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Qantas will receive $408 million for handing over its half stake in road freight business Star Track Express to Australia Post in return for the rest of an air cargo company it does not already own.
The sale of its 50 per cent stake in Star Track Express to Australia Post is the largest disposal of a non-core asset by Qantas in recent times. It follows on the heels of Australia's largest airline selling or closing other non-core assets such as catering and engineering units over the past six months.
While Qantas will sell its stake in Star Track Express, it will take full control from Australia Post of Australian Air Express, which has a fleet of eight freighter aircraft including Boeing 737-800s.
The airline has made no secret in recent months of its intention to sell Star Track Express, but retain the air cargo business which is considered a better fit with Qantas Freight.
As part of the deal announced today, Qantas will book a net profit of about $30 million in the first half from the transaction, and receive net proceeds of $408 million and $5 million once the disposal is completed. The airline will use the proceeds from the sale primarily to pay down debt.
Shares in Qantas rose 2 per cent to $1.2175 this morning.
The deal for the government-owned Australia Post to take 100 per cent ownership of Star Track Express requires approval from the competition regulator.
Qantas's chief executive, Alan Joyce, said the acquisition of the 50 per cent stake in Australian Air Express would "significantly strengthen" the airline's air cargo network.
"Through this acquisition we will be able to offer an integrated air freight product across domestic and international networks," he said.
Star Track Express failed to live up to its high-growth promises made when Qantas forked out $375 million for its half-share in 2003. The purchase represented the airline's most concerted push into the high-growth express freight sector.
The most recent accounts lodged with the corporate regulator show Star Track Express made net profits of $20 million for the year to June 2011, $12.5 million in 2009-10 and $18.6 million in 2008-09.
Australian Air Express made net profits of $17.4 million in the year to June 2011, $13 million in 2009-10 and $119,000 in 2008-09.


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Staff at the Prince of Wales hospital have been criticised in the Hong Kong media for failing to institute stricter infection controls and for taking two weeks to ban visitors from wards.
But more than 100 doctors from the hospital wrote a letter to the South China Morning Post, repudiating the claims and pointing out that the criticism was very damaging for staff morale.
Hong Kong's healthcare system has been place under extreme pressure by the Sars outbreak, which has infected more than 1,232 people, including 280 health care workers.
The Prince of Wales hospital has been at the centre of the Sars outbreak, with dozens of staff members infected by the virus.
But critics say the outbreak could have been contained if the Prince of Wales had acted more effectively.
"It took the Prince of Wales two weeks to decide to ban visitors to its wards," he said.
Dr Kenneth Tsang, Assistant Professor at the Queen Mary Hospital added that hospitals whose staff had been badly affected by Sars were suffering from "very bad morale".
"It is very, very stressful, especially when your own personal safety is at stake," he told the BBC's East Asia Today programme.
The president of the Hong Kong medical association, Dr Lo Wing Lok, told East Asia Today that this type of mud-slinging was unhelpful.
"With hindsight we could have implemented some more stringent infection control measures," he said.
"But we did not have the benefit of hindsight when we were first facing this catastrophe."
Dr Lo explained that historically there has been a lot of competition between the Prince of Wales and the Queen Mary, Hong Kong's two main hospitals.
But he said that now was not the right time to do a "post-mortem of the whole incident".
"I hope that all members of the medical profession can focus on our common enemy - Sars," he said.

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|index by Group
|index by Distribution
|index by Vendor
|index by creation date
|index by Name
|Name: gnome-packagekit-extras
|Distribution: openSUSE 11.4
|Version: 2.32.0
|Vendor: openSUSE
|Release: 6.1
|Build date: Sun Feb 20 00:15:40 2011
|Group: System/GUI/GNOME
|Build host: build13
|Size: 548960
|Source RPM: gnome-packagekit-2.32.0-6.1.src.rpm
|Packager: http://bugs.opensuse.org
|Url: http://packagekit.org/
|Summary: Applications for the PackageKit API - Extra applications
GNOME PackageKit provides session applications for the PackageKit API. There are several utilities designed for installing, updating and removing packages on your system. This package contains tools that provide functionality also provided by YaST Software Management.
* Sun Feb 13 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Call relevant macros in %post/%postun: + %desktop_database_post/postun because the package ships at least one desktop file. + %icon_theme_cache_post/postun because the package ships themed icons. - Pass %{?no_lang_C} to %find_lang so that english documentation can be packaged with the program, and not in the lang subpackage. - Change Requires of lang subpackage to Recommends, since the english documentation is not there anymore. * Tue Dec 14 2010 email@example.com - Own /usr/share/gnome and /usr/share/gnome/help to fix build. * Thu Oct 07 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update gnome-packagekit-opensuse-libexec.patch to the patch committed to git. * Mon Sep 27 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.32.0: + Ensure we reset the GCancellable before doing each async method + Make apply button insensitive while applying + When showing the dep dialog, allow the addition packages to scroll horizontally. Fixes rh#585554 + Updated translations. * Wed Sep 22 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Move gpk-log to the extras subpackage: it's not really useful by default, for users. - Make the extras subpackage require the same version of gnome-packagekit. * Fri Sep 17 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.31.92: + Add required compat defines for PackageKit < 0.6.5. Fixes fdo#30139 + Convert to using libupower-glib, rather than devkit-power-gobject + Fix an update viewer crash if the GetUpdates call produced any messages + Fix the gpk-application GetDepends and GetRequires calls + Only disable deprecated code for --enable-strict builds + Updated translations. - Change DeviceKit-power-devel BuildRequires to libupower-glib-devel. * Tue Sep 07 2010 email@example.com - Add gnome-packagekit-opensuse-libexec.patch to use the right path for libexecdir in openSUSE when checking if a binary is trusted. * Wed Sep 01 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.31.91: + New Features: - Show a GtkInfoBar explaining if updates have been held back and an incomplete update list is shown + Bugfix: - Fix the .desktop files - Mark "_Install Update(s)" string as translatable - Mark items in the Selection menu translatable + Updated translations. - Rebase gnome-packagekit-gpk-prefs-desktop.patch. * Tue Aug 10 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.31.6: + Nuke the '7 messages from the package manager' functionality + When the icon gets UpdatesChanged then hide until the new GetUpdate is complete as the information is likely inaccurate + Updated translations. - Changes from version 2.30.3: + Ensure we wait for the users response when an application uses InstallMimeTypes. Fixes #28323 + Fix an important bug that stopped GetUpdates from working correctly. Fixes rh#615099 + Ignore message types we do not recognize. Fixes rh#575669 + Ensure files created with gpk-service-pack do not have ';' in them + Save the package lists to the specified directory, not the system default. Fixes rh#609531 + Ensure we reset the UI to sensitive after creating the system package list + Use the correct URL in the about dialog to fix an error. Fixes rh#598261 + Only mark the find button sensitive if we have valid text _and_ are not searching. Fixes rh#602422 + Fix default value of ignored_messages key + Fix crash in gpk-dbus-service when looking for printer drivers + Updated translations. - Rebase gnome-packagekit-BNC538353.patch. - Drop gnome-packagekit-fix-default-ignored_messages.patch: fixed upstream. - Drop gnome-packagekit-crash-install-print-driver.patch: fixed upstream. * Tue Jun 29 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add gnome-packagekit-gpk-prefs-desktop.patch to change the name of the "Software Update" menu entry: this makes it possible to get the translations from the po files during the build, while suse_update_desktop_file requires manual translations by openSUSE translators, which is duplicate work. * Fri Jun 18 2010 email@example.com - bnc#380665 - Rename one of the "Software Update" menu entries to "Software Update Preferences". - Split out an -extras package which contains GUI frontends to functionality that openSUSE provides in YaST Package Management. Have -extras Require gnome-packagekit. * Thu Jun 17 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add gnome-packagekit-crash-install-print-driver.patch to fix a crash when looking for printer