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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Commission members and representatives, for inviting me to address you today and for convening a briefing on the important topic of Serbia and Montenegro's progress toward satisfaction of the human rights conditions required for continued U.S. aid.
Section 578 of the U.S. government's foreign operations appropriations act has been one of the most effective pieces of human rights legislation enacted by this Congress in recent years. It has been effective because it specifically identifies required reform, sets a deadline, and backs it up with clear consequences for inaction. But perhaps most important has been Congress' active engagement in monitoring implementation of the law. Congress has patiently insisted on concrete action to match Serbia's reformers' words, and accordingly deserves credit for the difficult but essential steps Serbia has taken toward accountability for the past and human rights guarantees for the future.
Experience has taught us that these last days before the certification decision—this year scheduled for June 15—are critical for the reform process. In these weeks, the spotlight shone from Washington concentrates minds in Belgrade and invariably yields a reform blitz. Although each year has produced welcome steps, much remains to be done. Rather than rest on our laurels and relax this effective conditionality, now is the time to redouble our efforts and see the job through.
My testimony this morning identifies a set of immediate positive steps that Human Rights Watch believes the U.S. government should expect prior to any positive certification decision. They touch on three issues identified in section 578—cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, rule of law, and respect for minority rights.
Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
The past year has seen continued stutter-step progress toward cooperation with the ICTY and accountability for war-time atrocities. Still missing is the clear political leadership to ensure that all those responsible for war crimes are held accountable.
Cooperation through arrests of indictees and access to documents
Much has been made of Serbia amending its law on cooperation with the Tribunal to permit cooperation on indictments issued after enactment of the law. Never required for cooperation in the first place, this law has always been a straw man. Little credit should be given to the government for fixing this flawed law—a problem they themselves created in the first place.
Since the U.S. government certified a year ago, four indictees have been transferred to the Hague. Still, in the territory of Serbia and Montenegro, as many as a dozen indictees remain at large, reportedly including one of the most culpable alleged war criminals, former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic. A few weeks from now we will mark the eighth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, where as many as 7,000 Bosniac men were slaughtered. Eight years, and the mastermind of that atrocity continues to flaunt international efforts to hold him accountable.
At the same time, access to documents sought by the ICTY from the authorities of Serbia and Montenegro remains incomplete. To the extent that the government of Serbia and Montenegro has security concerns regarding the disclosure of some of its documents, these can be addressed through proceedings contemplated under rule 54 bis of the tribunal rules of procedure and evidence.
The stakes are high, and patience should be running out. The continued lack of full cooperation risks undermining important trials currently under way in the Hague, not to mention wasting tribunal resources by necessitating separate trials of co-defendants.
Cooperation on Domestic War Crime Trials to Complement the ICTY
Concerns about arrests and access to documents should remain paramount in your assessment of Serbia and Montenegro's cooperation with the ICTY. At the same time, the US government and the ICTY itself are increasingly interested in promoting domestic war-crime trials in Serbia and Montenegro, to complement or supplant proceedings against mid-tier indictees at the ICTY. In this context, the U.S. government's assessment of Serbia's
cooperation with the ICTY and its commitment to the rule of law should encompass its efforts to seek justice for war crimes in its domestic courts.
The prosecution of war crimes cases faces significant impediments in the form of a generalized lack of political will and the specific failure of the police to provide evidence to the prosecutor's office. A striking illustration of the lack of commitment to domestic accountability processes is the case of mass graves in Serbia, exhumed in 2001 to reveal up to six hundred bodies of Kosovo Albanians, and yet, no formal investigation has been initiated.
The alleged involvement of suspected war criminals in the March 12 assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has to some extent changed the previously indifferent attitude within the Serbian society and political leadership toward accountability for war crimes. It is still unclear, however, whether war-crimes trials will continue to take place sporadically, or the government has decided to take serious steps to bring the perpetrators of war crimes to justice.
U.S. government officials have told Human Rights Watch that the state prosecutor is preparing new high-profile war-crime cases. But at a recent meeting in Belgrade with a Human Rights Watch delegation, Serbian Deputy Justice Minister Dusan Protic said that he thought it unlikely that there would be any new war crime trials this year. Representatives of the ICTY and OSCE, as well as the head of the leading Serbian human rights group Humanitarian Law Center, have also expressed pessimism about additional trials in the near future—particularly if pressure for cooperation with the ICTY abates. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) has closely monitored the developments regarding the mass graves discovered in Batajnica, a Belgrade suburb, containing some 500 bodies of Kosovo Albanians killed in 1999, and the UNHCHR has concluded that the police have been obstructing any meaningful investigation into the underlying crime.
The unwillingness on the part of the police and the army to cooperate in war crimes proceedings is only one among many serious obstacles to successful war crimes prosecutions in Serbia. The domestic war crime trials held so far have suffered from an absence of adequate witness protection measures, poor preparation of the prosecution's cases, and a lack of mechanisms facilitating testimonies of key witnesses from other parts of the former Yugoslavia (Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina). The Serbian government has not made serious efforts to address these obstacles. The draft law on war crime trials, currently prepared by the Serbian government, contains only a few rudimentary witness protection mechanisms.
In light of the foregoing, in the context of its certification decision under section 578 of the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, factors that the U.S. government should consider in connection with any decision on certification, include:
Arrest of former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic and commitments to apprehend all indictees remaining in the territory of Serbia and Montenegro within one year.
Confirmation from the Prosecutor of the ICTY that, other than issues subject to judicial proceedings pursuant to Rule 54 bis of the tribunal rules of procedure and evidence, she is receiving full cooperation with ICTY document requests.
Adoption of the draft law on war crime trials and a commitment to urgently adopt a comprehensive and effective witness protection law.
Issuance of indictments or other concrete and verifiable evidence of progress on domestic investigations into prominent alleged war crimes, including Batajnica (mass graves in Belgrade's suburbs, containing some 500 bodies of Kosovo Albanians killed in 1999), the Bitiqi Brothers (U.S. citizens of Albanian origin, allegedly killed by the Serbian police in 1999), and Ovcara (killing of 200 Croats near Vukovar in 1991).
Rule of Law
The extent to which the authorities of Serbia and Montenegro are committed to hold war criminals accountable in their domestic courts is relevant not only to an assessment of their cooperation with the ICTY, but also to their commitment to the rule of law.
An equally important test of the rule of law in Belgrade is the manner in which the government has responded to assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in March of this year.
Certainly the circumstances immediately following Djindjic's assassination warranted declaration of a state of emergency and a relaxation of certain human rights requirements. Indeed, human rights law contemplates and allows such measures in times of public emergency. But importantly, that law specifies that derogation from international standards must be strictly limited to such measures as are necessary and that certain obligations—such as the prohibition against torture—may not be disregarded regardless of the public emergency.
Against this backdrop, Human Rights Watch has serious concerns about the manner in which the government has conducted itself during the state of emergency. Some of those detained in the post-assassination investigation are criminal elements that have had nothing but a corrosive effect on the rule of law in post-Milosevic Serbia. But it does little for the rule of law to combat those elements in an indiscriminate or abusive manner.
During the post-assassination investigation, also known as Operation Sabre, approximately 10,000 people were detained and held incommunicado, without access to lawyers or family members, in some cases for up to two months. As of early May, 1000 remained in custody.
Access to detention facilities for international organizations was initially limited but has improved in recent weeks, most notably with visits by the UNHCHR and the OSCE. Human Rights Watch and Serbian human rights organizations have sought and been denied an opportunity to visit the detainees to monitor their treatment.
Consistent reports from those released suggest widespread abuse of detainees, in some cases amounting to torture. Such abuse was facilitated by the state of emergency, which authorized incommunicado detention for up to 30 days. In April, the Serbian parliament adopted a new law on organized crime to permit such detention for up to 60 days, in clear violation of the standards of the Council of Europe, which Serbia joined in April.
In the context of the U.S. government's assessment of progress toward the rule of law in Serbia and Montenegro, attention should be paid to efforts to address these concerns, in particular:
Amendment of the law on organized crime to prohibit in communicado detention and otherwise bring the law in compliance with Council of Europe standards.
Ratification of the European Convention and Human Rights; and signature and ratification of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture.
Minority rights
A final area of concern identified in Section 578 is minority rights. In this area, the main issues relate to the treatment of ethnic Albanians in southern Serbia and Serbia's Roma population. On February 13, 2002, the federal parliament adopted a Law on the Rights and Freedoms of National Minorities. The law was prepared with the assistance of the Council of Europe and the OSCE, and it provides for broad protection of minority rights. Nonetheless, as detailed below, discrimination and tensions persist and could be fruitfully addressed in the context of the U.S. government's bilateral dialogue with the Belgrade authorities on the section 578 conditionality.
Ethnic Albanians in Southern Serbia
"Southern Serbia" is an area bordering on Kosovo. Ethnic Albanians constitute 90 percent of the population in the municipality of Presevo, 60 percent in the municipality of Bujanovac, and 30 percent in the municipality of Medvedja.
During 2000 and the first half of 2001, a small-scale armed conflict between the Serbian police and local Albanians, assisted by some Albanians from Kosovo, erupted in a three-mile wide strip between Kosovo and the rest of the area. Hostilities ended in March 2001, when the Albanian rebels agreed to disarm and the government declared an amnesty. By May 2001, the Yugoslav army reoccupied the area, as agreed with the international forces in Kosovo (KFOR). The peaceful solution has been a major positive achievement of the post-Milosevic government in Serbia.
On July 28, 2002, the first-ever free elections in the three municipalities took place, resulting in victories for ethnic Albanian parties in Presevo and Bujanovac. The elections were free and fair, as acknowledged by the observers from the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
The peace has not been utterly unbroken, however, and certain tensions remain. At the end of 2002 and during January and February 2003, on several occasions unknown perpetrators threw explosive devices at, or planted bombs under, objects belonging to moderate Albanians, including those who participated in the multiethnic police established in 2001-02. At the beginning of February [2003], unknown gunmen in Bujanovac killed an Albanian employee in the Serbian State Security Service. On February 8, 2003, the Serbian police arrested twelve Albanians and kept seven of them in detention, on charges of illegal possession of arms and conspiracy to carry out hostile activities against the state. Over the course of the next five days, Albanians in Bujanovac and Presevo staged peaceful protests in response. In some villages they also set up roadblocks on the route connecting the area with Kosovo.
The EU monitors based in the area immediately visited the locations in which the arrests took place, and found that the police conducted the weapons search and the arrests in a professional manner, without unnecessary destruction of objects or an excessive use of force. The government, however, enraged local Albanians by referring to those arrested as "terrorists," before any court has established that they violated the law. Of the seven detained, three have been released; two have been sentenced to serve minor prison terms on illegal arms possession charges; and two remain in detention and under investigation.
Prior to and after the February crisis, the persistent problem in the area has been discrimination in employment in the public enterprises, an inheritance from the Milosevic era. In Bujanovac, there are ten such enterprises, and the presence of ethnic Albanians among the employees is glaringly low. By way of illustration: of the 153 workers in the company "Komunalac," only four were Albanians as of November 2002; in "Gumplastik," there were only three Albanians among the 150 employees; in "Mega," ten Albanians worked along with 140 Serbs; and, in "Duvanska" tobacco company, there were 155 Serbs and fifteen Albanians.
Little progress has been made in the reform of school curriculum, which ignores Albanian culture and history. The government has also done little to build or repair the infrastructure in the Albanian villages in the area.
The heavy presence of "gendarmerie" (special Serb police units) has been the constant source of a discontent among the local Albanians. The government claims, arguably with some merit, that their presence is indispensable due to the consistent security threat represented by the so-called Albanian National Army (ANA), whose members are allegedly present on the Kosovo side of the border and occasionally penetrate into Serbia proper. The authorities have blamed the "Albanian extremists" for the explosions and the assassination of the Albanian policeman in February.
While Southern Serbia remains a relative success story on minority rights, the tensions that emerged in February 2003 highlight the importance of progress on the Albanian minority's longstanding grievances with respect to employment and educational opportunities. In this connection, the CSCE may wish to promote the engagement of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities in this region.
Roma rights
Police brutality against Roma is a persistent problem, and discrimination against Roma in various fields of public life remains widespread. Prosecutors continue to dismiss complaints of discrimination or simply fail to take any action to address them, and legal provisions against discrimination remain inadequate.
Thousands of Roma families, many of them displaced from Kosovo, continue to live in makeshift settlements in the vicinity of towns, without electricity, running water, or sewers, or access to public health and education services. Authorities have attempted on several occasions to evict the families from one such settlement in Belgrade, without providing them with adequate alternative accommodation. In September and October, 2002, the affected Roma staged large protests in Belgrade, and the authorities postponed the eviction until such time as alternative accommodation could be found, but by mid-November the companies owning the land plots evicted all displaced Kosovo Roma from the settlement, using threats and employing excavators to destroy the Roma shacks.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Commission, for this opportunity to share with you these observations. I sincerely hope they contribute to your consideration of conditions Serbia and Montenegro's in light of the requirements of Section 578.


