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Man Utd moved seven points ahead of Liverpool in the Premier League after a laboured win at Crystal Palace.
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The best of Manchester's theatre shows were honoured at the annual Manchester Theatre Awards at the Royal Northern College of Music
Our pick of 16 things to do with the kids over the school holidays
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Comic loves playing club compere Jerry St Clair in the Manchester Arena live stage show - because he's appearing with all his mates
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CFOs remain tepid on financial shared services
Tuesday - 10/9/2012, 10:14am EDT
Federal chief financial officers say finding efficiencies in their agency is among their top priorities. But moving to a financial management shared service provider or even to individual shared applications doesn't rank high on their to-do lists.
In an exclusive Federal News Radio survey of CFOs and deputy CFOs conducted in August, 55 percent of the respondents rated spending money more wisely as their top priority. But at the same time, 36 percent rated moving to the Internet Payment Portal or other financial management shared services as their fourth highest priority, while only 9 percents ranked it as high as third overall.
Adam Goldberg, executive architect in the Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation (OFIT), said CFOs are showing a greater interest in shared services, but they haven't fully committed to the concept.
Adam Goldberg, left, CFO of Treasury, stops by the Federal News Radio studios to talk to In Depth host Francis Rose and executive editor Jason Miller.
"I'm finding that agencies aren't willing to make that leap from paper automatically to digital information," Goldberg said Tuesday during a discussion of the survey results on In Depth with Francis Rose. "There still is an intermediary step they want to take. A lot of agencies will come back and say, 'Does your capability allow me to scan in the paper invoice, so I can have an image to look at?' Really the point of electronic invoicing is to digitize the information upfront so you could display the information visually on a screen, but you don't need it to be in the image of an actually invoice itself."
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Federal News Radio conducted the anonymous survey to find out how CFOs and deputy CFOs are dealing with and preparing for sequestration, budget cuts and other challenges. We sent the survey to 58 federal budget officers and received a 24 percent response rate. Out of those who responded, 46 percent were with a cabinet-level agency and 39 percent were with a large agency. All respondents said they are a career official and not a political appointee.
Strategy fails to give shared services a bump
This is the second survey of CFOs in 2012. The first survey also showed CFOs weren't ready to move to shared service providers either.
But now nine months later and with the release of the Office of Management and Budget's shared services strategy, agency budget executives remain uncertain about using these common systems.
Goldberg said CFOs are starting to come around to the idea especially as budgets shrink and their workforce retires.
"Shared services will be one of the key ways the workforce issue will be managed in the future," he said. "I think it's really reaching the realization that we can' t do everything within the organization itself. So, in order to manage the risk of the retirements, I have to look at the possibility of transferring that risk to someone else to assist me."
OFIT is leading an effort to develop several shared services, including electronic invoicing, centralized receivables collections and intergovernmental transactions.
Goldberg said there is greater interest to use these one-offs as opposed to moving an entire financial management system to a shared service provider.
OFIT is getting ready to start a two-year pilot with the centralized receivables collections application. The program will help agencies collect outstanding debts, which could be for a travel expense, a fine or a penalty. Treasury hired a contractor to act as a debt collector, who would take over the billing, the notices and the follow ups that need to take place.
Goldberg said agencies could save $300 million-to-$350 million annually when it is fully scaled across the government.
He said nine agencies have signed up for the pilot, mostly around administrative costs that federal employees incur and fees or fines that are due to the agency from external customers.
"The pilot is going to take place over a two-year period, and we will gradually be bringing on more programs into that and monitoring the increased collections and savings associated with that," Goldberg said. "We went around and actually asked agencies who were interested. We spoke to about 20-to-25 who expressed a good amount of interest and we narrowed it down to the nine who would participate."
E-invoicing slow to get picked up
In addition the debt collection initiative, OFIT's e-invoicing program could save the government millions. Goldberg said at full capacity, agencies could save between $400 million-and-$450 million a year.
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"That has been slow start in terms of getting agencies on board," he said. "Treasury will complete its implementation for all bureaus, including the IRS, later this year and Interior also is using the program."
Goldberg added Treasury expected agencies to move more quickly to the e-invoicing pilot because they can recover any costs quickly upfront and there are few costs on the back end as well.
