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ATLANTA — A routine part of the game, something every pitcher from Little League to the big leagues does without even thinking.
Throw the pitch, catch the ball when it's tossed back.
Jhoulys Chacin messed up that simple task, handing the Atlanta Braves another unlikely win.
Led by seven scoreless innings from Tim Hudson, the NL wild-card leaders posted their second straight 1-0 victory over the Colorado Rockies, winning both times with an unearned run. It was the first time in more than 28 years that a team triumphed that way in back-to-back games.
"It's one of those crazy things, but baseball is a crazy game. A lot of weird things can happen," Braves second baseman Dan Uggla said. "As long as you've got more runs at the end of the game, that's all that matters."
Juan Francisco, not exactly a speedy player, used his legs to score the only run in the second. First, he surprised the Rockies when he dropped down a bunt leading off the inning, reaching first easily. Uggla followed with a ground-rule double down the right-field fence, actually getting a bad break when the ball hopped over the fence. Francisco likely would've scored, but he had to stop at third.
As it turned out, he scored anyway on a play that was even more stunning than his bunt.
After a pitch to Brian McCann, Chacin (2-5) dropped a routine return throw from catcher Wilin Rosario. Chacin seemed to glance over toward third before making the grab, the ball bouncing off the side of his glove and winding up between the mound and second base. Francisco alertly spotted the miscue and took off for the plate, making it with a headfirst slide.
"I thought I got it and I put my head down and I just missed it. It's inexcusable," Chacin said. "It's really embarrassing. It's something normal we do all the time. ... It's too late now, but we'll learn from that. You see what happened. We lost the game because of that one play."
Indeed, that one play was enough for Hudson (14-5), who stranded eight Colorado runners. Peter Moylan and Eric O'Flaherty combined on a scoreless eighth, then Craig Kimbrel got the final three outs for his 34th save.
The Los Angeles Dodgers were the last team to win consecutive 1-0 games with unearned runs, pulling it off against the Cincinnati Reds on July 28-29, 1984, according to STATS LLC.
"The game boils down to a throw-back to the pitcher," Colorado manager Jim Tracy said. "I don't know what the hell happened on the throw back. All I saw was the ball rolling off behind the mound and here comes Juan Francisco running to the plate. I couldn't believe it."
Both teams squandered all sorts of chances to push across more runs, stranding nine runners apiece.
The Rockies' best chance against Hudson came in the third, when Dexter Fowler and Josh Rutledge led off with singles. Jordan Pacheco grounded out, moving the runners to second and third, but Rosario popped out to the shortstop and Tyler Colvin was thrown out after hitting a little squibber in front of the plate.
Atlanta was even more wasteful. The Braves loaded the bases with no outs in the third, only to come up empty. Francisco struck out, Uggla flied out to left — too shallow to bring home the run — and Brian McCann popped out to shortstop, dropping his head in disgust as soon as the ball left his bat.
In the fourth, Atlanta loaded the bases again, this time with one out. Same result. Jason Heyward flied out to shallow left, throwing down his bat in frustration, before Freddie Freeman popped up harmlessly on the infield to snuff out another threat.
But the Braves will take a win any way they can get it. The previous night, they scored the game's lone run on a throwing error. They wound up taking three of four from Colorado — even after scoring just two runs over the final three games.
"To win the last two like we did is nice for the pitching staff," Hudson said. "We can puff out our chests a little bit."
Colorado rookie Jordan Pacheco went 0 for 2 with a couple of walks, snapping a 14-game hitting streak. Charlie Blackmon, on the other hand, went 4 for 4 — the second four-hit game of his career. But he also made a baserunning blunder in the second after doubling with one out. Jonathan Herrera followed with a grounder to shortstop Paul Janish, and Blackmon took off for third. He was thrown out easily.
Hudson was glad to get a helping hand from the defense. He struggled to command his curveball, which forced him to use more changeups and sinkers than he normally would.
"It definitely wasn't my best stuff," he said. "I smoke-and-mirrored them a little bit."
NOTES: Braves SS Andrelton Simmons headed to Class A Lynchburg to complete his rehab assignment. He could rejoin Atlanta as soon as this weekend for the series in New York against the Mets. Simmons, the NL rookie of the month for June, has been out since breaking a finger in his right hand on a headfirst slide July 8. ... RHP Rob Scahill joined Colorado's expanded roster for the final month. He spent the entire season at Triple-A Colorado Springs, going 9-11 with a 5.68 ERA. ... Kimbrel was lugging five large boxes around the clubhouse before the game. They contained a bunch of goodies he ordered for his teammates from the All-Star game. His fellow relievers got All-Star gnomes, while everyone else received a gray T-shirt. Kimbrel also ordered something for himself: a baseball covered in 24-carat gold.


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(Bloomberg) — United Airlines is suffering a computer system malfunction that stranded pilots and caused canceled flights, evidence the company is still struggling to integrate Continental Airlines more than three years after the merger closed, people with knowledge of the matter said.
The breakdown contributed to the scrapping of almost 1,500 flights as the airline also grappled with unseasonably cold weather, said the people -- five United employees who were not authorized to speak publicly about the issue. United's crew desk lost track of hundreds of pilots around the world since Dec. 30 as the system erroneously reported which pilots would control specific flights, the employees said.
The technology snafu is the latest in a string of miscues that have dogged United parent's Chicago-based United Continental Holdings Inc. since the 2010 merger. The issue was amplified by tighter federal limits on pilot duty hours, which took effect Jan. 4 as a winter storm and plunging temperatures thinned pilot ranks at its Chicago and Newark, New Jersey, hubs.
"The company has brought on the perfect storm for our pilots, exacerbating the subzero temps and snow," Jay Heppner, who heads United's pilots' union, wrote in a Jan. 4 letter to members and obtained by Bloomberg News. "In the communications received from our pilots, we are hearing about an operation which is coming apart at the seams."
Computer issues and new federal duty limits "created a nightmare" for United pilots and crew schedulers, said Christopher Cooke, a spokesman for the union representing United flight attendants.
Scheduling Woes
Crew scheduling woes started after the second-largest U.S. carrier shifted all 10,200 of its pilots to a system previously used only by Continental pilots on Dec. 30, the United employees said.
David Messing, a United spokesman, declined to discuss any issues regarding the change.
"We worked hard to support our pilots as we have made changes to their routines at the same time we have faced unprecedented bad weather," Messing said in a phone interview. "As we began complying with the new regulations, we were combining our pilot scheduling systems. We are making progress each day in making all of the new processes easier for our crew members."
Dave Kelly, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association, said Heppner wasn't available for an interview.
Pilots said they had difficulty logging on to the system, known as CCS, for Crew Communication System, which shows everything from trip assignments to pay stubs.
Software Crashing
The new technology required three passwords, said a United captain, and was prone to crashing. Once logged on, he found it difficult to navigate and the information that was available was largely out of date. Flights were even assigned to pilots who are retired or deceased. When pilots tried to call for help, they sometimes sat on hold for more than an hour.
Another pilot, based in Chicago, said that every time he logged on to the crew scheduling system in recent days, a different person was listed as the captain of the flight he was supposed to fly.
He had difficulty calling in to the swamped scheduling department to straighten out matters, which caused him to be late on several of the flights, the pilot said.
"The company is field-testing the CCS system on the fly, several months behind schedule, and fixing issues as they arise," Heppner wrote in the letter to pilots. "At the same time we are switching bidding systems," adding the new scheduling system and reacting to the realities of the new pilot rest rules.
New Rules
United canceled 1,467 mainline flights from Jan. 1 through Jan. 8, and more than 8,700 when including its regional and commuter airlines, according to flight data analyzer masFlight. Other carriers also scrapped large parts of their schedules as they contended with frigid temperatures in the eastern U.S. and the same new federal restrictions on pilot flying time, known as FAR 117.
JetBlue Airways Corp. said the Jan. 4 start of the new U.S. Federal Aviation Administration rules that regulate work and rest time, was a "complicating factor" in its decision to suspend flights at four northeastern airports for 17 hours earlier this week.
Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV), pilots reported that the new work rules made it "more difficult to recover from operational difficulties than in the past," said Mark Richardson, president of their union. The Dallas-based carrier had the most flight cancellations among the five biggest U.S. airlines since the start of the year, according to masFlight.
United's Challenge
Merging complicated computer systems has been a challenge for United, especially when the shift has been to smaller Continental's technology platforms.
The airline suffered flight delays, long check-in lines and problems with check-in kiosks in March 2012 after the Apollo passenger reservations system from the old United was switched over to Continental's Shares program.
Five months later, backup systems failed to prevent a computer network malfunction that disabled communications with airports and United's website, delaying 580 flights.
Also in 2012, a computer breakdown caused a flight to take off about 20,000 pounds (9,071 kilograms) heavier than pilots believed because the carrier's weight estimate assumed the coach section of the Boeing Co. (BA) 737-900 was empty when it was full, people familiar with the incident said at the time.
In November of that year, a computerized system that coordinates preflight activities across the U.S. failed for about two hours. At least 523 United flights were delayed, according to online data service FlightStats.com
'Stable and Reliable'
United has worked to improve its on-time performance and make its operations more efficient as it moves past the merger struggle. The carrier aims to trim costs by $2 billion through 2017 as it shifts flying to fuel-sipping aircraft like the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and boosts employee productivity.
"Our team's performance year-to-date demonstrates that our operations are once again stable and reliable," Chief Executive Officer Jeff Smisek said on an Oct. 24 conference call, after 78.9 percent of United's arrivals for the third quarter were on-time.

