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Jack White Blunderbuss Art Revealed
John Doran
, February 21st, 2012 14:03
The artwork for Jack White's solo album Blunderbuss has been revealed to be a rather dour photographic portrait (no doubt taken on a vintage Detroit pinhole camera) of the guitarist, with a stuffed buzzard on his shoulder, standing by an aviary.
The track list for the album, which will be released on April 23 via Third Man Records has also been released:
- Missing Pieces
- Sixteen Saltines
- Freedom At 21
- Love Interruption
- Blunderbuss
- Hypocritical Kiss
- Weep Themselves To Sleep
- I'm Shakin'
- Trash Tongue Talker
- Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy
- I Guess I Should Go To Sleep
- On And On And On
- Take Me With You When You Go
Visit Jack White's site for a chance to visit his Nashville HQ to hear a playback of the album.
Feb 22, 2012 11:01am
If only the music on his album will reflect the mood of that portrait. Not likely,though...
Feb 26, 2012 9:38pm
Huge Jack White fan! Can't wait for the new album on 4/24. I think the album will reflect the mood of the portrait. Jack White writes amazing lyrics, "Love Interruption" is such a dark song. I really like the video though, simple and to the point. Basically just a really well show live video. Check it out! http://vevo.ly/A4mwXL

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The Cork Soakers
If you liked overhearing the porch sitters discuss their "decks" in great detail, then you should appreciate this SNL skit. While visiting a vineyard, a wine tasting group is introduced to the art and practice of "cork soaking." Say that five times without making something dirrty of it.


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About the Book
This is a group of daily prayers that I have used and found very helpful in engaging in personal communion with God. Some of the prayers are taken or modified from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, and others I have written myself. Included you will find prayers for both the morning and evening of each day. There are prayers of repentance, thanksgiving, praise, and intercession. By taking these words and making them our own, we can pray from the heart in a way that I think is both biblical and spiritually fruitful. I hope they will be a help and blessing for you as they have been for me.
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- Publish Date Jan 10, 2011
- Tags religion, Christianity, prayer, Jesus, God, spiritual
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I live and work at Berry College, in Rome, GA with my wonderful wife and 3 amazing children. I have a PhD in Theology from Stellenbosch University, and M.A. from Wheaton College Graduate School, and a M.A.R from Reformed Theological Seminary. I am an ordained Priest in the Anglican Church in North America.
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Window Switch is a tool that allows you to move applications between networked computers. The windows appear where you need them, as they were. You no longer need to save and send documents to move them around; simply move the view of the application to the machine where you need it.
MDS (Mandriva Directory Server), along with the Mandriva Management Console (MMC), is a powerful system that allows developers, system administrators, and other software vendors to manage users, groups, and their associated policies in both OpenLDAP server and Fedora Directory Server which allows multi-master replication. Its highly ergonomic interface design makes it very easy to use, and delegation of administration enables medium size organization to adopt MDS.
Salut à Toi (or SàT: "Hi to You") is an XMPP/Jabber client with multi-frontends. You can use it on a desktop (Wix), with a console interface (Primitivus), as a command-line tool (jp), or on the Web (Libervia). A plugin architecture is used to make it modular. With SàT, you can perform all the expected XMPP functions (instant messaging, multi-user chat, file transfert, etc.), but you can also use your email client (MUA) to read and send your XMPP messages, play games, do microblogging, pipe Unix command results, make scripts, etc.
txtorcon is a Twisted-based asynchronous Tor control protocol implementation. Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python, and Tor is an onion-routing network designed to improve people's privacy and security on the Internet. It includes unit-tests with 96%+ coverage, multiple examples, and documentation. There are abstractions to track Tor configuration and state (circuits, streams), launch private instances, support Hidden Service, and more.
DeTraS provides several tools to track development activities by registering applications that developers use on an X11 session. It also allows you to send collected data to a server and takes care about your privacy. The idea behind DeTraS is taken from Timeline, a shell script written by Nat Friedman.
Card Stories provides a server for a networked guessing game using picture cards. One player (the "author") starts the game by choosing a card, picking a word or a sentence to describe it, and sending out invitations to others to participate. Each of these players receives seven cards and has to pick one that best matches the author's description. Once enough players have chosen a card, the author displays all chosen cards and the players try to figure out which one is the author's. If at least one but not all of them guesses correctly, the author wins, along with the players who guessed correctly. Otherwise, the guessers all win.


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|Baptista, Ana Alice
|DSpace-dev at University of Minho
|ELPUB2004. Building Digital Bridges: Linking Cultures, Commerce and Science: Proceedings of the 8th ICCC/IFIP International Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Brasília - DF, Brazil 23-26 June 2004 / Edited by: Jan Engelen, Sely M. S. Costa, Ana Cristina S. Moreira. Universidade de Brasília, 2004
|The University of Minho (UMinho) was the first institution in the Portuguese speaking world to use a translated version of Dspace. DSpace related activities at University of Minho started in April 2003 and since then many developments have been made. The first step has been taken by the UMinho Documentation Services (SDUM) with the translation of the DSpace system to Portuguese and its implementation in the RepositóriUM (http:/ /repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt), the institutional repository of UMinho, created to store, preserve and disseminate the intellectual output of the University. This version has been downloaded for use in many other institutions in Portugal and Brazil. This same version was used as a basis for the papadocs system (http://papadocs. dsi.uminho.pt ). Papadocs intends to store and provide access to all assignments made by the Information Systems department alumni. Some changes had to be made to the original version, in particular in what concerns the metadata. Other changes and plug-ins have been developed in order to better conform to our needs. These include the restriction of values for keywords accordingly to the ACM Computing Classification System and the Keyword Classification Scheme for IS Research Literature (developed and available both in XML and in RDF-S) and the development and implementation of a commenting module together with a 3D visualization of what we call the Web of Communication. Two other instances are planned to be installed in the near future: one for storing all the articles from a well-known journal in the Information Systems area (this can later be open to other journals); and another to store cultural heritage documents related to the history of computing in the country (waiting for funding from the local funding body FCT). In this talk I will present these four initiatives and discuss the related research projects currently in hands.
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Well, kids, it's been an interesting couple of days. (don't know what I'm talking about? start here!) Before I get into the story update, there are a couple things that I've learned:
Okay, now for the update. I went back to Citibank in Park Slope earlier today, and since there was no one at the little info desk, the security guard had me sit in a row of seats to wait for someone to be free to help me. After a few minutes, a woman who worked there walked by and asked, "Are you being helped?"
Funny she she pose the question that way, eh? "Why, no," I replied. "No, I'm not being helped at all."
