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I'm still making my way through the alphabet and finally got to the letter R. With as busy as work and life are - it takes me about a month to get to each letter. It's slow going...but I will conquer the alphabet!
I have to say though - this one was just finding the time - I drive by Richard's every Sunday when we get our nieces in Hamilton. Normally they are screaming for McDonalds or Wendys - but I said "How about pizza?" and they jumped at it. Whew!
Richard's has a lot of "Mediterranean" items on the menu (greek pizza/salad, pasta, etc...) but we just went for pizza and breadsticks. It's hard to be adventurous with a 5 and 7 year old that live on chicken nuggets.
And the 1/2 pepperoni and 1/2 cheese pizza (ugh - kids). I swear - if I had kids - they would not be the kind that ate 3 things (chicken nuggets, hot dogs, pizza) - but alas I don't have kids and have to do the best I can with the 3 hours a week I get with these two munchkins. I tried and begged for vegetables and they just mocked me.
The pizza is good - I really like the thin-ish crust and the ample cheese and sauce. The crust is crispy and the cheese was bubbly. I was barely able to save two pieces for Larry since he was home sick that day - the kids were scavengers!

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HOUSTON – If you saw Houston Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear reach for the ball at the end of the Sunday's 3-1 win over the LA Galaxy, it was for good reason — Sunday's victory marked the eighth-year head coach's 100th win in MLS.
"It's great and it's an honor for him," said midfielder Brad Davis, who has played for Kinnear since 2005. "I don't know how many coaches have 100 wins, but I'm sure it's not a long list, and he deserves to be on it."
The list is indeed not long. With the win, Kinnear joined Seattle Sounders coach Sigi Schmid, LA Galaxy coach Bruce Arena, newly appointed Egypt head man Bob Bradley and now former New England Revolution head coach Steve Nicol as the only managers to accomplish the feat in MLS history.
The fact that the win came against Arena's Galaxy made the accomplishment that much more significant.
"He has been an outstanding coach in the league," Arena told reporters after the game. "Although I'm not happy to be on this end of his 100th victory, it is well-earned. It is a great milestone and I'm happy for Dominic that he reached it."
When talking to Kinnear's players after the game, they remarked on his work ethic and willingness to put everything into his job. His hands-on approach on the field and effort off it are things the players believe have made him one of the top coaches in MLS.
"He puts everything into his coaching," Davis said. "He wants the best for his team and demands the best for us, and it shows."
The milestone ironically comes in a season in which Kinnear has experienced some ups and downs. Houston hit a lull in the middle of the year as the team battled consistency issues during a hot Texan summer which led to some skepticism about the team's prospects.
The pessimism turned out to be premature. Since July 30, the Dynamo have shot up the standings with an impressive 7-2-4 record to finish second in the Eastern Conference. They head into the playoffs this weekend with a six-game unbeaten streak, having outscored opponents 11-5 in that stretch.
Kinnear's 100th victory wasn't just a milestone, it's the one that booked the team's passage into the conference semifinals and has the club positioned well with home-field advantage at least through their first playoff series.
"People doubted him early in the season, and look at what he's done with us this year," said Geoff Cameron. "It's a tribute to him as a coach and his hard work day-in and day-out and his putting the right team out there. He's got us in the playoffs and we're going to make a run for it."
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Kurt Nimmo
December 19, 2009
Democrats deceptively argue that health care is legal under the commerce clause of the Constitution. The commerce clause relates to business, not individuals, but the Democrats have skewed the original purpose and intent of the Constitution.
When asked to point out where in the Constitution authority is granted to force an individual — ultimately at gunpoint — to buy government health care, Speaker of the House Pelosi said: "Are you serious?"
It is said Obama was a constitutional professor at the University of Chicago Law School (even this is a lie — he was in fact "a senior lecturer," not a professor), so we should assume he has at least some knowledge of the principles of the Constitution. Obama likely knows that the Constitution does not mandate Americans be forced into a contractual agreement with a private party for health insurance.
Apparently, like his predecessor, Obama regards the Constitution as little more than a goddamn piece of paper.
[efoods]"Nowhere in the Constitution is Congress given the power to mandate that an individual enter into a contract with a private party or purchase a good or service," explains the Heritage Foundation. No decision or present doctrine of the Supreme Court justifies such a claim of power.
Is it possible Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have not read Article I of the Constitution? It states that the government's rights are limited. Article 1, Section 8 reads, "The Congress shall have Power … To regulate Commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes." It does not say a word about health care. The federal government only has the power to regulate trade between itself, foreign governments, and the states. Period.
But then the government — including the Supreme Court — has chipped away at the Constitution for decades. Many of the most serious violations of the Constitution came under the reign of a supposed conservative Republican, George W. Bush.
The Democrat health care bill is merely the most recent and most egregious of those constitutional violations. Both parties – essentially the same party – excel at destroying our constitutional rights.
As recently as last week, there was hope this monstrosity in the Senate would die a natural death and hand a defeat to Obama and his big government statists in the House and Senate.
Now that senator Ben Nelson has sold his consent — for Medicaid money to Nebraska — it appears this bill will soon be a done deal.
In a few weeks, the federal government may be making your most important and private medical decisions. Get ready for health care on par with Cash for Clunkers.
Get ready to take the next step on the road toward government tyranny and slavery.
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Life Fitness, a global leader in fitness equipment manufacturing, today announces its search for the world's best Personal Trainers to Watch in partnership with the International Confederation of Registers for Exercise Professionals (ICREPs), an international partnership between exercise professional registration bodies around the world. Now in its third year, the Personal Trainers to Watch program recognizes and rewards trainers around the world that embody the same passion and commitment to healthy lifestyles on which Life Fitness prides itself. Nominations will be collected throughout the month of June and the top 10 finalists will compete during a live global competition this fall to determine the winner.
"Worldwide, the personal training profession is booming as new audiences recognize that professional fitness expertise will help people maintain motivation and achieve their goals," said Chris Clawson, Life Fitness president. "The first ever Personal Trainers to Watch workshop event, which is a new component to the program, will bring the world's top trainers together on a global stage to learn new tips and techniques from each other as we celebrate their accomplishments."
Beginning June 1, exercisers, personal trainers and gym owners alike can visit here to nominate a personal trainer who supports a powerful vision, exemplary commitment to enhancing client experiences, and pursues continuing education for mastery of the profession. Nominees also will be judged on leadership, client motivation, inspiration and previous recognitions. Ten finalists will be invited for a final round of judging where they will be immersed in new training technique incorporating the Life Fitness Synrgy360, a state of the art functional training system.
"ICREPs is dedicated to ensuring that fitness industry professionals have the required skills and training needed so their clients receive the highest quality workout and fitness guidance available," said ICREPs Chair, Richard Beddie. "We're excited to partner with Life Fitness this year to honor the top personal trainers worldwide. Our partnership will give these fitness professionals an opportunity to further build their global recognition."
The grand prize winner will receive:
- $5,000 USD toward his or her personal training business
- International media recognition as the global 2013 Personal Trainer to Watch
- Continuing education course credit from workshop attendance from the Life Fitness Academy
- Personalized award plaque
- A one-year membership from world-renowned educational resource PT on the Net and MyGroupFit.com
All finalists will receive an expenses-paid trip for final evaluation, a continuing education course credit from Life Fitness Academy, international recognition and a personalized award plaque.
The Personal Trainers to Watch program will be judged by seven esteemed fitness industry experts:
- Joanne Blackerby - 2012 Personal Trainer to Watch winner and owner of Spirit Fitness Training in Austin, Texas
- Chris Clawson - president of Life Fitness
- Richard Beddie - chair of ICREPs and CEO of Fitness New Zealand
- Pete McCall, M.S., C.S. - an exercise physiologist with the American Council on Exercise®(ACE®), the world's largest nonprofit fitness certification, education and training organization
- Nicole Nichols - 2011 Personal Trainer to Watch and editor-in-chief of SparkPeople.com, a leading healthy lifestyle website reaching millions online
- Keith Smith - global master trainer at Life Fitness Academy, the education arm of Life Fitness
- Thomas Rieger - chairman of the Standards Council of the European Health & Fitness Association
Nominations for the 2013 Personal Trainers to Watch program can be made from June 1-30, 2013.
Finalists will be announced in August 2013, and the top Personal Trainer to Watch will be announced globally following the live workshop this fall. To nominate a personal trainer and to view official program rules, visit here. Nominations are limited to one entry per person; however, trainers can be nominated by multiple people.
About Life Fitness
Life Fitness is the global leader in commercial fitness equipment manufacturing. The company manufactures and sells strength and cardiovascular equipment under the brand names Life Fitness and Hammer Strength and distributes its equipment in more than 120 countries. Headquartered outside Chicago, in Schiller Park, Ill., Life Fitness is a division of Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC).
About ICREPs
The International Confederation of Registers of Exercise Professionals (ICREPs) is an international partnership between registration bodies around the world that register exercise professionals. ICREPs members operate over four continents, in seven countries, and collectively register over 60,000 individual exercise professionals.
Life Fitness is a registered trademark of Brunswick Corporation.
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From the ASPCA:
2012's Best New State Laws for Animals
Guest blog by Ann Church, Vice President of State Affairs, ASPCA Government Relations
Thanks to the support of animal advocates like you, the ASPCA's Government Relations team was able to expand greatly this year, increasing our ability to fight for better laws for animals in all 50 states. As 2012 draws to a close, it's the perfect time to reflect on some of this year's legislative accomplishments on behalf of animals. Here is a small sampling of state-level victories that the ASPCA and our mighty Advocacy Brigade helped secure in 2012:
California—"Hounding" of Wildlife
California has banned hounding, a form of trophy hunting in which radio-collared dogs are released in forests to chase and tree bears and bobcats.
Idaho—Felony Cruelty
2012 will be remembered as the year that Idaho, a long-time holdout, finally enacted a law making animal torture a felony offense. The state made cockfighting a felony as well.
Massachusetts—Animal Control Reform
Among other achievements, this far-reaching, comprehensive new law creates a statewide spay/neuter program, prohibits breed-specific legislation, places restrictions on outdoor tethering, and allows pets to be included in domestic violence-related protection orders.
New Jersey—Horse Slaughter
New Jersey banned the slaughter of horses for human consumption as well as their transport through the state—a very meaningful provision, given the continued problem of export of horses over the border for slaughter.
Ohio—Exotic Pet Ownership and Puppy Mill Regulations
Ohio's Dangerous Wild Animal Act passed seven months after 56 exotic animals were released by their owner. (Most were killed.) Ohio was one of only a handful of states with virtually no regulations on wild/exotic animal pet ownership. In addition, the state passed its first-ever puppy mill law, which sets standards of care and requires annual inspections.
Tennessee—Felony Cruelty to Livestock
While most states exempt farm animals from their animal cruelty statues, Tennessee became one of the first to make extreme acts of cruelty to livestock subject to felony-level penalties.
It's important to remember that these victories, as well as the countless others, could not have been achieved without collaboration among state legislators and humane advocacy groups. Let's all continue to champion stronger laws protecting our nation's animals and make 2013 an even better year!


