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The Storm Prediction Center has placed much of Hampton Roads in the 'Moderate Risk' area for today. (Northeast North Carolina is in the 'Slight Risk' area)
'Moderate Risk' may sound average but for this region it is actually fairly uncommon. The Moderate and High risk areas are much more common in the midwest.
We will likely start to see storms move into the region this afternoon/early evening. Williamsburg around 4pm, Southside around 5 and coastal areas around 6 pm.
Wind will be the big issue! Expect winds 10-20 with gusts to 30 as the front moves in. Wind gusts will be even higher within the storms.
Hail, Tornadoes, and Flash Flooding are also possible.
This is the same system that brought severe weather to the upper midwest/lower Great Lakes yesterday with 18 tornado reports, over 100 hail reports, over 150 wind reports. There were 239 total U.S. storm reports yesterday.
Reminder: A storm is 'Severe' once it has winds of 58+ mph and/or 1″+ hail.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning for James City and Surry until 4:45pm
Here comes the storms! Line near Richmond is moving our way and will be moving into Williamsburg in about 45min t… http://t.co/HpouqH22Ae—
Patrick Rockey WTKR (@PatrickRockey) June 13, 2013
53,000+ @DomVAPower now without power in Central #Virginia WTVR.com #rva—
CBS 6 WTVR Richmond (@CBS6) June 13, 2013
The York River Academy graduation ceremony has been postponed from tonight at 6 pm to 2 pm Saturday, June 14, due to the threat of severe weather for our area tonight.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING for NW Gloucester County and Middlesex counties. Another warning for James City and Surry. Expect small hail …—
Patrick Rockey WTKR (@PatrickRockey) June 13, 2013
Joyners Bridge in Isle of Wight closed due to flooding from Blackwater River.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning for all of the Middle Peninsula, City of Newport News, Williamsburg, Surry, Isle of Wight, New Kent.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING for northern Accomack Co. until 5:30 p.m. Expect heavy rain, gusty winds & hail…. fb.me/2z3hfl9v5—
Dominic Brown WTKR (@DominicBrownTV) June 13, 2013
First Colonial High School's graduation, scheduled for 8:00 p.m. tonight at the convention center, has been pushed to 8:30 p.m. due to severe weather. Students should report to the convention center at 7:45 p.m.
The Music by the Bay concert at Fort Monroe scheduled for 7:00 p.m. is cancelled due to severe weather.
Waiting outside for a graduation? Make sure you seek shelter in your car if you hear lightning or are under a warning! Don't risk it!
Severe thunderstorm warning issued for Southside until 6 p.m.
3,100 households now without power due to storms according to Dominion Power.
I-95 partially closed near mile marker 47 close to Petersburg, VA due to trees down.—
TWC Breaking (@TWCBreaking) June 13, 2013
All of Hampton Roads now under Severe Thunderstorm Warning
University Will Be Closing at 5 p.m.
Classes Cancelled at 6 p.m.
An outbreak of severe storms is expected this afternoon and evening.—
Norfolk State (@nsuspartanz) June 13, 2013
Due to the impending severe weather, the Newport News Police Department's North Precinct Town Hall Meeting scheduled for this evening has been cancelled.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING for the City of Virginia Beach & the eastern City of Chesapeake until 6 p.m.
Officials have confirmed that a person has been blown off of a pier in Gloucester Point on the York River.
Crews are now searching for the missing person according to Sheriff Warren with the Gloucester Sheriffs Office.
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel closed in both directions due to high winds.
Eastern Shore Community College closed
Update: Person blown off of jet ski in Gloucester has been found safe.
High wind advisories at Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Coleman Bridge now canceled.
65,000 customers now without power and Dominion Power expects this number to rise. Most of the outages are concentrated on the Peninsula. High winds have knocked tree branches into power lines.
If you see downed lines, call 1-866-DOM HELP.
There is a tree down on a trailer at Timm's Lane at the Greenspring in James City County.
There is also a tree on a house in Bermuda Circle in the First Colony Neighborhood.
Widespread power outage reported at Ft. Eustis.
All Severe Thunderstorm Warnings have expired. Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains for parts of HR and NE NC.
The following roadways are now affected in Suffolk due to the storms:
A large tree down at Bridge Road and Bennett's Pasture Road. Wires are also down and there are power outages in this area. One lane each northbound and southbound are currently closed. Dominion Virginia Power is en route to the location and Public Works is currently working to remove the tree from the roadway.
A tree was down across Holland Road/Rt. 58 but has since been removed from the roadway and traffic isn't affected.
A tree is down and on fire at 94 Stacey Drive, with power lines down and power out in the area. Police and Fire are on scene, and Dominion Virginia Power is en route to the location. Power is out in the Lake Kennedy area to include Cypress Manor.
At 307 Capitol Street power ines are down on several cars. There are no injuries and Dominion Virginia Power is en route to the location. The street is shut down at 304 Capitol Street to remove the wires.
The traffic signals along Dam Neck Road are functioning but not properly cycling; between Holland Road and the base. Traffic is either stopped or slow moving along Dam Neck Road & causing delays along Princess Anne Road, Holland Road, General Booth Boulevard, Harpers, and London Bridge Road.
Kiln Creek neighborhood. Sent by Samantha #hrweather http://t.co/uZ3WV2R4Xf—
Patrick Rockey WTKR (@PatrickRockey) June 13, 2013
Beat the Traffic: MAJOR delays on the Peninsula. Debris cleanup on 64WB at Camp Peary. Also backups WB from Jefferson to Lee Hall. @wtkr3—
Juliet Bickford (@julietbickford) June 13, 2013
Storm front approaches northern OBX. Take shelter as system moves across to the southeast.—
Dare County EM (@DareCoEM) June 13, 2013
Update from Dominion Power: More than 110,000 customers are without power in Hampton Roads and Northern NC, concentrated on the Peninsula, Williamsburg, and more than 20,000 in Virginia Beach.
The biggest issue right now is a large tree that came down on a substation in Williamsburg, knocking out power to about 10,000 customers. About 30,000 customers total in Williamsburg are without power in areas including around Waller Mill Road, Capital Landing Rd and Hubbard Lane.
Tree falls on sign #I-64 #Williamsburg #VA http://t.co/WkuADxUZpL—
Jackie Morlock WTKR (@JackieMorlock) June 13, 2013
Tree down & pulled power lines in the woods off Stacey Dr in Suffolk http://t.co/KiCBQM4sDJ—
Gabriella (@GabriellaDeLuca) June 14, 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Dare County and Inland Hyde County until 8:45pm
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING for Dare County until 8:45 PM. Here's a photo of the storm moving in from Angela Cob… http://t.co/l7MbnGfv57—
Patrick Rockey WTKR (@PatrickRockey) June 14, 2013
And the other looks like this #rainbow http://t.co/uq2zpr3bQU—
Gabriella (@GabriellaDeLuca) June 14, 2013
One end of Capitol Street in Suffolk looks like this…… @WTKR3 http://t.co/vMvHshYfng—
Gabriella (@GabriellaDeLuca) June 14, 2013
A restoration estimate has not been established yet. Tonight's focus is on public safety, critical community services & damage assessment.—
Dominion VA Power (@DomVAPower) June 14, 2013
SEVERE T-STORM WARNING for Dare County extended until 9:30 PM. Storms have mainly moved south of Oregon Inlet. #OBX—
Patrick Rockey WTKR (@PatrickRockey) June 14, 2013
Following a guy who just pulled up to our news car and said "want to see a roof blown off?" #stormcoverage—
Reed Andrews (@ReedAndrewsWTKR) June 14, 2013
Calm after the storm #sunset #suffolk #hrva http://t.co/oZtPVKibRj—
Gabriella (@GabriellaDeLuca) June 14, 2013
Calm after the storm in Virginia Beach near Mt. Trashmore! http://t.co/oEg9G5gTOh—
Marissa Jasek WTKR (@MarissaJasek) June 14, 2013
Tree that fell on a house in the First Colony of JCC. http://t.co/KVbPm3edfd—
Reed Andrews (@ReedAndrewsWTKR) June 14, 2013
Inside view of the damage, after a tree fell on a house in JCC. http://t.co/E71V2KAGEn—
Reed Andrews (@ReedAndrewsWTKR) June 14, 2013
Ceiling that flipped over after being torn off during Thursday's storm. This happened a storage unit off 199. http://t.co/EJ6y7PLuOq—
Reed Andrews (@ReedAndrewsWTKR) June 14, 2013
Dominion crews have restored power to more than 15,000 customers since a line of violent thunderstorms entered our area with heavy lighting, strong winds, rain and hail
Wind gusts of up to 85 mph were reported as the storm moved southeast – exceeding hurricane-force winds. Some of the most severe damage has been in James City County, York County, Williamsburg, Hampton, Newport News and Virginia Beach
They are working with local emergency management to support their efforts, respond to emergency situations and clear any downed lines from major roads and intersections. Tonight's focus is on public safety, restoring critical community services, performing damage assessments.
Approximately 2,845 residences are still without power in Suffolk due to the downed tree and power lines at Bridge Road and Bennett's Pasture Road, as well as the downed lines at Capitol Street.
Update: One lane each northbound and southbound on Bennett's Pasture Road still remain closed, and crews from Dominion Virginia Power are still on scene in Suffolk.
The Newport News Fire Department reminds residents who have lost power to make sure that all appliances that may have been on at the time of the outage are turned off. This includes stoves, ovens, dryers, etc., and will help reduce the occurrence of fires once power is restored.
Dominion Crews are assessing the damage around the area and restoring community services including several schools. They are now working to restore the following schools:
Warhilll H.S. in Williamsburg
Woodside H.S. in Newport News – last day for students was today
Heritage H.S. in Newport News
Bayside H.S. in Virginia Beach
Power has been restored to over 34, 000 customers today. The Sentara Williamsburg Hospital and major convocation centers have been restored.
Please stay AWAY from all downed power lines
Approximately 2,845 residences are still without power in Suffolk due to the downed tree and power lines at Bridge Road and Bennett's Pasture Road, as well as the downed lines at Capitol Street.
One lane each northbound and southbound on Bennett's Pasture Road still remain closed, and crews from Dominion Virginia Power are still on scene.
Crews from Dominion Virginia Power are en route to the downed lines at Capitol Street, and the street remains closed at 304 Capitol Street.
At the height of the storm approximately 3,103 residences in Suffolk were without power and a total of 340,585 residences were without power statewide at 7:00 p.m.
There have been no injuries associated with this weather incident. A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect in our area until 10:00 p.m.
This blog is now closed. Thank you for watching NewsChannel 3!


