. There is a significant amount of overhead associated with each tape mount, using a single file reduces the number of tape loads, etc.
If you need to copy files from $ARCHIVE to a remote system, connect directly to the archive host. This eliminates an NFS connection (e.g. between iceberg and seawolf).
krcp -r "firstname.lastname@example.com:/archive/u1/uaf/user/data" .In place of:
krcp -r "firstname.lastname@example.com:/archive/u1/uaf/user/data" .
NOTE: you may need to request that your account be activated on seawolf or nanook.
- Users with large amounts of data to move may benefit by using the SAM-QFS "stage" command which is available directly on the archive hosts.
See > http://www.arsc.edu/support/howtos/storage.html for a list of common SAM-QFS commands and examples of the stage command.
Fall "Discovery Tuesdays" Schedule
This fall ARSC is trying a new approach for the popular "Discovery Tuedays" series. Each session will begin with a one hour lecture starting at 2 PM followed by open lab time until 7 PM. All sessions will be broadcast over the Access Grid.
ARSC User Consultants, staff, graduate students and visiting speakers will be on location to discuss how you can take advantage of the lab resources for your research or to assist with an existing project.
September Sessions: 13: Introduction to the Discovery Lab 20: Discovery Lab Operator Training 27: Programming and Software Packages October Sessions: 04: Intro to Amira 11: Elegant Art / Funky Programming
The Discovery Lab is located in the Rasmuson Library Room 375C.
If you have an idea for a future "Discovery Tuesdays" event or for more information on scheduled events contact Bob Huebert at firstname.lastname@example.com or Jenn Wagaman at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A: [[ I have about 25 login names and passwords for various web sites [[ I use. The web sites include everything from free subscriptions [[ and chat groups to (horrors!) on-line banking and investing. The [[ security required isn't at the level of my HPC accounts, but it's [[ still important. [[ [[ A few practical suggestions for managing all these names and [[ passwords would be appreciated. # # Thanks for Bob Moench for the following solution. # I use a Palm Tungsten C for a variety of reasons. One such reason is to keep all those account/passwords in check. A simple GNU utility called 'Keyring' stores that type of information in an encrypted fashion. For me, a password is just a couple of button pushes away. To augment the above solution I selected a relatively unique user id that I attempt to use as my default first choice everywhere I sign up. For low security situations I use a good password, but use the same one for all those sites. I can usually just try those default values for the run of the mill sign on and don't even need to look it up. # # Thanks to Ed Kornkven for this solution # A really nice application for handling passwords is "EZ Password Manager" from http://www.northwind-tech.com/ . It not only keeps a database of your passwords, it has other nifty features like the ability to match the web page you're browsing with its database entry and paste the username and password fields using hot keys. Unfortunately, it only runs under Windows. On the Mac, I use the Apple-supplied "Keychain" app but it's not as nice in my opinion. Q: Here's a Fortran DO loop and a print statement: DO I = N, M, L ... ENDDO PRINT*, "Value of I, after the loop terminates: ", I Assuming the loop executes all iterations specified (e.g., it doesn't contain any "EXIT" statements), can you precompute the value which will be printed for I? And it is?
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Family: Apocynaceae, Dogbane view all from this family
Description Native perennial forb. Height: to 40 inches. Habit: erect, opposite, many branches, may lack central stem. Smooth stems have milky sap when broken. Leaf: entire, pointed oval, spreading or drooping, hairy underneath, to 5 inches long by 2 inches wide. Flower: small, pink bells with 5 petals, 1/4-3/8" wide, erect or nodding. Fruit: paired, long, very narrow pod with seeds on silky hair.
Warning The stalks of this plant may be fatal to children if eaten. The plant can be fatal to animals if ingested. Sensitivity to a toxin varies with a persons age, weight, physical condition, and individual susceptibility. Children are most vulnerable because of their curiosity and small size. Toxicity can vary in a plant according to season, the plants different parts, and its stage of growth; and plants can absorb toxic substances, such as herbicides, pesticides, and pollutants from the water, air, and soil.
Flower June to August.
Flower June - August
Habitat Dry, open areas and disturbed sites; riparian zones; shady moist areas with clay soils.
Range Found throughout the continental U.S. and Canada, except Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and Kansas.
Discussion This plant is poisonous, and should not be confused with milkweed, which is edible. Compared to milkweed, spreading dogbane has branching stems, hairs on the underside of the leaves, and no hair on the stems.