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I am quite proficient in C and know some C++, but never touched Java. Recently I got an idea for an app which I think has potential, and I want to develop it.
I am planning to go Android first, cause it doesn't require a mac/iPhone.
So my question is: can I go straight to learning Android development, picking up the Java syntax as I go along and need it (after all I don't think it's much different from C/C++), or should I take a couple of weeks to learn the basics of Java first and then start with Android development?


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Ben Binder necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 256 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
Pittsburgh Song Collaborative
The Pittsburgh Song Collaborative is an association of talented singers and pianists who perform classical art song (settings of poetry for voice and piano) in the Pittsburgh region and beyond. Unlike other more traditional classical music organizations, we strive to reach out to our audiences with interactive and interdisciplinary concert events. We take a multimedia approach to performance in collaborating with artists in other fields (theater directors, visual artists, etc.) and other cultural organizations (museums, universities, etc.) to make our concerts as accessible and engaging as possible. We want our audiences to relate to the music we're performing in a relevant and familiar way. Although most of the music we perform is "classical," it's really not much different in kind than cabaret song, Broadway, folk song or pop song. In fact, sometimes these non-classical genres rub shoulders with the works of Schubert, Debussy and Rachmaninoff in our programs. Our organization is in its early stages, so we are looking for a logo that will help us establish our identity effectively and memorably.
Those who already enjoy intimate classical music will automatically be interested in what we do, so our goal is to reach out to newer, younger audiences as well through programming, collaboration, and branding/marketing. Our target audience is intellectually and artistically curious, sophisticated, and hip. We want to encourage young professionals to see our concerts as opportunities for a fun and intriguing night out, but we don't want to alienate the more traditional baby boomer audience for classical music either.
Our goals:
We want our logo to communicate to potential audience members that the experience they will have is relevant and contemporary. It needs to make people feel that this "classical" music event is for them, too – no tuxes and tails here. Some of our target audience will be coming to a classical music concert for the first time, even though they may already be engaging in other cultural activities like going to art museums and attending theater performances.
- Must be effective in color or black/white
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- Suitable/legible in a variety of media (e.g. website, large-scale poster, business card, etc.)
- Contemporary, relevant, engaging, dynamic, elegant in a modern way
- No clip art or stock images – the entire design must be original
- The obvious strategy, perhaps, would be to include a piano, a singer, or music notes. A logo that had these things wouldn't be disqualified, but we encourage you to be creative; we want the logo to convey the experience above all. The danger of using piano or music notes is to fall into a cliché, although the right designer might do something extraordinary with them. Think outside the box. Clean but a little edgy.
- Our performances are acoustic – no microphones allowed!
- The icon could include the initials or the entire name of the organization, but it doesn't have to.
- No cartoons, recycled logos or overly complex logos
- It's okay to use the iconography or geography of Pittsburgh as inspiration, but we're not necessarily looking for that.
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Is there some body there know a good tutorial to asm ?
I Have read some books about if but it's still hard to understand 100% so if some of you dudes out there know everything to this POST!
Take a look at this page (the programming section): http://www25.brinkster.com/cheeseball
cheeseballs tutorials are also here in the tutorials section of antionline. He does a good job.
\"Ignorance is bliss....
but only for your enemy\"
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Thanks for the link...
Just wish the guys used font colors a little easier on the eyes....
In my experience, the only way you can understand ASM 100% is to understand computer architecture. Once you understand architecture, you will see how the commands work and what they exactly do within the system. I know it helped me understand it much better, and that's also the route I take when I help students at my campus if they come to me for help.
do a search on the Art of Assembly. It's an awesome book that explains everything in-depth. Quite large, though.
dang delstar beat me to is....
learning from Art of Assembly my self atm, excellent book in spite of the 1000+ pages
Cheeseball has a nice site.
However, if you are looking to learn win32asm then I only know of one book that explains parts of it and it really sucks. Assembler for beginners isnt a bad book but it seems to focus more on how the system works and then the asm. There are some hardcore books which do completly rule, but they are sometimes rare to find (depending on which country you are in).
My book list has books on ASM and other languages too here. I just checked all the links today too .
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Philadelphia police said Friday they're seeking witnesses after a gunman fired into a crowd of people surrounding the tour bus of rapper French Montana, killing one person and injuring another, and prompting others in the crowd to return fire.
The shooting happened late Thursday night as the bus, followed by several cars loaded with friends and family, arrived at a hotel near Penn's Landing for a post-concert party after the rapper had headlined a sold-out show at the Theatre of Living Arts.
A black sedan with tinted windows pulled up and someone fired shots into the crowd from a passenger side window, Homicide Capt. James Clark said. Two people in the crowd fired back, Clark said, and police were mulling whether to file charges against them.
The New York rapper and members of his entourage were interviewed at police headquarters and are cooperating in the investigation, but police don't know if they were targeted, Clark said.
On Friday evening, French Montana took to Twitter to express sympathy for the victims. He also tweeted that his bus was merely located "in the vicinity of the incident."
"I had a peaceful concert and was not involved," he wrote.
Investigators are searching for any surveillance footage that may provide clues.
"We believe someone saw something," Clark said. "It could have been a lot more tragic."
The man killed was identified by police as 26-year-old Jowann King, of Flushing, N.Y. Police did not release the name of the man who was injured.
French Montana, a Morocco-born rapper whose real name is Karim Kharbouch, posted a photo on Twitter showing a police officer interviewing a person after the shooting, and also posted photos of himself with Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill at the show.
Mill was on the tour bus Thursday night, Clark said.
Montana was scheduled to play Brighton Music Hall in Boston on Friday night as part of a tour to promote his upcoming debut album, "Excuse My French," which features Nicki Minaj. However, the venue's website posted a notice Friday evening saying the show was canceled.
Last month, three people were killed and five injured in a shootout and crash on the Las Vegas strip; police think that shootout may have started as an argument at the valet area of the upscale Aria resort-casino the same night Montana was playing at Aria's signature nightclub, Haze.


