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August 25, 2014
The Buyer's Guide
Carlos Carrasco
Spring training in Arizona is close to perfection for me. I adore the various unique ballparks that only fill to half of their capacity, the infectious optimism that surrounds every team, the pristine weather, and the opportunity to submerge myself in nothing but baseball. Most of all, I enjoy the action on the backfields. There's something great about watching dozens of young players playing a wonderful game, wearing jerseys without their names on the backs, and honing their craft in relative obscurity.
The real thrill, though, comes when some no-name guy jacks one 450 feet to straightaway center. Or when a random pitcher catches your eye because he's popping triple digits with ease. It's that moment in which you mutter, "Wow. Who the f--- is this guy?" and quickly start scribbling notes.
Those surprise moments don't quickly fade away and are the reasons why you return to the backfields the very next morning. However, those moments are essentially non-existent at the major-league level. The insane amount of data available on players limits the possibility of being shocked by someone. When it happens, though, it similarly stands out.
It happened to me on Friday night. I was killing time, waiting for the Brewers game to begin at 7 p.m. CT. So I cycled through a few games before settling on the Astros and Indians. I ended up not watching the Brewers game because I couldn't tear my eyes away from Carlos Carrasco.
Watch that clip. He's straight up shoving. He's sitting 96-98 mph on his fastball and touching 99 mph. His slider is 87-88 and getting plenty of swings-and-misses. I don't know what I thought about Carrasco prior to this outing, but I tweeted this in the second inning:
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Thanks. Grabbing him for my league. Great article (except for the fact that striking out Jon Singleton was shocker to you.)
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Tampa City Council refuses to look at cell tower ordinance
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The Tampa City Council today voted to send a formal letter to the Hillsborough County School Board to reverse an ordinance that makes it easy to place cell towers at schools without public comment.
But that decision failed to mollify many angry citizens who wanted the city to go further in making it more difficult for such towers to be installed.
The issue has been a potent one for citizens in Tampa over the past year, with parents of children at schools in South Tampa rising up against a decision to place a tower at Coleman Middle School. Later protests were held at Pride Elementary in New Tampa, with similar concerns about the safety of such towers. But others dispute the danger level.
City Attorney Julia Cole said at a Council workshop that there were several state and federal regulations that pre-empt what the city could actually do, beginning with the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
City staff said that there have been 59 public sites in Tampa where cell towers have been erected over the past decade.
Councilman John Dingfelder asked if there was any way to determine what is âadequateâ coverageâ, the term that attorneys for the cell phone companies have used when theyâve been challenged.
City Attorney Cole said she wasnât sure how that would work, since the city is not allowed to ask questions up front or any business information on the issue.
Mike Rothenberg is with a group against the cell towers. He handed Council members an ordinance his group had crafted to deal with the problem.
Cell phone tower critic Bill Cook called a 1999 previous task force that came up with a proposal on cell towers a decade ago 'a sham'. Not every parent who spoke was against the cell towers.
Jim Porter is an attorney representing Collier II Enterprises, a Tampa company that develops tower sites. He told the Council they should reject looking at the proposed ordinance that citizen Mike Rothenberg presented to them.
But the rules seem to favor the installation of cell phone towers. City Attorney Julia Cole warned members that there was one thing they could not reference in making any decision.
Councilman Charlie Miranda said he wasnât convinced about the negative effects of cell phone towers on peopleâs health.
Councilwoman Mary Mulhern said that the City should create a new task force to work on an ordinance, that should include parents of school children to tweak the current law.
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The School Board lobbied the City Council before Thursdays meeting. Stacy Frank, the enemy in this Cell Tower debate is in the ATHENA group with several School Board members and she will stop at nothing to make her money. She is "CHILDLESS" and does not care about Parents concerns- Just her pocketbook. Rumor has it that she is trying to run for a Tampa office to get laws changed in her favor. OVER OUR DEAD BODIES!
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If it gets signed then I don't see this as being anything more than a vanity fight for Rousey but there could be a more interesting narrative coming out the event if Holm gets booked on the same card and with Cyborg also scheduled to fight in December.
2015 could be a BIG year for the women's division and the Carano bout will serve to create publicity and attract a few new eyes to the sport if nothing else.
I love Gina.. but... what? no tune up fight to see if she can make weight??
Wow, now that is the biggest joke I have ever heard. I can only imagine how Zingano feels about this........
I have no interest in watching Ronda do to her exactly what happened to Alexis Davis. If Carano had any self respect at all or a care for this sport she would train and take a warm up fight, but like most of us knew it was just for the paycheck..
Ronda is going to destroy her.. Gina has been away from the sport too long just to jump in there and think she can do anything other than get a beating.
"I leave this as a declaration of intent, so no one will get confused. 1: Si vis pacum para bellum. Latin. If you want peace, prepare for war. 2: Frank Castle is dead. He died with his family. 3: In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacies, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue natural justice. This isn't vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance. Punishment "
Look, I have just resigned to the fact that this fight is what Matt Hughes v Royce Gracie was, a fight to say the current star beat the legend and the torch has been passed.
Carano in no way deserves this fight and if Cyborg, someone who is at least active by the way, wants a tune up fight at 135 prior to getting a shot at Rousey then you would hope Carano would also.
So here are negotiations , as I see them, for Carano and the UFC..."How much are you going to pay me to get thrown on my ass and punched in my pretty face."
Those who do not appreciate life, do not deserve life.
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I read in a recent article there are still a lot of hurdles in the way. Like how it would effect Gina movie career if she just went in there and got smashed. Think Dana gonna get it done this time?
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This article continues my series on functional programming notions. One thing
that you will notice as this series progresses is that I am trying to resist
the temptation to use C# 3.0 syntax. A trend that I've noticed is that many are using
C# 3.0 to explain functional programming and, while there's nothing terribly
wrong with this, it can potentially confuse the reader. Few of us (with the
exception of
Wagner) are truly comfortable with C# 3.0 yet. So, to understand these
explanations, we have to first unravel the C# 3.0 syntax to get at the subtleties
of the meat. Therefore, I am attempting to present this information in C#
2.0. It is arguable that many developers have yet to become proficient with C#
2.0 but I think its slightly more verbose syntax will
help to make the concepts clear and to prepare the reader for the conciseness of
C# 3.0. Later on, I will introduce C# 3.0 syntax but I'll try not to do it until the
concepts are explained.
In my previous article, I
promised that I would look a bit more deeply into the internals of closures. But
first, let's refresh our memories as to what exactly a closure is.
A closure
is a function that is bound to the environment in which it is declared. Thus,
the function can reference elements from the environment within it's body. In
the case of a C# 2.0 anonymous method, the environment to which it is bound is
its parenting method body. This means that local variables from the parenting
method body can be referenced within the anonymous method's body. So, this code
prints 0 to the console as expected:
Most developers don't have any problem with the code above. A local variable
"x" is declared and initialized to 0. Then, a new delegate "a" of type Action is
declared and assigned to an anonymous method that writes "x" to the console.
