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We're all broken. What then?
Homosexuality | The choices we all make in either turning brokenness into sin or finding ways to avoid sinful behavior
Readers have shown tremendous interest in our posting the last three Saturdays of Wayne Grudem's and John Piper's (Part 1 and Part 2) approaches to homosexuality. It seems it's hard to find biblical analysis on this most controversial of subjects, so here's one more useful piece: a brief Piper response (May 4, 2010) to the question, "Why is homosexuality wrong?" (If you prefer to watch a video of Piper's response, it can be found at the end of this article.)
Piper notes that homosexuality is not "the worst possible thing imaginable," but it is a brokenness—and all of us are broken in some way. I know I'm broken, and Piper points out the choice all of us have to make: "I can choose to let that brokenness govern me and turn it into sins. Or I can choose to say, 'I'm going to deal with the brokenness I have and try to steer my way through my brokenness to do as much good for others and avoid as much sin as I can.'" —Marvin Olasky
Why is homosexuality wrong?
With every sin there are multiple levels of why it's offensive to God and to be avoided. The simplest is clearly to say the Bible says it is. And we should start there; and if we can go deeper, that's good.
I think it's implied clearly and spoken clearly in Romans 1:24-29 that homosexuality is wrong and to be avoided. And I think Paul in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 lists a very unusual phrase about homosexuality where he says, "Those who do such things"—and he lists it along with greed and covetousness and other sins, so it's not unique by itself in this—"those who do such things will not enter the kingdom of heaven."
In other words, if you know that it's wrong and you say, "I don't care that it's wrong. I don't care what God says. I'm going to do that thing," that's an indication that you're not going into the kingdom of heaven.
Now, that's just the "It's wrong, don't do it" authority answer. The question "Why would the Bible say that?" is also multi-layered.
1) The Bible sets up at the beginning that a man and a woman become one flesh. That's God's way of doing sexuality.
Sexuality is God's idea, and we should learn from God what it is. It's a man and a woman created in beautifully complementary ways so that they form one flesh. And to try to do it another way is a distortion. It's a corruption. It's a dysfunction of the way God made it.
2) As I reflect on Romans 1 and the way Paul unpacks the problem with homosexuality, it appears to me that Paul is saying something like this: When you exchange the glory of God for idols, the main one that you exchange the glory of God for is yourself. The idol that you have is yourself. Well, what sex is yourself? My sex is male. If you're a woman watching this, your sex is female. And he seems to draw out the fact that in exchanging God for our most cherished idol, which is usually self, we are prone to fall in love with the same sex.
So, implication: Same-sex attraction is a dysfunctional form of idolatry. Now there are other kinds! Don't hear me saying that homosexual temptations are the only way that kind of self-idolatry emerges. But go to Romans 1:24-29 and just think that through yourself—ask how verse 23, the exchange of God for created things, relates to the exchange talked about in verse 26 ("They exchanged the natural for the unnatural"). The same words "exchanged" are used throughout that passage.
The deepest thing that I've ever hit upon for why God would disapprove of this is not just that the Bible says "Don't do it," and not just that God created male and female. Deep down there is a kind of idolatry involved in same-sex relationships that is very profound.
I'm sure there are other reasons why it's bad for us. And God loves us and He calls us not to do it.
Before I turn away from that question, let me say to those of you who struggle with this that this is not hard for me to empathize with or imagine. I don't want those of you who are wrestling with this to feel like, "Oh, this is just the worst possible thing imaginable." I don't feel that way.
What I feel is simply the need to admit brokenness before the Lord. Set your face to say, "My heart is broken, and I am weeping, because for reasons I don't understand I am broken in my sexuality. I'm broken. I wish I weren't. I can choose to turn my brokenness into sin. …"
See, I don't think it's sin to be broken. It's the result of sin to be broken. But to just be that way, to feel that way, I don't think is any more sin than my feeling heterosexual. It's unnatural, it's broken, but now I have the choice with my heterosexuality to make it sin or to make it holy.
A person who wrestles with homosexual temptations and desires has the same choice: to sin with it, or to be chaste and to seek to overcome and to move into something more God-appointed.
So don't hear me isolating it as the worst of all sins. It is part of a brokenness that I share.
I think John Piper's personality is broken. I could give you specifics: they would have to do with anger, self-pity. And I'm just wired to like certain sins a lot. I think it's partly genetic. I saw it in my grandmother and my mother. I think it's partly family-based, and it's just me. I'm broken.
So I can choose to let that brokenness govern me and turn it into sins. Or I can choose to say, "I'm going to deal with the brokenness I have and try to steer my way through my brokenness to do as much good for others and avoid as much sin as I can."
Why Is Homosexuality Wrong? from Desiring God on Vimeo.


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Read the details of what investigators say they found at Best Limo Service of Tucker -- here is the full, 13-page order by the U.S. Department of Transportation:
PDF Document: BestLimoService
TUCKER, Ga. -- A limousine service based in Tucker has been shut down by U.S. Department of Transportation investigators, who call the business "an imminent hazard to public safety."
The limo business's owner said the violations cited by the investigators are "minor," and he expects to be able to reopen soon.
U.S. DOT's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is cracking down on limo services, nationwide.
FMCSA began investigating the Tucker business, Best Limo Service, in early April.
Late last week, FMCSA ordered Best Limo Service to cease all operations immediately.
FMCSA's written order declared that the business has kept few, if any, records on its drivers.
One limo driver "previously tested positive for controlled substances," but there was no record of any follow-up drug tests, according to the investigation.
Another employee was driving customers even though he had "a suspended commercial driver's license," said the report.
The report said Best Limo Service has no vehicle inspection program, among other, quote, "egregious" violations that, in total, constitute a "flagrant disregard for passenger safety."
The owner of Best Limo Service, Chan-Yeh "John" Lin, would not agree to an on-camera interview with 11Alive News, but said, by phone, "We need to be more diligent" in complying with the law. He said "a couple of drivers" who worked for him freelance, part-time, are the ones mentioned by investigators -- not his full-time drivers.
His company's website says, "All our drivers are professional, certified chauffeurs.... Our most prized assets are our chauffeurs who undergo background investigations...."
FMCSA investigators wrote, "Best Limo Service's compliance with driver qualification requirements is almost nonexistent."
Here's one way to check on a limo business's safety record, as compiled by the U.S. DOT:
It's an app from the DOT called SaferBus, available free for both Apple and Android products.
Type into the search window Best Limo Service, for example, and you'll see that, right now, it is "Not Allowed to Operate."
The order from FMCSA includes detailed instructions that Best Limo Service must follow and fulfill in order to reestablish its authorization to do business.
From the U.S. DOT website:
As part of FMCSA's work to make safety data readily available to the traveling public, the SaferBus mobile app gives bus riders a quick and free way to review a bus company's safety record before buying a ticket or booking group travel. The SaferBus app, available for iPhone, iPad and Android phone users, can be downloaded for free by visiting FMCSA's "Look Before You Book" webpage at www.fmcsa.dot.gov/saferbus.
Travelers planning a bus trip are also encouraged to think safety first before buying a ticket or chartering a bus by using FMCSA's multilingual passenger carrier safety checklist at: http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety-security/pcs/Index.aspx.
FMCSA urges consumers and whistleblowers to report any unsafe bus company, vehicle or driver to the agency through a toll free hotline 1-888-DOT-SAFT ( 1-888-368-7238 ) or FMCSA's consumer complaint web site: http://nccdb.fmcsa.dot.gov/
FMCSA urges consumers As to bus companies that FMCSA has recently placed out of service, consumers who paid for their ticket by credit card may be entitled to a credit from their credit card company under the Fair Credit Billing Act. For more information visit http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety-security/pcs/bus-credit-refund.aspx.

