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Recent and archived news articles by Jonathan Weisman of The New York Times.
Four Plans Compete to Authorize Military Force Against the Islamic State
The proposals, from the White House, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and two sets of senators, have some striking differences.
December 10, 2015, Thursday
The Post-Boehner Congress and Washington's Sense of Dread
Speaker John A. Boehner's resignation is likely to herald an even more combative stretch in Washington, emboldening conservatives to defy President Obama on spending, debt and taxes.
September 27, 2015, Sunday
Increase Taxes? Talk by Donald Trump Alarms G.O.P.
Some influential party figures worry that Donald J. Trump's suggestions that he would raise taxes in certain areas could catch on with rivals in the presidential race.
September 1, 2015, Tuesday
Iran Deal Opens a Vitriolic Divide Among American Jews
Jewish lawmakers who support the nuclear deal with Iran have been likened to Nazi collaborators, and those who oppose it have been called traitors.
August 29, 2015, Saturday
Obama Tries to Soothe Divided Jewish Community on Iran Deal
Speaking to Jewish umbrella organizations, President Obama defended his nuclear accord with Iran and called for a more civil debate.
August 29, 2015, Saturday
Potential for Democratic Filibuster on Iran Deal Angers Key Republican
Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said it would be a travesty if Democrats filibustered any resolution disapproving of the accord.
August 26, 2015, Wednesday
Patty Murray Comes Out in Support of Iran Nuclear Deal
Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the only member of the Democratic leadership who had not weighed in on the Iran nuclear deal, broke her silence and backed it, saying it was "the best chance we have at a strong diplomatic solution."
August 25, 2015, Tuesday
Wild Cards Remain as Democrats Add Supporters on Iran Deal
The party's leaders are still lobbying the undecided lawmakers, but are worried that Republicans might try to add politically charged amendments to the deal.
August 25, 2015, Tuesday
In Letter, Obama Tells Congress U.S. Will Still Press Iran
The letter reflects a shift in emphasis, to steps the administration could take outside the nuclear agreement with Iran to enforce the deal's provisions.
August 21, 2015, Friday
Donors Descend on Schumer and Others in Debate on Iran
The passions of big contributors — and their ability to change a candidate's fortunes — are a keenly felt undercurrent to the debate over the fate of President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.
August 13, 2015, Thursday
Analysis: Obama's Final State of the Union
Jonathan Weisman of The Times analyzes key moments from the president's last annual address to Congress.
Analysis of the Fourth G.O.P. Debate
The Times's Jonathan Weisman analyzes key moments from the fourth Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee on Tuesday, as candidates tangled over issues such as immigration.
Four Highlights of the Budget Deal
Over 144 pages, the new budget deal was reached as Speaker John A. Boehner prepares to leave office.
Members to Watch on the Special Select Committee on Benghazi
Seven Republicans and five Democrats make up the committee, but the core group driving the panel is smaller.
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May 30, 2016
It's only early November, but it's already beginning to look like the Christmas season in Meridian.
Meridian workers have already begun putting up Christmas decorations around the downtown and Bonita Lakes areas.
That includes the base for the big Christmas tree in front of city hall. The 34-four foot tree will be accented by dancing lights that keep time with Christmas songs.
"It's a beautiful tree that sits in front of city hall, and we were able to purchase it with a Choctaw tribal grant that the city has received," said the city's cultural affairs coordinator Casey Null. "We are just very fortunate to have it."
The tree lighting ceremony will be Nov. 27 at 5 p.m. in front of city hall. The public is invited.
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Next month, well-traveled veteran Trevor Prangley meets Bellator middleweight champion Hector Lombard in a non-title fight.
It's another promotional debut for Prangley, who's competed for organizations such as the UFC, Strikeforce, BodogFIGHT, MFC and Shark Fights during an 11-year career.
Back in July at "Dream: Japan GP Final," Prangley also made a promotional debut for DREAM, where the South African took on M-1 and DREAM vet Tatsuya Mizuno.
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Prangley vs. Mizuno is no exception.
Prangley (23-7-1 at the time) looked to snap out of a 1-2-1 skid that included Strikeforce losses to Tim Kennedy and Roger Gracie, as well as a Shark Fights win over Keith Jardine. But he got a test in Mizuno (8-7), who was coming off losses to Gegard Mousasi and Sergei Kharitonov and looking to win in his home country.
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May 31, 2016
U.S. officials say Tom Ridge has resigned after 23 months as the nation's first Homeland Security Secretary.
Department of Homeland Security officials say Ridge informed his senior leadership team in an e-mail Tuesday morning, and also informed the White House. A formal announcement is expected at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
Ridge became the nation's first White House homeland security adviser a month after the 9-11 attacks. He assumed the Cabinet-level post after Congress created the Homeland Security Department, merging 22 government agencies.
He has presided over six national "orange alerts" during heightened terror concerns, but an attack never happened on his watch.
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Maria Sharapova stopped by the new T-Mobile store in Canoga Park, LA, on Saturday to help launch their latest model, the Sony Ericsson Equinox phone.
The Russian glamazon, who looked pretty flawless that afternoon I must say, took part in a meet-and-greet with fans and got to judge the Maria Look-A-Like contest. The winner (below with Shrieka) won first prize and grabbed "A Night in the Life of Maria", a VIP night on the town with five friends who'll all receive a Sony Ericsson Equinox phone.
Uh, maybe it's that angle but I'm not convinced they resemble each other THAT much. I wonder what the other contestants looked like...
Anyway, check out more images from Shrieka's appearance below!
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Monday, November 2, 2009
PHOTO OP: Shrieka and "look-a-like" launch Sony Ericsson Equinox in LA
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- AnonymousNovember 2, 2009 at 9:28 AM
Damn, she looks good in the last shot.ReplyDelete
Anyway, I have a sneaky feeling that Ms Witz must have been the tallest in the lookalike competition.
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OCALA - A 37-year-old woman was arrested Thursday and charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor.
