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To be clear, it was a coalition of ACORN and the New Black Panthers.
It seems totally believable that the party who could barely keep their caucus together to vote on their #1 legislative priority of the last 30+ years could have organized a vast array of liberal sleeper cells to effect voter fraud/intimidation on such a scale as to steal 80 electoral votes… without leaving a shred of evidence.
Apparently ACORN is actually an organization of communist ninjas.
ghost ninjas
Dead organizations coming back from the grave to terrorize the living? This is a zombie lie on many levels…
What the hell is wrong with these people? Everyone knows it was Tammany Hall that fixed the election for the President Obama.
And Saul Alinsky. Why does everybody forget Saul Alinsky?
First rule of Alinsky Club.
I voted for Tammy, not sure who this "Hall" fellow is…
"How would you grade President Obama's
overall performance so far? If you would give
him an A, press 1. If a B, press 2. If a C, press
3. If a D, press 4. If an F, press 5."
So the poll was limited to people who don't hang up when a robot calls.
Thank God Mayor Daley came through again delivering the votes of all his fellow dead buddies – surely no way Obama would have carried IL otherwise
<a href="http://prospect.org/article/do-republicans-really-believe-acorn-stole-election"Bouie's point that people might just be saying that without really meaning it seems plausible. That is, they had no prior opinions on the matter, but when the possibility was raised they said "sure, why not" because they just don't like Obama and are willing to say they believe stupid things about him when the opportunity arises.
Pollsters need to do more surveys about things like Panetta-Burns to get a better gauge of how many people just answer whatever questions sound vaguely like the sort of thing that they might hypothetically have an opinion on.
Bouie's point is plausible. But as Steve points out in the linked post, Fox News has been reporting as if ACORN has merely been "reorganized" and "re-branded", so one must confront the likelihood that a lot of these people actually think that this is straight-up true.
Probably both. Remember "Who killed Bin Laden?"
Certainly a lot of low-info pollees & many reactionary commenters thought that Obama "stole" the election; ACORN's just a handy easy name to attach to that belief.
I spend part of my day in the company of people who honestly, truly believe that voting for a treaty that encourages countries to recognize the rights of disabled people (as we already do) would be opening the door for UN black helicopters to take away their children.
The reason I find myself in their company is that they are sane, productive, competent people in the realms of life in which they have not been fed toxic propaganda. But in the areas in which they have been fed this, it's reinforced by all of their news sources and by their churches, and by their social networks, and they really, really do believe it.
I cannot laugh and snark at them. It's too sad; I feel sorry for them and it's depressing to consider how toxic bullshit has become such a major force in our culture and politics.
I'm disconcerted by all the high-functioning nutcases out there. One of 'em's bound to be a Lex Luthor/Dr. Evil type eventually, right?
Yes. He's the current governor of Florida.
Is Rick Scott really that high-functioning? I kinda get the impression that asking him to make himself a cheese sandwich would end with him accidentally setting his bathroom on fire…
do you think he just got lucky in stealing all that medicare money?
There is a distinction, although probably not absolute, between the con men and the true believers. Rick Scott is one of the con men. I'm sure he is very, very competent at what he does, but what he does has nothing to do with public service.
And it makes it easier for them to believe the election was stolen when they literally don't know a single person who voted for Obama. How could he possibly have won without fraud?
Well, they know at least one person, but I am hoping to stay in the closet. You have to pick your battles, and I have no political connection to them.
this is indeed sad and no one seems to have any suggestions as to how to do something about it.
49% of the Republican vote is less than 27%. Surely this is progress.
This seems like an opportune moment to repost the comment I had the most fun writing of any I can recall recently:
I hear the conspiracy was so widespread and pervasive that the Democrats were able to achieve their perfidy with the aid of legion of accomplices, each of whom stuffed the ballot box with a single vote. Thus they were able to steal the election a tiny little bit at a time, almost imperceptibly, each one a chip knocked away from the foundations of the country our forefathers knew, taking us that much farther from a time when men were men and some were chattel.
"I helped Obama steal the election and all I got was this lousy free stuff."
Still waiting for my damn toaster.
Not toaster. Cellphone. Get with the times.
Hey, it takes *time* to paint those toasters with red Hammer & Sickle on one side, and a Star and Crescent on the other!
Besides, the whole production line got slowed down after DHS decided that *all* new toasters needed to have an internet chip to report if someone was toasting a suspicious quantity of White Bread. Those FEMA re-education camps aren't going to fill themselves, you know.
So be patient. It's in the pipeline.
Damn lazy union workers!
That is a comment well worth re-writing.
Sort of OT, I canvassed for Obama prior to the election, so I recently got a big box of contraceptives – IUDs, diaphragms, pills, etc. I certainly appreciated the thought, but I am menopausal, so I'm not sure what to do with these items. I should donate them to PP, but I was thinking I could get a few bucks on eBay.
Just writing about contraception violates the religious freedom of God-botherers across the land. At long last, mingo, have you no sense of decency?
These people were promised they would be in Heaven by now, joking it up with Jesus.
They're pissed and beating a dead horse is what they consider brave defiance.
When one's raison d'etre is "feeling sorry for myself", it's not really a surprise to see how far they'll walk for it.
Yes, of course it was ACORN that helped win the elections for Obama!
But why, oh why, is FUX Noise not talking about how The SDS, The Weather Underground, The Yippies, and The Merry Pransters, were all equally culpable in putting that KenyanSocialistFascistCommunistAtheistMuslim Usurper on the throne?
Was young Roger Ailes a member of one, or all, of those anti-American organizations, and volunteered to help Nixon to atone for his past sins?
The mind, it reels!
I blame the Wobblies.
I blame the tele-tubbies.
And I forgot the nefarious influence of "The Banana Splits" in corrupting impressionable young minds with their evil jungle music:
I'm surprised that Obama's motto wasn't ' HOPE! Tra-la-la, Tra-la-la-la."
But that "tra-la-la" migrated from the "Banana Splits" to "Woy-yoy-yoy" in "Buffalo Soldier" by Bob Marley. A song about a BLACK FOREIGNER fighting IN AMERICA?!
I blame the Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea.
The Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the Saucer people, under the supervision of the Reverse Vampires…
We're through the looking glass here, people.
Elvis's hips did it.
Don't forget the Lovestoneites, Georgists, Greenbackers, One-Worlders, Bundists, and Pinguidists! You need at least three whiteboards to track these people!
Oh, if only.
I blame the Weebles. They wobble but they don't fall down
Hey Republicans, 'The New Black Panthers' are 'pigments of your imagination!'
Banana Splits? You are as old and mentally deficient as I am. I hated that show but watched it religiously
Yeah, I don't know why I watched it, but I watched it.
It was probably the cartoons they had on between "music" sets, and skits.
