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The summer of 2013 hasn't been good to Sony Pictures. The heavily-promoted Will and Jaden Smith vehicle, After Earth, went down in flames, and seeming box-office gold Channing Tatum proved he can strike a tin note with White House Down. Now, the word is the studio's looking to the Matt Damon-led sci-fi film Elysium to turn its balance sheet around. Unless audiences are completely taken in by a marketing campaign that promises innovative, space-age storytelling when the film delivers little more than been-there-done-that agenda grinding, Sony will likely have to keep looking.
"Our movie is a political statement," Sharlto Copley, one of the stars, recently told The New York Times, which should tell you exactly how entertaining it is.
Damon plays a futuristic have-not in a Los Angeles that looks like a third-world nation (okay, so maybe the premise isn't all that far-fetched). Jodi Foster is the have who lives on Elysium, a glorified space station of mansions, manicured lawns, and miraculous medical equipment that can cure everything from leukemia to a half-exploded head. Naturally, Foster and her wealthy ilk jealously guard their galactic habitat and are happy to resort to mass murder if it means keeping sick, illegal trespassers off it. Such a progressive theme alone might not be enough to earn the movie an eye roll, but the cartoonish, Occupy-poster dialogue confirms it is.
If writer/director Neill Blomkamp had gone for a PG-13 rating, Elysium might have had a chance at bringing Sony the big win it so desperately needs. Instead, heavy doses of foul language and one particularly bloody scene secured the film an R that's likely to keep many potential viewers away. Add to that messaging so heavy-handed (to wit, Elysium looks like a gigantic, glittering Mercedes-Benz hubcap) even those who support universalized healthcare and open borders are liable to find it exasperating, and it's hard to see how Elysium can manage more than middling box office returns.


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DALLAS (AP) _ Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says significant changes are needed in the NCAA, a belief he shares with commissioners from other power conferences.
Bowlsby and leaders of the SEC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC met about six weeks ago to talk about issues. Bowlsby says the sense is that ``transformative change is going to have to happen.''
SEC Commissioner Mike Slive delivered a similar message last week at his league's media days. Bowlsby says there are no conversations about seceding from the NCAA, and that would be only ``a last resort.''
But Bowlsby says it may be time to consider federation by ``size and scope and equity brought to the system'' or maybe federation by sport. He says it's unrealistic to manage football and field hockey by the same rules.

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Elementary – Season 1 Episode 7 – Recap and Review – One Way To Get Off
Recap and review of Elementary – Season 1 Episode 7 – One Way To Get Off
Elementary steps up to the plate with one of its strongest episodes of the season, which finds several characters confronting their pasts in significant ways. "One Way To Get Off" fleshes out the relationships between Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn) while also adding further nuance to the Holmes/Watson connection. The case this week also expounds upon this theme, and is particularly fruitful in binding all the disparate elements of the narrative into one cohesive whole. When taken together, these plot threads come together to make for one of the best episodes so far, and a clear example of why CBS has so much faith in the show (at least enough faith to give it the coveted post-Super Bowl slot). The episode works in how it broadens the themes of the series while also deepening its ensemble by focusing, in part, on the underdeveloped Captain Gregson, and introducing his crooked ex-partner.
The case this week involves a serial killer named Wade Crewes (Keith Szarabajka), who was put in prison by Gregson over a decade ago, when the latter was still a police detective alongside his partner, Terry D'Amico (Callie Thorne). When a series of murders pop up with Wade's M.O., it leads Gregson to revisit the case, as well as the possibility that he may have gotten the wrong man. The plot allows us to investigate the relationship Holmes has with Gregson, one of the few people in the world Holmes would consider a friend. Repeatedly throughout the episode, Holmes makes reference to his deep respect for Gregson, and in one particular scene, Holmes notes how much it pains him to have to question his friend's morality. By referencing Wade's interrogation video and comparing images of his coffee mug with the one found at the scene of the crime a decade earlier, Holmes has discovered that someone has framed Crewes. Gregson vehemently denies it was him, and then goes to confront his ex-partner, Terry, who cops to planting the evidence in order to keep a bad guy from getting off on a technicality. Gregson is understandably appalled, and resolves to reveal this miscarriage of justice to the world, even if it means the end of his career. But Holmes is making headway in the case, and it might turn out that Gregson might have gotten the right person after all.
The other big arc of the episode springboards off of the Irene Adler reveal at the end of last week's episode. Holmes is giving Watson (Lucy Liu) the silent treatment for snooping around in his private life, going behind his back and asking Allistair about Irene. Watson can't get Holmes to talk about who Irene is, or what his relationship was to her, so she travels to Hemdale, the rehabilitation facility where Holmes resided. Though she gets no answers from Sherlock's doctor, she makes progress through Edison (Stephen Henderson), the groundskeeper of the facility, who offers her a sheaf of correspondence with Irene that Sherlock left behind. Watson gives Sherlock the letters, but the tempestuous Holmes sticks them in the blender. Watson finally gives up and promises not to bring up Irene again unless he broaches the subject himself.
Their quarrel somewhat resolved, they get back on the investigation and discover that Crewes had a son out of wedlock with a woman who's now deceased. They find the young man, named Sean, and it's only a matter of time before it's revealed that Sean has been committing the murders, having discovered Crewes was his father and acting, through Crewes, as an agent meant to create reasonable doubt in order to ensure Crewes's release. It's doubtless Crewes ever cared about his son, and though Sean is a cold-blooded murderer, there's a greater sense of pathos there, the desire for a connection to the devious father he never knew. Sean could never understand where his father was coming from unless he assumed the role of his father more directly. The young man confronted his past in much the same way Sherlock is forced to confront his, and Gregson as well. Though there is darkness in that kind of introspection, it's hard to imagine that anybody wouldn't be better off for having taken the time to reconcile their emotional baggage.