She asked me what I needed, and when I replied that I was there for an affadavit for a fraudulent check, her eyes got wide and she said, "God, what happened?" Which made me dump out the whole story from Tuesday. The look of shock increased as the story went on, till finally she stopped me and said, "Oh my God. I am so sorry, that should not have happened to you. Come into one of the private offices and we'll get everything taken care of right away."
A team of three women– for the record: Ruth, Rose and Roseann, I kid you not — sprung into action. They found that another check for ~$5k was attempting to be cashed, and because Sparky the "Customer Service" Rep didn't help me on Tuesday, it was bouncing everything out all over again. More apologies, but they also found that someone's gone into a Citibank branch elsewhere and made a small deposit, presumably to see if the account was still open. Can I tell you the relief I felt to see people actually caring and trying to find out what was happening to my money?
Anyhoo, we squared away a bunch of stuff together, and I got the affadavits for the police reports. However, I have to wait till tomorrow now to file the police report, because I won't have a copy of the new fraudulent check until 7am.
But wait, there's more! Later in the day — literally right after I'd purchased a new paper shredder at Staples — I got a call from a representative of Wachovia, asking me if I was writing some big checks. Turns out that since the first one bounced, and a second one from me was coming in, Wachovia already suspected fraud and got on the ball. The woman (whose identity I verified, yes) was extremely helpful and gave me the names and addresses of the people that deposited the fraudulent checks. She doesn't think, from her experience, that they're the perps, but rather that they're the victim of some sort of scam operation. Wild stuff. She's down with helping the police investigate, and I'm taking all this info with me tomorrow.
In the meantime, I have to say that while this doesn't compare with some of the BS that I dealt with and violation I felt after getting mugged (ah, Christine, could anything have bonded us tighter? Really?), it's, um, getting to be right up there. It's also completely physically taxing in an unexpected way — my body has been demanding about 10 hours of sleep per day since this all started. Apologies to clients who are reading this and wondering where the hell I've been, too — the bureaucratic nightmare is taking up a ton of bandwidth.
More tomorrow after I've visited with my (hopefully) friendly neighborhood police officers. Wish me luck.
Let me tell you a little story about a goofy ol' worldwide bank that you might've heard of: Citibank.
(UPDATE, 2/19: Citibank has a total of 3 women working for them who are not like the story below.)
It's Friday night, I'm having drinks with my comics instructor, the illustrious (pun intended) Tom Hart. I go to pay for the drinks with my Citibank debit card, hooked up to that silly li'l thing I like to refer to as my "checking account." The bartender informed me that it wasn't going through, which was a bit of a surprise… I have a tempestuous relationship with my dough, sure, but I should be able to eek out $20 for cocktails.
Logged into my online account, where a very bright red font did its job of getting my attention: I was overdrawn by four thousand dollars. Hmmmm. I quickly ran through the past week: yes, it'd been an insane week with lots going on, and yeah, there were a coupla fuzzy spots in my memory, but I was, um, pretty sure that I couldn't have spent all the money in my checking and my overdraft and then still have been overdrawn by… let me repeat… four thousand dollars.
Looking through my list of transactions, it didn't take long to pinpoint the problem: a check for $4,900. Again with the quick brain scan: did I write a $4,900 check? No, no, I didn't. The image of the check itself showed a check that wasn't one of mine (but had all my info on it), made out to someone I didn't know, in handwriting that was also not mine. Fascinating. But also… Very Bad Indeed.
I picked up the phone and called Ye Olde "Customer Service." From here on out, "customer service" will always be printed in quotes when referring to Citibank, and should be read as if I were performing finger quotes each time I say it. After a 15-minute wait for a "customer service" representative to come online, I explained what I'd discovered, and asked what we could do about it.
"You'll have to take two forms of ID to your local branch and file a fraudulent check claim," said the "customer service" guy on the phone.
"You're kidding," I said.
"No," he said.
As it turns out, Citibank doesn't really have a plan for this sort of thing. Electronic identity theft? They're on it. You call 'em, you fax them a letter, and a coupla days later, you got your cash back. Someone goes old school on your ass and makes their own checks with your info? Citibank sorta shrugs and tells you to go old school and find a branch.
The call with "customer service," to be honest, didn't end well. I told the representative that I wasn't going to get off the phone until he told me that Citibank didn't care about me and the fact that someone's trying to steal five thousand dollars from me.
"But Citibank does care about you," he said.
"Clearly, my friend, Citibank does not care about me," I replied with an increasingly shaky voice, "since you can't do anything about the fact that I'm overdrawn by four thousand dollars right now because some smartass thief has figured out your system." (We went back and forth on this point for quite a while; I'll spare you the complete play-by-play.)
"As I stated before–"
"No need. Keep working for your crappy company that doesn't give a crap at all. Good luck with that." I hung up.
Resigned, I waited till today– it was President's Day on Monday and Citibank was closed — to go to the branch in Park Slope. The "customer service" person there basically told me that because there were insufficient funds in the account for the check, everything would reverse out by Thursday-ish (she couldn't be sure) and everything would be back to normal. Was I going to have to pay the fees for a bounced check? No, come back and she'll reverse those for me. (Come back! To the bank! In 2009, ten years into the Age of the Information Superhighway!)
Moving along in the process was impossible without me pulling teeth. Through a series of intense questioning, I figured out that to commence an investigation into the matter, I had to file a police report. Citibank wouldn't take any action themselves. Right. Why would they?
"What if I had had the money to clear the check?" I asked.
"It would have cleared," she said quite plainly.
"And I'd be out $4,900?" I asked further, stunned.
"Yes. Then you'd have to file a claim with us, and we'd investigate it. If everything worked out, you'd get the money back in five to seven business days."
"Uh-huh." I was too floored to argue the inanity of it with her. "What about the future? Can I put some sort of filter on my account, that checks more than say, the amount of my rent every month should warrant some sort of phone call or other check in?"
"We can't do that," she said.
"So, wait– let me get this straight. When I bought my ticket to Hawaii on my debit card a couple of years ago, and Citibank called me within a few hours to make sure that was me doing that… that you can handle. But a piece of paper, that just completely befuddles Citibank's systems."
She shrugged. "Yeah."
"Is there anything I can do to protect myself at all?"
"Well," she sighed. "You should probably close this checking account because they have the information now, and open up a new one."
"I think that's an excellent idea!" I exclaimed. "In fact, I'm going to close all of my accounts with Citibank when I come back, and move everything over to a credit union where I at least stand a chance of someone giving a crap about what happens to me and my money. Thank you!"
I'm actively taking suggestions for credit unions in Brooklyn that folks are happy with. I'd always wanted to join the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union when I lived there, but perhaps because one of my employers is still there, I might still get in. Leave thoughts, prayers, suggestions and other tidibits in the comments.
