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A man and woman are recovering after a shooting Tuesday afternoon in Lexington.
It happened just after 2 p.m. at a home on Osage Court, just off Woodhill Drive.
Witnesses say Chelsea Doneghy and Likuan Clark were shot. They were treated and released at a hospital.
Lexington Police say they have a person of interest in custody. Police say that person did know both victims.
Gary Jelly says he watched police take that person into custody.
"The gentleman kept hollering that he didn't do anything, that he was planning on making police look silly, accused of something he didn't do," Jelly said.
Police say they plan to question the victims, along with the person of interest, before deciding whether to file any charges.
Police say a couple of small children were inside the home at the time of the shooting. The children were not hurt.
With the help of police dogs, officers did find a gun near the scene. They think it was the one used in the shooting.
Police also say they are not looking for any suspects at this time.
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Conversion rate optimization (CRO) is truly both an art and a science.
To do CRO right you need to use your whole brain.
Both the right side and the left.
Normally people are more dominant on one side or the other.
You're either totally creative or totally analytical.
Conversion optimization is one of those rare fields that walks the line in the middle.
If you don't have certain characteristics you likely aren't cut out to do great CRO.
You may get some gains, by getting lucky or copying other case studies.
To make a meaningful impact today's conversion rate optimizer must have these 10 traits to be truly GREAT:
1. Be Empathetic
This is probably the most important trait.
Too often we think everyone uses the web the say way we do, or is motivated by the same things we are, thinking this way is detrimental to optimization.
Empathy is the ability to truly experience and understand the emotions, fears and dreams of your site visitors.
This allows a great CRO optimizer to see things others cannot so that they can align emotion, motivation and intent with conversion goals.
2. Have Insatiable Curiosity
Conversion rate optimization is a continuous process which is fueled by a passion to know what works and why.
Without an insatiable curiosity that demands more, you won't get to the root.
It's usually the root of the problem that allows you to see things in different ways and gets you to the "Ah" moment.
The moment that connects all the dots across the entire customer experience.
The great conversion rate optimizer should never stop asking "why".
3. Have An Understanding Of Buying Psychology
Technology will constantly change but human nature will always stay the same.
The reasons why we buy are universally coded into our DNA.
Tapping into those reasons are key to optimizing for people not webpages.
A basic understanding of buying psychology is essential to great optimization.
If you don't understand people, you can't help them buy.
4. Understand Usability
It's not only important to understand how to properly set up a usability test so so you don't bias the results.
But also to step outside of yourself and use a website as if you were someone from another planet.
This lets you eliminate friction and unnecessary steps, and gives you a place to start asking questions.
5. Have A Different Sense of Design
I see design from two different perspectives.
Look and feel.
The optimization key here is how design relates to eye flow.
Designing the experience.
That is how all the elements fit together across several steps.
Both are critical to conversion optimization.
6. Have An Understanding of Good Classic Copy Writing
This is where empathy, psychology and an understanding of your visitors all come together in a compelling way that allows your web page to have a conversation with your prospect.
Any good conversion rate optimizer should be studying the classic writers like Eugene Schwartz, Gary Halbert and others.
These were the guys doing optimization before the web.
To be a great conversion rate optimizer you don't necessarily need to be a great copywriter yourself buy you do need to be able to understand and identify good converting copy.
7. Be A Critical Thinker
Deep thinking gets us closer to understanding the "Why" of both what worked and what didn't…
So that even failed tests become opportunities for learning.
It's vitally important to think about the outcome and analyze your split-tests across many dimensions and think through all aspects of your hypothesis and test results.
8. Be Humble
The quality of being modest and honestly admitting, if even to yourself, that you don't really know what will work is why we test.
Every test won't be a winner.
And thats Okay…
But what's more important is the ability to be Okay with that.
So often our ego gets in the way of a test idea that kills it on the vine.
A good sense of humility allows us to be wrong, that's the only way we'll really learn and grow.
And that's what optimization is really all about.
9. You Gotta Love of Data
This is where the left side of your Brian comes in big time.
Not only in finding trends, but…
The ability to look at the data, both qualitative and quantitative, and hear what they are saying, is an important trait that the Great conversion optimizer has.
Cross referenceing what people do with what they say.
This will lead you on paths you never knew existed to test hypothesizes that the average optimizer would over look.
10. Have An Open Mind
Being open to test ideas from everywhere even wild card ideas, that are totally out of left field, with the rigor of structure around a solid hypothesis for learning will allow you to capture tests others fail to see.
Some times even the best conversion optimizer is too close to the problem.
Having an open mind, democratizes ideas and allows them to come from anywhere or anyone.
In the end it all comes down to testing it.
Conversion rate optimization is a skill that the truly great among us are constantly perfecting and improving.
If you inherently possess these 10 traits, you probalby have naturally gravitated to conversion rate optimization as your profession.
If you don't possess them, you can work to develop them.
But some may be harder for you to embody than others.
In either case consciously developing these traits will make you a better conversion rate optimizer.


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NFL notebook: Manziel: 'I don't think I'm ready for Pittsburgh right now'
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Johnny Manziel, so full of swagger and cool, understands his limitations. He's only a rookie.
And as the celebrity quarterback prepares for Cleveland's exhibition Monday night in Washington, a game that could decide whether he or Brian Hoyer starts the season opener at the Steelers on Sept. 7, Manziel acknowledged he's still has a lot to learn.
"I don't think I'm ready for Pittsburgh right now," he said.
Manziel, though, was quick to point out that he has made progress during training camp, and he expects to get better running Cleveland's offense.
"I've only played one game, but the more and more you see it, the more you get familiar with it, the better it will be," Manziel said after practice Saturday.
Manziel and Hoyer will split time with Cleveland's first-team offense against the Redskins in a game being hyped as a nationally televised matchup between Johnny Football and RG3, Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III.
The Hoyer-Manziel competition is nearing its conclusion, and it's still not clear if coach Mike Pettine and his staff are leaning in one direction.
Pettine plans to meet with his staff and pick a starter Tuesday.
Rams' RB Pead hurts knee
Rams backup running back Isaiah Pead was helped off the field with a left knee injury after returning a kickoff in the first quarter.
It appeared Pead's knee buckled on a cut at the end of a 33-yard return against the Packers on Saturday.
Pead was a second-round pick in 2012 and made one start his rookie year. He appeared in 10 games last season, mostly on special teams.
Bears, WR Holmes agree to deal
Former Super Bowl MVP receiver Santonio Holmes agreed to a contract with the Bears, the Associated Press reported.
