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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) estimated that $33 billion in income tax assessments was not paid in 2001. If not collected, annual unpaid taxes keep accumulating each year along with penalty and interest charges to create an inventory of "tax debts," which approached $300 billion at the end of fiscal year 2007. IRS has shelved or delayed collection of billions of dollars of this tax debt. Congress and others have questioned IRS's collection process's effectiveness. As requested, GAO is reporting on (1) the process IRS uses to collect unpaid tax debts; (2) trends in the unpaid tax debt inventory, collections, and other resolutions from fiscal years 2002 through 2007; and (3) the performance measures and goals available to assess how well the collection process works overall. To meet these objectives, GAO interviewed IRS officials and reviewed IRS's unpaid assessments database, documentation on the collection process and factors used in managing it, and IRS's highest-level collection measures.
IRS has a complex process to collect unpaid tax debts by contacting taxpayers through notices, telephone calls, and in person. Because IRS has a very large debt workload and limited resources spread across multiple units, it must make numerous decisions about how best to handle debt cases. The complexity also arises because debt cases can take various routes based on about 70 IRS decision rules used for handling cases. The rules respond to a wide variety of debt characteristics, information known about the taxpayer, and the results of attempts to contact the taxpayer or take enforcement action. From fiscal years 2002 through 2007, increases occurred in the unpaid tax debt inventory, the percentages of debt classified as potentially collectible and in active collection status, and the dollars IRS collected. It is unclear whether dollars collected will continue to grow at rates similar to the growth in debt classified as collectible or active because, for example, those categories do not mean that the debt has a high potential for collection and will be actively pursued or that debt resolution will necessarily result in dollars collected. IRS-wide collection performance measures cover three outcomes of the three-phase process with an emphasis on closing more debt cases in less staff time. IRS did not indicate why more measures for the whole collection process were lacking. For each of the phases, IRS had more performance measures such as on debt resolutions, time spent, satisfaction, and quality, which phase managers said were sufficient for them. GAO has identified material weaknesses in IRS's controls over unpaid tax assessments and collections partly due to the lack of agencywide cost-benefit data and related performance measures. Although IRS has made some progress on these weaknesses, progress has not been sufficient to resolve them. For example, over the past 3 years, IRS has employed various approaches, including sophisticated computer modeling and risk assessment techniques, to assist it in more effectively identifying the tax debt cases with the greatest collection potential, and to facilitate prioritizing of these cases for collection. IRS has also employed these techniques to identify the most effective collection approach to take for the various types of outstanding tax debt. Although IRS has ongoing projects to expand the use of these models and techniques, it does not yet have an agencywide, systematic approach to managing the collection of tax debts across IRS. In response, IRS has created a council of IRS collection officials to coordinate various collection activities across IRS and potential changes across the parts of the collection process. Further, IRS has a number of ongoing projects to improve aspects of the collection process. However, some of these projects will take a few years to be implemented.
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Mitt Romney failed to win running mate Paul Ryan's home state, but Republicans took the state Senate
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It is there's some good news for Wisconsin Republicans now despite Wisconsin voters elected a Democrat to the United States senate and -- Obama winning in that battleground state there is still some Wisconsin Republicans celebration.
Why well they won back full control of the state government Republicans winning majorities of -- both the state senate and the assembly.
So what is ahead Wisconsin governor Scott -- -- good evening governor.
Good to do it yet.
Other so what happened to your state did didn't go for your Canada for -- present -- -- our governor Romney rather.
It didn't stay wide -- was a close election like it was many other battleground states but didn't pull out both the United States senate race.
No we're Tommy Thompson -- a little bit short to Mitt Romney and car -- bit short but as you mentioned that was a big night for assist the state level.
But when it comes to -- government we went from having.
Lost the majority by one seat back in the recall elections we defended through the -- but that one -- we lost back in June.
Was the one seat to switch the majority to the Democrats last night we picked up not just one more seat to get back get.
We're actually picked up two seats in the state assembly were you had a majority and actually added to it so it and I did didn't fare well statewide when -- -- -- federal offices.
