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Overtime Pay
If you work more than 40 hours a week, more than 8 hours a day, or 7 days in a row, you may be entitled to overtime pay for that additional work. Employees paid by a salary, by an hourly wage, and by piecework may all be entitled to overtime pay. This Fact Sheet describes whether you are entitled to overtime, how you should calculate your overtime pay, and how to collect that overtime if you have not been paid correctly.
- Union Members: Your collective bargaining agreement ("union contract") may contain a provision stating that your job is not entitled to the protections of California's overtime laws. For more information on this exception, see the "Frequently Asked Questions" section of this Fact Sheet.
- "Exempt" Employees: An "exempt" employee is a non-union employee whose job does not qualify for overtime protections because of the kind of work the employee performs. Generally, the only types of workers who are considered exempt are those who have a lot of responsibility within the company and a lot of independence to make decisions that affect the way the company is run. Remember, however, that the actual definition of an exempt employee is much more complex than this brief description. If you think you may be an exempt employee, see our Fact Sheet Exemptions from Overtime Pay for further information.
- Miscellaneous Jobs/Industries: There are some jobs and industries that have special rules for overtime and, in some cases, complete exemptions from overtime. These include some, but not all, transportation workers, household employees and agricultural employees.
- If you are an hourly employee, your regular rate of pay is your regular hourly wage.
- If you are a salaried employee, you must first convert your salary to your hourly rate of pay. To calculate an hourly rate of pay, calculate your weekly salary and divide by 40.
- For example, if your monthly salary is $1,600 per month: $1,600 per month x 12 months= $19,200 per year $19,200 per year / 52 weeks = $369.23 per week $369.23 per week / 40 hours per week = $9.23 per hour In this example, $9.23 is the regular rate of pay.
- If you are a pieceworker (meaning that you are paid based on the number of items you make each day) your employer may calculate your regular rate of pay in one of two ways: 1) your employer may divide your regular weekly pay by 40 hours, or 2) your employer may agree to pay one-and-a-half times the piece rate for pieces made during overtime hours.
- The employer must propose the alternative workweek in writing, and it must be approved in a secret ballot election by at least two-thirds of the affected workers.
- The alternative workweek may not require more than 10 hours of work per day and no more than 40 hours of work a week.
- Any overtime between 10 and 12 hours worked above the alternative workweek established in the agreement must be paid at 1½ times the regular rate of pay.
- Any overtime beyond 12 hours worked must be paid at twice the regular rate of pay.
- Your employer cannot reduce your rate of pay as the result of establishing or rejecting an alternative workweek.
- The CBA expressly provides for the wages, hours of work, and working conditions of employees; and
- The CBA provides for premium overtime pay rates; and
- The regular hourly rate of pay for the employees is not less than 30% more than state minimum wage. Since January 1, 2007, when minimum wage was raised to $7.50 per hour, this means the regular rate of pay under your CBA may not be less than $9.75 per hour. Effective January 1, 2008, the minimum wage is $8.00 per hour, and your regular rate of pay under your CBA may not be less than $10.40 per hour.
Am I entitled to overtime pay?
Employees who can receive overtime pay
Although most employees in California are entitled to overtime pay, there are some important exceptions. The most important exceptions are:
You can still collect overtime pay for work completed up to three years ago. California overtime laws allow you to collect overtime pay for work that you performed up to three years before the day on which you file a formal claim to collect your overtime pay (see below). If you performed the work for which you are attempting to collect overtime pay more than three years ago, the statute of limitations (time limit) for that overtime has expired, and you normally can no longer file a claim to collect those wages.
Exception: If you decide to file your case in court, you may be able to extend the time limit to four years if your lawyer includes claims under unfair competition laws (see below for information about your legal options).
How do I calculate my overtime pay?
A. Calculate your regular rate of pay.
The amount you should receive for overtime worked depends upon your regular rate of pay. This applies both to hourly employees and employees who receive a salary. The information provided below should help you determine your regular rate of pay.
B. Calculate how much you should have received (this will depend on when you performed the work)
How much you should be paid: You usually have the right to receive "time and a half" (1½ times your regular rate of pay) for each overtime hour you work. Sometimes, however, you have the right to receive "double time" (2 times your regular rate of pay) for overtime hours. See the chart below to determine whether or not the time you worked was overtime, and how much extra you should receive for that time worked.
If you worked…In…You should be paid…More than 40 hoursOne "workweek"1½ times "regular rate of pay"More than 8 hoursOne "workday"1½ times "regular rate of pay"More than 12 hoursOne "workday"2 times "regular rate of pay"Less than 8 hours on the 7th consecutive day workedOne "workweek"1½ times "regular rate of pay"More than 8 hours on the 7th consecutive day workedOne "workweek"2 times "regular rate of pay"
A "workweek" is defined as seven consecutive days. Your employer usually can tell you when your workweek starts and ends. If your employer does not tell you what your workweek is, it is probably from 12:01 am on Sunday to midnight the following Saturday.
A "workday" is defined as 24 consecutive hours beginning and ending at the same time each day. Your employer usually can tell you the hours of your workday. If your employer does not tell you what your workday is, it probably begins and ends at midnight.
Be careful of the "7 consecutive days" rules. The law says that if you work 7 days in a row and those 7 days are in the same workweek, then you get time-and-a-half for the fist 8 hours and double time if you work more than eight hours on the 7th day. This does not mean you always get overtime if you work 7 days in a row, but only applies if the 7 days are in the same workweek (defined above). If your work week is Sunday to Saturday, you only get overtime if you work everyday between Sunday and the following Saturday; if you work another set of 7 days in a row, for example Wednesday through Tuesday, you do not get the 7th day premium but only get overtime if one of the other overtime laws applies.
Examples of overtime pay calculations
The following examples demonstrate how overtime pay would be calculated for three employees under current law.
Example 1:
A non-exempt employee works the following schedule for a week:
Mon.Tues.Wed.Thurs.Fri.Sat.Sun.7 hrs.9 hrs.7 hrs.13 hrs.3 hrs.0 hrs.0 hrs.
During this week, the employee worked a total of 39 hours. In that week, the employee worked one 9-hour day (Tuesday) and one 13-hour day (Thursday). On the 9-hour day, the employee must be paid at 1½ times her regular rate of pay for one hour (the ninth hour worked). On the 13-hour day, the employee must be paid at 1½ times her regular rate of pay for four hours, and at 2 times her regular rate of pay for one hour (the thirteenth hour worked). If the employee's regular rate of pay is $10.00 per hour, she should be paid for this week as follows:
33 hours at regular rate of pay= 33 hours at $10.00/hour= $330.005 hours at 1½ times regular rate of pay= 5 hours at $15.00/hour= $75.001 hour at 2 times regular rate of pay= 1 hour at $20.00/hour= $20.00 Total pay for the week= $425.00
Example 2:
A non-exempt employee works the following schedule for a week:
Mon.Tues.Wed.Thurs.Fri.Sat.Sun.6 hrs.6 hrs.6 hrs.6 hrs.6 hrs.6 hrs.4 hrs.
During this week, the employee worked a total of 40 hours. She also worked seven days in a row during one workweek. She must be paid at 1½ times her regular rate of pay for the hours she worked on Sunday, which was her seventh consecutive day worked during the workweek. If the employee's regular rate of pay is $10.00 per hour, she should be paid for this week as follows:
36 hours at regular rate of pay= 36 hours at $10.00/hour= $360.004 hours at 1½ times regular rate of pay= 4 hours at $15.00/hour= $ 60.00 Total pay for the week= $420.00
Example 3:
A non-exempt employee, who is paid by salary, works the following schedule for a week:
Mon.Tues.Wed.Thurs.Fri.Sat.Sun.10 hrs.8 hrs.13 hrs.6 hrs.10 hrs.10 hrs.0 hrs.
