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As the presidential campaigns head into the final seven weeks, Senator Barack Obama is courting voters in key states such as Pennsylvania, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia. His campaign is also focusing on such unlikely states as Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota, states that typically vote Republican.
One thing all of these states share in common is that they have high rates of gun ownership. So it's imperative that Obama do one thing to gain gun owners' votes.
Barack Obama must erase decades of radical anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment stances. He must hide them. He must keep the media from mentioning them. He must make sure that no gun owners know his true positions, because he is without question the most anti-gun candidate nominated to be president in US history.
Bill Clinton used gun control as an issue where he saw political opportunity. Al Gore had at one time been a member of the NRA, and changed his public stance on gun issues to align himself with Clinton. Barack Obama, on the other hand, has a long history of supporting extreme gun control measures, and working with groups dedicated to eliminating gun ownership in the US.
Senator Obama's campaign has desperately tried to obscure his record, but it's there for all to view.
Barack Obama was a board member of the Joyce Foundation, a left-leaning group that, among other things, gives millions of dollars annually to gun control groups. In his eight years as a board member of the Joyce Foundation, Barack Obama voted to approve nearly $2.7 million in grants to anti-gun groups. $2.5 million of those grants went to the Violence Policy Center, a radical group that advocates total gun bans.
Professor John Lott, author of "More Guns, Less Crime," met Obama in the mid-1990's. Lott recalls Obama telling him, "I don't believe that people should be able to own guns."
In 1996, Barack Obama indicated on a questionnaire that he supported a ban on all handguns.
In the Illinois legislature in 1998, he voted for a ban on all semiautomatic firearms, a vote which would ban the majority of rifles, shotguns and handguns on the market.
While in the Illinois state legislature, Barack Obama voted for a bill to limit handgun sales to one a month.
In 2003 he voted for a bill to ban guns with a bore size greater than .50", which would have banned most shotguns and black powder rifles. Even more ominous, the bill Obama voted for would have allowed law enforcement to forcibly enter homes to confiscate the newly-banned firearms.
In 2004 he opposed a bill that would have allowed Illinois citizens to use a self-defense argument if charged with violating local handgun bans by using handguns for self defense. This bill was a reaction to a case in which a Chicago man shot an intruder in his home, and was charged with violating Chicago's handgun ban.
Also in 2004, Barack Obama advocated banning all gun sales within five miles of a school or park. Since it's almost impossible to find a location that isn't within five miles of a school or park (unless you're in the middle of nowhere), his proposition would have effectively banned all gun sales in the country.
Again in 2004, Senator Obama called for federal legislation that would nullify the laws of 48 states that allow trained, licensed, law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons for self defense.
In 2005, Senator Obama voted for a bill authored by Senator Ted Kennedy that would ban many calibers of ammunition, including one of the most popular hunting calibers, the .30-30.
Also in 2005, Senator Obama twice voted to hold gun manufacturers, distributors, dealers and importers liable for the acts of criminals using guns.
Obama has consistently said that he supports a ban on "assault weapons," which is a loose term referring to any semiautomatic firearm that merely looks like a military firearm. An "assault weapons" ban is a ban on cosmetic features, and nothing more. More worrisome, the term "assault weapons" has now become so vague that it encompasses firearms that were not included in Clinton's 1994 ban.
When the US Supreme Court was hearing the Heller vs DC case involving Washington DC's ban on handguns, Obama supported the ban. On ABC news he flatly stated that he thought the ban was constitutional.
However, when the US Supreme Court found the ban unconstitutional, Obama flipped and said that he thought the ban was unconstitutional.
After the Supreme Court's decision in the Heller case, Obama was asked about the ban on handguns in Chicago, as that ban is nearly identical to the one in DC. Obama tried to skirt the question by saying that "what works in Chicago..."
Let us summarize: Barack Obama has helped raise millions of dollars for radical anti-gun groups; he has stated that he doesn't believe people should be allowed to own guns; he has voted to ban all handguns; he has voted to ban all semiautomatic guns; he has voted to limit gun purchases; he has voted to ban shotguns and black powder rifles; he has voted for confiscating guns by force; he opposes allowing citizens to use handguns to defend themselves in their homes; he has proposed banning all gun sales within five miles of a school or park; he has called for nullification of state laws that allow citizens to legally carry guns for self defense; he has voted to ban popular hunting ammuntion; he has voted to hold gun manufacturers liable for the actions of criminals; he supports banning guns based upon the way they look; and he has been on both sides regarding the constitutionality of Washington DC's handgun ban.
Yet this is the same Barack Obama who claims to support the Second Amendment, and the rights of gun owners (now that he's a candidate for president, of course).
Clearly, the Obama campaign has its hands full trying to downplay or completely obfuscate the senator's record. HIs campaign has said that he did not support the DC gun ban, a total ban on handguns, or any of the other bans he voted for, but his statements in the press show that his campaign is flat out lying about Obama's record on gun control.
There's an old saying in the gun community: Why should I trust a politician to control my life if he doesn't trust me to control my guns? In Obama's case, that saying should be, "Why should I trust Obama to control my life when he doesn't trust me to control my guns, and then lies to me about it?"
Even if a voter is not concerned about gun control, he or she should ask: if Obama is lying to me about his record on guns, what else is he lying about?
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UNITED NATIONS — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls, called on world leaders to provide free compulsory schooling for every child in a U.N. address on Friday timed to coincide with her 16th birthday.
Speaking to youth leaders from more than 100 countries, she called for "a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism."
"Let us pick up our books and our pens," she said. "They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution."
The U.N. has declared July 12 "Malala Day," to honor the teen who returned to school in March after medical treatment in Britain for injuries suffered in the October attack.