drivers. Fix bnc#614774. * Fri Jun 04 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.30.2: + Always show the search type menu icons. Fixes rh#530595 + Ignore other-updates-held-back messages by default + Ignore repo-metadata-download-failed messages by default + Fix up a crash where installing a file failed. Fixes rh#586414 + Fix compile with -Wshadow + Do not set the Add/Remove search to name but instead use the GConf defaults - This update fixes the search that is too strict by default, bnc#597772. - Add gnome-packagekit-fix-default-ignored_messages.patch to fix the default value of the ignored_messages key. See bgo#620524. * Sun May 23 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update gnome-packagekit-fate302445.patch: we shouldn't look for /usr/share/applications/YaST2/suse_register.desktop to decide whether to run smolt or not. The check for /var/run/smolt_do_opensuse_run and smoltGui should be enough. Fix bnc#607132. * Thu Apr 29 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.30.1: + Ensure the session UI always shows a package name rather than a package-id + Ensure we process font requests by correctly processing the session ignore blacklist + rh#581682: Fix a crash where the desktop file that was installed has no root directory + Set the cancel button to be initially insensitive + rh#531878: Use GIO to launch the desktop file application after it is installed + Use /proc/%i/exe instead of cmdline when getting the exec of a sender + Zero the size value when the package finished signal is recieved + Updated translations. * Mon Mar 29 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.30.0: + New Features: - Allow the user to select the GPG key information to be able to verify it - Use libunique to ensure we only ever have one update icon running in the session + Bugfix: - Added and updated screenshots - Check if we got an invalid pixbuf to prevent a crash - Ensure we close the previous dialog before we show an error dialog. Fixes rh#569842 - Ensure we remove the timeout source of the auto-closing dialogs. Fixes rh#570436 - Fix the error when the user clicks the about menu item - Fix the second install in gpk-update-viewer when a backend is reporting detailed errors - Fix checking for updates every day when the user had specified 'Never'. Fixes rh#544573 - Hide the update icon when all updates are blocked - Mark a few menu items translatable - Use gtk_buildable_get_name() rather than gtk_widget_get_name() - Rebase gnome-packagekit-fate302445.patch. - Rebase gnome-packagekit-BNC383261.patch. * Wed Mar 24 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.29.91: + New Features: - Add InstallPrinterDrivers into the session API + Bugfixes: - Do not assume that we are just installing when we get the simulate request - Do not schedule a refresh-cache if one is already waiting - Do not show '0 bytes' in the confirmation dialog, just show the message title - Do not show the list of packages in the updates-available bubble. Fixes bgo#609233 - Ensure parent window is set modal when installing packages with deps using the DBus interface. Fixes rh#566741 - Fix an infinite loop in gpk_update_viewer_are_all_updates_selected() - Fixed incorrect use of g_ascii_strdown - If we failed to update the system, wait a lot longer than two seconds before we try again - Read the PkClient error code enum and try to map it to a PkErrorEnum code - Return TRUE when InstallPackageFiles succeeds - Use correct provides tag for postscriptdriver what-provides query - Add libgudev-1_0-devel BuildRequires. * Fri Feb 12 2010 email@example.com - Move the change of gconf schema in gnome-packagekit_release.patch to the gconf2-branding package, and rename gnome-packagekit_release.patch to gnome-packagekit-OnlyShowIn.patch. - Drop gnome-packagekit-BNC542819.patch: the logic for patch based updates should be done in PackageKit itself now. * Thu Feb 11 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 2.29.3: + New Features: - Remove the 'Install only security updates' button from the security updates popup and open the update viewer instead - Show transaction messages in gpk-repo - Show the size of the extra packages that need to be downloaded as deps - Filter by the timespec in gpk-log, not the localised date. Fixes rh#544667 - Show internal errors with modal dialogs, rather than just failing quietly with an error on stderr - Nest child updates in the update viewer so we don't show the same update description multiple times + Bugfix: - Fix menu entry capitalisation in gpk-application - Make the security update notification dialog timeout after 15 seconds - Ensure we detect and use x11 to fix the compile when linking with --as-needed - Actually cancel the transaction when the GpkWatch cancel button is pressed - Process every transaction finish, even if we're not watching it - Only wait 3 seconds (not 60) when we get the updates changed signal - Re-get the update list in the update viewer if the network state changes. Fixes rh#543871 - Fix two potential crashers when gpk-update-viewer has finished applying updates - Don't hide the restart status icon just because the daemon exited. Fixes rh#553966 - Fix some i18n bugs. Fixes bgo#606629 - Update to version 2.29.2: + New Features: - Ensure the gpk-update-icon service is running by activating it if somebody uses the interface. Fixes rh#548095 - Split up the DBus interface part of gpk-update-icon into an session-activated gpk-dbus-service binary + Bugfix: - Check the GpkDbusTask object only replies once to each session request - Update to version 2.29.1: + New Features: - Convert all the client applications to use packagekit-glib2 - When the update viewer is no longer being shown, force an update of the updates - Remove a lot of the helpers and create a GpkTask module that implements PkTask to handle the transaction interactions - Use a GtkInfoBar to display the mobile broadband warning, not a modal dialog box - Add RemovePackageByFile() to match the API provided by KPackageKit - Format the dates in the update viewer according to the users locale. Fixes bgo#601493 - Add a GConf key to add program exec names to ignore all DBus requests from. Fixes rh#501023 - Make the update viewer cope with multiple packages downloading at the same time - Add a new GConf key to control whether we show all packages in the add/remove UI + Bugfix: - Fix thinko in spinner cell renderer's rendering - Fix duplicate mnemonics in menu. Fixes bgo#601581 - Use the correct show-confirm key when installing a font - Some more fixes to the session interface - Don't escape the desktop summary in the run dialog. Fixes bgo#596010 - Ignore cleanup and finished packages when we a simulating a remove or install - Never show the role text in the GpkWatch tooltip - Only show 'and n other security updates when there are other updates to list. Fixes rh#527149 - Don't show 4Gb as the file size when we actually get -1, meaning percentage unknown - Use seporate messages when we've finished installing all or some of the updates - If command line contains (deleted) the original binary is invalid, and don't show it in the UI. Fixes rh#524873 - Don't show finished tasks in the menu dropdown - Run the gpk-install-foo helpers with interaction 'hide-finished,hide-warnings' as we are handling failure - Check we're not already doing GetUpdates or GetDistroUpgrades before we try to do the action - Ensure we use the progress callback to update the UI when processing session DBus requests - Use the desktop icon when we unselect the installed application in gpk-application. Fixes fdo#25098 - Rebase gnome-packagekit-fate302445.patch. - Rebase gnome-packagekit-BNC383261.patch. * Tue Dec 08 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.28.2: + Don't cache the length of the deps array if we are removing items from it + rh#530595 - Always show the search type menu icons + Remove the original package from the dep-confirmation screen + Ignore generic errors such as 'Failed' and do not show UI in this case + Only wait 3 seconds (not 60) when we get the updates changed signal + fdo#25098 - Use the desktop icon when we unselect the installed application in gpk-application + Updated translations. * Sat Nov 14 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.28.1: + Fix thinko in spinner cell renderer's render + Don't escape the desktop summary in the run dialog. Fixes bgo#596010 + Simulate removal for PackageKit >= 0.5.2 to fix removing packages + Ignore cleanup and finished packages when we a simulating remove or install + If command line contains (deleted) the original binary is invalid. Fixes rh#524873 + Never show the role text in the GpkWatch tooltip + Only show 'and n other security updates' when there are no updates to list. Fixes rh#527149 + Run the helpers with interaction 'hide-finished,hide-warnings' as we are handling failure + Don't show the the 'all updates installed' dialog if we've just shown the restart required dialog + Dont segfault if error_local is not set + Call gpk_dbus_task_install_files when installing local files + Updated translations. - Drop gnome-packagekit-BNC543595.patch: fixed upstream. * Sat Oct 10 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.28.0: + Only show installing and updating packages in the GpkHelperDepsUpdate UI + fdo#23888 - Add a --enable-small-form-factor which disables the auto-maximise code by default + Connect to the correct signal name for gnome-session