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Patrick Healy has a piece in the N.Y. Times blog The Caucus about a press conference on the Clinton campaign plane over Arizona on Saturday night. Healy notes "one interesting comment" from the presser:
She noted that at a conversation with a small group of voters in Los Angeles Saturday morning, no one brought up the Iraq war with her.
"Voters don't mention it to me anymore," she said. "People have still the same level of concern and outrage about President Bush's policy in Iraq, but there seems to be an awareness that we have to wait to have a Democrat in the White House."
I think Clinton is right on this. When I talk to people these days, the level of bemoaning the Iraq War that was prevalent a few months ago has faded.
What seems to be on everyone's minds instead is the economy. Folks are worried about rising gas prices and the effect they have had on the price of consumer goods. Folks are worried about the foreclosure crisis and the fact that in January "the economy lost 17,000 jobs."
Todd Beeton has a post up on MYDD about the large rally that Hillary Clinton held here in Los Angeles yesterday. Beeton notes:
Between her rally in San Diego yesterday and then the one here in Los Angeles today, Clinton seems to be sending one very distinct message: Southern California is Clinton country. Gotta tell you, it sure felt like it today. As I drove onto the campus of Cal State Los Angeles in East LA, I was followed by what looked like a neverending stream of cars. Once on campus, as I approached the gym where the rally was being held I found a ridiculously long line, again, seemingly neverending (see video below.) I've not seen anything like this at any Clinton event I've been to, these are the kinds of crowds Barack Obama gets, not Hillary Clinton.
And Beeton also noted:
And the excitement in that room was, as cliche as it sounds, electric. People like to chalk Clinton's popularity in the polls up to her name recognition and her status as the "establishment" candidate but, as I've said before, her opponents underestimate the passion people have for her at their peril.
Check out this video of the "electric" response to Hillary:
Rep. Maxine Waters was there speaking on behalf of Hillary, she reiterated the point about the economy:
"My constituents have trouble keeping their homes and feeding their kids. They wake up every morning with all the hope in the world that things will get better; they don't need anymore hope, what they need is help!"
The "Unions were out in force for Hillary" says Beeton, "AFSCME members in their trademark green shirts and signs and United Farm Workers in red, chanting Si Se Puede at various times before and during the event."
In fact, all throughout the event the crowd, which was largely hispanic but my no means predominantly so, would continue the chant, alternating between "Si Se Puede," "Yes We Can" and then, and this seemed to spring up spontaneously from the crowd, "Yes She Can!"


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SAN JOSE, Calif. Is a technology called evanescent wave lithography (EWL) the next big thing in semiconductor manufacturing?
For years, researchers at the California Institute of Technology, the University of California at Berkeley and other universities have been exploring EWL. Some know this near-field technology as "contact lithography."
In this approach, which is still in the R&D stage but talked about for some time, an evanescent optical field is set up directly below a contact mask, enabling sub-micron resolutions, according to researchers.
At the upcoming SPIE Microlithography conference here, which is slated from Feb. 19-24, the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is expected to present a paper that claims it has produced a 26-nm image based on EWL. This, in turn, opens EWL as an extension to conventional projection lithography as a means for sub-32-nm chip production, according to RIT.
"This is very different from the evanescent wave imaging, also called near-field or contact imaging, at Berkeley and others," said Bruce Smith, RIT's professor of microelectronic engineering and director of the Center for Nanolithography Research in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering.
"We do not place a mask in contact with an image plane, which would be difficult to implement into manufacturing. Our evanescent wave lithography (EWL vs. evanescent wave imaging) is a more logical extension to optical lithography," Smith said.
"We are using projection imaging to direct images from the bottom element of the optical system through media with refractive indices lower than the numerical aperture of the imaging system," he said. "We have been able to achieve numerical apertures up to 1.85 NA, well beyond the refractive index of any immersion fluid or photoresist currently available for 193-nm exposure."
The technology has potential in the future . "Immersion lithography has pushed the limits of optical imaging," he added. "Evanescent wave lithography continues to extend this reach well into the future."
Immersion lithography is limited by Snell's Law to numerical apertures (NA) less than the lowest refractive index material in a lithography imaging system. Currently, with fused silica optics, high-index immersion fluids, and ArF photoresists, the largest theorectical numerical aperture is about 1.65.

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Bunia - Ethnic militias backed by neighbouring states who battled this year in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo are ravaging the hard-to-reach region for its untapped mineral resources.
DRC's volatile Ituri province, where a multinational UN force is taking over from a French-led force on Monday to prevent deadly inter-ethnic clashes, is home to rich deposits of gemstones, various minerals and oil.
"Foreign powers, with the collaboration of our Congolese friends, are organising wars with our country's resources," Emmanuel Kataliko, the late archbishop of Bukavu in northeastern DRC, said in 1999.
"Our country, and we ourselves, have become an object to be exploited," he added.
Colette Braeckman, a Belgian journalist and expert on central Africa's Great Lakes region, said the archbishop's analysis "identified the cause of multiple conflicts that are laying waste to DRC: the draw of resources in a country that is undoubtedly one of the last 'wild west' zones on earth."
In her book, The New Predators, Braeckman explains that in the era of economic globalisation, "there are no more taboos. The entire world has become fair game for multinational corporations looking for short-term profits."
Deposits of diamonds, copper, coal, iron, cobalt, uranium, tin, niobium and coltan are largely untouched in DRC, she says, as opposed to most other parts of the world, where mineral deposits are nearly or totally tapped out.
Coltan is a rare ore found in commercial quantities in eastern DRC that is refined into metallic tantalum, a costly material used in cellphones, laptop computers and other small electronic devices.
Hydrocarbon deposits located under Lake Kivu and Lake Albert, located near the powder-keg town of Bunia in Ituri province, are also highly coveted.
Illegally mined ores and gems are smuggled through the capitals of Rwanda and Uganda, which border DRC, or through Zimbabwe to the south - and then sold throughout the world.
All three countries have been involved in DRC's civil war, launched in 1998 and supposedly ended by a peace deal formalised in April, which has left about 2,5 million people dead, either in combat or through disease and malnutrition.
But fighting has raged in various parts of DRC since then, notably in the Ituri region, where inter-tribal fighting has killed 50 000 people since 1999.
In a report to the UN Security Council in October last year, a panel of experts accused "elite networks" of high-ranking DRC officials and foreign countries of using the war as a front to plunder DRC of its natural resources.
"The elite networks maintain the facade of rebel administrations in the occupied areas" to generate and then steal public revenues, it said.
"The looting that was previously conducted by the armies themselves has been replaced by organized systems of embezzlement, tax fraud, extortion, the use of stock options as kickbacks and diversion of state funds."


