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Whether you're flying to Dallas or Atlanta, there are several cheap flights from Montgomery Regional Airport available on Orbitz.com. This commuter airport offers flights from American Eagle, Delta Connection and US Airways to several regional destinations. Located six miles from the city's downtown business district, Montgomery Regional Airport is right off the Selma Highway. The airport is primarily used for military purposes, with the 187th Fighter Wing of the Alabama National Guard being stationed there.
Montgomery Regional offers short- and long-term parking. For both parking options, it costs $1.00 per half hour. For all-day parking in the short-term section, the airport charges $12.00. Visitors parked in long-term parking for an entire day will be charged $8.00.
There are several ways to get to the airport from downtown Montgomery. The local taxi companies can take passengers straight from their hotels to their gates in a few minutes, depending on traffic. Prices for cabs will vary based on the time of year and how far the hotel is from the airport.Those looking for deals on car service to the airport should check with their hotel's front desk. A few of the hotels in Montgomery offer complimentary shuttle service to and from the airport. In the event a hotel does not offer this service, private companies, such as A Touch of Class, Concierge Shuttle Services and Betty's Elegance, offer rides to the airport at a flat rate.The Montgomery Area Transit System also has a bus that takes visitors from the downtown region to the airport. The cost of a one-way ticket on the bus is $1.00.
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Burlington, Vermont, has four distinct seasons, which attract a variety of tourists interested in experiencing the outdoors. Burlington an average of 75 inches of snow each year, which is triple the national average. The average low temperature for January is 9 °F, and the average high temperature for July is 80 °F.
Most attractions in Burlington surround Church Street, which also leads visitors to the waterfront. The waterfront offers ferry access, excursion boats for rent, and a bike path complete with ferries to the smaller islands of Lake Champlain. People can learn about the ecology of Lake Champlain and the surrounding areas by visiting the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center. The city also has a large collection of contemporary art galleries on Pine Street. People who want to experience all the city has to offer should visit Orbitz.com for domestic flights to Burlington.
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Bargain and Sale Deed
If you have purchased real property, you are aware that the transfer of title was done through a deed. There are many deeds that are used. Land may be transferred from one owner to another by the use of a bargain and sale deed without covenants or warranties against the acts of the grantor. If you receive a bargain and sale deed, you are buying land without knowing if there are any encumbrances on it, unless stated in the deed. The grantor only guarantees that the grantor has title, and does not guarantee that the title is free of defects.
Bargain and sale deeds contain the following provisions:
- Date the property was sold
- Buyer's and seller's names
- Amount paid for the property
- Type of estate granted
- Legal description
- Generally, the bargain and sale deed are conveyed with the words that "grantor grants and releases or grants, bargains, and sells".
When are Bargain and Sale Deeds Used?
With Covenants
A bargain and sale deed can convey with covenants and other warranties as long as they are specifically stated in the deed. A bargain and sale deed with covenants guarantees the buyer that the property is free and clear of indebtedness.
Without Covenants
Bargain and sale deeds without covenants are used for conveying real property that is purchased at a sheriff's foreclosure auction sale or a tax sale or by fiduciaries such as executors. The grantor is generally a bank, tax or government authority or executor who did not occupy the land and does not know of any encumbrances.
States that Use Bargain and Sale Deeds
Sometimes bargain and sale deeds are used in New York, Washington, Wyoming, Colorado and Vermont when transferring residential property. The preferred type of deed is a general warranty deed because it gives the buyer the most protections.
Help from an Estate Planning Attorney
You should seek the legal advice of an estate planning attorney when you are buying or transferring real estate. Estate tax laws are complex and an estate planning attorney can answer any questions that you may have.


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Reforming the NHS from within
Such a shift requires a much stronger focus than hitherto on bringing about improvement and change from within health organisations and networks of care. The paper argues that this is the best route to system-wide transformation, particularly given the limited impact of reforms that rely on external stimuli.
Key findings
- Transforming the NHS depends much less on bold strokes and big gestures by politicians than on engaging doctors, nurses and other staff in improvement programmes.
- A new settlement is needed in which the strategic role of politicians is clearly demarcated to avoid frequent shifts of direction that create barriers to transformational change.
- Improvement in NHS organisations needs to be based on commitment rather than compliance, supported by investment in staff to enable them to achieve continuous quality improvement in the long as well as the short term.
- The experience of high-performing health care organisations shows the value of leadership continuity, organisational stability, a clear vision and goals for improvement, and the use of an explicit improvement methodology.
- Leadership in NHS organisations needs to be collective and distributed, with skilled clinical leaders working alongside experienced managers.
- NHS organisations should prioritise leadership development and training (preferably in-house) in quality improvement methods.
Policy implications
- NHS leaders need to pursue complementary approaches to reform in which national leadership is combined with devolution, collaboration with competition, and innovation with standardisation. There should be much more emphasis on bringing about improvement and change locally from within, and less emphasis on the use of external stimuli.
- There needs to be much greater transparency, based on the collection and open reporting of data on performance.
- There needs to be a more realistic view of what inspection and regulation can contribute. Inspection can only be effective if frontline teams and NHS boards are fully engaged in delivering the best possible care.
- Competition and choice have a role to play, but should be viewed as just one means to improve care rather than a guiding principle.
- Integrated providers or systems are the most promising ways of promoting worthwhile innovations in care.
- Much greater leadership continuity will be needed in NHS organisations to support new styles of leadership, with a focus on developing leaders at all levels.
Read the case studies from the report
- Jönköping County Council
- Intermountain Healthcare
- Virginia Mason Medical Center
- Veterans Health Administration
- Canterbury District Health Board, New Zealand
- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
About the paper
Reforming the NHS from within is the final publication in our programme of work, 'Time to Think Differently' which was set up to stimulate debate about the changes needed for the NHS and social care to meet the challenges of the future. The Barker Commission which is asking whether the post-war settlement, which established separate systems for health and social care, remains fit for purpose was also born out of this programme.
More on reforming the NHS
- View our interactive diagram: Visualising reform in the NHS
- Read the press release for this report: It's time to end top-down reform of the NHS
- Catch up with our Time to Think Differently work
- Find out more about the Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England
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This is the most sense I've read about leadership in NHS in a long time- good common sense & attitudes that certainly 'resonate' with me (58) Gives me some hope for NHS! Unfortunately more influential power brokers seem wedded to 'top down' compliance approach which I find alienating & not inclusive
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Is the key that you have a valet key(grey head)?
Yes, but it is not starting the car, fits the ignition but wont turn in the ignition
Does it unlock the doors?
It will not unlock any of the doors
A valet key should unlock the doors and start the car if it is the correct key for the car. A new master key can be cut by key code or vin at a dealer. It will also have to be programed before it will start the car. It will let you open the trunk to retrieve your other keys.
You can also remove the lower dash trim and unplug the connector for the trunk release and use a jumper wire to pop the trunk.
I would like to try that, can you explain a jumper wire
There is a connector that plugs into the lock portion. You can use a small peice of wire to jump from one side of the connector to the other to allow the switch to work, bypassing the lock.
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I have removed the access panel and am not doing something right. I have disconnected the modular connectors on the back of the trunk lock switch and have tried running a wire between the male modular connectors that I disconnected and tried jumping the wire between the femal module that the connectors plugged into. Neither one has worked. Do i need to plug the male modules back into the the female connector attached to the trunck switch


