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Responsibility in the Constitution
V The Forging of Consensus
The confederal nature of the system requires that the resolution of conflict take place throughout the system at all its levels. As noted earlier, this process is assisted by ministers with special financial and policy co-ordinating functions, and they in turn are supported by bodies of officials organized in what are known as the central agencies.1 In addition, specialized policy areas and the provision of services common to the needs of ministers collectively are organized under the direction of special ministers who are also supported by bodies of officials.2 The officials of these departments and agencies play an important role in assisting other departments to co-ordinate the initiatives that flow from the program (i.e. spending) functions of their ministers. The central agencies, in particular, play a key role in a network of interdepartmental committees that endeavours to coordinate the differing functions of ministers involved in particular complex initiatives.
The Cabinet and its Secretariat
The cabinet is the essential forum for the creation of consensus among ministers. It is uniquely the Prime Minister's; he provides it to his colleagues as a forum within which he may lead them to agreement on particular matters that each will be prepared publicly to defend.3
The cabinet is the mainspring of modern ministerial government. It is essentially a political mechanism, and as such it remains an informal body even though its "decisions" are authoritative. Generally speaking these "decisions" complete the process of consensus-making whereby (in the formula of its recorded decisions) "the cabinet agrees" with the proposals of ministers to exercise their individual responsibilities in some particular way. Ministers do not ask the cabinet to agree to each initiative they take deriving from their individual responsibilities, but only those that have political importance: i.e. those items likely to involve the collective responsibility of the ministry, requiring all ministers to stand behind the initiative of one or some of its members. The cabinet's historic role has been and is principally political in the sense described. In relatively recent times, however, the cabinet has also assumed a central role in the co-ordination of initiatives that require the administrative action of two or more departments. It is a matter of observation that these political and administrative coordinating roles of the cabinet have become enmeshed during the last two decades as a consequence of the growing complexity of the cabinet's business and the elaboration of the support services provided by its secretariat.4
The cabinet is served by its secretariat located in the Privy Council Office, which is responsible to the Prime Minister. 5 At the direction of the Prime Minister, the Privy Council Office provides the cabinet's secretariat, and on behalf of the Prime Minister it organizes the cabinet's committee system and support services.6
The essential function of the cabinet's secretariat and other officials in the Privy Council Office, all of whom answer to the Prime Minister, is to assist the Prime Minister in establishing the equilibrium essential to the system. The Secretary to the Cabinet and his or her officers coordinate the initiatives of ministers' departments, ensuring informally as well as through an extensive system of interdepartmental committees that interdepartmental consultation takes place, to the extent possible disputes are resolved, and that remaining issues are clearly identified for discussion among ministers.
The Privy Council Office also supports the Prime Minister in the exercise of the other means that he uses to provide leadership and promote consensus in the system, including efforts to develop in consultation with his colleagues the general thrust of the government's program, the appointment of deputy ministers and other senior officials, and the general organization of the machinery of the government and relationships among its key elements, including the arbitration of jurisdictional disputes between ministers.
In all of this the Privy Council Office seeks to facilitate and assist rather than to create and direct. The office must respect the confederal nature of the system in which power flows from ministers. Its roles are to co-ordinate the exercise of power and to assist the Prime Minister in leading his colleagues to establish the general orientation of the government. These are powerful roles. But the office, like its master, exists primarily to promote consensus by maintaining the equilibrium among ministers, and this raison d'être remains valid so long as neither the secretariat nor departments lose sight of the essential differences in their respective roles, the one co-ordinating and the others initiating.
The Treasury Board and its Secretariat
The Treasury Board, a committee of the cabinet, is a second essential mechanism devoted to assisting ministers in the exercise of their collective responsibilities.7 For the historical reasons set out earlier, finance was an essential part of the establishment of the office of the Prime Minister, and the Treasury Board exercises on the Prime Minister's behalf the latter's unifying functions of financial control.
Put simply, the Treasury Board is a mechanism that the ministry has imposed on itself for the preparation and reconciliation of estimates. It was established on the Prime Minister's recommendation at confederation and provided with a statutory base two years later.8 Until the Financial Administration Act was set in place in 1951, the Treasury Board conducted all of its business subject to the formal approval of the Governor in Council, and the cabinet continues to insist on its right to approve the estimates framed by the Treasury Board within the parameters set by the cabinet and to hear appeals by ministers against particular decisions of the Treasury Board.9
The original Treasury Board was chaired by the Minister of Finance, and consisted "for the present" of the Minister of Customs, the Minister of Inland Revenue, and the Receiver General.10 The activities of the Treasury Board were supported by the department of Finance, which placed the Minister of Finance in a position similar to that of his British counterpart, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Minister of Finance was required, therefore, to work closely with the Prime Minister in fulfilling the basic duty of the Board ministers to reconcile conflicting demands for money from their cabinet colleagues.11
Until 1947, the Deputy Minister of Finance was also the Secretary of the Treasury Board, and it was largely his function to ensure that consolidated estimates were prepared. In this respect, our history paralleled developments in Whitehall where at about the same time (1860's) the functions of the Treasury commissioners were being taken over by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his officials, permitting the Treasury Board to fall into disuse.12 Over time, however, we were to move in the opposite direction from the British. The role of the Treasury Board ministers was strengthened, ultimately separating the Board's secretariat from the department of Finance and providing the Board with a chairman (the President) separate from the Minister of Finance. These changes spanned 100 years of our constitutional development.
Financial control exercised by ministers collectively through the Treasury Board opened the way for the establishment of management and other administrative standards on a central basis. From the outset, the Minister of Finance through the Treasury Board assumed certain de facto powers that affected the management of individual departments. The Treasury Board, responsible for reconciling estimates, was in theory also concerned that the unity of the ministry not be made vulnerable in Parliament through the exposure of corrupt or inefficient practices in departments. As noted earlier, this function was well established in the 18th century Treasury in England, which was looked to by Parliament to provide assurance that such practices were vigorously safeguarded against. The Finance Act of 1869 set out clearly the powers of the Treasury Board with respect to matters of finance and expenditure, and by implication of management. These responsibilities have since been elaborated in a series of important Acts designed to improve the standards of resource management and to eliminate careless, wasteful, and corrupt practices. Each of these successive Acts has sought to strengthen the Treasury Board's ability to provide a framework for the management of the public service that will reassure Parliament that the service is being managed efficiently.
The Treasury Board's management functions had been fulfilled somewhat haphazardly over the years prior to the formation of Mr. Bennett's administration in 1930.13 Estimates had been reconciled, and corrupt practices eliminated. Not much had been done, however, to standardize financial expenditure and accounting systems, and overspending of votes and other unauthorized expenditure was not uncommon. Parliament, more particularly the Public Accounts Committee, had shown little interest in improving the system.14 Mr. Bennett, who was also Minister of Finance, was disconcerted to discover that owing to widely differing standards and systems of accounting he could not determine the financial position of the government.