PS– Extra credit kicker: went to the precinct to file a claim, and they told me Citibank has to give me an affadavit saying that the check is indeed fraudulent. "But I don't think Citibank either believes me or cares that it's fraudulent," I said to the officer. She shrugged and repeated herself. Extreme bureaucracy might be the death of me. It might end up being the number one cause of death someday soon. I can see the Times headline: "Extreme Bureaucracy Kills Nearly 13,000,000 Every Year In US." Or maybe there'll be a new diagnosis soon called "Customer Service Rage." What would that headline be? "Customer Service Rage Blamed in Destruction of Local Bank."


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T3 is on, selling $8bn of Telstra shares
Illustration: Ron Tandberg
TELSTRA has pledged not to undermine the public float of $8 billion worth of its shares as the Federal Government moved towards cutting its ties in the telecommunications goliath.
Prime Minister John Howard's announcement last night that the Government would sell about one-third of its majority holding came after days of arm-twisting to force Telstra to promise not to disrupt the sale by attacking the regulations that govern it.
The Government will offer the shares to the Australian public and institutional investors in an October-November float.
Both the sale proceeds and the balance of the Government's $22.5 billion, 51.8 per cent holding will go into the Future Fund. Telstra's share price yesterday closed at $3.50.
"For too long, the Government has had a massive conflict of interest, as the owner and seller of Australia's largest telco and as the industry regulator," said Mr Howard. "The Government does not have to own Telstra in order to regulate it."
He refused to say what would be a reasonable price for T3 shares. That was "something for the market to determine".
This will be the largest share offer in Australia since T2 in 1999 when Telstra shares fetched $7.40.
Finance Minister Nick Minchin said he could understand existing shareholders would be disappointed by the share price fall. T2 had been at the height of the global tech boom.
But "we must make a decision about what price is appropriate in the context of the 2006 market rather than looking back to 1999".
Investors can take their shares in two instalments over 18 months. Those buying by instalment will be entitled to the Telstra dividend of 28 cents for the next year, and Telstra's share price will be propped up by a requirement the Future Fund not sell any of the shares it receives for two years.
The decision to launch the long-awaited T3 came as time had virtually run out for a float this year. It was delayed by the company's failure to give an adequate guarantee of "good behaviour", and almost derailed by Thursday's provocative comments from Phil Burgess, right-hand man to Telstra's managing director Sol Trujillo. Dr Burgess said only "someone from another planet" could expect Telstra to stop attacking regulations.
Telstra has muzzled Dr Burgess during the sale process. Company chairman Don McGauchie said last night only Telstra's sale team led by Mr Trujillo could speak on matters affecting the sale. He said Dr Burgess's comments "do not represent Telstra's position".
Mr Howard spoke directly to Mr McGauchie to hammer out an agreement to allow T3 to go ahead.
"Telstra's chairman, board and senior management have assured the Government of their strong commitment to this sale and their ongoing co-operation," Mr Howard said. The company had made it clear it would not use the sale process "as a vehicle to campaign for changes to the regulatory regime".
Mr McGauchie said it was well known Telstra was critical of the current regulatory regime, but "we accept our legal obligations".
Telstra would fulfil its disclosure obligations during the sale, which "may involve explaining the impact of the regulatory regime". But any comments "will be proportionate, measured and factual".
Mr Howard said despite the low share price, the Government believed it could achieve "an appropriate return for taxpayers at this time".
The Government's sales advisers' "unanimous advice" was that there was sufficient demand to support an offer of this size and "it can be done at a fair price".
Advisers to the T3 sale indicated the wording of the PM's statement left open the possibility that if there is strong demand the Government could sell more.
"Based on the extensive market research that we have been conducting over the last nine months, retail demand looks to be very strong," said Matthew Grounds, co-head of investment banking at UBS, one of the three global co-ordinators of the sale.
The process of nailing down the sale has been torturous for senior Government players. Senator Minchin held talks with the Telstra board late last week, and senior sources expressed confidence over last weekend that despite some uncertainties, the Government could proceed with the sale this week.
Telstra helped last Monday by guaranteeing it would maintain its current dividend for 12 months. But it also used the process to fire a warning shot that it would continue to campaign publicly on regulation.
A discussion following that announcement, in Canberra between senior ministers on Tuesday, resolved that the Government was not at all confident that Telstra management would hold their rhetorical fire on regulation during a float to mum and dad investors.
The Government's concerns were amplified by Dr Burgess' outburst on Thursday. Mr Howard spoke to Mr McGauchie on Thursday evening, making it clear Telstra had to guarantee it would cease the guerilla war or the process would be stopped.
Intense discussions between Mr McGauchie and senior members of Mr Howard's staff continued throughout yesterday.
Mr Howard started yesterday morning in Sydney, sounding pessimistic in a radio interview about anything happening imminently, and flew to Tasmania. He remained on the phone to several of his colleagues throughout the day and was updated on the progress of discussions between Mr McGauchie and his staff.
Telstra agreed to put out a statement distancing itself from Mr Burgess' comments.
The final decision to proceed with a retail offer was taken by Mr Howard yesterday afternoon around 3pm. It was announced in Tasmania shortly afterwards.
Opposition Leader Kim Beazley said Mr Howard had sold out Australia's future and betrayed T2 shareholders.
Mr Howard had told middle Australia T2 was a "great deal" at $7.40. "Now Mr Howard can't even sell Telstra shares for half the price".
With ANDREW DARBY
Long road to privatisation
1975 Telecom Australia established (telecommunications separated from postal services).
1995 Name change to Telstra.
1996 Opposition leader John Howard announces Coalition policy to sell one-third of Telstra. Wins government in March 1996.
1997 Telstra's first public share offer launched. Offered at $3.40 a share.
1999 T2 shares traded on stock exchange. Issue price of $7.40 a share.
2000 Besley inquiry finds access to telco services in bush is inadequate.
2001 Government gives $163.1 million to improve services in bush and announces plan to sell rest of its Telstra shares.
2003 Telstra sale legislation blocked.
2004 Sale legislation blocked.
2005 American Sol Trujillo takes over as Telstra chief from Ziggy Switkowski.
■Government proceeds with sale plan; announces $3.1 billion package of bush telecommunications sweeteners to help win Nationals support.
■Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce agrees to deliver crucial vote to Government on Telstra sale after extracting assurances from it.
■August 22 Telstra share price closes at $3.45, lowest level in almost nine years.
■August 25 Government says it will sell almost half its remaining stake in Telstra (19 per cent) in a public float in October/November and park the rest of the shares (32 per cent) in the Future Fund.
Current share price $3.50.
