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DORSET Police has confirmed it is investigating an allegation made about Dorset County Council leader Spencer Flower.
The probe relates to claims that he failed to properly declare an interest in a key planning policy when he was leader of East Dorset District Council.
Cllr Flower has denied the allegation and said the succession of complaints about the issue "feels like harassment".
Christchurch firm REIDSteel, whose technical director Rollo Reid is a UKIP activist, commissioned a legal opinion earlier this year on whether Cllr Flower properly declared an interest in East Dorset District Council's major planning document, the Core Strategy.
A report by James Goudie QC argued that Cllr Flower had breached the district council's standards regime and the Local Government Association code of conduct.
Council officers passed the issue to the police when a complaint was made to them.
A statement from Dorset Police confirmed the force was investigating an allegation.
It added: "This meticulous and impartial investigation may take some time to complete, so we won't provide any details that may prejudice the enquiry while it is ongoing."
The complaint centres on Cllr Flower's role as a director of Zebra Property Solutions Ltd, a commercial subsidiary of the housing association Synergy Housing Limited.
Cllr Flower had recorded in the council's register of members' interests that he had an interest in Synergy.
But James Goudie's legal opinion argued that he had not declared himself to be a director of the subsidiary, which was set up to fund affordable housing.
Since Zebra Property Solutions was a commercial entity, Cllr Flower had a "personal and prejudicial interest", the report argued.
Cllr Flower has said Zebra Property Solutions had been "mothballed" at the time the Core Strategy was considered in February 2013 and had not held a meeting for almost two years.
He has said he had always declared any interests scrupulously and that the allegations were politically motivated.
Cllr Flower told the Daily Echo: "This is the third time this has been looked at.
"I'm fed up with responding to the same things over and over again."
He said he had not been interviewed by police and the issue was being dealt with by council legal officers.
"A lot of it is because people don't understand the code of conduct. I'm fed up with it. It feels like harassment," he added.


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Double keypress needed on the RC before the TV reacts (SCC_96329).
Overview of model numbers: QFU11ELA_chassis_overview.xls
An upgrade of the RF4CE software is needed when "No normal RC reaction, double keypress needed on the RC before the TV reacts".
Check the following:
1. The RC needs to be from a production week of 1218 (2012-05-03) or more recent.
This can be checked by opening the battery door of the RC. The date is present on the inside of this cover.
If the RC is older, the RC needs to be replaced. Contact your local helpdesk for that.
If production date is okay, go to step 2.
2. Activate the CSM menu (key in 123654 on the RC) and go, via the "cursor down" button, to page 2 (CSM2) item 2.9 RF4CE software. This SW version should be v0.12.0.0 or higher.
If the RF4CE software is older, the TV needs to be upgraded via the attached UPG file (go to step 3).
If problem still persists, contact your local helpdesk.
3. There are two upgrade methods: via USB-stick or via Remote Service. See instructions below.
Before you start, ensure that you have the following:
A USB flash drive (= stick) with at least 100MB of free space (note: do not use a USB hard disk drive for a software update).
A file compression application (the latest version of WinZip® is recommended).
Note: This procedure assumes that you use a Microsoft® Windows® PC with the latest version of WinZip installed.
Upgrade instructions for RF4CE software:
- The upgrade file is attached: select and download the "updateRF4CE_prod_v20120501-12.zip" file.
- Insert the empty USB flash drive into a USB connector on your PC.
- On your PC, create a folder named "upgrades in the root directory of the USB flash drive.
- Using the archive utility, extract the UPG-file to the "upgrades" folder on the USB flash drive (do not place in the root dir).
- Safely remove the USB flash drive from the PC.
- Remove all USB devices (such as Wi-Fi adaptor) from the TV, then switch ON the TV.
- Connect the USB flash drive to a USB connector on the TV.
- Press the Home/Menu button, and select [Setup] > [Software settings] > [Local updates].
- Select the correct UPG file and press OK.
- A prompt appears, select [Continue], then press OK.
- The software upgrade starts automatically.
- The upgrade is complete when a notification message appears on screen.
- Remove the USB flash drive from the TV.
- You need to disconnect the power cable from the power outlet. Wait one minute then reconnect it. After that you can start your TV in the usual way.
- or-
Remote Service
An RS fix will be made available that will enable an upgrade of the Stdby SW via IP. This must be scheduled via the callcenter. (#)
- (*) File is attached.
- (#) Only applicable to IP-connected sets and in countries where the "Remote Service" feature is rolled out (currently only Nordic, DACh, and BeNeLux).
- Caution: Do not switch "off" the TV or remove the USB flash drive during the software update!
- If an error occurs during the update, retry the procedure. If the error re-occurs, contact Philips Consumer Care.
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THE playing of electronic games like Solitaire is officially being banned at Worcestershire County Council.
Two months after it pledged to publish new guidance on how councillors should behave in meetings, The Advertiser can reveal the fresh rules due to be handed to all 57 County Hall politicians.
The dossier, drawn up after a complaint was made over Liberal Councillor Fran Oborski playing the Solitaire card game during meetings, states:
- Councillors cannot play electronic games, read newspapers, books or magazines "at any point" during any meeting
- Even councillors who attend committee meetings as observers in the public gallery, as many do, are being told not to play electronic games due to "poor public perception" over it
- They can still use social media like Twitter, however "the full attention of councillors" must be on the debate or vote and they "must not be distracted"
- It also says councillors must not visit websites "which are not suitable for work" and "must ensure screensavers are appropriate"
The guidance has already been criticised by some councillors, who say it is "over the top" and "too restrictive".
It will be circulated to them for consultation before being finalised, and even asks them "to reduce" moving around or leaving the room to as infrequently as possible to avoid disruption.
It comes months after Cllr Oborski was spotted playing Solitaire on her iPad in meetings, leading to one public complaint being made and considerable media coverage including satirical magazine Private Eye.
Cllr Oborski, who previously said she used Solitaire as a screensaver, said: "Saying we can't play electronic games is fine, but for me this is too prescriptive, it's over the top.
"If it was decided that we couldn't bring in newspapers how would that affect those of us who refer to them during meetings?
"It looks like they are throwing the baby out with the bathwater."
Redditch Councillor Joe Baker, from the Labour group, said: "To a certain extent I agree with it, public perception is important and we are making very important decisions.
"You've got to pay attention to what's going on around you."
The draft dossier has been drawn up by the council's legal chief Simon Mallinson and is expected to be finalised by September.


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Steven Finn is to remain part of England's Test tour of India after having scans on his injured thigh.
There was some concern that that the fast bowler would be ruled out of the series but Finn now hopes to be able to test his recovery in a three-day match for the England Performance Programme squad in Mumbai next week.
He was unfit for the first Test - which ended in a nine-wicket defeat in Ahmedabad on Monday - and on Tuesday was ruled out of the second too, after suffering a setback in his rehabilitation.
But his pace and height are seen as vital to England's chances and they are keen to keep him in India if there is a chance of fielding him during the third or fourth Tests, which begin on December 5 and December 13 respectively.
A brief statement from the ECB read: "Steven Finn to remain in Mumbai to continue rehab with view to playing for EPP 27-29 Nov at DY Patil Stadium."
His absence from Friday's second Test should see James Anderson and Stuart Broad continue to spearhead England's pace attack in Kolkata, despite struggling in the opener.


