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While the legislature has not yet approved any laws specifically addressing smart grids, the Arkansas state legislature has passed legislation focusing on net-metering and interconnection standards. In April 2001 the Arkansas state legislature directed the Arkansas Public Service Commission (PSC) to establish net-metering and interconnection standards for certain renewable-energy systems, and expanded the net-metering legislation in April 2007. [5, 6]
Prior to 2002, the Arkansas Public Service Commission (PSC) approved a rate schedule for industrial-scale distributed generation which included the establishment of residential-scale net metering by 2008. The commission approved demand-side management for industrial customers in 2000, which was subsequently expanded to include commercial customers. By 2007 Time-of-Use rates had been reviewed for all customer types, and by 2009 the PSC had approved a pilot for day-ahead pricing available to industrial customers. [2, 3, 4]
"In January 2007, the Arkansas Public Service Commission issued an Order establishing "Guidelines on Resource Planning for Electric Utilities," which require utilities to consider all generation, transmission, and demand response options in the region. Specifically, these guidelines direct utilities to "give 'comparable consideration' to demand and supply resources and to assess 'all reasonably useful and economic supply and demand resources that may be available to a utility or its customers,' and to identify and investigate resources including 'energy efficiency, conservation, demand-side management, interruptible load, and price responsive demand.'"
In August 2007, the Commission decided not to adopt PURPA Standard 14 ("Time-Based Metering and Communications") as enacted in EPACT 2005. The Commission declined adoption because it indicated that it can best foster the "the development of various Demand Response technologies and practices" through "utility-specific rate or tariff proceedings." In the course of the proceeding to consider EPACT 1252, utilities filed and the Commission approved "quick start and/or pilot" efficiency programs to run through 2009, some of which include demand response. By way of further evidence of giving due consideration to EPACT 1252, the Commission noted that it issued "Guidelines on Resource Planning for Electric Utilities" in a related proceeding through which it addresses demand response and metering. Specifically, these guidelines direct utilities to "give 'comparable consideration' to demand and supply resources and to assess 'all reasonably useful and economic supply and demand resources that may be available to a utility or its customers,' and to identify and investigate resources including 'energy efficiency, conservation, demand-side management, interruptible load, and price responsive demand.'"" [1]
Distributed generators include qualifying cogeneration and small power production facilities where prices are negotiated and small net-metering customers where the price is determined by reducing the number of owed kilowatt-hours.
Time-of-use rates break the cost for electricity into periods on a seasonal basis for either on-peak or off-peak pricing.
Demand-side management requires reducing consumption to attain a minimum level of consumption when called upon by the company to be credited a posted hourly price, during a contract time period.
CenterPoint Energy
- CenterPoint Energy Rates
Empire District Electric Company
- Empire District Electric Company Rates
Entergy Arkansas
- Entergy Arkansas Residential Rates
- Entergy Arkansas Business Rates
- OG&E Rates
Southwestern Electric Power Company
- Southwestern Electric Power Company Rates
See the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) for information on consumer-owned Cooperatives: http://www.nreca.org/members/MemberDirectory/Pages/default.aspx
Arkansas has a state rebate program addressing photovoltaics and wind for commercial, residential, nonprofits, and local government entities.
More information can be found in the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE): http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?re=1&ee=1&spv=0&st=0&srp=1&state=AR
State Energy Office:
- Arkansas Economic Development Commission Energy Office
State Authority Dealing with Energy Regulation:
- Arkansas Public Service Commission
- Docket Search: http://www.apscservices.info/efilings/docket_search.asp
Arkansas Code
Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE): http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?re=1&ee=1&spv=0&st=0&srp=1&state=AR
[1] Demand Response and Smart Metering Policy Actions Since the Energy Policy Act of 2005: A Summary for State Officials, Prepared by the U.S. Demand Response Coordinating Committee for The National Council on Electricity Policy, Fall 2008. URL: http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/NCEP_Demand_Response_1208.pdf
[2] Residential Rate and Rider Schedules Entergy Arkansas, Inc. URL: http://www.entergy-arkansas.com/your_home/tariffs.aspx
[3] Commercial and Industrial Rate and Rider Schedules Entergy Arkansas, Inc. URL: http://www.entergy-arkansas.com/Your_Business/Business_Tariffs.aspx
[4] OG&E Discover Customer Rates Arkansas Rate Tariffs. URL:, http://www.oge.com/business-customers/billing-and-payment/Pages/RateInfo.aspx
[5] Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, Arkansas – Net Metering, 01/06/2010. URL: http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=AR03R&re=1&ee=1
[6] Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, Arkansas Interconnection Standards, 01/06/2010. URL: http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=AR06R&re=1&ee=1ww.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=AR06R&re=1&ee=1


