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By Joy Hampton
The Moore American
MOORE — The Cleveland County Rural Water Board is still wading through bureaucratic red tape, hoping to meet target deadlines required to keep some of the grants expected to fund the infrastructure and drilling costs of the new district.
It's been a 12-year-long battle, and even with all of the work completed so far, it may not be enough.
Water district vice chair Richard Murnan and Chair Daryl Covey reported to county commissioners Monday at the Board of County Commissioners meeting.
BOCC Chair Rod Cleveland said he had a meeting Tuesday to talk to representatives of either or both Capital Assets, which has the water rights, and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, in hopes of getting a clearer picture of where the project stands.
At this time, Lexington prison facilities and the city of Lexington need water wells. The rural district hopes to drill on land owned by the Department of Corrections in the Lexington area. But Capital Assets is managing DOC property right now, leaving it unclear which entity needs to sign off on water rights and what red tape is involved.
"We're incurring a lot of time and expense and that concerns me," said Assistant District Attorney Jim Robertson, a civil attorney with District Attorney Greg Mashburn's office. Robertson represents county officials in civil legal matters.
"We have a tentative purchase agreement," Covey said.
But Covey wouldn't name who he has spoken with in state government.
The rural water district also has to comply with requirements from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Meanwhile, at least two attorneys are working on the purchase contracts, title opinions, easements and interface with state agencies trying to move the project forward.
Covey said there is precedent. The corrections facility at Quartz Mountain and a rural water district in Greer County have a very similar agreement to one Cleveland County Rural District 1 is seeking with DOC at Lexington. Quartz Mountain Rural Water Authority is the rural entity in that agreement.
"We modeled ours after that," Covey said.
In other county business, county commissioners approved the following blanket purchase orders:
· District 1 — Perfection Equipment $1,000; Mid-West Hose & Spec. $1,200
· District 2 — Chickasaw Personal Comm. $750; Certified Laboratories $2,000; Forest Lumber $500
· District 3 — O'Reilly Automotive $1,500; Interstate Battery of SW Oklahoma $1,500; Warren Cat $2,500; KSM Exchange, LLC $2,500
· County Commissioners Office Eureka Water Co. $100
· Fair Board — Oklahoma Electric Coop $200; UniFirst $350
· Sheriff's Office — US Fleet Tracking $1,200; Aramark Correctional Services LLC $38,000 (food account); Aramark Correctional Services $25,000 (commissary account)
· Purchasing Department — Oklahoma Office Systems $150
· Health Department – Copelin's Office Center $4,000; Julie Brown $1,913
Commissioners also approved the following purchase orders: General Fund $19,450; Highway Fund $24,556; Health Fund $8,532; Sheriff Service Fee Fund $2,240; Sheriff Commissary Fund $4,144; Sheriff Revolving Fund $101,682; Treasurer Certification Fee Fund $1,808; Treasurer Sales Tax Cash Fund $629,884; County Clerk Lien Fee Fund $2,782; County Clerk Preservation Fund $5,013 and Fair Board Fund $7,902.


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Clifford N. Kuhn, Jr., Esq.
David F. Csimbok
Dennis J. Nagy
Joseph J. Kovacs
Steven W. Siegel, C.F.E.
Clifford N. Kuhn, Jr., Esq.
Clifford N. Kuhn, Jr., Esq. is a highly sought-after New Jersey attorney with a long and respected career in jurisprudence. As sole owner of his own general practice law firm, which he has operated since 1998, Mr. Kuhn specializes in civil and criminal trial cases, as well as matrimonial, land use work and commercial litigation. Prior to forming his own practice, Mr. Kuhn was a partner in Kuhn & LeBrocq, a law firm engaged in general practice, including civil and criminal trial work. He was involved in the partnership from 1997 to 1998.
In 1996, Mr. Kuhn joined Kuhn & Kahn as a partner, where he remained through 1997. The firm engaged in general practice of law, including criminal trial and land use work. Prior to that partnership, Mr. Kuhn was employed at Rubin, Rubin, Malgran & Kuhn from 1989 to 1995. That general practice firm specialized in the general practice of law, including civil and criminal trial work, land use, matrimonial and real estate transactions, and bond practice.
Previously, Mr. Kuhn was a partner in the firm of Sherman, Kuhn, Justin & Wilson, from 1987 to 1989. The firm specialized in the general practice of law, including civil and criminal trial work. Before that, he was a partner in the firm of Justin, Gast & Kuhn from 1983 to 1987. That firm engaged in the general practice of law, including civil and criminal trial work.
From January 1978 to December 1983, Mr. Kuhn was an Associate, then member of the law firm of Blume, Weisman/Blume, Vasques, Goldfaden, Kuhn & Berkowitz, where Mr. Kuhn engaged in civil trial practice. From September 1977 to December 1978, Mr. Kuhn was employed by Seaman, Clark, Levine & Addy. The firm specialized primarily in personal injury cases.
Mr. Kuhn joined the Middlesex County Prosecutors Office as Assistant Middlesex County Prosecutor in September 1974, where he remained until September 1977. He was responsible for investigating and trying criminal cases.
Mr. Kuhn received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1970 from Rutgers University College, and received his Juris Doctor in 1974 from Seton Hall University School of Law. He was admitted to the Bar of the State of New Jersey on December 10, 1974.
David F. Csimbok
David F. Csimbok has an impressive career in law enforcement that spans more than 25 years, the bulk of which devoted to serving on the Carteret, NJ Police Department. At the Carteret Police Department, Mr. Csimbok has held a number of positions in succeeding authority, and has demonstrated exemplary leadership skills throughout his tenure.
Since 2003 Mr. Csimbok has been a Uniformed Patrol Lieutenant at Carteret, where he has been involved in virtually every area of law enforcement. In this position, Mr. Csimbok has: supervised the patrol sergeant and patrol officers as well as civilian dispatchers; investigated criminal complaints; supervised on-line in-service training, performed employee evaluations; handled special assignments from Captains; and served as 911 coordinator for the Borough of Carteret.
From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Csimbok served as Uniform Patrol Sergeant for the Carteret Police Department, where he supervised up to seven uniformed officers as well as dispatchers, scheduled manpower, delegated assignments, reviewed reports, maintained statistics and briefed the Department on crime trends, while receiving and forwarding civilian complaints.
As a member of the Investigative Division at Carteret, where he served from 1998 to 2001, Mr. Csimbok conducted myriad criminal investigations, while executing search warrants pertinent to ongoing investigations. He performed background investigations, maintained the Departments 911 system, implemented DVD recordings of Department transmissions, and transported evidence to appropriate offices.
From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Csimbok served as Narcotics Detective for the Carteret Police Department, as well as the Liaison to the Middlesex County Narcotics Task Force Intelligence Officer. His duties ranged from evidence control and scheduling and coordinating surveillance and special operations, to executing search warrants and coordinating and assisting narcotics-related operations involving the Task Force and other appropriate agencies.
Mr. Csimbok performed a variety of other duties for the Carteret Police Department. From 1995 to 1996 he served as General Assignment Detective / Major Crime Investigations Intelligence Officer, where he investigated significant crimes in the jurisdiction. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Csimbok served as Undercover Narcotics Investigator, where he carried out electronic surveillance utilizing wiretaps, video and other means of electronic recording, and planned operations involving narcotics raids.
From 1992 to 1993, Mr. Csimbok was a Detective in the Narcotics Division of the Carteret Police Department, in addition to the Liaison to the Middlesex County Narcotics Task Force. Previously, from 1991 to 1992, he was a member of Tactical Narcotics Team / Anti-Crime Unit in the Middlesex County Prosecutors Office. From 1987 to 1991, he served as General Assignment Detective, Warrant Officer and Systems Manager for the Carteret Police Department, where he investigated everything from homicide, sexual assault and robbery, to burglary and auto theft. Mr. Csimbok began his career with the Carteret Police Department in 1985, where he served as a Uniformed Patrol Officer, engaged in crime prevention, investigation and resolution.
