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Early habitability of Earth. The NAI has supported Stephen Mojzsis (University of Colorado team) and others (e.g., Mark Harrison, University of California, Los Angeles, team) to investigate the oldest rocks and to use ancient zircons to characterize the environment of the young Earth. One result is evidence for an ocean and hydrological cycle in the Hadean Eon, the first 500 million years of Earth's history.2,3 For additional details see Box 2.1.
The rise of oxygen and Earth's "middle age." NAI support was critical in fostering a new interest in the Archean and Proterozoic Eons, the geological periods from approximately 3.9 billion to 2.5 billion and from 2.5 billion to 542 million years ago, respectively. The NAI sponsored collaborative deep-drilling projects and isotopic studies to document the co-evolution of Earth's biota with the rise of atmospheric oxygen. Findings include new evidence of oxygen before the so-called Great Oxidation Event, improved understanding of the timing of this event, and evidence that this event led to a Proterozoic world unlike what came before or after.4-8 For additional details see Box 2.2.
Snowball Earth. The NAI supported fieldwork by Paul Hoffman (Harvard University) and his students to provide high-resolution stratigraphic and geochemical data needed to refine the hypothesis that Earth was, at times, completely covered with ice during the period from 850 million to 630 million years ago. Snowball Earth and other extreme events are now considered a natural aspect of Earth's evolution on long timescales. Other NAI investigators at the California Institute of Technology and Arizona State University have investigated the implications of this period for the evolution of life.9-12 For additional details see Box 2.3.
Microbial mat ecology. In situ studies, led by the NAI team at NASA's Ames Research Center, of the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mats (modern representatives of one of Earth's earliest and most pervasive
Direct information concerning the first 500 million years of Earth history—the Hadean Eon, approximately 4.0 billion to 4.5 billion years ago—is very limited, since practically no crustal rocks from that time have survived. Researchers do know that asteroids and comets collided with Earth much more frequently than they do today, and astronomers also tell us that the Sun was about 30 percent fainter then, so that Earth may have been cold, unless there was a large greenhouse effect to trap the Sun's heat and raise surface temperatures above the freezing point. Also of special interest is the apparent fact that life arose on Earth either during or shortly after the Hadean Eon.
Understanding the chemical state of the earliest atmosphere and ocean is critical to any theory of the origins of life on Earth. Stephen Mojzsis (University of Colorado team) and colleagues have been investigating the geological record, including the use of ancient zircons to determine the environment on the earliest Earth. The oldest rocks, found in Australia, Canada, and Greenland, are less than 4.0 billion years old. Some of the zircons they contain are much older; oxygen isotope dating places some of these zircons at ages up to 4.3 billion years. Mojzsis and colleagues conclude that these zircons were formed from magmas containing a significant component of reworked continental crust that formed in the presence of water at Earth's surface. This result is consistent with the presence of a hydrosphere interacting with the crust within only 200 million years of Earth's Moon-forming event.
C.E. Manning, S.J. Mojzsis, and T.M. Harrison, "Geology, Age and Origin of Supracrustal Rocks at Akilia, West Greenland," American Journal of Science 306: 303-366, 2003.
S.J. Mojzsis, T.M. Harrison, and R.T. Pidgeon, "Oxygen-isotope Evidence from Ancient Zircons for Liquid Water at the Earth's Surface 4,300 Myr Ago," Nature 409: 178-181, 2001.


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Back in January, the federal government announced it was launching a new, prosecutorial task force that would go after banks for the mortgage and securities fraud that spawned the housing crisis and led to thousands suffering Miami foreclosures.
Our Miami foreclosure attorneys were hopeful this task force would finally stem the abuse of power issues that plagued these large banks and allowed them to commit crimes on such a massive level - crimes that continue to impact average people on a very real level on an every day basis.
However, we've been paying close attention to all the developments pertaining to issues that effect those struggling with foreclosure in Miami, and we've noticed that not a whole lot is happening with this task force. In fact, two months after making a splashy announcement regarding the implementation of this new team, not only does it appear stagnant - they haven't even hired a supervisor.
That's right.
This is a task force that President Obama rolled out in his State of the Union Speech. This was a task force that was supposed to slap criminal sanctions on banking institutions for the harm that they inflicted on the country's very stability through unethical and illegal practices. This was a task force that planned to use the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 to prosecute the key players.
And while this is all great in theory, words don't mean much unless you back them with action. In this case, by the time Obama made his speech, you would have thought the pieces would have been aligned.
At this point, however, we should probably come to expect such response from a government that appears all but complicit - from the blind eye to their initial actions, to the bailouts and now an utterly impotent prosecutorial effort.
While we knew this task force couldn't possibly right all the wrongs committed by these financial institutions, we had hoped it would pack a punch that would make these banks think twice before stepping outside the law. However, not only does the top supervisory position of this task force remain unfilled, so do a number of the other 54 positions.
While the task force has apparently gone ahead with issuing subpoenas in certain cases, that is a very incremental beginning to what would anyway be a long and arduous process - even if you had all the right people in place.
What this makes very clear is that the announcement - and perhaps the entire task force - was all merely for show, rather than a serious step at tackling some very real systematic problems.
While our Miami foreclosure attorneys are disappointed, we aren't surprised. And again, this just further illustrates why, if you're facing foreclosure, you need an aggressive attorney who knows the system well. We've seen it over and over again - these banks will continue to push the limits of the law (to say nothing of morality) unless they are challenged by someone who is familiar with their tactics and the system.
If you're battling foreclosure in Miami or the surrounding areas, contact Jacobs Keeley for a confidential appointment to discuss your rights. Call (305) 358-7991.
Additional Resources:
The Administration PR Fail on the Securitization Task Force, By Abigail Caplovitz Field, Reality Check
New task force to investigate mortgage-backed securities, By Sam Weber, PBS
More Blog Entries:
Miami Foreclosure Watch: Don't Let Banks Off the Hook, April 11, 2012, Miami Foreclosure Lawyers Blog

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Happy Memorial Day!
By Katie | Published: May 30, 2011
I hope everyone is having a great extended weekend so far! We are open today from 11-6 and the weather is gorgeous. If you are looking for a relaxing spot to picnic or just enjoy the sunshine, we've got a table with your name on it here in our winegarden! Clyde and I would also […]
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I think I'm recovered
By Katie | Published: May 27, 2011
Last weekend's Americana Festival really took it out of Clyde and I. There's something about staying up until 2:30 and 3 am for three nights in a row that we just aren't meant to do anymore, I guess! Fortunately, we've had a chance to catch up on our sleep this week and get geared up […]
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By Katie | Published: May 20, 2011
I was definitely getting nervous, but it looks we are just about set for the concerts tonight. A little organizing and a floor for the stage will be all we need to listen to some of the best guitarists in the U.S.! There are still tickets available for the concerts tonight and Saturday, so if […]
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TABOR up for vote a second time
Maine voters will again decide whether to impose strict spending caps on state government, two years after a similar measure was narrowly defeated.
The proposal, known as a taxpayer's bill of rights, or TABOR II, will appear as Question 4 on the Nov. 3 ballot.
The concept is simple: State spending would be capped at 2010 levels, with annual increases allowed based on population growth and the Consumer Price Index.
In order to increase spending beyond those limits or raise taxes, a majority of legislators and voters, via a statewide referendum, must approve. Unlike the 2006 TABOR proposal, the new one applies to spending from the General Fund, the highway fund and any other special revenue accounts.
Proponents say TABOR II will give Mainers the ability to keep out-of-control state spending in check; opponents argue it will lock in recession-time spending levels that are based on budgets that have already undergone cuts. They fear the caps will result in further cuts to education and other essential services.
"What we've seen is a very, very rapid expansion of the size of government in Maine at all levels and it's piled on the taxes; it has the net effect of squeezing out the private sector that's going to provide the jobs," said David Crocker, the campaign chairman for the group TABOR Now.
Crocker said the lack of jobs causes young Mainers to move out of state to find work.
"That's my deep concern and my kind of looming terror," he said. "I fully expect the state to go on its bumbling way if TABOR is not passed."