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 11, 2010) – The U.S. Women's National Team dropped a 22-25, 25-13, 25-23, 25-18 match to Russia on June 11 to conclude pool play at the Montreux Volley Masters in Switzerland.
Team USA, which finished 2-1 and in second-place in Pool A, challenges Pool B's Cuba (3-0) in the semifinal round on June 12 at 9 p.m. local time (noon PT).
Russia won Pool A with a 3-0 record and will face Pool B's China in the opposite semifinal match. Japan finished Pool A in third place, while Germany finished fourth. Cuba won Pool B with a 3-0 record, while China advances to the semifinals with a 2-1 record in the group. Netherlands finished 1-2 and Poland was 0-3.
The U.S. broke the 11th tie of the opening set with a 4-0 run to take a 23-19 lead en route to a 25-22 victory. The opener also produced six lead changes. Russia opened the second set with a 6-0 lead and established a 10-point cushion at 17-7 en route to a 25-13 victory. The U.S. rallied from a 23-20 deficit in the third set to tie the score at 23-all, only to have Russia capture the set 25-23 with the final two points after recovering from its own 16-13 deficit. Russia used a 9-1 scoring run to overcome a 12-7 deficit in the fourth set to win finale 25-18.
Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) and Christa Harmotto (Aliquippa, Pa.) led the U.S. scoring with 16 and 15 points, respectively. Hodge tallied all her points kills, while Harmotto totaled 12 kills and a team-high three blocks. Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.) charted nine kills, two blocks and an ace for 12 points. Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) added six points with five kills and a block in just the first two sets. Ogonna Nnamani (Bloomington, Ill.) and Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah) each added five points off the bench. Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio) contributed four points in the loss, while Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.) rounded out the scoring with an ace.
Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) provided a team-high 16 digs, while Hodge added eight and Thompson seven.
Russia out-blocked USA 12-9 and held a sizeable 64-51 advantage in kills. The U.S. managed a slim 4-3 edge in aces, but had 18 total errors to Russia's 15. The Americans held a 46-33 margin in digs, but the Russians had a 69 percent excellent service reception to their opponent's 52 percent.
U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) started Tamas and Harmotto at middle blocker, Hodge and Barboza at outside hitter, Fawcett at opposite and Spicer at setter. Davis was the designated libero for the match.
Tatiana Kosheleva pounded out a match-high 21 points all on kills for Russia. Nataliya Goncharova tallied 20 points in the victory, while teammate Olga Fateeva added 19 points.
Earlier today, Japan defeated Germany 26-24, 24-26, 25-19, 25-16 in a Pool A match of teams looking for their first win in the tournament. Cuba topped Poland 25-22, 25-21, 25-22 as it finished pool play undefeated. Poland was winless in pool play.
The 26th Annual Montreux Volley Masters, a yearly event held in Montreux, Switzerland, is an eight-team event. For updated tournament host information, visit www.volleymasters.ch/program.php.
Additional information on the U.S. Women's National Team competing in Montreux can be found by clicking here, while the press kit is available by clicking here.
Following the Montreux Volley Masters, the U.S. Women's National Team will travel to Tijuana, Mexico, to compete in the Ninth Pan American Cup slated for June 18-26. In July, the team will have two Red vs. Blue exhibition matches. The first exhibition is scheduled for Irvine Valley College (5500 Irvine Center Dr, Irvine, Calif.) on July 17 at 7 p.m. PT. The second exhibition is scheduled for St. Margaret's Episcopal School (31641 LaNovia Avenue, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) on July 24 at 7 p.m. PT. Tickets are $5 at the door.
The U.S. started with a 2-0 lead in the opening set with a Tamas kill and Spicer ace, but Russia responded with four consecutive points to assume 4-2 advantage. Team USA tied the set at 5-all on a Hodge kill and Russian attack error. Fawcett served an ace after a Barboza back-row kill to yield a 7-6 U.S. lead. Russia recovered with consecutive points going into the first technical timeout leading 8-7. The lead switched quickly again to the U.S. after a Harmotto kill and Russian error at 10-9, but Russian put down consecutive points to return in front 11-10. The U.S. went in front 14-13 on a Russian error after a Hodge kill. Fawcett added a block as part of a 3-0 run to extend the American advantage to 15-13. The U.S. stretched its lead to 18-15 on consecutive kills from Harmotto and Barboza. Russia tied the set at 19-all on three straight points. The Americans used three Russian errors and a Barboza kill to establish a 23-19 advantage on four unanswered points. Russia saved two set points after Tamas put down a kill at 24-20 before the U.S. won 25-22 via a service error. Barboza and Tamas each scored four points for the Americans in the opening set. Russia held a 16-12 advantage in kills, but committed nine errors and the U.S. held a 2-0 margin in aces. Both teams tallied two blocks in the opening set.
Russia opened the second set with a 4-0 advantage prompting a quick timeout. Out of the timeout, Russia extended its margin to 6-0 after its second ace by Olga Fateeva in the scoring run. Tamas and Harmotto scored consecutive kills to narrow the deficit to 7-3. Russia extended its margin to 11-4 with four of the next five points to force McCutcheon to call USA's second timeout. Russia scored three straight points to take a 15-6 lead. The Russian advantage reached double-digits at 17-7. Hodge slammed consecutive kills to cut the gap to eight at 19-11.Russia scored the final four points of the set to win 25-13. Harmotto held a set-high three points for the U.S. Russia took advantage of seven Team USA errors in the second set.
Russia inched to a 6-3 advantage early in the third set. The U.S. received a kill and block from Tamas and Richards added an ace on consecutive plays to tie the set at 8-all after the technical timeout. Nnamani added a block to push the U.S. in front 9-8. Hodge hammered consecutive kills to stretch the U.S. lead to 11-9. Harmotto and Hodge produced consecutive kills to push the American lead to 13-10. After Russia sliced the gap to 13-12, Harmotto placed a kill down and Richards put up a block to return the U.S. margin to three at 15-12. Russia scored two quick points out of the second technical timeout to close to within one at 16-15, then took an 18-17 lead on three straight points leading to a USA timeout. Russia extended its scoring run to five points with consecutive U.S. attack errors to give the Russians a 20-17 lead. Tamas hammered a kill and served an ace on consecutive plays to cut the deficit to one at 21-20. Russia answered with consecutive points to return to a three-point cushion at 23-20. After a Russia attack into the net, Harmotto slammed a kill of the block and put up a block to move Team USA into a tie at 23-all. However, Russia scored the final two points to capture a 25-23 victory. Harmotto provided seven points for the U.S. in the third set, while Hodge added five points. Team USA tallied five blocks in the period. Russia scored 17 of its 25 points via kills in the third period.
Hodge scored two kills and Tamas added another to give the U.S. an early 3-0 lead in the fourth set. Hodge and Richards converted consecutive points to lift the U.S. in front 5-1. Russia cut the deficit in half with back-to-back points at 6-4. Harmotto pounded a kill and Tamas added a block to yield a 9-5 USA advantage. After holding a 12-7 advantage, Russia stormed into the lead at 16-13 on a 9-1 scoring spurt. Russia increased its lead to 21-15 after consecutive USA errors and a block as part of a 4-0 scoring run. Russia finished off the set with a 25-18 victory.
U.S. Women's National Team Roster for Montreux Volley Masters
# - Name (Pos, Ht, Hometown, College)
1 - Ogonna Nnamani (OH, 6-1, Bloomington, Ill., Stanford)
2 - Kristin Richards (OH, 6-1, Orem, Utah, Stanford)
3 - Christa Harmotto (MB, 6-2, Aliquippa, Pa., Penn State)
4 - Angie Pressey (OH, 5-8, Lake Mary, Fla., California-Berkeley)
5 - Tamari Miyashiro (L, 5-7, Kaneohe, Hawaii, Washington)
6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
7 - Jill Collymore (OPP/OH, 5-10, Seattle, Wash., Washington)
8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
9 - Jennifer Tamas (MB, 6-4, Milpitas, Calif., Pacific)
13 - Alexis Crimes (MB, 6-3, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Long Beach State)
14 - Nicole Fawcett (OPP, 6-4, Zanesfield, Ohio, Penn State)
15 - Courtney Thompson (S, 5-8, Kent, Wash., Washington)
17 - Mary (Nellie) Spicer (S, 5-9, Barrington, Ill., UCLA)
18 - Megan Hodge (OH, 6-3, Durham, N.C., Penn State)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Assistant Coach: Paula Weishoff (Irvine, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Athletic Trainer/Medical Support: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)
Technical Coordinator: Jennifer Hirneisen
Team Leader: Jim McLaughlin
Team Doctor: Dr. William Stetson
Final Montreux Pool Standings
Pool A
Russia 3-0
Japan 1-2
Germany 0-3
Pool B
Cuba 3-0
China 2-1
Netherlands 1-2
Poland 0-3
Montreux Schedule
June 8
Cuba def. Netherlands 25-18, 25-22, 17-25, 25-23
USA def. Japan 25-23, 25-23, 25-21 (Unofficial DataVolley Stats)
China def. Poland 25-17, 25-23, 25-17
June 9
USA def. Germany 19-25, 35-33, 25-20, 25-22 (Unofficial DataVolley Stats)
China def. Netherlands 25-19, 25-20, 25-19
Russia def. Japan 25-16, 25-19, 25-21
June 10
Netherlands def. Poland 25-23, 16-25, 25-16, 25-23
Russia def. Germany 25-21, 25-21, 25-21
Cuba def. China 28-26, 22-25, 25-22, 19-25, 15-8
June 11
Japan def. Germany 26-24, 24-26, 25-19, 25-16
Cuba def. Poland 25-22, 25-21, 25-22
Russia def. USA 22-25, 25-13, 25-23, 25-18
June 12: Pool Crossover
Japan (3A) vs. Poland (4B), 2 p.m. (5 a.m. PT)
Netherlands (3B) vs. Germany (4A), 4 p.m. (7 a.m. PT)
Russia (1A) vs. China (2B), 6:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. PT)
USA (1B) vs. Poland (2A), 9 p.m. (noon PT)
June 13: Medal Round Matches
Match for 5th Place, 11 a.m. (2 a.m. PT)
Bronze Medal Match, 1:30 p.m. (4:30 a.m. PT)
Gold Medal Match, 4 p.m. (7 a.m. PT)