These circumstances precipitated the Consolidated Revenue and Audit Act of 1931, which imposed a highly centralized system for authorizing expenditure and a standardized accounting system. The Act created the subordinate position within the department of Finance of Comptroller of the Treasury. This officer was provided with a staff of accounting officers stationed in each department.15 The Comptroller and his staff, responsible to the Minister of Finance, were responsible for authorizing each expenditure made under the authority of a particular minister.16
The Bennett reforms ushered in a period of highly centralized financial control that spanned the succeeding 35 years. They were occasioned by hard times and stringent economies, but they also reflected a chronic weakness in departmental financial systems due to the absence of uniform systems for expenditure and accounting. The reforms were, however, somewhat repugnant to the principles of responsibility in the system.17 As times improved, as government activity grew, and as ministers increasingly exercised their program authority, the appropriateness of this centralized system was called into question. The Glassco Royal Commission's theme of "let the managers manage" precipitated amendments to the Financial Administration Act in 1966 that set in place the organizational and financial relationship that currently exists between the Treasury Board and ministers in their departments. Summarizing the developments that had occurred since 1931, the Commissioners noted:
By divesting departments of the authority essential to the effective management of their own affairs, the system tended to weaken their sense of responsibility. Each new evidence of irresponsibility within departments seemed to confirm the wisdom of existing controls and to suggest the need for more.18
The Commission argued in effect for a reassertion of ministerial authority. It proposed the separation of the Treasury Board's secretariat from the department of Finance placing it under the leadership of a secretary with the rank and status of a deputy minister, the appointment of a separate minister to preside over the Board, and the substitution of management leadership and Treasury Board prescribed standards for the control functions exercised by the Comptroller of the Treasury.19 These recommendations were incorporated in the 1967 amendments of the Financial Administration Act, which reinforced the role of the Treasury Board in setting management standards for the public service.
The system presided over by the Comptroller of the Treasury between 1931 and 1967 operated to the detriment of ministerial responsibility with adverse consequences for the exercise of constitutional responsibility and (as evidence of this) for the flexibility and responsiveness of government. During this period the idea of accountability disappeared and was replaced by the system of controls criticized by the Glassco Royal Commission. The post-Glassco reforms initiated a trend away from a highly centralized system based on controls and a move towards greater freedom for the exercise of ministerial autonomy, and since 1967 the Treasury Board and its secretariat have sought to elaborate a role more appropriate to the needs of ministerial government.
The Public Service Commission
A discussion of collective institutions (i.e. central agencies) must include reference to the Public Service Commission. Unlike the cabinet and the Treasury Board and their supporting organizations, the Commission is neither of the ministry nor is it its agent. The Commission is a strange hybrid.20 The Treasury Board exists in part to ensure probity in the use of financial resources because lack of probity will undermine confidence in ministers. The Commission, in carrying out its role to ensure probity in appointments, fulfills an important function in preventing abuses that could inter alia undermine confidence in ministers. Although the consequences for collective responsibility flowing from the activities of the Board and the Commission are similar, the obligations of the Commission are to Parliament rather than to the ministry. In the wider context of parliamentary control of resources, this similarity illustrates the interest held in common by Parliament and the ministry to ensure sound personnel and financial management in the public service.
In setting standards of selection and promoting the concept of a unified public service with careers spanning the entire range of federal activity, the Commission endeavours to provide ministers and their deputies with the best human resources available. In fulfilling its duty to ensure merit in appointment, the Commission safeguards ministers from the politically damaging effects of patronage. The advantages of a unified public service could, however, become disadvantageous if the service took on objectives separate and distinct from those of the individual ministers whom its members serve. In pursuing the objective of a unified professional public service, the Commission plays a difficult role that must neither centralize nor balkanize the service. Indeed, as with the central agencies proper, the Commission must guard against the evils of attempting too much or doing too little.
The central agencies play, therefore, an essential role in the successful functioning of ministerial government. They enable the confederacy to work. They pull the system together, synthesizing and co-ordinating, occasionally leading. When necessary, and this is particularly true of the special policy functions of the departments of Finance and External Affairs, they give direction in the development of matters of general concern to all ministers.21
As has been noted, however, the distinction between serving the collective need without damaging the individual has not always been observed or even recognized, and this has been particularly true in the financial area. Indeed, it is probable that the absence of adequate financial accountability in the system stems from the long period of highly centralized management control experienced between 1931 and 1967. During those years central control displaced the need for financial accountability. At the same time the functions of government were growing. In consequence when central financial control was eased the system had forgotten the importance of accountability and had become too used to looking for central direction, which is a phenomenon that has remained in the system and accounts in part for the uncertain relationship that is current between departments and central agencies.22
Nonetheless, successfully worked, the mechanisms for collective responsibility make possible the effective exercise of individual responsibility, and the degree of success achieved by "central agencies" determines in large measure whether ministers are able to provide successful government based on the effective exercise of their authority.
- Principally the Cabinet Secretariat in the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board's Secretariat, the Federal-Provincial Relations Office, and the departments of Finance and External Affairs. The Public Service Commission is an independent body, and although not so strictly a part of the government's machinery it plays an important role in providing skilled resources and training essential to the fulfillment of the government's programs.
- The Ministries of State and departments such as Supply and Services and Public Works.
- See above, page 26, footnote 8. Sir Robert Borden said of the misnamed Imperial War Cabinet that it was a "Cabinet without collective responsibility and therefore without a Prime Minister". See Anson, Law and Custom of the Constitution vol. ii, pt. 1, page 150.
- See below pp. 61-64.
- Order in Council, P.C. 1962-240, 22 February 1962.
- The secretariat was formed in 1940 when Arnold Heeney succeeded to the post of Clerk of the Privy Council and was (by the same instrument - P.C. 1121, 25 March 1940) appointed Secretary to the Cabinet. Prior to 1940 the Privy Council Office had been concerned solely with the formal work of the Council - the preparation of draft submissions for orders and minutes. The modern Privy Council Office is the responsibility of the Prime Minister. Until 1957 the Prime Minister always held a ministerial portfolio. In the early days it had been Justice and occasionally other offices (from 1912 to 1946 the Prime Minister was ex officio Secretary of State of External Affairs), but later the Prime Minister satisfied the conventional need (see below*) to hold formal office by assuming the Presidency of the Council. It happened that in 1940, Mr. King was both Prime Minister and President of the Privy Council, and the Clerk of the Council was responsible to him. Since the cabinet is the Prime Minister's cabinet, it was natural that the Prime Minister be responsible for the organization of its secretariat and this was accomplished through the device of Arnold Heeney's double-barrelled appointment. Since then the positions of Clerk and Secretary have been combined. When Mr. Pearson decided (as for a brief period before him had Mr. St. Laurent) to use the Presidency of the Council to attract senior colleagues without burdening them with departmental duties, and later Mr. Trudeau decided to devolve the leadership of the House on a separate minister, the Prime Minister gave up the Presidency of the Council but he kept the Privy Council Office. The office is not, therefore, a responsibility of the President of the Privy Council and there is not formal relationship between them.