Spreading dogpane hybridizes freely with other dogbanes. Also known as: bitterroot, flytrap dogbane.
Comments Spreads so rapidly from creeping underground stems that it should not be used in small garden settings.
Exposure Preference Sun to partial shade.
Native Distribution Newfoundland. to British Columbia, s. to Georgia mts. & Arizona
Site Preference Open woods; roadsides; lakeshores; thickets
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I was wondering if anyone out there could help me out with a situation of a barking dog...my co-worker likes to bring her dog to work with her-she is a very nice lab-but the dog barks as people approach the office doors. We/she has put up with this bad habbit for some time now and has finally come to realize that this is an unacceptable behavior. (This is the only situation in which the dog will bark). Would a bark collar help in a situation such as this? I know the easiest solution would be to not take the dog to work but this is not an option as it is not my dog or decision to make. Can anyone make a suggestion of a collar type/brand?
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Optimal Wellness
December 2013
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Retention in care becomes more important as people age, particularly for people living with HIV/AIDS, as HIV infection is made more complex in the context of natural chronic illnesses more common among older individuals, like diabetes and hypertension. Mark Brennan-Ing of ACRIA in New York State discusses the concept of Optimal Wellness in terms of wellness concerns for aging people living with HIV; emerging trends for this population related to wellness and HIV; and related tools and resources.
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Yuta Kubo, Yuji Nashiro to Compete in Krush 67kg GP
- Written by Dave Walsh
A few weeks ago, Krush announced the expansion of their weight classes, adding 67kg and 58kg. With that announcement came the announcement of an 8-man 67kg tournament set to start on Krush's January 14th event, which is set to be titled Jawin Presents Krush Grand Prix 2013 ~67kg First Class Tournament~. Krush just announced the first two participants in that tournament and although there are 6 more fighters to be announced, the tournament may already have its two biggest favorites in Yuta Kubo and Yuji Nashiro.
Former 63kg kingpin Yuta Kubo has slowly been moving up in weight over the past year, most recently fighting Yuya Yamato at 67kg at Krush.22. He was scheduled to make his 70kg debut at Glory 4 Tokyo on December 2nd, but with rumors about that card's postponement flying around, Kubo's 70kg debut may be postponed. Arguably the #1 fighter in Japan right now, Kubo (34-4-1, 16 KO) has won 11 straight fights. During that stretch, he won the 2011 K-1 -63kg Japan tournament, taking out Koshien products Kizaemon Saiga, Masaaki Noiri and Koya Urabe, then won 5 straight fights against European opposition, earning the ISKA Light Welterweight title in the process. His most recent bout was a head kick KO of top 67kg fighter Yuya Yamato. Kubo definitely has to be the favorite in this tournament, regardless of who is announced.
Nashiro has had an interesting career, to say the least. After a 39 second KO loss to Yuichiro Nagashima in the 2010 K-1 MAX Japan Tournament, Nashiro scored back to back wins over eventual Krush 70kg tournament finalists Yutaro Yamauchi and Kenta before losing to Yoshihiro Sato. A rematch with Yamauchi in the opening round of the Krush tournament saw Nashiro lose an extension round decision and seemingly fall off the map, as fighters like Yamauchi, Kenta, Shintaro Matsukura and others began to flood a chaotic 70kg division in Japan. Despite this, Nashiro was chosen as a participant in the 2011 K-1 MAX Japan Tournament, but drew Albert Kraus in the quarterfinals. With most expecting him to roll over, Nashiro brought the fight to Kraus, hurting him in the first and dropping him in the 3rd. He then went on to hand Takafumi Morita his first loss and knock out Yuya Yamamoto to win the tournament, effectively earning him a spot in the new K-1's Final 16 this May. However, that didn't go so well for him as he dropped a decision to Reece McCallister, failing to advance. The drop to 67kg is a great move for Nashiro, who stands at just over 5'6" and will still probably be a bit undersized at 67kg.
Also announced to compete on the card are Krush 55kg champ Shota Takiya, 2011 Youth GP champion Masaaki Noiri, Yuji Takeuchi and Kan Itabashi. Takiya could be defending his title for the 3rd time. Noiri will likely face the winner of this year's -63kg Youth GP, which will be decided at Krush.24 this weekend when Koya Urabe faces Hisaki Higashimoto, as he won last year's Youth GP. With Naoki Ishikawa getting another title shot against Hirotaka Urabe, common logic says that Takeuchi and Itabashi, who are both coming off of wins at Krush.23 over 60kg tournament finalists Fumiya Osawa and Katsuya Goto, respectively, will face each other.


