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- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011
- Stakeholder type: Major Group
- Name: The Nature Conservancy
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Full SubmissionSUBMISSION FROM THE NATURE CONSERVANCY TO THE COMPILATION DOCUMENT, AS THE BASIS FOR PREPARATION FOR THE ZERO-DRAFT OUTCOME DOCUMENT FOR UNCSD 2012 (RIO+20)
In order to address new and emerging challenges, and plan for a future which allows all people to live sustainably, it is essential that natural resources are managed effectively. Healthy ecosystems are the very foundation upon which societies depend, through critical ecosystem services such as: food and water security; materials for shelter; income from tourism and sustainable use of terrestrial and marine resources; and protection from climate change impacts and natural disasters. We are, however, currently degrading that natural capital at a rate that threatens human development. In October 2011, global population reached 7 billion; by 2050, it is predicted to be over 9 billion. By that time, the world will likely add another 3 billion middle class consumers. Increasing demands on food and water, and the expansion of hard infrastructure have created a ?nexus of need? for those with responsibility for, and expertise in, human development planning and environmental management to work cooperatively and, indeed, seamlessly, to adopt a holistic approach to future planning. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity report estimated that under a business-as-usual scenario, ?a year?s natural capital loss would lead to a loss of ecosystem services worth in the order of US$2.0-4.5 trillion over a 50 year period? ? as much or more than the total financial capital lost during the 2008 financial crisis. If we do not become more conscious of the impacts of our actions, and collectively change our practices accordingly, resource constraints, natural capital loss and climate change will produce negative feedbacks that could limit sustained and sustainable development and growth.
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) provides a unique opportunity to address these challenges, particularly through the theme of ?a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication?. A green economy is one that is ecologically and economically healthy and productive, which provides social benefits to improve people?s lives. The maintenance of healthy natural resources, which has been a theme running through international discourse and documents over the past few decades, including the legally-binding, as well as ?soft? law outcomes from the 1992 UN Conference on the Environment and Development, and the targets and timetables in the 2002 Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, underpins our collective capacity to achieve a green economy. Addressing implementation of such commitments through appropriate enabling conditions, tools and policies that facilitate the development and ?scaling up? of innovative approaches should be a core issue in the outcome document for Rio+20.
With reference to a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, the Rio+20 outcome document should refer to the following issues as necessary to create a new global development paradigm: ? Recognizing the fundamental role of nature as a solution-provider to development challenges, such as food, water, and energy security, poverty alleviation and human health, further efforts to mainstream and integrate the values of ecosystem services as integral to development planning are necessary. In particular:
o Improving valuations of natural capital as part of national accounting frameworks.
o Scaling up payments for ecosystem services across sectors.
o Creating supportive policies and incentives to mainstream the value of nature, and activities to maintain natural systems, into development planning processes.
o Creating policies that position natural infrastructure as a building block for a new green economy, by integrating natural infrastructure into the processes of infrastructure planning and investment.
o Creating policies which enable planning at whole river basin scales.
Example: Through payments for ecosystem services mechanisms such as ?water funds?, operational in Latin America, downstream water users, such as municipalities and corporations, are compensating upstream land managers to keep the watersheds clean and healthy. This public-private partnership for ecosystem services ensures continued water quality and availability for cities, and provides a more sustainable and cost-effective solution than the ?gray? alternative: construction and maintenance of water treatment plants. Valuing natural capital, through payments for ecosystem services, should be included in the outcomes for Rio+20.
? Recognizing the importance of oceans and coasts to achieving economic and social development objectives (often referred to as a ?blue economy?), it is imperative to catalyze action towards achieving sustainable management of oceans and coasts. Notably, sustaining the economic prosperity and welfare of coastal communities and states will require implementing and scaling up a suite of marine and coastal conservation tools and community planning initiatives. In particular:
o Scaling up efforts to protect and restore critical ecosystems that provide important ecosystem services and social and economic benefits.
o Mainstreaming the value and importance of marine and coastal ecosystem services and promoting ecosystem based approaches in adaptation to the impacts of climate change and disaster risk reduction strategies.
o Integrating ecosystem considerations into marine and coastal development planning through the use of marine spatial planning and strategic environmental assessments.