During this week, the employee worked a total of 57 hours. In that week, the employee worked three 10-hour days (Monday, Friday and Saturday) and one 13-hour day (Wednesday). On the 10-hour days, the employee must be paid at 1½ times her regular rate of pay for one hour (the ninth and tenth hours worked). On the 13-hour day, the employee must be paid at 1½ times her regular rate of pay for four hours, and at 2 times her regular rate of pay for one hour (the thirteenth hour worked). There is also weekly overtime that starts after forty regular hours, which means every hour after the 2nd hour on Saturday is actually time and a half (she does not have to wait until the 9th hour because she already put in her forty regular hours).
If the employee is paid a salary of $1600 per month (which is $369.23 per week), her "regular rate of pay" is $9.23 per hour (see calculation under section 2, above), she should be paid for this week as follows:
Salary for all regular hours = $369.2316 hours at 1½ times regular rate of pay= 16 hours at $13.85/hour= $221.601 hour at 2 times regular rate of pay= 1 hour at $18.46/hour= $18.46 Total pay for the week= $609.29
Note:As a salaried employee, if the time you work is more than eight hours in one day and more than forty hours in one week, you do not get "double overtime." For example, a non-exempt employee works the following week:
Mon.Tues.Wed.Thurs.Fri.Sat.Sun.9 hrs.9 hrs.9 hrs.8 hrs.10 hrs.0 hrs.0 hrs.
Even though on Friday, the employee reaches 40 hours of work that week and works 2 hours over an 8-hour day, she is not paid double overtime for those last two hours.
Is it legal to get "comp time" instead of overtime pay?
Your employer may, under very specific conditions, provide you with paid time off ("comp time") instead of overtime pay. If your employer is trying to give you comp time instead of overtime pay, see our Fact Sheet Compensated Time Off for more information.
What do I do if I think I should get overtime pay, but don't?
Ask your employer for the overtime pay you are owed
The first step in collecting overtime pay you are owed should be to tell your employer that you believe you are entitled to overtime pay for work you have performed. When you talk to your employer, you should include the exact dates on which you worked overtime and the hours that you worked. If you have any documentation (such as a calendar or notebook) of the hours you worked, you should show it to your employer. You also have the right to interest on your unpaid wages and waiting time penalties if you no longer work for your employer. See our Fact Sheet Getting your Final Paycheck for information on these penalties.
File a claim with the Labor Commissioner
If your employer refuses to give you overtime pay to which you are entitled, you can also file a claim for your overtime wages with the California Department of Industrial Relations/Division of Labor Standards Enforcement ("Labor Commissioner").
File a claim in court
You can also decide to go to court instead of the Labor Commissioner. If your claim (including interest and penalties) is for $7,500 or less, the proper court is small claims; if your claim is more than $7,500, you will need to go to superior court unless you want to reduce your claim to $7,500. You will normally need a lawyer to go to court and you will probably have to pay that lawyer. Court is sometimes a good option if your claim is complicated, involves a lot of your co-workers (for a group claim or "class action"), is worth a lot of money or if you need to extend your claim to a four year time limit under unfair competition laws. (See number 1, above for more information on the statute of limitations for overtime claims.)
Your employer may not "retaliate" (fire, demote, suspend, etc.) against you if you follow Step 1 or Step 2 above. If you believe your employer has retaliated against you, contact the Labor Commissioner. You have six months from the date of the violation (for example, the date you were fired) to file a claim with the Labor Commissioner. The six-month time limit may be extended for good cause.
Frequently asked questions about overtime pay
Is work done on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays automatically considered overtime?
No. By law, hours worked on holidays, Saturdays and Sundays are treated like hours worked on any other day of the week, and are not automatically considered overtime. Some employers agree to pay their employees extra for working on these days, but there is no law that says an employer must do so. If your employer has stated that overtime will be paid for time worked on weekends or holidays, that promise is enforceable and you can file a claim with the Labor Commissioner to receive the money you are owed if you were not paid correctly.
If I'm paid by salary, am I still entitled to overtime pay?
Sometimes. Even if you are paid by salary, your employer is required to pay you overtime unless you are exempt (see page one of this Fact Sheet). Salaried employees are often exempt, but not always. It is the type of work you do, not the way you are paid, that matters. If you are paid by salary, see our Fact Sheet titled "Exemptions from Overtime Pay" to determine whether or not you should receive overtime. See Section 2, above, for information about how to calculate your "regular rate of pay" and Section 3, Example 2, for information on how to compute your overtime if you are salaried and non-exempt.
What if my employer asks me to work overtime and I agree to be paid at my regular rate of pay?
You can't give up ("waive") your right to overtime pay. So, even if your employer asked you to work overtime at your regular pay rate and you agreed to do so, you still have to be given overtime pay for those hours worked. The only time you can give up your right to overtime is if it is based on an agreement for an alternative workweek that has been approved by all employees (see the next question for more details on the alternative workweek).
Can an employer and its workers avoid overtime by having alternative work schedules, like working four 10-hour days per week?
Yes. California's overtime laws allow an employer and its employees to agree to an "alternative workweek." If all of the very specific conditions listed below are met, employees can work days longer than 8 hours and be compensated only at their regular rate of pay. These restrictions were written into the law to make sure that an agreement to work longer hours is not forced on employees, but is actually their choice. If all of the following conditions are not met, your employer must pay overtime for hours worked over 8 in a day:
For more information, see our Fact Sheet Alternative Workweeks.
What if my employer has a "no overtime" policy but I work overtime hours?
Overtime pay is a right that cannot be given up by you or by your employer. If your employer says it has a no overtime policy but allows you to work overtime hours anyway, you must be paid overtime rates for those hours. If, however, you ask to work overtime, your employer tells you not to, and you do the work anyway, your employer can discipline (for example, suspend or even fire) you for doing that work. The employer must still pay you for the time worked, even though you might be disciplined.
Does my collective bargaining agreement exempt me from overtime laws?
Overtime laws do not apply to workers covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement (CBA) if all three of the following standards are met:
I'm under 18. Do these laws apply to me?
If you are under 18, your employer generally cannot ask you to work more than 8 hours in any day, or more than 40 hours in any week. However, if you do end up working more than 8 hours in a day, or more than 40 hours in a week, you have the right to receive overtime pay.


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X Factor winner Matt Cardle's Bridgwater concert, set for Saturday, has been postponed until further notice.
The acoustic singer-songwriter, who won ITV talent series The X Factor in 2010, was due to come to Bridgwater's Blake Hall, but is reportedly undergoing treatment at The Priory for addiction to temazepam and Valium.
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Europe discovered him in 2007, when he filled the old continent with the Atlas of Creation. A luxury book consisting of approximately 800 pages and 8 kg in weight revealing the fraud of the theory of evolution. Harun Yahya is now preparing to land in Switzerland. It is impossible to walk by without seeing his poster refuting Darwinism: They are everywhere. And they announce the scientific conferences of this religious scholar. Tomorrow in Lausanne. On Wednesday in Geneva. After that on Friday in Zurich.
Specialist at Fribourg Religioscope Institute, Jean-Francois Mayer ...:"His team is relatively small with respect to their strength. But they still achieve to spread his thoughts throughout the world. His books are in all of the Muslim bookstores of Paris and London… In any case, he achieved to procure acceptance for arguments about Creation."
Harun Yahya, most effective of all Muslim Creationists... Harun Yahya puts almost all the evils in the world on Darwin"s saddle. In one of his interviews (Spiegel, 2008) he says: "Darwin paved the way for Hitler's and Mussolini"s fascism and Stalin"s communism. All of the terrorists are Darwinists." He adds by mentioning the bloodbath caused by World War I: "Darwin"s dark silhouette is hidden behind the curtain of war.


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Kendal came to a standstill this afternoon to honour a 20-year-old 'true hero'.
Thousands came out onto the streets to pay their respects to Kingsman Ryan Ward, who was found dead at his Lound Street home last month.