text: By Jan RahnManaging Editor There were 206 from the region who attended the annual health fair at Perkins County Health Services held during the morning on both Friday and Saturday of last week, April 19-20. Health services personnel offered blood testing, information booths, blood pressure checks, pulse monitoring, tetanus shots, height/weight and body fat percentage, bone density screening. Many brochures containing much educational material were available along the hallways in the specialty clinic area which led toward the conference room where breakfast was served. Many items were available to take home, such as pens, lip balm, candy and mints, back scratchers, dental floss, to name a few. There were intermittent drawings for Chamber Greenbacks and a one-year membership to Image Total Fitness, which was won by Katy Miyamoto. Employees and representatives from entities such as the regional health department and the Red Cross were on hand to visit with people about the importance of preventative testing, cancer causing agents, etc. People were offered a breakfast of biscuits and gravy, fruit, yogurt, juice and coffee at the end of their trip through the 2013 Health Fair.

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Sioux City Police Set Up Drug Drop Off
(Sioux City) -- The Sioux City Police Department is partnering with the Drug Enforcement Administration for the fall National Prescription Drug take-back program. The program takes place today between 10:00 and 2:00. This is an opportunity for millions of Americans to turn in their unused, unneeded or expired prescription medications. Expired medications are a public safety issue, often leading to accidential poisoning, overdose and abuse. The four Sioux City locations include the downtown Walgreens, Southern Hills Hy-Vee, Westside Fareway, and the Floyd Blvd. Wal-Mart store. According to the 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the non-medical use of prescription drugs ranks second only to marijuana as the most prevalent category of drug abuse in the United States. Studies also showed that the majority of teenagers using prescription drugs got them from family and friends. Recent Environmental Protection Agency studies have detected pharmaceutical drugs in varying concentrations in our nation's ground water supplies, so safe disposal is preferable to flushing medications down the toilet.
(LeMars) -- LeMars Fire Chief, Dave Schipper wants to remind Plymouth County residents that the county still remains in a burning ban. Strong Winds and continued dry conditions have prompted authorities to continue the burn ban. Anyone that disobeys the county-wide burn ban could be subject to fines and even possible jail time. Sioux City and other neighboring fire departments had to fight a large grass fire that had burned nearly 30 acres of land near Stone Park on Thursday evening.
(LeMars) -- Today is the start of pheasant hunting season for Iowa. Bob Peutz serves as the president of the Plymouth County chapter of Pheasants Forever. He believes the pheasant population may be down this year, but he says he was surprised last weekend.
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Peutz says hunters will benefit from the early harvest.
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Peutz says since there are fewer birds, that may lead to fewer hunters on opening weekend. He says the lower pheasant populations are due to the harsh winters and wet springs, along with the loss of habitat. Peutz says because of higher land prices and commodity prices, farmers are tempted to remove their land from the Conservation Reserve Program, and place those acres back into production. Peutz says the local Pheasants Forever chapter have teamed up with surrounding counties to hire a biologist to help reverse the declining pheasant population.
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Peutz believes farmers will be asked to place grass filter strips along creeks and streams, and he thinks that may bring back the pheasant populations.
AMES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa transportation officials say a flood-damaged stretch of Interstate 680 north of Council Bluffs that links Iowa and Nebraska will reopen much sooner than expected.
Officials say all four lanes on a 3-mile stretch of I-680 from I-29 to the Missouri River will reopen on Wednesday. Officials had targeted the end of the year, but crews have been working almost 24-hours a day on the $19 million project since Sept. 28 to get the highway ready for traffic.
The highway had some of the worst damage from a summer of flooding on the Missouri River.
Gov. Terry Branstad will be joined by Victor Mendez of the Federal Highway Administration and officials from Iowa and Nebraska during Wednesday's ceremony.
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Clearwater Settles Into New, Larger Space
The Clearwater Public Library moved to new premises at 740 Clearwater Center in June, and celebrated with a Grand Re-Opening on Saturday, July 21. The new premises are very close to the old library building in the same commercial center. It has easy access and plenty of parking. The move has provided additional space that can be used for meetings, programming and more shelving. On hand for the ribbon cutting were Library Aide Michele Butterfield-Juip, Regional Supervisor Jami Trenam, Library Advisory Board Chair Kelly Ashton, GRRL board member and Wright County Commissioner Pat Sawatzke, library supporter Don Hemming, Clearwater Mayor Lee Monk, Director Kirsty Smith, GRRL board member Louise Kuester, Clearwater Branch Manager Cyrene Bastien, Branch Assistant Wanda Phelps, Clearwater City Council member Gary Phelps.