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Rascal Flatts Reserve Holidays for Family Time Only
Rascal Flatts may spend a majority of their year on a tour bus, but the 'Changed' trio reserves the holiday season exclusively for spending quality time with their loved ones.
"I think Christmas, for me, has always been about family, as cliché as that sounds," shares bassist Jay DeMarcus (quote via GAC). "You know, it's a time to reflect on the year and what you've been doing, and a year for us goes by so quickly because we're on the road so much and we've got so much going on throughout the year."
Adding to his yuletide sentiment, the DeMarcus says, "It's always a wonderful time to be able to settle down by the fire, enjoy the Christmas tree and the decorations and just spend time with the ones you love and surround yourself with the people that you don't get to see enough throughout the year."
Adds the devoted husband and father of two, "I can't wait to spend those couple of weeks solely focused on my family and Christmas time."
Rascal Flatts are winding down after a rather fruitful year. The trio released their gold-selling studio album, 'Changed,' in April, and scored their 12th No. 1 single with 'Banjo,' the album's first radio single. The band is scheduled to resume their rigorous tour schedule with the winter leg of their Changed Tour on Jan. 10 in Green Bay, Wisc.


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Offering both business travellers and tourists an inexpensive and convenient option to the normal high-street hotel solutions, this city hotel offers 40 en suite guest rooms as well as a 24-hour reception, wireless Internet access, free coffee in the lounge, a bar, laundry service and full secretarial services for the convenience of business guests.
Set in one of London's quiet residential streets, Ashburn Gardens, this hotel is a 2-minute walk from Gloucester Road tube station and ideally situated for business or pleasure, with Hyde Park and the famous Harrods store just around the corner. The Natural History Museum is a 9-minute walk away. Nearby airports include London Heathrow (25 km away), London Luton and London Stansted (both 50 km away), and London Gatwick (60 km away).
The richly appointed and spacious en suite bedrooms have been designed to offer the best in relaxation with all rooms having a television, radio, in-house movies (fees may apply), a direct dial telephone and hairdryer as standard. Internet access, an in-room safe and an ironing set also feature in all rooms.
A continental breakfast is served each morning.
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Ehud Olmert's career has been built on political wars and confrontations, he says, recalling with a certain amount of pride and bravado a tough, single-handed fight more than 15 years ago against organized crime.
The risk he took forced the now 48-year-old veteran Likud Knesset member to carry a gun in his belt and employ bodyguards around the clock.
"Whatever I do, I do with passion and total devotion — I don't give up," Olmert said of his working style. "I give them hell, I fight and I survive."
Clearly the political combat training and the motto have equipped him to take the latest battle in stride and even appear to relish it.
Olmert is challenging the widely beloved octogenarian incumbent, Teddy Kollek, in an extraordinarily bitter, heated and increasingly dirty contest for the mayor of Jerusalem.
Independent surveys indicate that Olmert, a former Cabinet minister who has been tagged by one newspaper as a "pit bull of politics," has a chance of unseating "Teddy," as Kollek is universally called.
With elections scheduled for Nov. 2, there are reportedly as many undecided voters as there are supporters for each candidate.
In an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in his campaign headquarters in Jerusalem's industrial Talpiyot neighborhood, Olmert called the race against him "brutal." It is "the worst smear campaign I've seen in the history of Israel" and is a function of the mayor's "desperation, a last resort," he said.
Kollek's campaign has focused its attacks on Olmert's character and old allegations of misconduct that Olmert says were proven to be untrue.
He attacks what he believes is Kollek's foolhardy decision to run again after signaling he would retire after 28 years.
Olmert, indeed, is free with his praise for Kollek and his accomplishments, but he thinks that Kollek's age will make it impossible for him to complete another five-year term, He said the 82-year-old Kollek is too tired to serve well.
"Teddy did great things for Jerusalem and I am full of respect for his past performance," he said. "But that doesn't mean the man can stay forever."
"Is he the only man in history who is irreplaceable? This is ridiculous," said Olmert, whose campaign slogan is, "The time has arrived."
Olmert did not get his "pit bull" reputation by staying out of the muck. He recently made a splash by charging that Kollek tried to buy votes among eastern Jerusalem Arabs by reducing property tax rates.
He cited a conversation taped by Likud Party activists in which Kollek discussed with a deputy the discontent of Arab residents and" techniques" that could reverse it. The reduction of property tax rates reportedly was among the techniques discussed.
"Three weeks before Election Day, they discuss cutting (municipal) charges," Olmert said. "What do you call it?"
Kollek, for his part, was outraged at what he called Olmert's "atrocious activities."
The city provided documentation rebutting the charge and explained that any reduction in rates considered was part of a standard practice for sectors of the city with "special problems."
Olmert also believes he is "better qualified than Teddy was when he took over in 1965." With 20 years in the Knesset, "I am the longest-serving young member," he said. "I'm serving as long as (Prime Minister Yitzhak) Rabin."
Olmert says his "fighting nature" does not preclude his also being a "conciliator," a trait that is vital in a city with deep divisions and high passions.
"The most important thing is to be able to communicate to different people: Arabs, the haredim (fervently Orthodox), secular Jews, older people, new immigrants," he said.
The status of Jerusalem in the context of the accord with the Palestine Liberation Organization has not surfaced much in the municipal campaign, but in less than three years the city's status may well appear on the negotiating table.
Olmert voted with his party in the Knesset against the accord because he is "against a Palestinian state led by (PLO Chairman Yasser) Arafat."
"The agreement is not (about) autonomy," he said, "It's just a disguise for what is really the creation of a Palestinian state in Judea, Gaza and Samaria and eventually also in Jerusalem, if we will not stop it."
"I am against political concessions to the Arabs, I'm against the redivision of Jerusalem, I'm against dealing with the PLO," said Olmert.
At the same time, he promises to invest "10 times more" than Kollek did in the quality of life of Jerusalem's Arabs, because "I am in favor of protecting their civil rights and human rights.
"They are people who live with us and we will treat them on an equal basis."
"Five years after I take over, the overwhelming majority of Arabs will be in my favor," he said.
By contrast, he charges Kollek with trying to "cheat the Arabs" into voting for him by waiting until after the election to issue permits for Jews to build in Arab neighborhoods.
Olmert has come out in support of Jewish construction in Arab neighborhoods and in undeveloped areas of the territories that would have to be annexed to the city. But he said he will not "exercise any provocative policy" if elected.
"If you ask me if I will sponsor major (Jewish) building in the Moslem quarter, the answer is no," he says. "But if you ask me if I'll build in the former border area, in areas not densely populated with Arabs, the answer is yes. Why not? On what basis do we argue that Jews have no right to live in Jerusalem?"
Olmert's primary goals are to "protect Jerusalem as a city where people live in relative tranquility" and to "make sure the quality of life for all people is improved tremendously."