We did extremely well when it came back to the state senate the state assembly and that means we can continue to build off the reforms we did and look forward to things like cutting taxes for small businesses and individuals doing more things to streamline the process for safe -- -- -- -- mining and doing more things to reform -- education system and -- young people the skills they need for the jobs are open today so.
Those are things if there were excited about.
Reconcile -- because it's it's a little bit peculiar that that day you also do you take over this the state -- and those are the ones at that took off and that's.
They have high tailed off -- Illinois have -- year and a half ago I mean so it's not now that now you Republican senate you had a Republican assembly you're Republican governor.
Yet statewide.
That they vote for -- a Democrat to have this vote for president Bob I think -- by seven points innings of pretty sizable margin not the fourteen he had no -- but nonetheless seven points.
And we have -- very and you voted democratic US senator gives a former Republican governor how do you reconcile -- -- You know it's odd but it's a very midwestern -- certainly very specific to Wisconsin as you know in the sense that.
People are very independent here and they like to -- the person -- very much what the person over just the party.
-- and they want reformers in -- for whatever reason they thought the federal elections at least statewide.
They thought these two candidates in the democrats' side were the ones that stood -- -- got their attention although it's intrastate.
Even a federal office at this the state urgently at the local level we had to congressional seat Sean Duffy in northwest to discuss and reach remote northeast Wisconsin.
Two people that won two years ago in in one case in a seat that was held by Dave -- since 1969.
Everyone thought those receipts and Nancy clothes he was targeting to get the majority back.
Both of the win by solid majorities last night so I'm very independent streak in Wisconsin it's one work.
For us to continue to stay on top -- at least as Republicans we're gonna continue to have to be strong reformers.
And as those add to the sort of the and you don't nature of it is that that -- -- -- and it was.
Reid reelected this congressional seat.
But about ten or eleven point tenor eleven points sizable majority in a very democratic district that he is enemy that's even unusual that a Republican would be elected.
Yet statewide.
He was not able to to persuade the people to go up on the Romney -- Ryan ticket.
-- five of the eight congressional districts including Paul's would solidly Republican last night.
Only three way Democrats can get statewide.
Democrat -- the United States -- -- the president was reelected.
Yet -- -- the last time.
The Republican won a Wisconsin it was close in 2002004.
But the last a Republican won was.
Would -- -- regular course won reelection.
In fact the last night my youngest son is now literally older that I was the last time -- Republican ones in the state it was stats and so we'll see about the future but it get it's one of those where.
We're very very independent in the midwest it's certainly true Wisconsin and you know Beatrice to -- the I have actually supported Mitt Romney Paul Ryan but the other interesting aside from this is.
I said long before the presidential election is important is it was.
That state state by state was gonna make the difference and now we're up to thirty Republican governors the most we've had a dozen years and that's where the real fundamental change is gonna happen in America were willing to work with the president.
But we're gonna lead by the states and it's one where we can work together -- Democrats and our states to get things done.
Hope the president can do the same thing in Washington.
What now looks like you -- -- that the work that Republicans because you've got the assembly and the senate and I'm curious -- -- Nationalists saw this the other -- was in Wisconsin when another capitalist being storm by a lot of unhappy that citizens.
And and then they had to recall you won by six points more than when you're elected earlier for governor.
I'm curious do you have any specific plan because now I've got -- thus the assembly and the senate.
Well audio for us it'll help certainly go to the budget process to remember even -- that last year before.
All the protest the first month I was in office we passed some of the most aggressive pro jobs agenda in the country.
In most of the Democrats who is a good majority.
Of the the Democrats.
In the status it would state senate joined with Republicans and many of those bills.
The end I think a lot of these saying we're talking about make it easier for small business we're talking about getting more skilled workers out there those are things -- Democrats -- -- Republicans.
But certainly got a -- majority of players who will be ready to go for the taxpayers here was -- -- talk to your friend add -- -- and since then returns last night.
No I I text him I figured I'd let him previously been a little bit relax.
Certainly I think he's -- to be ready go you know Paul.
So when asked me last night about to set the results came -- and I said sometimes in presidential elections the VP candidate gets beat up a little bit -- a little bit.