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Tiger Finishes Fourth, as Adam Scott Becomes First Aussie to Win Masters Title
Tiger Woods put on his typical sharp performance, scoring a 70 in the final round of the Masters on April 14 in Augusta, Ga. But it wasn't enough to overtake the top three leaders of the tournament, as he finished the 2013 Masters tied for fourth place with a total score of 283.
Tiger's fall from contention ultimately came down to the two-shot penalty that he was given after making a violation on the 15th hole during the second round on April 12. It pushed him back to 19th place entering the third round on April 12. He finished the third round tied for seventh place, but with the two extra points added to his total score, he wasn't able to finish any further than fourth place on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the winner's circle all came down to a sudden death match between Aussie pro Adam Scott and Argentinean pro Angel Cabrera after both ended regular play on the 18th hole with a tie score of 279. It marked the 16th playoff hole in tournament history.
Cabrera hit a beautiful putt in the sudden death match that came close to being a winning birdie, but stopped just inches short of rolling into the hole. Instead, he had to watch as Scott nailed his winning birdie putt just seconds later for his first Masters' championship and green jacket.
"Of course, I'm happy for Adam," Cabrera said to TV reporters. "He's a great person, a great player and he deserved it."
Scott, who uses a longer putter than golfers are traditionally seen using, is now the first Australian pro to ever win a green jacket. Scott's caddie, Steve Williams, was Tiger's caddie for 14 of his major wins.
"Australia is a proud sporting nation and this win today is just another notch on the belt," Scott told CBS. "It's an unbelievable feeling and I'm just glad to make us proud."
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Mirror's Edge Catalyst isn't very far off at all now. It's great that the series is being given a second chance, after the first failed to set the world on fire. It's a neat franchise with such a recognisable look. To see what DICE have done with the franchise, take a look at this new… Read more »
Courtesy of Frank Cho, a partial peek of his variant cover for Wonder Woman #4. He writes, I'm so happy to incorporate few of my favorite art periods into this Wonder Woman cover- Baroque period, Neoclassical period and the 19th century Royal Academy period. I had a blast drawing this. I think this cover will… Read more »
When I received my last Funko box, Marvel Collector Corps: Captain America Civil War, I was incredibly impressed by the set of POP! Vinyl's included. However, out of all the Funko subscription boxes, Smuggler's Bounty is by far my favorite. Yes, that's completely because of my love of Star Wars. Because the POP! Vinyl game had been stepped up so… Read more »
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First Lutheran's first 125 years
Spend some time in downtown San Diego — 125 years, say — and you'll experience a few surprises. That's what happened to First Lutheran Church one Friday in 1975.
Outside the sanctuary that morning, congregation members started something called "Bread Day," offering passers-by fresh baked goods and coffee. "The idea," explained the current pastor, the Rev. Wilbert "Wilk" Miller, "was to serve people on their way to work. But no one stopped."
While the 9-to-5ers hustled past, though, another population eventually wandered over — and the rest is First Lutheran history. The same population still visits First Lutheran on Fridays for breakfast. In fact, that meal was so popular, the church added a simple but equally well-attended Monday dinner.
"There are now about 200, 250 people we serve meals to on Mondays and Fridays," Miller said. "And they all tend to be the homeless, the working poor and senior citizens."
That wasn't the original intent, but since 1888 First Lutheran has adapted to the physical and spiritual needs of its community. Miller noted that the church's slogan, "The Heart of Christ in the Heart of the City," has led the congregation into some challenging areas. But he insists that this downtown institution must engage with downtown's problems as well as its promise.
"You have all the beauty of the city and all the struggles of the city," he said. "That is what it means to do ministry in the city."
This Sunday, First Lutheran will celebrate its first century-and-a-quarter. In honor of the occasion, Bishop Mark Hanson — the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the nation's largest Lutheran denomination — will fly out from his Chicago headquarters to preach at both the 9 and 11:15 a.m. services. Between those engagements, Hanson will join congregants and other guests at a celebratory brunch. This is the presiding bishop's first visit to First Lutheran and Pastor Miller is thrilled.
"For us," he said, "this is really a big deal."
But if Hanson is a special guest, so are all the folks in the pews. "Every person who enters these doors," Miller said, "is our most honored member."
Less than polished
In March 1888, the Board of Home Missions asked the Rev. C.W. Heisler to journey down from Los Angeles to organize a church. He did, but Heisler's job was strictly to organize, not lead, this flock. By October, First Lutheran had hired as its first pastor the Rev. Edwin Reuben Wagner, a descendant of Martin Luther.
The San Diego Union soon took note of the congregation's industrious nature. "Few missions accomplish more in a year than the one in San Diego," the paper editorialized in 1889, "and none have a brighter future."
The church bought a downtown parcel for $5,000 in 1892, then spent another $10,000 to erect a sanctuary. Civic engagement has always been part of First Lutheran's tradition, whether the pastor in 1918 blasting "the tomfoolery which passes for a city council in this city" or the church in 1960 building Luther Tower, high rise housing for seniors.
So when "Bread Day" brought the homeless to this sanctuary's doorstep, many in the congregation saw this as an extension of their mission. Even if this extension was less than polished. Over the years, First Lutheran has had call the police to stop drug dealing and using, as well as drunken arguments. Urination and defecation around an electrical transformer outside the church led to tense exchanges with Shapery Enterprises, since 2008 the owner of several neighboring apartments.