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Let's not talk about 'The Big Four' anymore
I think it was last week when I heard something that made me spit my soda. It was during some live coverage of some ATP match (clearly a very innnnteresting match) on the Tennis Channel when I heard one of the commentators remarking on "The Big Four" - Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray. THE BIG FOUR??! Cue the spittage.
C'mon guys. We're living in a post-Wimbledon 2011 world where Nole owns three majors and the top ranking. And we know all the hardware Rafa + Fed have hauled over the years. So how the hell can anyone think Muzz fits into this group anymore, especially after today's 6-3, 6-1 loss to Kevin Anderson at the Rogers Cup in Montreal (as a 2-time defending champ no less)? He was barely hanging on by a ginger thread before Wimby and even less afterward. And now this loss. I'm stunned by the 'The Big Four' talk, which is kinda the way Muzz looked today. So let's not.
P.S. Is it my uber-critical eye or is he starting to lose his locks? If he is, nobody mention it. He's probably not going to take it well today. Just a thought.
[Photo(s) credit: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images]
Labels: Andy Murray, Montreal, tennis, The Rogers Cup
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Um, Nole has two slams and Rafa has two....ReplyDelete
Otherwise fully agree - Murray doesn't belong in that group.
I guess one could say that he's still part of the "Big Four" when it comes to non-Slam events, but the results today made even that qualification moot. I feel sorry for the dude.ReplyDelete
@ Steph - Right, they currently hold two each. I was talking overall major titles.ReplyDelete
@ Ryan T - It's a bad sign when people need to start qualifying the results. I can't see the other three losing that badly in a first round match. It's not that he lost but how he lost. WTF?
Hey all. I'm sorry, but I'm still a big 4 believer! Just look at what Murray's accomplished the past couple of years: Sure, there's no Slam titles, but multiple wins over the other three and plenty of deep runs at the Majors, plus a career-high 2 ranking, does it for me.ReplyDelete
@ van: You too Van?!?! SAY IT ISN'T SO. I'm not saying he doesn't have a good record but saying he belongs in the same group with Rafa, Fed and Nole is INSANE. He could lead the next group - like a second tier under the Big 3.ReplyDelete


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Optimized Newts vs APOs
Posted 19 December 2012 - 05:50 PM
Pictures were shown of unobstructed images of a 6" f/10 APO and a 6" f/10 Newt with 16% obstruction. The difference was barely perceptible. In fact, Suiter and I agree that there is no difference at the eyepiece; anyone who says differently is thinking more of what he paid for his telescope than what he is seeing through his telescope in comparison.
Tell you a story: I went on the Refractor Forum (EGads!) and made this offer. Tell me the aperture of your APO and give me time to make an optimized Newt of the same size, with a precision optical window and a 12% obstruction. Special coatings all around. Then, some neutral people would have to be picked to make an assessment as to what was what.
The issue was to be imagery only; not the appearance of either telescope. Perhaps the Stellafane optical judges would be a good choice.
In any case, no matter, win lose or draw, my telescope would be donated to charity.
You know what? No one took the challenge against my 1/20 wave optics. Not one. Not one dared.
I waited 6 months; the offer is withdrawn; why should I put up with all this "mighty APO" BS?
Posted 19 December 2012 - 06:24 PM
About the only way you could see any difference and with my old eyes, I probably couldn't, is under ideal conditions and very dark skies. And how often does that happen?
Posted 19 December 2012 - 06:29 PM
Many commercial newtonians (dobs) have some serious disadvantages for visual observing, IMO. That is pretty odd, because visual observing is what they excel at. One thing: Most makes are obsessed with low profile focusers to the point that if you use a small eyepiece, like an ortho, you're almost kissing the tube when looking through the eyepiece. It feels like I'm pushing my face into the side of it and I don't particularly like that feeling. By accepting a slightly larger diagonal, one could comfortably get a MUCH larger amount of back focus, so one could use a binoviewer without a barlow and using single eyepieces without kissing the tube, by using an extension tube. This would also lower the eyepiece height a few inches. Trivial, perhaps, but worth mentioning. A secondary obstruction of 25% is considered very small in a Mak-cass, but almost unacceptably huge in a newtonian. Why?
I have used some excellent newtonians and know how superb they can be, but in my opinion, they aren't as ergonomic as a refractor. I am more relaxed at the eyepiece of a refractor than I've been at the eyepiece of the newtonians/dobsonians I've tried.
Clear skies!
Thomas, Denmark
Posted 19 December 2012 - 06:47 PM
Enjoy the end-of-year holidays, no matter where you live or what you do. (Especially if we all get past Friday :rofl5: :rofl5: )
Posted 19 December 2012 - 08:02 PM
So observe. it's not realistic to try for perfection in every aspect of doing anything.
I observe with telescopes of most all sizes and qualities, one night it might be a 70mm F/10 achromat that cost $40 at Walmart, the next, it might be a large Newtonian or a small refractor that cost someone several thousand dollars. They are all fun and all provide satisfying views.
Regardless, some designs offer more perfect views than others. Ed's challenge and discussion specifically addresses the comparison between equal aperture Newtonians and apochromats.
As an observer, I see the advantage of an apochromat is not that it does a great job at one certain type of observation, say splitting double stars or viewing the planets, but rather that it does a great job, within the limitations of it's aperture, at all aspects of observing. One can generally optimize another design, a Newtonian in this example, so that it nearly as competent as an apochromat in one aspect of observation but it will fall down in others.
My own experience is that refractors are optimal for smaller apertures. One reason is because their primary aberration, chromatic, is becomes more problematic as aperture is increased. This is because chromatic aberration essentially scales with the aperture/focal ratio. Refractors are also more efficient with light so in the smaller apertures where light is most at a premium, they are at their best. And their off-axis aberrations can be more easily controlled because there are more optical surfaces.
On the other hand, Newtonians are optimized as larger telescopes for the similar reasons. Unlike chromatic aberration, coma only depends on the focal ratio so one can scale up an 5 inch F/5 Newtonian to larger apertures without having to increase the focal ratio. The field illumination difficulties a small Newtonian faces also decrease as the aperture increases.
So, rather than judging this comparison based solely on the planetary, high magnification views of a Newtonian and an apochromatic refractor, I suggest one consider a building a telescope with the following specifications:
- Aperture: ~4 inches
- Focal ratio: F/5-F/5.5
- Chromatic aberration: essentially Color free
- Coma: Essentially zero
- Field curvature: Essentially zero
- Fully illuminated field: ~ 4 degrees
- Light throughput: 98%
- System Strehl: .98 (includes effect of CO)
- Stable thermally
- Stable collimation
I have done my best to describe as perfect a 4 inch telescope as I can. It excels at both the things a 4 inch telescope does best, that is widefield viewing with pinpoint stars to the edge and its high magnification capabilities are only limited by it's aperture.
Whether one wants a scope with these capabilities, that is an individual question. But if one wants such a scope, in my mind, it must be an apochromatic refractor and in my experience, such scopes are quite wonderful... but then all scopes are quite wonderful, just not quite as perfect.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 08:17 PM
Posted 19 December 2012 - 08:30 PM
Jon My 17 inch off axis Wide Band CHief can do anything a 17 inch APO can do . Ed good post
And a 25 inch Obsession can do things a 17 inch off-axis Wide Band Chief cannot do.
But mostly, a TeleVue NP-101 or a Takahashi 106FSQ can do things neither the 25 inch Newt nor the 17 inch Chief nor a 6 inch F/10 Newtonian can do...
And visa versa....
The right scope for the application...
Posted 19 December 2012 - 08:37 PM
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 08:47 PM
AH, you weren't reading closely. One of my precision optical windows negates the need for any spider diffraction whatsoever. No need for curved spiders or other cheats to spread the diffraction around.