He cites an education system in collapse, a poor environment, terrible transportation and an economy in urgent need of expansion.
"I'm going to run the city, not just be a leader but a chief executive," he said. "Teddy Kollek hasn't been around to run the city on a day-to-day basis for many years. This is what the city needs and what the city is going to get."


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Police pursuits are to be reviewed. One idea might be to follow offenders covertly, writes Joshua Dowling.
Car chases make great prime-time TV fodder. There are numerous shows dedicated to the theme, such as World's Wildest Police Videos. High-speed pursuits have also long been a staple for Hollywood producers to add excitement to their movies.
Rarely shown are chilling tragedies such as the death of a three-year-old girl on Windsor Road at McGraths Hill last Thursday. The 53-year-old driver being chased by police also died after his Holden Commodore collided head-on with a Ford Falcon carrying a family, including the young girl.
The incident has reignited the debate about pursuits and police have announced yet another review to minimise the danger to others.
The same issues will again be raised. If pursuits are banned, police argue, there will be anarchy - as criminals will know that to avoid capture they merely need to exceed the speed limit - and the public will be at greater risk.
No matter how much training police do, they cannot control the ability of the driver they are pursuing or the condition of the offending vehicle. At night it is difficult to determine whether the driver is drunk, drug-affected, too young to drive or a wanted criminal.
Police statistics show that about 10 per cent of pursuits result in a crash and a smaller percentage result in the arrest of offenders. Four of the five people killed in crashes in the 2100 pursuits over the past 12 months were those in the offending vehicle.
Improving on the already strict guidelines may prove to be a challenge. There are many deterrents designed to discourage police from engaging in a pursuit. Indeed, police officers are warned of the dangers of pursuits before they are allowed behind the wheel of a police car. On the path between the classroom and the driver training circuit at the Goulburn Police Academy, officers walk past memorials of colleagues killed during pursuits. On the wall in the main lobby there are graphic photos of wrecked police cars. Every officer watches a chilling video in which police (one of whom is in a wheelchair) recount pursuit horror stories.
Under police guidelines, the pursuing vehicle must be a fully marked, preferably highway patrol car. A marked general duties sedan can engage in pursuit but must yield when a highway patrol car can take over.
Of last week's crash, Deputy Commissioner Dave Madden said police have "very good risk management policies but we can't prevent accidents occurring". But nor is it the police's duty to put lives at risk. There must be a better way.
Why not follow a suspect vehicle covertly - in an unmarked car or from a helicopter - and wait for the vehicle to reach its destination before arresting the offender?
The LAPD has eight helicopters - three in the air at all times. NSW Police has four choppers and it takes 10 minutes to get one off the ground, by which time the pursuit is often over.
Last year an off-duty security guard noticed a man steal a car from a Mount Druitt car park. He discreetly followed the stolen car, called police from his mobile phone and gave updates on his location for about 10 minutes until police could take over. The moment the highway patrol car intervened and activated its lights and sirens, the thief sped off.
Joshua Dowling is the Herald's motoring editor and attended the police driver training course in 1998.
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hey all,
this here works:
1 3 4
2 2 2
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4 8 9]
But, if I change matrix B's left column to these large numbers I get error.
so this below does not work:
format long
20120101 3 4
20120102 2 2
20120103 4 5
20120103 3 3
20120103 5 9
20120104 8 9]
Here is the error message:
??? Error using ==> horzcat
CAT arguments dimensions are not consistent.
Error in ==> accumarray_issue at 22
Thanks a lot,
"Larry Rose" <email@example.com> wrote in message <firstname.lastname@example.com>...
> hey all,
> this here works:
> 1 3 4
> 2 2 2
> 3 4 5
> 3 3 3
> 3 5 9
> 4 8 9]
> [unique(B(:,1)),accumarray(B(:,1),B(:,2),[],@prod)]
> But, if I change matrix B's left column to these large numbers I get error.
> so this below does not work:
> format long
> 20120101 3 4
> 20120102 2 2
> 20120103 4 5
> 20120103 3 3
> 20120103 5 9
> 20120104 8 9]
> [unique(B(:,1)),accumarray(B(:,1),B(:,2),[],@prod)]
> Here is the error message:
> ??? Error using ==> horzcat
> CAT arguments dimensions are not consistent.
> Error in ==> accumarray_issue at 22
> [unique(B(:,1)),accumarray(B(:,1),B(:,2),[],@prod)]
> Thanks a lot,
> Larry
The error message is pretty clear: unless your B(:,1) fully covers integer from 1, 2 ..., to max(B(:,1)), you'll get different dimensions between accumarray and unique outputs. So you won't be able to concatenate them.
"Bruno Luong" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote in message
> "Larry Rose" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote in message
> <firstname.lastname@example.com>...
> The error message is pretty clear: unless your B(:,1) fully covers integer
> from 1, 2 ..., to max(B(:,1)), you'll get different dimensions between
> accumarray and unique outputs. So you won't be able to concatenate them.
As a concrete example of what Bruno said:
accumarray(2, 3, [], @prod) % returns [0; 3] since nothing's assigning a
value to the first element
unique(2) % returns 2
[2, [0; 3]] % errors since you can't concatenate horizontally something with
1 row and something with 2 rows.
Steve Lord
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On the second floor of St. Petersburg High School, students in skinny jeans and eyeliner and hoodies sail past the locked doors, past the dark space, past a subtle sign marked archive room. ¶ What's inside goes largely unnoticed. The 1937 mud-speckled football jersey. The mascot's tuxedo with green lapels, glasses tucked in the pocket. The 1943 school spirit cross-stitch and the 1974 letter sweater. The dented green megaphone that belonged to someone named Becky. ¶ They are the things that transform a school from somewhere you have to go, into somewhere you want to be. ¶ But the framed drawing of the Green Devil is shattered. The foam hand lost its fingertip. The diplomas crumble to the touch. ¶ History is breaking down.
St. Petersburg High has more heritage than many schools. It opened in 1898, and the first students graduated in 1901. In 1926, it moved into a towering new three-story specimen of Mediterranean architecture on Fifth Avenue N.
Thousands of students circulated through the school, donning green and white at games; forming fraternities, clubs and rituals; fostering school spirit. With tradition comes memorabilia.
In 1904, the boys baseball team had striped sweaters. In 1910, the girls basketball team had green bows and team pennants. In 1914, young women began presenting each other with flower baskets. In 1966, majorettes wore white skirts. In 1977, moms clipped articles about the homecoming victory against Northeast High.
The alumni band together into tight groups that have grand reunions, even 60 years after graduation. They still come to football games, and they view their time at St. Petersburg High like some people view their time at college.