Stacey Lynn DeLong called the Sheriff's Office and said she wanted to discuss the incident. A sheriff's deputy picked up DeLong at her job and brought her to the main office for an interview. DeLong told Detective T.J. Watts she had sex with a 16-year-old boy because he expressed an interest in her, according to the arrest report.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The Militant Takes On SNL's 'The Californians' Skit
13 comments:
- Evan said...
And there is no street parking in Marina Del Rey.
- April 18, 2012 at 4:37 PM
- Mokannen said...
yeah...not impressed but was hoping he would be. :P and yeah...way too many blonds.
- April 18, 2012 at 4:43 PM
- Militant Angeleno said...
Mokannen: Ironically, the most prominent Californians in the mainstream media at this moment -- the Kardashian sisters -- are not blonde.
- April 18, 2012 at 4:48 PM
I have to disagree with you, MA. I thought the skit was hilarious. Yes, they misrepresented the entire state of California (I "hella" don't care about Norcal either), and their LA geography was totally inaccurate, but I had to laugh at their mockery of those who speak "surfer-talk." Although you are right in pointing out that these jokes are decades old, they are very much relevant. There are plenty of Angelenos, mostly on the Westside and in the wealthier parts of the Valley (read: White) that continue to embody these stereotypes. They may be dwindling in numbers, but they still exist.
- April 18, 2012 at 5:05 PM
- Militant Angeleno said...
Valleypinoy: Well then, The Militant doesn't have much exposure to these surfer-talking folks, as he's distanced by not only culture, but geography, from them.
He does hear a lot of up-talking hipsters though.
But then, hipsters all look and act the same no matter what city you're in, so their idiosyncrasies are not endemic to urban Los Angeles.
- April 18, 2012 at 6:19 PM
Love it or hate it, the embed in your post was a mobile phone company ad not the skit clip.
- April 19, 2012 at 8:51 AM
- Militant Angeleno said...
Will: The clip is there, you just have to wait a while, that's just Hulu for ya... [shrugs
- April 19, 2012 at 10:49 AM
[shrugs back] I waited for it a while. twice. The ad ended and the window went black and all I got was the "replay" icon staring back at me. Both times. I pushed it once after about 30 seconds just to see if it was a glitch. Same thing happened again. So I went and found it on nbc.com. The skit had its moments, but went on a while too long for my short attention span.
- April 21, 2012 at 7:42 AM
- Sha Nah Na Nah said...
A Year or two ago Alec Baldwin did the same type Soap Skit about Arizona, I live in Arizona, nobody wears Cowboy hats and bolo ties, but you cant help but laugh at the absurdity of the "character "they are playing
- May 13, 2012 at 12:15 AM
Not sure if you realize that pointing out all of the geographical errors in detail only validates the skit and makes it funnier.
- May 15, 2012 at 9:47 PM
To the last anonymous respondent. Hilarious!! I was going to say the same thing
- November 17, 2012 at 9:10 PM
SNL hasn't been funny in about a decade or so...
- November 11, 2013 at 12:25 AM
I thought it was downright funny as hell, because it IS so old.
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Barack Obama to make trip to Asia for economic engagement
Newscast Media WASHINGTON—The White House on Friday announced President
Barack Obama will visit Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines from Oct. 6-12.
According to the White House, Obama's visit is "part of his ongoing commitment to
increase U.S. political, economic and security engagement with the Asia Pacific."
Obama will also attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC) Economic
Leaders' meeting in Indonesia. On the margins of the APEC meeting, he will host a
meeting of Leaders of the Trans- Pacific Partnership countries. During his stay in
Indonesia, Obama will also meet with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang
In Brunei, Obama will attend the U.S.-ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit (EAS)
and meet with the Sultan of Brunei. During those meetings the U.S. president will
discuss "the wide range of U.S. cooperation in the Asia Pacific region, including
energy, maritime security, investment, development and trade promotion, as well as
other topics of regional and global concern," said the White House.
In Malaysia, Obama will meet with Prime Minister Najib of Malaysia. He will also deliver
the keynote address to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, an initiative announced
by Obama in 2009 to spur job creation through entrepreneurship by connecting young
innovators to resources, ideas, and each other.
In the Philippines, Obama will meet with President Benigno Aquino to "reaffirm the
strong economic, people-to-people, and security links" between the two countries,
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Heir Kitty wins Betfair Hollywood Park feature
Published: Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 8:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 3:01 a.m.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Heir Kitty won the $48,288 feature by 3 1/4 lengths at Betfair Hollywood Park on Friday.
Ridden by Garrett Gomez, Heir Kitty ran six furlongs on the synthetic Cushion Track in 1:10.74 and paid $3.80, $2.20 and $2.10 as the 9-10 favorite. Gomez rode two other winners on the card.
Imwittheblonde returned $2.40 and $2.10, and stablemate Spooky Lady was another 2 1/4 lengths back in third and paid $2.10 to show.
The victory, worth $96,800, increased Heir Kitty's career earnings to $96,800, with two wins in five starts. The 2-year-old filly was the wagering favorite for the first time and was making her initial start without blinkers.
Aqueduct: At New York, Cinnamon Beach surged through an opening on the rail and pulled away for a 4 1/4-length victory over Washington's Rules on Friday in the $69,000 allowance feature at Aqueduct.
A 5-year-old trained by Phillip Scott, Cinnamon Beach snapped a 10-race losing streak with his third win in 24 starts. Irad Ortiz, Jr. was aboard for the 1 1/8 miles in 1:51.81.
Cinnamon Beach paid $17.20, $6.40 and $4.50. Washington's Rules, the 3-2 favorite, returned $3.50 and $3.10, while Praetorian Guard, longest shot in the field at 40-1, paid $10 to show.
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Teresa Giudice's Milana Hair Care Party to Be Filmed For The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 5
According to an earlier report, Teresa Giudice is out for blood on Season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey after she felt attacked last season, and we already know that she had it out with her brother, Joe Gorga, a few days ago.
But now the controversial H'wife is getting people hyped for a Milania Hair Care event that will be filmed for the show sometime in February. On Jan 30, Tre wrote on her website, "I will be hosting the official launch party for Milania Hair Care next month, and I am super excited. The event will be filmed by Bravo and will include all of my close friends along with the entire Real Housewives of NJ cast. It is going to be an amazing party!"