Kendal Parish Church was filled with family, friends and fellow soldiers for the full military funeral.
Soldiers from 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, with whom Ryan served in Afghanistan, carried his coffin with his cap, belt, medal and a white wreath laid on top.
His mum, Kathryn, dad, Richard, and 18-year-old brother, Mark, followed closely behind with other family members.
Ryan began his first operational tour of duty in Helmand in June with 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, and had only returned weeks before his death.
During the service Major Finlay Bibby described Ryan as an exceptional young man and said he felt lucky to have had such a soldier.
"He was a gentle human being and a brave hero on the battlefield," he said.
"Over the course of the summer his actions saved the lives of friends, many of whom are here today. And his work improved the security and therefore lives of Afghans."


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It's been an amazing year for Microsoft releases: Windows Server 2012, Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013, and Exchange 2013, to name the big ones. I've previously covered the key new features in Exchange 2013, and I'm sure many of you want to upgrade to it. But you can't. You simply can't.
Let me explain.
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To transition your Exchange 2007 or 2010 environment to Exchange 2013 requires that you upgrade your Active Directory schema with the new changes for 2013. Then you need to install Exchange 2013 itself, install your certificates, move the existing CAS namespace to the new CAS server, and make a bunch other adjustments. But none of these are why you can't upgrade to Exchange 2013.
The problem is with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 -- more precisely, in coexisting with them. Exchange 2007 needs a special roll-up to work with Exchange 2013, and Exchange 2010 needs Service Pack 3. Even if your goal is to fully replace Exchange 2007 or 2010 with Exchange 2013, you need the new and old versions for at least a transition period. Neither update exists yet, so you can't migrate to Exchange 2013.
Why would Microsoft release a new product but not provide the pieces needed to migrate legacy servers to that new product? I wish I knew. Whatever the reason, you're left mapping out plans that you can't execute until these missing pieces are released -- by July 2013, according to Microsoft's Exchange team.
But what if you're now using Exchange 2003? Sorry, but Microsoft has no migration path from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013. You either will have to migrate twice, once from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 or 2010, then again to Exchange 2013, or you'll need to find a third-party migration tool that can do the jump in one step. (I'm not aware of any such tools so far.) When you're preparing the migration, be sure to run Microsoft's Web-based Deployment Assistant to see the current recommended steps for your configuration.
But even after there is a technical migration path, I wouldn't be so quick to take it. You might consider waiting a bit longer for Exchange 2013 SP1 to arrive (no date has been set). Microsoft's service packs tend to make the core products more fully baked, add new features, and fix others.
One example of how waiting might benefit your company has to do with Exchange 2013's new Managed Store capability, where the number of mountable databases per Exchange Server has been reduced from 100 to 50. That's still a large number of databases that can be mounted from one Exchange Server, but if you're mounting more than that now, you'll have to purchase additional hardware to accommodate all the databases when you switch to Exchange 2013. It's possible, although no promises have been made, that Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1 will bring the number back up to 100 mountable databases. I think it's worth delaying an Exchange 2013 to find out.
This story, "You can't migrate to Exchange 2013," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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Black Chile Mexican Grill at Biltmore Fashion Park provides an upscale environment to wind down.
It's 5:30 p.m. mid-week, and the Biltmore Fashion Park has proven to be more than merely a place to turn off Camelback Rd. to wait out the post-work, rush-hour traffic. Business-suit-donned professionals aplenty are heading straight to Black Chile Mexican Grill to relax al fresco on the restaurant's patio while indulging in both the happy hour specials (with a Black Chile Margarita in hand) and owners Michael McDermott and Jason Merritt's upscale, Mexican cuisine.
Black Chile began in McDermott's kitchen over a four-month period, as creations now found on the menu were developed. McDermott's most memorable dish?
"The skewers were one of those dishes we couldn't stop picking at in the kitchen," McDermott recalls. "I kept going back for more."
Upon hearing this, my dinner party and I agreed we must try the carne asada skewers as one of our appetizers. We also followed suit with the rest of the dinner patrons that night who opted for either the high tops in the bar or the patio seating, which was already nearly full by 6 p.m. Not to mention it was a comfortable 75 to 80 degrees that night; with gorgeous, rare weather like that, how do you pass that up?
But back to the food. The appetizers that arrived to our table, all recommended by McDermott, included the aforementioned skewers as well as the Cotija grilled corn, the fresh guacamole and the avocado egg rolls.
Upon first bite of the skewers, we all agreed McDermott's anecdote was far from exaggerated. The marinated carne asada was so juicy and tender, we only wished we had the same opportunity to have seconds, and thirds, and fourths … but maybe that was just me. Thankfully the corn took our minds off the longing for a moment as the sweetness of the corn was perfectly subdued by the aioli, cayenne pepper and hints of lime as well as the abundant, thick layer of Cotija cheese caked atop.
Post-appetizers, we were treated with six dishes, including the fish tacos with sweet cabbage slaw and chipotle mayonnaise, which seemed a bit too overwhelming for me, although everyone else enjoyed it; the shrimp diablo, a rightfully named, hot-and-spicy combination of chipotle cheese sauce, chiles, onions and garlic; and the baked salmon filet rubbed with chipotle sauce. (Notice a common ingredient yet?)
The final two entrees, however, were the favorites of the table.
First up, the meatloaf — a unique combination of ground beef, chorizo, sausage and sauteed onions, topped off with Oaxaca cream sauce.
The finale of our entrees were the enchiladas with shredded chicken, roasted poblano cream sauce and two types of cheeses — Asadero and Manchego. McDermott mentioned during the night that this was Black Chile's No. 1 seller; and we definitely believed it. The entree was mild, flavorful, and as one of my dinner mates put it, "If you don't like spice, you'll love this dish" — but in a positive way, considering the rest of the entrees we tried that night were more on the spicy side.
Combine the meals with Black Chile's attentive service, clean representation and comfortable environment, and you've got yourself a winner. We weren't the only patrons who felt this way, though; Black Chile was voted best patio dining, best upscale Mexican restaurant and best margarita (the Black Chile Margarita) by the 2011 Best of Phoenix.
Don't believe us? Try it for yourself, and end the night as we did with the churros, which were so light and soft, and the rich chocolate and whipped cream sauces we dipped them in could almost rival the sweetness of the corn found in the sticky rice side.
Never before Black Chile Mexican Grill has Mexican food ever tasted so spicy-sweet.


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ok so when I was married I had a couple of good trips wife didnt surf so I had to surf dawn patrol and again after she was entertained she will probably still be a little dissapionted if the waves r pumpin cause you will be amped and do 3 sessions at least a few days but here is a short list of places that she would be ok with and youll still score! in order of her happiness and you scoring
#1 Portugal just go explore around stay in nice B&b's or whatever fairly cheap great waves so much history and touristy things to do while both exploring a new country. Was our best trip together.
#2 Costa Rica if she is into the 3rd world scene some chicks are not does she speak spanish? like to zip line and do some jungle tours whatever.. Will she be comforable sitting on the beach while you surf and have people try to talk to her or will she be scared? This goes for lots of places or will she need to stay a the hotel pool? Then your limited to exploring? Did a 2 week tours in cr but wife spoke spanish and was actuallly a big help. She liked it but didnt love it. She loved Portugal!
#3 Cabo I got great waves we did some partying sunset cruises drove to east cape up to Todos. Lots of Resturants and bars pretty cool trip if she like to party or just lay by a pool..
#4 Barbados sic waves stayed at Soup bowls the whole time so its remote but hooked up with other couples did some snorkeling and Booze cruise. Did the caverns..Malibu rum But really surfed my ass off! She probably will get bored.Its a small island good vibe but id go for a 4-5 day strike not a long 7+days
#5 Puerto Rica beautiful island lots to do and you dawn patrol before wind and crowds then spend the day with her this should be further up the list but I forgot its beens about 6yrs since iv been
So there its is you can successfilly do I wife surf trip gotta know ur wife! how she will react and if the waves r pumping she cant get pissy and bum u out by doing stupid stuff. I am so luv solo trips right now! Get to do whatever you feel like and meet new people and surf your brains out with out worrying so mayb you should do a trip with her a good compromise but assure that you will be allowed togot Cetral America on a solo or guy trip to strictly surf !