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This week I am in Orlando, Florida for the IBM Edge conference. Thursday evening after all the other sessions, we had a Free-for-All, a Q&A panel across all storage topics, moderated by Scott Drummond. The conference officially ends at noon tomorrow, but for many, this is the last session, as people fly out Friday morning. Here are the questions and the panel responses during the session.
When will IBM unify their storage management between Mainframe z/OS and the distributed systems platforms?
IBM offers a Change and Configuration Management Data Base (CCMDB) for this purpose with appropriate collectors from z/OS and distributed systems, but hasn't sold well.
When will IBM devices have RESTful interfaces?
Both IBM Systems Director and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) offer RESTful APIs. IBM Systems Director can manage z/VM and Linux on System z, as well as Power Systems and x86 based distributed systems. Since October 2008, IBM's Project Zero introduced RESTful interfaces to PHP and Groovy software running on WebSphere sMash environments. We have not heard much about this since 2008.
Will IBM TPC support NPIV on Power Systems?
TPC 5.1 has toleration support for this, showing the first port connection discovered, but not all connections, and we expect to retrofit this toleration to TPC 4.2.2 Fixpack 2. Hopefully, we will have full support in a future release.
We would like TPC for Replication to run on Linux for System z. We do not run z/OS at the disaster recovery site location.
Submit an IBM Request for Enhancement [RFE] for this. We have TPC for Replication on z/OS, as well as the distributed systems version that runs on Windows, Linux and AIX.
We have enhancements we would like to see for XIV and SONAS also, can we use the RFE process for this also?
Yes, submit the requirements for our review.
We heard the Statement of Direction that there would be storage integrated into the PureSystems. What exactly does that mean?
The PureSystems family of expert-integrated systems is based on a new chassis that has a front part, a midplane, and a back-part. All IBM System Storage products that support x86 and Power Systems can work with PureSystems. However, IBM does not yet offer storage that fits in the front part of the PureFlex chassis, but the Statement of Direction indicates that we intend to offer that option. Until then, the IBM Storwize V7000 is the storage of choice that can be put into the PureSystems rack, but outside the individual chasses.
We see some features like Real-Time Compression being put into the SAN Volume Controller (SVC), and other features put into the back-end devices. How are we supposed to make sense of this?
IBM's new pilot program, the SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center, to bring these all together. In general, we have design teams of system architects that determine which features go in which products, and prioritize accordingly.
We heard the IBM Executives during the opening session indicate that IBM's strategy involves supporting Big Data, but I haven't seen any storage that supports native Hadoop interfaces. Did I miss something?
First, I want to emphasize that Big Data is more than just MapReduce workloads. IBM offers Streams and BigInsights software to handle text, as well as Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solutions for structured data. IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) has a Shar
Everytime we upgrade our SVC, we review the list for SDDPCM multi-pathing and see that we need to upgrade our back-end DS8000 microcode up to recommended levels. Can we get a list of combinations that work from other customers?
The advantage of storage hypervisors like SVC is that we can separate the multi-pathing driver from the back-end managed disk systems. You only need the SDDPCM to support the SVC, not the back-end devices. For the most part, SVC has not dropped support for any level of previously supported OS or multi-pathing software.
On SVC, when we migrate volumes (vDisks) from one storage pool to another, we would like to throttle this process during FlashCopy.
Yes, we had several requests like this, which is why we now recommend using Volume Mirorring to perform migrations. In fact the GUI wizard uses Volume Mirroring by default when migrations are performed. As for throttling, IBM has implemented "I/O Priority Manager" that offers Quality of Service classes for DS8000 and XIV Gen3, and might consider porting this to other products in our portfolio.
Sizing systems is an art. I just need to know if the DS8000 is running hot. Can we have the equivalent of "red lines" for our disk systems similar to automobile engines?
Storage Optimizer was added to TPC 4.2 to help in this area, identifying heat-maps for IBM DS8000, DS6000, DS5000, DS4000, SVC and Storwize V7000. We recommend you look at the performance violation reports.
How can we evaluate the characteristics of our workloads?
Yes, TPC can do this.
When we are replacing non-IBM storage with IBM, we don't have good tools to evaluate the non-IBM equipment. What is IBM doing for this?
IBM's Disk Magic modeling tool can take inputs from a variety of sources, including iostat from the servers themselves. You can also install a 90-day trial of TPC to help with this.
We really like EMC's "Grab" program, does IBM have one also?
Yes, IBM has one also. See the [SSIC Discovery Utility].
Updating the Host Attachment Kit (HAK) for AIX is quite painful for the SVC. We prefer the method employed for the XIV.
Thanks for the feedback.
For SVC, we need to correlate disk with VMware and VIOS. Can we get vSCSI information on VIOS?
TPC 5.1 has this support, and we believe it has been retrofitted to TPC 4.2.2 Fixpack 2, coming out this month.
Currently, with SVC, when volumes are part of a Global Mirror (GM) session, we need to cancel GM, expand the source volume, expand the target volume, then restart GM. We would like this to be fully automated and non-disruptive.
Sounds like a great requirement to submit for the RFE process.
Can we get an RSS Feed for the RFE community.
Yes, you can subscribe to it. You can also set up "Watch Lists".
Thanks to all of the IBM experts on the panel for their participation at this event!
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Well folks, if you are here to read another blogger rip on Tiger and act all sanctimonious, I guess you will have to just move along now - cause that's not gonna happen here. I've had my fill of everyone from Alex Micelli (of the Golf Channel, founder of golf.com, and obvious lover of Krispy Kreme 12 packs), to Nick Faldo, to various bloggers (too many to mention) giving Tiger hell. Enough already. Yes, he cheated. Yes, they were by and large skanks. I could go on...but that's the point...we have all heard enough of this crap.
I watched his press conference today (boycotted by the same media who will be kissing his a$ within the next 90 days)...yes, it was scripted, yes, it was awkward, and no, there is no way to know how sincere he really was. For the people who were SO incensed that they could not ask him questions - wake TFU...you weren't gonna ask him his views on World Peace, Universal Healthcare, or the Haiti earthquake, now were you ? Nah, you wanted some blood...you wanted Dirty Laundry..."keep the widow on the set, we need dirty laundry", as Don Henley once sang
For those critical of his "performance" today, I don't know what anyone really expected, I mean, was he supposed to go all Bud Dwyer on us. Nonetheless, folks will keep on flogging Tiger for sure, and every word he uttered today will be sliced,diced, and tested for DNA evidence. From my perspective, he did the something today, and if that's the best he could do, the we will just have to accept that and move on. Let's get back to Golf, fer Chrissakes... Now, about the blue dress from the Gap


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The up-and-coming millennial generation who helped elect President Barack Obama may be the key to saving the Republican party, according to author and great granddaughter of Herbert Hoover.
In her new book "American Individualism," Margaret Hoover argues, Millennials—those born at beginning of the Regan era through the end of the Clinton administration-- are sympathetic to the fundamental principles of conservatism.
"Surprisingly, I found a formula in my great grandfather, Herbert Hoover, who channeled much of the millennial ethos 80 years before the first of them were born," Hoover said.
The Republican party must evolve but is held back by some social and religious conservatives, Hoover argues. Refining conservatism to embrace more individual freedom, in both social and economic policy, as well as civic responsibility, and service to others may a way to win them back.
"They are the biggest generation in America history. 17 million more of them than baby boomers, 27 million more than Gen-X. And they vote," said Hoover. "This book is a road map for how republicans can connect to them."
But Hoover warns that Republicans are running out of time.
"The problem is partisan identity solidifies after 3 presidential election cycles. They voted for John Kerry in '04, they voted for Barak Obama in '08, if republicans don't make inroads in the next 16 months, were going to lose them to Democratic and Independent voter rolls for the rest of they're lives."