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"Let the Good Times Roll - Mardi Gras" will be held on Friday, Feb. 22 at the Goliad Memorial Auditorium starting at 5:30 p.m.
Attendees will be transported to "Mardi Gras" complete with beads, masks, doubloons and all that Louisiana flavor clear down to the menu.
Guests will be offered a menu complete with apple-smoked halibut with Cajun praline sauce, caramelized Cajun pork chops, dirty rice, corn casserole, broccoli with cremini mushroom casserole in béchamel sauce, garlic breadsticks and bananas foster upside down cake.
The price of a corporate table is $300 and includes prime seating, first in line to dine, the company's name in the program, newspaper and at their table, a bottle of champagne with keepsake champagne glasses for everyone at the table and eight Chinese Auction tickets. Corporate tables are limited and must be reserved by Feb. 1.
Individual tickets are $25 each and are available now.
The Chamber of Commerce is also accepting live and Chinese Auction items and cash donations until Feb. 1. The donations can promote businesses while contributing to the Chamber of Commerce. Personal names or company names will be listed in the program and shown at the display tables prior to the auctions.
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Aug. 1, 2012
Music School Presents Fall Preview
The Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at Catholic University presents the following events this fall semester. Unless otherwise noted, admission is free and events take place on the Catholic University campus: 620 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington D.C.
For more information on these events or to purchase tickets, visit http://music.cua.edu/calendar/index.cfm or call 202-319-5416.
Mutual Inspirations Festival 2012 – Miloš Forman
On Sunday, Sept. 30, 6:30 p.m., as part of a celebration of the shared inspirations between the Czech and American cultures, Professor Murry Sidlin will conduct the CUA Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir presenting Rimsky-Korsakov's one-act opera Mozart and Salieri and Mozart's Requiem at the National Gallery of Art's West Building, West Garden Court, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
For more information on this event and the events of the Mutual Inspirations Festival 2012, visit http://www.mutualinspirations.org.
Finian's Rainbow
This year's fall musical theatre show, Finian's Rainbow, takes place Friday, Oct. 26, and Saturday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 28, at 2 p.m. at Hartke Theater, CUA campus. Music by Burton Lane, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, and book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for seniors, students, and CUA alumni, faculty, and staff, and can be purchased online at http://music.cua.edu with an additional $2 service charge.
CUA Symphony Orchestra
The orchestra performs on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 4 p.m. at Sligo Adventist Church, 7700 Carroll Ave., Takoma Park, Md. Conducted by David Searle, assistant professor and director of orchestral activities. Selections include Nielsen: Helios Overture; Vaughn Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique.
Carnegie Hall Concert Series
For the third year in a row, performers from the music school present a series of concerts at Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall in New York, sponsored by the La Gesse Foundation. Concerts will take place Monday, Nov. 5, through Wednesday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. each day. Performers will include Jose Ramos Santana, piano; and Fabiana Bravo, soprano, on Nov. 5; 2012 La Gesse Foundation fellows on Nov. 6, and members of the CUA Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Searle, associate professor and director of orchestral activities, on Nov. 7.
The Merry Widow
The fall opera will be performed Thursday, Nov. 15, Friday, Nov. 16, and Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 18, at 2 p.m. in Ward Recital Hall. Music by Franz Lehár. Sung in English with English surtitles. Tickets are $20 for general admission, $15 for CUA alumni, and $10 for seniors, students, faculty, and staff, and can be purchased online at http://music.cua.edu.
Composition Program Recital
Student compositions from the music school's Composition Program will be performed on Monday, Nov. 26, 7:30 p.m., at Ward Recital Hall.
CUA Women's Chorus
The CUA Women's Chorus will perform on Sunday, Dec. 2, at 2 p.m., at St. Vincent de Paul Chapel. Kevin O'Brien, conductor.
Annual Christmas Concert for Charity
On Friday, Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m., at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington, D.C. The concert will feature the CUA Symphony Orchestra, David Searle conductor and associate professor; the CUA University Singers, Leo Nestor, conductor and professor and director of the Institute of Sacred Music; and the CUA University Chorus, N. Thomas Pedersen, conductor and head of the musical theatre program. A free-will offering will be taken up to benefit a local charity to be named later this fall.
Honor Band Festival
On Saturday, Dec. 8, 10 a.m., at Hartke Theatre, CUA Campus.
CUA Town and Gown Community Chorus
The CUA Town and Gown Community Chorus will perform on Friday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m., at St. Vincent de Paul Chapel. Kevin O'Brien, conductor.
Great Noise Ensemble
The Great Noise Ensemble, artists-in-residence at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, will present a concert on Friday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m., at Ward Recital Hall.


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Hoiberg A Big Hit In Cedar Rapids
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa- The Mayor has entered the building. An enthusiastic crowd of over 1,000 people flocked to the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids Thursday evening to see new ISU head men's basketball coach Fred Hoiberg.
Hoiberg was making his first stop on the Iowa State Tailgate Tour and the response was phenomenal. A line of Cyclone fans literally snaked outside the arena just to get a photo and a chance to chat with the Cyclone legend.
Hoiberg's appearance was the highlight of one of the most attended ISU tour outings ever. Voice of the Cyclones John Walters held a question and answer session with Hoiberg, ISU football coach Paul Rhoads, Athletics Director Jamie Pollard, volleyball coach Christy Johnson-Lynch, wrestling coach Kevin Jackson, women's basketball coach Bill Fennelly and swimming coach Duane Sorenson.
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The following article was written by Cameron Allen, Pierre Coyne and Beth Sarnie and is the second in our OSLC series.
In fact, if you were at Pulse 2012...you heard how IBM Watson will be used to help doctors diagnose medical conditions and improve patient care at WellPoint.
For those of you, like myself, that don't have a Watson-like recollection, here's a quick flashback detailing a millisecond in Watson's brain on a sample patient:
- Watson is given specific information on a patient's symptoms, and makes a preliminary diagnosis of the flu as the most likely illness.