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Casino winnings, tax refunds and Gulf oil leak settlements are helping state government in Louisiana collect child support.
"Casino intercepts are just one tool used to collect the more than $1.2 billion in unpaid child support (that) is owed by parents in LA," Suzy Sonnier, secretary of the state Department of Children and Family Services tweeted Monday.
The state intercepted:
- $43.7 million in state and federal tax refunds in 2012.
- $8.4 million from settlements tied to the 2010 BP oil leak.
- Nearly $850,000 since September 2011 from casino winnings.
At the same time, the state's backlog in unpaid child support remains largely stagnant as parents fail to keep current on their payments.
Lisa Andry, program executive director for child support enforcement at Department of Children and Family Services, or DCFS, said the backlog stood at $1.26 billion in December 2011 and climbed to $1.33 billion in December 2012. "Everyone would have to pay all of their current support for that to go down," Andry said.
The state also collects roughly $280 million a year through wage garnishments, Andry said.
Casino winnings and the BP oil spill are relatively new tools for intercepting child support.
A 2010 state law sponsored by then-state Sen. Nick Gautreaux, of Meaux, allowed those behind on their child support payments to be stripped of their casino winnings. Casinos lock slot machines when jackpots of $1,200 or more are won in order to comply federal tax reporting requirements, allowing gambling houses to also check for back child support from a state database.
The state started by seizing winnings at Hollywood Casino in Baton Rouge, the Belle of Baton Rouge, Amelia Belle, Shreveport's Eldorado Casino and Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino. The first payment was collected two days after the program launched.
Now the state is intercepting winnings at 18 casinos across Louisiana. The only casinos that do not divert winnings from gamblers owing child support are the Indian reservation casinos.
The biggest interception, so far, was $23,398.42 in December at the Amelia Belle near Morgan City for child support cases involving four children, Andry said. Last month, the state got a $10,000 hit at the same casino, she said.
Gautreaux said he is thrilled the program is working.
"I've always said it's more money for the kids ... Deadbeat parents need to pay their child support," he said.
Gautreaux said the program proves Louisiana can be at the forefront of something positive.
Numbers released last week by the state Department of Children and Family Services showed the biggest total interceptions have been at:
- Hollywood Casino in Baton Rouge, $106,771.93
- Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino in Opelousas, $85,403.55
- Boomtown Belle in Harvey, $73,401.40
More than $20,000 has been collected at L'Auberge Baton Rouge, which opened in September.
In 2010, a Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion killed 11 men and shut down drilling, impacting businesses along Louisiana's coast.
Billions of dollars will be paid to settle claims.
Andry said the state linked to the settlement center and diverted $8.4 million for 3,464 child support cases. The biggest hit, she said, was $37,428.05 for a case involving two children.
"BP has certainly slowed down a lot. We got a lot of money at first when all the claims were being filed," she said.


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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland.
Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.
This book is quite entertaining and sometimes just hot. It's at least as good as any modern erotic novel, but the language used is quaint although sometimes surprisingly funny. I would have expected the sex in an old book like this to be boring and perfunctory, but to my satisfaction, it is quite varied. If you like the language of old authors like Austen or Bronte, and you like sex, you will surely love this book.
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Definitely an "adult" book! I was unprepared for the frankness and detail I found as this story of the early years of a country girl's life in London unfolded. However, I found the style delightful as Cleland uses implication and metaphor to the full. It just goes to show that one doesn't have to be crude or lewd when talking about sex, or so I thought on reading this book. The heroine has a refreshingly hearty appetite for physical pleasures, and this is a book to set against the myriad contemporary… (más)
Lengua: Inglés
Publicado en: 1749
Numero de palabras: 85.214 palabras (≈ alrededor de 6 horas)
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Derechos: Dominio Público
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Garrett will maintain quality standards for construction occurring at French Creek, a North Carolina Marine Corps satellite campus of Camp Lejeune where Sundt has multiple projects. He brings more than 25 years of experience to his new role, having worked on the quality-control efforts of military, healthcare, higher education, commercial and power plant projects across the Eastern U.S. Garrett earned a Bachelor of Science in engineering from North Carolina State University and served as a quality manager on another Camp Lejeune project.
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27 Nov 1944 — Between Bangkok, Thailand and Chittagong, Bangladesh
At the age of 23, 1st Lt Carl E. Blackwell gave his life during World War II, in a bombing mission in the Pacific theatre. Lt Blackwell was assigned to the 40th Bombardment Group, 20th Air Force, U.S. Army Air Corps.
As part of its mission, the 40th Bombardment Group flew B-29 bombers during the Pacific and East Asia offensive in World War II. Operating from bases in India, the bombers targeted transportation centers, naval installations, iron works, and aircraft plants in Burma, Thailand, China, Japan, Indonesia, and Formosa. On November 26, 1944, 15 aircraft were deployed from Chakulia Army Air Force Base to attack the Bangsue Marshalling Yards of Bangkok, Thailand. Thirteen planes returned safely to Chakulia and one, aircraft #452, proceeded to Chittagong (Bangladesh) after losing #4 engine. Leaving the primary target, the pilot of aircraft #452, Lt Carl E. Blackwell, radioed the formation commander that he had wounded personnel aboard due to the fighter attack and that he could not close his bomb bay doors. Enroute back to Chakulia, he asked permission to proceed to Chittagong. The formation commander asked if there were any major mechanical difficulties or shortage of gasoline and was assured there were none, that #452 had plenty of gas and that no escort was needed. Permission was given and #452 left the formation. Enroute a radio message was received at Chakulia that #452 was proceeding to Chittagong. This plane was not heard from again, did not arrive at Chittagong and 1st Lt Carl E. Blackwell and his 10-man crew, all members of the 45th Squadron, are still unaccounted for.
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For those keeping count, first announcement was exactly two years on February 17, 2013, and last confirmed information was given about 1 1/2 years ago on June 2011 (from 01/23/2013).
The last major production/development information was made in an interview on May 2011.
It has now been confirmed that the game was cancelled.
Note (miscellaneous):
We also know that this year in 2013 that Telltale is expanding in size, to make more games. No idea what they are expanding to make though.
Paul Trowe/Replay (3rd party)
Josh Mandel comments (3rd party)
The last major production/development information was made in an interview on May 2011.
It has now been confirmed that the game was cancelled.
- February 17, 2011: Telltale's Steve Allison (SVP of marketing) announces several franchises at a press conference including Walking Dead, and Fables. Telltale announces that they have obtained a Sierra license, King's Quest to be the first game, other series to follow. King's Quest is thought to be a reboot.
- February 18, 2011: Telltale announces King's Quest in a blog post on the Telltale website. It mentions that Walking Dead will be released first, followed by fable (they were projecting for a Winter 2011, and a Q1 2012 release). King's Quest's release is not clear, but implied to be an undertermined point in the horizon, apparently post Fable. Mentions 'reboot'.
- February 19, 2011: Telltale adds King's Quest to the Telltale forum list for people to discuss the game. The first post is by Alan Johnson the Telltale Community Manager.http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22891
- March 14, 2011: Interview with Adventure gamer. Confirmed not to be a true reboot.
- June 7, 2011: E3, very little confirmed. It's not to be reboot, and will probably star Royal Family of Daventry. Roberta Williams was 'consulted'. Hints that future Sierra games would be after King's Quest, possibly Space Quest or others. Telltale games to be pushed back to 2012 release dates (this moves Walking Dead to 2012).
- September 11, 2011: Gaming Examiner interviews Alan Johson, who tells them that Telltale is working on King's Quest, but it won't be out for a long time.
- March 12, 2012: Fables is pushed back to Q3 2012 (pushing King's Quest further back).
- March 14, 2012: CEO Dan Connors makes a nod to wards King's Quest Briefly in an interview. He picked up King's Quest because he felt it was a classic IP, and would be similar to resurrecting other classic adventures like they did with Monkey Island. He mentions that they aren't focusing on it yet (article discusses that Walking Dead and Fables are the next priority).
- April 24, 2012: Walking Dead episode I is finally released (after being delayed since winter 2011).
- May 16, 2012: Dan Connors confirms, that Dave Grossman, and his group was starting work on King's Quest. It is mentioned that they were trying to put together the staff, and get it into production. They mention that they had talked to alot of people about it. Other than that he said they didn't have much to say about it yet. Still looks like they were looking for a post-Fables release. Walking Dead is their main focus at that point.
- June 2012:E3, mostly talk about Walking Dead, showing of Episode 2. No confirmed references to King's Quest, or much of anything else of importance. Not much on Fables either.
- July 6 2012: Walking Dead Season 2 Announced.
- November 20, 2012: Walking Dead Episode 5 released. No announcements on the release date of the next game series. Still believed to be Fables next.
- February 6, 2013: Telltale launches beta for new website and forums, that will ultimately replace the old website. There is currently no webpage for King's Quest, and no direct access to a King's Quest forum either. However, the forum still shows up through a hidden link (and is useable).
- February 12, 2013: It is announced that Fables game will be more of a tie-in, and won't be called Fables. It is looking more likely that it will be the next game released. Walking Dead Season 2, will be a future release (how far in the future is unknown). It is also mentioned that Telltale has many other projects they are working on at at the same time (but no specifics as to what these projects are, or when they will be announced). IGN appears to assume that this will include King's Quest. Fables was originally to be released in Q1 2012, got pushed back to Q3 2012, but was not released.
- February 17, 2013: Two year anniversary of when Telltale's King's Quest was first announced (nine months from the previous major announcement).
- March 1, 2013: Dan Connors states that they aren't ready to say anything about the King's Quest project yet, but will say something when they are ready to talk about it. Rock Paper Shotgun asked if there were anything beyond Fables and King's Quest down the pipeline, and Connors mentions that they have a couple of unannounced projects being sorted out.http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/01/telltale-on-new-ips-beating-jj-abrams-to-the-punch/ Fables and Walking Dead Season 2 are projected for 2013 releases.
- April 3, 2013: Steve Allison confirms that Telltale has since cancelled work on the franchise. The forum is still up, so far.
Note (miscellaneous):
We also know that this year in 2013 that Telltale is expanding in size, to make more games. No idea what they are expanding to make though.
Paul Trowe/Replay (3rd party)
- April 10, 2012: "The remaining issue, as with King's Quest, would be licensing the games from owners Activision. Trowe explained that Activision had been a touch unrealistic when he first approached them. Activision told us that they wanted $500,000 up front," he explained. "And greater than 50% revenue share for those properties. I told them 'good luck on getting that', because I don't think anybody's going to pay that fee. I can tell you that they changed their tune about six months after that." But since then Space Quest has been licensed elsewhere, and Replay are currently in negotiations over getting the rights for themselves. "I want to say it's looking good," said Trowe, "but right now I'd give us 50/50."
RPS: So also with King's Quest, they've been uncharacteristically generous in allowing fan projects. Have you seen the project the Silver Lining?
Paul: The Silver Lining wasn't available for sale…
RPS: That's right, yes.
Paul:And in addition it wasn't really a King's Quest. In my opinion they did an injustice to the King's Quest franchise.
RPS: That's interesting, why do you think that?
Paul: I just don't think it held true to Roberta's vision, just like I don't think the Leisure Suit Larrys that have come out after Al wasn't involved held true to Al's vision. And that's why I refuse to work on a Leisure Suit Larry game if Al wasn't involved. I refuse to work on a King's Quest game if Roberta's not involved.
RPS: Would Roberta be willing to be involved, she's been out of the industry for a while hasn't she?
Paul: I can't speak for Roberta, but I can tell you that we're currently talking to her and Ken.
- April 12, 2012: "I love the Sierra classics!! Can you bring back King's Quest, Space Quest, or Police Quest? Our good friends over at Tell Tale have licensed King's Quest from Activision. If we do our job right then maybe, just MAYBE we'll be able to partner with them and ruinite the Space Quest team, King's Quest team (go Roberta!!!!) and Police Quest team for re-makes or new versions of those (Space Quest 7 anybody?)."
- June 5, 2012: Trowe related Kickstarter sabotage controversy (false claims/smears about several other competing projects, and sockpuppetry). He later apologies. However it is unclear how much the duplicity affected any previous claims made before it was discovered by MixnMojo and others.http://mixnmojo.com/news/Is-Paul-Trowe-of-Replay-Sabotaging-Other-Kickstarters
- April 1, 2013: "They had [the King's Quest rights], and we were going to license it from them to make the remakes. I wouldn't do a King's Quest without Roberta. [Telltale senior VP of publishing] Steve Allison told me that they have the rights but they don't have the bandwidth." Allison offered to look into sub-licensing King's Quest out to Replay, but Trowe hit a dead end when he brought the conversation over to Activision. "I talked to the guys at Activision and they were like, 'No, we're pulling it [from Telltale] because we're going to do it ourselves.'
"Activision's probably not going to give us the King's Quest rights," Trowe told us. "[Telltale] had it, and we were going to license it from them to make the remakes." Telltale senior VP of publishing Steve Allison told Trowe that it was an issue of bandwidth; the studio behind 2012′s*The Walking Dead simply did not have the resources to handle*King's Quest, what with a second season and the launch of*Fables both in the works.*
"Then I talked to the guys at Activision and they were like, 'No, we're pulling it because we're going to do it ourselves,'" Trowe revealed. He doesn't know what the publisher's plans are for*King's Quest, but they don't seem to include either Telltale or Replay. We've reached out to Activision for comment and will update this post accordingly when we hear back. Be sure to check out our full interview with Trowe, and to head back here tomorrow for our extensive GDC chat with Telltale CEO Dan Connors."
Josh Mandel comments (3rd party)
- March 8, 2011: "Telltale and I have spoken a bit lately, but there's nothing more I can (or should) say about it! But I would love to be King Graham for Telltale, and I trust them completely with the property."
- Jan 19, 2013: Josh Mandel comments & Chat Log:
"And Activision would be foolish to say, "Here, we're renting you the license to King's Quest. Do nothing with it in perpetuity...Telltale seems to be going in another direction anyway. Walking Dead was a hugely popular license and a big success for them, I think. King's Quest would be a big step backwards, a far less well-known and far less popular license...I think it's been safely reported that Activision and/or the Sierra licenses (except Larry) are up for sale...they *had* the KQ license and did nothing with it, opting instead to pick up a license of a national television show that certainly didn't need Telltale's help."