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MARKET C played at the Squib in Division A of the Bridgwater Town Skittles League.
The home A team started by pulling six pins following a 16- spare from last man on Chris hole. The Market responded by winning the next two hands to lead by 23, spares coming from John Martin, Paul Bagg, Paul Kyrpyta, and Graham Irish.
Squib won the fourth hand and followed up with a winning fifth hand to retake the lead by one. The only flopper of the game came from Ben Partridge of the Squib, whose 18 pushed the lead to seven. Market needed 68 to win which eluded them, handing the win to the Squib by seven.
In Division B, White Hart B hosted New Foresters B in a game where the lead changed hands many times.
Early plaudits went to the Foresters who, by the third hand, were in front by six. With Gary and Andy Modley both hitting spares in the third hand, the second lead change occurred.
During the successive hands, Hart's lead reduced by a pin a time, until, come the penultimate hand, Foresters led by nine after a spare from Bob Wilson.
Hart set a target of 62 to win, which New Foresters failed to hit, White Hart winning by three with Roy Frost starting the winning hand perfectly with a 14 spare.
Crown Inn B played at the Lions Club A in Division C and took a few hands to settle in.
All the time, Lions continued to build a lead of 29, with spares from Josh Luke, and a flopper from Jason Meare. Crown found form in the fourth hand pulling seven and with a 83 in the fifth a further 17 was removed from Lions lead.
When Crown pulled a further 10, the lead swapped over, forcing Lions to raise their game. Lions set a target of 64 to win, helped by a 15 spare from Phil Bisse,. Crown needing a spare which, despite steady scoring, failed to appear, and Lions won by three.
In Division D, Bird in Hand B were up against it, facing top-ofthe- table Old Market A.
Market steadily won the first five hands to lead by 26, floppers coming from Norman Hicks and Wayne Nunn and spares from Steve Carr, Chris Case, and Ian Caswell.
Out of the blue, two 82 hands sealed the game, however, not for the Market but for the visiting side and the Bird, with six spares in the final two hands, won by three.
Results: Division A – Sportsman A 435 (Steve Moran 63), Blake Arms B 424 (Alan 62); Bird in Hand A 514 (Nick Pimm 78, Commercial Inn B 460 (Steve Cave 67); Cobblestones A 489 (Paul Trunks 74), Great Western Club B 450 (Mike Davidge 62); Duke A 458 (Scott Clapp 67), Malt Shovel B 375 (Paul Brazewell 55); Malt Shovel A 482 (Rob Paull 77), Rugby Club B 472 (Andrew Paul 71); Lime Kiln B 490 (Steve Redman 74), Squib B 451 (Tim Nelto 66); Squib A 497 (Ben Partridge 81), The Market C 490 (Paul Kurpyta 66).
Division B – British Flag A 511 (D Kitch, C Pople 73 v The Market D 456 (John Knight 65); Blake Hall A 438 (Barry Hobbs 66), Cross Rifles A 415 (Nick Searle 60); Commercial Inn A 453 (Mike Webber 62), Bunch of Grapes A 475 (Malcolm Dennison 70); Mansion House A 455 (Jim McGuckin 64), Lime Kiln A 447 (Rob Sharman 67); White Hart B 436 (Roy Frost 66), New Foresters B 433 (New Foresters B 68); New Foresters A 433 (S Bull, B Chedzey 64),British Flag B 509 (Roy Short 79); Crown Inn A bye.
Division C – West India House A 417 (Sean Haysham 59), Blake Hall B 429 (Dave Bowyer 64); Blake Arms A 476 (Steve Fursland 79), Lions Club B 493 (Bill Dewis 70); Lions Club A 441 (Phill Bisset 64), Crown Inn B 438 (Jas Cross 61); Great Western Club A 419 (Dave Durston 64), Mansion House B 407 (Richard Deuce 57); Rugby Club A 472 (Steve Flack 75), Sydenham Centre B 495 (Ken Clatworthy 67); Sydenham Centre A 492 (Jon Rossitor 75),West India House B 441 (Ryan Brewer 64); River Parrett A bye.
Division D – The Market B 503 (Sam Facey 84), Cobblestones B 476 (Phil Rogers 69); Cross Rifles B 410 (Nigel Gillard 64), Duke B 459 (Mike Hurley 66); Bunch of Grapes B 412 (Neil Perkins 62), Castle Club B 365 (Steve Hale 55); Castle Club A 488 (Neil Collard 69), White Hart A 522 (Jack Turner 82); The Market A 484 (Norman Hicks 73), Bird in Hand B 487 (Matt Freitas 79); New Market Hotel A 423 (Nigel Pepper 62), Sportsman B 385 (Chris Csete 57); New Market Hotel B bye.


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TRINITY COUNTY, Texas - An 11-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert was found safe on Tuesday.
An Amber Alert was issued Monday evening for Savannah Hurley.
Trinity County sheriff's deputies said Savannah was taken by her biological mother, Shelly Jean Hurley, after Children's Protective Services tried to remove the girl from her mother's custody because Hurley failed a drug test. She tested positive for methamphetamines, CPS officials said.
Savannah was not at their Trinity County home, so CPS and deputies went to Hurley's mother's house in The Woodlands. She was also not there.
Deputies said Hurley's mother, Patricia Rutledge, had Savannah and met Hurley to hand her over. Rutledge was charged with interfering with child custody.
Investigators said Savannah was found with her mother in Trinity County shortly before 3 p.m. on Tuesday. They were found in a camper trailer in the subdivision where they had last been seen, officials said.
Hurley was arrested and charged with interfering with child custody, a state jail felony.
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Thank God for a day off.
I know it's still early in the season, but after losing four of their first six games at home, the Mets need the day off to travel to the West Coast and take a deep breath. They need to recollect themselves after losing to the Nationals on Sunday, with Johan Santana on the mound. He was supposed to be there to stop the bleeding. Instead, he opened the wound a little more.
Santana lasted just five innings in the 5-2 loss, giving up a grand slam to Josh Willingham, who pretty much single-handedly won the game. He had all five Nationals RBI. Ian O'Connor of ESPNNewYork.com pontificates on whether Santana is regretting his decision to come to the Mets.
Despite a couple of defensive gems by David Wright and Jeff Francoeur, who made a double play by catching a fly ball and throwing a rocket to home plate, and a two-run homer by Mike Jacobs, the game was a disaster. Jacobs hopes his first of the year gets him off his terrible offensive start. Jason Bay is probably thinking the same thing about that elusive first RBI.
The frustration seemed to seep into Francisco Rodriguez's outing after he hit Willie Harris on the arm. He apparently didn't like something Harris said as he trotted to first base. A fight almost broke out as both benches cleared.
Adding insult to injury, Ryan Zimmerman was out of the lineup and the Mets couldn't muster much offense against Livan Hernandez's 85-mph fastballs and 62-mph curve balls. It's unacceptable, writes Joel Sherman of the New York Post.
So, it's good that the Mets have an off day to clear their heads and try to focus on a tough road trip. John Maine will try to right the ship as Luis Castillo returns to the lineup Tuesday in Colorado.


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OMG A REAR MIC!! Apple is going hard with the innovation these days. I'll definitely be first in line for that!
Same goes with cars. What's the difference between a '12 and '13 ? Slightly different rims ? 2 extra HP ? I promise you, a '14 won't be so innovative that it will be able to fly or go underwater.
And projector? What do u have agaianst a good projector in a phone? Ull be able to play games on a bigger screen, only it wont be a screen but a part of your wall!