"We must not forget that millions of children are out of their schools," the 16-year-old said. "Let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism."
UNESCO and Save the Children released a special reported entitled "Children Battling To Go To School," ahead of Malala's speech.
The report found that 95 percent of the 28.5 million children who aren't getting a primary school education live in low and lower-middle income countries — 44 percent in sub-Saharan Africa, 19 percent in south and west Asia and 14 percent in the Arab states.
Girls make up 55 percent of the total and are often the victims of rape and other sexual violence that accompanies armed conflicts.
The study found that in 2012 there were more than 3,600 documented attacks on education, including violence, torture and intimidation against children and teachers resulting in death or grave injuries, as well as the shelling and bombing of schools and the recruitment of school-aged children by armed groups.
According to the report, while the number of primary school age children who are not getting an education has fallen to 57 million in 2011 from 60 million in 2008, during that period the percentage of youth in conflict-affected countries who aren't at primary school rose to 50 percent from 42 percent.
"Across many of the world's poorest countries, armed conflict continues to destroy not just school infrastructure, but also the hopes and ambitions of a whole generation of children," UNESCO's Director-General Irina Bokova said.
"We must not forget that millions of children are out of their schools," she said. "Let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism."

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"Asia's not beating us because they've got better ads, Asia's beating us because they've got better product and this would create a great new product which is an attractor for Australia.
"If we only had one it would still be a great outcome for Sydney but if we had two it would be a best of both worlds scenario."Mr Redmond suggested the state government might like to use the $250 million to underwrite construction of the Barangaroo hotel
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Hey everyone,
I have a general question about capacitors concerning safety issues. I have been warned to make sure that I discharge capacitors before touching their terminals. Genearlly speaking, at what voltage is this an issue?
There is something that is confusing about this. A capacitor is pretty much like a battery right? There is a voltage formed accross the two terminals. It seems like since there is no return path for the current to flow that one could not be shocked by touching just one terminal of the capacitor. A person would have to touch both terminals to be shocked. Is this true? The reason I ask is that I was talking to someone repairing a TV. He said that the flyback transformer must be discharged before taking it out. This is becuase the TV tube is acting like a capacitor and can store a huge charge at like 20kV. Touching the high voltage line could kill a person. So what path is the current taking in this case? Am I right in assuming that the electrons are going from the high voltage line through a person to ground?
This almost goes into how a capacitor works I guess. Charge is only built up on one side of the capacitor right? So I guess touching one of the terminals will cause no harm but touching the charged side could. Can some please clear this up?
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If one plate of a cap is charged, they're both charged. Potential difference is potential difference, regardless of where you arbitrarily set a reference.
In theory, you could touch one side of a charged cap and live. In reality, your body is probably grounded as is (most often) one side of a cap.
Strong advice: use bleeders and wait for the voltage across any of the caps to drop below 10-20V before poking your hands around. Much lower if you're wearing a ring or are introducing anything conductive in the area- even 10V from a big cap will produce an impressive arc.
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I believe regulatory bodies require extra precautions above 40V. It's the current that does you harm. Given a large area of wet skin, it might not take much voltage to cause a problem. The old lick-the-9V-battery trick. When working with high voltage the best practice is to work with one hand behind your back or in a pocket- don't complete a circuit with your body. Capacitors can deliver a lot of current at whatever voltage they're charged up to, so caution is always in order. Use bleeders where needed.
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Also TV picture tubes (CRT) act as high voltage capacitors. Both the glass tube's inner and outer surfaces are coated with conductive material with the glass between acting as the insulator. It's not a big capacitor but with maybe 20 thousand volts it doesn't take much. Also many high voltage capacitors have memory. After being charged for a period of time, you can dis-charge them and they will recharge with no power connections.
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"Also many high voltage capacitors have memory. After being charged for a period of time, you can dis-charge them and they will recharge with no power connections."
Really? How can this happen? I work with some high voltage stuff. Should I leave a short on the terminals of HV caps that I have sitting around just in case?
Also, I am wondering how is it possible that I can connect a terminal of a battery to earth ground and it will not discharge but if I do the same for a capacitor, it will.
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Some capacitors use polarized dielectrics. When voltage is applied, the molecules in the dielectric align to the electric field, effectively increasing the capacitance. When the capacitor is discharged, the molecules unalign and release their stored energy. It takes some time for that to happen, so one way to model that is a second capacitor in parallel with the first with some series resistance.
A friend of mine has seen that happen with a 2F (yes, 2 Farads), 16v capacitor he bought for his solar energy projects. To test and condition it, he charged it using a current-limited bench power supply at about 500mA up to 15v. He mentioned that instead of fully charging in about a minute as expected, it quickly charged up to 15v in about 25 seconds and then continued to draw current at a roughly exponentially decreasing rate for a few minutes. He asked one of his friends about it and she said something about the dielectric fluid having a high viscosity which means it polarizes relatively slowly.
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|7th December 2009, 05:15 PM
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I set up a simple experiment to learn more about this. I charged up a 470uF cap to 10v. I can connect either terminal to earth ground and it has no effect on the voltage across the cap. How then is it possible to receive a shock from a capacitor by only touching one terminal? It seems like you would have to touch both. The reason I am asking is that if you touch a CRT where the anode from the flyback touches the tube, I have been warned that you could receive a fatal shock.
Also, by touching the "dag" on the back of the CRT, why is this safe but you cannot touch where the anode from the flyback connects? Following the logic that if one side of the cap is charged then both sides are charged, it seems like touching either side of the cap should be harmful.
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Japan's government on Friday ordered the embattled operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to offer payouts to tens of thousands of people made homeless by the ongoing crisis.
