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President Obama and Gov. Romney have major differences in how to handle concerns about Iran's nuclear program. While both are strong supporters of Israel, Obama has pursued sanctions and diplomacy — both showing signs of success.
In Romney's recent trip to Israel, he told Prime Minister Netanyahu he would support a preemptive strike with U.S. firepower and, as president, he would give Netanyahu the benefit of the doubt in deciding if and when to bomb Iran.
In a February report to Congress, the U.S. Intelligence Community's Worldwide Threat Assessment found no evidence of an Iranian nuclear terror threat. And CIA chief Gen. Petraeus and the Joint Chiefs' Gen. Dempsey agreed. They concluded Iran has no known military nuclear program, with no likely intention to initiate one, and claiming otherwise would be spurious and inflammatory.
So why isn't Iran being more cooperative?
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Dagan said a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be "reckless and irresponsible — one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard." Retaliation "could be a rain of 50,000 missiles on Israel. As for war, you know how it starts, but you never know how you are ending it."
He added that attacks on Iran's uranium enrichment sites would likely be ineffective — there are dozens of them, all heavily fortified.
Israeli security expert Yuval Diskin (former head of Shin Bet) agreed: "Netanyahu's judgment is 'clouded by messianic feelings' and should not be trusted."
President Obama's approach can avert yet another war that no one should want.
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People will have the chance to stroll through the Zane Grey grounds and talk to local exhibitors.
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By Kyle Wintersteen
The temptation when writing these reports is to be overly optimistic. To encourage readers with news of ducks on the move and tell them, "It's going to be the best weekend ever!" But there's no way to spin the current conditions.
A second straight year of unseasonable warmth has plagued the Atlantic Flyway. As I write this, a quick look at the Ducks Unlimited Waterfowl Migration Map reveals temperatures ranging from 43 F in Toronto to 58 F in New York City and 66 F in southern Virginia. There's still plenty of open water at northern latitudes, which has delayed the arrival of birds across the flyway including two iconic locations: the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland's Eastern Shore.
"We've seen a few sporadic, big groups of ducks passing through," says Ducks Unlimited Regional Biologist Jake McPherson, "But the general consensus among biologists is that most birds haven't shown up due to the mild weather. Shortly after Hurricane Sandy we had good reports of teal, pintails and other dabbling ducks, especially in and around the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, but most have moved on. We're also not seeing the large rafts of divers on the bay you'd hope to see by now. There's just been no real reason for ducks to move south in significant numbers, and I suspect even northern New York is still holding a lot of birds."
Fortunately the goose migration appears to be more on schedule.
"Within the last three weeks, we've seen quite a few more geese than I expected given the weather," McPherson reports. "The numbers are pretty good, especially compared to last year. I've seen a lot of birds on the Eastern Shore ranging from Chestertown, Maryland, all the way down to Dorchester County. All we need is one good cold front to push some birds and the hunting could really heat up."
So, let's not hit the panic button just yet. Extreme cold is sweeping the Midwest, and freezing temperatures and light snowfall are expected to hit Pennsylvania and New York in the coming days. Are ducks moving ahead of the front? If my own scouting is any indication, yes, they certainly are. Just this morning I noted a substantial number of fresh birds in central Pennsylvania a few miles south of Interstate 80. One sanctuary area held dozens, perhaps a hundred more mallards and black ducks than just a few days ago.
Let's stay positive. There are plenty of ducks just waiting to ride the winds our way. The mercury will dip any day now. And best of all there's still a month of hunting left. Make the most of it.
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There have been a couple of "chicks in IT" news items recently that have been turning heads. Firstly, there was a very high profile story in Australia about Sonja Bernhardt, an IT professional from the Gold Coast who decided it would be cool to release a calendar featuring women in IT, posing as movie sirens, to try and drum up girly interest in joining the IT forces. That caused a furore down here, let me tell you. Technology news is usually stuffed down the back of the paper, but when you might sneak a peak at a calendar girl it's a whole different story... even if she is into computers. There was also a recent slashdot entry about Fedora introducing a group for Fedora women, to help support women in the FOSS world (apparently, chicks don't dig IT and they REALLY don't dig FOSS).
What I found interesting about the slashdot post wasn't the post itself, but the 333 comments (and counting) that followed. All the usual suspects were there, from the vehement pro/anti feminists to the "this is such a dead issue, get over it" brigade. And it all comes down to what it always comes down to in the great gender debate. It's the nature versus nurture, natural versus social issue. And people, there is no way for a nuturer to win an argument with a nature-er and vice-versa, because the base position of each argument is so fundamentally different that it's like two people trying to have a conversation while one is speaking English and one is speaking Mandarin. However, I would like to make some general responses to the slashdot comments.
People think gender means women
When you are talking about gender issues, this DOESN'T JUST MEAN GIRLS. If there are certain beliefs about gender abilities, this affects both genders. Even if people acknowledge that girls can do boy stuff and vice-versa, if there is an emphasis on the things one gender can do as being superior to what the other gender can do, then this still affects EVERYBODY. It means that not only are women encouraged to do things that men do, but men are villified for doing things that are seen as "girl things". This is stupid, because if there was REAL equality in the world and gender really was a dead issue, then men would be able to stay home with the kids if they wanted to, or say they don't like sport, or don't like beer, and not be looked at like there is something a bit wrong with them.
Stereotyping hurts everyone
On this topic, there was a fair bit of back and forth with girls saying "geeks see us as second-rate programers/sex objects/irritations" or "boy geeks suck", and boys saying "girls are second rate programers in general and are better at housework anyway" or "we get stereotyped and unfairly maligned too, how come the girls get special treatment?". This sort of sniping shows that we ALL (boys and girls) need to get together and do some work on this. I'm not saying the world needs therapy, I'm just saying that we should all be big enough to not make mass generalisations. I know a programmer who reckons that "women are flawed programers". You know how many he knows? Five. You know how many weren't that great? Three. You know how many programers he would have met online and assumed they were boys? Lots. You know how smart this guy is in many ways? Very. I could look at him and say that I don't date geeks because all geeks wear glasses, look like Martin from the Simpsons, eat prunes, and have no social skills. But I can't say that... because I've only met five geeks and three of them are like that... and hell, there are heaps more of you than that!
And leading on from this point, thinking all programers you meet online are boys and thinking this is being genderless is wrong, wrong, wrong! It isn't being genderless, it is privelleging one gender over another. Everybody does it, I know... we all make assumptions about gender... that's how we are raised or wired, depending on your beliefs. But think about how counter-productive it is! And, more importantly, think about how you are limiting yourself by just unthinkingly assuming that way.
Reaching the status quo doesn't mean it's good enough
Whether you believe in nature or nurture, some things are still valued more than others in our society. And if you believe that gender is a dead issue, and you feel like women are being coddled and that people should just do what they want and it's all hunky-dory, you are going to be sadly disappointed, because the gender issue isn't going away. The gender issue will never go away until we all stop defining ourselves, and each other, based on rigid gender roles. Until we can not only stop saying "boys like FOSS, girls like ponies", but can also stop believing it subconciously. It may not be what everyone wants to have happen. But that's progress. And, for all of you "girls are naturally inclined to be hairdressers, not programers!" nature supporters, all I can say is: "Don't you think it's time we all evolved?"
So, yay for any group promoting above the status quo. By having FOSS groups for women, attention is being drawn to a very much alive gender issue. And until we as a people can resolve this issue, then we as boys and girls will continually struggle with ourselves.
Emancipation, ponies, and free software...
Let's see:
Stayed home with the kids. Check (Off and on, actually).
Hate sports. Check.
Hate beer. Check.
"not be looked at like there is something a bit wrong with them". Don't care all that much.
I guess I'm an emancipated man.
You didn't mention it, but GNOME's recent call for women to participate in the Summer of Code was apparently pretty successful. Hanna Wallach says they got 200+ applications (which, interestingly, is more than the total number who applied in the genderless call -- none of whom were women).