Any thoughts on what happened in the NY State Senate?
I still maintain the Obama one the election by promising to redistribute acorns from rich squirrels to poor squirrels by socialist tampering in the acorn market.
I was called for this poll (really, not kidding) and thought I'd have a little fun with it by lying, repeatedly, in my answers. I remember this question and thinking WTF?! (I have no recollection of the Pinetta-Burns question, however). Anyway, in the poll response I'm a conservative Republican with a favorable view of President Obama who doesn't think that ACORN stole the election. Adjust your reading of the poll appropriately….
PPP was basically trolling the wingnuts: the only available options were that Obama was elected fair and square, and that ACORN stole it for him. No option for "Obama stole the election, but obviously not via ACORN since it doesn't exist."
In other words, it wasn't an entirely honest attempt to gauge opinion. That people were still driven to pick the ridiculous option out of some tribal need to believe the election was stolen is still sad, but I wouldn't read too much into it.
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Imagine being able to diagnose ulcers, arthritis or cancer from a painless analysis of your breath. Experts say it's not that far fetched, and the technology is only getting better.
"The way I look at breath testing, it's the new frontier of medical testing," said Dr. Peter Mazzone, a lung specialist at the Cleveland Clinic. "Our breath works kind of like an exhaust system for the body. Depending on how the different body parts are working, the chemicals in the breath might be different."
Experts said a lot of things, good and bad, make their way from a patient's tissues to their blood and through their lungs.
"Normally everyone breathes about 14 to 16 times a minute," said Local 4's Dr. Frank McGeorge. "Every time you inhale, you're breathing about 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen, plus a small amount of other gasses. Inside your lungs, oxygen is taken in by your blood and many things like moisture, certain chemicals, and carbon dioxide is excreted."
High tech sensors are being developed to detect tiny differences in a person's breath indicating disease.
One promising cancer breath test appears to be 80 percent accurate in detecting lung cancer, as well as the type, the stage and how aggressive the cancer is. Doctors hope tests like this may be able to detect many diseases.
You don't need fancy tests to detect some diseases though. Doctors said uncontrolled diabetes can cause a fruity odor on the breath, like the smell of acetone. Kidney failure often produces an ammonia or fishy scent to the breath, and advanced liver disease is also known to cause a similar smell. Sometimes bad breath is simply related to poor dental hygiene, but in a young child, bad breath can be a sign of an infection.
The advanced breath tests being developed are still a little ways off, but the goal is to get them into doctor's offices in the next five years.
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Los Angeles, Oct 16 (IANS) Actor Russell Brand is attracted to pop star Cheryl Cole after finding out that she's single again.
The 38-year-old, who recently split from magazine editor Jemima Khan, has his sights set on the "Call My Name". He even sent her some free tickets to his stand-up show in London, reports contactmusic.com.
"Russell asked staff to send Cheryl two tickets for tonight's (15.10.13) 'Messiah Complex' show in London. He even said he hopes she will bring her mum, Joan, along too, because he thinks she's the key to winning Cheryl over," said a source.
"Russell reckons if she enjoys the show enough, she might consider going out on a date with him. It isn't just a quick fling he's looking for either. Like most men in the country, he's always fancied her," the source added.


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Cubs fall in Arrieta's ninth straight quality start
Right-hander gives up two runs in six; Schierholtz, Sweeney homer
CHICAGO -- The last person the Cubs and Jake Arrieta wanted to see in a Cardinals uniform was A.J. Pierzynski.
Matt Adams drove in four runs and Pierzynski celebrated his St. Louis debut with three hits, including an RBI single, to lead the Cardinals to a 6-3 victory over the Cubs on Saturday to even the series.
The game was played in front of 41,927, the largest crowd of the season at Wrigley Field, but there seemed to be more red Yadier Molina shirts than Starlin Castro jerseys in the stands.
Those in Cubs blue didn't exactly welcome Pierzynski. Released by the Red Sox on July 16, he signed with the Cardinals late Friday, and was greeted by boos from Cubs fans who remember the catcher from his days with the White Sox.
"I've faced him several times in the past, and he's had quite a bit of success against me," Arrieta said of Pierzynski, who is now 6-for-8 against him. "He's a veteran hitter and knows what he's doing up there. ... He'll be big for the team, especially with Yadi gone. It's a good pickup on their part because he's been around for a long time."
Arrieta did get Pierzynski to ground out in his first at-bat in a rocky first inning. He walked Matt Carpenter and served up a single to Kolten Wong to start the game, and one out later, both scored on Adams' double down the right-field line. Arrieta went to three-ball counts on three of the first four batters he faced, and needed 24 pitches to get through the inning.
"I came out kind of flat in the first and really struggled with command with just about everything today," Arrieta said. "I really didn't have a pitch I could go to necessarily in some spots and induce contact and kind of make things a little less difficult on myself. My pitch count got up. It was pretty much a battle from start to finish. I had to make some pitches; they scattered some singles."
The Cubs now have given up multiple first-inning runs (nine total) in four straight games.
What was encouraging to manager Rick Renteria is that Arrieta settled down and gave the Cubs a quality start, his ninth straight.
"That performance is indicative of how much he's grown," Renteria said. "If that had been a couple years ago, and he was struggling, he wouldn't be able to grind through and pitch six innings without his best command or stuff. Today he did."
"He's had a nice season," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said of Arrieta. "We did get a couple off him early, which was helpful. He's got good stuff, no question."
The Cubs tallied in the fourth on Anthony Rizzo's run-scoring groundout and tied the game in the sixth on pinch-hitter Nate Schierholtz's sixth home run of the season off a 1-0 pitch from Shelby Miller.
But the Cardinals answered in the seventh. Jon Jay singled to lead off against James Russell and moved up on pinch-hitter Mark Ellis' sacrifice. Jay then stole third, although the Cubs challenged the call, saying he'd come off the bag. After a 1-minute, 59-second review, the call stood, and Jay was safe.
Carpenter then hit a grounder to Rizzo, who threw home, and Jay avoided catcher Welington Castillo's tag to score. One out later, Matt Holliday walked, and he and Carpenter then scored on Adams' triple into the gap in right-center.
"Today, he had a hiccup," Renteria said of Russell. "You trust him when he goes out there. He knows how to grind out a batter, whether it's a lefty or righty. He had a chance to go ahead and do his thing, and it just didn't work out today."
Russell isn't alone. The Cubs' bullpen has given up 11 earned runs over 14 innings combined in the last four games.
Adams notched his 13th multi-RBI game of the season, and he leads the National League in batting average against right-handed pitchers.
"He's hitting just about any pitch in multiple parts of the strike zone, and that creates a tough out for anybody," Arrieta said of Adams. "He's doing some good things for that lineup. We're just going to have to do a better job making pitches to him."