Mr. Csimbok possesses outstand leadership abilities and has a range of special training encompassing virtually every area of law enforcement. He has also been honored by several organizations and municipalities, and is affiliated with numerous professional organizations pertaining to law enforcement and public safety and security.
Dennis J. Nagy
Dennis J. Nagy is a law enforcement and security professional who brings a wealth of hands-on experience in the health, safety, emergency management and response, technology and security industries. He has distinguished himself as a preeminent expert in regional law enforcement, and possesses an exemplary background in corporate, public- and private-sector security and policy development. He is also a highly sought-after motivational speaker, educator, lecturer and author, as well as an entrepreneur.
With an impressive career spanning nearly four decades, Mr. Nagy is unique among safety, security and public health professionals. His background ranges from serving as Chief of Police of a large New Jersey municipality, to an Investigator with the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness. In a nutshell, Mr. Nagy has spent his entire adult life in the service of the community.
Displaying demonstrated management capabilities that span the realms of corporate and private security, Mr. Nagy is a superior leader, communicator, trainer and motivational speaker. He is skilled and experienced in team building, planning and project management, as well as technology integration. Mr. Nagy also brings innovative thinking and adroit problem solving to every professional endeavor.
Mr. Nagys professional experience is impressive. Since 2005 he has served as Public Health Investigator for the Middlesex County Public Health Department, where he conducts investigations into everything from communicable diseases to safeguarding the public and advising on the integration of high technology for the benefit of the general public.
Concurrent with his present position, Mr. Nagy is Chief Executive Officer of Safety-Net Interactive, Inc., where he has developed a real-time Internet predator detection system. He is also employed as a State Investigator with the New Jersey office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, where he assumes a hands-on role in developing information leading to the protection of the general public. In addition, Mr. Nagy currently serves as a Volunteer Coordinator of the Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.) for Edison Township, NJ. Mr. Nagy is also the current president and owner of Frontier Security Consulting Group, LLC, based in Edison NJ, where he conducts security audits (review security/emergency management plans, develop/conduct training programs).
From November 2003 to October 2004, Mr. Nagy served as Project Manager at Gateway Security, coordinating all aspects of loss prevention at the world headquarters of Lucent Technologies. Previously, from October 2001 to November 2003, Mr. Nagy was an Instructor in the Law Enforcement, Military, and Private Security Program at the Edison Job Corps Training Academy in Edison, NJ.
From March 1999 to June 2000, Mr. Nagy was National Security Director for ETS Payphones based in Brooklyn, NY, where he supervised all security-related issues for the $100 million telecommunications company.
Mr. Nagy served with the Carteret Police Department in Carteret, NJ from 1975 to 1998. He was Deputy Chief of Police from 1986 to 1998, and subsequently assumed the position of Chief of Police from 1998 to 1999, overseeing a staff of over 100 officers and administrators. Previously he was volunteer Emergency Management Coordinator for the same department for 18 years beginning in 1980.
Mr. Nagy holds numerous certifications in the areas of public health and law enforcement. He is also a published author, an entrepreneur, and is affiliated with some of the most prestigious national and regional organizations dealing with law enforcement, public safety and security. Mr. Nagy has been honored for police valor and is a six-time recipient of the Police Merit Award. He is sought-after for his expertise in emergency management and knowledge of state of the art technology in intelligence and surveillance.
Joseph J. Kovacs
Joseph J. Kovacs is a highly respected educator with nearly thirty years of experience as a teacher and administrator. Presently an Adjunct Professor of Education at Middlesex County College, a position he has held since 2007, Mr. Kovacs has held a variety of positions in the classroom and in educational administration.
His experience as an educator began in 1968, when he taught Social Studies, United States History, Civics, World History and English in the John Adams Junior High School. In 1984 he moved on to Edison High School, where he taught Social Studies, American History, You and the Law, Advanced Placement Government and European History, and World History Honors. He remained active in teaching through 1993.
As an administrator, Mr. Kovacs has an equally impressive background. He served as Social Studies Department Chairperson at John Adams Junior High School from 1973 to 1984. He was Co-curricular Coordinator/Student Council Advisor at Edison High School from 1987 to 1993, and was Head Teacher at the Edison Township Summer School from 1989 to 1993.
Mr. Kovacs was Principal of the Benjamin Franklin School in Edison, NJ from 1993 to 1999, and Principal of the Herbert Hoover Middle School in Edison from 1999 to 2004. He was named Principal of Edison High School in 2004, and served in that position through 2007.
With a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education Social Studies from Jersey City State College, Mr. Kovacs attained a Masters Degree in Social Studies with an emphasis in American and World History from Jersey City State College in 1973. He went on to receive an MA in Administration and Super vision from Kean College in 1975. He also attained an English Certificate from Kean College in 1976.
Mr. Kovacs has been integrally involved with curriculum development, focusing on American History, Civics, World History, European AP, You and the Law, U.S. I and II, Mid-term and Final Selection Committee. He is affiliated with a number of educational and civic associations, including: the National Association of Secondary School Principals; the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association (Council Member); the Middlesex County Principals and Supervisors Association (Past President); the Edison Principals and Supervisors Association (past President); the New Jersey Council for the Social Studies (past President); the New Jersey Center for Law Related Education (Board of Directors/Treasurer, Staff Development Specialist); and the Constitutional Rights Foundation (Staff Development Trainer).
Mr. Kovacs other related experiences includes as a Reader: Principals Licensure; ETS Review Committee; New Jersey Social Studies Core; and Curriculum Standards.
Steven W. Siegel, C.F.E.
Steven W. Siegel is a highly motivated, result oriented, professional, specializing in the investigation of white collar and computer crimes. During 25 years of law enforcement experience, he has strategically planned and conducted hundreds of investigations resulting in arrests of individuals and organized groups and the identification and seizure of millions of dollars of assets. These cases were efficiently, effectively and successfully prosecuted utilizing creative problem solving skills, good judgment and sound decision making abilities.
As a member of the Union County Prosecutors Office from 1986 to 2010, Mr. Siegel has a number of selected accomplishments. He served as a Detective in the Special Prosecutions, Organized Crime, Bias Crime and Grand Jury Units. He advanced through the ranks ultimately retiring as a Detective Captain. As a supervisor, he commanded the Special Prosecutions Unit, Computer Crimes/High Tech Task Force, Internal Affairs Unit and Shooting Response team. He also supervised a squad of detectives in the Narcotics Strike Force and served for four years on the Union County Emergency Response Team (UCERT). Other supervisory duties included interviewing Detective Candidates, annual evaluations, annual report preparations, creating policy & procedures and budgeting.
While supervising the Computer Crimes/High Tech Task Force, Siegel directed and conducted investigations of child predators, bullying, computer crime, online undercover investigations, hacking, internet fraud, child pornography and harassment. He supervised both county and municipal detectives from among the countys 21 municipalities. Siegel conducted community presentations on internet safety, identity theft and fraud schemes. Siegel applied for and administered a grant from Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC). He also supervised, staffed and arranged for funding and equipment purchases for the Computer Forensic Crime Laboratory where all seized computers and cell phones were examined for evidence of crimes. Siegel coordinated investigations where necessary with federal, state, county and local law enforcement.
Mr. Siegel was a certified police recruit instructor through the NJ Police Training Commission for Bias Crime and Cultural Awareness. He also conducted in-service training to police officers and detectives in the areas of Bias Crime, Cultural Awareness, Financial Investigations, Ethics and Defensive Driving. Siegel was a Certified Instructed for the National White Collar Crime Center conducting training nationwide in Financial Crimes. Mr. Siegel is a graduate of the prestigious FBI National Academy which involved an 11 week course of instruction in management, investigations, law, ethics, public relations and a demanding course of physical fitness.
While serving in Union County, Siegel was awarded the Distinguished Service/Investigator of the Year Award twice and was nominated for it on five other occasions. He was the recipient of numerous other awards and commendations from UCPO, other law enforcement agencies and private companies.
Mr. Siegel joined the Hudson County Prosecutors Office as a County Investigator in 1985 and remained there until 1986 where he investigated white collar crime, insurance fraud, arson, corruption, official misconduct, forgeries, election law violations, identity theft and environmental crimes which resulted in numerous arrests and convictions.