* The Salaries Act provides a separate salary for the "Member of the Queen's Privy Council holding the recognized position of First Minister". The original intent of this provision was to provide a higher salary for the Prime Minister than he would otherwise receive as the minister holding one of the other portfolios set out in the Salaries Act such as Justice or the Presidency of the Council.
The original Salaries Act of 1868 made no provision for the Prime Minister, and it was only in 1873 that provision was made to enable the "First Minister" to receive "in addition" to his regular ministerial salary the sum of $1,000. But an amendment passed in 1920 provided a completely separate salary for the "First Minister". This provision established in law the distinct nature of the Prime Minister's office. Nonetheless; for many years it had the effect of merely ensuring that the Prime Minister would be remunerated as "First Minister" rather than according to whatever ministerial portfolio he happened to hold. It was not, however, until the last few months of Mr. St-Laurent's administration that full advantage was taken of the statutory base provided in 1920 and the Prime Minister served without holding a separate ministerial portfolio.
- The Treasury Board is formally a committee of the Privy Council. As such it disposes of a wide variety of business deriving from its statutory responsibilities. It operates, however, as a committee of the cabinet, and it is the cabinet that has the last word. See below, footnote 9.
- See An Act Respecting the Department of Finance 32°-33° Victoriae, Cap. iv. The Act stated that the Board "shall act as a committee of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, on all matters relating to Finance, Revenue and Expenditure, or Public Accounts, which may be referred to it by the Council, and shall have power to require from any public department, board or officer, or other person or party bound by law to furnish the same to the Government, any account, return, statement, document, or information which the Board may deem requisite for the due performance of its duties."
- The Governor in Council is a formal mechanism for authorizing action by the Crown as distinct from action by ministers on behalf of the Crown. Formally it consists of the Governor General >acting on the advice of the Committee of the Privy Council, which has the same membership as the cabinet. It is, however, distinct from the cabinet, which is both informal and cannot in legal terms authorize action in the system. Put simply the cabinet determines the policy of the government, and that policy is effected either by a minister or by the Crown. If the latter, the Crown in order to take action usually must be authorized to do so by the Governor in Council. Although until 1951 the Treasury Board conducted all of its business subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, the Treasury Board was not originally constituted as a committee of the Privy Council. The Minute of the Council of 2 July 1867 recommended that a "Board of treasury be constituted with such powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned to it by Your Excellency in Council". Thus at the outset the Board had the potential to act rather than advise, and it was only when the Board was provided with a statutory base that it was constituted as a committee of the Privy Council, sharing the advisory functions of its parent body. Accordingly, from 1869 until 1951 the Board advised and the Governor in Council acted. In 1951 the Financial Administration Act authorized the Board to act for the Governor in Council in order to reduce the flow of formal paper through the Council. The Board remained, however, a committee of the Privy Council, even though unlike the latter it exercised executive functions. (To draw the parallel it should be noted that although the Special Committee of the Council acts for the Committee of the Privy Council in approving draft submissions to Council, the special committee does not itself take action, which may be said to occur when draft orders are approved by the Governor General, thereby fulfilling the legal requirement for action by the Governor in Council.) The reasons for this anomaly may be found among the Prime Minister's prerogative powers, because as a committee of Council the Treasury Board's actions remain subject to the intervention of the Prime Minister. Had the Board been given executive authority and not remained a committee of Council, its chairman would in theory be able to exercise the authority of the Board without reference to the Prime Minister. This evidence of the Prime Minister's power in matters of finance illustrates the importance of finance to the solidarity of the ministry and the origins of the Prime Minister in using financial authority to help forge consensus among his colleagues.
- Minute of the Privy Council, approved 2 July 1867. Privy Council Minute Books, Public Archives of Canada.
- See Norman Ward, The Public Purse (Toronto, 1951) page 233.
- Anson notes "As the Treasury Board has diminished, so the Chancellor of the Exchequer has risen in importance. At the present time he is in fact a Finance Minister, with most important duties, and the Board of which he is a member consists of persons whose duties are unconnected with the work of the Treasury, the chief of them being the Prime Minister". Law and Custom of the Constitution vol. ii, pt. i, page 192. Also see above pp. 23-24.
- In fact, most of its function had been fulfilled by the Minister of Finance. Sir George Murray, a former Permanent Secretary of the Treasury at Whitehall, who had been commissioned in 1912 to report on the organization of the government, recommended that the Board should be abolished and its duties carried out by the Minister of Finance. See Sir George Murray, Report on the Organization of the Public Service of Canada (Ottawa, 1912) sessional paper 57a, page 9.
- Norman Ward has noted that it was not until the late, 'forties that the Public Accounts Committee "had finally shaken off its antique obsession with scandal"; The Public Purse page 216.
- An Act to amend the Consolidated Revenue and Audit Act, section 36. 21-22 George V, ch. 27. It is interesting that this section was not retained in the Financial Administration Act of 1951.
- For an excellent description of the Bennett reforms, see Norman Ward, The Public Purse pp. 167-172. Professor Ward notes that the role of the Comptroller's officers as accounting officers was substantially the same as the role of permanent secretaries as accounting officers in Whitehall, except for the crucial difference that in Whitehall they were - and still are - generally responsible to the minister under whose authority the expenditure was made, even though they were specifically accountable to the Treasury for financial matters. See below pp. 75-77.
- The drafters of the 1931 amendments were obviously sensitive to criticism on this score; section 31 contradicted the consequence of the Act as a whole in stating that "No provision of this Act shall be construed to limit the responsibility of ministers, deputy ministers, departmental officers or other persons charged with the administration of grants of Parliament." 21-22 Geo. V, ch. 27
- Royal Commission on Government Organization (Ottawa, 1962) vol. i, page 44.
- Royal Commission on Government Organization vol. i, pp. 55-56. In fact the Commission proposed that the Secretariat be transferred to the Privy Council Office, thereby emphasizing the Treasury Board's de facto role as a committee of the cabinet stressing the Prime Minister's primordial concern with finance. The recommendation was resisted because it would have distorted the service role of the cabinet secretariat, because the concentration of so much authority in a single central agency would have unbalanced the relationship between departments and central agencies, and because the equilibrium among central agencies is itself essential to the well-being of the system as a whole.
- For a summary of the events leading to the establishment of the Commission in 1908 and its subsequent relations with deputy ministers and the Treasury Board, see J.E. Hodgetts, The Canadian Public Service (Toronto, 1973) pp. 263-286.
- Examples that come readily to mind are the role of the Minister of Finance in determining the appropriate level of government spending within the context of the national economy, and that of the Secretary of State for External Affairs in setting the political framework within which his or her colleagues will operate in their international dealings.
- Examples of this are seen in the failure of many departments to distinguish between directives and guidelines issued by central agencies, and in the tendency to urge operational roles on these organizations.