The Cubs pulled within 6-3 on Ryan Sweeney's leadoff home run in the eighth off Pat Neshek, only the second off the All-Star right-hander this season. But that was it as Chicago dropped to 4-14 since the July 4 trade with the Athletics, while the Cardinals kept pace in the National League Central. St. Louis began the day tied with Pittsburgh for second in the division.
"[We kept] the team in the game, we were able to tie it," Arrieta said. "They were able to scratch for a few and open it up a little bit. We fought back and we made it a pretty close game at the end. We just came out on the other side tonight."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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After a rout of the Lions at Detroit, Bruce Arians took his Cardinals to a resort in West Virginia rather than head back to Arizona. With another road game in the East on Sunday at Pittsburgh, the travel itinerary seemed to make plenty of sense.
And with the Steelers coming off a gut-wrenching Monday nighter at San Diego that they won on the final play, well, Arians' bunch might be the more-rested squad.
Arians spent eight seasons in Pittsburgh, mostly as offensive coordinator, winning two Super Bowls before being exiled. He since has won two NFL Coach of the Year awards, in 2012 as an interim in Indianapolis while Chuck Pagano fought leukemia, and last season with the Cardinals. While he insists returning to the Steel City is no big deal and that he has done it before, others know better.
"Knowing him and how prepared that he is," Steelers star receiver Antonio Brown said, "I'm sure he's going to want to come in here and put on a show, being how many people counted him out and wanted him out of here."
He has the team to do it, too. Arizona (4-1) has scored a league-best 190 points and allowed 90; the 100-point differential is by far tops in the NFL.
The Steelers also have a potent offense — when Ben Roethlisberger, not Mike Vick, is at quarterback. He returned from a left knee injury to practice this week on a limited basis and is not likely to go Sunday.
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I guess it makes sense, in this 2012 season that has been so much about R.A. Dickey and David Wright, that the final 10 games of the season come down to little more than the two of them.
There's Dickey, who will go for 20 wins on Thursday. Incidentally, this is being treated as his final chance to do it, but I don't think that's remotely true. He'd be on five days rest for Wednesday, October 3, the season finale in Miami. And the Mets could obviously use him in relief in a tie game to try and get him win number 20 in between, on his throw day, for instance. So he should have several opportunities to bag win 20, the first Met to do so since Frank Viola back in 1990.
Then there's David Wright, who is three hits from tying Ed Kranepool for the franchise lead in career hits. I wrote a piece several years ago pointing out how easily Wright and Jose Reyes would take over virtually every leaderboard the team ever had. As it stands now, Wright can take the lead in hits this week, while owning the lead in walks, doubles, R.B.I. and other categories. Reyes leads in, naturally, triples, stolen bases, and thrills. But they'll fall short of owning basically every franchise record there is, due to the… unpleasantness.
The Mets aren't going to catch the Phillies for third; they're probably safely ahead of the Marlins for fifth. They're not even in position to affect their draft pick much, with only the Boston Red Sox near them.
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Companies often merge because they have operations that complement each other, which might allow the new company to eliminate inefficiencies. However, training employees after a merger can be more challenging than other training situations. Mergers often force employees into new roles they're reluctant are not able to handle. Some employees might be required to learn fresh skills that are hard for them to master.
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Meghan and Inigo's Boda~Wedding San Sebastian 2012
Lo que comenzó con 5 días de fiesta en la Virgen Blanca, continuó celebrándose con una fiesta de tres días en San Sebastián, pero esto no acaba aquí. Ha sido una etapa que es simplemente el capítulo siguiente de algo que comenzó hace tiempo, y la transición a lo que está por llegar.
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What started in a five-day fiesta in Vitoria was celebrated in a three-day fiesta in San Sebastian, but it wasn't a culmination. It was a journey that was only the next chapter in a journey that began a long time ago and the transition to what will come. It isn't only our journey, but also the journey of those who traveled half a kilometre or 10,000 kilometres to be with us, and of course those who couldn't be with us no matter how much they may have wanted to.
Many thanks to our friends and family for being a part of such a special weekend, one that we hope remains in our memories forever.
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- Categoría Bodas
Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
82 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación dic. 04, 2012
- Etiquetas San Sebastian, Meghan & Inigo, Sidrería, Jertig, Boda, Wedding, Meghan, Inigo, September
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Bill Palmer is a middle-aged English bloke with a Leica or three and a weakness for bad jokes. He was born in the last Millennium which he thinks gives him licence to be grumpy about many of today's modern "advances", particularly in the world of photography. Not above making fun of anyone and anything that moves and pricking the pomposity of other middle-aged blokes the world over, Bill's alter-ego "Lightmancer" has been blogging for a while now, spreading his "wit" and "wisdom" not very far but a little bit wider than you might imagine. Oh, and he takes pictures too.
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Famous Divorce Case is Over
29 March 1904 — Iowa
Semi Weekly Iowa Reporter 3/29/1904
Famous Divorce Case Over
Bremmer Suit Finally Resulted in Separation of Couple
Iowa Falls, March 28, The celebrated Bremmer divorce case in this count has finally been decided after having been in the courts for the pass three years. Trouble in the family of Henry Bremmer of this city resulted in the wife applying for a divorce in 1901, the plaintiff asking for heavy alimony. The suit was hotly contested and finally thrown out of court. Mr. Bremmer then applied for legal separation from his spouse and at this term of court, a decree was granted by Judge Whitaker, who gave the wife the use of eighty acres of farm land in Osceola country, the land, at her death, to revert to the children of the Bremmer family, there being several who are now under age. The principals in the suit have lived here for a number of years, Mr. Bremmer being engaged for a time in the butcher business and later in the live stock trade.


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5 Hot Links We're Loving:
- Enjoy pub fare at home with The Tart Tart's matchstick fries. Douse them with salt and grab yourself a nice cold beer.
- It's apple picking season, folks. Filled with creamy caramel and topped with cinnamon-pecan streusel, you'll want to make Full Fork Ahead's apple coffee cake soon.
- On days when the warm weather is lingering, enjoy How Crazy Cooks' apple cider granita. Even if the crisp air hasn't set in yet, you can still enjoy the taste of autumn.
- We love the idea of turning our favorite cookie dough truffles into truffle pops. Sally's Baking Addiction shows you how.
- This weekend, try The Kitchn's kale, bacon and egg sandwich. Infused with garlic and smoky bacon, you won't regret adding some green into your morning.
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- In the spirit of fall, here are our favorite seasonal baked goods.
- Ellie's baked garlic fries are loaded with flavor, not with calories.
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is the treatment modality that employs drugs to kill cancer cells. The drugs enter the bloodstream and travel through the body in order to kill cancer cells. The side effects of chemotherapy come from the fact that the drugs destroy normal cells, as well.