Finally, "a" is called and the value of "x" (0) is printed to the console. The
rub occurs when the code is changed like this:
Now, "x" is reassigned to a value of 1 before "a" is called. What will be
output to the console?
(NOTE: This has actually been the cause of misunderstanding and
controversy. There has even been confusion by some at Microsoft itself about
this issue. You can read about it
here. Make sure that you read the comments on these blog posts
to get the full flavor of the debate. If you're looking for a blog post by a
.NET legendary figure that ends the debate,
look no
It turns out that the answer is 1, not 0. The reason for this is that the
anonymous method is a closure and is bound to its parenting method body and the
local variables in it. The important distinction is that it is bound to
variables, not to values. In other words, the value of "x" is not copied in when
"a" is declared. Instead, a reference to "x" is used so that "a" will always use
the most recent value of "x". In fact, this reference to "x" will be persisted
even if "x" goes out of scope. Consider this code:
That will still print 1 to the console even though "x" is out of scope by the
time that "a" is called. So, how is this achieved? Well, the good news is that
this is handled through compiler magic. There isn't any runtime support for
closures. That means that you could use the same techniques to create a closure
without using an anonymous method. In fact, it is
so simple that you could even do it with C# 1.0.
I hinted at how closures work earlier when said "a reference to 'x' is used
so that 'a' will always use the most recent value of 'x'". The key here is that
a reference is used and not a value. The variable "x" is promoted from the stack to the heap in
some way. And that promotion is made in such a way that the scope of "x" can be
increased from its local scope. Oh, and this is done without boxing "x" to a
reference type.
To make all of this possible, the C# compiler generates a special helper
class. "x" becomes a field of that class and the anonymous method assigned to
"a" becomes an instance method of that class. In code, it looks something like
The "GetAction" method is really where the magic happens:
The cool thing to me is that this code will compile under C# 1.0 and work the
same as the code using an anonymous method. It's all compiler magic and
completely transparent to a C# 2.0 programmer.
The biggest sell for closures is that they can dramatically improve code and
make it more robust. Many developers have voiced a mistrust of C# 2.0 anonymous
methods because of their potential for abuse. After all, it's not too hard to
imagine anonymous methods turning quickly into spaghetti code. But in my
experience, many developers have dismissed them simply because they don't
understand the power behind them: closures.
Let's look at an example:
This application simply creates a list of names and then outputs them to the
console. It works perfectly well.
Now, let's assume that we need to add the ability to retrieve a list of names
that starts with some particular text. This is pretty easy to implement because
there is a handy method on List<T> called FindAll that simply takes a Predicate
delegate and produces a new List<T> containing all of the items that the
Predicate returns true for. We can add this new function like so:
Everything is working fine until our client calls and says that there is a
new requirement for this function: it must be thread-safe. In other words, the
function must produce valid results even if it is called by multiple threads.
This is problematic because, while one thread is finding all names starting with
"D", another thread could change "g_StartingText" to something else and bad
results would be returned.
One possibility might be tempting to place a lock on "g_StartingText". This
would certainly make the function thread-safe but it has some drawbacks. The
biggest issue with this approach is that threads will not be able to access this
function concurrently. If a thread acquires the lock, all other threads must
wait until that thread is finished. In other words, this method becomes a
potential bottleneck because only one thread can access it at a time and if
there any additional processors on the machine they won't be used.
The solution is to use an anonymous method to create a closure and remove the
shared state:
Even with the verbosity of anonymous methods, the code
has been greatly reduced. And, assuming that "g_Names" will never be modified,
this function could run concurrently on multiple threads and multiple cores
without any synchronization.
Admittedly, my example is highly-contrived but it's not too hard to imagine
the same situation in larger scale applications.
Closures are critical to functional programming. Without closures, several techniques like currying and
memoization (more on
these in future articles) don't work. And, without understanding the subtleties
of closures, you won't be able to use the features of C# 3.0 properly. I don't
need to defend the value of functional programming in C# because others have done that
We will be building on this knowledge in future articles so understanding
closures is important. Things will quickly start to make your head spin if you
don't understand this concept.
Until next time...
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Because this book provides source code in Standard ML, it's a fantastic
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The states that are called Neo-Hittite, or more recently Syro-Hittite were Luwian-, Aramaic- and Phoenician-speaking political entities of the Iron Age in northern Syria and southern Anatolia that arose following the collapse of the Hittite Empire around 1180 BC and which lasted until roughly 700 BC. The term "Neo-Hittite" is sometimes reserved specifically for the Luwian-speaking principalities like Milid and Carchemish, although in a wider sense the broader cultural term "Syro-Hittite" is now applied to all the entities that arose in south-central Anatolia following the Hittite collapse—such as Tabal and Quwê—as well as those of northern and coastal Syria.[1]
Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age transition[edit]
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The collapse of the Hittite Empire is usually associated with the gradual decline of Eastern Mediterranean trade networks and the resulting collapse of major Late Bronze Age cities in the Levantine coast, Anatolia and the Aegean.[2] In the middle of the 13th century BC, great groups of Greeks speaking ancient Dorian dialects moved from the north through the Balkan region to the south. The Thracians who occupied this region, and northern Greece, were forced to move to the western coasts, and later to the inland of Anatolia, where they became known as Phrygians and Mysians. At the end of the 13th century BC, the Mycenean palaces in inland Greece were destroyed by invaders and almost simultaneously sea-raiders devastated the palace at Pylos. [3] [4] A few decades later, at the beginning of the 12th century BC, Homeric Troy was destroyed[5] and the Hittite Empire suffered a sudden devastating attack from the Kaskas, who occupied the coasts around the Black Sea, and who were joined with the Mysians. They proceeded to destroy almost all Hittite sites but they were finally defeated by the Assyrians beyond the southern borders near Tigris[6] These great population movements in the Eastern-Meditterannean are documented in the records of Ramesses III (1186–1155 BCE) as an invasion by the so-called sea peoples.[7] Mentioned as being among them are the people of Adana (Dnnym or Danuna) in Cilicia and probably the Troyans. Hatti, Arzawa (Lydia), Alashiya (Cyprus), Ugarit and Alalakh were destroyed.[8] The invaders were defeated near the borders of Egypt.
It seems that the sea-peoples contributed to the collapse of the Empire, although they are only mentioned in the Egyptian records and the archaeological evidence is insufficient. Their invasion caused the movement, by both land and sea, of large populations seeking new land to settle.[9] In fact, it is recorded that the foreign countries made a conspiracy in their islands and that no land could stand before their arms. The Hittites were strong enough to survive the first stream of emigrations, but they didn't escape the second, where they were surrounded by enemies. The Caska were a continuous trouble, the borders with Arzawa were never considered safe, Mitanni to the south was always an enemy and a few decades earlier the Hittites suffered a great defeat against the Assyrians beyond the borders.[10] These Neo-Hittite Kingdoms gradually fell under the control of the Neo Assyrian Empire (911–608 BC).