- Based on the unique patient's name, Watson looks up records of the patient's history for the past few years, providing new insights that point to the better possible cause of, for example, a Urinary Tract Infection.
- Based on the patient's family connections, Watson is able to use the family history to derive that the mostly likely cause is now diabetes.
- And finally, Watson is able to access a patient's latest tests to derive a final diagnosis.
If you're in the business of IT, this may sound a lot like incident management. And as any level 1 support person can attest, diagnosing the root cause of an incident is much like diagnosing a patient's condition. You need information from multiple sources (e.g. service desk, license, CMDB, monitoring, and asset management systems), but more importantly, it has to be in context, up to date, and delivered in a timely basis to make an accurate diagnosis of the root cause.
The problem has always been that an incident manager, like a doctor, has to jump between tools, entering requests in each system for the right information...and that is time consuming. In some cases, information isn't readily available and must be requested from other sources, not under their direct control.
One of the ways Watson is able to be such a great diagnostician (and incident manager) is through "linked data," which allows it to seek out and find related information on the patient from multiple sources in a fraction of a second to facilitate faster, more accurate patient diagnosis.
Until now, an incident manager did not have this same luxury.
That's where Jazz for Service Management comes in. Jazz is IBM's realtime platform for integrating management across multivendor tools, and across service lifecycle processes and functions. Like Watson, Jazz for service management uses principles of linked data, along with community standards (including OSLC) to support Watson-like service management decisions, regardless of what vendor tools you have in place.
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Map/Reduce style data-parallel computation is characterized by the extensive use of user-defined functions for data processing and relies on data-shuffling stages that prepare data partitions for parallel computation. Instead of treating user-defined functions as "black boxes", we propose to analyze those functions to turn them into "gray boxes" that expose opportunities to optimize data shuffling. We identify useful functional properties for user-defined functions, and propose SUDO, an optimization framework that reasons about data-partition properties, functional properties, and data shuffling. We have assessed this optimization opportunity on over 10,000 data-parallel programs used in production SCOPE clusters, and designed a framework that is incorporated it into the production system. Experiments with real SCOPE programs on real production data have shown that this optimization can save up to 47% in terms of disk and network I/O for shuffling, and up to 48% in terms of cross-pod network traffic.
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Finally I sat down and went through the documents that describe how to upgrade from 5 to 6. I only have an handful users. I also have the posix/samba zimlets in use.
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While none of the ldap start command did work, in the end the upgrade completed successfully.
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The need to stay connected and informed is propelling the growth of new technologies, such as mobility, social media, collaboration, cloud services, and communication. We have entered the age of pervasive technology. This inescapable trend is a perfect storm that provides both tremendous opportunities and significant risks to organizations that embrace the "always on" culture for their customers, trading partners, and employees. Technology services are consumed whenever and wherever needed, and the associated data can be stored anywhere. We are at a point in IT where cloud, mobility, and social media are either being adopted or already in use within organizations across industry verticals. Security remains a key roadblock. This applies to infrastructure, end-point devices and applications as security has to be ensured at each point.
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Businesses have more information to protect at more points against more threats than ever before. In such an environment, businesses can build an effective defense only after they first understand the peculiarities of today's threat landscape and then identify their own specific areas of vulnerability. Armed with this information, enterprises can then develop an information security blueprint that is right for them – one that is comprehensive, proactive, enforceable, and manageable.
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Mississippi will add terrorism to the list of crimes that could lead to the death penalty, if a victim is killed.
Gov. Phil Bryant's spokesman says the governor intends to sign Senate Bill 2223, which will become law July 1.
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It specifies that such intimidation or coercion would not include "peaceful picketing, boycotts or other nonviolent action."
The bill's sponsor is Republican Sen. Chris McDaniel of Ellisville.
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PULLMAN, Wash. - Arizona defeated Washington State 6-5 in Pac-12 Conference baseball, Saturday at Bailey-Brayton Field.
The win for the Wildcats (22-12, 7-7 Pac-12) came in the regularly scheduled game with the Cougars (18-14, 5-6 Pac-12). Earlier in the day, Washington State knocked off Arizona 9-5 in a game that was suspended due to rain, Friday night after seven innings.
Arizona scored a run on two hits in both the second and sixth innings against Washington State starter Tanner Chleborad (3-6) to take a 2-0 lead. After Chleborad hit the leadoff man in the seventh, Cougar hurler J.D. Leckenby came on in relief. Leckenby allowed the inherited runner to score, as well as another run, as Arizona increased its lead to 4-0.
In the bottom of the eighth, Shea Donlin singled to open the frame against Wildcats' starter James Farris (4-3) and scored on a one-out double by Trace Tam Sing. Augey Bill relieved Farris and hit pinch hitter P.J. Jones. After a passed ball, Jason Monda's sacrifice fly scored Tam Sing to cut Washington State's deficit to 4-2.
In bizarre ninth inning, the Wildcats and Cougars combined for five runs without either team recording a hit. Sean Hartnett loaded the bases with one out in the top of the ninth by issuing three walks. Sam Triece relieved Hartnett and recorded the second out on a fielder's choice as a run scored. Triece then gave up a walk and uncorked a wild pitch to allow another run to score and put Arizona on top 6-2.
In the bottom of the inning, Collin Slaybaugh, Yale Rosen and Ian Sagdal walked against Wildcats' closer Mathew Troupe. Tyger Talley replaced Troupe and walked Ben Roberts with one out to force in a run. Pinch hitter J.J. Robinson drove in a run with a ground out and a wild pitch allowed Rosen to score and pull the Cougars within one at 6-5. After Jones was hit by a pitch to put runners at the corners, Talley struck out Monda to record his first save.
"Everyone will point to the ninth inning because everything is magnified late in the game," Cougar Head Coach Donnie Marbut said. "But, we there were eight innings of baseball that led up to that and we didn't do enough to put ourselves in position to win at the end."
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|Weather provides perfect evening for annual community Christmas celebration in Holyoke
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Aubree Kammer was all smiles as she sat upon Santa and Mrs. Claus' lap Monday night for a photograph.