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I had no idea that crepes and beer went together so well until I paid a visit to Rockin' Crepes (*guitar riff*) in Huntington Beach. I looked at the beer menu online and was very impressed, and then I looked at the crepe menu—YIKES! Over 40 different of crepes: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, all named after your favorite rock bands. It's a small venue but that lends itself to a cozy atmosphere. The bar is on the right and seats about 16 in a tight horseshoe shape; The left side is for restaurant seating ,jukebox playing your favorite rock n'roll, with some blues and the occasional country jam. They even has a Pay It Forward Board—you buy me a beer, they write your name; Gustavo pays it forward to the Butcher with some KBS 2016. BOOM! How cool is that! \m/
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NBC's TODAY Show Joins Ad Council for "TODAY Takes Action," a Weeklong Series Debut of Public Service Ads Featuring TODAY's Anchors
NEW YORK, February 11, 2013—Beginning today and airing throughout the week, NBC's TODAY Show will debut a series of television public service ads, (PSAs) featuring TODAY's anchors, on behalf of four social issues—fatherhood involvement, hunger prevention, emergency preparedness and shelter pet adoption. The ads were created pro bono by leading advertising agencies throughout the country in partnership with the Ad Council, anon-profit and leading producer of PSA campaigns for over 70 years. TODAY's anchors personally selected the social issues they are supporting among the Ad Council's 50 national campaigns, and participated in brainstorming sessions with the ad agencies to help inform the creative.
The weeklong series, called "TODAY Takes Action," will feature an intimate look at each social issue, a behind-the-scenes "making of the PSA" segment showing the collaborative effort of the campaign development process, and the premiere of the highly produced PSAs created on behalf of the four award-winning campaigns:
- Matt Lauer and Fatherhood Involvement—The father of three children, Matt Lauer is featured in a PSA that reminds dads of the critical role they play in their children's lives. The campaign is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance and the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC) and was created pro bono by Detroit-based ad agency Campbell Ewald. Actor Tom Selleck provides the voiceover for the campaign tagline "Take Time to Be a Dad Today."
- Savannah Guthrie and Hunger Prevention—Hunger affects one in six Americans. Savannah Guthrie appears in a new TV spot, directed by award-winning filmmaker Joe Pytka, which encourages all Americans to get involved in being part of the solution. The Hunger Prevention campaign was created pro bono by San Francisco-based ad agency Cutwater on behalf of Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization.
- Al Roker and Emergency Preparedness—America's most famous weatherman, Al Roker, is featured in a new TV spot as part of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s Ready campaign, designed to encourage Americans to take steps to prepare in advance of emergencies, including natural and man-made disasters. While 60% of Americans agree it's important for all Americans to be prepared for natural or man-made disasters, only 15% of Americans believe they are prepared for a disaster situation.The PSA directs viewers to make a plan at Ready.gov and was created pro bono by ad agency Leo Burnett in Chicago.
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LOADED, the band formed by current VELVET REVOLVER bassist Duff McKagan (on guitar and vocals) after he left GUNS N' ROSES, and QUIREBOYS have been confirmed for the Rock Of Ages - A September To Remember Festival on September 13 at Palasharp in Milan, Italy.The festival billing is shaping up as follows: TWISTED SISTER
PINO SCOTTO LOADED will enter a Seattle studio on June 4 to begin recording its new album, to be released before the end of the year. "We hope to sort of blaze right through it and make a big, live rock-sounding record!" says McKagan. LOADED was formed in 1999 and has morphed several times, releasing two albums: 1999's "Live Episode" and 2001's "Dark Days". The group's current lineup includes drummer Geoff Reading (NEW AMERICAN SHAME, GREEN APPLE QUICKSTEP), bassist Jeff Rouse and guitarist Mike Squires (both formerly of ALIEN CRIME SYNDICATE). McKagan recently recorded a guest appearance on the next album from his former GUNS N' ROSES bandmate, guitarist Izzy Stradlin. McKagan wrote in a message online, "I got to play on Izzy's new record (on April 22) in Ojai (California). Another stellar outing by that dude, I must say. Always a pleasure hanging with that guy; a true gentleman." There were no further details about the project. McKagan and the rest of VELVET REVOLVER are reportedly recording demos for their next album while they search for a replacement for singer Scott Weiland. Watch LOADED performing the song "Seattle Head" in Tokyo, Japan:


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Congestion Charge Cuts Waiting Time 50% and CO2 by 18% in Stockholm
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A woman is suing some asbestos manufacturers and an insurance company over her father's alleged asbestos exposure during the course of his employment. Debbie Bowen, an Illinois resident, is suing the businesses individually and as the special administratrix of deceased Roger Dolen's estate. She has filed a suit on January 13 in the St. Clair County Court. The defendants in the case include Pneumo Abex Corporation, Dow Chemical Company and Metropolitan Life Insurance.
The lawsuit states that Roger Dolen inhaled, absorbed, or ingested large amounts of hazardous asbestos fibers and dust emanating from the products with and around which he worked during his employment. According to the suit, the asbestos products in question were manufactured, distributed, sold, or supplied by the defendants. The counts against the defendants include negligence, fraudulent misrepresentation, willful / wanton misconduct, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress etc.
On 6th November, 2014, according to the complaint, the plaintiff's father died from asbestos-related lung cancer. The plaintiff claims that the defendants are responsible for her father's lung cancer development and subsequent death because it was caused by his exposure to their asbestos-containing products. Defendant Pneumo Abex and MetLife are accused of conspiracy. These defendants allegedly covered up evidence regarding the cancer-causing property of asbestos fibers. In her lawsuit, Debbie Bowen is seeking more than $50,000 in damages, plus exemplary damages and punitive damages.
Asbestos Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma
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Bring helmets on this one. There's a few loose rocks. Hopefully, we cleaned most of them off. A standard rack is fine.
Pitch 1: Belay from the furthest point out on the ridge to avoid rockfall from the leader. After the initial hump, we went a bit leftward to steeper terrain. Lichen in some places adds to the difficulty (maybe a 5.8+ if you count the lichen).
Pitch 2: Easy climbing, but you do need to place protection when solid rock is available. This gets you to the ridge. Broken blade is about halfway across the ridge.
Pitch 3: After a 5th class scramble along the ridge (we stayed roped up), you can reach the bottom of broken blade. If you're up there, you should do it since it is the most fun. After rappelling back to the ridge, you can hike to the bottom of pitch 4.
Pitch 4: There are two obvious cracks in the upper part of the ridge. We took the one on the left with a bit of an overhang and less rock lettuce. The crux is actually before the overhang and the lichen adds a grade of difficulty. I'd consider this 5.9 if you count the lichen. After the overhang, there's a fun crack to move up. There's a flat spot at the top of pitch 4 to belay from.
A short class 4/5 scramble would probably get you to the true summit, but this is a good point to follow a bit of a ridge diagonally down southeast to walk back to the bottom. The first part of the walkoff is class 4 and it's not a bad idea to stay on rope. The hike back to the bottom isn't bad and I'd recommend leaving your bags at the start.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- It wasn't easy, but the Giants managed to make up another game in the National League West on Saturday night.
The first-place Arizona Diamondbacks put at least two runners on in each of the final five innings, but Matt Cain and seven Giants relievers held on for a 4-3 victory at AT&T Park that got the club within 4½ games of the division lead. The bullpen made a winner of Cain, who pitched into the sixth after totaling just three innings in his previous two starts.