They save their mementos forever. And when they die, families find green and white things in the attic. Guess where they go?
"We get stuff all the time," said principal Al Bennett.
Bennett graduated from the school in 1980 and was assistant principal for years before taking over the top post. When he goes upstairs to the archive room, he is drawn to the glass case with the mascot suit, a shrine to Bob Pfeiffer.
"His old outfit," he said. "That's where I always go in there."
Pfeiffer, a gregarious paper boy turned mail carrier, graduated from St. Petersburg High in 1933. In a way, he never left.
He played the school's mascot, Mr. Green Devil, for decades. He dyed his pointed beard green and donned the green tuxedo, dancing to fight song St. Pete Will Shine and bouncing a cardboard pitchfork to keep time. He had a personal collection of 63 class rings and five pins. When the collection was stolen, he started over, building it from scratch.
The treasures needed a proper home, he thought. In the 1990s, Pfeiffer established the archive room in the school's old library, about the size of three classrooms. He devoted countless hours and dollars to maintain, preserve and organize the archives.
"This is my hobby. This is my thing," Pfeiffer told a reporter in 1998. "I don't play golf. I don't own a yacht."
But when he died in 2000, the archives lost their keeper.
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Amid the cheerleader dolls and the portraits of principals and the athletic hall of fame honors, a bronze military plaque sat alone on the floor.
1917-1918. In memoriam to the boys of this school who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War. Clyde Crenshaw Caswell, Edward Theodore Hall, James Abel Johnson … "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
Stephanie Everhart was shaken when she saw it.
"Those were boys that went to this school, and it's sitting on the floor in a corner with dust on it," Everhart said. "That's when it really hit home for me. This is history. It's not just St. Pete history. It's Americana."
This year, Bennett and International Baccalaureate director Susan Farias asked Everhart whether she could help them organize the room. She owns an interior design business, and her daughter Alexandra is a sophomore at the school. Most in her family are Green Devils.
Everhart took one look at the room and knew: It wasn't about decoration. It was about preservation.
"It was such a shame to me, because it was like I was walking around and watching history disintegrate," she said. "Really. Little by little, you see all the papers that are yellowing and fading. I felt like it's 100 years of history up there, and we need help."
They have more memorabilia than they can handle, some of it stowed away in closets. Now they need money to pay for proper preservation and display. They need builders to help make cases. The school's service clubs are involved, but they need volunteers to organize and clean the room regularly the way Pfeiffer did.
"We were talking about doing period tables. One big table that would be through the '20s, one for the '40s, the '60s, the '80s," Bennett said. "We're going to get it together."
With the new push, some students have gotten curious about the room. Like Alexandra Everhart. When her mom took on the project, the 15-year-old cheerleader went straight to a stack of yearbooks and started flipping through one marked 1953.
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Dr. Bob Zura, an orthopaedic surgeon at Duke who treated Luke, said he's seeing more trampoline-related injuries in his clinic. Another patient was also at an indoor trampoline park when she broke and dislocated her ankle.
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Pins and screws now hold it together.
Roughly three percent of homes in the United States have a trampoline on the property, and an estimated $280 million a year is spent by insurance companies to treat injuries caused by trampoline use.
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The third Digital Learning Environment Event was held in beautiful San Diego, California on March 11, 2010. The day started off with a keynote by Tom Greaves the Chairman of The Greaves Group.
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Is there a way out? Check out the National Education Technology Plan 2010 at The purpose of the plan is to, "To help states and districts prepare today's students for the opportunities and challenges of tomorrow, a set of seven action steps and accompanying recommendations have been developed:
1. Strengthen Leadership
2. Consider Innovative Budgeting
3. Improve Teacher Training
4. Support E-Learning and Virtual Schools
5. Encourage Broadband Access
6. Move Toward Digital Content
7. Integrate Data Systems
Tom issued a final conundrum: Why aren't 1:1 programs working better? His answer-improper implementation. It isn't about the technology, it is about the implementation. To assist those who are planning a 1:1 implementation, Tom recommended Project Red, which was also referenced at the last DLE in Las Vegas by keynote Leslie Wilson. Project Red's mission includes, "We believe that technology can help us re-engineer our educational system. Through the efforts of Project RED and our partners we believe that technology will transform learning, just as it has transformed homes and offices in almost every other segment of our society." This organization offers support to schools as they navigate through the planning and implementation of 1:1 programs.
Tom left us with this final thought, "What we need to remember is that 1:1 beats 1:2 or greater every time but proper implementation trumps student computer ratios any time."
Following Tom's keynote the participants broke into groups a cycled through 4 classrooms where one group was treated to presentations in several disciplines that highlighted how technology can be integrated into the curriculum in powerful ways that propel students toward learning 21st century skills with Instructional 2 and 3 techniques and another group of IT decision makers looked at solutions and ideas for cloud computing, wired and wireless networking, as well as network security.
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BI Analysts
A second key trend driving a shift in IT jobs is the proliferation of so-called big data -- the massive volumes of bits and bytes collected by hundreds of thousands of transaction-based systems, sensors and RFID systems and, increasingly, social networks.
"IT's main role since the 1970s was to reduce inefficiencies in manual processes and create productivity gains through automation," notes Tim Sarvis, manager of IT plant operations and services at Eastman Chemical in Kingsport, Tenn. "The next big thing is trying to gain insight from all of this data -- terabytes and terabytes of data. [We need] a way to model the data and put it in the hands of knowledge workers and decision-makers to make better, faster decisions," he says.
At Eastman, "we're structuring our talent pool around this mega-trend," adds Sarvis. "Data modelers, scrum masters, data architects, corporate architects are all titles that we'll be focusing on to beef up business intelligence."
Guy Peri, director of business intelligence at Procter & Gamble, says the consumer goods giant regards BI analysts as "trusted advisers" to the business. The company is investing heavily in both BI tools and BI analysts; Peri estimates that BI will account for as much as 20% of the company's IT organization and budget.
What's more, P&G is setting up BI universities to train its supply chain partners in the company's processes and analytics. "We want to drive continual BI at the operational level, right down to consumers," Peri says. P&G is also tracking "chatter" on various social networks, incorporating the customer feedback it gathers into its overall analytics-based business decisions.
Mobile App Developers
Another huge trend driving the current demand for very specific skills is the ever-increasing mobility of workers, customers, suppliers and partners, experts say. Simply stated, mobile applications have exploded. In 2010, sales of Apple iOS apps totaled nearly $1.8 billion. This year, global mobile app sales are projected to hit $4 billion, according to market researcher IHS.
But as Woodson Martin, senior vice president of employee success at Salesforce.com, sees it, mobility can't be separated from cloud computing and social networking. "When I think of IT today and in the future, social, mobile and cloud are the three words that matter, whether you're in the consumer or enterprise space or a small or large business," Martin says.