Chemotherapy for testicular cancer usually involves some combination of bleomycin, etoposide,
cisplatin, ifosfamide, and
carboplatin. For some tumors, very high-dose chemotherapy (sufficient to eradicate bone marrow cells) is given, followed by stem cell transplant.
Chemotherapy is usually given by IV, but some forms can be given by mouth. Your oncologist will tell you how many cycles or courses of chemotherapy are best for you. Usually there are between 3-4 cycles of chemotherapy given when the chemotherapy is the only form of treatment.
The side effects and amount of time required in the doctor's office depend on the type of chemotherapy you receive, as well as how many cycles you receive and how often. The most common chemotherapy-associated side effects are:
Most of these side effects are temporary, though some may be permanent. Discuss the implications of chemotherapy side effects with your oncologist.
Chemotherapy is given primarily after surgery in the treatment of nonseminomas. Sometimes it is also given if the tumor is very large or it has spread to the lung, brain, or other organs.
Chemotherapy for testicular cancer. American Cancer Society website. Available at: http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/003142-pdf.pdf. Accessed September 8, 2016.
Drugs approved for testicular cancer. National Cancer Institute website. Available at: http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/drugs/testicular. Updated August 18, 2016. Accessed September 8, 2016.
Testicular cancer. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T907377/Testicular-cancer. Updated January 12, 2016. Accessed October 5, 2016.
8/11/2011 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance
http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T907377/Testicular-cancer: Oliver RT, Mead GM, Rustin GJ, et al. Randomized trial of carboplatin versus radiotherapy for stage I seminoma: mature results on relapse and contralateral testis cancer rates in MRC TE19/EORTC 30982 study (ISRCTN27163214. J Clin Oncol. 2011;29(8):957-962.
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Was in Michigan City Indiana last Saturday and boy did I find a great place - Lange's Old Fashioned Meat Market. Peter Lange is a great guy and he makes some really good stuff. Bought both a beef and a pork jerky - this is not your traditional jerky - comes in a chunk and you slice what you what when you want, 2 smoked turkey breasts, 3/4 lb of a dry cured beef sliced, and 8 links of a smoked sausage that he had just made.
He told me to take a link of the sausage, hang it, and forget it for about a year and I'd be really suprised at how much the flavor intensifies. I've hung 4 links - I'll cut the 1st in 30 days, the 2nd in 3 months, the 3rd in 6 months, and the 4th in a year. Going to be interesting to see the progression.
He also sells prime beef and 28 day aged prime beef. Didn't buy any of this but will go back soon and try some. He had approximately 1 1/2" slices of prime rib on the bone tha had been 28 day aged. I was almost afraid to ask price per pound of the aged prime beef - my checkbook wasn't that big Saturday but I will be prepared the next time.


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If you are installing/uninstalling patches or service packs for LiveCycle ES you may encounter the following exception in the server log:
Caused by: javax.ejb.EJBException: Unexpected Error java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.adobe.pof.omapi.POFQuery.addFilter(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;IJ)Lcom/adobe/pof/omapi/POFFilter; at com.adobe.idp.event.util.EventDBHelper.getNewAsynchEventIDs(EventDBHelper.java:5704) at com.adobe.idp.event.notification.NotificationManagerImpl$2.doInTransaction(NotificationManagerImpl.java:375) at com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.impl.ejb.adapter.EjbTransactionCMTAdapterBean.execute(EjbTransactionCMTAdapterBean.java:342) at com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.impl.ejb.adapter.EjbTransactionCMTAdapterBean.doRequiresNew(EjbTransactionCMTAdapterBean.java:284) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor231.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592) at org.jboss.invocation.Invocation.performCall(Invocation.java:359) at org.jboss.ejb.StatelessSessionContainer$ContainerInterceptor.invoke(StatelessSessionContainer.java:237) at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor.in
This exception will usually occur following the EAR deployment.
When you install/uninstall patches for LiveCycle ES they will update files included in the EARs and also the DSC component files which are then deployed as services. The versions of the EARs and components deployed must match, otherwise you will see this exception. If the versions do not match, then the components may be referencing Java methods which were added/modified in the later patch, and therefore not available in the EARs or vice versa.
This exception will often occur directly after the updated EARs are deployed but the components have not yet been updated, as these are two separate steps in LCM. Even after deploying the updated components the exception may still occur, as they are still loaded in the cache.
Ensure you have successfully completed deployment of the updated EARs and components. If the error is still occurring, then restart your application server and perhaps even clean the application server temp files before restarting. This should refresh all of the deployed services in the cache and the error should not occur.
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The Mets are on a 7-game winning streak. They have taken over first place in NL East. Yet, on TV all I see are empty seats in the stands. This team took a beating in the offseason, PR-wise. And they got off to a really slow start.
But now that they are winning, why aren't you going to the games? Is it convenience? High ticket prices? The weather?


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HOUSTON - The Home Depot is looking to hire 1,800 new workers in the Houston area this spring.
The world's largest home improvement specialty retailer plans to hire 80,000 seasonal workers across the country in preparation for its busiest selling season.
Seasonal work can turn into permanent positions. About half of The Home Depot's seasonal hires transitioned into regular positions with the company last year.
Seasonal associates will be assigned responsibilities based on their previous retail or home improvement experience and based on the needs of individual stores.
Candidates can apply for positions at www.careers.homedepot.com.
The Home Depot recently launched its Online Military Skills Translator for those returning military and veterans who are interested in a position. The skills translator helps match veterans' unique military skills with positions within the company. Both the skills translator and a calendar of military hiring events can be found at www.careers.homedepot.com/military.
The Home Depot has 2,256 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico.
Copyright 2013 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Empty Bowls fundraiser to combat hunger
Empty Bowls fundraiser to combat hunger
Additional Information
Alisa (Al) Holen, assistant professor of ceramics at the University of Southern Indiana, with a little help from students and volunteers, has arranged her second annual Empty Bowls event.
Empty Bowls is a national non-profit which lends its name to organizations who raise money to feed the hungry by making and selling ceramic bowls.
Purchase a hand-made ceramic bowl for $10, and the bowl will be filled with soup provided by Twilight Bistro. Several types of soup will be available. The bowl is yours to take home after the event. Proceeds will go to United Caring Services.
The Empty Bowls sale is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., November 9 at the Alhambra Theatre Gallery located at 56 Adams Avenue in the Haynie's Corner Arts District.
View a video of last year's Empty Bowls event.


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By Adam May
THE Clarets are looking to build upon two impressive victories – picked up against Whitehawk and Concord Rangers respectively – when bottom-of-the-table Dorchester Town visit Melbourne Stadium on Saturday (3pm KO).
Mark Hawkes' Chelmsford City side recorded a crucial win away at Whitehawk last weekend before goals from Luke Callander, Michael Cheek and Rob Edmans sealed a 3-1 victory over Danny Cowley's Concord.