Holmes, in particular, shows progress by episode's end. As Watson is about to retire to bed, Holmes reveals the story of Irene Adler, though it's necessarily terse and sparse on details: they were very close, she died, and he took the loss very hard. The end. But for Sherlock, that's progress. He's a man who's guarded almost as a matter of necessity, as if there's something darker in his nature that he's trying to keep from getting out. This is often part of the depiction of Holmes across many of the different adaptations of the character over the years, and even in many of the Arthur Conan Doyle stories. Whether that portrayal will carry over to Elementary is a hard thing to know for certain, since Irene is dead in this continuity. Whether Holmes is lying, or if he simply doesn't know she's still alive, there has to be more to this story than meets the eye. If Irene actually is dead, then this represents a significant, and fascinating break with the Sherlock Holmes mythos. I can't wait to see which direction they decide to take it, as Holmes is already irreducibly complex as is, without introducing a dark, brooding love in his past, a woman every bit his equal, and capable of throwing him off in a way no one else has, or ever could.


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The Medical Assistant Program at Lane Community College is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP),(www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB). The next re-accreditation review and evaluation will occur in the 2015-2016 academic year.
Graduates of this program are eligible to take the national certification examination
(CMA), sponsored by the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). Only individuals who hold a certificate from a medical assisting program accredited by CAAHEP are eligible to take the Certification Examination. Certification is not currently required for initial employment by local employers, but is becoming highly recommended within the local medical community. Medical Assistant students at Lane should be planning for certification. Upon passing the Certification Examination, an MOA may claim the credential of CMA (AAMA) for Certified Medical Assistant.
Medical Office Assisting is a rapidly expanding segment of the work force. According to the United States Bureau of Labor statistics, Medical Assisting is projected to be one of the fastest growing professions.
To Our Students: Please be informed that Lane Community College Division of Health Professions requires all students to submit appropriate personal information (such as immunization records, federal and state background checks, drug screens and others) to CastleBranch, a company specializing in the collection and storage of student health care information. Submission of required documents must be accomplished prior to the beginning of classes. Both the drug screens and background checks must be clear (e.g. absence of positive results for narcotics, marijuana, alcohol and/or other illicit substances for drug screen) to ensure clinical placements and graduation from Health Profession programs. Specifics on required documents, costs, timelines, and how to access CastleBranch, will be included in the letter of program acceptance and/or discussed at the Mandatory Program Orientation.
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Please be aware that you will be required to have a minimum 2.0 gpa at the time of graduation in order to graduate and receive your certificate or associate's degree from LCC. Please also be aware that only LCC courses count toward your final gpa.
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Standard Occupational Classification: 31-9092.00
For a profile of this occupation go to the U.S. Department of Labor's O*Net website: Medical Assistants
Or check on these O*Net Related Occupations: Nursing Assistants
How many students completed the Medical Assistant 1-year Certificate in 2013-14?
In academic year 2013-14, 72 students completed this certificate.
What was the on-time graduation rate for these students?
Of students who completed this certificate in the 2012-13 academic year, 43.1% completed on time.
NOTE: The federally required method for calculating this rate assumes students will enroll full-time, declare a major immediately, and enroll in it continuously until certificate completion. In reality, many community college students attend part-time, explore several majors, stop out for a term or more, change majors, or brush-up academic skills to be better prepared for college level courses, affecting this narrowly defined on-time graduation rate.
How many jobs are forecast in this occupation between 2010-20?
Lane County: 29; Statewide: 362
What wages are forecast for this occupation?
Lane County hourly average - $16.76; annual average - $34,850
Oregon hourly average - $16.58; annual average - $34,497
How much will the program cost?
(Estimates based on 2013-14 data for full-time students. Students attending part-time will incur additional term fees. Consult Lane's website for updated tuition and fees.)
- Resident tuition and student fees - $6,072
- Differential fees - $0
- Books, supplies, other program costs - $3,758
- On-campus room and board - Not offered
- Total estimate - $9,830
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A simple but informative text, and cartoon-like acrylic illustrations are paired to great effect in Meghan McCarthy's Astronaut Handbook, which offers a fun, fact-filled look at a common childhood dream: traveling to outer space! For the young reader who had wondered what qualifications they need, to become an astronaut (study hard, children, and learn to be a team player!), or what the training process involves (space food! the "Vomit Comet!"), this title will fill them in, allowing them to follow four young space cadets through the process.
A book that reminds me a bit of Faith McNulty's similar If You Decide To Go To The Moon, which offers a picture-book advice manual for space-bound youngsters, Astronaut Handbook captures the excitement of space travel, and the allure of the stars. I don't know that the style of illustrations is really my cup of tea, but it works well with the simple text, and I imagine that young readers will find it very fun. All in all, an entertaining look at a perennially popular topic, one I recommend to all those youngsters who dream of walking on the moon, or exploring the stars...
Simply written in language that second grade students would comprehend, this book shares the training that astronauts must do to get ready to go on a mission to outer space. It encourages the reader to work hard so that they can be astronauts one day.
A very uplifting book for students. I love the simple language but the explanations of everything an astronaut must be able to do before leaving Earth. I think this would be a great addition to any classroom library.