Aidan Tomky, at left and his brother Evan were lucky enough to run into Santa and Mrs. Claus Monday night. The brothers had their Christmas wish lists ready and presented them to Jolly St. Nick.
Reindeer antlers were on display next to the reindeer on the lawn of Phillips County Courthouse. The display gave an up close look into what reindeer are really like.
First Place—Phillips County Extension Office
Second Place—Regent Park/Carriage House
Third Place—St. Patrick's Youth Group
Just some of the goodies being handed out to the public Monday night were hot chocolate and burritos by Family Education Services.
A large crowd lined both sides of S. Interocean Ave. Monday night, Dec. 3 for the annual Parade of Lights.
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I posted the short story in another Nv thread. But here are a couple pics I took of Jason and his deer.
Well here's my update of my buddy's PIW tag. What a disappointment. No snow and now the warm weather has just kick our butts! I was only able to go for 3 full days of hunting and a few hrs here and there spotting from easy access areas were I could look from my truck. My Buddy Jason hunted his ass off and has the blisters on his feet to prove it.
We started off Garson Rd with a 2 hr hike in to my honey hole and found only one non typical 185" buck, he passed, for the next 2 days we looked over the entire Pevine Mt with nothing over a 160" and a huge 3x3 about 27" tall and real heavy but not a shooter for this tag. Jason continued to hunt Garson Rd for the next few days continuing to only see 160" bucks. I had a lead on a monster in Ash Canyon by Carson City and told Jason about it and how to get there but he decided to stay with the Garson Rd area. (I found out a 36" wide 5x5 was killed in Ash Canyon shortly after). This afternoon I was able to get away for a few hrs to scout for Jason around the area by the New expansion bridge being built, we call it Galina Mountain, Jason and his dad were there looking as well only we were on different sides of the Mt. Jason text me he found a 150" buck that was a 4x5 and was heavy so he was going to try to get closer for a better look. Just as that text came through I had located a few bucks on a hill side about 1000 yards from me. One of them looked better then a 150" I was able to drive closer to him since I was in my truck on a dirt road and you probably know what happen last time I was out in my work truck. Anyway I got with in 500 yards of him and saw he was a solid 170" 4x4 with a 2" sticker on his right G2. I immediately text Jason not to shoot that buck and that I found a good buck for him to look at. Then he text me DUCK! I thought oh shizz he's going to shoot. Then he called me. He asked me about the buck I was looking at, I was hopping he got my text in time before he shot but he had shot the buck. Man! I was so bummed out for him. He hunted his ass off and shot a 150" buck after all that work. I didn't have the heart to tell him this buck was so much better and so I down played him to Jason so I wouldnt make him feel bad. All in all he was disappointed he only got a small buck with such a awesome tag but he can say he worked very hard and kept to his benchmark of a 180"+ typical to the end. He said he felt the pressure of not getting anything and being away from home every day was wearing him down so he was done and took the buck.


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May 18–26, 2013 | San Francisco, CA, United States
This website offers a list of activities at the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013) in which Microsoft Research was involved, such as the presentation of papers that were authored or co-authored by members of the Microsoft Research team. You can find links to technologies from Microsoft Research that are available for download or use via the web, including programming language, development, and verification tools and supporting infrastructure. You will also find information about our academic programs that provide support to faculty and students around the world.
The IEEE Software Award for the Best Software Engineering in Practice Paper went to "A Characteristic Study on Failures of Production Distributed Data-Parallel Programs," co-authored by Sihan Li and Tao Xie (North Carolina State University, United States), Hucheng Zhou and Haoxiang Lin (Microsoft Research Asia), Tian Xiao (Tsinghua University, China), Haibo Lin (Microsoft Bing, China), and Wei Lin (Microsoft Bing, United States). Congratulations to the authors!
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- A South Florida teen has collected 1.5
million pennies to commemorate each child killed in the Holocaust.
Thirteen-year-old David Broide, a student at Hillel Community
Day School in North Miami Beach, collected the pennies as a bar
mitvah project. Friends, relatives and classmates helped, and
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already been delivered to the Holocaust Documentation and Education
Center in Hollywood, where they've been collected in bags, jugs,
coin rolls and sandwich bags. The rest are on their way.
Broide overshot his goal by 100,000 pennies. Now he's planning
another project: To collect 6 million pennies, one for every Jew
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While Boeing is forecasting a long-term surge in air cargo demand, a more sobering view was expressed by The International Air Transport Association (IATA) yesterday.
The immediate short-term outlook is so dim, in fact, that IATA announced revisions to its industry forecast.
Spokesmen said profitability remains weak but unchanged at $6.9 billion for a net margin of 1.2 percent this year. Looking ahead to 2012, IATA downgraded its central forecast for airline profits from $4.9 billion to $3.5 billion for a net margin of 0.6 percent.
This is in marked contrast to the recent bullish news coming from one of the world's largest aircraft manufacturers.
"World air cargo traffic will triple over the next 20 years, according to Jim Edgar, regional director of Cargo Marketing for Boeing. "And cargo rates should mirror demand."
"From now through 2029, we expect world air cargo traffic to grow at an annual rate of 5.9 percent," Edgar says. "Asia will continue to be at the forefront of the air cargo industry. Routes associated with Asia will continue to experience the world's highest growth rates over the next 20 years, at 6.8 percent."
But IATA maintained that the Eurozone crisis puts severe downside risk on the 2012 outlook as illustrated by the recently published OECD economic outlook. In a worst case scenario, should the Eurozone crisis evolve into a full-blown banking crises and European recession, IATA estimates that the global aviation industry could suffer losses exceeding $8 billion in 2012.
"The biggest risk facing airline profitability over the next year is the economic turmoil that would result from a failure of governments to resolve the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Such an outcome could lead to losses of over $8 billion—the largest since the 2008 financial crisis," said Tony Tyler, IATA's Director General and CEO.
For the remainder of this year, Tyler was equally circumspect:
"The global forecast for 2011 is unchanged at $6.9 billion. But regional differences have widened, reflecting the very different economic environments facing airlines in different parts of the world. And the overall margin of 1.2 percent tells you just how difficult the battle for profitability in this business is."