Mr. Siegel is recognized as a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) from the National Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He has attended over 90 courses of instruction in criminal investigation, interviewing & interrogation and management sciences.
Mr. Siegel received a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice in 1980 from Rowan University, and received his A.S. in Management Studies in 1991 from Thomas Edison State College.
He has performed volunteer work with the Edison Emergency Response Team and the Middlesex County Medical reserves Corp.

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I am into statistics, So before commenting about Ryan Tannehill, I looked at his college statistic and THEY ARE LOUSY. I don't understand the hype. Even in the best case scenario, he is not an NFL starting QB NOW!! Look before you jump up and down.
I have been critical of this organization and have yet to be proven wrong. They are incompetent and seem to be shooting from the hip and do not have a plan. It seems no good free agents want to come here. Lets see. They trade 2 second round picks in order to get Brandon Marshall. They know he is a trouble maker but he is a very good WR. They put him with Chad Henne who had no idea how to play with him. They over pay and then when he gets into trouble, they dump him for 2 3rd round picks. There were many good WR on FA market. The team signs none and now have no #1 WR. Brian Hartline is OK. But IMHO, he would be a #2 or #3 WR on most other teams in this league! Actually, I have been rather pleased with Matt Moore. But now the team seems to be considering overpaying Alex Smith, who for much of his career has been a bust or even worse, drafting Ryan Tannehill!
Last year, the team had the opportunity to draft Ryan Mallett in the second round but passed on him. He is so much better than Ryan Tannehill. Lets do a quick comparison of their last 2 years at college.I will list them as QB Rating ---Completion % ---- TD/INT's Ryan T Texas A&M 2010----93-----65%-----13/6 2011----89-----61%-----29/15 Ryan M Arkansas 2009-----153----56%----30/7 2010-----164----65%----32/12 It seems this team is floating aimlessly with NO PLAN. New England drafts for the future. They pick up Ryan Mallet in the 3rd round and are now grooming him to replace Tom Brady.
This team uses 2nd round picks and hasn't been able to find a starting QB in a decade. CP10 fell in their laps and did great for a few years. Last point, look at the players we could have had! Drew Brees could be passing to Wes Welker and Brandon Marshall. IMHO, that is super bowl material. Instead we could be looking at Alex Smith possibly throwing to Ted Ginn again and Brian Hartline!! Does anyone else see a problem here??????


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Nadia Sutton holds the US and gay pride flags during a same-sex marriage advocates demonstration against the stay barring gay marriages on August 19, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. On August 4, District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled against Proposition 8 as unconstitutional, and after his ruling the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted proponents of Proposition 8 a stay on August 16.
California's highest court is wading back into the legal morass surrounding the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban.
The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to rule on a question from a federal appeals court mulling the constitutionality of the 2008 ban known as Proposition 8.
The three-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel said last month it needs to know if ballot proposition sponsors can step in when the attorney general and governor refuse to defend voter-approved initiatives in court.
The question is pivotal to the future of Proposition 8 because then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gov. Jerry Brown, then attorney general, both declined to appeal a federal trial judge's decision last summer overturning the measure.
Prop 8 sponsors, a coalition of religious and conservative groups, are trying to fill that void. But the 9th Circuit says it's unclear if they have authority to do so.


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Up til now, a large part of TWERP's charm has been their rough edges. Recording to hissy four track tape, singing songs about enjoying the "occasional quiet drink" and then throwing up on your friends. But now, with their self-titled debut album, there might just be a little bit of growing up going on. It's definitely the biggest-sounding recording Twerps have ever done. Unlike their early manifestos, Twerps was recorded in a bona fide studio, with the help of engineer JACK FARLEY (Beaches, St Helens). But it's not just the sound, it's the songs. Tracks like "Through The Day" and first single "Dreamin" contain instantly recognizable Twerps elements: the fascination with New Zealand's 1980s Flying Nun era, as well as US bands like the Feelies and Galaxie 500. They also contain a kind of Australian pop timelessness that harks back to the Go-Betweens, Paul Kelly and the Sunnyboys. This is something new for the band, and it's deep and resonant. Received a 7.9 rating from Pitchfork.


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Body of Work: Céline Cassone beat the odds, becoming a star of contemporary ballet.
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What can be said about this beautiful vintage photo of Martha Graham's Mary Hinkson? It's just breathtaking. The arch of her body, the calm confidence she effortlessly exudes, and we are absolutely obsessed with her pristine hair and white clothing. She's a spiritual being in this image. It's from a 1961 studio shoot with Zachary Freyman. If there was ever someone to envy...


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Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Somehow I missed this cover of "We Will Rock You." Special guest Brian May! I can't decide if I really like it. I am sure it would have been fun to be there and the live sound might have given me a better impression. Hmmm.
-In HQ, I like it a little better and will have to post it at some point.
Posted by THE BLUEST BUTTERFLY at 2/06/2013 10:47:00 AM
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- Thomas said...
I would have liked it a lot more if he hadn't periodically yelled the f-word for no apparent reason. Maybe I'm just an old fogey.
- Saturday, February 09, 2013 2:08:00 PM
- THE BLUEST BUTTERFLY said...
I never thought of that. There is another part to this performance where "The Black Parade" is sung that I think features Brian May more and cussing less (the HQ version that I mentioned).
- Saturday, February 09, 2013 5:13:00 PM
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ODOT worker dies along Highway 320
The accident happened around 1:15 p.m. south of I-84 near Echo, officials said in a release
The accident happened around 1:15 p.m. south of I-84 near Echo, officials said in a release
Swimming, boating and other water activities will reopen Wednesday at Blue Lake Regional Park in Fairview, ending an eight-day lake closure.
ODOT is expected to make an announcement soon about what engineers feel they can do or can't do to make the ramp safer.
The ads, intended to support Wehby's campaign and paid for by the Koch-linked group Freedom Partners, will run in Bend, Portland, Salem and …
OSP tried to stop Michael Murphy after seeing him popping wheelies and driving recklessly on Highway 199.
The standardized tests are scheduled to start next spring for 3rd-graders and up.
Petition for the legalization, taxation and regulation of marijuana makes it to November 4 ballot.
About 90 children, many from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, are expected to be in Portland later.
Administrators at Portland's Wilson High did not deny Jackson Fletcher his constitutional right to due process over a suspension.
A 25-year-old man is accused of using a syringe to commit a robbery at a downtown Portland Subway restaurant.


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QUEENSTOWN, Md.—The lockout has put teams with widespread roster needs such as the Redskins at a great disadvantage because they haven't been able to improve through unrestricted free agency. And with no end to the lockout in sight, the Redskins are among the clubs eagerly awaiting some definition to the free agency landscape.
When a new collective bargaining agreement is reached and free agency finally begins, though, the Redskins will operate without many limitations.
"We're prepared for various options, and we'll be able to be as aggressive as any team in the league based on whatever the rules are," general manager Bruce Allen said here today at the Mickey Steele Celebrity Golf Tournament.
The Redskins got Clinton Portis' scheduled $8.3 million salary off the 2011 books when they released him on Feb. 28. The following day they cut left guard Derrick Dockery, whose 2011 base salary was $3.8 million, and linebacker Andre Carter.
Two days after releasing Dockery and Carter, Washington signed free safety Oshiomogho Atogwe to a five-year, $26 million deal. He was eligible to be signed because St. Louis released him prior to the end of the league year.
But the Redskins have more front-line needs to fill (receiver, defensive line, etc.), and they also need better depth.
The impact free agency could have on their ongoing building process will largely depend on how it is structured.
In one of the scenarios most favorable to them, rules would be similar to the 2009 offseason, when all players with more than four seasons of NFL service were eligible for unrestricted free agency. That would result in the biggest free-agent pool in history.
In addition to parameters about player eligibility, the existence of a salary cap also is uncertain.
"When free agency comes, we have a game plan in place," Allen said. "We think we can add players to all the positions to add to the competition."