Crocker said TABOR merely limits spending, it doesn't dictate policy.
"TABOR doesn't micro-manage in the slightest, nor would we want to," he said. "Legislators have to set all the same priorities. They have to decide for us where to allocate the resources that they are given. And if they want more (money), then they come to us."
But that hands-off approach is part of what bugs former Gov. Angus King of Brunswick about the measure.
"We have a referendum every two years (already); it's called an election. Let them run and do the hard work of finding out where the cuts are," King said. "Yes, we do have to control spending and reduce taxes. But we're living in an odd time where people don't want to pay for stuff and it's unrealistic."
Phil Nadeau, Lewiston's acting city administrator, said cuts to state spending would end up impacting municipalities.
"At the end of the day, the state's going to have to balance their books largely on our backs," he said, adding that he's speaking out against TABOR II on his own, not for the Lewiston City Council, which has declined to take a position.
"I'm not a Chicken Little kind of guy, OK? We'll do whatever it is we'll need to do, but at the end of the day, somebody's going to be unhappy," he said.
Crystal Canney, spokeswoman for the group opposing TABOR, said statewide referendums cost between $800,000 and $1 million, according to the secretary of state's office.
"The math is not good," she said. "If the TABOR cap was in place, let's say you just wanted to spend $100,000 more. You couldn't do it without spending $1 million."
Both Canney and Nadeau pointed to Colorado, which passed a TABOR initiative in 1992, as a warning to Mainers. In 2005, Colorado voters opted to suspend the law for five years.
"If it's working, you don't go and suspend what you put in place," Nadeau said. "They needed to fix roads and they needed to do stuff with their schools."
Canney said it was the Colorado business community that backed the campaign for suspending TABOR.
No other state has passed similar state spending caps.
The Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce is supporting TABOR, according to President Chip Morrison, as is the Portland Regional Chamber. Last month, the Maine State Chamber of Commerce withdrew it's support for TABOR because members were unable to reach a consensus, according to President Dana Conners. The Bangor Chamber of Commerce came out against the proposal last week.
Crocker said the opposition is exaggerating the circumstances in Colorado, pointing out that spending on education in Colorado has increased annually and it's just "slightly under the national average."
"There are streets here in the city of Portland that are worse than the streets in some provincial cities in Russia that I have visited," he added.
Rebekah Metzler is a staff writer at the Sun Journal in Lewiston. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Course Number: EDIS 1828
Course Title: Mentors Training Mentors Workshop
Dates: July 22-24, 2014
Times: 9:00am - 2:00pm
Location: University of Southern Maine, Gorham Campus, 301 Bailey Hall
Faculty: Shirley and Doug Spaulding, Certified MDOE Mentor Trainers
Credit: 1.5 CEUs
Tuition/Fees: $295.00
Registration Form: Click here or call 780-5055
The purposes of this training are to:
- Build and/or deepen the ability to prepare teacher mentors
- Enhance the ability to teach the content of the three days of Maine's Mentor Training and the processes that support that learning
- Enrich presentation and facilitation skills
- Qualify individuals to co-facilitate Maine's Mentor Training in the local SAU and region
- Build a common vision and sense of community among Maine's teacher mentors.
The applicant must have:
- A minimum of 5 years of teaching
- A willingness to conduct Mentor Trainings
- Successfully mentored another teacher
- Supervisor's approval to attend, and train in SAU and region.
Recommended: Completion of mentor training (Maine's AARBEC model or comparable training)
Benefits of becoming a mentor trainer:
- Professional development contact hours will be awarded from the Maine Department of Education
- Professional growth opportunities in facilitation/presentation skills
- Builds leadership capacity for the individual and his/her SAU
- Qualifies participants to co-facilitate Maine's Mentor Training Workshop in SAU/region
- A full set of approved training materials, and annotated training agenda
We strongly recommend that participating School Administrative Units send two to five mentors to be co-trainers.


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Allan Cunningham
Allan Cunningham aka AC
Trouble was inevitable growing up in one of the worst neighborhoods in Detroit, Michigan. My three older brothers, the thugs in my neighborhood, had my back but that didn't stop them from teasing me and my cheap-looking clothing, thick glasses and overall nerdy appearance. Being constantly teased turned out to work in my favor since I quickly learned how to defend myself by using my sense of humor. This ability led me to the stage as a successful stand-up comedian who has performed on many stages all around the globe. I ultimately moved to Los Angeles to further my career.
Shortly after moving to Los Angeles I discovered that I am also a writer. I wrote a couple of TV pilots, a short film and a feature. After my short was misdirected by an up and coming director, I decided to take matters into my own hands by taking film classes at Los Angeles City College and directed my first feature "The Soul Agency" (dramedy).
I continued to write two more scripts "The Block" which is a comedy and also a drama titled, "A Couple of Touches". I am currently scheduled to direct "The Block" this year under the name of my new company, Walk The Talk.
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President Obama's latest proposal to avoid the fiscal cliff is $1.6 Trillion in new taxes (on people that pay taxes). That averages to $160 Billion a year for the 10 year period. The projected deficit for FY 2013 is $900 Billion (an unexact number since the Senate hasn't passed a budget since 2009). The spending cuts proposed by the president actually are (with the addition of Obamacare) are not only not existent, but are actually spending increases. He does admit that he is willing to think about spending cuts in the future, but every Democrat since the Nixon era has promised to cut spending later for tax increases now. We are still waiting for the actual spending cuts.
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GenreComedy, Drama, Romance
Release DateAugust 26, 2008 (DVD)
MPAA RatingPG-13
StudioGold Circle Films
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DirectorYann Samuell
ProducerPaul Brooks, Mark Morgan, Guy Oseary, Jay Polstein
ScreenwriterVictor Levin, Jae-young Kwak
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Charlie (Jesse Bradford), a shy and idealistic college student has never been in love. When he rescues the beautiful and elusive Jordan (Elisha Cuthbert) from falling to her death, his life is changed forever. Jordan engages Charlie in an unusual and eccentric courtship. How many tests will Charlie endure to win the heart of this complicated young woman?
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Which is the best web browser software for the iPhone? Safari comes installed as standard, but there are plenty of alternatives - which is best for speed, features, user-friendliness and other key factors? Is Chrome, Opera or Dolphin a better bet?
Find out which iPhone web browser is best in our browser face-off.
What's the best internet browser for Mac?
What's the best browser for iPad and iPhone: Dolphin Browser
Dolphin is a feature-rich alternative to Safari that includes some impressive gesture support.
Dolphin supports tabs (like Safari does) but it's easier to navigate between them: swipe from the right-hand edge to bring up the tabs page and pick an option (we prefer this to the showier but generally less informative and intuitive '3D view' offered in Safari on the iPhone). A horizontal swipe also allows you to access bookmarks and navigation shortcuts.
A unique feature in Dolphin called Webzine reads external feeds - from Twitter or Facebook, or from online publications - and presents them in a stream. Speed Dial, meanwhile, offers an easy way to set up a short list of your favourite bookmarks. And there's a feature called Wi-Fi Broadcast that lets you share pages with people nearby. The range of features is hugely impressive, although this can be overwhelming for new users.
Dolphin's gestures can be used to navigate to a page or refresh the current one, among other things. The app lets you draw your own custom gestures directly on the screen.
Key advantage: Gesture support is both convenient and cool; Private Mode is easy to access
Key disadvantage: Larger range of features makes interface more confusing than that of Safari - especially at first; can't be made default (see Safari section, below)
What's the best browser for iPad and iPhone: Chrome
Google's Chrome browser for iOS is well made and a pleasure to use, particularly if you're deeply entrenched in Google's ecosystem.
Chrome's tabs are excellent. You can quickly create new tabs, rearrange them and move between them easily:
Above left: the open tabs are presented neatly and conveniently; swiping to the right closes unwanted tabs. And if you use Chrome on the Mac (as many of us do) you can sign into Chrome on both and sync your tabs, as seen above right.