idle detection + Updated translations. * Thu Oct 08 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Fix bnc#543595 - install local files. * Wed Sep 30 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Fix for bnc#542819 - update dependencies failure * Fri Sep 25 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Fix for bnc#538353 * Thu Sep 10 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.27.92: + New Features: - Add simulation of installed files if the backend support it + Bugfix: - Fix the help buttons - Don't show duplicate package names in the reboot tooltip - Fix a typo where the codec dialog would have no text - Fix small memory leak and possible crash in the firmware code - Fix a possible crash if X is misbehaving - Fix a possible crash in the service pack code - String fixes. - Build fixes. + Updated translations. - Changes from version 2.27.91: + New Features: - Show the notifications pointing at the status icon when possible - Watch /dev/.udev/firmware-missing for changes so we pick up hotplug requests too - Add the pk-device-rebind functionality to replug hardware + Bugfix: - Wrap license in about dialogue - Remove markup from .ui files - Add accelerator. Fixes bgo#590999 - Only return the newest packages for mime, fonts and codec helpers. Fixes rh#514879 - Only install the newest native-arch package when using the session methods. Fixes rh#509569 - Don't show a modal dialog when the user cancels the file install - Egg update to fix compile on FreeBSD - Reduce in weight X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase desktop files - Ignore hidden desktop files when we show the list of new applications - Only run the update if the dep check was successful - Don't show the auth-failure dialog in the update viewer - Show errors when using the firmware client - Add CanStop and CanRestart methods on the ConsoleKit helper - Never use a title on a modal error dialog - Check in more places if a user is able to restart - Add application/x-deb to the list of files we try to open - Improve the firmware code when multiple devices are requesting the same files - Resize the deps list in a better way. Fixes rh#517662 - Don't show a single menu item for the left click on the updates star - Only show the on-battery warning only if we would have performed the update - Don't allow double click on a help item. Fixes rh#518854 - Change the firmware 'Do not show again' to a 'Ignore devices' button + Updated translations. - Drop gnome-packagekit-XGetWindowProperty.patch: upstream has changed the code and the original issue shouldn't be there anymore. - Respin gnome-packagekit-BNC383261.patch. * Mon Aug 03 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.27.5: + New Features: - Port all the code to using PolicyKit1 rather than PolicyKit - Reduce the size displayed as the package is downloaded in the update viewer - Scroll to the package being processed in the update list. Fixes rh#510984 + Bugfix: - Don't unconditionally force on NEWEST filtering in the update viewer - Fix compile with old versions of PackageKit - Fix up few translations to include trailing full stop. Fixes fd#22745 - Don't do the update check as soon as the UpdatesChanged signal is recieved - Don't flash the gpk-repo UI when we enable or disable repos. Fixes half of rh#510730 - Check the language tags before trying to parse them. Fixes fd#22792 - Ensure we re-set the proxy when packagekitd re-appears on the bus - When doing queries automatically, don't spam them with locking failure messages. Fixes gnome#588698 - Build a private library and link that to reduce the size of the package by 300kb - Don't set the package view insensitive when doing searches, and add a delay to prevent flicker. Fixes rh#510730 - Make some of the libnotify bubbles more sane - Don't show (0) in the update viewer if there is nothing to download - Don't show the 'Update System Now' link in the update dropdown, the user should use the update viewer - Add in different translations for encode, decode and unknown. Fixes rh#497737 - Make the arch filter a single tickbox, not an option group - Don't print the package list when we have a RestartRequired of a security type - Add some missing punctuation in some of the restart strings - Reduce the size of two of the messagebox titles - Add a 'Selected packages' group in add/remove programs like kpackagekit - Use the correct icon in the panel when restarts are required - Actually make the gnome-session code work by using the correct callback signatures - We don't require DeviceKit, so don't check for it. Fixes bgo#590157 - Only return the newest packages for mime, fonts and codec helpers and to perhaps fix rh#514879 + Updated translations. - Respin gnome-packagekit-BNC383261.patch. - Respin gnome-packagekit-fate302445.patch. - Drop DeviceKit-devel and PolicyKit-gnome-devel BuildRequires. * Wed Jul 29 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.27.3: + New Features: - Add a link to gpk-log in gpk-application - Enable nice build output on automake1.11 - Enable the warning GSEAL_ENABLE and fix up build failures - Check for dependancies before downloading updates in the update viewer - Add --parent-window options to the client tools so they are set transient in gpk-application + Bugfix: - Include <locale.h> in gpk-update-viewer.c - Use gtk_show_uri instead of deprecated gnome-open - Don't use English enumerated values in GConf, instead use seconds - Check packages content-type before sending them to the daemon - Add a tooltip to the package entry box in the service pack creator - Fix a double free when we fail to find packages - Show normal updates in the update viewer severity column - Populate the manpage package names correctly - Force intltool to recognise .ui files as gettext/glade files - Set the GpkHelperRun window to be modal. Fixes rh#506010 - Connect to gnome-session to get the idle status, not gnome-screensaver - Don't show a generic icon when we have messages - Get rid of the 'Display Notification' section in the preferences pane - Don't try to update previously added deps to be installed in the update viewer - Fix mnemonic conflict in gpk-application - When the user clicks hide, do so until the session is restarted. Fixes rh#507062 - Move a few GConf keys to the correct places - Add preference to be able to see every PackageKit transaction, even if it's active - Don't ignore the user pressing escape to dismiss a GpkHelperChooser - Use small form factor mode when the window is nearly as big as the display - Don't use a large package screen on notebooks with small displays - Use the newest filter by default in the update viewer. Fixes rh#508505 - Use better wording when a package sent RequireRestart - Don't include the size column in the Status column. Fixes rh#509067 - Run all the packages after install, not just the selected package - Clear the run list when we setup a new GpkHelperRun. Fixes fd#22489 - Use a PkPackageList in gpk-appliction to store the package list - If the use has set get-updates policy to never, then ignore updates-changed events. Fixes rh#509104 - Fix up a translation string. Fixes fd#22623 - Don't connect to key press _and_ release in gpk-log. Fixes rh#509636 + Updated translations. - Add py_requires. - Do not package omf files twice. - Pass --disable-schemas-install to configure. * Sat Jun 13 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.27.2: + New Features: - Replace GpkCellRendererProgress with GpkCellRendererSpinner in the update viewer - Set a busy cursor in the update viewer when the transaction is not cancellable - Warn when we use the update viewer when on mobile broadband - Remove libsexy requirement, and raise our GTK+ dep to 2.15.0 - Raise our dep on GIO to 2.18.0 - Add a hard dep on libunique 1.0.0 - Remove the old update viewer, and rename gpk-update-viewer2 to gpk-update-viewer - Convert glade files into GtkBuilder files, and drop the libglade dep completely - Remove the legacy org.freedesktop.PackageKit session interface - Use PkClient rather than GpkClient in gpk-application - Add UI helpers for media changing - Add media change functionality into gpk-application - Remove GpkClient and move to a 99% asyncronous model of operation - Add DOAP project description + Bugfix: - Use the busy cursor when we are in a transaction, not just when we cannot cancel - Make the install button the default widget in the update viewer - Make typeahead search work in the update list - Add a silly hack until we get some metadata about animated icon sizes - Only get the distro upgrades in the update viewer if we support it - Make the tooltip past and present tense in the update viewer, and also add a downloaded icon - When we launch the update viewer manually, ensure we set the title text correctly - Allow the user to resize the gpk-log dialog. Fixes rh#493934 - Do the find callback when we paste text into the add-remove software window. Fixes rh#492160 - If we have force-login set to true, never repeat the startup check even if it fails - Don't show cancel and close in the update viewer - Preload all the common GConf keys in the update icon - Never show the checkbox for the search welcome. Fixes rh#496024 - Add a commits file taken from Nautilus, and autogenerate the ChangeLog - Denote the size column in the update viewer to belong to the status column - Set the size value to zero when we get an info update - Add a completed modal dialog at the end of a