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Compensation for fishermen and farmers, coupled with final payouts for families forced from their homes, could reach 10 trillion yen, according to some estimates.
Shimizu said his firm was considering various cost cutting programmes to free up cash, including job cuts and the sale of assets. The Yomuri Shimbun reported this could involve selling 100 billion yen of real estate.
Kaieda said ministers would ensure the company was held to account.
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Reaction to the initial payout was muted.
Evacuee Katsue Ishikawa told the Yomiuri: "The money will surely help a little, but I would like to go home soon.
"I would be happier if they could tell me when I could go home."
Five weeks on from the quake and tsunami, which killed 13,500 people and left 14,500 unaccounted for, the economic aftershocks were still reverberating around Japan.
Toyota, the world's biggest auto maker, said Friday it would operate all its domestic plants at half of normal capacity from May 10 to June 3, citing problems with the parts supply.
Work is still stalled at the company's Japanese plants, with production expected to resume on Monday at 50 percent normal levels until a further shutdown for the national Golden Week holidays on April 27.
The parts crunch has also hit Toyota's European and North American production, with suppliers in Japan affected by power shortages or still offline because of tsunami damage.
In a welcome sign of life slowly beginning to return to normal, Tokyo Disneyland threw open its doors again Friday after a five-week hiatus.
Mickey Mouse greeted many of the 10,000 visitors who had queued outside the giant theme park, where the huge tremor liquefied the ground under the car park and caused minor damage to the "Big Thunder Mountain" attraction.
"We have been waiting impatiently for the park to reopen," said Disney fan and parent Kazuhiro Sugiyama, 34. "My little daughter is overjoyed and just keeps saying: 'Mickey, Mickey!'"
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Adele is unsure if she will ever tour again.
The 28-year-old star is currently on a lengthy world tour but admitted it could be the last time she hits the road to perform.
According to the New Zealand Herald, she told fans at her concert at Auckland's Mount Smart Stadium: "Touring isn't something I'm good at - applause makes me feel a bit vulnerable. I don't know if I will ever tour again.
"The only reason I've toured is you. I'm not sure if touring is my bag. My greatest accomplishment in my career is this tour."
Adele broke records in every city she visited during her eight-concert tour of Australia.
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Every year MTV gathers the biggest and brightest musical heroes for their Video Music Awards, and this time around it's going to be a wild ride.
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Adele has denied claims that she got married in secret.
The 28-year-old singer sparked rumours she and boyfriend Simon Konecki may have tied the knot under the radar after she was seen wearing what looked like a wedding band on her ring finger.
Adele pushed her nerves aside to deliver a crowd-pleasing performance at Britain's Glastonbury Festival on Saturday night (June 25).
The Rolling in the Deep singer revealed she was nervous to an estimated crowd of 150,000 festivalgoers in Somerset, England and was so stunned by the turnout at the start of her set that the usually chatty star didn't know what to say so she moved swiftly from opener Hello to single Rumour Has It.
Adele's record-breaking album 25 will finally be available on Internet streaming services nearly seven months after its release.
The British star's third studio effort hit stores back in November, but starting on Friday (June 24), fans will be able to listen to 25 on popular platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal.
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From: "Edward Andrews" <>
Subject: RE: [Sc-Ir] Web site - www.irishgenealogy.com
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:06:53 +0100
In-Reply-To: <001101c58b7b$62b64d80$220110ac@96E49113C9924C2>
Thank you for this Brian. I think that it is important that if people are
going to be looking at the early plantation that they are aware of the
ambivalent relationships between the various components of James' Kingdom.
(and in fact throughout the entire Stewart monarchy) This lasted right up
until 1707 for Scotland and 1801 for Scotland.
Perhaps the most remembered example of one part of the Kingdom screwing the
other was when William III played a not unimportant part in the destruction
of the Scottish Darian Adventure.
The books which you mention (Which are all very good) have all been
republished. Robinson in 2000 by the Ulster Historical Foundation ISBN
0-903688-00-0. Percival Maxwell, RKP for the Ulster-Scot Historical
Foundation, 1990, ISBN 0-901915445. Dickson ([New ed.] / with a new
introduction by G.E. Kirkham, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2001 ISBN
As my Dickson is a signed copy I don't think that I'll be trading up
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From: Brian Orr [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Sc-Ir] Web site - www.irishgenealogy.com
Edward, I thought I would put this into general list correspondence as it
expands on the basics of the Plantation
Hi folks.
Yes Edward, you are correct of course. Not that the English Parliament/Privy
Council were that convinced of the merits or rights of anyone else eg trade
bans on Scottish produce and subsequently also in Ulster. It is an
interesting point if decisions by the English Parliament were binding on
Scotland. I think not until 1707.
That's enough for now. Real detail BUT NOT THE NAMES OF SETTLERS can be
found in "The Planatation of Ulster" by Philip Robinson , Gill & McMillan,
1984. ISBN 0-901905-62-3 - this is serious stuff, but very good. If you are
looking for some other sound reading there is an excellent book (apart from
my own of course !!) - "The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of
James I" by M. Percival Maxwell, Pub. Routledge, Keegan , Paul, 1973.
ISBN0-901905-44-5. A complementary book is "Ulster Emigration to Colonial
America 1718-1775" Ed R.J Dickson Pub, RKP, 1966. ISBN 901-905-17-8.
Phew !
Brian Orr
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"When she had her first start at Moonee Valley we knew she was more than handy," Mitchell said.
"She jumped out of the barriers and headed for the outside fence.
"She suffered a check during the race as well and still ended up running third. She probably should have won."
Armed with the confidence that he had a nice filly on his hands, Mitchell sent the daughter of Golden Slipper winner Danzero to Sydney to race on New Year's Day.