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Aeronautics and Astronautics Program
From Undergraduate Engineering Handbook
Program Requirements 2012-13
The principal purpose of the undergraduate interdisciplinary major in Aeronautics and Astronautics is to prepare students who are strongly interested in aerospace for subsequent graduate study in the field. In particular, it is expected that students completing this undergraduate curriculum can then satisfy the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University in one additional academic year or, alternatively, complete the B.S. in General Engineering and the M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics as a co-terminal program in five years.
Another objective of the program is to provide an opportunity for interested undergraduates to become acquainted with the challenges of the aerospace field, with aeronautical and astronautical principles, and with the faculty who teach and do research in aeronautics and astronautics.
Students interested in aerospace are also encouraged to consider the undergraduate minor in Aeronautics and Astronautics, which is described in the "Minors and Honors" section of this Handbook.
The departmental requirements of this major include a core set of courses required of every Aeronautics and Astronautics major; a set of depth areas from which two areas (four courses) must be chosen; and an engineering elective. Students are expected to consult closely with an advisor about how best to satisfy these and all other requirements of the major, to submit a program planning sheet when declaring the major, and to have a final plan (program sheet) approved by the advisor and department at least one quarter prior to graduation.
Mathematics: 24 units (Fr, So, Jr)
Mathematics through ordinary differential equations is a prerequisite to depth courses. Some statistics is mandatory, such as STATS 110, STATS 116, CME 106, or CS 109. For a list of acceptable courses, see the Mathematics Requirement section of this handbook. Required: Ordinary Differential Equations, satisfied by MATH 53 or CME 102 (same as ENGR 155A).
Science: 18 units (Fr, So)
For a list of courses approved by the School, see the Science Requirement section of this handbook. Aero/Astro depth courses rely on a strong foundation in classical physics, particularly mechanics. Chemistry is needed for students without high school chemistry and is recommended for others. Required: PHYSICS 41 and 43, plus one more advanced physics course.
Technology in Society: One course
See Chapter 3, Figure 3-3 for a list of courses that fulfill the Technology in Society requirement.
Engineering Fundamentals: Three courses minimum
- ENGR 30. Engineering Thermodynamics (req'd), 3 units, A,W,Sum
- CS 106A. Programming Methodology (recommended), 5 units, A,W,S,Sum
- Fundamentals Elective ( may not use CS 106B or X if 106A is taken)
Departmental Requirements: 39 units
- AA 100. Introduction to Aeronautics & Astronautics, 3 units
- ME 70. Introductory Fluids Engineering, 4 units
- ME 131A. Heat Transfer, 3-4 units
- ENGR 15. Dynamics 4 units
- ME 161. Dynamic Systems 3-4 units OR PHYSICS 110. Intermediate Mechanics, 4 units
- CEE 101A. Mechanics of Materials, 4 units OR ME 80. Mechanics of Materials, 4 units
- AA 190. Directed Research & Writing in Aero/Astro*, 3 units
- Depth Area I: Two courses from a department Depth Area (see Depth Area lists below), 6 units
- Depth Area II: Two courses from a second Depth Area, 6 units
- Additional engineering elective, 3 units
*Students should discuss their AA190 (WIM) topic with their advisor & the Student Services Manager during their junior year.
-- Depth Areas: Four courses; two from each of two topic areas + one elective
Students should select four courses from the list below, two from each of two areas. One additional engineering elective (at least 3 units) should also be selected; this may be an additional course from any of the depth areas below, another course in Aeronautics and Astronautics, or an appropriate elective from another Engineering department. In any case, the choice of depth areas and engineering elective should be determined in consultation with the Aeronautics and Astronautics major advisor.
Dynamics and Controls
ENGR 105. Feedback Control Design, 3 units
ENGR 205. Intro to Control Design Techniques, 3 units
AA 242A. Classical Dynamics, 3 units
AA 271A. Dynamics and Control of Spacecraft and Aircraft, 3 units
AA 279. Spacecraft Mechanics, 3 units
Systems Design
AA 236A,B. Spacecraft Design, Spacecraft Design Laboratory; 3-5, 3 units
AA 241A,B. Introduction to Aircraft Design, Synthesis, and Analysis; 3, 3 units
Fluids and CFD
AA 200. Applied Aerodynamics, 3 units
AA 210A. Fundamentals of Compressible Flow, 3 units
AA 214A/CME 206. Introduction to Numerical Methods for Engineering, 3 units
AA 283. Aircraft & Rocket Propulsion, 3 units
ME 131B. Fluid Mechanics: Compressible Flow and Turbomachinery, 4 units
AA 240A. Analysis of Structures I, 3 units
AA 240B. Analysis of Structures II, 3 units
AA 256. Mechanics of Composites, 3 units
Plus free electives to bring total units to the 180 required for graduation.
For AA 4-year plans and program sheets, go to the Navigation bar. Select from any year you are enrolled at Stanford.
1. Print your Stanford unofficial transcript from Axess.
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3. Complete the form below and take it, along with your transcript and Program Sheet, to the Aero/Astro Student Services Manager (Durand Building, room 250) for an academic advisor assignment.
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5. Return the signed forms to the Aero/Astro Student Services Manager.
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Actually Apple do not have the right to do this.
Because according to the judgement on the injunction Apple must post bond first, then they can ask the authorities to enforce the judgement. They can send out letters showing the injunction is in place, and retailers should not sell their stock of said items and to return the product to get their money back from their suppliers. They have no right to tell companies to immediately remove said item.
Now the retailers can say they will continue to sell product until they are able to confirm Apple's claim, which can take a while before getting official word from government and by then they have sold their stock.
Apple is really beginning to annoy me by now... before all (fanatic) fan-boys jump on me let me say NO you are not right. Just cause this tablet resembles apple iPad it is not an iPad! Just because Hunday resembles BMW its not an BMW, period.
Totally agree with post #2... in fact these retailers should sue back with some lame ars (apple like) reason for premature action or something.
Samsuck! About time they innovated instead of copying Apple exactly. Which is why I only buy Japanese and Apple electronics.
Apple shouldn't be able to enforce this whatsoever. Not to mention how many "banned products" still get into the us (or states in the us) because of things like eBay or smugglers.
So glad I don't have any apple products. Okay I have the apple TV but now that I have a Nexus Q I can take a baseball bat to the apple TV and post it on youtube or something. Oh yeah loving my Samsung 10.1 4G tablet and Galaxy Nexus.
Regardless of my platform choice, this move reeks of desperation on Apples part. Make a better product and use that to make your sales. I'm sure you're happy your banned products are selling in Iran though.
To be Honest..I don't really care. I like Apple Products. Does that make me a Fanboy? nope. I also like Honda...does that mean i hate American Cars?..lol..idiot No...just means to me that Honda makes a better Car. Who cares if Apple does it. Question is..are you going to be a follower or tread a different path. As i said b4 i like Apple Products, but i've owned just about ever Mobile Platform on the planet save WebOS..which happened to Die out. Apple & Samsung are STILL the Big Boys...So quite the bickering and buy what YOU want..geez..all this I hate APPLE because of this...or I hate Samsung because of this..makes me wonder if ANY of you have above kindergarden mentality when it comes to this.