Hattusa, the Hittite capital, was completely destroyed. Following this collapse of large cities and the Hittite state, the Early Iron Age in northern Mesopotamia saw a dispersal of settlements and ruralization, with the appearance of large numbers of hamlets, villages, and farmsteads.[11] Syro–Hittite states emerged in the process of such major landscape transformation, in the form of regional states with new political structures and cultural affiliations. David Hawkins was able to trace a dynastic link between the Hittite imperial dynasty and the "Great Kings" and "Country-lords" of Melid and Karkamish of the Early Iron Age, proving an uninterrupted continuity between the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age at those sites.[12]
Aside from literary evidence from inscriptions, the uninterrupted cultural continuity in the region of Neo-Hittite states from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age is now further confirmed by the recent archaeological work at the sites of Aleppo (Temple of the Storm God on the Citadel)[13] and Ain Dara (Temple of Ishtar-Shawushka),[14] where temples built in the Late Bronze Age continue into the Iron Age without hiatus, and those temples witness multiple rebuildings in the Early Iron Age.
List of Syro-Hittite states[edit]
The Syro–Hittite states may be divided into two groups: a northern group where Hittite rulers remained in power, and a southern group where Aramaeans came to rule from about 1000 BC. Although these states are considered somewhat unified, they were thought to actually be disunified, even in separate kingdoms.[15][16]
The northern group includes:
- Tabal. It may have included a group of city states called the Tyanitis (Tuwana, Tunna, Hupisna, Shinukhtu, Ishtunda)
- Kammanu (with Melid)
- Hilakku
- Quwê (with a stronghold at modern Karatepe)
- Gurgum
- Kummuh
- Carchemish
The southern, Aramaic, group includes:
- Palistin (whose capital was probably Tell Tayinat)[17][18]
- Bit Gabbari (with Sam'al)
- Bit-Adini (with the city of Til Barsip)
- Bit Bahiani (with Guzana)
- Pattin (also Pattina or Unqi) (with the city of Kinalua, maybe modern Tell Tayinat[19])
- Ain Dara, a religious center
- Bit Agusi (with the cities of Arpad, Nampigi, and (later on) Aleppo)
- Hatarikka-Luhuti (the capital city of which was at Hatarikka)
- Hamath
Luwian monumental inscriptions in Anatolian hieroglyphs continue uninterrupted from the 13th-century Hittite imperial monuments to the Early Iron Age Syro-Hittite inscriptions of Karkamish, Melid, Aleppo and elsewhere.[20] Luwian hieroglyphs were chosen by many of the Syro-Hittite regional kingdoms for their monumental inscriptions, which often appear in bi or tri-lingual inscriptions with Aramaic, Phoenician or Akkadian versions. The Early Iron Age in Northern Mesopotamia also saw a gradual spread of alphabetic writing in Aramaic and Phoenician. During the cultural interactions on the Levantine coast of Syro-Palestine and North Syria in the tenth through 8th centuries BCE, Greeks and Phrygians adopted the alphabetic writing from the Phoenicians.[21]
See also[edit]
- ^ Hawkins, John David; 1982a. "Neo-Hittite States in Syria and Anatolia" in Cambridge Ancient History (2nd ed.) 3.1: 372-441. Also: Hawkins, John David; 1995. "The Political Geography of North Syria and South-East Anatolia in the Neo-Assyrian Period" in Neo-Assyrian Geography, Mario Liverani (ed.), Università di Roma "La Sapienza," Dipartimento di Scienze storiche, archeologiche e anthropologiche dell'Antichità, Quaderni di Geografia Storica 5: Roma: Sargon srl, 87-101.
- ^ See Hawkins, John David; 1994. "The end of the Bronze age in Anatolia: new light from recent discoveries," in Anatolian Iron Ages 3: Proceedings of the Third Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium, Altan Çilingiroğlu and David H. French (eds.); The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 16: London, 91-94.
- ^ C.M.Bowra (1958).The Greek experienceW.P.Company.Cleveland and New York. p.12
- ^ John Chadwick(1976).The Mycenean world.Cambridge University Press p.176
- ^ C.Mossé (1984).La Gréce archaicque d'Homére á Eschýle.Editions du Seuil.Paris p.35
- ^ O.R.Gurney (1978).The Hittites.Oxford University Press .London pp.49-50
- ^ C.Mossé (1984).La Gréce archaicque d'Homére á Eschýle.Editions du Seuil.Paris p.33
- ^ O.R.Gurney (1978).The Hittites.Oxford University Press.London. pp.49-50
- ^ Trevor R. Bryce(1998).The kingdom of the Hittites.Oxford University Press.p.371
- ^ O.R.Gurney (1978).The Hittites.Oxford University Press. pp.43-44,49
- ^ See Wilkinson, Tony J.; 2003. Archaeological landscapes of the Near East. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
- ^ See "Karkamish" and "Melid" in Hawkins, John David; 2000. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. (3 vols) De Gruyter: Berlin. Also: Hawkins, John David; 1995b. "Great Kings and Country Lords at Malatya and Karkamis" in Studio Historiae Ardens: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Philo H.J. Houwink ten Cate, Theo P.J. van den Hout and Johan de Roos (eds.), Istanbul: 75-86.
- ^ Kohlmeyer, Kay; 2000a. Der Tempel des Wettergottes von Aleppo. Münster: Rhema.
- ^ Abū Assaf, Alī; 1990. Der Tempel von ءAin Dārā. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.
- ^ Tübinger Bibelatlas / Tübingen Bible Atlas. Siegfried Mittmann, Götz Schmitt (eds.), Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2001, Map B IV 13-14
- ^ O.R. Gurney, The Hittites. Harmondsworth: Pelican, 2nd ed., 1976 = 1954. p. 39-46.
- ^ Trevor Bryce. The World of The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History. p. 129.
- ^ D. T. Potts. A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. p. 802.
- ^ See the Tayinat Website by the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto
- ^ Hawkins, John David; 1986b. "Writing in Anatolia: imported and indigenous systems," WA 17: 363-376.
- ^ Brixhe, C. and M. Lejeune (1984). Corpus des inscriptions paléo-phrygiennes. Paris.
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Arts on the Shore adds fun element to festivitiesWORTHINGTON — Although the windsurfers wished the breeze would pick up, visitors to the Worthington Windsurfers Regatta and Unvarnished Music Festival found the weather perfect for watching a variety of band perform, strolling along Sailboard Beach and checking out the fun foods served by vendors.
