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A RESPECTED Netherton businessman and his son have been jailed after they took part in a vicious gang attack on two men they suspected had broken into their Brierley Hill firm.
Walter Smith and his 23-year-old son Wayne were armed with a wooden club and an iron bar when they decided to "take the law into their own hands".
Recorder Stuart Sprawson at Wolverhampton Crown Court told 57-year-old Smith that "without clear evidence" he had come to the conclusion that Mark Roberts and his employee Peter Dunn were behind the raid.
This was despite having been on good terms with Mr Roberts, whose own business was close to the premises used by Smith on the industrial estate in Brettell Lane.
The Recorder said: "Rather than consult the police you took the law into your own hands."
He said Smith had the wooden club while his son carried a metal bar and they went along with a number of other men to Roberts Automotive and gained access to the premises where they seriously assaulted Mr Roberts and Mr Dunn and demanded money.
Nazneen Sultan, prosecuting, said both victims suffered serious bruising and swelling and also had to have stitches for their wounds.
Walter Smith and Wayne Smith, both of Bank Road, Netherton, admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The father was jailed for 16 months and his son for 14 months.
The Recorder said: "Anybody who takes the law into their own hands and are part of an armed group who use weapons then they must know they will go to prison."
"There was a significant degree of premeditation in the form of planning and weapons were taken to the scene.
He told Walter Smith: "You set up your own business and you were well respected in the field in which you work and what you did has brought shame on your family."
Nicholas Tatlow, defending Walter Smith, said he had no previous convictions involving violence and he had acted completely out of character.
He said Mr Roberts had described Walter Smith as "very laid back and someone who is not aggressive" and stressed the father bore significant responsibility for involving his son in the attack.
Raquel Simpson, for Wayne Smith, said he was full of remorse for his actions and maintained he had played a more subordinate role in the events.


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Christian KANDT was principal clarinetist with the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra before moving his family to Manitoba last year. He now teaches music in Winkler, instructing his students in playing clarinet, saxophone and recorder. He also drives a school bus while he builds a strong client base.
"I like adventure and I am flexible for culture," he said. "If I didn't have the desire to go to Canada I wouldn't have.
"I am very happy here."
Kandt isn't alone. A total of 11,125 Germans immigrated to Manitoba since 1998 -- 5,560 to Winkler alone.
German-Canadians now represent about 22 per cent of the population in Manitoba, the third-largest percentage in Canada.
When 1.15 million Manitobans were asked in the 2006 census for their ethnic origin, German, with 216,755, came in second behind English and in front of Scottish.
With numbers such as those, it's no surprise they've had a big impact on the province's history.
You could almost say the influence of Germany was felt here long before Manitoba was a province and before Canada was a country.
That's because this area, and a massive section of Western Canada, Ontario and Quebec, was known as Rupert's Land. It was the territory draining into Hudson Bay that was granted to the Hudson's Bay Co.
The area was named Rupert's Land by King Charles II in 1670 when he made the land grant to the HBC and named his German cousin, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, HBC's first governor.
Heinz Petsch, president of the German Society of Winnipeg and an immigrant from Germany, wouldn't go that far back in claiming German influence on the province. But Petsch says for more than 120 years, German immigrants, whether they are from Germany itself or Mennonites who went to Russia and then generations later moved to Manitoba, have helped it become the province it is today.
"They brought to Manitoba their determination," he said.
"Germans are stubborn... It's like the German Society of Winnipeg. They're persistent about keeping the culture here."
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The influence from Germany and its peoples has continued through the decades, not just from the recent influx of thousands of immigrants, but from the time plows began breaking Prairie soil to make way for wheat fields.
But Paul Kammerloch, a Winnipeg lawyer and the honorary German consul for Manitoba, said if you asked most people how influential Germans have been in the province they probably wouldn't be able to say.
"The thing with the Germans is they assimilate very well," he said.
Kammerloch said he'd like to see one German immigrant -- William Hespeler -- get more credit than he does for being one of the builders of the province.
Hespeler was born in Baden-Baden, Germany in 1830, and came to Canada when he was 19 to work with his brother who already had a business in Ontario. But his connection to Manitoba came while he was back visiting Germany in the early 1870s and learned thousands of Mennonites were getting ready to leave Russia bound for the United States.
Kammerloch said Catherine the Great encouraged thousands of the Mennonites to move from Germany to Russia in the 1700s. There, they were allowed to create their own towns and villages and retain their customs and language.
He said many of them left the area only with the beginning of communism, during the turmoil when the German army took over the area during the Second World War. More recently, many left after the Iron Curtain fell.
They are the ones who have fuelled the most immigration here in the last decade.
But Kammerloch said decades before that, Hespeler let the Canadian government know about the Mennonites wanting to go to the United States and the government responded by asking him to go to Russia and persuade them to move to Manitoba. He convinced 284 families to come here in 1874, and about 9,000 individuals in total in the following years.
"Winnipeg had about 250 people so that had quite the impact," Kammerloch said dryly.
Hespeler was later appointed German consul for Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, was a Winnipeg city councillor, and after being elected an MLA, was chosen to be the Speaker of the House, the first foreign-born person in the British Empire to reach that position.
Kammerloch said it was those Mennonites, who had farmed in an area of Russia much like southern Manitoba, who forever changed the province.
"The farms (in Manitoba) were river lots then, with no one thinking you could farm on the bald prairie," he said.
"But these immigrants, they went to Winkler, to Steinbach, and elsewhere and they did the farming they did in Russia.
"They opened up the grain industry in Canada."
By the 1881 census, there were 8,650 Germans in a province of 66,000 people.
Petsch said the Mennonites gave their communities German names, including Steinbach, which means stony brook, Reinland, meaning clean field, and Gruenthal, or green dale.
"Before the Mennonites came, Winnipeg imported flour. A few years after they came, wheat was being exported from Manitoba."
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With 500 Germans in the city in 1890, there were enough to support a German Society of Winnipeg, which was created in 1892. That followed a few failed attempts to create similar organizations. Through the decades, this organization, one of the oldest cultural societies in the province, has mirrored the ups and downs of the local German population.
This year, the society celebrates 120 years in existence.
"The German Society is passionate about keeping the culture here," he said. "You needed to have something to keep your language and culture alive."
More than just a social organization, the society was also founded to supports its members in emergencies and to give loans to new immigrants, Petsch said.
As the numbers of German newcomers climbed, the society built a clubhouse, which opened in 1904. The growing numbers even warranted the opening of a second German consulate in Canada, this one serving the Prairies.
But Petsch said things stopped during the First World War. Germans were eyed with such suspicion here and conditions became so tense, the police searched the society's clubhouse. Authorities restricted so many of the group's normal activities, the club stopped meeting in the building and rented it out.
After the war, another wave of immigrants came. About 100 settled north of Winnipeg in the area later known as Little Britain. At first, they lived together in a commune with a dairy operation, but during the Great Depression, they became independent farmers. Several descendents still live in the area.
Petsch said immigration basically stopped during the years of the Great Depression and into the Second World War. As well, he said, police closed down the clubhouse and the members sold it.
Petsch said German immigration started again during the decades after the war, with thousands coming in the 1950s, and surged again dramatically in the last decade-and-a-half thanks to the provincial nominee program.
The community became so vibrant, it bought the former Hebrew Free School on Charles Street and converted it into a new clubhouse for the society. It continues to be the clubhouse today.