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Last winter, Corey Cogdell's hopes of making the 2008 Olympic team were not looking good. After the Fall Selection match in August 2007, she was tied for sixth place, eight targets out of first, in women's trap shooting. Only six would advance to the Olympic Selection competition in March 2008, and only one trapshooter would make the Olympic team.
The Olympic Selection match was slated for the Hill Country Shooting Sports Center in Kerrville, Texas, about an hour northwest of San Antonio in central Texas. Cogdell, who had trained there two years ago, knew what she had to do.
Five weeks before the competition, she called her dad, Dick Cogdell, at home in Eagle River, Alaska, and told him she wanted to spend a month training in Kerrville before the match. But she would need to leave the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, where her room and board are taken care of, and pay her own way.
"I think that's real smart," her dad told her. "The weather is a whole lot colder (in Kerrville in March) than in Colorado Springs."
She woke up on March 9, the first day of the four-day Olympic Selection trap-shooting match, and smiled when she looked out the window. The wind was blowing, it was raining and 34 degrees.
Corey put on the long johns she had bought for hunting at home in Alaska and "walked out dressed to shoot," she told her dad. Her competitors were "bulked up in warm clothes."
By the end of the first day, Corey had made up the eight-target deficit and led 2004 Olympian Collyn Loper, 298 to 296. Three days later, the Alaska native had taken a 12-target lead and was named as the sole female trapshooter on the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team.
"It's phenomenal," said Dick on the eve of his daughter's first trip to the Olympics. "Most trapshooting matches are lost or won by one or two targets."
It was the latest success story for Corey who shot into international focus in April 2007, when she earned a bronze medal at her first World Cup, held in Changwon, Korea.
"I had no idea what it would be like," she says, when asked if she had any expectations going to her first World Cup. "I had no idea what kind of scores would be shot overseas. I just went out there and tried to do my best. I had no idea that I was even in contention until my coach told me that I had made the finals."
"If I can do this again next year, I'll be going to the Olympics," she said to herself.
She has had a rapid rise to the top of a sport that's often dominated by older, more seasoned competitors. But it's not surprising, given her background.
She was born on September 2, 1986, the second daughter of Dick and Wendy Cogdell, who lived in Chickaloon, Alaska, over 70 miles northeast of Anchorage. They would later move to Eagle River to be closer to Anchorage.
The son of a Wyoming cowboy, Dick moved to Alaska when he was 7 and learned at a young age to operate heavy equipment. Construction work in Alaska is seasonal, so Dick spent the winters in Hawaii, where he would "go to the beach, body surf, and catch girls."
On a beach near Oahu, he met Wendy, a blonde on vacation from Minnesota. "She was everything I'd been looking for," he remembers.
The next winter, he visited her in Minnesota and 14 weeks later, asked her to come back to Alaska with him. They married two years later and Wendy was a stay-at-home mom after Tanis and Corey were born (Tanis is three years older).
"Wendy was focused," says Dick. "She was determined her daughters would grow up properly."
Dick had learned to hunt and fish from his father in Wyoming and began passing on his knowledge to his daughters when they were still toddlers.
"They started shooting a 22 (rifle) off the deck with me when they were two," recalls Dick (Corey says she was three, not two). "It was something fun to do with me. There was a three-inch wire all the way around the deck, and they would stabilize the rifle barrel on that."
Corey says the gun was called a "22 Chipmunk, a little kid's 22."
Dick hung cans and other targets off nearby trees. "They were hitting them at age two, 75 to 100 feet away," he marvels.
"I fished with my dad since I was 3 or 4 years old," remembers Corey. "Then I started going out hunting with him when I as just a little bit older, probably when I was 7 or 8. We'd go bird hunting, or I'd go out with him when he went moose hunting. ... My dad says the first thing I ever shot was a spruce hen."
Wendy home-schooled both girls, and Dick says they picked up their focus and drive from her. She always told them that there was nothing that she could do that they couldn't too.
On July 15, 1996, Wendy was hit and killed by a car while riding her bike near their home in Eagle River. Tanis was 11, Corey was 9.
The next day, Dick quit his construction job to be a full-time dad. "I asked Tanis and Corey, do you want to go to public school or continue home-schooling," he says. "I told them I'm willing to be your teacher but you have to do the work and be disciplined. And Tanis, you're going to have to help your sister."
As part of their home-schooling curriculum, Dick learned that any kind of lesson in sports counted as a gym credit. He found a $60 shooting course and signed up Corey.
"It was the first time she ever shot a shotgun," says Dick. "She shot 12 birds out of 25."
In 2002, when she was 13, Corey was Alaska State Sub Junior champion (outscoring the junior boy champion by two targets). "By 2004, she probably had 50 to 75 first-place trophies," says Dick.
When she was 16, she was introduced to International Trap at an Olympic Development Camp in Colorado Springs.
In International Style, a 60-foot-long in-ground bunker houses 15 machines that throw targets at 60-80 mph at up to a 45-degree angle left to right. The angle and the height of the targets vary. In American Trap, one machine throws targets at a consistent height at about 45 mph, with the hardest angle being 17 degrees left to right.
"It's a completely different game," says Corey. "I definitely had to put a lot of rounds down range, and I've sought out coaching and done everything that I could to try and learn the different game. Fortunately, I picked up on it really fast."
By the time she was 18, Dick says she knew she could make the Olympics. Her goal: the 2012 Games in London. But first, she would have to find a place to train. Alaska has plenty of moose and bear, but no International Trap shooting facilities. (Coincidentally, Corey shot her first moose this same year - hitting it in the eye from 100 feet.)
With Tanis studying nursing in Texas, Corey packed up and moved to the Lone Star state to train at the High Country Shooting Sports Center. It was February 2006, and she was 19.
Eight months later, at the 2006 Fall Selection, she won the junior women's trap competition and was named to the national team. She asked if she could train at to the Olympic Training Center and moved there in April 2007.
On April 24, 2007, she won the bronze medal in the World Cup. In July 2007, she won another bronze medal, this one at the Pan Am Games in Brazil.
When asked what has led to her rapid ascent, national team coach Lloyd Woodhouse says, "It's called determination, determination and hard practice."
Unlike before her World Cup debut in Korea, Corey does have expectations heading to Beijing. "I have a very good chance of medaling in the Games," she says. "At one point or another, I've beaten just about everybody who will be competing there."
Women's trap has been a medal sport at the Olympics since 2000. In 2004, Collyn Loper finished fourth-the best U.S. finish to date. Kim Rhode won a gold medal in 2004 in double trap, but that event is no longer contested.
The biggest challenge, Corey says, besides overcoming jetlag, will be "not getting wrapped up in the whole Olympic experience and just staying focused."
"I need to have a good solid performance and shoot to the best of my ability," she adds. "If I can do that, I'll definitely come home with a medal."
"She's got a great chance to win this one," says her dad, who will cheer her on from home.
And if she does win this one, will she move home to Alaska? Not yet. Her sight is set on 2012.
Peggy Shinn is a freelance contributor for teamusa.org. This story was not subject to the approval of the United States Olympic Committee or any National Governing Bodies.