The Bears are looking for a third receiver behind stars Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery. Marquess Wilson was battling for that job when he broke his collarbone last week.
A first-round draft pick by the Steelers in 2006, Holmes was the Super Bowl MVP in his third year. He had his best season statistically the following year in 2009 with 79 catches for 1,248 yards and five touchdowns. But he was traded to the Jets the following offseason.
Holmes has 5,963 career receiving yards and 36 touchdown receptions.
However, he totaled only two touchdowns and 43 catches during the last two seasons with the Jets, as foot and hamstring injuries cost him 17 games.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo (KKCO) The building where the new Buffalo Wild Wings in Grand Junction is located used to be Smuggler's restaurant. Before that, it was Crispy Creme's donuts.
Both went under. Buffalo Wild Wings has renovated and added on to the building. Management tells us they're confident the business will succeed. People lined up outside Sunday morning to be one of the first 100 customers to get free wings for a year. But will that be enough to keep them coming after that?
The last few years several businesses have opened and closed along Highway 6&50. Cabelas's opened in the spring of 2010, before that it was a Mervyn's. Del Taco is scheduled to open this fall down the road from Buffalo Wild Wings. The area where the Del Taco will be located was formerly the Cottonwood Liquors location.
Noodles opened recently, it was Panchero's Mexican Grill before that.
Regardless of what happens in the future, the restaurant's newest customers are enjoying the discounts today.
"I think it's a pretty good deal, it averages out to about 3 or 4 hundred dollars a year, so it's a pretty good deal," says Ben Hartman, a Buffalo Wild Wings fan.
"Best service I think I've had in town really, the staff is all friendly, cheerful; they'll stay and talk with you for awhile, real solid, I'll definitely be coming back, even if I didn't have free wings I'd be coming back," says David Shaw, another Buffalo Wild Wings fan.
Famous Dave's wasn't the first restaurant in it's building either.
Not long ago, Borders closed and is now becoming a TJ Max.
Buffalo Wild Wings management tell us they did bring in trainers from the chain's corporate office, but they'll leave once things are running smoothly. We're also told the restaurant hired all local people.
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Durban - Chatsworth councillors are planning to meet Transport Department officials, taxi owners and the metro police in the wake of two taxi accidents that have claimed seven lives in the space of two days.
Brandon Pillay, the councillor for ward 69, which includes the Chatsworth suburbs of Bayview and Havenside, said earlier this week that taxi owners and drivers had much to answer for. He accused them of pursuing profit at the cost of safety, and called for residents to take action.
"The carnage involving taxis from Chatsworth can no longer be ignored. We are saying enough is enough. We can no longer fold our arms while people are dying on our roads weekly," Pillay said.
On January 24, two people – including a woman who was said to be pregnant – died after the taxi they were travelling in collided with a van in Higginson Highway.
Two days later, a Chatsworth taxi named the "Grim Reaper" overturned on the Inkosi Albert Luthuli (M4 Southern) Freeway, killing five passengers and injuring 13.
Pillay said: "As councillors in the area, we have identified two problems with the taxis: first, there is generally improper management of taxis where you find that taxi owners set a certain amount of money that drivers need to submit at the end of the day. So you find drivers speeding and overloadings… thus putting the lives of commuters at risk. The second cause of accidents was the reckless attitude of taxi drivers. They have that 'I don't care' attitude; they don't respect the commuters; they don't follow the rules of the road and they don't even recognise that the lives of commuters are in their hands. For us to decrease the fatalities, we need to start working on those two areas," he said.
Tony Pillay, the husband of Elsie Pillay, 49, who was one of the five people who lost their lives in the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Freeway crash, said his family were trying to make sense of the accident. She was returning home from work when the accident happened.
"One moment I was chatting to her on WhatsApp, asking what time I should fetch her from the taxi stop. The next moment she was offline and an hour later a family member called saying… that Elsie was involved in an accident. I am filled with anger, bitterness."
Kwanele Ncalane, a spokes-man for the provincial Department of Transport, said his department was open to any discussion that might lead to the reduction of road fatalities involving public transport.
"We are willing to sit down with anyone who can come up with ways of reducing the carnage," Ncalane said.
A five-member delegation from the department, representing the MEC, was expected to attend the meeting, set for next week.
The Chatsworth Taxi Association could not be reached for comment.
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The Mighty Boosh exclusive!
By Jamie Millar 07 April 10
Fresh from appearing in the deeply strange Bunny And The Bull, former GQ Men Of The Year Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt have improbably decided to launch their own app. The Mighty Decider won't change your life, but it will offer all the Magic 8-Ball-style advice you could possibly wish for. Here Fielding and Barratt give GQ.COM their thoughts on ipads, their new album and plans for a Rocky Horror-esque musical...
Have you both got iPhones?
Noel: "I've only just got an iPhone so I've only got a few apps. They're all quite weird. They all seem to be fish-based. I've got a coy carp pond where you stick your finger on and they come up and feed off your finger and the phone vibrates. That's the extent of that app. I've got another one where you have to feed the fish that just lives on your iPhone. I've got another one which is like an ambient noise app. But yeah, apps. What are they all about? I don't really know what they are. It's too modern for me. I've only had a phone for about three years. I don't really understand the technology. But the kids all like it, don't they? All the youngsters. That's all they do, stare at their phones all the time. They don't even look up when they talk to you. They just stare at their phones and you go, "Hello!" I went into an Orange shop to get my phone sorted and the two people behind the desk didn't even look up, they were just on their phones. The youth of today. They've got no idea."
Julian: "I do have an iPhone but I'm not really bothered about new applications and things. A couple of my mates are real tech-heads and are constantly boring my tits off with new apps. It'll be like a pint of beer disappearing. Turning your face into Lego. . But I don't really care. Essentially they're just bits of digital distraction and we've entered into that with The Mighty Decider. I'm not an old man and I do a lot of music on computers but I've got no time for this stuff. I'm the wrong person to talk to…"
How did you decide to do The Mighty Decider?
Noel: "The people that helped us make it had the idea for the deciding part of it and said, 'Do you want to Boosh-ify that?' We might try and come up with a more Boosh-y concept for the next one: a crimp generator or something like that. But we thought we'd test the water with this."
Julian: "We were working on an album and a film and we wanted to
try and include new media. It's quite an interesting realm. It's
finding a way to jokes in a different world, to put our comedy into
the future. It's a work in progress really."
Should you live your life by The Mighty Decider in the style of The Dice Man?