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The most recent chapter of German history in this province is continuing to this day. The current wave of immigrants came after the breakup of the Soviet Union two decades ago. The vast majority of current German immigrants are actually descended from families originally from Germany, but themselves were born and lived in Russia.
Kammerloch said these peoples chose to leave Germany and come to Manitoba because, although they still considered themselves German, they felt people in Germany considered them more Russian than German.
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About one kilometre south of Winkler -- actually only about one farmer's field away -- is the community of Schanzenfeld, where Elvira Loewen and her family are living the German dream.
Loewen and her family live on a street in a new subdivision where almost every family is an immigrant from Germany. And just about everybody has a chicken coop in the back to get fresh eggs. That's something you don't see in a Winnipeg subdivision, but the RM of Stanley put laws in place to allow it a few years ago.
"We didn't have chickens in Germany," Loewen said recently.
"Here we have 14 lay chickens. We get five or six eggs per day. That's enough for a family."
If they had stayed in Germany instead of immigrating in 2003, Loewen said they never would have been able to afford a house with a large lot.
"We would have had a small lot, so small that the children couldn't play on."
Loewen, like most of the hundreds of families that have immigrated to Manitoba in the past 10 to 15 years, was born in Russia and moved to Germany and lived there for about 14 years before coming here.
Loewen said her husband works in the manufacture of doors and windows and has his own company now.
"It wasn't really work that brought us here. It was the kids," she said. "It was the opportunity they could have in the future.
"We like it here."
One of her children, 19-year-old Michael, said he knows his own dream would have been difficult, if not impossible, if his family hadn't moved to Canada. He just earned his commercial pilot's licence at a flight school in Steinbach.
"I wouldn't have been able to do this over there (Germany)," he said.
Michael said he was 10 when the family made the move, and he's glad they did.
"I like the weather here. Germany is always raining. But here it is cold, but hot in the summer."
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Eugen Klassen was one of the first wave of 70 families who came to Manitoba in the last dozen years when he came with his wife, Lidia, in 1998.
Since then, Klassen's family has grown to include daughters Janessa, 12, and Sabrina, 10.
Klassen said when he came to Winkler, he was an electrician hoping to work in that field. But he quickly found the need for new electricians at that time was almost non-existent because of the shortage of construction in the area.
By the time that changed, and there was a housing boom, Klassen had a job at Elias Woodwork, a company that produces cabinet doors. And since he started, Klassen has gone from operating a machine to working as the company's human resources manager.
Klassen is glad he came to Canada.
"I was born in Russia, and Canada is like Russia with the space, but without the repression of faith. It's the land of opportunity."
Before Klassen moved to Winkler, he and six other men from his community in Germany came to Winkler to check out everything from employment opportunities to education for their children.
"Of the seven, five moved over here, and thousands more have come here," he said.
"Immigration has done great things for this community. I'd do it again. I always say Canada is a tremendous country of opportunities."
Klassen said with so many people of German origin or background, it has been easy to keep his language skills and cultural background intact, as well as help his daughters learn to speak German.
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Klaas Demann was working in a bank in Germany when he decided to come to Canada in 2004. He is now administrative officer at the German Consulate in Winnipeg.
"I like Winnipeg and I like Canada -- there's no reason for me to go back."
Demann said while the impact of immigration from Germany is far less in Winnipeg than in smaller centres in southern Manitoba, it has had an impact.
"I'll be in Winnipeg, and all of a sudden you'll hear people speaking in German. You hear it, and you are surprised."
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Kandt has been building his music-student base for about a year now since arriving from Germany.
"I thought it would be faster," he said.
"I thought I'd make my business cards and my website and play in schools and they would come, but with the students, it is very slow to build.
"I like teaching with all ages. I have a person who is 69, and she loves it. She talks about how she always told her children to practise, but she never played herself. Now she is."
The father of four was 48 when his family came to Winkler last year, allowing them to be closer to his wife's family.
"Here every second person is from Europe. It's either your father or grandfather or great-grandfather who came here."
But there's one way immigration to Canada for German immigrants now is different than in the past. Kandt plays a vintage piano painted a bright blue with gold highlights and two candle holders affixed to the front, all of which he brought from Germany. In the background, a grandfather's clock, also painted blue, chimes out the hours.
"It's not like 100 years ago," he said. "When you immigrate, you get a big shipping container and you fill it."
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Viktor Dueck came to Winkler from Germany in 2003.
Dueck admits he had a good job in woodworking in Germany, but with his wife's family here already, they were going back and forth over the decision to move here.
"One day, I made a decision," he said.
"We came here, but I didn't have a house when I did. I didn't want to buy one until I knew I'd stay. I was here a year before my family, getting everything ready."
The couple had one child at the time. Now their family has grown to four children.
Dueck said he knew Klassen -- they went to school together -- so he applied for a job at Elias.
"Wood is wood. I knew what to do," he said.
"Yes, this has been a good move for us. I don't regret it."
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Marina Neumann came from Germany as a child, first to Ontario, then to Morden as an adult in 2010 to join a German-based company. Exner E-Waste Processing is a subsidiary of Exner Technology of Bad Harzburg, Germany and it recycles products, including televisions and appliances, all the way down to their raw materials.
"I asked my parents why they came to Canada, and not even my parents know why -- it just happened," she said.
Since coming here with her husband and two children, another child has been born. She said the company located in Morden because it was in the middle of Canada and close to the American border. But she also appreciates the large German population there, including members of her husband's family.
"We want our children to know the German language," she said.
"It does help to have family around to contribute to their German education."
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Petsch said Germans have a long history in Manitoba, but if non-Germans want to get a glimpse of it, they are welcome to join the German Society on Nov. 3 at a fundraising dinner featuring the society's renowned brass band. To buy a $35 ticket or reserve a table, call 204-589-7724.

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OTTAWA -- As far as First Nations are concerned, it is fitting that Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Canada had approved the Chinese takeover of two Canadian oil companies from the room on Parliament Hill known as the Aboriginal People's Committee Room.
It was just another sign the natural resources First Nations should be benefiting from were being sold off under their noses without their input.
Just days earlier, Chief Patrick Madahbee of the Anishinabek Nation Grand Council was among a group of chiefs who tried to force their way into the House of Commons to be heard, angry that the government appeared to be uninterested in listening to or working with First Nations.
Madahbee said last January Harper spent a day listening to First Nations leaders and worked on resetting the relationship between the Crown and indigenous people. That same night, Harper left for Davos, Switzerland, where he delivered a major speech about his plans for the coming years, with a priority focus on selling oil and gas to Asia and pursuing additional trade with Europe and India.
"Immediately, the prime minister jetted off to sell our resources off to the world. He's been constantly doing that," said Madahbee.
For First Nations leaders, the latest international trade deals are another sign of being left out of a deal that could help raise their people out of poverty.
And the anger that has been simmering under the surface for years is boiling over like the early signs of a volcano.
Last week's skirmish outside the Commons only lasted about 30 seconds and was far from out of control, but it is unlikely to be the last event of its kind.
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Derek Nepinak as good as said so a few hours after it happened.
"This may not be the last time we do this," he said.
The chiefs are backed by a growing grassroots movement that is largely led by young aboriginals who are demanding more for their future.
Hashtags such as #idlenomore and #nativewinter were gaining in popularity on Twitter last week. "It's going to be a long cold #nativewinter" wrote Curtis Dickie, one of many people who posted to the nativewinter hashtag on Twitter last week.