Which raises questions: why didn't those women apply before? Did they think they couldn't win? Or had they simply never heard of the opportunity? Clearly having a special women's contest was a good idea this year, but what about next? Should they continue to have an "all comers" and a "ladies only" call? Separate mens' and womens' calls (i.e. like we do with sports)?
The idea that women might've assumed without trying that they wouldn't get in, is appalling to me.
My daughter definitely likes ponies. What she thinks about free software remains to be seen. Tux paint is a hit, though, so there's hope!
The truth is that outcomes are the result of both 'nature' and 'nurture', as any decent biologist can tell you. It's even more twisted than that, as it is in our nature to nurture the genders differently. So, I think it's a bad idea to assume that if you eliminate nurturing biases that you will get equal results.
OTOH, it's much more interesting to consider what the right sort of nurturing can bring to the field if it introduces people with a different nature to the same problems. And that's one reason why it makes sense to expend effort on promoting diversity even if it isn't necessarily the same as promoting fairness (e.g. that's one reason why it might be right for GNOME to 'unfairly' hold a certain number of seats exclusively for women).
What we need is more free software with ponies in it!
You didn't mention it, but
You didn't mention it, but GNOME's recent call for women to participate in the Summer of Code was apparently pretty successful. Hanna Wallach says they got 200+ applications (which, interestingly, is more than the total number who applied in the genderless call -- none of whom were women).
The fact that it received a greater number of entrants is interesting but this also leads me to ask why GNOME felt it necessary to aks your gender in the "genderless" call. Isn't this the kind of thing that Bridget is talking about?
The gender issue will never go away until we all stop defining ourselves, and each other, based on rigid gender roles..
How can we give any group an even break if we continue to distinguish them from others on criteria which may not be relevant to the project? If GNOME were not that bothered about gender then why ask? Perhaps next year they should just ask for entrants and dispense with the gender question altogether.
In some areas there is a greater balance - I work in the UK Voluntary (not-for-profit) sector where it's quite common to encounter female IT workers but even here there is still a higher proportion of male IT workers because the pool from which they are drawn has a higher proportion of men.
I don't know whether the recent efforts to recruit more women into the IT Industry[1] and/or the FOSS Community[1] will succeed. I hope they do as there is an inbalance and that's not a good thing IMHO. As ever though, this is a mountain that needs to be scaled on both sides. There remains prejudice in the industry (just last year I was amazed when at a trade show I was handed a freebie by a scantily-clad woman who was clearly only there to attract men to the stand - despite the number of women delgates walking around) and there is also prejudice on the part of the women they are trying to attract.
[1] I am not sure who or what these groups consist of or how they are defined. I don't even know if they do exist as such - so diverse are their alleged members - but I use the terms because they provide a common shorthand. This waffling footnote excepted of course :o)
Bury Head In Sand...
Women don't want *equality*. They want *fairness*, which is something nobody gets. Equality means struggling along with the men and mostly getting "the shaft" when a less valuable person is promoted above you because they are better at kissing butt. You don't have to be female to be miserable in the rat race. Women shouldn't be comparing their experiences with those of the *BEST* experiences of men in the workplace, but rather with the average or even the worst.
I disagree - On pretty much every level
The idea that gender differences fundamentally disadvantage both genders is an odd one. To accept it, you have to accept the idea that gender differences actually disadvantage women to begin with and frankly, I don't even buy that.
The idea that gender is a social construction is frequently raised by the more androgynous members of both sexes and while I understand the advantage for them in making that suggestion, it doesn't mean for one moment I buy it. And neither should you.
What you call 'stereotyping', I call categorisation. Categorisation is a critical life-skill which allows rapid assessment of entities and there's nothing inherently wrong with it. It's an artefact of the limitations of our conciousness more than anything else.
> men are villified for doing things that are seen as "girl things�.
And so they should be. A man's world is fundamentally different to a woman's and all the politically correct assertions to the contrary will not change that. In both biological and sociological terms men are equipped with advantages for certain roles and abilities. Nudging them away from those for the sake of trying to erase the gender divide is a fundamental betrayal of who they are. It's a piece of sociological engineering for the sake of gain on the part of those who wish to see differences between the genders blurred or erased.
One of the main gender issues with IT is that it very much tends to be populated by men whose understanding of women is so poor their interaction with women both online and off is something of an embarassment. As such, their interaction will usually fall somewhere between the twin poles of crudity on the one hand and pathetic fawning on the other. To a certain extent that's changing and there are men who are socially adept but IT is not exactly swimming with them.
> I'm just saying that we should all be big enough to not make mass generalisations.
Nonsense. They're adults, they'll get over it. This is not an issue which needs any kind of concerted effort. The fundamentals are about men and women interacting, the IT issues are irrelevant.
Presuming that a good programmer I meet online is a guy isn't limiting me in any way. It's a blase assumption brought on by experience and probability. It's the same as women who presume that IT guys are generally socially inept and unlikely to make attractive boyfriends. Brought on by experience and probability. We're human, that's pretty much how our brains work. Does it really matter? Not to an adult.
> The gender issue will never go away until we all stop defining ourselves, and each other, based on rigid gender roles.
I don't see a problem with that. Really. If you want to be an exception to the usual rules about your gender, be my guest. Frankly though, trying to impose double-think on everyone merely to satisfy that need strikes me as a tad self-focused. Gender influences so much of who we are that trying to erase it, nullify it, deny it or villify it is pointless.
You are part of the problem...
I found the article and the opinions expressed therein just right. I find you, however, bigotted, insulting, arrogant, and offensive.
> The idea that gender is a social construction is frequently raised by the more androgynous members of both sexes
I view gender as a social construction. I am not androgenous; I'm a "masculine" male; and before you try questioning by sexuality, I'm heterosexual and comfortable with it.
> What you call 'stereotyping', I call categorisation
So if you think that excuses you from being sexist, I guess that would be your excuse for being a racist, and a homophobe too.
>> men are villified for doing things that are seen as "girl things�.
> And so they should be...
If you have a wife or girlfriend, please pass on my pity. It would be a shame if you bred and passed on your archaic attitudes to yet another generation. I guess you'll have little Timmy playing with trucks and little Jenny playing with dolls, and if they don't like it you'll think them queer.
> One of the main gender issues with IT is that it very much tends to be populated by men whose understanding of women is so poor their interaction with women both online and off is something of an embarassment.
And you are clearly a prime example of the type of "man" you describe. And, to that end, you are an embarrasment to the rest of IT-mankind.
>> I'm just saying that we should all be big enough to not make mass generalisations.
> Nonsense. They're adults, they'll get over it.
Nonsense?!? "They'll get over it"! That is nonsense. Stereotyping does hurt people, and to say they're not adults is like kicking them while they're down.
> Frankly though, trying to impose double-think on everyone merely to satisfy that need strikes me as a tad self-focused.
I found your opinions voiced with more imposition and force than I did the author's. Being as arrogant and callous as you appear to be give me the impression you are the one who is self-focused.
> Gender influences so much of who we are ...
Speak for yourself.
>...that trying to erase it, nullify it, deny it or villify it is pointless.
I will happily villify you (and the rest of society) for putting individuals into boxes and I'll do my best to destroy the roles you expect me to conform to. I am an individual not an object that falls into one of your "categories".
It is a shame that you are able to pollute the virtual landscape with your biggotry, but I am a believer in the right to free speech. Oh well, I guess you have to take the good with the bad. I can only hope that people who experience your opinions find you so abhorrent and repulsive that they are driven away from you and your way of thinking. Someday people with your attitude will die off and leave the planet to those of us who care about each other.
Gender roles
Kazadagu - Hear, hear!
>> men are villified for doing things that are seen as "girl things�.
> And so they should be...
I am a heterosexual male, and I don't think I am considered 'androgynous'. My wife doesn't seem to think so. Please explain to me why it is wrong for me to enjoy "girl things" such as baking, cooking, pretty flowers and china patterns. I also dislike many "boy things" such as most sports. What is wrong with that?