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Last night, CBS's 60 Minutes aired its highly anticipated interview with our top commander of the Afghanistan War, General Stanley McChrystal.
General McChrystal has been enlisted by the Obama administration to generate a new war strategy at a time when U.S. casualties are spiking, Taliban militants are rapidly gaining the upper hand, and the Afghan government is mired in corruption.
Despite the addition of nearly 21,000 additional troops this year, General McChrystal is calling for more troops, up to 40,000 more according to some reports. General McChrystal is warning that the United States may lose the war within the next 12-18 months if the situation on the ground further deteriorates.
After watching the interview, I thought I'd share a few of my initial thoughts and impressions.
One would think that such a critical war would merit more attention, especially as our top commander is requesting even more troops and implementing an entirely new strategy. While the interview was extremely respectful of the honorable General, it failed to ask a number of probing questions, questions few seem willing to address as the war ramps up.
Long term, he looks to double the number of Afghan forces to about 400,000, but acknowledges that such a task will take many years. He is adamant that the next twelve months or so are "make or break" for the U.S. effort.
Ret. Lieutenant Colonel, Ralph Peters, also offered his plan for a more limited mission in a recent New York Post article. These plans would save hundreds of billions, reduce casualty counts, lower the incidence of PTSD, prevent Al-Qaeda from rebuilding its safe havens, and specifically define success.
Our precious men and women are dying in a war that is nearly out of control, with no real end in sight. Yet, our President is making appearances on the Letterman Show? Delegating one-on-one discussions with General McChrystal to other officials in the administration doesn't seem quite right. This is a dire situation that needs immediate resolution and decisive leadership.
The interview provided some nice insight into one of our premier military commanders, but it didn't ask a lot of tough questions. Someone needs to start asking the tough questions of our President, Congress, and military. Otherwise, we may find ourselves floating in a decades long war that yields thousands dead, tens of thousands maimed for life, untold psychological horror on our troops and their families, trillions of dollars in additional debt, massive inflation, and a more vulnerable national defense.


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This dataset represents self‐reported performance data by HIV ambulatory care programs. All HIV ambulatory programs throughout New York State with a significant HIV caseload (a total caseload of at least 30 HIV‐infected patients receiving ambulatory HIV care at one or more sites) are expected to self‐report their annual quality of care performance data using standardized submission tools and methodologies. With the assistance of the online eHIVQUAL application, performance data results are instantly available to HIV programs, allowing them to immediately utilize their data findings to prioritize upcoming quality activities, and are available for generating benchmarking reports across New York State. See Limitations regarding redaction of small‐population data.
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HIV Ambulatory Care Quality of Care Performance Results: 2011 Region Average (After Redaction)
This chart summarizes performance at regional and statewide levels. The average clinic score (percentage of "yes" responses) for each region is compared to the average clinic score across the entire state. The default view displays data for viral load suppression, a key outcome measure, but other indicators may be selected under the Filter tab. Additional information about each data point can be obtained by moving your cursor over it.
This overview may be useful for public health officers and researchers. It also enables individual providers and consumers to compare care in their region to that at a particular facility. It should be noted, however, that these are only relative comparisons for the purpose of continuous quality improvement; the statewide average is not intended to define a standard of acceptable performance. Also, the statistical significance of regional performance variation depends on the number of submissions per region, which varies considerably across the state.
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HIV Ambulatory Care Quality of Care Performance Results Map: 2011
This map displays the location and performance data for all participating clinics. The view defaults to a high-level map of the Eastern United States with the entire HIVQUAL data set represented by a large red dot over New York State. Clicking repeatedly on this dot zooms the view into New York, and as the view narrows the single dot is replaced by multiple dots that represent smaller clusters of sites. (Red dots represent aggregated samples of 1000 or more; orange dots represent 100 to 999 patients; and yellow dots represent up to 99 patients).
Each of these dots may be clicked in turn, which zooms the view into that area. Data are eventually displayed at the level of individual clinics, which are represented by small blue dots. Clicking on any of these generates a "flyout" text box that contains the program's name, its facility type, and the name, score and performance quintile for the current indicator. Clicking "view details for this row" will display the entire data point in a table view below the map, including the street address for the clinic.
While it is possible to scroll through the performance for each indicator by clicking repeatedly on the "Next" link in the flyout, it will usually be more convenient to filter the map data to focus on a particular indicator. This can be done by typing a portion of the indicator name in the "Indicator Name contains" text box to the right of the map and then checking the box just to the left of that field. For example, filtering on "domestic" will limit the display to the "Domestic violence screening" indicator. Additional filtering options are provided that allow for focusing on particular types of facilities (e.g., just community health centers) and/or sites that score above any desired threshold value.
In addition to common map navigation options including using the mouse to drag the view or dragging a sliding scale to zoom in or out, there is a button with an arrow and crossed lines that provides a "navigate to here" feature. Entering a street address will refocus the map on that location, and the user can then zoom out to see clinics in that area."
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If OTA is no longer necessary, then, why (less than six months ago) did Congress pump millions of dollars into the digital conversion in order to make sure people could still use OTA?
(because they are idiots is not an acceptable answer).
Analog TV could not be packed, channel next to channel due to original design of transmitters. DTV can, as long as adjacent channels are in the same direction and roughly the same power. If the original plan was to get rid of OTA, they needed time to pick OTA's bones a few MHz at a time. They had to do the converter boxes to fool people into buying into the program. It was a total waste of money, but is it that much in the grand scheme of things?
Satellite will be happy to provide some form of TV to rural. As soon as locals go off the airwaves, cable and satellite will claim they don't have to be carried. I can see a lawsuit with the FCC as how can a provider be required to carry an internet feed, when there are hundreds of internet feeds in local areas? Just because they were a former TV station won't cut it with the courts.
With dramatically reduced viewership, many local channels will simply go out of business because of lack of ad revenue. That will cause the loss of syndicated programming, as they can't make money. Some programming will go to ppv internet downloads, some will die.