Other clever features in Chrome include a handy button that lets you switch to the desktop version of a website that's served up a mobile-optimised version instead, and its use of black-and-white web previews in tabs whose content is cached and will be refreshed when you select them. As with Dolphin, it's easy to invoke the 'private browsing' mode, although of course in this case it's called Incognito Mode.
Key advantage: User-friendly tab organisation and navigation; many useful features
Key disadvantage: Google-phobes may dislike the company's tendency to track and sync, and if you don't want to sign in you lose some of the advantages; can't be made default (see Safari section, below)
Read our full review of Google Chrome for iPhone
See also: Google takes second browser spot on the back of mobile
What's the best browser for iPad and iPhone: Opera Mini
Ah, Opera: the connoisseurs' choice. Opera occupies only about one percent of the web browser market on desktop, but its users claim (not without reason) that it's the best product around.
On mobile, Opera Mini takes the approach that speed is key. By some clever trickery involving proxy browsers returning static pages (don't worry about it) Opera Mini is quicker than any of the browsers above.
In (very unscientific) tests it appeared to return pages in about half the time it took Safari and Chrome (oddly enough, Dolphin was the slowest, although it has the habit of returning a page fairly quickly but then sitting with the progress bar virtually finished for another 10 seconds, so the experience isn't significantly worse).
It's also an economical browser, reducing your data usage significantly. You can track the savings you're making on a dedicated analytics page:
There are compromises with Opera Mini, however. It's a basic-looking browser, with the sort of skeuomorphic gradients and shadows on buttons that went out with iOS 6, and for this reason it can seem distinctly retro after using iOS 7. This may we be dealt with in an update, of course.
More seriously, Opera Mini doesn't take on either audio or video elements; embedded video simply doesn't appear.
One last cheer for the refresh button, which is massive and sits in the middle of the bottom bar. That's unusual but, aptly, rather 'refreshing': I for one find it tiresome pecking at the fiddly refresh button by the address bar in Safari for iPhone. Little things.
The tabs are arranged at the bottom of the screen when you hit the relevant key (above left); somehow Opera makes it easier to see at a glance what's on each page than any other browser we looked at.
Key advantage: Fast; saves on data consumption; nice tab organisation/navigation
Key disadvantage: Doesn't serve audio or video; has slightly old-fashioned look that clashes with iOS 7
What's the best browser for iPad and iPhone: Atomic Browser
Last of all, a paid-for option. Atomic Web Browser provides an alternative for iPhone power users. The £1.49 browser app is neither flashy nor beautiful, but it packs powerful features into a truly customisable experience.
Atomic is highly flexible and useful, allowing the user to set up advanced privacy controls, choose from several colour themes, activate an ad-blocker, customise the search engine bar, view the source of a web page, and even make web servers identify Atomic as another browser.
The main downside, of course, is that you have to pay for the full version of the browser, whereas all of the other browsers we've looked at are free. There is a free lite version, but this comes with some limitations on the number of tabs you can open, doesn't support multitouch gestures, and doesn't offer password protection or a bookmark bar.
If you're looking to truly harness the power of Atomic, buy the full version.
Key advantage: Extremely deep feature set: appear as another browser, customise search and appearance, view web page source
Key disadvantage: Price tag. It's cheap (and a free version is available) but the accepted standard for most web browsers is to be free across the board
Read our full Atomic Web Browser review
What's the best browser for iPad and iPhone: Reasons to stick with Safari
iOS 7 Safari tips: How to access iOS 7's new web features
What about the built-in Safari web browser? Safari is behind its rival on certain features (and Opera Mini on speed) and certainly has its knockers. But there are some big reasons to stick with Apple's own browser.
The first and the biggest is the simple fact that you can't change the default browser on your iPhone (unless you jailbreak). This means that links in emails and similar will default to Safari when you click them. Links in Facebook or Twitter will open in a web view that remains inside the app, but offer the option to open the page in Safari - not other apps.
And Safari is integrated into iOS 7 in more intangible ways - in the overall design aesthetic, for example. This means that Safari feels like a natural extension of the iPhone and its menus and settings.
Finally, there are the advantages held by any incumbent: it's the easiest option, since it's preinstalled and you don't need to invest any time looking into alternatives; and it's comfortable, because you're already used to the way it works. All of the other browsers here will require some getting used to - but if you find one that's worth sticking with (and both Dolphin and Opera are worth a shot) that'll be a one-off investment.
Key advantage: Is the only browser that can be the default - therefore all email links etc. will open into Safari; based on the same 'design language' you will experience throughout the rest of iOS, so many features and defaults will feel more natural to use
Key disadvantage: Behind rivals on some features - gesture support, tab navigation
What's the best browser for iPad and iPhone: Verdict
The advantage that Safari holds over its rivals at the moment - that it's the only browser you're allowed to have as the default - is so huge (and, you could say, so unfair) that we still don't feel able to recommend switching to a rival. Opera Mini is quicker - significantly so - Dolphin has great gesture support, Chrome offers useful syncing with other Chrome-based devices and Atomic has the best feature set. But Safari isn't as far behind on the features front as it used to be, and there simply isn't a big enough reason to switch.
Still, the first three we looked at are free, so you can take a look for yourself. If Apple removed the restriction on default browsers, we'd probably be inclined towards the fast simplicity of Opera, although the lack of video remains an annoyance.


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Visiting Inmates at Montana Women's Prison
General Procedures
Deputy Warden of Security or designee is responsible for the operation of the visiting program. Per Billings City and Fire Codes, staff coverage, and other relevant factors; seating capacity limits appropriate to the size of the visiting room are set at 44.
Personal property restrictions and visiting regulations will be given to offenders and visitors, including procedures for obtaining approval for family members, friends, and others to visit. Offenders also receive this information in the Offender Handbook/Right Living Community Manual.
Visitors can be on only one offender's visiting list at a time, unless approved by the Warden or Deputy Warden of Security.
For visiting information call (406) 247-5118
Approval to Visit
Individuals must be approved at least 72 hours prior to their planned visit at Montana Women's Prison. Approval is based upon a criminal background check. Based on this information visitors will be approved or disapproved
Once the background check is completed all written information will be shredded and/or secured. No personal information, including criminal records, will be released. Prospective visitors will be notified of approval or disapproval by the offenders. Questions regarding disapproval must be directed to the Visiting Officer. Appeals may be sent to the Deputy Warden of Security, if necessary.
Family and Friends who wish to visit will receive a visitation questionaire from the respective offender, or may contact the Visitation Officer at:
Visiting Officer
701 South 27th Street
Billings, MT 59701
Visitation forms must be filled out completely and will include the prospective visitor's full name, social security number, date of birth, and gender.
Special Visits
Visits of otherwise unapproved visitors, extended visits, or visits on non-visiting days may be approved by the Visiting Officer on a case-by-case basis only.
Legal Visits
Attorney visits will be scheduled Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Attorneys need to call 24 hours in advance and are expected to show up on time or the visit may be denied due to institutional time constraints.
Conversations between offenders and attorneys may visually observed by officers but not listened to. Attorneys and offenders may exchange written material that has previously been searched, without being read. A non-contact booth is available to assure confidentiality.
Hospitalized Offenders
Hospitalized offenders are not generally allowed visitors or phone calls. Exceptions (i.e. long-term or critically ill offenders) will be approved by the Deputy Warden of Security on a case-by-case basis only.
Special Housing Cases
Maximum and Administrative Segregation offenders may be allowed one (1) visit a week, in the non-contact booth, if approved by the Visitation Supervisor or Deputy Warden of Security.
Visits to offenders in medical isolation status require approval by medical personnel.
Identification Required for Entry and Exit
All persons over the age of 16 shall be required to submit picture identification. Attorneys must present proper credentials including identification and are subject to search and Department of Corrections and all other institutional rules and regulations. Anyone who cannot be properly identified by entrance staff will not be allowed inside the facility.
Searches of Visitors
All visitors will be asked if they possess weapons, narcotics, alcohol, or tobacco products (see MWP Prohibited Items).