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Dec 21, 2010
Outside the Flower Box
We were inspired by the term "Contemporary Rustic" and when we began to think about how it could translate into a tablescape for a wedding we decided on tall, dark patina urns paired with simple, white plates, and crisp white napkins. Incorporating lanterns with clean, contemporary lines added a vineyard-esque element without becoming to 'themey". The flowers were designed with lush, cream and blush peonies, ranunculus and hellebores. We wove in eucalyptus greenery, delicate navy privet berries to pay homage to vineyard grape vines and details of kumquats to give it a fresh finish. Finally, using hand calligraphed seating cards and menus from Paperfinger added an elegant touch. We couldn't help but make a bridal bouquet and groom boutonniere to perfectly compliment the spread.
Flowers: Poppies & Posies
Calligraphy: Paperfinger
Photography: Missy Photography
[images from Missy Photography]
Poppies & Posies is a sponsor and member of Brooklyn Bride's preferred vendor listings
4 Comments to "Outside the Flower Box"
Rachel - theWeddingVine Says:
December 21st, 2010 at 3:28 pm
I love the flower arrangements in the vases!! Beautiful!
claire Says:
December 21st, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Ohhhh!!! My new favorite look! I love the table scape!!
Dynamite Weddings Says:
December 22nd, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Sometimes a simple arrangement is the most gorgeous.
christian pas cher Says:
September 27th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
I love the flower arrangements in the vases!! Beautiful!
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"I have some concerns about what is going to happen in the future," said Frank Growney of Shoreham.
For non-experts, filing your taxes can be confusing. And when Frank Growney went to file his 2011 taxes, he ran into unexpected problems.
"It was rejected, which surprised me. I tried two or three times, in matter of fact, I couldn't figure out it was rejected. But it kept coming up with the same error code, which indicated there was already a return with my ID," Growney said.
He was told by the Internal Revenue Service it was mostly likely a computer error, but just in case, to file a fraud complaint. A year and multiple fraud complaints later, Growney says he finally heard from the IRS. But it wasn't the news he was hoping for.
"Just a few days ago, I got a confirmation from them that indeed my identity had been stolen," he said.
Someone else had gotten a hold of his personal information and filed Growney's taxes, and reaped the benefits of over $7,000 in tax returns.
"It is something that we haven't seen a lot of. As a matter of fact, I can't recall getting a complaint like this. So, I am hoping this is not something that is going to start taking place a great deal," Vt. State Police Sgt. James Hogan said.
Although Growney's case is unusual, he isn't the only one. In 2010, the IRS initiated over 200 investigations of fraudulent tax returns. In just a few years, that number has tripled. And these tax return bandits are not stopping at the grave.
"We also see it if there is a deceased taxpayer, they will basically prepare a return as if it was them, and then they will get money back before the family members realize what is happening," said T.J. Sabotka, a certified public accountant.
Sabotka says the ability to file taxes online has made it easier for this type of fraud to happen. The IRS is currently collaborating with financial institutes and law enforcement agencies across the nation to help cut down on this crime.
"I'm hoping that will be the end of it," Growney said. "Time will tell."
Although Growney's real tax return would have been significantly lower than $7,000, the CPA says if the IRS owes you a refund, they usually will stick to that promise. But when a victim will see their rightful refund is unknown.
With online filing, you can only submit your taxes once, so the sooner you do it, the less a chance a thief can beat you to it. And, as with all identity theft, the IRS recommends being vigilant with credit cards and bank accounts, and to only give out your Social Security number when absolutely necessary.
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DZone Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world
Ruby Dice Roller
Just a brief exercise, I couldn't find anything on DZone Snippets that did this in Ruby. I wanted some pretty formatting, too, so it could be simplified.
class Fixnum def roll(num=1) out = Hash.new{|h,k| h[k] = []} num.times { out[:rolls] << 1 + rand(self) } out[:total] = out[:rolls].inject{|sum,n| sum + n} out end end
Usage would be:
>> 6.roll 4 => {:rolls=>[5, 6, 5, 5], :total=>21}
Next step would be to make it more #d# format, so 3.d(20) would work, and would be dead simple to implement.
class Fixnum def d(sides=2) out = Hash.new{|h,k| h[k] = []} self.times { out[:rolls] << 1 + rand(sides) } out[:total] = out[:rolls].inject{|sum,n| sum + n} out end end
>> 3.d(6) => {:rolls=>[4, 5, 4], :total=>13}
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Riccardo Padovani: Ubuntu (for Phones) in the wild!
Hey all! It's a while that I don't write here, my promise to write one post every two weeks is too difficult to keep. Anyway, I'm here to describe one of the funniest weekend I had in a while. Italian LoCo Team last weekend was at "Fiera del Radioamatore", the biggest electronics fair in the North-East of Italy.
It was a big success, and in three days there were a lot of people in our stand. There is too many things that I can say, so I'll follow the 5 points I wrote some times ago in the article "Why you should contribute to Ubuntu Touch". If you want to know all details, well, find me and offer me a beer, I'll be more than happy to tell you all the adventure.Friends
This events was a big occasion to meet old friends, know by person some IRC nicks and find new open-source enthusiast. Two big moments were the dinner (and mainly the beers after dinner) with warp10, primes2h, paolettopn and dcavedon. Pordenone is a very nice city, and they have a good beer. Awesome. Other moment was Saturday evening: we were 12 (or 15? Don't remember, too much wine) and we ate in a country inn with typical dishes, very good.
During the fair I met Daniele Scasciafratte, a Firefox OS developer: interesting project, but Ubuntu is soooo better ;-) Daniele is a very active guy, hope to do something in common in next events!
Also, I met Matteo Durighetto from Italian Postgresql community and an old, dear friend: Mattia Migliorini
On my G+ profile there are much more photos with other fantastic people. Thanks to all :-)Knowledge
Well, so much people met, and so much new knowledge! First of all, I had the occasion to use Firefox OS, then, thanks to randomcpp, now I use zsh in place of bash.
Also, I saw a lot of interesting talks: do you know Volumio? No? If you love music and Rasberry Pi you have to try it!
Also, Postgresql is a very interesting software: indeed ubuntu-it uses it in every website.Fun
It was very funny to present Ubuntu for Phones: a lot of people wanted to try it on a Nexus 4, and I had very positive feedbacks.
Also, ChimeraRevo did me an interview. Do you see my happy face? :-)A common goal
During the weekend there were also a lot of others open-source groups: RepRap, Local Linux User Group (from Venice, Pordenone, Udine and others), Arduino groups and so on. It was a pleasure to meet so valid guys from all Italy, and I love to see that people want Ubuntu. Wonderful weekend, thanks to all that made it possible!
Technical note: I changed my WordPress theme because the old one has issues with Chrome and Chrome mobile, and it's very slow to load. Unfortunately, I have no time to restyle both my blog and my website, I want to do it this summer. If you want help me, I'll be eternally grateful!
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Robert Collins: Distributed bugtracking – quick thoughts
Just saw http://sny.no/2014/04/dbts and I feel compelled to note that distributed bug trackers are not new – the earliest I personally encountered was Aaron Bentley's Bugs everywhere – coming up on it's 10th birthday. BE meets many of the criteria in the dbts post I read earlier today, but it hasn't taken over the world – and I think this is in large part due to the propogation nature of bugs being very different to code – different solutions are needed.
XXXX: With distributed code versioning we often see people going to some effort to avoid conflicts – semantic conflicts are common, and representation conflicts extremely common.The idions
Take for example https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/805661. Here we can look at the nature of the content:
- Concurrent cannot-conflict content – e.g. the discussion about the bug. In general everyone should have this in their local bug database as soon as possible, and anyone can write to it.
- Observations of fact – e.g. 'the code change that should fix the bug has landed in Ubuntu' or 'Commit C should fix the bug'.
- Reports of symptoms – e.g. 'Foo does not work for me in Ubuntu with package versions X, Y and Z'.
- Collaboratively edited metadata – tags, title, description, and arguably even the fields like package, open/closed, importance.
Note that only one of these things – the commit to fix the bug – happens in the same code tree as the code; and that the commit fixing it may be delayed by many things before the fix is available to users. Also note that conceptually conflicts can happen in any of those fields except 1).
Anyhow – my humble suggestion for tackling the conflicts angle is to treat all changes to a bug as events in a timeline – e.g. adding a tag 'foo' is an event to add 'foo', rather than an event setting the tags list to 'bar,foo' – then multiple editors adding 'foo' do not conflict (or need special handling). Collaboratively edited fields would be likely be unsatisfying with this approach though – last-writer-wins isn't a great story. OTOH the number of people that edit the collaborative fields on any given bug tend to be quite low – so one could defer that to manual fixups.
Further, as a developer wanting local access to my bug database, syncing all of these things is appealing – but if I'm dealing with a million-bug bug database, I may actually need the ability to filter what I sync or do not sync with some care. Even if I want everything, query performance on such a database is crucial for usability (something git demonstrated convincingly in the VCS space).
Lastly, I don't think distributed bug tracking is needed – it doesn't solve a deeply burning use case – offline access would be a 90% solution for most people. What does need rethinking is the hugely manual process most bug systems use today. Making tools like whoopsie-daisy widely available is much more interesting (and that may require distributed underpinnings to work well and securely). Automatic collation of distinct reports and surfacing the most commonly experienced faults to developers offers a path to evidence based assessment of quality – something I think we badly need.
Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: LOPSA East 2014 wrap-up
On Friday and Saturday I had the opportunity to finally attend and participate in a conference I've had my eyes on for years: LOPSA-East. I first heard about this conference several years ago while living in Philadelphia, but could never gather up the time or funds to attend. This year I was delighted to see an invitation to submit a proposal land in my inbox and I submitted a talk on Code Review for Systems Administrators which was accepted. Even better, they also asked if I could give the closing keynote on attracting more women to IT!
One of the things I always admired from afar about this conference was their passion for systems administration/ops work, the people who voluntarily spend their time running this conference and many of the speakers spend vast amounts of time off work hours on the community. It syncs up well with my own passions and those of many of the local groups nearby, so I was really delighted when I saw PLUG represented on their supporters board near the entrance to registration (along with the great Franklin tux logo by Stephanie A. Fox!).
Friday was a tutorial day for the conference, where I chose to attend Jennifer Davis' "Implementing Kanban to Improve your Workflow" in the morning and "How to Interview a System Administrator" by Adam Moskowitz in the afternoon.
Jennifer's tutorial was a real treat. She had group activities throughout the tutorial that made it more engaging, and since they were about our work I was happy to engage, rather than being uncomfortable (group activities don't tend to be my thing). Even better, she managed to sneak in a game of Fluxx as one of the activities to demonstrate the disruptive and interrupt-drive environment that systems administrators often find ourselves in. The Kanban scheduling system for work is something I'm seeing increasingly in the industry, including on a team I work with in OpenStack. I've also been reading The Phoenix Project, where they appear prominently, but it was great to sit down and have a tutorial that helped me better understand how other teams are using them in production. We also got to make a demo one ourselves with post-its, which was a lot of fun, especially if you love office supplies like I do (doesn't everyone?).
Adam's session on interviewing systems administrators was really great too. The team I work on has been doing a fair amount of hiring lately, so I've been asked to help conduct interviews. The first good news out of this session is that I generally have the right idea with interviews, but there are always improvements to be made! He suggested an approach that centers around the key question of "Tell me a time when you…" which will show you about how they solved a problem and will teach you a lot about their skills in that area. The goal is to show that the applicant is a smart problem-solver who is able to learn and adapt to new applications as the job of systems administration often requires, not someone who is solidly attached to a single technology – "don't ask them what the -z flag of ls does." He also explained the process at his company where an applicant must give a presentation on a subject (typically a technology or problem they've solved) to the interview panel, which was quite the contentious suggestion, but he argued that communication skills are vital for an applicant and they wouldn't be judging them on their public speaking ability. Finally, one of my favorite things he mentioned was making the applicant feel comfortable. Interviews are stressful, just by seeing how an applicant performs in an interview you get some idea of how they handle stress, there is no need to manufacture stress for them.
Friday night was the first keynote, by OpenStack guru Vishvananda Ishaya. He gave a history of OpenStack talk and gave some details about the current uses of it in the industry. I've heard a similar talk from him before, but this was the first time I'd seen it at an operations-focused conference, so that was pretty exciting. It was also notable that both the keynotes this year were by folks who work full time on OpenStack. First we took over open source conferences, now operations!
Saturday kicked off the talks of the conference. I had a chance to catch up with Kartik Subbarao who recently published a book Enlightening Technical Leadership. I've recently jumped on the meditation bandwagon and have sought to bring mindfulness into standard practice in my life, so the timing of his book, and the related talk I went to first thing on Saturday, was great. His proposal was for the changing of mental models for handling various situations, and brought up in person vs email discussions as an example: body language and tone tell us a lot in person, in email so many things are much less clear, a phrase like "Good luck" can be interpreted many ways. He implores the audience to take a mindful step back and seek to adjust their reactions to be more positive, constructive and rational.
The second talk of the day was mine, I've given my Code Review for Sys Admins talk at a few open source conferences, but this was my first time giving it to a sysadmin-ful audience at an ops-focused conference, so I was eager to hear feedback. I ended up having a lot of great chats after my talk with folks who were coming from various backgrounds who were interested in learning more about the tools and where the bottlenecks were in our workflow. But perhaps the most exciting part about my talk was during someone else's – Adam Moskowitz did a talk in the afternoon called "The Future of System Administration (and what you should do to prepare)" where he described an almost identical workflow he was using at his company with automated developer testing and systems administration code being pushed through code review too! His premise was that sysadmins will increasingly need coding ability as we dive further into automation of everything. It sure was exciting to see the work we do in the OpenStack project being called the future.
The next talk I went to was "Git Hooks for Sys Admins: With Puppet Examples" by Thomas Uphill. I've been using git on a day to day basis for over a year now and over the past few months have been thinking "I really should figure out these git hook things". This presentation was the kick I needed, particularly since his `puppet parser validate` example is something I totally should be using instead of manually running my own script prior to commit. It was really nice to hear some of the details about what all the stuff in the hooks files were so I'll be more familiar once I start digging in. His slides, including the examples, are available here: goo.gl/dg5TVw
Early in the morning I was approached to participate as a panelist in the "Professional Topics Panel Discussion" and so that was my next stop of the day. The first topic that was brought up by an audience member was how people handle change review processes that end up really getting in the way of work and goals of the team they're working on. After some discussion consensus was that working with your manager and other teams to make sure efficiency goals were synced up with the needs of the change review process was important, and above all else – communication is key. Too many teams get too wrapped up in process and how things "have to be" when things actually could be vastly improved. The second topic was the position of an IT team in a small company running interference with the larger company that just bought them to make sure the small company employees could continue to do their work with their preferred workflow. Buy in from management was another key thing here, but there were also comments about how the smaller company is valuable to the larger when it came to some of their IT innovations and how honest communication between both IT teams was key.
The rest of my afternoon I spent in a series of talks, starting with "Don't Be That Guy" which went through some of the typical archetypes of technology-types and offer advice on how to handle them, from the BOFH to the Downer to the person who seems to live in a cave and rarely collaborates with the team. The conference had a great series of lightning talks, and then I headed over to "Packing It In: Images, Containers, and Config Management" where Michael Goetz discussed use of Packer, Docker and Chef to build an environment where virtualization, containerization and configure management work well together. He also gave some tips about using containers, stressing that one should not overload a container like you might be tempted to for a full virtual machine.
And with that, the talks came to an end! All that was left was my closing keynote.
My talk was titled "Universal Design for Tech: Improving Gender Diversity in our Industry" and it's one I was more nervous about than any other talks I've given recently. This is a tough topic, and one that's quite personal for me. I've been on panels on the topic in the past couple years, this was the first time I'd done a solo talk on it since 2009 when I did an improving participation talk for a Linux Users Group. Since then I've either argued to adjust the topic or declined the invitation to speak on the topic because it's too stressful. When the opportunity to give this keynote came up I was hesitant at first, but it's important and I decided it was time to get back out there, even if it's just for one talk. Over the years, and through success I've seen in my career and that of women I work with, I felt I could add value to the discussion and that it would be worth the stress and risk one takes when giving this kind of talk. I also had valuable input from several women I know, without whom I don't think I could have crafted such an effective presentation.
There were a lot of great questions from the audience as I wrapped up, and I ended up being late for dinner due to post-talk discussions (oops!). Thanks to everyone who was so engaged and interested in this topic, it was really great to have such a supportive audience. Slides here: LOPSA-East-2014-Keynote-ekjoseph.pdf
In all, this was a great conference and I will be encouraging others to attend. Audience members were regularly engaged with the speakers (agreements and disagreements!). Even though I'm shy, I was able to have a lot more discussions with folks I don't know than I usually do, a sure sign that I was pretty comfortable. So thanks to everyone who took time to talk to me and be friendly, it makes all the difference. Also thanks to the organizers for crafting such a great environment that I am proud to have participated in.
Andrew Pollock: [debian] Toning it down a bit
I received a complaint about the frequency of my life category posts appearing on Planet Debian. It's the first such complaint I've received, whereas I've received more complimentary feedback, presumably from readers via Planet Debian.
It has made me self-conscious about my posts, though, and I don't want it to affect my blogging, so I've pulled the life category from what I feed to Planet Debian. If you want to keep up with the minutia of my life, and you were doing that via Planet Debian, you'll have to follow my blog directly.
My apologies if anyone was annoyed.
Paul Tagliamonte: Ohanayou? Ohanami!
Ohanayou? Ohanami!
Diego Turcios: I have been selected in the GSOC 2014
April 21st was a great day for me!
I received an email from Google informing that my proposal was accepted.
I will be working this summer with the BeagleBoard.org organization.
My project is to improve the on-board tutorial enviroment for BeagleBone with live running interactive examples.
If you want to read more about the 7 projects of BeagleBone, you can read them here
Stephan Adig: Dealing with Disrespect - a Review
Normally I don't write book reviews, but this time I have to, because it hit me personally.
As most of you should already know, Jono Bacon released another Book with the title 'Dealing with Disrespect' I don't know if the review is being allowed by Amazon, so I publish it here as well:
by Jono Bacon
First of all a full disclosure:
The Author, Jono Bacon, is a long standing colleague of mine, while working on the Ubuntu project. I am not, in any way, affiliated with his employer (Canonical), and sometimes (not all the times) I really don't share his views and/or opinions.
Personal, I see him as a friend, not a close one, but more like 'Brothers in Arms'. We share the passion of OpenSource and we do like Ubuntu OS, Heavy Metal and Pints of Beer. And especially we like to be a Dad of the most adorable and awesome Sons, we ever wished for.
I owe him a lot, because he (and some other community members, but he in particular) pulled me back into the Ubuntu Business a couple of years ago, and I am very thankful for this.
When Jono revealed his new writing 2 days ago, I started directly to read it, because, believe me or not, I was wondering if he was refering to me to some extend, because I can be exact the same guy who he pictures in his latest book. The disrespectful, the ranting and rambling guy, the angry 'OpenSource' guy, who sits too many hours per day in front of the computer, and reads a lot of nonsense from people who think they are the smartest guys on this planet.
Someone, who is passionate, angry and full of ramblings when it comes to some positions in our technical world, and sometimes speaks up, too loud.
Thankfully, he chose other examples, but I found myself in his book, which is not really charming.
Well, honestly, Jono hit 'Bulls Eye' with his detailed description, between the various aspects of how to read the different comments, responses or posts in our technical world.
His statement"The trick here is to determine the attributes of the sender and the context." (PDF, Page 8, 'Dealing with Disrespect')
is the essential message (he extends this later to the four important 'ingredients' sender, content, tone, context).
Old Internet people like me, who still know the 'UseNet', we know how hard this can be. How many times, we read UseNet Posts, which were in our eyes and ears unacceptable, bollocks or insane, and we hit the 'Reply' button in our Newsreader and flamed this poor guy, we didn't even know personally.
In these days, we never thought about the other guy, we just flamed, we insulted on a very personal level, but, believe me or not, it also came back, like a boomerang, and it really escalated. But these were those days, we all had leather as skin, and we could swallow a lot.
Today, world has changed, especially we don't use the UseNet so often anymore, and our 'ramblings' can be found on Weblogs and in the 'Comment' section of those or on Web-Forums. What and how we are saying, writing, commenting nowadays is more publicly exposed than 20 years back. The people got softer, we are trying to be more friendly to each other, we are using mostly a conjugation of the word 'Good', even to say, that something was really bad.
What was missing all the time, was a guide, on how to deal with those, who are not 'nice', who are not socially well conditioned, people who don't speak the political correct english/language of choice.
Until now.
Now, Jono wrote exactly this missing guide. On how to deal with those people. And Jono just didn't write about it, he has the experience, working as 'The Community Manager' of Ubuntu. He already dealt with those. He knows what he is/was writing about
And he knows, that not all of these people are anti-social, hateful or disrespectful.
Many of those people are smart, and in real life really friendly people. It just needs some experience to deal with them, and Jono gave us now the right guide to learn from it.
I really beg you, to read this little guide of Jono, because you can learn from it. If you are Community Manager, or you have to deal with a very loud community, or even when you are the rambling guy. It's worth a read. A lot to learn and to understand.
This book finally tries to solve issues, which can't be fixed technically.
And thanks to Jono, I hope it will make the technical messsed up world a little more enjoyable.
Alberto Milone: Hybrid Graphics in Ubuntu 14.04
Here's a short list of the new features concerning hybrid graphics in Ubuntu 14.04:
- External displays connected to the NVIDIA GPU can now be used through the "nvidia-settings" panel. We used to disable them but this is no longer the case (also there's a fix pending for LP: #1296020, in case your BIOS provides a fake output)
- We have a more robust system to detect and enable hybrid graphics, thanks to the new gpu-manager (I'll write a more technical article with all the details soon).
- We now fall back on the open Intel driver if any of the required components is missing (e.g. the kernel module was not built for the newly installed kernel, or a key package was accidentally removed).
- Installing the nvidia or the fglrx driver should allow hybrid graphics to work with no further action required. Switching from a power profile to another can be done using the relevant control panels (either AMD's or NVIDIA's), as usual.
- A direct benefit of using a recent kernel is that tearing on Intel/NVIDIA systems, while still an issue, should be a little reduced.
My special thanks go to Maarten Lankhorst (of Nouveau fame), who helped a lot by providing guidance, testing, and debugging X issues.
Andrea Veri: Adding reCAPTCHA support to Mailman
The GNOME and many other infrastructures have been recently attacked by an huge amount of subscription-based spam against their Mailman istances. What the attackers were doing was simply launching a GET call against a specific REST API URL passing all the parameters it needed for a subscription request (and confirmation) to be sent out. Understanding it becomes very easy when you look at the following example taken from our apache.log:May 3 04:14:38 restaurant apache: 220.127.116.11, 127.0.0.1 - - [03/May/2014:04:14:38 +0000] "GET /email@example.com&fullname=&pw=123456789&pw-conf=123456789&language=en&digest=0&email-button=Subscribe HTTP/1.1" 403 313 "http://spam/index2.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.131 Safari/537.36"
As you can the see attackers were sending all the relevant details needed for the subscription to go forward (and specifically the full name, the email, the digest option and the password for the target list). At first we tried to either stop the spam by banning the subnets where the requests were coming from, then when it was obvious that more subnets were being used and manual intervention was needed we tried banning their User-Agents. Again no luck, the spammers were smart enough to change it every now and then making it to match an existing browser User-Agent. (with a good percentage to have a lot of false-positives)
Now you might be wondering why such an attack caused a lot of issues and pain, well, the attackers made use of addresses found around the web for their malicius subscription requests. That means we received a lot of emails from people that have never heard about the GNOME mailing lists but received around 10k subscription requests that were seemingly being sent by themselves.
It was obvious we needed to look at a backup solution and luckily someone on our support channel suggested the freedesktop.org sysadmins recently added CAPTCHAs support to Mailman. I'm now sharing the patch and providing a few more details on how to properly set it up on either DEB or RPM based distributions. Credits for the patch should be given to Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen, who has been so kind to share it with us.
Before patching your installation make sure to install the python-recaptcha package (tested on Debian with Mailman 2.1.15) on DEB based distributions and python-recaptcha-client on RPM based distributions. (I personally tested it against Mailman release 2.1.15, RHEL 6)The Patch diff --git a/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py b/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py index 4a54517..d6417ca 100644 --- a/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py +++ b/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import os import cgi +import sys from Mailman import mm_cfg from Mailman import Utils @@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ from Mailman import Errors from Mailman import i18n from Mailman.htmlformat import * from Mailman.Logging.Syslog import syslog +sys.path.append("/usr/share/pyshared") +from recaptcha.client import captcha # Set up i18n _ = i18n._ @@ -200,6 +203,9 @@ def list_listinfo(mlist, lang): replacements[''] = mlist.FormatFormStart('listinfo') replacements[''] = mlist.FormatBox('fullname', size=30) + # Captcha + replacements[''] = captcha.displayhtml(mm_cfg.RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY, use_ssl=False) + # Do the expansion. doc.AddItem(mlist.ParseTags('listinfo.html', replacements, lang)) print doc.Format() diff --git a/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py b/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py index 7b0b0e4..c1c7b8c 100644 --- a/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py +++ b/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import sys import os import cgi import signal +sys.path.append("/usr/share/pyshared") +from recaptcha.client import captcha from Mailman import mm_cfg from Mailman import Utils @@ -132,6 +130,17 @@ def process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata, lang): remote = os.environ.get('REMOTE_HOST', os.environ.get('REMOTE_ADDR', 'unidentified origin')) + + # recaptcha + captcha_response = captcha.submit( + cgidata.getvalue('recaptcha_challenge_field', ""), + cgidata.getvalue('recaptcha_response_field', ""), + mm_cfg.RECPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY, + remote, + ) + if not captcha_response.is_valid: + results.append(_('Invalid captcha')) + # Was an attempt made to subscribe the list to itself? if email == mlist.GetListEmail(): syslog('mischief', 'Attempt to self subscribe %s: %s', email, remote)
Additional setup
Then on the /var/lib/mailman/templates/en/listinfo.html template (right below <mm-digest-question-end>) add:<tr> <td>Please fill out the following captcha</td> <td><mm-recaptcha-javascript></TD> </tr>
Make also sure to generate a public and private key at https://www.google.com/recaptcha and add the following paramaters on your mm_cfg.py file:
Loading reCAPTCHAs images from a trusted HTTPS source can be done by changing the following line:replacements[''] = captcha.displayhtml(mm_cfg.RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY, use_ssl=False)
toreplacements[''] = captcha.displayhtml(mm_cfg.RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY, use_ssl=True)
EPEL 6 related details
A few additional details should be provided in case you are setting this up against a RHEL 6 host: (or any other machine using the EPEL 6 package python-recaptcha-client-1.0.5-3.1.el6)
Importing the recaptcha.client module will fail for some strange reason, importing it correctly can be done this way:ln -s /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/recaptcha/client /usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/recaptcha
and then fix the imports also making sure sys.path.append("/usr/share/pyshared") is not there:from recaptcha import captcha
That's not all, the package still won't work as expected given the API_SSL_SERVER, API_SERVER and VERIFY_SERVER variables on captcha.py are outdated (filed as bug #1093855), substitute them with the following ones:
That should be all! Enjoy!