Even without these shared services, CFOs say they are using data to make better decisions.
When asked how successful they are in using data to make financial decisions, 91 percent said either very or somewhat successful.
"We need to improve our ability to integrate financial and programmatic performance to achieve full benefit," wrote one respondent.
Along with finding efficiencies, CFO respondents to the survey said hiring and retaining, and training their workforces were the next highest priorities. Two of OMB central initiatives — reducing improper payments and disposing of real property — received the lowest average ranking of fifth most important priority.
Budget cuts, not sequestration biggest worry
Many CFOs (46 percent) also said they've started planning for sequestration, mostly by figuring out specific program cuts.
"Our preliminary estimate is that the sequestration will have significant programmatic impacts, but we don't believe it will require personnel cuts or furloughs. However, it is unclear how OMB will administer the cuts to agencies," wrote one respondent.
Another wrote they are considering all options including people, program and acquisition cuts and efficiencies.
Sequestration, however, was not among the CFOs' biggest concerns.
Just over a third said the continuing resolution and a third said the spending cuts coming when Congress finally passes a budget worry them the most.
"Uncertainty is the greatest concern," wrote on respondent.
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This is a Windows Vista compatible (32-Bit versions) driver for the Zenstar USB GPS that Maptech offers as an accessory for its Navigation software products. .
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To Install the Driver
1. Following the instructions, below, download the Zenstar GPS driver.
2. Plug in the Zenstar USB GPS.
3. In the found new hardware window, please choose Locate and install driver software (recommended).
4. In the windows needs your permission to continue window, please click continue.
5. In the next window, please select I don't have the disk. Show me other options.
6. In the Windows couldn't find driver software for your device window, please select Browse my computer for driver software (Advanced).
7. In the Browse for driver software on your computer window, please click Browse and then choose Desktop (or the location you specified during the download.) Be sure that include subfolder is checked on.
8. When the software for this device has been successfully installed click close.
The Zenstar GPS will now be installed. The COM port for this GPS (needed for configuration in your navigation software) will be shown in the bottom right corner.
Using the GPS
- When using the GPS, it must be in clear view of the sky.
- The indicator light on the GPS will be on steady when it is receiving power.
- When the indicator light flashes periodically, the GPS has acquired a satellite signal and is operating properly.
To Verify the COM Port used by the GPS
1. Click Start, Control Panel, Performance & Maintenance, System, Hardware, Device Manager.
2. In the list, find "Ports (COM & LPT)" and check the Virtual COM Port, which was created by the USB driver. For example: USB to Serial Port [COM #].
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I present your veto winner:
I know. I was surprised too. Apparently the veto comp was this year's version of OTEV. OTEV was a love-sick beaver. From what I have heard on the feeds, Elissa went into beast mode and was unstoppable in the competition even managing to someone half-blacken Andy's eye.
The most hilarious part of this veto win for me is that Helen was jumping up and down, dancing embarrassingly, and arrogantly boasting about how she and Elissa are both staying and Spencer is leaving when in actuality, Helen is definitely still leaving. The scary part of course is that with Helen leaving on THIS Thursday, she could potentially bounce right back into the house if she wins the competition to re-enter.
Right after the veto comp McCrae and Amanda had a bit of a debate about next week. Amanda already has her plan in place to ditch Spencer, but McCrae thinks that Elissa is more dangerous since she has now won more comps than Spencer and cannot be controlled once Helen is gone. I'm pretty sure Amanda will end up winning again as usual, but it's worth noting there was at least a debate about it.
Speaking of Amanda and McCrae, they also had a small tiff when Amanda decided to have a meltdown because....wait for it.....she had not seen enough of McCrae today. I'm not sure how that's even really possible in the BB house, but she manged to freak out about it.
Helen wasted no time after the veto comp in trying to make a new alliance wtih GinaMarie to secure GinaMarie''s vote. She is sure that she has Amanda, McCrae, Elissa, and Amanda, but she wants it to be a unanimous vote, so she went to work on GinaMarie. GinaMarie did her usual "agree with everything but mean none of it" thing and later told Aaryn about the whole conversation.