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- ROS homepage.
- Tutorials for using ROS in Python.
- List of ROS tutorials.
- ROS specific environment variables.
- Often incorrect environment variables is the cause of ROS trouble.
- As of December 2009, gt-ros-pkg documentation also shows up on ros.org here
- Some links to help documenting your packages:
ROS misbehaving after a fresh install/upgrade
A very high chance is because of strangeness in your .bashrc, .bashrc.ros and .bashrc.hrl
- .bashrc.ros : generated by Willow's install script.
- .bashrc.hrl : hrl specific bash aliases and paths.
- these two must be sourced in the correct order in your .bashrc
- The set_bashrc_paths script will work for a fresh install and probably not for anything else.
- open ~/.bashrc in a text editor by typing: gedit ~/.bashrc
- Please manually ensure that the last four lines of ~/.bashrc are (Advait. October 24, 2009):
unset PYTHONPATH export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/games source ~/.bashrc.ros source /home/advait/.bashrc.hrl
Copying ROS from a different user
Although not recommended, if you want to be paranoid about having the same ROS version, you might try to copy someone else's ROS repository. Some things that might help (Advait hasn't verified all these):
- Use scp instead of cp
- before running make in $ROS_ROOT, clean CMakeCache.txt: rm -f `find . -name CMakeCache.txt`
- make ros.
- Initially, use rosmake with the --pre-clean option:
- rosmake --pre-clean hrl_lib
- Alternately, if you get errors about CMakeCache.txt pointing to someone else's directory, run rosmake with the --pre-clean option.
rosmake Compilation errors
- If you try to rosmake [package name] and you get compilation errors, you probably have to run rosdep install [package name] first in order to install the package's dependencies. Then go ahead and try rosmake [package name] again.
ROS Packaging Tutorial
See Willow Garage's page about ROS for more comprehensive information.
- Go to your GT-ROS repository and copy the sample package folder. Below, replace "my_package" with your package name:
cd ~/svn/gt-ros-pkg/hrl cp -r sample_pkg/ my_package
- In the src/ directory of the folder you just created, create a new folder with the SAME name as your package:
cd my_package/src mkdir my_package
Note: The directory listing should look like: ~/svn/gt-ros-pkg/hrl/my_package/src/my_package. The reason for this format is so that if your package happens to contain files of the same name as someone else's, python won't get confused as to which one you want to use. Thus, we want to stick all the source files into the last folder we just created.
- Now, copy all the source files that you want in the package into ~/svn/gt-ros-pkg/hrl/my_package/src/my_package. (use the "cp" command)
- If you do not have a file called "__init__.py", perform this:
touch __init__.py
Note: This creates an empty, dummy file with that name. Python will not run unless it sees this file.
- In EACH of your python files, you MUST copy and paste our software license at the top. It is just a bunch of text with "#" characters to comment it out. Copy this text from any of the files other lab members have committed. Or, you can also find this in: ~/svn/gt-ros-pkg/hrl/LICENSE.txt
At the end of the license, add a commented line that reads:
# \author myfirstname mylastname (Healthcare Robotics Lab, Georgia Tech.)
Add additional authors as needed.
- If any of your python files are executable, add #!/usr/bin/python to the top line of your file. Then do this:
cd ~/svn/gt-ros-pkg/hrl/my_package/ mkdir bin cd bin ln -s src/my_package/my_executable.py my_executable.py //this simply creates a shortcut to your executable in bin/
- Now you are ready to create your ROS node(s).
- First, figure out what the inputs and outputs of your package will be. Then, select (or create new) a file.msg that contains declarations of the data types that best characterize your data to be passed. These files containing the declarations are part of the ICP or messages in ROS.
[insert more instructions here]
cd ~/svn/gt-ros-pkg/hrl/my_package/src/my_package vim xxx_node.py add !/usr/bin/python to the top line of your file and also make sure to add the license header! (see above)
- Add your package name to the Python path setup script:
vim /svn/robot1/scripts/helper_scripts/set_gt-ros-pkg_paths.sh (or the editor of your choosing :p)
Go to the variable called "PACKAGE_LIST" and add the name of your package, taking care to leave a space in between the names.
- Run the script and update:
./set_gt-ros-pkg_paths.sh ~/.bashrc
- Add a description of your package name to our Google code Wiki. Note that the package names are in alphabetical order.
Special Cases
If your package depends on something located in ~/svn/robot1/src/libraries, then you will need to move that function to ~/svn/gt-ros-pkg/hrl/hrl_lib. But DON'T do it yet! Ask Hai or Advait first!
- rospack_add_executable does not like .c files. If things don't link, try renaming .c files to .cpp
- remember to add genmsg and/or gensrv to compile the messages.
- if you copy CMakelists.txt from another package - it has a line rospack(<package name>). Be sure to change this to the current package's name or else the dependencies will not get loaded and things won't compile.
- rosdep satify rviz > a.sh
- bash a.sh
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It feels like January is slipping away quickly, although I still think that Spring can not come soon enough. I've had it with gray skies and cold weather, my soul needs some sunshine and warmth! There is one up side to the cold skies of January, it's time to start planning for Valentine's day!
We {love} Valentine's day in our house. I've already started thinking of new crafts to make this year to celebrate. I got a great idea for a special Valentine's day themed craft, then went searching for the supplies this week and could not find a very essential item! So I guess it will wait another week, I hate it when I get a "bee in my bonnet" and then can't complete the project.
We are not done with "resourceful" here in January — still to come are some sewing and clothing ideas, but I've decided that my February focus is "LOVE"… original I know. *wink*
Since craftiness, especially around holidays requires some lead time, I thought I'd do a little preemptive Valentines day post….
Here's a link to some of the crafty Valentine's Ideas featured here in the past…
I hope you enjoy your week of crafting or whatever it is you get to do! We are off to Salt Lake City this week for a short trip, so if you see someone at a fabric store that you think looks like me, say "hi"!!!


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Dead Rabbit is not just another Irish pub. The name may sound twee, but it's a reference to the historical hooligans famously depicted in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York. Irish barmen Sean Muldoon (formerly of Belfast's internationally acclaimed Merchant Hotel) and Jack McGarry (of Milk & Honey in London) are hospitable, not pugilistic, hosts and make excellent, historically based drinks. They'll even make you rethink Irish coffee. It's not going too far out on a limb to declare that Dead Rabbit is one of the best haunts in the City right now, full stop. Inside the beautiful, 19th-century townhouse is a taproom serving honest Irish-British-Continental fare like freshly shucked oysters, potted shrimp with toast, lollipop lamb chops, shepherd's pie and fish-and-chips. Upstairs is a plush parlor. During happy hour, or "L'Heure Verte," as they call it, oysters are $1 and Pernod Absinthe cocktails are discounted. Monday nights feature a seisiún (session) of traditional Irish music. If only Frank McCourt were alive to see it.


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Tech at Night: The Obama FCC meets, and is pretty terrible.
So the European Union has invented a "right to be forgotten", that is forcing Google to censor its results. Given the history of Nazi war criminals trying desperately to be forgotten, this is an odd thing for the EU to be doing.
While they are opt-out, a rare thing when it comes to government, UK government censorship of the Internet exists, and nobody's doing a thing about it at this point.
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I am trying to get a basic Zimbra 8 Open Source Multiserver install to work. Setup work 3 servers with 2CPU, 3GB RAM & 15GB HDD. Loaded RHEL 6.2 64 bit OS. DNS is setup and working OK (tested). Total 3 servers installed:
LDAP Master server
Mailstore server
MTA server.
Install goes thro fine. After install rebooted all the servers and checked for zimbra services. All are running fine. However when I login to admin console it says the the services on LDAP and MTA servers are all down. Only Mailstore server services are shown as running Ok. Any help would be highly appreciated.
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What to make of the recent departure of Lars Dalgaard from SAP to venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz?
Will the boisterous, bold and sometimes-bellicose founder of SuccessFactors give a shot in the arm to HR technology startups? Will his departure from SAP after about 18 months at the firm undermine the software giant's cloud computing strategy? Will Lars and his big personality leave the realm of people management software altogether?
It's hard to answer any of these questions quite yet. In the first place, Dalgaard isn't altogether abandoning SAP—the company to which he sold SuccessFactors for roughly $3.4 billion. He remains an adviser to SAP's cloud computing business one day a week.
Before acquiring Dalgaard and his talent management software firm, SAP took only halting steps into the cloud, also known as Software as a Service. Dalgaard clearly understood the market for delivering software over the Web. With Dalgaard leading SAP cloud computing efforts over the past year or so, the company's cloud software revenue has jumped dramatically. On the other hand, SAP's cloud strategy continues to be dogged by criticism.
So it's unclear what Dalgaard's career shift means for SAP. "SAP's movement into the cloud has been a rocky path. The departure of Dalgaard could be something bad, in that they lose even more momentum," writes David Linthicum, senior vice president of consulting firm Cloud Technology Partners. "Or, perhaps it's time that fresh eyes take a look at SAP's cloud computing strategy."
How about what Dalgaard, who is in his mid-40s, will do at Andreessen Horowitz? Will Dalgaard look to fund more startups like SuccessFactors, which helped make cloud-based talent management applications such as performance management priorities for organizations? That scenario seems unlikely. After all, Dalgaard never really identified as an HR or talent management guy. He dubbed SuccessFactors' products as "business execution" software.
Maybe, as my colleague Frank Kalman notes, Dalgaard is looking to his new investor role as a way to explore a wider variety of businesses. In fact, Silicon Valley-based Andreessen Horowitz (also known as "a16z") hasn't stood out for people management apps. Among its more famous investments are stakes in consumer technology companies such as Pinterest, Facebook and Lyft—the ride-sharing system where participating cars wear giant pink moustaches. Lars recently tweeted about how nifty it was to be in a Lyft ride in San Francisco:
"In my @lyft ride driving behind a @Zipcar on way to Sting concert - on Franklin 2 more Lyft cars this is hella cool."
Ben Horowitz of a16z told All Things D that Dalgaard will "have the freedom to look at a lot of categories." This includes the consumer products arena, given Dalgaard's background at consumer products conglomerate Unilever.
In explaining the decision to bring Dalgaard into a16z, Horowitz also portrayed the SuccessFactors founder as something close to a hero:
"Building a company isn't about business models and inflection points; it's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about working for each other. It's about being part of a team trying to make possible the impossible. It's about doing it in a way that no matter what the outcome, everyone was glad they were there."
That's going a bit far with Lars, it seems to me. I once interviewed a laid-off SuccessFactors employee who felt the company had been disrespectful to employees. The record indicates Dalgaard at times acted callously towards SuccessFactors workers, at one point framing what was effectively a lay off as performance-related firings.
But I do give Dalgaard credit for acknowledging less-than-ideal leadership surrounding job cuts. And for being a mover and shaker. For spicing up the HR software field with his larger-than-life personality.
Lars, if you're done with the people-management realm, thanks for the memories. If not, I look forward to your next act.
Ed Frauenheim is associate editorial director of Human Capital Media, the parent organization of Workforce. Comment below or email him at email@example.com.