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Library of Congress Veterans History Project Features More Stories Online
African American Stories Go Online Feb. 1 in honor of Black History Month
A selection of 23 fully digitized collections of materials submitted by African American war veterans will be highlighted on the Veterans History Project web site beginning Feb. 1, 2006. The collection of fully-digitized stories is titled "African Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles," and will be added to "Experiencing War" stories from the Veterans History Project at www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex-war-afam.html.
"As the nation celebrates Black History Month, the Veterans History Project is honoring African American veterans who have served in the United States military by highlighting some of the remarkable stories we have received," said Bob Patrick, acting director of the Veterans History Project. "We also invite and encourage all minority military veterans to contribute their story so that their sacrifice and service on behalf of this nation will not be forgotten."
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This is 2011, and the year that marks the 150th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Civil War.
It would be two years before the establishment of the United States Colored Troops, however, by researching my own ancestors I found incredible stories that centered around the Civil War, so the war in its entirety--from its beginning in 1861 is important. In addition, it is time to tell the story, and to quote a genealogist whom I respect---to get the story right! Well, part of getting that story right----is this fact, the Civil War took place, because the freedom of a race was at stake.
From the perspective of those who were enslaved----there was no other issue except freedom. Some speak about the war being over a concept of "state's rights." The enslaved had NO rights--so state's rights had no meaning to them. But freedom meant everything!!! And for my ancestors that was the purpose and it was the result. To state otherwise is to malign the intelligence of a people, the integrity of an oppressed people, and to deny that they possessed the simplest aspect of their to live freely and with dignity.
When the war ended---my ancestors became free. My own ancestors had a role, in that war as soldiers, as civilians and those who remained enslaved during the war years, they were affected by the war, and their freedom resulted from that war.
Most importantly-----there are STORIES that came from that war! That is why I have created this blog --as a platform to tell those stories.
In the past 20 years, I have documented 9 ancestors who served in the Union Army with the United States Colored Troops. I have identified others who were simply survivors of the war, of the era, and of the times.
Among some of those stories:
I learned and wrote about the story of my gr. gr. uncle, Sephus Bass of Giles County Tennessee, a soldier who enlisted in the 111th US Colored Infantry, and who survived, slavery, mustered into the Union Army, was captured by Nathan Bedford Forrest. More remarkably he and his brother and his two sons escaped and later rejoined his regiment when they re-organized in Nashville.
I learned the story of my ancestor Lydia, a woman in Crawford County, Arkansas, who married John Talkington, who had joined the 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry, that was later re-designated as the 83rd US Colored Infantry. John would die in the battle of Jenkins Ferry, but Lydia lived to tell her story, of life as a slave, her marriage to John, and I was fortunate to read her words and others who spoke in detail about her life before and after Freedom.
I learned of another ancestor Amanda Young, of Ripley Mississippi, whose husband and son joined the US Colored troops, and whose father was one of the civilians that followed the troops when the Union soldiers raided Tippah County. I thank God for that raid!!!!
Following the Union Army when the raid came through the area, meant freedom at last! Though my Amanda lost all of the 3 men in her life that were so dear, I also learned how she found her sister, after 50 years of separation---a sister who spoke about life in the Contraband Camp at President's Island, when the fleeing slaves left Tippah in search for Freedom. I was amazed to see how this woman had the courage to remarry and find family life again. From that research, I found new cousins in the Barrs, and Reeds.
Ironically, if you go to a search engine like Google, and search for Tippah County, Civil War---the only thing you find is info on soldiers in the confederate army. Amanda's family is not reflected (yet!). Nothings exists to tell the stories of the hundreds of black soldiers who enlisted in the Union Army from the same area! These are stories of men who had previously been enslaved and who seized their own freedom the moment the chance came. Thankfully, I have found some of them, and have learned some of their stories, and one of my goals is to tell some of the missing stories of the Black Union Soldiers from Tippah County Mississippi, from Giles County Tennessee, from the states west of the Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas, and Indian Territory.
I also want to tell the stories of those refugee slaves who had the courage to flee from the people who held them once in bondage, to the contraband camps to breathe free air! These were people who lived in different states and counties and who were enslaved with different circumstances affecting their lives.
They all had heartbreaking losses that slavery brought to millions of people--but they also survived, against the odds. I want to tell some of those stories
So-----this blog begins!!!! Join me on this journey to document those untold stories and to get the story right!!!


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Peter Jackson to remake The Dam Busters
Da, da, da, da-da-da, da daaaaa....
Peter Jackson has announced he will remake 1954 classic The Dam Busters, the BBC reports.
Jackson admitted he "really loved" the film as a child and enthused to Screen Daily: "There's that wonderful mentality of the British during the war - that heads-down, persevering, keep-on-plugging-away mentality which is the spirit of Dam Busters."
The original film cast Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson and Michael Redgrave as Barnes Wallis. Jackson promised his version would be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible".
He'll be assisted in fulfilling the former by having access to details of the mission which were still classified in 1954. He noted: "So much of it was still secret. They [the filmmakers] weren't even allowed to show the bomb itself and had to create a fictionalised bomb."
When Jackson first enquired about the film rights back in the 1990s, he was told that Mel Gibson had a plan to direct and possibly act in his own remake. Mercifully for cinemagoers, that never happened. The result would most certainly have been a U-571-style adaptation showing the Americans breaching the Möhne and Eder dams, in the process drowning an English army led by a sneering Alan Rickman on its way to massacre Scottish Highlanders.
The Jackson Dam Busters goes into production next year with a budget of £16m to £21m. ®