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*runs off to beg wife for money*
If it helps... even more has been added!
The Grandmaster's Traveling Warband now gets in addition to everything above:
2 free copies of SW Deluxe Explorer's Edition (all Warbands get this)
All of the Classic HOE PDFs... yes, ALL of them
An Action/Adventure Deck
And a copy of Smith & Robards to help with doing those pesky bionics!
All of the Templar Grandmaster levels get the last 3, and anyone pledging at the Gang level (10 extra minis) gets one free copy of SW Deluxe Explorer's Edition thrown in.
And we're only about $2K away from unlocking the Doombringer now, which you would also get one of those FREE as well.
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On Saturday Oct 12th, Hawaii Rush sent potential college bound players through Rush Soccer's first ever streamed video broadcast College Advisory Program (CAP) meeting.
Running separate sessions throughout the day, players and their parents visited the Hawaii Rush office in staggered groups where they were directed by Steve Whitehouse of Hawaii Rush and Dakota Robinson of Playerocity in discussion and viewing of the online streamed video production including Michael Gabb (National Director of College Advisory Program) offering a step by step guide of the college recruiting process. Each of the players had Rush CAP and Junior Packet workbooks to follow along. Following the streamed discussion by Coach Gabb, was a Playerocity tutorial enabling each of the players to create their individual player profiles, upload their photos, and learn how to reach out directly to recruiting college coaches.
"Steve Whitehouse really liked the video, was very pleased with the content and was happy when I told him the video would be available on rushsoccer.com. He said the content was good and he also liked the CAP workbook and the Junior Packet," said Dakota after the event. She continued, "The video definitely made the players realize the importance of looking at colleges, talking to college coaches and that their GPA in high school and in college is incredibly important."
Coach Sean Richardson of Hawaii Rush was there for the last group and he liked the video as well. He said that the video had so much good content and hopes that the players were able to grasp it all, and said that the biggest problem with players in Hawaii is that they rarely get seen by college coaches nor do they get to visit schools of interest so they don't really know what is out there."
This event would not have been possible without the dedication and help of Steve Whitehouse and Coach Richardson of Hawaii Rush, Michael Gabb of Rush Soccer, Dakota Robinson of Playerocity, Chris Wing of SportsView for the video production, and all the attending players and parents for participating and helping this event to be successful!
The streaming video will be available soon from the rushsoccer.com website, for any of those needing help with their college recruiting needs.


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I just watched this movie again. I like it every time I see it!
It was a great concept and well done!
I wished I'd collected the toys. It was the fact that the Mariner's boat never was released that disappointed me most!
Did anybody ever see that toy hit the shelves?
Anyway, I don't recall the figures being that good either. Didn't "Kenner" make them though?
Well, I jet ski quite often, so the whole thing about a fight on the water is way too awesome!


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The general manager of Steele Communications has made an official on-air apology for the behaviour of "Open Line" host Randy Simms.
In the apology, Mike Murphy calls Simms' behaviour "unprofessional and offensive."
On Jan. 29, Simms got into an on-air quarrel with Mushuau Innu band council Chief Simeon Tshakapesh over a provincial five-year ban on hunting the George River caribou herd. Tshakapesh said he wasn't going to adhere to the ban, and during the on-air confrontation, Simms said to the Innu chief, "I said you're stupid and you are, you know that, right?"
In an interview with The Telegram later that day, Simms said he had broken his own rule by not keeping the topic in the form of a debate and letting the discussion descend into name calling. The next day, he apologized on "Open Line."
Murphy says this additional apology was given because the previous one was directly from Simms. This apology was from VOCM and while it was certainly to Tshakapesh, it was to a broader group, as well, Murphy says.
"It was to the Innu of Labrador. It was to the listeners."
Murphy says some listeners of "Open Line" expressed their disapproval of what had happened, so VOCM wanted to apologize to them, too.
In the apology, Murphy describes the station's stance on what happened.
"Mr. Simms used coarse language in describing aboriginals who don't recognize the province's five-year ban on caribou hunting and personally insulted Chief Tshakapesh."
"He failed to entertain opposing points of view. The comments were unprofessional and offensive personally to the chief and to the Innu Nation and a breach of our editorial standards. VOCM apologizes unreservedly to Chief Tshakapesh, the Innu Nation and to our listening audience."