successful update, rather than just quitting - Show the package name in the repo-signature dialog. Fixes fd#21236 - Use libcanberra to do event sounds when we succeed in doing an update - Don't re-get the update list after a failed install, just undisable the checkboxes. Fixes rh#496870 - Enable autocode for compiler defines in the markdown parser. Fixes rh#497162 - Only select the package item after all the results have appeared - Add another helper to cope with deps from the update process - Don't inhibit to gnome-power-manager, use gnome-session - Use DeviceKit-power rather than gnome-power-manager to get the on-battery status - Pop up a modal dialog if any of the methods in gpk-install-foo fail. Fixes rh#500237 - Provide some #ifdef compatibility so that git master GPK can build with >= 0.4.4 PK - Export InstallCatalogs on the session bus. Fixes rh#502562 - Don't show a long list of packages in the catalog install screen, instead use a scrollable package list - Refresh the system package list if it does not exist in the service pack creation tool. Fixes rh#502589 - Remove GpkSmartIcon and use GpkStatusIcon directly - Only show the monitor icon when the task is no longer connected to the bus but running - Inhibit the icon in GpkCheckUpdate rather than having last-set policy. Fixes rh#492005 - Add a loading string when loading details in the update viewer - Fix the window icon, title, and some inconsistent text in the update viewer - Don't critically warn when we have no packages selected after install + Updated translations. - Rewrite gnome-packagekit-BNC383261.patch to apply to the new layout of 2.27.2 - Add DeviceKit-devel, DeviceKit-power-devel, libcanberra-devel, libunique-devel BuildRequires. - Remove libglade2-devel BuildRequires. * Wed Apr 29 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Do not explicitly specify the path to the gconf schemas in the file list, and instead use the list that was generated with the gconf macros. * Sat Apr 04 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.27.1: + New Features: - Switch gnome-packagekit to the GNOME release guidelines and version numbers - Provide tooltips for the icons in the new update viewer - Add a new menu item 'Select security updates' to the new update viewer. Fixes rh#491713 - Hide the update icon notification when the update viewer is opened - Switch the default update viewer to gpk-update-viewer2 + Bugfix: - Fix some window icons in gpk-repo - Don't set the default widget to the install button when we reconsider. Fixes rh#492645 - Don't scroll to the downloading object. - Fix the MimeType entry of gpk-install-catalog. Fixes rh#489473 - Set an icon for gpk-backend-status. Fixes fdo#20681 - Make gpk-application file list resizable, and a good default size. Fixes rh#490334 - Don't use newline as a paragraph spacer in the Markdown parser - The changelog data is markup formatted, so use the markdown parser before displaying - Don't escape markdown code sections, and enable autocode for certain special words - Make the new update viewer respond to PkControl::updates-changed and update the update list - Set an initial size of the update viewer using gpk_window_set_size_request. Fixes rh#491422 - Wrap the header text to allow the new update viewer to be made much smaller - Don't resize the main window when no updates are available, use a modal window. Fixes rh#491708 - If the new update viewer is running in a transaction when it's closed, just hide the window - Don't set the model with finished, as working round it in the CellRenderer breaks things - Allow gpk-update-icon to be run in XFCE. Fixes rh#491104 - Set the update viewer title properly when there are no updates. Fixes rh#492096 - After we've applied updates, close the UI rather than getting the new update list. 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December 2005 - January 2006
Brian Bush. (Photo by Carlye Calvin.)
The scenario is depressingly familiar: a hurricane rips through a coastal town and knocks out power for weeks. People line up for ice and rely on generators while waiting for emergency crews to restore electricity.
But what if government officials and utility crews could anticipate the specific damage before the storm hit, thereby responding more quickly?
Brian Bush is trying to make this possible. An expert in computer simulations of energy and transportation infrastructure at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Brian is working as a visiting scientist in RAL and CISL. His goal is to incorporate better weather data into the hurricane damage models developed at Los Alamos for the federal government, and ultimately to link NCAR's Weather and Research Forecasting model (WRF) with the Los Alamos models.
Last summer, as one hurricane after another headed toward the southeastern United States, Brian reviewed forecasts constantly and consulted with NCAR hurricane experts. He communicated the information to his Los Alamos colleagues, who combined wind and rain forecasts in weather prediction models such as WRF with storm surge data from the Army Corps of Engineers and input from other models. The team generated experimental damage probabilities for generation stations, substations, and power lines.
"It's been such a busy season that we haven't done the full validation yet, but subjectively the models did pretty well," Brian says.
By working with NCAR scientists—including MMM's Chris Davis, Joe Klemp, and Wei Wang, and RAL's Yubai Liu—Brian is developing insights into the strengths and weaknesses of individual models. "It's sometimes good to look under the hood and see what's going on," he says.
"It's sometimes good to look under the hood and see what's going on."
—Brian Bush
Predicting damage to energy networks is extremely complex, Brian notes. It involves forecasting windfields and storm surges, as well as mapping out areas where the energy grid is most vulnerable (such as power lines above ground), and anticipating which areas are most likely to be affected by flooding, winds, and flying debris.
Brian, who will be at NCAR for two years, is also planning to work with scientists across several divisions to study how climate change may affect energy use and how, in turn, increased power plant emissions may affect climate. In addition, he is helping NCAR deputy director Larry Winter plan a conference next year on designing energy infrastructure that is resilient to weather and climate impacts.
Brian's work here is part of a broad-based multiyear collaboration between NCAR and Los Alamos. The collaboration will focus on the societal, economic, and physical impacts of weather and climate.
While Brian intends to tackle a range of topics, he spent his first months at NCAR just trying to keep on top of all the data about the many hurricanes and clean up his computer files after the storms. For Hurricane Wilma alone, he amassed over 100 gigabytes of data. "Storms leave digital debris as well as infrastructure debris," he says.
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Though proud of these accomplishments for the country, Senate Democrats are far from satisfied. Senate Republicans and President Bush have stood in the way of progress time and time again and have often refused to work with Democrats in good faith to address the needs of the nation. The American people are fed-up; they are tired of partisan politics, and Democrats share their frustration. As we look toward 2008, Senate Democrats will not rest until we have addressed the key domestic and international priorities of our nation. We invite Republicans to join us. Together, with the American people at our side, Congress can and will take the country in a new direction.
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Sep 03, 2013, 08:35 ET
DENVER, Sept. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Giving new meaning to the city's famous marketing tagline, Las Vegas is now home to its own Shatter Buggy franchise. The iDevice repair company offers a unique service, going straight to the customer and fixing broken screens and LCDs or malfunctioning batteries. Local entrepreneur Keenan DeCock is opening the franchise, and he's excited to serve the city he calls home.
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In 2012, nearly 40 million people visited Sin City, from newlyweds to retirees; over 21,000 conventions played host to 5 million delegates. That's a huge market of people with iDevices, thousands of which are dropped, sat on, stepped on or otherwise damaged.
"With Shatter Buggy, it's now safe to say 'what breaks in Vegas, gets fixed in Vegas,'" remarked DeCock. "I envision both tourists and local residents getting ample mileage from this repair service. After all, the alternative to repairing a broken screen is to go to your wireless carrier's store or an Apple store and wait to receive a replacement. If you don't have insurance, that's a costly proposition. Shatter Buggy is hands down a better way."
DeCock discussed his reasoning for choosing Shatter Buggy as his path into business ownership: "I had been a Shatter Buggy customer before and was extremely pleased by the service as well as intrigued by the business model. I appreciate the way the company has combined innovation with customer service. Many companies like to throw around the term 'customer-centric,' but with Shatter Buggy, it's more than a buzzword—it's the foundation of the business."