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I don't quite know why it is I've fallen out of love with The Godfather--is it a case of 'familiarity breeds contempt?' A need to admire something newer, fresher? Is it that the flaws have become too glaring, the virtues too faded? A perverse reaction to seeing it on top of every 'best picture' and 'greatest films' list known to Man? I don't know.
We're familiar with the genesis of the film, from a novel that at the time of the film's production wasn't a bestseller yet, but grew in popularity during production; the pressures exerted on its neophyte director (thanks to all the fan expectations) grew accordingly. Coppola recalls he was constantly in danger of being fired after the first week's shooting, and it was only after the powers-that-be saw his staging of the Sollozzo hit--of Pacino as Michael walking out of the bathroom with a calm, distant look in his eyes--that they saw something there; the possibility of a good film, maybe even a hit.
We know Coppola basically took a lurid potboiler of a crime novel, reached deep inside, and pulled out the book's true heart--a family epic that captured the mood and thoughts (somewhat dark, somewhat cynical) of America at the time. Instead of the book's pulpy pacing, he adopted a statelier rhythm, as befits a Major Production (he might have taken for inspiration Visconti's Il Gattopardo (The Leopard, 1963)--history and epic drama, in effect, told at a processional pace). Coppola had many collaborators, but two are crucial--Gordon Willis with his shadowy amber lighting (supplemented by Bill Butler in certain sequences), and Nino Rota with his swooningly sentimental score.
The Godfather may be the peak achievement of '70s Hollywood, the supreme example of their brand of storytelling, but after all is said and done, it's just, well, pretty much conventional storytelling. It has, as Godard might put it, a beginning, a middle, an end, and arranges those elements in the usual order. It uses an omniscient point of view, only zooming in to identify with characters at specific moments (say, Michael during the Sollozzo hit) the way Tolstoy kept to the conventionally omniscient point of view in his novels, breaking convention only when necessary (Pierre plotting to kill Napoleon, say).
Another perhaps more serious charge is that it glamorizes the Mafia--even their flaws (the sexism and racism, the cruelty, the cold-blooded murders) are depicted on a larger-than-life scale. This is a fairly accurate portrait (the inaccuracies--the Godfather's stance on drugs, for example--being more subtle crimes of omission and distortion than outright fabrications) warts and all, but of the overall impression one comes away with a feeling like--"Wow, I'd like to be in a family like that."
The Godfather Part II is a correction to that impression--a correction to both major objections I have to the first film. We see the ugly underside of both business and family relations, the destructiveness and decadence; at the same time Coppola attempts a more ambitious time scheme, taking the story of the father's rise, and pairing it with the son's consolidation of power and eventual isolation from anyone and everyone he knows or loves.
It's not perfect; fact of the matter is, I'd admire it less if it were perfect. Perfection implies absolute mastery over tried-and-true practices, implies a minimization of risk-taking, the avoidance and absence of imaginative leaps. Coppola does take considerable risk in attempting this scope and density of storytelling in not one but a pair of narratives, and as a result half the film--the '50s era story--tends to suffer in terms of coherence. Someone attempts a hit on Michael; the possibility is raised that there is a traitor in the family. Who is behind it and who involved takes up too much screen time--compare the plot to that of the original's first half, where we had a clear villain (Virgil Sollozzo) capable of plotting devious machinations and springing constant surprises on the hapless Corleones. Sollozzo created suspense; he managed to put the Godfather in a hospital bed, and you wondered what he was going to do next. His eventual elimination would take much of the momentum out of the film (in which case the question of succession--of who would take the Godfather's place in the family--came into play), but there's no real equivalent to the man in Godfather II.
Arguably there's no need for such a villain; Michael is his own worst enemy. One might say that Part II is basically a character study, the tragedy of a man losing the very thing he fought for--the subject of some of the greatest dramas (it's Shakespeare's favorite plotline, for one).
If the question of succession is the motor that drives the first film's latter half, Michael's conflict with his brother is the motor that drives the second film's latter half, and it's compelling enough--what does one do with the irredeemably weak, especially those of one's own blood? Mario Puzo objected to the possibility that Michael's older brother Fredo might be murdered, but that's the only direction Coppola can go. None of Michael's enemies can really touch Michael (even Hyman Roth (a.k.a. Meyer Lansky), memorably played by Lee Strasberg, is a rather ineffectual antagonist--or at least his most effective attack, assault by senatorial investigation, isn't as visually charismatic as, say, Sollozzo's hospital-room maneuver). It's people close to Michael who have the power to hurt him, either his wife Kay or his brother (Fredo's actual betrayal wasn't much either, though Michael if were less quick-witted he would have been dead; it's the emotions evoked, of anger and betrayal, that deeply wound Michael).
As an example of epic directing I've mixed feelings about Coppola's twin achievements. He's inspired copycats through the years, of less and less subtlety and interest (Brian De Palma's Scarface comes to mind, all profanity and little substance; that said, his Carlito's Way is possibly what Coppola was trying for and failed to achieve in The Godfather Part III: an irredeemable man's attempt at redemption, done with poignancy and style). I suppose we can't entirely blame the progenitor for his bastards, though going through both films again, one can't help but notice how many of Coppola's devices, so fresh then, seem like hoary cliches now. It's a challenge to keep context in mind, to remember--and more to the point, feel--what was fresh and new back then in what is now considered old. If art has a sell-by or expiration date, this might be the basis for the establishment of such a date.
Then there's evolution--in art and not just biology. I believe that, say, Hou Hsiao Hsien's Bei qing cheng shi (A City of Sadness, 1989) unrolls a richer tapestry of changing relationships and passing time, presenting them in an atmosphere and against a delicate emotional texture that puts anything Coppola does in shadow, if not shame.
I believe Johnnie To's Hak se wui (Election, 2005) and its sequel (Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai, (Election 2: Harmony is a virtue, 2006)) both outdo Coppola in terms of plotting, action staging, suspense, economy of storytelling, and overall ambiance (a difficult-to-define combination of sentiments, from cynicism to despair to an invincible faith in man's capacity to seriously screw up his fellow man).
I believe Matteo Gorrone's Gomorra (2008) is a more persuasive, less glamorized depiction of the Mafia. And as for The Godfather films' combination of old-style visuals and punk-rock action filmmaking, James Gray's We Own the Night has set a new high water mark.
Mind you, most if not all of these films owe a huge debt to Coppola's twin epics; at the same time, Coppola's epics are not set on an unreachable pedestal, nor should they be; new filmmakers will come with new ideas, with films that speak to new times with greater, more relevant power. At least I believe these films do.
Even amongst Coppola's own works one might find superior fare, as Coppola himself might agree. I doubt if Coppola ever bettered himself in terms of action filmmaking when he did Apocalypse Now; I think he'll agree when I say he attains greater visual virtuosity and design in films like One From the Heart, Rumble Fish, even the dramatically flawed Dracula (which I consider more a celebration of old-school special effects than a straight horror film). Even a hard-to-like film like his Tetro speaks more directly from the heart, shows more integrity in its stubborn refusal to tell its story in an accessible, audience-friendly manner.
Basically what I feel about the two Godfather films is this: they work well, they're wonderful examples of understated, stately filmmaking, then and even now. But they don't speak to me with force anymore. They've run out of things to say to me (though I do feel something even now, watching them again), and everything I can say or write about them has basically been written down, somewhere else on the internet. Though I've tried through this piece to be more articulate and coherent about my sentiments, it comes down to this: I've fallen out of love with these films. They don't rock my world anymore.