…Allen today addressed a few other topics, as well. But the dearth of news during the lockout means we have to stretchhhhhhhh them out in a few posts. Stay tuned.


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YUMA, Ariz. - The San Luis City Council candidate ordered to take an English proficiency exam was in court yesterday.
During a hearing in Yuma Superior Court, Judge John Nelson wants the audio from the exam to be available to all parties involved at the city's expense.
It's unknown when potential city council candidate, Alejandra Cabrera, took the test but a report from a linguistics expert is expected to be ready for review as early as Saturday morning.
Judge Nelson also ordered the report to be made available to all counsels.
Cabrera is back in court next week.
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Kaylee Foster, 9, of Duncan, was apprehensive about taking a crochet class.
"I've never crocheted before and it's very fun," she said. "At first, I thought it would be boring but as I got into it, I thought it was cool."
Foster was one of six students of various ages taking on the challenge of crochet at the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center's Crochet Summer Camp this week.
Neva Kitsmiller, who was instructor, showed the students several basic skills and will spend the week helping them with their projects.
"I taught at Fame Academy for five years and I love doing it," Kitsmiller said.
Foster said that it helped to have a great teacher like Kitsmiller.
Debby Whitehead, who came from Lawton for the class with her daughter Meagan, had a similar opinion of Kitsmiller.
"I look for stuff for my kids to do so they won't get bored and I thought I we could take the class together," said Whitehead. "It's been a lot of fun so far and it's nice to have a good teacher who has lots of patience."
During the first part of the week, the students worked on crocheting the top part of a kitchen towel. Kitsmiller said if they finish those, the class may work on making an additional project.
"I think the little ones may make bracelets and the others may make the ruffle scarves that are popular right now," said Kitsmiller.
"I'm thrilled to be here. I was concerned about the little ones because I haven't ever taught people that young — but they're doing great."


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The page that illustrates my challenge for you is not what you might expect from me—it is not a usual "stacy julian" layout. In a very playful effort to truly celebrate what we do, I am issuing the …
10 + 10 + 10 challenge
I would like you to scrapbook a photo of someone you love with TEN products, TEN techniques and TEN words.
TEN products
For some of you this will be easy. For others, not so much – either way, begin with your cardstock and count up ten consumable products and incorporate them into your design.
Here are my products: cardstock (Coredinations) + dimensional stickers (Pebbles/American Crafts) + fabRips fabric tear strip (Studio Calico) + Color-Ready kraft borders (Close To My Heart) + paper ticket and rhinestone bow (Jenni Bowlin) + Teeny Alpha stickers (Glitz Design) + decorative tape + paper flower (Prima) + ribbon (Scarlet Lime kit)
TEN techniques
My recommendation is just START and anytime you think of something to try or do, do or try it—the big Daddy technique in my book is intentional imperfection, so if you haven't tried that, now is the time!
Here are my techniques: sanding + tearing + sewing/stitching + punching (Fiskars Scallop Heart) + painting + stamping (flower stamp from Close To My Heart) + embossing + stapling (I think using staples totally counts!) + clustering + intentional IMPERFECTION (make this not perfect on purpose!)
TEN words
As we build relationships in our families and with our friends, we discover characteristics in these loved ones that are also characteristics in us. Sometimes these traits have gone completely unnoticed; other times they are simply under-developed and being with this person strengthens them. And sometimes, these traits are obvious and mature, but we don't fully appreciate them until we encounter them in our loved one and draw a personal connection. It wasn't until I adopted Addie and began raising a daughter that I fully recognized and appreciated many of my feminine traits. Addie has taught me (and showed my husband and boys) that I am NOT crazy—I am simply a girl! I have wanted to create a page dedicated to the female characteristics Addie and I share for a long time. Note: I think I'll go back and add the word "CLUB" just above "PRINCESS" – because we are both members!
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Sally Traylor is aware there are people who are not fond of handbell music.
She figures they have heard some "not-so-stellar" performances.
However, Traylor figures just about everybody will be entertained by the Raleigh Ringers, a handbell choir appearing at First Baptist Church On the Square in LaGrange, Ga., Saturday night.
The doors open at 6 p.m. with the show starting at 7 p.m. Admission is free, though a $10 donation is suggested.
"It is just amazing what they do with handbells," Traylor said of the internationally acclaimed group based in Raleigh, N.C.
Traylor is a former high school math teacher who gives private flute and piano lessons. She volunteers as handbell director at the church.
She said she first saw the 17-musician ensemble perform about 10-12 years ago and has seen them seven times.
"I go if the ringers are in the Atlanta area," she said.
Though this performance will be in a church, the venue most associated with handbell ringers through the years, the group will play popular religious and secular music.
The musicians perform works usually not heard played on handbells, everything from "Flight of the Bumblebee" to The Who's pop classic "Pinball Wizard."
The group was formed in 1990 and is currently under the direction of David M. Harris.
The Raleigh Ringers utilize one of the most extensive collections of bells and bell-related instruments in the world, currently more than 360 pieces of equipment with a wide range of size, shape, and timbre.
The group has performed in 36 states, as well as Europe and Canada and has been heard live on the nationally syndicated Hour of Power at the Crystal Cathedral. Five CDs and a DVD have been released by The Raleigh Ringers with more than 65,000 sold.
The holiday concert featured on the DVD was also broadcast on more than 250 Public Television stations in 44 states.
The Raleigh Ringers are very involved in sharing handbell music with others. The ensemble promotes the art of handbell ringing by performing, commissioning composers to create works for handbell choirs and offering educational opportunities through classes and event scholarship.
Traylor says this is needed because music education has been pushed aside in schools. She said there is definitely a lack of musical opportunities for students.
Traylor, 54, began playing the handbells at a young age. She has about 20-25 bell ringers she works with at First Baptist. Though, other churches have bell ringers, the number is dwindling.
To be a bell ringer takes commitment. A handbell choir is like a large piano and each ringer represents a few keys. Timing is important. "It is about teamwork," Traylor said.
Paul Blair is the associate pastor and music minister at First Baptist. He is in his 21st year on the staff.
He agrees with Traylor that through the years handbell ringing has been passed over with contemporary services becoming more common but that it remains alive in some churches with traditional and blended worship services
He said First Baptist is trying to keep "all of the instruments alive."
Blair said First Baptist is a fitting place for the Raleigh Ringers to perform since music is a vital part of the church which features numerous choirs and ensembles as well as its own orchestra and music school.
"Music is an essential part of our church," Blair said.
As for the Raleigh Ringers, Blair said, "It is really exciting to see what can be done with handbells. Most people have not seen anything like this before."
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All donated items will be given to Marquette University's Campus Kitchens and Milwaukee's Second Harvest food bank. While any canned or non-perishable food donation is welcome, both services have priority items that are being highly suggested for the drive. Campus Kitchens is looking for donations of canned green beans, French's dried onion, canned pumpkin, mashed potato flakes, canned cranberries, stuffing mix and cream of mushroom soup for their upcoming Turkeypalooza event. Second Harvest would prefer canned meat, beef stew, tuna, canned chili, peanut butter and canned or dried beans.
Members of the Marquette community can also support the event by purchasing a "helping hand" in university retail and residential dining areas Monday, November 2 to Wednesday, November 11. A portion of the money raised will be used to purchase turkey gift certificates for Campus Kitchen's Turkeypalooza. Remaining money will be used to purchase canned and non-perishable items to add to the food drive on November 12.
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If your child is having difficulty with geography or math you may want to keep them away from what is happening in the world of collegiate athletics. If those subjects vex your kid now, the damage done by the recent spate of conference realignments would only further hinder the learning process.
We now live in a collegiate sports world where 10 is really 14, 12 is really 10, San Diego is now considered East and Louisville has found its way to the Atlantic Coast.
I feel for today's kids if they learn geography like I did, which was studying up on the collegiate conferences and getting to know geography by which schools played in the Big 10, the old Southwest Conference, the Big 8, the Pac-8 and the Southeast Conference.