That win at the Aspect Arena made it just one defeat in nine games for the Clarets since Mark Hawkes and Steve Smith took over the reins of the Melbourne-based club last November.
Chelmsford City will be wary, however, as City returned from the Magpies' Avenue Stadium with zero points after being on the receiving end of a 2-0 score-line back in September.
This Saturday's hosts are currently riding high however after finding themselves in thirteenth position in the Skrill South table, which now tells a completely different story to that of four months ago as the Clarets have begun to pick up some pace and steer themselves away from the relegation zone, and another three points will certainly go a long way in achieving that feat.
Dorchester Town, meanwhile, were on the wrong end of a 4-0 result against Dover Athletic after a hat-trick from ex-Claret Jeff Goulding sealed the win.
The Magpies' match last Tuesday against Hayes and Yeading United was abandoned.
On the same day, Dorchester Town were buoyed by the news that they secured the signature of Nathan Walker on a month's loan from Weymouth. He re-joins after spending last season at the Avenue Stadium and will go straight into Saturday's squad.
Dorchester Town:
Address: Avenue Stadium, Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2RY.
Position Last Season: 8th in the Blue Square South.
Miles from Chelmsford: 182. Approx. Journey Time: 3 hours, 50 minutes.
Nickname: The Magpies.
Team Colours: Black & White.
Ground Capacity: 5,009 (2,846 Covered Terracing). Seats: 697.
Official Website: www.dorchestertownfc.co.uk.
Admission Prices: Adults £13; Concessions £9 (over 65s and students with an NUS Card); Youths (17 to 18 years) £9; Children (12 to 16 years) £5; Under 11s £1. Main Stand: £1 addition to the prices above.
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Althea Gibson, First Black Wimbledon Champion, Dies at 76
Althea Gibson, the gangly Harlem street urchin who parlayed an asphalt championship in paddle tennis into an unlikely reign as queen of the lawns of Wimbledon and Forest Hills, died Sunday. She was 76.
From New York Slums to Genteel Worlds of Tennis
By ROBERT McG. THOMAS Jr.
Although Althea Gibson won 56 tournaments, including five Grand Slam singles titles, she has been chiefly remembered as the first black Wimbledon champion and the first black player to enter and win the national championship at Forest Hills.
But it is easy to forget that in the rarefied world of tennis, it was hardly more remarkable that a black player would enter and win the All England and American championships than that the champion would be a rough-hewn product of the New York slums, a street-brawling chronic truant and eighth-grade dropout who haunted pool halls and bowling lanes and made the back alleys her home.
Yet that was exactly what Gibson was when she was growing up in Harlem far removed from the two genteel worlds of tennis: the white country club set and the network of black doctors, lawyers and other professionals who pursued tennis on private courts of their own.
For all her natural ability and gritty determination, Gibson owed much of her later success to that very network of black tennis enthusiasts — and to a geographic coincidence.
Althea Gibson was born in a sharecropper's shack in Silver, S.C., on Aug. 25, 1927, and brought to New York by her parents when she was a few months old. By chance the family moved into an apartment on a West 143rd Street block between Lenox and Seventh Avenues that was a designated play street.
And by further chance, when the volunteers from the Police Athletic League closed the block to traffic and set up their recreation equipment, the spot they chose to mark off as a paddle tennis court was right in front of the Gibsons' front stoop.
A natural athlete who excelled in virtually every sport she ever tried, including basketball and softball, Gibson took up paddle tennis at 9 and proved especially adept at the new sport, winning a citywide championship when she was 12.
In 1941, when she was 13, Buddy Walker, a society Harlem bandleader and part-time P.A.L. supervisor, urged her to graduate to tennis. He bought her two rackets and introduced her to friends at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club, a predominantly black club that played on courts on 149th Street just a few blocks away but a world removed from the neighborhood she had known. There Gibson was coached by Fred Johnson, the one-armed club pro, and taken up by the club's members, who taught her some more important lessons.
As she put it in her 1958 autobiography, "I Always Wanted to Be Somebody," the club attracted "the highest class" of Harlem residents, people, she noted, who "had rigid ideas about what was socially acceptable," ideas, moreover, that were alien to her own experience. "I'm ashamed to say," she wrote, "that I was still living pretty wild."
Indeed, in what had become a widening vicious cycle, Gibson would come home late (sometimes the next day) and her father, a garage attendant, would beat her. The next time, to avoid her father's wrath, she would stay away even longer and he would beat her that much more.
But Gibson saw her father as merely a stern disciplinarian, not abusive. She even indulged him when he sought to turn her into a boxer but quickly abandoned the effort.
Gibson made a lifelong friendship when she approached her idol, the champion fighter Sugar Ray Robinson, in a bowling alley. Sympathetic to her dream of a career in music, he bought her a saxophone.
Finally, to escape her father's wrath, she sought refuge in a Catholic home for girls and eventually received a welfare grant to get her own apartment while she worked at a succession of menial jobs.
Under the guidance of her new friends at the Cosmopolitan club she was soon defeating virtually everybody she played, winning her first tournament in 1942, the New York State girls championship sponsored by the American Tennis Association, which had been organized in 1916 by black players as an alternative to the United States Lawn Tennis Association.
Although she lost the A.T.A. finals later that year, Gibson continued to improve, so much so that in 1946, when she lost in the final of her first A.T.A. women's championship, she caught the eye of two men who would change her life and alter the course of tennis, Dr. Hubert A. Eaton of Wilmington, N.C., and Dr. R. Walter (Whirlwind) Johnson of Lynchburg, Va.
The two physicians, leaders of a cadre of black enthusiasts determined to crack the racial barriers of mainstream tennis, saw Gibson's potential and became her sponsors in both life and tennis. They arranged that Gibson would live with Dr. Eaton and his wife during the school year, practicing on his court and attending high school, and spend the summer traveling on the tennis circuit with Dr. Johnson, who would later perform a similar service for Arthur Ashe.
Gibson, whose table manners were so atrocious when she first arrived in Wilmington that the Eatons made her eat in the kitchen, blossomed in the refined environment..


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Hi All,
I'm not aware of any other board member's from the Tidewater, Va. area ( Norfolk, Chesapeake, Va. Bch, Suffolk, Portsmouth etc.) besides DarkrubiTJ and myself, but thought I'd post this in case anyone else would like to know.
I just spoke with the folk's at WHRO TV 15 and they said BBQ University will begin airing on Saturday July 10th @ 9:00 A.M. and will air every Saturday's at that time. I asked if the show's will be re-broadcast any other times and was told they would not. They said they usually only air cooking show's once per episode. YB2


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Fieldstone Alliance has a great piece on the keys to collaboration you might find useful. Aside from outlining the 4 areas needed for collaboration, it also has a section on elements of successful collaboration that might be of particular interest. Best of all, as with so many of their resources, it's written concisely, with lots of bullet points for easy digestion. My only beef with their stuff is that they don't offer printable views.