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GRC Tools Help Manage Regulations
GOVERNANCE, RISK AND COMPLIANCE We look at three GRC products and the distinct ways these tools can help organizations navigate the complicated regulatory game.
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We look at three GRC products and the distinct ways these tools can help organizations navigate the complicated regulatory game.
As the regulatory burden increases, businesses are finding themselves in an increasingly complex ecosystem of governance--we audit our contractors and clients to ensure their compliance to our security requirements, and the firms we service audit us.
As we implement security controls related to compliance, as well as controls contractually required of us by our clients, we put into production an ever more complicated laundry list of security controls to manage. Making risk decisions in this hive of controls, regulation and contractual obligations is nigh onto impossible.
IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) tools promise to help us meet these challenges. They promise to help us make smarter risk decisions, manage our compliance efforts and govern everything about our security program, from security awareness to technical controls.
GRC is the latest information security buzzword, but marketing hype is doing a disservice to this array of products that address an organization's policy governance, risk management and compliance needs. Most deliver only part of the picture they promise, and every tool in this market has its own focus, areas of maturity and strategies for solving the same business challenges.
To help you figure out what approaches might be right for your organization, Information Security took a close look at three GRC products that are very different in focus, coverage and technology: Archer Technologies' SmartSuite Framework 4.1, Symantec's Control Compliance Suite 8.60 and Modulo's Risk Manager 5.0
Our goal was to create tests that address the promise of GRC while not favoring any particular technical strategy for getting there. We wanted to test the heart of GRC, the products' ability to:
Purchasing a GRC product is difficult, so we designed a flexible testing approach tied to real-world deployment scenarios to account for the range of corporate requirements, the expansive nature of the products and their varying levels of maturity. To do this, we foremost wanted to create a set of hypothetical scenarios that simulate how most organizations would typically use and deploy GRC products. We drew on real-life experiences and pain points to create regulatory, oversight and technical challenges, such as any organi- zation might face, and how the products might solve these challenges in a typical deployment context. Specifically, our goal was to test the "promises" of GRC (see "'Promising' Products," below).
We created test policies and attempted to link those policies to both the regulatory requirements as well as technical controls used to implement the governing policy. In other words, can you actually use the tool to track compliance activities, track the implementation of technical controls specifically required by the regulation, and track the operation of those controls in the field.
Risk Management
For example, in order to understand what risk applies to a legacy system that doesn't support a particular control, you need to know what the system does, how it's used, what compensating controls might be in place and what systems are dependent on it. Typically, that means getting data from the business, IT, external parties (such as service providers) and the compliance department.
A tool that can automate this process and preserve the information gathered in a central repository is essential to conduct formal risk analyses. To this end, we looked at the ability of the products to help gather data about particular systems/processes and their relative risk, evaluate that risk and put it in context. A key related area is the products' ability to record and track areas of the firm where technical controls could not be implemented, as well as features that analyze the level of risk associated with those exceptions.
Technical Controls
Archer focuses primarily on the non-technical aspects of GRC. The core of the product is a central framework within which a customer can use various modules that target the issues that an information security practitioner might experience within a regulated industry. For example:
There's no installation to speak of, as the recommended customer interface is a Web portal for an ASP-type service offering. (Customers can also choose to host the product.)
Admins use their interface to create users and groups, modify roles, permissions and security parameters of the system, manage content, or change the appearance of the portal. However, the real magic happens within the customizable interfaces for the installed modules.
Archer's Strengths
However, we didn't need to. Archer ships with a stock policy that is pre-mapped to a large number of regulatory frameworks. Given Archer's roots in the financial services sector, we were not surprised to see some relatively specific requirements such as FTC 16 CFR Part 314 (GLBA) and the FFIEC Information Security Booklet. We were, however, pleasantly surprised to also find more general guidance, such as COBIT and ISO 17799 (although they still need to update the numbering), as well as specific guidance for other regulated industries, such as HIPAA for healthcare and PCI for retail.
Although the stock policies are quite comprehensive, most firms will need to modify them to reflect their own requirements. We found this process a bit counterintuitive. The editing function allows you to directly modify the policy supplied by Archer, but you're better off avoiding that and using Archer's somewhat kludgy alternative.
The problem is that Archer's periodic updates to the stock policy (as well as the mapping to the regulatory frameworks) will overwrite any custom changes you make to the stock policy directly. Archer recommends that instead of modifying its policies, you create a new policy statement with customized text, link it to the stock policy, and update your firm's views to display the new statement. The stock statements live on--just out of view of the users.
The upshot is you will need to periodically revisit your custom policy to ensure that it reflects updates, such as changes to regulatory requirements.
Nevertheless, exceptions are easy to create and relatively straightforward. You simply select a control to associate with the exception and enter information along with compensating controls to address the issue. The workflow allows exceptions to go from user entry to information security review and keeps track of approvals and timeframe for expiration.
The risk management feature is straightforward. You assign risk to entities entered via the asset module and score them according to a number of different risk vectors. For example, we used the asset module to create a new application and assigned an initial business criticality weight as well as risk profile (high, medium or low.) From there we were able to apply questionnaires to the asset to determine how it performed relative to items of interest, such as whether cryptography was employed.
These questionnaires targeted specific controls that have an impact on the overall risk of the application and include factors like vulnerabilities, cryptographic controls, access control, and so on. The responses to the questionnaires fit directly into the overall risk ascribed to the application. The workflow ensures that appropriate personnel review the submission and are alerted if it is completely noncompliant.
In navigating and using SmartSuite, we found the Archer community to be head and shoulders above what you typically get with a vendor knowledge base or other support portal. The community allows users to interact with each other, ask questions of the Archer engineering team, and receive extensive training on use and configuration of the product.
Monitoring technical controls is also less automated than some of the competition. Archer provides instructions on how to create linkages between automated vulnerability assessment tools (e.g., Qualys), but automated vulnerability assessments may not give you the whole picture. There's little out-of-the-box integration of additional tools, such as other vulnerability assessment scanners, IPSes, SIEMs, etc., but you can use the flexible API to allow custom data consumption applications to be written using feeds from files/databases, etc.
One nice feature lets you correlate information from a number of threat publication sources, such as Verisign iDefense and Symantec DeepSight, in addition to custom entry of threat data.
While Archer is heavy on policy management, Control Compliance Suite 8.60 (CCS) has a deep focus on the management and monitoring of technical controls, providing quite a bit of functionality to assist in tasks like network discovery, automated validation of host technical configuration, and so on.
The software can be installed in standalone or enterprise mode, depending on whether you intend to host the database on the same box as the information server or use a different box for the database. Additionally, enterprise mode is required if you intend to make use of the Web portal integration with Microsoft IIS. We installed the product in enterprise mode, as this allowed access to the Web portal and supported a remote database and remote data collection.
Symantec's Strengths
We were able to author policy, import existing policy from Microsoft Word documents and approve publication to the CCS Web portal. The tool supports a policy authorship workflow in much the same way Archer does, allowing us to defer publication until approval and to keep a recorded archive once a new version is created.
Surprisingly, we found ourselves missing the kind of stock policy supplied by Archer. Symantec has a number of sample policies (templates), but we found that importing our own policies or creating new policies from scratch using the policy import and creation tools took less time than customizing the templates.
