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Roedean's First Netball Team were winners of the Sussex National Schools Netball Tournament last week, playing nine matches in a round robin tournament [writes Mrs Goulet].
They will now represent Sussex in the South Round in Southampton on Saturday 22 January.
Our game plan was to do the basics well, working the ball in to the shooters with short sharp passes as the wind was a big factor. The team really adapted well and Mrs Carnaghan and I were delighted!
In the team were Edwina Wilson, Gabby Tomlinson, Ope Salau, Cailtlin Boyland (Capt), Sharon Jacobs, Harriet Scott and Florence Lloyd. Fifteen year old Phoebe Tomlinson, who normally represents Roedean in the U15 team, was brought in to the squad as an adaptable reserve. Phoebe looked comfortable in all of the matches she played and is an exciting prospect for the next round of the competition.
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Most of the men and many of the women in the UK are probably wondering whether they can afford to splash out on a bigger, better TV before the World Cup Final next month.
I wonder whether all of the £5m That Holiday Inn and Crown Plaza hotels have spent in a 'technology upgrade' for their 64 UK hotels will come out of the IT budget, particularly since part of the money was spent on installing 50 HD TV screens in lounges and restaurants for the World Cup.
The rest will go on 32in flat screens for bedrooms, 37in HD screens in suites, and some on "high-speed internet access across all properties".
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John Orear first sought services from NAMI-Missouri when his son was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
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NAMI-Missouri is a statewide volunteer-based nonprofit whose mission is to improve the quality of life and recovery for not only children and adults with mental illness, but also their families.
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Episcopal Bishops Endorse Marriage and Oppose Prop 8
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September 10th, 2008
As expected, the top six Episcopal Bishops in California announced their opposition to Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage amendment.
The bishops argued that preserving the right of gays and lesbians to marry would enhance the "Christian values" of monogamy, love and commitment.
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Barre water line break creates sinkhole
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BARRE A high-pressure water line blew out Wednesday night, creating a massive sinkhole in the middle of Third Street that prompted the residential streets closure to through traffic.
City Engineer Reg Abare said it wasnt clear what caused the break that was reported at 8:30 p.m., but the problem was quickly isolated using gate valves on either end of the short street that runs between North Main and Beckley streets.
With the break easily contained and no one believed to be without water, Abare said, repairs were pushed off until Thursday morning to avoid overtime expenses associated with night work.
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Wednesday Jun 17 2009
Johnson Ranch coach earns national honor
By: Press Tribune sports staff
Bacharach named organizer of the year
United States Tennis Association Northern California named Cris Bacharach the junior team tennis organizer of the year at a ceremony on June 3. Bacharach, head tennis professional at Johnson Ranch Racquet Club in Roseville, has been the area league coordinator for the Sacramento Summer Junior Team Tennis League, one of the largest leagues in Northern California, for the past 15 years. Over 500 players and 65 teams participated in 2008. Bacharach also coaches in the Summer Junior Team Tennis League. He took his first tennis lesson when he was eight years old and he was hooked. He went on to become the first All American athlete to graduate from UC Santa Cruz. The Newcastle resident has been teaching tennis for more than 25 years. Junior team tennis leagues are geared towards new, recreational tennis players ages 8—15. Like youth soccer or Little League, Junior Team Tennis is a community based league run by parents, coaches and volunteers. Anyone can join. Kids are introduced to competitive tennis in a fun and easy way, and begin playing matches at their first practice session.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Cam Newton threw three touchdown passes and ran for another, and Carolina's defense sacked Eli Manning seven times as the Panthers handed Tom Coughlin his worst defeat as coach of the New York Giants, 38-0 Sunday.
It was the largest margin of victory in Panthers history, and might help save coach Ron Rivera's job following a 0-2 start.
The Panthers allowed Newton to run out of the read option, which helped open up an offense that had been mostly stagnant in losses to Seattle and Buffalo.
Newton had 223 yards passing and threw two touchdowns passes to Brandon LaFell and one to Ted Ginn Jr. He ran for 45 yards and his first TD of the season.
The Giants are in trouble: Of the 161 teams that have started the season 0-3 since 1978, only five made the NFL playoffs (see full recap).
Redskins drop to 0-3 with loss to Lions
LANDOVER, Md. -- The Detroit Lions took advantage of a pair of fourth-quarter bobbles, including one by Robert Griffin III, in a 27-20 win over the Washington Redskins on Sunday.
Matthew Stafford threw for 385 yards, and Calvin Johnson and Nate Burleson both had 100 yards receiving for the Lions, who are 2-1.
Detroit beat the Redskins on the road for the first time since 1939, a 21-game streak that comes to a halt as the second longest in NFL history.
The score was tied at 17 when Griffin fumbled at the end of a scramble. The Lions recovered and kicked the go-ahead field goal on their next drive.
The Redskins (0-3) then had a touchdown pass overturned when video replay showed that Aldrick Robinson lost control of the ball (see full recap).
Cowboys rip Rams behind Murray's big day
ARLINGTON, Texas -- DeMarco Murray found the perfect antidote for his recent malaise: the St. Louis Rams.
Murray rushed for 175 yards and a touchdown two years after torching St. Louis with a franchise record as a rookie, and Tony Romo threw for three scores in a 31-7 victory Sunday.