"She had a good look at Randwick that day and scored a tough win," Mitchell said.
"Darren Beadman rode her and she came down the outside to get up and win right on the line."
Running second to Hinting in that event was Spur Me On, which confirmed the form when it won at Rosehill last Saturday.
When barriers were released for the classic on Thursday morning, Hinting drew ideally for the sales-restricted event, coming up with gate three. Again Beadman takes the reins.
"It seems the fence isn't the place to be at Randwick at the moment," Mitchell said.
"But Darren is riding very well and he'll know where to be in the race."
Hinting has been stabling at the Randwick establishment of trainer Grahame Begg since arriving a week before her
previous engagement. "That's given her every chance to settle in, which she has done beautifully," Mitchell said.
Mitchell knows only too well what it takes to win a big sales-related race at Randwick.
In 1991 he prepared Electrique to win a $1million fillies' classic while French Braids won the $1 million Heroic Championship in 2000.
"They are good races to win," he said.
"The money is too good to knock back."
Mitchell plans to spend up at the Classic Sale following Saturday's race.
"I've got some clients to buy for," he said.
"I already bought five yearlings at the Magic Millions Sales last week."
With 45 horses in work at Caulfield, Mitchell is still looking to expand.
"I've got more room available to me if needed," he said.
"At the moment I've got about the same number of horses in work in Melbourne as what I had when I was at Randwick.
"Things are ticking over quite nicely."
Mitchell is full of praise for his new training centre, rating the facilities at Caulfield as "first class".
"They have been very good," he said. "I'm in the stables where the Freedmans were before they moved to their property.
"They really are state-of-the-art stables. I'm very happy with them.
"The rent is cheaper than what it was at Randwick and the set-up at Caulfield is much more user-friendly. It's been a good move for me."
While Hinting is eligible for the Heroic Championship at Randwick on Easter Saturday, Mitchell is not likely to head that way with the two-year-old.
"She'll go for a break after this Saturday," Mitchell said.
"But I'll be back in Sydney for Easter. I've got a couple of nice two-year-olds back in Melbourne. Hopefully one of them will measure up in the Heroic."
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Christina Estes: Surrealist painter Cindy Schnackel can generate smiles from the weariest summer residents.
Robrt Pela: When this piece, which is called "Good China in the Bad Desert," um saguaro cactus are menacing a tea service. And the tea service has everything is figurative, so the plates, the cups, the tea pot, and the saguaro have all been sort of humanized. They have faces, and they're looking alternately ghoulish or confused. It's a beautiful piece.
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I love it when God hits me between the eyeballs with a baseball bat message directed just when I most need it.
It happened again today. I was looking at my calendar, which today holds not only my usual work, but also an important Diocesan School Board meeting and the filming of not one, but two episodes of the new television program that I'm hosting and producing. And that's only the part of my calendar that happens before things get really going tonight…
Needless to say, the lack of blogging here lately is due to the fact that it's May. I should simply remember each May 1st to tell myself, "It's all going to be ok! You may feel like your up to your eyeballs in commitments, but somehow God will provide and you'll get through it." It happens every May, and this year the crazy, chaotic busyness of both family and work commitments has zipped into overdrive.
So this morning, instead of taking the time I know I need for morning prayer, I went straight into "check things off the list mode". I felt my blood pressure rising and my patience thinning. Something gave me pause to stop long enough to remember to reach out in prayer to the One who knows exactly how much I can handle.
I decided to google, "What does the Bible say about busyness?"
The first passage that came up:
As they continued their journey he entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary [who] sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak. Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me." The Lord said to her in reply, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her." Luke 10:38-42
As if that weren't direct enough, I thought, "Hmmm…. maybe I should blog about this." My next stop, instead of to my knees in prayer, was to my favorite copyright free image source — the post needs art, right? Searching for "busyness", the page yielded immediate results – and amidst the typical "stressed business man" and "busy bee" royalty free images was this one, in the top five results:
Please note that this isn't a Catholic image site. It may be a coincidence, but I'm taking it as a direct order to "choose the better part" this May. The to-do list items will get done, the commitments will be fulfilled.
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Garrick,

we are using 2.1.6, and 2.1.8 and we do see the problem Peter is seeing, users with operators rights can not delete the job unless we do with qdel -p and clean up after the nodes.

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 On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:30:48PM -0700, Peter Wyckoff alleged:
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> I'm seeing that Torque doesn't seem to allow a job to be killed until all
> the nodes it started on can confirm the job was killed. If some nodes fail
> while killing the job or if we happened to modify torque to ignore failed
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> Is there a way to tell Torque to kill jobs on a kind of best effort basis -
> i.e., all nodes it can talk to, but assume the best for nodes that are down.
> As we can configure torque to start the pbs_mom's w/o restarting active
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> We have a big installation and some long running jobs, so this is a real
> problem for us - just about daily.