Whether there are any other repercussions for Simms is a private matter between Simms and his employer, Murphy said.
Simms is on vacation until Friday morning and will return to the show then, Murphy says.
Reached late Tuesday evening, Tshakapesh said he had not had a chance to listen to Murphy's apology and would not talk with media about the matter until today.


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Towards the end of a five mile hike along the Great Wall (which we began at the village of Jinshanling) the wall's structure had not been renovated. The paving was uneven, battlements on one side were missing, and the towers we passed had lost their roofs and parts of their walls. Although this made for more careful and slower going, the ruins added to the mysterious and lonesome ambiance of the place --- where, for hundreds of years, soldiers kept watch at all hours for the approach of invaders from the west.


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Great news: Cities to apply Kelo to … mortgages
posted at 11:46 am on July 6, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
If one wanted to craft a strategy to make the home-mortgage market even less stable, increase already-unsustainable public debt, and erode private property rights even further than we have already seen, it would be hard to top a new idea from California, of all places. Two cities have fashioned a plan to use eminent domain not to seize real estate, but to seize the mortgages on them. Call this … Kelo meets Hugo Chavez:
Eminent domain allows a government to forcibly acquire property that is then reused in a way considered good for the public—new housing, roads, shopping centers and the like. Owners of the properties are entitled to compensation, which is usually determined by a court.
But instead of tearing down property, California's San Bernardino County and two of its largest cities, Ontario and Fontana, want to put eminent domain to a highly unorthodox use to keep people in their homes.
The municipalities, about 45 minutes east of Los Angeles, would acquire underwater mortgages from investors and cut the loan principal to match the current property value. Then, they would resell the reduced mortgages to new investors. …
For a home with an existing $300,000 mortgage that now has a market value of $150,000, Mortgage Resolution Partners might argue the loan is worth only $120,000. If a judge agreed, the program's private financiers would fund the city's seizure of the loan, paying the current loan investors that reduced amount. Then, they could offer to help the homeowner refinance into a new $145,000 30-year mortgage backed by the Federal Housing Administration, which has a program allowing borrowers to have as little as 2.25% in equity. That would leave $25,000 in profit, minus the origination costs, to be divided between the city, Mortgage Resolution Partners and its investors.
Where to start on this nonsense, given to us courtesy of David Souter? The Kelo decision gave a legal option of using eminent domain not for public use, such as roads or utility rights-of-way, but to transfer property to other private ownership. One can imagine that a Supreme Court that had no problem establishing that precedent would suddenly get persnickety about the definition of property subject to eminent domain, not unless the court in question would like to take a second chance at getting that decision corrected and the precedent undone.
If cities began doing this, it will create a number of problems, especially in mortgage markets, which are still unstable thanks to the 2008 housing bubble crash created by government interventions over a decade in the market. It will disincentivize future investors, who will rightly wonder just how safe their investments will be while cities have the prerogative of simply deciding how much of their investment they should be allowed to keep. As it works now, investors take known risks on loan securities, but this will add a huge amount of uncertainty to the investment market, and it will drive capital out at a time when mortgage lenders need more capital to get into the market. That will force lenders to raise bond yields, which will mean higher mortgage rates for borrowers, especially for those who present more risk.
Furthermore, it will hand a carte blanche to local politicians looking to curry favor with residents — and we can expect them to use it as often as they think they can get away with it. Nothing sells like populism, and nothing in populism sells better than "sticking it to the banks," even when the "banks" really means lots of investors, large and small, who bought mortgage-based securities for retirement funds and the like. On top of that, the process heightens the moral hazard of government intervention, which then encourages people to take irrational and damaging risks by expecting private gain with public loss.
In short, this is the kind of policy that is not just misguided, but positively disastrous, even when the government in question is on solid financial footing — which is hardly an apt description of government in California at any level. What happens when no one wants to buy the mortgages seized by these cities because of the instability and risks involved? The taxpayers will be on the hook for the principal, even at the artificially-imposed new level, and when the homeowners default on those mortgages, the cities will have to maintain the properties at taxpayer expense.
American government should use eminent domain only on real property, and only for actual and explicit public use, and pay market price as compensation. This is a violation of private property rights on every level, and a symptom of a government transforming from the traditional American model to something much more authoritarian — and incompetent.
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The best way to tap into renewable project funding.
Glenn J. Berger is a partner, Frank C. Shaw a counsel, and J. Alexander Cooke an associate, at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
The best way to tap into renewable project funding.