There are Reasons Why Men and Women are Different
Nature versus nurture is a moot discussion. There are a lot of opinions floating around, and everybody is entitled to their own. If a male programmer wants to believe he's a better programmer than I am simply because he's male, it's his right to believe it if he wants to, whether I agree with him or not.
Personally, I'm tired of feminist and anti-feminist discussion. Women in my field are not coddled, nor do I believe they are overly mistreated these days. The field of computers and programming, and likely almost all engineering fields in general, have ALWAYS been dominated by men. Most doctors are men. Most construction workers and fire rescue workers are men. I would even venture to say that even the majority of professional musicians are men. There are a LOT of fields that are dominated by men.
I think we should be looking more at our roots, as a people. Way back when humans were primitive and living in small groups, men had roles and women had roles. Men hunted and fought, women cooked and tended house and children. Why? Because those methods of cooperation and that division of labor suited our nature.
If I was suddenly transported into the stone age, you had better be sure that I'd rather cook and tend babies than compete in hunting parties and instigate fights with other clans. We as humans lived that way for millions of years until a bunch of humans started working cooperatively to accomplish more, and thus the bronze age was born. That was only a few thousand years ago. Why shouldn't it be natural for women to have more of a maternal and social instinct and for men to be more agressive and more strongly muscled?
Our society is changing so rapidly, it's no wonder that our insticts and traditions and culture are finding it hard to keep up. In our world today, jobs and roles are so much more complex than they were, who can truly say that one gender is better at some job than another? Who can truly know, when everything around us is so different from what it was just a few years ago, much less a thousand?
Yes, in general, men are are physically stronger than women. Yes, women are the ones who have babies. But the mental tendencies and capacities between men an women can only really be judged by neurologists, and I don't believe that science is advanced enough to say for sure who's better at what. I try not to judge anybody else except by their own individual tendencies and expectations for themselves, and my own tendencies led me to love computers.
People who make rash and unsubstantiated statements about gender or race are fools who just want the attention that comes with saying things that tend to make people angry. Prove to me that all men in the world are better programmers than I am, and I'll believe anybody who says that women shouldn't be programmers.
Asking gender
No, asking for an applicant's gender is just collecting data. As far as I know, the information was not used in the evaluation process. You have to give this information to attend school or get a job, so why is it strange here?
And why do you give this information? It's so that people can track trends like this and know when something has failed miserably to be an equal opportunity. If GNOME had received 180 applications from men and 10 from women, that would be a bit bleak, but plausibly represent no bias. But 181 applications, 100% male -- that means something is not working. For some reason, GNOME's normal application process does not attract women.
'Why?' is a different question. There's many different levels at which this can be happening, from 'women never hear of it' to 'women don't want to be around geeky guys' and so on.
'Who cares?' is a possible response. After all, it's not like "free software developer" is a common title for anyone of either gender, and the fact that it seems to appeal to a certain kind of male techie may not really matter all that much. There aren't a lot of female auto mechanics or garbage collectors, either.
However, I find that I do care.
I care in principle simply because I think people should be able attain their maximum potential, and I think there must be many women for whom free software development could be fulfilling. After all, it seems strange that women, who are generally much better at cooperating and sharing than men, should be left out of the party when it comes to shared software development.
I care socially, because I'm a lot happier in co-ed environments. Men on their own act like pigs, frankly. I clearly can't really know first-hand what women on their own act like, but I hear tell that isn't good either. I think we're designed to work together, and communities with both genders are usually a lot more sane and friendly, in my opinion.
I care technically, because diversity is always a benefit in any creative endeavor. I think women are fundamentally different than men, and that's a good thing -- fundamentally different people find fundamentally different solutions. There are some problems men alone will likely never even recognize, much less solve. That argument works for ethnic groups, too.
Finally, we can ask 'what next?' I don't know what the right thing to do is. I'm not sure why 200 women applied to a program when it was reserved for women, but wouldn't do so when it was (theoretically) genderless. Maybe they'd never heard of it, and all it took was the kind of press you get with a headline like "Gnome Needs Women". Or maybe, those women did see the call, but didn't think to apply without encouragement. Or maybe, they thought to and then thought better of it after their last experience on comp.lang.whatever.


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Area college roundup: USC, Clemson women fall
No. 18 Gamecocks drop nail-biter at Georgia; Boston College sends Lady Tigers to 0-5 start in ACC
Published: Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 14, 2013 at 12:36 a.m.
ATHENS, Ga. — No. 13 Georgia's 42-40 win against No. 18 South Carolina Sunday marked a new low in school history: The fewest points ever in a victory.
Previously, the fewest points the Lady Dogs had ever scored in a win was in DeKalb College 43-42 on Jan. 17, 1974, the first win in program history.
Georgia (15-2, 3-1 SEC) got 19 points from Jasmine Hassell in the defensive struggle. South Carolina (14-3, 2-2) also got 19 from Aleighsa Welch. The Gamecocks scored only one field goal in the last 13 minutes of the game.
"It's a shame somebody had to lose this game because both teams played extremely hard, and it's what our league is all about," said South Carolina coach Dawn Staley.
The Gamecocks missed all 11 3-point field goal attempts and made only half of 16 free throw attempts. Both teams were turnover prone: South Carolina had 24 and Georgia 21.
"They are really good defensively," said Georgia coach Andy Landers. "Thursday night they held Vanderbilt to 13 field goals in the whole game."
Boston College 66, Clemson 43: In Clemson, the women's basketball team (4-12, 0-5) remained winless in ACC play. The Lady Tigers' Quinyotta Pettaway had 10 points and 11 rebounds for her fifth double-double of the season.
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HOUSTON -- There is no way Matt McGloin should've done what he did here Sunday, not him, no chance ... are you kidding?
For a franchise that can't seem to figure out what to do at quarterback, in a season loaded with uncertainty, of course, it was McGloin who made it all seem solid and sensible for at least one game.
Him. Yes. Naturally, the Never-Chosen One.
McGloin didn't merely come out of nowhere to replace the injured Terrelle Pryor, throw three touchdowns and command the Raiders offense through an eye-popping 28-23 victory over fading Houston.
No, McGloin came out of some alternative dimension five times more distant than nowhere, doing something slightly more than impossible, and making it seem stunningly more than inevitable.
"It was about what I expected," coach Dennis Allen said coolly. "I really did. I expected the kid to come in and play well, and he did."
Allen expected McGloin -- an undrafted rookie who was a walk-on in college and who looks and talks like a particularly dry FBI man -- to play like ... this?
But there does seem to be a distinct aura about McGloin's journey from forgotten to Penn State starter and then forgotten again by the NFL to firing a touchdown on his first NFL pass as a starter on Sunday.
And throwing strike after strike after strike ...
"This is what happens when preparation meets opportunity," McGloin said after his 18-for-32 performance that included many, many drops of on-target passes. "I've been prepared for a while now to get in there."
He started Sunday only because Pryor's right knee kept him out, and because Matt Flynn flopped early in the season, and because fourth-round draft pick Tyler Wilson flopped in training camp.
And because he's Matt McGloin and nobody else could've done it like this.
That's the power of McGloin's journey: If it were easy, it wouldn't feel so supra-special when he gets his chance and knocks it out of the park.
Or when he gets into his first huddle as an NFL starter ... and, according to center Stefen Wisniewski, starts making fun of guard Lucas Nix.
"Just a stupid joke," Wisniewski, a fellow Penn State product, said approvingly.
And tailback Rashad Jennings said that McGloin truly took charge of the offense, even making sure to get the Raiders into a good play a few times when the call was late coming in.
Then, when McGloin was the last man into the locker room after the game, his teammates roared for him, hugged him, and he was handed a game ball by Allen.
Deserved. Incredible. Impossible.
"Some of these guys just have it, you know what I mean?" Allen said of McGloin, signed as an after-thought "camp arm" last summer. "Some of them, there's something deep down inside of them that they don't pay any attention to the fact that people say they can't do it."
What does that mean for the Raiders' QB situation when Pryor is healthy?