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Setting up a Debian archive mirror
- Whether to mirror
- What to mirror
- Where to mirror from
- How to mirror
- Partial mirroring
- When to mirror
- Recommended additional settings
- How to add a mirror to the mirror list
Whether to mirror
While we appreciate all new mirrors, every prospective mirror maintainer should make sure that they can answer these questions before trying to start their own mirror:
- Is a mirror necessary at my location? Maybe there are already mirrors nearby.
- Do I have the resources to host a mirror? Mirrors take up considerable disk space and bandwidth, one has to be able to commit to the cost.
- Is a mirror the right choice? Sometimes people mistakenly start a mirror, when they actually want to run a caching proxy, such as apt-cacher-ng.
What to mirror
The main mirror page lists the archives available for mirroring.
- Users will look for the debian/ archive to install Debian over the network, to build CDs from (with jigdo), and to upgrade already installed systems.
debian-cd/ is an archive that isn't identical across all the different
mirror servers. On some sites it contains jigdo templates to build CD images
from (used in combination with files from debian/), on some it contains
already built CD images, and on some sites both.
Please see the page for mirroring the CD images for further information on this.
- debian-archive/ contains the true archive, the old and obsolete versions of Debian. It will generally be interesting only to a small segment of users.
Please see the mirror size page for more precise information about mirror sizes.
The debian-security/ archives contain the security updates released by the Debian security team. It sounds interesting to everyone, but since the security updates are sporadic, one would have to mirror it very often to be up to date (or use push mirroring) so we do not recommend it. Debian makes every effort to maintain the high availability of security.debian.org instead.
Where to mirror from
Many people seem to think that
ftp.debian.org is the
canonical location of Debian packages and that it will be best for them
to mirror from that site. This is not true.
ftp.debian.org is merely one of several servers that get
updated from an internal Debian server. That address is presently located
on a single server, and it still exists mainly for
backwards compatibility.
The official mirrors are meant to be a good place
to mirror from. Any of the servers in the full list of
mirrors that have the tags
Type: Push-Primary or
Type: Push-Secondary should be good to mirror from.
Please use one that is close to you both network-wise and geographically.
There is no real difference between different Push-Primary mirror servers as far as mirroring is concerned. On the other hand, if many people use ftp.debian.org (and unfortunately, they do), this needlessly wastes the donated bandwidth.
Mirror administrators in the United States should mirror from
ftp.us.debian.org (the official mirror address from the US, which is a
Push-Primary mirror). But, since that address is also a round-robin alias
for several machines, it usually makes sense to determine which of the
components is the best and then mirror from that particular one.
The upside of doing that is that it avoids the risk of failures when performing a two-stage rsync (different stages might end up on different machines during time windows where they have different data, causing a race condition). The downside is that it concentrates on a single site the performance of which may vary, but that is currently inherent to our mirror network in general.
How to mirror
The recommended method of mirroring is with the so called ftpsync scriptset, available in two forms:
- as a tarball from https://ftp-master.debian.org/ftpsync.tar.gz
- as a git repository: git clone https://ftp-master.debian.org/git/archvsync.git
The mirroring protocol which we strongly recommend is rsync.
Please do not mirror Debian using wget and other tools based on FTP. They may seem to work well, but will have numerous issues (they can't detect hard links, it's harder to make partial mirrors, etc).
rsync setup
We recommend to use the ftpsync scriptset to mirror the archive. Follow the README file included to set up mirroring.
If you do use your own scripts, the minimal functionality that must be supported is as follows:
MUST perform a 2-stage sync
The archive mirroring must be done in 2 stages. The first rsync run must ignore the index files. The correct exclude options for the first rsync run are:--exclude Packages* --exclude Sources* --exclude Release* --exclude InRelease --exclude i18n/* --exclude ls-lR*
The first stage must not delete any files.
The second stage should then transfer the above excluded files and delete files that no longer belong on the mirror.
Rationale: if archive mirroring is done in a single stage, there will be periods of time during which the index files will reference files not yet mirrored.
MUST not ignore pushes while running (for push mirroring).
If a push is received during a run of the mirror sync, it MUST NOT be ignored. The whole synchronization process must be rerun.
Rationale: most implementations of Debian mirror scripts will leave the mirror in an inconsistent state in the event of a second push being received while the first sync is still running. It is likely that in the near future, the frequency of pushes will increase.
- Run rsync with at least these options: --recursive --times --links --hard-links --delete.
- If you have extra disk space, also use the --delete-after option to avoid some of the temporary update problems.
- After rsync is done mirroring, add a time stamp file to the
project/trace/subdirectory of the Debian mirror named after your server. This means running date -u > .../debian/project/trace/your.server after your daily rsync is finished.
- We strongly advise against excluding the project/, doc/ and other subdirectories. Usually these are minor in size and yet useful to users. Especially project/trace helps very much if there are any mirror issues.
Partial mirroring
Considering the already large size of Debian archive, some people prefer to mirror only parts of it they need. If you want to exclude something, you should exclude architectures.
With the recommended ftpsync, this can be done by editing the ARCH_EXCLUDE variable.
We strongly advise against excluding the project/, doc/ and other subdirectories. Usually these are minor in size and yet useful to users. Especially project/trace helps very much if there are any mirror issues.
It is possible to use other specially written scripts, but they are usually not necessary, and not recommended for official mirrors.
When to mirror
The main archive gets updated four times a day. The mirrors commonly start updating around 3:00, 9:00, 15:00 and 21:00 (all times UTC), but these are never fixed times and you should not fixate your mirror on them.
Your mirror should update a few hours after one of the main archive mirror pulses. You should check if the site you're mirroring from leaves a time stamp file in their project/trace/ subdirectory. The time stamp file will be named like that site, and it will contain the completion time of their last mirror update. Add a couple of hours to that time (to be safe) and mirror then.
It is essential that your mirror is in sync with the main archive. A minimum of 4 updates per 24 hours will ensure that your mirror is a true reflection of the archive. Please understand that mirrors that are not in sync with the main archive will not be listed in the official mirrors listing.
The easiest way to automatically have the mirror run every day is to use cron. See man crontab for details.
Note that if your site is being triggered with a push mechanism, then you don't need to worry about any of this.
Push-triggered mirroring
Push mirroring is a form of mirroring that we have developed
to minimize the time it takes for changes to the archive to reach mirrors.
An upstream mirror uses an SSH trigger to tell the downstream mirror to
update itself. The
pushing is usually limited to a secure trigger
that takes no variable data, so the rest of the mirroring process is
pull like with a cron job.
Push mirroring is necessary to keep multiple servers in synchronization
(such as servers in DNS round-robin aliases like ftp.us.debian.org),
and we use it for our first and second tier mirrors. But as this method
requires a bit more effort to set it up, it isn't commonly done for
private mirrors.
For a more detailed description of how this works, why it is secure, and how to set a push mirror, please see the complete explanation.
Recommended additional settings
If you are going to make the Debian mirror available through HTTP, please
add the following settings to your Apache configuration (presuming, of
course, you will use Apache), within the
<Directory /path/to/your/debian/mirror>
block, where /path/to/your/debian/mirror should be the actual
name of the directory where you keep the mirror:
Options +Indexes +SymlinksIfOwnerMatch IndexOptions NameWidth=* +SuppressDescription