o Improving sustainability of fisheries, and in particular coastal fisheries, through leveraging community-based and rights-based approaches to fisheries management and galvanizing investments in, and market demand for, sustainable seafood that supports and facilitates reforms in fisheries management. o Promoting sustainability standards and increased sound investments in ocean businesses and technologies. Example: Through the Micronesia Challenge, the Caribbean Challenge, the Coral Triangle Initiative, and the progression of the new Western Indian Ocean and Coastal Challenge, island and coastal states are responding to common challenges and working together to sustainably manage their natural resource base. In the Micronesian sub-region, the three independent states and two US trust territories are completing the process of valuing their ecosystem services and the financial cost to maintain them, and established the Micronesia Conservation Trust to fund sustainable development activities in perpetuity. By working collectively, these states are better able to share experiences, leverage their successes, and plan for the future. In order that these commitments to sustainable marine resource management become the effective building blocks within the context of a new green economy, and so that the international community can learn from their respective challenges and innovative solutions, further efforts to integrate and invest in such experiences will be necessary. ? Recognizing the asset value of ecosystem services, all actors (states, private sector and civil society) need to cooperate in developing new and innovative finance mechanisms within a green economy to provide sustainable sources of funding for natural resource management and social development planning. Such mechanisms include debt-for-nature swaps; conservation trust funds; and compensation for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation. Example: Debt loads of developing countries are an ongoing burden which greatly limits their ability to implement effective development plans and reduce poverty. Recently, by forgiving a portion of such debt, the United States has increased Indonesia?s capacity, both immediate and long-term, in relation to management of the forest sector. Increasing the use of debt swaps as a finance mechanism within the green economy, has the potential to accelerate the achievement of sustainable development and poverty eradication. ? Recognizing the contribution of all actors (public, private and civil society) in establishing a new holistic green economy, and noting that many are not formally represented in traditional international legal processes, the creation of international norms needs to further evolve, to one that includes a suite of more flexible and open approaches involving actors from a range of sectors and interests. The current nine major groups? framework does not allow the kind of collaborative and open exchange of ideas and lessons that will be required within a new sustainable development paradigm. Example: The Nature Conservancy and Dow Chemical have embarked upon a collboaration to help Dow and other companies recognize, value and incorporate nature into global business goals, decisions and strategies. The aim of the collaboration is to advance the incorporation of the value of nature into business, and to take action to protect the earth?s natural systems and the services they provide people, for the benefit of business and society. The lessons they learn will also help governments, at national and sub-national levels, as well as other corporations and organizations, to more accurately value their ecosystem services and plan both for the immediate and long-term. There is currently, however, no space within the international system for such lessons to be shared. Creating the space for non-state actors to interact more effectively with governments would help ensure that relevant expertise is available to assist societies in finding creative solutions to the challenges they face with regard to transitioning to a green economy within the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. ? Recognizing that for the outcomes of Rio+20 to be effective, they will need to be integrated into a number of multilateral processes related to sustainable development. Of particular importance, the revision of the Millennium Development Goals provides a critical opportunity to learn from past experiences and include new and innovative approaches that have proven to be cost-effective, sustainable and have multiple benefits. Over the past few decades, there are a number of examples that demonstrate that nature-based solutions have contributed to solving key development challenges. Sustainable management of natural resources can, and should, be given a higher priority within the global development agenda and be further integrated in other development goals particularly in preparation for the post-2015 development framework. Conclusion The Rio+20 outcome document should focus on what is required to implement the commitments and pledges already delivered in previous sustainable development fora and documents, and include what we have learned, and what we need to focus on to improve our planning, as guided by science. We know that forest conservation is a low-cost solution to a significant part of the climate mitigation problem, comprising up to 40% of the cost-effective near-term measures to limit warming to 2 degrees. We know from experiences in New York City, Bogota and Quito that upper watershed conservation is a cost-effective solution to water quality and availability issues for cities, compared to building filtration plants. We know from Thailand and Vietnam and Louisiana that restoring mangroves and coastal estuaries is a cost-effective way to protect coastal communities and infrastructure. The outcome document should provide a way forward to build upon these concepts, including in discussions across the Financing for development, sustainable development, environment, climate change and biodiversity-related fora within the UN system. Rio+20 needs to commit to a global investment program in the planet?s natural capital, because the earth?s natural systems are cost-effective solution providers.


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The following people were arrested on felony charges by law enforcement agencies in Davidson County, and, unless noted otherwise, were either placed in the Davidson County Detention Center or released from custody and are scheduled to appear in Lexington District Court on the date given:
• Cabrairra Sanchez Robinson, 36, of 914 W. Fifth Ave., Apt. F, was charged with felony larceny of a motor vehicle and felony breaking and entering of a motor vehicle, $2,000 secured bond, April 8.
• Jason Tyler Simmons, 16, of 313-B James Ave., Thomasville, was charged with felony possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana and felony consume alcohol by being less than 19 years old, $2,500 secured bond, April 10.
• Roseanna Nicole Baken, 29, of 329 Walker St., Thomasville, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, felony possession of heroin, felony maintaining a vehicle/dwelling/place for controlled substance and possession of marijuana up to one-half ounce to one-and-one-half ounces, $2,500 secured bond, March 27, Thomasville.
• Jerry Lee Holly Jr., 29, of 131 Ed Tysor Road, Lot 3, was charged with felony possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, felony maintaining a vehicle/dwelling/place for controlled substance and driving while license revoked, $2,000 secured bond, April 4.
• Cari Grubb Hartley, 36, of 103A Lakeview Drive, Thomasville, was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance on prison/jail premises, $1,000 secured bond, March 27.