All visitors entering the facility are subject to search via a walk-through metal detection device, hand-held metal detectors, drug detection dogs or detection devices, and when appropriate, pat down searches.
All items carried by persons are subject to search by entrance staff.
Contraband will be confiscated, local law enforcement may be immediately called, and the visit may be denied.
Visiting Hours and Allowances
Visiting hours at Montana Women's Prison are normally on the following days and times:
Tuesday 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Thursday 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
(If possible, we request visitors from the local area use the Tuesday and Thursday visiting times, to free up space for out of town visitors on the weekends.)
Friday 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
** Every 3rd Saturday of the month is Kid's Day. This is for Children of Offenders with approval and scheduling through the Parenting Program only; no drop-ins. Teens are from 9:00 am-11:00am and children 12 and under are from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. There is regular visiting in the evening from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.
Sunday 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Visitors are required to check-in one-half hour before the scheduled visiting time and leave personal items outside the facility except for the following:
- Identification with picture
- One handkerchief
- One small plastic comb (no pick, brushes, or rat-tail combs)
- Eyeglasses
- Prescribed medical appliances (must have medical documentation if needed)
- Medications will be approved on a case-by-case basis.
- No more than $15.00 on quarters in a clear plastic bag.
Visitors with small children may also bring:
- One clear plastic bottle of formula/juice
- One factory sealed jar of baby food and a plastic spoon
- Four diapers
- One baby blanket (not quilted no larger than 3' x 3')
- Baby carrier (secured in the visiting foyer)
- One new factory sealed container of baby formula
- One small toy
- One diaper bag containing the items listed above (secured in the visiting foyer)
Unless pre-approved, no more than five (5) approved people (including children) may visit each offender. When the maximum capacity of the Visiting Room (44 persons), is reached, out-of-town visitors will be given priority over local visitors.
Food - Drink - Smoking
No smoking, chewing tobacco, gum, food, or drinking items are allowed to be brought into the prison by visitors. No alcohol or drugs of any kind are permitted. There are vending machines in the visiting area for visitors and offenders.
Visiting Conditions
Appropriate Clothing will be worn during visits. Appropriate Clothing is:
Visitors shall be well groomed and in appropriatre attire. Clothing must not be distracting to visitors, the offenders, and must be clean and without holes. Tank tops, tube tops, spandex, Lycra, and see-through clothing are not allowed. Tops that expose the midriff or show excessive cleavage will not be allowed. Tops with hoods are not allowed. Culottes, shorts, skirts, and dresses are not to be above mid-thigh. Bib overalls and wind pants are not allowed.
Coats, shawls, ponchos, down-filled vests, jackets, headscarves, hats and caps will be checked in and kept on the coat rack. Sweaters used as a coat will be dealt with at the discretion of the officer. All visitors must stay appropriately dressed throughout the visitation session; this includes wearing footwear at all times. Violations of the dress code are cause for termination of the visit.
Visitors and offenders are permitted a brief front to front embrace (NO PETTING OR FONDLING) including a BRIEF facial kiss at the beginning and one at the end of the visit. They may hold hands during the visit. Hands must be kept in view of the Visiting Room Officer at all times.
All other forms of physical contact are prohibited and will be cause for termination of the visit. The offender and visitor are responsible for supervising the behavior of children during the visit. If after being warned, they fail to control the child's/children's behavior, the visit will be terminated.
Children 10 and under may sit on the offender's lap during visiting. Separate bathroom facilities are designated for offenders and visitors. Visitors will accompany children 10 and under to the bathroom. With the exception of using the restroom, when visitors leave the visiting area, the visit is terminated. Visitors may not return to the same visiting session.
No items may be directly exchanged between offenders and visitors.
Visitors will receive a pamphlet that explains in more detail the dos and don'ts, and other rules governing visitation.
Hobby Items
Hobby items and property may be sent out to an approved visitor if:
The offender has an approved kite; this will be given to the Visiting Officer prior to visiting.
The Visiting Room Officer will give the property to the visitor at the end of the visit
The kite is to be signed and dated by the Visiting Room Officer and the offender's visitor once the property has gone out.
Denial or Termination of a Visit
A visit may be denied or terminated and visiting privileges suspended under the following circumstances:
Institutional Emergency
Visitor is under the influence of mood altering chemicals
Insufficient space available
Visitor refuses to submit to search procedures
Visitor refuses, or fails, to produce sufficient identification, or falsifies identifying information
Visitor or offender violates Montana Women's Prison Institutional Rules
Visitor/offender fails to prevent children from disturbing others in the visiting area
Inappropriate displays of affection, sexually inappropriate behavior, or inappropriate clothing
Conduct or conditions deemed by the Visiting Room Officer to be disruptive to visiting operations or to the secure and orderly operation of Montana Women's Prison


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Israeli Elections Set to Return Netanyahu as Prime Minister
The citizens of Israel went to the polls on Tuesday to vote in an election which look set to return Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to office for a third term.
After striking a coalition deal with the ultra0nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party, Netanyahu's center-right Likud party looks sure to win enough seats to lead the newly elected parliament following today's vote. It is likely, however, that they will be returned with a smaller majority, as the right wing Home Party has seen strong support in recent polls. This may force Netanyahu to negotiate with center-left parties in order to broaden his coalition and ensure enough support to drive through new legislation.
Despite the fact that the end result of today's election seemed to have been determined by coalition deals well in advance of the polls opening, the Israeli election committee has said that turnout is up from 2009, at 38.3%. Approximately 5.6 million Israeli's are eligible to vote.
Some Israeli citizens chose to give their vote in today's election to Palestinians, who are living in Israel but do not have the right to vote
Israelis turn out to vote in low key election by euronews-en


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Are you the paatu-book (Carnatic song book) thumping, raga discovering Classical music enthusiast? Then T.M.Krishna Liveshowis just for you. The show atMusicAcademy on October 25 is all set to be a memorable way to hark in the weekend.
But if you are the comfortably numb towards classical music and prefer your Pink Floyd to your Panthuvarali, then book yourself a ticket to the Pink N Purple Rock Band's tribute to Pink Floyd and Deep Purple on October 21 at the same venue. They sure are expected to blow some smoke on the water that evening!
If you prefer to beat the blues with some dance, allow the beautiful Shobana to captivate you with her classical dance performance at theMusicAcademy on October 26. Knowing the doe-eyed doyen, it promises to be a scintillating evening.
This Sunday(October 21), head straight to Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Auditorium, to witness the Indian premiere of three pieces ('Luxuria', 'Dog' and 'Drift') by the Scottish Dance Theatre (Scotland's leading national contemporary dance company). And just in case you fall hopelessly in love with their show in Chennai, you can go for an encore at Bangalore on October 25.
Sapta is on for the Score night at Star Rock on October 19. Sapta ( seven) is the name that artist Marti Bharath goes by. With leanings towards electronic base with Western sounds and an Indian/Oriental touch, Friday night sure sounds interesting to us!
If you want a quiet time brooding over your brushes, the Kalamkari workshop at Dakshinchitra this weekend(October 20 and 21) is your cup of tea (or paint!) Vijaya Kumar, the master craftsman at Dakshinachitra will be teaching this art of painting with vegetable dyes and a bamboo pen on fabrics. So pay up your Rs.1500 fee and book yourself a place to get arty, this weekend.
We are glad that someone let Vir Das out, for he is in town with 'Who let the Das out' - his stand up comedy evening at Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall on October 20. What are you waiting for? No one needs a reason to head for some laughs!
With so many events on the cards, we suspect it is going to be a problem of plenty for Chennai when it comes to getting entertained.


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Are there any plans to have applications store data from each user in home/user/.config instead of just home/user/ and their respective directories?
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According to the spec, "user data" should not actually be put in
As I say in a comment in that question: compliance is voluntary, but there has been discussion in the past about making XDG compliance a "goal" for all application in the default install.


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Becoming an entrepreneur is a choice, not destiny. That's the conclusion of Edward Riando Picasauw after taking his chocolate business from nowhere into the top ten brands in one national retail network. Yogyakarta-produced Chocolate Monggo has become a recognized trademark in the middle to upper market chocolate segment.