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BOURNEMOUTH was founded in 1810 by Captain Lewis Tregonwell.
The Royal Exeter Hotel is one of the most important buildings in the town as it incorporates the very first private residence in Bournemouth. It was built by Captain Lewis Tregonwell who purchased the land for £179 and 11 shillings, and was completed in 1812.
After Tregonwell's death in 1832 the house was let out - one resident was the Marchioness of Exeter, after her stay the house was renamed Exeter House and the road renamed Exeter Road.
Before it was founded by Tregonwell, much of the area was a deserted heathland, visited by smugglers and fishermen. Bournemouth grew rapidly as a town in 1870 with the arrival of the railway.
Historically part of Hampshire, it joined Dorset in 1974.
Bournemouth attracts an influx of visitors year round due to its sandy beaches, nightlife, shops off Bournemouth Square and business links, including the Bournemouth International Centre. The town centre boasts notable Victorian architecture - St Peter's Church is one of the three Grade l listed churches.
Situated east of Bournemouth lies the historic resort of Boscombe.
Boscombe was originally an independent settlement, separated from Bournemouth by dense wood and moorland.
It was in 1976 when Boscombe was incorporated into the boundaries of Bournemouth.
Many of you will be familiar with Shelley Manor in Boscombe. Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife, the novelist Mary Shelley, lived and loved the Tuscan lifestyle and brought up their son Percy Florence Shelley to appreciate Italy and the seaside.
Originally built as 'Boscombe Cottage' in 1801, Sir Percy. F Shelley later purchased the building with the intent of making it into a Tuscan villa, appreciating the mild climate and environment for his mother Lady Shelley.
At the heart of the building is the famous Shelley Theatre which today has been transformed.
In 2005, Shelley Manor was sold by the council to Charles Higgins Partnership to house two new medical surgeries, eleven apartments, two penthouses, and a restaurant and café.
Continuing eastwards, Southbourne is a vibrant and popular suburb of Bournemouth that thrives all year round and attracts visitors to the area's scores of hotels, guesthouses and holiday flats.
Southbourne was originally known as Stourfield, named after the River Stour which runs into the estuary at Christchurch.
The area came to national attention when Charles Rolls, of Rolls-Royce fame, died in an air crash in Southbourne.
For many years one of Southbourne's most popular attractions was the shell house on the clifftop which was demolished in 2001.
The clifftop is a popular spot with a cliff railway running between the coastal road and the beach near Fishermans Walk.
There are also frequent bus services to and from Pokesdown to nearby Christchurch and Bournemouth town centre, as well as frequent transport links to London from Pokesdown railway station, which opened in 1886.


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What is "official status" on development of Gloobus-Preview?
I got it working on Natty Narwhal but i think in Maverick Meerkat i had less trouble viewing video files (crashing).
PPA packages...
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...but as i mentioned it does have a lot of troubles (crashing). It's such a nice "tool" and i was wondering if it still being actively developed?


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No where did I say he played bad. What was said is wait until he is in meaningful games. He was......and while he did play very well.....he did not bury his chances or make the players around him better.
I keep hearing about how clutch he will be in the playoffs, just like juniors. If he can't be clutch to stay in the play off race why would he in the playoffs. Stupid hypothetical, I get that. But I think you can see where I am coming from. He has had 6 VERY MEANINGFUL games and he has two assists in them.
Having said all of that, the Oilers will never trade him, nor should they. He is a great hockey player. Well, not unless they could get a #1 D-man and #1 Goalie for him.
Agreed. Taylor Hall should be the one untouchable on that roster. Everything else should be available for the right price. But if you could get a package like Lehner, Cowan and Zibanejab you have to do it. For 2nd liners and 2nd pairing defensemen, you definitely pass.
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Bluetooth® iPod® Headphones with Remote Control, Black
Details http://shop.panasonic.com/support-only/RP-BT10-K.html
Bluetooth® iPod® Headphones with Remote Control, USB/AC Adapter-Rechargeable NiMH Battery, 4.5-Hour Battery Life, Bluetooth-Enabled Cell Phone Compatibility, Black
SpecificationsExpand All
- Drive Unit (diam. in mm) 11.5
- Impedance (ohm/1kHz) 16
- Sensitivity (dB/mW) 104
- Max. Input (mW) 200
- Frequency Response (Hz-kHz) 2.4-2.483 GHz
- Cord Length (ft./m) 2.1/0.6
- Neodymium Rare-earth Magnet Yes
- Color Black
- Additional Earpads Yes (2 pairs in S/L)
- Bluetooth spec. Version 2.0
- Transmission Range (ft./m) 33ft./10m
- Compatible BT Profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HSP, HFP
- Plug (Earphones) 1/8" (3.5mm)
- Remote Yes (Compact Remote Controller)
- Battery Ni-MH
- Battery Life Approx. 4.5 hrs After 3 hr Recharge (NiMH 1.2V, min 620 mAh)
- Cell Phone Compatible Yes (Cell Phones Which Incorporate Bluetooth Wireless Technology)
- Accessories USBEar Pads (S,L)AC Adaptor
- Charging 2-way using USB & Adaptor
RP-BT10-K is rated out of 5 by 2.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Anonymous from Works well Paired easily with my Palm Centro. Pairs to Ipod transmitter and phone at the same time, and interrupts Ipod listening when I receive a phone call. Restarts music after call is ended. Voice activated dialing doesn't work through the mic, and I haven't figured out how to get music playback from the phone to work.
Date published: 2009-04-26
Rated 3 out of 5 by Anonymous from I got them really way discounted Which is good... I didn't want over the head bluetooth headphones... These were the best priced and came with the IPOD dongle. Ill start there, the dongle did not stay in my IPOD Touch I use it with rubber bands... I have an easier time getting it to pair with my laptop and my blackberry and for that reason it is a great product for a motorcycle wearer with a blackberry, BUT very big but, the microphone is awefull... I hear people clearly but they cant hear me, its not the area its the microphone... Oh well its fun on long trips
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I had searched the archives, but it seemed that the others experiencing
this message couldn't get it to boot at all... I didn't see anything
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Tierra Bella 2013
Almaden Cycle Touring Club
Saturday, April 13, 2013 from 6:30 AM to 6:00 PM (PDT)
Welcome to the 2013 Tierra Bella. This year we are offering the same routes as last year:
Routes -- On the 100mi and 200km routes, the routes will go to Gilroy Hot Springs first, then Henry Coe with the 200k option climbing Hicks Rd.
Jerseys -- To guarantee your jersey size please order your jersey(s) by
January 18, 2013. After this date we cannot guarantee your size.
Check-in procedures:
1) We will be mailing all registrants the registration materials including wristband and maps.
2) All clothing orders can be picked-up on the day of the event at the Gavilan College Student Union.
3) NO Friday check-in
4)For replacement wristbands and maps, riders may check-in at Gavilan College on Saturday morning starting at 7:00 AM. The gates will not open until 6:30AM
We have gluten free food options at the reststops.
Remember, Lunch is at the Gavilan College Student Union after the ride.
See how much fun the Tierrabella is?
Family Registration note:
Due to Insurance Waiver issues, we cannot accept Family registrations on Eventbrite.com. HOWEVER, We welcome mail-in registrations through our website. You can find all of the registration information at http://www.tierrabella.org.
Answers to frequently asked Tierra Bella Tour questions can be found here: http://www.tierrabella.org/tb_faqs.php
Tour Information:
For information on routes, start times, and other tour information visit the Almaden Cycle Touring Club web site at http://www.tierrabella.org.
Registration is limited to 2,000 riders. Registration ends when 2,000 entries have been received. Register online at www.tierrabella.eventbrite.com, or by mail with the entry form. All applications received after registration closes will be returned. There is no rain date. All Families will be required to register by mail only due to insurance requirements. We apologize for the inconvenience.
NO day-of-ride registration!
The Almaden Cycle Touring Club (ACTC) promotes cycling on the trails, roads, paths, and mountains of the Southbay area of San Francisco and beyond. ACTC is a volunteer-based non-profit organization which emphasizes the social, recreational, transportation and health aspects of cycling through education, club rides, philanthropy and meetings of members of all ages and levels. Our motto is "Riding for Fitness, Friendship, and Fun."
The club ride calendar has an average of over 150 rides per month, so there is usually a ride that will fit your needs. Guests are welcome on club rides, and it is easy to make new friends. New members are always welcome. Come join us! We think you'll enjoy the experience. Yearly dues are $20.00 for an individual membership and $25.00 for a family. To join complete our Online Membership Form or contact the membership chair for more information.
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Poorman Fire Station
1740 Fourmile Canyon Drive
Built in 2015
Salina Fire Station
546 Gold Run Road
Built in 1980, Rebuilt in 2012
Wallstreet Fire Station
5901 Fourmile Canyon Drive
Built in 1994
Lodge Fire Station
83 Fourmile Canyon Drive
Built in 1992
Fourmile Fire Department is an organization that provides professional fire and medical first response to our community.
Located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, just west of Boulder, Colorado.
We are a combination of paid and volunteer firefighters.
Some of the historic towns in our district include Orodell, Crisman, Salina, Summerville, Wallstreet, and Sunset. The resident population is approximately 2,200 spread over an area of 13 square miles.
We respond to around 95 calls (via 911) per year. Our department has 30 rostered volunteers, and about half of those respond regularly. We have four stations which house a total of seven emergency response vehicles: three engines, two water tenders, and two brush trucks.