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2011: Started all 13 games at tailback ... named first-team All-Pac-12 ... honorable mention All-America from Sports Illustrated ... at or near the top of every major UW rushing record ... finished the season with 1,488 yards on 293 carries with 12 rushing touchdowns ... 1,488 yards were second-most in UW history, 293 carries ranked No. 2 and 12 rush TDs tied for seventh ... 16 total touchdowns (rushing and receiving) are tied for fifth in UW single-season history ... also second in career rushing yards (4,049), first in career carries (799) and tied for eighth in career rushing TDs (26) ... one of only seven players in Pac-12 Conference history to top 4,000 yards rushing ... 30 total career TDs (rushing and receiving) are tied for sixth ... also holds the UW record for career 100-yard games (21) and, along with Napoleon Kaufman, is one of only two Huskies ever to rush for 1,000 yards in three different seasons ... owns the No. 2 (1,488 yards in 2011), No. 3 (1,415 yards in 2010) and No. 9 (1,113 yards in 2009) rushing seasons in Washington history ... gained 100 yards in 10 of 13 games in 2011 ... finished with 147 yards on 30 carries, with one TD, in the Alamo Bowl ... top game was in the win over Arizona, when he rushed for 144 yards and four touchdowns (tied for fourth in UW single-game history) on 34 carries and also caught four passes for 100 yards and a TD ... first player in UW history to gain 100 yards in both rushing and receiving in the same game ... named Pac-12 Player of the Week after the Arizona game ... rushed for a season-high 189 yards on 29 carries at Utah ... opened the season with 125 yards on 23 carries vs. Eastern Washington ... rushed for 107 and a TD on 22 attempts vs. Hawai'i ... gained 130 yards on 22 carries, with one TD, at Nebraska ... held to 60 yards rushing on 20 carries (one TD) by Cal, but caught four passes for 85 yards and a 70-yard TD vs. the Bears ... 117 yards on 18 carries, plus a 14-yard TD reception vs. Colorado ... 144 rush yards and two TDs on 15 carries at Stanford ... 24 carries for 80 yards, plus a career-high six receptions for 31 yards vs. Oregon ... 109 yards rushing on 25 tries at Oregon State ... scored on the ground and through the air in the Apple Cup ... rushed for 100 yards and a TD on 22 carries and caught two passes for 36 yards and a score vs. WSU ... named the Sports Radio KJR Most Outstanding Offensive Player at the postseason team banquet for the third straight season... a Doak Walker Award semi-finalist.
2010: Started all 13 games at tailback ... named to the All-Pac-10 second team ... finished the regular season ranked No. 17 in the nation and No. 2 in the Pac-10 with 103.17 rushing yards per game ... also ranked No. 4 in the Pac-10 with 116.67 all-purpose yards per game ... posted just the 14th 1,000-yard rushing season in UW history, and his second in a row, finishing the season with 1,415 yards, second-most in UW history ... joins Napoleon Kaufman (1992-94) and Greg Lewis (1989-90) as the only Huskies ever to rush for 1,000 in more than one season ... currently ranks No. 6 in UW history with 2,561 career rushing yards, with two seasons yet to play ... 260 carries in 2010 were third-most in UW history and 506 career carries ranks No. 8 all-time ... average of 108.8 yards per game in 2010 is No. 7 on the UW charts while his career average of 94.9 yards per game is No. 1 in school history ... named the offensive MVP of the Holiday Bowl after rushing for 177 yards and one touchdown on a career-high 34 carries ... also caught two passes in the win over No. 18 Nebraska ... closed out the regular season with the second-best single-game rushing performance in Washington history, gaining 284 yards on 29 carries at Washington State ... set new career highs in carries, yards and touchdowns (two) in that game ... scored from 57 and 2 yards out vs. WSU ... named the Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Week after the Washington State game ... scored the winning touchdown on the final play of the game at California, running in from a yard out with the Huskies trailing 13-10 ... rushed for 86 yards on 18 carries vs. Cal ... set then-career bests with 138 yards on 26 carries, including a TD, in the 24-7 win over UCLA ... ran for 117 yards and a TD on 20 carries in 41-20 win over Syracuse ... picked up 110 yards on 18 rushes vs. Arizona State ... 105 yards on 25 carries in the overtime win over Oregon State ... season-high four catches and 50 yards receiving in 32-31 win at USC, when he also rushed for 92 yards and a TD on 13 attempts ... 92 yards on 16 carries in season opener at BYU ... won the 950 KJR Most Valuable Offensive Player award at the team banquet ... also picked up the Earle T. Glant Tough Husky Award.