I think it and I ice is not just is a good friend -- -- as a fellow -- that.
But I think in the end Paul Ryan was stronger after this race -- before that I think people saw.
The good decent soul that he is they saw the Kurds they had.
And I think it grew on people more than it did the other way around so I think no matter what -- all right what's new he's gonna continue to be a leader here in America -- -- proud to have mr.
Phillips she's had.
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Excess crystalline type solar cells is that they are generally more efficient. However, the crystals need time to grow and therefore more expensive to produce.
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Now more than ever, individuals with rare diseases are finding the critical and necessary information and support to better manage illness. When health care providers are unable to fulfill those needs, the web-based community is ready and willing steps in.
In December 2010, I was diagnosed with a rare type of blood cancer called Gray Zone Lymphoma, a disease that has only been officially recognized since 2008, and affects less than 300 people in the United States. As a result of the newness and rarity of this cancer, my doctors and team of specialists were unable to provide me with statistics that could provide further insight into my illness.
In this case, not only did the medical community have little information to offer about my disease, but the web-based community was unusually quiet. After many sleepless nights and hours spent scouring the internet, I was finally able to connect with four other "Gray Zoners" on Facebook.
The lack of research, statistics, and evidence-based practice related to my disease, led me to feel empowered to write my own story. Instead of becoming overwhelmed by the lack of viable information, I made the conscious decision to educate, inform, and raise awareness about this disease. Social media in essence was my soapbox.
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Home Making on the Range. What else would you call an event involving use of the words "grass" and "chili," both in liberal helpings? The Bluegrass & Chili Festival of course! Rife with good food and a down-home sound, this event features three stages for musicians and boasts the Mid-American Regional Chili Cook-Off, in addition to an open car show and activities for the kids. Located at the Claremore Expo Center, 400 Veterans Parkway in Claremore, this event is free and open to all.
Go Green. This weekend, the Brady District's new Guthrie Green is officially opened with three days of events. The Tulsa Symphony headline the festivities Sunday night with Symphony in the Park, an hour-long concert featuring Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture (with fireworks of course) and a pre-concert by the Tulsa Youth Symphony at 6pm.
Buck the System. Mondays can be a drag. The end of the weekend, the beginning of the 9 to 5 grind. So much for fun. But not this week. Exchange your suit for a pair of Levi's and get on out to the BOK Center, 200 S Denver Ave., for the PBR Built Ford Tough Series, featuring the top 35 bull riders in the world. With lots of local boys featured, this treat is worth the trip, with tickets ranging anywhere from $12-$102.
No Bones About It. Find some time this week and tickle your funny bone with Laughing Matter Improv. One of Tulsa's oldest troupes of the guffaw-purveying sort, this group has been a staple of the local laugh scene since the 1980s. Off-the-cuff hilarity will ensue at Henthorne Performing Arts Center, 4825 S. Quaker Ave., with the performance beginning at 6pm.
Por Amor a la Danza. Break out of your box and attend a dance workshop at Casa Tango. Located at 4176 S. Birmingham Place, and hosted by the Tulsa Latin Dancers, this event lasts from 8 to 11pm. The first several hours will feature "practica" or "practice," with the remaining hour featured on performance technique. Bilingual capabilities are not required -- a love of dance and a willingness to learn are all you need.
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This thread/post is basically for three purposes.
- First, to find new people to join the RP Myriad Reality. (Read the first post in it for more information, and the original interest check may be helpful as well)
- Second, to be a grammar testing ground for potential members, because we HAVE HAD A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE THAT MAKES THIS REQUIRED AS OF NOW.
- Third, to be an OOC thread for Myriad Reality.
Basically, this RP is sort of an ultimate crossover/clusterfuck of every series, myth, and imagination know to any member of the RP. There is no real GM, everyone can create their own plot devices and story sagas as long as they follow the overall rules.
Basically, read the first post as was linked above. If you want to join, make a request here and one of us original members will get to you ASAP on an answer. Sorry to be more of a jerk now than I was on the original post, but again, we've had some bad... problems since then. Have fun!