Murray's first 100-yard game in more than a year started with a 14-yard run on Dallas' first offensive play, and he had plenty of open space on a 36-yarder to start Dallas' second drive to a 10-lead late in the first quarter.
Sam Bradford, Murray's old college teammate at Oklahoma, didn't have nearly as much room to operate.
The Cowboys (2-1) sacked him four times in the first half and had six in total after St. Louis (1-2) hadn't allowed a sack in four games dating to last season. It was the longest streak for the Rams since John Hadl was under center for a division champion in 1973 (see full recap).


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Former student shares experiences in honor of Disability Awareness Month
Sunday, October 30, 2011
MOKANE, Mo. — "Stilettos are not a disability," Caitlin Bartley told high-schoolers Friday.
In Bartley's own way — using informative material mixed in with a touch of humor — the 21-year-old college student gave South Callaway High School students a presentation on disabilities. A former Bulldog herself, Bartley was asked to come back to the high school to share her experiences with students for Disability Awareness Month.
Whizzing around in her hot pink electric wheelchair, Bartley informed the high-schoolers she has congenital muscular dystrophy. She told them her disability should not be used as an excuse to feel awkward around her.
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- http://www.daimi.au.dk/~leth/
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- http://www.daimi.au.dk/~allan/
The commercial Civilization gamesEdit
- Civilization Call To Power
- http://www.activision.com/games/civilization/ was the link but game seems to be off their list
- Civilization IV
- http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/home.htm
- Civilization
- The Board Game
- http://www.eaglegames.net/products/CIV/civ.shtml - see also the Wargamer and PC Gameworld articles
Civilization variantsEdit
Currently accessibleEdit
- CIV evolution, later called "C-evo" - alive and well in 2011
- http://c-evo.org/ - see also many pages on the Civilization Wiki
- CivQuest - latest "News" and download info as at July 2011 are "March 11th 2005, 0.0.13 released" and "Download civquest-0.0.22.jar (1.9 MB)"
- http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/civquest
- The Ages Of Man - "The webpage "www.theagesofman.net" cannot be found"
- http://www.theagesofman.net/
- Project Civ-Like - in French; seemingly dormant since early 2001
- http://civlike.multimania.com/
- Civtarion - A user name and password are being requested by http://www.civtarion.com. The site says
- "DSL Router"
- http://www.civtarion.com/
- The Clash of Civilizations
- http://clash.apolyton.net/frame/ - Apolyton site seems not to have that page in July 2011
- http://forums.civfanatics.com/archive/index.php/t-13066.html - archive with last message in 2002
- http://apolyton.net/forumdisplay.php/32-Clash-of-Civilizations - forum with messages up to December 2009 but nobody continuing development
- Great Nations (Domain Expired...)
- http://www.greatnations.org/
Civilization interest sitesEdit
- Apolyton Civilization Site
- http://www.apolyton.net/
- Civilization Fanatics' Center
- http://www.civfanatics.com/
- Civilization Anonymous
- http://www.civanon.com/home.shtml
- Civilization Wikia
- http://civilization.wikia.com/
Other linksEdit
- Wikipedia on Freeciv
- Freeciv fan site from Germany, home of the Freeciv clan V.O.L.T.
- freeciv.de.ms
- a (Free)civ site with special attention to Polish players
- civ.org.pl
- map2xpm and Mare Infinitus modpack
- http://www.farah.cl/Freeciv/
- Our Freeciv timeline
- Freeciv Stuff
- http://www.math.ttu.edu/~kesinger/freeciv/
- Azazel's Freeciv page
- http://lycanthropy.net/civ/
- Libor Behounek's Freeciv site (containing lots of maps)
- http://www.volny.cz/behounek/freeciv/maps
- Xconq
- http://sources.redhat.com/xconq/ - has a Civ mode (see also Erik Sigra's comparison between Xconq and Freeciv)
- A news site about Freeciv in Italian
- http://news.freeciv.it
- Freeciv on OSDN (Sourceforge, Freshmeat, Slashdot, etc.)
- http://www.osdn.com/osdnsearch.pl?query=Freeciv
- Freeciv in the Open Directory
- http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Strategy/Turn-Based/Freeciv/
- Freeciv on versiontracker.com
- http://www.versiontracker.com/php/dlpage.php?id=14187&kind=1&db=macosx
- Freeciv on macupdate.com
- http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17762
- Recent Web links to Freeciv (Google)
- http://www.google.com/search?as_q=freeciv.org&as_qdr=m3&as_occt=links&as_dt=e&as_sitesearch=freeciv.org&safe=off
- Recent USENET mentions of Freeciv (Google)
- http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=off&q=freeciv&as_qdr=m3
- Freeciv 2.0.0.beta4 Windows build with Gtk+2 client
- http://www.lukasz.mach.com.pl/freeciv_2_beta5_gtk+2_win32.zip
- FreeCiv 2.0.0-beta7 GNU/Linux OBLISK package (should install on most major distros with glibc >= 2.3)
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=107979&package_id=117301&release_id=300801
- Freeciv on The Linux Game Tome
- http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Freeciv
- Freeciv on Freshmeat.net
- http://freshmeat.net/projects/freeciv/
- CivSpanish, fansite in spanish
- http://www.civspanish.com/
- There are also some Freeciv-related projects on Freshmeat.
- linuxgames.com follows Freeciv-related developments, too.
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NEW YORK — A backup generator failed at a New York City hospital Monday night, forcing it to move out more than 200 patients, including 20 babies from neonatal intensive care.