Renewable generation resources have become the rallying cry for policymakers and developers alike as the movement grows to generate electricity in a more climate-friendly manner. Pending federal legislation creating a carbon cap-and-trade market and a national renewable portfolio standard (RPS), together with existing state requirements, is spurring utilities that lack renewable generation to acquire some—no matter the federal legislative outcome—and causing utilities with sizeable renewable generation to expand their existing portfolios. The economic downturn also has lowered the cost of certain renewable projects, making them more affordable: Cambridge Energy Research Associates reports that project costs for wind projects have declined by 11 percent in the first six months of 2009.
As utilities seek more renewables, they are identifying cost-effective projects through the time-honored method of requests for proposals (RFP). Although many utilities have deep experience with RFPs, in the current economic and regulatory environment an RFP for renewable resources merits special consideration. Some utilities that lack experience with particular renewable technologies have entered joint ventures with experienced developers to spread risk, optimize capital, and benefit from the developers' superior expertise. Joint ventures, however, raise a host of issues that utilities would not encounter in traditional build-transfer or offtaker arrangements. Also, recent financing trends and new governmental incentives in the form of loan guarantees and tax benefits affect the most cost-effective ownership and contractual structure that utilities should adopt for their renewable projects. Further, in the movement for more renewable resources, many exciting and innovative technologies are under development, but utilities need to understand the technologies' chances of successful implementation. Utilities should take these factors into account when structuring RFPs for renewable resources in order to attract more potential developers and stronger proposals.
Joint Ventures
When issuing RFPs, utilities can request that developers propose a joint-venture structure that will be the most cost-effective, allowing developers to be creative with their structures in the hope of identifying superior proposals. But a utility should consider setting parameters around certain variables—ownership of project assets and performance security—to ensure that the joint venture appropriately balances costs, regulatory requirements, and the relative risk profiles and goals of the utility and developers.
Developers and utilities typically own their assets through different structures. Developers usually form a project company (also referred to as a special-purpose entity) that owns only the project assets. Such ownership prevents any liabilities or costs associated with the project assets from adversely affecting the developers' other projects and also facilitates project financing, in which lenders have limited or no recourse beyond the assets held by the project company. Utilities, in contrast, generally are impelled to own project assets directly without any intermediary legal entities if they are to be permitted to recover the project costs from ratepayers. Utilities could acquire equity interests in project companies through their unregulated generation subsidiaries, but federal and


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Increasing your personal loan amount
Want to do some extra renovations or take a slightly longer holiday? If you have an existing Aussie personal loan, you can increase your loan if you've got the capacity to pay and meet our responsible lending criteria. There'll be some paperwork but give us a call on 13 13 55 and we'll talk you through the process.
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If you received a bonus at work, won big on an Instant Scratchie or just worked up some savings, you can put it towards paying off your loan. Call us on 13 13 55 and we'll tell you how.
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Churches and other religious associations teaching that believers can communicate with spirits and the deceased through such practices as seances and other paranormal activities. Churches in the Spiritualist tradition include the Swedenborgian Church and the International General Assembly of Spiritualists.
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Don't worry about changing out of your nighty for this year's Pajama Run 5K. Proceeds from the event benefit the Hollings Cancer Center at MUSC, which focuses on cancer prevention programs through quality care, research, and professional education. Celebrate during the after party with food, drinks, and awards given to the winners in each age category, the person with the best pajama outfit, and the individual or group who raises the most money. Race starts at 10 a.m. Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park, 360 Fishburne St. Saturday, 9-11am. $35; $25 advance. (843)225-1012, www.pajamarun.com


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How do you try not to arrest someone if they have broken the law?In a nine-page memo issued Friday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said agents should use prosecutorial discretion to try to avoid detaining parents and, if parents are detained, agents should make sure they have the ability to visit with their children or participate in family court proceedings.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...#ixzz2d30eRFDC
Wonder if the memo mentions anything about whether that minor is in the US or not?The memo issued last week instructs ICE agents to give special consideration when they encounter an illegal immigrant who is a parent or legal guardian of a child.
The article mentions that about 430,000 illegal immigrants were affected by the "DREAMER" executive order. I'm guessing that each of those have at least one parent.
ICE officers tried to sue to block these policies, but the judge said he didn't have jurisdiction, that it was a collective bargaining issue, even though they were probably correct that the law requires them to arrest illegal immigrants.