One feature that really stood out was the flexibility provided to map policy to the compliance frameworks and regulations CCS provides. The mechanism is a mapping editor that's reminiscent of the relationship manager feature of Microsoft Access. Though it took us a while to figure out how to use it, the mapping editor provides tremendous flexibility in making connections between policy, framework and regulatory items. The ability to see these relationships visually had a definite "cool factor." Of course, while this is a flexible approach, it requires a bit of manual interaction to maintain. An enterprise seeking to make heavy use of the policy portion of this tool would require more ramp-up time to get ready for full deployment.
CCS is very strong on technical controls. The product ships with a large number of technical standards packs that can be used as a benchmark against which to compare devices that it is aware of. The standards packs draw on familiar source material, such as NSA configuration guides and the CIS configuration benchmarks.
The technical information-gathering feature supports a very large number of devices for remote profiling. CCS can use an agent or agentlessly retrieve data across a diverse range of platforms, such as various Windows versions and multiple flavors of Unix and Linux.
The product also ships with many benchmark standards to evaluate against, to ensure that appropriate patches are applied and that appropriate configuration steps are taken.
CCS also ships with network mapping capability that allows automatic discovery of devices, which can then be imported into the risk management and asset management view.
We expected CCS to perform very strongly in technical controls validation, but were unprepared for the product to perform equally well in policy and risk management. We were pleased to see the range of technical standards and regulatory frameworks that the product ships with: multiple versions of COBIT (both 3 and 4), FDA regulations, FISMA, HIPAA, NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corp.) guidance and NIST SP 800-53 were all included.
Symantec's Weaknesses
CCS allowed us to import Symantec's questionnaires using content packs or create our own. We used the tool to create an ad hoc vendor evaluation, and found the process painful.
Each questionnaire is represented as a tree view to which questions are added. Questions can require single or multiple-choice answers, or written responses. Creating a questionnaire required us to manually enter a large number of customized answers (the templates, which were fine for yes/no questions, rarely supplied the answers we needed).
Once the questionnaire was complete, we used a wizard to assign weights to each of the questions and answer choices. All told, the process took us about an hour to create a 20 questions. If you're planning to make extensive use of this functionality, we recommend using the content packs that supply stock questionnaires rather than creating customized questionnaires from scratch.
Many vendors in the GRC space try to take the "boil the ocean" approach by being everything to everybody. Not Modulo. It doesn't have the compliance-framework creation and policy-centric features of Archer, or the technical control validation capabilities of Symantec. Instead, Modulo's aptly named Risk Manager focuses almost exclusively on the risk aspects of the GRC equation. The functionality within the other areas of GRC serves only to support the risk management mission.
Risk Manager does not have a Web front end (although you can submit questionnaires via the Web), and relies on a number of client-side applications to implement various features.
The installation process gave us quite a bit of trouble initially. Insufficient RAM on the first few lab machines we attempted to install caused the installer to fail (the test machines had double the memory requirements specified in the manual). However, with some coaching from the Modulo engineers--followed by a hardware upgrade beyond the recommended requirements--we completed the installation.
Modulo's Strengths
Its real power lies in its ability to categorize every asset in the organization--processes, applications, technical components and facilities--associate a risk level to each, and keep track of the controls that are implemented on an asset-by-asset basis. The tool also facilitates keeping track of personnel associated with the assets and threats to it.
Risk information is collected using one or more questionnaires applicable to different assets, based on their categorization. For example, data centers can be assigned one or more data center-specific questionnaires to appropriate personnel. Risk Manager gathers information about all the assets in a particular scope and quantifies the associated risk, keeping track of controls' status on an asset-by-asset basis.
You can link evidence with particular answers as well. For example, to support a response to a questionnaire about authentication, you can attach evidence in the form of policy, an export of the appropriate group policy objects governing password characteristics, and so on.
This ability to associate evidence with questionnaires should please auditors, who require proof of a particular control, rather than simply validating that a governing policy exists.
Auditors will also appreciate the ability to generate remediation plans for particular assets based on the results of the questionnaires. The remediation guidance provided for each of the assets in scope is concise, yet thorough.
Risk Manager facilitates governance of vendors and external relationships in a way the other products do not. For example, Risk Manager ships with the ability to perform a risk assessment using the Financial Institution Shared Assessments Program Standardized Information Gathering questionnaire. It also allows you to create "perimeters" (nodes on the organizational tree) for vendors and third parties. While the other products can be configured to do similar things, native support for FISAP out of the box is a real plus for organizations who use Risk Manager in an auditing context.
Other questionnaires can be assigned to assets within the vendor perimeter. This enables you to keep track of assessments performed of a particular vendor, the evidence collected during the assessment, the vendor's compensating controls, etc.
Modulo's Weaknesses
Additionally, installation was challenging; the application has very specific installation prerequisites, and any failure of the installation process (due, for example, to lack of a prerequisite, insufficient memory or a populated database instance) resulted in an error message that required technical support to interpret.
Further, the product appears to be difficult to customize. For example, some of the built-in databases (such as the threat database) are static, precluding user customization.
One Size Doesn't Fit All
But in order to know how the vendor interprets the GRC vision, you must look beyond the marketing. All of these products are marketed similarly; they get coverage from analysts in the same reports and they're lumped together in the industry press. But they're really very different.
What does that mean to the industry? Maybe we should start segmenting the GRC market to reflect the fact that these products aren't the same. What does it mean for GRC vendors? Maybe it's not a threat if your product doesn't do exactly the same thing as the other guy's product. And what does that mean for the consumer? It means you need to be extra careful before you buy: Make sure your vendor's vision of the market aligns with yours, and that the product you're buying does what you think it will.
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Did you know?
One of South Africa's most famous artists, JH Pierneef, portrayed the rocky outcrops in the Eastern Free State in his painting 'Koppie at Fouriesburg'.
Renowned artists of the Free State have depicted the rural landscapes of the interior in numerous ways – watercolours, sculpture, etchings, photography and words.
The first artists were of course the San people, and they left behind an enormous wealth of rock art in caves and dwellings that can be found all over the Free State. The conflicts between the Boers, Basotho, Batswana, Griqua and the British also inspired many artists across South Africa to put palette to canvas.
Bloemfontein artist and lecturer Jaco Spies has put together a serious of animations that examine the theme of 'land is currency' in the Free State. Dahla Hulme, who lives in Rosendal, makes eccentric sculptures out of old farming implements and animal skulls. Also inspired by the rural setting, artist Willem Pretorius creates quirky cow sculptures out of metal and junk.
Free State artists also include John Edgar, an architect based in Ladybrand who depicts the elegant lines of the koppies and plains in fetching watercolour. Richard Letsatsi Bollers (from the West Indies) shares his knowledge and love of the land by teaching up-and-coming Thaba Nchu artists how to express the landscape in individual ways.
One of the greatest artists in the Free State was 'The Painting Priest', Father Frans Claerhout, a self-taught artist who was inspired by the colours and light in the area surrounding Tweedespruit.
Artworks of the Free State have fuelled the imaginations of many of South Africa's famous artists to express their appreciation of the territory and its history. Artist Willem Boshoff (whose family line is linked directly to the history of the concentration camps) created some hard-hitting visual narratives on the concentration camps. Photographer Santu Mofokeng continues to document the spirituality of the Free State in his 'Chasing Shadows' series of photographs. Zakes Mda, Antjie Krog and Sir Laurens van Der Post have all written about the Free State in their extensive works
Creative souls all over the country continue to be inspired by the limitless skies, changing landscapes and diverse cultures of the interior.