It was in the early semester of his studies in Sanata Dharma University when Edward Picasauw formed the idea of having his own business. "I told my friends that I wanted to be a manager before I graduated from university, and that I would become an entrepreneur, not an employee," he recalls.
Now, with Chocolate Monggo ranking in the top ten for chocolate sales in the Circle K retail network, Edward can look back at his rocky road to success. "People were laughing at me," he recalls of his early days in business. He found that becoming an entrepreneur is an easy thing to say, but hard to do. He had no idea of how to run a business and no money to start one.
Looking back, he believes that the most important factor of business is relationships. With that belief, he used his time to travel and spend time in Bali and Jakarta, meeting people and making as many friends as he could. "The result is that I have many expatriate friends," he smiles.
Yogyakarta was another tourist destination that opened many opportunities to meet people from other countries. One day, he met Thierry Detournay, a Belgian backpacker who decided to stay in Yogyakarta after a year of exploring Southeast Asia. Thierry had an additional reason to stay in Indonesia: he had found his soul-mate, a girl from Solo.
We became good friends, and I found that Thierry would sometimes make chocolates for himself," Edward recounts.
When Edward with Thierry and another friend decided to start a business, this was not purely about chocolate, but a café at Lembaga Indonesia-Perancis, the French language institute in Yogyakarta. His cooperation with Thierry continues to the present day, while the other partner dropped out early in the struggle to build a business.
At the café, Edward managed the main meals corner with its European nuance, while Thierry handled the chocolate corner. "Making chocolate is my hobby," Thierry recounts. Edward, meanwhile, had no idea about chocolate at all in the early days of the partnership.
In 2004 Edward began to think that if he wanted to develop the business, he must do more than just open a café and wait for customers to come. He and Thierry designed a new product, Cacao Mania. As the chocolate expert, Thierry was responsible for the quality of production, while Edward took charge of marketing.
At first, Edward and Thierry made their chocolates only for special events like Valentine's. "It was still hard for us to enter the retail market," notes Edward. The Valentine chocolates the pair produced in 2004 and the following year brought an offer from Circle K Yogyakarta to carry their products. "Circle K was the first retailer to accept our product," says Edward.
That first success reminded the partners that they should register the brand. Their application was rejected, since the word Cacao is a product that may not be registered, while Mania had already been claimed by another company, and for a similar product.
They decided to use the word Monggo as their new brand, a Javanese word meaning please. Edward registered the patent for Monggo brand in 2006, and the certificate was issued in 2009.
From the start, Chocolate Monggo chose to play in the upper strata of the chocolate market. Unlike more popular brands which use palm oil as a compound, Chocolate Monggo uses only pure chocolate butter, adding no preservatives, with the percentage of cacao at 58% or 69%. The higher percentage of cacao, the more bitter the chocolate.
It is difficult to find Indonesian chocolate producers who use pure chocolate butter. I think Dapur Coklat is one of the few," Edward states. Pure chocolate butter brings high quality that can be sold at a premium price. Edward and Thierry's products sell for between Rp13,000 and Rp30,000 a package, depending on the size and type. One supermarket puts an even higher price on the products, at up to Rp40,000. Now production of Chocolate Monggo has reached 60,000 packages per month.
Antonius Budisusila, a cacao industry researcher at Sanata Dharma University, says presentation is the big plus in Chocolate Monggo. "The choice to enter the specific quality and middle to upper market is smart. Yes, Indonesian consumption of chocolate is growing around 2.5% per year.
However, it doesn't mean that Chocolate Monggo or another new brand will find it easy to grab the opportunity. It is impossible for small newcomers to fight head-to-head with the mainstream brands with large capital."
High quality, high risk
Determination to take a position in the premium class using pure chocolate butter leads to added costs compared to simple chocolate. First, the products have a short shelf life, at an average of six months and an absolute maximum of a year.
Second, ideally the chocolate must be kept at a temperature of around 18 degrees Celsius. Any warmer, and the chocolate will melt, any colder and it will bloom, creating a coating of moldy-looking white on the surface of the chocolate. Blooming occurs when the cold temperature brings the chocolate butter to the surface.
We realized that in the retail market there are so many giant competitors with big brands that have been involved in the business for a long time," says Edward. "We decided to play in a different class, in the higher quality market. We also provided many choices of chocolate with a local taste, such as chili, durian, ginger, etc."
In addition to regular production for the retail market, Edward and Thierry continue to produce special products for events like Valentine's, Christmas, Easter and Halloween. For every event, production can reach a weighty 15 tons, triple the regular monthly level of production.
In another move to sidetrack the tight competition in the retail market, Edward has turned to tourism as another marketing ploy. "The reason is simple. When Asians go abroad, they look for famous chocolate from European countries. In fact, Indonesia is the third biggest cacao producer in the world, after Ivory Coast and Ghana. Why don't we produce good quality chocolate to gain a share of the market? ".
The fact that Indonesia is one of the biggest cacao producers does not mean that farmers are economically successful. That's why, for Edward, the fate of the Indonesian cacao farmer is a concern.
When I was invited to a discussion session with cacao farmers in Sleman, I realized that it was a shame to become a cacao farmer. You know, rice farmers can eat rice, coffee farmers can drink coffee, tea farmers can drink tea, but I found that cacao farmers never eat chocolate! When I brought some of our products to the presentation, they told me it was the first time they had eaten chocolate. For many Indonesian farmers, chocolate is still considered an expensive food."
Step by step
Starting out in business in 2003, Edward faced tough times for the next five years, at one time facing a crisis of liquidity. He tried to get credit from a bank, but was turned down since he could not provide adequate collateral. Some new investors joined, but did not commit to the business in the long term.
His efforts in producing chocolate for events did prove successful, however, helping him to launch the new local brand with its distinctive flavors.
Yogyakarta-based psychologist Susana was an early convert to the brand. She remembers when Chocolate Monggo started selling its products at the Kotabaru Church after mass. "They were very creative to make so many interesting forms of chocolate that my son pushed me to buy. That was the first time I became acquainted with the taste of Chocolate Monggo. I could see this young guy was tenacious to develop the business."
Sales began to grow from month to month in 2008, making a giant leap forward when Carefour agreed to sell Chocolate Monggo. At the same time Circle K Yogyakarta started to recommend the product to Circle K networks in Jakarta, Bandung and Bali.
At the launch of the Chocolate Monggo brand in 2006, production was only 200 kg per month, while now output stands at a regular five tons per month, with teams of employees spread across many cities in Indonesia including Semarang, Surabaya, Cilacap, Solo, Bali and Batam, with Yogyakarta as the center of production.
Now, the brand can be found in many retail markets including Carrefour, Superindo, Hero, Giant, Mirota, Gardena and some fruit shop networks. "Some specialty fruit shop networks sell snacks and most are imported products. We are happy to find our product taking a place alongside the ranks of imported products," says Edward.
Recently, with the business growing fast, several banks have offered credit. In line with his plans to export, Edward has seized the opportunity to buy machinery from Europe, "There is a lot of demand from European countries, America, Canada, and New Zealand. We already have the export permit from BKPM (the Investment Coordinating Board) and are waiting for a permit from the Directorate General of Customs."
Chocolate Monggo can claim to have established its brand presence. It's even being copied, with many new local brands of chocolate in Yogyakarta with similar packaging. The newcomers may try to look like Edward's creation, but they can't taste like it, playing it safe at the lower end of the market with a palm oil mixture, not Chocolate Monggo's pure chocolate butter. GA


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Red Bull still best in 2013 - Tost
Red Bull is still F1's top team, according to Franz Tost.
Austrian Tost is the boss of the energy drink company's Italian based second formula one team, Toro Rosso.
Asked to ponder the 2013 pecking order following two of the three pre-season tests in Spain, Tost answered: "The teams are close together, but by and large, not much has changed.
"Red Bull Racing will be the measure of all things in 2013," he said in an interview with Speed Week.
"Hopefully Toro Rosso will make a significant step forward," added Tost.