There is still diffraction from the secondary but it ain't much. On the other hand, the fully illuminated field of view will be small, the 75% illuminated field will be small. It would be a great planetary scope but not much of a low power scope.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 08:49 PM
Rant off.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 08:55 PM
An ultra wide angle 2" EP may have a field stop pushing the limit the 2" format supports (44mm or so), say the ES100 25mm, the Nagler 82 deg 31mm, or the ES82 30 mm.
You won't get adequate illumination of that field stop without a secondary that is at least as large, and a 44mm secondary with a CO of not more than 30% would have to be at least 5.87", call it 6". And with a reasonable exit pupil it would have to be F/4.2 (the ES100 25mm), requiring a coma corrector pushing it to F/4.8, or else an F/5.2 outright, with FL of 730-800mm.
OTOH, these EPs can be used with F/4-5 70-100mm objectives, and FLs of only 280-500mm with no CO light or contrast loss at all for extremely wide fields. If used for large nebula observing, with narrowband filters the CA aspect of the short achros disappears.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 09:30 PM
The ultra wide angle view thing is where small (or large) reflectors cannot compete with small refractors.
An ultra wide angle 2" EP may have a field stop pushing the limit the 2" format supports (44mm or so), say the ES100 25mm, the Nagler 82 deg 31mm, or the ES82 30 mm.
You won't get adequate illumination of that field stop without a secondary that is at least as large, and a 44mm secondary with a CO of not more than 30% would have to be at least 5.87", call it 6". And with a reasonable exit pupil it would have to be F/4.2 (the ES100 25mm), requiring a coma corrector pushing it to F/4.8, or else an F/5.2 outright, with FL of 730-800mm.
OTOH, these EPs can be used with F/4-5 70-100mm objectives, and FLs of only 280-500mm with no CO light or contrast loss at all for extremely wide fields. If used for large nebula observing, with narrowband filters the CA aspect of the short achros disappears.
I have a fair amount of eyepiece time with a 130mm F/5 Newtonian fitted with a 2 inch focuser. It had a 38mm secondary and fitted with a Paracorr and a 31mm Nagler, it would provide a decent 3.2 degree TFoV. By analysis the field was poorly illuminated but at the eyepiece, it was not troublesome, I could see the entire Veil. It was also pretty good at high magnifications.
I also have an 80mm F/5 fitted with a 2 inch focuser. You're right about the narrow band filters, it provides a 6 degree TFoV and the field curvature is not noticeable with an O-III or H-Alpha...
This is drifting off-topic. It's clear an optimized 6 inch F/10 or even a standard 6 inch F/8 Newtonian can be an effective planetary scope though around here one would want an 8 inch or 10 inch. But challenges, accepted or ignored, do not make a telescope...
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 09:52 PM
Long focus newtonians should be renamed "hyperapochromats".
Rant off.
I think I'll name my 6" f/10.9 reflector that, Tim!!
Posted 19 December 2012 - 10:33 PM
Posted 19 December 2012 - 10:44 PM
TEC140 vs. Ceravolo HD145
Posted 19 December 2012 - 10:50 PM
BUT, as Richard Berry said, inch per inch nothing beats an apo. OK, beat me up. (Saying this as an owner of 18 refractors and 4 newts)
Posted 19 December 2012 - 11:45 PM
Posted 20 December 2012 - 12:52 AM
That was a fair challenge and, clearly some 30 years overdue!
Pictures were shown of unobstructed images of a 6" f/10 APO and a 6" f/10 Newt with 16% obstruction. The difference was barely perceptible. In fact, Suiter and I agree that there is no difference at the eyepiece...Tell me the aperture of your APO and give me time to make an optimized Newt of the same size, with a precision optical window and a 12% obstruction. Special coatings all around.
The picture below shows (in reverse color) PSFs for a 6-inch f/10 configuration with various amounts of central obstruction. The negative image helps visualize the amount of energy in the Airy disc better than against black background. Clearly, some difference exists between these shades of gray, but under real nighttime observing conditions, even under superior seeing, it would be more an act of willful imagination than actual perception to say that this difference would be noticed - even if the images could be observed simultaneously and right next to each other, and a very dark sky.
So, the experiment could never be fully objective, or effective, simply because no one can see these images at once, so close and perfectly still. Maybe one could take photographs of a star (say a Polaris) under high eyepiece projection, using the same eyepiece and exposure time, etc. and then compare the images side by side.
There is no doubt that a well made f/10 Newtonian, as Ed describes, with 12% CO will perform better than an APO simply because it has zero color! At some point a very bright image will reveal chromatic residual even in the best of APOs.
The real difference liles in the fatc that Ed's optic can probably be made with materials costing about $250. A 6-inch f/10 2-element APO objective today sells for more then 10 times that price.
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Posted 20 December 2012 - 01:06 AM
Long focus newtonians should be renamed "hyperapochromats".
Rant off.
I think I'll name my 6" f/10.9 reflector that, Tim!!
Yep! I call my 6" f/10.3 that!
Posted 20 December 2012 - 03:13 AM
The beauty of the Christen design was that the lens was not only apochromatic (i.e. corrected for four colors simutaneously), but the OG was also perfectly symmetrical. The two outer radii of curvature were equal but opposite, as were the two inner ones. This means they could be matched perfectly by Newotn's interference method, a very elegant solution indeed from the shop production point of view.
In April of 1982, Paul Weissman, an optical engineer at Ferrand Optical in Valhalla, NY, wrote to Sky & Telescope objecting to Christen's original design as under-corrected for color and offered his "correction" as an alternative.
Christen replied shortly thereafter, saying that he "inadvertently" used an old set of figures for the 1981 configuration and then submitted a new set which was better than the original as well as Weissman's but the OG lost its symmetrical elegance Christen made a big deal of in 1981, plus it now introduced a field-limiting coma.
Clearly, a 6-inch well made Newtonian - like the one Ed offered to build for his proposal, i.e. with a 12% central obstruction, and of equivalent focal length - would have easily beaten all three versions of the Christen's f/10.8 triplet.
I wrote a letter to Sky and Telescope, calling attention to this, but it was never published. Christen's APO soon began selling for $2200 or thereabouts, yet it's performance was inferior to that of an equivalent quality, diameter and focal ratio equivalent Newtonian that in 1982 could be built for around $100.


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CAPITOL HILL, D.C. (WUSA) -- Tickets to stand up-front at President Obama's second inauguration are only just going out -- and are already up for bid on eBay for as much as $4,700.
The tickets are supposed to be free, and StubHub has already agreed not to sell them. Sen. Charles Schumer, chair of the Joint Congressional Inauguration Committee is urging eBay and Craigslist not to sell them either.
"These tickets may not be as hard to get as Willie Wonka's golden ticket, but they're right up there," said Schumer.
In a basement room at the Capitol, Congressional staffers lined up for a box full of the priceless tickets to the inauguration's front rows.
"I get calls every day," said a staffer to Rep. Justin Amash, (R-MI), a Tea Party fan so rebellious, Speaker John Boehner kicked him off the Budget Committee. Even members from the deepest red Republican districts say they're overwhelmed.
DC's delegate was giving her tickets away for free, using a lottery to whittle down the 4000 requests to 200 lucky winners. Eleanor Holmes Norton is angry the District only gets a couple of hundred... and even the smallest, most distant state gets at least one thousand.
"You would think that as a booby prize we could get a few more tickets."
One ticket they won't be giving away? A purple one. That was the ticket that stuck thousands of people four years ago in the 3rd Street purple tunnel of doom.
Organizers say it may not be perfect this time, but they promise it will be better.
Organizers also unveiled a mobile website, www.inaugural.senate.gov, that will use GPS on your smartphone to direct you to exactly the right gate.
There will also be a twitter feed to warn of jam ups.
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Staff Report
Published Dec. 5, 2012
Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives unanimously re-elected Bobby Harrell, a Charleston Republican, to another term as House speaker.