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Terrible insomnia Wednesday night, last night not quite so disastrous but sleep still very light and fitful, so I emailed Gerald around 5:30 to say I wouldn't make it to class at 7 - definitely the right call, I then slept adequately from 6 to 11 or so. Hied myself downtown (on my bike! Delightful weather ddvelopments here...) for noon-1:30 abs and strength. Will probably stick around for a short swim before riding home.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Friday strength
Posted by Jenny Davidson at 2/18/2011 02:09:00 PM
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- Danielle in Iowa in Seattle said...
Thank goodness there are makeups!
- February 18, 2011 at 3:13 PM
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A 49-year-old Clewiston man was seriously injured on Monday afternoon
when the tractor trailer he was driving was struck by a train in Glades
According to Florida Highway Patrol, Vidal Perez was
driving the tractor trailer south on a private road owned by US Sugar
Corporation and crossed over the train tracks into the path of an
oncoming train.
The front of the train struck the left side of the tractor trailer causing Perez to be ejected.
The train did not derail and came to a stop approximately 1,000 feet from the crossing.
Perez was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital to be treated for his injuries.
The train operators were not injured.
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HOLMES COUNTY, MS (WLBT) - A family member says 70-year old Rev. Espy Brown died a different way from what was first thought in the April 24th tornado in Holmes County.
Originally, it was believed his truck had been rolled through a field by the twister and he was thrown out. His brother, Jim Brown, tells us that is not they way it happened. He said Rev. Brown was in his newer model double wide mobile home, with the truck parked just outside. The storm just exploded the trailer and blew his brother and the truck about a quarter of a mile out into a field.
Rev. Brown was not in the truck. He died near it.
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Monday, January 21, 2013 Rochester, NY - Yet another article by a business leader claiming that charter schools and vouchers are the cure-all for our broken education system has left me deeply frustrated.
We have been hearing this tired solution for decades and have yet to see the widespread educational outcomes promised by local and national advocates. What I do see is a policy option embraced by people who care about the poor as long as the poor do not live in their community nor attend their schools. These folks attack urban educators with the platitude "all children can learn," leaving out "just not in my school." These supposed education revolutionaries cling to their illogical ideology that supports rather than challenges the status quo. They ignore the simple solution staring us in the face-economically integrating our public schools.
Let's talk about the elephant in the room. With few exceptions, schools with high concentrations of disadvantaged children (more than 50% receiving free or reduced-priced lunch), are not successful because a significant number of these children are disruptive to the educational process. (These tend to be the children that "magically" disappear from the charter schools after a month and are taken back into the public schools.) Of course these children are intelligent capable beings who can learn. Indeed many of them have learned far more than their suburban counterparts about how to survive with minimal adult supervision. But the truth of the matter is that the more concentrated poverty in a school the more challenges that a school must overcome.
Understandably these are not schools that middle-class parents want to send their children to no matter how enticing the curriculum might be. Their fears that their child will be exposed to lowered academic expectations, bullying, and less resources in the form of high-level classes, materials and enrichment activities are not unfounded. Last time I checked no city school offered mountain biking or archery in P.E. class.
On the other hand, schools with a large percentage of middle class students (aka suburban schools) are exactly where poor folks should, and for the most part, want to send their children. There is a plethora of research that supports the common sense notion that when you immerse children with less resources in schools with more resources, lo and behold, they rise to the expectations. Most experts put this number at, no more than, approximately 30% to 40% of the population receiving free and reduced lunch. My own children attend a school in which it is closer to 50% and although my daughter, a high school senior, is not Harvard-bound, that has more to do with her missing the elusive math aptitude gene, than lack of challenging classes and rich curriculum. The class of 2012's co-valedictorians both went onto prestigious schools where they are thriving.
Indeed children who are high-academic achievers will continue on this path as long as enough parents and thus children in their school buy into a culture of academic excellence. Because the resources in a school are not just the classrooms, books, teachers and administrators but to the largest extent the parents and their children. The social capital they bring to schools is paramount. Middle class parents advocate for good teachers, coaches, curriculum and enrichment experiences. They howl when there are bad teachers on staff and force administrators to get rid of them. They volunteer for field trips and booster clubs, and give rides to kids whose parents are still at work. Most importantly, they have the expectation that their child will go onto college and in order to do that expect them to go to class, listen to the teacher, do their homework and study for tests. Academic achievement is valued and encouraged. This does not mean that less affluent parents do not value education -- many do. However a strong presence of middle class families in a school guarantees a culture of learning that all students benefit from.
The city schools with the highest test scores, graduation rates and teacher transfer demand, are the ones with (by far) the most children attending who come from middle class households: School of the Arts, the International Baccalaureate program at Wilson, the World of Inquiry, 23 School and the Montessori School all hold their own against suburban and private schools. Miraculously they do this with unionized teachers within a six to seven hour school day and 180 day school year. Clearly we don't need to create charter schools or provide vouchers to educate all children.
In addition, many middle class parents, urban and suburban, value an integrated (by class and ethnicity) educational setting for their children. That my own children are just as at ease hanging out with their North Street Recreation Center soccer team as their travel suburban team, gives them a perspective and comfort level interacting with people from all walks of life, which most employers would find advantageous in our demographically changing society. Yet I hear not a peep from pro-business groups about integrating schools to better reflect our community-wide demographics. (Whether you buy that argument or not, at least my kid's school didn't have to recruit black actors from other schools for their theatre musical production of "Hairspray.")
Urban parents also have the opportunity to shop for schools that are a good fit for their child, a fact that appears to be lost on some of our "free market principle" proponents. (Why are the only valid choices for poor urban kids charters and vouchers? What about housing choices?) I wish I had a dollar for every time a suburban parent inquired whether their child could attend School of the Arts. I know many parents would gladly put their child on a bus for 30 minutes one-way to attend a thriving Montessori, Science Technology Engineering and Math, Expeditionary Learning, Outward Bound or an IB school, even if it is not located in the best section of town. As long as there are enough middle class peers to maintain the quality of a school, parents would welcome the many curriculum choices available to city students.
Indeed, regional magnet schools are a logical solution to economically de-segregating our schools. If they have the courage to, I am confident that the creative and competent business and political leaders of this community, in consultation with educators, can design and implement a plan that allows for choice and economic integration in a way that dramatically increases graduation rates for our neediest children while increasing "free-market" choices for all parents. It's, as they say in business parlance, "a win-win."
Let me be clear, I am not anti-innovation, am most certainly not anti-school choice but most assuredly am anti-hypocrisy. If the business and political leaders in this community want positive results they should implement an educational policy that will cost no more or less than the roads we have already taken and fight for an education system that looks much like the success stories of Montgomery County, Maryland, Wake County, North Carolina and Jefferson County, Kentucky. These are all school districts in the U.S that have economically integrated their schools in a variety of ways. The results? Double digit increases in graduation rates for traditionally low-achieving groups of students, not just in a few schools, not just for a handful of students, but district-wide. I simply cannot understand why, when faced with the overwhelming evidence that economic integration works on such a grand-scale, powerful players in the education "reform" movement continue to insist that charter schools and vouchers are the only way to go. It begs to question, what are their true motives?
It's time for us to challenge Rochester's elites to grow a backbone and do everything in their power to structure a county-wide, economically integrated school system that offers high standard educational opportunities for all. Will they back up their claim that they are "fighting for the children, not the adults" and do something that may not be politically expedient or popular but that we know works? I'm not holding my breath.
Linda Lopata, of Rochester, is a former public school teacher, is currently an exercise instructor for the Greater Rochester YMCA, and is a parent with children in the RCSD.
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Baseball Falls to No. 4 Miami, 15-2
May 7, 2005
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Sophomore Pete Clifford (Jacksonville/Providence) hit his team-leading seventh home run of the season but No. 4 Miami scored 15 runs on 19 hits to defeat JU baseball, 15-2, Saturday evening at Mark Light Field. JU falls to 21-28 on the year, while the Hurricanes improved to 35-11-11.
Brandon Camardese (6-0) earned the win after allowing two runs on three hits with a walk and seven strikeouts in 6.0 innings of work.
Junior RHP Neal Frontz (Jacksonville/Trinity Christian/Florida JC) was tagged with the loss (6-5) after allowing eight runs on 10 hits with a walk and two strikeouts in 4.1 innings of work. It marked the shortest outing of the season for Frontz. Junior LHP Aaron Parvey (North Ft. Meyers, Fla.) hurled 2.1 innings of scoreless relief.
JU took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third inning when sophomore Justin Young (Oviedo, Fla.) hit an RBI single up the middle with one out. Senior Sean McHugh (Port Orange, Fla.) led off the inning with a double down the right-field line before scoring on the single by Young.
Miami took a 5-1 lead in the bottom of the third when Danny Robataille hit an RBI double to left center, Paco Figueroa hit a two-run triple to right and Ryan Braun hit a two-run homer to left field.
The Dolphins cut the deficit to 5-2 when Clifford led off the top of the fifth with a solo shot to right-center field. For Clifford, it was his team-leading seventh home run of the season.
The Hurricanes made it 9-2 in the bottom of the fifth after an RBI base hit through the left side by John Jay, an RBI double off the left-center wall by Danny Valencia and a two-run homer down the left-field line by Eddy Rodriguez.
Miami increased the lead to 15-2 after scoring six runs on seven hits, while taking advantage of two Dolphin errors.
JU and Miami will conclude its three-game series on Sunday, May 8 at 1 p.m. The game can be heard live on 1320, The Patriot with Cole Pepper calling the action and Travis Baptist providing color commentary.