Dozens of ambulances lined up around the block outside New York University Tisch Hospital as doctors and nurses began the slow process of evacuation. They started with the sickest and youngest. Some were on respirators operating on battery power.
"It's a challenging situation," NYU Medical Dean Robert Grossman told WCBS-TV. "We drill all the time for this kind of thing. But this isn't a drill. This is the real thing."
Much of New York was plunged into darkness by superstorm Sandy, a monstrous hybrid system that swept across a huge swath of the East.
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Most of the power outages in lower Manhattan, where Tisch is located, were due to an explosion at an electrical substation, officials at Consolidated Edison said. It wasn't clear whether flooding or flying debris caused the explosion, said John Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Con Edison.
Without power, there are no elevators, meaning patients — some of whom are being treated for cancer and other serious illnesses — must be carefully carried down staircases, Grossman said.
As the patients were evacuated, gusts of wind blew their blankets. Nurses and staff huddled around the patients, some holding IVs and other equipment.
Ambulances came from around the city to help transport the sick. Patients will be taken to other hospitals including Mount Sinai and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer.


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It is a silly enough truism to be the title of a pop psychology book: the more often you give up the more easily you give up.
Long ago I wrote about the Worst Roommate of All Time. I thought she was the slob supreme. Then I met Charles.
At first I made efforts to keep the house clean. Only to find him using the floors and furniture as if they were all trashcans.
It was not long after I spent a day on my hands and knees pulling up the carpet because he wanted to see the hardwood floors that I finally got fed up. I stopped cleaning up. Slowly, inexorably our home went from looking like a mess to something from hurricane footage.
I used to threaten to take photos and post them here. I never did. Who would I shame but myself?
This is where Charles' name still being on the title deed to the house freezes me. I can start tidying up but there's not much to stop him from coming back and littering the place as a hobby.
Though I've kept him away pretty well recently. Continuing my recent trend of using imagery from D/s I gave him the Dom look and used the Dom voice. It was interesting. I'd never seen him walk backward out of a room before. Suddenly he was packing boxes and scrubbing the kitchen floor. Another sign that with some people power exchange is useful.
But I've kept him away since. The house really is quite filthy. I won't allow anyone in it. So even given overcoming other limitations how would I meet someone even for casual carnality (to which I admit I'm not greatly given).
Wonder if that local transvestite submissive whose great fantasy was cleaning up after people is still around.? This place is bad enough to give her a month of orgasms. I could buy her a French maid outfit. Those things are so silly I could only laugh at her. Which might be what she wants.
Reality intervenes.(Nasty old thing!)
I'll be off work for three days starting Tuesday. One of my goals is to start bending and picking up. Scrubbing and polishing. A long list of boring chores and needful things.
But - who knows - maybe the day will come when I can invite someone in my home without blushing?


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Cameron's Press Chief Coulson Quits on Phone-Hacking Allegations
David Cameron's press chief, Andy Coulson, quit over alleged phone tapping when he edited Rupert Murdoch's News of the World newspaper, prompting opposition Labour Party attacks on the U.K. prime minister's judgment.
"Continued coverage of events connected to my old job at the News of the World has made it difficult for me to give the 110 percent needed in this role," Coulson said in an e-mailed statement today. "I stand by what I've said about those events but when the spokesman needs a spokesman it's time to move on."
Coulson has denied any knowledge of illegal activity when he was editor of Britain's best-selling Sunday newspaper, from which he resigned after a reporter and a private investigator were imprisoned for phone-tapping in 2007. In appointing Coulson, Cameron judged his experience and skills outweighed the political risk that the phone-tapping scandal might resurface.
"The cloud of allegations surrounding Andy Coulson's tenure at the News of the World raised real questions about his ability to be at the heart of the Downing Street machine. He's now done the right thing but he should have done it earlier," Labour leader Ed Miliband told reporters. "I think it raises real questions about David Cameron's judgment that he hung on to Andy Coulson for so long."
Murdoch's News Corp. is also in the spotlight as Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt decides whether to refer to regulators its bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc. Hunt will make that announcement by the end of the month.
Celebrity Lawsuits
The News of the World faces at least four lawsuits filed by celebrities, including actress Sienna Miller, over allegations the newspaper hacked into mobile-phone voicemails. U.K. police and prosecutors said last week they would review the claims for a third time.
Coulson was employed by Cameron to improve the Conservative Party's media operation in the run-up to the May 2010 election.
"I am very sorry that Andy Coulson has decided to resign as my director of communications, although I understand that the continuing pressures on him and his family mean that he feels compelled to do so," Cameron said in an e-mailed statement. "Andy has told me that the focus on him was impeding his ability to do his job and was starting to prove a distraction for the government."
In comments to BSkyB's Sky News television channel, Cameron dismissed questioning about his judgment over Coulson.
'Excellent Job'
"He's run the Downing Street press office in a professional, competent and good way," Cameron told Sky. "He's done an excellent, excellent job. I think he should be judged by that. This is all about the past. It's just gone on and on."
Coulson had been "punished for the same offense twice," Cameron said.
In a Sept. 9 debate in the House of Commons, Labour's Tom Watson told his fellow lawmakers they were "afraid" of Murdoch's power. As well as The News of the World, News Corp. owns The Sun, The Times and the Sunday Times.