Noel: " I wouldn't try to live your whole life by it. That might get a bit tedious. You don't want the moon telling you what to do, really. But if you're a bar and you're a bit drunk and you want to know if you should go and talk to that girl or that boy then you can just ask the Crack Fox. That could be quite fun. Naboo will probably be on it all the time. He's quite a gadget freak. I don't really like gadgets. It took me ages to get an iPod. The iPad's well weird. It's just like a giant iPhone. Is that what it is? It looks like a child's toy. I quite like that about it."
Is there anything the Mighty Decider can't decide?
Julian: "As long as it's yes or no… It won't answer any questions involving government. It's pretty broad. Anything to do with your wardrobe. But it will answer any other questions, be it about grouting. Or be it… not."
What's the album? Songs from the show, new material, a
Monty Python kind of thing?
Noel: "All of those things. A lot of the songs in the show hadn't been written properly, hadn't got choruses or second verses. We might release some EPs with a narrative around them. Mini-operas! Or prog rock! We're not sure actually. We're still experimenting."
Julian: "We've got all the tunes that we've had over the years from the show and we wanted to put them out in the right way. We had this idea to do a prog-rock concept album with all the characters. So we're trying to develop a way of putting out music which is a bit different to just sticking them on an album, by weaving a narrative around it, something original."
And the film?
Noel: "We've got a few ideas. One is more like a musical - a Rocky Horror Show kind of thing - the other is an extension of the TV show but we might do them both at the same time."
Julian: "It's the film that the show wanted to be. We wrote epic
narratives on a budget in half an hour so we can do it properly,
the way we always wanted to. One idea is an Arctic adventure - not
the one that we've a done but a different one. Essentially Howard
and Vince go on a terrifying adventure in the Arctic and meet
various amusing characters out there."
The Mighty Decider is available to download from iTunes, priced £1.19.


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Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower, 1979-1980.
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This mower is an example of the now famous - 'It's much less bother with a' - hover mower made by Flymo Ltd, of Darlington, Co Durham. It was Flymo who made the air-cushion mower into a practical proposition, and into an everyday sight on the lawns of Britain. This model was intended for use as a contractor's tool, to be used on amenity grass (verges etc), however it was marketed in brochures as being suitable for domestic use on medium and large areas of lawn. Among the advantages claimed for the hover mower were its ease of manoeuvre, its relatively light weight compared with cylinder mowers in its cut size bracket and, if used regularly, that it did not require a grass box, as the fine cuttings would compost down into the lawn.
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Some women add soy products to their diet to fight hot flashes and night sweats, but new research suggests it might not work. Baked tofu on rice (pictured) is a soy dish.
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Consuming soy products doesn't prevent hot flashes and night sweats in most women, a large study suggests.
Imagine sitting down for a job interview and suddenly feeling very warm and starting to noticeably perspire. Or consider how it feels to frequently lose sleep from drenching night sweats. Of all the symptoms of menopause, women say hot flashes and night sweats often are the most annoying.
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Do you ever consciously take a deep breathe?
I actually try to do it at least three times a day where I stop everything I'm doing and focus on getting the best breathe I can get. There are two times when I love to do this most: when I'm standing on top of a mountain after hours of hiking and when I know it's fall.
In the midwest, fall has a certain earthy smell to it thanks to the chill in the air and the leaves falling to the ground. I can never seem to get enough of it. I seem to be at my happiest (and my calmest) when I'm hiking on a chilly fall morning.
I think that's why I love pumpkin spiced things so much. The combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves brings this warm and earthy smell that can fill an entire house and pairs so well with the smell of fall.
I seriously think that there is nothing better standing outside on a chilly fall morning with a large cup of coffee in one hand and one of these doughnuts in the other.
Plus, these doughnuts are super easy and not too terribly unhealthy for you!
- 1¾ cups whole wheat pastry flour
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- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
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|Probability of urinary tract infection in infants with ureteropelvic junction obstruction: is antibacterial prophylaxis really needed?
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|In infants with ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO), the risk of urinary tract infection (UTI) is unknown, and there is a lack of prospective studies showing definitive evidence regarding the benefits and necessity of antibiotic prophylaxis. The aim of this study was to assess the risk of UTI in infants with UPJO and to determine whether the risk varies according to the degree of hydronephrosis. Infants with hydronephrosis detected prenatally or within the postnatal 28th day and who had no previous history of UTI were followed prospectively without antibacterial prophylaxis. Imaging studies were performed according to our Pediatric Uro-Nephrology Study Group protocol. Dimercaptosuccinate (DMSA) scintigraphy was performed in all infants at the end of 1 year of follow-up. Eighty-four infants (56 boys, 28 girls) were included in the study. The distribution of patients in each hydronephrosis grading group was incidentally similar. Within a median follow-up period of 18 (12-24) months, none of the patients had UTI. Furthermore, no pyelonephritic scar was found on DMSA scans in any patient. We conclude that prophylactic antibiotic usage is not indicated in infants with UPJO, regardless of the severity of hydronephrosis, as the risk of UTI is minimal in this population.
|Ali Islek; Ayfer Gür Güven; Mustafa Koyun; Sema Akman; Emel Alimoglu
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Every year in January, New York turns into a mad-house of contemporary performance and international theater, led off by festivals like Under the Radar at the Public Theater. It's both a public (with broad coverage and new audiences coming in) and deeply insiderish (on account of the fact its a programming component of a big trade show) affair. Anyway, this year there were more than 40 prominent productions by U.S. and international companies at benchmark festivals in January, and–lucky Seattle!–Mariano Pensotti's El pasado es un animal grotesco, which comes to On the Boards this week (tickets $25), was one of the three or four shows that made the hit-list. Everyone was talking about this show.
Nearly two hours long, the play follows the lives of four young Argentineans from 1999 to 2009, as the age from post-collegiate twenty-somethings to somewhat more mature, if more troubled, adults. Taking place opposite Argentina's tumultuous decade of financial crisis and social turmoil, the play offers up a portrait of a generation that's both a window into a uniquely Argentinean experience as well as all too universal parable about the treacherous path to finding what constitutes a "good life."
Not only in the play incredibly smart, but the production design is incredible: the show unfolds on a constantly rotating round stage divided into four spaces which are constantly being re-dressed throughout. It's very critic-y to call something "bravura," but that's pretty much the most apt description I can think of four the actors' performances in this piece. This really isn't one to miss, and you only have until February 12.
Late last year, I also had the chance to interview Mariano Pensotti, the Buenos Aires-based director and designer of the show.
What is the attraction of live performance for you? In interviews and on your website, you talk about how your work is influenced by literature and visual art and film. This work is inspired both by photographs you collected and the novelistic approach of Balzac. So why a live performance rather than a video or film project, other mediums you work in?