Asked directly, Allen said he just wanted to enjoy the victory for a while and then make a decision on a full-time starter later. But he added that McGloin was, of course, very good against the Texans.
Left unsaid: Pryor hasn't been very good in the last few weeks, most of them while wobbling on his bad leg, and the Raiders coaches were a little curious about McGloin before all that, anyway.
On Sunday, McGloin was smart, he threw the ball quickly, with conviction and force, and maybe he did a ton of subtle and not-so-subtle things that Pryor hasn't done for the Raiders.
McGloin's third-quarter TD throw to Mychal Rivera was especially perfect -- he had to delay a split-second to let a linebacker clear, then ripped it on a line to Rivera 26 yards down field.
That was simply one of the Raiders' best pure passes in years.
Take it for what it's worth: Pryor didn't fly out to Texas with the team because Allen said Pryor was sick Saturday, and injured players usually don't fly to road games, anyway.
McGloin said that Pryor helped him prepare for the Texans throughout last week.
"We have a very healthy relationship, Terrelle and I," McGloin said. "You know, this is his team."
All of this doesn't mean McGloin is absolutely better than Pryor, that he should be lifted to the starting spot immediately, or that McGloin is a long-term playoff-level QB.
But it's worth a discussion. It's not a QB Controversy for the Raiders -- because neither guy has proved he can do this job for a season.
It's a QB Discussion, and McGloin, out of nowhere, with just this one game, has proved he belongs in it, and probably should have the lead in it.
"There is always more to prove and more to do," McGloin said. "I think I got off to a good start. But we'll see."
This guy, who nobody has ever chosen first, did what he always does. He doesn't seem to change, it's just the stages that get bigger and bigger.
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I am extremely excited to welcome Bryan Nash Gill and to announce that we are offering his work at Ashes & Milk. As a lover of natural textures and literal translations of beauty, I am completely embraced by the above print. Through relief printing and a laborious rubbing technique Byran created the above piece Hemlock 82 (Bryan literally scratched his fingernails over every surface of the tree). At the grand size of 52″ long x 38.5″ wide the actual diameter, texture and pattern of this tree section is gorgeously translated onto paper.
Living next to an old mill, Bryan is able to procure beautiful specimens to his studio. The above image shows Bryan preparing the surface of a Hemlock tree cross section into a print block.
Ink is rolled out and a piece of handcrafted washi paper is placed over the print block. Pressing little by little with his fingertips, Bryan imprints the texture of the wood on the surface of the paper. I love the idea that Bryan had to literally touch each tree-growth-ring in order to deposit its mark.
When meeting and writing about the artists whose work we represent on Ashes & Milk I enjoy the opportunity to learn new things and to engage in a sort of personal self reflection. In respect of Bryan Nash Gill, I am especially pleased to say how much his prints reminds me of a collection of my own, which I will share with you one day in detail. For now here is a peek.
I also like to compare similar themes running through some of my favorite pieces of artwork and the artists who create them. Bryan's work makes me think of the science of dendrochronology, as well as this etching by Claudi Casanova and Kia Neill's Graphite Drawings.
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In the words of celebrated lyricist Fred Ebb, "We're a special kind of people known as show people." And for the 24th year, the best and brightest Broadway show people showed just how special they are with a rousing, emotional and heart-pounding edition of Gypsy of the Year.
The annual event is the culminating celebration of six weeks of fundraising by 51 participating Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies, which this year raised $3,902,608 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
The grand total was announced Tuesday, December 4, after an exciting Gypsy of the Year competition that included songs, original skits and dances performed by more than 200 of New York's best singers, dancers and musicians.
Since 1989, the 24 editions of Gypsy of the Year have raised a total of $52,934,581 to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera joined Katie Holmes and Ricky Martin in announcing the grand total to a standing-room-only audience at the New Amsterdam Theatre, home to Disney's Mary Poppins. The three presented awards to the top fundraising companies and to the best performances in this year's show.
This year's Gypsy of the Year was again hosted by noted Broadway personality Seth Rudetsky ("Seth's Big Fat Broadway" on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio), who presented his trademark over-the-top "deconstructions" of unforgettable musical moments. Rudetsky shared one of his own over-the-top moments: a recording of a 12-year-old Seth performing a unique version of "Tomorrow" from Annie. He was joined by surprise guests Andrea McArdle, the original Annie, and Lilla Crawford, who stars as Annie in the current hit Broadway revival.
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The singing – also known as the "non-dancing" – ensemble members of Disney's hit Newsies comically lamented their plight, wishing they could "dance like the Newsies," the high-kicking, gymnastic, attention-getting young newsboys of the show's title. The "Island of Misfit Shows" came to life through the cast of Mary Poppins, who poked fun with misfits like "Grannie" (America's favorite little orphan all grown up) and "The Book of Merman," starring the bold belter herself.
The cast of Chicago saluted the groundbreaking work of that show's legendary choreographer, Bob Fosse, with two numbers recreated from the 1999 Broadway show Fosse. Grammy Award nominee Billy Ray Cyrus, who currently plays Billy Flynn in the Broadway production, started the tribute with an a capella version of "Bye Bye Blackbird" before turning the stage over to his castmates, who delivered a high-energy recreation of Fosse's legendary choreography of "Sing, Sing, Sing."
With younger cast members from Mamma Mia! texting feverishly around him, Brian Scott Johnson and special guest Len Cariou remembered – to the tune of "Yesterday" – the "old days" when people talked to each other backstage rather than today's constant obsession with tweeting and texting.
The company of The Lion King, choreographed by Ray Mercer, transformed a spoken word introduction written by cast member L. Steven Taylor into a graceful, powerful dance metaphor for being emotionally tossed "like a leaf in a windstorm ... but I would rather be tossed than never be moved at all."
The cast of Broadway's Bring It On: The Musical took dance in a different direction as an overly sequined, spike-heel-wearing "Fierce Fairy" saved a down-on-her-luck actor by reminding her "you are never beaten as long as you can fell your beat." That led to a high-flying, acrobatic hip-hop routine. The cast of Rock of Ages condensed their entire hit musical into a remarkably succinct mash-up entitled "Rock of Ages in 3 Minutes" and featured every '80s rock anthem performed in the show.
Members from the cast of Broadway's ill-fated Rebecca, which never opened this season despite several attempts, grieved their almost-run on Broadway in a tune that poked fun at the production's well-publicized missteps. Once production assistants Ryan McCurdy and Eric Love shared in song their unique behind-the-scenes perspectives of a day-in-the-life of the Tony Award-winning musical.
Evita's Rachel Potter invited two of that show's youngest cast members, Ava DeMary and Mavis Simpson-Ernst, to join her for "Live the Dream," which she dedicated "to all the kids who are dreaming big and all those who are still young at heart." And representing Off-Broadway, Christine Pedi of NEWSical The Musical mastered dead-on impersonations of alternative casting for Les Miserables, including Bernadette Peters as Young Cosette and Eartha Kitt as Javert.
In a spirited number, choreographed by David Marquez, 21 dancers swinging 42 of the well-recognized red BC/EFA collection buckets saluted the 17 national touring shows that – together – raised $1.9 million of the event's grand total.
Tony winners Katie Finneran and Steve Kazee shared BC/EFA's commitment to helping victims of Hurricane Sandy. Broadway Cares has donated $200,000 to The Actors Fund to help them continue providing emergency financial assistance for temporary shelter, food, clothing and transportation for members of our theatrical family. Broadway Cares also donated $50,000 each to three relief agencies providing immediate assistance for those in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut affected by the storm's devastation. Read more about the Hurricane Sandy relief donations.
Tony Award winner Judith Light returned to again lead a poignant moment of silence. And introducing shows that helped fundraise but did not perform at Gypsy of the Year were Wayne Alan Wilcox, Billy Magnussen and Genevieve Angelson.