Some are comparing it to the beginnings of the Arab Spring in the Middle East.
A national day of action is planned today, with a rally at the Manitoba legislature this afternoon.
The issues facing First Nations people are many -- high rates of violence against women, education struggles, poverty, addiction and a lack of proper housing among them.
But what First Nations people want and need, which could help address many of those other issues, is to have a chance to do exactly what numerous commenters on the Free Press website demand. A chance to do things for themselves.
But when the natural resources on aboriginal lands reap economic benefits for everyone but First Nations, there is a problem.
"We have zero per cent of the revenues from the natural resources that are developed on our ancestral lands," Nepinak said Friday, at a press conference.
Zero per cent.
The roadblocks are huge when First Nations try to take steps towards an economic prosperity. Take the Kapyong Barracks, for example. Seen by the government as a tract of land with immense value, they sidestepped First Nations to sell it and have the government's Crown corporation land redeveloper take it over. First Nations wanted a chance to buy that land, or some of it, to establish businesses and reap the profits of developing it themselves.
But the government simply ignored them.
Now the whole battle is in court and judges are asked to sort out whether First Nations should have been offered first crack. Meanwhile, nobody benefits. In fact, Ottawa is spending millions to maintain it while it's empty.
The arguments about the land that was taken over are centuries old. But like it or not, treaties signed with First Nations are more than pieces of paper that can be cast aside when there is a good deal to be done with someone else. Decisions about resource development, environmental regulations, housing, fishing, you name it, all must be viewed through the treaty lens.
The courts have repeatedly sided with First Nations when that doesn't happen.
The #nativewinter may not turn into an uprising like the Arab Spring. But chiefs are noticing the unrest in their communities is higher than it has been in a while.
The government, and all Canadians, would do well to take notice.


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I tried testing with different maps, and still occurs the same problem.
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No fruit machines or pool tables here - instead this Kingston landlord has installed a commemorative wall display featuring recruitment posters from World War One.
Peter McFarlane, who has run the Park Tavern in New Road for 24 years, is famed for his pub's changing displays, which he also created for the Olympics.
Mr McFarlane described the pub as "traditionalist to the end".
He added: "We cleared the long wall of sporting memorabilia and hung 80-plus World War One posters of all nations.
"In order it make it more personal we are asked for military records and the like from the locals.
"It's surprising how few know what their grandfathers did."
The display includes posters from several nations, not just Britain, including Australia, Germany and Italy.
Next March, Mr McFarlane will mark a quarter-century at the Park Tavern.


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"Blue Ruin" is a taut and deliberate revenge thriller suggesting that just because you may have the urge and the drive to exact revenge on someone, it doesn't mean it's as easy as picking up a gun and popping a cap in the bastard's head.
In most revenge movies, the protagonists make it look easy, and most of the time they have at least some past experience with guns or weapons or fighting. In "Blue Ruin," the act of revenge feels more like a chore, and the protagonist has basically no idea what he's doing when it comes to using guns or even knives.
Director Jeremy Saulnier throws us right into action without any real setup. Dwight (Macon Blair) has been wandering aimlessly for the past couple years, living out of his old, rusted car in a beachfront town and rummaging through trashcans and using other people's bathrooms to clean himself.
Already, we can infer that this is the aftermath. Some terrible tragedy has caused Dwight to go off into isolation and live as a vagrant. A little later, we find out that a man named Wade Cleveland killed Dwight's parents, and he's being released from prison.
Saulnier doesn't employ any flashbacks because he doesn't need to. Instead, the film stays in the here and now and focuses on Dwight's personal struggle. We don't get much background on him, but we can surmise that this tragedy had a major impact on his psyche, causing him to distance himself from his remaining family and, in some ways, society. He's been dishonored and rendered incomplete, and the only thing that can make him whole again is vengeance.
So he tracks Wade down at his family bar and does the deed. But things are just getting started. This happens within the first 20 minutes or so, and while Dwight may have killed Wade, he's incurred the wrath of Wade's crazy, gun-obsessed family, and now they're coming after Dwight and Dwight's remaining estranged family: his sister, Sam (Amy Hargreaves), and her two kids.
At 90 minutes, "Blue Ruin" is admittedly brisk, but Saulnier keeps the pace unhurried, keeping the viewer on edge and letting them soak in every little situation. The movie is also relativity quiet: There's not a lot of dialogue, and the haunting score by Brooke Will Blair hums faintly in the background, occasionally flaring up at intense moments.
There are some gnarly scenes of violence, but Saulnier doesn't overdo it, keeping the picture realistic in feeling.
Dwight is a man of few words. At one point, when he runs into Sam after years and years, he mentions how he usually "doesn't talk this much," and is passive in demeanor. In that way he's reminiscent of Ryan Gosling's quiet and peaceful character in "Drive." But unlike Gosling's character, who, when provoked, could turn into a vicious killer, Dwight remains timid and inexperienced when he tries to exact revenge.
Dwight struggles to kill Wade at the beginning, and when he has one of the other family members at gunpoint, he temporarily loses the upper hand. He has the drive and motivation to avenge his parents' honor, but he doesn't have the know-how.
This is what makes the character and the movie so interesting. Dwight's need for revenge is a sickness, and he can't live with himself unless he can satisfy it.
Overall, "Blue Ruin" does an effective job of showing what it might be like if an average, timid man took the law into his own hands. And like all successful revenge thrillers, there's a feeling of satisfaction at the end. Honor has been restored.
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The State of California announced Friday that it is using $120M, received in a legal settlement with a subsidiary of Dynegy Inc., to help build out a network of electric car charging stations across the state. According to Governor Brown's office, the settlement--which resulted from a ten-year-old claim for costs of long term power contracts signed in March of 2001 with NRG--will go towards funding the construction of a statewide network of charging stations for zero-emissions vehicles. The State estimated that the funding will pay for at least 200 public fast-charging stations and another 10,000 plug-in units at 1,000 locations across the state.


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If you're old enough to have danced to Devo, you also likely remember the build-your-own-PC phenomenon that geeks like me were into, spending many weekends at parts emporia like Fry's Electronics to get that hard drive, this power supply, and the other motherboard. Dell took that concept and made a mint selling computers customized by you online, then built by the company. The 1980s were a blast!
In a return to the past, Google has been working on Project Ara, an effort to create a standard for modular smartphones that could ship as soon as a year from now. Hardware makers would provide a standard chassis, called an endoskeleton, to which you'd insert various modules and snap a screen. If you want a faster processor, you could take out and replace the existing one -- same for the battery, graphics processor, cameras, power connector, and sensor array. You could even add capabilities such as ports and dual-SIM readers by placing them in empty blocks or replacing a component with a new one that served several functions.
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You can see why the DIY and Maker crowds are enthused by the idea. It's Legos for techies -- a return to the build-your-own-PC or Heathkit eras a few decades ago, when we stayed in our basements and off the streets.
To be sure, Google has some fascinating ideas in Project Ara, an outgrowth of military research into modular manufacturing for battlefield and espionage devices. The hot-swappable modules -- called Phonebloks -- are kept together through an electromagnetic lock, so they don't accidentally pop out while you're jogging. And there's a universal bus called UniPro that provides Ethernet-like speeds of up to 10Gbps distributed across the various components. A universal bus is of course necessary, since you could be connecting anything into the device.