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Red Hat Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing
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Description Thomas Vander Stichele 2009-08-16 11:01:15 EDT
Description of problem: Was typing in a terminal and it froze. Logged in from a different machine, got a backtrace from gdb: (gdb) bt #0 __lll_lock_wait_private () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/lowlevellock.S:97 #1 0x0000003bc987cb1b in _L_lock_9857 () at hooks.c:126 #2 0x0000003bc987a7e7 in *__GI___libc_malloc (bytes=21) at malloc.c:3635 #3 0x0000003bc9405272 in local_strdup ( s=0x7faf8c165337 "/lib64/libgcc_s.so.1") at dl-load.c:162 #4 0x0000003bc9408b8d in _dl_map_object (loader=0x7fafa0324000, name=0x3bc99318fa "libgcc_s.so.1", preloaded=<value optimized out>, type=<value optimized out>, trace_mode=<value optimized out>, mode=-1879048191, nsid=0) at dl-load.c:2143 #5 0x0000003bc94130a9 in dl_open_worker (a=<value optimized out>) at dl-open.c:289 #6 0x0000003bc940e706 in _dl_catch_error (objname=<value optimized out>, errstring=<value optimized out>, mallocedp=<value optimized out>, operate=<value optimized out>, args=<value optimized out>) at dl-error.c:178 #7 0x0000003bc9412a27 in _dl_open (file=0x3bc99318fa "libgcc_s.so.1", mode=-2147483647, caller_dlopen=0x0, nsid=-2, argc=9, argv=0x0, env=0x7fffa8321e38) at dl-open.c:615 #8 0x0000003bc991b010 in do_dlopen (ptr=0x7fffa83212f0) at dl-libc.c:86 #9 0x0000003bc940e706 in _dl_catch_error (objname=<value optimized out>, errstring=<value optimized out>, mallocedp=<value optimized out>, operate=<value optimized out>, args=<value optimized out>) ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- at dl-error.c:178 #10 0x0000003bc991b177 in dlerror_run (args=<value optimized out>, operate=<value optimized out>) at dl-libc.c:47 #11 *__GI___libc_dlopen_mode (args=<value optimized out>, operate=<value optimized out>) at dl-libc.c:160 #12 0x0000003bc98f3a75 in init () at ../sysdeps/ia64/backtrace.c:41 #13 0x0000003bca40c4f3 in pthread_once () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_once.S:94 #14 0x0000003bc98f3b74 in *__GI___backtrace (array=<value optimized out>, size=32) at ../sysdeps/ia64/backtrace.c:79 #15 0x00000000004e89b6 in xorg_backtrace () at backtrace.c:39 #16 0x000000000047d63f in xf86SigHandler (signo=11) at xf86Events.c:385 #17 <signal handler called> #18 _int_malloc (av=0x3bc9b69e80, bytes=24) at malloc.c:4311 #19 0x0000003bc987a7f2 in *__GI___libc_malloc (bytes=24) at malloc.c:3638 #20 0x00000000004d56d8 in miRectAlloc (pRgn=0x7a21c50, n=1) at miregion.c:378 #21 0x00007faf9efb1e61 in fbPixmapToRegion (pPix=<value optimized out>) at fbpixmap.c:249 #22 0x00000000004cda5c in miChangeClip (pGC=0x46eb6c0, type=1, pvalue=0x46973a0, nrects=0) at migc.c:84 #23 0x000000000052dcc4 in damageChangeClip (pGC=0x46eb6c0, type=1, pvalue=0x46973a0, nrects=0) at damage.c:551 #24 0x000000000045892f in dixChangeGC (client=<value optimized out>, ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- pGC=0x46eb6c0, mask=524288, pC32=0x9c1a058, pUnion=0x0) at gc.c:448 #25 0x0000000000445738 in ProcChangeGC (client=0x46e0830) at dispatch.c:1388 #26 0x0000000000446ee4 in Dispatch () at dispatch.c:437 #27 0x000000000042d0d5 in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=0x7fffa8321de8, envp=<value optimized out>) at main.c:397 Current language: auto; currently asm strace continuously prints out this: --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- rt_sigreturn(0xe) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) futex(0x3bc9b69e80, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- rt_sigreturn(0xe) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) futex(0x3bc9b69e80, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- rt_sigreturn(0xe) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) futex(0x3bc9b69e80, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- rt_sigreturn(0xe) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) futex(0x3bc9b69e80, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL^C <unfinished ...> desktop is hung, going to kill it now Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-server-Xorg-188.8.131.521-1.fc11.x86_64
Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2009-08-19 15:18:48 EDT
Well that's embarassing. backtrace_symbols() calls malloc, but we call it from a signal handler, so if malloc faults, we deadlock. Now why malloc faulted, who knows.
Comment 2 Stefan Becker 2009-09-18 14:42:48 EDT
Duplicate of bug #517625? I'm currently trying to get a gdb backtrace from my machine....
Comment 3 Stefan Becker 2009-09-18 15:41:31 EDT
I got a different backtrace. I've opened a new bug #524312 as in my case this seems to be caused by xorg-x11-drv-ati & EXA.
Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2009-11-05 12:14:02 EST
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates in various components of the Xorg system, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their packages (at least F12Beta, but even better if the very latest versions). Please, if you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you. If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you. [This is a bulk message for all open Fedora Rawhide Xorg-related bugs. I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]
Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 06:29:21 EST
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 6 Michiel 2009-12-23 23:48:48 EST
this is still happening a lot for me. Actually it started after upgrading to F12 (from F11, although clean install, not upgrade) - running F12 - all packages updated until today (Dec 23) (using main and updates repos only) 1. every so often (hard to predict when), screen completely freezes and unable to go to console. 2. ssh-ing in from another machine works and finds Xorg on 100% CPU (sometimes even over) 3. reboot seems the only option In the last few days has happened, at least a few times a day. I normally never reboot, only suspend. Not sure how to provide more information, but next time, I'll see if the "(gdb) bt" option gives anything useful. I have a Dual screen setup with my Laptop and external screen. Driver used is Radeon, nothing fancy
Comment 7 Matěj Cepl 2010-02-26 07:21:15 EST
Could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you. [Note please, that this is machine generated comment for large amount of bugs; due to some technical issues, it is possible we've missed some of the responses -- it is happens, please, just a make a comment about that; that we will see. Thank you]
Comment 8 Michiel 2010-02-27 15:35:45 EST
sure, close it. I'm afraid I can't provide any more data. After having used Redhat since version 5.2, I found myself forced to switch to Ubuntu (for now), as this problem made my work impossible. I had to force-reboot (hold power down) several times a day. I tried installing backtrace stuff (like Thomas describes), but I'm unfamiliar with how that works and I never got it to work. Googling found that I'm not alone, but if you can't reproduce it, then yes, I can imagine you will need to close it "unable to reproduce".
Comment 9 Matěj Cepl 2010-03-03 13:33:13 EST
So, I am sorry, we've lost that faithful friend of RH/Fedora distros, but apparently the situation hasn't changed much from comment 1. It is obvious there is a problem, but we have no clue where. Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA but please reopen if you get any more information about it. Good luck with Ubuntu!


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|Pardon the Expression
|Episode number
|The Big Hotel
|ITV broadcast date
|21st February 1966 (Monday)
|John Finch
|Michael Cox
|Michael Grimes
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|The Home Help
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|The Gaolbirds
Leonard Swindley and Wally Hunt are in London for the purpose of exhibiting Dobson and Hawkes dressware at a trade fair at Olympia. Mr Hunt has told his beloved wife that such visits are hard work and far too strenuous for her, meaning that he intends to enjoy himself in the capital. He orders Swindley to obtain two models for the clothes - by which he means plastic dummies - but Swindley assumes he means catwalk models and the willing porter of the hotel, used to helping with such requests, gives him the telephone number of a callgirl agency in Mayfair. Two girls, Dawn and Samantha, are sent along to Swindley and Hunt's hotel rooms. Things look bad but get even worse when Mrs Hunt turns up, concerned for the stress that her husband will be suffering over the trade fair. Hunt passes off the girls are Swindley's affair and the little man, somewhat out of pocket, is beleaguered by the girls for their fees...
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Guest castEdit
- The Hon Mrs Wentworth Brewster - Betty Driver
- Hotel Manager - Geoffrey Palmer
- Dawn - Christine Hargreaves
- Samantha - Geraldine Moffatt
- Receptionist (Miss Ashton) - Bernadette Hughson
- Porter (Johnson) - Jack Woolgar
- Mrs Hunt - Avis Bunnage
- The name of this episode in the 1966 TV Times was "The Big Hotel" whereas the 2009 Network DVD named it just "Big Hotel".
- Betty Driver appears, not in her usual rule of Mrs Edgeley, but as her exact double, The Hon Mrs Wentworth Brewster, an upper-class lady who is also in the hotel.