Torque definitely kills jobs when sister nodes are down. It happens
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text: House panel limits cold medicine buys for meth By The Associated Press March 5, 2014 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Consumers would be limited to buying 24 grams of cold medicine each year, half what's currently allowed, under legislation approved by lawmakers late Tuesday that is aimed at curbing methamphetamine production in West Virginia.The legislation originally required a prescription for Sudafed and other over-the-counter medications that contain pseudoephedrine, which is used to make meth. But after more than three hours of discussion, the House Judiciary Committee agreed instead to cut the current 48-gram limit in half. The lower threshold matches the new standard in Kentucky.The bill also would create a meth offender registry and require previous drug offenders to get prescriptions for some cold medications.Del. Isaac Sponaugle, D-Pendleton, said law-abiding citizens shouldn't face extra burdens to get medication because of the illegal acts of a few citizens."This is fair and equitable," Sponaugle said.The amended legislation now aligns with suggestions Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey made before the Legislature convened in January.Kentucky State Police Capt. James Stephens said it was too early to interpret results from his state's new 24-gram limit, which took effect last spring. He noted that people find ways to circumvent the laws by sending others to buy their legal limits of cold medicines. Authorities busted 533 meth labs in West Virginia last year - almost twice as many as in 2012. Labs were found in 45 of the state's 55 counties. Of those labs, 70 percent were of the "shake and bake" variety, which use two-liter or smaller bottles, said state Board of Pharmacy Executive Director David Potters.Oregon and Mississippi adopted laws requiring prescriptions for pseudoephedrine. Steep declines in meth labs followed, but the Consumer Healthcare Products Association disputes the effectiveness of the bans.The over-the-counter drug and retail industries oppose a prescription-only requirement, while law enforcement and medical practitioners are among those supporting it.The Senate easily passed the original prescription-only bill on Feb. 18. Some over-the-counter alternatives can't easily be turned into meth, such as Nexafed and Zephrex-D. The original Senate bill would have kept those products available without prescriptions.The House still needs to pass the amended bill and compromise on a final version with the Senate. The legislative session ends Saturday.Last week, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour sent West Virginia lawmakers a letter supporting the prescription-only push. Barbour, who signed Mississippi's bill into law in 2010, said his state experienced an 83 percent reduction in meth lab-related incidents and a 98-percent drop in operational meth labs."Naysayers predicted that Medicaid costs would skyrocket, and the public outcry would affect re-elections," Barbour wrote. "I am happy to say that simply did not happen." Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Driver unharmed after train crashes into car near Kanawha Boulevard 2 CAMC Health System to cut 300 jobs 3 Kanawha Electric & Machine Co. closing after 80 years 4 Marshall football sees different QB in Chase Litton as camp opens 5 Scouts' Day of Service work did 220 projects in 45 WV counties Big fine in coal-tainted water deal Previous Story House, Morrisey fight continues with fund bill Next Story


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Your Working Environment–the holistic approach to branding your workplace!
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I was walking to the bus station on my way home a few weeks ago with a lot on my mind. We'd been working on a project with some employees to develop a scheme that they felt represented their company when what appeared to be the worst thing happened – we got 'branded'.
Don't get me wrong - brand is important – it's the lifeblood of any company and helps us identify and distinguish between the thousands of different organisations out there. We're surrounded by branding all the time via the internet, mailings, magazines, billboards, TV, mobile phones, etc. but do we really need it within our work places as well? Most of us spend at least a third of our lives at work and the design and layout of our workplace has a massive impact on our performance as well as our relationship with our company and customers.
So how does branding a commercial interior work? The most common way is to replicate the company brochure using pantone references to form the interior colour palette which is then used for wall coverings, seating, screening, etc. This is then combined with standard corporate graphics such as posters, etc. to help communicate the company's products, services and ideals. Colour schemes developed in this way don't usually work where company logos and brand palettes comprise of strong graphical colour and not the muted tones which are more suitable for interior schemes. Where employees are concerned, the poster solutions are generally so familiar to them that they filter them out and the messages are lost.
So how can you get the brand message across while still keeping the energy and vibrancy of the space? You can use imagery to represent your core company values and introduce subtle references to logos, colour, products, services, etc. and you can work with your staff to come up with ideas that they can really own and feel proud of. The key is you have to be innovative and find non obvious ways of linking into your brand and the products you sell.
The way you use space and the products you specify also say a lot about your brand and your culture. Is it an open area, full of plants, break-out spaces and different work settings with lots of air and energy giving the feeling of empowerment and organisation or is it designed around silos and hierarchy with managers keeping a close eye on their staff? Both scenarios give a very different feel to visitors to your business. Are environmental issues important to your staff and your clients? If the answer is yes, have you considered the full lifecycle of the furnishings and fittings that you have selected as these choices makes a very important statement about your company.
You should feel proud of your workplace and the key with any successful interior scheme is to gain the perfect balance between the amazing range of tints, tones and shades of colour that are available. Depending on which country you are based in, there are cultural associations with colour and these also need be investigated and considered as part of your scheme-especially if your business is located in more than one country.
Neutral tones are generally supporting and grounding but need to be enlivened with touches of stronger colour. Hot russet reds, rich oranges and bright yellows raise the body temperature and are excellent in spaces where you need to interact and communicate or where activity is to take place. Luscious greens are calming on the eye, give a feeling of abundance and growth while providing links to nature and inspiring creativity. Cool blues and lavenders lower the perceived temperature of the room, are calming and encourage introspection.
When choosing your colour scheme you need to look at your brand, your culture, your building and your processes to come up with a collective palette which works holistically on every level. There should be nothing more exciting than developing something which you feel fully encompasses the feelings that you and your staff have towards your company – and your brand.
To finish my story, as I waited in the bus station, I picked up a brochure for a local tour company, flicking it open at an image of a beautiful sunset in bright oranges and fiery reds - a quotation in the bottom right corner read 'Only the soul can comprehend what the eye sees'. For me, that sums it up.
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WINTON secretary Brian Dobson has vowed to appeal the club's 50-point penalty in the Dorset Funeral Plan Premier League – a deduction that leaves the newcomers staring relegation in the face.
The Dorset Cricket Board imposed the sanction as Winton do not have two youth teams competing between under-nine and under-15 level, but Dobson says that the club does have youth teams and that the rules do not state they have to play in league competition.
Dobson said: "We have an under-16 team but there is no under-16 league. The rules said that the requirements were between under-11 and under-16 at the start of the season but they have been amended.