Well, I'm usually interested in creating works that might be a crossover between literature, film and visual arts but always including some live performance aspect. In El pasado es un animal grotesco I was specifically interested in how the past could be retold in the present and how something "ephemeral" such as the past or our memories could be made present in another ephemeral media as the live performance is. Another key point of the project is how to tell epic, ambitious stories that might contain fiction, our personal experiences and socio-political events with minimal resources: just four actors, some old props and a revolving stage… In that context the experience itself of making the performance becomes epic. Our play also deals with the subject of time and the times that go by and I cannot think about another medium where you can have that so strongly present such as in a live performance. Ultimately the play tells the story of four characters during ten years and I had the impression that to see these four actors performing live, nonstop, fighting to make present the past during two hours, to see them tired at the end is like seeing them aging ten years.
In the description of the piece on your website, you wrote of the images that inspired the piece, that "Many seemed to be people from my own generation: A faulty chronicle of a decade." The past decade has been a challenging one in Argentina. What sorts of experiences do the characters' stories touch on? Is there a concrete example that you could perhaps share of how something in one of the images inspired the text you developed for the character?
I think the use of the broken pictures was the result of a mixed perception. On one hand there's a fact that as a young generation in Argentina, a country with perpetual economic and political crises, we had to struggle against a lot of difficulties in our ordinary life. But of course that's not something that you can relate just to Argentina. On the other hand what interested me more was to discover some common feeling in people from my generation, which is the desire of being someone else, the belief that our lives might be better if we lived somewhere else or that we should become another person different from who we are. Besides the economic crises it probably has some relation to that as a generation we're the sons of the people who fought to change the society during the '70s and who were brutally repressed by the military dictatorship, so in comparison with them we usually feel weak, pointless, without social compromise… as a broken or unclear picture. In that sense my collection of blurred and broken pictures seemed to be a clear metaphor of all that.
In the play I was interested in working with that feeling, which at the end I have the impression is quite universal, and also to place some fiction into a real background to see how social events may affect or not private lives. For example during one of our most terrible recent economic crises, in 2001 and 2002, one of the characters loses his job, his flat and his life change a lot; as opposed to other characters, the same event almost affects him. I had the feeling that at least in Argentine theater there was a lack of relation with political events in recent years, we were much too focused on small family issues, so as a challenge I was interested in dealing with our most recent history, not just in Argentina but also using events such as 9/11 or the Iraq invasion to invent stories. It was much more appealing to work with that in a fiction context rather than to take a distant decade, probably more studied and fictionalized already.
This piece makes use of a rotating set. Where did that idea come from and how does it relate the content of the piece?
In my plays I always try to have sets that work not just as a decoration but rather as a narrative mechanism. I'm also interested in setting a play in a context that might affect the body of the performer as well as the perception of the viewer. In the case of the rotating set conceptually it has clearly to do with the idea of passing time, time that never stops, and the actors go from one small space to the next one while the disc turns around all the time. Narratively speaking, as the play is composed of a lot of small scenes, more than sixty, it helped us to set each of them in a different place making small changes on each space when it is not visible to the audience. Additionally, it creates the visual impression of a long dolly shot from a movie.
The soundtrack and title come from Of Montreal. It's an interesting choice for a work that explores a uniquely Argentine experience. What appealed to you–beyond the lyrics that provided the title–about their work? And out of curiosity, have any of them seen the piece?
Even if the play is focused on the life of four middle class Argentinians I don't really have the impression that it explores a uniquely Argentine experience but rather something wider. Anyway, in the globalized world it doesn't seem so strange that an indie band from the States influences an Argentine author or that a Mexican visual artist gave inspiration to some narrator in Sweden… But it's true that Of Montreal is not the first band that comes to your mind in Latin America. I really love their records and especially the title song was so related to my intentions with this play. The image of the past as some grotesque animal that changes shape every time you think about it is so close to what happens with the past and the lived experiences when you try to remember them or retell them in the present. The past is always changing. And then the first lines of the song say something like, "The sun is out and melt the snow that felt yesterday, makes you wonder why it bothered"… And it's a narratively ambitious song, with intense lyrics going on for almost 11 minutes, quite rare for a rock song… I really felt it was close to my intentions for the structure of the play, and I was listening to it a lot while writing the text.
I don't think any of them have seen the piece so far. We've been touring a lot in Europe and Latin America but this is going to be our first time in the United States, so hopefully.
What's it like creating work like this in Buenos Aires? I've been told by other artists that one of the challenges is a lack of infrastructure for supporting ambitious work. Is that your experience? Are there many younger artists–your students at the National University perhaps–who are creating work in Buenos Aires? Other artists whose work you find inspiring or important you'd like a broader audience to know about?
It's really difficult to develop this kind of work. In Buenos Aires there's a huge independent theater community and a lot of small venues all around the city, which are part of a long tradition of theater as part of the cultural life. But the state and city support for theater is almost symbolic or it's just focused on conventional performances for public theaters. From time to time, we can have a co-production with a state theater that allows us to do some more ambitious work, but we usually depend basically on ourselves and in recent times on some international festivals from abroad. The good thing is that there are a lot of people going to theater in Buenos Aires no matter if it's a big state theater or a tiny independent venue. Right now there are several very interesting artists, and among the people from my generation I feel very inspired by the work of Lola Arias, Federico Leon, Grupo Krapp, and Guillermo Arengo.


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Gasoline costs are getting an early start on their annual spring march higher.
The average retail price nationwide rose 13 cents during the past two weeks to $3.42 per gallon, and within a few days it will likely set a record for this time of year.
In the Pittsburgh region, GasBuddy.com on Thursday reported an average gasoline price of $3.62 gallon, up 3 cents from $3.59 on Wednesday and up 11 cents from a week ago. On Tuesday, AAA East Central reported an average price in Western Pennsylvania of $3.557 a gallon, up 5 cents from a week ago.
The culprits: Rising crude oil prices, slowing output at refineries that are undergoing maintenance, and low supplies of gasoline.
These are the kinds of things that push gasoline prices higher every spring after what is normally a lull in gasoline prices in the late fall and early winter. But a heavy schedule of January maintenance at West Coast refineries has led to sharply higher prices there. Low inventories have pushed prices higher in the East.
Rising crude has pushed prices higher throughout the country.
"I'm not surprised at what I'm seeing, but I am surprised it's coming early," said Tom Kloza, Chief Oil Analyst at the Oil Price Information Service.