A perfect introduction to a career in space exploration. Suitable for younger readers or storytime, this non-fiction picture book is humorously illustrated in colorful , double-spread acrylic paintings. Using simple text,
"You've done the hard stuff, and now it's time to have some fun! A special plane nicknamed the Vomit Comet will take you high in the sky and then ZOOM back down. As a result, you'll be able to FLOAT! It might upset your stomach, but you'll get the hang of it," Astronaut Handbook offers a glimpse into the versatility of astronauts (pilots, scientists, mechanics) as well as the myriad requirements that make space travel possible (space suits, space toilets, freeze-dried ice cream, wilderness training and more). Fascinating Facts, Places to Visit, and Bibliography follow the story.
Welcome to Astronaut School space cadets! Learn about different kinds of astronauts, what they eat in space, and what it takes to become an astronaut. See if you have what it takes to see the world from outer space. Ages 5-10
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During her sophomore year in high school, Anna Miner read Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi's autobiography and became fascinated with the complexities of Middle Eastern and South Asian states.
"Before reading that book I had thought repressive governments were the status quo in the Middle East," said Miner, who in 2012 graduated with a bachelor's in international relations with an emphasis on Middle East relations in USC Dornsife. "But her book told the opposite story: Iran had been liberal for much of the 20th century and suddenly reverted to a religious and anti-capitalist system. That raised a lot of questions for me — specifically how do you revert back to how it was before?"
At USC Dornsife, Miner set out to answer that query. She became well-versed in Middle East relations with the hope of one day helping to implement change. Miner's work has been recognized by the Qatar Scholarship Program of Georgetown University. The scholarship will help her reach her ultimate career goal of serving as a peace negotiator in the Middle East.
The Qatar Scholarship Program offers dedicated Arabic language students from the United States the opportunity to master their skills in an intensive Arabic language program at Qatar University in Doha for an academic year. Students are given the opportunity to intern or hold a job in the country.
"I hope to become completely fluent by the end of the program," Miner said. "This will push me toward my goal of becoming a state department officer and hopefully a foreign service officer."
The USC Presidential Scholar will depart Los Angeles, Calif., for Qatar in early September. The overseas program will complement her classes at USC Dornsife, she said.
While an undergraduate student in USC Dornsife, Miner spent a year in Jordan studying standard and Jordanian Arabic. Here, she visits the Roman Citadel ruins in Amman. Photo courtesy of Anna Miner.
"USC Dornsife has helped me achieve my goals by providing a plethora of academic and study abroad options," Miner said. "The School of International Relations provides so many opportunities, you never feel you need to chart a very narrow path for yourself."
Laurie Brand, Robert Grandford Wright Professor and professor of international relations worked with Miner through USC Dornsife's Student Opportunities for Academic Research (SOAR) program.
"Anna has demonstrated a real commitment to Middle East studies and in particular to developing a serious command of Arabic," Brand said, adding that Miner has already experienced a study abroad program in Jordan. "Now she will have the chance to further enhance her knowledge of the region."
A Seattle native, Miner spent a year in Jordan studying standard Arabic and Jordanian Arabic through USC's Overseas Studies Office and the non-profit, non-governmental organization Council on Educational Exchange.
After her year in Qatar, Miner plans to join the Peace Corps before pursuing a master's degree in international relations.
"I hope to make an impact on the level of opportunity that people have in Arabic countries," Miner said. "I want to be a force for good on the U.S. side and foster the right atmosphere for change."


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Acee: Reyes is the real Castillo
Jacques Cesaire played nine years in the NFL, shoving aside the improbability of it time and again, beginning with his making the Chargers roster in 2003 as an undrafted rookie out of Southern Connecticut State and right on through an eventual 66 career starts.
Ultimately, he couldn't overcome Kendall Reyes.
Cesaire knew right away when the Chargers took the field for workouts this past spring that his time with the Chargers was likely coming to an end.
"The first time me and Luis saw him," Cesaire said before being interrupted by his own belly laugh, "we said, 'Oh, we're losing our jobs.' "
Don't think Cesaire didn't try for a 10th NFL season. In fact, he still might play somewhere if he gets the call. But it was just that obvious to him that his services would most likely not be needed here.
"Perfect height, perfect weight," Cesaire said of Reyes. "Smart. Instinctual. Really poised."
Which brings us to the Luis that Cesaire mentioned – Luis Castillo, Cesaire's close friend, long-time teammate and fellow defensive end.
The Chargers made Castillo a first-round pick in 2005. He started 79 games, sometimes playing brilliantly, yet injuries continually kept him from achieving the potential he was believed to have. He was released in March, signed again in April and ultimately released in July.
I loved me some Luis. There is not anyone who touted Castillo's potential more than I (though, for the record, I am not the one who gave him that big contract back in 2008). There were times, especially those first three seasons, that he exceeded what you could expect of 3-4 end. But he rarely was that difference maker and ultimately was a disappointment.
The reality is, it was in Reyes' future the Chargers could see a more brilliant reflection of Castillo's past.
"In my opinion he's the most physically and mentally mature defensive lineman we've had come in, in the last seven years," Castillo, classy forever, wrote in an e-mail this week.
And there it is, the defensive line's past extolling its future.
Reyes was the final cog in the Chargers' youth movement on the defensive line. Their spending a second-round pick on the 6-foot-4, 300-pound Reyes this year followed last year's drafting of Corey Liuget in the first round.