By: Justine Wettschreck, Worthington Daily Globe
WORTHINGTON — Although the windsurfers wished the breeze would pick up, visitors to the Worthington Windsurfers Regatta and Unvarnished Music Festival found the weather perfect for watching a variety of band perform, strolling along Sailboard Beach and checking out the fun foods served by vendors.
East of Sailboard Beach, another kind of vendor lined the path around the lake. Artists and craftsmen brought their wares to the Arts on the Shore craft show, allowing guests of the festival to peruse their offerings at their leisure.
Pottery, glassware, jewelry and paintings lined the walkway. Two local artists said they were both pleased with the amount of people that were examining and buying their goods.
Peggy Rachuy has been drawing and painting forever, she said, but became serious about her art in 2000. She works mainly with acrylics, but does some drawing with pen and ink or pastels.
"I go to a lot of local shows," she explained. "I still have children at home, though, so I try not to take things too far away."
This is the fourth year she has displayed her art at the Arts on the Shore show, and is always happy with the results.
"I have repeat customers each year," Rachuy said. "One really nice man from Iowa comes and buys a piece each year. This show is awesome."
Rachuy grew up in Slayton and now lives with her family on acreage outside Worthington.
Another artist with wares along the path was Matt Gaudian, who grew up in Iowa but moved with his wife to Worthington six years ago when she became the youth director at the American Reformed Church.
Unlike Rachuy's history with the Arts on the Shores show, this was Gaudian's first time at the event. Actually, it was his first art sale.
"Usually it's just sitting on a bed in the backroom," he said with a laugh.
Watching his pieces walk away with a customer was a good feeling, but also made him a little nostalgic.
"Its like selling a part of you, but it is neat to know that something I painted will be hanging on walls in another person's home," Gaudian said. "So it will be OK. And I still have the prints."
Up until a few months ago, Gaudian has focused on abstract oil paintings, but three months ago he started working with watercolors. The paintings and prints he brought to the show featured local sites, such as the Prairie Holdings building, the grain elevator, Sailboard Beach and Worthington's City Hall.
"I just went around town and found things that people are familiar with, or old buildings I liked," he said.
One print showed Luverne's recently restored theater, another depicted sailboarders riding the wind on Lake Okabena.
"There has been a lot of local interest, Gaudian said, adding that people had approached him about creating paintings of other sites.
"They want me to do certain buildings for them," he said. "And I was approached about doing paintings for King Turkey Day that can be given as gifts to the Cuero team."
All in all, both artists said the day was a success. And if the interested chatter between artisans and buyers was any indication, the other vendors would likely agree.
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I'd like to have a regular Saclug meeting on 2/10 at the regular place
and time. I am in the process of setting that up. But, I don't have
much by way of topic.
Since the winds of chance have blown Brian to the Bay Area, he has had
to relinquish his responsibilities for Saclug (I shouldn't read a post
from Linus before I write these things ;-)). I'd like to thank Brian
for everything he has done for the group and I hope he will show up now
and then.
But, there is stuff to do. The web site and list server are in the
process of being moved. Hopefully, they will be moved in the next week
or so. Things will be tested before the move, but if anything goes bad,
please send me an email.
I would like to spend some time at the next meeting talking about
changing the web site after the move. I'm pretty open. I am thinking
that wiki-izing things might be a good direction. And there will
probably be a few details to work out with respect to the move.
But that's not really enough for a decent meeting. Based on the recent
threads on the list, I'll suggest that it might be a good topic if
someone wanted to bring a mini-Mac and give a tour. Maybe compare and
contrast to Linux or X86 hardware. Discusss what points you think are
the best points. That is just a suggestion to get the ball rolling, but
I'd be interested.
You can contact me directly or post to the list.
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Shearer Peter Papa was unarmed, though not willing to co-operate, when he was stopped and tasered by police with 50,000 volts.
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"Police do not dictate the use of what tactical option gets used, the offender or suspect does. We aim to de-escalate any situation where force has to be used," said Superintendent Barry Taylor, NZ police national manager operations.
As part of the $8.8 million fit-out to arm the frontline, around 700 tasers will be moved from police stations to patrol cars and several hundred more will be ordered to make up the numbers.
The fit-out will include a bush master rifle, a glock and body armour, which, along with the taser, will be locked into more than 900 police cars by the end of June.
In the past six month, around 1200 extra police have been trained on how to use a Taser.
Last year the Taser was used 96 times, up slightly on the previous year when it was introduced, but many think soon they will be used a lot more.
"Almost inevatibly if you make a tool more widespread, more available, it will be used more often," said Green Party police spokesman David Clendon.
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April 10 (Bloomberg) -- Hungary probably failed to meet European Union conditions to start aid talks as its legislative changes don't sufficiently reduce government influence over independent institutions, Eurasia Group said.
Hungary has amended laws governing the judiciary and the data-protection authority and proposed changes to central bank regulations to allay European Commission concerns over their independence, which have blocked talks on an International Monetary Fund-led loan. The Cabinet sent its response to probes by the EU's executive on March 30.
"While the government hopes this latest round of concessions will pave the way for a favorable opinion by the Commission and the start of formal negotiations on an EU/IMF program, we think this unlikely," Mujtaba Rahman, a New York-based analyst at Eurasia Group, said in a note to clients today. The EU "continues to hold the bar high, suggesting agreement on pre-conditions still have some way to run."
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has failed to meet EU conditions to start talks on a bailout close to five months after requesting aid as the forint fell to a record against the euro and the country's sovereign credit grade was cut to junk.
The forint weakened 0.6 percent to 296.96 per euro at 3:06 p.m. in Budapest. The currency rose 6.1 percent against the euro this year after Orban pledged a quick agreement with the IMF in January. That allowed the forint to pare its 15 percent drop in the second half of last year, the biggest plunge in the world.
Ultimately, Hungary will probably manage to reach an agreement on an IMF loan even as slippage on meeting terms of a loan is "likely," Rahman said. He put the likelihood of a failure to obtain aid at 35 percent.
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The European Commission has received all necessary documents from Hungary in relation to infringement procedures against the country, commission spokesman Olivier Bailly told reporters in Brussels today. The commission will analyze the documents "as soon as possible" and a decision on the procedures should be made in the coming weeks, he said.
The EU executive on March 7 took a formal step toward seeking a court order to require Hungary to redraft laws on the judiciary and data protection agency and asked for more information on planned changes to a new central bank law.
Hungary hopes the European Commission will only set the issue of central bank independence as its precondition for allowing aid talks to start, Gyula Pleschinger, an Economy Ministry state secretary and a member of the government negotiating team, told the news website Privatbankar in an interview published yesterday.
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Separating the issue of central bank independence from the independence of the judiciary and the data-protection agency may allow the country to start talks in "a few weeks," Pleschinger told the financial news website in an interview originally conducted on April 4.