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Making Him Sweat Makes the Cut
Making Him Sweat, the first book in Meg's Wilinski's series, has been named a 2013 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award nominee, in the Best Harlequin Blaze category. Thanks, RT! You can read their original review here and also check out the full list of 2013 nominees here.
New Deal—Mass Market Series for Signet Eclipse!
Too exciting! I've just sold the first two books of what I hope will be a four-book mass market series to Signet Eclipse! It's a contemporary romance series, called The Desert Dogs—very gritty and grimy and a bit dark, a bit larger-than-life, set in the Southwest and centered around a scrappy group of vigilante cowboy-bikers. Whatever you're imagining, that's probably about right. Bar fights and badlands and hard-drinking, trash-talking men with neck tattoos and so forth. The first book, Lay It Down, is set to release in August 2014. More details as I have them!
Unbound Is Out
My second book with Penguin / InterMix, Unbound, is now available! This full-length, standalone contemporary erotic romance is set in the Scottish Highlands, and is best known on Twitter as "the hot-mess hermit." You can read the actual blurb on my Books page. It's verra kinky. You can read an excerpt here. You can also find buy-links on my Books page, add it on Goodreads, or look for it wherever fine ebooks are sold! It's also available as an audiobook, narrated by Lucy Rivers.
New Deal—Cosmo Red-Hot Reads!
Excitement! I'm so happy to announce I'm writing a story for Cosmo Red-Hot Reads, the fun new collaboration between Cosmopolitan magazine and Harlequin! My novella is tentatively titled Her Best Laid Plans, and it's about a young woman who has a holiday fling with a filthy Irish bartender. The good kind of filthy! Should be out next spring, possibly March. Official details as I know them!
2014 Book Ball Event in Anaheim
Attention left-coasters—I'm going to be at the inaugural Book Ball event, February 28–March 1, in Anaheim, California! Also attending will be crazy-fab authors Alice Clayton, Sylvia Day, Katy Evans, Ruthie Knox (aka Robin York), Christina Lauren, Monica Murphy, Kristen Proby, Tiffany Reisz, Andrew Shaffer, and Tara Sue Me. This first-ever Book Ball weekend will be packed full of book signings and intimate author / reader social events, and only 100 tickets are being sold, so act now if you want in!
New Blazes Full of Sweaty Men
Meg has a new series with Harlequin Blaze for 2013, all set in and around a disreputable boxing and mixed martial arts gym in Boston's Chinatown. I love writing struggling, working-class heroes, and fighters in particular, so these have been great fun for me. All three books are now available, including in audio—check them out at Audible.com or wherever you like to buy your audiobooks!
The most recent release is the third book in the series, Driving Her Wild, which is about Steph, a retiring MMA pro who gets tangled up with Patrick, a dangerously lousy electrician. (I promise he's really good at other stuff.) Romantic Times gave it their highest rating, ★★★★½! Check out details on my Books page, or add it now on Goodreads.
Book two is Taking Him Down. If you read the first installment, Making Him Sweat, you'll remember Rich, the gigantic, shameless, Colombian-American townie. Watch his life get dismantled by Lindsey, the unassuming sass-mouthed matchmaker from upstairs! Dear Author named it a Recommended Read. You can check out the blurb and excerpt and find links to order on my Books page. You can also add the book or the series on Goodreads.
Book one, Making Him Sweat, came out in March, and was just named a 2013 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award nominee. In it the heroine, Jenna, has just inherited her estranged father's shady, unprofitable boxing gym, and arrives in Boston with plans to open an upscale, old-school matchmaking franchise in the same building. She butts heads (and other more exciting body parts) with the gym's general manager, Mercer, a former amateur boxer turned trainer, who's determined to convince her to give the gym a chance to bounce back, before she has to put it out of its fiscal misery. Pragmatic Bostonian commitmentphobe meets West-Coast incurable romantic. Romantic Times gave it their highest rating, ★★★★½. Check out details on my Books page, or add it on Goodreads.