Of course back then the Big 10 actually had 10 teams and the Big 8 and Pac-8, had, you guessed it, eight teams. It all made perfect sense, really. Just as you could rest assured Bo Schembechler's Michigan teams would lose on New Year's Day in the Rose Bowl, you knew just by the name of the conference how many teams they had and/or where they were located. It made learning geography a lot more enjoyable than studying maps.
But those days are gone in today's high-stakes, big-money world of collegiate athletics.
Just over the course of the past week, we have seen the Big Ten, which currently has 12 members, add Maryland from the Atlantic Coast Conference and Rutgers from the Big East, bringing its membership to 14 by 2014, and further losing its identity as a Midwest conference.
Meanwhile, the Big East continues to become less and less relevant as it hemorrhages schools, while adding teams as far as away as Boise State and San Diego State in a desperate effort to maintain relevance.
How strange have things become in the Big East? The only team remaining of the original football members is Temple. However, the Owls just re-joined the Big East this past season after being exiled by the conference for several seasons while the Owls played in the Mid-American Conference and rebuilt their program.
The Atlantic Coast Conference just announced Louisville (once thought to be heading to the Big 12) from the land-locked state of Kentucky, is coming on board.
But the biggest mess belongs to poor Conference USA, which is being picked apart by a desperate Big East that has swiped Houston, SMU, UCF and even Tulane from the C-USA ranks. In response, C-USA is adding Middle Tennessee along with Louisiana Tech, FIU, FAU, North Texas, Old Dominion, Charlotte and UTSA.
At least C-USA is living up to its name, but one wag wryly suggested changing it to the Statue of Liberty Conference as in "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses ... the wretched refuse ..."
Right now the smartest players appear to be the Big 12 (even though they remain at 10 teams), the SEC and the MAC, which have maintained a core of schools with a geographical and traditional connection, providing some semblance of stability in a very unstable collegiate landscape.
But, while the conferences have shown difficulty with lower math, they have no problem counting into the millions in TV and bowl revenue that is at the heart of the maneuvering. That is the real lesson being learned.
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Black Friday has gotten bigger and bigger over recent years, and malls and stores seem to be opening earlier and earlier. Plenty of malls and stores have special events in addition to early hours.
Aside from the great deals, part of the fun of Black Friday is people watching. Of course, when you mix no sleep, long lines, early hours and great deals, things can get.... interesting. What's the craziest thing you've ever seen on Black Friday? Did two moms start pulling hair over the last Elmo? Was there a fight for the last blender? Did you wait in line for two days at Best Buy and live to tell the tale? Share the craziest thing you've seen or your survival story with other Charlotte readers.
If you know of anything that needs to be added to this list, e-mail me at email@example.com, or contact me via Twitter or Facebook.
For mall locations, many retailers will be open earlier than the mall itself. These hours are for the malls specifically.
Carolina Place Mall
11025 Carolina Place Parkway
Pineville, North Carolina 28134
Mall hours:Opening at 6 a.m.
Concord Mills Mall
8111 Concord Mills Boulevard
Concord, NC 28027
Mall hours: Opening at midnight
Northlake Mall
6801 Northlake Mall Drive
Charlotte, NC 28216
Mall hours: Opening at 6 a.m.
SouthPark Mall
4400 Sharon Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
Mall hours: Opening at 6 a.m.
Other Shopping Centers
The Arboretum Shopping Center
Providence Rd. and 51 in South Charlotte
This shopping center features major retailers including Wal-Mart, Barnes & Noble, Old Navy, The Gap, Bath and Body Works, The Children's Place, Lane Bryant, Rack Room Shoes, and a Regal Cinemas.
Stonecrest at Piper Glen
Rea Rd. and 485 in South Charlotte
This major South Charlotte shopping center features Target, Gamestop, Chicos and a Regal Cinemas
Shops at Blakeney
Rea Rd. and Ardrey Kell in South Charlotte
This center features Old Navy, Marshall's, Target, Banana Republic, Off-Broadway Shoes and Target.
Major Retailers
Best Buy
Store hours: Midnight
Store hours: 5 a.m.
Store hours: "Operation: Black Friday" sales start midnight Thanksgiving with over 500 early-bird specials lasting until 1 p.m. Friday.
Store hours: Midnight
Office Depot
Store hours: Black Friday sale starts at 5am on Black Friday, all the sale items in the ad are valid all-day Friday and Saturday.
Store hours: Sales begin at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day through 11 p.m. Friday.
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As the water rose in the Boise River in April 1943, officials closed off all but three of the bridges crossing the stream in the Boise area.
Two hundred farm families in the low-lying Strawberry Glen area west of present-day Glenwood Street were evacuated.
Members of the Idaho Volunteer Reserve, formed after the outbreak of World War II, helped evacuate residents and guarded the empty homes.
Unseasonably warm spring weather hastened the snowmelt, increasing the amount of water in the river. At the peak, 25,000 cubic feet per second pushed through the river and across its banks.
The bridges, guarded by airbase troops from Gowen Field, remained closed for five days.
Losses totaled $997,350, with 65 percent of that in the agricultural industry.
With the war, row crops had been planted in Strawberry Glenn and other lowlands. High prices convinced farmers to switch crops.
Topsoil that had remained after previous floods because of the presence of grasses, bushes and trees washed away.
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The hosted its annual Family Sand Sculpting Contest Sunday afternoon at Glencoe Beach.
Participants competed for a win in four catergories: best animal, best castle, best sculpture, and most creative sculpture. Participation in the competition was free with admission to the beach.
About 100 beachgoers gathered to watch or take part in the contest, which resulted in just under a dozen sculptures.
Creations this year included a turtle, two sea monsters, a tribute to the Olympics, an alien, a couple of castles, and even a mermaid. Winners received a Glencoe Park District beach towel and a ticket for free admission to the beach.
David Johnson, facility manager for the park district, says the contest allows them to highlight other services they offer at the beach, such as their rental facilities and picnic areas which are available throughout the Summer.
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Where has summer gone? Did we even have one? It doesn't seem like it. But anyway, here it is — Labor Day weekend.
This truly American holiday is traditionally thought of as the end of summer, although the calendar says fall is still about three weeks away. But with the kids back in school (now they had hardly any summer!), leaves already turning on the trees (we've seen one maple that's had orange leaves for a couple of weeks —what's up with that?) and football players are back on the gridiron (did the Mountaineers scare you?), we guess the Mother Nature is really ready to make the change.
When you were a child, did it seem incongruous to you that the holiday is called Labor Day, but no one worked that day?
Well, for the record, here is what the U.S. Department of Labor's website has to say about it.
"Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity and well-being of our country."
Oregon was the first to make Labor Day a recognized state holiday in 1887. And in June 1894, Congress passed an act acknowledging it as a legal holiday nationwide.
For years, Labor Day was celebrated with parades and festivals for workers and their families, the DOL site says. Speechifying was added later.
Today, labor organizations still hold rallies; some towns hold festivals.
Many people simply celebrate with a picnic or barbecue with close family or a huge reunion with their extended relations.
However you plan to spend your Labor Day weekend, please make sure you do it in a healthy and safe manner.
Have a couple of beers, but also have a designated driver. Stay off the road and the water if you have been drinking. Keep the Alka-Seltzer ready if you have too many hot dogs.
And praise this land we call home. No matter the season, the United States of America is simply the best.
Labor Day a tribute to workers' contribution to the strength, prosperity, well-being of the U.S.
Where has summer gone? Did we even have one? It doesn't seem like it. But anyway, here it is — Labor Day weekend.
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Managing a CEO's Scarcest Resource—Time
Most CEOs have a bias toward action, says Daniel Patrick Forrester, author of Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization. "This instinct may not always serve their organizations well. Many leaders say they want results, yet what they're actually saying is that they want speed. But without time for reflection, they just get to a faulty destination that much faster.
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The Perils of Scientific Illiteracy
"Apple employs 700,000 factory workers in China because we can't find the 30,000 engineers in the U.S. that we need on site at our plants," Apple CEO Steve Jobs told President Obama. "If you could educate those engineers, we could move more manufacturing jobs here." Jobs made the point that American competitiveness was being hollowed out by immigration policies that educate a growing number of foreign engineers at the best U.S. universities then immediately send them home.