The Giants are 29-16 when they score first, and for the second straight night they scored in the first inning. Marco Scutaro walked and scored on Pablo Sandoval's two-out double.
The Giants added another run in the fourth when Buster Posey, Sandoval and Hunter Pence hit consecutive singles and Jeff Francoeur drew a bases-loaded walk with no outs. The lineup failed to tack on, with Sandoval getting thrown out at home on a wild pitch and Pence getting thrown out at the plate on a grounder to third.
Still trailing by just two runs, the Diamondbacks got one back in the fifth. With two runners on, pinch-hitter Eric Chavez hit a grounder to second. The Giants got an out at second, but a run scored when shortstop Tony Abreu's throw to first bounced into the seats. The Diamondbacks loaded the bases, but Cain got Paul Goldschmidt to ground out to end the inning.
Posey widened the gap in the bottom of the inning, hitting a two-out, two-run homer over the center-field wall. The blast was Posey's 14th of the season.
The Giants bullpen had stirred in the fifth inning, and Cain was removed in the sixth after Aaron Hill and Miguel Montero led off with back-to-back singles. Martin Prado's single off George Kontos scored a run, but the more serious issue came three batters later. Jeremy Affeldt was summoned to get the Giants out of the inning but had to leave the game after straining his left groin. Affeldt immediately grabbed at his leg after throwing a pitch to A.J. Pollock.
Jose Mijares entered and got the Giants out of the jam by striking out Adam Eaton with the bases loaded. The Diamondbacks put two runners on in the seventh and in the eighth but failed to score both times.
Sergio Romo gave up a run in the ninth but struck out Cody Ross with a runner on to clinch the win.
"I don't (judge) too much off the swings anyway," Vogelsong said. "Especially with those two guys."
Health was all that ultimately mattered during the short session, and Vogelsong was pleased with how he held up.
"I came out of it healthy," he said. "I took out of it what I needed to. The hand feels good and the arm feels good. I threw some pitches I wasn't happy with, but a lot that I was happy with."
Vogelsong said he is back in spring training mode in terms of workload. If there are no setbacks in the next couple of days, the right-hander will fly to Arizona to throw in a rookie league game. He would then make an appearance with the San Jose Giants before joining Double-A Richmond.
Manager Bruce Bochy watched Saturday's session closely and was pleased with Vogelsong's performance. Bochy said the Giants continue to look at Aug. 9 or 10 as possible return dates for Vogelsong.
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants.
Sunday's Game
Arizona (Randall Delgado 1-3) at Giants (Madison Bumgarner 10-5), 1:05 p.m. CSNBA


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GAIL tragedy death toll rises to 20
June 29, 2014 - Hyderabad
GAIL Director (Projects) Ashutosh Karnatak said that corrective measures were being taken and added that it will replace all unsafe pipelines not only in the KG basis but across the country after an audit.
Karnatak said that two senior officials viz., General Manger Pankaj Patel and Deputy General Manger Rakesh Prasad at the Rajahmundry unit were placed under suspension for primarily responsible for the fire caused by possible leakage of gas in an underground pipeline that killed 19 persons and many injured.
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Company Chairman BC Tripathi said that GAIL deeply mourns the tragic loss of life and property and the Executive Directors (Human Resources) Amit Ray has been nominated as the nodal officer for the coordinator the relief and rehabilitation measures. He will work closely with the local authorities, government and villages. The Chairman said that GAIL in addition to the medical expenditure of the injured, it will make deposit a sum of Rs.5 lakhs in fixed deposit for each of the permanently disabled persons to enable them to get monthly income.
The Executive Director said that he hand handed over a cheque of Rs.3.50 crore (Rs.20 lakh each to 19 families) towards compensation to the families of the deceased to the District Collector Neetu Kumari Prasad at her Camp office in Kakinada. An additional sum of Rs.9 lakh was given to the injured (Rs.50,000 to 18 victims) through the Collector.
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Two more persons Chinna and Rajyalakshmi who are being treated at Apollo Hospital in Kakinada died taking the toll figure to 20.
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The villagers on Sunday expressed their ire at the former Union Minister K Chiranjeevi and former APCC president Botcha Satyanrayana. They shouted at them and expressed 'we don't want your sympathy; we want relocations of the GAIL pipeline from our village. No political leader should visit us for mileage', they said. In earlier occasion on Saturday they expressed ire at Congress MP V Hanumantha Rao and former Amalapuram MP GV Harsha Kumar.
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What JRebel is and what it is not?
JRebel is
- A Java development-time tool that decreases turnaround by instantly reloading changes to your code. All this without having to restart the container or redeploy the application.
- A JVM -javaagent plugin. The -javaagent is a command line option that has been available since Java 5 to allow custom instrumentation plugins to be registered. JRebel uses this option for installation.
- A single JAR file. That's pretty much says it all – there is no long installation process: just unzip, copy, add options to the command line and enjoy!
JRebel isn't
- An IDE plugin. JRebel comes pre-bundled with the plugins for Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans and JDeveloper, however, JRebel agent is designed to be IDE-agnostic and can be used outside the IDE.
- A framework. JRebel does not introduce any dependencies in your application. You can take it away at any moment and just continue developing the way you do normally.
- An application server. JRebel works with all prominent application servers, but it definitely isn't one.
- A custom JVM. JRebel doesn't require you to make any changes to the JVM and works on all prominent JVM implementations.
How does JRebel work?
JRebel integrates with the JVM and application servers mainly on the class loader level. It does not create any new class loaders, instead, it extends the existing ones with the ability to manage reloaded classes.
When a class is loaded JRebel will try to find a corresponding .class file for it. It will search from the classpath (including an application classpath, like WEB-INF/classes) and from the places specified in the rebel.xml configuration file. If it find a .class file JRebel instruments the loaded class and associates it with the found .class file. The .class file timestamp is then monitored for changes in the loaded class and updates are propagated through the extended class loader, to your application.
JRebel can also monitor .class files in JARs if they are specified in rebel.xml.
Importantly, when loading updates to a class, JRebel preserves all of the existing instances of that class. This allows the application to just continue working, but also means that when adding a new instance field it will not be initialized in the existing instances, since the constructor will not be rerun.
Some common misconceptions:
JRebel just wraps class loaders around classes.
In fact JRebel does not add a single new class loader to your application. The solution of reloading Java classes by wrapping them in throwaway classloaders is a well-known one, but unfortunately also very limited. The problem is that unless you also throw away all of the instances of the classes loaded by said class loaders, the code will not reload. However throwing away those instances is only possible if they are somehow managed by the framework, e.g. as it's done in Tapestry 5.
JRebel just uses Instrumentation API.
The Instrumentation API was introduced in Java 5 and included a limited ability to redefine Java classes on-the-fly. Unfortunately it is limited to only changing method bodies (as is HotSwap) and also suffers from several additional quirks, which makes it not too useful in a real environment. JRebel agent does use it to instrument the application server class loaders and other basic classes, but the API does not play part in the actual reloading process.