BTW, if you're on Facebook, Fieldstone Alliance, through their page, is promoting several of their tools this week, including the one mentioned here.
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Jeff Gordon Joins The Chase For The NASCAR Sprint Cup
Big news from the world of NASCAR this afternoon. NASCAR chairman Brian France (on right above) announced due to the fallout of two attempts to manipulate the results of last Sunday's race at Richmond, the driver in 13th place in points, Jeff Gordon, will be allowed to compete in Chase. Thus the field will now be expanded to 13 teams.


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This is the first of a series of posts based on experiences at POPL (Principles of Programming Languages), 2012, in Philadelphia PA.
PLPV (Programming Languages meet Program Verification) is a workshop co-located with POPL, that focuses on ways to reduce the burden of program verification by exploiting properties of the underlying programming language (e.g., types, contracts).
Alan Jeffrey (Bell Labs) gave the first talk of the morning, digging into an intriguing connection between linear temporal logic (LTL) and functional reactive programming (FRP) via the Curry-Howard isomorphism. The basic idea is that because signals in FRP are time-indexed values, their types should be time-indexed as well: but time-indexed types can be read as LTL formulas, following the "types as propositions" slogan. One interesting observation was that the "until" modality in LTL does not have a natural programming interpretation, but its dual, the "constrains" modality, does. (Recall that, for any formulae A, B: A "constrains" B holds at time S whenever, for all times T >= S, if A holds in the interval [S,T) then B holds at T.) In particular, whereas the "constrains" modality forms the basis of compositional reasoning about rely/guarantee properties of concurrent systems, it is reflected in programming as (decoupled) causal functions on signals: functions whose outputs at time T depend on the history of inputs up to (but not including) T. Alan used these insights to show that FRP primitives such as switching and looping can be encoded in a fairly direct manner via LTL types. In the ensuing Q/A session, it was suggested that "until" may be interpreted in programming as "progress," and that decidability results for LTL could be leveraged for type checking FRP. Overall, super exciting stuff: this will require some further meditation to internalize and apply!
Over a coffee break, I had a nice conversation with Chris Hawblitzel (MSR Redmond) about our ongoing work on ActionScript, and he was quite happy about the potential for impact in this work. We shared our experiences working with product teams at Adobe and Microsoft.
Next, Benjamin Pierce (UPenn) gave a keynote on CRASH/SAFE, a new collaborative project on building a computer with information-flow safety built in at all levels: hardware, operating system, programming language. In particular, Benjamin went over some interesting design tidbits that showcased what can be conceived and achieved when all legacy constraints are removed: the power and challenges of applying the state-of-the-art with a clean slate.
Over lunch, I was pleasantly surprised to find my undergrad classmate, Akash Lal (who is now at MSR India, and works on concurrency); and I had a long conversation on language design work with Ravi Chugh (who has recently joined Mozilla, and works on type systems). We were joined by Pat Rondon (UCSD, who is the principal driver of the very cool "liquid types" line of work) and Jeff Vaughn (UCLA, who has been working on the now much larger Android security project that we started at UMD).
I skipped the session immediately after lunch to catch up on emails (and some sleep, which, for some reason, always eludes me the first night of a hotel stay).
The last session of the day featured another cool talk on "dependent interoperability": the basic idea being that it should be possible to mix programs in simply-typed and dependently-typed sublanguages by mediating value-passing at the boundaries, via "boundary terms" that translate values up and down as required, and whose types can be derived by looking at the corresponding constructors for the data types of those values. For example, a library for dependently typed lists would require passing lengths around, and it should be possible to have a simply-typed client use this library by managing lengths on the side. Overall, this seems to mirror hybrid / gradual typing, but is sufficiently intriguing to deserve a deeper look.
POPL begins tomorrow! Eagerly looking forward to a lot of learning throughout the rest of the week. (Our type inference paper will be presented on Friday.)


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Forums: Index > The Wizengamot > Pottermore point of view
Just wondering: Is there any information on in which time the Pottermore informations are set? Would it be a stretch to assume that it is a 2017 point of view? I seem to remember a mention of Harry's children.--Rodolphus (talk) 17:24, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
- I don't think we can narrow it down any further than "after the Battle of Hogwarts". I believe the latest specific date is 2010. -- 1337star (Drop me a line!) 18:51, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
There is a new entry on Pottermore.
It states that nearly 150 years have passsed since 1871. 1871 + 150 = 2021. To me, it at least seems to support that it is a point of view of the late 2010s, probably 2017.--Rodolphus (talk) 18:26, February 21, 2014 (UTC)
- I don't know if this necessarily counts, but the Insider talks about Rowling writing a new piece about the "upcoming" 2014 World Cup, which in my opinion sounds as though it is written in this present day. --Hunnie Bunn (talk) 19:57, March 15, 2014 (UTC)
Agreed. Information from the Insider has been taken as canon before: Bill returning to Egypt, Trelawney´s birthdate. So that should be the proof.--Rodolphus (talk) 20:08, March 15, 2014 (UTC)
- I've just spotted a wee problem in that one Pottermore article mentions Percy Weasley being a prefect still. Should therefore we assume that everything except the welcome notes are from 2014 and those are from 1991 or that Rowling made an error putting Percy's name on? Or that all writing from Philosopher's Stone is 1991 and everything else 2014? --Hunnie Bunn (talk) 01:08, May 5, 2014 (UTC)


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Look mysterious and chic while protecting your hair and skin from the summer sun.
-PJ Gach
Summer's full of cute and practical accessories—sunnies, flip flops, beach bags and of course hats. Whether you're wearing one to complete a Boho outfit, or want to protect your face from sunburn, there are a ton of hats to pick from.
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This summer you wear anything from a classic floppy hat to a crocheted fedora! Check out our cool picks and they're all under $25!
1. Striped floppy hat ($7.48, nyandcompany.com)
2. Violet safari summer beach hat ($7.99, amazon.com)
3. Floppy hat with chain trim ($12.80, forever21.com)
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Aaron Haas, Oliver Hill Fellow
Commentary: A.G. Places Police in Jeopardy
In the Roanoke Times, Aaron Haas argues that Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's advisory opinion regarding the authority of local law enforcement officers to inquire about immigration status will do more harm than good.
Against this back drop, there is a fast-growing need for legal services for people facing immigration problems, especially in areas not accustomed to large immigrant communities like the Shenandoah Valley. However, due to restrictions put on legal aid offices in exchange for receiving federal funding, such providers do not assist with immigration cases. Now, Washington and Lee law students will get a chance to help fill this void through a new program launching this fall at the School of Law.