Hopes of stronger economic growth in the United States and abroad helped push the stock market to a five-year high in January and sent crude prices up. When economies expand, more gasoline, diesel and jet fuel are consumed by shippers and travelers.
Crude oil has risen 14 percent since mid-December, to $97.49 on Thursday. Brent crude, the benchmark used to price oil that most U.S. refineries use to make gasoline, is up 9 percent since then to $115.55
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Ogden distillery feels Idaho love for banned vodka
Liquor officials in Idaho may not want it, but the people of Idaho are showing support for Ogden's Five Wives Vodka.
After last week's decision by Idaho's State Liquor Division to not allow the Utah-made vodka to be sold in the Gem State - because of the brand's label, which was deemed offensive to the state's LDS population - Ogden's Own Distillery started selling "Banned in Idaho" T-shirts.
According to The Idaho Statesman, the daily paper in Boise, and KIFI-TV in Idaho Falls, more than 1,000 of the shirts have been sold since Wednesday - many of them to people in Idaho.
The ban also drew fire from Wayne Hoffman, executive director of the Idaho Freedom Foundation. He wrote about the ban in an op-ed piece in the Idaho Press-Tribune in Nampa (west of Boise).
"Idaho's ban," Hoffman wrote, "has all the markings of an arbitrary administrative decision that may or may not be repeated again. And liquor makers must suffer accordingly under such a regime."
"We are absolutely humbled by the support of the people in our neighboring state," Steve Conlin, partner and vice president of marketing for Ogden's Own Distillery, told KIFI.
Because of the support, Conlin said, the distillery would continue to sponsor the Boise Music Festival - using proceeds from the T-shirt sales to pay for it. (The distillery had considered dropping the sponsorship after the liquor division's ban.)
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The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration has sent two rounds of letters to 10,631 people telling them they no longer qualify for the Healthy Indiana Plan, an affordable health insurance program for low-income adults, because the state says they make too much to qualify under tighter guidelines.
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Fredericksburg >> Members of the Bethel Township supervisors Thursday night waded into the problem of water runoff.
Vice Chairman Terrance Knapp, filling in for Chairwoman Beverly Martel, noted the problem of runoff on Mountain Drive and Dice Lane.
"Water is running off onto the streets," he said, "then it freezes over and thaws, and numerous potholes are forming."
Engineer Jim Fisher and Knapp said they will go out to the area and see what can be done to divert the water and preserve the asphalt.
Runoff was only one issue on which the board focused Thursday night. In addition, attorney John Enck presented the board with the current Northern Lebanon Little League field agreement.
Enck highlighted some areas of interest in the agreement. The league wants to set up a concession stand, which the league will own. Also, it will maintain the landscape of the field. The old agreement has Bethel Township added into the league's insurance, Enck said, while the new one needs to have the insurance company add the township as well.
The board agreed, and the motion passed.
In unrelated business, Enck emphasized some areas of the current Comcast franchise agreement with the township.
Currently, the township's address and phone number are listed on bills from Comcast, he said. Because of this, the township receives phone calls and customers looking to pay their bills at the township office.
"Because of the cable act, the township can opt out of having township information appearing on the bill," Enck said.
In addition, strand maps can be given to the township, which will indicate where underground wires are located when the township has excavation projects. The changes and strand maps were approved.
Also approved was an ordinance for a traffic signal on Route 22 at Blue Mountain Road. Electrical contractor C.M. High of Myerstown is looking to provide maintenance once installed. Enck said he wants to have the current contract contain indemnification provisions to protect the township.
The board agreed with Enck to draw up a contract with proper insurance language and indemnification provisions.
In other business:
• In an attempt to save the township money, Knapp requested quotes to replace the dusk-to-dawn lighting system at Fireman's Park.
"(The park) is using old-fashioned lights that require more energy and produce less light than the newer high-efficiency lights," he said. "It might be worth replacing the current lights with new ones and have the lights pay for themselves over time while eventually saving the township money."
• Knapp said he wants to start cooperating with groups that offer to clean up the township.
Dale Bevans informed Knapp that the only thing the township would need is to pick up the bagged garbage on the side of the road.
"Call the township insurance agent to see if the township would be at risk and if there would be a problem allowing a group to pick up garbage on the side of the township roads," Enck urged him. "Since the township is not involved in the actual collection, the township would need to know of (if any) risks involved."
The board will move forward in talking to Bevans about possible waste collection.
• The board approved a request from the Noah & Company Daycare & Preschool of Fredericksburg for permission to have splash parties at the township pool. Splash parties will take place every Friday when the pool is open.
• The board approved the use of fire police for a car show at Fireman's Park on June 14. No specific time for the event was given.


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Easing Test Automation with the Page Object Pattern
Everyone knows that GUI tests are brittle and costly to maintain, right? That conventional wisdom has broken down in recent years, thanks to better test libraries and frameworks, and better approaches to designing maintainable automated tests. My own current team felt our GUI tests, written starting in 2004, had a reasonable return on investment, but we still found we were spending more time than we liked to refactor and maintain them.
In 2009, I was inspired by Dale Emery's session on writing maintainable automated tests at Agile Development Practices West. I already knew that, as Dale pointed out, writing automated test code is no different from writing production code. We need to use the same principles of eliminating duplication and hiding essential details. The names we give our test scripts also matter.
My team applied Dale's techniques as well as we could, but felt there was a "smell" with our overall automated test approach. At Agile 2010, I attended an OpenJam session by Patrick Wilson-Welsh, where he demonstrated a "page object" pattern. He showed how to hide details and eliminate duplication with web page classes and page control classes "under the covers." When we apply the object-oriented techniques we use in our production code to our test code, our test code becomes much easier to understand and maintain. A "page object" is a test object that holds the details of all the elements on a web page that might be involved in an automated test.
I excitedly showed Patrick's work to my then-teammate Tony Sweets, who was officially our system administrator but also a developer who had always helped with our test automation. He started experimenting with the page object pattern.
Our team had other compelling reasons to start using Selenium WebDriver, and we wanted to apply the page object pattern. Our whole team, including Tony and other developers and testers, experimented with different frameworks, finally settling on Robot Framework. The developers and a system administrator on our team helped us understand the pattern, but we wanted to ensure that we got started on the right track in order to get a solid foundation for our tests. We brought in a coach who has a lot of experience using the page object pattern to help us with a customized three-day course, writing actual tests for our own application. We took the time to learn and experiment with good ways to apply this pattern.
Two months into using the page object pattern, I'm happy to report that frequent UI changes as we develop a new feature are no problem at all! For each change, we only have to change one file and all our automated tests continue to work. We're still learning and experimenting, but we're confident our GUI tests will deliver a much better return on investment than before.