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Library News Archive: November 2012
St. Cloud Art Exhibit Honors Russian Poet
St. Cloud Public Library is currently hosting an art exhibit titled "Open Doors" featuring artwork by local artist Sarah Drake. Her paintings are hanging on the second floor in an area that overlooks the main entrance. Read more »
Make Star Wire Sculptures at Pierz Library
Artist Shayann Hoffer will present a Star Wire Sculptures workshop at the Pierz Public Library on Saturday, Dec. 8. Join us in a fun seasonal workshop creating wire star sculptures. We will explore relationships of stars in the universe to different cultures and holidays of the star symbol. Read more »
Family Storytime at LIttle Falls Carnegie Library
Story Time at the Becker Library
Look for Preschool Story Time to return to the Becker Public Library on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 10:30 a.m. after a brief hiatus. There will be no Preschool Story time events on Dec. 18 and 25, nor on Jan. 1.
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4-H Banner Displayed at Upsala Library
Learn to Quilt at the Belgrade Library
Learn to make a quilt from start to finish. Learn construction techniques for several traditional blocks, then assemble the blocks to make a table topper, wall hanging or larger quilt if desired. The class will also cover quilting and binding techniques. This class is designed for beginners, but every level quilter is invited to participate. This class will meet every Saturday from Jan. Read more »
CSB Blazers Tennis Team Reads at Waite Park
Members of the College of Saint Benedict Blazers Tennis Team will be reading to children on Saturday, Dec. 1 at the Waite Park library. The storytime from 11:00 to 11:30 a.m. is the second of three by the team at the library. Read more »
Support Your Library
In 1969, Great River Regional Library (GRRL) set the foundation for our regional public library system. Our purpose has not changed 45 years later. We remain dedicated to meeting the information needs of our communities.
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Hopper Takes The Road to Albany
Retired teacher Kathy Davidson loves being around children, so she volunteers to read storytimes at the Albany Public Library. She recently volunteered to lead a Leap Into Reading storytime featuring stories about frogs and froggy crafts. Read more »
Visual Arts Minnesota Presents Solid Proposals at St. Cloud Library
This hands-on, one night workshop will focus on the ins and outs of developing, writing, and formatting proposals for individual artist funding opportunities in Minnesota and beyond. It is presented by Peter Happel Christian for Visual Arts Minnesota. All are welcome to attend on Wednesday, Nov. 14 from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the St. Read more »
Hopper Gets Comfortable at Swanville
Hopper joined a whole daycare full of nine children who attended a Leap Into Reading storytime at the Swanville Public Library on Nov. 8. Hopper is the library's big, green, Leap Into Reading mascot. He especially loves stories about ponds and bugs and nature, and so do children. Read more »
Now Showing....At St. Cloud Library
Know what makes watching movies better? Watching movies with other people with free Kool-Aid and popcorn! Read more »
Melrose Halloween Party!
On Wednesday, Oct. 31, the Melrose Public Library held its annual Halloween Party and Parade. Over 180 children participated in the parade down Main Street and approximately 400 children and parents attended the party where they enjoyed games, crafts, activities, stories and snacks. Read more »
Register Now For 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Program
Rockford Public Library is thrilled to introduce the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program to our community with sponsorship from the Rockford Friends of the Library. Read more »
The Cokato Library Gets Crafty!
Cokatoites spend the fall getting crafty! Read more »
WCCO's Mark Rosen Visits Royalton
WCCO television sportscaster Mark Rosen is a superb storyteller. Rosen was at the Royalton Public Library on Friday evening, Nov. 2 to talk about his book, Best Seat in the House. He entertained the audience with stories from his forty years of covering sports in Minnesota. Read more »
Let's Play Games
One of the library's latest New, Best & Fun lists is titled Celebrate International Games Day.
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Preschool Storytime Changes Beginning in January 2013
Preschool Story Time in St. Michael will be taking a 1-month hiatus in December. Beginning Jan. 7, 2013, Preschool Story Time for children ages 3-5 will shift to alternating Mondays with Toddler Time (for ages 18 months to 3 years). Read more »
Reindeer Sleigh Rides at the Belgrade Library
How to Write a Book in Three Easy Steps at St. Cloud Public Library
Join us this Saturday, Nov. 3, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. for the first installment of a three-part program taking you step by step through how to write a novel. Read more »


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Hello everyone,
on a fresh debian lenny installation I installed zcs-6.0.10. There is nothing configured yet except what the installation process wants me to configure. The result is:
$ zmcontrol status
Host zimbra.company.lan
antispam Running
antivirus Running
ldap Running
logger Running
mailbox Stopped
mysql.server is not running.
mta Running
snmp Running
spell Running
stats Stopped
In consequence I cannot see the login page in my browser.
From a client in the network:
~> nmap zimbra.company.lan
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
110/tcp open pop3
143/tcp open imap
389/tcp open ldap
465/tcp open smtps
587/tcp open submission
993/tcp open imaps
995/tcp open pop3s
7025/tcp open unknown
We see that there is something listening on port 80, but as said no page is delivered.
Can anyone give me a hint?