After Hours
My first book with Penguin / InterMix, After Hours, came out earlier this year. It's a full-length, standalone erotic romance set in and around a psychiatric hospital in the heart of Michigan's industrial decline—think gritty realism, not lavish escapism. I suspect that folks who enjoyed the rough sex and straight-talking hero from Willing Victim might enjoy this one. Check out an excerpt if you're intrigued, or go to my Books page for the blurb, reviews, and buy links. You can also find inside info on the book on the USA Today HEA blog, Heroes & Heartbreakers, the Badass Book Reviews blog, and Wonkomance.
New York Times bestselling author Beth Kery called After Hours "The sweet, smoking hot, standout erotic romance you've been craving." USA Today bestseller Victoria Dahl says, "Cara McKenna is my go-to author for gritty, hot love stories full of honest emotion." And NYT bestseller Ava Gray (aka Ann Aguirre) says, "After Hours is incredibly hot. Cara McKenna brings the steam."
And if you dig audiobooks and dirty stories set in Rust Belt psychiatric wards, After Hours is also available in audio, narrated by Lucy Rivers. You can learn more, order, or listen to a sample here. It's also available on Audible and iTunes, basically wherever you like to score your audiobooks.
Felons and Whatnot
I'm way excited to announce that for my third book with Penguin / InterMix, I finally get to write a dirty romance about an incarcerated felon! (And yes, he was guilty. And yes, it was bad.) I've been aching to write a convict romance, and somehow I convinced my editor that "sexy" and "sketchy" are not mutually exclusive. It's called Hard Time, and it's full of filthy love letters and Very Bad Ideas, set in the same declining Michigan city as the after-hours parts of After Hours (but no twee cameos, I promise.) This one will be out in April 2014. Official blurb and cover to come!


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Marcella Polain
Marcella Polain was born in Singapore and immigrated to Perth when she was two years old, with her Armenian mother and Irish father. She has a background in theatre and screen writing, and now lectures in the Writing program at Edith Cowan University. She was founding WA editor for the national poetry journal Blue Dog, has been poetry editor for Westerly and was inaugural editor for the new WA journal Indigo. Her first poetry collection, Dumbstruck, won the Anne Elder Prize; her second, Each Clear Night, was short listed for the West Australian Premier's Poetry Prize. She has published essays on writing and completed her PhD at the University of Western Australia in 2006. She has recently completed a third poetry collection with the working title of Therapy like Fish.
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Light Horse Boy at Bologna
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Agnieszka and Maciek Nabrdalik
The Irreversible
Leica Gallery Warsaw was opened in January 2010 and soon became an important institution on the cultural map of Warsaw.
In addition to its exhibition space, the gallery is adjacent to our major Leica Store.
Leica's Warsaw gallery is oriented towards a wide variety of contemporary photography but focuses particularly on documentary image making. The current exhibiton is the "Leica Street Photo. One moment in time." featuring the works awarded prizes in this, the second annual street photography contest, whose subjects depict the diverse approaches to modern documentary photography in Poland.
The Irreversible [Nieodwracalne] exhibition consists of portraits of the German-run Nazi camps survivors. This is a record of face-to-face meetings with the protagonists' experiences, thoughts and feelings. The effect of more than 4 years of Agnieszka's and Maciek's Nabrdalik work will be shown in Leica Gallery Warszawa from November 9th.
Agnieszka and Maciek Nabrdalik started the project in 2009, after one of their visits to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Mueseum. At the gate they saw an obituary notice informing about the death of a former prisoner. Next day there was another one. At this moment they realized that they are the last generation who can approach the survivors to talk with them and asks questions. And so they did. They travelled over 80 000 kilometers to meet their interlocutors, recorded over 100 hours of material. The authors visited people of different nationalities, creeds, often very diverse . The Irreversible book featuring over forty portraits and interviews was published in September 2013. On November 9th the project will appear as an exhibition for the first time in Poland.
The survivors featured in the portrait series The Irreversible often say that in the camp one could forget one's name, but not the number, which provided a new subhuman identity stripped of all spirituality. The style of these portraits denies the impersonal tone of the Nazi statistics. The striking namelessness of the victims, the numbers recurring in historical reports, and the ongoing debates about how many people really died take away all individuality from the prisoners. This project aims to restore their faces and show a little piece of what they managed to salvage in spite of the cruelty and the humiliation.