Shatter Buggy's customer service innovations have put the company in a class by itself, if it wasn't already. Thanks to an efficient scheduling system, customers can set up precise appointments rather than 2 or 4-hour blocks of time. Technicians arrive in one of the company's signature Smart Cars. Shatter Buggy uses high quality replacement parts and warranty coverage protects parts and labor for six months. For customers, these perks add up to an economical, reliable way to quickly return their iPhone, iPad or iPod back to full health.
"Our business makes for an exceptional franchising opportunity, thanks to the low entry cost and ready-made market," explained Shatter Buggy Founder and former commercial pilot Benjamin Head. "Beginning with the release of the first iPod in 2001, the penetration of iDevices has been nothing short of incredible. Last year alone, Apple sold 35 million iPods, 58 million iPads and 125 million iPhones. All of those iDevices represent the potential market for Shatter Buggy, and it's only expected to grow."
Since its founding a little over a year ago, Shatter Buggy has experienced remarkable growth, generating a loyal customer base and piquing the interest of potential franchisees from coast to coast.
About Shatter Buggy
Founded in 2012, Shatter Buggy is a customer-centric iDevice mobile repair business that utilizes a fleet of Smart Cars to go directly to customers via its exclusive "Come to ME" service. The company focuses on fixing shattered screens and back glass, along with replacing inoperative batteries. Whether customers are at home, work, school, Starbucks, or anywhere else, a Shatter Buggy technician will arrive promptly at the scheduled time to expertly repair their device and bring it back to life. Learn more at http://www.shatterbuggy.com.
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Even though it was a cold and wet winter's morning, everybody was in high spirits and very excited about the day.
The aquarium is always a wonderful experience and all the ladies had a wonderful time.
Lunch was enjoyed while overlooking the harbour with all its boats and various activities. The ladies then had an hour or so before the bus picked them up. During this time they had the chance to do some sightseeing and what better place to experience Cape Town than the V&A Waterfront!
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There are three elements to Shane Warne's greatness - skill, novelty and drama - and all were manifest in the one great delivery that made his name, at Old Trafford in 1993.
The delivery was exceptionally skilful. It began its flight innocently so as to lull Mike Gatting, drifted to leg, pitched in the batsman's blind spot, then rounded on him fiercely and bent back off stump. It was at once pinpoint in its accuracy and prodigious in its spin, qualities that had always been thought to be irreconcilable. Later that summer, John Woodcock would write that it was doubtful if there had ever been a bowler who could aim the ball as precisely and turn it as far as Warne. This is a sentiment that has echoed down the seasons.
The delivery was something different. West Indies and their battery of pace bowlers had set the agenda for 20 years; spin, particularly wrist-spin, had become nearly defunct, but suddenly here it was again in more irresistible form than ever before.
Most of all, the Gatting ball was not just early in his spell, but his very first delivery - in the match, in the series, in Ashes cricket. That gave the ball a sense of theatre, and Warne a name for showmanship, that has grown at each new threshold of his startling career, and at its peak made him nearly mystical. In the modern era, only Ian Botham could compare.
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Here's my mockup of what I'm trying to achieve:
Here's some code to play with:http://jsfiddle.net/TV8sB/1/
Here's my full question on stackoverflow:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15939119/css-make-left-right-background-images-slide-out-of-view-for-small-screens
any CSS gurus here know of a way to do this? if not I'll just use javascript (bah!).
body{ overflow-x: hidden;}
Should do it, may. Need to do
html, body
Two nice solutions popped up:
Using absolute positioning: http://jsfiddle.net/TV8sB/3/ (but using the not-widely-supported 4 value
background-position rule)
Using CSS
calc() http://jsfiddle.net/TV8sB/4/ (again not widely supported)
A lot of media queries http://jsfiddle.net/RQekc/ ??
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A lot of media queries http://jsfiddle.net/RQekc/ ??
WAOn.. Great, can you share/write as CSS 2 Background image article on my blog
XiaoThemes said
A lot of media queries http://jsfiddle.net/RQekc/ ??
haha nice!
woa! check out this nice one. only 1 media query required and all standard CSS: http://jsfiddle.net/TV8sB/7/
The problem with media queries, though, is that they're not supported by IE8. Instead, you might want to try using min-width, as it is more supported:http://jsfiddle.net/eQPLe/1/
In this case, there is also an outer div that protects content from overflowing and popping up scrollbars.


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- Resolve budget impasse for businesses sake: NAB chief
- NAB CEO Andrew Thorburn shakes up executive team
National Australia Bank's new boss
It is only his first day in the job and three of the bank's long-serving senior executives, two of whom were vying with him for the top job, are heading for the exit.
Lisa Gray, who heads enterprise services and transformation, had huge responsibilities at the bank heading up operations, payments systems, technology and responsibility for the bank's massive NextGen project, which has not been without its glitches.
Business banking boss Joseph Healy, another CEO candidate, is also departing, while chief risk officer Bruce Munro is retiring.
A shake-up at the top is normal when a new chief executive enters the fray and hard-working executives who had their eye on his or her job decide to seek out new opportunities elsewhere.
The new appointments include two senior women. Angela Metnis will head business banking while Renee Roberts has been recruited from New Zealand to head enterprise services and transformation. Antony Cahill will head the products and markets division while David Gall becomes chief risk officer.
The changes are notable for the absence of any fresh blood at NAB. Some investors believe a talented external candidate might still have been the way to go to address some of NAB's issues.
There is no change at this stage to other key roles, including Andrew Hagger at wealth and personal banking boss Gavin Slater. As expected, Craig Drummond stays on to run finance and strategy.
Drummond only came on board last year and while he is seen as potential CEO material it was always too early for him to replace outgoing chief
Thorburn and his new management team have huge challenges ahead. Many in the industry are still scratching their head at the appointment of a relatively low-profile New Zealand executive back in April to the top job, but he has many supporters.
He will need to work hard to shift NAB's position as the under-performer out of the big four banks.
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First of all, I have installed BT2 my IBM T42 on a triple boot setup with XP and Ubuntu using the XP boot loader to boot into XP itself or grub (which is installed on the boot partition of the Ubuntu install) which then gives the choice of Ubuntu or BackTrack2 (which resides on two partitions, one for '/boot' and the other for '/', the swap partition is shared with the Ubuntu install).
The onboard ethernet is an Intel PRO/1000MT and I have installed a 400mw Atheros AR5006XS wireless card to replace the junk that was in there to start with and I have a 500mw Alpha Network AWUS036H usb wifi dongle for those extra long range connections. The Alpha has the rtl8187 chipset which is now supported on BT2 Final.
I have kismet and the aircrack suite running ok. Everything appears to work as I would expect. Injection is working and I have successfully cracked a test networks wep key that I set up without any clients connected - two seperate attacks using the Atheros card and then the Alpha. Now comes the "but". I am having problems with my Alpha Network AWUS036H (wlan0) usb wifi dongle in managed mode. There are various failures on setting parameters with iwconfig:
iwconfig wlan0 essid testlan
would set the essid of wlan0 to "testla" - ie, missing the last character and obviously the connection fails because of the incorrect essid. This can be bodged by making the essid "testlan1" then iwconfig wlan0 reports it as "testlan" and I can then connect (when the network is open).
if I try to set a wep key:
iwconfig wlan0 key 0011223344
I get
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0; Operation not permitted.
with a dmesg output of:
rtl8187: Setting SW wep key
wlan0: could not initialize WEP: load module ieee80211_crypt_wep
Most of the other iwconfig commands: nwid, nick, freq, txpower etc. also fail with their corresponding error codes.
Some thoughts:
From dmesg:
wlan0: could not initialize WEP: load module ieee80211_crypt_wep
Is this module being loaded by iwconfig? Should it be loading ieee80211_crypt_wep-rtl.ko instead?
When I plug in the Alpha, the r8187, ieee80211_rtl and ieee80211_crypt_rtl modules are loaded into the kernel and when I issue the 'iwconfig wlan0 key 1122334455' command the ieee80211_crypt and ieee80211_crypt_wep modules are loaded as well.