2009: Had the best season by a freshman tailback in UW history ... was the first Husky freshman ever to break 1,000 yards rushing in a season, finishing the year with 1,113 yards on 226 carries ... 1,113 yards were seventh-most in Washington history ... just the 10th different Washington player to rush for 1,000 yards in a season ... named a second-team Freshman All-America by College Football News and a third-team Freshman All-America by Phil Steele ... honorable mention All-Pac-10 and first-team Freshman All-Pac-10 by The Sporting News ... won the 950 KJR Most Valuable Offensive Player Award at the team's postseason banquet ... had five 100-yard rushing games during the season, including four in a row ... four consecutive 100-yard games tied for third-most in UW history ... started all 12 games at tailback and also returned kickoffs ... opened the season by rushing for 90 yards on 21 carries vs. LSU ... 19 carries for 80 yards and a score vs. Idaho ... rushed for 71 yards on 25 carries and had three catches for 22 yards in the 16-13 win over No. 3 USC ... 19 carries for 75 yards at Stanford ... first 100-yard game came at Notre Dame, when he rushed for 136 yards on 22 carries ... 12 carries for 51 yards and a touchdown at Arizona State ... rushed for 104 yards and a TD on 18 carries vs. Oregon ... followed that with 132 yards on 15 carries and 13 yards on four receptions (a season-high) at UCLA ... at Oregon State, carried the ball 19 times for 116 yards while also returning five kickoffs for 81 yards ... in the 30-0 Apple Cup win over Washington State, ran the fall 25 times for 130 yards and a score ... rushed for 94 yards and one touchdown, with two kick returns for 52 yards, in the 42-10 victory over No. 19 California in the season finale.
2008: Played in the Huskies' first two games of the season, starting at tailback vs. Oregon and Brigham Young before injuries forced him to miss the remainder of the season ... one of 12 true freshman to play in 2008, and one of nine to start at least one game ... qualified for an injury redshirt year due to the injury ... carried the ball 14 times for 19 yards at Oregon and six times for 14 yards vs. Brigham Young, when he also had one reception.
HIGH SCHOOL & PERSONAL: Enrolled at the UW in January for the start of the winter, 2008, quarter ... named a PrepStar All-American at running back following senior season ... a Superprep All-America pick as the nation's No. 7 running back and the No. 14 overall prospect in the Far West region ... one of 14 running backs listed on the Tacoma News-Tribune's Western 100 ... member of the Orange County Register's "Fab 15" second team ... rated as the No. 18 football recruit in California, the No. 4 "all-purpose back" in the country and the No. 139 overall prospect in the nation by Rivals.com ... ranked the nation's No. 99 overall prospect by Scout.com ... as a senior, rushed for 2,561 yards and 29 touchdowns while catching 18 balls for 314 yards and five TDs, playing primarily tailback ... led team to a 12-1 overall record and the Inland Division semifinals ... had a game as a senior in which he rushed for 214 yards on only five carries ... in a 28-27 win over Miller, rushed for 259 yards and three TDs on 25 carries ... in the first round of the Inland Division playoffs, rushed for 331 yards and four scores on 26 carries as REV beat Murrietta Valley, 60-53 ... scored the winning touchdown on a 51-yard run with two minutes to play ... averaged 10.9 yards per carry as a senior ... scored 68 touchdowns over his career ... named the San Bernardino County Player of the Year by both the San Bernardino Sun and the Riverside Press-Enterprise ... named a first-team all-state selection by CalHiSports as a running back/wide receiver ... earned first-team All-CIF Southern Section Inland Division ... as a junior, caught 62 passes for 1,167 yards and 12 touchdowns, playing alongside fellow Huskies Ronnie Fouch and Marquis Persley (both one year older) ... played for coach Kurt Bruich.
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ZF-2540: Support optional parameters in methods in Zend_Rest_Server
Zend_Rest_Server does not currently support optional parameters for REST methods. It currently requires all parameters to be passed to the method.
I have attached a small patch that enables support for optional parameters, and changed the error logic to only throw an error when one or more required parameters are mssing.
This patch adds optional argument support for Zend_Rest_Server.
This is an alternate patch for consideration. It only contains three new lines to support optional parameters.
If you are not able to commit a patch to trunk, you should un-assign the issue from you. Otherwise you should commit the patch. :-)
Thanks for the tip, Thomas! I don't have access to commit (yet), so I unassigned the issue.
Here is a comment from matthew:
We cannot use the patch as is. The functionality needs to be added at the Zend_Server_Reflection level (the patch provided is a band-aid and would not fix the same type of issue with the XML-RPC server). Additionally, the patches do notinclude unit tests, and we cannot integrate without unit tests.
So we will not add this patch as is... but see the benefit of functionality. We will cover this later on... Feel free to add this functionality the way matthew described.
Every help is appreciated.
What changes need to be done exactly on Zend_Server_Reflection? I'll add the unit tests too, just need to know what needs to be done on the Reflection side.
This feature has to be added to the Reflection Class which is the origin of Zend_Rest. So we have a solution for all classes which extend Zend_Server (Zend_Rest, Zend_XmlRpc, Zend_Server, Zend_Http...).
If you do not know what exactly to do, it would be best to ask Matthew in the webservices mailinglist as he is the Server-Guru ;-)
Scheduling for next minor release.