The networks will become cable channels at best. With reduced viewership, will ABC, and CBS continue to have a network news operation when they are competing with a dozen other well established 24/7 cable news channels? I assume NBC news will fold into MSNBC and CNBC.
The dramatic reduction in local channels means that there will be a lot of extra space on satellites and cable for additional services. The only issue is that the satellite companies have spent billions of dollars in putting up spacecraft to supply those 1000s of local channels mandated by the FCC. they might be upset with the FCC and want some sort of compensation.
Finally, there will be an issue of not having the ability to get disaster warnings, school closings, etc out to people if there are no local channels anymore. I can see the government mandating software installs on our PCs to ensure we get those alerts (shades of the Chinese, wanting internet filters on their people's PCs), or the government run internet will inject the warnings in our web pages.
It's going to be a rosy future.


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Presentation at Forum on Albanian Anti-Trafficking Efforts
Rayburn Building
May 22, 2007
Good afternoon, my name is Bruce Hintz. I have worked with the Department of Justice's International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (also known as ICITAP) for the past 18 years. ICITAP is a program in the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice that does international law enforcement development work. We implement programs around the world designed to professionalize police institutions in a manner that is wholly consistent with international best practices, human rights standards and the professional and ethical delivery of police services to their respective communities. We have a sister agency in the Department, the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (or OPDAT), and as their name implies they handle the prosecutorial component of the criminal justice equation. As is the case in Albania, ICITAP and OPDAT work together to present a combined criminal justice development front in many countries where the US Government offers rule of law and law enforcement development programs.
From February 2003 until October 2006 I managed ICITAP's Program of support to the Government of Albania. This support focused on five major project areas, almost all of which impact directly or indirectly on combating trafficking in humans. These areas of support are: Border Management, Organized Crime, Academy and Training Development, Professional Accountability and Human Resource Management and the development of an information management system for the police. The US Mission in Albania has identified these areas as being critical to the establishment of security and the rule of law in Albania, which is essential to the overall development of the country and to its objectives of accession to NATO, The European Union and other Euro-Atlantic organizations.
I'll quickly offer a brief description of each of these projects:
Border Management:
Effective Border Management is a critical component of any effort to prevent and eliminate trafficking in human beings. ICITAP is currently offering support to the GOA to develop their border control capabilities. The Border and Migration Police is part of the ASP, therefore the larger ongoing restructuring of the State Police has also had a large impact on the BMP, which is undergoing a complete reorganization to institute a more effective and centralized command and control – an effort that we have supported with assistance in organizational and management reform as well as the development of policies and procedures. Working with the Government of Albania and the international community, ICITAP has supported the development and implementation of the IBM Strategy and Action Plan which seeks to define and formalize the roles and duties of and cooperation among all government entities with responsibilities at the borders.
On the maritime borders, assistance is being offered to strengthen enforcement and controls at the country's seaports. This has included creating and standing up a Port Security Force in the largest Port of Durres initially and the subsequent expansion of this security measure to Albania's other ports handling international traffic. ICITAP has focused its efforts in the ports on supporting Albania's efforts to become compliant with the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS). This has involved comprehensive security assessments, the development of security plans and their sustained implementation through drill and regular audits.
The US Mission in Tirana has placed a high priority on combating Human Trafficking in Albania. For that reason ICITAP was asked to provide full-time advisory support to the Office of the National Coordinator for Combating Human Trafficking, this was prior to Ms. Zajmi's being named as the National Coordinator. The current ICITAP advisor has extensive experience in the field of combating human trafficking in the Balkans. Through his work ICITAP has supported the elaboration of a National Anti-Trafficking Strategy and Plan and its implementation by the Inter-Ministerial Anti-Trafficking Committee and the corresponding, more operational, Inter-Ministerial Focal Points Committee. ICITAP has helped to develop a National Referral Mechanism for the appropriate treatment and processing of victims of trafficking returning to the country. Under the direction of DM Zajmi the Office of the Coordinator has been reorganized and expanded to play a more vital role in coordinating the government's anti-trafficking programs and advocating for a more aggressive and integrated approach. This more aggressive approach has been highlighted by efforts to obtain an agreement with the Government of Greece for the effective processing and repatriation of trafficked children, the creation of a national Responsible Authority for dealing with trafficking and for coordinating and directing the work of regional committees that deal with the problem on the local level.
Coordination of the government's anti-trafficking initiatives is a challenging proposition which calls for ensuring action and follow-up of all of the government ministries and agencies that have responsibilities across the protection, prevention, prosecution and coordination spectrum. It also requires the integration of the efforts of international donors and NGOS. USAID's CAAHT program (Coordinated Action Against Human Trafficking) is one of these programs – it has offered grants to NGO's to support the work of the regional committees and other civil society groups offering different services to raise awareness, protect and reintegrate victims, and so on.
Organized Crime:
Organized criminal groups dominate much of the human trafficking and related criminal activity in Albania and the rest of the Balkans. For that reason and others the US Government and the international community have devoted considerable resources to standing up Albania's capability to effectively investigate and prosecute these groups. ICITAP offers professional advisory support, training and equipment donations to support the development of the ASP's Organized Crime Directorate and its component sectors, which include Anti-Trafficking, Financial Crimes, Anti-Narcotics, Special Operations and Criminal Intelligence Analysis. Significant improvements have been achieved in the conduct of investigations in all areas with improved special investigative techniques, better case management and the analysis and utilization of criminal intelligence for a more effective understanding of criminal groups and activities. ICITAP, in close coordination with our OPDAT colleagues and other international donors is currently focused on the development of a witness protection capability – which is critical to aggressively addressing organized crime – and the creation and development of an Economic Crimes and Corruption Task Force.
Police Academy and Training Development:
An indigenous and effective police training function is critical to sustainable and long-term professionalization of any police institution. For that reason, ICITAP is offering assistance to the Albanian State Police to completely reform its police school and its training function to bring it into line with Western and European best practices. ICITAP's comprehensive program of assistance involved:
1) restructuring the academy – which meant jettisoning the previous two-level 3-year officer and 9-month basic recruit training approach; everyone now enters at the same level and must work their way up through the ranks based on merit.