"Customers want mobile applications that have a social networking component and that run in the cloud. So what I need are people who can embrace all of these things, and not in little pockets, either," he emphasizes. "I need everybody on my team to be oriented around all of these technologies."
Specifically, Martin says, "skill sets like HTML5, Ruby and Java allow us to design applications in a run-anywhere world, so they can be social, mobile and cloud," he says. As for titles, Martin says he's seeing fewer technology-specific titles and more titles like "technical staff member."
"The work done by members on these teams changes based on what the organization needs," he says. "They may be working on Web architecture one day and a mobile architecture the next day. What we're seeing are the traditional silos melting away as everyone is racing to produce social, mobile and cloud [applications]."
The need for individuals with knowledge of and experience using a wide range of technologies, coupled with a thorough understanding of how a business operates, is profoundly shifting IT's overall role in the enterprise, according to several veteran CIOs and industry watchers.
Rather than acting as implementers of technologies that can make the business run cheaper and faster, IT staffers are moving into leadership and innovation roles, informing and advising executive management about how technology can, for example, help set prices and mix product offerings to improve profits or market share.
"IT is leading the business, especially from an enterprise perspective," says Doug Beebe, who recently moved from an executive role in enterprise IT to a financial strategy and technology executive position at Toyota Motor Sales.
"Most business divisions are very much siloed. They've got a set of things they need to do on a daily basis and they aren't afforded the opportunity to look across the organization," Beebe notes. "When IT understands the [business] vision, it can recommend things that technology can do to fulfill that vision."
At Chicago-based Kraft Foods, the IT function is centralized, but CIO Mark Dajani has purposely embedded his staffers into business units so they can thoroughly understand the company's mission and drive results.
"I don't want IT to influence, but to lead the business," Dajani says. "IT is about driving business results and ownership of business results."
Winner: Yin Nawady
• Director of analytics and process management
• Diamond Resorts International, North Las Vegas
Here's how Yin Nawady, a Harvard graduate with a degree in government and politics, describes what she does for a living: "I look at a lot of numbers and data all day long, and I draw conclusions and help the business to make their decisions using that information." She believes her career outlook is exceptionally bright.
"It's a self-serving statement, I know, but I think there is no limit to the opportunities," she says. "Companies need people who can connect the dots between data, technology and the business, and communicate those relationships."
Nawady began her career as a financial analyst, planning and managing budgets. "That's where I started to understand the guts of business," she says. From there, "I started applying analysis to forward thinking, which established the link between analytics and business."
Nawady moved through various management positions at online companies where she was continually embedded in technical teams. "Between the financial analysis experience and my experience in the online sector, I had the technical foundation I need for BI and analytics," she says.
Her current work focuses on constructing a 360-degree view of Diamond Resorts' customers; this involves analyzing both structured and unstructured data from social media, various online sites and customer information. But the biggest part of her job is communication, she says. "I spend a lot of time on external communication with stakeholders, with our chairman, CEO, our president and our CFO. A lot of that communication is to make sure that what we're doing is directly tied to the strategic direction of the company," she explains.
Skills needed for Nawady's role include "excellent analytical and critical thinking skills," she says. "A financial, marketing or strategic analyst role could be the foundation as long as it's digital. That's the new frontier."
Other required skills include a solid grasp of social media, Google analytics and online metrics, Nawady says. "You must also be familiar with data mining and databases. You don't need to be a SQL coder or developer. On the other hand, there are many technical concepts with regard to data mining that are incredibly helpful."
Whereas more technical IT professionals focus inward and drill down into data, Nawady equates her role to "looking at an inverted triangle where you're constantly looking upward and outward to all the different disciplines," and adds, "It's all about critical thinking."
- Julia King
This story, "IT's Winning (and Losing) Job Titles" was originally published by Computerworld.


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Plague Helped End Roman Empire
"Scientists investigated ancient DNA from the teeth of 19 different sixth-century skeletons from a medieval graveyard…They unambiguously found the plague bacterium Y. pestis there." Live Science
Eat More Insects, UN Says
"The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right
now: edible insects." AP
Strongest Solar Flare of 2013 Erupts
"The sun unleashed a colossal Mother's Day solar flare on Sunday (May 12) in what has become the most powerful solar eruption of the year." Space.com
Photographers Threaten the Slender Loris
According to new research, locals in India are going to dangerous lengths to capture lorises for photographers' photo shoots, including: bright lights, scare tactics, and habitat removal. Mongabay
Magnificent Byzantine-Period Mosaic Unearthed
"A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has discovered a spectacular, large 1,500-year-old mosaic at an archaeological site in Kibbutz Bet Qama." Sci-News
Video: Huge Ice Sheet Grows, Destroys Homes
"Several homes have been destroyed and many damaged in the Canadian province of Manitoba after ice from a nearby lake was pushed up onto land by the wind." BBC
The Vatican in a Bind About Santa Muerte
"The Catholic Church makes its first public statement on the Mexican cult of Holy Death." National Geographic
Carnivorous Plant Throws Out 'Junk' DNA
"The newly sequenced genome of the carnivorous bladderwort contradicts the notion that vast quantities of noncoding 'junk' DNA are crucial for complex life." Science Daily
Project Aims to Track Big City Carbon Footprints
"Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward." AP
Astronaut Makes Music Video in Space
In a kind of farewell message before returning to Earth today, Commander Chris Hadfield sang "a revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity…on board the International Space Station." YouTube


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Environmental EconomicsNBER Reporter: Summer 2000
Suppose that there are two modes of travel from point A to point B -- road and rail -- which are not perfect substitutes. Road congestion from A to B is underpriced; this distortion is unalterable. To respond to congestion, should the transportation planner choose a wider or narrower road, raise or lower the rail fare, and expand or contract rail capacity? Arnott and Yan review the literature on this problem and present some new results. Almost all existing work employs local analysis, examining how the second-best policy variables respond to an incremental increase in the road toll. However, such an analysis demands too much information to be useful in practical, quantitative terms. Thus future theoretical research should be redirected towards globalanalysis: deriving policy rules whose implementation demands less information.
Different pulp and paper plants spend different amounts on pollution abatement and achieve different levels of pollution reduction. Shadbegian, Gray, and Levy ask whether the allocation of pollution abatement expenditures is spatially efficient. That is, do plants with higher benefits from abatement spend proportionately more on it than plants with lower benefits? Combining plant-level Census Bureau data on pollution abatement expenditures with measures of pollution abatement benefits at those plants, and examining water and air pollution abatement costs and benefits separately, the authors find that the benefits from pollution abatement on average outweigh the costs. This is particularly true for air pollution control. Shadbegian, Gray, andLevy also find that the abatement costs at a plant are significantly positively related to abatement benefits for that plant. However, costs are less sensitive to benefits than would be expected if the only regulatory goal were spatial efficiency.