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Manslaughter charge in S.F. homeless camp crash
Updated 8:14 am, Thursday, June 19, 2014
(06-18) 15:13 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A suspected drunken driver accused of killing a man when he careened into a homeless encampment along a freeway off-ramp in San Francisco was charged with three felonies, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Jaime Juarez, 27, faces one count of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and two counts related to drunken driving in connection with the death of 62-year-old Wilbert Williams.
Juarez was driving his 2001 Toyota sport utility vehicle just after 1 a.m. Sunday when he lost control while exiting Interstate 80 at Fifth Street, investigators said. He allegedly missed a 25-mph curve to the right and slammed into Williams as he slept in a tent.
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|You're looking at Brad Pitt's next role
I'm still not sure how director Steven Soderbergh plans to make a compelling movie out of Moneyball, but the casting decisions are certainly proving interesting. Brad Pitt will be portraying A's general manager Billy Beane (seriously) and Variety reports that always amusing comedian Demetri Martin is now signed on to play assistant GM-turned-blogger Paul DePodesta.
But wait, there's more. Pitching coach Rick Peterson will be played by ... Rick Peterson. Obviously the casting director was worried about finding an actor capable of pulling off the curly mullet/windbreaker look without distracting the audience. David Justice and Scott Hatteberg have also signed on to play themselves and there are no doubt thousands of fat actors vying for the role of Jeremy Brown.
Filming is slated to begin in June and the movie is scheduled for a 2011 release, at which point the A's may even have finished above .500 for the first time since 2006.


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Subject: Re: [STREET] Street Challenges....
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:26:16 -0800
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My brick wall has plenty of his descendants baffled. Jonathan Street was
born ca 1821 in Benton, TN according to his Civil War papers. Benton Co., TN
was formed in 1835 from Humphreys Co.and the county seat of Polk Co. is
Benton. Polk Co. was formed from Bradley/ McMinn Co's. in 1839. There are
Streets in both areas but have not been able to connect. Jonathan m. Martha
A. Gibbons b.ca 1824 in TN. Their first child [Josephine] was born in Izard
Co., AR 1851 or 52. Have not found marriage info in either TN or AR and have
not found them in 1850 census either state. In 1860 in Izard Co.. In 1864
were in Crawford Co., MO as Rebecca Ann, their 6th child was born here, and
in 1866 Martha, 7th and final child, was born in West Plains, Howell Co.,MO.
Martha died before 1881, in West Plains, as Jonathan married Elizabeth J.
Roberts in Feb 1881. Jonathan died May 1895 in West Plains. Thanks for
reading my tale of woe.
Don Harper
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As a weekly volunteer at CAPS, I get to see first hand the care and concern extended to clients who find their way to our center. Counselors, staff, and medical personnel are at once professional and compassionate to each woman seeking our services. Their are also counselors available for the men who's lives are impacted by the unplanned pregnancy of wife or girlfriend, also administered with genuine concern. CAPS is positively assisting women of San Diego, whether their need is counseling, resource referral or simply stability and kindness during uncertain circumstance.
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CAPs is a wonderful nonprofit. I have seen first hand how the free services the organization offers have benefited families in the community. Many of the patients that come to CAPS have no health care insurance and wouldn't be able to receive free vitamins, ultrasound, referrals, or health care education. It provides a professional health service to the San Diego community.
I know several volunteers who serve at CAPS on a weekly basis. These women are fully trained and they are spiritually equipped to help assist those who come through the doors concerning unplanned pregnancies. I have only heard of good experiences for all who seek their services and they feel valued and well cared for. It is wonderful that they have four locations in San Diego County. I do contribute financially because I believe in the work that they do for the unborn and their parents.