The photographs were taken in the survivors' homes during intimate conversations when they were affected by strong emotions evoked by their memories. Looking at these photographs, one might sense that they have returned to those dark places.
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Plus there are a sort of small screw close to the tuning piston: I guess it is a sort of lock for the piston...
Anyone has info about this? There is easy to tune for 600 KHz repeater spacing? I tried to search info/manual on web with no success... I would like to use it in a VHF ham repeater.
I'm attaching three pictures...
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Remember 20 years ago, when every tabloid newspaper contained some story of a Labour council (especially Camden, Brent, Lambeth etc.)'s 'loony left' excesses - "baa baa green sheep", "council bans 'white coffee'", etc? It was the standard "column filler" of the day, and was probably a factor in the Tory domination of what one might call the "giro" years. They were tough days, of media distortion, fabrication, the poor quality colour reproduction of Eddie Shah's Today, and newsprint that came off on your hands.
Back in the present, it's clear that stories about various aspects of religious expression - or lack of it - have become the new column filler, and the public just can't get enough of them. I've decided to round up a couple of the most recent ones in one go, to save time. First up we have the story of the Muslim primary school teaching assistant in Dewsbury who has been suspended for wearing a face veil in the classroom, on the grounds that the kids cannot understand what she is saying. The teaching assitant has said she will remove the veil but not if there is a male teacher present in the room.
The case is currently with an employment tribunal and I would imagine the teaching assistant has a reasonably good chance. It seems surprising that putting a very thin piece of fabric in front of one's mouth woud make it impossible to hear what one was saying. I think the only grounds on which she might lose is if the tribunal rules that the kids need to be able to see her lips to understand her. Anyway, we will wait and see on that one. Much more extraordinary than the case itself has been the intervention by communities minister Phil Woolas, who accused the assistant of sexual discrimination and said she should be sacked as "she's put herself in a position where she can't do her job." This is one of the most crazy statements I have heard in a long while. On this basis, presumably we should prosecute all parents who choose to send their kids to a single sex school, as they're guilty of sexual discrimination? Tony Blair has now predictably waded into the debate saying that the full face veil is a "mark of separation" and backing the school authorities in Dewsbury. It is most amusing that the prime minister, who makes such a big thing of his religious beliefs, should be speaking out against religious freedom of expression in this way. Unless, of course, he's in favour of Christian, but not Muslim, freedom of expression?
Which brings us on to our second story of religious expression denied - the British Airways check-in worker who has been suspended for wearing a cross necklace. For the first - and hopefully the only - time in my life I find myself in agreement with Ann Widdecombe, who has urged a boycott of BA on this issue. Why the hell should someone have to take off a religious symbol just because their employer says so? BA says the cross has to be worn under the uniform - but WHY?
I'm coming at this issue as an atheist who believes that perhaps the most astute religious commentator we have in this country at the moment is Richard Dawkins. But I also believe that there is no good reason for regulations on how to dress in the workplace to stifle free religious expression. Down with authoritarianism at work! I'm tempted to wear a 3 foot long gold cross wearing 20 kilos to work as a gesture of sympathy. And if anyone tries to take it off me, then watch out... come and 'ave a go if you think you're 'ard enough.
17 October 2006
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'Don't be too proud of this technological terror you have created, the ability to write an atheistic blog is insignificant next to the force'.......
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I find your lack of faith disturbing.
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Bizarrely I was having a pint of Mersea Island Monkey's Stout last night whilst discussing the ins and outs of network marketing with one of the UK's leading practitioners of the art form. Also featured was a Felstar beer which I unfortunately can't remember the name of!
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The Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized because it is working
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The Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized first and foremost because it is working. Violence in domestic and dating relationships is declining, and we are also actively seeking to prevent sexual violence and stalking.
Nevertheless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, and other studies available on the Research and Statistics section of the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence website tell us that nearly one in four women are beaten or raped by a partner during adulthood, and each year approximately 2.3 million people are raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former intimate partner. One in six women and one in 33 men has experienced an attempted or completed rape. In the United States, an average of three women are killed by a current or former intimate partner each day.