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It's mid-July, and Arsenio Hall is touring Stage 6 at the Sunset Bronson studio lot in Hollywood. With the exception of a few cables, the space is empty. But with the Sept. 9 launch of The Arsenio Hall Show in national syndication looming, it won't be barren for long. "This is raw," Hall says, pointing to the floor. "But this is where, one day, Madonna will walk."
At the risk of mixing one's classic-comedy metaphors ... While watching the ladies of The Mary Tyler Moore Show reunite for a chipper if undeniably poignant exercise in meta nostalgia on TV Land's Hot in Cleveland (Wednesday, 10/9c), you might find yourself wistfully recalling the old Carol Burnett Show theme: "I'm so glad we had this time together." This is especially true for the iconic buddy duo of Mary and Rhoda, with Mary Tyler Moore appearing even more frail than Valerie Harper, whose inspiring public battle with brain cancer pretty much defines the quality once attributed to Mary Richards: "spunk."
Andre may not have won the Shiva Bowl on The League last season, but did he end the season on a big personal high note.
"As we left last season, Andre and Trixie were engaged so we are picking up right where that left off with a wedding," co-creator and executive producer Jeff Schaffer said at the Television Critics Association fall TV previews Friday. "I think Andre and Trixie are preparing the...read more
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Moderator Paul Scheer (actor/comedian) leads a quick-fire round of questions about Jack's wife, the Smoke Monster, Vincent, Libby, and other topics where the cast and executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse can say "yes," "no," or "pass."
Andre is taking a stand up class. Jenny joins a women's investment club. Pete will play Ruxin with two open slots on his team - the ultimate act of fantasy disrespect.
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Caught cheating and banned for ten years, paintball's first superstar, Bobby Dukes is back to prove himself on the field that made him famous.
On the alien planet Baab, admired astronaut Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is a national hero to the blue alien population. A master of daring rescues, Scorch pulls off astonishing feats with the quiet aid of his nerdy, by-the-rules brother, Gary (Rob Corddry), head of mission control at BASA. When BASA's no-nonsense chief Lena (Jessica Alba) informs the brothers of an SOS from a notoriously dangerous planet, Earth, Scorch rejects Gary's warnings and bounds off for yet another exciting mission. But when Scorch finds himself caught in a fiendish trap set by the evil Shanker (William Shatner) it's up to scrawny, risk-adverse Gary to do the real rescuing. As the interplanetary stakes rise to new heights, Gary is left to save his brother, his planet, his beloved wife Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker), and their adventure hungry son Kip. Also featuring the voices of Sofia Vergara, Ricky Gervais, and Craig Robinson.
This all-ages animated comedy follows the adventures of astronaut Scorch Supernova, a hero of the blue aliens who has a vast appetite for adventure.
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Shauna finds out that she's losing her house due to spending all her husband's money, and Veronica loses her dog in a tanning bed accident. With all the ladies at their lowest point, Phe Phe plans a vacation for them to bond.
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Shauna throws a Pimp's and Ho's party for the gang. Everyone attends except for Veronica who is in the hospital having a some "life saving" plastic surgery performed. Shauna and Tawny, always in competition with each other, end up having a "whore-off".
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Adult Swim's quirky comedy Childrens Hospital, which returns Thursday night at Midnight/11c, is switching things up for Season 5: The Emmy-winning show's characters have relocated to a U.S. Army base in Japan, where they clash with military personnel and hold a wine tasting during surgery.
Immediately following at 12:15/11:15c, The channel's faux crime procedural, NTSF: SD:SUV::, is also back for another season of fighting terrorists in San Diego through the most absurd means imaginable — including a visit to the city's Little London district (which was actually filmed in the real London).
We asked Childrens Hospital's Rob Corddry and NTSF's Paul Scheer to interview each other about their new seasons. The chat turned into a freewheeling conversation, ranging from the unusual appeal of USA's Suits to why neither of them find The Blues Brothers funny. An edited transcript follows.
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A growing number of companies offer walking safaris. Some are just day trips from lodges. Others are multi-day trips, when you walk to light camps that support groups have set up just for that night. For the hardy, there are walking safaris where you and the guides carry all the gear for the overnights.
Bush & BeyondBush and Beyond offers Walking Wild days to bring visitors into the wilderness. The walkers are led by a guide along paths, with shade breaks under acacia trees where the animals might just come closer to them. Each night, a light-weight camp is set up in a location where the walkers may see animals moving nearby. Walking Wild excursions are in the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, where game includes the "Big Five" (rhino, elephant, lion, leopard and buffalo), more than 420 species of birds, giraffes, cheetahs, antelopes and endangered species such as the Grevy zebra and sitatunga.
Bush and Beyond represents several privately owned properties located in secluded conservation areas. The lodges, in Kenya and Tanzania, stretch from properties on hundreds of thousands of acres in northern Kenya, to vast plateaus and properties close to Nairobi.


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Free Four
The memories of a man in his old age
are the deeds of a man in his prime
– Free Four, Obscured by Clouds, Pink Floyd
I just donated to:
- the Wikimedia Foundation
- the OpenBSD project
and became:
- an associate of GNOME
- a subscriber of Krautreporter (who have the rest of today to complete their initial bootstrap)
Being involved in a project that is heavily driven by donations, I keep remembering myself of the importance of putting my money were my mouth is.
Some of these donations were triggered by recent events and initiatives in these projects. GNOME's outreach for women program for example. Or OpenBSDs bold initiative in starting LibreSSL, which is doing what needed to be done and vitalizing an overlooked area of open source development. Watching them explain the status quo and how they are attacking it remembers me of LibreOffice — beyond the name. Plus, I dont want to be compared with a My little Pony character again.
Others are already working examples of the long tail, crowd funding and the meshed society (Wikipedia) or tailblazing to be one (Krautreporter) beyond the world of software. The latter might also have been influenced by one of the last wishes of a man that unexpectedly died way to early. May he rest in peace.
Train Stops
And the sons of pullman porters and the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
Mothers with their babes asleep are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
– The City of New Orleans, Willie Nelson interpreting Steve Goodman
|week after x.y.0
|release candidates
|finalized releases
The last two columns are most visible to most visitors of the LibreOffice website. Those are the versions found on the LibreOffice Fresh and LibreOffice Stable download pages. We are in roughly at week 18 after 4.2.0 release now, and the versions available are 4.2.4 fresh and 4.1.6 stable. A careful reader will note that according to that schedule we should be at 4.2.3 and 4.1.5 — that is true, but the 4.2 series still had an extra 4.2.1 intermediate release to adjust the schedule of 4.2 in direction of the current plan. This is not expected for future releases (also note that there is always some flexibility in the plan to allow for holidays etc.)
If you count all the prereleases, release candidates and releases, you will find that we do 25 of those in 26 weeks. Beside the fact that this is a lot of work for release engineers, one might wonder if anyone can keep up with that, and if so — how? The answer to that depends on how you are using LibreOffice.
self deployment on LibreOffice fresh
If you are an user or a small business installing LibreOffice yourself, you will probably run LibreOffice fresh and the table above simplifies for you as follows:
|week after x.y.0
|release candidates
|finalized releases
The last column shows the releases you are running. If you are a member of the LibreOffice community it would be very helpful if you also spend some time of this 6 months period for three actions:
- running at least one of the release candidates in the table (available for download here) before the final is released.
- running at least one beta releases in the table. Note that there will be a bug hunting session on the 4.3.0 beta release this week, that will help you get started.
- running a nightly build once anywhere in the weeks 1-18. Note that if you are getting excited about seeing the latest and greatest builds while they are still steaming, there are tools that can help you with this on Linux and Windows.
If you do these each of these three things once in the timeframe of six months and report any issues you find, you are helping LibreOffice already a lot — and you are making sure that the finalized releases of the fresh series are not only containing all the latest features, but also free of severe regressions.
bigger deployments on LibreOffice stable
If you are not installing LibreOffice yourself, but instead have a major deployment administrated centrally, things are a bit different. You might be more conservative and interested in the releases from LibreOffice stable. And you probably have professional support from a certified developer or a company employing certified developers.
|week after x.y.0
|release candidates
|finalized releases
If you intend to deploy one series of LibreOffice (e.g. 4.3), there are two things that are highly recommended to be done:
- make the alpha or beta releases available quickly to interested volunteers in your deployment early. They might find bugs or regressions that are specific to your use of the software.