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Bruno Mars is Billboard's top artist of 2013
NEW YORK — Miley Cyrus twerked her way to the top of the charts and Justin Timberlake returned to music after a seven-year hiatus, but another artist owned music in 2013: Bruno Mars.
Billboard announced Friday that the pop crooner is the year's top overall artist.
"It's flattering. It's just an honor," Mars said in an interview this week. "I'm proud to be a part of this whole team that I have."
The singer's year included a No. 1 hit with "When I Was Your Man" and a top 5 hit with "Treasure." His sophomore album, "Unorthodox Jukebox," was released late last year and has sold more than 1.8 million units. It's the second best-selling album of the year behind Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience."
Mars added that listeners have resonated with his music because it's "relatable."
"You know when you eat that food and it's filling that void you were missing," he said, describing his music.
Taylor Swift is the year's top female artist for Billboard, while Mars is the leading male. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis is the top group and new act.
Timberlake ruled the R&B charts, while groups Florida George Line and Imagine Dragons topped the country and rock charts, respectively.
Mars' impressive year also includes four Grammy nominations. His No. 1 hit, "Locked Out of Heaven," is up for two of the top awards, song and record of the year. He'll launch the second North American leg of his "Moonshine Jungle World Tour" this summer.


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Taking People With You - Book Review
"Leadership is the art of getting someone to do something you want done, because he wants to do it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm a business book junkie, so when my friends at Penguin (publishers of my book, Mastering the VC Game) told me I should meet with the author of Taking People With You, I jumped at the opportunity. Author David Novak is Chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, KFC) and runs an organization of 1.4 million people, so I figured he'd know a little something about leadership. Having Warren Buffet quoted on the front cover is a relatively positive signal as well. The fact that Yum! is a member of the human capital leadership network of my portfolio company, i4cp, sealed the deal.
Two big surprises came out for me in reading the book and talking to David. The first big surprise: David is a very humble guy. He talks alot about his personal failings, highs and lows, and even inserts his personal "timeline" chart. He tells a great story of how horrible a speaker he was in the early days of his career, and how he was always trying to be something he wasn't. Novak emphasizes this notion of authenticity throughout the book, pointing out (as many others have before him) that only by being brutally honest with yourself and being an authentic leader can you get others around you to follow. He shares a terrific quote from GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt:
"I'm always searching for a certain kind of humility in our most senior leaders, people who don't think they know it all...You're fighting arrogance and bureaucracy every day, and if you have people that act that way, then it's never good."
The second big surprise for me was that, despite being a "big company guy", David was very savvy about entrepreneurship and the translation of his leadership lessons to entrepreneurs. He has some very practical advice about culture-building and making sure that entrepreneurs keep everyone around them involved ("no involvement, no commitment"). And he uses evocative phrases to emphasize how to be a change agent ("Shock the System" is one of my favorites.
The book reminded me of a lesson I learned early in my career as a young vice president at Open Market. One of the older executive team members took me aside one day and encouraged me to stop pushing my version of "the answers" onto my team Instead, he advised, hang back more and focus on communicating the vision and high-level business objectives, and then coach the team to develop the answers. True alignment is the key to ownership and accountability, Novak writes, and if the team around you doesn't embrace the problem with the same passion that you do, they will never really be committed.
And, believe me, entrepreneurship requires 100% commitment.
Many people complain that great entrepreneurs do not necessarily make great leaders. I would encourage entrepreneurs to take a page from folks like David Novak to exercise their leadership muscles.
Even big company folks have something to teach the rest of us.


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A huge welcome to our friends with MarkerPop and one of my favs Some Odd Girl! If you're new here, a big howdy to you!
Hello and welcome to the Holiday Hop presented by Some Odd Girl & MarkerPop! Today we are teaming up to share some amazing holiday inspiration created with Some Odd Girl's new release along with some of our favorite coloring tools from MarkerPop.com. If you are just joining us on the hop, you are going to want to start back at the beginning at the Some Odd Girl Blog so you can see why we are hopping & what amazing prizes are up for grabs!
I worked with one of the new gorgeous stamps from Some Odd Girl called Angel Gwen.
The banner, sentiment, Gwen, and the little stamped stars are all apart of this wonderful stamp set!
There you have it, Thank You so much for stopping by to see my craftiness!
Be sure to visit the rest of the designers participating in this blog hop, click on the next name on the list below. Also don't forget to leave me a comment for another chance to be entered into our prize drawing. When you are done hopping, make sure to stop by the MarkerPop Blog so you can play along with our holiday hop challenge.


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A user named [BOcnc] on the rcgroups forums just posted his RGB POV helicopter blades.
The two blades are attached to the heli just as any other whirlygig. The electronics, though, are mounted underneath the blade with a battery pack. We covered a build last year that demonstrated weight added to a spinning blade won't tear everything apart, but that build used only blue LEDs. This build is full color and makes us feel like we're living in a cyberpunk future populated by Recognizers and Daft Punk.
The images are stored on an SD card that receives data from a USB port. The microcontroller is a PIC32, and from what we can assume from the schematics, the RPM of the blades is measured by an on-board hall effect sensor (don't quote us on that, though). There's no hope of a commercial release from [BOcnc], though. He can't find anyone to manufacture the blades, and the entire build was too expensive. It sure looks pretty though, so check out the video of it after the break.


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On Thursday, January 24th Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the US military will lift the ban on women serving in combat. Many women's groups and feminist activists saw this announcement as an unqualified victory. According to Kiki Cardenas writing in the popular blog feministing.com, "People asked me: "Well, do you know what you would be fighting for? DO you believe in the war?" Yes and No. I would have been fighting for women's equality in the world and here in the U.S. and that was reason enough for me."
Lurking in the background of sentiments such as these is the common perception that the United States military invasions into Iraq and Afghanistan were motivated by a desire to liberate burqa-clad women in these countries. Cardenas isn't fighting for women's equality, she's fighting for the exploitation of her gender's struggle to further the ends of imperialism via the military industrial complex. One way we may examine this idea is by way of post-colonialist philosopher Gayatri Spivak's observation that, "White men will not save brown women from brown men." This is not a racially reductionist formula—"white men are the root of all evil"—but rather a provocative entreaty to wake us from our imperialist dreams. The need for such reminders is exemplified by former First Lady Laura Bush, who on November 17, 2001 shortly after the invasion of Afghanistan addressed the American people on a radio show, "Civilized people throughout the world are speaking out in horror — not only because our hearts break for the women and children in Afghanistan, but also because in Afghanistan we see the world the terrorists would like to impose on the rest of us."
Rather than "saving brown women", allowing women to serve in combat roles is simply a false win for feminism and women's rights in the US. It is nothing more than the advancement of normalization of the military industrial complex. When US military men and women are killing children in Yemen and Pakistan with Drone strikes, feminists and women's rights activists should be actively organizing against these unjust and immoral actions rather than rallying around promoting the military and its death squads. The drone strike program is ever expanding, according to journalist Jeremy Scahill on his recent appearance on Democracy Now!, Obama had now sanctioned "signature strikes,"
"If an individual had contact with certain other individuals, if they were traveling in a certain area at certain times, if they were gathering with a certain number of people, that there was a presumption that they must be up to no good, that they are suspected militants or suspected terrorists and that the U.S. could take preemptive action against those people—and by "preemptive action," I mean killing them with a missile"
The fight for women's rights is far from over, and we certainly do not live in a post-feminist society, regardless of all the all too common view of the kind Carla Bruni-Sarkozy expressed when she remarked, "My generation doesn't need feminism." This might be easy to say for the former French first lady, but such lazy dismissals do little for the vast majority of women who still struggle for their basic rights.
In 2013, the fight for birth control and reproductive rights are under fire and workplace wage gaps are still the norm in many cases. There are bigger fish to fry than focuses on "opportunities" for women to fight in the military. The frontlines of the fight for women's liberation should lie on labor opportunities, child care, housing and health- fundamental rights which all humans deserve, which unfortunately women and LGBTQ individuals are constantly denied due to various legal, social and economic barriers. According to the Center for American Progress, while women overall make 77 cents for every dollar the average white male makes, black women and Hispanic women only make 70 cents and 61 cents, respectively.
Lastly, another major issue regarding women in the military which is overlooked is Sexual assault. Studies suggest that as many as one in three female soldiers are raped during their US military service. Because of machismo and patriarchy which plagues American military culture and higher-ranked officers unwillingness to investigate allegations or rape and sexual assault, many times the victim who reports abuse is punished.
Military is culturally and functionally abhorrent to the interests of the women's movement. Imperialist expansion under the guise of women's liberation is degrading to all. As a feminist, I will say that allowing women into combat rolls does nothing for the advancement of women's rights globally and refuse to allow this to go on in the name of women's liberation.
Most Afghan and Iraqi women do not see it as a "win" that they or a loved one will now have the chance to be killed by a female American soldier.
-Zillah Eisenstein
Agnieszka Karoluk is a Program Assistant in Islamic World Studies at DePaul University.
*Special thanks to the following individuals for their thoughts, edits and contributions to this article: Al Baker, Kevin Doherty, Shiera Malik