Bobby Harrell
All of the previous session's officers sought re-election, and were returned to office.
First elected House speaker in 2005, Harrell has been a member of the House representing District 114 in Charleston and Dorchester counties since 1992.
"I tell folks all the time, I have two of the best jobs on the planet — and it just so happens that they are both jobs that require a pretty rigorous re-application process every two years," Harrell said in a statement released by his office.
"Giving a voice to our friends and neighbors as their representative while also being allowed to serve my fellow House members as their speaker are two positions I am extremely honored and humbled to hold," he said.
The House also elected the following officers:
- Speaker Pro Tempore James H. "Jay" Lucas, representing District 65 in Chesterfield, Darlington, Kershaw and Lancaster counties
- Clerk Charles F. Reid
- Sergeant-at-Arms Mitchell G. Dorman
- Reading Clerk James L. M. Cromer Jr.
- Chaplin Charles E. Seastrunk Jr.


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Charlotte, NC (Sports Network) - With LeBron James and Dwyane Wade sitting
once again, Mike Miller stepped up with a season-high 26 points and the Miami
Heat took an 89-79 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats on Friday.
The bulk of Miller's points came on 3-pointers, converting 7-of-11 from beyond
the arc. Chris Bosh had a well-rounded game with 18 points, eight rebounds and
six assists for Miami, which was without James and Wade for the third straight
Ray Allen also missed the contest for the Heat with a sprained ankle. Rashard
Lewis posted 14 points in the triumph.
The Bobcats, losers in four of their last five, were led by Michael Kidd-
Gilchrist's 18 points and 14 rebounds. Kemba Walker and Gerald Henderson
scored 12 and 11 points, respectively, in the setback.
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Richard "Rick" Cronin, 55, of Sioux City, formerly of Le Mars passed away Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at the Touchstone Living Center in Sioux City, Iowa. Mass of Christian Burial will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday, December 29, 2012 at St. Catherine's Catholic Church, at Oyens, Iowa with Father Tim Hogan officiating. Interment will follow at St. Catherine's Cemetery. Visitation with the family present will be after 10:00 a.m. Saturday, December 29th at the church until service time. Arrangements are with the Carlsen-Feuerstein Funeral Home of Le Mars. Expression of sympathy can be extended to the family through www.carlsenfuneralhome.com.
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I'm preparing to move to Amazon (via RightScale) from our existing infrastructure which in short is Plesk. I'm just starting to play around with the Zimbra Open Source installer and I've got a couple questions to start...
1. First, I've used wget to get started, just wondering if there's a YUM archive I could be using instead?
2. Since this is going to be a headless install, are there command line options available to "auto-accept" the license questions, and further (I'm stuck at this point due to an issue with our /etc/hosts) if there are further questions during installation, how can I provide input values to them?
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A bit of backstory
This part of the world has been mostly uninhabited for hundreds of years except for a few nomadic tribes in the Kartak Desert. To the S/SE, there is a small peninsula of the desert and the ocean doubles back. The forest branches W to the ocean and N of the forest is the remains of a large human kingdom. North of the old kingdom are a hugh mountain chain which runs E-W for hundreds of miles. The desert continues to the E for another hundred or so miles before meeting up with another mountain chain (which meets up with the one to the north.
Tall Tree Forest was once home to a large Elven community who existed in harmony with the human kingdom of Bethral. Legend has it that the great arch-lich Kellegry found an artifact deep in the bowels of the mountains which he used to summon a great army both living and dead. His army gathered at the base of his citadel. The story goes that his army marched north toward a great battle with the Elven and human armies. As the story goes, there to was so many creatures killed that the very stones drank the blood and became stained. At the same time, 23 human and elven heroes (some say fools) entered the lich's citadel. After a great battle, the elven hero Thelasaird destroyed the artifact which destroyed the citadel, Kellegry, and of course themselves, thus forming Scar peak (well, its no longer a peak anymore...)
The eleven casualties were so high that the few remaining males along with the women and children migrated to another Elven nation across the ocean. Bethral was destroyed by a combination of goblinoid forces and a great plague which swept the nation. Now, nothing remains of the old kingdom except a few tiny villages and the walls of a few partially standing keeps. The Bloody Barrens are home to undead creatures of all kinds. Tall Tree Forest is now home to several tribes of various goblinoid races, and the Kartak Desert is home to many tiny nomad tribes. Their superstitions keep them well away from The Lich Finger Mountains.


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Darlington, S.C. (May 5, 2010) - Ten races into the 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series season, Michael Annett and Germain Racing's No. 15 Germain.com/Pilot Travel Centers team will travel to the North Carolina based team's neighboring "Palmetto State" for the Royal Purple 200 presented by O'Reilly Auto Parts at Darlington Raceway.
The South Carolina track is known as one of the toughest racetracks on the NASCAR circuit, therefore it boasts the well-respected "Too Tough to Tame" slogan. The distinct 1.366 mile track can be compared to no other oval the NASCAR Nationwide Series visits, which produces a challenge for both teams and drivers.
"You've got to be on top of your game heading into the Darlington race. There's a lot of give and take there and hitting your marks is key. I'm up for the challenge it carries and excited to get on track," said Annett.
Not only is the track demanding, but Darlington also marks the second consecutive one day show for the NASCAR Nationwide Series with practice, qualifying and the 147 lap race all slated for Friday. Fitting everything into one day in the South Carolina heat can be tough, yet another reason why it's "Too Tough to Tame" at Darlington.
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Visit to successful experiences and pilot sites of IUCN projects in San Marcos
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Partners and beneficiaries share experiences in two IUCN Mesoamerican projects, BRIDGE and Good Governance for Adaptation to Climate Change-BMU, on a trip October 15-19, 2012.
San Marcos, Guatemala, November 2012 (IUCN) – A four-day trip was made to share experiences in areas of the Coatán, Suchiate and Naranjo river basins, department of San Marcos, where the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is supporting interventions. The object was to learn about conceptual aspects and methodological processes developed by IUCN through application of the ecosystem and sustainable livelihoods approaches, thus demonstrating a model of microwatershed-based participatory planning and community water management.
The model centers on broad community participation, recognition of microwatersheds as planning and land ordering units, involvement of local political authorities in environmental management, interinstitutional coordination and the creation of community capacities for integrated water resource management. Other shared experience concerned the establishment of strategic alliances with government agencies, nongovernmental organizations and academia for linkage and integration of institutional and multisectoral efforts, as in the case of the San Marcos coordination body for natural resources and environment (Coordinadora de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente de San Marcos–CORNASAM).
Participating in this event were technicians and partners from the Cahoacán II project in Mexico, representatives of the Coatán and Cahoacán river basin committees, representatives of the Costa Rica-Panama binational commission of the Sixaola river basin and members of the El Salvador-Honduras Sumpul River binational committee.
During the exchange, visitors saw demonstration sites for forest restoration and areas with natural generation of pinabete, a Guatemalan fir, in the upper parts of the microwatersheds of the Esquichá and Coatancito rivers in the Coatán river basin. There the focus is on forest restoration in degraded zones and adjoining pinabete forests, initiatives promoted by IUCN and the Agronomy Department of Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. The importance of participation by municipal government was stressed, as exemplified by the Ixchiguán municipality's support for restoration on Cotzic hilltop. After many failed reforestation attempts due to the extreme climate conditions, the municipality mandated special protection of this area through forest restoration.
Another experience illustrated the approach and concept of creating microwatershed councils (in the microwatershed of the Esquichá River, in the Coatán river basin, and Palatzá River in the Naranjo basin) based on community development councils (Consejos Comunitarios de Desarrollo-COCODES) as base organizations through which management plans recognize, prioritize, plan and administer projects for comprehensive and sustainable use of water and associated resources in these microwatersheds. It was shown how the microwatershed approach makes it possible to consider communities' needs, concerns and requirements in a more tangible and authentic way, as well as identify priority management activities. Extensive discussion left clear that one of the greatest advantages of using watersheds as land planning units, especially for purposes of water resource management, lies in communities' integration and management of joint projects for the watershed's conservation and protection.