- Former Coronation Street regular Christine Hargreaves (who played Christine Appleby from 1960 to 1963) appears once again with Arthur Lowe in this episode.
- This episode was transmitted on Thursday 24th February at 10.10pm by Television Wales and the West and on Friday 25th February by both Scottish Television and Anglia Television (at 9.10pm and 10.52pm respectively). It was scheduled to be transmitted on on Wednesday 23rd February at 9.10pm by both Border Television and Tyne Tees Television but was replaced by coverage of international football. Along with the rest of the second season the episode was not transmitted by Westward Television, Ulster Television, Channel Television or the Teledu Cymru service of Television Wales and the West.
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 5,225,000 homes (chart placing unknown but outside the top twenty).
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This episode was included in Network DVD collection Pardon the Expression - The Complete Second Series, released on 24th August, 2009.


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A matryoshka doll, otherwise called a Babushka doll, a Russian nested doll or a stacking doll, is a set of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other.[1] We will create each part of the Matryoshka on the separate layer, it will make easier to draw and transform shapes on the stage.
1We will start by opening new Flash file (actionscript 3.0).
2Go to View – Snapping, and turn off (uncheck) all the snaps there.
3With an Oval tool draw a circle on the stage by holding the Shift key. You can change the color of the circle by clicking on it with the Selection Tool, and choosing the Fill color in the Color palette (Window – Color), and Stroke color to None. It will be the Matryoshka's headscarf.
4Copy and Paste the circle on the new layer. Make a second circle, smaller than the first with the Free Transform Tool and holding Shift. It will be our Matryoshka's face.
5Select layer 1 and draw loose ends of the headscarf with the same color as the headscarf with the Brush tool. When you are drawing overlapping shapes in Flash on the same layer and with same color, Flash will convert these shapes in one. To pick the color from the headscarf, use the Eyedropper tool.
6With Transform or Selection tool click on the face shape and move it inside the headscarf. You can still change the face or headscarf shape separately, because we draw them on separate layers.
7Now we will start to draw the face itself. Create the new layer. Choose the Brush tool and change the size if you need. With the Zoom Tool you can zoom on the face. Start to paint the eyes and hair, small mouth and two dots for the nose. You can fill the lips and eyes with the color using the Paint Bucket tool. When you are ready, and want to see the rest of the stage, you can scale your Workspace back.
8On the new layer, create the body with the Oval tool, and the base for body with the square.
9Move and place the head and the body together. To select shapes on the stage, use the Selection Tool and hold and drag around the shapes, or select each shape holding Shift key. You also can select a layer, and it will select all the shapes on that layer.
10On the new layer start to draw sleeve and small hand, using the Brush Tool. Then, we need to select these shapes and copy and paste them on the same layer.
11Using Transform tool, make the mirror of the hand, and drag it in place. If you want to select particular layers or shapes not touching rest of the picture, just lock the layers that you don't want to use.
12On the new layer we will draw a sarafan (it is a Russian dress) with the Circle Tool. You will see that shape of the sarafan will be on top, it is because our layer is on top of the other layers. Simply drag the layer down to the desired position.
13The last drawing step will be flowers. Create the new layer, and draw one or two flowers with the Brush Tool. When using the Free Transform Tool, change and copy the flowers. Keep your flowers on one layer and move the layer down and on top the sarafan layer. We finished with drawing part.
14If you want to add something to the shape, make sure that the layer that you need to draw on is selected. For example, I added some details to headscarf. To prepare the Matryoshka for animation we will change the shapes to movie clips. I will show you how to do that and how to animate Matryoshka in next tutorial.
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Hebrew Anti-gay Facebook Page Hacked and Turned Into Pro-gay Forum
'I also hate gays' had drawn over 150 users before it was hacked and turned into the 'I also love gays' group.
A user on social networking site Facebook managed on Wednesday to hack into an anti-gay group on the popular site, and change it into a pro-gay forum complete with homoerotic photos and videos.
The original group, "I also hate gays" had attracted over a 150 users and a spawn of copycat groups after it was started days after a shooting at a Tel Aviv gay center that left two dead and over a dozen wounded.
The group had featured a manifesto calling on people to join "if you don't care what happened on Saturday night, if you are tired of gay people talking about their sexual deviation" and saying its goal was to attract people looking to "shut-up Israel's homosexual community".In the hacked version of the group, the administrators have been removed, the new title says "I also love gays" and it features messages in the description that say: "This is fate" and "you idiots, you deserved me hacking into here", an apparent message to the founders of the original group.
In addition to photos of muscular, shirtless men, the group also features a memorial video for Nir Katz, 26, who was murdered in last Saturday's shooting.
Within minutes of the group being hacked, the Facebook member who founded the original, anti-gay version penned several comments to the group asking for members' forgiveness and saying he started the group "in a moment of stupidity".
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Bruce Berkowitz (Trades, Portfolio) still has almost 42% of his Fairholme Fund (Trades, Portfolio) (FAIRX) in American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG), a holdover from his massive bet on U.S. financials post-economic crisis. As of year-end, he also holds massive stakes in his new venture, national home mortgage entities Fannie Mae (FNMA) (20 million common shares and 66 million preferred shares) and Freddie Mac (FMCC) (52 million preferred shares). The average gain of the new positions is the highest of all investors tracked by GuruFocus over the past six months, beating out those of Robert Karr (Trades, Portfolio), FPA Capital Fund (Trades, Portfolio) and Seth Klarman (Trades, Portfolio), who come after with him double-digit gains. In the past half-year, the Fairholme Fund (Trades, Portfolio)'s new positions have advanced 69.67%, while all of Bruce Berkowitz (Trades, Portfolio)'s new stocks went up 44.24%.
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In the last half of 2013, Berkowitz purchased 29 new stocks, which consisted almost entirely of various classes of preferred shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Though Fannie Mae shares fell under a dollar in 2010 and languished between 60 cents and a quarter for the next two years due to their leading role in the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, the price popped 421% in the past year. Freddie Mac's share price followed an almost identical path. On Friday, both companies are priced around $3.55 a share.
Berkowitz first disclosed a position in the mortgage companies in the second quarter of 2013 and has been active in influencing their fate since. The premise of his investment at the time centered on their position within the U.S. financial System. The companies back 60 percent of new mortgages in the country, making home ownership less costly and more available for millions of families. In addition, he found them steeply discounted due to a false market perception.
"The Fund was able to purchase the preferred stocks of Fannie and Freddie near one-fifth of liquidation values – a significant bargain thanks to market predictions of U.S. Government agencies expropriating their assets. We see them differently," he wrote in his second quarter 2013 letter.
Berkowitz also immediately filed suit against the Court of Federal Claims and U.S. District Court in Washington demanding that the companies pay dividends to their preferred shareholders. Under a 2012 amendment, the entities are required to wind down by 2018.
The government first became involved with the entities in 2008, offering to bail them out and receive a 10% dividend until it was repaid. Berkowitz explained the new situation in a December interview with USA Today:
"Then in 2012, in good times, the government changed the terms. Instead of collecting a 10% annual dividend, they said "we want everything.'' And they were negotiating with themselves (because Fannie and Freddie are controlled by the Federal Housing Finance Administration). That's what we're fighting."
Later, Berkowitz offered to buy the insurance businesses from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for approximately $52 billion in private investor capital, and turn them into new, state-regulated private insurance companies to repurchase and run Fannie and Freddie. As of March 6, Fairholme Fund (Trades, Portfolio)s says the offer still stands and "there are no other viable alternatives to restructure Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
Berkowitz's latest public move with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac occurred March 3, when he sent letters to the board of directors of both entities, demanding sweeping corporate governance changes. He called on the directors to rebuild capital by retaining earnings, halt borrowing to pay voluntary dividends to the U.S. Treasury, become more fiscally responsible in decision making, among other directives. The letters also request an annual shareholder meeting and the relisting of the companies on the New York Stock Exchange.