"We do have two youth teams but they are not ready to play competitive cricket – we need to develop and I don't believe it is safe to do so without the lads learning the proper drills. We don't want to expose them to risk so we're making sure they compete safely next year.
"The rules state that we have to have two youth teams, not that they have to play competitively.
"I don't understand the 50-point penalty – we are either in breach of the rules, which means we should be relegated, or we're not and there is no sanction. I have contacted the board and we're awaiting a response."
Some of Winton's players had considered boycotting the competition over the decision, but in the end they decided to play on, registering a 61-run win over Weymouth with an impressive display.
Dobson added: "We did have an issue at the weekend but the boys came round. I can understand it, though. You've got people who are very competitive and they want to stay up or get relegated on merit – thankfully the lads came round and played very well."
Rule 1 of Appendix A states: "A Premier League club must run at least two youth teams at ages between under-nine and under-15."
John Ridout of the Dorset Cricket Board said: "Quite simply, the conditions set for promotion weren't followed up. The 50-point penalty (rather than automatic relegation) recognises that Winton have made progress."
In response to the rules not stating youth teams had to compete, Ridout added: "Brian (Dobson) was at the meeting in October where he understood and accepted what was required."
Winton play at relegation rivals Stalbridge next weekend, a match that will take on greater significance if their appeal is successful.


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Can Apple Make iBooks Match for Books?
TechCrunch is reporting that an upcoming Apple event, to be held in January, will focus on ebooks, and the company's iBooks app. My first thought is that there's not much they can do with iBooks to warrant a media event, with a presentation and announcement, but then I thought a bit more. What if Apple were going to unveil iBooks Match?
You're probably familiar with iTunes Match. For $25, you can have iTunes match your music library, making your music available in the "cloud," either matching tracks with music from the iTunes Store, or uploading those tracks that are not available in the latter. Why not do something similar with iBooks? I have literally thousands of dead-tree books, and some of them are big and unwieldy, and I would love to be able to read them on my iPad, rather than on paper. (In fact, I've been wanting to read Shelby Foote's Civil War Trilogy for some time, but the books are humongous.)
iBooks Match could work like this. Using the camera built in to all recent and current Macs – or even iOS devices – the iBooks program either grabs a picture of the cover, or scans the bar code (the latter would be much easier, and this technology exists already, in the Delicious Library catalog software). It then searches the iTunes Store's books section to find matches, and, if any are found, adds them to your library.
Of course, this is certainly unlikely, as book publishers are even more reticent to offer any such type of service than the record labels were to offer iTunes Match (though they did accept Apple's offer, which I find surprising). But allowing users to transfer their print libraries to digital would be a big leap forward for ebooks in general, as most serious readers would have, instead of a handful of ebooks, hundreds of them, if not more.
The second possibility I see is a sort of paid lending library system. Personally, as agreeable as I find reading on my iPad, I don't buy many ebooks, because the price, when compared to print books, is either very close, or more expensive. And this for books that I'll read once, and never be able to do anything with (sell used, loan or give away). A paid lending library that gives you access to a certain number of books per month, for example, would solve this problem, and since you don't actually "own" ebooks, wouldn't change much for users. It would also guarantee a bigger revenue stream for publishers. (Amazon has free ebook loans for members of Amazon Prime, which offers free shipping, streaming videos, and a loan of one book per month. So why can't Apple do better?)
No matter what, I find it interesting that ebooks are important enough to warrant an Apple event. Of course, this could also be a way of presenting a new iPad 3 with a retina display. While reading on the current iPad is acceptable, a retina display would make it much more comfortable.


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UK-based Allied pulled out of the race after Peter Lehmann directors backed an identical offer from Swiss rival Hess.
The A$4-a-share offer from Hess values Peter Lehmann, based in the Barossa Valley in South Australia, at about A$149m (US$102m; £62m).
Allied Domecq said it was not in the interests of its shareholders to raise its offer further.
Positive relationship
"While we remain firm believers in the potential of Peter Lehmann Wines under the control of Allied Domecq, we have an obligation to generate value for our own shareholders," Allied's chief executive Philip Bowman said.
Peter Lehmann cited its "positive relationship" with privately-owned Hess for its decision to back the Swiss group's offer.
The wine maker's directors were also unimpressed with Allied's intention to change distribution arrangements.
Hess made the first approach for Peter Lehmann in August but Allied - whose brands include Beefeater Gin and Tia Maria - tabled a higher offer last month.
With a bid race on, both companies subsequently sweetened their takeover offers.
But Allied failed to win the support of founder and major shareholder Peter Lehmann.
The Australian wine maker's labels include Ambassador, Barossa and Clancy's.


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SME Update Issue 15 31 January 2013
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Innovation tops bill at upcoming EU SME conference: A way out of the crisis?
The high-level conference 'SMEs and Europe: with innovation out of the crisis' (working title), which is to take place in Dublin on 11-12 June under the auspices of the Irish EU presidency, will take a closer look at what it takes to be a thriving entrepreneur in the 21st century, how small companies can compete effectively in an increasingly globalised world, and how they can gain maximum benefit from existing and future private and public support mechanisms. The event will spotlight Horizon 2020, the EU's upcoming Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, which is less than one year away from its official launch. It also provides an opportunity to make a difference – or help entrepreneurs to make a difference – and shape the EU Innovation Agenda.