Aren't there free/open source alternatives that do this already?
In one word: no. However there are several partial solutions:
Hot deploy.
This is basically when your application is redeployed on any change to the code. Most application servers will allow you to do that. The problem is that it only works for small or lightweight applications. Your typical enterprise application will redeploy for at least 30 seconds and this time is just wasted. With JRebel the reloading time is measured in milliseconds.
HotSwap is a technology available in Java since 1.4 that allows you to instantly redefine Java classes inside a debugger session. This is supported by all prominent IDEs (e.g. IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse and NetBeans), so if you attach a debugger to your application and make some changes, they will be reflected immediately. Unfortunately this technology is very limited, as it only allows changes to method bodies and doesn't allow new classes to be added. JRebel can be thought of as improved HotSwap, as it allows changes to class structure, including adding methods, fields, constructors and even annotations as well adding classes and changing configurations.
OSGi is a runtime module container for Java. It allows you to split an application into modules with well-defined dependencies and manage them separately. One of the side-effects is that it allows you to update the modules (or, in OSGi-speak, bundles) one at a time. It is basically the same solution as Hot Deploy, but since the module size is smaller than the application size, the time wasted can be smaller. It will still likely be measured in tens of seconds, since all of the dependent modules should also be updated, but it can be significantly faster than vanilla WAR/EAR applications. JRebel reloading time is still orders of magnitude faster.
Throwaway class loaders.
Several frameworks (including Tapestry 5, RIFE, Seam, Grails and so on) will instantly reload the changes to the code of the managed components (e.g. beans, pages, controllers, etc). This is possible by wrapping a throwaway class loader around the managed component and recreating its instance after every change. Unfortunately this solution works only for managed components and the rest of the code cannot be reloaded. It can also cause weird ClassCastExceptions and other similar problems due to class loader migration problems. JRebel works for any class in your system, preserves all the current object instances and does not exhibit any class loader-related problems.
What about configuration changes?
Reloading changes to Java classes is not always enough. Applications include configurations for Java code, annotations, XML files, property files and so on. JRebel uses configuration-specific plugins to reload those changes instantly, just as it does changes to classes. JRebel comes with plugins for Spring, Guice, Stripes, Tapestry 4 and others out of the box. To find out more check out check out our OSS projects' overview.
Free trial
JRebel's free download includes a fully featured 14-day trial license. If you think that 2 weeks is not enough you can always ask for an extension from email@example.com.
Licensing options
Please refer to the licensing FAQ page for more information.
Do you offer refunds?
We offer a 30 day "no questions asked" refund policy.
How do I install JRebel?
JRebel is distributed as an IDE plugin for all major IDEs – Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, JDeveloper. You will find JRebel in the list of plugins available for your IDE. Please refer to the Quick Start for more details.
In case if you require a standalone archive of JRebel, you can download a ZIP archive from the web site.
What is exploded and packaged deployment?
The classic way of deploying a (web) application to a Java EE container involves packaging all the classes and resources into one file (WAR or EAR) and uploading it to the server, or pointing the server to it. We refer to such type of deployment as packaged.
Most containers also support an alternative way of deploying an application, where you create a directory with a WAR or EAR structure and point the container to it. This is usually referred to as exploded.
What do I have to change in my application for JRebel to work?
If you are using an IDE, you can just enable JRebel per the instructions in the Quick Start.
If you are using exploded deployment you just have to set your IDE to compile to the directories in the application classpath (e.g.
If you're using packaged deployment you should create a
rebel.xml configuration file and put it in the application classpath (e.g.
Please see the reference manual for details.
How do I know that JRebel is working?
If JRebel is installed successfully, the following banner should be displayed in the console or standard output:
2014-12-05 16:54:17 JRebel: ####################################################### 2014-12-05 16:54:17 JRebel: 2014-12-05 16:54:17 JRebel: JRebel Agent 6.2.0 (201411250830) 2014-12-05 16:54:17 JRebel: (c) Copyright ZeroTurnaround AS, Estonia, Tartu. 2014-12-05 16:54:17 JRebel: 2014-12-05 16:54:17 JRebel: Over the last 1 days JRebel prevented 2014-12-05 16:54:17 JRebel: at least 0 redeploys/restarts saving you about 0 hours. 2014-12-05 16:54:17 JRebel: 2014-12-05 16:54:17 JRebel: Licensed to ZeroTurnaround. 2014-12-05 16:54:17 JRebel: 2014-12-05 16:54:17 JRebel: #######################################################
Does JRebel support JVM vendor X version Y?
JRebel supports Java starting from 1.4 by all prominent JVM vendors, including Sun, IBM and Oracle.
Does JRebel support application container X?
JRebel supports all prominent application containers including Oracle Weblogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss AS, Oracle OC4J, Sun GlassFish, Tomcat and Jetty. For a full list, please refer to running JRebel from command line.
Does JRebel support framework X?
JRebel will reload classes managed by any framework. JRebel also has special support for some frameworks to enabled reloading their configuration. To find out more check out JRebel features page.
Do I have to run JRebel in a debugger session?
Can I debug the application with JRebel enabled?
Yes. A corresponding IDE plugin is required in order to debug application managed by JRebel. Please see the Quick Start for installation instructions.
Where can I find installation instructions for my particular environment?
Select your platform in the manual.
How do I get JRebel working with Maven?
We provide a Maven plugin to automatically generate
rebel.xml configuration files for the project. Check how to configure the JRebel maven plugin and how to enable JRebel agent if you start the application via some maven plugin (e.g. Jetty maven plugin).
How does JRebel know what classes have been changed?
JRebel checks the file timestamps of the class files on the filesystem. If the timestamp has changed the new class is reloaded.
Does JRebel slow my system down?
No. If you see significant decrease in performance please contact email@example.com.
Does JRebel make the server start up slower?
JRebel needs to do more work on startup (search more places for classes and resources, instrument classes, etc), so some slowdown can be expected. If it's larger than 50% please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
I installed JRebel and my application doesn't start. What do I do?
- Does the application start without JRebel?
- Is there an exception in the output? If it is too cryptic just send it to firstname.lastname@example.com or post it on the forum.
I installed JRebel and it doesn't reload classes. What do I do?
Please check out the first aid guide.
Why doesn't JRebel reload the changes in the TEST I made?
There are also some limitations that apply for small tests only. Please read Testing JRebel if you intend to try it on small tests.
I'm getting java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space!??
If you have a large number of classes in your application, then the above exception may occur – running your application with JRebel requires a little bit more memory than running without. Although the exact amount depends on the application itself, we usually find that it falls somewhere between 10-15% extra. Our recommendation is to start from there and then bump it up until the exception stops occurring. Also, in general, we recommend at least 128 MB as the PermGen size for your application/server. You can use the flag -XX:MaxPermSize=128m to configure the amount of available PermGen memory.