Ure highly stupid if u just want more ram and better camera. Thats samsung's ideology. Not apples. Apple might not innovate every year, but when it does, it really does change the game.
Bigger ram, screen and camera are just marketing gimmicks. U wont even be able to realize the full potential of maybe a 2 gb ram if you just want to do what your phone does right now.
Apple is not ONLY about innovation (anymore) in their existing product line. They're about usability. Hence, we don't have 18in screens on our iPhones. Would it be cool ? Yes. Is it practical for the everyday user ? NO. Why ? Size, battery life, etc. So, no. I'm not against Apple "innovating" at all. There's just not going to turn the iPhone into a Swiss Army Knife. They don't do it to their iMacs, they don't do it to their MacBooks and they won't do it to their iPhones. What they will do is improve upon what is already there and incorporate new features that the everyday, normal person could use. Projectors, biometrics readers and 3D cameras are NOT features a normal user needs. Those are features you might use a handful of times, just to show off to your friends.
How do i know ? Did you buy a projector to watch movies on ? No. You sure didn't. You bought a television. The same place that you play video games. Good luck playing a game created for a 4in screen up on an 8ft wall. That wont look distorted at all. Try playing a Sega Genesis game on 60in LED TV....real pretty.
You, sir, are "highly stupid" if you think your iPhone 5S is going to be able to comb your hair for you. And you're even more stupid if you would genuinely try and direct a 3D movie from your cellphone (with it's whole 2.4 hour battery life.)
I think im done with iPads unless they get OS X. A larger surface is nice(yes I still have an iPad) but I rarely even dig it out of my computer bag. My iPhone 5 is fine with me. I mean, how many iPads are going to drop before users see that OS X is what is needed inside. With MS giving you a full OS, i'm hoping Apple will follow suit soon. iPad is a step but there are many more steps to take.
Dont try to link technology of today like battery and phone projector quality with technology of the future. It makes u sound more stupid than u actually are.
I'm not saying I don't want groundbreaking features. I'm saying, based off Apple's track record since the original iPhone, it should come as no surprise to anyone that it's all new designs/incremental updates. They've been great at creating features for the everyday Joe, for the everyday usage (minus an open OS.) A projector would benefit about 1% of all users, and only 0.02% would actually use it on a normal basis. A 3D camera may benefit a low-budget film director when he directs Piranha 3DDDD. Not the everyday user who simply wants to video his friend doing a keg stand. Apple has never catered to the 1%.
If you want a phone with 2.049 million features that hardly anyone will ever use, get an Android phone. That's what they are there for. All 2 trillion of them. If you want an all-around great device that is catered to every type of user, stick with Apple.
But, whatever you decide, don't call us realists dumb every time Apple patents something (patents are used to protect their ideas from theft by other companies, like Samsung, for a specific period of time. That doesn't mean those ideas will ever see the light of day.)
It genuinely sounds like you need an Android device. I assure you, no one here will judge you negatively for jumping ship. Of the 137 Android phones launching between now and 3-5 hours from now, ONE of those phones are destined to fill that void in your phone experience. And if not, trust me. Tomorrow is another day.


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This article was published 15/2/2014 (1284 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A 47-year-old software developer was convicted Saturday of attempted murder for shooting into a car full of teenagers after an argument over what he called their "thug music," but jurors couldn't agree on the most serious charge of first-degree murder.
After more than 30 hours of jury deliberations over four days, a mistrial was declared on the murder charge Michael Dunn faced in the fatal shooting of one of the black teens. The 12 jurors found him guilty of three counts of attempted second-degree murder and one count of firing into an occupied car.
Dunn was charged with fatally shooting 17-year-old Jordan Davis, of Marietta, Ga., in 2012 after the argument over loud music coming from the SUV occupied by Davis and three friends outside a Jacksonville convenience store. Dunn, who is white, had described the music to his fiancée as "thug music."
Dunn showed no emotion as the verdicts were read. Each attempted second-degree murder charge carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, while the fourth charge he was convicted on carries a maximum of 15. A sentencing date will be set at a hearing next month.
'He's going to learn that he must be remorseful for the killing of my son, that it was not just another day at the office'
Davis' parents each left the courtroom in tears, and afterward his mother, Lucia McBath, expressed gratitude for the verdict. Sunday would have been the teen's 19th birthday.
"We are so grateful for the charges that have been brought against him," McBath said of Dunn. "We are so grateful for the truth. We are so grateful that the jurors were able to understand the common sense of it all."
On Dunn's potentially lengthy sentence, Davis' father, Ron Davis, said: "He's going to learn that he must be remorseful for the killing of my son, that it was not just another day at the office."
State Attorney Angela Corey said her office planned to retry Dunn on a first-degree murder charge, and she hoped jurors would come forward and tell prosecutors where they questioned their case. Jurors declined to talk to the media.
Earlier in the day, the panel said in a note to Judge Russell L. Healey they couldn't agree on the murder charge. They also had the option of convicting him of second-degree murder or manslaughter. The judge asked them to continue their work, and they went back to the deliberation room for two more hours before returning with a verdict.
Dunn claimed he acted in self-defence, testifying he thought he saw a firearm pointed at him from the SUV as the argument escalated. No weapon was found in the SUV.
Dunn told jurors he feared for his life, perceiving "this was a clear and present danger." Dunn, who has a concealed weapons permit, fired 10 shots, hitting the vehicle nine times. Davis was the only person hit.
Dunn's attorney, Cory Strolla, said the defendant was shocked when the verdict was read.
"He's in disbelief," Strolla said. "Even sitting next to me, he said, 'How is this happening?' "
He said he plans to appeal.
Prosecutors contended Dunn opened fire because he felt disrespected by Davis. The teen made his friend turn the music back up after they initially turned it down at Dunn's request. Dunn was parked in the spot next to the SUV outside the convenience store.
Authorities said Dunn became enraged about the music and ensuing argument. One person walking out of the convenience store said he heard Dunn say, "You are not going to talk to me like that."
Dunn testified he heard someone in the SUV shouting expletives and the word "cracker," a derogatory term for white people.
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About the Band:
KISS, in all their bombastic and unstoppable glory, will perform fan favorites from their treasure trove of hits along with their recent worldwide #1 smash, "Hell or Hallelujah," from their new album, Monster, which is set to come out Tuesday, Oct. 9. Showing the band at the top of its game, Monster embodies all that is KISS and the music that first inspired them to pick up their guitars and flamethrowers and don makeup to entertain millions.
Having already broken box office records set by The Beatles and Elvis, KISS celebrates their 40th anniversary in 2013 with more than 28 U.S. gold albums, the most gold records for any American rock band, with 40 million sales in the U.S. and a total exceeding 100 million worldwide. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, with longtime members guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer, return stronger than ever with their new album.


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Hi I'm quite new to php, is the below possible? i.e creating a variable out of other php. It's not working for me at the moment. Cheers
$cat = '$category->name';
No. Even if you could, you shouldn't. It's bad practice, because it could lead to unreadable and unstable code.
Use arrays:
You're going to need to adjust the way you're thinking about solving your problem.
umm do you mean variable variables? Take a look at this article and you will see how to do it:http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php
That's horrific.
If you need to use these, you're probably thinking about the problem the wrong way and should re-evaluate how you're solving it.
lol the 5th result for Googling "variable variables" is this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/543792/php-variable-variables
Well you dont need to get too defensive, I was just trying to guess what the OP was asking for since I wasnt quite sure tbh. If you really want to expand this topic, PHP array aint a good solution since they aint object oriented. I have made my own collection classes and they are what I'm using for my application, but then the topic can keep going and will never end.
Well, not really. I was talking more about best practices, not changing the scope. Turning a small data structure into a complete functioning object changes the entire scope of this and everything else involved. What the OP wanted to do can be easily accomplished with simply a slight shift in thinking. PHP Arrays are inherently associative, so the same thinking can be applied to most other languages (whether they are called arrays or something else).