GinaMarie also had a meltdown tonight. She was apparently sad that OTEV did not ask any questions about Nick, and "that's all she wanted". While she was crying to Aaryn about it, Aaryn leaked Andy's suggestion from earlier in the day that the three of them got to final three instead of taking Amanda and McCrae. Aaryn was not supposed to tell GinaMarie, but I doubt Andy will find out she knows since GM is probably the ONLY one in the house that is good about keeping her mouth shut when it comes to Game info.
Amanda once again told Elissa tonight that Helen is leaving. She told her it's done and there is no point in her trying to get a campaign together because it will just put a target on her. Amanda had dropped hints to Elissa before about Helen possibly going this week, but apparently it did not sink in until this time. I'm curious as to whether in the coming days Elissa will tell Helen or not. She doesn't really have any reason not to as she has her veto and can't be sent home this week. She is also much closer to Helen then she is to Amanda, so chances are high she will tip Helen off at some point.
The rest of the night was mostly spent drunkenly (for the ones that could drink) talking over each other and hanging out. Since Helen has no idea she might be the target, there really isn't a lot of campaigning or gaming going on yet, but I am sure as she gets more paranoid it will ramp up in the next few days.
That's pretty much it. As always, you guys can follow me on twitter @ashes2ashes13 for more overnight live feed updates. Until tomorrow night...


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The Cardinals typically have one of the area's strongest teams and the program usually has in mind a conference title and a deep postseason run each year.
However, the Cardinals this season have more motivation than ever before, given the
"I know with the guys winning it, the girls are pretty motivated," said coach Dave Miller, who guided the
Seniors Meredith McCarthy and Krysten Stenclik agreed that the success of the boys' team fuels the JHS girls' team this spring.
"I was at the (state championship game) and it made me really want to bring it home again," McCarthy said. "We want to give Miller two championships in a row."
Stenclik, a two-year starting goalkeeper, concurred.
"That's a big goal for us," she said.
The Cardinals have come close to a state crown.
"I think its been on their minds," Miller said. "We were so close and got knocked out last year by them (WOHS) and they went on to win it. I think that's going to eat at the girls a little bit."
Added Stenclik: "It kind of pushes us to work harder in practice."
The Cardinals will need to work hard this season if they want to win a lot of games.
"Every nonconference team we play is ranked in the state," Miller said. "It gives the girls some exposure and we get quality competition."
Despite the tough schedule, the Cardinals are confident.
"I'm very confident," McCarthy said. "This is my senior year and it's my last chance. I'm confident we will have a good team and I'm excited."
McCarthy added that finishing scoring chances is one thing
The Cardinals have been trying to work on that, plus other things, but practice has been limited because of rain.
"It's been hit and miss with the weather," said Miller, adding 10 players return with starting experience return this season. "It's kind of frustrating not really being able to go with the wet fields. I feel we are a little behind from where we need to be. But it's a long season and hopefully we will be all right."


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Just in time for the Summer Reading Challenge, your library system has added more than 1,700 children's books, movies and e-books with more than 4,800 on the way. Visit our web page or come by any of the three libraries and check us out!
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MISENHEIMER, NC – The No. 14 Pfeiffer women's lacrosse team (4-1) won its second straight one-goal game, this time defeating Lindenwood (4-2) by a final score of 7-6 on a cool Thursday afternoon at NE Lefko Field. Pfeiffer's defense limited a potent Lindenwood offense to 11 less goals than their season average and Rachel McCarthy improved to 4-0 in goal by making four saves.
The offense of the Falcons was led by freshman Stephanie Athens and junior Ashleigh Kassab who each netted a hat trick. Sarah Daly scored Pfeiffer's other goal and Kristina Anderson handed out two assists.
Melissa Menchella scored a game-high four goals in a losing effort for the Lions.
Daly put the Falcons on the scoreboard just 2:54 into the contest on an unassisted score. However, Lindenwood rallied for three straight scores, two by Menchella to surge ahead 3-1. With 13:54 left in the half, Kassab scored her first of the game on a great pass from Anderson. Neither team would score in the final 13:54 and the game went into halftime with the Lions ahead by one.
Athens netted her first two scores of the game 1:01 apart to start the second half which gave Pfeiffer the lead at 4-3. Menchella's third score evened the game but Pfeiffer's Kassab and Athens scored back-to-back to give the hosts a 6-4 lead. The team's traded a goal each until Menchella's final score with 2:59 to play cut the lead to one. Pfeiffer was able to withstand a furious comeback attempt by the Lions to come away with their fourth win of the season.