The trip included visits to demonstration projects executed by IUCN and its partners in San Marcos for environmental conservation, food security, income generation and essential social services (primarily water for human consumption), such as medium- and large-scale production of forest species in nurseries, production of edible mushrooms, implementation of agroforestry systems and energy-efficient wood burning stoves (implemented in the Palatzá and Upper Naranjo microwatersheds), comprehensive potable water systems including protection of recharge areas and basic sanitation along with aspects of traditional water systems, and others.
In the Tacaná municipality, participants were taken to the Municipal Water and Sanitation Office established to promote a culture of payment, administration and regulation of the water system in the municipal seat and its communities. The objectives are regulation of the water system in Tacaná's head town, implementation of a payment for environmental services (PES) system and technical assistance for the municipality's communities.
Another experience was shared by Jorge Juárez, current coordinator of CORNASAM, who explained the entity's background, vision and work philosophy in promoting interinstitutional and multisectoral coordination in the Suchiate, Coatán, Naranjo and Cuilco river basins. He spoke of the difficulties encountered in forming this body, particularly in integrating all of the institutions and organizations that work in the zone, and then described the main advantages of being an entity for the coordination and integration of efforts with a shared vision and linked work, and the achievements that have been obtained through joint action with the microwatershed as territorial vision.
Day three of the trip focused on experience implementing an urban-rural PES mechanism, developed by Asociación Fondo para la Gestión Hídrica Participativa (AFOGESHIP) Agua Viva in the municipality of San Pablo, San Marcos. This association brings together organized civil society (COCODE and the Negro River microwatershed council), the private sector (mainly coffee cooperatives) and the San Pablo municipality. The association's manager explained how the system operates and main achievements in relation to PES. For example, the PES provision established in San Pablo's municipal water regulations permitted the transfer of Q2.00 of the total fee to AFOGESHIP to execute conservation projects, and as the result of negotiations with La Bendición, 21 de Octubre and La Igualdad coffee cooperatives, Q0.50 of each quintal of coffee produced was used for PES. In addition, AFOGESHIP donated Q50,000 to the San Pablo municipality for conservation activities.
Participants were then taken to the microwatershed of the Palatzá River and met with the microwatershed council to learn about its work in coordination with the Department of Protected Areas and Environment of the Esquipulas Palo Gordo municipality, and the department's connection with the microwatershed council.
Wrapping up the tour, Bribri participants from Costa Rica and Panama shared experiences with Quiché living in the Masá River microbasin, in the watershed of Lake Atitlan, department of Sololá, where the IUCN's microwatershed planning experience has been replicated. Here they learned about the process of forming the local organizational structure and formulating management plans for the microwatershed. After the presentation, the group reflected on the preservation of traditions and cultures that are maintained and stipulated in the microwatershed management plan.
For more information contact:
Ottoniel Rivera Mazariegos
Technical officer of the IUCN Livelihoods and Climate Change Unit for San Marcos, Guatemala
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IUCN Regional Office for Mesoamerica and Caribbean Initiative
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I have been asked to install ZOC into outlook and see what the benefits of using it are verses a Microsoft in-house exchange server. After installing the outlook connector and inputting my server info and email information, a message stating that the the version of outlook connector I have installed is not compatible with the version of Zimbra I use which is
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The JPEG XR HttpModule for IIS enables websites to transparently take advantage of the JPEG XR image format by automatically redirecting requests for JPEG and PNG images to a JPEG XR version (if one exists). This IIS module is currently deployed on the research.microsoft.com website where the use of JPEG XR can reduce the size of images by as much as 50% and their download time by as much as 45%; these gains are achieved without any extra effort from Microsoft Research staff because the JPEG XR image format has been fully integrated into the publishing platform of the website.
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When you're responsible for ensuring the performance of a large, Internet-facing website, one of the many things you worry about is reducing the size of image files while maintaining their quality: smaller files mean less bandwidth is required to deliver them to the user's browser.
So, when Rico Malvar, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research (MSR), approached the team responsible for the MSR website, research.microsoft.com, and described a new image format, JPEG XR, which promised to do just that, the Web team was all ears.
JPEG XR is an approved ISO/IEC International standard (its official designation is ISO/IEC 29199-2) which has many advantages over JPEG and PNG, the two most commonly used image formats on the Web today. The advantages which were particularly attractive to the MSR Web team are:
- Better compression: on average, the file size will be 40% smaller than JPEG for similar quality. In addition, the compression artifacts in JPEG XR are less objectionable than JPEG so there are often more file size savings available.
- Lossless mode: the lossless mode in JPEG XR achieves better compression than PNG (especially for natural images).
- Alpha channel: JPEG XR supports an alpha channel, unlike JPEG. PNG does support alpha, but, unlike PNG, JPEG XR has the capability to compress color lossy and alpha losslessly. This capability results in much smaller file sizes.
For a more complete description of JPEG XR, visit the HDView blog.
Integration of JPEG XR with research.microsoft.com
The MSR Web team ran a series of tests, converting sets of JPEG and PNG files to JPEG XR in order to evaluate the reductions in file size which could be expected:
- For JPEG files, reductions of up to 70% were achieved, with an average of 40%.
- For PNG files, reductions of up to 90% were achieved, with an average of 30%.
Because of these significant reductions in file size, the MSR Web team decided to proceed with the integration of JPEG XR into the publishing platform which supports the research.microsoft.com website.
Support for different browsers
JPEG XR is supported in many Microsoft products, notably Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Internet Explorer 10 (or later). Because JPEG XR isn't currently supported in other popular browsers, such as Firefox and Chrome, the main challenge facing the MSR Web team was how to serve JPEG XR images only to browsers which support the format (and how to do this in a completely transparent way as far as the browsers are concerned): browsers which don't support the format must continue to receive JPEG or PNG images.
The solution which the MSR Web team came up is an HttpModule for IIS which intercepts requests for JPEG and PNG images: if the user's browser (as determined by the browser's user-agent string) supports JPEG XR and a JPEG XR image with the same name as the originally requested JPEG or PNG image exists in the same location (but with the JXR extension), the request is redirected to the JPEG XR image.
The C# source code for this HttpModule is provided in this download.
Automation of JPEG XR file creation
The MSR Web team also wanted the use of JPEG XR to be completely transparent to users publishing content to the research.microsoft.com website. Therefore, the content management system (CMS) in the publishing platform was updated such that, when a JPEG or PNG image is added to the CMS, the system automatically creates and publishes a JPEG XR version of the image.
This end-to-end capability has been running in production since October 2012 and the results have more than justified Rico's confidence in JPEG XR: for example, the time required to deliver images to a browser has been reduced by an average of 45% when JPEG XR images are delivered.
- Henrique S. Malvar and Gary J. Sullivan, Progressive-to-Lossless Compression of Color-Filter-Array Images Using Macropixel Spectral-Spatial Transformation, in Data Compression Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., April 2012.
- Vanessa Testoni, Max H. M. Costa, Darko Kirovski, and Henrique Malvar, On The Adaptive Coefficient Scanning of JPEG XR / HD Photo, in Data Compression Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., March 2010.
- H. S. Malvar, G. J. Sullivan, and S. Srinivasan, Lifting-Based Reversible Color Transformations for Image Compression, in SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing, International Society for Optical Engineering, August 2008.
- C. Tu, S. Srinivasan, G. J. Sullivan, S. Regunathan, and H. S. Malvar, Low-Complexity Hierarchical Lapped Transform for Lossy-to-Lossless Image Coding in JPEG XR / HD Photo, in SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing, International Society for Optical Engineering, August 2008.