The 24th Annual Gypsy of the Year Competition closed with a tribute to renowned lyricist Fred Ebb, led by Tony Award winners David Hyde Pierce and Debra Monk. Ebb is best known for his legendary collaborations with composer John Kander. Together, Kander and Ebb created some of the most delightful, smart and hilarious songs in more than a dozen groundbreaking and acclaimed musicals of the last 50 years, including Zorba, Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Scottsboro Boys, winning three Tony Awards. Ebb died in 2004. As a stipulation in his will, Ebb created the Fred Ebb Award of $50,000 to be given annually to an aspiring musical theatre songwriter and generously left Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS the remaining portion of royalties earned on his collective works – a donation totaling an astonishing $6.95 million since 2005. In 2012, the Fred Ebb Foundation's gift to BC/EFA was $1.3 million, the largest single donation in Broadway Cares history.
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text: SIGACTION(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SIGACTION(2) NAME sigaction - examine and change a signal action SYNOPSIS #include <signal.h> int sigaction(int signum, const struct sigaction *act, struct sigaction *oldact); DESCRIPTION The sigaction() system call is used to change the action taken by a process on receipt of a specific signal. signum specifies the signal and can be any valid signal except SIGKILL and SIGSTOP. If act is non-null, the new action for signal signum is installed from act. If oldact is non-null, the previous action is saved in oldact. The sigaction structure is defined as something like struct sigaction { void (*sa_handler)(int); void (*sa_sigaction)(int, siginfo_t *, void *); sigset_t sa_mask; int sa_flags; void (*sa_restorer)(void); } On some architectures a union is involved: do not assign to both sa_handler and sa_sigaction. The sa_restorer element is obsolete and should not be used. POSIX does not specify a sa_restorer element. sa_handler specifies the action to be associated with signum and may be SIG_DFL for the default action, SIG_IGN to ignore this signal, or a pointer to a signal handling function. This function receives the sig- nal number as its only argument. If SA_SIGINFO is specified in sa_flags, then sa_sigaction (instead of sa_handler) specifies the signal-handling function for signum. This function receives the signal number as its first argument, a pointer to a siginfo_t as its second argument and a pointer to a ucontext_t (cast to void *) as its third argument. sa_mask gives a mask of signals which should be blocked during execu- tion of the signal handler. In addition, the signal which triggered the handler will be blocked, unless the SA_NODEFER flag is used. sa_flags specifies a set of flags which modify the behaviour of the signal handling process. It is formed by the bitwise OR of zero or more of the following: SA_NOCLDSTOP If signum is SIGCHLD, do not receive notification when child processes stop (i.e., when they receive one of SIGSTOP, SIGTSTP, SIGTTIN or SIGTTOU) or resume (i.e., they receive SIGCONT) (see wait(2)). SA_NOCLDWAIT (Linux 2.6 and later) If signum is SIGCHLD, do not trans- form children into zombies when they terminate. See also waitpid(2). SA_RESETHAND Restore the signal action to the default state once the signal handler has been called. SA_ONESHOT is an obso- lete, non-standard synonym for this flag. SA_ONSTACK Call the signal handler on an alternate signal stack pro- vided by sigaltstack(2). If an alternate stack is not available, the default stack will be used. SA_RESTART Provide behaviour compatible with BSD signal semantics by making certain system calls restartable across signals. SA_NODEFER Do not prevent the signal from being received from within its own signal handler. SA_NOMASK is an obsolete, non- standard synonym for this flag. SA_SIGINFO The signal handler takes 3 arguments, not one. In this case, sa_sigaction should be set instead of sa_handler. (The sa_sigaction field was added in Linux 2.1.86.) The siginfo_t parameter to sa_sigaction is a struct with the following elements siginfo_t { int si_signo; /* Signal number */ int si_errno; /* An errno value */ int si_code; /* Signal code */ pid_t si_pid; /* Sending process ID */ uid_t si_uid; /* Real user ID of sending process */ int si_status; /* Exit value or signal */ clock_t si_utime; /* User time consumed */ clock_t si_stime; /* System time consumed */ sigval_t si_value; /* Signal value */ int si_int; /* POSIX.1b signal */ void * si_ptr; /* POSIX.1b signal */ void * si_addr; /* Memory location which caused fault */ int si_band; /* Band event */ int si_fd; /* File descriptor */ } si_signo, si_errno and si_code are defined for all signals. (si_signo is unused on Linux.) The rest of the struct may be a union, so that one should only read the fields that are meaningful for the given sig- nal. POSIX.1b signals and SIGCHLD fill in si_pid and si_uid. SIGCHLD also fills in si_status, si_utime and si_stime. si_int and si_ptr are specified by the sender of the POSIX.1b signal. SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, and SIGBUS fill in si_addr with the address of the fault. SIGPOLL fills in si_band and si_fd. si_code indicates why this signal was sent. It is a value, not a bit- mask. The values which are possible for any signal are listed in this table: +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | si_code | +-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+ |Value | Signal origin | +-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+ |SI_USER | kill(), sigsend(), or raise() | +-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+ |SI_KERNEL | The kernel | +-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+ |SI_QUEUE | sigqueue() | +-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+ |SI_TIMER | POSIX timer expired | +-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+ |SI_MESGQ | POSIX message queue state changed (since Linux 2.6.6) | +-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+ |SI_ASYNCIO | AIO completed | +-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+ |SI_SIGIO | queued SIGIO | +-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+ |SI_TKILL | tkill() or tgkill() (since Linux 2.4.19) | +-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+ +-------------------------------------+ | SIGILL | +-----------+-------------------------+ |ILL_ILLOPC | illegal opcode | +-----------+-------------------------+ |ILL_ILLOPN | illegal operand | +-----------+-------------------------+ |ILL_ILLADR | illegal addressing mode | +-----------+-------------------------+ |ILL_ILLTRP | illegal trap | +-----------+-------------------------+ |ILL_PRVOPC | privileged opcode | +-----------+-------------------------+ |ILL_PRVREG | privileged register | +-----------+-------------------------+ |ILL_COPROC | coprocessor error | +-----------+-------------------------+ |ILL_BADSTK | internal stack error | +-----------+-------------------------+ +----------------------------------------------+ | SIGFPE | +-----------+----------------------------------+ |FPE_INTDIV | integer divide by zero | +-----------+----------------------------------+ |FPE_INTOVF | integer overflow | +-----------+----------------------------------+ |FPE_FLTDIV | floating point divide by zero | +-----------+----------------------------------+ |FPE_FLTOVF | floating point overflow | +-----------+----------------------------------+ |FPE_FLTUND | floating point underflow | +-----------+----------------------------------+ |FPE_FLTRES | floating point inexact result | +-----------+----------------------------------+ |FPE_FLTINV | floating point invalid operation | +-----------+----------------------------------+ |FPE_FLTSUB | subscript out of range | +-----------+----------------------------------+ +----------------------------------------------------+ | SIGSEGV | +------------+---------------------------------------+ |SEGV_MAPERR | address not mapped to object | +------------+---------------------------------------+ |SEGV_ACCERR | invalid permissions for mapped object | +------------+---------------------------------------+ +--------------------------------------------+ | SIGBUS | +-----------+--------------------------------+ |BUS_ADRALN | invalid address alignment | +-----------+--------------------------------+ |BUS_ADRERR | non-existent physical address | +-----------+--------------------------------+ |BUS_OBJERR | object specific hardware error | +-----------+--------------------------------+ +--------------------------------+ | SIGTRAP | +-----------+--------------------+ |TRAP_BRKPT | process breakpoint | +-----------+--------------------+ |TRAP_TRACE | process trace trap | +-----------+--------------------+ +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | SIGCHLD | +--------------+-------------------------------------------------+ |CLD_EXITED | child has exited | +--------------+-------------------------------------------------+ |CLD_KILLED | child was killed | +--------------+-------------------------------------------------+ |CLD_DUMPED | child terminated abnormally | +--------------+-------------------------------------------------+ |CLD_TRAPPED | traced child has trapped | +--------------+-------------------------------------------------+ |CLD_STOPPED | child has stopped | +--------------+-------------------------------------------------+ |CLD_CONTINUED | stopped child has continued (since Linux 2.6.9) | +--------------+-------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------+ | SIGPOLL | +---------+-------------------------------+ |POLL_IN | data input available | +---------+-------------------------------+ |POLL_OUT | output buffers available | +---------+-------------------------------+ |POLL_MSG | input message available | +---------+-------------------------------+ |POLL_ERR | i/o error | +---------+-------------------------------+ |POLL_PRI | high priority input available | +---------+-------------------------------+ |POLL_HUP | device disconnected | +---------+-------------------------------+ RETURN VALUE sigaction() returns 0 on success and -1 on error. ERRORS EFAULT act or oldact points to memory which is not a valid part of the process address space. EINVAL An invalid signal was specified. This will also be generated if an attempt is made to change the action for SIGKILL or SIGSTOP, which cannot be caught or ignored. NOTES According to POSIX, the behaviour of a process is undefined after it ignores a SIGFPE, SIGILL, or SIGSEGV signal that was not generated by kill() or raise(). Integer division by zero has undefined result. On some architectures it will generate a SIGFPE signal. (Also dividing the most negative integer by -1 may generate SIGFPE.) Ignoring this signal might lead to an endless loop. POSIX.1-1990 disallowed setting the action for SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN. POSIX.1-2001 allows this possibility, so that ignoring SIGCHLD can be used to prevent the creation of zombies (see wait(2)). Nevertheless, the historical BSD and System V behaviours for ignoring SIGCHLD differ, so that the only completely portable method of ensuring that terminated children do not become zombies is to catch the SIGCHLD signal and per- form a wait(2) or similar. POSIX.1-1990 only specified SA_NOCLDSTOP. POSIX.1-2001 added SA_NOCLD- WAIT, SA_RESETHAND, SA_NODEFER, and SA_SIGINFO. Use of these latter values in sa_flags may be less portable in applications intended for older Unix implementations. Support for SA_SIGINFO was added in Linux 2.2. The SA_RESETHAND flag is compatible with the SVr4 flag of the same name. The SA_NODEFER flag is compatible with the SVr4 flag of the same name under kernels 1.3.9 and newer. On older kernels the Linux implementa- tion allowed the receipt of any signal, not just the one we are installing (effectively overriding any sa_mask settings). sigaction() can be called with a null second argument to query the cur- rent signal handler. It can also be used to check whether a given sig- nal is valid for the current machine by calling it with null second and third arguments. It is not possible to block SIGKILL or SIGSTOP (by specifying them in sa_mask). Attempts to do so are silently ignored. See sigsetops(3) for details on manipulating signal sets. BUGS In kernels up to and including 2.6.13, specifying SA_NODEFER in sa_flags preventing not only the delivered signal from being masked during execution of the handler, but also the signals specified in sa_mask. This bug is was fixed in kernel 2.6.14. CONFORMING TO POSIX.1-2001, SVr4. UNDOCUMENTED Before the introduction of SA_SIGINFO it was also possible to get some additional information, namely by using a sa_handler with second argu- ment of type struct sigcontext. See the relevant kernel sources for details. This use is obsolete now. SEE ALSO kill(1), kill(2), pause(2), sigaltstack(2), signal(2), sigpending(2), sigprocmask(2), sigqueue(2), sigsuspend(2), wait(2), killpg(3), raise(3), siginterrupt(3), sigsetops(3), sigvec(3), core(5), signal(7) Linux 2.6.14 2005-09-15 SIGACTION(2)


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The man who got stabbed sure wasn't innocent... Yeah let's answer the door and grab a 17 year old by the throat and not let go... That's why he got stabbed
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This is the daughter... And absolutely you all have no lives... Just to be commenting on sh1t when u have no idea about it besides what's in the paper. U all are just hiding behind a computer screen...can't say anything to anyone's faces? And you really have to say all the stupid sh1t on the Internet?? Ohh yeah ur so hard and tough sh1t now!!!
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Gonefrommov- what a stupid statement. You (folks do) comment on what you have read. Of course it will get cleared up later on. Ten more comments. However, this is one gapped-toothed native that is glad you are gone from the MOV!
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Okay- that didn't work- search Roy Campbell III, in this paper. This is the family involved-it is so bizarre.
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This story is about his daughter-nuff said. ***********mariettatimes****/page/content.detail/id/537661/Stepdad-on-the-run-behind-bars-now.html
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Wait I go to the door of someone who might be cheating on my 17 year old daughter and just in case ill carry my knife even though I just got out of prison and am trying so hard to get my life back together. But then someone answers door and forget it I'm sorry but I must avenge my teen daughter so what can I do I stab him. Well what maybe I should have asked her like why are you dating this person? It is so sick,now somehow no one is listening to my story. Of all the unexpected things to happen, I'm now back in jail again. Go figure!
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Just go to both men's Facebook pages. Jerry Springer for sure!
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asknot, you should think before you type. Why would anyone want "to fit in" with most of the commenters here?
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Why don't you backward, gap-toothed hicks reserve judgment until all of the evidence is in?
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The worst part is that the daughter had to take a break from finishing her college admissions essay. Oh wait....
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can we get tartar sauce to go with this fishy story?
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This belongs on Springer, not in a newspaper. You have got to be kidding me with this piece.
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NC should cut red tape for water project
Published: Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 15, 2013 at 3:57 p.m.
State officials in charge of grants and permits for new water lines should cut the red tape that threatens to delay a project to extend city water lines to Dana residents whose wells are contaminated with a pesticide.
Its been more than 10 months since folks in the area of Academy Road learned their well water isnt safe to drink. More than two dozen families have been told to limit showers to five minutes or fewer to avoid breathing fumes from volatile chemicals discovered in their well water.
The Bernard Allen Memorial Emergency Drinking Water Fund is paying to deliver clean drinking water in 5-gallon jugs to 20 families who qualify financially. Thats a temporary solution to protect public health but not something people should have to rely upon indefinitely.
Unfortunately, its the only option in immediate sight unless state officials expedite a grant and permits, or Hendersonville goes ahead and starts construction.
The $953,000 project was supposed to start this fall, extending city water lines to homes on Academy Road, Ridge Road, Meadow Woods Drive, Jade Walker Drive, Emerald Lane, Offense Lane, Largo Lane and East Hill Drive. But a delay in state permits, along with setbacks with a N.C. Department of Commerce Community Development Block Grant, have delayed the start of construction to January or February, city officials say.
Henderson County last summer won a $300,000 grant toward the project from the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center. At the time, the center was embroiled in controversy over charges that its leaders had wasted tax dollars and exaggerated its effectiveness. For awhile, it looked like the grant might not come through, but it ended up being approved.
The Department of Commerce last month seized control of $85 million from the Rural Economic Development Center, along with its grant-making authority.
Prospects for starting the Dana water-line project were helped when the Bernard Allen Memorial Emergency Drinking Water Fund made an early commitment to kick in $200,000. But a $500,000 Department of Commerce block grant the city was counting on to help cover the roughly $453,000 difference is now tangled in red tape.
Since taking control of grant-making from the Rural Center, the Commerce Department is changing qualifications for water projects. Officials are not sure at this point if the project will fit under the old or new guidelines, City Manager John Connet says.
Brett Laverty, a hydrogeologist with the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, says the project as planned may not meet the new guidelines. Theyre having a hard time finding a spot for us. If we dont get it, well have to go back to the drawing board, he said.
In addition to that delay, the city is also waiting on some state permits, Connet said. Environmental permits were recently approved, but the city has yet to receive another set of permits it must have before it can take bids on the project.
The city fortunately has a backup plan in case it does not get the $500,000 grant. It could either scale back the project or use city funds to make up the difference and hope the state comes through. However, due to the location of affected homes, the scope of the project cannot be reduced much.
Utilities Director Lee Smith estimates that less than $200,000 could be saved by shrinking the project. And that may not be a good idea, anyway. As now planned, the project would bring water lines not only to homes with contaminated wells but also to those that might face well-water contamination in the future. The grant is crucial in order to do that.