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What it is to have friends in Havanna …
In 1998, after two years in Cuba, my money ran out. All I had left on the day of my departure was 20 dollars, half of which I spent on the cab to the airport. As I was checking in, I realized to my horror that I had made a huge mistake: My flight to Hamburg wasn't scheduled until three days later. What was I supposed to do? It was evening, there were no buses running and a cab back into town would have used up all my money. The casa particular (private accommodation) where I had been staying was owned by a certain Orphelia, and Orphelia said: No problem, you can stay here for free, eat here for free and drink the beer in the fridge. I was so grateful to her, I felt I needed a drink, and headed to Café Monserrate, my local hangout, where I ran into José. José had spent the last two years pestering me with requests, and today was no different. I explained my situation; he said he'd never done this before, but he'd buy me a rum, then go get me a nice sandwich for what it costs Cubans, and pay for it, too.
My next stop was one of the big hotels because I badly needed to get on the Internet. It cost ten dollars an hour and five dollars for half an hour, so I asked what it would cost to go online for just five minutes (all I needed to do was send a message for help, seeing as I was broke). The receptionist told me not to panic and gave me 15 minutes for free! My next surprise was Tatjana, my Cuban friend. I let her know what had happened and just half an hour later, she arrived at the hotel and returned the 50 dollars I had given her as a good-bye gift (50 dollars is what you earn in three months on the island). With my belief in humanity restored, we promptly set about spending every last bit of that money together.
Helge Timmerberg
Our columnist, Helge Timmerberg, an irrepressible globetrotter since 1969, writes travel books and contributes monthly to our magazine.


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Letter to Brooklyn College President John Kneller on Budget Cuts and Faculty Tenure
During the 1970s, CUNY experienced a fiscal crisis resulting in faculty and staff layoffs, increased tuition, as well as cutbacks in open enrollment. As a result, the coordinators of the Brooklyn College Women's Studies Program drafted this letter [...]
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Probably best to put it here.
Australia had a good win in the Twenty20, but England bounced back with a 9 wicket win yesterday in the first ODI
2nd ODI today and England scored 259, Australia are 7-1 in the 4th. Tough chase.
3 more ODI's to go and then the test.
Sarah Taylor is gun...60 odd yesterday and a ton today.


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Doug Erny was his normal personable self.
Doug Erny was his normal personable self.
The former Lejeune High basketball coach was smiling, laughing and having a good time with some of his coaching counterparts Thursday as coaches and players all met at the Jacksonville Commons Recreation Center for the start of the East Coast Invitational team camp.
It was as if Erny had never taken a year off from coaching high school basketball.
Still, one thing was noticeably different.
Instead of sporting Lejeune�s maroon-and-gold attire, the 48-year-old Erny was wearing a Jacksonville High T-shirt, a sign that he was indeed the Cardinals� new coach.
Erny was hired as Jacksonville�s coach last month after he took one year off from coaching after a 23-year tenure at Lejeune. And while Erny, a 1983 Jacksonville graduate, is glad to be back on the bench, he said he was a bit rusty getting back into coaching.
�I guess I was a little bit rusty because the first night (of summer workouts) I forgot to take a whistle to practice,� Erny quipped. �But basketball hadn�t changed in a year. You still got to get the kids to buy into what you�re trying to do and you got to get it to where they know you have their back. I think that�s what we are working on.�
But after the first sound of a basketball dribbling off the court, Erny was back in business. He said it didn�t feel different coaching a team inside Jacksonville�s Bird Cage vs. coaching aboard Camp Lejeune.
At Lejeune, Erny was 406-195 and led the Devilpups to NCHSAA 1-A East Regional trips in 1993, 1994, 2002 and 2006.
�To me, you�re in a gym with a goal and you�re still trying to get your team to do their best,� Erny said. �It doesn�t matter if your practice is in the Bird Cage or in the Dean Dome, practice is practice. You want to make it up-tempo for these kids, but you want to make it fun, especially in the summer.�
Erny said that prior to the ECI that his team has practiced eight times, attended a two-day camp at East Carolina University and played in a few summer league games. He hopes to use the summer to help the players bond with the coaching staff, which includes James Jordan, who coached the Cardinals last year on an interim base.
�I think we have developed a good rapport with the kids who have been in the gym,� Erny said. �All the kids seem to get along and coach Jordan has been very instrumental in bridging the gap between them and us since we are all new.�
The players seem to like the easy-going Erny.
�It�s fun, but it�s hard,� senior guard Chris Smith said. �He�s like, �If you don�t work hard, you won�t be on this team.� I took it serious. He is straightforward.�
Smith was second on the team last year in scoring, averaging 10.7 points per game for the Cardinals, who finished 10-16 overall, 5-9 in the Coastal 3-A Conference and lost at Rocky Mount in the first round of the NCHSAA playoffs.
Winning more games is the ultimate goal for Erny and the Cardinals. However, he wants Jacksonville to accomplish that while understanding his system.
�I think the biggest adjustment is we play man-to-man defense and they�ve played a lot of zone and seen a lot of zone,� Erny said. �They are having a real hard time grasping the team concept of defense, help defense and being in the passing lanes.
�We�ve just put in a couple of traps and full-court things. I�m just trying to get them on the mentality that they need to play hard every minute.�
That includes playing as a team on both ends of the court, junior center Billy Bodette said.
�He really emphasizes team ball and I think that�s going to be good for us,� Bodette said of Erny. �We just need to play as a team.�
But more importantly, Erny wants a solid effort. Erny�s Lejeune teams weren�t always the most athletic, but his teams were rarely outworked on the court.
�I want to see them play hard from start to finish, whether things are going good or going bad,� Erny said. �I want them to get after it, get on the floor after loose balls and I want to see our offense go a little bit more than one pass.
�The effort has been great and the kids have been really working hard trying to get my system down. We are a little bit behind, defensively, from where I�d like to be, but the effort has been there.
�I know we�ve thrown a lot of stuff at them and for some of them, they�ve had three different coaches the last three years. Obviously their heads are swimming a little bit, but they are doing a good job trying to do it.�


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2011-04-14, 22:40
NOTE: Due to life, I have run out of time to spend on this skin. Please see THIS POST for more info and a download of the uncompressed skin (for Dharma) as of 12-03-2011.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Stoli has taken over development of this skin and is moving it forward to Eden. Please see the latest posts in this thread for more details. And be sure to give a "Thank You" to Stoli for all his help. Here is a link to DOWNLOAD METROPOLIS FOR EDEN by stoli via github.
Metropolis for Eden can also be installed from the Passion Repository. This method may be preferred as it will then be easier to keep Metropolis updated with future revisions.
This is a skin I have been working on for myself, with the intention of sharing it with anyone who wants. It is using Alaska Revisited as a base so I want to say "Thanks & major credit to Hitcher" right up front for such a terrific skin to start with.
Basically I am trying to make something with easy to read text and that would be simple enough for my family to use. I want it to be a little stylish with some Art Deco/Retro influence. I enjoy a lot of the Retro & Minimalist posters that can be found on the internet these days & wanted to incorporate them in a skin somehow, thus the idea of this skin was born.
For now, the skin will be Dharma only with the end goal of eventually moving to Eden.
DOWNLOAD v0.90 Alpha (for XBMC 10.1 Dharma only)
This will most likely have problems with Pre-Eden Nightlies.
To install from Confluence, go to: Settings > Add-ons > then "Install From Zip"
Please keep in mind that this is the first Alpha and, as such, it will most likely have some bugs (hopefully minor ones) that I have missed. I am only human. It will also have unfinished portions of the skin such as the Music & Pictures sections. What should be finished, with the exception of bug fixes & some tweaking, is the Video section. So if your main use for XBMC, like me, is to play videos then have at it.
Be aware that like Alaska Revisited and a few other skins, Metropolis uses banner.jpg, landscape.jpg and logo.png files to better use multiple image sizes/styles in the viewtypes. When adding items to the Library, set XBMC to download Posters by default.
Please let me know any errors that you encounter, with the exception of Music & Pictures bugs since those sections have only been worked on minimally. A screenshot is ALWAYS helpful.
See POST#2 for Metropolis' Roadmap/To Do List and requests that have already been made and are being considered. Thank you.
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Updated preview showing different video viewtypes, Video OSD, new color theme, etc (posted 08/21/2011).
Alternate version of above video without audio if you are having trouble viewing it internationally.
Video overlay & early work on alternative Home Style (posted 08/29/2011).