I get 'Too many open files' message
JBoss's approach for monitoring application descriptor files can cause a message "Too many open files" on *nix machines with a low limit of per user open files. The current solution is to increase the number of filehandles or disabling JBoss URLDeploymentScanner from
The limit of open files can be verified by ulimit -a. Increasing of the limit requires root privileges and can be done for the running of the application server via
sudo bash -c 'ulimit -n 8192; sudo -u yourUserName ./appServerStartupScript'. Permanent per user configuration is via editing the
/etc/security/limits.conf and adding the lines
yourUserName hard nofile 8192 and
yourUserName soft nofile 8192 at the end of the file.
Why does my IDE show an error "hot code replace failed"?
Since JRebel replaces hotswapping it is normal that IDE will show an error when trying to replace the code. Just ignore it, JRebel does not depend on any IDE and will reload the changes when the class in question or its instance is accessed.
Why does setting a breakpoint in debugger does not work?
Did you install the IDE plugin? The IDE plugin helps the debugger to understand that there are the new executable lines of code and help to re-install the breakpoints.
Why do I have trouble setting a conditional breakpoint?
For the same reason described above setting a conditional breakpoint can fail, if the expression is not altered. To save some thinking you can just write the condition in the class text and then set the breakpoint inside the condition:
if (myCondition) {
System.out.println(); //Breakpoint
How do I report errors? What kind of information should I include?
When you're reporting issues to us please try to include a JRebel log file with it.
- Start your application with
-Drebel.log=trueand a jrebel.log file is generated into the $USER_HOME/.jrebel folder.
- The log file contains all the necessary system information. JDK version, operating system, properties passed to the application, classloading logic etc.
- If the file is too large, compress it with ZIP, GZip or your favorite compression algorithm.
- If for some reason the log is not generated or you don't have the time to generate it, please provide JDK, application server and any important library versions. Also knowing the operating system can help a lot!
- Should the error in question be caused by a specific part of code, please include that part of the code in the support email.
- If you need private support just drop us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com with the information mentioned above.
What do I need plugins for?
Although class reloading is extremely sexy and gives you a great productivity boost there is more that you can do. Reloading framework configuration or framework configured components means that you don't have to redeploy when adding a new Spring bean or configuring a new Tapestry listener. See the integrations page for more information. All plugins are enabled by default. You should only consider disabling these plugins in case of conflicts.
Where are you guys based out of?
We are based in Estonia, in a small university town called Tartu. Estonia is a small country with a population of the size of San Diego, California.
Is it true, that Skype, Kazaa and Microsoft are also from Estonia?
Skype and Kazaa were developed in Estonia, Microsoft was founded in the US.


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SMSEasy email-to-sms gem.
If you'd like to send SMS messages for free, I just released an updated version of the old sms-fu gem called sms-easy. SMSEasy works in both plain Ruby apps as well as Rails. I could use help testing and updating the carrier database, so if you have fixes, please send pull requests!


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NORMAN, Okla. — This is how dominant No. 8 Oklahoma has been leading up to Saturday night's showdown against No. 5 Notre Dame: At times during a 52-7 blowout against Kansas, even defensive coordinator Mike Stoops found it a bit boring.
The Sooners have been clicking in all three phases of the game since a home loss against Kansas State a month ago. The first-team defense hasn't allowed a touchdown in the past two games. The starting offense has scored on 15 of its last 20 drives, including 12 touchdowns.
And on Saturday night, the special teams units produced the first game in the program's storied history with touchdowns on both a kickoff and a punt return.


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You only get one chance to make a first impression.
Sam Bennett didn't disappoint
The fourth-overall selection in the 2014 NHL Draft, Bennett was among the standouts in Monday's scrimmage at Calgary Flames development camp at WinSport's Markin MacPhail Centre.
A top-shelf snipe.
A dandy deke in the shootout.
Enough chemistry with Hobey Baker Award-winning whiz-kid Johnny Gaudreau to give the hundreds of fans in attendance something to talk about Tuesday in the lineup at Nashville North or as they rake the track between the chuckwagon races.
"I just hope I showed them my skill-set and my compete level," Bennett said. "But I definitely think there's a lot more to my game that I can still bring. It's the first time I've played a game in a really long time, so I still hope to show a lot more."
Monday's performance hardly guarantees the 6-foot-1, 180-lb. centre a full-time job in The Show next season, but Bennett — wearing No. 63 this week — capitalized on his first opportunity to impress the Flames faithful in kinda-sorta game action.
On a first-period powerplay, he accepted a pass from Gaudreau — once again, the most talented guy on the ice at development camp — and nearly scored on a wraparound, sliding a shot off the post.
Before the end of that same shift, Johnny Hockey set him up again, and Bennett finished the job with a snapshot from the high slot.
Gaudreau also gifted a cross-crease pass to right-winger Brandon Denham — an undrafted invitee who is prepping for his junior season with the NCAA's Robert Morris University Colonials — for the only other goal in what was a 2-0 victory for Team White.
One year ago, fans were buzzing about the sight of Gaudreau and Sean Monahan on the same line in a summer scrimmage.
On Monday, it was Bennett's turn to share the spotlight.
"He has unbelievable vision, and he's a smart hockey player," Bennett said of Gaudreau. "And when you combine those two, you get a really special hockey player. Just his skill-set ... It blows me away."
As it turns out, the admiration is mutual.
"I can see why the Flames drafted him — he's a great hockey player, and I think an even better guy off the ice. You can tell he's going to be a great teammate from the second you meet him," Gaudreau said of Bennett. "He's smart on the ice. He knows where everybody is at. He makes plays. He's got a great shot, great speed, great vision ... He's an all-around player."'
Bennett might've saved his best for last Monday, earning some 'oooohs' and 'ahhhhs' when he undressed second-round selection Mason McDonald with a slick toe-drag in a post-scrimmage shootout.
So what's it all mean?
Not much.
"You get a little flavour for what guys can do in their game, but let's not get too excited in the first week of July," cautioned Flames GM Brad Treliving.
"We're excited about these players, but let's just keep it in context about what time of year it is ... A lot of this stuff, in a week's time, it will all be forgotten, and we'll wait until training camp, and that will be a better barometer of where everybody is at."
The Flames summer-campers will scrimmage again Wednesday at WinSport.
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Members of the Minnesota Association of School Administrators elected District 16 Superintendent Jeff Ronneberg president-elect in April.
He will serve a three-year term, reporting to the Board of Directors as president-elect in 2014-2015, president in 2015-2016 and past-president in 2016-2017. He will begin in the role July 1.
The association has more than 500 members, most of whom are superintendents and other district-level administrators.
"I'm honored to have the opportunity to serve the members of the Minnesota Association of School Administrators, and the broader educational community, in the coming years," Ronneberg said in a press release from the Minnesota Association of School Administrators. "My colleagues across the state work each day to create systems to ensure that their students are engaged in meaningful learning experiences that result in success today so they see no limits to what they can achieve in their future."
During Ronneberg's term, he is expected to support members' needs, communicate the benefits of public education and lobby for beneficial educational practices and laws.
Olivia Koester is at [email protected]


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|A military judge will decide if charges against William Gurney will go forward.