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'Saturday Night Live' Will Add Two Rookies to the Mix
Over the course of the last couple months, 'Satuday Night Live' has lost at least three cast members, with Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg, and Abby Elliot out the door, and with a fourth, Jason Sudeikis, all but saying he wasn't coming back. Those are some shoes to fill, and it looks like they're bringing in some new kids.
The Hollywood Reporter is saying that Aidy Bryant and Tim Robinson are two of your newest 'SNL' cast members. Bryant and Robinson have done their time at Second City, with Robinson having starred in a British TV show called 'Nice Day for a Welsh Wedding.' Both have marginal credits to this point.
What this also tells us is that it's unlikely that Lorne Michaels and company will go with any ringers to replace some of the highest profile members of the cast. This is likely because most people who join 'SNL' have to sign a seven year contract, which means if you work, you're stuck on the show for a very long time. But with four cast members leaving, it's quite possible that we may see another face or two join the cast before the season premiere next Saturday, September 15.
UPDATE: 'SNL' also added Cecily Strong for the new season, yielding a total of three new cast members. Strong also hails from Chicago's Second City, where she toured nationally with the company and worked a gig on the Norwegian Jewel cruise ship with Second City Theatricals.


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A NEW exhibition capturing the changing face of the Weavers' Triangle is set to be opened by the Mayor of Burnley this weekend.
Coun Frank Cant will launch the project at the Weavers' Triangle Visitor Centre in Manchester Road on Saturday, from 11am.
Work has been carried out by the Local History Group of Burnley U3A, with the assistance of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, to bring back to life the shops, hostelries and hotels at the heart of the former cotton-making mecca.
Venues such as 'The Vic', Empire and Palace theatres all feature among a wide variety of photographs loaned by Towneley Hall art gallery and museum, before the area was redeveloped in the 1960s.
Drawings by Burnley artist Terry Bates, of local scenes, are also included in the presentation.
The event will kick off the summer season for the visitor centre, based in the old toll house, which opens from Saturdays to Tuesdays from 2pm to 4pm and is run entirely by volunteers without regular public funding.


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Even on Thanksgiving day — it's only chance to be a hero — it's tempting to pass stuffing off as just there. We expect stuffing to satisfy — as we work our way between zingy cranberry and buttery, sultry mashed potatoes —but not to surprise. It's just not the dish that makes your eyes light up …until one time it does.
The first taste of Treva Chadwell's intensely satisfying oyster dressing bids invite to the philosophies of flavor. Is flavor texture — crumbled cornbread nestled in the airy nooks of roughly cut Pugliese? Is it salt—not too little, not too much? Is flavor the naturally, pleasant sweetness that emerges when carrots and celery are cooked just right? Is it the earthy undertones of turkey stock, good crumbled sausage and freshly shucked oysters with their liqueur?
Flavor is all of these things. Flavor is balance. And it is thought.
How about that? Flavor emerges through thoughtfulness in cooking.
"I thought a lot about the way people like their oysters," said Treva about creating her oyster dressing. "My dad likes his oysters with hot sauce. In Louisiana, you see oysters cooked on the half shell with a little seasoned breadcrumb, so I played with both of those ideas. I went traditional for the seasoning — sage and thyme — but I opted for fresh herbs, because I have bad memories of the dried poultry seasoning in stuffing."
This is a stuffing that goes the extra mile — made with spicy breakfast sausage from the local butcher, homemade cornbread, hand-cut rustic Italian bread and freshly shucked oysters in their luscious liqueur.
"Those things helped to moisten the stuffing, and add an earthiness you can't get without them," Treva says.
We could have dissected the entire dish in that way, ingredient by ingredient. That's a thoughtfulness you can taste.
In the best cooking, on Thanksgiving or otherwise, everything in a dish has a reason for being. That reason doesn't have to be tradition, though it can be. And it can be whim and fancy, too. Whether you make your stuffing with oysters or dried apples, mushrooms or pecans, make it with butter and love and the kind of thought that causes each bite to raise eyebrows.
We'd love to hear, what's in your fantasy stuffing?


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True story…
While writing a Python script one day to do a little screen scraping and reporting, the topic of data loss came up between a friend and myself. I was bragging that I had never in my life accidentally lost a single file or piece of data that I wasn't able to recover. Literally seconds later, while intending to rename my script using "mv", I accidentally typed "rm" instead and deleted it.
That was just about the last time I used "rm". I now use a script which, for no particular reason, I call "rr". Rather than deleting files and/or directories, it moves them to the trash where they can be easily recovered if necessary. Here's the script itself (configured to work on OS X):
#!/bin/bash if test $1 then mv $1 ~/.Trash/ fi
Just make the script executable (
chmod 755 rr), drop it in your path, and forget "rm" ever existed.
As always, there are several other ways of doing this (remapping "rm", making an alias, using the Finder, etc.), so pick the way that works best for you. The important thing is to keep yourself from losing hours of work on the command line like I did.


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MORE than 700 businesses are on the path to growth after being signed up to Boost Business Lancashire, the county's £7.2m business growth hub.
The service, launched last June, offers access to a range of free and part-funded business support programmes to help ambitious, growing businesses in areas such as leadership, mentoring, innovation, skills and access to finance.
More than 154 businesses in Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley have accessed the service, while in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 83 firms are receiving Boost support.
Boost aims to grow the county's economy by £20m, create at least 1,200 new jobs and safeguard 700 more by 2015. The European Regional Development Fund has provided £3.6m in funding towards Boost which is being delivered by Lancashire County Council and five partners.
Andy Walker, head of business growth and innovation for Lancashire County Council, said: "We have been inundated with enquiries from Lancashire's growing businesses and this latest milestone shows just how much growth potential there is in the county. Those companies that have been accepted onto Boost programmes are benefiting from world-class business advice tailored to meet their needs."
Boost Business Lancashire is being delivered through a partnership between Lancashire County Council, Community and Business Partners, Lancaster University, Regenerate Pennine Lancashire, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and Winning Pitch. £3.6m has been provided by the European Regional Development Fund.
Businesses can sign up to the programme through the website www.boostbusiness lancashire.co.uk or call 0800 488 0057.