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|Ace the Resume and the Interview!
Think it's too early to consider questions you will encounter during an interview? The answer is a resounding "NO". It is never too early. In fact, thinking about questions you will be asked can strengthen your resume and create a consistent impression as you formulate your "brand" for potential employers.
Consider the first impression you want to deliver to potential employers and hiring managers. You control first impressions by being meticulous about details contained in your resume, and that process can help you develop consistent answers to commonly asked interview questions. The resume begins to build your brand, reflecting positive impressions of you from very first glance to final reading.
Convey Strengths instead of Weaknesses
Focusing on "duties or responsibilities" emphasizes your reporting to others. A better presentation showcases your initiative, creativity, and ability to exceed expectations on your own efforts. A description of your role as an "underling" can diminish the power of accomplishments. Balance accurate job descriptions with a presentation of your skills as achievements to convey strengths.
Present a Progression of Professional Growth
Using a chronological resume provides a progression of accomplishments and professional development, culminating a forecast of the next step in your career. The progressive professional summary replaces the old career objective with a sense of how your talents can complement the potential employer's mission and "bottom line". Past success predicts future contributions.
Don't Detail Reasons for Leaving Past Positions
Although most interviewers will ask the reasons for leaving your more recent positions, you don't want to use the limited space in your resume to explain this part of your professional history. These are definitely answers you want to prepare for the interview, but extensive explanations in the resume direct the reader's attention away from your strengths. Prepare to provide answers during the interview, but not before.
Ask Pointed Questions About the Company
Appropriate questions can highlight research you have done about the company's strengths and new directions. Do not use the interview to explore salary or benefits. Avoid including salary history in your resume as well, so you don't under-estimate the ceiling before negotiations even begin.
Highlight Unique Skills
Compare your job history and accomplishments to other likely candidates. What skills are unique and which are considered routine? Using common software, such as Microsoft Word or Excel, is unlikely to distinguish you from the 100 other candidates. Analyzing current trends in the field and creating forecasts to help the employer stay one step ahead of the competition, however, are clear strengths that set you apart.
Handling Conflict
How have you managed difficult situations successfully, such as counseling or terminating an underperforming staff member? Have you facilitated consensus among a diverse team? Quantify these successes in typical results you are likely to produce for the new employer, such as increased productivity or team cohesiveness.
Managing Competing Demands
Multi-tasking is a common requirement in most positions, particularly as companies downsize. Have you effectively managed and delivered multiple projects simultaneously? What about directing teams remotely? Have you over-delivered despite challenges of tight time-frames and reduced budgets? These are valuable skills that deserve the spotlight in your resume.
Performance under Pressure
Typical examples of this quality include being calm under pressure, bringing structure to chaos, and rapidly responding to unexpected obstacles. Not all candidates bring these high-level skills to the interview. Demonstrating a history of consistent performance despite challenges conveys your value in being able to manage unexpected obstacles by innovating process and procedure.
Turning around Failure
None of us like to think about shortcomings, however interviewers often want to know how you perceive past failures to gain a sense of your own objectivity and ability to grow from challenges and constructive criticism. Be cautious about how you present these scenarios. Remember, you are not talking with your best buddy no matter how comfortable you may feel with the interviewer. Package the "failure" in the context of how you turned it into a success by emphasizing a short time-frame or major results achieved.
Establishing Credibility
Describe how you establish authority as you take on a leadership role. Do you use the position to create leadership or cultivate respect in leading by example? Do you unintentionally sabotage your authority by being too much of a worker bee? Is your status as a Subject Matter Expert your basis for credibility? Each approach creates a different type of respect, affecting interactions with your team. Review your work history in the context of what kind of leader you have been and what kind you want to be.
Where do you want to be in 5 years?
This classic interview question can provide the framework for your resume. Your answer should build on your individual career progression by highlighting accomplishments in each position that provide logical steps toward your 5-year plan. Be certain your plan is career-related. Your life-long goal of being on the pro-golf circuit is unlikely to help get that coveted position you seek. Ideally, your 5-year goals dovetail nicely with the mission of the company where you plan to interview.
Translating the Big Picture Produces Results
Reviewing your answers to likely interview questions and incorporating them into your resume will help you present a consistent brand to potential employers. Your ability to condense the big picture into a practical presentation of skills and accomplishments provides an example of your planning and communication strengths to potential employers. These skills can translate into success for you in the interview process, as you translate your big picture into positive results from your resume.


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It used to be that only drivers came equipped with technology allowing for customization and adjustability, but fairway woods have followed suit. Many models come equipped with technology that will allow golfers the ability to open or close the clubface, adjust weighting for a desired ball flight, even make changes to the loft of the club. Club face and weighting adjustment are typically used to compensate for a natural hook/draw or slice/fade, or to give consistent swingers a desired flight path. Opening the clubface, or moving weight to the toe of the club will promote a left-to-right ball flight for right handed golfers. Closing the clubface, or moving weight to the heel of the club, closer to the shaft, will promote a right-to-left path. These adjustments are also helpful when trying to correct off-center shots and get them going straight. Adjustments can also be made in weighting towards the rear of the club head, changing the center of gravity and producing a lower or higher ball flight.
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Results tagged ' Appendectomy '
" Friedman's Anatomy"
Not sure why, but the moment I heard that Tampa Bay Rays Vice President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman was heading for a Seattle hospital with stomach pains, the fictional Seattle Grace/Mercy West Hospital instantly came to mind. Maybe one too many lattes in this cool and rainy town turned my brain into mush.
Maybe it was too many episodes of "Grey's Anatomy" with my ex-fiancée' that somehow perpetrated that image of Meridith Grey and Doctor McDreamy standing over Friedman just in time for MLB prime time, poised and ready to deliver another Emmy winning episode, complete with more singing and dancing as the Rays kid wonder was wheeled out of the operating room to his semi-private suite.
You could see feisty redhead/dirty blond/hair color du jour Doctor Lexi Grey using a nifty curving circular move with a disposable ER scalpel to cut the cellphone and blue tooth expertly away from Friedman's hand and ear in one swift motion, watching it fall in slow motion to the floor with a MLB GM on the end end screaming "Hello?"
Somehow I could easily see one of the Rays most brilliant minds centered with one of ABC's greatest fictional hospital drama……Oh, and did I leave out, it is based in Seattle. This medical emergency of Friedmans' only deserved the best medical staff, and this fictional staff never seems to lose the focus, their determination or their patients….well, most of the time.
Seriously folks, how could you not see this kind of drama and action play out when the MLB Trade Deadline and a medical emergency both rear their ugly heads…It is a perfect ABC Movie of the Week in training…easy.
I know the whole enchilada with Friedman was not packed in a 41 minute segment like on the television series, but considering the time of the year, and the stakes that could have been at stake….it would be ratings gold…Even in NYC.
You know then even though Cristina Yang is a talented cardio-thoracic blades-woman, she would be extra assertive to get a chance to possibly slice, dice and julienne Friedman's nasty appendix out with the skill of a medical Zorro. That is just the way she rolls baby. How perfect would it be if this really happened with husband Owen Hunt stands behind her doing that classic Macaulay Caulking "Home Alone" face.
But you know the always crafty and smug Alex Karev would find a way to either be in the surgery, or playing a key second fiddle position, possibly manning Friedman's phone hitting ignore every time the Washington Nationals number flashed on the screen. Heck bring back a montage of George, Izzy and maybe even some Denny Duquette for good measures. All flashing through Friedman's subconscious.
I could easily see Chief of Staff Richard Webber on the bat phone with Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg and conferencing in Rays President Matt Silverman making sure all is calm in the Rays camp at this critical evening and juncture of the Trade Deadline countdown.
I wonder if the Rays really do have a plan in place for just this sort of emergency? Maybe it was placed in a hermetically sealed crystal box just for this kind of occasion. More likely a "Doomsday Draft" scenario then a Trade Deadline dissection/appendectomy.
Sometimes they say timing is everything, and with Friedman buckled over in pain and going under the knife, it surely will bode well with Sternberg in hopefully keeping Friedman in Tampa Bay once those Houston rumors hit the fan after their new ownership group is approved this month. Fair warning Stu, if this guy will sacrifice his body and life for this team…long term deal…or a blank check.
Rays Senior Advisor Gerry Hunsicker must have been in his old Astros days battle mode at this moment not only fielding calls about players, prospects and trade scenarios, but also well wishes and "get well soon" texts, emails and You tube quality videos from the vast Rays Republic. Sometime being behind the main target is the safest place to be…even in sports.
Friedman did not have his surgery at Seattle Grace, the hospital isn't located near the Space Needle, or even anywhere situated near Broadway or the old P & I building. Friedman was armed again on that sunny Sunday morning armed with the utility belt of technology used to hone the deal and squeak an extra player out of a team.
Somehow MLB took it easy on Friedman that day. No deals were finalized, no players changed hands, no harm, no foul, except for that dang appendix in the jar on his bed stand. Somehow just like an episode of "Grey's", in the end, all becomes one, and all the madness turned into perfection in the Emerald City of coffee and dramatic moments. I think even Amanda Bailey would have smiled.