These technologies are unproven, and they haven't been used in any consumer-scale manufacturing. However, they clearly could be relevant in various kinds of field systems, especially those requiring a device that's hard to replace but has a long, serviceable lifetime. Think oil rigs, space stations, nuclear submarines, robotic factories, and perhaps even factory car stereos.
But they seem to be -- to put it mildly -- overkill for smartphones and other such personal devices. Modularity comes with several prices, which is why consumer products rarely are modular.
Recall that the build-your-own-PC mania did not survive the popularization of the PC -- it was a geek phenomenon in a few cities. Modularity is simply too complicated for most folks. They want a phone, TV, car, computer -- not a project. We all love choice, except when we have too much of it.
Modularity also reduces optimization. It's no accident that the build-your-own-PC movement didn't make it into laptops, beyond the ability to replace a hard drive with a DVD writer or perhaps put in a larger-capacity battery. What made laptops, then smartphones and tablets, deliver on mobility while being highly functional was their highly optimized, tight integration -- custom, holistically engineered designs.


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The master builders of the kingdom at Thulamela were so good, their huge rock bricks so well cut, that there was no need for mortar to support the long-standing structures.
A thousand years ago, there was a hilltop kingdom by the side of a roaring river where a queen ruled over her people. Hunters would embark on elephant expeditions into the surrounding valleys and return after many days, bearing tusks and perhaps the bodies of the unfortunates trampled by the behemoths.
Inside the city, built on a hill, goldsmiths would patiently fashion out necklaces and trinkets. Some of this treasure would be traded upriver with people from other far-off lands like Egypt and China for cloth, beads and pottery.
A few 100km down river, a few 100 years later, another riverside citadel was built, consisting of curved rock homes built inside a wall complex. The master builders of this little kingdom were so good, their huge rock bricks so well cut, that there was no need for mortar to hold the structures up.
This thriving riverside collection of kingdoms was presided over by a magnificent 'upside-down' tree that still gives edible fruit, rope from its bark and expansive shelter from the hot midday sun.
This tree − and the elephants that fed off it − became the totems for all the humans who lived around it.
Of course, we're on a Limpopo historical tour to the kingdoms of Mapungubwe in the west and Thulamela in the east. And the tree? The baobab. This incredibly fascinating Limpopo historical route can take you back further in time − perhaps a couple of million years − to the days of early humankind. As you travel the Limpopo local route from Mapungubwe National Park and World Heritage Site through Musina, to the northern reaches of the Kruger National Park to the Thulamela site, it's easy to cast your mind back and reconstruct life here about five centuries ago, when many civilisations met and traded on these waters.
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How to get here
Drive the Great North Road from Johannesburg or Pretoria.
Best time to visit
Any time, but the height of summer can be extremely hot.
Around the area
You're not far from sacred Lake Fundudzi, the sacred forest of Thathe Vondo, Queen Modjadji's cycad forest, and the Ribolla Venda Art route.
Tours to do
Take the tour to the top of Mapungubwe Hill, which will frame your understanding of this area.
Get around
Your own/rented vehicle will give you more options.
Length of stay
Four or five days if you'd really like to get under the skin of this spectacular region.
Where to stay
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Got me one last big doe the day after Christmas. My freezer is full, so I should be set to go 'til next season.
Whipped up some venison burgers and dogs the other night. The processor I use also offers "Deer Bacon"....I ended up getting some original bacon and pepper bacon, although I still haven't tried it yet. They made it somehow with ground meat....I'll give y'all pix of that as soon as I cook some up.
I cut in some pork bacon in these burgers, and seasoned them with Dale's Reduced Sodium Seasoning and a Beef Rub. I ended up grinding up a boneless venison ham myself for these burgers, and I also made some deer jerky/snack sticks out of it as well. Just used my Oster Dehydrator for the jerky and snack sticks. Good stuff!
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With its gothic setting, weirdos from Transylvania and send-up of horror and sci-fi films, "The Rocky Horror Show" is tailor-made for the period surrounding Halloween and the Day of the Dead.
That means at least one Orange County production in November of Richard O'Brien's wonderfully eclectic, rock-'n'-roll-infused musical. This year, we recommend Theatre Out's top-notch staging at its new home in downtown Santa Ana, mere blocks from its former residence at the Empire Theater.
Troupe co-founders Joey Baital and David C. Carnevale share the producing duties, with Carnevale as director and costume designer and Baital as scenic designer. Stephen Hulsey's musical direction and Nicki Peek's choreography are simply the icing on the cake for a supercharged yet wholly intimate version of the 1973 cult classic.
Theatre Out gets solid work in every department from its cast of 14. Audiences can expect satisfying comedic work where it's needed as well as dynamic vocals of the show's enjoyably diverse songs, with outstanding dance work to match.
As for audience participation, a hallmark of both stage and screen versions, no goody bags are distributed, so no items are on hand to be thrown at the cast, onto the stage or at other audience members (guidelines outlined in the print program). Yes, "Rocky Horror" diehards are encouraged to talk back and to dance along in their seats – both elements are a huge part of the fun of any "Rocky" staging – but happily, our focus is almost exclusively upon TO's first-rate production.
By now, the storyline is familiar to most theater fans. In a rainstorm, while on their way to visiting their former science tutor, Brad Majors (JT Corzine) and Janet Weiss (Andrea Dennison-Laufer) get a flat tire and wind up walking to an old castle in search of a phone.
What they find instead is a collection of strange characters straight out of the schlocky horror films and muscle flicks of the 1950s, led by the cross-dressing, sexually voracious mad scientist Dr. Frank N. Furter (Andrew Villarreal).
The rest of the evening involves the young couple's encounters with the castle's out-of-this-world residents, including Rocky Horror (Ben Green), a muscle-bound hunk created in a laboratory by the doctor as his personal boy-toy.
Both stage and screen versions of "Rocky Horror" are creative mishmashes of transvestism and kinky sex, science-fiction and horror "B" movies, and '50s rock spiced with playfully sexy songs and dialogue. Carnevale's staging pushes the envelope, with much of the emphasis on physical comedy regarding gags related to sex.
Yet, Carnevale and Hulsey keep the focus on O'Brien's now-classic songs, with the nine principals and five ensemble members (the latter billed as "The Phantoms") delivering first-rate vocals. Peek's slightly naughty choreography is consistently inventive. Most impressively, no one in the cast overacts, always a potential pitfall when playing satire.
Villarreal's reading of Frank is so original it will make you forget the 1975 film's Tim Curry – and any Franks you've seen in other stagings. "Eccentric" and "bizarre" only begin to describe the actor's work. Villarreal delivers his line readings with hilariously eccentric inflections while lending touches of Gene Wilder-style looniness. He's also a vocal dynamo in numbers like "Sweet Transvestite," "I Can Make You a Man" and "I'm Going Home," the latter song allowing him to emote without any traces of parody.
Dennison-Laufer is a perky, cheerful Janet. Corzine fulfills the role of the square Brad gracefully, eschewing the more common approach of klutziness. Nick McGee creates a slightly neurotic Riff Raff, a supportive yet servile second banana. Green's speedo-clad Rocky is touchingly innocent and naïve, even while helping Janet unleash her pent-up desires. Choreographer Peek is a buxom, busty, outspoken Columbia, and Brandon Kasper is a suavely sinister, subtly knowing Narrator, cool yet affable and accessible.
The costumes aptly feature loads of black – leather, teddies, fishnet stockings, go-go boots and the like. The simple set, primarily using red velvet draped all across the upstage area, is effective, serving all of the script's needs. Joy Chessmar-Bice's lighting design gets the most out of banks of LEDs, while her use of strobes creates a brilliant slow-motion effect during the climactic death by anti-matter ray sequence.