"It is almost laughable that we sit here in Parliament, the central institution of our sacred democracy -- among us are some of the most powerful people in the land -- yet we are scared," Watson said.
Hunt has the option to ask the Competition Commission to look at the 7.8 billion-pound ($12.4 billion) bid for BSkyB, a review that may take six months. At issue is whether News Corp., which already owns 39 percent of BSkyB, would have too much power over Britain's media.


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Epic Inventor combines side-scroller, RPG and RTS elements into one random ball of Epic!
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This game has a huge potencial. Keep up the awsome work.
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People who think gasoline prices in Colorado are unusually high now have some official confirmation. Colorado Triple-A is reporting record-high prices for this time of year across the state, and they aren't expected to come down any time soon.
Tight supplies caused by a pipeline rupture in Arizona, refinery shutdowns and low inventories are contributing to the high prices.
Colorado's average for regular unleaded rose four-point-eight cents to a dollar-68 per gallon. That eclipses the old record for this time of year -- set in 2001 -- by three cents per gallon.
Colorado Triple-A spokeswoman Mary Greer says Colorado's supply was affected by the pipeline problems in Arizona because Colorado is served by the same hub.
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State legislators around the country are proposing bold steps to force resorts to shoulder more responsibility for out-of-bounds skiers.
In Vermont, two legislators are proposing laws that would punish skiers and resorts when wayward skiers need rescuing after leaving resort boundaries. They mark the country's most aggressive plans for curbing a backcountry-access problem common at most ski areas surrounded by public lands.
In Colorado, similar efforts aren't being proposed, but they nonetheless have drawn some support and stirred debate over resort responsibility.
Rep. Thomas Terenzini, a freshman Vermont state congressman, has sculpted a bill that requires resorts to pay for rescues of skiers who access backcountry terrain through resort boundaries. Another House bill would impose a $500 fine and criminal trespass charges against skiers who need rescuing after passing through resort boundaries. (A Senate bill proposing the same fine and criminal charge was tabled in committee last week.)
Terenzini hails from Rutland, near Vermont's Killington ski area, where several dozen skiers and snowboarders required rescue after leaving the resort's boundary over two days last Christmas holiday.
"The cost to the state is very expensive," Terenzini said. "The ski area won't prosecute people, because they don't want the bad publicity. The state police won't charge anyone, because they feel that, should they do this, then the people who get lost on a mountainside will not call for help in the future."
In California, Sen. Bill Monning has proposed a bill that would require ski resorts to publish an annual safety plan and post monthly reports detailing every injury and death at the ski area.
Bob Roberts, president of the California Ski Industry Association, said the bill would make it easier to sue ski areas in California. Similar bills introduced in recent years have failed.
"California's legal system embraces the assumption of risk doctrine," Roberts said, detailing the legal premise that limits liability when a participant assumes a certain level of risk for an activity. "Roughly half of the time, resorts receive summary judgments, thanks to the doctrine."
The issues occasionally crop up in Colorado.
The state's resorts have long struggled with rescuing skiers who leave backcountry-access gates at the top of the ski area. In the 2010-11 ski season, two Colorado skiers were killed in unmanaged terrain just outside resort boundary ropes at the Snowmass and Mary Jane ski areas. Last season, two skiers died in avalanches triggered beyond the gates of Telluride and Snowmass ski areas. A high-profile accident just outside Washington's Stevens Pass ski area in February 2012 claimed the lives of three expert skiers.
As the ski industry relishes a record boom in backcountry-gear sales — adventure-seeking skiers and snowboarders spent $40 million last season on beacons, shovels, probe poles and climbing skins — the resort industry and public land managers are grappling with strategies to better prepare skiers who leave resort gates to access more dangerous terrain on public lands.
In Vermont, where most ski areas are surrounded by state lands instead of open-access federal lands in the West, legislators are stepping into the discussion with proposals to saddle resorts and skiers with more responsibility.
Parker Riehle, president of the Vermont Ski Areas Association, said the bill to hold resorts liable for rescue costs is "ill-drafted legislation" that "has no legs."
Vermont is one of the few states in the U.S. that have laws allowing state police and search-and-rescue teams to bill lost skiers for rescue costs. Riehle said resorts too can bill skiers who require out-of-bounds rescue by ski patrollers.
"So it would make no sense for us to start billing each other, particularly when the ski areas are often a big part of the rescue efforts with on-mountain personnel and equipment," Riehle said.
In Colorado, resorts can bill out-of-bounds skiers for rescue costs, and ski areas can recover some rescue costs from the Colorado Search and Rescue Fund.
Melanie Mills, president of Colorado Ski Country, said she doesn't expect to see a similar proposal in the Colorado statehouse.
The U.S. Forest Service embraces an open-access policy for public lands outside ski areas and has avoided closing access even when local search-and-rescue teams support closing access.
San Miguel County Sheriff Bill Masters has long urged executives at the local Telluride ski area to close access gates leading into the steep, powdery Bear Creek drainage that tumbles into the box canyon. As head of the local search-and-rescue team, Masters and his crew have pulled eight bodies out of avalanche debris in Bear Creek.
He said he would support legislation like the proposed law in Vermont that holds resorts liable for rescue costs.
"This is a great idea," Masters said.
Masters is not among the majority in Colorado's search-and-rescue community. Teams across the state have long opposed the idea of charging for rescues, arguing that imposing costs could result in fatalities as hikers and skiers forgo a call for help in fear of a hefty rescue bill.