This enables the directory indices and makes sure that following symlinks will work. The file names in the directory indices won't be truncated, and (mostly nonexistent) descriptions won't be shown.
In Apache 1.3.x, the following option may also be added:
DirectoryIndex .
Do not add that option in Apache 2.x.
How to add a mirror to the mirror list
If you would like to have your mirror listed on the official mirrors list please:
- Ensure that your mirror synchronizes 4 times per 24 hours with the archive
- Ensure that your mirror includes the source files for the architectures the mirror carries
Once the mirror is set up, it should be registered with Debian in order to get included in the official mirror list. Submissions can be done using our simple web form.
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Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is collaborating with the Diabetes Training and Technical Assistance Center (DTTAC) at Emory University to host lifestyle coach training for the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP). The two-day training will take place on December 5-6, 2013.
The National DPP is a public-private partnership led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Lifestyle coaches trained under the National DPP will lead year-long programs designed to help nearly 80-million at-risk Americans make the lifestyle changes necessary to avoid developing type 2 diabetes, the fastest growing disease in the United States.
"This program is especially critical in California, where more than 40 percent of adults have already developed prediabetes," said Kimberly Johnson, MPH, a NDPP DTTAC master trainer and research assistant in CGU's School of Community and Global Health. "Most people can avoid developing type 2 diabetes with basic changes to their diet and exercise regimens. If we can build a network of lifestyle coaches to spread that message to the public we can make a huge impact on the quality of life for millions of Californians."
Diabetes is a group of diseases characterized by high blood glucose levels that result from defects in the body's ability to produce or use insulin. Nearly 26 million Americans, or about 8 percent of the population, have diabetes. The most common type, type 2, is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S.
The number of adults who have developed type 2 diabetes has tripled in the past three decades even though the disease can often be thwarted by healthy eating, increased physical activity, weight loss, and stress reduction. Studies have shown that evidence-based lifestyle intervention programs that teach individuals how to make these changes reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by nearly 60 percent. Prescription drug treatments, meanwhile, are successful only about half as often.
Lifestyle coaches trained at CGU will use the CDC-recommended curriculum for the lifestyle intervention.
Lifestyle coaches may be nurses, dietitians, educators, or lay people who work in health care, community organizations, worksites, or academic institutions that wish to deliver the National DPP lifestyle change program.
The training is open to organizations from California and surrounding states. Johnson, DTTAC master trainer, will lead the training.
Organizations interested in having lifestyle coaches trained can contact Emory University's Diabetes Training and Technical Assistance Center at email@example.com or (404) 712-8474 for further information and to register for the training.
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Concerns about teacher raised last year
Student, parent say principal was told about 'sexting,' sending of photos
South High School Principal Aaron Bravo was notified nearly a year ago about concerns with a former teacher sending students explicit text messages and inappropriate photos to male students, a South student and parent told The Pueblo Chieftain on Thursday.
Larisa Oringdulph resigned Nov. 7 after allegations surfaced the previous month that she had sent inappropriate text messages to students and kissed another boy this fall semester.
A South senior said similar text messages, photos and talk of Oringdulph's inappropriate behavior with male students was voiced to Bravo last December.
The student said semi-nude photos and sexually explicit text messages allegedly sent to male students were shown to Bravo by several students, but nothing came of the complaint.
"(Bravo) said there's no truth behind this; you guys made this up," the student said. "I said, 'Well, the (students) have pictures.' He said we just needed to drop it and if we didn't, we'd face consequences with our sports."
The student — both her and her mother spoke on the condition of anonymity — said Bravo threatened to suspend her.
Bravo did not return a call Thursday seeking comment. When contacted earlier this week by The Chieftain's news partners, KRDO-TV, Bravo declined comment and referred all questions to Pueblo City Schools (D60) spokesman Scott Jones.
District officials have refused comment regarding any investigations or complaints involving Oringdulph since she has been an employee of the district.
The student said the group of students didn't continue to press Bravo on the matter because they were afraid to do so.
"They've known about it for a whole year, but there was never anything to reassure that anything was being done about it," the student said. "She (Oringdulph) was always in class, she was always in charge of everything, she was at every event."
A parent said she voiced similar concerns to Bravo a year ago after she saw inappropriate text messages allegedly sent from Oringdulph to a male student.
"I thought it was all hearsay until I saw the text myself. It was very provocative and sexual in nature," the parent said.
Another parent said Bravo told her that the allegations were untrue and there was nothing else that could be done to prove they were true.
"I didn't pursue it any further because I felt like I didn't have any more proof," the parent said. "I felt intimidated and I felt like I did as much as I could."
The student who spoke to The Chieftain on Thursday said she no longer feels comfortable talking to the principal about serious matters because she feels they won't be addressed.
"This is part of his job and if he can't take care of that, he shouldn't be a principal," the student said. "Teachers are supposed to be someone that's trusted, not someone going around doing these things."
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More football jobs filled
The Columbus Dispatch - February 25, 2014 11:14 PM
The announcement late Monday night that Brian Cross has been hired as football coach at Ready seems to make perfect sense.
Cross, who has coached at Eastmoor, Grove City, Canton McKinley and most recently Olentangy Orange, is an old-school coach with a blue-collar approach. Ready's athletes, many coming from hard-scrabble backgrounds, have been weaned on a similar work ethic by Joel Cutler and, before that, Larry Wolf. Although Cross has never coached a parochial school program, this looks like a win-win situation for both parties.
-- Wade Bartholomew is on the verge of being hired to take over at Bloom-Carroll, creating an interesting scenario since his father, Scott, is head coach at Mid-State League Buckeye Division rival Logan Elm.
The younger Bartholomew, a former Westfall quarterback, previously coached at Huntington Ross and Gallipolis Gallia Academy. Bartholomew succeeds Phil Mauro, who returned to Canal Winchester where he previously coached.
-- Nick Hajjar recently was hired as coach and athletic director at North Union. Jesse Miller led the Wildcats to a 57-10 record in six seasons there, but resigned following the season.
Hajjar was a three-sport star at Pleasant and was an All-America player at Wooster. He had spent the past 10 seasons as an assistant at Ohio Northern University, but grew weary of the daily round trip from his family's home in Marysville to Ada. He said Miller's previous staff will remain largely intact.
-- Tennyson Varney was tabbed as the new coach at Franklin Heights, which has won only four games the past four seasons. Varney had served as an assistant at Ohio Dominican and Hamilton Township.
-- Jon Tobin, a former player at Fisher Catholic and the University of Cincinnati, has been hired as head coach at Cincinnati Purcell-Marian.
-- By my count, Beechcroft, Briggs, Buckeye Valley, Jonathan Alder, Lakewood, Harvest Prep, East Knox and Cardington are the only area schools still looking for a coach. Provided that the Columbus City Schools follow through on a recommendation to close Brookhaven and Independence, coaches Trevor White of Brookhaven and Maurice Douglas of Independence would be attractive candidates, especially for the two City League openings. A close source said that a contract is in the final stages for a new coach at Harvest Prep.
-- Fairfield Christian Academy's burgeoning athletic program will add wrestling to the mix for the 2014-15 school year. A search for a coach is underway. Lancaster-area businesses provided funding for mats, uniforms and equipment needed to launch the program.