The Act II song "Don't Dream It – Be It" offers as hopeful and uplifting a message as any of the more saccharine numbers from other Broadway musicals. It's a fine capper to a show that's a paean to movies and rock music – and to the magic of believing in both.
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Professionalism is conduct reflecting the values embodied in the Colorado Attorney Oath of Admission, the Colorado Principles of Professionalism, and the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct. These values require attorneys always to act competently, civilly, and with integrity and to commit themselves to the public good and to furthering the interests of justice.
"[A]bove all, a lawyer will find his highest honor in a deserved reputation for fidelity to private trust and to public duty, as an honest man and as a patriotic and loyal citizen." Am. Bar Ass'n Canons of Ethics 32 (1908).
"The strength of a lawyer is in thorough knowledge of legal truth, in thorough devotion to legal right. Truth and integrity can do more in the profession than the subtlest and wiliest devices. The power of integrity is the rule . . . the general law of the profession is duty, not success. Professional duty, faithfully and well performed, is the lawyer's glory." –Edward G. Ryan, Chief Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1874-1880.
The combined Professionalism Coordinating Council of the Colorado Bar Association and Denver Bar Association works to implement the Principles of Professionalism among members of the Bar, and improve professional conduct by lawyers and judges in light of the lawyers' Oath of Admission and the reasonable expectations of the bench, bar, and the public. The Council sponsors a Speaker's Bureau to speak to groups of professionals, and presents to law students about principles of professional behavior. The Council has also produced a video vignette series for use in professionalism and ethical CLEs and discussions.
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filesystem you choose now is not important. I highly recommend that you restart windows [don't ask]
Now reboot and start LiveCD installer and when you come to point where you have to select disk for installation, go to advanced (or custom ). That's where you select that '90%' sized partition to be root of your BT,and that 'RAM sized partition' to be the swap partition.
I chose filesystem for root ext2 [was unsure].check filesystems
Then you'll need to find the option to install grub boot manager and select it. Proceed the rest of installation. It worked form me on WinXP with vista boot manager installed but i bet it works with other windows versions.
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One of the most complained about ethics violation to the Board
of Bar Overseers (BBO) has to do with lawyers not returning phone
calls to their clients. We all know we should return our client's
phone calls (ideally within a few hours), but if the only reason
why you're returning phone calls to your clients is your fear of a
BBO complaint, you need to examine some of your priorities.
We live in a culture of instant gratification. We want what we
want and we want it now. We get upset when our smartphone signal
goes from LTE to 3G, because it slows down our web browser by a
minute. We get upset when our apps don't download quickly because
we must have that update to Candy Crush. Believe it or not, our
clients are the same way. When they call an attorney's office to
set up a consultation or to follow up on their case, they expect to
speak with the attorney right away or at least within a reasonable
period of time.
I tell my clients from the start that I will always respond to
their phone calls within 24 hours. Reality is, I will usually
respond to their phone call within an hour, unless I am in court
and I am not at my desk. Setting the expectation for your clients
is important, because they know they will be heard and that you
value their time.
Other than clients, you should always respond in a timely
fashion also to other people who call your office. It does not
matter if it is opposing counsel, other attorneys asking for
advice, a mentee, your forensic accountant, etc. All of those
people are potential referral sources for your firm and can bring
you business. So why would you ignore them?
There have been countless times when I have referred business to
opposing counsel from previous cases. I will refer out business to
those attorneys who always return my phone calls or e-mails and
who, even though they were on the other side, treated me with
respect. Everyone is a potential business referral source.
Tip courtesy of Gabriel Cheong, Infinity Law Group in
Quincy, MA. Follow on twitter @GabrielCheong or visit www.infinitylawgroup.com.
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Just like a carpenter can't finish a job without his tool belt, a good family researcher must have his or her own set of tools, and no tool kit is complete without a collection of maps.
There are many different types of maps: street maps, topographical maps, census maps, railway maps, insurance maps, old survey maps and highway maps, just to name a few. Each type of map can provide alternative views of the same area, allowing you to interpret why your ancestors ended up where they did.
A topographical map, for example, which shows the physical characteristics of an certain area, might give you an idea as to why you ancestor decided to settle in that specific place. Was he a farmer? Perhaps the land near the river was very fertile. Were there steep hills nearby? How would that affect the routes he chose to navigate the area?
Railway maps can help you determine which routes your ancestor used to travel the country. They might even indicate why your ancestor chose his home place.
Census maps are especially useful. Not only do they illustrate the physical boundaries of counties during a specific time period, but they also show how county lines shifted over time. This is key when searching for records. For example, perhaps your ancestor lived in one county, and he lived on the same property for his entire life, yet when you search that county for his will and estate records, nothing turns up. Why? By examining census maps, you would discover that while your ancestor never moved, the county line did, which is why his estate papers would be in an adjacent county.
Highway maps can also prove to be helpful when you're tracking ancestors. With few exceptions, many modern-day highways mirror the migration routes taken centuries earlier. These maps can give you an idea of the paths your ancestor might have taken when moving from one place to another.
There are many different components of a successful family researcher's tool kit, maps being only one of them. Don't underestimate the importance of studying and collecting different types of maps. One of them might just provide the missing piece to your family puzzle.


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(Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's live interview dated September 5, 2010)
Qarun (Korah) was one of Moses' people, but he betrayed and oppressed them. We had granted him such great treasures that their very keys alone were too heavy a burden for a company of strong people. Even his people warned him: "Do not exult in your wealth; surely God does not love those who exult. (Surat al-Qasas, 76)
Qarun suddenly supports hypocrisy. He goes mad. Normally, he is from one of the Prophet Moses' tribes, but he suddenly develops a lust for money. The lust for this world drives him crazy and he departs from the Muslims. He becomes the hypocrite of the age. He opposes Muslims. Allah says that He has granted him such great treasures and warns him that he is exalting his wealth for no reason.
The reason for his exalting himself is his reliance upon disbelievers.
That is also the reason for hypocrites' brazen courage. It is based on the unbelievers, and unbelievers are the reason for their wildness. A hypocrite would not even think of it if he did not put his faith in unbelievers. Unbelievers are the only reason for their unpleasant brazenness. Because if they encounter a Muslim, they will say, "I have an army of deniers behind me."


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With Monopoly versions ranging from Harry Potter to Spongebob it was only a matter of time before they made a Fallout Monopoly. Deviant Art user PinkAxolotl made this Fallout 3-inspired Monopoly board for her boyfriend, and you can download the high-res version of the board here
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A DECISION over plans for 39 new homes in Drakes Broughton described as having an "apartheid" layout has been deferred to another day.
Wychavon District Council's planning committee voted against either approving or rejecting the new estate, which would be built on land opposite Longfield, in Stonebow Road, Drakes Broughton at a meeting on Thursday.
Speeches against the plans were made by chairman of the parish council Ken Skillern, local man Geoff Wright and ward member Cllr Paul Middlebrough raising concerns about highways, the sewerage capabilities and the sustainability of the site.
Cllr Middlebrough said: "Local people know best. So the application looks like there are no problems with flooding but we know differently.
"I know the design is at reserved stages but the developer is largely doing apartheid planning herding the social housing near to the railway lines. I think it's a desperately cowardly application."