The final stats were about as even as the final score. Pfeiffer held a slight 17-16 in shots and held a 23-17 advantage in ground balls. Lindenwood was charged with 23 turnovers, while the Falcons turned the ball over 22 times.
Pfeiffer was successful on 13-of-16 clears and Lindenwood finished 12-for-18 in clears.
Senior captain Katherine Athens finished the game with three ground balls and four of Pfeiffer's nine draw controls. Athens and teammates Britton Muir and Ashley West each caused two turnovers with their strong defense.
Christine Hehmeyer suffered the loss in goal for Lindenwood as she allowed seven goals and made eight stops.
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The Lenoir County Sheriff's Office would like you to go to jail.
The new Lenoir County Jail hosts an open house on Saturday and Sunday, allowing local residents to see their tax dollars at work in the facility. The jail is open for viewing 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday.
"We're going to give tours of the jail," LCSO Chief Deputy Chris Hill said. "The public will actually be able to see the entire jail before we actually occupy it with inmates."
Lenoir County currently has to pay other counties more than $3,000 a day, or more than $1 million a year, to house inmates for which it has no space. Not only would the new jail give room to house all of the county's prisoners, there's anticipated to be enough space to house prisoners from other counties and generate revenue.
Lenoir County Sheriff W.E. "Billy" Smith wanted to see the jail finished before he retired. He's leaving office on March 31, and Hill will serve as the interim sheriff until the next election.
"We've had time to operate it for a while and work some of the bugs out," Smith said in February. "It was a project that was started and I want to see it finished."
The jail's been plagued by delays and was supposed to be up and running last year. But now, the sheriff's office believes it's ready to go.
"We're shooting for some time around the 15th of March, is what we're looking at, provided we don't have any setbacks before then," Hill said.
Some staff will be moved from the old jail and Lenoir County Courthouse to the new facility. The jail administration and staff will relocate, along with the magistrate's office, small claims court and house arrest program.
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Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales has been making preparations to send spring bulbs and pots to 2,621 primary school scientists across Wales, as part of an on-going study into the effects of climate change.
More than 3,000 bulbs were kindly donated by the Really Welsh company and then packed by a super efficient team of volunteers. The bulbs, pots and equipment will enable the schools to record the weather and flowering dates in 70 locations across Wales.
Each school will complete tasks and keep records through the winter and spring term to earn super scientist certificates that are awarded to pupils by the project leader - Professor Plant.
The volunteers thoroughly enjoyed the experience and were happy to help with the logistics of this very worthwhile project, which enables the Museum to share its scientific knowledge with schools all over Wales - no matter how remote.
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This week, van driver, Paul Evans will be delivering the investigation packs across the winding roads of Wales to ensure the schools have their bulbs in time for the big planting day which will take place on the 20th of October. Paul has worked for the Museum loan service for 20 years.
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The Lady Eagles began their postseason quest in Mathiston on the campus of Woods Institute this past Friday and Saturday. In the first step for a chance to make the MAIS Single-A State Tournament, Hebron Christian took on fellow district-mates in the district 3A Tournament.
Hebron could not have asked for a better time to start their postseason as the Lady Eagles were carrying a three-game varsity winning streak and playing some of their best basketball thus far in the season.
Friday night was the opening round of the tournament slating Hebron against rival Kemper Academy. The Lady Rams and Lady Eagles had split a pair of close games during the regular season and the game looked to be another 12-round bout.
During the opening quarter of play, Hebron and Kemper both exchanged baskets and looked evenly matched as both teams sought to grab the upper-hand in the proceedings. At the close of the quarter, Hebron and the Lady Rams were deadlocked 12-12. Kemper opened the second period off with a quick grab of the lead, going up 17-12 by the midway point of the second. The Lady Eagles though looked the better team with selfless team passing to go on a 12-5 run to close out the first half of the contest. The Hebron 12-5 run was fueled by good post-play by freshman center Victoria Ferguson, scoring 6 points during the four-minute run and 10 points in the first half alone. Ferguson and her Lady Eagle teammates headed into the locker room with confidence, leading the Lady Rams 24-22.