We dont foresee that the contamination is going to spread over time, Laverty said. I think where it is is where its going to stay. But just to be safe, they want to extend the water line to those other homes in the area.
City Council wisely voted on Nov. 7 to waive its system development charges for providing water to the Dana residents. Council plans to decide by its Dec. 5 meeting how to proceed. Perhaps our state legislators can exert some pressure to get the grant and permits expedited so residents wont have keep wondering how long they have to wait for clean water.
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BERKELEY -- Danny Scheie is hungry and dressed head-to-toe in olive green as he arrives for lunch during a break from rehearsals of "Troublemaker," a world-premiere play opening this week at Berkeley Rep.
His sedate attire is a rare sighting: typically, the 52-year-old actor and respected theater director is gracing -- or rather, kidnapping the spotlight on -- Bay Area stages as a flamboyantly costumed, frolicking, comedic character.
"I was brought on late to this wild, comic book play -- and I'm generations too old," he explains, describing his role as "a seventh grade post-correctional Nazi-bully."
The "off-the-wall" idea of cavorting with "the coolest, hot (stuff), young New York" actors pleases him.
"I think taboos -- I get excited with playing around with those. In life, I like to follow laws," he says. "But on stage, I think breaking rules means we see things we've never seen before."
Audiences and critics have a long standing love affair with Scheie's artistic anarchy. His three-hat professional life means he appears regularly with California Shakespeare Theater, frequently directs Shakespeare Santa Cruz productions and is a professor of drama at UC Santa Cruz.
"When I came here, Cal and Stanford were the only places with a heavy directing PhD. I was the first wave of postmodern, queer, deconstructionist Shakespeareanists," he says. "People think I have a gay agenda, but as a director, what I try to do is not bore myself to death. I say, get in the boat and see where the river takes you."
Scheie says his teaching job is his way of "forcing this capitalistic system to support the arts." Laughing delightedly, he suggests bulldozing Stanford and private prep schools and forcing everyone to attend public schools.
"The arts would be funded and actors wouldn't be unable to feed themselves. It would fix everything," he exclaims.
Directing and teaching are his "dharma," he decides, causing another burst of laughter, at the end of which he gasps, "Oh my god, I got to use 'dharma' in an interview."
On some level, every moment with Scheie is a performance, every chosen word a cause for celebration. He spouts paragraphs, then pauses to ask, "How's that?" -- as if concerned about delivering "good stuff."
His boyish charm and instinctive propensity for finding the humor in dark subjects gains gravitas from his rough, Midwest childhood and a lifetime of following his heart, even to loss.
"I was a little gay kid in the '70s: I was tortured," he admits. "Anyone who says being popular doesn't matter -- don't believe them. Being popular is everything."
Scheie learned to be funny and when he stopped drinking in 1991, he committed to a more powerful drug.
"The acting buzz is like being licked by a puppy. It's immature, childish, but when it's clicking and you're at the top of your game, it's cloud nine."
Ironically, "Cloud Nine" is the Berkeley Rep production he played in during the year following the death of his former partner.
"I just kicked everything up a level. I got on the horse and kept riding it," Scheie says. "I love that you get wiser and expand as you get older. I've always followed love."
It's not all love-on-easy-street, he insists, saying directors like Cal Shake's Jon Moscone push him by being super strict.
"Jon builds a vehicle, a specific, confident well-made machine with platforms for freedom. You can get on top and do pirouettes and the machine will be fine."
His inner-dancer leads Scheie into ballet classes with 18-year old wonders at UC Santa Cruz and causes him to confess, "Oh yeah, I love all that assemblé and grand jeté and stuff."
Scheie and his husband Daric Wolkenhauer, a public high school English teacher, also love parrotlets (small parrots) and the San Francisco Giants.
"Parrots impress me with their consciousness. They're quite developed you know, full of personality and attitudes. That's why I became vegetarian: birds evolved me," Scheie claims.
The Giants are his current obsession.
"There's tons of orange and black gear everywhere in my home. It's fun -- and Giant devotion made me understand Homer's 'The Iliad,'" Scheie says.
"That desire to go into the other village and chop people into bits! Concrete heroes that cause people to cry! Now I get it," he finishes, pausing theatrically before ending with a flourish, "all because of the Giants."
To see a slide show of Danny Scheie and the cast of "Troublemaker," visit http://director.mercurynews.com/images.php?album=3324.


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We know that fall is a great time to plant new trees in the landscape.
Sometimes we need to protect the investment from the elements in the early years.
Many young, smooth, thin-barked trees such as honey locusts, fruit trees, ashes, oaks, maples, lindens and willows are susceptible to sunscald and bark cracks. Sunscald normally develops on the south or southwest side of the tree during late winter. Sunny, warm winter days may heat the bark to relatively high temperatures. Research done in Georgia has shown that the southwest side of the trunk of a peach tree can be 40 degrees warmer than shaded bark.
This warming action can cause a loss of cold hardiness of the bark tissue resulting in cells becoming active. These cells then become susceptible to lethal freezing when the temperature drops at night. The damaged bark tissue becomes sunken and discolored in late spring. Damaged bark will eventually crack and slough off. Trees will often recover but will need some TLC (especially watering during dry weather). Applying tree wrap from the ground to the start of the first branches can protect recently planted trees. This should be done in October to November.


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Some 15,000 children in Alameda County lack health insurance even though they are eligible for Medi-Cal, the state's health care program for low-income individuals and families.
That is why the county launched a new billboard campaign featuring a grandfather, two parents and a daughter covered only by a sign reading "Cover your family."
Residents should begin noticing the ads on billboards, buses, transit shelters and convenience stores this week.
"Our message is that you wouldn't let your family go without clothes ¿-- why let them go without health coverage?" Social Services director Lori Cox said.
Without coverage, people delay routine preventive medical care, which can lead to more serious health concerns and higher costs for the county down the road, she said.
This public awareness effort, which cost $200,000, "is our attempt to ensure that we have exhausted all possible avenues to enroll as many children and families as possible and to continue to improve our success," Cox said.
The new campaign piggybacks on the county's Connecting Kids to Coverage effort launched in 2011 that helped enroll about 3,000 qualifying children by working with community-based organizations, clinics and schools.
At that time, more than half of the county's uninsured children were low-income, with 16 percent under the federal poverty level, according to census figures. Nearly half were Latino with another 29 percent Asian/Pacific Islander and 14 percent black. Nine percent were white. A third lived in Oakland, 20 percent in Hayward and 11 percent in Fremont.
"We want our children to do well," Supervisor Wilma Chan said.
If they don't have health insurance, the odds of that happening are much lower, she said.
For information call 510-COVER-US (510-268-3787), visit www.benefitscalwin.org or download forms at www.dhcs.ca.gov.


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The rise of web applications and Chrome: it's all about timescales
The significant thing about Chrome is that it sets a new way of thinking. It does not mean Chrome will dominate the world. Open standards mean that other companies could provide similar services. It's the 80% scenario. 80% of what we do could be web based and probably will be in the future. It is near 100% for 80% of the population. It does not then make much sense to have everyone running a desktop OS just in case they might happen to want a specialist application that is dependent on that technology. Some people will still need this, but not the majority.


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OAKLAND -- The ball isn't supposed to fly on cool nights in the Coliseum, but you wouldn't know that from Monday's 14-8 Texas Rangers win over the A's in the first of a three-game series.
The temperature was 57 degrees at first pitch and fell from there, but that didn't slow the offense any. Texas hit four of the six homers that left the Coliseum en route to getting back to .500 at 35-35.
The American League West-leading A's (42-28) tried hard to rally after falling into a 10-2 hole, but the closest they got was 11-8 before back-to-back homers by Donnie Murphy (his second of the night) and Robinson Chirinos in the ninth put it away for Texas.
The A's scored two in the first, then had the bases loaded in the second in a 2-2 game and had a chance to put the hurt on the Rangers.
"We had some opportunities there in the second," manager Bob Melvin said. "After that, we didn't play very good baseball."