Using an intertemporal numerical general equilibrium model of the United States, Bovenberg and Goulder examine how efficiency costs change when CO2 abatement policies (such as carbon taxes) include features that neutralize adverse impacts on energy industries. The authors find that avoiding adverse impacts on profits and equity values in fossil fuel industries involves a relatively small efficiency cost. That is because CO2 abatement policies have the potential to generate revenues that are very large relative to the potential loss of profit. By enabling firms to retain a small fraction of these potential revenues, the government can protect firms' profits and equity values. If the government either grandfathered a small percentage of C02 emissions permits or exempted a small fraction of emissions from the base of a carbon tax, the results would be a small sacrifice of potential government revenue. Because the revenue sacrifice is small, the efficiency cost is also small. Bovenberg and Goulder further find that offsetting producers' carbon tax payments on a dollar-for-dollar basis (through cuts in corporate tax rates, for example) substantially overcompensates firms, raising profits and equity values significantly relative to the unregulated situation. This is because producers can shift onto consumers most of the burden from a carbon tax.
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YORK City have been warned to guard against a play-off hangover by manager Nigel Worthington.
The City chief has cited the examples of Cheltenham and Northampton last season, who spent long spells in the lower reaches of the Sky Bet League Two table after top-seven finishes during the previous campaign.
Cheltenham finished 2013/14 seventh-bottom while Northampton were only spared relegation to the Conference following a final day win over Oxford.
There are also recent examples, meanwhile, at Bootham Crescent of struggles following play-off campaigns.
Former City chiefs Billy McEwan, Martin Foyle and Gary Mills all lost their jobs the season after securing top-five finishes in the Conference and Worthington will not be allowing his players to rest on their laurels.
"There are no guarantees in this league," the Minstermen boss insisted. "We had a good finish to last season but I have already made it clear to the players that they can't take anything for granted and think that things will just happen.
"If you look at two teams that got to the play-offs in 2013, Cheltenham were mid-table and Northampton were staring relegation in the face until the last three or four games. We must be determined to try and move forward and be around that top seven."


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BWW Interviews: Fringe Spotlight: RSVP RIP (REALLY INTO PARTYING)
Katie Molinaro brings a dose of dark humor to the Fringe Festival this year with her latest one-woman musical RSVP: RIP (Really Into Partying). Written and performed by Molinaro with music by Dana Wells and additional book & lyrics by Shawn Northrip, it is the story of a girl named Janey who, though she's done nothing to deserve it, has everything, but still feels under-appreciated.
One day she takes an online quiz that predicts the date of her death. When she finds out she has only five days to live, Janey decides she needs to get famous fast so people will come to her funeral...and she'll do whatever it takes.
RSVP: RIP is an acoustic journey through Janey's life and her strange fixation on celebrity status and death. One woman. One guitarist. One face melting rock musical.
Why did she decide to do a rock musical about a girl planning her funeral and trying to get famous? Katie gives us the rundown:
"Besides loving dark humor and musicals, I was super depressed when I wrote this. I was in a creative rut. I got into a car accident that wasn't my fault in February and, when that happened, I felt powerless. I actually thought, 'If I died today, would anyone even care?'
That got me thinking about celebrities who died this past year like Cory Monteith, Paul Walker, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. There were so many people posting about their deaths on Facebook and how tragic and sad it was, but if they were alive, no one would be pouring their hearts out saying how great these people were! They wouldn't. When people get more recognition for their work after they die, it's absolutely ridiculous. There's this weird fixation people have on celebrity status and death. That's what Janey wants. She wants to get famous so people will come to her funeral. I wanted to write a character that everyone hates, but is still likable.
I think Fringe shows should be messy, fun and barely hang together! Fringe is totally punk rock! Fringe is about people trying new things and not being afraid to fail. Don't we all want to try and live our lives that way? I know I do. What annoys me, and I'm sure I'm going to get a lot of shit for this, is when people produce shows during the Fringe that aren't original.
What's the point of doing a fringe show if it has already been produced off Broadway, or anywhere else, for that matter? I've been involved in Fringe shows since 2007 and it's far more interesting to see someone try something new and fail than to play it safe... and probably still fail.
You like how optimistic I am? In 2011, I produced my first one woman rock musical, On the Rag to Riches at The Capital Fringe Festival in DC and after four successful shows with packed audiences and taking home the award for Best Solo Performance, I brought my show to the Hollywood Fringe Festival. We had a horrible turnout as far as audiences go but we were still nominated for Best Musical. This year we're using what we learned and coming back to melt some Fringe faces.
Fringe-goers will love seeing this show because, not only is it hilarious and dark, but you'll also learn something about yourself. Think Hedwig meets The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs and Tenacious D.
I'm very excited for people to hear the kick-ass punk rock music composed by Dana Wells (Texts From My Exes). I think people will honestly be surprised because they really don't know what we're capable of. We've done Fringe Cabaret for the past two years and people have seen us improvise text messages, but a rock musical? Man, you guys are in for a treat!"
June 8, 13, 20, 23, 28, 2014
Cupcake Theater
6520 Hollywood Blvd.
Tickets: $10
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I've been told im very fun to be around, and a person that can be counted on. Communication is key to me.
Anything else you'd like to know? Just ask.
showing people a good time.
making people feel comfortable.
Being positive and motivating.
Being there for my friends.
Favorite movies: mad max, scarface, carlitos way,
cheech and chong up in smoke, something about mary, old school.
Music: I enjoy everything from rock to old school hip hop . I like a lot of other stuff as well.
Foods: Mexican, Italian, sushi, seafood,
3.Working out
5. Being outside enjoying that sun
6. Family
All depends on the mood.
I should mention that I'm not a fan of trading messages back and forth for days on end. If there's a mutual attraction and we think we could stand each other for a walk or coffee then let's stop typing and start talking in person.
Looking for some with a positive attitude, and doesn't sweat the small stuff but is successful and ambitious.


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Just installed 1.3 and getting 0 in view with gps test and no lock. An hour after installing it gps would not show up as actively searching in notification even after toggling setting in menu and checking permissions (which appear correctly). I am on glitch, so will flash latest nightly and try with stock kernel and gpsd.
I also performed the instructions in original thread and had occasional locks. Thanks for this, progress is made every day with gps. Will report back after update.
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If that doesn't work, try this at a terminal:
su mount -o rw,remount /system rm /etc/init.d/90getgps_lto rm /data/gps/lto.dat mount -o ro,remount /system reboot