Even with the addition of 32-year-old nose tackle Aubrayo Franklin and the re-signing of Antonio Garay, also 32, the average age on the defensive line is 26½. That's slightly younger than last year and almost two years younger than the average in 2010.
And not to discount Vaughn Martin's progress over the past three-plus seasons or Liuget's growth between his rookie year and this one, but Reyes is the face of the Chargers' concerted effort to field a younger, faster, more athletic defensive line.
It's difficult to not think that with Reyes and outside linebacker Melvin Ingram the Chargers are essentially getting a do-over of their first two picks 2005 draft -- Castillo and Shawne Merriman. If the current duo can avoid the injuries that felled Castillo and Merriman, there seems little doubt the top of the Chargers' 2012 draft will be judged for more lasting success.
Reyes was clearly undaunted virtually from the start of offseason workouts. Rarely does a rookie come in and play with that kind of quickness that simply lacks fear. And his confidence accompanied a willingness and ability to learn that impressed veterans on both sides of the ball.
"He seems to have a savvy to his game at an early age," center Nick Hardwick said less than a week into camp.
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Main Avenue was previously scheduled to be paved at the end of the project, but an additional $500,000 investment from Act 89 is allowing work to begin on August 1 to resurface the road from the Scranton/Taylor line to Providence Road in Scranton.
Throughout the 10 days of work, the Scranton Police will enforce a parking ban along the road to allow construction crews to be able to work in an efficient manner. Because this is a moving operation that involves detailed work around numerous utility drains, all work must be completed during daylight hours. Travelers are advised to be alert for this operation, to obey work zone signs, and to slow down when approaching and traveling through work zones, not only for their safety, but also for the safety of the road crews.
In the spring of 2015, when the curb-cuts are installed, small portions of the new pavement will need to be removed in order to complete the work. At that time an additional one-inch layer of asphalt will be placed on the road as well, enhancing this year's much-needed repairs.
More than 17,000 cars travel on this part of Main Avenue every day.
In April, Governor Tom Corbett announced that statewide, more than $2.1 billion in highway and bridge projects will begin in 2014, $600 million more than what would have been available without Act 89.
By its fifth year, Act 89 will generate an additional $2.3 billion to $2.4 billion a year in added statewide transportation investment across all modes.
Motorists can check conditions on major roadways by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 700 traffic cameras. 511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional Twitter alerts accessible on the 511PA website.
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Elizabeth Taylor does tequila shots at the Abbey? Liz Smith compares Cindy Adams and Barbara Walters to Lindsay Lohan and Miley Cyrus? Ian McKellen defaces Bibles? Shazam!
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Failure to check integrity check value
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Last revision (mm/dd/yy): 09/24/2008
Vulnerabilities Table of Contents
If integrity check values or "checksums" are not validated before messages are parsed and used, there is no way of determining if data has been corrupted in transmission.
- Authentication: Integrity checks usually use a secret key that helps authenticate the data origin. Skipping integrity checking generally opens up the possibility that new data from an invalid source can be injected.
- Integrity: Data that is parsed and used may be corrupted.
- Non-repudiation: Without a checksum check, it is impossible to determine if any changes have been made to the data after it was sent.
Exposure period
- Implementation: Checksums must be properly checked and validated in the implementation of message receiving.
- Languages: All
- Operating platforms: All
Required resources
Likelihood of exploit
The failure to validate checksums before use results in an unnecessary risk that can easily be mitigated with very few lines of code. Since the protocol specification describes the algorithm used for calculating the checksum, it is a simple matter of implementing the calculation and verifying that the calculated checksum and the received checksum match.
If this small amount of effort is skipped, the consequences may be far greater.
Risk Factors
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sd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); serv.sin_family = AF_INET; serv.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY); servr.sin_port = htons(1008); bind(sd, (struct sockaddr *) & serv, sizeof(serv)); while (1) { memset(msg, 0x0, MAX_MSG); clilen = sizeof(cli); if (inet_ntoa(cli.sin_addr)==...) n = recvfrom(sd, msg, MAX_MSG, 0, (struct sockaddr *) & cli, &clilen); }
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while(true) { DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(data,data.length,IPAddress, port); socket.send(sendPacket); }
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Your have not indicated whether--or how--you determined staff to be inefficient. Perhaps you already have a factual basis for coming to this conclusion. If not, that should be your starting point. First and foremost, you will want to better understand what efficiency standards are the norm (or the ones to beat) in your industry. In other words, before you decide which actions to take, you really must understand how your company stacks up against the competition's standards of efficiency.
Following that, and before adopting a new or realigned system or methodology, conduct an in-depth review of your current processes. While the answer to your dilemma may indeed be that your people simply need more training, other process-related issues may prevent them from being as efficient as possible. No amount of training will improve efficiency if, for instance, people are inputting data more than once, or waiting too long for approvals. Detailed process evaluations frequently identify inefficiencies and "process traps" that are easy to isolate and relatively inexpensive to repair, and which typically lead to a rapid boost in efficiencies.