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from In Search of Tools to Aid Logical Thinking and Communicating about Medical Decision Making, by M. G. MYRIAM HUNINK, MD, PhD Med Decis Making 2001;21:267–27
"The discussions always seem to go along the same lines: Dr. Smith says that he feels that treatment X is the right thing to do because he recently read a paper that mentioned that X was beneficial; Dr. Johnson counters that X has a substantial risk associated with it, as was shown in the paper published last year in the world's highest ranking journal in the field, and should therefore not be considered; and Dr. Gray says that given the current limited budget in the department, maybe we should consider a less expensive alternative or no treatment at all. After talking around in circles for about 10 to 15 minutes, with each doctor reiterating his or her opinion and new facts popping up from time to time, the professor of vascular surgery finally stops the discussion, realizing that his fellows are getting irritated because they have work to do. Practical chores are waiting. And so the professor concludes, "Okay. So it seems we should be doing treatment X." About 40% of those involved in the decision-making process nod their heads in agreement, another 40% start bringing up objections (which get stifled quickly by the fellows who really don't want an encore), and the remaining 20% of those involved are either too tired or too flabbergasted to respond or are optimizing another goal in life, namely, job security. Does this sound familiar?"
Illustrates how medical experts have the same problems with deliberative decision as everyone else.


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The concept of a cognitive robotic companion inspires some of the best science fiction but one day may be science fact following the work of the four-year COGNIRON project funded since January 2004 by the IST's Future and Emerging Technologies initiative. But what could a cognitive robot companion do?
"Well, that's a difficult question. The example that's often used is a robot that's able to fulfil your needs, like passing you a drink or helping in everyday tasks," says Dr Raja Chatila, research director at the Systems Architecture and Analysis Laboratory of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (LAAS-CNRS), and COGNIRON project coordinator.
"That might seem a bit trivial, but let me ask you a question: In the 1970s, what was the use of a personal computer?" he asks.
It's a good point. In fact, it was then impossible to imagine how PCs would change the world's economics, politics and society in just 30 years. The eventual uses, once the technology developed, were far from trivial.
COGNIRON set out on the same principle, given that society is constantly evolving, and the project partners hope to tackle some of the key issues that need to be resolved for the development of a cognitive robot companion, which could be used as assistants for disabled and elderly people or the general population. Who wouldn't like, for instance, their breakfast ready when they awoke, deliveries accepted while they were at work and their apartment cleaned upon their return?
The key issue governing these tasks is intelligence and developing intelligent behaviour on a number of fronts, the corner stone and main work of COGNIRON.
Organised around seven key research themes, the project studies multimodal dialogues, detection and understanding of human activity, social behaviour and embodied interaction, skill and task learning, spatial cognition and multimodal situation awareness, as well as intentionality and initiative. Finally, the seventh research theme, systems levels integration and evaluation, focuses on integrating all the other themes into a cohesive, cogitating whole.
Dr Chatila summarises the purpose of the seven themes. "Research breaks down into four capacities required by a cognitive robot companion: perception and cognition of environment; learning by observation; decision making; communication and interaction with humans."
Decision-making is a fundamental capability of a cognitive robot whether it's for autonomous deliberation, task execution, or for human-robot collaborative problem solving. It also integrates the three other capacities: interaction, learning and understanding the environment.
"Getting a robot to move around a human, without hurting them, and while making them feel comfortable, is a vital task," says Dr Chatila.
To work, it means a robot must pick up subtle cues. If, for instance, a human leans forward to get up, the robot needs to understand the purpose of that movement. What's more, much of human communication is non-verbal, and such cognitive machines need to pick up on that if they are to be useful, rather than irritating.
Even in verbal communication there are many habits robots need to acquire that are so second nature to humans that we never think of them. "For example, turn taking in conversation. Humans take turns to [talk], we need to find a way to make robots do the same," says Dr Chatila. A robot that keeps interrupting would get on an owner's nerves.
To tackle the problems, the researchers took inspiration from natural cognition as it occurs in humans, which is one reason why a cognitive robot companion needs to be able to learn.
Despite its highly ambitious aims the project made enormous progress and the team feel confident they will meet their criteria for success: three concrete implementations, the so-called 'Key Experiments' being implemented on real robots for the integration, demonstration and validation of the research results.
One experiment will feature a robot building a model of its environment in the course of a home tour, another will feature a curious and proactive robot that will be able to infer that a human needs something to be done, while the third one will demonstrate a robot's ability to learn by imitation and repetition.
In fact, the project has already partially implemented all three experiments, eighteen months before the project ends. "The three experiments are an expression of our achievement in research and integration," says Dr Chatila.
He emphasises that this is a promising start, but it will be a very long road before a fully functional Cognitive Robot Companion will be realised and potentially commercialised. COGNIRON will advance the state-of-the-art and understanding of the different components required but will not yet allow a fully integrated robot endowed with all the required capacities to be built.
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An anti-government movement known as Freeman on the Land has become a 'major policing problem' in several provinces, according to a threat assessment by Canada's spy officials.
The report by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service lists Freeman members among 'domestic extremists' who associate with issue-based causes, such as environmentalism, anti-capitalism, anti-globalization and far-right racism.
Its adherents fall on both the left and right wings of the political spectrum, but "at the core" of the movement is the belief that "government operates outside of its legal jurisdiction and therefore Freeman members do not recognize the authority of national, provincial, or municipal laws, policies or regulations," says the report, titled Canada: Biannual Update on Terrorist and Extremist Threats, which was prepared in April and released under federal access-to-information laws.
"Freeman members now constitute a major policing problem in several provinces and have occasionally engaged in acts of violence against the police," the report states.
In various videos posted online, supporters of the Freeman movement in Canada - including outspoken advocate Robert Menard - reject any association with violent extremism and insist they are "peaceful and loving."
Law enforcement officials are not convinced.
A national RCMP spokeswoman said Friday that the force is working with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police to develop materials for front-line officers to increase their awareness and understanding of the Freeman movement and its followers.
"Individuals associated to this movement are a concern because some followers advocate violence to promote their views and this may involve violence toward police officers," Sgt. Julie Gagnon said in an email. "There are officer safety concerns when dealing with followers of this movement during routine police interaction."
Last month, the Anti-Defamation League published a report that described the so-called "sovereign citizen movement" as "one of the most problematic domestic extremist movements in the United States," attracting mostly middle-aged or older men who are financially stressed, angry at government regulation or who want "something for nothing."
The report cited the 2010 shooting deaths of two West Memphis, Ark., police officers during a traffic stop. The suspects, a father and son who were later killed in a shootout with police, belonged to the sovereign citizen movement.
Earlier this year, a Nova Scotia jury convicted a man of uttering a threat to kill police officers and for multiple firearms offences. Court records state that Daren McCormick, a Freeman on the Land follower, told an officer that he could outdraw police and that if a police cruiser ever pulled up in his yard, he'd kill the officers. When police moved to arrest him the following day, they found him with a loaded .44-calibre revolver in a holster strapped to his hip.
McCormick asserted that the doctrines of Freeman on the Land free him from the Criminal Code, including its gun laws, and that he was free to carry a gun even to go grocery shopping, according to the records. He also claimed his right to travel highways without a licence or registration.
Last year, RCMP officials in B.C. issued a bulletin to officers urging them to be cautious when dealing with suspected Freemen because of their belief in the right to use force in defence of their land, property and family.
The bulletin said some followers may refer to themselves using the phrase "of the family," such as "John of the Family Smith," or claim to be a "Son of God."
They also may present to officers a document that they believe exempts them from the authority of the police and entitles them to charge fees if they are detained. "Subjects make continued use of nonsensical legal/quasi-legal jargon," the bulletin said.
Some Canadian judges have expressed frustration with Freemen tying up the court system.
In September, John Rooke, associate chief justice of the Court of Queen's Bench in Alberta, issued a scathing ruling against a self-described Freeman, Dennis Larry Meads, for holding up his divorce proceedings by making "bluntly idiotic" arguments.
At one point, court records state, after the judge informed Meads of the basics of family law proceedings, Meads replied that "there are rules above man's rules, and God's laws is where your laws originated from."
The judge characterized the "gurus" behind the Freeman on the Land and similar movements as "nothing more than "con men," who pitch distorted world views on followers through seminars, books, websites and DVDs.
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Bono Gave Dierks Bentley Advice on Extremely Personal Song From 'Riser'
Dierks Bentley's album 'Riser' -- out Tuesday (Feb. 25) -- is already a success in his book, as one of the tracks was approved by Bono himself!
So, how do a country hitmaker and rock star become close enough to review one another's music? It started in 2011, when U2 performed in Music City's Vanderbilt stadium. Bentley was seated next to Bono at dinner, and apparently, they hit it off.
"I had a chance to sit next to him at a dinner he did with [Tennessee] Senator Frist and we talked a lot about country music and the country audience," the 'I Hold On' singer explains to Country Weekly. "He loves country music and he's been to the Station Inn, he's been to the Bluebird. He was friends with Johnny Cash. He wanted to learn more about the country audience."
In fact, Bono even asked Bentley directly about country music fans -- and of course, the country star talked them up.
"I feel like I really got a chance to tell him what our country fans are like and what's important to them, what they value," recalls the singer. "He obviously has these big causes [he supports] and he's trying to find a way to relate that to our country audience."
"I'd love to find a way to introduce him and bring him more into the country audience, because the more you get to know him, you realize what a great guy he is," he adds.
Bentley even found the courage to ask for the rocker's feedback on the most intimate track from his new album, a song called 'Here on Earth,' which was written about the death of his father, Leon. Upon hearing the song, Bono e-mailed the country singer with his praise, pointing out the lyrics are very much like a prayer.
It was exactly the kind of feedback Bentley needed and was hoping to hear. "I was like, 'Wow, he totally gets it,'" he stresses. As for future collaborations? "It's going to happen one day!" Bentley says, enthusiastically proving that he's on board.
While in the Taste of Country Nights studio this week, the country star dished that his only Bono-related regret is not asking to include the music icon as a writing credit on the song since he gave his input ... but perhaps they'll get a shot to work together in the future!