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Email: Chapter 11, Article 10, Section 5AA
§11-10-5aa. Confidentiality of information obtained during telecommunications tax study.
(a) Section nineteen, article thirteen-b of this chapter was enacted in 2010, and required the Tax Commissioner to study the business of telecommunications service and related businesses. The Tax Commissioner completed the study and reported to the Legislature July 1, 2011. Notwithstanding the repeal of section nineteen, article thirteen-b of this chapter in 2012, the provisions of that section under which information obtained by the Tax Commissioner during the study of the business of telecommunications service and related businesses conducted pursuant to that statute is confidential and exempt from disclosure shall remain in full force and effect, as if fully set forth herein and as more fully set forth herein:
(1) Financial information and other data disclosed to the Tax Commissioner under the provisions of that section shall be considered confidential and exempt from article one, chapter twenty-nine-b of this code.
(2) Any information disclosed to the Tax Commissioner pursuant to the requirements of that section shall have all of the confidentiality protections given to a "return" under section five-d of article ten of this chapter and any disclosure not authorized by that section, or this section, shall be subject to all of the penalties provided for unlawful disclosure of a "return". It is unlawful for the Tax Commissioner or any person conducting the study, including any consultant under contract with the Tax Commissioner to assist in conducting the study, to disclose to any person not conducting the study any financial information or other data disclosed under that section. Such disclosure shall be a violation of the tax information confidentiality provisions of section five-d, article ten of this chapter.
(3) Nothing in this section may be construed as prohibiting the publication or release of statistics so classified as to prevent the identification of a particular person or entity.
(b) Any rules promulgated by the Tax Commissioner to implement the provisions of that section relating to confidentiality or exemptions under that section shall remain in full force and effect until amended or repealed pursuant to article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code.


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DETROIT (AP) — Subaru of America is recalling three of its car models and Honda Motor Co. is recalling some motorcycles, all because the brakes can malfunction.
The Honda recall covers 126,000 GL-1800 motorcycles from the 2001 to 2012 model years. A problem with a secondary brake master cylinder can cause the rear brake to drag, possibly causing a crash or fire. In documents sent to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Honda said that 26 complaints have been received, including two about fires. In one case, a customer had to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher.
The documents didn't say whether the problem caused any crashes or injuries. Messages were left Monday with Honda spokesmen for comment. The company documents say that only 4 percent of the recalled vehicles have the defective part.
The Subaru recall involves nearly 32,000 Legacy, Outback and Impreza models from the 2012 model year. A defective brake master cylinder could cause the brake pedal to travel farther than expected. Federal safety regulators say this could cause a driver to misjudge the amount of pressure needed to stop quickly.
The company says no crashes or injuries have happened, and that not all of the vehicles involved in the recall have the problem. Subaru has received 112 reports of the problem. Most are from its dealer network.
The recall does not include WRX/STI models of the Impreza.
In both cases, customers will be told to take their cars to dealers for an inspection. If necessary, the parts will be replaced. The Subaru recall will begin this month, while the Honda recall is expected to start in early January.
In addition, Nissan Motor Co. announced that it is recalling more than 7,000 of its 2011Rogue crossover vehicles in the U.S., because the electric power steering can fail.
Documents filed with NHTSA say that the circuit boards controlling the power steering may not have been installed correctly. The solder between the terminal and the circuit board can crack, causing the board to fail. "As the circuit board fails, the power steering assist feature will stop functioning, increasing the force needed to steer the vehicle and increasing the risk of a crash," the documents say.
A Nissan spokesman said there have been no reported accidents or injuries because of the defect.


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George Armstrong Custer was born on December 5, 1839, in New Rumley, Ohio. The Custer Memorial Association will celebrate his birth in New Rumley on Saturday, December 10, 2016. See https://www.facebook.com/Custer-Memorial-Association-151535381571759/.
Other milestones this week include:
- Isaac Fowler of Company C died on December 5, 1881, in Union City, Indiana.
- Martin McCue died on December 6, 1923, at Barnes Hospital in Washington, D.C., and was buried in the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery.
- Henry August Lange of Company E was born in Hanover, Germany, on December 7, 1851.
- Andrew Humes Nave died on December 7, 1924, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was buried in Highland Memorial Cemetery.
- John Samuel Ragsdale had several milestones in December. He was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, on December 9, 1850; he married Lois Durham on December 28, 1877; and he died on December 4, 1942, in Dayton, Ohio.
- Charles A. Windolph was born on December 9, 1851 in Bergen, Germany. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Medal of Honor for his actions during the battle.
- Thomas Gordon was born in Boston on December 9, 1853, and died in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on December 21, 1935. He is buried in the Swandale Cemetery in Mendon, Massachusetts.
- Thomas Bell (Benton) Weir died a sad death on Governors Island, New York, on December 9, 1876, less than six months after he survived the battle.
- Martin Kilfoyle died on December 9, 1894, in Washington, D.C. He was on detached service during the battle.
- Henry Jackson died in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on December 9, 1908, and is buried in the National Cemetery there.
- John Sivertsen was born on December 10, 1841, in Jensen, Norway. He married Anna Olson in Douglas County, Wisconsin, on December 25, 1889.
- Henry N. B. Witt was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 10, 1852. He was on detached service during the battle.
- William J. Gregg died on December 10, 1913, in Hampton, Virginia, and is buried in the National Cemetery there.
- Frederick Henry Gehrmann died on December 10, 1922, in Washington, D.C., and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
- Gabriel Guessbacher died on the same day in the same city. His burial location is not known.