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Testimony :: Hon. Alcee L. Hastings
Chairman - Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Good morning, ladies and gentleman. Thank you for your interest in this morning's briefing on combating hate crimes and discrimination within the OSCE. I want to start by welcoming my colleagues on the Commission Senator Gordon Smith, who with Senator Kennedy has led efforts in the Senate to make U.S. hate crimes laws more inclusive and Representative Hilda Solis, who is also the Special Representative on Migration for the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
As we approach the anniversary of Kristallnacht, a night of historic violence against Jews in Germany and Austria, it is incumbent upon us to recall what can happen when intolerance and discrimination within a society are not addressed. Thus we are all rightly moved when see images such as those displayed on the table outside or read media reports about:
• an African asylum seeker being attacked with a chainsaw in Switzerland,
• a video purporting to show the beheading of two men in Russia under a Nazi flag,
• a German mob attack on eight Indians during a street festival,
• the release of a Spanish man who physically attacked an Ecuadorian girl in the subway,
• anti-Muslim rallies throughout Europe,
• the vandalizing of Jewish graves in various countries,
and, unfortunately I could go on. Not only are hate crimes in the OSCE on the rise, but discrimination is also an everyday experience for many persons who live in OSCE countries, as many Roma and other minorities of Turkish, African, south Asian, or other descent can attest to when they attempt to apply for jobs, find housing, or even go to school.
Politicians and political parties are also increasingly adopting anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric without receiving proper condemnation from their colleagues or other public leaders. While censorship is not the answer, political leaders do bear a unique responsibility to promote tolerance and mutual respect amongst its citizenry, not to sow mistrust and discord.
This is the reason that I and my colleague Congressman Mark Kirk have responded so swiftly in leading Congressional efforts to condemn the anti-Semitic remarks of the Belarusian President.
Some years ago I, my co-Chairman Senator Cardin and other Commissioners came together to push for the OSCE to begin to address tolerance issues following a spike in anti-Semitic incidents taking place in Europe. This resulted in a series of initiatives that began with a focus on anti-Semitism and went on to include racism and xenophobia, and intolerance and discrimination against Muslims, Christians and members of other religions.
Now, five years later, the OSCE has an established tolerance unit that publishes an annual hate crimes report, trains law enforcement on responding to hate crimes, and has developed numerous tolerance education initiatives. Summaries of the OSCE annual hate crimes report are available outside.
We are also committed to continuing our focus on these issues within our own country. The current reluctance of this Congress to expand hate crimes laws to include gay and other vulnerable groups says that we too have a ways to go in protecting the fundamental rights of the most vulnerable in our society.
While this briefing focuses on the situation overseas, it is the first of several initiatives we are planning to bring attention to intolerance and discrimination throughout the OSCE region with the goal of having constructive conversations on how to best combat these problems.
To kick off events this Congress, we are honored to have three distinguished guests here today. While my staff has made their biographies, reports and other information from their agencies available outside, I would like to take a few minutes to introduce our guests.
First I would like to introduce UN Special Rapporteur Dou Dou Diene, who has made a special trip from overseas to be here today. In addition to conducting reports on the state of race relations in Russia and Switzerland and a recent trip to the Baltics, I understand that he has also received an invitation to prepare a report on the United States.
Given the voter disenfranchisement in my own state of Florida, over 159 reports of anti-Semitic incidents in my district last year, and the racial inequalities in our justice system revealed by the Jena 6 case, Katrina victims, reintroduction of the "noose," and the list goes on . . . I'd say the Special Rapporteur has a lot of work ahead of him and hope that he will agree to join us in the future to share his final report on the United States.
I would also like to welcome Dr. Tiffany Lightbourn. An expert on prejudice and discrimination and immigrant communities, who is joining us from the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security. In a post 9/11 world, she can tell us how tolerance issues are also relevant to security in the OSCE.
I would also like to introduce Mr. Naftalin and Mr. Butkevich, whose organization the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews has been a pioneer in this field and publishes the "Bigotry Monitor," an outstanding resource for the human rights and policy community on issues of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance in the former Soviet region.
Lastly, I would like to note that we also extended an invitation to both Human Rights First and the SOVA Center in Russia. As many of you well know, Human Rights First has published a report on hate crimes in Europe and the SOVA Center has taken on the difficult but much needed task of collecting statistics on hate crimes in Russia and monitoring the responses of law enforcement and the government. While they unfortunately could not be here today, we hope to have them at future events, as much of our work on the Commission on these issues could not be done without them.
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With her penchant for candy hued locks, princess-inspired frocks, and vintage pieces, Katy Perry has taken both the world of music and fashion by storm. Today is Perry's birthday and we figured showing off her signature style would be a pretty sweet way to celebrate.
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Brooklyn, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Paul Pierce made all 14 of his free throws
and scored 25 points and the Brooklyn Nets held on to beat the Philadelphia
76ers 108-102 on Monday to snap a three-game losing streak.
It was a game of swings and the Nets held off one final charge.
The Sixers trailed by 15 in the first quarter, had a seven-point lead in the
second and were down a game-high 19 in the third quarter. But they got within
104-102 after James Anderson made a 3-pointer from the right corner with 22.7
second left.
But Pierce made two foul shots and Shaun Livingston stole the ball when Sixers
point guard Michael Carter-Williams flubbed a pass to Evan Turner at the other
end. Livingston then sealed the win with two free throws.
Livingston's steal gave the Nets a season-high 15 in the game and he had a
career-high seven.
"Shaun's amazing," said Mirza Teletovic, who made five 3s and had 20 points
for the Nets. "He just helps out in every position."
Deron Williams had 21 points for the Nets and Livingston scored 13 with eight
The Sixers turned the ball over 25 times in their third straight loss and fell
to 3-13 in their last 16.
"We have to be more responsible with the ball," said Sixers coach Brett Brown.
"It bites us continually."
Carter-Williams had 21 points to lead Philadelphia, Tony Wroten scored 18 and
Thaddeus Young added 17. Carter-Williams had four points in an 11-2 run in the
fourth quarter that cut a 16-point Nets lead to single digits.
Nets guard Joe Johnson was out with knee tendinitis and the Sixers probably
were glad not to see him. Johnson made 10 3-pointers -- eight in the third
quarter -- and scored 37 points in a 130-94 win over Philadelphia in December.
The teams split two games in a five-day span that month.
The Nets had lost three straight games, including the last two in January
after going 10-1 to begin the month. That run helped Jason Kidd earn Eastern
Conference Coach of the Month honors on Monday.
The first half was full of big swings.
Williams had seven points and he and Pierce hit back-to-back 3s to start
Brooklyn on a 16-2 run to open the game. The Sixers trailed by as many as 15
in the first quarter but rallied to take their first lead midway through the
An 18-4 Sixers run sparked by Young's 3 staked them to a seven-point edge but
the Nets countered with a 17-3 burst and went into halftime with a 54-49 lead.
Pierce scored 10 of his 15 first-half points in the surge.
Brooklyn led by 19 with four minutes left in the third quarter on a Williams
3-pointer and went into the fourth with an 84-69 advantage.
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, a day after winning the Super Bowl, was
sitting next to Jay Z and Beyonce. Michael J. Fox also attended the game ...
The Nets host San Antonio on Thursday ... The Sixers play Boston at home on
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Man fatally shot by Roseville officer ID'd | Crime
ROSEVILLE, CA - Roseville police shot and killed a 35-year-old man after responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday night.
Police were called to a residence on the 1600 block of Sierra Gardens Drive at 10:53 p.m. after they received a report of a "very intoxicated" man, armed with a baseball bat, pushing a woman, said Roseville Officer Dee Dee Gunther.