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Sunbed use increases risk of melanoma; risk increases with greater number of sessions and first use at younger age
- Dermatology Department, West Herts NHS Trust, Hemel Hemspstead, UK
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To date, ultraviolet (UV) exposure is the only environmental factor associated with an increased risk of melanoma.
There is therefore a need to ensure that the risks associated with artificial UV exposure are quantified.
There has been some controversy regarding the association between melanoma and sunbed exposure as some studies have shown positive associations while others have not.
Melanoma has long been linked to UV exposure and this has been established via case-control studies and cohort studies including migration studies from Australia and Europe as well as laboratory studies on animal models. Most case-control studies have shown that exposure to natural sunlight is associated with an increased risk of melanoma, especially for exposure before the age of 35 years and overall relative risk of 1.75.1 Artificial UV exposure has also been of interest …


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Tire flipping for vets
Numerous volunteers showed up Saturday to help flip an 800-pound industrial tire 10.7 miles down U.S. Highway 83, from Minot Air Force Base to ASK Fitness.
Though the event has been a dream of Staff Sgt. Cody Lytle's, Lytle said he and Staff Sgt. Joshua Heidemann didn't organize the event only for fun. The volunteers were raising money to help wounded warriors and veterans. The tire flip challenge was sponsored by Crossfit Minot and Vets Trucking.
Lytle said cash donations for the effort would be welcome after the tire flip challenge as well. Donations will be accepted via Clebe McClary's Evangelistic Association. For information about donations, contact Mike Stamness at 720-7177.
McClary, a motivational speaker from South Carolina, was wounded during a reconnaissance mission in Vietnam and lost an eye and an arm. He received the Silver Star and the Bronze Star. McClary will speak tonight at 7 p.m. at Grand International Hotel about the disturbing trends facing disabled veterans such as multiple deployments, suicide rates, divorce, depression, health and other issues. He will speak again at 10 a.m. Monday at Minot Air Force Base.
Lytle said they've been using the huge tire, which was salvaged after the flood of 2011, for the last couple of years. Lytle said it's been one of his dreams to flip the tire downtown for no reason. On Saturday it happened, but for a good reason.
Lytle said he expected up to 30 people to show up to help flip the tire down the highway at different points on Saturday.
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David Akiba has been making photographs for 44 years. His work is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Art, The Fogg Art Museum, The DeCordova Museum, the Brooklyn Art Museum, and others. At the Rhode Island School of Design, he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.
In 1985 he won a $20,000 MassProductions grant to photograph in Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald necklace park system for two years. A solo exhibition of that work was on view at Boston University's Photographic Resource Center in 1987.
Also in l985, he was selected by a jury to photograph for two years on the elevated Orange Line between Forest Hills and downtown Boston. He was accompanied by a Boston high school student who he mentored. His work and that of the other four photographers who participated on the project, was exhibited at the Massachusetts State Transportation building, the Great Hall of the Boston Public Library and other sites around the city in 1987-88
He has had a retrospective exhibition of his landscape photographs at the Rose Art Museum, and a major exhibition of his work covering almost 30 years at the Wiggin Gallery of the Boston Public Library. A solo exhibition of his family photographs entitled " A Separate Journey" was exhibited in New York City at the 92nd Street Y in 2007. His "Light-struck" photographs were included in an exhibition entitled, "Luminous Form, Abstraction in Color Photography" at the DeCordova Museum. A book of his photographs entitled "Knot This Broken Thread" was published in 2011 by the 2054 Press in Chicago.
A twenty-fifth anniversary exhibition of the Orange Line photographic project will be on view from October, 2012 to January 2013 at the Wiggin Gallery of the Boston Public Library.
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Temps affect taxes
Minot's city sales tax collections are down from levels of the past two years, prompting city officials to keep an eye on the potential need for budget changes. However, at least some in Minot's construction community attribute the lower collections to the weather and suggest that a turnaround is coming.
Sales tax collections are off considerably from last year, although that's not unexpected. Cindy Hemphill, finance director, said because of the amount of flood rebuilding that influenced sales last year, the city didn't anticipate that amount of tax revenue this year. Instead, the city budgeted for a 2 percent increase over 2011.
For the first quarter of this year, from January through March, collections are down 36 percent from 2012 and 12.5 percent from 2011. Collections for each of the two 1 percent sales taxes were $2.1 million for the first three months of this year, and $2.4 million for the first three months of 2011.
"We will continue to watch it. There's still plenty of time if we need to reduce some of the projects," Hemphill said.
Construction activity can be a major driver in sales tax revenue and serves as an indicator of growth and activity. In that respect, there are positive signs that sales tax revenues could improve.
Mitch Kraft, president of the Minot Association of Builders, believes the lower tax collections are a product of a cold winter and absence of spring. The mild winter of 2011-2012 allowed a lot of work to continue, and contractors were hard at it at this time last year. Only a handful of commercial projects that got going last fall were able to produce work this winter, Kraft said. That's created a situation where he expects a boom in activity once the weather changes.
"It will be like somebody turned on a light switch and everybody is just going crazy," he said.
Building permit values through March of this year total nearly $66.7 million. That compares to a record $83 million for the same period in 2012 and $26.4 million in 2011.
Curt Schaefer, manager of Minot Lumber and Hardware, said indications are that Minot will have another busy construction season. With the economy perking up in some parts of the country, fewer out-of-state contractors may come back, but there should be some influx of workers that will help boost sales around Minot, he said. He also sees a correlation between the delayed construction season and the city's lower sales taxes and looks for both to improve.
"We certainly would have hoped we would have been going pretty strong already," he said. "The weather is definitely holding things up. We traditionally don't have a very long building season as it is. The further we go, the more it's going to compress things."
The drop in sales tax revenue so far hasn't been a critical concern for the city. Hemphill said that the city often will build up adequate money in its sales tax accounts to pay for a project before proceeding with that project. The share of sales tax deposited in the MAGIC Fund also isn't designated for spending until it is in the account. So lower tax collections results in money accumulating more slowly into the accounts, which won't mean budget cutbacks but could affect the timing of some projects.
The $168 million city budget also includes $3.3 million in sales tax collections that are paying for city services normally paid through property taxes. The city is collecting about $13 million in property taxes.
Minot's first penny of tax is split with 50 percent for capital improvements, 40 percent for economic development and 10 percent for property-tax relief. The second penny is divided among infrastructure, 40 percent, and community facilities and property-tax relief, each 30 percent.
Meanwhile, state sales tax collections are running about the same for the first two months of this year as in 2012. They are about 48 percent ahead of the first two months of 2011, according to figures from the North Dakota Office of Management and Budget.


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Tax Foundation says NY has worst tax climate in the nation
ALBANY – The winless Giants aren't the only New Yorkers having a tough fall.
A report out Wednesday by a national tax watch group put New York in the cellar among states when comparing the complexity of tax codes and tax rates. The national Tax Foundation ranked New York at 50th, behind New Jersey and California. New York's individual income tax ranking was 49th.
The business group Unshackle Upstate says the ranking is further evidence that bold, broad-based tax relief is needed for families and businesses.
"We must take bold steps to improve our job-killing tax climate," said Brian Sampson of Unshackle Upstate. "A stronger economy starts with lower taxes and the Tax Foundation's report shows that we've got work to do."
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has established two tax commissions that will recommend ways to simplify the tax law and cut taxes.
Cuomo and the Legislature have extended an income tax surcharge on top earners and a business tax that together have generated more than $2 billion in additional tax revenue annually since 2010. That election year Cuomo and legislators promised no new taxes.
Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said the Tax Foundation's conclusions conflict with other performance measures.
He said the state unemployment is 6.9 percent, which is under the national rate of 7.3 percent, and Forbes magazine recently ranked New York 21st among states in comparing business climates.
"Over the last three years, New York State has added more than 300,000 private sector jobs, received a positive outlook from Standard & Poor's and Moody's (credit rating services), reduced barriers and lowered taxes for businesses and put the state on secure fiscal footing," Azzopardi said.


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Apricot Glazed Chicken with Dried Plums and Sage
Recipe courtesy of Dave Lieberman
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This is an elegant way to make a whole lot of chicken that tastes really, really good. It's kind of sweet and sour; sweet from the apricot[ preserves and the plums and sour from the bit of vinegar that I add. But what makes this dish are the sage leaves. They give a distinctive taste to the dish and make it a beautiful, festive platter that you can really be proud of.]
- 2 roasting chickens, cut into pieces
- 1 (12-ounce) jar apricot preserves
- 15 medium dried plums, pitted
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- 3 pinches salt
- 20 grinds black pepper
- 10 cloves garlic, peeled
- 20 to 30 sage leaves
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Trim any extra fat from the chicken pieces and transfer them to a large roasting pan or broiler pan. If you don't have a roasting pan that's large enough, use 2 identical 13 by 9-inch baking pans.
Toss all of the ingredients together with the chicken until the chicken is evenly coated with the sauce. Arrange the chicken pieces skin-side up in the pan, spaced evenly apart.
If you're looking to prepare in advance, you can do everything up to this point and cover the roasting dishes and refrigerate until you're ready to roast the chicken.
Roast, uncovered, until the tops of the chicken pieces are browned and the chicken is cooked through, and the juices run clear, about 35 to 40 minutes.
Recipe courtesy of Dave Lieberman
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Hi ladies! My little man is turning nine months old next week. I hear a lot of people say they feed their nine month olds finger food like crackers and fruit. My little guy eats gerber cereal and 2nd stage fruits in the morning, and a Gerber second stage fruit and veggie for lunch and same for dinner. Am I behind the game here? Honestly, I'm scared to give him anything, even if it is a small piece because I am afraid he will choke. When is a good time to introduce this? How do I know he is ready for finger foods? Thanks!
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Today, the United States announced its intention to pursue a second term on the Human Rights Council. This announcement follows a landmark session of the Council that wrapped up last week, in which the Council took several important actions, including establishing a new Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, establishing a Commission of Inquiry to investigate human rights abuses in Cote d'Ivoire and charting a new course for global efforts to condemn intolerance, discrimination, and violence based on religion or belief while protecting and promoting freedom of expression. Additionally, the United States led a ground-breaking effort to get 85 UN member-states to join a statement supporting the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
The United States believes that our engagement in the Human Rights Council has directly resulted in real progress for the Council, and we have a substantial positive track record at the Council since joining in September of 2009. The United States has been able to help mobilize the Council's will to address serious problems in Libya, Iran, Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, Kyrgyzstan, and elsewhere for the first time. Due to U.S. leadership, the people of Iran will now have a voice at the UN to speak for them and raise their concerns internationally. Countries can no longer claim an international sanction for blasphemy laws. Women's rights, issues related to sexual orientation, freedom of expression and assembly…all of these issues have been raised and supported at the Council thanks to effective and tireless U.S. leadership.
However, much work remains to be done to ensure that the Council fully realizes its intended purpose. In particular, the United States remains determined to end the Council's biased and disproportionate focus on Israel. The United States maintains a vocal, principled stand against this bias, and will continue its robust efforts to end it.
As President Reagan said, "[W]hen human rights progress is made, the United Nations grows stronger -- and the United States is glad of it." We believe that U.S. engagement in the Council has directly resulted in real progress that makes a difference, and we look forward to fighting the good fight at the Human Rights Council session by session, resolution by resolution -- by leading and by insisting that abusers be held accountable.