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Founder of Dolby Laboratories dies
Ray Dolby, audio pioneer, American inventor and founder of Dolby Laboratories, has died at the age of 80.
The company said Thursday that Dolby died in his home at San Francisco. He had been living with Alzheimer's disease for several years and was diagnosed with acute leukemia this summer.
Dolby founded his namesake company in 1965 and grew it into an industry leader of audio technology. His work in noise reduction and surround sound led to the creation of a number of technologies that are still used in music, movies and entertainment today. He holds more than 50 U.S. patents.
Dolby won a number of notable awards and honors for his life's work including several Emmys, a Grammy and the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton.
© 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


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Malcolm in the Middle Season 1
Watch Malcolm in the Middle Season 1 full episodes online.
Synopsis: The Cleavers they ain't. Mom is a screaming control freak, Dad is a goofy human hairball, oldest son Francis escaped the family at a young age, Reese is just criminal, Dewey is a space cadet and young Jamie is the scapegoat. The middle kid, Malcolm (who delivers the narrative for the capers of this whacked-out clan) is a brainiac who doesn't want to be burdened by his genius.
Creators: Linwood Boomer, Michael Glouberman, Andy Bobrow
Stars: Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston, Justin Berfield
More infor: IMDB, Wikipedia


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Ethereal hair was the look at Tadashi Shoji Fall 2014 Show with Rodney Cutler for ULTA Beauty backstage. Rodney Cutler, Redken Expert / Celebrity Runway Stylist for THE SALON at ULTA Beauty alongside ULTA Beauty stylist Jen McGann, created a whimsical beauty look with a touch of structure to complement the designer's Fall 2014 collection. Tadashi Shoji presented a Moroccan inspired collection that aligned with Cutler's vision for an effortlessly magical runway hair look.
1. Blow dry hair using Redken Spray Starch 15 Heat Styling Spray for dryness and texture.
a. Set with a 1.5 barrel curling iron along with Redken Powder Grip 03 Texturizing Hair Powder to create volume and grittiness
2. Use French lacing for fullness—do NOT backcomb
3. Create a side part and separate hair into three sections
4. Braid the right side of the part to act as a cushion
5. Roll the opposite side of part over the braid and set Redken Fashion Work 12 Versatile Working Spray
· Redken Fashion Work 12 Versatile Working Spray
· Redken Spray Starch 15 Heat Styling Spray
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All products available at ULTA Beauty store nationwide or on www.ulta.com
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tetrinet-client — textmode client program for tetrinet
tetrinet [-fancy] [-fast] [-log file] [-noshadow] [-noslide] [-slide] [-shadow] [-windows] nickname server
tetrinet-client is a textmode client program for tetrinet, a networked version of tetris. You can play both on TetriFast server and on the original servers with it. Please notice that you need at least 50 lines to be able to play it.
A summary of options is included below.
- -fancy
Use "fancy" TTY graphics. (Note that this will slow down redraws somewhat.)
- -fast
Use the "tetrifast" mode to connect to the server. This mode eliminates the
delay before a new cube appears, thus speeding the game up noticeably. This
mode is incompatible with the classic mode and the server has to support it.
If in doubt, ask the other players.
- -log file
Log network traffic to the given file. All lines start with an absolute time
(seconds) in brackets. Lines sent from the client to the server are prefixed
with ">>>", and lines from the server to the client are prefixed with "<<<".
This could be used with a utility program to replay a game later on (though
such a program is not currently included in the Tetrinet distribution.)
- -noshadow
Do not make pieces cast "shadows" when they are slowly falling. (Normally the
area under piece is filled by dim dots to help to determine where the piece
would hit the ground if one would press the spacebar.)
- -noslide
Do not allow pieces to "slide" after being dropped with the spacebar.
(Normally, there is a short time after pressing the spacebar during which a
piece can "slide" left or right before it solidifies.)
- -shadow
Opposite of
make the pieces cast "shadows". Can speed up gameplay considerably, but it can
be considered as cheating by some people since some other tetrinet clients lack
- -slide
Opposite of
allows pieces to "slide" after being dropped. If both
-slide and -noslide
are given,
takes precedence. If both
-windows and -slide
are given, this overrides the "no sliding" part of
without affecting the other changes in program behavior.
- -windows
Behave as much like the Windows version of Tetrinet as possible. Implies
-noslide and -noshadow.
When you start tetrinet-client you will find yourself in the partyline. In here you can chat with the other players. With /help you will get the list of the server supported commands. You can switch between three screens with F1 through to F3.With /start you can start a game (if you are in position one). You will have to switch over to the Fields with the F1 key, an automatic switch over on game start is planed. To pause a running game you have to enter /pause in the partyline. To restart the game you enter /unpause.
With the cursor keys left and right you can move the stones, with cursor up you turn the stones clockwise, with cursor down you pull the stones to the bottom, and with space you drop them. You have to fill the lines completely, because complete lines will get removed from the display. The more lines you can eliminate with a single stone the better. If the play room supports specials you will eventually see a list of letters below your playfield that you can use with the number keys from 1 to 6 for the corresponding playfield. If you want to get rid of a special, drop it with d. You can also chat in the playfield, to open the chat box press t (for talk.) That's it, more or less.


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€∞∞. The Craft Room. The Craft Room Pull up a chair and join us for a chat
Free forum : Pull up a sandbag and regroup. The Harbour area
Elite Bodyweight Training. Bar-barians. Bar-barians muscle ups front lever back lever one arm oac oap pull-ups handstand dips push ups squats bodyweight training exercise workout street lifestyle park
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The last thing you'll see before you die are my pearly whites shinning at you as I pull the knife from your back. And thus, Grinnin Militia was born.
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The Porch is a forum designed with an older clientele in mind. Pull up a rocker and relax a bit.
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A Forum for all Kaki King Fans. The Unofficial Kaki King Forum
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Welcome ye weary traveller. Pull up a stool and have yerself a glass o' drink while ya sit and listen to the stories I will tell.
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PUSH: We are legion. We are PUSH. The Pretentious Users Subverting Hype. We talk about games. Any pretty much anything else. Mostly, we just like going off topic.
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A forum for old shipmates of HMS Intrepid to pull up a bollard and swing a lantern Home of the HMS Intrepid Association ®.
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Free forum : Past and present members of the Corps, REME (V), RM's who attended SEME and personnel who have been attached to the REME, all are welcome. If you are one of us, then pull up a toolbox


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Tue, 4 December 2012
The last four years, in comparison to the previous fifty, have seen considerable change in Cuba. In 2008, Fidel Castro stepped aside to allow his brother Raul to lead. At the same time, after a period of tight travel restrictions, the United States has made it easier for Cuban Americans to visit family and for Americans to travel legally to Cuba on cultural exchanges. This fall, President Raul Castro announced an impending end to much reviled exit visas Cubans must obtain in order to leave their own country legally for travel or work. These changes, along with experimental encouragement of private enterprise within Cuba, have renewed interest in the country and its relationship with the United States. Cynthia Gorney, a contributing writer for National Geographic Magazine, visited the island earlier this year and will share her insights into the current situation inside Cuba. |