It seems ZF-1949 also fixed this issue.
Was already fixed by ZF-1949


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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:55 am
Post subject: How are RITA Awards determined?
What criteria does the RWA use to nominate books for the RITAs? Who votes to determine the winner? Also, aren't they a bit heavy on the category/series books? (I read Harlequins but don't think they are that big a part of romance fiction.)
Very surprised by some of the winners.
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Authors or their publishers enter their books in the Rita contest every fall. Part of the problem is, the contest fills very quickly, so if an author isn't fast enough, the contest closes before they have a chance to enter. I think it filled up in less than a week this year.
The first round judges are volunteers from among the published authors in the RWA. Each book goes to 5 judges who give a score from 1-9 (one is low) with decimal increments allowed, based on their appreciation of the book. Top ten percent of each category is named a finalist. The finalists go on to another panel of judges who, I believe, are also published authors. I'm not sure what their judging criteria are.
As for being category heavy, there's a separate category for contemporary category. In historical or Regency, say, the categories are mixed in with the single titles, but if the categories happen to final over the single titles, that's on the judges.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:55 pm
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Yes, the Series category is the largest (although at least some of the series books get siphoned off into the Series Romantic Suspense category), so the odds are definitely higher in Series. But, as with the other categories, their are no more than nine finalists slots, and the scores must tally over a certain amount in order for a book to final.
For the second round, five *different* authors (IOW, if you judged the book in prelims, you don't judge it again for the final round) get all the books that finaled, and must rank them in order of preference. Then the ranks #s are tallied to determine the winner.
As was said above, the entries #s are limited (currently to 1200). That aside, not all authors enter. It's not a perfect system, but considering the vast number of books released each year in the genre, I'm not sure how else the contest could be handled.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:47 pm
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I suppose that the RITA's are awards from one's peers is the reason they are judged by other writers. It's curious though. Writers, I think, would, even if they were avid readers themselves, judge a book differently from readers, taking into account things that readers would probably ignore completely were a particular book to their taste. I'd be curious to know how well books that receive the RITA succeed amongst readers. Does anybody have that information?
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I read only one of the winners - The Black Hawk by Joanna Bourne (Yeah! for it winning!), and was familiar only with a few of the other winning authors.
Which makes me feel kind of ...inadequate as a romance reader. Do I need to turn in my romance reader badge?
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LOL, Jaime -- no, I think you're still good.
There are reader contests (such as the Reader's Choice contest), although those are also usually limited to books authors have entered. Then the batches are sent out to be judged, just as with the RITAs, except to non-authors. To have an open contest where readers simply nominate their faves, while valid in theory, also limits the nominations/winners in another way -- what constitutes a book's popularity is often limited by its availability (although the proliferation of ebooks is beginning to mitigate that somewhat). At least in times past, readers tended to pick up books based on an author's already established popularity, rather than on buzz about the book itself. Yes, occasionally word-of-mouth catapulted a newbie into the spotlight, but an author with a solid following was more likely to win reader contests than not, since more people read her books. One thing I've always loved about the RITAs is the opportunity it often gives otherwise overlooked books/authors by saying, "Here's a gem you might have missed."
That's not to say, of course, that every reader will love every RITA winner, anymore than everyone loves even those authors/books deemed most popular by the majority of romance readers. I agree, authors may approach judging differently than non-authors -- but we're still readers, still moved (or not) by the same things that move non-authors. As judges, we still want to feel an emotional connection to the characters, still have to be swept up in the world the author has created, still want to think about the book long after I've finished it. We're just more able to articulate *why* a book works for us, perhaps. And if it takes *more* to fire an experienced author's jets, I don't necessarily think that's not a bad thing, IMO.
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jaime wrote:
I read only one of the winners - The Black Hawk by Joanna Bourne (Yeah! for it winning!), and was familiar only with a few of the other winning authors.
Which makes me feel kind of ...inadequate as a romance reader. Do I need to turn in my romance reader badge?
I certainly hope not as I'v only read two of the winners
(A Night To Surrender by Tessa Dare and Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison) I'm rather fond of my romance reader badge, Its 50 shades of happiness!
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I actually make a point to read the RITA nominees when I can and they average out at a B- for me. That said, every year, from 2006 I have picked up between one and six new authors from them so they are definitely worth checking out!
Personally I like how the Nebulas are decided, or used to be - I gather it may have changed in the last few years. Anyone on the membership can nominate a story and it has twelve months from the date of publication to get nominated. The nominations get published on a list on their website and then can be endorsed by other members - the books / novellas with the highest level of endorsements become the finalists and those are judged. Yes, it's a bit of a popularity contest but it only takes one nomination to get on the long list and that in itself will increase the number of people who read the story. That said I still tend to prefer finalists over winners.
I think industry judged contests are going to have slightly different outcomes to reader judged ones - simply because writers can appreciate the skill involved whereas readers only appreciate the results!