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Jacksonville Police Department is asking for the public to help locate a suspect sought in connection with a theft on Oct. 13 at Pets N Stuff at Piney Green Shopping Center.
The suspect is white, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs about 130 to 160 pounds. Police said she appears to be in her late 20s or early 30s.
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If you know the suspect�s identity, contact Jacksonville detective Anthony Ramirez at 910-938-6405 or email@example.com.
Or tipsters can call Crime Stoppers at 910-938-3273 and refer to case No. 13-05838.
Crime Stoppers offers rewards up to $2,500 for information leading to an arrest. Callers can remain anonymous.
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Spartanburg, SC (Sports Network) - Karl Cochran scored a career-high 30 points
to lead the Wofford Terriers to a 78-58 win over the Chattanooga Mocs in a
Southern Conference tilt at Benjamin Johnson Arena.
Jarell Byrd had 13 points and seven rebounds off the bench for Wofford (11-17,
5-10 SoCon) as Indiana Faithfull added nine points to go along with eight
Z. Mason netted 24 points on 9-of-11 from the floor to pace Chattanooga
(11-16, 6-8) while Gee McGhee chimed in with 13 points.
Cochran erupted for 20 first half points as Wofford hit 58.2 percent from the
field as a team to take a 45-27 lead into halftime.
The Mocs opened the second period on a 14-5 run to cut the deficit to 50-41,
but Byrd scored the next four points and a Cochran triple at the 6:43 mark
ended Chattanooga's threat.
Chattanooga fell despite outrebounding Wofford, 35-28, with a 10-2 edge on the
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Exhibit review
The Isis, the Mission, the Liberty, the Lyric, the Alhambra, the Dream Theatre. …
In the 1920s, these would have been names familiar to any dedicated Seattle moviegoer.
All are long since demolished. But they're on vivid display in "Celluloid Seattle: A City at the Movies," an information-packed exhibit curated by local film critic Robert Horton that explores the way that Seattleites have watched movies and Seattle has figured on the silver screen since the 1890s.
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The show, at the newly reopened/relocated Museum of History & Industry until Sept. 8, is helpfully arranged in alcoves that highlight specific phases in local film history: the silent era, the advent of drive-in movies, the indie-film movement, Seattle-inspired TV series, and more.
In each alcove, you can sit in vintage theater seats (or, in the case of the drive-in exhibit, the refurbished back seat of an old Ford Mustang) and watch trailers and clips from the era in question. The indie-film "theater" even has some fake popcorn scattered around on the floor.
"You can go as deep as you want or as light as you want," Horton said last week, while observing visitors interacting with the exhibit. "That's the deal."
For history buffs, the earliest years of Seattle film history will be the most fascinating. There's some all-too-brief Thomas Edison footage from 1897 of "Klondike excitement" on the streets and waterfront of Seattle, a snippet of "Tugboat Annie" (1933) shot on Lake Union, and behind-the-scenes 8mm footage of Elvis Presley at work on "It Happened at the World's Fair" (1962).
The photographs of Seattle's old movie palaces are magnificent, and so is some of the rhetorical fanfare over their arrival on the scene.
"Hail the glittering opening tonight!" a Seattle Times reporter wrote when the 5th Avenue Theatre opened its doors in 1926. "Up from the harvest valleys — down from the timbered hill — over the purple highways — they come — the happy thousands — to share in the splendor of this, the peak of theatrical achievements!"
It's hard to imagine a contemporary reporter waxing that effusive over the arrival of a new multiplex.
"Celluloid Seattle," along with its vintage movie posters, lobby cards, film programs and publicity stills, includes artifacts from the old movie palaces: antiquated projectors, ornate light fixtures, cigarette- and candy-vending machines, even the elegant "Ladies Lounge" sign from the old Music Hall (torn down in 1992, despite campaigns to save it).
But the exhibit isn't simply about the past. After taking note of shot-in-Seattle films over the decades — "The Parallax View," "Sleepless in Seattle," "Say Anything…" — it brings you into the present with a nod to Seattle's busy 21st-century filmmaking scene.
Detailed interviews with film directors Alan Rudolph ("Trouble in Mind"), Lynn Shelton ("Humpday"), Stephen Gyllenhaal ("Grassroots") and Megan Griffiths ("Eden") are well worth a full listen. Special tribute is paid to Bruce Bickford, our astonishing local clay-animator. More recent Seattle films — "Police Beat," "Outsourced," "Wheedle's Groove" and many others — are acknowledged too.
The spirit of volunteerism which fuels Seattle's film scene — whether in moviemaking or the running of film festivals — is noted. While fixing up the Moore Theatre before launching the Seattle International Film Festival in 1976, festival founders Dan Ireland and Darryl Macdonald put out the word to would-be helpers: "We can't pay you, but we can feed you and give you shelter and, when the theater opens, offer you jobs." (What they didn't say was that "shelter," here, meant the catacomb-like basement of the Moore, where the festival was held in its early years.)
There are plenty of interactive displays as well. The biggest is a green-screen setup where you can "appear" against a Pike Place Market backdrop, on the deck of a Puget Sound ferry and in other Seattle locations. Visitors were trying it out last week, either playfully or intently, making cameo appearances in the Seattle film of their dreams — a clear success.
My only gripe: The film clips showing could all stand to be a good deal longer.
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Game On!
by Joanna Citrinbaum, 01/23/2013
(From left) Bull riding at Viva Toro photo by Phil Kline • Hockey table at The Gutter photo by Adam Kuban
As everyone knows, drinking can lead to fun times, but let's face it: sitting on a bar stool can get a little tedious. That's why so many bars in New York City have more on tap than just beer and alcohol—and we don't mean Big Buck Hunter. What's special about the following watering holes is the quality and quantity of the amusements they offer. With plenty of shuffleboard tables, pinball machines and bocce courts—among other gaming accessories—to go around, these establishments raise the bar when it comes to the availability of activities. You'll find comfort in timeworn tavern staples like pool tables and dartboards and fall in love with recent additions like video game consoles and mechanical bulls. Many of the amenities are offered at no cost to the customer; if there's a fee, it's fair (you won't blow your booze budget, we promise). Ready to drink it all in? Put on your game face—we're about to embark on one buzz-inducing bar crawl.
For other going-out options, be sure to check out nycgo.com's roundups of Ping-Pong venues, bowling alleys and beer gardens.


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Lexington, NC-- A man in Davidson County is facing serious drug charges after he allegedly sold drugs to an undercover officer.
Officers with the Davidson County Sheriff's Office Vice/Narcotics Unit arrested Myless R. Hooper Jr., of Lexington, after he sold an undercover detective 50 Dilaudid pills and 74 Hydrocodone pills.
As part of the investigation detectives conducted a search of Hooper's house on Enterprise Road. During that search, officers seized $5,600 in cash, two firearms and items of drug paraphernalia. The seized pills have an estimated street value of $2300.00, investigators say.
Myless Hooper Jr. was charged with:
Hooper was placed in the Davidson County Jail under a $100,000.00 secured bond.


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Summer Preview
by nycgo.com staff, 03/13/2013
(From left) Museum Mile photo by Joe Buglewicz • Fireworks photo by Jen Davis
After suffering through some rough weather in the winter months, New York City is welcoming summer with open arms. And the collection of warm-climate events is sure to please, as always, with many returning favorites, like the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party, Pride Week and the Lincoln Center Festival. The majority of the season's most exciting events are also free—including Shakespeare in the Park, the Museum Mile Festival and Broadway in Bryant Park—but some require tickets and others fill up fast, so get in on the action early. A special highlight for sports fans, the 2013 Major League Baseball All-Star Game takes place at Citi Field, home of the Mets. Also on the sports front, close out your summer with tennis' biggest affair, the US Open Tennis Championships. For more, visit our weekly "Free in NYC" and "Top Five Events" features; check out our concert, fashion, art, nightlife and sports listings; see our roundup of annual events; or search for an event in our calendar.


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Ned Yost media session: June 1
Before Wednesday's 3:10 series finale against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Royals manager Ned Yost spoke about his expectations for right-hander Felipe Paulino, who will be making his first start and second appearance in a Kansas City uniform.
Paulino was acquired from the Colorado Rockies on May 26. The 6-2, 270-pounder made his Royals debut in relief last Friday at Texas, tossing 4.1 scoreless innings with only one hit allowed and three strikeouts. He has also seen time in the Majors mostly as a starter with the Houston Astros from 2007-2010.
"I saw dominant stuff," Yost said. "He threw strikes with a real good fastball, a good two-seamer [and] a hard, tight slider."
Yost said he expects Paulino to reasonably be able to throw around 75 pitches in today's start, depending on how the innings play out.
"We'll look at his pitches per inning. We want to get him built back up [as a starter]," Yost said. "He's a big, strong guy. Somewhere between 55-75 ought to be a good base."