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Notice: this Wiki will be going read only early in 2024 and edits will no longer be possible. Please see: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/wikis/Wiki-shutdown-plan for the plan.
DLTK Mini-HOWTO
This document contains short notices about how to implement typical end-user features using a DLTK.
Editors may be contributed as usual using a org.eclipse.ui.editors extenstion point. For all script language editors exists ScriptEditor abstract class. It already has standard editor features like folding support, standard actions, word navigation, bracket matching, outline page and more.
There are important things, that concrete editor implementation should provide. First thing it a "text tools". So you should implement all ScriptTextTools abstract methods. They may return partition scanner, semantic highlighing strategies, source viewer configuration and more.
Source viewer configuration is a second important thing. If you'll use ScriptSourceViewerConfiguration as base, you'll fetch "for free" a quick outline view, documentation hovers, hyperlinks support.
ScriptEditor has a doCreateOutlinePage() abstract method for creating outline page. Such outline page should extend a ScriptOutlinePage class.
Code folding
ScriptEditor class has methods getFoldingStructureProvider() and createFoldingActionGroup(). In general, folding structure provider should just implement IFoldingStructureProvider. But if you are using a DLTK AST, you can fetch folding "for free", just by extending AbstractASTFoldingStructureProvider.
Folding actions group can be created like following(FoldingActionGroup is a default DLTK implementation):
protected FoldingActionGroup createFoldingActionGroup() {
return new FoldingActionGroup(this, getViewer(), RubyUI.getDefault()
For go-to-the-declaration feature and many others like documentation hovers you need to implement selection engine. Task of selection engine is to determine model element from given offset in source file.
Selection engines could be contributed via org.eclipse.dltk.core.selectionEngine extension point, they should implement ISelectionEngine interface. DLTK already has partial implementation of this interface: ScriptSelectionEngine, so you could just extend it.
For example implementation, you can look at RubySelectionEngine.
Documentation hovers
Via org.eclipse.dltk.ui.scriptDocumentationProviders extension point you may contribute documentation providers. For that you should implement IScriptDocumentationProvider interface. For given model element or keyword it should return a Reader object with documentation.
After you had implemented it, F2 action and hovers should work. If you rely on model elements, selection engine should be implemented.
Completion and templates
- Implement completion engine. It should extend ScriptCompletionEngine class. Contribute it via org.eclipse.dltk.core.completionEngine extension point.
- Contribute proposal computer via org.eclipse.dltk.ui.scriptCompletionProposalComputer. It should be derived from ScriptCompletionProposalComputer. Inside it you should create a proposal collector and template processor.
Task of proposal collector is to accept completion proposals from completion engine, create appropriate labels for proposals and return as result set of IScriptCompletionProposal. You may use ScriptCompletionProposalCollector as base class for your implementation.
Template processor is a separate implementation of IContentAssistProcessor that should compute proposals for templates. You should use TemplateCompletionProcessor as base class for your implementation.
- Extend ScriptCompletionProcessor and create class for your code completion processor.
- Implement getContentAssistant() method in your source viewer configuration. Example:
public IContentAssistant getContentAssistant(ISourceViewer sourceViewer) {
if (getEditor() != null) {
ContentAssistant assistant = new ContentAssistant();
.setRestoreCompletionProposalSize(getSettings("completion_proposal_size")); //$NON-NLS-1$
IContentAssistProcessor scriptProcessor = new RubyCompletionProcessor(
getEditor(), assistant, IDocument.DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE);
return assistant;
return null;
Preferences pages
DLTK has a set of abstract classes for preference pages. Here is a list of main of them:
AbstractConfigurationBlockPreferencePage Abstact preference page, that can be used for anything. AbstractConfigurationBlock Abstact configuration block, has implementation of methods like addCheckBox(), addComboBox() with appropriate listeners and linking with preferences. You'll need just to implement createContol() method. AbstractScriptEditorColoringConfigurationBlock Block for syntax coloring preferences. InterpretersBlock Block for interpreters settings. You'll need to implement only getCurrentNature() method and interpreter addition dialog. AddScriptInterpreterDialog Dialog for adding an interpreter.
Simple declaration search will be available automatically, after you specify sourceElementParser for your language and add search pages.
For search pages you need to extend org.eclipse.search.searchPages extension point. There is ScriptSearchPage class, you can use it like following:
public class RubySearchPage extends ScriptSearchPage {
protected IDLTKLanguageToolkit getLanguageToolkit() {
return RubyLanguageToolkit.getDefault();
For more advanced search you need to perform following tasks:
- Extend org.eclipse.dltk.core.search extension point. It will provide ISearchFactory interface. With this interface you could specify match parser, locator, and source indexer requester.
For example you could see RubySearchFactory or TclSearchFactory classes.
- MatchLocatorParser is used to parse selected module and report all possible matches to pattern locator.
- SourceIndexerRequestor is used to report all needed things to DLTK Index. Default implementation (SourceIndexerRequestor) report model elements.
- Register installation type for your intepreter using a org.eclipse.dltk.launching.interpreterInstallTypes ext. point. Use a AbstractInterpreterInstallType class as base for implementation.
- Register launch configuration type using a org.eclipse.debug.core.launchConfigurationTypes ext. point. Use a AbstractScriptLaunchConfigurationDelegate as base for your launch delegate implementation.
- Add preference page for interpreter configuration. InterpretersBlock may be used as base for a configuration block. In fact you may use any another way for interpreter configuration, but for launching at least one interpreter should be registered in the workspace and be available for a ScriptRuntime class.
- Also you may add a shortcut for launching via org.eclipse.debug.ui.launchShortcuts. Use AbstractScriptLaunchShortcut as base for your implementation(then you'll should just point a language nature and configuration type inside).


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The General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is held in the summer of odd numbered years. This United States and Canadian church gathering features speakers and engaging worship, as well as conducting the business of the church and promoting church-related causes and institutions.
Chapman University hosts a booth in the General Assembly exhibit hall that offers detailed information about the school, its degree programs and our Disciples on Campus student ministry. Both staff and Disciples on Campus students are available at the booth.
The Office of Church Relations hosts a ticketed Chapman University luncheon at General Assembly. Tickets will be available through the General Assembly website. If you have questions, please call the Office of Church Relations at (714) 997-6760 or email email@example.com.


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What The Media Should Know About The Competitive Enterprise Institute's Regulation Report
Written by Albert Kleine
As the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) prepares to release its annual report on the cost of regulations, the media should be aware of the organization's documented and vested interest in attacking government regulations, as well as the report's flawed methodology and biased analysis.
According to a May 20 Wall Street Journal editorial, CEI plans to release its report on federal regulations for 2012, the cost of which CEI Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews estimates exceeded $1.8 trillion.
Conservative media will undoubtedly use the CEI's most recent report to criticize government regulation at large, and particularly the regulations enacted by President Obama.
Here are a few reasons why media should be wary of touting the CEI report.
CEI Has Been Funded By The Oil And Pharmaceutical Industry
The CEI's analysis of regulations, reported as being heavily focused on the alleged costs of Environmental Protection Agency actions and the Affordable Care Act, presents issues of objectivity considering the group's main sources of funding
According to a May 23, 2006, Washington Post article, CEI received the bulk of its donations from industries that seek to benefit from the activities of the group:
These promoters of capitalism don't really operate a commercial enterprise; like any think tank, CEI relies on donations from individuals, foundations and corporations. The most generous sponsors of last year's annual dinner at the Capital Hilton were the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Exxon Mobil, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and Pfizer. Other contributors included General Motors, the American Petroleum Institute, the American Plastics Council, the Chlorine Chemistry Council and Arch Coal.
Indeed, Desmogblog.com provides a detailed review of the group's sources of funding, showing that it has deep ties with the fossil fuel industry.
CEI's Funding Background Affects Its Analysis
CEI staff make up part of the cast of media's "climate deniers." On the PBS Frontline special "Climate of Doubt," CEI's director of energy and global warming policy Myron Ebell, commenting on the overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic climate change, stated: "We felt that if you concede the science is settled and that there's a consensus, you cannot -- the moral high ground has been ceded to the alarmists."
As Media Matters has previously noted, CEI's position on climate change -- a function of the interests of its fossil-fuel industry donors -- causes it to dispatch non-scientific "experts" to media outlets in an attempt to thwart any new regulations aimed at combating climate change.
CEI Systematically Ignores The Benefits Of Regulations
The purpose of the CEI report is to highlight the cost of regulations; however, in tallying up the total cost of the regulatory burden, CEI systematically ignores the economic benefits of regulation.
In an email to Media Matters, James Goodwin, a policy analyst at the Center for Progressive Reform, claimed that CEI's exclusion of the benefits of regulation is inherently misleading, hiding the positive effect that regulations have on the functioning of the market:
As we all know, this money is promoting the goals Congress intended: cleaner environment, safer workplaces, etc. Moreover, it ignores the indirect economic benefits of regulatory compliance spending, which spurs economic activity (something our economy by and large is lacking).
Furthermore, Goodwin noted that CEI's history of framing of the cost of regulations and subsequent hiding of benefits as a "tax" is "obviously calculated to incite anger."
Regulations Have Been Shown To Have Little Negative Impact On The Economy
While right-wing media have repeatedly used reports on the costs of regulations to make sweeping claims about their impact on the overall economy, these claims lack supporting evidence.
According to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data, government regulations led to a small share of layoffs. In the first quarter of 2013, only five layoff events were attributed to government regulations or intervention - roughly 0.5 percent of the 914 total layoff events.
While conservatives may be quick to blame regulations for job losses, the BLS data also confirms what economists have repeatedly stated - that lack of demand, not government intervention, is the cause of weak labor market gains. "Business demand" was noted as the number one reason for layoffs cited by businesses, accounting for more than 39 percent of all layoffs in the first quarter of 2013.
Even the conservative National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) found that regulation has lagged far behind in the most important concerns of small business owners, particularly in the current economic climate. From the Economic Policy Institute:
Government Regulations Provide A Net Benefit To The Economy
While the CEI report does not tally the economic benefits of regulation, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) releases an annual report that measures the total costs and benefits of major rules implemented. In the most recent report, OMB found that major rules have had a net positive benefit to the economy for the past 10 fiscal years:
The findings of the most recent OMB report are echoed in a February 23, 2011, Huffington Post column by Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore, both of the New York University School of Law. Discussing the impact of regulations, the authors claim that "one side of the balance sheet is often absent - the fact that regulations create significant economic benefits." Furthermore, they note that regulations that are too weak or lacking may impose a net cost on society:
Strong protections do cost businesses and taxpayers money, but when compared to the price of weak regulation, it turns out that they can be more than worthwhile. After giving them a closer look, regulations that might seem unaffordable are often bargains that avoid more serious monetary and social expenses.