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One in four girls and one in six boys are sexually abused before the age of 18. Children exposed to violence are more likely to attempt suicide, abuse drugs and alcohol, run away from home, engage in teenage prostitution, and commit sexual assault crimes. Men exposed to physical abuse, sexual abuse, and domestic violence as children are almost four times more likely than other men to perpetrate domestic violence as adults. Many costs are associated with these crimes—medical, legal, absenteeism from work and school as well as the incalculable damage to individuals and families.
Advancing a Coordinated Community Response, a linchpin of the initial Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that was enhanced in the reauthorizations of 2000 and 2005, was based on what we had learned. Then-Senator, now Vice President Joe Biden created> this federal effort to impact the incidence of violence across our nation with input from the National Network to End Domestic Violence and its members State Domestic Violence Coalitions, State Sexual Assault Coalitions now comprising the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence , and other advocacy groups. Coordinated Community Responses encourage social services, criminal justice, education, civic groups, and many more to partner with rape crisis centers, battered women's shelters, State Domestic Violence Coalitions, State Sexual Assault Coalitions, national community based and governmental organizations. These partnerships change cultural norms and institutional practices that support rather than prevent the use of power and control over others. Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act in 2012 will make it possible to continue full speed ahead to end this violence.
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We made major furniture moves today in preparation for the wall between my kitchen and living room to be partially demolished later this week.
The TV upstairs that no longer works is no more. The TV downstairs moved upstairs into its place. The Player's desk is where the downstairs TV used to be. The table that the downstairs TV was on is now in the living room with the keyboard on it. The bookcase that was in that spot is now downstairs near The Player's desk. The refrigerator and the kitchen table have swapped places. My brain is now where my stomach used to be and my back muscles are in the shop for a repair. I said about 5 times that I needed to take ibuprofen today but I have forgotten to do so. I think I will go do that now.
Hello I am back.
There was some serious deep cleaning needed behind the old TV table (cheese slices, boy's socks, and major dust bunnies), behind the upstairs TV table (plastic freezer pop sleeves, dust bunnies the size of King Kong) and behind the fridge (a hot dog bun from the Pleistocene epoch). Cleaning below the fridge required lots of Spic and Span and a putty knife. Need I say more? I said to myself about 5 times today that I would need a glass of wine after this. I think I will go get that now.
Hello I am back.
But I don't have anything else to blog 'bout so Adios.
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- 2 kids. Memories of Wolf and Boo. Many dear friends. Three siblings. Two parents. Samarra the crazy dog. The Player and Pi the Cat. I love you all!
Monday, April 16, 2012
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I hope there are no ill effects of ibuprofen + wine.
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Dang! I totally identify right down to the petrified hot dog bun. Most of the time I just want to pry EVERYTHING up with the world's largest putty knife and throw it all in the dumpster. Which is why I just keep walking around wearing blinders.
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Recovering Deleted Files with Scalpel
Scalpel File Carver
ByThe Scalpel file carver helps users restore what they thought were lost files.
You just need to delete the pesky backup files for the project, and then you're off for home. However, rm *~ can quickly be mistyped as rm * ~, thus deleting all the files from the current directory. But, perhaps all is not lost: Deleted data usually is not dumped directly into a black hole. The operating system typically only deletes the metadata, such as file name, owner, and location. The user data is kept on the storage medium until it is overwritten.
Linux has a number of file carvers, which are programs designed for restoring such data. These tools analyze a disk for byte patterns that match the file headers and footers and interpret everything between the two as belonging to the file. This approach works as long as the header and footer are clear, the file is not fragmented, and the file was not encrypted.
When a footer is missing or not recognized, the carver just writes everything to the recovery file until it encounters the next header. Therefore, besides fragmented files and those with poorly discernible ends, those that contain other files – such as text documents with embedded graphics – also cause problems. If you use a file carver, you should not expect miracles but just hope for the best.
File Scalpel
The Scalpel file carver can detect many different file types. It does not matter which filesystem the disk has been formatted with: Scalpel uses a database with headers and footers for various file types to trace files.