Colin Dinsmore, president of the Summit County Rescue Group, said charging resorts and allowing resorts to pass along the increased cost to guests "would greatly set back the years of work that has gone into advocating for not charging for rescues."
Dinsmore's all-volunteer group — most search-and-rescue organizations in the state are staffed with volunteers — logged 7,000 hours in training and rescue missions in 2012. Many of those winter missions involved ski patrollers searching for skiers who left one of Summit County's four major ski areas. Charging resorts could damage search-and-rescue relations with those patrollers and resorts, Dinsmore said.
"We have an amazing working relationship with these patrol organizations and frequently train and conduct missions together, side by side," he said. "I would surely hope that they don't enact anything like this."
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Fernandino Belizaire accused of using scanning device to steal credit card info
Deal$ cashier bought more than $1,000 worth of items at GameStop, Footaction USA, deputies say
A former department store cashier was arrested after he used a scanning device to obtain a customer's credit card information that he later used to buy more than $1,000 worth of items, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
Fernandino Belizaire, 18, of Lauderdale Lakes, was arrested Wednesday on charges of identity theft and using a scanning device to defraud.
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The victim contacted deputies in November after she discovered someone had used her Discover card to purchase more than $1,000 worth of items at GameStop and Footaction USA. She told them she was shopping at Deal$ in Boca Raton when she noticed the cashier "swipe her card on a small gray scanning device" attached to the back of the credit card reader.
Deputies said they reviewed surveillance video from the store and saw Belizaire swipe the woman's credit card twice, once in an unknown device.
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I've downloaded lastest Python release 3.2.2 from official site and upadate path variable.
However I still can't even run simplest program ever like this :
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I don't know if my path variable has been set properly. Here is where I installed Python :
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Is there something with auto-completion and with errors/warnings details ( which line, hint what can be wrong ), for example like Eclipse or NetBeans OR should I use this installed Python IDLE GUI for delevoping or stuff like NotePad++ ?
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LOS ANGELES -- Delivering messages of personal triumph and the fulfillment of serving their country, two U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command leaders inspired more than 100 James A. Garfield High School students here today, encouraging them to stay in school, to do well and to consider becoming U.S. Army scientists or engineers.
It was also a somber day at Garfield High, as an afternoon memorial service was held for long-time calculus teacher Jaime Escalante, a Bolivian-born educator who served as inspiration for the movie "Stand and Deliver." Actor Edward J. Olmos portrayed Escalante in the movie and attended the service, as did many state and local community leaders.
The U.S. Army-sponsored Viva Technology Student Day engaged students in a team engineering project with prizes for the winners. The project was to design and build a structure capable of withstanding a mild earthquake.
The Viva Technology Program is the education arm of the national non-profit organization Great Minds in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
Command Sgt. Maj. Hector Marin, RDECOM senior enlisted advisor, is a national role model for Great Minds in STEM. In the school's small gymnasium, he began by talking about his early childhood, growing up in Honduras and coming to America at age 10, unable to speak a word of English.
"Talk about challenges," Marin said. "I was scared to death of going to school. But I quickly realized the only way to improve myself was to study hard and do well."
He said his decision to join the Army was "to serve a greater good, to be part of something larger than myself." The students and their advisors sat at their tables, listening intently to every word.
Marin's presentation included video clips of innovative Army research and development projects -- robotics, exoskeletons, see-through-wall technology, and training simulations, even a dancing avatar, Sgt. Star.
"You never know when someone or something will spark a student and inspire them to pursue a course of action that will eventually drive their career," Marin said in an earlier interview. "That's what this is program is all about and why it is so important."
The night prior, Lt. Col. Joe Garcia, RDECOM operations officer, addressed the students' parents. He told them about growing up in New Mexico and how he had never considered a career in the Army. About 80 parents and several students listened as Garcia talked about being part of the Army team.
"When I chose the Army, I became a member of a team, and that was very important to me," Garcia said. "Never in my wildest dreams did I think about becoming an Army officer. But when a sergeant who I will never forget pointed out all the educational opportunities available to me, my life took on purpose and direction."
Two members of the U.S. Army Recruiting Command also took part in Student Day.
"We're not here as recruiters today," said Staff Sgts. Robert Arreola and Max Cerna of the Los Angeles Recruiting Battalion. "We're here to answer any questions about the Army the students may have."
There were lots of questions, too. Students asked about enlistment requirements, tour lengths, and how they might pursue a career in Army aviation, which was Marin's career path.
Ray Mellado, chairman, chief executive officer and founder of Great Minds in STEM, was also in attendance.
"HENAAC (Hispanic Engineer National Annual Awards Conference) was the original name of the company," Mellado said, explaining how Great Minds in STEM had evolved. "After looking at the statistics, the number of Hispanics enrolled in engineering programs at the university level was so small, we knew we had to start making an impact."
Mellado founded HENAAC in 1989 while working for Xerox Corporation. "I was a national sales manager and this was my community involvement project," he said.
The Viva Technology Program is part of the organization's education division that was established in 1993.
"We still do the conference (HENAAC) for the recognition, recruitment and scholarships that are Hispanic focused. The education programs are for everybody," Mellado explained.
"The logic model we developed is called AIMS -- awareness, inspiration, motivation and skills," he said. "Skills are the classroom work, the math and science and engineering education that goes all the way through college. But we have to have the first three elements first.