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This is a multiple level game. The end of a given level is signified by the huge debris falling over his head. To catch it effectively, just keep on tapping the Up Key. Failure to do so would crash Superman and end the game. Also, there would be lots of kryptonite going down along with the wreckage. The whole city seems to be always in danger, thus keeping him busy.
But you know this hero. If there's trouble anywhere, he'll be in the middle of it, stopping the bad guys from creating further chaos. So now that Superman is at his feet trying to save the whole metropolis from certain harm, your job should be to play making sure he doesn't miss any enemy or hurt himself in the process. There are many dangers surrounding in this game of Superman.
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Preventing Drownings Takes Vigilance
Kathy Cline (KFYI)- Phoenix authorities are urging parents and others to keep a close eye on kids near water.
Kelly Liebermann is a community education specialist with the Phoenix Fire Department.
He says you might not notice a drowning until you see someone at the bottom of the pool.
"It's not this Hollywood show. [When people are drowning] they are down in the water, they're sinking. When their head pops out, they're trying to gasp for air."
So far this swimming season, there have been 30 fatal drownings in Maricopa and Pinal counties. Emergency workers have responded to over 100 drowning calls.


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A massive 46% of you now use your trusty mobile for social networking, whether it's uploading last night's embarrassing pub pics to Facebook or tweeting the hilarious things your cat does. We've seen some fantastic social features in the big smartphones this year, to make sharing your life with the world as easy as possible, and these magnificent mobiles have stood out as the best social networkers around.
HTC's Friend Stream is a simple but uber-smart widget that collects your Twitter, Facebook and Flickr feeds into one handy bundle, while also allowing you to post whatever you like to all three accounts at once. You can toggle your notification settings so you're updated as much or as little as you like, and check in with a button press wherever you roam.
The fantastic range of social widgets is further bolstered by Google+, Twitter, YouTube and message entries, giving you impressive flexibility over how you consume your social content. You can even cyber-stalk your friends individually in the 'People' widget, which shows you all of your recent emails, messages and conversations. No matter how you like to socialise, the HTC One X offers tons of ways to do it, and that's why it's our social networking phone of the year.
One of Windows Phone 7.5's best features is its 'People' tile, a contacts book with incredible depth and ambition that is still impressively user-friendly. Your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn profiles are synced to give a three-screen setup, showing the standard friend list, recent contacts (on any platform including text or call), and an aggregated social feed. We're hoping for even better social networking from Windows Phone 8...
BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900
The BlackBerry Bold Touch 9780 ran away with this award last year, and the Touch 9900 is another excellent social device from RIM. The physical keyboard, BBM and some smart social network grouping makes it a great choice for anyone who bashes out endless Tweets.
Samsung Galaxy S III
Samsung's beautiful flagship phone came close to breaking the top two with its excellent sharing tools, including an impressively long list of ways to stick your photos online. As with the other Android phones here, you have a wealth of social tools to download from the Google Play store.
Sony Xperia S
Sony's TimeScape widget may not prove quite as slick as HTC's Friend Stream, but social network loons will love that their feeds are all bunched together in one easy-to-access stream. If you'd rather keep your feeds separate, you get a full range of individual widgets for keeping up to date with the world.