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About the Authors: Jennifer Young and Michelle Cook serve at the U.S. Consulate in Calgary, Canada.
American companies flooded into the Calgary Stampede grounds in record numbers this week to promote their goods and services at the Global Petroleum Show. With 65,000 thousand participants, the GPS, as it is commonly known, is now the world's largest energy sector trade event. To support invigorated economic statecraft, staff from the U.S. Consulate Calgary were on hand to support U.S. companies' efforts to increase trade with Canada as well as identify joint venture partners, distributors and investors.
Nearly 300 U.S. companies exhibited at the show, 75 of them part of the official U.S. Pavilion hosted by the U.S. Commercial Service in Calgary. With delegations from Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma, led by Governor of Oklahoma Mary Fallin, it's the largest country pavilion at GPS this year and largest group of American businesses that the FCS has hosted to date in Calgary. Spirits were high as Governor Fallin and Laura Lochman, U.S. Consul General in Calgary, presided over the ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, June 12 to officially open the U.S. Pavilion. Companies participating in this year's show have come from across the United States bringing expertise and technologies ranging from water reclamation to innovative new tools used in the extraction process. Some companies have been participating in GPS for a decade while others are exhibiting for the first time.
The Commercial Service staff from the Calgary Consulate have been on site for the duration of the show helping American companies to connect to Canadian businesses looking for suppliers. Consul General Lochman has also been giving briefings and speeches at trade show events around town on the strengths of U.S.-Canada trade relationship and the economic opportunities that it generates. The work of U.S. Consulate in Calgary and the resulting business deals being done daily at GPS are an excellent example of economic statecraft in action, and it directly supports the President's National Export Initiative (NEI) to double U.S. exports worldwide.
Just one example of the NEI in action is the success of long-time GPS participant, Wyoming Completion Technologies, run by Scott and Janice Hecht. Their company manufactures downhold oil tools including bridge plugs, cement retainers, and composite plugs. In recognition of their exporting success, Consul General Lochman presented them with the U.S. Commercial Services Export Achievement Certificate at a breakfast briefing organized by the Calgary FCS staff.
"It is an honor for me to now recognize what the folks in the Commercial Service would call 'a poster child' in terms of success in exporting," said Lochman as she presented the certificate. According to Mr. Hecht, it is thanks to Wyoming's participation in events such as the annual Calgary oil and gas shows and matchmaking meetings facilitated by the U.S. Commercial Service, that he has been able to establish contact with numerous international firms some of which have resulted in deals for the company.


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What an utterly delicious episode! All the way around;
What an utterly delicious episode! All the way around; visually, content, topic and Dan Barber's mission. Just Yum!

I've been told that I have the best tasting tomatoes
I've been told that I have the best tasting tomatoes others have ever had.
I was thinking people were being polite, yet every summer folks I hardly know and friends alike start asking about my tomatoes.
Maybe there is something more to this than imagined.

Where'd you get your seeds?

Where'd you get your seeds?

What a great feature. I think we've long overlooked the
What a great feature. I think we've long overlooked the inherent wisdom in our own palates. I enjoyed Mr. Barber's use of the term "hedonism" but I see it more as trust that what's best for us also feels good, tastes good, sounds good, and works out well for all. Maybe this flies in the face of American puritanism and the ascetic path to spiritual enlightenment. In the U.S. we have such an ambivalent relationship with pleasure. But if we really do have faith in God, shouldn't we eventually consider that God inculcated us with the drive for pleasure and maybe that wasn't a mistake? I also think that more enjoyment of food, including food preparation, would help us abandon our tendency towards obesity.

I am a seasonal farmer, I raise a heitage breed of sheep,
I am a seasonal farmer, I raise a heitage breed of sheep, clun forest, pasture raised broilers, free range eggs except when it's -10 below out. turkeys and a garden. I have for the past ten years sold on the basis of flavor only, knowing that with natural flavor the consumer will buy. Why because their bodies are telling them they fell better. I found your show inspirering and even in a blizzard a fullfilling endeavor to continue,although I am small it's still worth raising and know that the 500 people I serve are always happy with the flavor they recieve..

I enjoyed everything about this episode except for the
I enjoyed everything about this episode except for the part about certain foods fighting cancer. As a breast cancer survivor, I wish this were true, but the research doesn't bear this out. In fact, it seems that pesticides and other chemicals in our food may cause cancer. When I hear people talking about foods fighting cancer, I get nervous that people will abandon the treatments that have been proven to work for those that seem more "natural" but don't actually work.

great article. we sure do live in enlightened times from
great article. we sure do live in enlightened times from a flavor perspective (but will the tastebuds of the future look at this time as a period where we still had a long way to go?) hmmm