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By Frank Denzler Rushville Republican
Rushville Republican
---- — The Rush County Historical Society and Rush County Genealogical Society are combining efforts to bring "An Evening with Lincoln" event to Rushville.
Lincoln, the nation's 16th President, has been one of the country's most cherished and talked about presidents, from his stand as civil rights activist to his untimely death at the hands of a Presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth at a Washington theater.
Lincoln had a humble beginning with many of his formative years spent growing up in Kentucky and Indiana before settling in Illinois. He served as lawyer, U.S. Representative and ultimately President.
A little known fact of the 16th President of the United States is that he also was an accomplished wrestler and is enshrined in the wrestling hall of fame after been defeated only once in nearly 300 matches.
According to Lincoln presenter Dean Dorrell, Lincoln was certainly the tallest, arguably the funniest, claimed to be the homeliest and the greatest President in the history of the Union.
Dorrell, the 2002 Best Abraham Lincoln as decided by the Association of Lincoln Presenters, will be the featured at the local event.
The event will be held beginning at 7 p.m. Feb. 12 at the 201 Building, located on Main Street in Rushville.
According to John Wilson of the R.C. Historical Society, the event is free and open to the public although free will donations will be accepted and donations will be presented to the Rush County Community Assistance Food Pantry.
The roughly 90-minute program will conclude with a birthday cake in celebration of what would be Lincoln's 205th birthday.
Contact: Frank Denzler @ 765.932.2222 x106.
What: An evening with Lincoln When: 7 p.m. Feb. 12 Where: 201 Building Admission: Free - although free will donations and canned goods for local pantry accepted