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I've actually read three of the winners (The Black Hawk by Joanna Bourne, A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare, and I Love the Earl by Caroline Linden). I feel very proud of myself.
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The introduction of non-orthogonal atomic orbitals, into the tight-binding approximation, gives rise to the existence of overlap terms in electronic band-structure calculations. In contrast to the zero-overlap situation, it is helpful to employ a tensorial Green-function approach to access the surfa...
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ZF-8848: A conditional headScript() doesn't output indent correctly
Consider this code in a view script:
'text/javascript', array('conditional'=>'IE'));
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Note that the indent has occurred before the conditional is applied.
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Going forward, there's no need to apply fixes to the 1.9 branch; we've done the last bugfix release on that branch at this time.
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with merging non BC breaking bugfixes into older branches? I can imagine companies who can't upgrade to a next minor version appreciate it, besides that. though ZF is bugfree, we just may have another security release some time.
Dolf: we (a) don't have enough resources to backport, and (b) don't have a policy on the practice.
As for (a), to given an example: the backports for the security patches sometimes took up to an hour per patch per release branch, due to differences between branches. This kind of effort takes a fair bit of time.
As for (b), if some contributors backport, and others don't, we have very inconsistent trees between different release branches. Additionally, since there's no policy, how far back will we go? previous release branch? previous 3? all the way back to 1.6 so that developers on PHP < 5.2.4 have the fixes? And who's keeping an eye on the unit tests for the previous branches, and ensuring a bugfix doesn't break the tree?
At this time, it's easiest to simply say that the release tree stays as it was for the last release on that branch, with the exception of security fixes (the security policy states we will patch the previous two release branches in addition to the current one).
Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification, and enjoy your weekend (as long as it's got to last ;))


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53 boys enjoyed hunting with Operation Orphans, Inc. December 5th and harvested 70 animals. Animals taken during the hunt were 49 whitetail does, 5 spikes, 11 bucks, 3 feral hogs, 1 axis and 1 sika. Homes bringing boys to hunt were Sweeten Home, Brownwood; Gulf Coast Trade Center, New Waverly; Cox Foster Home, Orange; West Texas Boys Ranch, San Angelo; Ramirez Foster Home, Converse; Acuna Foster Home, La Porte; Araujo Foster Home, Elmendorf; Methodist Boys Ranch, Waco; and Lawrence Foster Home, Beaumont. The boys and their guides spent the day on 14 area ranches. Ranches hosting the hunting groups were Bar 7 Ranch, Gillespie county; Brady Lake, McCulloch; Burkhalter Ranch, Mason; Craft Alaca, Blanco; Crooked E Ranch, Blanco; Fallen Oaks, Mason; Indian Springs Ranch, Kerr; IX Ranch, Mason; Karl Ransleben, Gillespie; Lov Kuykendall, San Saba; Northcutt Ranch, Mason; Pfueffer Land Ltd., Schleicher; Smith Ranch, Mason; and Stone Throw Ranch, Mason.
The final hunt of the Operation Orphans, Inc. 2015-16 season will take place January 9, 2016. During the 3 hunts held earlier this season, 29 girls and 100 boys harvested 177 animals. In the 56 years of the program, 18,250 youngsters have participated.
Individuals who prepared the sack lunches during the hunts were Mary Lisa Stulty, Barbara Collard, June Durst, Erin Lehmberg, Sherry Lehmberg, Della Osbourn, Bentley Whinham, and Christy and Lex Lehmberg. Mason Bottling Company supplied soft drinks for the lunches.
Individuals who desire additional information about the Operation Orphans, Inc. hunting and fishing programs should refer to the website: operationorphans.org or contact camp supervisors, Jerry or Lyla Crouch, phone: 325.347.6745. Operation Orphans, Inc. accepts gently used camouflage clothing and boots, warm gloves and toboggans.


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Vietnam War: M-16 M-14 and Other Rifle Groups: Department of Defense Reports, Field Manuals, and Training Film
about half way down the page in the link you'll see where the army tested a batch of about 21,000 rounds of steel cased 5.56 ammo in m16 rifles.
the army deemed it good enough except for it rusting after being exposed to the elements.
now i have seen mall-ninjas go on and on about how bad steel is for an AR-15,m16--LOL
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UCLA is seeking its sixth conference title.
Freshman Alison Lee ties for 29th at two-over par.
Erynne Lee ties for fifth with subpar final round.
Alison Lee moves into a tie for 47th with a subpar round.
Lee and Ridderstrom post 71s in the second round.
Freshman makes the cut on the number.
Ani Gulugian tied with South Carolina's Katelyn Dambaugh for the best round of the day at 68 (-4).
Alison Lee opens with three-over par score.
Bruins have won this event five times, last in 2012.
UCLA freshman will tee it up at the LPGA's first major.
Alison Lee finishes fourth; Erynne Lee captures fifth.
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This Sunday, March 25, the Emmy award-winning television show Mad Men returns to Sunday nights. As a build up to the season five premiere, AMC has done a major marketing push with print, online and outdoor ads.