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Headlines September 24, 2009 Full Show | First Story >
2 Hondurans Killed in Anti-Coup Protests
The Honduran coup regime has intensified its crackdown on supporters of the ousted President Manuel Zelaya. On Wednesday, police fired tear gas at a crowd of thousands trying to reach the Brazilian embassy where Zelaya has taken refuge. Meanwhile, police have confirmed the killings of two anti-coup protesters since Zelaya's surprise return earlier this week. The Brazilian embassy remains surrounded by scores of armed Honduran forces. At the United Nations, several Latin American leaders attending the UN General Assembly called for Zelaya's immediate return to office, including Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet: "My Latin American region has been able gradually to build a single vision which has enabled it to come rapidly to the aid of any threatened democracy, as we were able to do in Bolivia one year ago, or to strongly condemn democratic setbacks, such as Honduras a few months ago. This is why today, with President Zelaya, who returned peacefully to Honduras, I would like to reiterate our appeal for the immediate acceptance of the San Jose agreement promoted by the Organization of American States with President Zelaya's return."
Obama Calls for "New Era of Engagement" in UN Address
President Obama also addressed world leaders at the United Nations Wednesday with an appeal for what he called a new era of global cooperation. In his first General Assembly address, Obama acknowledged the Bush administration had left a legacy of "skepticism and distrust" toward the United States. But Obama also said low US standing is based partly on "misperceptions and misinformation" that has fed what he called a "reflexive anti-Americanism [that] has served as an excuse for collective inaction."
President Obama: "This cannot solely be America's endeavor. Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone. We have sought, in word and deed, a new era of engagement with the world."
Obama went on to call for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks toward a two-state solution.
President Obama: "The time has come to relaunch negotiations, without preconditions, that address the permanent-status issues: security for Israelis and Palestinians, borders, refugees and Jerusalem. The goal is clear: two states living side by side in peace and security — a Jewish state of Israel, with true security for all Israelis, and a viable, independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967 and realizes the potential of the Palestinian people."
Although Obama spoke of ending the Israeli occupation, he refused to call for the removal of all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. He instead repeated his administration's stance of only opposing "continued" Israeli settlement expansion. Obama also called for strengthening the Non-Proliferation Treaty in the pursuit of nuclear disarmament. Obama singled out the nuclear activities of North Korea and Iran.
President Obama: "But if the governments of Iran and North Korea choose to ignore international standards, if they put the pursuit of nuclear weapons ahead of regional stability and the security and opportunity of their own people, if they are oblivious to the dangers of escalating nuclear arms races in both East Asia and the Middle East, then they must be held accountable. The world must stand together to demonstrate that international law is not an empty promise and that Treaties will be enforced."
Obama to Chair Security Council Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament
Obama omitted mention of the three other nuclear states aside from North Korea that haven't signed the NPT: India, Pakistan and Israel. But he is set to chair a UN Security Council meeting today that will urge those countries to embrace nuclear disarmament and ratify the NPT.
Gaddafi Delivers 1st UN Address
After Obama, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi took the podium to deliver a rambling ninety-minute address. Speaking to the General Assembly for the first time, Gaddafi said the UN Security Council has subverted, rather than upheld, international law. Gaddafi also called on the West to pay massive reparations to the African continent.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi: "Now the Security Council is security feudalism, political feudalism for those who have permanent seats...They are used against us...It should not be called the Security Council, it should be called the Terror Council. Let us have the wealth that was taken from us and looted from us. Africa deserves compensation, 7.77 trillion. 7.77 trillion — that's the compensation that Africa deserves from the countries that colonized it."
Delegates Walk Out on Ahmadinejad
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad later gave his address to a half-empty General Assembly chamber. Ahmadinejad brushed off the massive protests against his government following Iran's recent disputed elections.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "Our nation has successfully gone through a glorious and fully democratic election, opening a new chapter for our country in the march toward national progress and enhanced international interactions. They entrusted me, once more, with a large majority of this heavy responsibility."
Ahmadinejad didn't mention the standoff over Iran's nuclear activities and criticized the UN Security Council for concentrating power in a small number of major world powers. At one point, scores of delegates walked out of the room as Ahmadinejad criticized the Israeli government.
Hundreds Protest Ahmadinejad Outside UN
Meanwhile, hundreds gathered outside the UN to protest Ahmadinejad's presence. Bitta Mostofi is an organizer with the Iranian pro-democracy group Where Is My Vote?
Bitta Mostofi: "We want the human rights of the Iranian people to be respected, that we want Ahmadinejad, who is standing before the United Nations as the representative of the people, to be held accountable for the crimes against the people. And we want any — any policy or discussion that's taken towards Iran to consider the humanitarian situation of the people themselves, which means to prevent any type of military aggression, as well, and to prevent any type of crippling sanctions that could further deteriorate the human rights condition that we see right now."
Also speaking at the protest was Denis Halliday, the former UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq. Halliday criticized the Iranian government but rejected calls to impose sanctions.
Denis Halliday: "One the issues today is the issue of sanctions and UN sanctions on the people of Iran, for whatever cause. I am opposed to the use of sanctions. Sanctions represent warfare. They may be legal under the United Nations, but they tend to be imposed on the weak, the isolated, and the countries of the South. If the UN were to go ahead and impose sanctions on Iran for nuclear issues or issues of human rights violations, it's not the government that will suffer. It's the people of Iran who will pay the price. And there's no justification for that, and it serves no purpose."
Iran to Let Nuclear Experts Meet Western Counterparts
In separate comments Wednesday, Ahmadinejad said Iran would allow its nuclear experts to meet counterparts from the US and other world powers. Iran will also ask the US to sell it enriched uranium needed to produce radioactive isotopes for medical use. The proposals come ahead of next week's scheduled talks between Iran, the US and five partner countries.
Morales: Capitalism at Root of Environmental, Economic Crises
Bolivian President Evo Morales also spoke at the UN Wednesday. Morales criticized plans to maintain US military bases in Colombia and said capitalism lies at the heart of global environmental and economic crises.
Bolivian President Evo Morales: "I would like to say that the origin of this crisis is the unbridled consumption and accumulation of capital in a few hands, the looting of natural resources, the commercialization of Mother Earth, and above all, I believe its origin lies in an economic model — capitalism."
Greenpeace Unfurls Protest Banner on Pittsburgh Bridge
The UN General Assembly is followed by today's opening of the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh. On Wednesday, activists with the environmental group Greenpeace rappelled off the West End Bridge to unfurl a banner reading: "Danger, Climate Destruction Ahead. Reduce CO2 Emissions Now." Four of the activists dangled over the Ohio River so the banner could be seen in full view. They were arrested along with five others. Greenpeace media coordinator Mike Crocker said world leaders should be pressured to curb global warming.
Mike Crocker: "It worked out well. And it's good timing, because the G-20 starts tomorrow, and this is exactly the kind of measures they need to see before the meetings begin."
The Greenpeace protest was among several actions and events leading up to the G-20 summit. On Thursday, artist and activist Kehben Grifter of the Beehive Collective spoke outside a concert and rally for Clean Energy Jobs.
Kehben Grifter: "What we're here doing this week is distributing our work and trying to talk to people about coal and climate change and globalization. And unfortunately, it seems like a lot of folks aren't turning out for these sort of mobilizations as much anymore. Maybe they're depressed, maybe they're cynical, maybe they've still got Obamaitis. We're on the outside here. There's like this huge arena and tons of space where they thought lots of people who might care might show up, and we're on the outside of it with cops harassing us, because that's what happens usually at events like this."
McChrystal to Submit Afghan Troop Request
The Pentagon says it expects to receive General Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops in Afghanistan by the end of this week. But Defense Secretary Robert Gates won't pass on the request to the White House until the Obama administration has completed its internal review. The New York Times reports President Obama is considering a proposal from Vice President Joe Biden to scale back Afghan efforts and put more focus on Pakistan.