The confidence never faltered during the second half as the Lady Eagles absolutely dominated Kemper from the start to the finish of the half. Under the leadership of eight-graders Rebekah Falkner and Holly Hudson, Hebron outscored the Lady Rams 16-4 to take a commanding 40-26 lead into the final quarter. Falkner and Hudson accounted for 9 points and 6 points respectively during the third period. The Lady Eagles closed the fourth quarter still in major control and punching their ticket to final 54-36 over Kemper.
"The girls did a very good job working together, they are maturing, even though they are young," commented head coach William Cotton following the semi-final victory over the Lady Rams, "they are starting to gel in tournament time and have put us in a good position to go to the North Central."
With their ticket punched to the championship game, the Lady Eagles knew there was a tall task standing before them. Hebron would have to defend their seven district tournament title streak against a very challenging Winona Christian Lady Stars. In the regular season, Winona took the spoils in both region contests defeating the Lady Eagles by double-digits in each game.
In a very bruising Saturday match-up, Hebron and the Lady Stars went toe-to-toe in the opening period of the tournament final. The game was close at the finish of the first quarter as Winona only etched out a 10-6 gap over the Lady Eagles. The second quarter was the Achilles heel for Hebron as the Lady Stars proved their offensive prowess outscoring Hebron 11-3 in the quarter. Point guard Subrina Oswalt's three-pointer was the saving grace for a near scoreless eight-minutes for Hebron. Winona knew they had the advantage at the halftime break, up 21-9.
In the second half, Winona continued their offensive dominance as the Lady Eagles failed to ever answer the Lady Stars with points of their own. Winona closed the third quarter in the ascendancy 37-18. The fourth period did not hold much for either the Lady Stars or Hebron as both teams seemed content to wrap-up the contest. Winona was able to hold on to the double-digit lead and clinch the district 3-A tournament title 42-20 and ending the Hebron streak.
"We went ice-cold and if you can't hit shots, you can't hit shots," said Cotton after the championship loss to the Winona Lady Stars, "I attribute this to growing pains, playing a veteran team with our youth just doesn't match up well."
The Lady Eagles had good performances in both weekend tournament games from Rebekah Falkner and Holly Hudson. Falkner and Hudson finished with 17 points each in the 54-36 win over Kemper. Also reaching the double-digits against the Lady Rams was Victoria Ferguson with 12 points. In the district final against Winona, Falkner led with 8 points and Oswalt was able to contribute with 7 points.
Even with a loss in the championship game, Hebron still sits in a good position heading into the North Central Tournament at Calhoun Academy. Placing as the second seed, the season goal to make the Single-A State tournament is still alive. The road to the state tournament continue this afternoon as the two-seed Lady Eagles will take on District 4 three-seed Sharkey-Issaquena Academy tipping-off at 4 p.m.
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Washington's minimum wage leads the nation
Now we have reason to celebrate again, because just on Tuesday our minimum wage kept even with inflation, with a cost-of-living adjustment of 1.67 percent, or 15 cents. Now the minimum wage is $9.19 an hour. That's still behind what the federal minimum wage would have been if it had just kept up with inflation. Ronald Reagan began the bad habit of not raising the minimum wage to keep up with inflation, and we are still stuck with a federal minimum wage that keeps losing value. If it had kept up with inflation, the federal minimum wage would be $10.55 now.
The federal minimum wage hasn't caught up in the past few years either. Since 2009, it has lost seven percent of its value. Compare that to Washington's minimum wage, which keeps up with inflation year in and year out. That means that a Washington worker earning the minimum wage gets almost two dollars more than a worker in Idaho -- $4,000 a year. That's a good thing -- for workers, for their families' income, for reducing dependence on public assistance, and for the economy of our state.
Minimum wage workers spend their earnings in their local communities -- at grocery stores and local restaurants. That means that these stores and restaurants employ more workers, often minimum wage workers, who also spend their money in town.
With a decent minimum wage, workers are more productive and stay longer with their employers, saving employers additional hiring and training costs. All in all, a good minimum wage creates a virtuous cycle of economic activity, for workers, for employers, for local communities, and for our state.