DAYTON, Ohio — Four female airmen described their flirty relationships with a chief master sergeant yesterday, a day after another testified that she repeatedly told him "no'' just before he had sex with her in his office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The Air Force hearing is looking into allegations that William Gurney, while he was the top-ranking enlisted man at the Air Force Materiel Command, sexually harassed nine female subordinates.
The women who took the stand yesterday said that they flirted with the 27-year veteran through text messages.
But the most serious accusation came Wednesday when one of Gurney's female subordinates said he had sex with her against her will. The master sergeant said she didn't fight back because she was stunned and feared his power and influence.
Both the woman and Gurney are married.
Gurney's attorney said the woman only recently said she had sex against her will, after making earlier sworn statements that didn't mention that allegation. Major Gwendolyn Beitz, who is leading Gurney's defense, asked the woman whether Gurney had used any threat, force, or restraint as they had sex.
She responded that he hadn't. She said the encounter last year began when she stopped by his office and they began kissing, which they had done before. The Associated Press is not naming the woman. Beitz said the woman never characterized the sex as unwanted until she faced telling her husband she could be demoted for having an affair.


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Can Alfred Morris Maintain His Success Through Rest of Rookie Season?October 6, 2012
The biggest story surrounding the Washington Redskins so far this season has no doubt been the stellar start to the season by quarterback Robert Griffin, but RG3 isn't the only rookie in the nation's capital who has gotten his NFL career off on the right foot.
Through four games, running back Alfred Morris ranks fifth in the National Football League in rushing, racking up 376 yards and four touchdowns while averaging a robust 4.6 yards a carry.
That's not too shabby from a sixth-round pick from a 1-11 Sun Belt team. After being taken late in April's NFL draft, Morris steadily worked his way up the depth chart during training camp and the preseason, but even the 23-year-old former Florida Atlantic standout admitted to Dan Graziano of ESPN that he was surprised by the speed of his ascension.
"I never would have expected for all of this to happen so soon," Morris said in a phone interview Monday afternoon. "But life's crazy. Some other guys got nicked and bruised, and I got the opportunity to show the coaches what I could do, and they liked it."
It may have been injuries to Evan Royster, Roy Helu and the now departed Tim Hightower that opened the door for Morris to get his chance, but the youngster certainly made the most of his opportunity, beginning with a 107-yard performance on only 14 carries in the Redskins' third preseason game.
Now, after averaging over 90 rushing yards and a touchdown per game, Morris would seem to have an ironclad grip on the starting gig in the Washington backfield, and it doesn't appear he'll be relinquishing that role any time soon.
There are a couple of reasons for this. The first is simple. With a rookie quarterback under center (even one as talented as Griffin), the Redskins have leaned heavily on the run. Morris has averaged over 20 carries a game so far this year, and that steady diet of touches is both indicative of head coach Mike Shanahan's faith in Morris and affords him the chance to wear opposing defenses down.
The second reason for Morris' early season success lies, quite simply, with Morris. The 5'10", 218-pounder doesn't waste any time getting to the hole, and that one-cut-and-go running style is perfectly suited for Shanahan's offense and the way that Morris has always carried the ball, according to Graziano.
"I've always been a one-cut type of back. I've never been a guy that jukes a lot," Morris said. "I don't like losing yards. That's one of my pet peeves."
Granted, Alfred Morris may not be the flashiest running back in the National Football League, nor is it necessarily realistic to expect him to continue at his current pace and top 1,500 rushing yards.
However, there also hasn't been anything to indicate that Morris' hot start has been a fluke, and so long as he continues to hit the hole with authority and the Redskins continue to hang in games, Washington will continue to reap the rewards of one of the steals of the 2012 NFL draft.


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Number one rankings on search engines can never be guaranteed and are often fleeting.
Each search engine has unique ways of determining page rankings. In general, pages that are highly-ranked have keywords in their URL, page title (appearing at the top of the browser window), and in the content itself. The number of links to a particular page from outside websites can also boost a page's ranking, as well as the way those links are named and formatted.
The best way to ensure that your pages are findable in key search engines is to populate them with content that is relevant to the keywords that target audiences search. To rank more highly, page content, page titles, headings and image alt attributes should be written using the language and words that searchers are likely to enter into sites like Google, Bing and Yahoo! Two to three keywords per page are adequate. For example, target audiences might search for terms such as:
When writing content, pay careful attention to the natural language St. Ambrose University's audiences use to describe programs, and take care to mimic that language in web content.
Here are some components to remember when writing for the web:
The title is one of the most important components in search engine optimization. Create unique titles that include key search terms. 65 characters or less recommended.
For prominent pages on the site, consider a different page title that should appear in the browser bar and on search engine results. Having a title populated with keywords or phrases that your audience is likely to search for will improve search engine optimization.
Ex. The page title of the About page is "About St. Ambrose University." The browser bar title is "St. Ambrose University :: A leading, private, liberal arts university in the Midwest."
A page title for a News Detail page or an Event Detail page should be written to stand on its own without any supporting information. 2-5 words recommended.
Ex. Classical Music Concert
Ex. Smith Named Player of the Week
For prominent pages on the site, create a meta description you would like associated with each page. The description appears on search engine results. Use complete sentences or phrases and utilize keywords and key phrases that highlight topics covered on the page that your audience is likely to search for. This is not required for every page. 256 characters or less recommended.
Ex. The meta description for the About St. Ambrose page is: "A leading, private, liberal arts university in the Midwest committed to academic excellence, social justice and service."
Use headings in your body copy that include key search terms. Heading carries weight in search engine optimization and tells search engines what's important on the page. The page title automatically formats as Heading 1. Format the main headline of the body copy as Heading 2. Format subheads and sub-subheads as Heading 3 and Heading 4. Use the Format dropdown in the WYSIWYG editor to choose a heading style.
Ex. About St. Ambrose [Heading 1]
President's Office [Heading 2]
A Teaching President [Heading 3]
Include alt text for images. Alt tags should describe the information and/or meaning of an image or graphic so that those using text-only browsers or other assistive devices can interpret. This is very important for accessibility. If the image contains text, use the exact text as it appears in the image. 2-10 words recommended.
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Libreoffice 4.0.0 and Java 7up15 not work
I have installed Libreoffice 4.0.0 and after upgrading to Java 7up15 it all stopped working.
Libreoffice says that the Java install is corrupted, but I tested everything and Java works fine...
Check tools/options/Java. That stuff is very fussy about 32/64 bit and paths.
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- April 17, 2012, 3:30 PM
Former Cessna Aircraft chairman and CEO Russ Meyer received the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Carol B. Hallett Award on Thursday. "Russ's critical leadership role at the intersection of aviation, business, policy and philanthropy exemplifies the spirit of the Chamber and all it embodies," said AOPA senior vice president of government affairs Melissa Rudinger. Meyer, who served as a fighter pilot with both the USAF and USMC and spent more than three decades at Cessna, previously received NBAA's Meritorious Service to Aviation Award, among many other accolades.