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I got my first ever positive OPKs last night and this morning! I know I've ovulated in the past, but with my long, irregular cycles, it's always been such a crapshoot as to when. so with my +OPKs on CD 17 and 18, I guess I'll O sometime between today and CD 20?
My temp spike a few days ago, I have determined to be caused by a serious lack of sleep on the night my daughter was sick. so I'm hoping to see that happen in the next day or two!
Karen & Amos - Madelyn 10/2/09
Congrats on the positive opk kdp! I hope that everyone else is doing well.
AFM: From the looks of my chart, it seems that the 3rd round of clomid 50 mg is going to be an annovulatory cycle for me. 4 days past positive opk and no crosshairs, my temps are not going. I hurt so badly right now and I just don't understand. I ovulated on round 1 and round 2 of clomid and now nothing!!!! I also had my first iui this month and an hsg earlier, everything was in line to maximize my chances this month, and no ovulation! I am feeling so down and have no one to talk to about this but poor hubby who just doesnt know what to say anymore.
Thanks for letting me vents ladies.
Just had my US today for cd 12... first round of femara and iui.. and dr said i have 2 follicles on right measuring 19mm and 20mm so he did a trigger shot and tomorrow am im having my iui! fingers crossed.... i wanna stay positive but not too positive where ill set myself up for a big disappointment... im pretty excited though at this point.
KDP- good for you! go get that eggo preggo & GL!
Nlussier- KMFX for you!
Heart full of hope- So sorry you didn't O. I usually have normal cycles & i O, so i get worried that if i have to do a 3rd round of Clomid next cycle it might mess me up, but we are also planning for IUI, like you. I understand how you must be feeling. It gets harder & harder to keep your hopes up, but you must stay positive bc eventually it will happen.
AFM, I've been keeping busy just as i planned. Tomorrow i'm going to start hitting the gym & focus my energy on preparing for the start of my internship. I don't feel anything. my breast are ok, no weird cramps, no discharge, i'm on cd23 & 7DPO. Will POAS in 7 days, i don't know what to think...
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Welcome Noel Angelo 7/8/13!!
What's going on with all of us and our anovulatory cycles this month?! Sorry girls
I officially gave up temping today for the rest of this cycle until AF shows up (which should be today, but who knows since I didn't O) and I'll probably take the next one off (no clomid, charting or opks) for my sanity. Then I'll do my 6th and last cycle of clomid in June, maybe DH's birthday will give us some luck!
S + M = K (3.24.06) & J (3.11.13) + Baby Boy #2 10.4.14
^8wks 11.08 & 15wks2ds 4.10.11^
Young and slippery mother of 2 *Glitter Shitter*
Ugh - I think I might be out...I had a good cd11 (just because my doc was out of the office on cd12,) ultrasound that showed one good 19mm follicle. My doctor told me not to BD until I got a +opk. I never got a positive... the closest that I got to a + was yesterday morning and it still wasn't near as close to being as dark as the control line...
However, I had watery cm for a little while, which is now gone. (Never any ewcm) My cervix was high and slightly open for one day, now it's low and closed. This is the first time charting my cervical position, so I don't really know if I'm interpreting it correctly. I've had 2 high temps in a row, but because of clomid messing up my sleep so bad, I don't know if I can even consider basing anything on my previous temps. I couldn't even temp for like 5 days, because I kept waking up at 11, 12, 2:30 and then I wouldn't be able to fall back asleep... But the last 3 days or so, I've been able to sleep pretty well, so I know those 2 high temps are relevent. I just don't know if the rest are.
I was supposed to get the trigger shot today if no +opk, but I don't want to waste the money on it if I already O-ed! (No insurance coverage at all until I meet my $2500 deductible.)
I'm going to call the office today as soon as they open and see what they say. I'm just so afraid we missed the window when this was my first and only shot at it, since this was the first time I had a good follicle. Because I was nervous we were going to miss the window yesterday, we did bd in the morning with preseed after not doing it for a week, so there are definitely good swimmers in there unless my body wasn't hospitable to them. And last night, we did it again since I was scared that I might have already released the egg (not putting too much stock into that one, since he only had ~12 hours recovery time). Hopefully my doctor will somehow determine that I didn't ovulate and give me the trigger, but I'm doubtful.
Here is my chart: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/254e7b
Oh yeah... and the lines keep getting lighter and lighter on my opks. That's one of the main reasons why I think we might have missed it.
I hope you're not out! I guess as far as charting goes, I would still take the temps even when you wake up throughout the night and put "sleep deprived" so you'll still have at least a close guestimate. I'd say keep temping and using opks until they're completely negative. Only time will tell I guess.
S + M = K (3.24.06) & J (3.11.13) + Baby Boy #2 10.4.14
^8wks 11.08 & 15wks2ds 4.10.11^
Young and slippery mother of 2 *Glitter Shitter*