Berkowitz's missives came a week after Fannie Mae's board paid the U.S. Treasury $7.2 billion in cash dividends and Freddie Mac's paid it $10.4 billion in dividends, officially repaying their respective bailouts.
The restructuring dreams Berkowitz has for the entities hang in the balance as of March 12, when two senators introduced a bipartisan plan to shut them down in five years. According to the draft of the bill, the entities would continue to pay their profits to the Treasury, and private junior preferred and common shareholders' payouts would be secondary. One author of the bill, Republican senator Mike Crapo, told Bloomberg TV on March 13 that the legislation will not dictate the outcome of the suit shareholders have filed. "That will be a decision that's made in the courts," he said.
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ROCKVILLE, MD — At its recent annual meeting in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the Restoration Industry Association (RIA) announced its board of directors and officers who will be serving for 2012-2013, according to a press release.
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• Scott Stamper, CR, of First Restoration DKI, Charlotte, North Carolina, Regency DKI, Florida and Michigan; first vice president
• Leo Volkert, CR, WLS, of Primo Clean Restoration Services, Lodi, California; vice president
• Michael E. Gallahan of Top Tier Solutions LLC, Annapolis, Maryland; secretary
• Michael Goldberg, CR, RestoreCore Inc., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; treasurer
• Frank L. Headen, CR, WLS, CMH, of First Restoration DKI Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina; immediate past president.
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More than a dozen states should eliminate the disparities they maintain in sentencing people charged with crack and powder cocaine crimes, gaps that persist despite changes to federal law last year, a national group that advocates for criminal justice reform said Thursday.
The Sentencing Project said in a report that treating the two types of the same drug differently is not only a fairness issue but a monetary one.
The disparity is unfair to black drug users who are more likely to be charged with crack cocaine offenses and end up with longer prison terms than cocaine users of other races, the Washington, D.C.-based group said. It also leads to long sentences for low-level, nonviolent drug offenders that cost cash-strapped states millions of dollars in prison expenses that could be saved if the disparities were removed.
"Fiscal pressure to tighten state corrections budgets, along with mounting evidence documenting the unfair and unwarranted structure of these sentencing laws, suggests that lawmakers should re-examine the sentencing differential between crack and powder cocaine," the group said. "High rates of incarceration are expensive to maintain and sentencing changes ... can effectively conserve resources without adverse effects on public safety."
Until last August, the federal government had a 100-to-1 ratio in sentencing people for possession of the two cocaine types. That meant someone caught with 5 grams of crack cocaine was sentenced the same as someone caught with 500 grams of powder. The Fair Sentencing Act signed by President Barack Obama reduced the federal ratio to 18-to-1.
Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, said that's a good start, but the goal is still to have the disparity removed altogether.
"There's a fairly broad range of opinion over a number of years about whether penalties at the federal level should be equalized," Mauer said during a telephone news conference Thursday. "In that regard, the 18-to-1 ratio they ended up with was a compromise. It was a significant change." But his group believes "equalization of penalties is the direction things should go."
Thirteen states currently have laws under which people are sentenced more harshly for crack crimes than ones involving powder cocaine. Two of those - Missouri and New Hampshire - have ratios above that of the federal government.
Missouri Rep. Chris Carter, a St. Louis Democrat, said he plans to submit legislation to remove the state's 75-to-1 ratio as soon as the General Assembly comes back from break.
"The prison system in Missouri is overcrowded and enduring tough budget times," Carter said during the news conference. "I want to reduce the disparity and begin to empty the prison system of low-level and nonviolent offenders and still keep public safety."
He said the disparities treat black drug offenders unfairly, noting the crack problem among African-Americans "grows out of joblessness, hopelessness and poor education."
New Hampshire's ratio is 28-to-1. Ann Rice, an associate attorney general in the state, said she is not aware of any proposed legislation in New Hampshire addressing the issue.
The other states that treat the two types of cocaine differently for sentencing purposes are Alabama, Arizona, Iowa, California, Maine, Maryland, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Vermont and Virginia.
Oklahoma state Sen. Constance Johnson cited research in the report concluding that when cocaine is absorbed into the bloodstream and reaches the brain, "its effects on brain chemistry are identical regardless of whether it is in the form of crack or powder."
"Once upon a time people believed crack cocaine was more dangerous and addictive than powder, but they are the same," Johnson said. "In Oklahoma we continue that belief with 10-year mandatory minimums for 5 grams of crack and 28 grams of powder."
While Johnson called the practice of keeping nonviolent criminals behind bars because of the sentencing disparity an "untenable situation," she said politicians aren't falling over themselves trying to reduce prison sentences for crack cocaine users.
"There's a lack of political will, and concern about appearing soft on crime," Johnson said.
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Tony Zabel to earn stipend next school year as secondary principal duties increase
July 21, 2010
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When: 6 p.m. today
Where: Room 165 at Hayden High School, across the hall from the office
Steamboat Springs — The Hayden School District will save $109,000 next school year after restructuring its administration.
Superintendent Mike Luppes said the district will have 2 1/2 administrators for the 2010-11 school year instead of the four it had last school year. The School Board, which meets at 6 p.m. today, scaled back the administration to save money given anticipated funding cuts from the state and increased costs next school year.
Luppes said the administrative cuts account for more than 25 percent of the nearly $400,000 trimmed from the 2010-11 school year budget.
To restructure the administration, the School Board approved the formation of a secondary school serving students in grades six through 12. Hayden High School Principal Troy Zabel was named secondary principal in April, and the Hayden Middle School principal position previously held by Gina Zabel was eliminated. Gina Zabel will return to the middle school next year at a reduced salary as its literacy teacher.
As the secondary principal next school year, Troy Zabel will receive an additional $11,620 stipend, which includes salary and benefits. The stipend will cover additional duties for overseeing the middle school, such as extra supervision at extracurricular activities and staff evaluations.
Luppes said the district makes sure an administrator attends all school activities, including sporting events and open houses.
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"We just felt that there was some necessary compensation there because there were a number of things that were going to fall on the secondary principal's plate," he said about Troy Zabel's stipend.
No other district staff members were given raises for the 2010-11 school year.
In addition to Troy Zabel, new middle school math teacher Britta Bodine will spend three periods a day serving as middle school dean of students, handling minor student discipline issues and assisting with building coordination, Luppes said. She will teach during the other four periods.
As part of the restructuring, the School Board chose not to renew former superintendent Greg Rockhold's contract. Luppes, who retired as the district's superintendent after the 2007-08 school year, was named in June as the district's half-time superintendent.
Tonight's board action
The School Board tonight will consider approving a resolution to participate in the November election. No School Board seats are up for election, but board members last month decided to move forward with a ballot question asking voters to consider a mill levy override that would generate an estimated $344,560 annually for the district.
School Board President Brian Hoza has said that revenue generated from the override would help the district address future expected cuts from the state, maintain staff, protect staff salaries and benefits and minimize programs that might be at risk.
He has said a spring survey of Hayden residents living within the district was supportive of an override. The override would cost about $33 per $100,000 of assessed residential property value annually.
Luppes said the district also would discuss the possibility of Hayden requesting funds from the state's Building Excellent Schools Today program, which is administered by the Public School Capital Construction Assistance Board, for the middle school gymnasium.
The state fire marshal condemned the gym last summer after an inspection deemed it unsafe and in need of repair. The district requested bids in the fall for repair and demolition. It received a more than $151,000 repair bid and $80,000 and $45,000 demolition bids.
The School Board also will consider appointing Tammie Mader as the district's transportation coordinator. Mader, who is a bus driver for the district, would be responsible for scheduling and serving as the liaison for the transportation department, Luppes said. He said that would entail her communicating with the district and the Moffat County School District, with whom Hayden contracted for annual inspections and general maintenance work.