Victoria Lane spoke in support of the plans stating the village was sustainable and that some of the concerns raised were issues to be dealt with at the next stage of planning, including the layout.
And Cllr Ken Jennings said he had "no problem" with the application.
But Cllr Adrian Darby said he preferred development in the village to take place at a site identified in the emerging South Worcestershire Development Plan - a view not supported by all the councillors - and proposed refusal.
He was supported by some councillors but the committee were warned against refusing the plans by the authorities head of planning, Georgio Framalicco, and advised to go with a motion on the table to defer the plans.
The initial proposer and seconder for rejecting the plans withdrew their proposals.
Cllr Judy Pearce, who recommended deferral, said there was not enough information at this stage. She added: "I am not going to give approval for a site that's going to make other peoples toilets flood into their houses."
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A bill inspired by the Caylee Anthony case is advancing in the Florida Legislature, just don't call it "Caylee's Law."
The Senate Criminal Justice Committee on Thursday unanimously approved the measure that would make it a felony to knowingly and willingly give police false information about a missing child 16 or under who dies or is seriously injured. The maximum penalty would be five years in prison for each false statement.
Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, said his bill would avoid unintended consequences that could result from most of at least eight other measures filed in response to Casey Anthony's acquittal of murdering Caylee, her 2-year-old daughter, in Orlando.
Most of those bills would set deadlines for parents to report missing or deceased children. At least six, three in each chamber, are titled "Caylee's Law."
Negron, though, won't even mention the toddler or her mother. He simply refers to Caylee's death as "the Orlando case."
The bill would make "Florida a safer place for children everywhere unrelated to any particular case," Negron said. He acknowledged, though, it grew out of the verdict that stirred anger and resentment among many in the public and Legislature who disagreed with it.
The bill (SB 858) was drafted by a select committee on child safety chaired by Negron that Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, appointed shortly after Anthony's acquittal. She was convicted, though, on four counts of giving police false information and sentenced to the maximum under current law of one year for each offense. Anthony served the sentence while in jail awaiting her murder trial.
Under Negron's bill she could have received up to 20 years.
Caylee wasn't reported missing until 31 days after she vanished, but there's currently no legal requirement for reporting a missing child within a certain time span, and Negron said he wants to leave it that way. Law enforcement officials testified before the select committee that they were worried parents may misinterpret those deadlines as waiting periods.
Some of the "Caylee's Law" bills would set deadlines of 24 or 48 hours to report a child missing and one or two hours to report a death. Some would apply to children 12 and under and some to those 6 and under.
The Caylee's Law bill (HB 49) that most closely resembles Negron's measure includes the five-year maximum for intentionally making false reports and simply requires that missing children be reported in a "timely manner" and deaths "forthwith." None of the other bills has yet had a committee hearing. Negron's bill has two more committee stops before it can get a floor vote.
Caylee's case is a rarity because nearly all parents of missing children promptly notify police, Negron said.
"But we want to make sure that we won't tolerate people lying to police when there's a child unaccounted for," he said.
Negron, a lawyer, also doesn't share the anger that manyhave expressed against the jury.
"It's not our job to agree or disagree with a particular jury," Negron said. "We should respect the work of all our juries who do the best they can with the facts that they have."
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The Death Of Bob Kalsu
Jill Kalsu-Horning doesn't remember how old she was when found the tapes. She guesses she was 6 or 7 when she opened that end-table drawer in her parents' house and discovered a cassette she'd never seen before. The voice on the tape was deep but tender, fit for a smaller man than the one to whom it belonged. Jan, I love and miss you very much. I think about you all the time. And you too, Jill. And also you, Baby K, even though you're not born yet. It was the first time Jill heard her father say he loved her. It was the first time she'd heard his voice at all. "Not growing up with your daddy, you wonder if he really loved you, and you wonder what the sound of his voice was, how he would talk to you," Jill says. "I think that's what has always meant the most to me — being able to actually hear his voice, and have him personally speaking to both me and [younger brother] Bobby about how he really, truly loved us."
There are some who remember Bob Kalsu as a football star. In 1967, he was an All-American offensive tackle for a 10-1 Oklahoma team that beat Tennessee in the Orange Bowl. The next spring, he was drafted in the eighth round by the Buffalo Bills, and by the end of his first season he'd been elected the team's rookie of the year. There are others who remember him as a soldier. At Oklahoma, Kalsu had completed ROTC, and he graduated in May 1968 with a commitment to Army service. Sixteen months later, with his daughter just 10 months old, he was called to Vietnam.
At the time, many professional athletes used their standing to avoid active duty and serve as reserves instead. It was a choice Kalsu's friends urged him to take, but one he declined. On July 21, 1970, Bob Kalsu was killed at Firebase Ripcord, on a hill in South Vietnam's Thua Thien-Hue province. He would be the only professional athlete to die in Vietnam. He was 25 years old.
Less than two days later, just after midnight on July 23 in Oklahoma City, James Robert Kalsu Jr. was born.
Jill and Bob Jr. have spent the past four decades piecing their father together from photographs and stories. As they've attended reunions, of both football stars and soldiers, the picture has become clearer, but what's often missing is the mundane. Yes, the man they hear about is a legend and a hero, but as much pride as that brings, what they've missed is a dad. "One of the things that I've always felt, and as a kid I remember thinking, is that he didn't have to be everyone else's hero," Bob Jr. says. "He only needed to be mine."
There's a painting Bob Jr. remembers from his parents' home. It was of his father in his Oklahoma football uniform, and as a child, it was the image he held. When he would fall asleep to the sound of his father's voice, he would picture a giant man in a jersey, leaning down from the clouds.
Both he and Jill mention that when they started school they began to notice what it meant to lose, and never meet, a dad. "I think you start really understanding the magnitude of what it's like to not have your father," Bob Jr. says. "You start to see other people's fathers at your ballgames, and there are other instances when you see fathers around, and you realize you'd like to have a father to speak to." Their paternal grandfather played that role for much of their youth. He was the one who helped instill a love of sports and helped with the day-to-day questions of growing up. When cancer took him before Bob Jr. was even a teenager, it devastated him. "I just lost the will to play," he says
Avoiding the game wasn't a conscious choice, but looking back on it, he knows his father's looming legacy played a role. "As a kid, I'm not sure you consciously [avoid it], but I'm sure that's probably true," he says. Football was one place where he had a choice in avoiding the responsibility that came with his last name. In every other facet of his life, it was inescapable. "One of the things my mom always told us was that your name stands for something," Bob Jr. says. "You're a Kalsu, and you have a standard to live by. It helped me make a lot of decisions that were good decisions, but at the same time, that's a lot of pressure." It's a pressure he managed well. Bob Jr. says his wife jokes that he didn't have his first beer until law school, and after receiving his JD at Southern Methodist University, he's spent much of the past 18 years practicing aviation law in Oklahoma City.
It was as adults that the Kalsus finally got to see a more nuanced portrait of their father. Some of that was a product of taking on one of the responsibilities he had carried. "The realness of my father for me came later in life, becoming a father myself and understanding the conflict that had to be present for my dad, knowing that he was leaving a young family behind to live up to his obligation," Bob Jr. says. "The difficulty of that for him, as a man now and as a father, it's put into perspective how large of a decision that was, and how hard of a decision it had to have been." Bob Jr.'s oldest was born about 14 years ago, at a time when a series of other events would provide a more detailed understanding — and a strange relief — for both him and his sister.