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TWO thousand cyclists will take to the road on Sunday in a bid to complete the 15th Saddleback Fred Whitton Challenge charity cycle ride.
The riders will start individually from Grasmere Show field between 6am and 8am to take on the gruelling 112-miles route over all the Lakeland passes.
Motorists are warned that the riders will be on the following route at these approximate times: Ambleside, 6.30am to 9.30am; Kirkstone Pass, 7am to 10 am; Keswick, 8am to 11am; Honister Pass, 9am to 12noon; Newlands Pass, 10am to 1pm; Whinlatter Pass, 10am to 1 pm; Loweswater, 11am to 2 pm; Cold Fell, 11am to 2 pm; Gosforth, 12noon to 4 pm; Hard Knott Pass, 1pm to 5pm; Wrynose Pass, 1pm to 6pm; Little Langdale, 1pm to 6 pm; Grasmere, 1pm to 6 pm.
The route will be marshalled and signposted, with warning signs for riders and motorists.
Go to the event website: www.thefredwhittonchallenge.org.uk


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In the seventh annual Mid-Plains Area All-Star Game the Girls Black Team defeated the Girls Gold Team 83-68.
In the girls game, Black took a commanding 45-33 lead into intermission and never looked back on their way to victory.
The Black team was coached by Sandhills/Thedford head coach Scott Leisy. Sam Kennedy (Sutherland) and Rachel Goltl (McCook) led Black in scoring with 15 points apiece. Brooke Frederick (Hershey) and Kate Kelley (Southwest) also were in double figures with 11 points for Black, along with Jennifer Heeren (Sidney) who finished with 10.
Shelby Allberry (Saint Patrick) finished with six points. Taylor Marten (Sandhills/Thedford), Kylie Wroot (North Platte) and Madison Tomlinson (Mullen) all chipped in four points for the Black squad. Allyson Cole (Hitchcock County) rounded out Blacks scoring with three points. Rachel Malhberg (Elwood), Anna Griffiths (Wallace) and Shania Metcalf (Perkins County were also members of the Black team.
The Gold team was coached by Holdrege head coach Trent Benjamin. Brooklynn Trew (McCook) led Gold with 11 points. Maggie Nelson (Holdrege) was also in double figures with 10.
The Gold was well balanced in scoring as Sydney Faessler (Bridgeport) and Clara Vinton (Mullen) had nine points apiece while Karissa Segelke ( Sidney) and Brittyn Munster (Gothenburg) both had eight points. Ashten Hernandez (North Platte) had four points, Taylor Wismer (Kimball) had three points, Chelsea Sowle (Wallace) and Brekkan Martinosky both had two points for the Gold team. Emma Skelton (Wauneta/Palisade) and Mandy OMalley (Saint Patrick) each contributed one point apiece. Joli Hopping (Sutherland) and Morgan Linneman (Sidney) were also members of the Gold team.
In the boys game, the game was back and forth as the Black team took a 28-27 lead into half. The Black team extended the lead late and held on to win. The Black team was coached by Leyton head coach Gary Oltmann.
Cody Wudtke (McCook) led the way with 13 points and Sam Schumacher (Leyton) was also in double figures with 11. Dakota Best (Southern Valley) was third with nine points. Cody Corfield (Paxton) and Zach Mann (Brady) both contributed eight points. Logan Koehler (Gothenburg) had seven points including a big 3 pointer late in the game.
Joe OMalley (Saint Patrick) and Luke Wright (North Platte) both had six points while Quinton Hite (Perkins County) had five. Sam Behrends (Creek Valley) had three points, Ryan Dahlgren (Bertrand) and Wyatt Anderson (Arapahoe) each chipped in two points to round out the scoring. Matt Aten (Overton) was also on the Black team.
The Gold team was coached by Arapahoe head coach Bob Braithwait. Joseph Clinch (Saint Patrick) led the Gold team with 11 points. Nick High (Bertrand) was close behind with nine.
Spencer Kucera (Southern Valley) and Zane Peterson (Cambridge) both contributed seven points for Gold. Joseph Rettele (Dundy County/Stratton) had six points, while Riley Rice (Mullen), Jack Kenny (North Platte) and Lucas Gleisberg (Medicine Valley) all scored five. Austin Starr (SMC) and Dylan Johnson (Hershey) both finished with four points.
Gage Schutz (Arapahoe) had three points while Zach Morland (Paxton) and Isaac Watson (Arapahoe) both finished with two. Tanner Cline (South Loup) was also on the Gold team.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - A 14-year-old arrested last month in connection with riding in a stolen SUV that crashed has been arrested again, accused of stealing another car last Friday and crashing it, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.
David Adams is charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle.
During the preliminary investigation of the traffic crash, it was determined the driver of the 1998 Toyota Corolla fled the scene, deputies said.
The Florida Highway Patrol responded to investigate the factors that caused the crash.
The vehicle was reported stolen Friday morning from the Spot Cafe on State Road 16. At the time of the crash, the driver fled on foot, deputies said.
Witnesses and evidence linked Adams, of St. Augustine, as the driver of the vehicle, deputies said, his second arrest within two weeks in connection with vehicle theft. A 12-year-old was also arrested in the first vehicle theft.
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GSM modems only handle a throughput of around eight messages per minute, so sending that number is going to take a very long time. Anything beyond the 100's and I'd certainly recommend using an online aggregator where possible (of course, this requires an Internet connection). Clickatell and IntelliSMS are both supported by FrontlineSMS (IntelliSMS is a little easier to set up). I don't think you're going to need to do anything with local providers either way, and even if you did it would likely be a long, painful and potentially expensive process.
if your only option was a GSM modem, then you can attach multiple devices to the computer, so in effect adding a second modem would double the sending speed, and so on. Three modems *should* give you up to 24 messages sent per minute, for example, but you would also need multiple SIM cards and you would then be sending from three different numbers.
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Woodburn Center for Community Mental Health and Inova Fairfax Hospital Special Study
Please Note: if you wish to to contact Woodburn Center for Community Mental Health please call 703-573-0523
This page is for information on the planning study for the Woodburn Center for Community Mental Health to address land use impacts of the proposed expansion of the facility. Those seeking information on servies provided by the services provided by the Woodburn Center for Community Mental Health should call 703-573-0523 for assistance.
On January 7, 2008, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors authorized a Special Planning Study of the Woodburn Center for Community Mental Health, the adjoining County and Inova-owned properties, and the Inova Fairfax Hospital Campus. The Board also directed the Department of Planning and Zoning to coordinate with Supervisor Smyth's office to convene a citizen task force for the study. County staff worked with the community task force and with representatives from Inova to study and address potential impacts from the proposed hospital expansion. The proposed expansion consists of additional medical care and related uses up to 1.0 FAR for the subject property. This additional development would be comprised of approximately 577,780 square feet of hospital and ambulatory care uses to be located south of the existing hospital. Materials from the task force meetings can be obtained by contacting the Department of Planning and Zoning at the contact information below.
On June 23, 2010, the Planning Commission recommended adoption of the staff recommendation with modifications to the language related to energy efficiency and conservation strategies and related to a connector roadway on the site. On July 27, 2010, the Board of Supervisors adopted the Planning Commission recommendation. The Comprehensive Plan has been updated to reflect the adopted text shown below. The recommendations for the site can be found in Area I, Merrifield Suburban Center, Sub-unit M1 of the Comprehensive Plan.
Adopted Text (July 27, 2010)
Planning Commission Recommendation (June 23, 2010)
Staff Report for Plan Amendment ST08-I-MS1 (June 9, 2010)
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Did you know?
Stellenbosch American Express® Wine Routes recently celebrated 40 years of wine tourism in the region.
Imagine the biggest mall you can, then take off its roof, replace its escalators and lifts with breathtaking mountain passes and green hillsides, swap its stores for wine estates, and keep the restaurants, but give them exceptional menus, wine lists and glorious vineyard views.
Exchange the supermarkets for specialist cheese, berry and olive farms, and lastly, whitewash and thatch the store fronts and give the big-name department stores a signature scalloped gable, slave bell, or museum. Welcome to the Stellenbosch American Express® Wine Routes.
Found around Stellenbosch (Van der Stel's forest), South Africa's second oldest town, this historic region reflects three centuries of occupation in its Dutch, Georgian and Victorian architecture.
The Stellenbosch winelands are a joy any time of year, boasting fabulous wine, rich Cape Dutch heritage, slick, professionally run wine estates, some of the country's finest restaurants, and countryside.
Broadly speaking, the Stellenbosch wine district is a coastal wine region, containing the wards of the Jonkershoek Valley, recognised for cabernet sauvignons and blends; Simonsberg-Stellenbosch, known for cabernet sauvignon, pinotage and reds generally; Pappegaaiberg which is chardonnay territory; Devon Valley, producing wickedly good red blends; and Bottelary, noted for powerful shiraz, pinotage and Bordeaux blends.
Westward, the Polkdraai Hills and Banhoek are known for cabernet sauvignons and shiraz, while Stellenboschberg, the Helderberg and Faure (not official appellations) produce both good reds and whites.
The wine route in Stellenbosch has been divided into five sub-routes by virtue of their user-friendliness as opposed to official wards, wine styles, or geographical location.
This bite-size approach helps visitors get the most out of their winelands experiences, on a route that caters to history buffs, golfers, families, romantic couples, nature lovers, gourmands, casual quaffers and serious pilgrims of the grape.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Stellenbosch American Express ® Wine Routes
Tel: +27 (0)21 886 4310
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Stellenbosch Tourism
Tel: +27 (0)21 883 3584
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
How to get here
From Cape Town International Airport, take the N1 to Kraaifontein, and take the Stellenbosch turn off.
Best time to visit
September (spring) – April (autumn) is peak season, harvesting happens between January and April, and from May to October, avoid the hordes and enjoy personal attention and log fires.
Around the area
Saturday Market at Oude Libertas, Stellenbosch Botanical Gardens, golf, hot-air ballooning, helicopter flips and winelands spas.
Tours to do
Explore Stellenbosch's mountain roads: Helshoogte and the Jonkershoek Valley. Wine tasting tour at Donkey Walk, Polkadraai Hills. Historic tours of Stellenbosch; Kayamandi township, quad biking, tractor rides and horse riding in the vineyards.
Get around
A hire car, personal tour guide or a tour operator is your best bet. There is no "yellow cab" service in Stellenbosch. A metered taxi from Cape Town is a plausible, but expensive option.
What will it cost
The cost of a wine tasting varies from cellar to cellar, and will typically require that you buy a glass in the tasting room to taste their wines. Phone ahead or enquire about prices at the cellar door.
Length of stay
From an afternoon to two weeks.
What to pack
In summer, sun protection is recommended; in winter a warm coat and an umbrella.
Where to stay
Accommodation ranges from backpackers lodges and self-catering cottages in the vineyards to five-star boutique hotels. Some historic stays in, or near Stellenbosch include: d'Ouwe Werf, Lanzerac Manor, the Eendracht Boutique Hotel, Stellenbosch.
What to eat
Pick strawberries on-farm in November at Mooiberg, and assorted berries from Hillcrest Berry Orchard. Shop for cheese, olives, olive oil, plums, peaches and nectarines from local fruit farms, and table grapes in harvest season. Cape Dutch/Cape Malay cuisine: The Volkskombuis.
What's happening
The Stellenbosch Wine Festival in July; the Woordfees (Afrikaans Word Festival) in March; the Helderberg Wine Festival in October, and the Summer in Stellenbosch Festival in December.
Best buys
Stellenbosch is Cabernet land, Morgenster olives and olive oil, fresh berries (in season) from Hillcrest Berry Orchard, homemade and organic produce from farmers markets and farm stalls.