Practitioners such as Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan provide resources that give teams a head start in applying the page object pattern to automated GUI tests. Check out some ways that my own team is applying this pattern, and try your own experiments to see if you can create UI tests that are less brittle and cost less to maintain by applying the page object pattern.
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Interesting how the Selenium community is now catching up in the practice of using a 'component' type approach to automation for GUI. The practice of abstracting the individual page & object code into its own code module has been around a long time. This along with writing custom functions or methods for the objects has also been around a long time.
Both Component and Keyword automation methodologies, or a combination of both in Hybrid approaches, prescribe to an approach of modularizing the code and working towards robust and reusable code in automation.
The problem with GUI automation has always been one of ignorance by the tool vendors and management that automation really is a software development project itself. Thus must use the same methods and technical staff (with appropriate skill/knowledge level) as development for the automation work. It has always been sold/seen as a Record/Playback method that any monkey on a keyboard can do. This fallacy is what has caused GUI level automation to fail.
Conversely, the one thing I give Agile and Opensource tools like Selenium credit for is finally pushing the idea that automation is best done by people with developer mentalities. But as part of this they need to understand testing itself. What needs to happen is a 'hybrid' type person is doing this work. They understand testing, but also know how to code and how to build software (design and construction for maintainability).
GUI level automation has always had a problem with the 'Automagic' snake oil sales job. Finally it seems this is changing.
The design pattern (approach) for Page Object is not new, but finally getting the acceptance and implementation needed to help make automation more robust and maintainable.
I'm curious about why you went with Robot. Can you elaborate on why you chose that specific framework versus going all the way with a framework like Cucumber which is open source but has a much larger and more active user community or Twist which is proprietary and so has vendor support?


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Since upgrading to Backup 5, my computer no longer goes into hibernate after the backup finishes. Here is the error warning:
Backup completed at 20-Nov-13 4:12:30 AM with 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)
[20-Nov-13 4:12:30 AM] Execute after action: "<Hibernate>". Run only once: "No"
[20-Nov-13 4:12:31 AM] Close catalog file "C:\Users\Larry\AppData\Roaming\Softland\FBackup 5\Catalogs\E9262F FBackup Job.fkc"
[20-Nov-13 4:12:31 AM] Warning: Could not execute action "<Hibernate>". Reason: "Not all privileges or groups referenced are assigned to the caller (1300)"
[20-Nov-13 4:12:31 AM] GetConsoleComm().Stop
[20-Nov-13 4:12:31 AM] Close catalog file "C:\Users\Larry\AppData\Roaming\Softland\FBackup 5\FBackup.hst"
What do I need to do to get the hibernate to work?


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MADRID – It is a mantra increasingly heard around the world: US power is in decline. And nowhere does this seem truer than in Latin America. No longer is the region regarded as America's "backyard"; on the contrary, the continent has arguably never been so united and independent. But this view fails to capture the true nature of US influence in Latin America – and elsewhere as well.
It is true that US attention to Latin America has waned in recent years. President George W. Bush was more focused on his "global war on terror." His successor, Barack Obama, seemed to give the region little thought as well, at least in his first term.
Indeed, at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena in April 2012, Latin American leaders felt sufficiently confident and united to challenge US priorities in the region. They urged the US to lift its embargo on Cuba, claiming that it had damaged relations with the rest of the continent, and to do more to combat drug use on its own turf, through education and social work, rather than supplying arms to fight the drug lords in Latin America – a battle that all acknowledged has been an utter failure.
It is also true that Latin American countries have pursued a massive expansion of economic ties beyond America's sway. China is now Latin America's second-largest trading partner and rapidly closing the gap with the US. India is showing keen interest in the region's energy industry, and has signed export agreements in the defense sector. Iran has strengthened its economic and military ties, especially in Venezuela.
Similarly, in 2008, Russia's then-President Dmitri Medvedev identified the US war on terror as an opportunity to create strategic partnerships with rising powers such as Brazil, and with the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), a Venezuelan-inspired bloc opposed to US designs in the region. The energy giant Gazprom and the country's military industries have spearheaded the Kremlin's effort to demonstrate Russia's ability to influence America's neighborhood – a direct response to perceived American meddling in Russia's own "near abroad," particularly Georgia and Ukraine.
Yet it would be a mistake to regard Latin America's broadening international relations as marking the end of US preeminence. Unlike in the bygone era of superpowers and captive nations, American influence can no longer be defined by the ability to install and depose leaders from the US embassy. To believe otherwise is to ignore how international politics has changed over the last quarter-century.
A continent once afflicted by military takeovers has slowly but surely implanted stable democracies. Responsible economic management, poverty-reduction programs, structural reforms, and greater openness to foreign investment have all helped to generate years of low-inflation growth. As a result, the region was able to withstand the ravages of the global financial crisis.
The US not only encouraged these changes, but has benefited hugely from them. More than 40% of US exports now go to Mexico and Central and South America, the US's fastest-growing export destination. Mexico is America's second-largest foreign market (valued at $215 billion in 2012). US exports to Central America have risen by 94% over the past six years; imports from the region have risen by 87%. And the US continues to be the largest foreign investor on the continent. American interests are evidently well served by having democratic, stable, and increasingly prosperous neighbors.
This new reality also demands a different type of diplomacy – one that recognizes the diverse interests of the continent. For example, an emerging power such as Brazil wants more respect on the world stage. Obama blundered when he dismissed a 2010 deal on Iran's nuclear program mediated by Brazil and Turkey (despite having earlier endorsed the talks). Other countries might benefit from US efforts to promote democracy and socioeconomic ties, as Obama's recent trips to Mexico and Costa Rica show.
Trade relations provide another all-important lever. President Sebastian Piñera of Chile visited the White House earlier this week to discuss, among other things, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an ambitious trade agreement that might encompass New Zealand, Singapore, Australia, Mexico, Canada, and Japan. President Ollanta Humala of Peru is expected in the White House next week, while Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Latin America soon after.
Language and culture matter, too. Given the extraordinary growth of Latinos' influence in the US, it is almost inconceivable that America could lose its unique status in the region to China or Russia, let alone Iran.
Gone are the days when military muscle and the politics of subversion could secure US influence – in Latin America or anywhere else. A world power today is one that can combine economic vigor and a popular culture with global outreach on the basis of shared interests. The US is better positioned than any other power in this respect, particularly when it comes to applying these advantages in its immediate vicinity.