The Citizenship and Immigration program will focus on resolving legal disputes related to immigration and naturalization. Students working in the program, which is part of the School's general externship program and third-year curriculum, will represent individuals before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice in order to obtain immigration benefits such as permanent residence, citizenship, asylum, and relief from deportation.
Aaron Haas, the new Oliver Hill fellow at the School of Law, will oversee the program. He believes the launch of the program is very timely.
"Immigrant communities are spreading from the traditional areas like Texas and California into new locations in search of economic opportunity, and in many ways the legal profession hasn't quite caught up with the needs associated with those groups," says Haas.
Haas notes that changes in immigration laws during the 1990's and following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have led to increased enforcement and deportation. In some cases, these immigrants have been in the U.S. legally for decades, but they are being deported now for a crime they may have committed years ago, and for which they have already served time in prison.
Haas notes, "Many of the individuals placed in deportation proceedings are victims of domestic violence, unaccompanied minors, refugees, or long-standing legal residents with deep family and community ties in the U.S. who have minor convictions from a long time ago. These types of clients typically have a legal defense that can prevent deportation, but the immigrants often don't know about it or can't get the legal aid they need to help defend themselves."
The Citizenship and Immigration program is an evolution of the School's Community Law Center, which operated out of the Oliver Hill House in Roanoke last year. During the year, the Center took on several immigration cases in addition to its elder law practice and saw the growth potential in this area. The School decided to relocate the program back to Lexington and to expand the service beyond the Roanoke area to include southwest Virginia, the Shenandoah valley, and as far east as Richmond.
Haas, a Peace Corp volunteer and Harvard Law graduate, worked on the frontlines of this issue during four years as a staff attorney at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid before coming to W&L Law. For his part, he hopes that students will gain valuable experience while learning about a growing area of law and filling a void in the community.
"This is an important area of the law for students to study, as it intersects with family law, criminal law, employment law, and other areas in which the students may eventually practice," says Haas. "At the same time, they will provide invaluable assistance to people who otherwise would not have access to legal help and can learn the power of the law to affect real people in positive ways."


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The 'Athens of America', home of the Red Sox, and the Founding Fathers' 'Shining City on a Hill', Boston is the gateway to the East Coast.
A city filled with historical significance and 21st century technological innovation, Boston is one of the most popular U.S. locations for visitors. You can fly to Boston and discover this exciting and fast-moving city for yourself.
Boston has its own unique style, and your trip to Boston will introduce you to a city that has a distinct personality and character compared to many other U.S. cities. Open spaces are important to Bostonians, and the 'Emerald Necklace' is a series of parks dotted throughout the city that provide a respite from the busy pace of urban life. Boston Common, Franklin Park, and the Boston Public Garden are just a few of the parks located within this series.
Fenway Park is a spot that locals have a particular affection for. Built in 1912, it's the home of the legendary Boston Red Sox baseball team. If you can't get in to see a game during your trip to Boston, then definitely take a stadium tour of the grounds and find out why Bostonians are so passionate about the Red Sox.
Boston is also home to several world-class universities. Just across the Charles River in Cambridge you'll find the world-renowned MIT, along with the iconic Harvard University, founded in 1636. Harvard is America's oldest college and home to dozens of Nobel Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners.
You can also check out the John F. Kennedy Museum, the Boston Public Library, and explore the aquatic marvels of the New England Aquarium.
New England is spectacularly beautiful, especially in the fall season when the surrounding forests and woodlands are ablaze with a kaleidoscope of colour. However, if you'd like to see the city from a completely different perspective, then hop on-board a 'Duck Boat Tour', a land and sea excursion in a WWII amphibious vehicle.
To discover the history of the city, take a guided tour of the Freedom Trail, which charts the tumultuous past of a city that was the birthplace of the American Revolution.
In the evening, why not experience the culture of the city with a trip to the Boston Symphony, or the New England Conservatory? Or head down to the Theatre District of Washington Street and Tredmont Street, where many of New York's Broadway shows are performed before making the move south to the Big Apple.
During your trip to Boston, you'll discover that it offers a rich variety of local produce and excellent seafood – especially Maine lobsters –from the New England coast. Local specialties include baked beans, cod, and clam chowder. And for dessert, you'll quickly discover why 'Beantown' has such a reputation as an ice-cream lover's paradise – the sheer variety of flavours on offer is quite astonishing!
There is plenty of international influence in the city, with the North End District, for example, offering a great selection of Italian restaurants (head for Hanover Street for the best). You can also find exceptionally good eateries in Chinatown, Allston and Coolidge Corner.
You'll find that the biggest shopping areas in the inner Metro area are the Back Bay and Downtown Crossing.
Newbury Street, often referred to as 'The Rodeo Drive of the East', runs the length of the Back Bay neighbourhood, and is full of exclusive shops and boutiques. For something a little more eclectic, head for the neighbouring town of Brookline and Coolidge Corner, and in particular Beacon Street.
Flights to Boston arrive at Boston Logan International Airport, a few kilometres from the city centre.
Visa restrictions for entry into the country will depend on your country of origin, length of stay and whether your trip is for business or pleasure. So before you fly to Boston please check the visa and passport requirements.
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When was the last time you looked at a piece of clothing, that you loved, but thought "I can't wear that!" And then you're on to the next item. For whatever reasons it may be…color, style, body issues. Let's just push that all aside. How do you know you can't wear it unless you try it on?
For some reason, that's what I thought when I saw this top I'm wearing here. My first instinct is to throw a sweater over it, but it's hot here! Then I tried it on and I loved it. Courtesy of Torrid, the Black Butterfly Tube Top ($38) was not as scary as I imagined it. It was comfortable and it didn't show my cleavage to the world. It didn't fall down like a lot of tube tops do. I didn't know if the (faux) leather and studded design was my thing, but I guess it is now.
I also wore Torrid's Source of Wisdom virtual Stretch Grey Skinny Jean ($52), also courtesy of Torrid. Now, these jeans fit differently than the other pair I reviewed. The had a lot more stretch in them. I feel like I almost could have worn a 16R in these. I really love grey denim and have that vintage and faded look to them. I just wish I would have worn a belt because they were falling a little. Also, the label on the waistband was itching my back. But, they were comfy as well.
You know I'm not a big fan of over accessorizing, especially with the top having a lot of detail, so I just wore a pair of black earrings. I paired it all with my trusty gladiator sandals. Overall, I'm pretty happy with these pieces. I just have to throw these jeans in the dryer and I think it will be perfect.
BTW…that lipstick is the Wet n'Wild #511B lipstick I told you about in the video.
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By Katerina Román
Buzz… Buzz… Oh, my phone just rang! I wonder who commented on my new profile pic or favorit-ed my retweet! Maybe I'll get more followers!!!