I replaced all the ieee80211 files in
with renamed ieee80211-rtl files from
and now ONLY ieee80211_crypt_wep_rtl gets loaded and the 'iwconfig wlan0 key 1122334455' works fine. I can now (with the essid last character bodge) connect to a WEP encrypted access point with the Alpha. My guess is that iwconfig gets the key command and looks to see if ieee80211_crypt.ko is loaded and if not it loads it and then same with ieee80211_crypt_wep.ko I would assume it reads the .ko file for the module name since sometimes the .ko file on disk has a different name to the module name when the .ko file is loaded. So I do think iwconfig is looking for and then loading the wrong ieee80211_crypt modules.
The missing last char problem is alledgedly: 'related to the version of the wireless extensions in the kernel and the wireless_tools version used to configure the interface. The method for sending the essid to the kernel has changed recently'.
Apparently it needs to be updated to handle the case that no '\0' character has to be present anymore. I've upgraded wireless tools from version 28 to 29-pre17 (beta) but it still loses the last character of the essid. It must be the rtl8187 driver not interpretting the essid being passed to it correctly (even though all the 'iwconfig --version' numbers now match - they didn't before the upgrade) as iwconfig returns the right essid with the atheros card in the same machine.
This is as far as I have got so far. Am I on the right track with the iwconifg loading the wrong modules and also the last char problem being down to the rtl8187 driver itself. Any help or thoughts greatly appreciated.
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When his brother disappears, Eric (John Patrick Jordan) goes to the last place he was reported to be: Doctor Moreau's secret hospital. Sure enough, Eric finds his brother ... but only half of him: The other half has been turned into a panther. And the same thing is about to happen to Eric when the doctor captures him to perform another radical transplant. Before Eric loses himself completely, though, he must rouse the other "manimals" to revolt.


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Mel Gibson – Oksana Grigorieva Newest Developments Prove When it Rains it Pours!!!!Posted by rose in RoseSpeaks
Yes I intentionally misspelled "pour" in the title.
This week on January 18, TMZ.com reported that Mel Gibson got hit with a $163,000 legal bill by the mother of his daughter, Lucia, Oksana Grigorieva's lawyers. TMZ reported that attorney, Alan Shifman sent Gibson a bill to the tune of $163k for about one month of service in what is becoming a revolving doors of hearings with allegations flying.
Not to be out done RadarOnline.com covered an exclusive that L. A. county prosecutors are expected to charge Gibson with domestic violence following the allegation by Grigorieva that Gibson became violent on January 6, 2011. Grigorieva claims Gibson punched her twice in the head and broke two of her teeth as she held their one-year-old daughter Lucia during the January 6 domestic dispute
Reportedly criminal lawyer Blair Berk made her trip to the Los Angeles district attorneys office today to try to talk to the D. A. not to file charges and arrest Gibson on this recent volley of fire works between the two parents of Lucia. RadarOnline.com quotes unnamed sources that there was a reported two-hour meeting with Berk and Deputy District Attorney John Lynch at the Airport Courthouse.
Last week on January 12, after Gibson's attorney leaked a story alleging that Oksana Grigorieva had been bribing a witness The accusation of bribing a witness was made by Mel Gibson's legal team. That allegation was denied by Grigorieva's attorneys.
RadarOnline.com article states that: "Law enforcement sources connected said before the meeting, that it was almost inevitable that Gibson, 55, would be charged. A charge of domestic violence/corporal injury involving a former cohabitant is looming for the Oscar-winning actor/director, sources said. It can be prosecuted as a felony or misdemeanor. If convicted of a felony, Mel Gibson could face up to four years in state prison; if convicted of a misdemeanor, he could face up to one year in county jail. While Berk made her bid, multiple sources, all with intimate knowledge of the situation, said the District Attorney had made its stunning decision in the last few days to prosecute the award-winning movie star."
If Mel Gibson did in fact become violent and abusive with Grigorieva, and there is more evidence then just her testimony in the custody dispute, the district attorney will take another look at her allegations and if they decide to move on this Gibson will be hiring a whole new team of lawyers.
Like I said when it rains it pours in this ongoing saga of who did what to whom and on what day. Don't you just love Hollywerid?
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Just when everything seemed to be looking up for Marco Rubio, the insurgent conservative challenging Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for the Republican Senate nomination, the Miami Herald reports that the IRS is looking into Rubio's use of an official party credit card.
Update, 5:19 p.m.: Rubio spokesman Joe Pounder is dismissing the Herald story as "an unconfirmed report about an IRS inquiry based upon one anonymous source."
Rubio campaign adviser Todd Harris told the paper the lawmaker hasn't been contacted by the feds and said "there's absolutely nothing to" a preliminary inquiry by the IRS to determine whether Rubio misused a credit card he was issued by the Florida Republican Party. During his two years as speaker of the Florida State House, the Herald reported that Rubio billed the party for more than $100,000, including charges for repairs to his family car and airplane tickets to his wife.
At issue: whether Republican Party officials who used the credit cards for personal expenses should have paid income taxes on what amounted to a supplement to their income. Rubio says: "It wasn't income."
Here's a statement from Rubio:
After all the negative publicity regarding the way Charlie Crist's hand-picked chairman spent money at the state party, getting this information out in the open will be the best way to deal with it. As far as my spending is concerned, it was for legitimate political purposes. When I made personal charges, I paid for them directly to American Express. I have not been contacted and don't know anything about any potential inquiries, but I welcome the chance to set the record straight once and for all.
The "hand-picked chairman" Rubio cites in his statement is Jim Greer, a Crist ally who was forced out as head of the state GOP after the scandal about party spending broke.
The latest twist in what has become one of the nation's most-watched primary contests comes in an eventful week: Rubio just collected two big-name GOP endorsements, from former presidential candidate Mitt Romney and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va. Crist, meanwhile, acknowledged that he's considering running as an independent.
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Denver hit the 100-degree mark Monday, which became the earliest date for the mile-high city to reach triple-digit temperatures. The heat wave, in addition to high winds and low humidity, has ignited multiple wildfires along Colorado's heavily populated Front Range.
The Black Forest Fire broke out midday Tuesday in Colorado Springs. By Wednesday morning, it had burned about 8,000 acres, damaging at least 100 homes and forcing 2,500 more homes and businesses to be evacuated.
The Black Forest Fire "has become the most destructive in Colorado history," The Associated Press reported Thursday.
Last summer, similar reports called the Waldo Canyon Fire the worst in the state's history after it consumed 346 homes (including a Benedictine sisters' mother house) and caused $353 million in damage.
Colorado is seeing a rise in disastrous fires, and according to the United States Department of Agriculture, it isn't alone.
In 2012, wildfires burned a record 9.2 million acres in the U.S., and as a recent report released by the USDA indicates, that number is on the rise because of climate change. The report estimates that within the next 40 years, the acreage burned by wildfires will be at least twice as destructive, burning about 20 million acres nationwide each year.
Rising temperatures across the Front Range have contributed to the dry climate succumbing to intense fires. Seventy percent of Colorado is experiencing "severe" or "exceptional" drought, and along with nearly half of the western United States, the state remains locked in the worst drought in 60 years.
On Wednesday, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet announced the USDA has designated 12 Colorado counties disaster areas because of drought.
The drought has caused warmer winters and longer summers. Higher temperatures have allowed the pine beetle and spruce bark beetle to survive through the year, resulting in the biggest outbreak in the last 125 years.
The pine beetle attacked more than 750,000 acres in 2011, and it is widely theorized this increasing beetle population killed the trees fueling the recent fires.
A study published by the Canadian Journal of Forest Research in 2010 reviews historic survey records to ascertain whether recent beetle outbreaks are an example of how climate change impacts North American forests.
Three million acres of Colorado's pine forests have been infested by the mountain pine beetle since 1996, according to the study. In addition, "bark beetles killed 10.5 million lodgepole pine trees in Colorado between 2002 and 2007, a 10-fold increase in mortality over the previous 5-year period," the study said.