Obama Won't Seek New Indefinite Detention Authority
The Obama administration has announced it won't ask Congress for new powers to jail terror suspects indefinitely and without charge. The White House will instead continue to use the indefinite-detention system established after the 9/11 attacks. Civil liberties groups have opposed the indefinite jailing but warned that a new system could have left prisoners with even fewer rights. Guantanamo Bay prisoners are currently able to challenge their imprisonment in US courts. Christopher Anders of the American Civil Liberties Union said, "Going to Congress with new detention authority legislation would only have made a bad situation worse."
Report: Massive FBI Data-Mining Program Extends Beyond Terror Cases
The technology magazine Wired has revealed the FBI has used a data collection system intended for terrorism cases to gather information for hacker and criminal investigations. The National Security Branch Analysis Center, or NSAC, has collected more than 1.5 billion records from private corporate databases. The information has been pulled from major hotel chains, car rental companies and at least one national department store. The FBI has steadily increased the NSAC's operations since 2004. It's shared NSAC data with other government agencies, including a Pentagon unit that spied on peace groups until its closure last year.
Congress Debates Reauthorizing PATRIOT Act Spy Methods
The disclosure comes as Congress continues debate over the Obama administration's request to renew three key spying methods under the USA PATRIOT Act. On Wednesday, Senator Russ Feingold disclosed figures showing the Justice Department used PATRIOT Act authority to request hundreds of so-called "sneak and peek" warrants authorizing secret break-ins into US homes and businesses. Of 763 requests last year, just three had to do with terrorism investigations.
Sen. Russ Feingold: "Let me tell you why I'm concerned about these numbers. That's not how this was sold to the American people. It was sold, as stated on DoJ's website in 2005, as being necessary, quote, 'to conduct investigations without tipping off terrorists.' I'm going to say, it's quite extraordinary to grant government agents the statutory authority to secretly break into Americans' homes in criminal cases. And I think some Americans might be concerned that it's been used hundreds of times in just a single year in non-terrorism cases."
White House Scales Back Overhaul of Financial Rules
In other news from Washington, the White House and congressional Democrats are scaling back key elements of a proposed financial industry overhaul. On Wednesday,
House Financial Services Committee Chair Barney Frank said he would drop a plan that would have required banks and other financial services companies to offer so-called "plain vanilla" products such as long-term fixed mortgages and low-interest credit cards.
ACORN Sues Makers of Hidden Video
The anti-poverty group ACORN has filed a lawsuit against the makers of a hidden-camera video that secretly filmed the group's workers appearing to offer advice to a pimp and prostitute. The video led to a congressional vote removing ACORN's federal funding. ACORN says the videos were illegal, because they lacked two-party consent.
FBI Probes Killing of Census Worker
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You might choose to use temporary security credentials for several reasons. This section describes the most common scenarios.
Adele the developer is building a game for a mobile device where user data such as scores and profiles is stored using Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB. Adele could also store this data locally on the device and use Amazon Cognito to keep it in sync across devices. For more information about Amazon Cognito, see Amazon Cognito She knows that for security and maintenance reasons, long-term AWS security credentials should not be distributed with the game. She also knows that the game might have a large number of users. For all of these reasons, she does not want to create new user identities in IAM for each player. Instead, she builds the game so that users can sign in using an identity that they've already established with a well-known identity provider, such as Login with Amazon, Facebook, Google, or any OpenID Connect (OIDC)-compatible identity provider. Her game can take advantage of the authentication mechanism from one of these providers to validate the user's identity.
For most mobile application scenarios, we recommend that you use Amazon Cognito. You can use this service with the AWS Mobile SDK for iOS and the AWS Mobile SDK for Android and Fire OS to create unique identities for users and authenticate them for secure access to your AWS resources. Amazon Cognito supports the same identity providers as those listed in this section, and it also supports developer authenticated identities and unauthenticated (guest) access. Amazon Cognito also provides APIs for synchronizing user data so that it is preserved as users move between devices. For more information, see Amazon Cognito and the Amazon Cognito documentation.
To enable the mobile app to access her AWS resources, Adele first registers for a developer ID with Login with Amazon, Facebook, Google, or any other OIDC-compliant identity provider. She also configures the application with each of these providers. In her AWS account that contains the Amazon S3 bucket and DynamoDB table for the game, Adele uses Amazon Cognito to create IAM roles that precisely define permissions that the game needs. If she is using an OIDC identity provider, she also creates an IAM OIDC provider entity to establish trust between her AWS account and the identity provider.
In the app's code, Adele calls the sign-in interface for the identity provider that she configured previously. The provider handles all the details of letting the user sign in, and the app gets an OAuth access token or OIDC ID token from the provider. Adele's app can trade this authentication information for a set of temporary security credentials that consist of an AWS access key ID, a secret access key, and a session token. The app can then use these credentials to access AWS services. The app is limited to the permissions that are defined in the role that it assumes.
The following figure shows a simplified flow for how this might work, using Login with Amazon as the identity provider. For Step 2, the app can also use Facebook, Google, or any OIDC-compatible identity provider, but that's not shown here.
Example Corp. has many employees who need to run internal applications that access the company's AWS resources. The employees already have identities in the company identity and authentication system, and Example Corp. doesn't want to create a separate IAM user for each company employee.
Bob is a developer at Example Corp. To enable Example Corp. internal applications to access the company's AWS resources, Bob develops a custom identity broker application. The application verifies that employees are signed into the existing Example Corp. identity and authentication system, which might use LDAP, Active Directory, or another system. The identity broker application then obtains temporary security credentials for the employees. This scenario is similar to the previous one (a mobile app that uses a custom authentication system), except that the applications that need access to AWS resources all run within the corporate network, and the company has an existing authentication system.
To get temporary security credentials, the identity broker application calls either
AssumeRole or
GetFederationToken to obtain temporary security
credentials, depending on how Bob wants to manage the policies for users and when the
temporary credentials should expire. (For more information about the differences between these
APIs, see Ways to Get Temporary Security Credentials and Controlling Permissions for Temporary Security
Credentials.) The call returns temporary
security credentials consisting of an AWS access key ID, a secret access key, and a session
token. The identity broker application makes these temporary security credentials available to
the internal application. The app can then use the temporary credentials to make calls to AWS
directly. The app caches the credentials until they expire, and then requests a new set of
temporary credentials. The following figure illustrates this scenario.
In this scenario:
The identity broker application has permissions to access the AWS STS API to create temporary security credentials.
The identity broker application is able to verify that employees are authenticated within the existing authentication system.
Users are able to get a temporary URL that gives them access to the AWS Management Console (which is referred to as single sign-on).
To see a sample application similar to the identity broker application described in this scenario, go to Identity Federation Sample Application for an Active Directory Use Case at AWS Sample Code & Libraries. For information about creating temporary security credentials, see Creating Temporary Security Credentials. For more information about federated users getting access to the AWS Management Console, see Giving Federated Users Direct Access to the AWS Management Console.
Clarisse is an administrator who works at an organization that uses a SAML 2.0-compliant identity provider (IdP) to implement identity federation. In Clarisse's organization, an identity provider can authenticate users against an internal identity store. The IdP can then produce SAML assertions that indicate who the user is and that include information that can be used for authorization decisions by a service provider. Clarisse configures her organization's identity provider, and configures AWS as a service provider that can trust authentication responses from her organization.
Clarisse writes an application that runs on user's computers in her organization and that
stores objects in Amazon S3 buckets. The application can get user information and ask the identity
provider for an authentication response (assertion). It can then call the AWS STS
AssumeRoleWithSAML API, passing the assertion and additional
The API returns temporary security credentials, which Clarisse's application can use to make calls to AWS directly. The following figure illustrates this scenario.
This scenario is similar to the previous one (using an organization's existing identity system). However, because Clarisse's organization uses SAML 2.0, the SAML identity provider in her organization can do much of the work associated with verifying a user's identity and generating information that can be passed to service providers, using an open standard for security information. AWS supports SAML 2.0 for establishing trust and for mapping assertions to IAM roles that determine a user's permissions.
For more information, see About AWS STS SAML 2.0-based Federation.