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Francis Ford Coppola; John Milius; Michael Herr; Vittorio Storaro; Dean Tavoularis; Richard Marks; Walter Murch; Carmine Coppola; Angelo Graham; George R Nelson; Richard P Cirincione; Charles E James; Joseph Lombardi; A D Flowers; Marlon Brando; Robert Duvall; Martin Sheen; Frederic Forrest; Albert Hall; Sam Bottoms; Laurence Fishburne, III; Dennis Hopper; G D Spradlin; Harrison Ford; Scott Glenn; Glenn Walken; Joseph Conrad; Omni Zoetrope Studios.; United Artists Corporation.
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|War film; feature.
Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness, according to Maltin, 1992.
Production credits were only partially transcribed.
Playing time on release was 150 min., according to Maltin, 1992.
"Filmed in Technovision. Technicolor dye transfer prints. Dolby Digital in selected theatres. Recorded on Multi-Track Magnetics, Inc. High Speed Film Recording System."
"No. 38045, Motion Picture Association of America."
Copyright notice on film: Copyright 1979 by Omni Zoetrope; c2000 by Zoetrope Corporation.
"The Motion Picture Code and Rating Administration has rated this motion picture R, Restricted; under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian."
|Photography by Vittorio Storaro. Production designer, Dean Tavoularis. Supervising editor, Richard Marks; editors, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg and Lisa Fruchtman. Associate producer, Mona Skager; creative consultant, Dennis Jakob. Music by Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola. Sound montage and design, Walter Murch. Music produced by David Rubinson. Master synthesist, Patrick Gleeson; guitarist, Randy Hansen; percussion based score, Mickey Hart; performed with the Rhythm Devils, Jordan Amarantha, Greg Errico, Zakir Hussain, Billy Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Jim Loveless; special thanks to Flora Purim. Art director, Angelo Graham; set decorator, George R. Nelson. Supervising sound editor, Richard Cirincione; sound editors, Leslie Hodgson, Les Wiggins, Pat Jackson, Jay Miracle; music editor, Stan Witt; dialogue editors, Leslie Shatz, John Nutt, James A. Borgardt, Joanne d'Antonio. Costume supervisor, Charles E. James; costumers, Dennis M. Fill, Luster Bayless, George Little, Norman Burza; makeup, Jack Young, Fred C. Blau, Jr.; playmate show choreographer, John Calvert. Special effects coordinators, Joseph Lombardi, A.D. Flowers; special effects men, Larry Cavanaugh, Jerry Endler, Rudy Liszczak, John Fraser, Richard Helmer, Ted Martin, Eddie Ayay, David St. Ana, Mario Carmona; Special Effects Unlimited. Casting, Terry Liebling, Vic Ramos; Montagnard tribesmen casting, Eva Gardos; Philippine casting, Lou Whitehill, Randy Carter; stunt coordinator, Terry J. Leonard; stuntmen, Joe Finnegan, Kerry Rossal, Chuck Waters, Steve Boyum. Supervising color technicians, Ernesto Novelli, Larry Rovetti. Other music: The end, by the Doors, performed by the Doors; I can't get no satisfaction, courtesy of ABKCO Records, Inc.; Love me, and let me love you, by Robert Duvall; The ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walkure, by Richard Wagner; conducted by Sir George Solti, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Let the good times roll, by Leonard Lee; Suzie Q, by Dale Hawkins, S.J. Lewis, E. Broadwater, performed by Flash Cadillac; excerpts from Mnong Gar music from Vietnam, courtesy of OCORA Radio France: Collection museÌe de l'homme; Zoetrope Music Company; Surfin' safari, Brian Wilson and Mike Love.
|Starring Marlon Brando (Colonel Kurtz). Robert Duvall (Lt. Colonel Kilgore). Martin Sheen (Captain Willard). Also starring Frederic Forrest (Chef). Albert Hall (Chief). Sam Bottoms (Lance). Larry Fishburne (Clean). And Dennis Hopper (photo journalist). Co-starring G.D. Spradlin (General), Harrison Ford (Colonel). Colleen Camp (playmate), Cynthia Wood (playmate of the year). Christian Marquand (Hubert DeMarais), Aurore Clement (Roxanne Sarrault). Jerry Ziesmer (civilian); Scott Glenn (Colby). Bo Byers (sergeant MP no. 1); James Keane (Kilgore's gunner); Kerry Rossall (Mike from San Diego); Ron McQueen (injured soldier); Tom Mason (supply sergeant); Cynthia Wood (Playmate of the Year); Colleen Camp (Playmate); Linda Carpenter (Playmate); Jack Thibeau (soldier in trench); Glenn Walken (Lt. Carlsen); George Cantero (soldier with suitcase). Damien Leake (machine gunner); Herb Rice (Roach); William Upton (spotter); Larry Carney (sergeant MP no. 2); Marc Coppola (AFRS announcer); Daniel Kiewit (Major from New Jersey); Father Elias (Catholic priest); Bill Graham (agent); Hattie James (Clean's mother (voice)); Jerry Ross (Johnny from Malibu); Dick White (helicopter pilot). The French plantation: Michel Pitton (Philippe DeMarais); Franck Villard (Gaston DeMarais). David Olivier (Christian DeMarais); Chrystel le Pelletier (Claudine); Robert Julian (the tutor); Yvon LeSeaux (Sergeant LeFevre); Roman Coppola (Francis DeMarais); Gian-Carlo Coppola (Gilles DeMarais); Henri Sadardiel (French soldier #1); Gilbert Renkens (French soldier #2).
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|Filmed on location in the Philippines. Montagnard tribesmen portrayed by the Ifugao People of Banaue, Philippine Islands.
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|Apocalypse now.
Apocalypse now--outtakes.
Birth of 5.1 sound.
Ghost helicopter flyover.
Synthesizer soundtrack.
Million feet of film.
Music of Apocalypse now.
Heard any good movies lately?
Final mix.
Apocalypse then and now.
PBR Streetgang.
Color palette of Apocalypse now.
|Omni Zoetrope Studios ; directed and produced by Francis Coppola ; written by John Milius and Francis Coppola ; narration by Michael Herr ; co-produced by Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson and Tom Sternberg.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" holds a peculiar place in the signing community. As Deaf Americans, our relationship with it is as complex as our relationship is with our country, a nation where we have been and continue to be oppressed and persecuted. We learn at an early age that all the talk of freedom isn't always about us. Consider, for example, what a Deaf high schooler named Julie Ann Lewis wrote in a poem called "Hear Me America" (1996). It closes with these lines: "My voice is not free–/ How can this be / In this free Republic?"
On a more practical level, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is in English, which is not native to Deaf culture. Further distancing it from us, it finds its expression most often as a piece of music, sung at important occasions and sporting events. Even when the anthem is accompanied by a signed version, we have mixed feelings. On one hand, it is good to have signing displayed in public, something we cannot take for granted because of oralist campaigns in the past against the public use of sign language. On the other hand, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is almost never signed well or in a way that makes sense in our language. This forces us to wonder if the signing is there for us or more for the pleasure of hearing people who don't know the difference.
The Super Bowl is a prime example of this problem. Ever since Lori Hilary signed the anthem at Super Bowl XXVI in 1992, signed renditions have been part of the highest-rated television program on earth. This makes these glimpses the biggest exposure our language receives each year. They are much better for ASL awareness than the static I Love You sign. But are Deaf people inspired by these performances? Hardly. Only snatches of the signer are shown. Worse, most of the performances at the Super Bowl–and elsewhere–follow the same broken formula.
This is strange, because Deaf people have been signing "The Star-Spangled Banner" for a long time, since before it became our national anthem on March 3, 1931. The Deaf elite, made up mainly of graduates of Gallaudet College, enjoyed "rendering in signs" various poems and songs, as it signified their level of education and facility with the English language. Those who did this well were praised. Take this admiring passage written in an obituary in the Illinois Advance on the death of National Association of the Deaf's third president, Dudley Webster George (1855-1930): "He was a master of the English language and of the sign language. Of the correct use and beauty of both he was in precept and example an ardent exponent. No one who ever saw him address a meeting or render in signs the 'Marseillaise' or the 'Star-Spangled Banner' or any other poem will ever forget it."
We cannot be certain, without watching a film of George's version, how he executed it. But we do know that "mastery" of reciting poems in those days meant transliteration or something similar to what we today call Pidgin Signed English. Signers would follow the word order of the original English text, delete unnecessary bits like "the" and "of," and try to sign the words as gracefully as possible. No matter how impressive the bearing of the signer or how beautiful the sweep of the hands, it made little sense as an ASL text. If you taught a Deaf child only ASL, without ever introducing English, and he saw "The Star-Spangled Banner" signed, it would have no meaning.
Signed renditions, then, were not ASL renditions at all. Instead, they were a way to present the English text in "signs," in order that signers "read" the song in the air. This did not mean Deaf people weren't moved by the signing of the song. There is still charm and a kind of beauty in the signed versions, and through ritual use, it can become so familiar that it cannot help but resonate. Still, "The Star-Spangled Banner" has been signed again and again for over a century without much improvement. Why has the signed version failed to evolve into a true ASL translation?
The obvious answer is that the signed version has long been expected to accompany the music. The national anthem is signed at every graduation and before every sporting event at every pro-ASL school for the Deaf—which means thousands of performances each year—but all of them involve a sound recording and, often, a hearing "coach" leading the Deaf signers to make sure they keep time. While a translation, by definition, must needs be linked to the original, the demand that the signed version follow the sound has severely limited the potential for a meaningful ASL version.
The earliest known film of signing of any kind was of, yes, "The Star-Spangled Banner" being signed. Made in 1902 by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company and labeled "Deaf Mute Girl Reciting the Star-Spangled Banner," the film clip can be difficult to follow because of its speed and jerkiness. But one can watch Susie Koehn's rendering, made in a clearer 1943 film, and be immediately struck by how alike the two versions are. And that same basic version is still performed today. Some new versions may appear to be better, but at closer inspection they use the same transliteration approach.
Amazingly, the 1902 signer got one thing linguistically right that none of the others since has gotten right: For "the home of the brave," the "Deaf Mute Girl" signed "home brave men," while most signers close with "home brave." But proper ASL usage begs the question "Brave what?" Of course, it is an old gender bias to think of the brave as men. A true ASL translation must resolve this issue of what or whom the word "brave" refers to or it must shift the concept. "Home people themselves brave"? "Our home inspire bravery"?
That all of the signed versions have since abstracted the meaning of "the brave" and almost everything else tells us that few have been interested in making the signed version communicate the song to Deaf people. The signed versions appear to have been and continue to be more a function of displaying the "beauty" of sign language to hearing people. This would explain why the accuracy of the signed versions as ASL pieces has never been a major concern. Moreover, the national anthem is most often signed when there are hearing people in the audience. It is rare for the anthem to be performed at Deaf-only, Deaf-run events.
If Deaf performers have been used as puppets, signing something that is meaningless in their language, it is no wonder "The Star-Spangled Banner" is not a sacred text in Deaf culture. In fact, ASL literature is full of hilarious spoofs and political adaptations. Patrick Graybill, in his one-man show for the renowned Live at SMI! series, apes his former hearing teacher's horrendous signs reciting "The Star-Spangled Banner." Mary Beth Miller has an even funnier routine in her own Live at SMI! video. She performs different versions, from opera style ("OOOooohhhHHHhh ssSSaaAAyyYY cccaaaNNN YYYOOOuuUUuuUU SsSsEsEeee") to fingerspelling alone in the Rochester Method ("ohsaycanyousee") to, finally, a sincere rendering that is similar to the one in the above-mentioned films. And the great ASL poet and activist Ella Mae Lentz has adapted it to deliver a political message. In her poem, ASL itself is the banner, persisting in the face of discrimination and language barriers. It closes by saying "Hands are still signing in the land of the Deaf free and the home of the Deaf brave."
As powerful as Lentz's message is, her poem is still heavily influenced by the classic abstract signed version of "The Star-Spangled Banner." For example, she still opens it with the dawn before awkwardly jumping back in time to the previous night by signing "Last night …" Nevertheless, it is a successful adaptation because Deaf viewers would recognize what it borrows from, the same old version that always starts with seeing something and then the sun coming up.
That the signed versions have been chained, sign for word, to the English version has not passed all unnoticed. The Deaf Pride movement did enlighten some people to a degree that they became uncomfortable with the traditional signed version. A new approach began appearing in the late 1990s at the more progressive bilingual Deaf schools, in which the anthem is turned into a kind of short play. Involving choreography, it features various performers enacting different things in the anthem—rockets, the flag—and taking turns signing bits. In some versions, the performers would sign the last lines together. These creative pieces are a bold departure from the traditional approach. Yet the theatrical nature of this method abstracts the meaning of the anthem as much as the traditional version does. We still lack a true ASL translation.
Which brings us to the question of how "The Star-Spangled Banner" should be translated. First, we must abandon the idea of following the sound recordings. The ASL translation can be signed while the music is playing, and with practice both can end at about the same time, but we must no longer think in terms of the two moving together line by line. The most necessary difference between the two would be moving, in the ASL version, the dawn to near the end. This move would allow us to, at long last, make use of ASL's cinematic qualities by first setting up the situation. This will, more than anything else, open Deaf people's eyes to the actual content of the anthem. To have a better grasp of the cinematic possibilities, it is instructive to know the story of how "The Star-Spangled Banner" came to be written.
It was two years into the War of 1812 between our young republic and its former mother country, England. After a victory in Washington, D.C., the British were advancing on Baltimore. Before they could enter the city, they needed to destroy Fort McHenry. The largest and strongest ships from the British fleet were anchored in front of the fort, their heavy guns ready to blast away. One of the prisoners onboard the Admiral's flagship was a beloved doctor, William Beanes. His friends wanted to rescue him and secured an official letter from President Madison stating that the good doctor was not a solider but a private citizen. Now someone had to go to that ship and present the letter to the admiral and ask for Dr. Beanes's release.
Francis Scott Key and another friend volunteered for the mission, and they went across Chesapeake Bay on a government boat under a flag of truce. They rowed right up to the flagship and were allowed to go on board. The admiral agreed to release Dr. Beanes but said that, unfortunately, they were about to open fire on Fort McHenry. He did not want the Americans to run to the fort and warn the soldiers there, so he charged them to stay away from the shoreline until the fort was destroyed. They could return to their boat and stay on it, and he assured them that they wouldn't have long to wait because the British guns would flatten the fort in no time.
That's how Key ended up stuck on that boat, at a safe distance from the fleet. He was not happy about this circumstance, because he was a volunteer soldier and wanted to fight with his countrymen inside the fort. He was also concerned for his brother-in-law, who was the commanding officer at the fort, and he knew the force there was small.
As night fell, the British began their bombardment of the fort. Key and his companions could not see anything except for the "rockets' red glare" and whatever it illuminated. Every time there was an explosion, they could see the stars and stripes flying. As long as the flag was still waving, the fort was still standing. But at some point during the night, the guns stopped, and there was nothing but darkness. Did this mean the fort was down?
Then "the dawn's early light" came, but there was a heavy morning fog. They still could not see the fort at all. As the fog thinned and lifted, there it was! The massive star-spangled banner was still waving! Key cried to his companions, "Oh say can you see!" The attack on Fort McHenry had failed. As the ships left and the Americans' boat made its way toward the shore, Key was already writing down on an envelope the lines of a poem. This poem was printed under the title "Bombardment of Fort McHenry" and was such a hit that it was being sung in New Orleans within six days, which means it spread faster than the postage. It had three stanzas, and the first stanza became our national anthem, but not before it was already our nation's most popular patriotic songs.
There is much in this inspiring story that can help us create a powerful ASL version that would make linguistic sense and signed as a true ASL poem. To begin with, there's the chronology, starting with the situation, the Americans stuck on the boat, on the sidelines watching the ships on one side and the fort on the other. The bad signed version doesn't establish this situation at all; the signer looks ahead and just signs. This leads to some contradictions, such as the signer talking about looking over the ramparts and then talking about seeing the flag. How can one see the flag ahead while one is also looking over the ramparts, a position where the flag would be directly above, not ahead of the signer at some distance?
An ASL version would set the ships—or, at the least, one set of the guns involved in the conflict—to one side and the fort and the flag on the other side, and the signer would refer to each side by turns throughout, with the default "narrator" looking ahead being the Americans on the sidelines, watching, helpless, hoping, and with the coming of dawn's early light, joyous.
Their joy can become our joy when we have "The Star-Spangled Banner" unfurled, full and clear, in our own language. We deserve that, for we, too, are Americans.*****
A few recent examples of the National Anthem:
Rocky Mountain Deaf School's 2015 translation: https://youtu.be/7QZzDofFPeA
Amber Zion 2014: http://on.aol.com/video/american-sign-language-national-anthem-with-amber-zion-518106545
Treshelle Edmond 2015: https://youtu.be/M6iyLwOdi7w
Willow Herbold 2016: https://www.facebook.com/Korika/videos/10153253143040264/