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POSTED: 4:01 p.m. HST, Jul 13, 2013
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SANFORD, Fla. >> After a year and a half of living as a hermit, George Zimmerman emerged from a Florida courthouse a free man, cleared of all charges in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
His brother said the former neighborhood watch volunteer was still processing the reality that he wouldn't serve prison time for the killing, which Zimmerman, 29, has maintained was an act of self-defense. A jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder late Saturday night and declined to convict him on a lesser charge of manslaughter.
However, with many critics angry over his acquittal, his freedom will likely be limited.
Demonstrators upset with the verdict protested mostly peacefully in Florida, Milwaukee and Atlanta overnight, but some broke windows and vandalized a police squad car in Oakland during protests in four California cities, authorities said.
"He's going to be looking over his shoulder the rest of his life," Robert Zimmerman Jr. said during an interview on CNN.
Martin's killing in February 2012 unleashed debate across the U.S. over racial profiling, self-defense and equal justice. Protesters across the country lashed out against police in the Orlando suburb of Sanford as it took 44 days for Zimmerman to be arrested. Many, including Martin's parents, said Zimmerman had racially profiled the unarmed black teen. Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic.
Six anonymous female jurors — all but one of them white — considered nearly three weeks of often wildly conflicting testimony over who was the aggressor on the rainy night the 17-year-old was shot while walking through the gated townhouse community where he was staying and where Zimmerman lived.
Jurors deliberated more than 15 hours over two days before announcing late Saturday night that they had reached a verdict.
Defense attorney Mark O'Mara said in August 2012 that Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie, had been living "like a hermit" and weren't working because they feared for their safety.
After Saturday's verdict, police, officials and civil rights leaders urged peace and told protesters not to resort to violence. While defense attorneys said they were thrilled with the outcome, O'Mara suggested Zimmerman's safety would be an ongoing concern.
"There still is a fringe element that wants revenge," O'Mara said. "They won't listen to a verdict of not guilty."
Those watching reacted strongly when the verdict was announced. Martin's mother and father were not in the courtroom when it was read; supporters of his family who had gathered outside yelled "No! No!" upon learning of the verdict.
Andrew Perkins, 55, a black resident of Sanford, angrily asked outside the courthouse: "How the hell did they find him not guilty?"
"He killed somebody and got away with murder," Perkins shouted, so angry he shook, looking toward the courthouse.
Trayvon Martin's brother, Jahvaris Fulton, said on Twitter: "Et tu America?" — a reference to the Latin phrase "Et tu, Brute?" known as an expression of betrayal.
Protesters had taken to the streets late Saturday and into Sunday morning in Florida and other states, largely heeding the advice of officials and others who urged them not to resort to violence.
Authorities said in California media reports that some marchers in Oakland vandalized a police squad car and police formed a line to block some demonstrators there. TV news helicopter footage showed some people trying to start fires in the street and spray painting anti-police graffiti. The demonstration followed a raucous but largely peaceful protest in San Francisco and another in Los Angeles. An Oakland police dispatch said about 100 people protested there but gave no word of any arrests
Celebrities also reacted. Beyonce called at a Nashville concert for a moment of silence for Martin. Rapper Young Jeezy released a song in Martin's memory and Russell Simmons called for a peace.
NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous started a petition calling for the Justice Department to open a civil rights case against Zimmerman. "The most fundamental of civil rights — the right to life — was violated the night George Zimmerman stalked and then took the life of Trayvon Martin," Jealous wrote in the petition, posted on the website MoveOn.org and addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder.
Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump acknowledged the disappointment of Trayvon Martin's supporters, ranking the teen alongside civil rights heroes Medgar Evers and Emmett Till in the history of the fight for equal justice. However, Crump said, "for Trayvon to rest in peace, we must all be peaceful."
Martin's family maintained the teen was not the aggressor, and prosecutors suggested Martin was scared because he was being followed by a stranger. Defense attorneys, however, said Martin knocked Zimmerman down and was slamming the older man's head against the concrete sidewalk when Zimmerman fired his gun.
Prosecutors called Zimmerman a liar and portrayed him as a "wannabe cop" vigilante who had grown frustrated by break-ins in his neighborhood committed primarily by young black men. Zimmerman assumed Martin was up to no good and took the law into his own hands, prosecutors said.
State Attorney Angela Corey said after the verdict that she believed second-degree murder was the appropriate charge because Zimmerman's mindset "fit the bill of second-degree murder."
"We charged what we believed we could prove," Corey said.
Zimmerman also had some supporters outside the courthouse, including Cindy Lenzen, 50, of Casslebury, and her brother, 52-year-old Chris Bay, who stood watching others chant slogans such as, "the whole system's guilty."
Lenzen and Bay — who are white — called the entire case "a tragedy," especially for Zimmerman.
"It's a tragedy that he's going to suffer for the rest of his life," Bay said. "No one wins either way. This is going to be a recurring nightmare in his mind every night."
Before a special prosecutor assigned to the case ordered Zimmerman's arrest, thousands of protesters had gathered in Sanford, Miami, New York and elsewhere, many wearing hoodies like the one Martin had on the night he died. They also carried Skittles and a can of iced tea, items Martin had in his pocket. President Barack Obama also had weighed in, saying that if he had a son, "he'd look like Trayvon."
Despite the racially charged nature of the case, race was barely mentioned at the trial.
"This case has never been about race or the right to bear arms," Corey said. "We believe this case all along was about boundaries, and George Zimmerman exceeded those boundaries."
One of the few mentions of race came from witness Rachel Jeantel, the Miami teen who was talking to Martin by phone moments before he was shot. She testified that he described being followed by a "creepy-ass cracker" as he walked through the neighborhood.
Jeantel gave some of the trial's most riveting testimony. She said she overheard Martin demand, "What are you following me for?" and then yell, "Get off! Get off!" before his cellphone went dead.
The jurors had to sort out clashing testimony from 56 witnesses in all, including police, neighbors, friends and family members.
Associated Press writers Tamara Lush in Sanford; and Kelli Kennedy, Suzette Laboy and David Fischer in Miami contributed to this report.
Then he said, "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin". Obama is just as amother race baiter like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Eric Holder under orders from the race baiter-in-charge in the White House sent their thugs down to Florida to inflame the community to make race an issue.
The race baiter-in-charge does not deserve to lead our nation!
the prosecutors had a weak case, but in a homicide you take whatever you have.
perhaps, they would not have rushed to pursue justice against zimmerman if obama had kept his mouth shut and not flamed the emotions of people who too readily seek vengence for perceived wrongs.
justice. maybe not what you or i expected, but justice just the same.