"Fairly equal progress" need to be made on "all of the issues" as "no one area assumes more salience over any other, per se," Rahman said. "This is in direct contradiction with the government's belief." He estimated that the European Commission may respond to Hungary by the end of April.
Orban, who also served as premier from 1998 to 2002, won a two-thirds majority in parliament in 2010 that allowed him to unilaterally change the constitution and reduce the power of independent institutions. The moves raised objections from the EU, the IMF, the U.S. and the United Nations.
Ruling-party lawmakers have ousted the chief justice of the Supreme Court and the data-protection commissioner, narrowed the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court, replaced an independent fiscal council with one dominated by the premier's allies and chosen a party member to lead the State Audit Office.
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Stormbrginer Ruler (The Legend of the Power Supreme)
December 2001
Released: 2001, Dragonheart
Rating: 3.7/5
Reviewer: El Cid
It was pretty hard for to decide if I wanted to pick this album or not… First off I hadn't heard the first two albums by Domine (CHAMPION ETERNAL and DRAGONLORD (TALES OF NOBLE STEEL)) so when the clerk at the local store told they were power metal from Italy I was almost instantly driven away from it.
The one thing this album had to speak for it was the fact that it was a concept album based entirely on the Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock. So then after a lot of thinking I bought it and brought it home, popped into the CD player and kicked back. The result I must say was good, this is not your classic Italian Power Metal with a bunch of dragons flying around and such, actually Domine manage to blend Moorcock's story with their own brand of power metal to make it very appealing even for the hardened fan.
What marks the biggest different from the rest of the legion of Italian Power Metalers is the fact that Domine actually use keyboards properly. What do I mean by this? They don't make the keyboards carry the lead of the music, they are in the background and the guitar work rules supreme in this album.
For those of you that had already heard this band before through their first two albums, I must say I listened to them not too long ago after I got their third one and it turned out that STORMBRINGER RULER was the best of the 3. The main improvement came in the vocals department, singer Morby has had a lot of time to improve and he's done it right! His work on CHAMPION ETERNAL left much to be desired, but in STORMBRINGER RULER he more than makes up for it.
To wrap it up, if you like power metal, you're more than likely to love this album and I'll recommend you to listen to the magnificent "Ride of the Valkyries" and the equally great "Horn of Fate" to get hooked on Domine.
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MADISON, Wis. -- When UW wrestler Andrew Howe ?pulled up? 30 seconds into his Jan. 16th bout with Illinois? Conrad Polz, there were multiple layers of anxiety ? some veiled, some not ? throughout the Field House; starting with Howe, the defending national champion at 165 pounds.
On the surface, it didn?t look good.
?I knew that something happened but I wasn?t sure what it was,? said Howe, a junior from Cedar Lake, Ind. ?I didn?t know if it was a cramp or how extreme it was; I knew something was wrong. After trying to wrestle on it again, it wasn?t a cramp. I knew it was something a little more serious.?
From his perch off the mat, UW head coach Barry Davis at first thought Howe may have damaged his shoulder. But once he realized that wasn?t the case, Davis was sure of only one thing ? the pained expression on Howe?s face. ?That was a face I hadn?t seen before,? he said.
After taking a timeout, Howe attempted to continue on what turned out to be a severe hamstring injury. When it was obvious that he couldn?t move around, the match was forfeited. ?I know the type of effort he puts into this sport and the way he trains, and yeah I was concerned,? Davis said.
Howe expressed the same concern when some of the potential scenarios were presented to him. ?Originally, I was going to be out four to six weeks,? he said. ?Then it ended up being that I might need surgery and it was going to be six to eight months recovery. That was devastating news.?
The first couple of days following the injury, Howe?s hamstring was ?really sore? and ?tight? and he knew if it stayed that way, he wouldn?t be wrestling again this season. But as soon as it started to feel better and surgery was ruled out, Howe knew that ?I was going to be ready to go? in March.
So he is, too, ready to go for this weekend?s Big Ten Championships at Welsh-Ryan Arena on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston, Ill. ?I was hungry before the injury,? Howe said. ?But after sitting out and watching, I?ve got more hunger building up inside. I?m chomping at the bit.?
To what degree was the rehab an emotional roller-coaster? ?The toughest part was at the beginning when we didn?t know what was going on with having surgery or not having surgery,? Howe conceded. ?But I?ve felt great since I started working out with Jesse. There were no serious setbacks.?
Jesse is UW athletic trainer Jesse Donnenwerth, who has a wealth of experience treating injuries to wrestlers at the collegiate and Olympic levels. ?Without Jesse, I don?t think Andrew would be back right now,? Davis said. ?No, no, without Jesse, I don?t think Andrew or Trevor would be back this year.?
Trevor is senior Trevor Brandvold, who has managed to bounce back after being injured in November, though he has been limited to just 11 matches. Howe (a two-time Big Ten champion), Brandvold (who won last year at 197 pounds) and Travis Rutt (184) are all No. 1 seeds.
?It has been a tough year with injuries,? Howe acknowledged. Cole Schmitt (149) was among those sidelined. ?It seems like everything starts going well for us and then something else happens and someone else is out for a few weeks. It just really hasn?t all come together yet.?
Until maybe now. ?This will be the first time since November that we?ve had our full lineup back together,? Davis said. ?We have a veteran team and the guys are mature and understand what it?s all about. We?ve been battle-tested and worked through adversity which has made us a stronger team.?
Howe felt like he was ready to compete at a high level last week. So during a session in the wrestling room, he went 45 minutes with Travis Rutt, who has a 26-1 record at 184 pounds. Davis admittedly had some reservations about Howe taking on Rutt.
?Andrew says he wants to go with Rutt and I started sweating,? Davis said. ?I thought, ?Oh, no, can?t we give him somebody else (to start with).? He can handle anybody but Travis is big and strong.?
Why did Howe want Rutt? ?I knew it would be a test,? Howe said. ?If I could go with him, I could go with anyone in the country. I didn?t want to hold back. I wanted to jump right back into it.?
Davis tried not to focus on Howe and Rutt. He even looked away. At least, he tried to. ?I was trying not to stare,? he said. ?But I was checking them out the whole time anyway. And when they were done, it was a relief for me because it showed that all of Andrew?s hard work had paid off.?
The very next day, Howe wrestled Ben Jordan (174) for 45 minutes. ?That helped me mentally,? Howe said, ?because that?s who I was wrestling before the injury. So that let me know that I was right back where I was. I didn?t notice anything specific with my hamstring that was bothering me.?
Davis couldn?t wipe the smile off his face. ?Andrew goes back-to-back days with quality guys and didn?t miss a beat,? he said. ?The Andrew Howe that I see now is the same Andrew Howe that I saw back in October. I?ve looked. I?ve watched. And, seriously, I can?t see the difference right now.?
That bodes well for not only Howe but the Badgers who missed their team leader.