Teaching bad practices out of the gate is not something that should be encouraged. Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. It's better than someone starts programming in more accepted (and better) methods, rather than using things just because those things can be used.
Wow. Do you write any open source code? If so can you provide a link to few of your repositories for source code in production? Sounds like you have quite a bit to teach us.
I think variable variables might be useful in some cases, but my take on the question is that the OP is looking forincludeinclude_oncerequirerequire_once
Or that he missed that PHP interprets what's inside single quotes as a literal string.http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
I do not work on any open source projects.
I am sure there are people much smarter than I am here and if you think that I am wrong in any way, please let me know. I am very open minded to learning and do not mind being proven wrong or discussing things. I am not a full time PHP programmer by trade and I might be wrong. Researching this on Google only seems to help prove my point that it's not something that you should be doing if you can help it.
If you can't respond with legitimate reasons why I might be wrong or at least an intelligent dispute, please keep your rude sarcastic comments to yourself. I was simply trying to lead someone who said they are new to PHP, and is trying to do something common for new programmers in any language to try, in the right direction rather than saying any working code is good code.
:tup: Agreed.
Just because something can be done, @ error suppresion and using buffer to get around header already sent errors come to mind, doesn't mean it should be done.
Hi thanks, some interesting stuff here. I'll put a bit of context around what I'm trying to do. I am creating a job search site in wordpress, this system incorporates gravity form application entries. When people apply for a job i want to populate the gravity form column "Category" with the current job category (this should be a default option but it's not which is very annoying). Anyways, I have the below code which currently populates the "category" column for me with the word "horse"
add_filter('gform_field_value_category', 'populate_post_category');
function populate_post_category($value){
global $post;
$cat = "horse";
return $cat;
obviously I want to get the current category name rather then the word horse. I can only get the category name with
<?php echo $category->name; ?>
Hence I've been trying to use
$cat = "$category->name";
to replace
$cat = "horse";
it actually works when I echo it i.e
<?php $cat = "$category->name"; echo $cat;?>
But I need to return it, not echo it. Sorry if this is confusing, any help would be great. I'm pretty sure there is an easy fix here that I am missing. Cheers
$cat = $category->name;
No need to to use exec or anything.
Hi Thanks, but still doesn't work for me. Cheers
Try this, but only for testing
add_filter('gform_field_value_category', 'populate_post_category');
function populate_post_category($value){
global $post;
$test = print_r($value, true);
return $test;
// $cat = "horse";
// return $cat;
What do you see?
Hi thanks for that but I don't see anything. Any other thoughts?
Well, you're adding that function to that filter http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filterhttp://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Filter
But I don't see a gform_field_value_category filter in the codex, where's it coming from and where are the docs for it?
Start with the basics here:
$cat = $category->name;
die('Cat is ' . $cat);
Is the proper category name echoed?
If not then you are not populating $category properly. If it is then we can look closer at your filter function.
Hi, Yes that does work. it echos the correct category.
I should also note that echoing the category only works when I place the code in the "class-widget-job-categories.php" file (which I think is the file that places the category name in the sidebar) If I try and echo it elsewhere it doesn't echo anything. I think this could be a big part of my problem. Below I've posted the contents of the "class-widget-job-categories.php" file, complete with my added code enclosed in  . I've also contacted the theme producer to ask for their help, it's been customised quite a bit so I don't know how much help they will be. Cheers
* Job: Categories
* @since Jobify 1.6.0
class Jobify_Widget_Job_Categories extends Jobify_Widget {
* Constructor
public function __construct() {
$this->widget_cssclass = 'jobify_widget_job_categories';
$this->widget_description = __( 'Display the job\\'s categories', 'jobify' );
$this->widget_id = 'jobify_widget_job_categories';
$this->widget_name = __( 'Jobify - Job: Categories', 'jobify' );
$this->settings = array(
'title' => array(
'type' => 'text',
'std' => '',
'label' => __( 'Title:', 'jobify' )
$this->settings = jobify_rcp_subscription_selector( $this->settings );
* widget function.
* @see WP_Widget
* @access public
* @param array $args
* @param array $instance
* @return void
function widget( $args, $instance ) {
if ( $this->get_cached_widget( $args ) )
extract( $args );
global $post;
if ( ! get_option( 'job_manager_enable_categories' ) )
$title = apply_filters( 'widget_title', isset ( $instance[ 'title' ] ) ? $instance[ 'title' ] : '', $instance, $this->id_base );
$categories = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'job_listing_category' );
if ( ! $categories )
echo $before_widget;
<?php if ( $title ) echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; ?>
<?php foreach ( $categories as $category ) : ?>
<?php if ( class_exists( 'WP_Job_Manager_Cat_Colors' ) ) : ?>
<a href="<?php echo get_term_link( $category, 'job_listing_category' ); ?>" class="job-category <?php echo get_the_job_category() ? sanitize_title( get_the_job_category()->slug ) : ''; ?>"><?php the_job_category(); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<a href="<?php echo get_term_link( $category, 'job_listing_category' ); ?>"> <?php echo $category->name; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
add_filter('gform_field_value_jobcategory', 'populate_post_jobcategory');
function populate_post_jobcategory($value){
global $post;
$cat = $category->name;
return $cat;
<?php //$cat = $category->name;
// echo $cat;
echo $after_widget;
$content = apply_filters( 'jobify_widget_job_categories', ob_get_clean(), $instance, $args );
echo $content;
$this->cache_widget( $args, $content );
Hi thanks for your help, I've found a different solution for this. I'm now using if statements instead, this just came to me I should have thought of it earlier. This is working well, I'm going to have to add all the categories manually, but it shouldn't be too bad as there are only about 8. Cheers
$cat = $category->name;
add_filter('gform_field_value_jobcategory', 'populate_post_jobcategory');
function populate_post_jobcategory($value){
global $post;
$catog = 'Carpentry';
return $catog;
if($cat=='Electrical and Electronics Trades')
add_filter('gform_field_value_jobcategory', 'populate_post_jobcategory');
function populate_post_jobcategory($value){
global $post;
$catog = 'Electrical and Electronics Trades';
return $catog;


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I know I'm not the first to notice this, but some users have gone overboard on the bestowal of skills upon our characters. For example, last night I had to revert a user who tried to say that Fenrir Greyback was a "Master Duellist," when the text clearly shows that Greyback prefers to fight with his strength and brawn. Other examples that are more debatable: the designation of Harry Potter as a "Master Duellist," he certainly has skills, and bested many older and more experienced wizards, but "Master" is a stretch; the 23 skill list for Tom Riddle, many are redundant and some are quite questionable, such as "Lightning Spells."
- I think we need to come up with some criteria as to how to designate skill levels to characters and what is and is not germane to the list of a character's skills. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 19:40, January 7, 2011 (UTC)
- I think we should discontinue the use of descriptors such as "master" or "expert" unless the character is refered to as such in the text. I mean who are we to say who's a master and who's an expert? Jayden Matthews 19:51, January 7, 2011 (UTC)
- Are there references in the books or movies to the words "master" or "expert" being used to describe people? Oh, and while we are on the subject of skills, I just noticed on Harry's page, someone put "non-verbal magic", I thought he never fully mastered non-verbal magic, and they put that "On the morning of his 17th birthday when the Trace broke, Harry preformed several spells just for the fun of it and it wasn't mentioned that he said an incantation.", In the books he clearly uses an incantation. --BachLynn(Accio!) 20:03, January 7, 2011 (UTC)
- I agree. Unless the terms "Master" or "Expert" are used in canon, applying such descriptors violates the NPOV policy. - Nick O'Demus 01:40, January 9, 2011 (UTC)
- At the rate things are going, it's only a matter of time before someone adds "Allergy mastery" to any character who sneezes. Unless there are any objections, I'm going to get started on this with most of the major characters sometime this week. - Nick O'Demus 09:22, April 20, 2011 (UTC)
I agree. we badly need to write a policy on the Magical abilities. I have adressed this before (see Forum: magical abilities and skills)--Rodolphus 09:34, April 20, 2011 (UTC)


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After pitching duel, mishap at plate stings Sox
Quintana gives up one run; KC scores game-winner on Flowers' error
CHICAGO -- There was nothing Tyler Flowers would have done differently on the ninth inning, game-deciding play at the plate during the Royals' 2-1 victory over the White Sox at a chilly U.S. Cellular Field Wednesday afternoon.