Today's meeting is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. in Room 165 at the high school, across from the office.
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When: 6 p.m. today
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So it came as a shock when, on a sweltering Christmas Eve afternoon in 1996, two bombs ripped through a shopping area just down the street from the police station and the Dutch Reformed Church. The blasts killed four people—three of them children. Nearly 70 people were injured. All the victims were blacks and Coloureds. The first bomb to go off, around 1:20, hit Olga Macingwane in such a way that her legs swelled instantly to the size of tractor tires. Minutes later, the second bomb went off, and she was blown unconscious.
"For 13 years I never saw the person who did this to me," Macingwane says, speaking from her sitting room in Zwelethemba on a very warm Sunday morning in late November 2009. Macingwane is a profoundly proper woman of a certain age. She is wearing a pink, ankle-length pencil skirt and matching jacket. Outside her home the township is in the midst of open-air church services, and Macingwane has to raise her voice to be heard. She gets up stiffly—it is obviously painful for her to walk—and closes the door to the yard and to the world at large. The singing reaches into her home unabated. "In my head," she continues, as the choirs of at least three churches compete on the torrid air, "I pictured him. In my head he is a man of 50 years old, very big, with a long beard and a very severe face. That is the man who did this thing. That is the person I see in my nightmares."
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South Africa's selection to host the 2010 World Cup gave people a surge of confidence. Their nation could now be remembered for bringing the world soccer rather than apartheid. South Africa's modern infrastructure, enviably chic airports, cosmopolitan restaurants—its public face—all support the suggestion that its tragic history is just that, history. Much of Soweto, Johannesburg's infamous township in which apartheid-era violence visible to the foreign media occurred, is now a series of bucolic suburbs: Florida-lite architecture behind smooth lawns, sleek foreign cars in driveways. (Squatter camps encroaching, it is true.) South Africa has a burgeoning black middle class, and since 1994 the government has built almost three million houses. In Johannesburg, just across the road from a casino and an amusement park, tourists can visit the impressive Apartheid Museum.
But scratch the surface of any community, and one way or another there it is, the A-word. In May 2008 more than 60 people were killed and tens of thousands displaced in xenophobic riots targeting mainly Mozambicans and Zimbabweans. Apartheid ensured a deep mistrust of "other" and a sense of resource entitlement—based as much, if not more, on who you were as on what you did—that carries over to this day.


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WASHINGTON, March 6 (UPI) -- The Mortgage Bankers Association reported Thursday that mortgage delinquencies in the United States climbed sharply in the fourth quarter of 2007.
The delinquency rate on loans for one- to four-unit residential properties jumped 23 basis points above the third quarter of 2007 and 87 basis points above the fourth quarter of 2006, the association said.
On a seasonally adjusted basis, 0.83 percent of loans entered foreclosure proceedings during the quarter, the report said, and the total delinquency rate is at it highest level since 1985.
"The rate of foreclosure starts and the percent of loans in the process of foreclosure are at the highest levels ever," the report said.
California and Florida held a disproportionate rate of delinquent accounts, the report said, with 21 percent of all the loans in the country and 30 percent of the foreclosure starts. But, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana continue to have the highest statewide percentages of loans in foreclosures, the report said.
"Declining prices are clearly the driving factor behind foreclosures but the reasons and magnitude of the declines differ from state to state," the association's chief economist Doug Duncan said.


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Many of us have had the frustrating experience of working our way through a user's manual, only to find ourselves completely lost. We can't figure out how to set the time on our DVD recorder or assemble a new toy for our kids. It's an experience that leaves us wondering if we're behind the times, or just stupid.
University of Minnesota design professor Daniel Jasper has some comforting words for us.
"You're not ignorant, you're not behind the times. The thing was designed poorly. It's not your fault. It's the fault of the design of that object," says Jasper.
That's right. It's not our fault. It's the fault of the company that designed the DVD recorder or the toy. But even knowing that, what can we do to fix things?
Les Larson knows what he can do. Sitting in a booth at a Culver's restaurant in the St. Paul suburb of Oakdale, taking licks on the ice cream cone of the day, Larson may look like an ordinary guy -- gray hair and glasses, his winter coat unzipped. Harmless, right?
But Les Larson is a design revolutionary.
"When I was about 2 years old, anything my parents gave me I immediately took apart to see how it works, and hopefully put them back together again," says Larson. "I've done that all my life, I still do that. My wife gets angry because everything she brings home, the first thing I do is take it apart."
Larson likes to understand how things work, and how they don't work. In addition to being a real estate agent, computer programmer and an Oakdale city commissioner, Larson is a hobby inventor. He estimates he's invented well over 80 things, but he won't talk about them because he hasn't got patents yet.
He does have a list, almost two pages long, of all the design flaws that really get his goat -- power buttons on portable radios that can be switched on accidentally when jostled around in a bag or a purse; cell phones that are so slippery they fall out of your shirt pocket when you bend over.
Larson doesn't just complain about them; he fixes them. He solders off protruding power knobs until they lie flush with the rest of the radio or walkie-talkie. He wraps rubber bands around his cell phone to give it traction.
But has he ever tried to call the people responsible for a product and tell them about a design flaw? Larson says he hasn't.
"It seems so hopeless. I mean if I tried to call the company where I bought this, it's probably 27 levels away -- the guy that actually designed it, the guy that I'd want to talk to. And it would be about impossible to get to that person."
Larson's dilemma is one we all share. When it comes to changing how things are designed, as individuals we feel hopeless. It's beyond our control.
Tom Fisher, dean of the University of Minnesota's College of Design, says we live in a society where we aren't educated about design and we aren't involved in the design process. So when we come across a design problem, whether it's in a product or a building or a neighborhood, we feel powerless.
"Most of us never have any exposure to design in K-12 education. We might have a little exposure in art class, maybe," says Fisher. "Most of us, if we go to college, never take a design course or even a design appreciation course. And yet this is something which probably not only affects us every day, but every minute of every day."
Fisher says companies and cities are beginning to realize the importance of public involvement when it comes to creating an effective, long-lasting design.
St. Louis Park City Manager Tom Harmening can testify to that. Over the past 10 years his city has undergone a real renaissance, involving multiple development projects. The most noticeable is the city's pedestrian-friendly downtown.
Harmening gives all the credit to St. Louis Park's citizens and the city council that listened to them.
"This project is here because the community said, 'We need community identity, we need a community focal point, we need a sense of place. City, this is where we think you should start.'"
Harmening says the fact that the ideas came from the citizens of St. Louis Park meant it was that much easier to get approval for funding and overcome other hurdles throughout the process.
Despite the fact that students are taught little about design in their K-12 education, we still manage to educate ourselves as consumers.
On a recent afternoon at SuperTarget in Roseville, Alonzo Camel wandered into the music section. Camel prides himself on doing research on products before he makes a selection.
"I just bought my wife an air purifier. Some of them take filters you have to replace and some of them take filters you just clean. I found it was easier to buy the one that you clean instead of putting more money into it, buying more filters for it."
"We need to get to a point where design is not this intuitive, subjective, fluffy thing, but that it's actually a rigorous process in the same way that science is a rigorous process."Tom Fischer, U of M College of Design
Camel says he reads Consumer Reports magazine, and talks to his friends about their experiences before he makes a major purchase.
Camel is an example of the increasingly design-savvy consumer. Without realizing it, he's helping to lead what Roger Martin calls a "design revolution."
Martin, who heads up the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, says we're living in a design economy. Martin believes designers have the power to educate consumers about good design through their products. But he also believes designers can't be smart without smart users.
"I know we'd like to beat up on the corporations sometimes for being narrow-minded and blah, blah, blah, but I think it's just synergy. Users and producers are joined at the hip and they can only go so far, so fast."