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Building Blocks of the American Revolution
YouTube hosts a handful of short animated films about the Battle of Bunker Hill, most apparently made as school assignments. I have to give the edge to this stop-motion Lego® version. It's not wholly accurate (Americans wouldn't build a tower on Breed's Hill until decades after the battle), but it reproduces more of the day than the other offerings.
And don't Lego people remind you of Davy on Davy and Goliath?


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PLT Export for Rhino is a HPGL Plot (.plt) file export plug-in for Rhinoceros® 3.0 and 4.0. This plug-in gives Rhino the ability to export curves to a HPGL plot file. PLT Export for SolidWorks reads curve data from a Rhino model and converts it into corresponding pen movements in a HPGL Plot file. PLT Export for Rhino supports the following HP plotters: Hewlett-Packard 7475A Hewlett-Packard 7550A Hewlett-Packard 7580B Hewlett-Packard 7585B Hewlett-Packard 7586B Hewlett-Packard Draftmaster 1 (7595A) Hewlett-Packard Draftmaster 2 (7596A) Hewlett-Packard Draftpro (7570A) Hewlett-Packard Draftpro-DXL (7575A) Hewlett-Packard Draftpro-EXL (7576A) PLT Export for Rhino is designed to be extremely user friendly and easy to understand. It adds new commands to Rhino and also a new submenu called 'PLTExport' which houses these commands.
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Most of us plan and look forward to retiring at a certain age so we can enjoy the fruits of our labor. However, sometimes health problems force us make the tough decision to give up work sooner than we would like.
"Retirement is usually a positive experience, but it is much less positive when it's not your decision to retire. (Poor) health is not your decision and it can be difficult to make that transition," said Colin Depp, a clinical psychologist at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, who also works with the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging.
Pope Benedict's recent decision to resign because of deteriorating strength and mobility is a decision many people are forced to make today, especially in an economic climate of working until later in life. It's important to take an honest look at your health and life expectancy and weigh that into your decision about when to stop work.
Geriatric health experts suggest asking yourself the following questions to help you determine when your health may make retirement the best option.
Q: Is the process of getting to work or arranging for transportation causing additional physical pain?
A: If your health prevents you from driving there may be an opportunity for you to telecommute. If you still desire to work despite your immobility, you may be able to negotiate a more flexible working situation.
Q: Are you making an increasing number of mistakes in your work due to health problems?
A: "For some people like airline pilots, surgeons and others, there's no margin for error," Depp said. "If your health is causing your performance to (slip) it may be time to retire."
Q: Are your routine tasks taking substantially longer than usual, putting more work or stress on co-workers?
A: "It's important to get feedback. You need to be aware if your performance is not up to standards," Depp said.
Q: Is your poor health making your regular job increasingly stressful, adding depression to your health problems?
A: If you wish to continue working, it's important to get a comprehensive medical and psychological evaluation.
"There may be some modifiable factors (medication, meditation, etc.) to help reduce the stress and let you stay at work if that's what you want to do," Depp said.
Q: Is your health problem causing such exhaustion that by the end of a normal work day all you want to do is sleep?
A: Pushing yourself to work while chronically ill can diminish quality of life and limit your functioning as a family member.
"If working (while in poor health) is impairing your role as a husband, wife, parent or grandparent, then you need to (reassess) your work," Depp said.
Q: Does your health problem restrict you from doing things normally required in your job?
A: An illness or disability may not make travel, public speaking or physical labor possible. If you wish to continue working, there may be adaptations that can be made at your workplace.
"However, if there is no room for alternatives to avoid your health worsening then retirement may be your only option," Depp said.
Q: Is your memory failing you at work and are you forgetting important things on the job?
A: "If you're becoming confused at work more frequently, it's important to get it checked out," Depp said, adding that memory problems may be due to things other than dementia (medication side effects or insomnia) and if remedied work can be continued.
Q: Is working making your health problem worse?
A: Certain types of injuries or illnesses may be aggravated by work. People with severe arthritis or repetitive stress injuries, for example, may not be able to perform their normal job effectively. Stress can also exacerbate symptoms of many illnesses.