Colorado forests have been harvested in "epidemic levels" by pine beetles, the study said. Pine beetles have killed 70,000 square miles of trees -- an area the size of Washington state.
Pine beetles are just one outcome of rising climate temperatures and only one contributor to the state-wide fires. The USDA is responding to these accelerating climate changes.
In February, the USDA released two reports summarizing the scientific literature on climate change and how to adopt strategies to fight fires affecting forests across the United States.
"These reports present the challenges that U.S. agriculture and forests will face in this century from global climate change," said William Hohenstein, director of the Climate Change Program office in USDA's Office of the Chief Economist, said in a press release. "They give us a framework for understanding the implications of climate change, in order to meet our future demand."
The USDA Office of Communications said that while U.S. agriculture and resource management have been successful at combating climate variability in the past, "the accelerating pace and intensity of climate change presents new challenges to be addressed."
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|The Department is offering a new graduate course entitled "Deformation of Polymers and Soft Materials" The temporary course "Special Topic: Deformation and Failure of Polymers and Soft Materials" has been offered and received good registration numbers and student evaluation. It is proposed the course be adapted to a regular ME course and listed in the graduate bulletin. PROPOSAL CONTACT: Dr. Shing-Chung "Josh" Wong
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OSLO, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Production at E.ON's Huntington oil field in the U.K. North Sea will remain shut until issues related to the cargo tank venting system on the platform are resolved, Norwegian Energy Company, a partner in the field said on Tuesday.
"E.ON E&P is evaluating a production restart dependent on suitable weather conditions, possibly at a reduced rated until the issue with the cargo tank venting system is fully solved," the Norwegian firm said.
"Prior to the shutdown, Huntington was producing approximately 24,000 barrels of oil per day," it added.
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From: Linda Threadgill <>
Subject: [Q-R] Mckenzie, Phillips, Cantrell, Brimm, Giles, Garrett, Howell,Hutchins, Walker
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:13:51 -0700
I'm new to this mailing list. I joined in an attempt to find out if the
surnames mentioned in the subject are connected to the Quaker Church.
All of the families, I think, were living in Rockingham Co., NC sometime
in the mid to late 1700s. I know that Phillips were from Philadelphia.
What all of the surnames have in common is that we have done DNA testing
and know that we all share a common ancestor. Many feel that ancestor
carried the Cantrell surname. Another thing that we have in common is
that Rockingham County is our brick wall. Finding information about
these folks before their living in Rockingham County is very difficult.
We know that most of the families later migrated to SC then to GA and
finally to TN, KY and AR.
I know the information that I have given is very limited, but any
information that might connect all of these families together before and
during their stay in Rockingham Co., NC would be appreciated.
I forgot to mention that all of the surnames do not represent a single
family group. We didn't know each other prior to our doing the DNA
testing. Some of the surnames are distant matches, but Phillips,
Cantrell, Garrett, Giles, Brimm and McKenzie show a connection within
the last 300 years.
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WWE All Stars Wii
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- Release Date: Mar 29, 2011
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Apr 25, 2011If you are looking for a new wrestling game you'd be better off looking for SD vs Raw 2011 or wait for the inevitable SD vs Raw 2012 at the end of the year.
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Apr 21, 2014now this is a game that i can enjoy i mean come o choose a big man and make mofo's fly to the turnbuckle and back to you and even better younow this is a game that i can enjoy i mean come o choose a big man and make mofo's fly to the turnbuckle and back to you and even better you can finish them off with a grapple and basically what wrestleing game do you know when superstars jump from outside the ring to inside a ring to a turnbuckle JUST to do a finisher i just love punching the sh!t oout of people but i love this game… Full Review »
Nov 28, 2011Cool looking game. Thats where the positives end. Very limited create a player mode, very limited game modes, controls and it just too easy toCool looking game. Thats where the positives end. Very limited create a player mode, very limited game modes, controls and it just too easy to spend your money on, unless your renting and have a few hours to beat a wrestling game that could have been much cooler.… Full Review »
Jun 19, 2011This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. Admittedly, I was really looking forward to this game. Being a fan of classic wrestling characters, I couldn't wait to get throw somebody in the Sharpshooter, give someone that sweet chin music, or land a text-book flying elbow (RIP Macho). I had fun initially, but the game gets old, QUICK. Once you've run through the classic match-ups to unlock all the necessary characters, run them through the battery of an enjoyable by ultimately lackluster Path of Champions mode (awesome, a secondary outfit), there's not a lot left to do.
My biggest qualm with the entire game is the horrendous Create-A-Wrestler ability. THQ has always been great at giving people a plethora of options when doing a CaW, but this is just pointless. Why would I take the time to make someone, say Kurt Angle, and just give him another already made players moves? Anyone with any knowledge of wrestlers and their individual styles is going to probably be pretty bummed about this. Granted, I haven't played a wrestling game since I lost interest in wrestling around the time Smackdown: Bring the Pain came out (another THQ title), but even back on the classic N64 wrestling canon you had SO.MANY.OPTIONS. Even if a wrestler wasn't on the game, you had the ability to tailor-make that wrestler and be completely specific with each grapple, finisher, mannerism, etc.
So fun, Yes. Initially. But re-playability has always been key for me in wrestling games. This has nearly none of that. It's a shame too, because there are a lot of great legends and a stable of new guys (of whom I have no idea who they are) that could really benefit a player's imagination if given the opportunity, rather than existing in a controlled environment such as this.… Full Review »


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Resurrection of the Dead: New Police Presence on the Mount of Olives (JEWISH PRESS) By: Yishai Fleisher 04/11/12)
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A milestone for the safety and security for Mount of Olives residents, tourists, and graves has has arrived in the form of a new police station atop the historic peak.
Just below the Rehavam Zeevi Lookout Point next to the Seven Arches Hotel (formerly known as the Intercontinental) two brand new trailer homes have been placed and converted into a facility that will house up to 24 police personnel at any given time.
The view from the station is dramatic as it overlooks the ancient cemetery, the walls of the Old City, and the Golden Dome atop the Temple Mount. But the police, and lobby groups like the Committee for the Preservation of Har HaZeitim, hope that the new police presence will be especially visible to the criminals who have been responsible for the uptick in violence in and around the Mt. of Olives.
Captain Dudi Chayun is the commander of the Tachanat Shalem police station across from the the Old Citys Flower Gate. Now, he is also taking charge of the new facility on the Mount of Olives. I met him there as he was dismounting a police horse. He told me that he occasionally tours the region under his command on horseback to get a closer look at whats going on.
According to Chayun the new facility is really a sub-station whose purpose is to create continuity, a regular beat, between Mt. Scopus to the north and the Mt. of Olives to the south. The main artery that connects these two points is ridgeback road atop the Mt. of Olives which passes through the Arab neighborhood of A-Tur.
Of late A-Tur has become violent. Rocks have been thrown at Jewish drivers heading to the Mt. of Olives lookout, and seven cars belonging to the small Jewish community nearby have been burned. Grave desecration, is also part of toxic mix. But Captain Chayun is confident that the added police presence will help reverse the negative trends.
In the last week, a sting operation took place where an undercover officer, dressed as an Orthodox Jew, drove through A-Tur and was pelted with stones by two youths. They were promptly arrested, and admitted the act under interrogation. Captain Chayun hopes they will be prosecuted.
The new station, at a cost of 1.2 million NIS, will have a permanent detective on premises, 3 patrol cars, and is slated to monitor the 137 cameras in and around the Mount of Olives Cemetery. The police have also begun an effort of community outreach: a meeting between the police and the Muchtarim (village elders) of A-Tur is scheduled for later this week. According to Captian Chayun: The Arab residents will also benefit from the added services the station will provide.