Strategically held during the culmination of the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP7) and before the launch of its successor Horizon 2020, the EURO-SME 2013 conference is seizing the momentum for SMEs and innovation. In the current economic conditions, the main challenge for the EU – and many other developed countries for that matter – is providing the conditions for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Sustainable, long-term growth and job creation will be delivered best via SMEs that gain and sustain their competitive advantage through innovation. The event promises to bring together hundreds of entrepreneurs, policymakers, SME support organisations from the private and the public sector, and other intermediary bodies that will provide their energy and ideas on how to improve the EU eco-system for innovative enterprises. Furthermore, it will introduce SME-specific measures in Horizon 2020 to this community.
'At this moment in time in particular, the willingness of policymakers throughout Europe to help SMEs and to facilitate their needs is particularly striking,' says Mr Sean Burke, Ireland's SME National Delegate for FP7 and Programme Manager at Enterprise Ireland, who is at the driver's seat of this event. 'The conference wants to give SMEs and their representatives a unique and interactive platform to express their needs and to raise support for them, and this all in the historic and prestigious setting of Dublin castle, which will be at the centre of decision-making in the EU for the duration of the Irish presidency.'
The conference will focus on three broad themes concerning the future of SMEs: SMEs and innovation in the 21st century; SMEs in a networked world; and supporting SMEs in their ambition to grow.
With its inclusive and interactive character, the conference will go beyond so-called conventional wisdom and empty statements. Its ambition is to show SMEs how their strengths and weaknesses can be exploited or addressed through open innovation in order for businesses to remain successful, seize new opportunities, build partnerships and engage in innovation.
'SMEs are at the core of business activity in Europe and they need to exploit current trends to their advantage,' underlines Mr Burke. 'Innovation in all its aspects and forms is the key to sustainability. So, promoting SME growth through innovation and entrepreneurship should be done at every opportunity.' The EU for one has anticipated that climate change, resource efficiency and ageing will become drivers of future markets, and its support policies are programmed to help SMEs make the most of these emerging and global market opportunities.
The conference will also explore the business side of how to integrate innovation into today's SME, which is challenged from all sides by competition, ailing markets and customers, dwindling or lacking resources and constantly changing technologies. Topics to be discussed include public networking solutions which SMEs can engage in, the way they not only compete but also cooperate with multinational corporations, or the way they might react in the future in an open innovation context with customers and technological solution providers, among other stakeholders.
Competitiveness, the driving theme of the conference, includes financial support structures, globalisation factors related to SMEs, business ecosystems and mobility and skills of labour which affect SMEs. 'All these will have an impact on creating a competitive advantage for SMEs in a very difficult business environment,' stresses Mr Burke. The closing session of the conference will function as a launching platform for the SME-specific measures under Horizon 2020.
Mr Burke is confident that the two-day event can also contribute to the education of policymakers. It will give a sense of where modern-day business is heading to, what would or should be future actions towards (continued) success and how SMEs can gain and sustain their competitive advantage. As such, the objective of the conference is not only to deliver this kind of information or highlight best practice examples from across the EU, but also to propose concrete steps on how SMEs will benefit by the use of innovation.
Mr Burke says that there was a lot of attention paid to access to finance and profitability at two previous EURO-SME conferences. Many of the recommendations resulting from these two events have contributed to reshaping the EU's policy landscape when it comes to innovation in SMEs. The 2014 launch of Horizon 2020 will integrate SME business and innovation needs in a common framework, which proposes to look at innovation through a project-lifecycle lens.
Speeches, discussions, case-study examples and interactions at the conference will feed into the Dublin Declaration, a set of recommendations to the EU Competitiveness Council. Mr Burke argues that the conference will celebrate the status of SMEs with policymakers around Europe, which now more than ever recognises them as the main drivers of wealth and job creation: 'It is a very opportune time to discuss aspects of SMEs innovation, jobs and growth. Public authorities have always been ready to set in place the conditions for businesses to thrive and grow. Horizon 2020 is one of the main vehicles for moving beyond that and helping to deliver innovation to the market. The Dublin Declaration has the ambition to be a reference document for the EU's Competitiveness Council. It will provide plenty of ideas in terms of policy, and how to customise it even more to the needs of European SMEs, including on how funding can be channelled so as to be more effective at satisfying SME needs.'
The dedicated website (www.eurosme2013.eu) will be operational from early February, with registration opening at a later stage.


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Every day I live in fear that my love, Maximus of the tiger scar, will be thrown into the horror that is the Coliseum against a man who matches him inch for inch in strength and brutal mentality towards fighting. I met him when my Uncle Julius, Julius Caesar, asked me to go to market to get him a new horse. I bumped into him, and there we have it instant fire. We meet every night in the square, if only to see each other. I do not know how many times the guard in the Gladiator School has been knocked out, as it is the only way for Maximus to escape and only', he knows the way here He is a bestiarius or a gladiator who fights animals but one never knows when the tides will turn. One day, my uncle took me in arm, and told me to come watch the fights in the coliseum.
"We are putting the scar-faced gladiator against the tall staunch one. A truly even match, as both may perish!'
"Can we not pin the tall staunch gladiator against the short one? There will be much more blood I am sure."
"No, come now Issus, you know that the short one was slaughtered last week.'
And on those happy words, I was led to the coliseum to watch my love die
Maximus was thrown in to the ring by five, struggling centurions, as he has a lot of brute strength. I thought, as soon as I saw the challenger that Maximus had to face. If I saw him killed, my heart would shatter!
"Julius?" I asked, "Please, I hate to admit this, but I love Maximus!'
"YOU WHAT!?" He yelled furious because I was in love with a gladiator. Me, a girl in line to marry one of his sons.
"1 love him, I have loved him for the past year in secret"
"Issus!" he screamed, "You know why I picked you for my favorite son! Why if the other Romans find out you know what will happen to you?"
"I will be disowned and taken out of the royal family. I know! Just please, please let him go... I love him."