When officers arrived, the man, later identified as Paul Lawson Storey of Roseville, fled on foot through the neighborhood. A resident later reported seeing Storey running while holding a gun, Gunther said.
Officers located Storey on the 1700 block of Tanglewood Lane and attempted to take him into custody, but he resisted and fought with one of the officers, Gunther said.
According to Gunther, the other officer, fearing for his partner's safety, fatallly shot Storey.
"I heard three shots and I came outside," said area resident Lindsay Bradley.
She believed Saturday night's incident should have ended without lethal force.
"I don't think it's worth taking somebody's life who has two young children and a wife," said Bradley. "I think he should have listened, but I don't think he should have been shot dead. I think there were other ways to handle the situation."
The incident was being investigated by the Roseville Police Investigations Unit, and will be monitored by the Placer County District Attorney's Office, according to the department's protocol for officer-involved shootings.
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In my recent shopping, I came across two interesting facets of Ratings & Reviews.
First, at FutureShop.ca, any registered or guest visitor can post a rating for a product without an accompanying review. Should people be allowed to rate a product without stating some form of justification or elaboration? In the example below, 79 people have rated the Sony headphones for an average rating of 4.3 out of 5, but only 8 people have left an accompanying review.
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St. Louis, MO (KSDK) - A St. Louis Circuit Court jury found a 24-year-old north St. Louis County man accused of shooting a police officer guilty on Friday.
Arthur Lee Jones of Bridgeton was found guilty of assault on a law enforcement officer and armed criminal action in the crime which occurred in November 2010.
Authorities say Jones was in the area of the 4600 block of Margaretta just after midnight when a patrol officer noticed suspicious activity.
The officer stopped his police car and shined a spotlight on Jones, who then turned towards the officer and began shooting.
One of the bullets fired by Jones went through the door of the squad car and struck the policeman in the buttocks according to police reports.
Jones then ran from the shooting scene to an apartment building in the 4000 block of Cora Avenue where SWAT/Hostage Response officers sealed the area and took Jones into custody. The gun used in the officer's shooting was also located in the building when Jones was apprehended.
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The University of West Alabama Board of Directors Monday approved a four-year contract for its new president.
Dr. Richard Holland was named interim president earlier this year, after the departure of Dr. Ed Roach.
UWA also reports the highest enrollment it has had since 1998. Slightly over 2,000 students are enrolled for the fall semester.
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Born on March 15, 1935 - otherwise known as the Ides of March - in The Bronx, NY, Hirsch was raised by his father, Joseph, a Russian immigrant and electrician, and his mother, Sally. After attending DeWitt Clinton High School, he studied engineering and physics at City College of New York, only to switch to acting partway through. Though he joined the architecture program at Cooper Union, Hirsch eventually became an acting student at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and HB Studio. The fledgling actor's first professional stage appearance was as Murray Burns in "A Thousand Clowns" (1964), which was performed upstate at The Woodstock Playhouse. He would reprise the role some 32 years late... Continue Bio >>
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1956 Chevrolet Truck - Classic CruisersWritten by on September 17, 2010
Back in 1997 Ron and Bessi Mentzer's '56 Chevy showed up as the subject in a Garage Scene story run in CLASSIC TRUCKS. At the time it was under construction and Ron had stressed that the project was a long-term, free time undertaking. Well, 13 years later he's stayed true to his word and sent us a few shots of his finally completed homebuilt Chevy.
Ron powered the pickup with a 350/350 combo backed by a 3.08:1 GM 10-bolt rear. The small-block has been outfitted with an Edelbrock intake and 600-cfm carb. Chassis-wise Ron installed a front clip donated by a '67 Chevelle and also adapted a pair of 42-inch ladder bars off an old sprint car and fabricated a homemade Watts linkage to hold the aforementioned 10-bolt rearend in place.
Ron also performed the Chevy's cockpit makeover-the original bench was replaced with a pair of bucket seats and was treated to multiple yards of Bow Tie upholstery and charcoal carpeting. The bed wood work is his design and handiwork as well.
It's always nice to see a project come together, and we're happy the Mentzers remembered their promise to show us the finished product.
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Actress Jacqueline Bisset had the censors pressing buttons at the Golden Globe Awards early on Sunday after uttering the ceremony's first expletive as she attempted to wrap up a rambling speech while ceremony bosses played music in an attempt to get her offstage.
The star was the night's second award winner when her role in "Dancing at the Edge" earned her a Best Supporting Actress prize, and after taking an eternity to get to the stage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, she appeared flustered as she began her acceptance speech.
As the music started, she shook herself and said, "I'm gonna get this together," before adding, "I want to thank the people who have given me joy, and there have been many, and the people who have given me (expletive). I say like my mother… 'Go to hell and don't come back!'
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Evaluating and applying emerging ecological niche modelling techniques to study the changing distribution of Mexican cloud forests.
Understanding the geographic distribution of species and how species distributions will change in response to various drivers of environmental change is one of the fundamental problems of biodiversity science. In recent years, ecological niche modelling has been used to forecast effects of global climate change on species' geographic distributions. These forecasting processes require diverse operations on heterogeneous datasets (primary biodiversity data, raster climate data, raster land use data, raster vegetation index data, and climate change scenarios) and application of a variety of computational steps (database management, quality control, ecological niche modeling, place-prioritization algorithms) on several platforms to obtain the final product.
This burgeoning field has developed largely without a theoretical framework or a rigorous baseline of known performance evaluation. This project will advance the conceptual basis of this field by developing a rigorous methodology to evaluate different approaches by designing and constructing virtual environments where all relevant variables can be controlled. Current algorithms will be tested and improved by extensive testing carried out in these virtual environments. If needed, new algorithms may be developed.
The project will also develop and implement scientific workflows to carry out these complex analyses in an accessible, user-friendly environment. A first application will be to predict effects of climate change on the biodiversity of Mexican cloud forests. This project will be the first to apply large databases of primary biodiversity data and cutting-edge analytical methods to this threatened and endangered ecosystem. More importantly, it will develop both theoretical and computational frameworks for broad application of this overall approach. The result will be an analytical environment that supports diverse forecasting applications for complex biodiversity phenomena.
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- Jorge Soberón (Biodiversity Research Center, The University of Kansas)
- A. Townsend Peterson (Biodiversity Research Center, The University of Kansas)
- Raúl Jiménez (Comisión Nacional para el Uso y Conocimiento de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), México)
- Isabel M D Rosa, Drew Purves, Carlos Souza Jr, and Robert M Ewers, Predictive Modelling of Contagious Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, in PLOS One, PLoS, October 2013.
- Lucas Joppa, Piero Visconti, C.N. Jenkins, and S.L. Pimm, Achieving the Convention on Biological Diversity's Goals for Plant Conservation, in Science, vol. 341, pp. 1100-1103, American Association for the Advancement of Science, September 2013.


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I have been offered a second hand one of these but I have no idea how to access the part to actually recharge it? How do I do this - there is no manual with it.
Hello Olwen, you will need to take off the shroud so you can access the battery and recharge it. If you do not have the recharge kit you will need this: http://www.scuba.com/scuba-gear-615/025082/Underwater-Kinetics-Rechargeable--Kit.html.
Sunlight C8 eLED Dive Light
The 6-watt white LED lamp contained in the sunlight C8 eLED dive light is the most indestructable source of illumination for diving available today. Unlike the standard glass envelope lamps used since Edison, the LED will not break when dropped. The life expectancy is well over 5000 hours. The light emitted by the LED (light emitting diode) is similar to sunlight and travels farther underwater than the more yellow light from an Edison lamp. In addition a power control circuit is built into the light which maintains the same brightness throughout the charge on a set of disposable alkaline, Nicad, or NiMH batteries. A tough O-ring sealed ABS and polycarbonate case protects the components all the way down to 500 feet. The small size of the C4 eLED makes it ideal for revealing the incredible marine life hidden under ledges.