?I?m ready to compete,? Howe said Tuesday. ?I wish today was Saturday.?
Who?s the favorite to win the Big Ten meet? ?On paper, you?d probably have to go with Penn State,? Davis said. ?But I think we have just as good of a chance as anyone else. We have to wrestle above our seeds to give ourselves that chance.?
The NCAA Championships are the real prize. But this is a good starting point. Or ?starting over? point if you?re Howe and you?re returning to competition for first time since mid-January.
?The injury was almost a blessing in disguise,? Howe said. ?It gave me a little time off and I feel refreshed ? refreshed physically and mentally. I?m ready to make a run. ? I feel really good. And I?m really excited. I?ve been thinking about it (getting back) constantly. I can?t get it out of my head.?
While his hunger grows.
Mike Lucas


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WHEREAS, the State of Missouri recognizes the critical importance of information technology to its government, industry, and economy; and
WHEREAS, high technology has made enormous contributions to the State's economic growth and competitiveness; and
WHEREAS, the high technology industry is one of the most vibrant sectors of Missouri's economy, with over 3,670 high-technology companies employing 21,300 Missouri residents and generating over $1 billion in annual wages; and
WHEREAS, high-technology jobs are high-paying, high-skill, dynamic and adaptable, with the average Missouri high-technology worker earning $50,000 per year; and
WHEREAS, the positive economic impact of high technology extends to the businesses that provide goods and services to high-technology companies, resulting in an overall impact of 66,100 jobs and more than $2.4 billion in wages for Missouri residents; and
WHEREAS, software piracy reduces tax revenue due to the State of Missouri; and
WHEREAS, software piracy can have a serious chilling effect on creativity, innovation, and profitability in the vital high-technology sector of Missouri's economy; and
WHEREAS, counterfeit and other forms of pirated software expose consumers - including state agencies - to the risk of computer viruses, reduced technical support, and other problems that prevent the efficient operation of information systems; and
WHEREAS, in recognition of the destructive impact of software piracy on the Missouri economy and consumers, this administration is committed to developing a comprehensive, statewide response to combat the use of unlicensed software in all State agencies and promote sound management of State information systems.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Bob Holden, Governor of the State of Missouri, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of the State of Missouri, do hereby order the following:
Section 1. Policy. It shall be the policy of the State of Missouri that each State agency shall work diligently to prevent and combat computer software piracy in order to give effect to copyrights associated with computer software by observing the relevant provisions of federal law, including the U.S. Copyright Act, and applicable licensing restrictions.
- Each agency shall adopt policy consistent with the guidelines and model policy developed by the State's Information Technology Advisory Board and establish appropriate procedures to ensure that the agency does not acquire, operate, or maintain computer software in violation of U.S. copyright laws and applicable licensing restrictions.
- Each agency shall adopt policy consistent with guidelines and model policy developed by the State's Information Technology Advisory Board and establish appropriate procedures to ensure that the agency has present on its computers and uses only computer software not in violation of U.S. copyright laws and applicable licensing restrictions. These procedures shall include:
- preparing agency inventories of the software present on its computers;
- determining what computer software the agency has the authorization to use; and
- developing and maintaining adequate record-keeping systems for such inventories.
- Each agency shall require its contractors and recipients of State financial assistance, including grants and loan guarantee assistance, to certify that they have appropriate systems and controls in place to ensure that State funds are not used to acquire, operate, or maintain computer software in violation of U.S. copyright laws or applicable licensing restrictions. If an agency becomes aware that contractors, grantees, or other recipients of State financial assistance are using State funds to acquire, operate, or maintain computer software in violation of U.S. copyright laws or applicable licensing restrictions, the agency shall take such corrective measures as the agency head deems appropriate and consistent with the requirements of law.
- The Office of Information Technology shall develop appropriate language for inclusion in State contracts to prohibit the use of State funds for the acquisition, operation or maintenance of computer software in violation of U.S. copyright laws or applicable licensing restrictions. Such language shall be required in all state contracts involving the purchase or utilization of computer software in the performance of such contracts.
- State agencies shall cooperate fully in implementing this order and shall share information as appropriate that may be useful in combating the use of computer software in violation of applicable U.S. copyright laws or applicable licensing restrictions.
Section 2. Responsibilities of Agency Heads. In connection with the acquisition and use of computer software, the head of each State agency shall:
- ensure agency compliance with U.S. copyright laws protecting computer software and with the provisions of this order to ensure that only authorized computer software is acquired for and used on the agency's computers;
- utilize performance measures as recommended by the Office of Information Technology pursuant to section 3 of this order to assess the agency's compliance with this order;
- educate appropriate agency personnel regarding copyrights protecting computer software and the policies and procedures adopted by the agency to honor them; and
- ensure that the policies and practices of the agency related to copyrights protecting computer software are adequate and fully implement the policies set forth in this order.
Section 3. Office of Information Technology. The Office of Information Technology ("OIT") shall be the principal interagency forum to improve State agency practices regarding the acquisition and use of computer software, and monitoring and combating the use of unauthorized computer software. OIT, in consultation with the Information Technology Advisory Board, shall provide advice and make recommendations to State agencies and to the Chief Information Officer regarding appropriate government-wide measures to carry out this order. OIT shall issue its initial recommendations within 6 months of the date of this order.
Section 4. Chief Information Officer. The Chief Information Officer ("CIO") shall utilize appropriate oversight mechanisms to foster agency compliance with the policies set forth in this order. In carrying out these responsibilities, the CIO shall consider any recommendations made by OIT under section 3 of this order regarding practices and policies to be instituted on a government-wide basis to carry out this order.
Section 5. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the executive branch. It does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, at law or in equity by a party against the State of Missouri, its agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or any other person.
Section 6. Severability. The invalidity of any portion of this Order shall not affect the validity of the remainder thereof.
|IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, in the City of Jefferson, on this 21st day of August, 2002.
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Recently, Ed Droste was spotted canoodling with Sarah Silverman [link]. Every1 was all like "OMG are they dating?" but if ur a true fan, you would know that Edward Droste is known as 'the most famous and powerful gay in indie.' Recently, he has rebranded his entire twitter experience @GrizzlyBear, offering the fans an in depth look into his vibes, whether they are light, or dark. In a recent tweet, he even shared a picture of his new husband! What a QT!
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Final Fantasy Dimensions represents something old, something new, something borrowed – make that everything borrowed – and something… true… to the, uh, spirit of Final Fantasy, or something.
Forget I said that. Let's instead say that Dimensions is the Frankenstein's monster of the Final Fantasy series, stitched together from the functional parts of the SNES era and powered by an artificial soul that, while respectable, fails to authentically replicate the series' yesteryear magic. Which is a little sad, because that's what Dimensions blatantly and desperately aims to do, and it's also the thing we hoped it could do, more than anything else, but it falls just short.