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FIFTH SPARROW HOSTS FUNDRAISER: The second annual 5K Freedom Fun Run and 1-Mile Walk to benefit the Fifth Sparrow will be held Saturday at the Mineral Ridge High School's Joe Lane Stadium, 1334 Seaborn St. Registration begins at 8 a.m. with the walk at 9 a.m. and the fun run at 9:15 a.m. The awards ceremony will follow at 10:30 a.m.
The Fifth Sparrow Ministry offers a covenant care home for Christian women leaving prison to provide help and healing for these women of domestic violence who are trapped in a cycle of abuse, addiction, apathy and abandonment. The goal is to raise funds, awareness and participation within the community so women can return to society as healthy and productive citizens.
Pre-registration is $12, with race day registration $15. The overall first place male and female finishers will receive a $100 cash prize. To participate or make a donation, send tax deductible check to The Fifth Sparrow Inc., 1311 Cedarwood Drive, Mineral Ridge, OH 44440. For information, call April at 330 728-3470 or Eric at 330-544-8812 or email email@example.com.
LIBERTY CHURCH HOSTS FIREWORKS: Freedom Place and Liberty Assembly of God, 6779 Belmont Ave., will host a ''Salute to Liberty'' fireworks celebration at 10 p.m. Tuesday. The event is free and includes food, music and entertainment at 9:30 p.m. at the church.
CEMETERY ASSOCIATION MEETS: The Southington Cemetery Association met recently in the Graham Cemetery to discuss old 1800s markers that have fallen over and need new footers. The association needs volunteers to help and can call 330-898-3889 to help with the restoration project. Volunteers did landscaping and Scouts did flower arranging. New fencing has been installed around the back and sides of the Pinecrest Cemetery by Eagle Fence Co. of Champion. The association meets twice a year. The next meeting will be 6:30 p.m. Aug. 20 at the chapel.
GRANT RECEIVED: The United Methodist Community Center in Youngstown received a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor for $300,000 to support the Ready Workforce Program, which will serve 108 veterans in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
The program will be offered at the organization's two sites, in Youngstown and Warren, working with community organizations and providers to prepare veterans for entrance into training programs and employment.
The Ready Workforce Program will begin taking applications today. Interested veterans may call Jonetta at 330-743-5149, Ext. 17, for more information.
United Methodist Community Center is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to teach, develop and empower individuals and families.
GROUP TO MEET: NAR-ANON Family Group will meet at 7 p.m. Mondays at Serenity Place, 29 E. Broad St., Newton Falls. For information, call Teri at 330-646-4480 or Patty at 330-307-3002
LIBERTY IN BLOOM SEEKS HELP: Liberty In Bloom is seeking volunteers to help with planting flowers. The organization plants flowers along Belmont Avenue and other township locations. The organization also is seeking younger volunteers. For information, call June Smallwood or Jodi Stoyak at 330-759-1315.
MOVE FORWARD PLANS EVENT: Move America Forward is planning the fifth annual Troopathon "Never Forget Our Troops" at 4 p.m. July 12. This year's theme is "Never Forget'' and will have volunteers sending care package shipment to to troops. The Troopathon is a unique event that comes once a year and is designed to show an outpouring of support for the troops. For information, visit troopathon.org
To reach the 24-hour information referral and crisis intervention service in Trumbull County, call Trumbull 211 at 330-393-1565 or 211. Call Trumbull 211 or Help Hotline at 330-747-2696 or 800-427-3606 for more information on service agencies and support groups.
Someplace Safe Inc., domestic violence agency, offers support groups for women, children and individual support services. 330-393-3003.
Sunday Night Our Gratitude Speaks, Narcotics Anonymous open speaker meeting. Sundays, 7 p.m. Serenity Place, 29 E. Broad St., Newton Falls.
TASCNA (Trumbull Area Service Committee of Narcotics Anonymous), 10 a.m., Glenbeigh Outpatient Center, 29 North Road S.E., Niles.