- make the release candidates of versions that you intent to deploy available early to your users.
Of these two actions, the first is by far the most important: It identifies issues early on in the life cycle and gives both your support provider and the LibreOffice developer community at large time to resolve the issue. In fact, I would argue that if you have a major deployment, the only excuse for not making available prereleases, is that you made available nightly builds.
So, Ubuntu qualifies as a "bigger deployment" and I have to take care of LibreOffice on it. Also people want to be able to run the latest and greatest LibreOffice releases from the LibreOffice fresh series. Do I follow my recommendations here? Yes, mostly I do:
- both LibreOffice fresh and LibreOffice stable series are available from PPAs for Ubuntu and are updated regularly and quickly when an rc2 is available.
- prereleases are made available as bibisect repositories rather quick (build on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). In addition, fully packaged versions of LibreOffice are build in the prereleases PPA as early as starting with beta1.
So, you are invited to run or test builds from these PPAs — or download the bibisect repositories — to keep LibreOffice releases coming in the steady and stable fashion they do. Finally, there is a bug hunting session for LibreOffice this week and as said above, no matter if you are running a huge deployment or installing on your own, you are helping LibreOffice — and yourself, as a user of LibreOffice — a lot by testing the prereleases:
MessageBox API change
I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle
– Message in a Bottle, the Police
So, there was some minor confusion about the wording in the LibreOffice 4.2.4 release notes.
This needs some background first: LibreOffice 4.2 modified the UNO API to pop up a message box in a slight way against LibreOffice 4.1. This was properly announced in our LibreOffice 4.2 release notes many moons ago:
The following UNO interfaces and services were changed [...] com.sun.star.awt.XMessageBox, com.sun.star.awt.XMessageBoxFactory
Luckily, LibreOffice extensions can specify a minimal version, so extensions using the new MessageBox-API can explicitly request a version of LibreOffice 4.2 or newer. This change in our sdk-examples shows how an extension can be updated to use the new API and explicitly require a version of LibreOffice 4.2 and higher. All this happened already with LibreOffice 4.2.0 being released and has nothing yet to do with the change in LibreOffice 4.2.4.
So what was changed in LibreOffice 4.2.4? Well, in addition to the LibreOffice version, old extensions sometimes just ask for an "OpenOffice.org version". Most LibreOffice versions answered its version was "3.4", so this old backwards compatible check was not very helpful anyway. So in LibreOffice 4.2.4 this value was changed to "4.1", which might make some old extensions aware of the incompatible API change. That's all.
Note that:
- Most extensions using the MessageBox API have already been changed at 4.2.0 (or have been fixed by Linux distros)
- Extensions should use "LibreOffice-minimal-version" anyway by now (see example above on how to do that), it is the best way to ensure you get a well known API with welldocumented changes.
So, the short answer to the question to "what changed in LibreOffice 4.2.4?" is: Nothing, if your extension uses LibreOffice-minimal-version as recommended.
LibreOffice Las Palmas Hackfest 2014
Sie singt Tag und Nacht neue Lieder,
von den Palmen am blauen Meer
– Kein Bier auf Hawaii, originally by Paul Kuhn
So, the LibreOffice Las Palmas Hackfest 2014 is over and it was awesome. I have to thank Alberto Ruiz and University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for their excellent hosting and support. We had the opportunity to present the LibreOffice project to the students of the university, and we did so with a set of short talks to cover a lot of ground without too much boring details. Here is the hand of my slides:
You can find a video of all the talks in the session on youtube. My talk starts around minute 35 and is followed by Kendys nice intro on improving the LibreOffice UI. In addition to the video, I also made a few pictures on the event, you can find them in this album.
The achievements section of this Hackfest is still being populated, but despite being a smaller Hackfest, there seems to have been quite some productive work done in total. It was also very encouraging to see curious students from the university drop by, we tried to give them a gentle introduction on ways to contribute and learn more.
Our next LibreOffice Hackfest will be on June, 27-28 in Paris as has just been announced.
Announcing BundesGit for LibreOffice
"I fought the law and the law won"
– Sonny Curtis and the Crickets — prominently covered by the Clash
So in a few minutes, I will be leaving for the meeting at Open Knowledge Lab in Hamburg for Code for Germany in Hamburg — but I dont want to show up empty-handed. Earlier I learned about BundesGit which is a project to put all federal german laws in a git repository in easily parsable markdown language. This project was featured prominently e.g. on Wired, Heise and got me wondering that having all those laws available at the tip of your hand would be quite useful for lawyers. So here I went and quickly wrote an extension to do just that. When you install the extension:
- it downloads all the german federal laws from github and indexes them on the next restart of LibreOffice (completely in the background without annoying the user)
- that takes about ~5 minutes (and it only checks for updates on the next start, so no redownload)
- once indexed you can insert a part of a law easily in any text in Writer using the common abbreviations that lawyers use for these:
- Type the abbreviation of the paragraph on an otherwise empty line, e.g. "gg 1″ for the first Artikel of the Grundgesetz
- press Ctrl-Shift-G (G for Git, Gesetz or whatever you intend it to mean)
- LibreOffice will replace the abbreviation with the part of that law
Now this is still a proof-of-concept:
- It requires a recent version (1.9 or higher) of git in the path. While that is for example true in the upcoming version of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, other distributions might still have older versions of git, or — on Windows — none at all: Packing a git binary into the extension is left as an exercise for the reader.
- I have not checked it to parse all the different laws and find all the paragraphs. It also ignores some non-text content in the repository for now. Patches welcome!
- While it stays in the background most of the time intentionally to not get into the way of the user, it could use some error reporting or logging, so users are not left in the dark if it fails to work.
On the other hand, the extension is a good example what you can do with less than 300 lines of Python3 (including tests) in LibreOffice extensions. Thus the code was hopefully verbosely enough commented and was uploaded to sdk-examples repository, where it lives alongside this LibreOffice does print on Tuesdays extension that also serves as an example. Of course, if there other useful repositories of texts online, it can be quickly adapted to provide those too.
So download BundesGit for LibreOffice and test it on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty).
addendum: This has been featured on golem.de and linux-magazin.de (both german).
Document Liberation announced
Document Liberation has been announced today, but a picture says more than a thousand words, so I created one based on the beautiful work of Paulo José. Enjoy!
LibreOffice bugzilla status
Im kind of over gettin told to throw my hands up in the air
so there
So, somewhere between the LibreOffice 4.2.0 and the 4.1.5 release, bugs.freedesktop.org broke through 25.000 reported bugs. A time to throw the hands up in despair? Not at all, as the following chart shows:
- 7% of reports are still unconfirmed or need more information
- 22% are confirmed and unresolved issues, that are not enhancements requests
- 6.5% are unresolved enhancement requests.
On the other hand:
- 33% of all reports have been fixed in some way
- and 30% are invalid or duplicates.
Its interesting to see how now a quarter of the confirmed unresolved reports are asking for new features and enhancements. Its gets even more encouraging, if you take into account that the number of bugs reports is at a long term constant 20-25 reports per day, while over 40% of the bugs intentionally or collaterally fixed changed their state in the last 12 month. So we are picking up speed in triaging and fixing bugs, while the influx of new reports stays constant.
If you are interested, please help QA quite a bit in all this by writing good bug reports, identifying duplicates, confirming new reports, bibisecting regressions, run and test daily builds and prereleases or otherwise helping with the QA Easy Hacks!
Liberated Build System: Mission accomplished!