"The Viva Technology Program is really focused on opening the child's, the parent's, the teacher's eyes to careers in engineering and science. We follow them all the way, with scholarships and ROTC programs and other forms of assistance.
"We have to have them first, then we start directing them there," Mellado explained.
"These kids are our future. Our inner city community has to be prepared technically in the math and science areas, in technology. Our goal is to get our kids ready to do that."
Garfield students were excited to be involved in a hands-on design and building project that simulated the real work of engineers. Viva Technology graduates, most now university engineering students, worked with the high schoolers, near-peer role models and sharing their experiences as college students.
"You can see the excitement in their eyes when you look around the room," Marin said. "There's a lot of energy and enthusiasm just knowing there are opportunities for you.


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Bank Lending's Future Remains Unpredictable
While bank lending entered 2014 as the dominant force in real estate financing, because of a number of different factors, its hold in this area isn't as strong as it used to be. Some analysts see a changing landscape in commercial real estate financing with traditional lending from banks remaining a pillar of that landscape, though not as strong as it was before the recession.
Bank lending curtailed significantly during the height of the recession, and while it has rebounded in recent years, it is still not at its pre-recession levels. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, during the third quarter of 2013, commercial banks in the Unites States originated $257 billion in commercial/multifamily mortgages. That is the highest amount since the end of the recession, and also represents a 22 percent year-to-date growth rate, but it is still significantly lower than the $445 billion in average quarterly originations that occurred between 2005 and 2007. Some analysts point to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) as the main reason that bank lending remains below its pre-recession levels. Dodd-Frank is a wide-ranging financial law that was passed in 2010 in an effort to prevent the type of aggressive lending that helped caused the financial crisis. In addition to placing stricter capital requirements on banks that arguably make it more challenging for them to lend at the same levels that they used to, Dodd-Frank also created new government agencies such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Amongst other tasks, the Bureau is charged with preventing predatory mortgage lending practices, reducing the incentives for mortgage brokers to push home buyers into expensive loans, and improving the clarity of mortgage paperwork for consumers.
As bank lending has decreased, REITs, hedge funds, and private equity firms have stepped in to fill the gap. For example, the total value of assets under management by private equity firms in the United States reached $335 billion in late 2012. This is an increase of 51 percent over its pre-recession peak. In addition to financing from private equity firms, REITs have also grown significantly in recent years. Lastly, as interest rates dropped during the past few years, an increasing number of hedge funds moved into the commercial real estate market because of the potential for higher returns that it offers.
The combination of Dodd-Frank, and movement by REITs, hedge funds, and private equity firms into lending roles that were previously dominated by banks is changing the traditional funding landscape. It remains to be seen if this a fleeting phenomenon or a more permanent situation. In the meantime, companies such as Cambridge Realty Capital will continue to offer attractive financing opportunities as an alternative to traditional financing from banks.


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"It is the duty of this generation to use the nation's natural resources, but I do not recognize the right to waste them...or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us."
~President Theodore Roosevelt, 1909
"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
~President Theodore Roosevelt, 1909
President Roosevelt's executive orders set aside nearly 3/4 of today's National Forest System.
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Translation vs. Transliteration
Translation is when we take the meaning of a word, phrase or sentence in one language (here English) and convey that meaning using another language, in this case Japanese. The resulting language uses Japanese words, word order, grammatical structure, script and so on. Transliteration, however, is where you keep the original language (including, as far as possible, pronunciation) and change the script with which it is written.
This might sound like an odd concept to a native English speaker, because we are not used to working with different scripts. But imagine that you took an English word, for example "taught" and put it into phonetic script, showing someone how it is pronounced. It would then look like this: t ɔ: t. The two versions sound the same and mean the same thing, but they look different.
Japanese Script
Japanese has three scripts, used in combination. These are called kanji, katakana and hiragana. There is a fourth script called romaji, not used by the Japanese themselves (apart from a few exceptions such as abbreviations, like DVD and CD), but by speakers of other languages who do not understand the three Japanese scripts. Romaji means "Roman letters," and is the alphabet we use in English.
Japan appears not to have had a writing system at all until kanji were introduced from China in the 4th century. Kanji were then adapted to suit Japan's purpose.
Kanji are ideographs, derived from pictures, and each stands for a meaning, rather than a sound. It can sound differently, according to context. Japan developed two syllabaries from it. These are hiragana and katakana, known together as kana. (A syllabary is a phonetic system where each symbol stands for a syllable.) Both kana sets were taken from kanji which had the required sound; hiragana from a simplified version of the whole kanji, and katakana from one part of it.
A kanji is used in Japanese to express the basic word meaning, and word endings, grammatical purpose words (such as prepositions) and so on are all expressed using hiragana. Katakana are used to write words of foreign origin, including loan words which have been adopted into the Japanese language and foreign names. It is also sometimes used for effect, for example in signage.
Why Transliterate English into Japanese? How is it Done?
The main reason for transliterating English words into Japanese would be to write the name of a person, place, or even the title of a book or movie in Japanese, so that it can be written in that language, or even sometimes so that a Japanese person knows how to pronounce them!
Firstly, consider how the English word sounds. The spelling is not important, especially since English does not have a strict connection between spelling and sound. Then for each syllable you have, consider what the closest sound is in Japanese, from the range available.