Martin says now that more citizens are showing interest in fuel-efficient cars, car companies not only have permission, but are under pressure, to come up with more fuel-efficient models.
Martin says he gets frustrated when he sees schools teaching students to memorize facts and formulas instead of teaching them methods of creative problem-solving.
In this era of outsourcing and competing for jobs in the international workplace, Martin says we have far more potential in the world of design than we do in engineering or computer science.
Dean Tom Fisher agrees. He says design should be a core discipline, just like reading, writing and math.
"I think we need to get to a point where design is not this intuitive, subjective, fluffy thing, but that it's actually a rigorous process in the same way that science is a rigorous process, and that some exposure to that will be key to success in the design economy in the future."
In the meantime, amateur inventor and design critic Les Larson will continue doing his bit to improve the design of the world, even if it means compromising the sleek look of his cell phone.
"I think a cell phone in my pocket with rubber bands around it is a lot better than a cell phone lying in a parking lot where somebody drove over it because it fell out of their pocket," says Larson. "So I'll put up with rubber bands. I want it to work properly. That's much more important than the looks to me."
But maybe, just maybe, someday we'll live in a design-savvy world where everything works well -- and looks good.


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IACET recertified the robotics company, allowing use of IACET protocols in education programs.
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
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The goal of cooking most things, especially proteins like steak and pork, is to heat them to a desired doneness such that they have the optimal taste and texture. This is very difficult to do over a flame or in an oven. Most people bungle it. The outside is inevitably a little overcooked before the inside reaches doneness. Cooking sous vide, French for "under vacuum", allows us to bypass this obstacle by cooking at a low and very precise temperature; it's the equivalent of walking up to the dartboard and pushing the dart into the bullseye. While it's a technique that's been around for professional chefs, Iron Chefs and DIYers for ages, the technology has only been available to the average home cook since 2009. As more machines hit the market, we decided to test the one that started the home sous vide revolution, the SousVide Supreme ($500).
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The pillars of sous vide cooking are pressure, temperature and time: Pressure because the food being cooked gets vacuum-sealed, creating a humid environment that keeps foods juicy, rapidly infuses the food inside with whatever marinades or other flavorings are present, and eliminates evaporation and evaporative cooling, which allows the temperature of the food's surface to be the same as the cooking temperature. (For more details, check out this comprehensive post from the International Culinary Center's blog, Cooking Issues); temperature because sous vide cooking is mostly done at low temperatures, targeting doneness to a precise degree, thereby cooking the piece of food uniformly throughout; time because it takes significantly longer to cook a steak sous vide than it does in a pan, oven or grill, and because there's no real danger of overcooking if you miss the mark by five or ten minutes.
It's important to point out here that when we talk about cooking sous vide, that actually just means that something has been sealed using a vacuum. If we slice some cucumbers, mix them with pickling liquid and put them in a vacuum sealer, that's sous vide. If we toss a steak in a vat of oil at 55 degrees C, that's low temperature cooking. If we vacuum seal that steak, then it's sous vide and low temperature cooking, which is what sous vide means in the popular vernacular, and how we'll refer to it from here forward.
The SousVide Supreme made waves when it was introduced in 2009. For the first time, instead of jury-rigging a rice cooker or using a polycarbonate tank with a $1,000 immersion circulator, home cooks could purchase a relatively affordable, attractive kitchen appliance for sous vide cooking. The machine we tested, which comes with a vacuum sealer and pouches, goes for $500. Things have change since 2009, though. PolyScience makes an immersion circulator for $400 that we've seen in professional kitchens. Nomiku makes one for $300. Anova and Sansaire both make immersion circulators for $200. SousVide Supreme is still the only option that combines the water oven with the heating element; we'll get to whether that still makes it an ideal product shortly.
The SousVide Supreme made waves when it was introduced in 2009. For the first time, home cooks could purchase a relatively affordable, attractive kitchen appliance for sous vide cooking.
The SousVide Supreme has a water bath, this one with a volume of 11.2 liters and a max cooking capacity of 10 liters; the temperature is displayed in a digital LED; it has a range of 30 degrees C to 99 degrees C, adjustable in increments of 0.5 degrees C; and it's precise to 0.5 degrees C. The heating element sits beneath the bath and is regulated by a PID (proportional integral derivative) controller, which functions like a thermostat, adding heat as necessary to keep a stable temperature. The main difference in functionality between the SousVide Supreme and all the other devices on the market — immersion circulators — is that it doesn't use a pump to keep the water flowing. Theoretically, this means that a lot of adding and removing food from the machine could cause the temperature to fluctuate. We didn't pack it with 10 liters of food, but in our experience temperature fluctuation wasn't a problem.
The machine is a no brainer to set up: just add water, adjust the temp and program the timer. Inside there's a dish-rack-like apparatus for organizing your food, which is both helpful and keeps things away from the heating element at the bottom. We seasoned and seared a pork chop, sealed it in the vacuum, and put it in the cooker on 60 degrees C (medium doneness) for two hours. While it isn't necessary to sear meat ahead of time, it kills surface bacteria and reduces the chances of dangerous bacteria growing inside. (Vacuum sealing creates an anaerobic environment in which salmonella and botulism can grow. For full safety precautions, check the SousVide Supreme website.) The first sear kills bacteria and develops flavor; when it came out, we seared it again to further develop flavor and form a crust. We used a Williams-Sonoma kitchen torch ($50), which we'll review in a later piece, for flourish.
We've never cooked something as perfectly and uniformly as we did with this machine. Where this really comes in handy is cooking for more than one person. Ever try to cook four steaks at the same time? Getting the doneness right without cutting them open is a challenge — and it requires your full attention from seasoning to plating. Instead, throw the steaks in the machine at 55 degrees C and then finish them with a quick sear when you're ready to eat, without ever being concerned with their doneness.
That's convenience, not wizardry, and while there are a number of affordable sous vide machines on the market, the SousVide Supreme is still the most turnkey, appliance-like option. It does occupy a fair amount of counter or cabinet space, however, so keep that in mind if you plan on adding an Anti-Griddle or Rotary Evaporation System to your arsenal.


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The site has also provided many new Irish records collections in the last month, with several sets of wills abstracts from 1445 to 1846, an Irish topographical dictionary, a return of landowners holding more than one acre from 1876, an Irish names dictionary, a medical register for Ireland, and passenger lists for the famine Irish who arrived in New York between 1846 and 1851.
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Spotted at Washington's downtown upscale eatery Teatro Goldoni Wednesday night at about 10 p.m. were WaPo's CEO Don Graham, Bloomberg's Al Hunt and his wife, Judy Woodruff, of PBS's "The Newshour" with Jim Lehrer. They sat in what the publicist of Teatro Goldoni calls a "power booth."
Power booth 5, as it's dubbed, "is where the heavy hitters sit". The late Jack Valenti (longtime head of the Motion Picture Association) often sat there. Democratic radio host Bill Press has sat there as has Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
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- Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!
Tomorrow, July 5th, is Holy Guru Purnima. Regarging this holy day
Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj says in his book Guru Tattva:
"Mark fully the deep significance of this great day. Ashada Purnima
heralds the Chaturmasa (four months), or the setting in of the eagerly
awaited rains. The water, drawn up and stored as clouds in the hot
summer, now manifests in plentiful showers that usher in the advent of
fresh life everywhere. Even so do you all begin seriously to put into
actual working all the theory and philosophy that you have stored up in
you through patient study. Commence practical spiritual Sadhana right
from this day. Generate fresh waves of spirituality. Let all that you
have read, heard, seen and learnt become, through Sadhana, transformed
into a continuous outpouring of universal love, ceaseless loving service
and continuous prayer and worship of the Lord seated in all beings.