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ASK SUZANNE, I went home last night and typed up a separation agreement and gave it to Anthony. Right now I consider myself separated from him. He hasn't had fulltime job in 4 years. In my opinion, the opinion of his family and our therapist he hasn't really tried to get fulltime employment. the lack of physical affection has been a huge problem for years. he didn't take the advice of the medical doctors, the therapist or his brother about the importance of intimacy in a marriage. he says he puts up with a lot from me too. i no longer see the importance of trying to make this work or in trying to make him happy. i just feel like i am done. i'm happy monday through friday. saturday and sunday are awful. this weekend was particularly bad. we go down the shore. i take care of the baby while he hangs out with his friends. i mentioned getting a new pair of sneakers and you would have thought i said i have aids the way he reacted. i'm just done. with all that being said, can you offer up any practical advice or any advice i may need to 'protect myself.' we are going to share the house for the time being. he has saturdays with the baby. i have sundays. i'm not going too see other guys but i want to spend time away from him while i sort some things out. Jen
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to hear it has come to this, but know that this has been brewing for quite awhile. I would advise you to go to see a lawyer who specializes in divorces as soon as possible. Once a couple decides to separate, it's important that money matters get settled immediately. Too often, one person will clean out the bank account and leave the other with nothing. It would be good to establish your own bank account that he will not have access to, so you can start putting away money for you and the baby.
Sit down and make a list of all that you will need to support yourself and your child...a dependable vehicle, health insurance, etc, and figure out the costs associated with each thing (like auto insurance for the car, etc). Your lawyer will need to know how much you need to live on for negotiations for child support.
When a woman finally makes the decision to leave, she will sometimes say "I don't want any help from him" because she is just tired of all the disagreements. I strongly suggest that you get good legal advice before making any such decisions. As a mother working full-time, you will eventually need to pay for child care, which is a huge expense. Talk to any friends you may have who have gone through the divorce process.
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A new bill filed in Washington state aims to protect a florist being sued for refusing to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding.
The bill, introduced Thursday by Republican Sen. Sharon Brown, would amend the state's non-discrimination statute by differentiating between actual discrimination based on characteristics like race, religion, or sexual orientation and personal decisions not to provide services for activities that the business does not support.
Brown's district includes Arlene's Flowers, which faces the discrimination suit. Business owner Barronelle Stutzman sold flowers to Robert Ingersoll and his parter, Curt Freed, for nearly a decade. It was only when they asked her to provide flowers for their wedding that she refused, based on her Christian faith.
"This is a business which has been willing to do business with homosexuals," said Joseph Backholm, executive director of Family Policy Institute of Washington. However, "when you do florals at a wedding, you have to go to the event and be a part of it, beautifying it, and she doesn't feel comfortable with it. This bill says that this is a right people still have."
The lawsuit filed against Stutzman said she violated the Consumer Protection Act by refusing service because the customer planned to marry another man. But Backholm argues the anti-discrimination law oversteps the business owner's religious liberties. He said the freedom of religion is usurped by an interest to ensure that no one is ever offended.
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A maskless lithography system can replace expensive masks with a reusable, electronic mask. The maskless system requires extremely high throughput, around 10 Tbps, to match the wafer write speed of conventional lithography. We are focusing research on advanced data decompression techniques and a high-speed analog interface to the mask-writing mechanism.
Previous research has shown that Lempel-Ziv and Burrows-Wheeler can compress layout data well. We analyzed these algorithms for their suitability to hardware decompression. Lempel-Ziv is a pattern matching encoder followed by a Huffman encoder. Burrows-Wheeler is block sort followed by a locally-adaptive compression algorithm. Both of these algorithms are limited by memory available in compression and decompression—history buffer size for LZ and block size for BW. We found that we could stretch the effectiveness of limited memory in both algorithms by precompressing with a simple runlength-encode (RLE). RLE fares well because layout data typically has homogenous blocks. When sufficient memory is available, RLE has little effect on the compression ratio. But for memory-limited compression, RLE significantly improves the compression ratio. Burrows-Wheeler requires more memory to achieve the same compression ratio as Lempel-Ziv. BW also requires a more complex decompression architecture. Thus, we determined that RLE followed by LZ is best suited for hardware decompression of layout data.


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Release Notes for Rockbox 3.5.1
The Rockbox project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Rockbox 3.5.1. This is a maintenance release to for Rockbox 3.5.
If you can't wait, hurry up to http://www.rockbox.org/download/ and get the release now! If you're curious about what's changed, read on for a quick summary.
About Rockbox
Rockbox is a complete replacement for the software that drives your digital audio players. It was written from the ground up to provide a better experience than the existing software, giving you more options and putting you in charge of the player. In most areas, Rockbox far surpasses the manufacturers firmware, truly unleashing the full potential of your hardware.
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Rockbox 3.5.1 fixes a bug that causes playback to pause for about a second every now and then during rebuffer. while rebuffering. See FS#10919 - playback pause on rebuffer for details.
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I thought that the USPS was in financial trouble because they'd over-promised pensions. Nope. It turns out that a law passed by Congress in 2006 requires the USPS to save up enough money to pay 100% of their pension obligations for the next 75 years by 2016. That's unheard of. So why require that? To break the back of the USPS union. The same law prohibits the USPS from engaging in any business activity other than strictly postal services, so they can't even innovate their way out of this. →
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On the blog for my State Decoded project, I explain how a bill becomes law. Hint: It's not how you think. →
The final vote on 2008's budget bill (SB30).
Remember in 2008, when every Republican senator in the General Assembly voted against the the budget bill, how they were labelled "obstructionists"?
Yeah, me neither. →
An archive of reports issued to the General Assembly.
The state legislature routinely puts together commissions that conclude by issuing a report about its assigned topic. Dozens of reports have been published this year, on topics as varied as "Management of State-owned Bottomlands on the Seaside of the Eastern Shore" and "Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors in Virginia." Although most of the older reports have only the title—not the report itself—some old ones and all of the recent ones can be read on the General Assembly's website, clear back to 1897. →
Congress has earmarks again, they just call them something different.