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The Kim Kardashian-Kanye West publicity stunt—er, relationship—lives on: A jealous Kim has now banned all other women from hanging around her man. "Kim is incredibly protective of Kanye and doesn't want any women near him unless she is there—even his friends," a source tells the Sun. Rihanna, who has joined Kanye and Jay-Z on stage, "wasn't even allowed to go into his dressing room without Kim being there." But perhaps Kim needn't worry: The New York Daily News reports that Kanye blew off a planned performance at Cannes last week to have dinner with Kim, and adds that Rihanna is dating New York Knick JR Smith anyway. Read more…


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Human Physiology
An introduction to human physiology. Focus is on basic physiological principles and the integration of body systems in maintaining homeostasis. While this course is intended to fulfill requirements for nursing, physical education, and allied health students, it may also be taken as a life science elective. Lab.
Will it transfer???
This course is degree applicable, and will transfer to the University of California and the California State University systems.
BIO 5 (Human Biology) and BIO 5L (the corresponding lab) are both prerequesites for BIO 12B. While there is no Reading or English prerequisite, you will have a great deal of reading to do and you will be asked to write, both a research paper and shorter assignments. You will also need to perform some basic calculations. So we advise the student to have completed Math 81, Read 10 and English 52 (or tested out of them) prior to attempting this course.
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Notes on 1968 Aerial Photos:
1. This dramatically shows what happens when a highway needs to be put in and existing structures have to make way for it. That bare patch running through the middle of the photo is where Highway 280 is going to go and there used to be houses there. Only the trees remain. [Compare to the 1961 photo].
2. That's San Jose City College at the bottom half of the photo.
3. You can see Scott Street running along the top of the photo, and the bend at Clifton.
4. On the right edge you can see that land has also been cleared for what will soon be apartment complexes at the end of Mayellen and Buena Vista Avenues.
By the way, these web photos don't do justice to the original aerial photographs which are HUGE and are much clearer than these copies. They are stored in the California Room of the Martin Luther King Library in downtown San Jose. If you're interested in seeing the originals, contact me and I'll either show them to you, or give you precise instructions on where they are located.