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Melbourne, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) - Two-time defending champion
Victoria Azarenka and former titlist Maria Sharapova were first-round victors
in Tuesday's first-round action at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam
event of the year.
On a sweltering Day 2 at Melbourne Park, the former world No. 1 Azarenka,
seeded second, defeated Swede Johanna Larsson 7-6 (7-2), 6-2, while the
third-seeded former top-ranked star Sharapova handled American Bethanie
Mattek-Sands 6-3, 6-4.
Azarenka was tested at Rod Laver Arena.
"Yeah it was a tough set first. The match was going to be tricky ... the
weather was not helping," Azarenka said. "I had to play a little bit and find
my rhythm."
Azarenka hasn't lost at this event since 2011, as she defeated two-time
runner-up Li Na in last year's final and Maria Sharapova in the 2012
championship match.
Her second-round opponent on Thursday will be Czech Barbora Zahlavova
Strycova, while up next for the career Grand Slam winner Sharapova will be
Italian Karin Knapp. Sharapova titled here in 2008 and is a two-time Aussie
Meanwhile, fifth-seeded Pole Agnieszka Radwanska had her hands full with Yulia
Putintseva of Kazakhstan, but eventually posted a 6-0, 5-7, 6-2 victory, and
eighth-seeded former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic of Serbia whipped Japan's
Misaki Doi 6-1, 6-2.
The former Wimbledon runner-up Radwanska's second-round opponent will be
Belarusian Olga Govortsova.
Tenth-seeded former top-ranked star Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark drilled
Spain's Lourdes Dominguez Lino 6-0, 6-2, while 11th-seeded rising Romanian
Simona Halep also had little trouble in a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Poland's
Katarzyna Piter, and 13th-seeded American Sloane Stephens erased Kazakhstan's
Yaroslava Shvedova 7-6 (7-1), 6-3. Stephens shocked Serena Williams in a
quarterfinal bout here a year ago.
Playing her first Grand Slam match since her New Year's Eve engagement to
golfer Rory McIlroy, Wozniacki did everything she could to keep cool on
"Every time in the changeovers, ice bags, ice towels, everything; and then in
the second set I could feel they were starting to heat up even more,"
Wozniacki said. "I put the bottle down on the court and it started melting a
little bit underneath, the plastic, so you knew it was warm."
Sixteenth seed Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain moved on with a 6-3, 6-2
victory over American Vania King, while Ukrainian Elina Svitolina swept
out 19th-seeded two-time major champion Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 6-3,
6-3, and 20th-seeded Slovak Dominika Cibulkova subdued former French Open
champ Francesca Schiavone 6-3, 6-4.
In other action involving seeds, New Zealand's Marina Erakovic doused No. 21
Romanian Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 7-6 (8-6); Spain's Garbine Muguruza, fresh off
her first career WTA title in Hobart last week, took out No. 24 Estonian Kaia
Kanepi 6-2, 2-6, 6-2; No. 25 Frenchwoman Alize Cornet was leading Slovenian
Polona Hercog 1-0 in the opening set when Hercog retired; No. 29 Russian
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova bested Brazilian Teliana Pereira 7-6 (9-7),
6-4; No. 32 Slovak Magdalena Rybarikova got past former top-10 German Andrea
Petkovic 6-2, 6-3; and No. 33 Serb Bojana Jovanovski overcame Slovak Jana
Cepelova 6-7 (1-7), 6-1, 6-3.
Several other women reached the second round, including Americans Christina
McHale and Varvara Lepchenko, Italian Camila Giorgi, and Japan's Ayumi Morita
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Florida's beaches to be available on Google Maps
Published: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 12:01 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 12:01 p.m.
ST. PETERSBURG — Florida's 825 miles of beaches are coming to a computer near you.
Visit Florida, the state's tourism and marketing arm, begins a four-month journey Wednesday to capture 360-degree images of the state's beaches.
These photos will be integrated into Google Maps and will be available to anyone around the world with Internet access.
Two-person Visit Florida teams were trained by Google Map experts to capture the images. The teams will walk about 50 miles of beach each week with a backpack that has a camera system on top. The camera has 15 lenses, angled in different directions, so it can capture a complete picture of a location. The images are then stitched together into a 360-degree panoramic photo.
Officials say the images will be viewable on Google Maps next year.
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The following is the latest in the series of opinion articles by WUSA 9 Sports Anchor Dave Owens.
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Every time a story about Tim Tebow hits the wires I find myself thinking a few things. First, thank you lord for sending him somewhere besides Washington, D.C. Reporters here have enough problems trying to make stories out of weekly updates on RG3's knee or his wedding registry.
The second thing I think about is how lucky Tim Tebow is. This guy gets more television coverage than Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Joe Flacco, Adrian Peterson, Griffin (maybe), Andrew Luck, Megatron, Vick, Romo, Eli...take a breath...ok, continue...Big Ben, Little Ben, and every other possible NFL storyline you could think of.
Ok, that was a little exaggerated but you get the point. I saw someone tweet how they felt bad for Tebow because the media is exposing him. Tebow should feel overjoyed.
His NFL shelf life is currently going into its fourth year. About three years longer than it should have lasted. Don't get me wrong, he was a fabulous college player, in fact, the best for a couple of years. From 2007 to 2009 he was the Sultan of Saturday's. The Baron of ball in the SEC and thus, the country. In my mind, Tebow's Heisman season of 2007 (55 total touchdowns) ranks as one of the best in collegiate history. He was magnificent!
But the college game is different than the pro game and we've seen that over and over and over and over. Especially when it comes to quarterbacks.
Tebow couldn't throw in college but he was a great athlete who could overcome any shortcomings by just being better than everybody else. But great athletes have dominated college sports for years only to be exposed at the pro level where everyone is a great athlete.
Tim Tebow is lucky, at least he got a chance to try. Others haven't been so fortunate. Think about the fabulous running quarterbacks who never got a chance in the pro ranks. Anyone remember Tommy Frazier? Nebraska's dual threat quarterback was multi-faceted greatness personified. A running back in quarterback's clothing for the Cornhuskers in the mid 90's. Lord knows he could run, and his passing skills were decent. Yet when it came time to take the next step. Crickets.
Critics will say there were health problems and they are correct. Frazier suffered from blood clots as a result of Crohn's disease but it wasn't enough to stop him from playing in Canada. He never played in the NFL.
West Virginia's Major Harris finished third and fifth respectively in two Heisman Trophy votes in the late 80's and never played a down in the NFL. He too had to eat Canadian bacon, just like Frazier.
Remember how dominant Charlie Ward was as a Florida State Seminole? Whew! The 1993 Heisman trophy winner was more classic QB than dual threat and still there were many who doubted he was worth a high draft pick. He never played a down in the NFL.
There are others: Turner Gill, Eric Crouch, Tony Rice, JC Watts, Pat White, etc. I know what you're thinking, different players, different timeframes and the game has changed. You're right and that's why Tebow is soooooo lucky.
He came along at a time when some minds were more open to trying different offensive schemes. He also, however, represented something less tangible and more uncomfortable to discuss.
Tebow, in my mind, was part media creation. In his college years television coverage tended to emphasize his love of the game, his intensity, his fire. How many times did cameras catch him on the sidelines in a dirt-soiled uniform imploring teammates to kick it in gear? An announcer would surely comment how Tebow's leadership skills were the driving force for the Gators. They were probably right. But other players cared, too. They might not have screamed it on sidelines, but they cared. TV execs were simply crafting Tebow's clean-cut, all-American, I'm gonna try harder than anyone, super pious image for a national viewing audience. The hell whether he could actually play quarterback, this was TV gold.
He also looked the part: White, physically fit, with a great smile. The John Wayne of football. He was easy to market and television took full advantage. Back then whether he knew it or not (he probably did), Tebow was being cast in a way that impacted viewers and often clouded analysis of his actual talents. That's ok in college because heck, it's college.
What I found amazing, however, was how lenient some professional analysts were when it came to Tebow's NFL skill set. Each year we sit around and listen to pundits nit-pick every morsel of a quarterback's game and rightfully so by the way. Yet when Tebow time came it was as if the grading scale had changed for some. The inability to throw all of a sudden became less of a hindrance and more of an opportunity for pro football GM's to open their minds to different offensive opportunities.
This is where it gets uncomfortable. One wonders how much race played in all this. The NFL's track record on issues of race is appalling. The paucity of minority head coaches is proof. The way the quarterback position has been treated and analyzed historically is just as appalling.
Black quarterbacks have always come under more scrutiny about their passing ability. Moreover, questions concerning their acumen are subtle yet ever present. That unfortunate bias carries over to the way quarterbacks are sometimes analyzed. Words like accuracy and poise are often code for intelligence, while athletic is often code for undisciplined and not trustworthy in the clutch.
Prior to last year's draft you sometimes heard these words used to describe RG3 and Andrew Luck. Griffin always the athletic one, Luck always the more NFL-ready one. Turns out they were both athletic, smart and NFL ready.
Whether subconscious or not, there is sometimes a tendancy by analysts to be more forgiving of a White quarterback's flaws than a Black quarterback's. Take Donovan McNabb for instance. Regardless of how you feel about his stint in Washington, he's a borderline Hall of Famer. But people forget there were questions about his accuracy and concerns about his pocket passing ability when he came out of Syracuse in the late 90's. So much so he felt compelled to participate in postseason college all-star games and the NFL Combine in an effort to ease scouts fears. A position change always seems to be a viable option when it comes to Black quarterbacks.
When it came to Tebow, you didn't hear that as much, in fact I heard some say Tebow should be given every opportunity to play quarterback first and foremost. Wow, somewhere guys like Harris and Gill and Frazier and Watts and even present day guys like Dennard Robinson must be wishing they had that kind of grading scale.
Tim Tebow is lucky. He's ridden a pretty substantial wave in the cycle of broadcast television, which is often a rollercoaster, continually subjective, and almost never fair.
That last part is important. It's not fair and it's not his fault. He didn't ask for this. By all accounts he's a decent person who wants to play ball. But make no mistake: he's being used. He's a fascinating, polarizing story. Athleticism, religion, lack of quarterback skills, race -- it's a perfect equation. Put it on television.
Negative pushback, however, comes with Tebow-mania as people get sick and tired of hearing about him. But television executives know that too is a story in itself.
Tim Tebow is nearing a time when his only option will be the CFL, which is where he probably should've been in the first place. He should be glad, however, that he got the chance to divert that direct path for a few years and make a little money along the way. So many others didn't get that chance.