Some users who are in an administrative group in your organization need to be able to go to the AWS Management Console and administer Amazon EC2 instances. You don't want to create new IAM users for each administrative user and make those users sign in again to the AWS Management Console.
Instead, you can create a SSO experience for your users. They can go to a portal in your organization, where they're already signed in. From the portal they can choose an option to go to the AWS Management Console. If they're authorized for AWS access, they're redirected to the AWS Management Console without having to sign in again. Behind the scenes, authentication information about the users is exchanged for temporary security credentials that are associated with an IAM role that determines what the users are allowed to do in AWS.
You can configure SSO in these ways:
If your organization has an identity system that integrates SAML 2.0 (Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0), you can set things up in your organization and in IAM so that users can seamlessly be redirected to the AWS Management Console. For details, see Giving AWS Console Access to Federated Users Using SAML.
For other scenarios, you can write code that creates a URL that includes identity information and that you can distribute to users and that gives them secure and direct access to the AWS Management Console. For details, see Giving AWS Console Access to Federated Users by Creating a URL.
With IAM roles, you can delegate API access to AWS services (including third-party services) so that they can access your organization's AWS resources with temporary security credentials. Authorized IAM users or services can then use the temporary security credentials to access the resources that are defined in the role.
For more information, see Delegating API Access by Using Roles in Using IAM.
Occasionally, your organization might have resources that users must access across multiple AWS accounts. To allow this access, you can establish trust between accounts so that users from one account can access resources in another account. Using IAM roles, you define trusted entities and the actions they are permitted to do.
For more information, see Enabling Cross-Account API Access in Using IAM.


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You'll have to explain this one to me. While I can understand buying vintage drums to get that vintage sound, why go for vintage pedals as well (other than to keep the whole kit old Skool)? To get that vintage, not-so-great feel of yesteryear (
but whatever feels good to the individual I guess
Yes, whatever works best for you in the end, the latest design or a vintage pedal, but don't under estimate some old " vintage" designs, some current models are still being build using the very same basic function/structure as their "vintage" counterparts.
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On the subject of new vs old., is more complex and more adjustments a good thing? Or bad?
It depends on the person I guess, but I'd say it's better to have more, who can do more can do less, so with certain pedals, you can almost reproduce the "feel" of many other pedals.
If you're an experienced player, chances are you'll know what you want and what works for you, and this can help in the pedal choices.
However, a beginner or intermediate player might not have found his/her best suited technique/feel/need etc, so a pedal which can be morphed into many different "settings" and "feel", like the Mapex Falcon, for exemple, can be an advantage for those players.
Incidentally, when Tama released the Camco in 1981 - 82, it had some featured adjustment readily avaible, you were able to adjust the footplate and the beater angle, independently form each other, but at set angles on the pedal.
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Volcafe Says Indonesian Growers Harvested 65% of 2012-13 Crop
July 27 (Bloomberg) -- Coffee growers in Indonesia, the third-biggest robusta producer, harvested almost 65 percent of the 2012-13 crop under way there, according to Volcafe, the coffee unit of commodities trader ED&F Man Holdings Ltd.
Indonesian output will climb to 9.7 million bags in the season that started in April, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates. That's up from 8.3 million bags a year earlier. A bag of coffee weighs 60 kilograms (132 pounds).
The "harvest is in full swing" and daily coffee arrivals have improved, the Winterthur, Switzerland-based trader said in a weekly report to clients e-mailed today. "Roasters' demand for robusta has been firm," it added.
Bean arrivals at Indonesian ports were 12,750 metric tons to 14,000 tons this week, Volcafe said. That's up from 9,500 tons to 10,500 tons a week earlier, it said in a July 20 report.
Buyers of beans from Indonesia for August and September shipments were paying a premium of $30 a ton to the price on the NYSE Liffe exchange in London, unchanged from last week, data from the trader showed.
In Vietnam, the world's biggest robusta grower, buyers' interest in purchasing beans for the season that starts in October is beginning much earlier than usual, the trader said in the report. The weather has been good and beans are developing "well" for the new crop, according to the report.
"When we see that the 26 million-bag current crop was wolfed down by a coffee world hungry for robusta, the sprint to bag some new crop seems understandable," Volcafe said.
Buyers of Vietnamese beans for shipment in August and September were paying a premium of $40 a ton above the exchange price, unchanged from the previous week, the trader said. Higher prices on NYSE Liffe encouraged selling, it said.
"Local exporters are keen to see bids for August and September shipments in order to clean the warehouse," Volcafe said. Robusta coffee for September delivery advanced 2 percent to $2,254 a ton by 3:07 p.m. in London.
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RALEIGH – A secret agreement that was uncovered by the News & Observer newspaper at the end of last year has revealed that former North Carolina first lady Mary Easley will have her annual state funded retirement pay boosted from $37,171 to $80,597 a year for the rest of her life, despite being fired from NC State University.
Amid allegations of political backdoor dealings by her husband Mike Easley who was governor at the time, Easley was fired by the Board of Governors from her teaching job at NC State in 2009. Mary Easley had been given the five year $170,000 a year job at NCSU in 2008.
Previously, Mary Easley had been working at NCSU helping to land speakers at the school and as a law professor at North Carolina Central University. Both jobs had paid around half the amount of the new position that was created at NCSU just for Mrs. Easley in 2008.
Allegations claimed that Mary Easley was offered the high-paying job due to behind the scenes influence by her husband Mike Easley, who was serving as Governor of North Carolina at the time. Mike Easley had strong ties to one of the NCSU Board of Trustees McQueen Campbell, who had supported Easley's campaign.
A scandal erupted and resulted in then-NCSU Chancellor James Oblinger, McQueen Campbell, and Provost Larry Nielson resigning from office. Mary Easley was fired by the university after the public relations fiasco in which many said that her job was an unnecessary and overpaid position.
Governor Mike Easley was later investigated by the federal government after he left office and was indicted for campaign fund irregularities. He later temporarily surrendered his law license and plead guilty to a single felony count, but did not go to jail. One of Easley's aides did spend active time in prison after also pleading guilty.
The whole series of scandals made the Easleys seem guilty in the minds of many voters in North Carolina of trying to take advantage of their position for personal profit.
Despite the actions having taken place almost five years ago, the Easleys have made news again for their actions that occurred when Mike Easley was governor.
Just last year, North Carolina State University Chancellor Randy Woodson signed a deal in August to boost Mary Easley's retirement pay from $37,171 to $80,597 a year for the rest of her life.
Mary Easley had filed a lawsuit saying she was improperly dismissed from her job at NCSU and that her retirement pay should be calculated based on working for the full five years of her contract with the university, not on the one year she worked before she was fired.
Rather than fight Mary Easley in a potentially costly case in court that could also be embarassing for the school, NCSU relented and decided to put taxpayers on the hook for the difference in her retirement pay.
The secret agreement and settlement signed in August was not disclosed to the public and was only uncovered after some digging by the News & Observer newspaper in a series of articles that appeared in November and December of last year.
Mrs. Easley, who is 63 years old, could potentially receive an extra $651,000 dollars over 15 years despite being fired.
The move by NC State University has been criticized greatly in the media in recent weeks as the Easleys continue to skate by and avoid any major repercussions from former Governor Mike Easley's actions in office.
"If Mary Easley was embarassed, those feelings must have been overcome by her desire to get away with more money," said the Greensboro News & Record newspaper in an editorial in December. "Sadly, she's finally succeeded."
"It would be better to go to court than to give in to an unreasonable demand by someone who must think she's still entitled to the privileges of her husband's former office," added the newspaper.
A conservative newspaper that first brought questions to Mike Easley's campaign donation irregularities also opined on the deal.
"As usual, the Easleys will profit handsomely from their misdeeds, remaining silent as they cash in," said The Carolina Journal in December.
In addition to Mary Easley's raise, former Governor Mike Easley is scheduled to be reinstated soon as an attorney by the North Carolina State Bar. Unlike most attorneys convicted of a felony charge, Mr. Easley did not have his license to practice law permanently revoked and he is eligible to be reinstated this month. ::
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