2) completely redoing the curriculum to make it more practical and relevant - using the Kosovo Police Service School as a model.
3) instituting a 20 week field training program to follow the 20 weeks of classroom instruction.
4) revamping the recruitment and selection process to ensure impartiality and transparency, and
5) creating a training sector in the General Directorate of the ASP
ICITAP has been careful to ensure that the issue of human trafficking is thoroughly covered in the reworked curriculum and in the field training portion of the police instruction. This part of the curriculum has been reviewed by Minister Zajmi's office.
The first class under this new system graduated in February and is currently in the field training portion of their training.
Professional Accountability and Human Resource Management:
ICITAP has worked with the ASP to develop their internal affairs function to effectively investigate official misconduct and criminal behavior. The program is also working to support the development of merit-based personnel management structures, policies, procedures and mechanisms that ensure the advancement of officers based on their qualifications; and for the effective deployment of human and material resources based on actual need and requirements.
The yet-to-be passed state police law and the parallel police reorganization are two initiatives that ICITAP and our counterparts in the international community and the Ministry of Interior have capitalized on and utilized as the definitive instrument to officially and legally establish and sanction the relevant structures and regulations critical to this and other efforts.
The largest project ICITAP is implementing in Albania is the development and installation of a law enforcement information management system that we refer to as TIMS – the Total Information Management System. This is an ambitious project to create a national system – with some 70 sites around the country and at all border crossing points. The system is composed of 4 basic modules:
1) A Border Control Information System: will register and check all persons and vehicles entering or exiting Albania. Hundreds of wanted persons have been identified and detained since installation began in April 2004. The system will include features, such as license and facial recognition at certain points of entry, and can flag possible trafficking scenarios – such as adults frequently crossing the border accompanied by different minors on each occasion – there is a similar feature and alert for vehicles.
2) Case Management Information System: Cases will now be recorded in the system, greatly facilitating the management and processing of cases, the analysis and manipulation of information and the populating of criminal databases.
3) Criminal Records Information System: criminal databases and related information.
4) Criminal Intelligence Information System: This system will utilize criminal intelligence analysis software to analyze information in the rest of the system to identify criminal groups, activity, patterns and modus operandi.
ICITAP's partner in crime fighting, OPDAT, is expanding a version of the system to prosecutors' offices around the country, which should significantly enhance communication and cooperation among the police and government attorneys for a more effective prosecution of criminal groups and individuals.
Progress has been achieved in the fight against human trafficking in Albania, but there are still many hurdles and shortcomings that must be overcome and many challenges to be addressed. However, to gauge and appreciate the progress made thus far, one only has to look back at what has transpired in the country since the fall of communism in 1992, or since the collapse of the government in 1997. Government institutions were much weaker and were only beginning to stand up and function with any effectiveness. Illegal immigration along with the trafficking was completely out of control. Traffickers and smugglers in their speed boats used to operate openly without fear of arrest and prosecution in the bay of Vlora in the southern part of the country, picking up their human cargo and speeding across the Adriatic to deliver it to the coast of Italy. The Government took its first big step in dealing with the problem in August of 2002 by rounding up the speed boats confiscating some and burning the rest. Since that time, the Government has become more serious about - and more effective in dealing with - this serious problem and the numbers of people trafficked have steadily come down. The progress has been gradual and has been moved along with considerable help and encouragement from the international community and NGO's. Some of this encouragement and motivation has come in the form of the State Department's annual assessment of performance, the Trafficking in Persons Report. For the Government of Albania, Deputy Minister of Interior and National Coordinator Iva Zajmi has played a significant role in addressing this serious problem, raising its profile and making the government accountable and responsive to the demands that trafficking places on it. As US and international funding for development in Albania gradually decrease over the next years, Albania will need more government officials like Ms. Zajmi who truly understand the issues and are dedicated to addressing them.
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NEW MARTINSVILLE - It was June 29 when severe weather raged through West Virginia and the Ohio Valley, knocking out power in most of the state, leaving some places in shambles.
New Martinsville was certainly one of those places. A town where everybody knows everybody saw plenty of damage, but the biggest shock came at Alumni Field.
The press box at the football field, less than two years old, came crashing down.
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Work is being done to complete Magnolia's press box in time for tonight's game against Tyler Consolidated.
''We couldn't believe it,'' Magnolia principal Kathi Schmalz said. ''The storm came June 29 and the football season was so close. We didn't know what we were going to do.''
The three-story press box was constructed in the summer of 2010 and replaced another building that had become obsolete. The bottom level, made with concrete blocks, was used for storage. The middle level was used by game-night workers and members of the media, while the top level was for coaches and videographers.
A little more than two months later, Alumni Field will again debut a new press box when Magnolia plays host to Tyler Consolidated tonight.
Work began early this week piecing together the two-story building, which saw everyone from football coach Mark Batton, athletics director Brian Castilow, and numerous members of the community lend a helping hand.
''I really have to thank the board of education and (superintendent) Diane Watt for helping getting this thing going,'' Schmalz said. ''The task has been very trying, just having to work with insurance companies and with building it. We lost a lot of the contents and not much was salvageable.
''But the building is put together. It has windows and the siding is coming along.''
The damage was estimated at $150,000 and the insurance company was able to pay most of that.
''Luckily when we built it, the superintendent approved for us to have it insured and that is what really saved us,'' Schmalz said. ''It didn't cover everything but we are working to put together the rest of the funds.''
As talks began immediately about construction of the new press box, Schmalz made sure the steel company was ready to guarantee this would never happen again.
She was assured it wouldn't.
The field got by the past two weeks as Magnolia and River, playing there this season because of construction around its high school, were able to use lifts to put people up high to operate the scoreboard and use spotters.
''We somehow pulled it off,'' Schmalz said.
Tonight will be a different story.
Back into the building will go the newspaper reporters, radio guys, scoreboard operators, spotters, and coaches. The press box will be very similar to the previous one.
''It's been a huge relief, but we are so glad it is back,'' Schmalz said. ''This is all for the kids.''
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