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Sundly Clinches Cal's 3-2, Overtime Win Over Maryland in the 97th Minute
Both Hallisey and Birnbaum Score and Taillole Shuts Out Georgetown
Men's and Women's Soccer Teams Collaborate to Form "Cal Soccer Bear Den"
Bears Play Georgetown on Friday and Maryland on Sunday
Bears Open the Season on Aug. 30 at Home vs. Georgetown
Men's Soccer Team Eyes Postseason Berth
CalBears.com Gives a Run Down on the Bears in the Pros
Kyle Marsh Hopes to Make the World a Safer Place
California men's soccer alumnus Steve Purdy will join the El Salvador National Team for the upcoming CONCACAF Gold Cup, Chivas USA - his Major League Soccer club - announced this week. The defender ha
The California men's soccer team will return to the pitch for 18 games during the 2013 regular season, with nine of those matches appearing on the Pac-12 Networks and 11 of those games taking place at
Midfielder/forward Jose Carrera-Garcia signed a National Letter of Intent with California, men's soccer head coach Kevin Grimes announced on Wednesday. Carrera-Garcia has starred for the past few year


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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) - Two United Airlines airplanes touched wings at Dulles Airport Thursday afternoon.
One plane was reportedly parked at the gate and the other was pulling into the gate.
The planes are being inspected now to check for damage.
One of the planes was empty and the other airplane was evacuated.
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May 24, 2016
A broad low in the southern Gulf of Mexico still shows some signs of organization. However, with a cold front rapidly approaching from the west, the window of development is very narrow and very iffy.
Right now, this low will bring substantial wind and rain along the west and southern coasts of Florida, with it all transitioning to the east coast as the low moves away. We are looking for only *minimal* impacts here in the panhandle with this system.
I expect a very gusty wind to develop by Monday night and last through Wednesday. That wind will kick up the surf and the sea quite a bit, but since the low is heading east and staying east, we miss out on meaningful rain this time around.
At this point, I *DO NOT* anticipate any weather watches or warnings in our area as this storm system approaches.
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BALTIMORE (WUSA) -- Baltimore police say a 2-year-old boy was found dead and his mother was found with her throat cut on Sunday.
Police say the woman is a "person of interest" in the death of her son on Sunday, but would not provide further details about what led to the child's death.
The 32-year-old mother was taken to an area hospital in critical condition. She underwent emergency surgery Sunday afternoon.


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This model performs a topological optimization for a Tesla microvalve. A Tesla microvalve inhibits backwards flow using friction forces rather than moving parts. The design can be optimized by distributing a specific amount of material within the modeling domain. The goal is to maximize the ratio of the pressure drop for the forwards and backwards flow across the device.


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Medicaid-Marketplace Overview
The Federally-facilitated Marketplace (FFM) is offering health coverage in Wyoming in 2015. The state Medicaid agency has delegated authority to the Marketplace to make determinations of eligibility for Medicaid; the Marketplace makes only an assessment of CHIP eligibility. Wyoming has not expanded Medicaid coverage to low-income adults.
Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility Levels
To view the new modified adjusted gross income (MAGI)-based eligibility levels, expressed as a percentage of the federal poverty level (FPL) and by monthly dollar amount and family size for Medicaid and CHIP, visit the National Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility Levels page for more information.
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1. These eligibility standards include CHIP-funded Medicaid expansions.
2. Children in separate CHIP programs are typically charged premiums. This table does not include notations of states that have elected to provide CHIP coverage from conception to birth.
3. In states that use dollar amounts rather than percentages of the federal poverty level (FPL) for 2013 to determine eligibility for parents, we converted those amounts to a percent of the FPL and selected the highest percentage to reflect eligibility level for the group. In addition, in states that are adopting the Medicaid expansion, we have indicated the upper income limit for parents to also be 133% of the FPL, since parents can be eligible for coverage under the new adult group. The actual dollar standards that states will use to determine eligibility are quoted in the monthly income tables.
Monthly Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment Data
Each month, CMS releases state-reported data on State Medicaid and CHIP program Enrollment. The enrollment data for each month is a point-in-time count of total Medicaid and CHIP enrollment on the last day of the month, and is not solely a count of those newly enrolled during the reporting period. Below, this data is compared to average enrollment from July-September 2013, the period before the initial open enrollment period of the Health Insurance Marketplaces. Additional information and enrollment data is available on the Medicaid and CHIP Application, Eligibility Determination, and Enrollment Data page.
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Medicaid and CHIP Applications
The Affordable Care Act established a streamlined enrollment process through which individuals can gain access to affordable insurance coverage for which they are eligible. The law directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a model application that will be used to apply for coverage through the Marketplace, Medicaid and CHIP. States have the option to adopt the Secretary of HHS's model application form for affordable insurance programs or to adopt an alternative application that meets federal requirements.
Targeted Enrollment Strategies
In response to CMS Guidance provided on May 17, 2013, many states have adopted one or more "targeted enrollment strategies" designed to facilitate enrollment and retain coverage for eligible individuals in Medicaid/CHIP. The states that have adopted one or more targeted enrollment strategies are listed on the Targeted Enrollment Strategies page.
Medicaid and CHIP State Plan Amendments
The state Medicaid and CHIP plans spell out how each state has chosen to design its program within the broad requirements for federal funding. As always, states amend their Medicaid and CHIP state plans in order to inform CMS of programmatic and financing changes and to secure legal authority for those changes. The Affordable Care Act included many new opportunities for states to augment and improve their Medicaid and CHIP programs. As a result there has been a great deal of state plan amendment activity over the past several years in the areas of eligibility, benefits design and financing, as well as new approaches to providing health homes, long-term services and supports, and enrollment strategies like hospital presumptive eligibility. See below for a state-specific list of approved Medicaid and CHIP SPAs.
Demonstrations and Waivers
Demonstration and waivers are vehicles states can use to test new or existing ways to deliver and pay for health care services in Medicaid and CHIP. The primary types of waivers and demonstration projects include section 1115 demonstrations, section 1915(b) managed care waivers, and section 1915(c) home and community-based services waivers. More information about waivers is available on the Waivers page.
Medicaid Delivery System
States have choices in their approach to delivery system design under the Medicaid and CHIP programs. States are increasingly moving to the use of managed care and other integrated care models in serving their Medicaid beneficiaries. On average, more than 70 percent of the Medicaid population is enrolled in some form of managed care.
CHIP Program Information
The Children's Health Insurance Program was established in 1997 to provide new coverage opportunities for children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid, but who cannot afford private coverage. Like Medicaid, CHIP is administered by the states, but is jointly funded by the federal government and states. States had the opportunity to design their CHIP programs as an expansion of Medicaid, as a stand-alone program or through a combined approach.
Medicaid/CHIP Participation Rates
The participation rate is the percentage of eligible children enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP in the state. Data from 2013 show 88.3 percent of the eligible children in the United States are enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP programs. More information about the participation rate among children in Wyoming is available on InsureKidsNow.gov.
Medicaid/CHIP Eligibility Verification Plans
Medicaid and CHIP agencies now rely primarily on information available through data sources (e.g., the Social Security Administration, the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor) rather than paper documentation from families for purposes of verifying eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP.
MAGI Conversion Plans
CMS provided states with a template for completing their "MAGI Conversion Plans" that are designed to reflect the MAGI-based eligibility standards that are used to determine Medicaid and CHIP eligibility. The MAGI-conversion process involved a translation of pre-2014 net income eligibility standards into MAGI-based eligibility standards. Moving to MAGI replaced income disregards with simpler, more universal income eligibility rules that are generally aligned with the rules that are used to determine eligibility for the premium tax credits in the Marketplace. To complete the transformation to MAGI, states needed to "convert" their net-income based eligibility standards to MAGI-based standards.