Live on milk and fruits on this day and practise rigorous Japa and
Dhyana. Study the Brahma Sutras and do some lakhs (hundred thousand) of
Japa (Anushthana or Purascharana) of your Guru Mantra or Ishta Mantra,
during the Chaturmasa. You will be highly benefited.
As the day of Guru-Puja or worship of one's preceptor this is a day of
pure joy to the sincere aspirant. Thrilled by the expectation of
offering his reverent homage to the beloved Guru, aspirant awaits this
occasion with eagerness and devotion. It is the Guru alone that breaks
the binding cords of attachment and releases the aspirant from the
trammels of earthly existence. The Sruti says: "To that high-souled
aspirant, whose devotion to the Lord is great and whose devotion to his
Guru is as great as that to the Lord, these secrets explained, become
illuminated." Guru is Brahman or Isvara Himself. He guides and inspires
you from the innermost core of your being. He is everywhere."
Guru Tattva can be downloaded from:
Brahma Sutras with commentary by Gurudev is available at:
Sure Ways to Guru Kripa by Sri Swami Chidanandaji is at:
For this month's discourse we uploaded an article by Gurudev titled
"Preliminaries to Concentration" at:
Sri Swami Krishnanandaji's autobiography, "My Life", is now available
for download in one file at:
Yours in the service of Gurudev,
STEPS TO PERFECTION: The Master then turned to Sri Rajagopalan, who had
asked during the morning class the methods for shutting out extraneous
thoughts during the practice of meditation.
'Meditation is the seventh step in Yoga,' the Master began. "Without
first attending to the preliminaries, you desire to establish yourself
in the seventh limb! Is this possible? First get established in Yama and
Niyama. This alone is sufficient work for several lives.
"Study the Gita. Find out if you have developed even one hundredth part
of one virtue which the Lord has prescribed for all aspirants. If you
have done this, you have deserved this human birth. The eradication of
evil qualities and the cultivation of virtuous ones is such a difficult
task that there is no use in treating the matter lightly.
"Anyone can write inspiring articles. Anyone can solve the difficulties
of others, so long as the solution is not applied to one's own self. You
can turn out tremendous work but these are all faculties only. Even
singing Bhajans and Kirtans very melodiously and with inspiration is the
development of a faculty that God has given you. Do not mistake this for
the acquisition of Sadhu-qualities. They are entirely different. It is
extremely difficult to develop even one quality which is necessary in a
"Still I am not discouraging you all. Go on introspecting and
eradicating the evil qualities one by one. You will soon find yourself
in the region of perfection.
"First get rid of the gross impurities. Take anger for example: how many
are easy victims of the grossest forms of anger! This fighting nature is
inborn in everyone. A Sadhu should completely eradicate this evil. It
should have no place in him.
"Someone here abused R. and he went away. Even if a person is
undesirable we should not abuse him. That is why the greatest sages
prescribed mercy, compassion and tolerance for a Sadhu.
"One should practise friendship towards equals, love and sympathy
towards inferiors, admiration and respect towards superiors, and
indifference towards undesirable persons. When you take Sannyas, you
take the great vow: 'I grant fearlessness to all'. Even an ant should
not be afraid of you. You give Abhaya (the guarantee of fearlessness) to
all. Even the worst of men should not be afraid of you.
"Without these qualities there is only a change in the garb of a Sadhu
but the nature remains the same. Try to improve yourself little by
little. Be on the alert. So long as you are on the right path, there is
no fear, you are sure to reach the goal."
"The best guru bhakti is to love all, to be kind and compassionate
towards all and never hurt any living creature--to try as much as
possible to benefit life around us, to be good, do good, and to serve,
so that out of us only good comes, only help comes, only service comes,
only usefulness. All that is positive, creative, constructive,
auspicious, good, beautiful--that only should come to all life around
us, all God's creation, through our thoughts, words and actions.
Anything that is negative, anything that is destructive, harmful or
injurious should never come.
Thus, there is no greater guru bhakti, there is no greater guru seva,
there is no greater worship and adoration of the Guru than to become an
embodiment of kindness, compassion and doing good to others. This is the
greatest guru dakshina (gift to the Guru) also. This is the hallmark of
discipleship." - Swami Chidananda
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Akron Downs Detroit 79-60 - Match Report
Demetrius Treadwell scored 22 points and chipped in with 13 rebounds for Akron on Wednesday, leading them to a 79-60 victory over Detroit at James A. Rhodes Arena.
Akron was the ATS victor, as they covered the 10-point spread as a favorite.
Akron got 17 points from Nyles Evans and another 11 points from Jake Kretzer. Quincy Diggs contributed 7 assists, while Demetrius Treadwell cleaned the glass with 13 rebounds.
Detroit got a 16-point performance from Anton Wilson, who was supported by 13 points from Juwan Howard, Jr.. Juwan Howard, Jr. had 3 assists in a losing cause for Detroit, while Ugochukwu Njoku grabbed 9 rebounds.
Akron trailed at halftime, 30-21.
The rebound battle favored Akron as they grabbed 44 boards, while Detroit only had 29.


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text: Modern and historical locations of mites. Because these species do not move long distances, the current locations of species change principally because of continental drift, not because of migration. "By studying a group of organisms with not only an ancient origin, low vagility and restricted habitats but also a present global distribution, we have been able to test biogeographical hypotheses at a scale rarely attempted." Sarah L. Boyer, Ronald M. Clouse, Ligia R. Benavides, P. Sharma, Peter J. Schwendinger, I. Karunarathna, G. Giribet (2007) "Biogeography of the world: a case study from cyphophthalmid Opiliones, a globally distributed group of arachnids," Journal of Biogeography (OnlineEarly Articles). Figure from Carl Zimmer (2007) "A Daddy Longlegs Tells the Story of the Continents' Big Shifts," The New York Times, 8/28/2007.


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Visit any pet store and you will see a vast array of litter trays. From the simple rectangular type (pictured left) to the elaborate. From personal experience, I have found the simpler the litter tray, the better.
The litter tray must be easy to get in and out of and be large enough for your cat to comfortably stand in. Litter trays should be made of strong and durable plastic. They will need to withstand contact with urine, feces, cat claws, hot water, and disinfectants.
How many litter trays do I need?
It is recommended that you have one litter tray per cat, plus one spare. But again, this comes down to space and personal preference. You should not have a number of cats sharing the same litter tray, though. If you live in a multi-level home, there should be at least one tray on each level that is a fast way to encourage bad habits developing. Nobody likes a dirty toilet, and that includes cats.
Plain litter tray
The cheapest type of litter tray. It is recommended you start out with this type of litter tray if you are bringing home a kitten (you can get small ones with lower sides), and see how you and your cat like it. Advantages are that this type of litter tray is cheap, readily available and easy to clean out.
Any type of cat litter can be used in these litter trays.
Plain litter tray with lip
I like this style, they are still cheap to buy and easy to get in and out of, but the lip helps prevent litter being kicked out of the tray.
Any type of cat litter can be used in this type of litter tray.
Large plastic tub
Not a litter tray but a good option. They are cheap to buy, readily available and have high enough sides that once your cat has hopped in, there is little chance of litter being kicked
Some people choose to cut a hole in the lid, others just remove the lid entirely.
Any type of cat litter can be used.
Litter tray with dish
Another inexpensive option. The litter goes into the top tray and when the cat goes to the toilet, the liquid flows down to the bottom tray. This can then be quickly hosed out on a daily basis, greatly reducing odours.
Generally, recycled wood pellets are used in this style of the litter tray.
Covered litter tray
The next step up is the covered litter tray. It is good for privacy (some cats prefer to go to the toilet without an audience, some don't care). Again, these litter trays are relatively
Any type of cat litter can be used in this type of litter tray.