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Dear Dr. Wolf,
My 15-year-old son had been hanging around with older kids and started using serious drugs. Since we went into family counselling, he's no longer using drugs, but he's still doing things I don't feel comfortable with - occasionally drinking and partying late. He says that we should now trust him. We have said that he can drink as long as it's very limited and he tells us. We feel we are doing harm reduction, a compromise we can live with. But I worry about him constantly. At the same time, I was a rebel too and when my parents pushed me too hard I ran away. What should I do?
Afraid to Push
Dear Afraid to Push,
It is one of the classic dilemmas of raising an adolescent: You know that your teen is involved in risky behaviour. But you may also feel that he is a good kid, that he does have reasonably good judgment over all. But he takes risks.
You worry: "I want to do everything I can to keep him safe, but if I come on too strong, too much restrict his freedom, don't I risk pushing him away? Don't I risk losing any kind of useful connection that I might have, my only source of influence? Don't I risk increasing rather than decreasing the chances of dangerous behaviour?"
You worry that he might react. That he might think: "They're not going to trust me. They're not going to let me do anything. Screw them. I'm going to do whatever the hell I want. I might as well: I'm already damned before I do anything anyway."
I have some suggestions.
1) If you worry, tell him. Often. Tell him what it is that you worry about. Tell him as clearly, honestly and succinctly as you can why it is that you worry. And don't be concerned about doing it too often.
"This is so stupid. I don't need the drug lecture again."
Yes, he does.
He hears you. You've certainly said it enough. It does go into his head. Also, it can help with your anxiety, as you are being pro-active, not just passively letting whatever is going to happen run its course.
2) Don't make it too easy for your teen to do whatever he wants. Don't let his comings and goings happen completely out of your purview. Ask where he is going, whom he is with, what they are doing. When you have no clue what is going on, it does give your teen more freedom to do what you don't want him to do.
3) I wouldn't give approval to behaviours that you absolutely do not want him to engage in. Even if it's a form of damage control - even if you think he's going to do these things anyway - I am still not comfortable with the idea of saying that it is okay. When he is out there in the real world, and faced with potentially risky choices, you want him to make those choices with the clear knowledge of where you stand.
You want your apprehensive voice in his head: "I know I can't stop you, but what you may be about to do is not okay. You put yourself at risk. That is what I think. I do not completely trust your judgment. I do worry. You are at risk."
In effect, you want some of your fear and your concern to be inside of him. You do not want him to feel that when he is out there on his own, he is still under that umbrella of parental security. That everything will be okay. That you approve.
You want him to be afraid of his own possibly risky behaviour. Teens are fearless enough as it is.
4) Have ongoing conversations. Weekly chats. Make regular occasions when the two of you are in the same place at the same time. Not his favourite way of spending time? Do it anyway. Make an ongoing line of parent-and-teen communication. He may not participate (that is, talk). That's okay, so long as regularly spending time together does not go away.
5) Don't be too trusting. Even the best teens often sneak and lie. They do this because they know that they are planning to do (or have already done) something you absolutely do not want them to. It is always good to have at least a certain amount of skepticism.
In effect, you want them to have an inner consciousness of you that doesn't make risky behaviour easy. I prefer this to the reverse, where they feel they are truly on their own, with only their judgment.
Does this guarantee their safety? No. Does it make a difference? Definitely.
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Hi, I had emailed the user mailing list regarding my problem but did not get much input, hence emailing the developer community. I have 2 questions about Pig and how it uses the HAR FileSystem. 1. It seems Path Globbing does not work with HAR Files with Pig, is this intentional ? For example : hadoop fs -ls har:///x/y/z/{a.har,b.har}/* works and lists all the files in both har files. If I give the same path as input path to a pig script it does not seem to work. 2. Wildcards in HAR path. Like the above example if I do the following on hadoop fs it works hadoop fs -ls har://x/y/*/a.har/* This lists all files from all folders that have a.har If I give the path input path to pig it does not work. I have tried these 2 things on pig 0.8 Also, for the second use case. If I remove the last wild card where files should be, then it works. For example input path to pig : har://x/y/*/a.har/logFile then pig can read the file and give me records back, but wild card at the last location does not work. Any insights would be great around if this should or should not work. I have 30000 files in one folder inside the har, I cannot list each one and want to use wildcard as the last element in the path and use path globbing to provide multiple har files. Thanks Mohnish
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On this date in 1933, "The Lone Ranger" radio program premiered on WXYZ radio in Detroit, Michigan. The program would go on to run for 2,956 episodes, ultimately ending twenty-two years later in 1955. John L. Barrett provided the voice for the "masked man" during test broadcasts, George Seaton taking over on January 31st. In total, seven (or more) actors would play the role before the last original episode aired September 3, 1954. Reruns would be broadcast unitl July 24th the following year.
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Hearings will be held this summer to examine the Renewable Fuel Standard, a law mandating blending of renewable fuels into petroleum-based fuels.
The hearings will be held by the Energy and Commerce Committee chaired by Congressman Fred Upton, R-Mich. No date has been set for the hearings.
The RFS, part of the Clean Air Act, was first introduced in 2005 and amended in 2007. It mandates volumes of renewable fuel be blended into petroleum-based fuels which ratchets up each year through 2022. The total volume mandate for 2013 is 16.55 billion gallons of which 13.8 billion gallons is to come from starch-based ethanol, primarily made from corn. That amount would increases to 15 billion gallons by 2015.
The committee is issuing a series of white papers on the RFS and is currently soliciting input from interested stakeholders.
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The Democrats adroitly asserted in their platform their approval of the re-annexation of Texas and reoccupation of Oregon.
But with the beginning of spring, the progress of our arms opened Hampton to reoccupation.
The reoccupation of abandoned areas and the utilization of new land was quickly the order of the day.
Some of these works were renovated during the reoccupation of Castine by the British in 1812.
This was near dawn, when military announcements of the reoccupation of Boulder Lake were being passed out to the news media.
He served in administrative capacities at the relief of Ceuta in that year and in the reoccupation of Oran in 1731.
These bands may form in the up-mountain migration and reoccupation of areas which were covered by winter snows.
The Amatolas were finally cleared of the Kaffirs, and small forts erected among them to prevent their reoccupation.
They never believed the news of her defeat in the Balkans and the reoccupation of Adrianople confirmed them in their skepticism.
The reoccupation of Belgrade by the Servians is one of those military feats which amount to historical phenomena.
early 14c., "fact of holding or possessing;" mid-14c., "a being employed in something," also "a particular action," from Old French occupacion "pursuit, work, employment; occupancy, occupation" (12c.), from Latin occupationem (nominative occupatio) "a taking possession; business, employment," noun of action from past participle stem of occupare (see occupy). Meaning "employment, business in which one engages" is late 14c. That of "condition of being held and ruled by troops of another country" is from 1940.