Obama even sent his thugs from the DOJ down to Florida to inflame the community!
maybe, if obama and others who convicted zimmerman the week of the incident had just kept their thoughts to themselves, the prosecutors would not have rushed this case to court.
beyond a reasonable doubt is a demanding standard. the prosecutots overcharged to appease the mobs and ended up with little more than probable cause to present as their case.
Zimmerman's defense team has filed a motion of judicial sanctions against state prosecutors, alleging discovery violations. The state has denied these violations.
When reached for comment, state attorney's office spokesperson Jackelyn Barnard confirmed that Kruidbos "is no longer an employee at the State Attorney's Office."
Even when the race baiting team withholds evidence, they lost the case!
And Martin had ever chance to walk away as well.
When OJ went through the 'civil' suit after his criminal trial, the Brown's won a claim of $35 million on his future earnings as a celebrity. So that's why he didn't do any work or write any books because the Browns would confiscate his earnings. (Prior to his present incarceration in Las Vagas for robbery)
OJ was smart to put his previous earnings/assets in 'trust' out of reach of any litigation and so untouchable so he lives on $25K per month from his residuals from his football career, movie career, and other entertainment enterprises from said trust accumulating somewhere while he is in jail.
Zimmerman's prospect for employment now and in the future is almost nil for the moment. He'll probably make a deal with the Martin family to split the proceeds of any paid appearances, movies rights, book rights for the entire story that lasted over two years.
There's your "Justice". Money for both families.
When OJ went through the 'civil' suit after his criminal trial, the Brown's won a claim of $35 million on his future earnings as a celebrity. So that's why he didn't do any work or write any books because the Browns would confiscate his earnings. (Prior to his present incarceration in Las Vagas for robbery)
OJ was smart to put his previous earnings/assets in 'trust' out of reach of any litigation and so untouchable so he lives on $25K per month from his residuals from his football career, movie career, and other entertainment enterprises from said trust accumulating somewhere while he is in jail.
Zimmerman's prospect for employment now and in the future is almost nil for the moment. He'll probably make a deal with the Martin family to split the proceeds of any paid appearances, movies rights, book rights for the entire story that lasted over two years.
There's your "Justice". Money for both families.


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When a terminal server needs maintenance, the administrator may want to prevent users from logging onto a server which is about to be taken offline. In Windows Server 2003 there was a command-line tool to disable all remote connections; however, this prevented users with disconnected sessions from reconnecting, causing them to lose their work. To address this issue, in Windows Server 2008, the TS Server Drain Mode prevents new users from logging onto the server, while allowing currently logged on users to reconnect to their existing sessions. By waiting for existing users to save their work and log off, the administrator can take a terminal server down for maintenance without causing user data loss. Additionally, TS server drain mode is integrated with Session Broker Load Balancing, allowing one of the servers in a load balanced farm to be safely taken offline without any perceived change to end user experience or loss of service.
In Windows Server 2008, when a Terminal Server is in drain mode, remote logons for new users are disabled. Users with an existing session may reconnect (in order to save their work and logoff). Users without an existing session are prevented from logging on.
In a farm where Session Broker Load Balancing is deployed, users without an existing session are redirected to another server in the farm where they can logon. For servers not joined to a load balanced farm, if a user without an existing session connects remotely (i.e. attempts to logon), he will receive the error message shown below:
Additionally, there is an option to enable drain mode temporarily. When set, user logons are re-enabled automatically after restart. This option is convenient for applying simple patches that only require a single reboot.
While a server is in drain mode, administrators may still log on to the physical console or remotely log on using the /admin or /console command-line option for MSTSC. This allows administrators to remotely maintain the Terminal Server.
There are two ways an administrator can put a terminal server into drain mode: 1) using the command-line tool chglogon.exe, or 2) using Terminal Services Configuration UI.
The command-line tool chglogon.exe (or "change logon") may be used to configure the drain mode. There are five options: /QUERY, /ENABLE, /DISABLE, /DRAIN, /DRAINUNTILRESTART, as shown in the following screen shot:
By default, all connections are allowed on a terminal server. To configure a server into drain mode, use the /DRAIN option.
To configure a server into drain mode temporarily, use the /DRAINUNTILRESTART option. After restart, user logons will automatically be re-enabled:
To take the server out of drain mode and restore connectivity, use the /ENABLE option:
The "chglogon /DISABLE" command has the same behavior as in Windows Server 2003 – no remote connections will be allowed, even if a user has an existing session.
Terminal Services Configuration UI (Administrative Tools -> Terminal Services -> Terminal Services Configuration) is the other way to configure TS server drain settings:
The UI shows the current status of the drain mode. Double-clicking "Terminal Server Drain Mode" brings up another dialog box:
The three settings listed are defined as follows:
Update: The settings are changing slightly:
Also, the above blog post is accurate for Longhorn Server Beta3. There is a minor change for RC1 in the TsConfig UI – now the drain mode is called "user logon mode".
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Is it actually useful to post screenshots showing the failure of a command to run because the server doesn't have the appropriate role installed? Why not just tell us the command and skip the pointless screen shot?
Is there a WTSxxx API for putting a server in drain mode?
This has changed in RDS, my server keeps going into drain mode after a reboot and the only way to fix it is the cmd. I am unable to find the UI settings for drain mode.
look at RD Session Host Configuration mmc (tsconfig.msc) UI and it's in the lower portion of the mmc under general settings (user logon mode).
Mine is grayed out and I can't change the option. When I try to use the drain mode command, it says it is ENABLED and set via group policy and cannot be changed. How do I change this one?
I have the same issue Chris. Did you find a solution?
I am having the same issue with it being grayed out and saying controlled by gp. Anyone ever figure this out?
Has someone the solution for this problem?
It is stil a big problem. The CIO is asking me every day for a sloution.
@Chris: Do you mean this error, from "chglogon /drain": Connections are currently ENABLED by Group Policy for this machine, unable to change.?
This corresponds to the group policy "Allow users to connect remotely using Terminal Services". If it's set, then you can't change drain mode.
Right click the Command Prompt and select Run as administrator. Then run the appropriate command line.


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On overly sexualized clothing for girls: Why feel nervous about little girls' short-shorts and midriff tops? Would people similarly get nervous about a little boy playing outside in the summer with no shirt at all?
I know it's hard to raise kids in a world that isn't always safe for them. Does a little girl's clothing choice matter in that regard? How can you say that to a child without hurting her? That's kind of the peewee version of the rape myth -- what a woman wears or does is part of why she gets raped.
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