Earmarks are back. Now they're in the form of specific funding riders attached to spending bills. Congress' budget for the Army Corps of Engineers had $507M tacked on for 26 separate projects that were not requested by the Army, not part of the president's budget, and weren't previously part of the spending bill. →
Links for November 11th
- Double-Tongued Dictionary: hoghouse
"Connotating legislation that has been stripped of its original provisions and amended to accomplish a different purpose." This is a useful word.
- Office of Government Ethics: Executive Agency Ethics Pledge Waivers
These are the presidential appointees who were given waivers to exempt them from one or more ethics regulations, along with copies of the relevant documents that explain the circumstances warranting their exemption from ethics standards.
- Bulk Homeopathy
Save money by buying in bulk. They ought to dehydrate it, to save on shipping. Just add water!
Links for October 31st
- PolitiFact: Occupy Providence sign says Goldman Sachs CEO earns in an hour what minimum wage worker earns in a year
PolitiFact ranks as "false" the claim that the CEO of Goldman Sachs earns as much in an hour as a minimum-wage worker makes in a year. Which seemed like good news, until I read their article. It turns out that it takes him one hour and forty minutes to make that much. I'm not sure that's going to make anybody feel better.
- Jay Rosen: Lefty journalism professor tries to discredit the Tea Party by passing along sensational footage to his buddies at the Times!!!
Is there anybody left who takes James O'Keefe seriously? One can mix and match anybody's words to make them look foolish, but one shouldn't pretend that's anything other than being goofy.
- New York Times: Report of Justice Dept.'s $16 Muffin Greatly Exaggerated
It wasn't true, for reasons that were perfectly obvious to me (and any event planner) at the time. Fear not: the story will live on as urban legend for decades to come.
Links for October 19th
- Frontline: The U.S. Immigration Detention Boom
This map of the growth of immigrant detention facilities is a great—and alarming—illustration of the rise of these ever-larger, often private facilities.
- Wikipedia: Northwest Angle
Insufficient understanding of North American geography in the late 1700s resulted in the Treaty of Paris accidentally assigning a notch of land in Canada to the United States. These 600 square miles comprise the "Northwest Angle" in Minnesota, the northernmost point in the continental U.S. To get there, one must fly, drive through Canada, or take a boat across the Lake of the Woods. 152 people live there.
- Search State and Federal Campaign Contribution Data
All of your bulk downloads for government data in one place, courtesy of the Sunlight Foundation. There's even a 2.2GB download of all state and federal campaign contributions (ever?).


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Oafcon Spotlight: Don Rosencrans
"Welcome to Ralton" writer-artist Don Rosencrans of Oklahoma City will appear at this year's Oafcon.
Here's how publisher Literati Press describes the series:
The devil you know is better than the devil you don't, and Reno Sanders' ordinary life takes a turn for the extraordinary after a chance encounter with the devilman of local legend. Welcome to Ralton is a humorous and humanizing look at the collision of everyday lives with a new world of comical fantasy and adventure.
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Rosencrans will offer special deals on "Welcome to Ralton" 1-3 at the Literati Press booth; this is likely the last chance to get your hands on the early printings of the series.
Geekorama calls the series "good, fun, action-packed reading."
Admission to Oafcon is $5.00 per day; the show runs from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9 and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 at the Biltmore Hotel, 401 South Meridian Avenue in Oklahoma City.


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Steering clear of the beaten track, a graduate from IIM, Ahmedabad, once chose to sell vegetables on the streets of Patna to fulfil his career dream.
Meet 27-year-old Kaushalendra, son of a college demonstrator in the nondescript block town of Ekangarsarai in Nalanda district. "I have a dream to build Bihar into the vegetable hub of the country. I want vegetables grown in Bihar on dining tables everywhere -- from Srinagar to Salem and from Shillong to Surat," says Kaushalendra.
Perhaps the most highly educated green grocer India has ever produced, the young man from Nalanda has founded a farmers' cooperative, Samriddhi, which sells vegetables in ice-cooled pushcarts.
The private-public partnership venture, launched about a couple of months ago with assistance from Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) with just one pushcart, has now placed an order for 50 more carts, thanks to a collateral-free loan of Rs 50 lakh from Punjab National Bank.
Nearly 300 farmers have associated themselves with Samriddhi. ATMA, a government undertaking, is training these farmers in matters relating to high-yield seeds and crop protection.
"Our aim is to propagate organic farming and use our expertise in marketing to reach the markets not only in India but also abroad so that the farmers of Bihar fetch good return for their produce. In five years, we target to penetrate the vegetable markets in the US, Europe and Japan," Kaushalendra says.
The ice-cooled pushcart vegetables are a hit with customers in parts of southern Patna. "The vegetables taste garden fresh, are priced reasonably and, to add to that, they are weighed accurately with electronic weighing machines... we are just delighted to have it at a time when we have to make do with shoestring budget thanks to record inflation," says Bharti, a housewife in Kankarbagh area.
Moreover, the pushcart vendor gives the buyers a cash-memo which no other vegetable seller does, as further authentication of the quality and quantity of the vegetables.
"I am not only selling vegetables, but also the name of the farmer and the village where it has been grown. The farmer should not remain an unsung hero any more," he says pointing at the tag on the vegetables which has the mention of the name of the farmer and his village.
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The Biggest Loser: The Unknowns Go Back To The Ranch Tonight!