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Romania's President Traian Basescu has denied on television ever having signed an agreement to collaborate with the communist-era secret police, the Securitate.
He said he simply wrote routine "reports" in his capacity as the captain of a large Romanian merchant ship.
Reports say that a secret police file on Mr Basescu has gone missing.
Exposing collaborators
The term commonly used in the ex-communist countries to describe the process of exposing former secret police collaborators - "lustration" - derives from the ancient Roman word for a ritual purification.
A spiritually healthy society, it has been argued, needs to know its grubby secrets. People who once spied on colleagues, friends and family members should, at the very least, be known - as should the identity of their minders and paymasters.
Secret files, it is claimed, can be used to blackmail individuals in positions of responsibility. They encourage the survival of all sorts of cliques held together by a shared complicity.
Unreliable files
The contrary argument is that old secrets are best kept well alone.
Secret police files, by their very nature, are unreliable. Many have been doctored or survive only as copies. There are more urgent tasks facing the new democracies than raking over past guilt, it is argued.
People who spent decades living under East European communism are so steeped in its habits and ethos that the best thing to do is to wait for them to retire or to die off. A couple of decades from now - who will care anyway?
Latvia's President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, recently vetoed plans to publish the names of several thousand suspected KGB agents and informers on the grounds that some might have been deliberately falsified by the Russians to sow discord.
The one-time dissident and former Czech President Vaclav Havel - whose own views on lustration have chopped and changed over the years - expressed the dilemma thus:
"We are all in this together - those who created this regime; those who accepted it in silence; and all of us who subconsciously became accustomed to it."
One of the ironies of the lustration process is that one-time membership of the Communist Party apparatus is not in itself a bar to holding office in the present era.
Then there are those - notably in the ex-Soviet republics themselves - who still feel nostalgic about the old days. Like President Vladimir Putin, who has described the break-up of the Soviet Union as the greatest tragedy of the 20th Century.
The most thoroughgoing exposure of former communist secret police informers occurred in what had been East Germany - where an estimated one in eight adults had been involved.
Having more or less annexed East Germany to their own state, the West Germans had little sympathy for local interest and sensitivities.
However, one effect of this has been a persistent feeling of disempowerment - almost of being colonised - on the part of former East German citizens.
Robust approach
The Czechs, who had had to put up with a similarly hardline communist leadership for years, also adopted a robust approach.
But the Czech situation has its inconsistencies, too. For instance, while it is a criminal offence to display communist symbols in public, the communists continue to be the third largest party in parliament.
Among the more forgiving countries, until recently, have been Poland and Hungary - both having achieved a transition to democracy through peaceful negotiation.
However, even in Hungary former Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy was forced to resign after a newspaper exposed him four years ago as a former secret police officer.
And Poland's centre-right government, in power since last autumn, is pushing legislation through parliament which would dramatically extend the numbers and categories of people subject to vetting - including local councillors and school headteachers.
'Conspiracy of forgetting'
The dilemma not only affects the former communist states.
West Germany's administration - at the federal and provincial level - was full of old Nazis for years after World War II.
Former officials of the French wartime collaborationist Vichy regime continued to make careers under the post-war republic, amid a general consensus - only broken in recent years - that certain subjects should not be gone into too deeply.
Spain's "conspiracy of forgetting" around the legacy of the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship is only now being abandoned, with the exhumation of mass graves and government-sponsored commemorations.
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During the wars of the fronde it was pillaged in 1652; and in the campaign of 1814 it suffered severely.
The origins of the fronde are expounded in pages of profound sagacity.
From this the fronde came to be known as the "arquebuse de Sancerre."
The fronde co-operated with the Spanish troops in the civil war.
Both Kitty and the goddess of the fronde knew that they must hold their own in a crowd.
And now what gave birth to the fronde, or what sustained it?
To high-born French women—princesses and duchesses—the revolt of the fronde especially belonged.
He found the forces of the fronde as divided as were its chiefs.
The Parliament accepted the title, and adopted the fronde or sling as the emblem of their party.
Every Frenchman who has been actively engaged in the fronde knows Spanish.
1798, from French fronde (14c.), "sling," from Old French fonde, from Latin funda "casting net," of unknown origin.
Name given to the party which rose against Mazarin and the court during the minority of Louis XIV, supposedly from the use of stone-casting slings to attack property of their opponents. Hence, sometimes used figuratively for "violent political opposition."


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.2159 Monday, 27 November 2000
Date: Thursday, 23 Nov 2000 01:06:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Hollywood Revue of 1929
When MGM sold their library to Turner Communications, Turner became
owner of 'The Hollywood Revue of 1929' which makes very sporadic
appearances on Turner Classic Movies.
Would anyone have or know where I can get a copy in any video format?
Turner has been unresponsive to my requests. Thanks.
Janet Costa
The Shakespeare Institute


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I made this cake to match my daughter's baptism invitations, which had black & white damask print along one edge, and a burgundy ribbon/bow. I tried to do the damask around the cake by sponging black dye onto a homemade template, but it didn't work :) So, I ran to Michael's to find ribbon to put on, last-minute. I thankfully found that Wilton sold damask edible sugar paper, so I used that! Thank you, Wilton. The roses are real, but since the cake is so small (6" and 4" tiers), I did not use stem tubes--just plastic wrap.
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As usual, it's been a busy week in the data center industry. Here's our roundup of some stories of interest:
- The MySQL Conference featured animated discussion about Sun's plans for MySQL, as well as a lot of great info about scaling databases. Todd Hoff at High Scalability has links to some of the most useful presentations.
- Amazon rolled out premium support options for its EC2 and S3 utility computing services. Check out coverage from ReadWriteWeb and CenterNetworks.
- Social media expert and data center builder Tom Raftery says he is moving from Ireland to Spain and thus looking to sell his interest in the Cork Internet Exchange (CIX). Raftery has been documenting the data center construction on the CIX blog.
- Liam Eagle at The WHIR blog has photos from a tour of Microsoft's Redmond campus. They also have a Flickr photo set from this week's Microsoft Hosting Summit.
- SearchDataCenter has an interesting look at mantraps and how they are used to prevent "tailgating" – entry of an unauthorized user who sneaks into a facility by quickly following an authorized user. The new Savvis facility in Dallas is used as a case study in mantrap technology.