Not only did the pitchers, starting with Drew Pomeranz and ending with Fernando Abad, allow a dozen runs from the fourth through ninth innings, but the defense did more than its share of damage with three errors. Oakland now has 52 errors, the third-worst total in the American League.
Pomeranz gave up eight runs in just 32/3 innings after having allowed more than two runs in a start just once. His 1.90 ERA jumped to 2.91.
"He wasn't as sharp as we've seen him," Melvin said.
Few of the A's were, although new father Alberto Callaspo had a four-hit night and Yoenis Cespedes drove in four runs with a sacrifice fly and a three-run homer.
Two of the A's three biggest losses of the season in terms of run differential have come in the last four days, a 7-0 loss Friday to the Yankees and the six-run loss Monday. The A's also had a 7-1 loss to the Red Sox on May 2.
The A's got out of the gate quickly against Colby Lewis, with Coco Crisp's double and John Jaso's single producing a run before Lewis had recorded an out. Later in the first inning, a wild pitch got Jaso to third base, and from there he scored on Cespedes' sacrifice fly.
For the next four innings, however, the game completely belonged to the Rangers.
The real damage came in the fourth, starting when Murphy cracked a two-run homer. One out later, Daniel Robertson singled home a run, Elvis Andrus got another in with a grounder, and Shin-Soo Choo finished Pomeranz off by walking.
Reliever Ryan Cook, himself struggling this month, saw Adrian Beltre line a shot to right that Stephen Vogt simply couldn't handle. That double chased both of Pomeranz's runners home, making the Rangers' lead 8-2.
An inning later former A's outfielder Michael Choice, traded this winter for Craig Gentry, ended an 0-for-16 skid with a two-run homer for 10-2.
Oakland finally countered when Brandon Moss hit his 17th homer, a solo shot, in the fifth, but Texas got that run back on a sacrifice fly by Beltre.
Tuesday's game
Texas (Yu Darvish 7-2) at A's (Tommy Milone 4-3), 7:05 p.m. CSNCA


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Everything worked well with SO 7, all versions.
I upgraded to windows 8 and the program now takes a long time to detect the playstation 3, and cant find ps3.(coincidence)
It tells me not found and to check the debug file, i try but I do not know where is the file in SO 8 ?!
When the upgrade software pms for windows 8?
Please help.
Tks in advance.


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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Monday, Jan. 7, 2013
WAYNESBORO, Ga. (WRDW) -- You will now be able to buy alcohol on Sundays in Waynesboro. And that quadruple rate hike so many were worried about? It's not going to happen -- at least for now.
"I think it's a great idea," said Paolo Ortiz, who manages Camino Real Mexican.
Ortiz is one happy guy tonight. After voters gave the green light for Sunday alcohol sales in Waynesboro, the City Council also gave it the thumbs up.
Council member Bill Tinley was the only one that voted against it. He says that he isn't a drinker anymore, but if you are, you should plan ahead.
"I had sense enough to buy on Saturdays, and I usually decided when I ran out that it was time to quit," he said.
Ortiz says the added revenue will be a benefit for the city and can help with the unemployment.
"You know, I'll probably add another waiter into Sunday. It will bring a little more jobs into the city. I know some of these restaurants would love it, too," Ortiz said.
While Sunday alcohol sales breezed through, others had a tougher time. In fact, Mayor Pauline Jenkins had to cast her deciding vote twice because of two ties. She voted yes for a $50 fine when council members speak out of turn.
"I've always said that was a gang order for the council," said Councilwoman Portia Washington.
Washington says she's being picked on.
"Mrs. Washington is the target. I ask too many questions. I don't get enough answers, so they are going to gag Mrs. Washington," she said.
However, Mayor Jenkins says this has nothing to do with any member in particular, and everything to do with making each meeting run smoothly.
"As the leader, I have to have some sense of order in a meeting and that wasn't being done," Jenkins said.
As for Ortiz, he's more worried about making money than fining leaders. He says those leaders made the right move when it comes to Sunday sales.
"Being how the market is and everything, it would bring a lot more jobs in," he said.


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my Problem is, i wrote in my WEB.conf links to Youtube like this:
The Problem is, i only can see the last Videos, around 60 or something. Is there any way to see the whole Channel? I think it is an Problem with my Settings because every Channel shows me the same Number of Videos.
Thanks a lot


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Stop whatever it is you're doing and listen up. We bring you now a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to name what is sure to become an enduring work of American literature: the Kardashians' first book!
Publisher William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, announced Tuesday that reality stars Kourtney, Kim and Khloé Kardashian are turning to fiction. Scheduled for a November release, the book promises an imaginary peak [sic] into the dynamics of "a glamorous, high profile and complicated family."
The publisher invites you to contribute your suggestions here. Let the games begin! Here's one to get the ball rolling:
Your turn, Kommenters! [WashPo/AP, photo via Getty]


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Published: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 7:54 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 7:54 a.m.
Donnie Parks of Spartanburg, S.C., says Columbus resident Chris Burleson's latest criticism of unions was full of "venom" and not surprisingly was void of facts. "It is likely that Burleson avoided facts because had he included them, he would probably have realized that unions not only have made the lives of their members better but also the lives of most Americans as well," responds Mr. Parks. "From a historical perspective, labor unions have been significant in shaping the social fabric of this country. They were advocates in eliminating child labor at the beginning of the 20th century and proponents of companies providing health care coverage for employees in the post-World War II period. More recently, unions were a major force behind the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act from 1993. Chris might lash out at unions, but I bet he certainly would take advantage of these benefits if a family member was sick or in need of medical attention. The numbers also back up the benefits of labor unions as well. Members of unions are more likely to have health insurance than those in the labor force who are not members of unions, and are more likely to have higher percentage amounts contributed to their pension plans than non-union members. It is not a shock to see that the decline in the share of the national income by the middle class has paralleled the decline in union membership over the past 40 years. Mr. Burleson can continue his faulty assault on labor unions, and that is just fine. Hopefully, though, he will realize that his living wage, the benefits that are provided by his company, the safety measures instituted at his job and the protections he receives as a worker are derived from, of all places, the American labor union."
'BEST I HAVE EVER HAD': Honestly, who could resist making a trip to Mountain Pie and Cake Co. after reading about Columbus residents John and Phyllis Albree's latest experience? "Let me delight in telling you first about Phyllis' meal," says Mr. Albree, "All meals are served with a complimentary plate of fresh fruit and a cup of chilled orange juice. From the list of beverages, we both picked fresh, hot coffee. Phyllis selected a generous bowl of hearty oatmeal served with milk in a black and white petite china pitcher shaped like a cow, with blueberries, brown sugar, raspberry jam, walnuts and toast points. She said it was incredibly delicious. I, on the other hand, always seemed in the past to order fresh strawberry crepes, but this day I did vary to a small degree. My meal was mixed berry luscious crepes filled with cream cheese delicately flavored with lemon and powdered sugar, topped with whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon. All this was enveloped and covered with fresh blueberries, blackberries and raspberries. When Phyllis asked me how I enjoyed the slight change in fruit, all I could say was, 'Best I have ever had.' Our final item before paying the modest check was to purchase a generous slice of Bill Tyndall's freshly baked German chocolate cake to be enjoyed later at home. If you have not been to the quaint and scrumptious Mountain Pie and Cake Co. in Hendersonville, it is well worth the trip from wherever you live." You'll find Mountain Pie at 3400 Asheville Highway a few miles north of Hendersonville.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: The Carolina Concert Choir will present its annual all-sacred concert March 8, at 7:30 p.m., and March 9, at 3 p.m., in St. James Episcopal Church in Hendersonville. In its 34th season, the all-auditioned Carolina Concert Choir sings the "Lux Aeterna" by Morten Lauridsen, along with other choral pieces that refer to light. Tickets may be purchased from choir members, Hendersonville Visitor's Center, Laurel Park Wine Market, St. James reception desk, The Wrinkled Egg and online at CarolinaConcertChoir.org.
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