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WOBURN, Mass., Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. today reported that FX006, its novel intra-articular, sustained release steroid, maintained therapeutic concentrations in the knee joint significantly longer than the most commonly prescribed immediate release (IR) steroid, triamcinolone acetonide (TCA) in a Phase 2 pharmacokinetic study. At six weeks, FX006, a sustained release formulation of TCA, remained in the joint at clinically active concentrations while the IR steroid was no longer detectible. Patients treated with FX006 also showed a significantly reduced systemic exposure to the parent steroid compared to the IR formulation. FX006 was well tolerated at all doses throughout the study.
"FX006's sustained release formulation allowed the concentration of steroid at the site of osteoarthritic disease to remain at therapeutic levels for the duration of the six-week study," said Neil Bodick, M.D., Ph.D., co-founder and chief medical officer of Flexion. "The sustained steroid levels have the potential to result in persistent suppression of synovitis which may prove beneficial to patients by extending symptomatic relief and slowing disease progression."
Michael Clayman, M.D., co-founder and chief executive officer of Flexion added, "These data, together with the reduced systemic steroid exposure seen with FX006 compared to the IR steroid, validate our sustained release, intra-articular approach for giving our drugs the best chance to work locally while minimizing the risk of systemic side effects."
About The Study
This trial was a double-blind, parallel group, active comparator pharmacokinetics study in which 24 patients with osteoarthritis were randomized to receive sustained release FX006 (10, 40 or 60mg) or IR TCA (40 mg) via intra-articular injection. Eighteen patients received FX006 while six received the commonly prescribed IR TCA.
About Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is a leading cause of disability that affects more than 27 million adults in the U.S. and more than 100 million people worldwide. Almost 50% of people in the U.S. will experience the pain of osteoarthritis in their lifetime. Current treatment is inadequate. Oral therapies have limited pain relief and serious cardiovascular, liver and gastrointestinal side effects as well as black box warnings. Available intra-articular therapies are generally well-tolerated but provide limited therapeutic efficacy or provide good pain relief with an inadequate duration of effect. Despite these inadequacies, there are over 50 million intra-articular injections per year worldwide with sales in excess of $1.5 billion a year.
About FX006
FX006 is Flexion's novel, proprietary, sustained-release, intra-articular formulation of triamcinolone acetonide for the treatment of mild to moderate OA of the knee. It is designed to provide prolonged pain relief while avoiding untoward systemic effects associated with steroids as front-line therapy. In preclinical models of OA, FX006 demonstrates both superior efficacy to immediate release steroids and beneficial effects on structural progression. A Phase 2b dose-ranging study evaluating safety and efficacy is currently underway in Canada and Australia and will include sites in the U.S. beginning in January; data are expected in the middle of 2013.
About Flexion Therapeutics
Flexion is a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics for musculoskeletal disorders. In our efforts to provide products with superior efficacy and safety, we are merging novel pharmacology with local, sustained delivery of drug to the site of disease an approach that aims to ensure lasting therapeutic effect and systemic safety. We are currently advancing a portfolio of best-in-class drug candidates that have the potential to treat mild, moderate and severe forms of osteoarthritis. Top-line data for FX005, an intra-articular sustained release p38 MAP kinase inhibitor and our lead compound, showed prolonged improvement in joint pain and function throughout the 12-week duration of the Phase 2 study. FX006, an intra-articular sustained release steroid, is currently being evaluated in a Phase 2b dose-ranging study with data expected in the middle of 2013. FX007, an intra-articular sustained release TrkA inhibitor, is being developed to safely address the intractable pain associated with end-stage osteoarthritis.
For more information please visit www.flexiontherapeutics.com.
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FAKE £50 notes are being circulated in Blackburn.
Traders have reported the counterfeit cash being used in their stores to make purchases, prompting a police investigation.
One of the latest businesses to become a victim was The E-Cig Shop, in Limbrick, whose manager Annis Mangera said smaller companies were being put under strain by the use of fake notes.
Officers have now released CCTV images of a man they would like to speak to in connection with the frauds at the Limbrick store.
Father-of-two Mr Mangera said his shop assistant was tricked into believing the notes were real by a man who used a £50 to buy an electronic cigarette. He was given £40 in change, but then said he needed to buy some fluid, which he tried to pay for with a £20 note, Mr Mangera said.
When the worker challenged the man about the money, which the manager said was obviously fake, the fraudster pulled out another £50 to pay for the item, before leaving the shop.
Mr Mangera said: "The same guy came into the shop a few days beforehand, I suppose to suss the place out.
"The next time he came in, he said he had just got the notes from the bank and my shop assistant did notice that he had about 10 of them in his wallet. I am a small trader, I am not worth millions. You can take an occasional hit if you are a bigger business, but when you only on average make £100 a day, it does annoy you.
"I am a working man and I just want to make my living legally and feed my family."
The man officers believe might be able to help them with their inquiries was described as being Asian, with very short black hair and in his mid to late 20s.
PC Anna Gavela, from Lancashire Police's planned response unit, appealed for anybody with information about the counterfeit money or anybody who knew the man to come forward.
She said: "The man apparently had a large bundle of these notes so has very possibly passed them in other shops.
"This may not be connected, however it does look like there are quite a lot of these notes in circulation and it would be interesting to know if they are coming from the same source."
Anybody with information should call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.


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I've always complained to my Beatport rep that I really want to be able to customize the embedable player to fit my label's website. I mean lime green and dark blue isn't exacly what you would call a neutral color scheme. I still have not recieved my wish however today they released some nice looking banner generators.
Introducing the Beatport Banner Generator
Beatport has created a new tool to provide graphic assistance for the promotion of your new music. The dynamic banners created by the generator will update automatically with links to your current releases. Here's the URL and easy instructions:
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You don't have to be a Beatport label partner to access the generator so if you want to help your favorite artist out grab a banner and promote away.


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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Police say the bodies of a woman and her 1-year-old daughter have been found in a Cleveland garage next to the body of the estranged boyfriend suspected of kidnapping them.
Cleveland Police Sgt. Sammy says the three were found with gunshot wounds shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday in the closed garage at an unoccupied building. He says it appears the man had shot himself in the head.
Police have said Thomas Lorde had abducted 19-year-old Latasha Jackson and her daughter Chaniya Wynn around noon Saturday as the mother pushed the girl in a stroller.
An Amber Alert issued following their disappearance says Lorde was armed and described him as a violent sexual predator with outstanding felony warrants in New York.