"Fine, be so as it may, I will make sure the people forget Maximus. Just, I will
" Julius ordered that Maximus be replaced by the last lion in the cellar. Maximus walked out, and when I saw him being unshackled in the square. I ran up to him. He held me close and kissed me, and l kissed him back.
"I won your freedom, and I do not have to marry Brutis."
"How?" he asked, pulling me closer. His hard chest bore no clothing, as he was only freed moments ago. It was his badge of honor his chest was. It told other gladiators that if they wanted to beat him, they had to come get some of him first.
"Issus, you must really love me."
"I do, otherwise you would have to fight Tiberius, and you know he is undefeated."
"If it meant I was free after I fought him, and I could be with you
I would stop at nothing to beat him."
"You would be killed Maximus! It is pride that gets gladiators killed!"
"Do not fret my love. I am here now."
And so, I walked him into the palace. Brutis was not happy to see a gladiator with me, and he ordered a guard take him away, but I conceded, telling them that he was with me, and as long as that was so, they were not to lay a hand on him. Brutis sniffed angrily, and walked away.
"Listen not to him, he is only bitter."
"He has a heart of stone." Maximus sighed.
"I will not disagree with you there my love."
At dinner, Maximus was overwhelmed that we ate so much. I only ate what I wanted, and let the men gorge themselves.
"Julius, slow down before you hack up your stomach."
Babbling with a drunken drawl, he laughed, and then went on eating. Maximus pulled me to the side after he finished his food and we went to the east balcony.
"Oh take off the top part of your toga. I can tell it bothers you."
"Does it bother you my Issus?"
"No, but I can tell you do not like it."
"Julius does not like me." Maximus stated, the word Julius tainted with discomfort. Most commoners would call him "Emperor Caesar" and I call him Uncle Julius, but Maximus was no commoner anymore. He was the courtier of the princess.
"He does not like many people, except women."
"And you? Do you have many suitors?"
"I suppose. But I do not love them like I love you."
"Good, it is nice to know that a girl like you, who could have men kissing her feet with the snap of her fingers, only wants to love a lowly gladiator."
"You were a valiant fighter, and you won my heart." I replied. He reached back, and unwrapped the top part of his toga, and tucked it under the lower skirt. He leaned against the stone of the balcony, and in the moonlight, I could see his scars.
"I never noticed them before now." I whispered, fingering over one on his arm.
"Well, those are from the dame tiger that clawed my face, and these," he explained, turning over his strong arms, "are from multiple lions and bears, and the one on my right leg, that is from a rhinoceros."
"Rhinoceros. What a funny word! Those Greeks sure did like their funny words like Hippopotamus and such."
"My cousin is Greek, I am no Roman you know, I was captured in Northern Greece when I was seventeen. I was part of a rebellion."
"Maybe that is why Julius does not want us together." I wondered. He pulled me into his arms, and kissed me, then led me to my room. I rested my head on one of my pillows, and he laid down behind me, his huge arms around my waist. I turned my head, and kissed him, then turned around completely to kiss him again. His hold on me tightened, and we locked ourselves together.
"Issus!" Julius screamed, glaring at me in the dim light the lantern cast on my face. I looked down, and Maximus was holding the bottom edge of my dress.
"Julius, oh no
I am sorry."
"No, the gladiator should be sorry, what were you thinking on? Making love with
with him?"
"I would have him over Brutis!" I exclaimed. Maximus let go of me, and I stood to face my uncle. "Just because my father DIED does not make you my father!"
"It does if his words mean anything to you!"
His words cut deep like a broken knife. My father had told Julius, on his death bed, to take care of me, and he had done so. Still, he acted as if I was an item, and my item was not for anyone Julius did not choose for me.
"I do not love Brutis, I love Maximus."
"You will love Brutis after I kill your gladiator." Julius snarled. I looked back and forth between Maximus and Julius, and then went to Maximus, who held me gently.
"I will never love Brutis
And if you kill Maximus, you will have to kill me to."
"Issus, listen to yourself, you do not really love this
rebel? Do you?"
"I do, and I swear it on my very on funeral pyre."
Maximus eyed me carefully, he knew how dangerously close I was getting to being disowned.
"I should sentence you to death for this, but alas," he sighed, waving me off "I can not. You are still of royal blood, and if a drop of it went to waste, well, to Pluto with it! We would be dead!" he ran his large hand through his brownish hair and gave me a weak smile. "Be so as it may, I will let him live."
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Issus: 20yrs old, neice to Julius Caesar
Maximus: 25yrs old, gladiator, Greek bloodline
Disclaimer: This story does not follow any sort of historical relavance, other then the fact that they are ancient Greek and Roman, and one is a gladiator.
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Issus: 20yrs old, neice to Julius Caesar
Maximus: 25yrs old, gladiator, Greek bloodline
Disclaimer: This story does not follow any sort of historical relavance, other then the fact that they are ancient Greek and Roman, and one is a gladiator.
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Giveaway: Free Icons, Photoshop Brushes and Vector Packs
Good news for designers. Our friend Stefan from Artbox7.com is feeling extremely generous today and has decided to play a small Santa role on hongkiat.com this December.
Artbox7 is a site with lots of designers' collectibles – icons, vectors and Photoshop brushes. Winners of today's contest will be able to access Artbox7 and get the things needed for your design, absolutely free.
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Study Abroad and Domestic Options at Hampshire
The global education office (GEO) at Hampshire encourages students to integrate global experiences into their academic program in ways that expand their understanding of other cultures, perspectives, and educational environments; promote ethical citizenship and community engagement; and inspire positive change. Students, in consultation with their academic advisors, choose from a wide range of programs all over the world or design their own programs!
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