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|County commissioners give updates on recent construction projects
|Written by Darci Tomky
With a short agenda at their regular meeting Monday, Aug. 31, Phillips County Commissioners gave updates on Event Center and Courthouse heating system construction projects.
Work on the Event Center is making progress with current ventures including flooring, ceilings and painting. The cabinets will be coming in soon with carpet to follow in a couple weeks. Appliances have been ordered, and the Heginbotham Trust will provide $5,000 to furnish kitchen appliances in the Extension meeting room.
Commissioners reported they are taking bids to replace the heating system in the Courthouse. Proposals are due Sept. 11. Commissioners noted the heating system replacement will be a long process. After it is ordered, it takes six to eight weeks to construct the furnace plus additional time to deliver and install the new system at the Courthouse. Commissioners hope the project can be completed by the first of December or possibly by Christmas.
Extension agent needed
Also in August, commissioners continued work with Golden Plains Area Extension Agency to get a full-time agent in Holyoke. Because the position was open before the Governor's hiring freeze was applied, an agent can still be hired for the Holyoke position. It is one of eight positions they can fill right now.
Commissioner Susan Roll Walter has helped interview for an agronomy agent, and a family consumer services position is also open. Even if someone is hired for an open position, they will not necessarily be located in Holyoke.
Area agents have been coming to Holyoke one day a week on a rotating basis to keep the Holyoke office open.
Hazard Mitigation Plan updated recently
Commissioners have contributed to the draft for the Northeast Colorado Hazard Mitigation Plan. Phillips County is one of 10 counties in the region working on the plan consisting of strategies to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and property from the effects of natural hazard events such as tornadoes and floods.
A public meeting was held Monday, Aug. 31 to discuss the draft. The public is also invited to review and comment on the draft by visiting the website at www.readynortheast.org. Comments must be received by Tuesday, Sept. 8.
Other business
In other business during the month of August, county commissioners:
—sold a county vehicle to a salvage dealer for $300.
—reapplied to a court security grant for continued funding of personnel. Because doors are now locked during court days, the funds are needed to maintain a fourth officer.
—looked at the budget for the regional and department meetings being held this week.
—reported from Eastern Transportation Planning Region meetings that stimulus money will be used for I-76 between Sedgwick and the state line. This could possibly free up money to be used on local roads.
—wrote letters about state rule making regarding conveyances and the use of residential elevators in commercial buildings.
—noted Centennial Mental Health moved out of the county's resource center at 127 E. Denver St. to the former Viaero building on Campbell Avenue. Baby Bear Hugs moved into the vacant resource center space which the county will give in kind. Northeast Health will use Baby Bear Hugs' former room for additional meeting space.


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I got one admin user set up, through the site https://zimbraserver:7071/zimbraAdmin/ ,
and then I added two users, i thought those two are admin users too, so I deleted the first user which I set up during the installation. Right after I delete the old admin user, i cant login to that panel anymore for administration purpose.
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What is the difference between "zimbraDomainType local" and "zimbraDomainType alias"?
We have 3 domains with actual accounts, but over a dozen domains with aliases to those accounts and distribution lists. Could we use zimbraDomainType to distinguish between our main domains and our alias domains, or does it mean something else altogether?


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Invisibility cloak
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- "If that's what I think it is — they're really rare, and really valuable."
- —Ron Weasley, commenting on Harry's Christmas present[src]
An invisibility cloak is a magical garment which renders whatever it covers unseeable. They may be made from hair of Demiguise, a magical creature that possesses the power to become invisible. This property is used to make the wearer of the cloak invisible. However, as Xenophilius Lovegood tells Harry, Ron, and Hermione, such a cloak will gradually lose its effectiveness as the hair becomes more and more opaque. The cloak can also be formed from an ordinary travelling cloak, enchanted with an exceptionally strong disillusionment charm or a bedazzling hex. The cloak is also mentioned by being one of the entities in the Deathly Hallows. In the story the third brother asked for a way to hide from Death so Death himself gave the brother the cloak of invisibility.
There are ways of making one's self invisible by using magic other than invisibility cloaks. An example is the Disillusionment Charm. Dumbledore once remarked to Harry that he didn't need a cloak to become invisible.
People who have used invisibility cloaks
- Ignotus Peverell used the Cloak of Invisibility to hide from Death.
- Ignotus Peverell's son was given the Cloak of Invisibility by Ignotus Peverell.
- James Potter owned an invisibility cloak (actually one of the fabled Deathly Hallows) that he and his friends often used during their days at Hogwarts to assist them in their mischief. Albus Dumbledore had James's cloak at the time of the latter's death, having wished to inspect it further. He kept the cloak in his possession until Harry began school at Hogwarts in 1991.
- Harry Potter used his father's cloak many times throughout his years at Hogwarts. He received it from Albus Dumbledore anonymously in 1991 as a Christmas present.
- Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Severus Snape and Luna Lovegood also used Harry Potter's invisibility cloak.
- Barty Crouch, Jr., having escaped from Azkaban prison, was kept hidden by his father under an invisibility cloak at their home. He also watched the Quidditch World Cup in 1994 while under an invisibility cloak.
- Mundungus Fletcher was loaned an invisibility cloak by Mad-Eye Moody for Order of the Phoenix business. It is likely that Mundungus used the cloak for other, less reputable purposes.
- Mad-Eye Moody lent Sturgis Podmore his best invisibility cloak in 1995 to assist in guarding the Prophecy in the Department of Mysteries. He mentioned that Podmore had not had the manners to return it in a timely fashion and forced Moody to use his second best cloak. This was because Podmore had been placed under the Imperius Curse by Death Eaters.
- Mr. Weasley was wearing an invisibility cloak while on guard duty at the Ministry of Magic; he fell asleep at his post and it fell off before he was attacked by Voldemort's snake.
The invisibility cloak of legend
The Tale of the Three Brothers, a wizarding legend, speaks of a Cloak of Invisibility which (shortly after Christmas 1997) Xenophilius characterises as one which "endures eternally, giving constant and impenetrable concealment, no matter what spells are cast at it." This cloak of legend is actually the one that James Potter had owned, and was later given to Harry Potter, because the Potters are in fact descendants of the youngest Peverell Brother, Ignotus Peverell.
Ron Weasley was the first to speculate that Harry's cloak is indeed among the famed Deathly Hallows, since it was at least two generations old (James Potter and then Harry), and most invisibility cloaks wear out after that time, or at least lose some effectiveness, yet Harry's was as good as new, which raised suspicion. Invisibility cloaks often become opaque with age, rip, have the charms placed upon them wear off, or have them countered with charms of revealment.
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I try to keep up on several blogs, one of which is Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror. Recently, he chose the topic of W3 Validation and its necessity, or lack thereof. I also seem to have made a few statements on a similar topic, so perhaps my view is nothing short of expected. What is strange, however, is Jeff's point of view, considering he and I are kindred spirits in the world of .NET and C#. Read more
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Cult indie rockers the Pixies are set to release their first studio album in 23 years.
The "Velouria" hitmakers shared the news with fans on Monday, revealing the music from their new four-song EP, titled "EP3," will be combined with the eight tunes previously included on September's "EP1" and its follow-up, "EP2," to form the track listing for "Indie Cindy."
The project will mark the group's first new full-length album since 1991's "Trompe Le Monde."
"Indie Cindy" will be released in late April via the band's Pixiesmusic label.
The Pixies hit the headlines in November when frontman Black Francis, aka Frank Black, and his bandmates fired bassist Kim Shattuck, who had replaced longtime member Kim Deal last summer.
The group hired Paz Lenchantin to perform with them on tour this year, but a permanent replacement for Shattuck has yet to be announced.