For almost 30 years, Bob Jr. felt partially responsible for his father's death. As the story went, Bob Kalsu was killed while running out to meet a helicopter that might be bringing the news of his son's impending birth. It was only when NFL Films produced a documentary about his father's life and Bob Jr. met Mike Renner, who'd served with his father at Ripcord, that he was killed near his bunker, soon after reading the letter announcing his wife's July 21 due date. "You have the relief of not feeling the responsibility, but you also hear the reality of how he died," Bob Jr. says. "There's some relief, but there's also some pain. But not feeling the burden of being the reason your father died is significant."
Shortly after, both Bob Jr. and his sister traveled to Shreveport, Louisiana, for a reunion of the men who served at Ripcord with their father. "As great as it is for a person who played sports to have bonds with teammates and tell old stories, I think there's something special about what soldiers share," Bob Jr. says. "I've seen grown men, 35 years later, 40 years later, still cry when they see each other, or when they're first introduced to Jill and I, they'll cry — either they knew my father or they know the story." At the reunion, Jill stumbled upon a book about Ripcord and what happened there. Curious, she flipped to the index to look for her father's name. What she found was a detailed account of his death. "My poor brother is just trying to be cordial with people, and I just start sobbing because it goes into detail about how my dad was killed," Jill says. "Although it was terrible to see, it almost provided with me — I don't want to say closure, but healing in some ways."
The quieter forms of healing have come at places like Oklahoma football reunions. It's there, Bob Jr. says, that he gets to hear the stories about who his father was when he was just a kid, like everyone else. "I've always told them, 'I know he was a hero. I don't want to hear about that. Tell me about him being a teenager. Give me some of those stories,'" Bob Jr. says. "I think you do always want to hear that. You want to know the human side of your father."
The next reunion is in September, when Bob's and Jill's families will travel to Buffalo for a meeting of those enshrined on the Bills Wall of Fame. Between them, the Kalsu siblings have nine children. Jill's son celebrated his 16th birthday on Monday. He's a football player. As they go to Buffalo to remember their father, Bob and Jill will remind their children what their mother always reminded them. "I tell my kids that they're Kalsus," Bob Jr. says, "and Kalsus stand for something."


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I get everything going up until this screen: (sitename)/forum/index.php?p=/dashboard/setup and once I enter all the db and user info I get a bounce back to same place (nothing happens / no install) and Got error 28 from storage engine|Gdn_Database|Query|show columns from
Installing on Linux server with cPanel / apache and PHP.
In your forum root, is your config writeable ?
Do you have pdo installed on your server ?
Perhaps you uploaded files incompletely !
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422 Honestly i dont know. I am very new to working with Vanilla and SQL. I just jumped in it but you go me on that.
I know this. I had followed all instructions to the t. All perquisites are met... still get this error on install: Got error 28 from storage engine|Gdn_Database|Query|show columns from GDN_Role.
For starters you need to get a MOD ( to delete your first link )
As it links directly to your ADMIn Dashboard. Gimme a minute or 3 to think about this
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Yes I am installing via FTP
In your forum root, is your config writeable ?
Do you have pdo installed on your server ?
Perhaps you uploaded files incompletely !
forum > conf > config.php
Either 755 or 777 I believe
@loquorit welcome to Vanilla :-)
This is the first hit I got from Google:
The error come when MySQL doesn't have any free hard disk space to write to. Check your /tmp directory, that's where I had run into problems. I had forgot to make my backup script delete older backups and it kept writing backups until the disk was full.
What to do if I get a Bonk Error?
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Congress Continues Negotiations on Farm Bill: Protect SNAP!
Jan 16, 2014
By Helly Lee
Congress has yet to complete work on a 5-year Farm Bill reauthorization. The leadership of the House and Senate Agriculture committees continue to meet to discuss changes to the bill, leaving many to wonder what compromises on nutrition programs will come out of these closed-door sessions. Progress in moving the Farm Bill has been held up largely due to unresolved negotiations around agricultural provisions. While much is still unclear, there have been some reports on what the conferees have tentatively agreed to regarding SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).
It has been widely reported that the Farm Bill will include an $8.6 billion cut to SNAP over ten years; this would be accomplished by requiring that families receive at least $20 in heating assistance through the Low Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) in order to be eligible for an increase in their SNAP benefits. Under current law, a SNAP household can use a LIHEAP payment to document that the household has incurred heating costs, triggering a standard utility allowance which is calculated in the family's SNAP benefit level. This is also known as "heat and eat." Heat and eat boosts SNAP benefits for families receiving utility assistance. These cuts are similar to provisions in last year's House Farm Bill and will affect, on average each year, 850,000 households, who will see an approximately $90 reduction in their SNAP benefits. It will disproportionately affect households with elderly or disabled members.
The proposed cuts to heat and eat come on top of the cuts that hit SNAP households in November 2013 when the 2009 Recovery Act's temporary increases ended. For a family of three, those cuts resulted in $29 less in benefits per month—a total of $319 for the fiscal year. Without the Recovery Act boost, SNAP benefits now average less than $1.40 per person per meal.
News reports also suggest that some of the most troubling provisions in the House Farm Bill – that would have cut benefits from an estimated 4 million individuals -- may not be included. This includes the provision that would have made it harder for unemployed workers to receive SNAP benefits, even when they were willing to work or participate in a job training program. There is reported to be a provision that is intended to encourage states to try new approaches in helping recipients find jobs and advance; CLASP will be reading this section closely when language is made public to ensure that it does not reward states for denying benefits to needy individuals.
The full conference committee is expected to take up the bill in the next couple weeks. This is a crucial time. CLASP and advocates across the country are urging Congress to protect SNAP in the Farm Bill and in all other legislation. We hope you'll join us as we fight for families. There's still time to make your voice heard.


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We take a break from the guest bloggers today, because, supposedly, the NHL owners and players are ready to talk again. Gee, maybe they'll make progress toward avoiding a lockout. And then maybe I'll make four holes-in-one in a row and hit the lottery twice.
Here's Kevin Allen's story from USA Today.
And here's TSN.ca's story on where the labor talks stand.
Also, today, the NHL will hold a standard of rule enforcement meeting in Toronto.
Um, maybe we can sum up some of the enforcement discussion right here.
If one of Steve Yzerman's players leaves the bench to join an on-ice altercation, he doesn't even get a minor penalty. If somebody says something bad about Sidney Crosby, it's a $30,000 fine. If Chris Neil does anything he wants to anybody, it's not a penalty. If any player takes a shot at another player's head, the league will jump through hoops to find a way to not discipline him … unless that player taking the shot is Carl Hagelin.
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Experience Matters, an organization that connects baby boomers with nonprofit and social service organizations to improve the quality of life in Maricopa County, announces the graduation of the inaugural encore fellowship class. The first class of encore fellows has completed their yearlong fellowship with their host nonprofit organizations. Encore fellowships represent a new life-stage in… Read More →


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I had hoped to give y'all a good recap of what happened at BlogHer Food over the weekend in Atlanta, GA. Truth is, it's kind of hard to boil it down into 500 words or less! Let's just say this- we met so many amazing people and left inspired to work with everyone and find ways that we can uplift the food community to make our world a better place. I can't even list all of the amazing writers and their blogs! I don't want to leave anyone out! I got to meet David Lebovitz (and embarrass myself) and shared some of our spelt berries with him. David Leite from Leite's Culinaria taught us how not to steal recipes. You'd think that was easy, but turns out it's a very gray area and making sure you don't accidentally steal something is a challenge. I got to chat "food love" with Faith from The Kitchn and Kelly from Evil Shenanigans. Andrew from Eating Rules got us jazzed up about changing how America eats and I was delighted to meet (and gush to) Mrs Q from Fed Up with Lunch (we recommend checking both of them out!). That's just a small smattering of people I met.