Have you been wondering who is behind the retro-looking images? It's Los Angeles-based Frank Ockenfels 3, who is represented by Eye Forward. Working with AMC and The Refinery's Brad Hochberg, Ockenfels photographed all of the show's leads in character. In a recent interview with The New York Times, show creator Matthew Weiner said the central image of the campaign, which shows Don Draper staring at his own reflection in a store window, is supposed to be "dreamlike." It's also meant to build up anticipation of the show's premiere, since Mad Men had a longer than usual break between season four and season five due to negotiations between Weiner and the network.
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A donation and a grant are the main agenda items for Tuesday's Arkansas County Quorum Court meeting in DeWitt.
The nine Justices of the Peace will meet at 9:30 a.m. at the Arkansas County Courthouse to recognize a $3,400 historical society donation for the restoration of books in the circuit clerk's office.
They are also being asked to consider a resolution for a $19,702.65 automation fund grant application for the circuit clerk's office through the Association of Arkansas Counties.
Circuit Clerk Sarah Merchant said the application would be for the office's second phase in imaging its records. If the grant is received, the funding would allow the office to complete book imaging in the DeWitt office.
A third grant would be sought next year to complete book imaging in Stuttgart.
Treasurer Charles Horton and Sheriff Allen Cheek will also give updates for their offices. The budget and finance committee and the road and sanitation committee will meet at 8:30 a.m. in the quorum court conference room while the records, preservation and restoration committee will meet immediately following quorum court in the circuit clerk's vault.
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Lightweight Men Place Fifth At Eastern Sprints; 2V Earns Bronze Medal
For head coach Marty Crotty, there was plenty of satisfaction in the competitive fight put forth by his varsity eight, even if it fell short of the medal stand.
"I thought the three crews that won today were really good, and I take my hat off to them," said the fourth-year head coach. "I wish we hadn't gotten nipped at the end, but our guys were really aggressive those first 1,000 meters. We didn't work this hard for fifth place, but this is a building process, and I'm excited to work with these guys the next two weeks."
Princeton finished fifth overall in 6:13.45, which was less than a tenth of a second behind Columbia; the Lions, who Princeton defeated in the season finale, passed the Tigers for fourth during the final strokes of the race.
Princeton, as well as the rest of the lightweight field, will get another shot at dethroning Harvard in two weeks when the best boats in the country head to Sacramento, Calif., for the 2013 IRA national championships.
While the varsity eight will be seeking some hardware, the second varsity grabbed bronze medals in their Eastern finale. While Cornell and Harvard ended up posting their own golden duel, which the Big Red won by less than one second, Princeton fought off the remaining three boats to take third by more than three seconds.
"The 2V had a good race, and they weren't too far behind getting locked in that duel with Cornell and Harvard," Crotty said. "Those are the kinds of battles you have to get locked in, where they bring out that extra two or three percent. But it's nice to have something around your neck, even if you wanted the top of the podium."
Members of the second varsity will head to Sacramento to compete as a four, while four members of the lightweight freshmen (who finished fifth Sunday) will join four freshmen in the heavyweight third varsity to compete as a freshman eight at IRAs.
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1 Harvard 6:03.607
2 Yale 6:07.967
3 Dartmouth 6:09.798
4 Columbia 6:13.371
5 Princeton 6:13.451
6 Cornell 6:16.839
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2 Harvard 6:22.199
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4 Yale 6:37.360
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4 Dartmouth 6:37.500
5 Princeton 6:38.932
6 Harvard 6:39.817
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2 Cornell 6:48.754
3 Harvard 6:50.958
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As the world has been fixated on the election so have I and as a result I am well over due for an article. And although my topics generally focus on mental health when the world literally changes overnight so does my blog!
As I watched it all unfold from my living room in a suburb of Los Angeles, two races were on my mind. Of course the presidential election being one and the second, the highly controversial, extraordinarily expensive and heated proposition 8 which sought to ban same-sex marriage in California by changing the state's constitution to include discrimination. Can you tell which side I am on?
At approximately 8:00 pm (Pacific Time) as the polls closed on the west coast, almost instantly the television news anchor announced "we now project that Barak Obama is the President elect" This historic stunning moment took my breath away and will be one of those moments that I will always remember.
And at about 8:05 pm the results started coming in on prop 8 and from overwhelming joy I felt a giant punch in my stomach. Even though the polls were just starting to report, it looked bad. And as expected, when I woke up this morning prop 8 had passed by a narrow margin. How could it be that in one moment a racial barrier was shattered and what was right and just in America conquered racism. And literally in the next moment hate reared its ugly head and division and discrimination through homophobia was given new life.
If you didn't know or hadn't guessed yet, I am a Lesbian. I am proud of who I am. I have a loving partner of almost 14 years, a mortgage, a dog, a job, family and basically living what I think is a pretty normal and uneventful life. I often wonder what have I done to others that I deserve to be treated as less than human. Why was there more attention paid to the treatment of farm animals (prop. 2) in California than human rights? (And I do value farm animals...a lot!).