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Firefox also has the ability to add special words to its list of properly spelled words in case you've got a proper name you use often, or an alternative spelling of something, that you don't want to get flagged all the time, or you want spell checked with the rest of the words.
To do that, you'd normally right click on the red highlighted word and select "Add to Dictionary". However, sometimes in our ever so wonderful gracefulness, we can sometimes add words to the dictionary that are not proper spellings and that we did not want added. So how do you remove those? Well, it's really quite easy.


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I used Bazzill textured cardstock, At You spica pens, ribbon, Nestabilities, and prima flowers throughout. I left it somewhat plain so she can add her embellishments once she has chosen photos.
The outside is stamped with snowflakes from the Winter Wonder set from Verve Visual. I used VersaMark, Olive dye ink, and sage chalk ink. The sentiment is from the same Verve set and the dotted border is from PTI Borders & Corners (Rectangle). It is stamped with red dye ink.
The inside is decorated with Primas, various Christmas image stamps, and Nestabilities squares (both scalloped and classic). I left plenty of room for photos and journaling. The ribbon is from Michael's and it says Merry Christmas. I hope that she likes it.


text: Apparently the guys at hoopsworld think David West is a good fit for the Pacers also... Obviously it's just a guess but I don't know how everyone else feels about him but I think he would be perfect. A front line of Hibbert/West sounds pretty formadable to me..I mean he's not gonna be a monster on the boards but I can just see the pick and rolls with DC. I mean a year together in NO doesn't hurt right? Your thoughts?


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Ok guys just hear me out on this one. I think the Cubs should hang on to Alfonzo Soriano, at least for the time being. This is why. . . . .
First of all he is actually producing very well compared to other National League left fielders. Going into today he is tied for third in doubles, fourth in home runs, fifth in RBIs, and sixth in slugging percentage. And that's compared to the likes of Ryan Braun, Matt Holliday, Carlos Gonzalez; all of whom were all-stars this year. Not to mention Jason Kubel is having a very good season. Soriano has put up power and RBI numbers that compete with all-star caliber players despite the Cubs being dead last in baseball in runs scored. And on top of that, amongst qualifying National league left fielders, he is the only one without an error on the season and is second in assists with 8.
I like a lot of you guys belly ache about his contract, but let's be realistic here, pretty much no one has lived up to a 100 million plus contract. Miguel Cabrera is doing a nice job. C.C lived up so far. Jeter's numbers didn't dip after signing his 180 plus contract. But what about Kevin Brown, Mike Hampton, Jason Werth, Carl Crawford, Carlos Lee, and Joe Mauer. Even A-Rod's contract is looking dismal. He is owed 143 million between the start of this season and when his contract ends in 2017, and he's getting hurt more and more as he gets older. I realize that some of those guys are still in the early stages of their contracts, but so far the return on investment has been low. So my point is that no Soriano will never live up to the contract and be that 18 million dollar man that we all hoped he would be, but it could be worst.
According to a post on MLBTR-(http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/08/alfonso-soriano-clears-waivers.html) Soriano is owed roughly 45 million dollars through the 2014 season, and that ownership is willing to eat all but 3 million to ship him off somewhere else. Now I'm not one to tell a guy what to do with his money, but that scenario doesn't make sense to me. He's not blocking anyone in the minor leagues. Matt Szczur just got promoted to AA, and Soler and Almora are in the low minors. And like I said earlier, the man is producing. There is no point in eating 42 million to make the team weaker in left field. Its not like the Cubs would get much in return anyways.
I have one more thing for you guys to think about. Next year when the Astros move to the AL West and even the leagues it will create the need for more interleague play to make the schedule work. This is ideal for the Cubs. It will allow Soriano to DH more often and rest his legs. Hopefully this leads to a more well rested Soriano, and maybe even a more productive Soriano. This year as a DH he has a slash line of .360/.407/.880 with a 1.287 OPS, 4HR, and 8 RBI. Albeit it was in a small sample size of 27 PA, but it still is impressive. For his career Soriano is .357/.392/.743 with a 1.135 OPS as a DH.
Call me crazy, but I think it might be better to hold on to Soriano, at least for now.


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Ohio State and Michigan State face each other on national television Saturday in a matchup of talented Big Ten teams who still have yet to find an identity.
They're both 3-1, they beat three relative pushovers and lost their most challenging game, and they're probably the worst teams either school has had in years.
The Buckeyes will trot out freshman quarterback Braxton Miller, who carved up Colorado last week with his legs more than his arm. With the start of the Big Ten season on their doorstep, the Buckeyes have the chance to prove all the doubters wrong, or have their worst season in what seems like decades.
The Spartans were whipped by Notre Dame, and haven't beaten any team as good as Colorado, which is saying something. They've feasted on Youngstown State, Florida Atlantic, and Central Michigan for their three wins, yet lost by 18 to the Fighting Irish. We still don't know who they are, but chances are, they're just slightly better than average.
Game date, time: 3:30 pm ET, Saturday, Oct. 1
Location: Ohio Stadium, Columbus, Ohio
TV channel: ABC, ESPN3
Spread: Ohio State favored by 3
Series history: Ohio State leads, 27-11
For further reading, news, discussion and more, visit Ohio State blog Along The Olentagy and Michigan State blog The Only Colors. Here's this week's college football TV schedule, and stay tuned to SB Nation's college football news hub for more.


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|Putnam County organizations to host free healthcare enrollment event
|Wednesday, January 01, 2014 9:08 PM
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OTTAWA — With the Health Insurance Marketplace officially open, many uninsured and underinsured members of our community are looking to enroll in a health insurance plan.
Do you need help enrolling in a health insurance plan? Want to find out if you're eligible for tax credits and subsidies to help you buy health insurance for your family?
Get free, one-on-one assistance with your health insurance options at an enrollment event from 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 22 at the Putnam County Public Library in Ottawa.
The Putnam County Health Department and Putnam County Job & Family Services are partnering with the Ohio Association of Foodbanks to offer this free health care enrollment event where residents have application assistance provided by trained health care Navigators and certified application counselors.
"Public health is tasked with helping to improve access to health care for all residents. As part of that mission, we are happy to partner with the Putnam County Job & Family Services and the Ohio Association of Foodbanks to host an event that provides both education and assistance to residents about the Health Insurance Marketplace," states Sherri Recker, director of nursing for the Putnam County Health Department.
Through the Health Insurance Marketplace set up under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, uninsured and underinsured Ohioans can compare coverage options side-by-side, learn about their eligibility for premium tax credits designed to lower premium costs and enroll in a Qualified Health Plan. Open enrollment will continue through March 31. Coverage began Wednesday for all individuals who enrolled prior to Dec. 15, 2013.
Residents interested in making an appointment with a Navigator for the enrollment event can call 1-800-648-1176. Ohioans can visit www.healthcare.gov to apply on their own. Those seeking help with enrolling can call 1-800-648-1176 or visit www.ohioforhealth.org to find assistance.
About the Ohio Association of Foodbanks
The Ohio Association of Foodbanks is Ohio's largest charitable response to hunger, representing Ohio's 12 Feeding America foodbanks and 3,300 member charities including food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters. In SFY 2012, the association and its member foodbanks were able to acquire and distribute over 164 million pounds of food and grocery items. The association also serves as the home of The Ohio Benefit Bank and as the lead implementer of a Navigator program to help connect Ohioans to programs that help. Follow the association on Twitter, stay connected on Facebook and visit them on the web at www.ohiofoodbanks.org.


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Boreham Wood missed the chance to stretch the gap over the Skrill South relegation spots to nine points as they were held to a frustrating 1-1 draw at home to Farnborough.
Wood are 16th in the table, seven points clear of Gosport Borough in 20th with 11 matches to play.
Farnborough opened the scoring with a 24th minute effort by JJ Hooper, before a superb Mario Noto free-kick grabbed Wood a deserved point.
Wood started well and controlled the majority of the game.
Half chances came and went before Kudos Oyenuga showed great control in the penalty area, hitting a low curling shot that tested Kevin Scriven in the Boro goal.
Oyenuga threatened again soon after. His attempt for a Graham Montgomery cross beat Scriven, but was cleared off the line by former Wood loan player Matthew Ball.
However, Farnborough struck against the run of play with Hooper exploiting a gap in the defence and finishing well.
After the break, Wood searched for the equaliser with fluid attacking play.
They went close with a Montgomery flick, which was well saved by Scriven.
Oyenuga won a free-kick 25 yards out and Noto curled his effort around the wall and found the left hand corner of the net to give Wood a deserved equaliser.
The game remained to be played at a fast pace following the goal.
Sam Cox was playing well in midfield while Junior Morias was a constant thorn in the side of the Boro defence.
Wood kept the pressure on until the final whistle and almost nicked it at the death.
Substitutes Loick Pires and Lee Angol combined with some fancy footwork and drew a good save from Scriven.
Wood have a game in hand over Farnborough and Chelmsford City who both still have to visit Meadow Park before the end of the campaign.
Securing a point was important for Wood especially after a disappointing 2-1 loss to Gosport Borough on Saturday.
Their lacklustre start was punished in the sixth minute with Justin Bennett finishing past James Russell in the Wood net.
Bennett's goal equalled a club record that had previously stood for 35 years.
Bennett then broke the Gosport Borough record just eight minutes into the second half, with his 193rd for the club.
He passed a weak challenge, before firing in from 20 yards. The FA Trophy finalists seemed to be coasting.
Ian Allinson chose to introduce Morias on the 65-minute mark and was rewarded with a consolation goal.
Morias, on loan from Wycombe Wanderers, got on the end of a Matty Whichelow cross from the byline, but it was too little too late.