If you're a food blogger and you couldn't make it to this great conference, check out the live blogs for great info!
I've got a lot of follow up to do, but I hope to bring you great guest writers, share even more recipes and show off some of the great food writing you can find online these days.
On Monday, I shared the Quinoa recipe that we served at the conference. Today, I'd like to give a little shout-out to Sala at Veggie Belly for letting us share her amazing recipe using pearl (aka Israeli) couscous on our website. Instead of posting it here, I want you to go find it there. It's super simple and really something special. At the conference, we used our whole wheat pearl couscous instead of the plain that she calls for in her recipe. If you want to use whole wheat, just increase the cooking time from 5-7 minutes to 15-20 minutes. This recipe has quickly become a staple at my house. I always hope to have leftovers for lunches, but that has yet to happen!
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Officials: Cuomo to set agenda boosting veterans
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo will propose measures this week to benefit some of New York's more than 900,000 military veterans, targeting businesses owned by disabled vets for some state contracts, according to administration officials familiar with the plan.
Cuomo is set to outline his agenda for 2014 in the state-of-the-state address Wednesday. He also plans to hold a summit this spring on the needs of veterans and services for them and their families.
The officials, who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the proposal hasn't been formally announced, said Cuomo will set a goal of awarding 5 percent of contracts to disabled veterans.
They said one federal estimate shows 8 to 12 percent of veterans who own small businesses are disabled.
The state has more than 127,000 veteran-owned small businesses.
"New York's veterans served our country and Gov. Cuomo believes that we can and should do more to serve them," one of the officials said.
New tax credits took effect Jan. 1 for employers who hire the state's 75,000 veterans of military service since the 9/11 terror attacks. The $74 million in credits are intended to help offset high unemployment among those veterans, a rate of about 10 percent nationally and slightly higher among those under 25.
New York has also authorized localities to give veterans municipal and school tax breaks and credit military experience when establishing lists for government hiring. In 2011, Cuomo directed state agencies to consider military experience in licensing, credentialing and granting academic credits from state universities.


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January 31st, 2013 |
Puzzled by the tax law or which credits to take? Need assistance with your tax return? The trained volunteers at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) can help.
For the fourth year, SMWC participates in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program to help low- to moderate-income (generally, $49,000 and below) people who cannot prepare their own tax returns. Through VITA, which is a national program, certified volunteers sponsored by various organizations receive training to help prepare basic tax returns in communities across the country.
At SMWC, 10 students received extensive training to assist citizens and residents with their federal and Indiana income tax returns. These business majors must successfully complete a 10-hour certification test, and also another 8 hour advanced certification test. During the last tax season, students prepared 225 tax returns.
"The VITA Program provides our students with practical tax experience outside the classroom," said Jamie McCracken, SMWC assistant professor of business and co-coordinator of SMWC's VITA services. "VITA is a perfect way for students to receive real life experience while helping the community."
VITA services will be provided at SMWC on Mondays and Wednesdays from noon - 3p.m. beginning February 4, 2013, and lasting through April 15, 2013.
The SMWC VITA site will offer free electronic filing (e-filing) and, according to the website www.IRS.gov, "Individuals taking advantage of the e-file program will receive their refunds in half the time compared to returns filed on paper – even faster if you have your refund deposited directly into your bank account."
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See also Chastity; Integrity; Power.
Virtue is a prerequisite to entering the Lord's holy temples and to receiving the Spirit's guidance. Virtue "is a pattern of thought and behavior based on high moral standards." It encompasses chastity and moral purity. Virtue begins in the heart and in the mind. It is nurtured in the home. It is the accumulation of thousands of small decisions and actions. Virtue is a word we don't hear often in today's society, but the Latin root word virtus means strength. Virtuous women and men possess a quiet dignity and inner strength. They are confident because they are worthy to receive and be guided by the Holy Ghost. President Monson has counseled: "You be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow. There is no friendship more valuable than your own clear conscience, your own moral cleanliness—and what a glorious feeling it is to know that you stand in your appointed place clean and with the confidence that you are worthy to do so" ("Examples of Righteousness," Apr. 2008 general conference).
Prophetic Teachings
My earnest prayer is that you will have the courage required to refrain from judging others, the courage to be chaste and virtuous, and the courage to stand firm for truth and righteousness.
Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.
Adapted from an October 1998 general conference address. Why is sexual sin such a serious matter? And what are the blessings for those who remain—or become—clean?
Adapted from an article printed in the April 1981 Tambuli. The blessings of obedience are beautiful. Disobedience is spiritually crippling. The power to choose is yours.
Now is the time for each of us to arise and unfurl a banner to the world calling for a return to virtue.
"Let Virtue Garnish Thy Thoughts Unceasingly"
There is no limit to your potential. If you will take control of your lives, the future is filled with opportunity and gladness.
Additional Study Materials
- Integrity and moral excellence, power and strength (Luke 8:46), or sexual purity (Moroni 9:9).
- Thou art a virtuous woman (Ruth 3:11).
- He that has clean hands and a pure heart shall stand in the Lord's holy place (Psalm 24:3–4).
- A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband (Proverbs 12:4).
- The price of a virtuous woman is far above rubies (Proverbs 31:10–31).
- Add to your faith virtue (2 Peter 1:5; D&C 4:6).
- Try the virtue of the word of God (Alma 31:5).
- Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly (D&C 121:45).
- We believe in being virtuous (Articles of Faith 1:13; Philippians 4:8).


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
Companies that hire salespeople would be wise to increase both the length and quality of training to show them how to sell effectively, according to a 2012 Salesperson Onboarding Survey that polled more than 500 sales management executives and business leaders. A whopping eight out 10 respondents are not satisfied with how long it takes their new salespeople to get up to speed.
"Most companies leave a great deal of potential revenue on the table, experience high, unnecessary sales turnover with corresponding costs and risk reputation-damaging customer interactions," the report stated. "All of these are the results associated with not adequately preparing their new salespeople to sell effectively for the company."
The survey was spearheaded by Lee B. Salz, a sales management strategist. (Salz is a member of the editorial advisory board of Sales & Marketing Management.) Key findings from the 2012 Salesperson Onboarding Survey:
• It takes salespeople eight months to more than a year to perform at the same level as their tenured colleagues. However, most employers devote less than two months to onboarding their new salespeople.
• Salespeople who work for employers that are most satisfied with their onboarding processes got up to speed 34 percent faster — in other words, four months earlier — than those working for companies that reported being less satisfied with their onboarding process.
• Executives reporting the greatest satisfaction (and greatest success) with their onboarding programs have longer onboarding periods that are highly structured and comprehensive.
• Almost six in 10 (59 percent) of the most satisfied respondents reported engaging new salespeople in a sales simulation while only 24 percent of the least satisfied did.
According to the survey, those who were satisfied with how fast their salespeople got up to speed have a comprehensive onboarding program in place that leverages:
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• Testing results at the end of the onboarding period, and following through to help those that aren't generating the same revenue as tenured reps
For a free copy of the full report on this survey, visit TheRevenueAccelerator.com/2012report