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Looking for dedicated players for local tourny's and league
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Thanks again!
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Best of luck!
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Yeah, man. Hillsdale is for rich preppy kids who's parents pay for everything. haha, be glad you didn't go there. I will definitely hit you and let you know what's going on.
Dam. So Close. I seriously almost went to Hillsdale for school, but they completely @$ F***ed me on scholarship money, and where very unprofessional and unwilling work with me so I walked and ended up getting a good deal out of state. It's a crying shame too because I would have loved to play with you guys and have been looking to get into the tournament scene. I've been to CRU before too, they have a really nice speed ball field there, and the pro-shop is the best in the state. Obviously going to school out of state makes playing for you guys impossible, but if you ever head out to Hell Survivors, Lone Wolf or CRU during the summer hit me up and I'll try and make it out.
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Hey, man. We play every weekend in Coldwater, MI which is about 45 min from the plex, maybe an hour. The league that we will be playing in starts two sundays from now and is a twice a month thing, every other sunday. We are planning on playing in the CRU rookie tournament i believe it's august 28th...i'll have to check, i know it's on a sunday. But if you're willing to come up to coldwater this weekend I can give you directions and what not and we'll all throw down on paint. For open play we usually just pitch in on a couple cases of the cheap cases ($40). Yeah, man. Definitely let me know! We are hoping to do the ninja cup this december which is in chicago, and hopefully be ready for the chicago psp open next year. D4 of course..haha
I'm new to paintball, but Feeling pretty passionate about it. Love the sport, Looking forward to learning more and getting better, we might be a fit. I'm 31, live 4 miles from the Plex, so travel even up to Flint wouldn't be a problem. Gimme some dates and exactly what you are looking for, maybe I can join you guys.
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Pho Soup
Recipe courtesy of Gavin McMillian at The Fly Trap in Ferndale, MI
- Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
- Base:
- 1 pound cremini mushrooms, roughly chopped
- 1 whole carrot, peeled and diced
- 1 yellow onion, peeled and diced
- 2 stalks celery, diced
- 2 thumb-sized pieces fresh ginger, diced
- 1 stalk lemongrass, pounded with the back of knife, then roughly chopped
- 4 tablespoons canola oil
- 1/2 bunch fresh cilantro, leaves roughly chopped
- 1 bunch sweet basil, leaves roughly chopped
- 3 jalapenos, roughly chopped
- 2 heaping tablespoons sambal oelek
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1 tablespoons sesame oil
- Salt, to taste
- Spicy vinaigrette:
- 1/4 cup sambal oelek
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- Suggested medley of roasted vegetables for soup:
- Eggplant
- Carrot
- Red pepper
- Shiitake mushrooms
- Fresh spinach
- Snow peas
- "Dragon" noodles, fresh ramen, lo mein, or buckwheat
- Lime wedges, for garnish
DirectionsSuggested medley of roasted vegetables for soup:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a roasting pan place all the ingredients in the oil and bake for 25 minutes.
Remove from oven, transfer into a large pot, and add 1 gallon of cool water. Bring to a simmer. Once at a simmer, add the cilantro, basil, and jalapenos and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove from heat and strain. Stir in the sambal, soy sauce, sesame oil and salt, to taste.
Whisk together all ingredients.
Toss desired medley of vegetables with spicy vinaigrette and serve on top of each soup bowl. Garnish with a fresh piece of lime.
This recipe was provided by professional chefs and has been scaled down from a bulk recipe provided by a restaurant. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe, in the proportions indicated, and therefore, we cannot make any representation as to the results.
Recipe courtesy of Gavin McMillian at The Fly Trap in Ferndale, MI
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Mark Hillyard, owner of Hillyard Farm Services just west of Carmi, cited the diversification of his business, which includes lawn mower sales and repairs, as the big reason for his business getting through the drought of 2012.
Hillyard started the business in 1999 with himself and two employees. The business has since grown to employ more than 10 people, including one full-time and two part-time office staffers.
Hillyard and his wife, Myra, have two girls, Katie, 20, and Krisie, 16. He is a 1975 graduate of Enfield High School and, while still in school, went to work for the former Carmi farm implement dealership owned by Ray Renshaw where he worked on lawnmowers, chain saws, tractors and combines.
He has also been a mechanic at M&S Implement and for Emerick Brothers. In 1994, he built his own building on the family farm at 1373 County Road 800 E., Carmi, which is just west of Carmi and a little south of state Route 14.
Hillyard's business offers sales, parts and service (he will service any brand) on SCAG, Cub Cadet, Kohler, Kawasaki, Briggs & Stratton and Ecko lawn equipment, including chainsaws, tillers, blowers, trimmers and compact tractors.
But the business is also diversified into farm equipment repair and oilfield equipment repair.
This year's drought slowed the lawnmower sales side of his business.
"The season started really early," he said, noting the wet spring. "But, it quit raining and the grass quit growing."
He said many of his customers simply mowed a few high spots and relied on weed whackers to trim around their homes and buildings.
"The repair and service work never really slowed down on weed trimmers and blowers," he observed. "Since the rain came around mid-August, the lawnmower sales have really picked back up."
The diversification into farm and oilfield equipment repair helped take up the slack in the slow months over the summer.
"That certainly never slowed down - the oilfield - thank goodness," he said.
The high temperatures coupled with the lack of rain may have kept a lot of people out of their lawns this summer, but he also noted a steady business in chainsaw sales.
"A lot of people cut firewood in the summer for the fall," he said. "Some cut wood in the fall for the fall and winter.
Others cut it in the fall for next fall. Then, there were some storms this year that knocked some trees down, causing still others to need a chainsaw. Whatever the case, it keeps my sales, service and repair work steady as far as chainsaws."
Now, with the recent rains and cooler temps, Hillyard noted, some people are mowing twice or more a week.
Now, that's good for business.
Importance of irrigation
Page 2 of 3 - Sailer Farms in southern White County were affected by the drought just as everyone else has been. However, they, along with several other farming operations in that area, weathered some of the issues better than others with the assistance of the irrigation systems in the fields. The systems kept the crops from burning up compared to fields that had no assistance. They will be able to harvest those fields as usual this fall.
"We turned on our irrigation systems May 16 of this year and finished up August 27," said Jack Sailer. "We are fortunate to live in an area where there is an underground water supply. It's accessible by drilling down 70 to 90 feet to get to it."
Irrigation systems are plentiful in southern White County. Sailer Farms alone have 27 units, but other operations have upwards of 50 installed in their fields. The systems were first implemented in the late 60s and early 70's as "traveling guns," where a device would maneuver through a field dragging a hose behind it. The water was brought in by laying a pipe across the middle of a field and there are some still in use today. However, the sophistication of the latest irrigation systems has passed up the old models, making them an almost "must have" device to any farming operation that can access underground water today.
Scates Valley is one of the local operations that process systems and maintain them in the area. And, the systems are progressing into the computerized world. The systems can now be monitored by a computer at a home base, such as the case at Sailer Farms, and can be turned off, turned on, or can alert the operation of any issues with the system.
"It's been well worth it to install the computerized system for the irrigation towers," said Sailer. "Before we installed the computerized model, we had to go to each one of them and turn them on and off and we were spending a lot of time and pickup miles and gas. Now, we have one guy that is in charge of troubleshooting and we aren't tied down."
Sailer can bring up all 27 locations on one screen in the farm office and see how the systems are functioning. The computerized system also provides spreadsheets of when the individual towers were turned on and what direction they are moving in. The devices are operated on a radio frequency and pivot at the center. They are galvanized so they do not rust and move slowly. The end tower controls the speed and as the first one moves, the second tower catches up with it. But Sailer says it moves faster than it appears and, "you never want to park your truck over a wheel track."
There is no limit to how many towers can be attached to one system. They are attached depending on the size of the field. Also, the towers are moveable by raising the wheels. Each system lasts on average about 25 to 30 years and then they can be rebuilt, making the initial investment even wiser for those who can utilize them.
Page 3 of 3 - Sailer says the biggest issue with the systems right now is the theft of people trying to take wiring off the systems and several operations have begun rigging anti-theft devices to catch those who are attempting to steal wire. Sailer said the wire that is being taken isn't worth the risk of being caught and prosecuted.
"We are very fortunate that we have an adequate supply to underground water," said Sailer. "We pumped about two years' worth of water this year versus the amount of water we used last year. It has made all the difference in saving the fields. In the non-irrigated corners that our systems didn't reach, we drop down to 0-20 bushels of beans or corn. We are in sand down here in Emma Township and it's a high risk if there are no irrigation systems in place. But, every field is different."
To install a new irrigation system, Scates Valley is one company locally that provides the service from start to finish. They are called to drill the wells permitted by the state. The closer to the pivot in a field, the better so less piping and fitting is required. Towers displaying the "Valley" logo are those set up and purchased through Scates Valley. Another popular brand in this area is Zimmatic.
Irrigation systems are utilized at various places across the United States. Idaho and Nebraska are just two locations that have been operating irrigation systems for years and are also connecting to computer systems in beating the drought of 2012.
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Hi guys,
I have a small problem. It's very strange. I am trying to get my rails app off my computer and onto a server for all to see. It's going quite well except for one thing. One controller to be precise.
All other controllers work just fine, but this one controller will not pass variables on to the view AT ALL! As you can imagine, this is a pain.
For example, on every controller in every action I have a variable called @page_title. This gets passed through to the view and used both in the <title> tag and an <h2> tag in the body. It works fine for all controllers apart from this one. I've tried scrapping the controller and starting with a blank file and even then it doesn't work!
Has anyone else had a problem like this before and how did you resolve it? Or even if you haven't had this problem but know how to fix it?
Please help! Thanks
Edit: Oh yeah and it won't follow redirect_to commands either. It all works fine on my local machine!
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So then you all think Manuel is on even playing field or better than Flacco? LOL.
6- Time Super Bowl Champions......
2012 MNF Executive Champion
What will be the next "word" the talking heads use when the word "elite" becomes overused and diluted on players like Flacco ???
We can all agree that Flacco won the lottery. As said, without that ridiculous 4th & 29, or Rahim Moore's historic misplay... they don't even get there. In saying that, let's give credit to Flacco. He still did have a great postseason run. And on that Moore blunder, while Moore was obviously at fault, the fact is that Flacco just outhrew his coverage. It speaks to the howitzer strapped to his shoulder. Versus 95% of the league, Moore is in position to make the play. He just didn't anticipate Flacco arm + the Mile High air, and the effect that had on that pass.
Flacco was also a dropped TD from a SB a year earlier... he isn't elite but he damn sure is above average IMO.
Why this has turned into a Bert and Ernie evaluation is beyond me, but maybe the team of Colbert and Whaley were necessary for total player success. Maybe that's why the Bills haven't taken flight and why we've been grounded. But really, can anyone evaluate players for a living and be successful with it 70% of the picks every year? I say 70% because I believe that is the number you'd need to field a SB caliber team every year. You lose way too many good players in FA, ( which exposes a lot of players as above average and not great. ) due to injury, or retirement to be less successful in the draft. If you live and die by the draft like we do, you have to be right every year at a high rate in the draft.