Self-cleaning litter tray
This is a relative newcomer to the market. The self-cleaning litter tray comes in a variety of shapes and sizes. A few minutes after your cat has used the litter tray, a rake moves along the cat litter removing the urine and feces into a tray. Obviously, despite the name, the tray does require the removal of urine and feces every few days but is a popular choice among cat owners.
These types of litter tray come with or without hoods, I have seen one with a counter so that you can keep tabs on how often your cat is using the litter tray.
Hidden litter trays
This type of litter tray is built into furniture which also removes the unsightly look of a litter tray, but also provides your cat with some privacy when he's on the loo. They can be bought from specialist stores or custom made by a cabinet maker.


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LORAIN — Lorain Schools are closed today.
Superintendent Tom Tucker cited the frigid weather Wednesday night for the decision. The overnight temperature was predicted to be zero, according to the National Weather Service with a high today of 12.
A high of 14 is expected Thursday, and Tucker said he'll decide tonight whether schools will open Thursday.


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Completed the DVD install of Mint Debian 2011-Gnome, tried to use Update Manager to update, got the usual "fix broken packages" BS, tried to do it my hand via:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
which resulted in a bunch of files getting downloaded, only to have the terminal session turn into this:
apt (0.8.11) unstable; urgency=low
* apt-get install pkg/experimental will now not only switch the
candidate of package pkg to the version from the release experimental
but also of all dependencies of pkg if the current candidate can't
satisfy a versioned dependency.
-- David Kalnischkies <email@example.com> Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:09:12 +0100
pam (1.1.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Name of option for minimum Unix password length has changed
The Debian-specific 'min=n' option to pam_unix for specifying minimum
lengths for new passwords has been replaced by a new upstream option
called 'minlen=n'. If you are using 'min=n' in
/etc/pam.d/common-password, this will be migrated to the new option name
for you on upgrade. If you have configured pam_unix password changing
elsewhere on your system, such as in a PAM profile under
/usr/share/pam-configs or in other files in /etc/pam.d, you will need to
update them by hand for this change.
-- Steve Langasek <firstname.lastname@example.com> Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:09:30 -0700
I've never had this problem before. Does anyone know what is going on, or more importantly, how to fix this?
apt-get dist-upgrade broken?
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Re: apt-get dist-upgrade broken?
*Moved to Editions < LMDE (Linux Mint Debian) subforum
Perhaps this thread can be of some assistance -> viewtopic.php?f=141&t=67502
Perhaps this thread can be of some assistance -> viewtopic.php?f=141&t=67502
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade broken?
Next time it pops up, hit "q" on the keyboard and the update will continue
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade broken?
Best fix may be to just
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apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade broken?
Evnas wrote:Next time it pops up, hit "q" on the keyboard and the update will continue
That did the trick. Thanks a lot!
I am still wondering what happened.
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New to Us - Better for Everyone!August 19, 2013
Our Credit Union will be introducing a brand new telephone system to our organization. This new telephone system will integrate all four locations with a state-of-the-art communications infrastructure.
We are just hours away from turning on the switch to a brand new telephone system. Over the last several years, it has become quite evident that we have outgrown our existing phone systems. After an exhaustive due diligence process, we selected a local vendor to install a unified communications solution. This solution combines traditional handset functionality with web portal integration to give our employees a variety of ways to best handle the over 15,000 calls we receive each month.
If you have called into one of our branches in the recent past and have experienced poor call quality, or forever ringing with no answer, or was being transferred to another extension and the call was abruptly dropped, then you have experienced the terror of our past telephone system. If any consolation, that system will soon be exiting our facilities â never to return!
It may take several days or weeks for all of our employees to become comfortable with the new telephone system. Like road construction, it will eventually be worth it!
Meanwhile, should you experience any âbumpsâ along the way, please let one of our employees know. We will do our best to correct any issues.
We value your membership with The County Federal Credit Union. And we strive to provide the very best service with every phone call!
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Thanks to Twitter, Lonely Boy goes into a second printing. Serena regrets how things went down between her and Dan.
Chuck gets the news of Blair's failed engagement from the paper and Nate finds out his grandfather is involved in a bunch of scandals.
Blair hides out with Dan in Brooklyn and all of Dan's friends tell him he's in love with Blair.
Blair tries to choose between Chuck and Louis. It seems like her heart is with Chuck, but Louis is the father of her unborn baby, so she's confused. She asks Chuck if he could love another man's child; he tells her it's probably not a mistake to stick with the baby daddy.
Serena advises Louis on how to win Blair back so that Dan doesn't stand a chance with her while Dan advises Blair on how to find happiness. Nate's grandfather admits Diana hired Nate at his bequest. Also, he never invited Tripp on a nice trip. Tripp did all the inviting. Max pays a visit to Nate to tell him the truth about Charlie/Ivy's identity.
With Tripp's election over, Nate's grandfather says Nate is the new family leader.Max tries to get Tripp to care that Charlie/Ivy isn't who she says she is. Charlie/Ivy says no one cares she's an imposter. Lily tells Chuck that her love is unconditional and Chuck disagrees.
Chuck and Louis got to Dan's loft together looking for Blair, but neither of them is there.
At Charlie/Ivy's party, Dan tells Serena he has a new ending for his book. Later he takes Blair to a secret room, but not to make out with her. He's arranged it so Chuck and Blair can be alone together. Chuck tells Blair that she should be with him.
As they try to make their escape from the party, the paparazzi chase after them. Gossip Girl tipped them off after she got the news from Charlie/Ivy. Nate follows their limo in his own limo, and he sees them crash into a concrete block.
At the hospital, Nate, Dan and Serena vow to put an end to Gossip Girl forever. Charlie/Ivy comes clean with Rufus that she's the one who tipped off Gossip Girl and that Max isn't the one who is a fraud. She leaves and promises to never return. Blair is conscious but we don't know about Chuck yet. Diana comes back when she hears about the accident. Guess she couldn't stay away!


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AT least 200 more jobs could go as Ford's closure sends shockwaves through the local economy, the Daily Echo can reveal.
The axe is set to fall on firms supplying logistics and parts to the Swaythling plant as well as the 500 staff directly employed at the historic plant.
And last night Southampton City Council leader Councillor Richard Williams warned that the fall-out on the wider service industry could continue to spiral and bring the total losses to more than 1,000.
In what he dubbed as the "the worst excesses of globalisation", Cllr Williams also claimed that the US car giant bosses in Detroit kept their plans secret from their British counterparts until they dropped the bombshell on Wednesday.
This saw stunned staff at contract firms yesterday meeting their equally shocked bosses amid fears for their future. But unions warned that contract staff could melt away before the plant shuts in July.
Unite regional officer Fred Hanna said that more than 120 staff at Penske Logistics who work at the plant are angry that they have not been promised the same generous "continuity payments" enjoyed by their Ford colleagues.
One worker told the Daily Echo: "We have no incentive to stay."
Penske spokesman Randolph Ryerson said: "We understand this is a difficult time.
Management will be communicating and consulting with them over the coming days and weeks as we work through the details."
Cleaning support workers are also among those facing redundancy.
One firm, Hamptons, supplies more than 30 staff to clean the factory. Operations manager Terry Vincent said: "We will continue to run until the summer and support our employees during the difficult time."
About 45 jobs are also under threat at Magna Seating, located next door to the plant, which supplies upholstery for the Transit van. The company has previously felt the strain of job losses at Ford, when it was forced to trim part of its workforce when the plant shed 500 workers four years ago.
A Magna spokesman said it was too early to speculate on the fate of the staff.
Cllr Williams said even Ford UK bosses had been caught off guard.
He told the Daily Echo: "It was literally out of the blue – straight out of Detroit without advance notification.
"Nobody knew about it until Wednesday. It is a catastrophic way of dealing with things.
It is so unfair and the worst excesses of globalisation."
Ford declined to comment.