Sound familiar? Well, I for one, am guilty as charged. Since I opened my very first social media account nearly a decade ago, the movement of building a global network through pictures and posts online has absolutely fascinated me. While the premise of this social networking may seem narcissistic to some, 'networking' is the operative word here, and when used wisely can facilitate life-changing connections.
A little over a year ago, I was introduced to the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship's South Florida branch. During that time, a group of about 10 of us attended the first 'E-Council' meeting together at a local Miami restaurant, and all those who passed us could literally feel the enthusiasm and optimism surrounding our table. As this group of young professionals exchanged ideas about potential fundraisers and companies interested in incorporating a charitable component to their office environment, I sat back wondering how I could add value. I remembered an article I found on Twitter through an account that provides free resources to nonprofits, and that's when it hit me! I'd help by offering my skills through a volunteer effort that seamlessly fit into my routine – social media.
Since then, both Nicholas Vollten and I spearheaded all efforts surrounding the planning and execution of NFTE South Florida's online 'voice', trying our best to capitalize on the trend of being socially aware via social media. Our weekly adventures developed into the perfect way for us to volunteer and support an organization we came to appreciate and care for very quickly. As months passed, every meeting and event reminded us how important this cause to educate and train our youth on the prospect of starting their own business truly is.
With this in mind, we are asking all individuals reading this to stand up and do something – Yeah you, sitting behind your laptop screen! Although neither of us could claim to be seasoned professionals within the realm of social media, we were two individuals eager to share what we know with others to hopefully help build up our community, one tweet at a time. We're not calling on experts. In fact, learning through this experience was part of the fun. All that we ask is that you consider what unique talent you have, and how you can use it to help #StartItUp.


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After migrating Adobe LiveCycle 7 to LiveCycle ES, the properties dialog for some of the LiveCycle 7 components do not open in imported processes in Workbench. This issue occurs particularly with components from other vendors.
In the server log file, you may find an exception similar to the following:
<Mar 18, 2009 5:38:47 PM CET> <Error> <com.adobe.workflow.AWS> <server> <LCServer1> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '5' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'>
<<anonymous>> <BEA1-30E1940ABA8BD8AE228B> <> <1237394327753> <000000> <stalling action-instance: 803 with message:
com.adobe.workflow.pat.PATRuntimeException: Invalid variable type. Variable: com.adobe.workflow.template.document.DefaultVariableTemplate@5ebcf7d, Type: lc7form at com.avoka.workflow.qpac.userplus.UserPlusService.A(Unknown Source) at
com.avoka.workflow.qpac.userplus.UserPlusService.execute(Unknown Source) at
com.adobe.workflow.engine.PEUtil.executeAction(PEUtil.java:551) at
com.adobe.workflow.engine.ProcessEngineBMTBean.executeAction(ProcessEngineBMTBean.java:1933) at
com.adobe.workflow.engine.ProcessEngineBMTBean.asyncExecuteActionCommand(ProcessEngineBMTBean.java:1878) at com.adobe.workflow.engine.adobe_ProcessEngineBMTEJB_e5zjcz_ELOImpl.asyncExecuteActionCom
Most QPACs from LC7 need to be updated to be able to handle the new "lc7form" variable type. According to the documentation on the adobe site, this is a pre-requisite for using LC7 QPACs in LC ES.
On pg.4 of the doc at: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/8.2/upgrade_changes.pdf
there is the following text:
Changes in variable types
Adobe LiveCycle Workflow 7.x supported a series of variable types that you can use in process definitions. The form variable type is renamed lc7form when you upgrade to LiveCycle ES. The upgrade willautomatically update your processes to use the new variable type name; therefore, in most cases, thechange is transparent. However, if you are using a custom component from a third-party or have created oneinternally and the QPAC makes an explicit reference to the form variable type, the QPAC must be updatedto recognize the lc7form variable type name instead. The new QPAC must then be deployed to the serverfrom Adobe LiveCycle Workbench ES.
For Adobe components, make sure you are using the latest version of the component available from the Workflow SDK. For QPACs from other vendors, please contact these vendors and request an updated QPAC which is compatible with LiveCycle ES.
To deploy the updated component:
- Copy the component jar file to a local folder on the server
- Open Workbench
- Show View -> LiveCycle 7.x components
- Right click in the LiveCycle 7.x components view, and select "Deploy new component"
- Browse to the component jar file from step 1 above
- Set the appropriate deployment properties for the component
- Click OK
You may have to close and re-open the process map in Workbench for the changes to take affect. You should now be able to open the properties dialog for the affected component activity.
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Races set in Gainesville city elections
Published: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 1:35 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 1:35 p.m.
The races are set for Gainesville's March city elections.
City of Gainesville candidate forums
The races are set for March's Gainesville elections.
Here are some upcoming candidate forums:
-- African American Accountability Alliance forum
6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4
Alachua County Health Department, 224 SE 24th St.
-- Alachua County Democratic Black Caucus debate
6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14
Alachua County Administration Building, 12 SE First St.
-- Alachua County League of Women Voters forum
1-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23
First United Methodist Church, 419 NE First St.
-- Duckpond & University Park Neighborhood Associations forum
4 p.m. Sunday, March 3
United Church of Gainesville, 1624 NW Fifth Ave.
Qualifying ended at noon Friday, with six candidates in the race for mayor and three in the race for City Commission District 4.
The candidates for mayor include former City Commissioner Ed Braddy; former City Commissioner Scherwin Henry; former Gainesville-Alachua County Regional Airport Authority board chair Pete Johnson; incumbent Mayor Craig Lowe; Donald Shepherd, a resident of the Lamplighter Mobile Home Park and frequent attendee of commission meetings; and Mark Venzke, who ran for the commission in 2012.
A seventh candidate who previously had filed the required paperwork to launch a campaign, barber shop owner Edward Earl Young, did not file qualifying papers this week.
The City Commission District 4 race includes University of Florida student Alfredo Espinosa, former Mayor-Commissioner Mac McEachern and incumbent Randy Wells.
McEachern's home, which is his registered voting address, was in the former boundaries of District 4 but is not within the newly drawn boundaries that commissioners approved on Dec. 20 when completing the redistricting process.
Earlier in the week, Supervisor of Elections Pam Carpenter asked the City Attorney's Office for legal guidance on how to deal with a candidate who might not live in the district but signed a sworn affidavit of district residency.
In an email to commissioners Thursday, City Attorney Nicolle Shalley said the Supervisor's Office served an administrative role for city elections and "must accept completed qualifying papers submitted under oath or affirmation."
At that point, if another candidate or a registered voter in District 4 filed a lawsuit to challenge a candidate's residency, it would be a matter for the court system to decide, Shalley wrote.
The city elections will take place March 19, when the polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Information on early and absentee voting has not yet been posted by the county elections office.
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