We in Washington voted for the automatic annual cost-of-living-adjustment for the minimum wage 15 years ago. We passed this initiative by a two-to-one margin. Just like the Social Security COLA, it made common sense then and it makes common sense now. We broke the ice for other states to increase their minimum wage. Now 45 percent of Americans live in states with minimum wages higher than the federal minimum. That includes blue states like Oregon and California, red states like Alaska, Missouri and Arizona, and states in between, like Colorado and Montana.
Unlike federal law, our minimum wage law includes tipped employees. That means your waitress is earning $9.19 at a minimum, not at the mercy of poor tippers and rude customers. If she was waitressing in Idaho, her minimum wage would be $2.13 an hour. That's less than $4,500 a year for full-time work. Not much of an incentive to work. And for those critics who claim that our minimum wage undermines jobs, the fact of the matter is that in our state, it is minimum wage industries that are expanding employment.
Who are minimum wage workers? Over half are over 25 years old, and one fifth are over 45 years old. Women are the majority of minimum wage workers. About 170,000 workers in our state will see their wages go up this week thanks to the minimum wage COLA. Now 19 cents per hour isn't much, but it is a lot better than losing ground. It adds up to about $400 a year.
What if that $400 a year went to minimum-wage employers, rather than to their employees? Would that be a good thing? With five of these employees, a boss may garner $2,500 a year. That would pay for a family trip to Hawaii. And that is just the point. A trip to Hawaii may be good for the boss's family ... and the Hawaiian economy. But it just drains money out of our state. Much better to have that $2,500 go to five workers, who will spend it in communities closer to home, helping themselves and helping our own local economies.
We talk a lot about middle class security and opportunity. The first rung on the ladder for getting into the middle class is a decent minimum wage. Without it, many of our fellow citizens would be consigned to a life of poor wages and little opportunity. With Washington's minimum wage -- the best in the country -- they at least have the chance to hope for and reach for a good quality of life. That makes for a happy new year for all of us.
John Burbank is the Executive Director of the Economic Opportunity Institute (www.eoionline.org). He can be reached via email at email@example.com
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"Dryer vent fires are one of the top six causes for home fires," said Chief Perry Ebner, Minneapolis Fire Marshal. "Thousands of dryer vent fires occur each year and can completely destroy a home within minutes. CenterPoint Energy's Home Service Plus® recognizes this hazard and recommends a professionally performed dryer vent cleaning annually."
"As committed advocates for safety related issues, we want our customers to know how to be safe in their homes and ways to operate natural gas appliances safely and efficiently," said Tim Boettcher, master service technician for CenterPoint Energy. "When a dryer becomes clogged with lint the heat is trapped, causing the equipment to overheat and increasing the probability for the lint to catch fire. A well maintained appliance can operate more safely, will work more efficiently by reducing drying time and has less risk of failure."
CenterPoint Energy and MFD also offer the following important safety tips about how to recognize the signs of clogged traps and vents and avoid fires in the home.
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Hello everyone☺
I am back... I managed not to sleep till Sunday like I thought I would. I overcame the jetlag and I am able to somehow function as regular people.
After the lost game in Ekaterinburg last week we had plenty of time to prepare for our next opponent which is Gyor.
Hopefully we will be able to utilize this preparation and get another win. But as we watched our last game against Gyor we saw it won't be easy.
Last Friday it was mine and my mom's nameday. My mom came to visit me to Prague. We cooked something good to eat, relaxed, talked, and sung (my mom loves music, so do I).
She watched our domestic league's game and then she left to go back to Hradec Kralove which is my home town.
It is always nice to spend some time with my family. But to be 100% honest if I am with them for too long they can get on my nerves very easily. On the other hand I am sure I am not the only one who has those feelings sometimes ☺
I don't know how it is in the other teams but January is a huge birthday celebration for us.
Almost every week there is a player or coach who has a birthday.
This past weekend we had a little celebration for Katerina Bartonova. Adela Necaskova had a birthday as well.
Today it's a birthday of our crazy and beloved athletic coach Ales Kaplan and tomorrow there will be a very special day for Eva Viteckova!!!
Don't worry ladies, I will not tell the age of course ☺
But let me wish you all the best for the upcoming years. And I hope your wishes will come true!!!


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kenzo wrote:F*** this. Im taking a break from Lakers b-ball for the rest of the year. Im not staying up till 6-7 am to watch this pathetic "thing". Come back Steve... bye Pau.