February 01, 2011 02:30 PM by Lisa Princ
Tonight on The Biggest Loser on NBC it is finally time for the unknown team, who has been off site training with Cara and Brett to head back to the ranch and rejoin the other players. What will happen when these two groups meet again for the first time since the premiere? Keep reading for more details on what you can expect from tonight's episode!
So after a month of immunity and training with the new trainers, the unknown team of The Biggest Loser will head back to the ranch tonight to rejoin the other players as well as experience their very first ranch weigh in. Once there, both teams face a challenge involving weights but just how well will the players fare when they are all together again? If you're like me, you can't help but wonder if there will be any hard feelings.
In this episode, the ranch players will also learn that they have a shot at skipping elimination if they lose a total combined weight of 48 lbs. We will also see one of the player's weight loss secret exposed – sounds interesting, wonder what that could be? On NBC's video preview, it looks as though someone has a weight gain this week as well, and my bet is on Don, just by the looks of disappointment in everyone's faces. So who will have a gain and who will be sent home this week? You'll just have to tune in to find out! Be sure to tune in at 8 pm EST tonight for this all new episode as we go back to two hours this week.
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Microsoft's epic carrier battle with Windows Phone 7 updates is nearly complete.
The software giant revealed on Friday that the final carrier delaying its roll-out has now signed off on its NoDo testing. Spanish operator Telefonica is now in the "scheduling phase" for the pre-NoDo, NoDo and SSL certificate patch updates. The sign off marks nearly four months of battles with carriers to get NoDo into the hands of device owners. Microsoft originally delivered its pre-NoDo update on February 21, followed by the full NoDo update on March 22. Telefonica and others have stalled on carrier testing to allow the update to be pushed to their devices.
"Testing is done at Telefonica in Spain for all three updates: 7008, 7390, and 7392," revealed Microsoft's Eric Hautala. "The team is now scheduling the rollout," he added, noting that Microsoft will provide an additional blog post once the update starts being delivered to Telefonica devices. Hautala also briefly touched on the recent NoDo issues with the Samsung Focus."I want to assure Samsung Focus owners who haven't received an update notification that there are many people across several companies continuing to work on the solution for your phones," said Hautala. "We want to make sure you have a quality experience with the update," he added, noting that Microsoft won't rest until it's done. Microsoft claims Samsung has been sourcing two separate flash memory components for its Focus devices. Most focus owners have revision 1.3 of the device and are receiving updates, those with revision 1.4 aren't. Microsoft previously revealed that it is working closely with Samsung and AT&T to test and deliver an update for the affected devices.


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March 4, 2013
ALBUQUERQUE, MARCH 1, 2013 — LaDonna Harris (Comanche), president and founder of Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), will be featured on New Mexico PBS's "New Mexico in Focus," in conjunction with the PBS documentary "MAKERS: Women Who Make America." The special will air on New Mexico PBS (KNME) March 8, 2013 at 7:00pm MDT.
Harris, one of three local women selected for the series, is a remarkable statesman and national leader who has enriched the lives of thousands. She has devoted her life to building coalitions that create change. She has been a consistent and ardent advocate on behalf of Tribal America. In addition, she continues her activism in the areas of civil rights, environmental protection, the women's movement and world peace.
Artist Judy Chicago and Governor Susana Martinez were also selected for the series.
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Take a drive along Queen Anne Hill and you might wonder: What's with all the dead restaurants? Poof! Gone are Banjara Cuisine of India...
Take a drive along Queen Anne Hill and you might wonder: What's with all the dead restaurants? Poof! Gone are Banjara Cuisine of India, Gorditos, Pete's Pizza and Q.
The closure of Gorditos (1507 Queen Anne Ave. N.), open only six months, was perhaps the biggest surprise seeing as it was a slick, inexpensive newcomer, sibling to the ever-popular Gorditos Healthy Mexican Food in Greenwood (213 N. 85th St., Seattle; 206-706-9352).
Owner Marlene Hall, who (get this!) skates as Sassy Chassis with the Rat City Rollergirls' 2006 season champs the Sockit Wenches, explains it took forever to get the doors to Gorditos open.
The building that housed her new restaurant underwent a lengthy earthquake retrofit that delayed its debut by (yikes!) a year and nine months. Hall adds that proximity to the Greenwood location made the new store less viable than she and her husband-business partner Gabriel Ramirez expected, prompting its end-of-year closure.
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Now, before you suggest they should "sockit" to their Queen Anne landlords, relax: They are the landlords. What's more, Queen Anne's loss is Everett's gain: There's a new Gorditos across from the Everett Events Center (1909 Hewitt Ave., Everett, 425-252-4641). That busy location is open daily and offers a full bar and karaoke Friday and Saturday nights.
As the Crow flies
Meanwhile, the shuttered Gorditos on Queen Anne has been sold — lock, stock and kitchen equipment — to chefs Craig Serbousek and Jesse Thomas, owners of Crow (823 Fifth Ave. N., Seattle; 206-283-8800 or www.crowseattle.com), who expect to open their second restaurant in May.
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"I can't tell you how excited I am to start something new," Serbousek says. "We're really hoping the new place is going to be as much fun as the first one, and that it will be embraced the same way Crow was." The restaurant's yet-to-be-determined name will reflect "simplicity," he says, and we can expect a menu "along the lines of Crow, with fresh seasonal ingredients."