Actually, the White Sox catcher would like to change one part of the situation that ultimately put the Royals ahead. He would have hung on to center fielder Adam Eaton's perfect throw home, which then would have nailed Mike Moustakas for the inning's second out.
"In all honesty, I thought I had it the whole time," said Flowers, after the White Sox lost the series to Kansas City and finished 3-3 on this second-half-opening homestand. "I wish I would have hung on to it, but there was nothing I could do different. I don't regret anything I did, and I'm not going to do anything different next time."
Moustakas opened the ninth with a single off of reliever Zach Putnam (3-2), past second baseman Gordon Beckham and the White Sox shift. He moved to second on Alcides Escobar's sacrifice bunt, which also set up Flowers and the play at the plate.
Nori Aoki dropped an 0-1 splitter into center, which Moustakas read all the way as falling in front of Eaton. Even with that good jump, Eaton's perfect throw to Flowers had Moustakas nailed by three or four steps.
Flowers caught the throw, secured the baseball and turned to put the tag on Moustakas. But Moustakas' knee jarred the ball loose and all but dropped the White Sox to 2-12 over their last 14 home games against the Royals.
"I was just sliding into home plate," Moustakas said. "He gave me a lane early, and when he got the ball, he took it away, and he made a good play. I just slid straight into him and luckily the ball popped out and we're sitting here with a win right now."
"That's a tough play," said White Sox manager Robin Ventura. "Eaton made a good throw to home and a lot of stuff is happening right there. He thought he had it and it got dislodged. But you look at how it happened and the play was made, and it's a tough spot right there to be able to hold onto it. A lot of stuff is coming at him. It's unfortunate."
An assist was credited to Eaton and an error charged to Flowers, although this was more of a mishap than a miscue. The play came during a game where the White Sox defense was outstanding behind starter Jose Quintana.
Eaton made a diving catch on Eric Hosmer's sacrifice fly in the first, immediately followed by another diving catch toward the line from third baseman Conor Gillaspie to take away extra bases on Salvador Perez's line drive. Gillaspie swiped a hit from Omar Infante in the third with a similar diving play toward the line and a perfect throw to first baseman Jose Abreu. The trio of Gillaspie, Alexei Ramirez and Beckham helped turn four double plays, three behind Quintana.
"Yeah, really good, especially the first couple of innings," said Quintana of his defensive support. "Really good plays."
Quintana finished with his 36th no-decision since 2012 and fourth straight. He allowed just one first-inning run on seven hits over seven innings, striking out three and walking two on 112 pitches.
Over his last seven starts (six quality), Quintana has a 2-0 record with a 1.70 ERA and 49 strikeouts in 47 2/3 innings. He has given up three earned runs or fewer in 18 of his 21 starts.
Kansas City starter James Shields was every bit as good as Quintana, giving up one run in the first on Abreu's double and Adam Dunn's single with two outs, but nothing more. Abreu extended his hitting streak to 13 games and has hit in 31 of his last 32 games, although he did strike out twice against Shields and once against Wade Davis (6-2)
Shields struck out seven and walked one, and he pitched out of a bases-loaded, two-out jam in the second when Beckham, who is 16-for-128 over his last 34 games, grounded into a fielder's choice at third base. Quintana worked out of a first-and-third, two-out situation in the sixth when Danny Valencia struck out. And reliever Eric Surkamp retired pinch-hitter Raul Ibanez on a popup to second to strand the bases loaded in the eighth.
Just a typical low-scoring contest with two top-of-the-rotation starters battling, turning on one crucial play, and finished off by Greg Holland for his 26th save.
"That's a good bullpen," Flowers said. "It seems like once they get to the seventh, it's a challenge, you know, to get a runner, much less try to get a run in. That makes it more important to take advantage of the situations early."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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About a week ago, I stumbled across this post in google reader:
Console Cowboys -I always feel like somebodies watching me.
I read it, I was impressed, and it immediately reminded me of previous work I've done. In collaboration with @achillean we scanned the whole internet looking for ddwrt routers with a directory traversal vuln, and wrote a script to step through the findings.The result was a map you could use to find routers based on their mac addresses. The vulnerability was information disclosure of the wan mac address, which likely would have been found by the google street view cars, and the skyhook cars during their sweeps, so if you know the wan mac address of a router, you can translate that to a physical location on a map. I thought this would be perfect to apply the same formula to – except in this case it would be difficult to pinpoint where the camera actually existed unless there was some kind of information disclosure in the video stream itself.
Now let me make this abundantly clear: Nothing is getting recorded or saved. The output here are IMG SRC html links to cameras on the internet. Your browser renders those image streams directly from the cameras. Nothing gets saved or written unless you explicitly choose to save something – kind of like watching television – unless you dvr something or god forbid still own a vcr, in the same manner, you have to choose to record things. That onus is on the viewer.
The author of the console-cowboys blogpost wrote a script to do all the proper API calls against shodan to search for the cameras, then another loop to manually test each result found for the path that shows video. If an HTTP 200 OK was returned for the path, the url was saved.
I took that script, and simply added IMG SRC tags to the output, also adding threading during the checks and one or two small performance tweaks – my second python script ever, and I'm already using threads! (I was kind of proud of this :D)
The results looked something like this. Very simple, but effective:
Each image there is actually video. The cameras each output mjpg straight to the browser, so firefox and chrome were both happy to render video. The trouble was that I found more than 550 cameras – so loading that html into a browser caused my ram and cpu to spike.. a lot. It also wanted 2 megs a second (MEGS, not megabits..) of bandwidth just to view the cameras. So I used the split command to tear the huge list into 6 parts, each list containing 100 cameras, and one with ~56 or so. I posted it off the main website before having writing the script – there were several pastebins floating around with the camera list already, so adding html tags to that was dead easy. I had 200-300 cams in one giant html posted maybe 5 days ago. Everyone had a laugh, and one friend even interacted with one of shops. It was all in good fun for about a week.
Last night I had a member of the information security community raise a concern with me. There was a discussion, and in the end I was berated and called names. As such, I've taken down the cam streams from my site. However, I'm absolutely happy to post my script that generated all the cam streams, since its just a updated version of the console-cowboys posting. I encourage you to buy a shodan account like I did, get an API key and have a look at the sort of things people find valuable enough to put on camera. You'd be surprised. Most of it is HORRIFICALLY BORING, but some of the cameras are streaming labs and industrial areas with what appear to be scada devices and other interesting stuff. I'm glad that the girl in the pizza shop had a sense of humor about it, so good on her for that.
I also encourage you to do some research before you buy something like an internet-enabled camera so that you better understand what it is you're getting yourself into – there's a chance your camera has not only a 'known vulnerability', but a flat out hardcoded backdoor, like these cameras. This is BY DESIGN. Trendnet wrote in a back door.
Anyhow, I was going to use this as material for my LayerOne presentation if my CFP submission got approved but if there are more infosec patrons out there like our generous benefactor here I can expect more headaches the more I talk about this stuff, so I'll have to think of something else (sorry Noid/Datagram/M).
Now for the meat!
Here's the script: camcreep.py
You'll need to install gevent and shodan modules for python. Google can help you with that.
You'll need a shodan API key: Shodan API key (insert it where it says 'key =' .. you'll see)
I ran this on my mac with 150 threads. It returned about 10,000 results from shodan, and took Just a hair shy of 7 minutes to run.