Harvey Schwartz, Chairman of the Israeli Steering Committee of International Committee for the Preservation of Har HaZeitim,was pleased with the stronger police presence which the committee has been fighting for. Harvey told me: We have worked very hard for a long time, especially Abe and Menachem Lubinsky of Brooklyn, who have put in endless hours, days, and trips to Israel for the sole purpose of seeing the rehabilitation of Har HaZeitim, so that it should ultimately get the respect and treatment that it deserves. We consider this [Police station] to be an extremely significant development.
Jeff Daube, director of the Israel office of the Zionist Organization of America, and co-chair of the International Committee, told me that erection of a new station took a multifaceted effort, including talking with the American State Department: We went over to Congress and the State Department and we let them know that there were a significant number of Americans coming to visit and they were subject to violence, stoneings, harassment. Americans were coming here and finding the graves of their loved ones desecrated and vandalized. We let them know that their constituents and voters were being affected by this.
Under the 19 year Jordanian occupation of these parts, from 1948- 1967, no Jews were allowed on the Mount of Olives. In this period, forty-thousand graves were destroyed, with many headstones used as building material. The police and Har HaZeitim activists hope that the renewed Jewish presence on the mount, along with vigorous efforts for preservation and stronger security, will ensure that the dead and the living can rest easy. (© 2012 JewishPress. 04/11/12)
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Three Sulphur Springs High School actors earned spots on the Honorable Mention All-Star Cast at UIL Area 2-4A One-Act Play Contest held yesterday at McKinney Boyd High School.
SSHS won the district OAP competition with their beautiful production of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Logan McGraw, who did double duty as Egeus and Peter Quince, was named to the Honorable Mention All-Star Cast.
Keely Melton, who played a very mischievous Puck, was named to the Honorable Mention All-Star Cast, gaining mention from area judge Robin Robinson.
"Puck. Good physicality," said Robinson during her critique. "Are you a gymnast for real? Great surprise. I loved the chase."
Triston Pullen, who took on the role of Lysander, was the third SSHS student named to the Honorable Mention All-Star Cast.
In her post-awards ceremony critique, Robinson said of Pullen's performance, "Good energy. I watched you. Funny. In the fight scenes, were you and Demetrius [Josh Thompson] really punching each other? It looked good."
Judge Robinson also commended the crew for their costumes, makeup, staging and sound.
Haley Thomas was named to the All-Star Crew.
"A beautiful design and use of the stage," she commented. "Loved the lighting. Really, really loved the strobe. I loved that those trees moved and you didn't take them off stage. You really tricked me. Very nice."
Along with her positive comments, Robinson gave the cast some constructive criticism.
"My biggest issue with y'all today was I just felt like we were rushing," she explained. "Yes, it is comedy. Yes, it is fast-paced. I totally agree. Y'all captured the essence. But even in comedies and even in romantic comedies, you gotta take those moments to connect and build relationships, even though it's fantasy – even though we're doped up with flower power."
In her final comments to the students, the judge reminded them of their success and good fortune.
"Y'all had a good show today," Robinson told the cast. "Y'all should be proud. You got to compete at area. A lot of schools were home today."
A large crowd of family, friends, school administrators and staff made the trip to McKinney to support the theater students.
"Look around," said SSHS Fine Arts Director Charles McCauley. "Sulphur Springs has the most people here."
Advancing to regional competition were McKinney North High School for their powerful presentation of "Never the Sinner," and Lovejoy High School for the emotionally wrenching "The Women of Lockerbie."
Pine Tree High School was named alternate for their production of "Fuddy Meers."
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The English language has always got me places.
After an illustrious 4 year career crafting articles as a news and sports journalist, I came to the conclusion that a world must exist beyond the chip pan fires of Eastbourne and the goalless draws played out by my beloved Portsmouth Football Club.
My instincts were proved right, my wonderlust taking me to New York where, apparently, my English accent added charm in my role as a personal assistant then later helped to entice State Treasurers and other financial heavy-weights to jet in for conferences in Manhattan.
Feeling slightly lost in 2005 I headed to Bogota, Colombia, to visit a friend who had been making a living there as an EFL teacher and suggested that I also give it a go. Clutching a copy of Murphy, I posed as an English teacher delivering classes in the Mexican Embassy among other places. While at times I felt like a bit of a fraud, I realised that unlike my previous jobs, EFL teaching was a world in which I could genuinely help people and make meaningful connections with them. It was at that point that I decided to do a CELTA course. Ten years after graduating from the University of Surrey with a degree in English Language and Linguistics, I slowly began to realise that I had (re-)discovered my calling.
I had also come home, finding my first serious teaching job at Language Specialists International, an excellent independent school in my hometown, Portsmouth. It was there that I sat opposite and learned from a fantastic teacher who encouraged me to complete the DELTA at International House, London, in 2008. That teacher was Lewis Richards, the co-author of our first publication, IELTS Advantage: Writing Skills.
English teaching has now taken me to the Costa Azahar, Spain, where I live with my wife, Raquel, dabbling with flamenco guitar and grappling with the subjunctive in equal measure (me not her!). I continue to enjoy teaching and training teachers, placing emphasis on creating lessons which give learners the space to complete engaging tasks while responding to lexical gaps in their emerging language. As my inspirational DELTA course tutor from IH, Nick Hamilton, put it, 'Don't MIND the gap, GET IN IT!' It is largely this shared principal of teaching which helped Lewis and I to create IELTS Advantage: Writing Skills.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is inviting proposals in life sciences (NRA-99-HEDS-02). Proposals requested by this announcement may be for ground-based research investigations or for space-flight experiments designed for the shuttle middeck or for the early phase of utilization of the International Space Station. Research emphases include molecular structures and physical interactions, developmental biology, cellular and molecular biology, organismal and comparative biology, and gravitational ecology. Letters of intent are due Oct. 8; the proposal deadline is Dec. 1. The DRDA contact is Neil Gerl, 763-6438, or firstname.lastname@example.com The announcement is available at: http://peer1.idi.usra.edu/peer_review/nra/99_HEDS_02.html
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The Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project offers support for faculty research in peaceful applications of nuclear energy, science and technology and the associated social implications. This may include work in engineering; the physical, biological, health and social sciences; or the humanities. Applicants must be members of the Universitys regular teaching and/or research faculty. The deadline is Oct. 11. For additional information, call 764-6213. Application materials may be obtained from the Phoenix Project at the Phoenix Memorial Lab or the Web site, www.umich.edu/~mmpp.
Revised NSF Grant Proposal Guide
The National Science Foundation has revised the Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) (NSF 00-2) and the Proposal Forms Kit (NSF 00-3). These documents supersede the prior versions.
This revision incorporates the following significant changes:
*Issuance of Important Notice No. 123, Working Toward A Paperless Proposal System, dated Sept. 3, 1998 ( www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?iin123). As a reminder, effective Oct. 1, 2000, all proposals will be required to be submitted to NSF via FastLane. Proposers, however, must check the FastLane Web site (www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a0/fldeadli.htm) prior to proposal preparation and submission to verify whether use of FastLane is required in preparation of all or part of a proposal;
*Implementation of the approved cost sharing policy;
*Clarification of the importance of the second merit review criterion in the preparation and review of proposals submitted to NSF;
*Revision of instructions on preparation of the biographical sketch; and
*Clarification of instructions on submission of collaborative proposals to NSF.
Other sections have been revised for clarity to make the guide consistent with current NSF policies, practices and procedures. A complete summary of changes can be found at www.nsf.gov/pubs/2000/nsf002/f4_changes.htm.
The GPG is available on the NSF Web site at www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf002. The Proposal Forms Kit is at www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf003. Paper copies of the document may be obtained by writing to email@example.com.
The new GPG takes effect Oct. 1. Proposers are encouraged to view the document online in order to prepare for this effective date. Proposers may begin to use the new forms immediately, but only those proposals submitted on or after Oct. 1 are required to use the new forms.
Please address any questions or comments about the GPG to the Policy Office, Division of Contracts, Policy and Oversight, (703) 306-1243 or email@example.com.