Having barely nailed down the lease, and only just told his crew, he says the place "is so new it's hard to talk about details because there are so many unknown variables." This much he does know: They'll make aesthetic changes to the very modern space, envisioned as a 70-seat restaurant and lounge. As at Crow, the design is set to include an open kitchen counter. Unlike Crow, this place will serve lunch. If the city permits, they'll build an outdoor deck.
Serbousek and Thomas plan to oversee both restaurants as executive chefs, while continuing to cook at Crow. They expect to promote some of the young talent there — kicking them up Queen Anne Hill, so to speak.
Another jewel on the Hill
The interior of the former Banjara Cuisine of India (2 Boston St.) has already been demo'd to make way for a new restaurant: Opal, slated to open in April. Set to offer world cuisine and a globally inspired wine list, Opal is the brainchild of restaurateur Orrapin Chancharu, owner of Orrapin Thai Cuisine (10 Boston St., 206-283-7118) and neighboring O Lounge (2208 Queen Anne Ave. N., 206-352-6594).
Speaking from Burma, where she was on a tasting tour of Southeast Asia, Chancharu says she's had the idea for Opal fomenting for some time and was on the lookout for a venue. When the lease came up at Banjara — a very visible corner spot between her two existing restaurants — she grabbed it. A research trip last summer took her to France, Scotland, England and Morocco, and those countries will be represented on the menu at her new 65-seat dinner house, along with South African dishes, courtesy of a friend from Johannesburg.
Meanwhile, she says, she has a potential buyer for O Lounge, and if that sale goes through, we can expect to see changes there, too.
The King is dead
With his 10-year-lease coming to an end, and his pizza shop slated for a visit from the Condofication Department, Sean Curran chose to close Pete's Pizza — the Calzone King (1919 Queen Anne Ave. N.).
"We had an opportunity to sell the place," and went for it, says Curran, who, along with business partner Rob Angel, owned Pete's Pizza in the U District, closed since 2005. "My joke is I've been trying to get out of the restaurant business since I got into it," says Curran, a lifer who hopes to take six months off "to clear my head and try to figure out a way of not working restaurant-owner hours."
Despite his affection for Queen Anne neighbors such as the 5-year-old Pete's "regular" who burst into tears when she heard her favorite restaurant was set to close, Curran turned down an opportunity to lease a space in the retail section of the condo complex set to rise with Pete's demise. At thrice the rent, he says, it was an offer he could refuse.
Q-ing up for a new owner
A year ago, Rob Smith and Rick Fox, owners of Fremont's Triangle Lounge (3507 Fremont Place N.; 206-632-0880; www.thetrianglelounge.com), bought The Restaurants Formerly Known as Sapphire — one on Queen Anne (later dubbed "Q"), the other in Madrona (which they re-envisioned as Drey's).
"Queen Anne is a very finicky neighborhood," says Smith, though he admits that their troubles reached critical mass when executive chef Steven Hazell — who oversaw the kitchen and menus at their trio of restaurants — left on short notice. "We tried to patch things together with other chefs," he says, but when that didn't work, the partners decided to cut their loses. "Lesson, learned, I guess."
Drey's, sold late last year, is already doing business as the estimable Coupage (see last week's rave review at www.seattletimes.com/restaurants. Queen Anne should be so lucky as Madrona, should someone as worthy as Portland star chef Tom Hurley — who bought Drey's and turned it into something really special — come knocking on Q's door.
Q officially closed Jan. 1, says Smith. "For now, we're talking to interested parties," with hopes of a quick sale. "We'd rather focus on our money-making endeavors," he says, noting that Triangle will soon be open for breakfast.
Speaking of breakfast
Karsten Betd and Eladio Preciado, co-owners of Julia's on Broadway (300 Broadway Ave. E., 206-860-1818), Julia's of Wallingford (4401 Wallingford Ave. N., 206-633-1175) and Julia's of Issaquah (375 N.W. Gilman Blvd., Issaquah; 425-557-1919) are opening a fourth Julia's at 1825 Queen Anne Ave. N.
The latest Julia's — famous for its breakfasts and open for breakfast, lunch and dinner — will occupy a big Victorian that till recently housed law offices. "We're bringing it back to the old charm," says Betd, who plans to be open by mid-February with two levels of dining space, a private-dining facility/wine room in the basement and a warm-weather patio.
Betd began his career at Julia's as a busboy, rose through the ranks and eventually bought the business from his former boss, Julia Miller. When he bought Julia's in Wallingford in 1993, a pair of patrons were so tickled over the story of his rise from busboy to owner they offered him a second space on Queen Anne Hill. He declined.
Then, this summer, a woman came into the Wallingford shop and flagged him down, he recalls. " 'Do you remember me?' she asked. 'I'm the lady with the property on Queen Anne. I offered it to you in '93 and it's available now.' " He and Preciado drove up the hill to take a look, he says. "And we instantly said yes."
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Awkward Friends Reunion with Jennifer Aniston and Others — See It!
Could we be missing Friends any more than we already are? We think not.
That's why we are totally loving this new skit from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, featuring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, and Matthew Perry teaming up again after all these years.
The reunion is hilarious in the most awkward way possible, with Matthew not being pleased when Jennifer shows up unexpectedly at his door.
And is Matthew sleeping with Courteney? Uh, you've got to see the video to find out.
We also love the quip about Matthew's dearly departed sitcom Go On, which was recently canceled by NBC.
And yes, Ellen shows up in the clip, as does her wife Portia de Rossi, in what is perhaps the funniest moment of the reunion.
Our only quibble? The fact that more of the cast didn't participate!
Heck, we would have even been happy with an appearance by Ugly Naked Guy.
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