Many distributions have older versions of Scalpel in their repositories that do the job well but do not have the full functionality of the current version 2.0, such as regular expressions for headers and footers, multithreading, asynchronous input and output, or GPU-accelerated file carving (if NVidia's CUDA SDK is installed). If you want to use these features, you must build Scalpel from the source code (see the "Installation" box).
In former times, file carvers scanned disks for header and footer patterns and wrote all the results to a new medium, which required plenty of storage. Scalpel, however, just checks a disk twice to put together all the necessary information.
The first time you run Scalpel, it looks for headers and stores its findings in a database; then, it identifies the footers. In doing so, Scalpel always takes into account that a header is always followed by a footer, which nicely accelerates the search. Now you have an index with the positions of the headers and footers, which forms the basis for the second run. This time, Scalpel matches the headers and footers and writes the files it found directly to a new location from memory without having to access the disk again.
Before Scalpel embarks on a search for lost data, it reads the scalpel.conf configuration file, which can contain the minimum and maximum sizes of the files, including headers and footers, in addition to file types to search for. Specifying the file type results in file bloat if the footer is missing. Before you start carving, you should make some individual settings that restrict the search to a minimum number of file types and sizes from the outset.
Saving the Sandman
Next, I'll give some examples of bailouts. Scenario 1 involves a household without TV with at least one young child. The father has accidentally deleted the child's favorite "Sandmann" episodes, which were recorded from ARD Mediathek over several days. Deprived of the show, the child expresses disappointment in the usual loud and unmistakable way.
The scalpel.conf file does not have an entry for the MP4 format, but the existing – long-since viewed – files show an encouraging consistency in terms of the headers (Figure 1).
Dad now feeds the data to scalpel.conf. The first item in the new entry (Figure 2) is the file extension that should receive potential matches.
The "y" indicates whether Scalpel distinguishes between uppercase and lowercase in the header and footer. This is followed by the minimum and maximum file sizes – the MP4s usually occupy between 30 and 70MB. Finally, the header is given. A footer cannot be specified, because it always turns out differently.
Then, dad starts the rescue operation at the command line with:
$ scalpel -c scalpel.conf -o sandmann_recovered /dev/sdd1
During this operation, Scalpel really does scratch six files back off the disk. Because of the lack of footer information, they are all exactly 70,000,000 bytes long and contain a lost "Sandmann" sequence – with a more or less large chunk of junk data at the end (Figure 3). Cheers for dad!
Save my LaTeX
Scenario 2: The USB stick with your humanities term paper in TeX has died because of a physical defect in the boot sector. However, you took the business of writing this paper seriously and tagged each file at the beginning and end with %filename.tex and %filename.tex End. This practice hugely increases your chances of seeing the contents again.
The recovery procedure is similar to that described above. In scalpel.conf, you can comment out all the lines except the one that describes the headers and footers of your well-documented paper:
tex y 300:50000 /%.{1,20}\.tex/ /%.{1,20}\.tex\sEnd/
This regular expression tells Scalpel to search for data fragments that start with %.{1,20}\.tex and end with %.{1,20}\.tex\sEnd. The term .{1,20} stands for at least 1 and a maximum of 20 characters. The dot that follows stands for characters before the tex suffix, and the \s in the footer means a space. Although regular expressions support the quantifiers *, +, ?, and expressions like [:alnum:], experience shows that Scalpel cannot do much with them.
Next, to copy the contents of the broken USB stick to the stick.dd.img file, use dd and run the following command:
$ scalpel -c scalpel.conf -o lost_texfiles stick.dd.img
In this test, Scalpel needed just four seconds to scan a 2GB image file and restore all the TeX files.
Scalpel cannot replace a backup, but it can come to the rescue in many cases. Do not expect miracles, however; fragmented files or physical storage faults make it difficult to detect file ends and push Scalpel to its limits. In this case, the "rescued" files will often prove to be useless.
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Beginning last July, the state imposed a meals and room tax of 9 percent on all RV and tent sites. The tax was intended to help close the state's budget deficit.
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Representative Steve Vaillancourt said the tax was not worth the money coming in for an $11 billion two-year budget.
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