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The Los Angeles Lakers have recalled center Robert Sacre from the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA Development League.
Starting at center for the D-Fenders' first three games of the season, Sacre averaged 7.7 points, 9.7 rebounds and 1.0 blocks in 27.0 minutes.
Juronimo wrote:If Gasol's knees are really hurting, the Lakers should just rest him. Right now he's giving us nothing. Jamison and Hill are more than capable of filing in at the 4. Also we need to get Kobe and Dwight's minutes down to around 33-36, no more. I think part of the poor play at the end of games is fatigue on their end. MDA is running them for whole quarters.
icencream27 wrote:31 shots by Kobe? For real? Is this 2007?
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The goal is to get SCons to track dependencies and the need to build RPMs all in one SConstruct instead of relying on external SConscripts. This is due to the fact that the build of the repository is a simple matter of globbing a set of *.spec files. The creation process is as follows:
.spec ==> .src.rpm ==> .rpm
Since SCons doesn't support this out-of-the-box, we need to create some custom Builders and setup to get this working.
To see the full unedited source, you can view and comment directly within here: /FullScript
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.spec ==> .src.rpm
To create a source rpm out of a spec file we need to know a few things:
- The sources that go to create a source rpm.
- The target that is produced.
SourceRPM Sources
A source rpm is really just a compressed CPIO package with some extra header. The sources that comprise of a source RPM include the .spec file, files mentioned in "Source:" tags, and files mentioned in "Patch:" tags. These tags are found in the specfile, so we build a scanner to get this information. In my situation, some of the files are tarballs and are not checked into SVN. Therefore, I use an env.Repository() to point to a cache_dir where I download the appropriate tarballs into.
I do this because BuildDir() does not really duplicate anything generated from this Scanner. I have no clue why.
The code looks like this:
1 def specfile_scan(node, env, path, *args):
2 sources = env.current.sources
3 srccache = os.path.join(env.cache_dir, os.path.dirname(str(node)))
4 # mkdir -p
5 try:
6 os.mkdir(srccache)
7 except OSError:
8 pass
9 for k in sources.keys():
10 if sources[k].startswith('http') or sources[k].startswith('ftp'):
11 urlgrab(sources[k],
12 os.path.join(srccache, k))
13 else:
14 shutil.copy(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(str(node)), k),srccache)
15 return sources.keys()
17 specscan = Scanner(function = specfile_scan,
18 skeys = ['.spec'])
20 ...
22 env.cache_dir = '/data/pyvault-build/sources'
23 env.Repository(env.cache_dir)
env.current is a small Class that contains information parsed out of the specfile by an external utility. This is done outside of any Builder() step. But this part of my SConstruct is probably messed up.
SourceRPM Target
The target is pretty easy to identify. Building of a source rpm is always of the format: "name-version-release.src.rpm", which is readily available in the env.current Class that was created before the Builder is executed:
I had to prepend the build_dir (which I define explicitly) to get things to work. Not sure what's wrong here.
SourceRPM Builder
We wrap this all up by creating a custom builder based on the Target. The Scanner part is AutoMagically called when SCons encounters a .spec file.
.src.rpm ==> .rpm
Setting this up is pretty cake-like since there's only one source. But, there are multiple targets. The difficulty is taken care of prior to invoking the Builder() stuff by using an external utility as discussed above.
RPM Source
Always whatever is supplied to the custom builder. Should end in .src.rpm.
RPM Target
Computed by using an external utility, then wrapped:
Again: needed to prepend build_dir. Dunno why...
RPM Builder
I put in src_builder because I wanted to see if making this a MultiStageBuilder would make any difference. XXX: So far it has not made a difference.
Failed Experiment
So far, with my script, I've only had SCons exhibit the following behavior, either:
Always executing the .spec => .src.rpm => .rpm build chain, or
- Never executing it.
There's one thing I tried to see if it would help. I created a MakeSpec builder that bridged the multistage into a .spec ==> .rpm step:
But, it complained loudly since I just reused the rpm_targets found in the MakeRPM builder. So, I need to bail on this and use the original global function called buildit() that wraps multiple builders... See /FullScript for more details on this issue.


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