The script outputs "camlog_new.html". Thats one giant monolithic file with ALL the cameras. You'll want to use the linux 'split' command to slice it up into various files. I manually added the page links to the bottom of those files since there were only 6 of them.
Also, since I did this all using chrome, I was using "Ultimate Chrome Flag" which is a really neat extension that lets you see some IP GeoData about the site you're on. If you right click, then open a cam stream in a new tab, you should see the little flag on the right hand side of the URL bar – that will at least tell you what city or major geographic region the camera you're viewing is in.
Happy Hunting!


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Krithi Karanth
Conservation Biologist
Photograph by Austin Perez
Photograph by Shekar Dattatri/Conservation India
Can one billion people, wild animals struggling to persist, and an economy starved for land survive and thrive together? Conservation biologist Krithi K. Karanth is realistic, hopeful, and clearly not looking for an easy job. She is out to analyze complex human-wildlife interactions in one of the planet's most populous hot spots: India.
The challenges to peaceful coexistence are many. As the booming economy continues to grow, pressure is increasing on the last 3 percent of protected, undeveloped land. Some of the world's most iconic species—tigers and Asian elephants—are clinging to slivers of protected national parks, while successful urbanites are completely cut off from nature. Endangered wildlife is being pushed out of its habitat and in turn has been decimating the crops of impoverished villagers.
Karanth feels wise solutions can be based only on facts that reflect the whole, true, cross section of India's landscapes and populations—data that she has found surprisingly lacking. She's responding with rigorous surveys and mapping that will be crucial to strengthening protection for parks, encouraging cultural tolerance for wildlife, and compensating people suffering from conflict with animals.
Her firsthand experience with wildlife started early. Karanth's father, Dr. K. Ullas Karanth, one of India's most renowned conservationists, began bringing her into the jungle when she was one year old. She spotted her first leopard at age three, and by eight tagged along to track tigers. She in turn is passing along her passion for wildlife to her own child. On a recent expedition, her four-year-old daughter saw her first leopard. "We were with my parents, and all three generations of us sat in absolute silence, taking in the moment, watching this amazing leopard. There are not enough words to describe that memory."
How many animals will become just a memory? Karanth compiled a massive extinction survey documenting how many species have disappeared across India in the last hundred years, why certain animals persist, and which mammals may face extinction in the future.
"Habitat loss, hunting, illegal wildlife trade, and poaching have caused dramatic, widespread declines of species that were plentiful just one century ago," she reports. "The most important finding from the survey is that protected areas really do matter. These protected areas, along with human cultural tolerance, play a very important role in why some species are able to survive."
Today, humans and wildlife share precious space along park edges with varying degrees of success. "Our media is filled with stories about animals in conflict with people," says Karanth. "But often this is based on reactionary information from only one or two villages. I'm amazed at the lack of widespread data. My idea is to map and predict risks for conflict over an entire landscape. We are visiting about 2,000 villages across a 2,700-square-mile area that surrounds some of southwest India's important parks to get a true sense of what is and isn't working, not just a handful of isolated incidents. Until we have all the facts, it's dangerous to make generalizations about human-wildlife conflict being on the rise. This survey and mapping will help us develop mitigating measures and policy-level interventions that can be focused and truly effective."
Karanth is involving 150 "citizen scientists" to interview villagers and collect survey data. "The volunteers I take into the field are often urban dwellers who are very disconnected from nature and rural India. The experience gives them a whole new appreciation for the challenges of conservation and the reality of people who live in these landscapes. In some villages, people break down in tears and tell us they lose 95 percent of their crops each year due to raiding by wild animals. They cannot make a living or send their children to school; they beg us to do something to help. In other villages, people seem to expect and accept that crops and livestock will be lost. This is why it's critical to survey a wide cross section of people who come from different backgrounds, grow different crops, and live different distances from parks."
Much human-wildlife conflict results from fragmentation that has eliminated crucial corridors used by wildlife to move from one protected area to another. "We must maintain connectivity so animals like elephants are protected as they travel through agricultural fields between parks," Karanth notes.
Karanth's passion for animals does not cloud her empathy for people. "We must provide good, fair compensation to landholders near parks so they don't retaliate when species move through and destroy crops. We need local support and tolerance to ensure that sanctuaries and the species inside them survive."
In some cases, resettling villagers away from parks may be the answer. However, Karanth again finds a dearth of data. She is planning a huge project to monitor resettlement and evaluate how the process is implemented and document how people are compensated. "In some places they have been given cash. In other places, cash plus land," she explains. "We need to make sure people are not forcibly pushed out, but supported when they do want to move."
Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary in southern India handled resettlement so successfully it inspired a national policy to improve compensation for families voluntarily choosing to move. Analyzing such successes, as well as failures, via Karanth's survey will help establish best practices for resettling future generations.
Local farmers are far from the only pressure India's wildlife faces. New mining leases, industrial plants, and power lines accompany the nation's dramatic growth and development. Karanth acknowledges that "money lifts people out of poverty, but there has to be a balance. If it's all about economic growth at the expense of the few parks we have left, wildlife will disappear."
"The world sees India as a place teeming with one billion people," she says. "In fact, we also have a surprising wealth of incredible wildlife—40 percent of the world's tigers, most of the world's Asian elephants, and many endemic species as well. No place on the planet has this many people and this much wildlife coexisting. It can persist if enough people care and fight to preserve it. This is not a country you can write off."
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 24/4/2013 (1582 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz has joined the chorus of complaints against the Selinger government's proposed PST hike, calling the one per cent bump "the biggest tax grab in history" and complaining it will do nothing to help the city meet its infrastructure needs.
On Wednesday, Katz held a noon-hour press conference outside his office to complain the city will not benefit from the provincial plan to generate an additional $199 million this year -- and $277 million annually in future years -- by increasing the provincial sales tax to eight per cent.
The province says it's making the move to pay for crucial infrastructure. Standing next to pie charts, Katz said the city will receive only $7 million of this new tax revenue, even though the majority of PST revenues come from the city.
He also accused the province of devoting most of the proceeds of the hike to provincial infrastructure priorities such as hospitals and universities and complained the city will have no say in how it spends the provincial funds that are made available to it.
"Does the provincial government have a spending problem, or are they fixing infrastructure? This is easily the biggest tax grab in the history of Manitoba," Katz told reporters.
He described the PST increase as a slap in the face to the city and other municipalities who have been asking for proceeds from such an increase for five years. The mayor surmised such a PST hike is no longer possible now that the province has taken up "tax room" with the new PST hike.
The province largely resisted the urge to return fire. Local Government Minister Ron Lemieux said the decision to increase the PST was a difficult one, but once Manitobans see the results, they will agree it was necessary.
He repeated the province's budget-day announcement that Winnipeg will receive a total infrastructure-funding increase of $22.3 million this year when an additional $7 million for roads, $5 million for the Southwest Transitway and $9.3 million for Plessis Road are factored in.
"That's nothing to sneeze at, I can tell you," Lemieux said, emphasizing he and Katz share many priorities.
"If you take a look at what he wants, he wants better streets; there are going to be better streets. He wants to take a look at rapid transit; we hope they get moving on it and they don't redirect the money, as it was once. We've budgeted for that going forward."
Premier Greg Selinger said other Canadian municipalities would be happy to see funding increases of this sort.
"At a time when the federal government is giving the Province of Manitoba zero for the last four years, we're increasing support to municipalities eight to nine per cent," Selinger said.
But Katz said the provincial money won't even begin to address the immense size of the city's infrastructure deficit. "Ten years from now, there's going to be chaos as a result of this," he said on the floor of council.
He said Winnipeg faces "tough choices" in coming years, using political shorthand for making unpopular moves such as cutting services or raising property taxes to pay for infrastructure upgrades.
-- with a file from Bruce Owen
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