But please don't go thinking that Dimensions is total garbage – on the contrary, it's surprisingly fun. Make no mistake about it: this isn't your typical flash-in-the-pan style of iOS gaming; this is a fully-featured Final Fantasy epic that takes around 50 hours to complete. You may have guessed as much from the cumulative $30 price tag, but yeah.
Don't let the cost creep you out, though – thirty bucks may feel like a small fortune by App Store standards – but for fans of old-school Final Fantasy, Dimensions is worth every penny. There's a lot of vintage Final Fantasy action to be had here, perhaps more than you'd find in any other FF game.
Yes, it really is that big. Thankfully, you can purchase the game in parts, as needed, and the introduction chapter is free for all to try. This helps soften the impact of Dimensions substantial asking price.
Sadly, the game's plot is fluff and the dialog is some of the cringe-worthiest ever penned. Contrived, banal, and at times, insulting in its badness, the writing in Final Fantasy Dimensions is far and away the game's weakest link. The words I'd use to describe it… let's just say they rhyme with "schmucking schmitty". Enduring the game's story can be a real twist of the knife at times, but there's a lot of good game there in between the parts where they talk.
Dimensions employs the job system from Final Fantasy V, with a new-ish range of jobs that feel more balanced but less inventive than the originals. The battles are fluid and controls are about as good as you could hope for on anything less than actual buttons. The game's music is wonderful, too, and feels right at home in a retro game, despite having a modern production value. Everything that's truly outstanding about Dimensions comes from the sum of its gameplay and presentation; functionally, it's a wonderful homage to the series' earlier feel.
Final Fantasy Dimensions is, ultimately, a ton of fun with a few caveats: First, check any expectations for a riveting story at the door. Second, you must be prepared, and willing, to power through a sometimes exhausting abundance of random battles. Forgive the game those sins, and you'll discover that Dimensions is a solid and worthy addition to the halls of Final Fantasy.
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âShut up. Cops lie. Get a lawyer.â National Lawyer's Guild advice to Republican convention protesters on police interaction
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âShut up. Cops lie. Get a lawyer.â Thatâs the advice for Republican convention protesters if theyâre stopped by police. The succinct and bold summary came from an attorney during a National Lawyerâs Guild âknow your rightsâ training Saturday at the downtown Tampa library. Twenty-three activists, including Roger Butterfield, learned strategies for how to interact with law enforcement during National Special Security Events like the convention.
"I guess like the central thing is, you know, don't talk to cops. Just 'shut up.' Really basic stuff. Assume that the police don't have your best interests at heart. And that every opportunity you want to be - not resisting, not giving them any reason to suspect you or anything like that, but just to not be giving them any more than they legally are able to have."
Tampa is using federal funds to temporarily hire thousands of law enforcement officers from around the state to maintain security during the Republican convention. At previous conventions dozens of protesters and sometimes journalists have been arrested or worse. Butterfield is getting prepared in case a similar situation arises later this month in Tampa.
"Some police brutality. Or at the very least some aggression by the police in terms of trying to get people arrested for trumped up charges or something like that. You know I really don't know what to expect, it's hard to say because the Tampa Police Department has always been mysteriously arbitrary in how they seem to go after activists."
Juliana, who would not give her last name, traveled from Atlanta to meet with street medics that are training activists in first aid during demonstrations. She wonât be in town long, but instead will provide remote support during the Republican convention. But as a veteran of several large-scale demonstrations, she offers advice to protesters during a police encounter.
"Don't answer any of their questions. It is never to your benefit to talk to police. Even if you think you know what you're doing. Even if you think they're just doing small talk. If they're arresting you, or if they are detaining you, you don't have to talk to them either at that point. It is not unheard of for a cop to take basic chit-chat and turn it against you and turn it into charges for something. So, don't talk to the police. Just, you can smile, you can say, 'hi,' although I don't even suggest that. I suggest ignoring them most of the time. If they ask you questions, you can simply say, 'Am I free to leave?' And they might try posturing and pushing you some more. But just keep going with the, 'Am I free to leave?' If they were going to arrest you, nothing you're going to say is going to change that one way or another. So, if you're actually free to leave, if you ask it enough times, eventually they will tell you, 'Yes, you are free to leave.'"
That advice is consistent with information given by an attorney named Dan during the hour-long seminar. He wouldnât give his last name or allow his voice to be recorded, but wrote in green letters on a dry-erase board 'Am I free to go?' Itâs all he recommends saying to police in that situation, other than your name.
"I think that the representative from the National Lawyers Guild today gave some excellent advice about what the law states. Of course, it's an individual decision what people want to do in the context of what I think is going to be a very, very important protest at the RNC. But there are a myriad of laws that people have to be mindful of and a myriad of restrictions that don't ordinarily occur in daily life. For instance the wearing of masks, etc. The prohibition of carrying certain items, yet you can carry a licensed gun. Some things seem counter-intuitive but I think it's important that everyone understands the law and understands what the prohibitions are and then they make up their own decisions on what they want to do."
Another person attending the seminar was Tampa attorney Linda Moreno. She expects to be a legal observer during the demonstrations.
"To someone who is in Tampa to meaningfully protest, and to send a message, not only to the RNC but to the world, about very important issues that affect this country, it is not helpful for that person, who's here for a very important reason to try to engage in any sort of intellectual discussion with a police officer or law enforcement whether it's state or federal. So, I think that it's important, again, to be mindful of what the laws are. To understand that in the milieu of a protest, of a parade, within the public viewing section it is not the time or place to be having a conversation with law enforcement. If you want to stay alive, in terms of not being detained or hauled off to jail, it's important not to be in a [confrontational] situation with law enforcement."
Moreno is best known in Tampa for representing former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian during his trial in 2005. She thinks itâs wise for protesters to learn how to avoid getting into confrontations with police.
"As for the legal issues, a lot of it will depend on the cops. Sometimes in a big event the cops have been really well prepared and have been told that, 'You will be nice and you will be friendly and you will be calm and you will not escalate until you are specifically ordered to.' On the other hand, I've also seen it where the police are tense are are more likely to overreact even to minor stuff. And that's just at the personal level, completely separate from what kind of orders they might be receiving from higher ups about how to interact and relate to protesters."
The street medic, Juliana agrees that protesters can do a lot to avoid escalation of conflict with police. But she said the answer of whether there will be confrontations lies with the actions of law enforcement.
"What I think that has been generally said is that police will not start the escalation, that they will start from a position of being calm and pleasant, and if the protesters escalate it they'll respond, but they won't be responsible for escalating it. That said, we'll see what actually happens.
Isn't that what we hear before every single demonstration?"
No. I think sometimes before a demonstration you hear a mayor or police chief going on the record and saying, 'We will not tolerate dissent.' And, 'We will maintain order.' And, 'Free speech is OK in x area but not y area.' So you definitely do hear governments take a different tone."