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UFC 148 Anderson Silva vs Chael Sonnen 2 Fight Video Promo – Fan Made.
Terrible song choice. Flowed much better with psychosocial as the background music.
WTF??? Was that an official UFC promo???
It says fan made in title…
Brutal song choice.
dont be stupid
white trash song are the best.:)
Sick promo vid.
It's fan made Tendojitsu read the thread title next time please
damn i cant wait for this fight!
and yea – crap music selection.. + it looked like it was made by a chael fan
one of the few good limp songs, nice
Nice promo whoever made it
Agreed. For some reason, hearing Fred Durst voice crack like a 13 year old never did it for me. He sucks.
That was great ! Can't wait till silva takes that white trash boys head back home.
Yeeeeeyyyyyy!!Fred Durst Yeeeyyyyy
That guy has to be the biggest douchebag in the universe.And the worst singer.
I'm devastated that I lost…Chael
After Juicing up on TRT I got beat…:)
I hope Chael DESTROYS the the insect silva!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
anderson silva,the toughest Homosexual in the U.F.C. his PINK sweatshirt is typical.
murell u're stup!d he's the toughest end of story and he is gonna SMASH the sh!t ou of that chael-onthejuice-sonnen
Jon Jones would Smoke him,so he's not the toughest,and being Gay doesn't make him bad,he's just Gay face it.
Anderson's going to destroy Chael! People keep saying Chael beat him up for four and a half rounds, but if you watch the fight again, you'll see Anderson was in complete control throughout, even on the ground; he had just got his BJJ black belt so he wanted to try out his BJJ. Anyways, if Anderson was the one getting beaten up, how come Chael looked like he was in a car wreck at the end of the fight?


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Chairman of the Public Interest Body
This is my third annual report on the operation of the Public Interest Body (PIB) since the body was established in late 2010. For the independent nonexecutives, this means we are approaching the end of our current initial three-year term of appointment. Hence, this is an appropriate point at which to reflect on how the PIB has evolved and performed against its initial objectives, and, just as important, how we will develop in the years to come.
Before doing this, it is worth reiterating that the PIB's membership and activities reflect the objectives of the Audit Firm Governance Code, which states that the independent non-executives should improve confidence in the public interest aspects of the firm's decision-making, dealings with stakeholders and management of reputational risks. The PIB is also designed to complement the firm's internal governance structure.
Reflections on our first three-year term
We have reached a point where we have obtained – through engagement with the firm's leaders and with those responsible for managing the risks in each of the four principal service lines of Assurance, Tax, Deals and Consulting – a good understanding of those businesses and the public interest and reputational issues relevant to each area. We hear first-hand from those responsible for decision-making in the firm. More importantly, we ask questions, request more information where appropriate and make suggestions.
Speaking for the non-executives, our view is that the firm is well-managed and that it conducts its business to a high standard of professionalism. That is not to say that there is no scope for improvement. The independent non-executives bring a different perspective, which can help the firm to consider where processes could be improved or examined through a different lens.
Inevitably, since the Code is focused on 'audit', that is where we have spent the most time, both in relation to how the day-to-day risks are managed and the busy regulatory agenda affecting statutory audit. We have discussed each year the firm's annual inspection reports from the Audit Quality Review Team (AQRT) of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). This year, for the first time, I attended a 'clearance meeting' with the firm's Assurance Leader and senior FRC staff, so that we could hear about the AQRT's findings, prior to publication. This interaction was very helpful and positive, and will enable us to better understand how the regulator's priorities compare with our own.
We are also briefed at each meeting on the Risk and Quality processes and any contentious matters (for example any disciplinary inquiries) across the firm. The non-executives also suggest for discussion some specific areas of the business which could impact on the firm's reputation. In the past year, we have heard from the firm's Public Sector leader on how the reputational risks in that area are managed. Also, given the recent spotlight on corporate taxes, we have discussed with the firm's Leader for Tax how the firm manages the reputational risks around providing tax advice and how it has contributed ideas and evidence to the debate on how much tax companies pay.
Trust and the regulatory agenda
The subject of 'trust' in the business community is being debated by stakeholders and in the press as never before. Professional services firms are key players in this debate. Restoring the trust of society in business and in our institutions is essential if the UK is to recover from recession and contribute to economic growth. PwC has staged a number of debates involving senior business leaders, regulators and commentators, and a number of us have contributed to these. This is an important initiative. We need a thoughtful, balanced and properly informed view of how business, and the professional services sector in particular, moves forward in the interests of consumers of goods and services.
It is important in the regulatory and public policy activity around audit and, increasingly, tax, that we keep in mind these broader considerations. We have discussed in each of our meetings how the firm is addressing the Competition Commission's inquiry into the audit market for FTSE350 companies in the UK, the legislative proposals on Audit published by the European Commission and the recent series of consultations on important topics issued by the FRC. The firm has welcomed input from us and the firm's leaders agree that we have influenced their thinking – for example by challenging them to see alternative arguments.
The accounting profession has a reputation for being conservative. We have consistently urged the firm's leaders, as they engage with the regulatory agenda, to be receptive to change and, where they disagree with proposals, to explain the reasonable grounds for doing so and to suggest alternative approaches. The PIB members continue to be satisfied that the firm has followed an appropriate and comprehensive process in order to arrive at the public policy positions it is taking.
In the last year, the firm has also refined its policies on how it contributes to parliamentary and similar inquiries, and we were consulted on those measures before they were implemented.
Assessing our contribution
I reported last year that an effectiveness review of the PIB had been undertaken by PwC's specialist on corporate governance matters, to which all members of the PIB including the firm members and secretariat contributed. We will continue to build on that work by considering actively our remit and what we can deliver to a firm such as PwC.
Last year's review demonstrated that, while the members unanimously believe that the PIB should not be a decisionmaking forum, it provides an appropriate setting – with the right constituencies involved – where the firm's positions on public interest matters can be debated and challenged.
The Code is an audit firm governance code and audit is where the main focus should remain. However, the public tends to see PwC as a whole rather than its constituent parts and, as noted above, other parts of the firm's business such as tax, deals and consulting could also raise issues of reputation. In recent meetings, the non-executives have increasingly provided insights to the firm on a broader range of issues facing the business, while at the same time being cognisant of our 'public interest' responsibilities. For example, in the last year we have looked at any risk and reputation issues associated with the firm's acquisition strategy, such as its alliance with the Middle East practice. As we go forward, we will do more of this type of activity.
Stakeholder engagement
Internally, it is important that the PIB has links to the wider body of the partnership, who are the owners of the business. In addition to hearing at each meeting from our two Supervisory Board representatives, we meet with all the members of the Supervisory Board at least once a year. During our first three years the non-executive members have also been keen to meet more of those who are working in the business, by making office visits and attending the annual partner meetings and other events.
Externally, the Code identifies investors and the corporate community as primary constituencies. Recent contact with some representatives from those groups has demonstrated a measure of surprise that we are approaching them to discuss matters covered by the Code. The FRC has committed to review the Code after its initial few years of operation, and it will be a useful by-product of such a review to gauge the expectations of stakeholder engagement of the different groups. In the meantime, we are taking steps to refocus our engagement with institutional investor organisations. Additionally, if any of PwC's stakeholders would like to raise issues related to the Code, do please get in touch.
Finally, I would like to take the opportunity here to thank Richard Sexton and Duncan Skailes from the firm for their significant contributions to our PIB discussions and we look forward to working with their respective successors, James Chalmers and Matthew Thorogood.
The firm established the Public Interest Body following the introduction of the Audit Firm Governance Code, which applied to PwC UK for the first time for the year ended 30 June 2011. The Public Interest Body's purpose is to enhance stakeholder confidence in the public interest aspects of the firm's activities, through the involvement of independent non-executives.
Independent non-executives
Sir Richard Lapthorne (Chairman)
Sir Graeme Davies
Dame Karen Dunnell
Sir Ian Gibson
Paul Skinner
PwC members
Ian Powell^
Pauline Campbell†
James Chalmers^ (from 30 June 2013)
Richard Sexton^ (to 30 June 2013)
Duncan Skailes† (to 31 December 2012)
Matthew Thorogood† (from 1 January 2013)
^ Member of the Executive Board
† Member of the Supervisory Board


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Queens Center Mall
Man Accused Of Setting Several Mall Fires In Queens
A 23-year-old man was taken into custody at Burlington Coat Factory at Rego Park Center. Investigators believe he set the fires to divert attention from his shoplifting.
Friday Fades To Black, But Consumers Have Their Eyes On Cyber Monday
Black Friday 2013 was so big it couldn't fit into just one day. Holiday shoppers were out in full force Friday night. Some of the nation's biggest stores have been open since Thursday night.
It's A Science: Bargain Hunters Crowd Tri-State Stores For Black Friday Deals
Shoppers hungry for deals were filling stores across the region, hoping to score big ticket items at small prices.
Male Procrastinators Out In Last-Minute Shopping Blitz
As Christmas approaches, men are scrambling to do what they hate the most: shop. Last-minute male shoppers were out in full force on Thursday and the Queens Center Mall was no exception.
Procrastinators Prep For Last-Minute Super Saturday Christmas Shopping
The last shopping weekend before Christmas is here and many shopping procrastinators are expected to turn out in full force on "Super Saturday" morning.