It's so hard when it doesn't come easy
It's so hard when it doesn't come fast
– So Hard, Taking The Long Way, Dixie Chicks
So, LibreOffice 4.2 is released, FOSDEM is over, was very nice and I am back home in Hamburg after a week in London. I missed the LibreOffice UX Hackfest for that, which I heard was also awesome. So without further ado, here are the slides from my quick talk at FOSDEM:
(direct link if you are watching this on a planet that does not support embedded speakerdecks: https://speakerdeck.com/sweetshark1/liberated-build-system-mission-accomplished)
and some errata for it: On slide 13 it says "the same file is also hardlinked from workdir/" — thats not true for quite a while already. LibreOffice keeps around exactly one copy of a library, unlike the confusing three copies that we had in LibreOffice 3.3. This should be a lot less confusing to the curious first time contributor.
Reviewing all these changes in toto, it became how much we simplified getting involved with LibreOffice through this. As the lyrics quoted above say: "Back when we started, we didn't know how hard it was".
If there is just one number to take away from all these slides, its that a noop rebuild for LibreOffice on a three year old developer notebook with the distro provided GNU make 3.81 takes just 17 seconds(*). And slide 7 shows still some possibilities to still speed things up beyond that — and while at current speeds it might not be worth it on Linux, it might be worthwhile for e.g. Windows, which is traditionally rather slow when it comes to file I/O.
On a related note, over time we improved the way new contributors can submit their changes on our instance of gerrit in many ways. Thanks a lot to David, Norbert and Robert for the work on this. One only has to look at one of daily digests generated from activity on gerrit and imagine we would still get one mail for each change, update and merge to the mailing list for manual patch tracking as we did in the early days. Thanks a lot also to Mathias Michel for his work on the script!
So if you haven't done that yet, consider graping an EasyHack and get started!
A copy of the original .odp is also available at FOSDEM or on the LibreOffice wiki.
(*) This includes checking 1.3GB of generated c++ dependency files for some >8000 object files, which we simplify to <350MB.
"Eins, zwei, drei, vier, fuenf, sechs, sieben, acht"
– Nummern, Computerwelt, Kraftwerk
So LibreOffice 4.2.0 release candidate 3 has been tagged yesterday evening. A good time to look back at the cycle and look at some numbers. The number of issues fixed in the 4.2 series are in line with our historic trends:
- 1131 bugs fixed for 4.2.0 beta 1 (at 4.1.0 we had 1045 bugs fixed at that point)
- 48 bugs fixed for 4.2.0 beta 2 (at 4.1.0 we had 76 bugs fixed)
- 67 bugs fixed for 4.2.0 release candidate 1 (at 4.1.0 we had 59 bugs fixed)
- 53 bugs fixed for 4.2.0 release candidate 2 (at 4.1.0 we had 86 bugs fixed)
There is no page for the third release candidate yet, but I assume it to be no exception. Fixing issues is mainly done by development, although QA does the preparation for that by triaging a bug well. But QA also does quite a bit of work before a bug is triaged, and this is not directly locked to changes in code. So I had a look at the numbers simply in the timeframe between the tagging of 4.1.0 rc3 (2013-07-17) and 4.2.0 rc3 (yesterday). In this timeframe, QA did:
- confirm 3114 bugs (change of ever_confirmed).
- resolve 3393 bugs (change of resolution and not unresolved now, this includes the bugs fixed by development).
Naturally, these can not be simply be added up: for example, a bug can be confirmed and then be resolved by fixing it. If all of that happens in the timeframe (as it likely will for a relevant bug), it will appear in all the above counts. Meanwhile, in this timeframe 4092 bugs have been filed by endusers. Of those new bugs filed, 9.3% where enhancement requests. Since not all resolved bugs need to be confirmed (e.g. invalid bugs), these numbers add up nicely.
Speaking of quality, another thing to look at is regressions. How many of those will be fixed in 4.2 as of now? Here is the rundown:
- 1 regression introduced in 3.4 or before
- 2 regressions introduced in 3.5 or before
- 3 regressions introduced in 3.6 or before
- 2 regressions introduced in 4.0 or before
- 8 regressions introduced in 4.1 or before
- 51 regressions introduced on master or found in betas and release candidates
As you can see, most of the regressions fixed with this have actually never been released. This should be encouraging news to those testing daily builds: If you do that, you will be rewarded with quick bug fixes. Still, only fixing 16 regressions that were visible in previous releases seems a rather low count for a release. Well, this is because this count does not count fixed regressions that are also backported to the updates on the 4.1 stable series. As regressions are usually worth that effort, this is usually done unless it is to risky a change for that. If you look for regressions that were fixed in 4.2 and also backported to 4.1, you as of now get a count of:
- 230 regressions fixed in 4.2 that were also backported to the 4.1 series
in addition. See this earlier post for more details on how the backporting works and some numbers on it.
Speaking of regressions, we have a pretty unique tool to corner them: bibisect. How well does this work? I keep tracking these in bugzilla for the last months. Currently 176 bugs have been bibisected, with the number of unresolved bibisected bugs staying constant in the 60-70 range. That is encouraging, as it means that for each regression bibisected, a developer fixes a bibisected regression. This happens currently at a rate of ~2 bugs per week, which is not too bad, as such regressions might be quite hard cornercases that without bibisect would be tricky to pin down. However, only ~14% of our unresolved regressions are bibisected as of now. Clearly, we can improve that ratio with more bibisecting and get more regressions fixed even quicker.
Ok, admittedly, this was a boring and dry post on bug numbers. What can I do to lighten you up? Here is catcontent, presented in LibreOffice Draw 4.2 running on Ubuntu trusty with the awesome new libreoffice-style-sifr icon theme:
More info about the upcoming 4.2 release can be found in the still evolving release notes and in this nice sneak peak video on 4.2. by Leif Lodahl.
tl;dr: We are doing well, but could use even more people testing daily builds and do bibisects.
addendum: The LibreOffice 4.2.0 release candidate 3 page is populated — additional 29 bugfixes. And the final release candidate 4 has 12 more.
addendum: Michael wrote a nice wrap-up what happened elsewhere in the (now released) LibreOffice 4.2.0.
LibreOffice IDE integration
Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small,
Can we ever get away from the sprawl?
So these days, most people prefer to use an IDE to navigate their source code. This has often been greeted with some defensive elitism of the "real programmers" kind since the early days of the open sourcing of StarOffice. One does not simply load a code base the size of LibreOffice in your wimpy IDE: while it is possible somehow in the end, its a lot more trouble than its worth to manually set up e.g. all the include path manually to get the fancy stuff like autocompletion. Add to that, that e.g. UNO headers are generated during the build and header were at distributed over multiple IDE unfriendly locations, with many headers even available as copies from multiple locations, before we fixed that.
All these things are fixed now. And while LibreOffice still is a huge beast with our new build system we can get a holistic view of what needs to get build where, how and when. This makes it easy, almost trivial to generate an IDE project file from the build system. And to prove this point, I did just that for the kdevelop IDE. This isnt limited in principle to this one IDE — in fact the kdevelop specific part of this is some 150 lines of Python. So no matter what IDE you use: Eclipse, Netbeans, Anjuta, Visual Studio, Code::Blocks or XCode — you should be able to adapt this. In fact, while writing this, I find there is already work going on for XCode. Feel invited to join the party and make LibreOffice trivially buildable in your favourite IDE!
So as announced to the developer list, this allows you to make navigating, editing, building, testing and running LibreOffice much easier, giving you features like:
- autocompletion
- building a module from the IDE
- building all of LibreOffice from the IDE
- nondebug and debug build configs for the above
- starting LibreOffice from the IDE
- running unitchecks, slowchecks and subsequentchecks from the IDE
Dont believe it? Here is a video featuring a stuttering german guy (me) on the audio track showing this:
If you want to show this around on social media, there is also a shorter version featuring the essentials (make sure to link to the HD versions).
A closing note: A long time, common IDEs embrace and extended into the buildsystems so once you used an IDE, you could only use this one IDE and no other. In retrospect, this is obviously doing it wrong. With the current approach, we can make LibreOffice easily buildable in any IDE on any platform. A very important fact for a product available on so many platforms.
addendum: As Karl Fogel wrote "LibreOffice is now ridiculously easy to build." before we even had this, it just shows that one can always do better. ;)


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