For those of you not following California politics, just a few months back the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of civil rights and that separate is not equal. And soon after Gay and Lesbians were granted the same rights awarded to every other adult citizen: The right to marry.
It's an odd feeling when you realize how oppressed you were after that oppression is lifted. As bad as all of this is, the worst part in my opinion was before I was granted the right to marry I could only guess what it might be like to have the choice. But, when I was granted "the choice," I now owned something tangible and I changed as a result. I felt accepted by the State of California and for the first time I was no longer less than human. I cannot put into words what that moment felt like. But last night at 8:05 I remembered what I used to feel like just a few months back. It's a demoralizing and alienating feeling to have a right granted to you and then taken away.
For those of you who feel that loss tonight here in California or in another part of the Country know that it's normal to feel angry or depressed or even hopeless. But, please know that you are not alone and we feel this together. I was watching the news yet again tonight and 10,000 protesters marched peacefully on the streets of Los Angeles. I saw in their faces pain and at the same time hope. This battle goes on...


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Atlanta (Feb. 15, 2011)—Tickets are now on sale for WrestleMania® Art, a special, one-night event featuring artwork created by WWE Superstars and Divas, to be held at the Fox Theatre Wednesday, March 30 at 6:30 p.m. with Red Carpet arrival at 5:30 p.m.
WrestleMania is WWE's annual pop culture extravaganza that will take place Sunday, April 3 at the Georgia Dome. As the kick-off to WrestleMania Week, and in collaboration with the Atlanta Sports Council, proceeds from the fourth annual WrestleMania Art will benefit Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
"If there's any organization that could create a unique and elegant event to raise money for charity, it's WWE," said Shelton Stevens of the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation. "WWE's presence in Atlanta not only represents significant economic impact for Atlanta's economy, but will also help provide top-quality care to patients in Children's hospitals today and in the future. We are very grateful for the opportunity to partner with the Atlanta Sports Council to bring this event to Atlanta."
Approximately 20 WWE Superstars and Divas have contributed art since the 2008 inaugural event in Orlando, Fla. WWE Hall of Famer Jerry "The King" Lawler has created at least one piece of art live at each of the previous art events, and once again his artwork is expected to be one of the top attractions.
"We are excited to bring WrestleMania Art to the Fox Theatre and showcase a side of WWE Superstars and Divas that is not normally seen by WWE Fans," said John Saboor, Senior Vice President of Special Events, WWE. "We are pleased that the proceeds from this event will benefit Children's Healthcare of Atlanta."
Tickets range from $10 to $175. VIP tickets ($175) include access to the red carpet arrival, a private reception in the theater's Grand Salon with heavy hors d'oeuvres and complimentary full bar service prior to the live and silent auctions. General admission tickets ($50) include access to the red carpet arrival, light hors d'oeuvres in the theater's Egyptian Ballroom and access to the live and silent auctions. Red carpet viewing tickets ($10) allow up-close access to the one-hour procession of WWE Superstars, Divas and Legends through the theater's Arcade. To purchase tickets, visit www.choa.org/wweart.
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I finished up 3 guns from the last run that were waiting on semi parts. I tested them yesterday and did the black oxide today. it is a lot of hot dirty work, and the bottleneck of the build process.
the process includes blasting with alox, then glass beads, then 30 minutes in a caustic soap wash, rinse, then 30 minutes in the hot salt. Another wash, then an oil soak. The tanks are my own personal toxic waste site!!
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The read that title right. CTD has stopped the sale of firearms while they "review their internal policy". Gun control is closer than ever folks. Meanwhile as many of you know Freedom Group is up for sale. This is some scary stuff..
here is the announcement from Facebook earlier: "Cheaper Than Dirt! is suspending online sales of firearms effective immediately. We are reviewing our policy internally, and will continue to be the leader in the outdoor industry with our full line of gear and accessories."
Dont buy anything from them! We need companies that will stand behind our Constitution and defend freedom! Oh and by the way P-MAGS are now $59.99 instead of the usual $12.99. Screw you CTD!


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The City of Wilmington and Downtown Visions Open 2013 Fresh Friday Farmer's Market
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Weather permitting, the City of Wilmington and Downtown Visions will mark the opening of the 2013 Fresh Friday Farmer's Market on Friday, May 10th with a Grand Opening Celebration at noon at the Market in the Plaza between the Brandywine and Nemours Buildings in Downtown Wilmington. There will be comments by Mayor Dennis Williams and Norman Pernick, the Chairman of the Board of Downtown Visions, as well as other dignitaries.
The Fresh Friday Farmer's Market, starting its second year in the Nemours Plaza, is sponsored by the City of Wilmington, Downtown Visions (the management company for Wilmington's Downtown Business Improvement District), and the Buccini Pollin Group. The Fresh Friday Farmer's Market runs every Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.