There are some rules to assist, here. Firstly, it helps to understand romaji syllable pronunciation (see below). Then bear in mind the following guidelines (romaji syllables are in italics):
Sounds which do not exist in Japanese
L - use ra, ri, ru, re, ro
X - use kkusu
Q - use ku
V - older foreign loan words use ba, bi, bu, be, bo instead; modern Japanese has created "v" sounds using a hardened u plus half size a, i, u, e, o. E.g.: ヴィ(vi).
Word Endings
For words ending in a "t" sound, use to.
For words ending in a "d" sound, use do.
For words ending in an "n" sound, use n/m..
For other consonant sounds on the end of words, use the u ending (i.e., for s sounds use su, p sounds use pu, etc). This rule also follows for a consonant sound within a word, which is not followed by a vowel. E.g.:
handbag - handobaggu
post - poosuto
actor - akutaa
Words which end in an "er" or "ar" sound (which could be spelled in a number of ways), use aa. E.g.:
car - kaa
under - andaa
Long vowel sounds are also required for the following endings: or, ee, oo, y, ie, ey, ea, au.
Double Consonant
A double consonant in the English word does not necessarily indicate that you need one in Japanese (and similarly, a single consonant could transliterate as a double in Japanese). Often a double consonant is required in Japanese after a short vowel sound. For example:
truck - torakku
pet - petto
stop - sutoppu
This double consonant is made by adding a small tsu in front of the letter to be doubled, unless that letter is an "n" or "m", in which case you use n/m (ン).
Combination Vowel Sounds
Many of our English vowel sounds are not pure sounds, but a combination of two; so you need two Japanese vowel sounds to express the word in Japanese. E.g.:
Kate - Keito
note - nooto
Click here to learn more about pronouncing the Romaji transliteration.
New Syllables
To express foreign sounds, new katakana syllables are now being introduced: fa, fi, fe, fo, si, ti, tu, di, du, wi, we, wo, va, vi, vu, ve, vo, tsa, tsi, tse, tso, che, she, and je. New words coming into the language may use these whereas older words may not. Coffee, for example, is an older word: koohii.
Every letter in romaji is always pronounced the same, no matter what the combination. This is where English speakers often make mistakes, especially where a double vowel in English produces a new sound, such as double "o". Japanese double vowels sound just like two of the original sound, stuck together, or one drawn out to twice the length. Thus nooto sounds like "nor-to", for example.
Romaji vowels are pronounced as follows:
a - as "u" in "cup"
i - as "i" in "bit"
u - as "oo" in "good"
e - as "e" in "bet"
o - as "o" in "hot"
Other English vowel sounds are made using combinations of these, or by doubling (which in katakana is achieved with the symbol ー).


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- Successfully "evacuating" more than 90 people, during Cobra Gold 2009.
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UTAPHAO, Thailand- Japanese Self Defense Force and Thai, Indonesian and U.S. militaries conducted a multinational noncombatant evacuation operation (NEO) exercise here Feb. 15, successfully "evacuating" more than 90 people, during Cobra Gold 2009. Cobra Gold is an annual joint, coalition multinational exercise focused on maintaining and improving military interoperability among its participants. Nearly 200 service members from the militaries of four nations teamed up over the course of five days to prepare for the exercise, which was based on evacuating citizens from a region of rising political turmoil in the exercise scenario. The troops received classroom instruction and progressed to practical application rehearsals before the final exercise, working to understand the different operating procedures utilized by each nation. "It\'s challenging to work together with other nations because each nation has their own way of doing things," said Capt. Thano Pravongviengkham, a company commander with Combat Logistics Regiment 3 who directed this particular exercise. The exercise was primarily based around planning and running an evacuation control center (ECC), which supports a NEO by facilitating the evacuation of numerous civilians in an organized and timely manner. "Coordinating just by ourselves is hard; add a few more countries to that and things can get interesting," said Pravongviengkham, explaining difficulties such as differing languages and standard operating procedures. The exercise started as buses loaded with about 90 role players drove up at the airfield. The role players were then unloaded and separated by nationality- Thai, Japanese and American- in order to make the processing smoother by eliminating language barriers. The Indonesian military also participated in the event by offering perimeter security at the airfield. "I think this is very important for Indonesia's military to be cooperating in this exercise because it gives us a chance to work together, gain knowledge, skill and experience so that we can teach our soldiers back home," said Indonesian Marine 2nd Lt. Helilintar Laksono with 5th Battalion, Surabaya. After splitting into smaller groups, military representatives from each of the countries explained the process to the evacuees and moved them through a series of checkpoints, ranging from security to registration for debarkation. "If we had to do this thing for real, this would be a great exercise to prepare us," said Staff Sgt. Payton Bradshaw a landing support specialist. The Tactical Exercise Control Group from III Marine Expeditionary Force contributes to exercises such as this in order to do that very thing-make the training realistic. "We help facilitate exercises such as this by developing realistic scenarios to make the experience more beneficial for the units conducting the training," said Capt. John Menzel, TECG air officer. "We can adjust the scenario to meet the unit's training objectives," he added. During this scenario, certain role players were directed to act as medical casualties in order to test the participating forces' emergency response capabilities during a chaotic environment. "Our job is to take care of people who have health problems while in the ECC," said Royal Thai Air Force Squadron Leader Suwatcharee Ngujima, a nurse at a hospital in Bangkok. "The exercise was good because it gave us a chance to study each other's procedures and learn to work together to help patients," she said. After all the evacuees were screened and registered, they were brought to the flight line to board an aircraft and evacuate to a safe zone. The exercise was considered very meaningful by all of the participating nations, a notion reflected by the twenty-eight VIPs who attended the training event, including the U.S. and Japanese ambassadors to Thailand. "The largest training take away here is the planning of a complex operation in a combined mode," said Brig. Gen. William M. Faulkner, commanding general of 3d Marine Logistics Group. "This type of training has significant value for all of the countries involved," he added. (30)


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Moo-ving forward? Qatar's next big purchase- a farming sector
It is a seductive vision, and Qatar's vast wealth as the world's top liquefied natural gas exporter will allow it to mobilise the best technology and equipment. But many economists and agricultural experts say Qatar's plans do not make economic sense -- and that there is little need for them, given the small size of the population.