Tampa Police have ordered light weight short-sleeved uniforms for the demonstrations and plan to distribute water to protesters.
The National Lawyers Guild will have legal observers in the streets of Tampa during protests. They often wear bright green baseball caps as identification.
This week Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn will host three town hall meetings about the impacts of the Republican National Convention on residents and businesses. Each meeting is from 6 p.m. â 8 p.m.
Tuesday itâs at the Florida Aquarium
Wednesday itâs at the Tampa campus of Stetson University College of Law and
Thursday at the Kate Jackson Community Center on South Rome Avenue.
The city says there will be representatives from the Tampa Police Department, Hillsborough County Sheriffâs Office, as well as Tampa's transportation and parking divisions and other departments related to the convention.
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The alarm went off at 5am this morning so I could get to Gloucester by 6am for the final session of 'Insomnia 2007' - an event organised by the Diocese of Gloucester to highlight the issues of homelessness at home and abroad. Having felt quite virtuous at getting up so early to do this, I soon felt more like a fraud when I joined about 200 teenagers who had been up all night in the cathedral. The event was partly about raising funds for homelessness projects, but also about raising awareness, especially for the Bishop, two other MPs and two council chief executives who spent the night sleeping (or not sleeping) under cardboard.
One of the things that never ceases to surprise me is how often housing issues feature in my constituency surgery. Rarely a week goes by without someone coming in who is threatened with homelessness, perhaps becuase their tenancy agreement is coming to an end, or perhaps because of relationship breakdown. High house prices and high rents make it very difficult for many people to get secure accommodation in our area, and the lack of affordable housing is something I have repeatedly raised at Westminster.
There is some sign of progress, not least as the council strives to ensure that 1 in 3 of the thousands of new homes we will be getting in our area is an affordable rented home, but it will take many years before we have a better balance between the supply of affordable homes and the local demand for them.
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Raising the profile of homelessness
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- Joanna said...
The problem of homelessness could be greatly reduced if the thousands of habitable vacant buildings across South Gloucestershire and Bristol were utilised instead of being left to decay.
Also, the lack of new housing could be addressed to some extent by planners who at present are hell bent on producing policies that remove the commercial incentives for property development.
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Hillsborough supervisor of elections rejects criticism
Mitch E. Perry
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Voters in Hillsborough County have received Voting Guides from the Supervisor of Elections Office over the past few weeks, in anticipation of next weekâs primary. But thereâs criticism for that seemingly uncontroversial mail piece. Thatâs because in the left-hand corner of the front page of the mailer, a symbol says: âItâs up to you to voteâ and next to the word vote is Buddy Johnsonâs name.
Over the weekend, the St. Petersburg Times reported that two county vans have been painted with reminders that Florida has switched to paper ballots. The vans show large pens on each side that say: "Voting with a paper trail," along with Johnson's name and title. His name and title also are on the back.
Johnson's potential challenger in Novemberâs election, Democrat Phyllis Busansky, is blasting the vans, calling them a subtle campaign advertisement. She told the Times: "The state has not mandated him to use those funds for his own personal campaigning. I think he's just desperate."
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The moment you launch the app you will start seeing the world in a whole new way. You can wave your device around, walk with it in front of you, and just enjoy the view since the app utilizes a form of automatic Rotoscoping, which is a technique used in animated films like A Scanner Darkly where video frames are painted over with artistic strokes.
The app contains three styles — cartoon, sketch, and stipple — and three line styles, totaling nine different combinations. Once you have found a scene you would like to capture, just tap the large camera button in the middle of the screen. From there you can save the image to your Camera Roll, email it, or upload it to Facebook or Twitter. ToonCamera is able to utilize both the front and back camera on your iDevice, so you can take a scenic picture or a self portrait. It can also utilize your device's LED to light up your subject if necessary.
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In the latest twist in the ongoing saga of Truro City's difficult financial situation, rival team Eastleigh have stepped in to offer the club the gate takings from next week's Eastleigh vs Truro game.
In a posting on the discussion forum of the Eastleigh FC website, the user 'Chandler', a pseudonym for an Eastleigh insider, said:
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The unofficial Truro Fans blog responded with gratitude, quoting the Hampshire Football website as saying:
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Ice, snow wreaks havoc from Texas to New England
ST. LOUIS Layers of dangerous ice and blowing snow closed roads and airports from Texas to Rhode Island on Tuesday as a monster storm began bearing down on the nation and those in its frigid path started to believe it would live up to its hype.
The storm's more than 2,000-mile reach threatened to leave about a third of the nation covered in a hodge-podge of harsh weather. Ice fell first and was expected to be followed by up to two feet of snow in some places. Storm-battered New England towns feared they wouldn't have anywhere to put it.
Making matters worse was the expectation of brutal cold and winds gusting to near 60 mph.
As truck driver David Peck waited outside to deliver food to a Missouri restaurant whose owners were nowhere to be seen, he implored his boss on the other end of the phone to shut down the route.
"By the time I go to Columbia, all hell broke loose," said Peck, 51.
"I've already fell once, right on my back," he said, standing atop an ice- and snow-covered ramp propped on the back of his truck. "There was black ice underneath the snow."
Snow and ice fell to varying degrees from Colorado to Maine, tornadoes were possible in the South, and the weather disrupted the lives of millions. Multiple airports were at least temporarily shut down due to ice, including in Dallas - the destination for thousands trying to get to Sunday's Super Bowl.
Flight tracking service FlightAware had logged almost 6,000 cancellations by midday Tuesday. More were expected Wednesday.
White-outs paralyzed Oklahoma City and the Tulsa area, where snowpack caused the partial collapse of a roof at the Hard Rock Casino but no injuries were reported. Blowing snow created drifts up to 4 feet high and trucks, city buses, snowplows and at least one ambulance had trouble navigating the treacherous roadways.
Tulsa coffee shop owner Brian Franklin said he spent most of the morning watching people on the roads, even laughing at those trying to turn into the store's parking lot. He made it to work in his four-wheel drive Land Rover, but it was a slippery commute.
"After I got out in it, I saw a fire truck with snow chains get stuck, and I wondered if it was a good idea to be driving in this," he said.
Ice-covered roads were all but deserted in Dallas, where the few motorists who braved the unfamiliar terrain slowed to a crawl as they passed jack-knifed tractor-trailers on slick highways. But the NFL stuck to its Super Bowl schedule, holding media activities at Cowboys Stadium in suburban Arlington as planned.
Still, pedestrians struggled as they shuffled along sidewalks - a common problem even hundreds of miles away.
"I think it's crazy the people not putting salt on the sidewalks," said Hagerstown, Md., call center worker Kelly Rataiczak, who slipped several times - but didn't fall - as she made her way from her overnight shift to a bus stop.