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- Formatting and colored syntax highlighting make reading and organizing your rules easy.
- Drag and drop cubes to create DB formulae, or just drag single dimensions to get the bang syntax string.
- The tool also includes a complete palette of valid TM1 rule functions. Simply drag the function to the rule editor and you'll get the function string along with parameter hints.


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I wanted to make something different for the latest cake sale in my youngest daughter's school. So I went hunting for a recipe of Maltesers cupcake. There were quite a number in the internet and I chose Amy Jones' of She Cooks She Eats food blog. Thanks Amy for this scrumptious cupcake. I just tweaked it a little here and there to fit our taste. But for a first time bake it was fabulous! It would have been better if I had the proper piping nozzle for the icing. As you can see, I smeared it on using only a spoon which isn't so bad though it could have looked as good as Amy's.
Maltesers Cupcakes
175 g butter - softened
175 g caster sugar
175 g self-raising flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
3 medium eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3 Tbsp Ovaltine or Horlicks
2 Tbsp milk
- Preheat oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/350°F. Grease or line muffin pans.
- Combine the flour, baking powder, and Ovaltine in a bowl.
- In another bowl, beat the butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
- Add vanilla, mix well.
- Add in the flour mixture - beat just enough to make batter smooth.
- Divide batter among the prepared muffin tins filling them up to 2/3 full.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes or until a skewer poked in the middle comes out clean.
- Cool in the tin for 10 minutes then transfer to a rack to cool completely.
- Decorate cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Icing and top with a Maltesers each.
Milk Chocolate Icing
100 g milk chocolate
125 g butter - softened
200-300 g icing sugar (about 1 1/2 - 2 cups) - sifted
2-3 Tbsp cocoa powder (optional) - sifted
2-3 Tbsp milk
bag of Maltesers
- Very gently melt the milk chocolate on a double boiler. Watch carefully, if you see that the chocolate is getting lumpy at the bottom remove from double boiler and stir like crazy to keep it melted and not clumpy.
- Leave to cool slightly.
- Beat the butter until pale and fluffy.
- Add the icing sugar in batches beating well after each addition.
- Pour in the melted chocolate and cocoa (if using), beat and mix well.
- Beat in milk adding just enough to make the icing smooth.


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JSON is used as a format of both queries and results in database applications, as well as for data export and import. Among the most JSON centric database system, and also the most JavaScript focus one I guess, is MongoDB. In the world of NoSQL, JSON is used extensively, as JSON is really cool for representing documents and stuff like, and for a variety of other reasons too. JSON is a format that is also textual and easy to read, and the format is pretty standardized.
Drizzle has some features for working JSON, and this is a pretty good example of something that is becoming real common: REST + JSON, so a standard HTTP call using JSON for input and output. There are a whole bunch of implementations of this, so you can use curl to query Drizzle.
The best reference for JSON is probably the json.org website, but I give a brief introduction here.
To begin with, the basic datatypes in JSON (as well as in JavaScript) are string, number, boolean and NULL. There is nothing else. Also, string is UTF-8, no Latin-1 or stuff like that to handle, either it's UTF-8 or it's not JSON, except that you may put any character in a string if it is properly escaped. A number is just that, a string of numeric characters, optionally prefixed by a - (minus) sign and optionally with a decimal point. Also in a number, you may optionally use exponential notation.
Now, in JSON, everything is one an object or an array. Every object and array may contain embedded objects and arrays, so there may be indefinite levels here. Every attribute is named and the name is specified in double quotes, followed by a colon and then the value. The attributes are separated with a coma and one or more optional spaces. If the value is a string, it is embedded in double quotes.
An array is enclosed within brackets, and an object within burly braces. So with all this theory, let's look at an example, where I represent a set of users:
{"id": 1, "fname": "Joe", "lname": "Bloggs", "groups": ["admin", "guest"]}
{"fname": "Ann", "lname": "Bloggs", "groups": ["users"], "address": {"street": "Main Street 1", "city": "San Jose"}, "id": 2}
{"id": 3, "fname": "John", "lname": "Doe", "groups": ["admin"], "address": {"city": "New York"}, "active": false}
This wasn't too bad, right? Nothing terribly complex in there. This was 3 JSON records, and this is what a typical JSON formatted file might look like, for example a dump from a MongoDB database. There is one more thing to note here: The order if the attributes is undefined!
One thing to watch out for are numbers here, and how they work in MongoDB and JavaScript. The JavaScript number datatype, which again is standardized, is not really exact when it comes to big numbers, most specifically, a JavaScript number is a 8-byte floating point, which in turn means that an integer with more than some 15 digits will not be precise. This is an issue when we use integers as identifiers when we have large amounts of data or this integer is some kind of bitmap. Now, JSON doesn't have this issue, but when transferring data from say, MySQL to MongoDB, we need to sonsider it. So how does this work with MongoDB then, where we have large integers as identifiers? Well, MongoDB uses the open source SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine from Mozilla, the one you find in products such as Firefox. To work around the issue with large integers though, MongoDB adds a datatype of it's own, and some function to manage it (this is why you see NumberLong("some long number") is MongoDB sometimes). When we have a number in MySQL that we want to import into MongoDB, and that number is an integer with 16 digits or more, then we must ensure we use the MongoDB specific datatype. A MongoDB integer and a JavaScript native integer may be operated on as equals in many cases, but with large integers, the result might not be what you expect:
db.mytable.find({id: 15617798765916278})Might not work as expected, but this might:
db.mytable.find({id: NumberLong(15617798765916278)})
I will present the first version of my JSON (MongoDB focused) to MySQL loader real soon, so don't touch that dial!


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Golf In Connecticut
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Connecticut's first phase of businesses reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic includes restaurants, retail stores, malls, offices, outdoor museums, zoos, university research labs, and some outdoor recreation activities. While the state is allowing certain businesses to open, reopening isn't mandated. Safety measures like social distancing and face masks are still required. Many businesses are adjusting their layouts, staffing, and menu systems to accommodate for the risks involved in reopening during this time. Read more about what businesses are reopening and their changes here.
- Fiesta del Norte performs for residents and staff of Jefferson House in NewingtonFiesta del Norte performs for residents and staff in the courtyard at Jefferson House Tuesday, May 5, 2020, in Newington. Newington Rotary partnered with Fiesta del Norte, Connecticut's first mariachi band, which performs traditional folk and popular music of Mexico.
- Connecticut has one of the hardest hit nursing homes in the country. Here are some of its coronavirus victims.At least 43 people have died of complications from COVID-19 at Kimberly Hall North, a nursing home in Windsor, making it one of the hardest hit long-term facilities in the country. These are some of the victims.
- In photos: Social distancing across ConnecticutCourant photographer Brad Horrigan set out to capture Connecticut residents practicing social distancing across the state.
- Connecticut Communities Show Appreciation for Healthcare WorkersCommunities all over Connecticut have shown their support for the heroes on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic -- our healthcare workers. From signs of hope to mask donations to luminaria lightings, people have worked to spread positive, loving messages however they can. Some businesses have used their resources to lend helping hands, as well. Restaurants have donated and delivered meals to hospitals, distilleries are making hand sanitizer, and others have made masks or face shields during the crisis. For our resource guide on COVID-19, visit courant.com/coronavirus/resources.
- Empty Spaces: As crowds practice social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic in Connecticut, empty spaces are left behindSpaces once bustling with crowds, cars and sounds are now empty, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Across Connecticut, schools have closed, businesses have shut down, and residents have been instructed to "stay safe, stay home." The state government has encouraged its communities to curb the spread of COVID-19 by practicing safety measures like self-quarantining and social distancing. These photographs are the result of that distance. Drone photography by Mark Mirko.
- West End of Hartford Bear SafariA community effort through the West End — a window "bear hunt" — in which people placed stuffed bears or animals in their front windows in order to be spotted by kids and adults in scavenger hunt fashion in the West End of Hartford.
- Coronavirus in ConnecticutThe state, nation and world are grappling with coronavirus concerns. In Connecticut, schools districts are being closed, events are being canceled, and government officials are figuring out how to increase testing. As numbers of confirmed cases in the state rise, residents are reconfiguring their lives. For more information about how COVID-19 is affecting Connecticut, visit courant.com/coronavirus.