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Attiya said implementation of the food security programme would start in January 2014, after a period of preparation. "The implementation period is 10 years. By 2024 we should have a fully operating system."
It is a seductive vision, and Qatar's vast wealth as the world's top liquefied natural gas exporter will allow it to mobilise the best technology and equipment. But many economists and agricultural experts say Qatar's plans do not make economic sense — and that there is little need for them, given the small size of the population.
"They don't have that much land they can put into production; much of it is desert. And Qatar has a very small population," said Abdolreza Abbassian, senior economist at the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.
"They import almost the entire cereals that they need for domestic consumption, something like 200,000 tonnes a year, which they cannot really produce. What they produce domestically is minimal. I don't really see much prospect."
Abbassian suggested the country might be better off focusing its investment on agricultural land in more temperate climates.
"Given the size of the country and the amount of imports which is rather modest, I would be surprised if it's really such a need to resort to such an investment, which is far more capital- and labour-intensive," he said. "Why would they do that rather than purchasing land globally?"
Qatar's environment is hostile to agriculture, characterised by extreme heat, water scarcity and high soil salinity. Average precipitation in depth is just 74 milimetres (2.9 inches) per year, compared to the United Kingdom's 1,220 mm, FAO data shows. Only about 1 percent of Qatar's total land area of 11,590 square kilometres (4,475 square miles) is arable, according to the FAO.
Also, many experts do not see a strong need for Qatar to increase its food security. Although it is located in a volatile region of the world, its huge foreign currency reserves and comparatively small population mean it could probably arrange adquate new sources of food imports fairly easily in an emergency.
"When designing their food security strategies, countries with relatively low agricultural potential such as Qatar may be better advised to look beyond fostering domestic agricultural production," said Clemens Breisinger, research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington.
"Given Qatar's low levels of food insecurity risk and low agricultural potential, it is important to carefully assess the opportunity costs of the investments planned under the QNFSP and to potentially consider alternative options for a food-secure Qatar, and a more food-secure world," he said.
In 2008, Saudi Arabia abandoned a push to achieve self-sufficiency in wheat, concluding that it was simply too expensive and wasteful in using domestic water resources. The country now plans to be 100 percent reliant on imports of wheat by 2016.
Mahendra Shah, food security advisor to the U.N. and director of international planning at Aquiess Rainaid, a company which develops rainfall technology to fight drought, said the drive to produce wheat domestically using underground water had caused environmental damage in Saudi Arabia.
"The underground water reservoirs are saline and severely depleted. This is an example of an ecological disaster that will take decades to recharge and clean up the aquifers."
But Qatar has shrugged off the example of its larger neighbour, showing the same ambition and faith in its financial power that led it to make other controversial but ultimately successful investments, including its World Cup bid, its creation of international television broadcaster Al Jazeera, and its backing of the rebel side during last year's Libyan revolution.
Qatar's farming methods include open-field agriculture, greenhouse production, and hydroponics, a soil-less culture technology which uses less water and land and can yield up to 10 times the crop grown in an open field.
"The basket of products has to be diverse," the QNFSP's Attiya said. "The products will be mainly fruits and vegetables, and we're looking at cereals as well, fodder, livestock and fisheries."
One of the prototype farms, the Al Sulaiteen Agricultural and Industrial Complex (SAIC), is located in the desert a short drive from Qatar's capital Doha.
"We are producers of vegetables, seasonal flowering plants and outdoor plants. We have one of the largest landscape projects in Qatar, with 40 hectares (99 acres) of land," said Mahmoud Refaat Shamardal, SAIC's agriculture sector manager.
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Quincy beats Eureka in girls semifinal game
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Quincy outscored Eureka 20-4 in the fourth quarter Friday night to capture a 53-43 victory in the semifinals of the State Farm Holiday Hoops Invitational at Rackers Fieldhouse.
With the win, Quincy advances to take on St. Joseph Benton in the championship game at 4:45 p.m. today at Fleming Fieldhouse. Eureka will face Helias for third place at 3:15 p.m.
Trailing 39-33 after three quarters, Quincy scored the first 11 points of the final period to take the lead. After Eureka hit a pair of free throws to make it 44-41, Quincy scored the next nine points to push its lead to double digits.
Eureka got its lone field goal of the fourth quarter in the final :10.
Arai'ya Dade and Jordan Fletcher had 16 points and nine rebounds each for Quincy (8-4).
Lindsey McCoy finished with 12 points for Eureka (6-3).
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