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"The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks." –Jonathan Gruber architect of Romney-Obama-Care
The hot topic again this week coming from today's conservatives is an attempt to get you caught up into a debate about what is illegal. The GOP is attempting to appease the American voter with a change of name again to implement the illegal and unconstitutional "Obamacare" (Mark 8:15).
Look at this word play here America. First, it was the "RomneyCare." Then, it became the "Affordable Care Act." Now it is the "American Health Care Act." No matter what it is called, or who the president is who pushes for it and signs it, it is illegal (Psalm 94:20).
Rather than getting caught up into the debate that they want you to get caught up into, the question that should be presented to them who call themselves representatives is, "Where are you deriving your authority from to implement these unconstitutional acts?" It is a question that they simply cannot answer.
In other words, "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they do not have to worry about giving you the right answers."
Considering that which you have been led to believe concerning Romney-Obama-care and that it is such a good deal (Premiums are skyrocketing) for Americans, why does it not apply to the Congress that approved these unlawful measures?
"Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon." –Jonathan Gruber architect of Romney-Obama-care
"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass." -Jonathan Gruber architect of Romney-Obama–care
"When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have s much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa." -Jonathan Gruber architect of Romney-Obama-care
P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low. -Jonathan Gruber architect of Romney-Obama-care
WorldNet Daily reported on how Obamacare threatens to shred the Constitution.
Here are the top six legal arguments cited in "Impeachable Offenses" challenging the legality of Obamacare.
The law appears to violate Article 1 Section 9 of the Constitution, which stipulates: "No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken."
The section is clarified in the 16th Amendment: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
The Supreme Court ruled the law's individual mandate requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance is a tax. However, according to experts cited in "Impeachable Offenses," the mandate does not fit the description of any of the three types of valid constitutional taxes – income, excise or direct.
Write Klein and Elliott: "Because the penalty is not assessed on income, it is not a valid income tax. Because the penalty is not assessed uniformly or proportionately, and is triggered by economic inactivity, it is not a valid excise tax. Finally, because ObamaCare fails to apportion the tax among the states by population, it is not a valid direct tax."
Despite Obama's public statements that the individual mandate was not a tax, the Supreme Court ruled June 28, 2012, in a 5 to 4 vote, with conservative Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the majority, that the requirement that the majority of Americans obtain health insurance or pay a penalty was constitutional, authorized by Congress's power to levy taxes.
"The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax," Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. "Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness."
In a second 5 to 4 vote, again with Justice Roberts joining the majority, the court rejected the administration's most vigorous argument in support of the law, that Congress held the power to regulate interstate commerce.
The Commerce Clause, the court ruled, did not apply.
However, Klein and Elliott document the White House has been changing the law without involving Congress since the Supreme Court ruling and that multiple sections of the implementation of Obamacare are unconstitutional.
"Impeachable Offenses" cites Jonathan H. Adler of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Michael F. Cannon of the Cato Institute.
The duo found: "The law encourages states to create health-insurance exchanges, but it permits Washington to create them if states decline. … ObamaCare authorizes premium assistance in state-run exchanges (Section 1311) but not federal ones (Section 1321).
"In other words, states that refuse to create an exchange can block much of ObamaCare's spending and practically force Congress to reopen the law for revisions."
The Obama administration, however, was furiously at work in an attempt to avoid a legislative debacle. The administration proposed an IRS rule to "offer premium assistance in all exchanges 'whether established under section 1311 or 1321,'" Adler and Cannon said.
The Treasury Department, they continued, was "confident" that the IRS had the authority to offer premium assistance where Congress had not authorized it and that this overreach was "consistent with the intent of the law and [its] ability to interpret and implement it."
"Such confidence is misplaced," Adler and Cannon asserted. "The text of the law is perfectly clear. And without congressional authorization, the IRS lacks the power to dispense tax credits or spend money."
In May 2012, the IRS released its final regulations that would "provide guidance to individuals who enroll in qualified health plans through Affordable Insurance Exchanges and claim the premium tax credit, and to Exchanges that make qualified health plans available to individuals and employers."
Free-market advocate Phil Kerpen, cited in "Impeachable Offenses," called the regulations an "outrageous edict that attempts to up-end the ability of states to opt out of [Obama's] health care law's new entitlement."
Kerpen called the Obama administration out for what he said was an obvious attempt to "bribe states to participate by manipulating language in the law that is meant to authorize start-up grants to instead fund years of operating expenses."
Indeed, a July 2012 announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services offered states six full years of funding.
Was the maneuver constitutional? Article I, Section 1 states: "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
Congress does not vest the power to write and rewrite laws in HHS and IRS; nor can unelected bureaucrats impose taxes on states that legitimately opted out of a federal program, Kerpen continued.
"Impeachable Offenses" further cites Adler and Cannon on how the IRS went ahead in May 2012 and finalized "a rule that will issue tax credits – and therefore will trigger cost-sharing subsidies and employer-mandate penalties – through federal Exchanges."
They contended that the rule is not only illegal, but it also lacks any statutory authority.
The 10th Amendment to the Constitution reads: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The Tenth Amendment Center, which was among the plaintiffs that took Obamacare to the Supreme Court, clarifies that the amendment was "written to emphasize the limited nature of the powers delegated to the federal government."
"In delegating just specific powers to the federal government, the states and the people, with some small exceptions, were free to continue exercising their sovereign powers."
As of February 2013, only 17 states and the District of Columbia planned to run their own exchanges, while another seven opted for state-federal exchanges. The 26 states that have chosen to opt out entirely challenged the law in the Supreme Court
In January 2010, Ken Klukowski explained that the 10th Amendment does not apply here in the way many people have thought – although it does apply in a more serious manner, "Impeachable Offenses" relates. Klukowski co-authored with former Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell the 2010 book "The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency."
Citing two cases from the 1990s, Klukowski wrote that the Supreme Court "shocked the legal world" by striking the cases down for violating the 10th Amendment.
The first case was in 1992, New York v. United States, in which "the Court struck down a federal law requiring states to pass state laws for the disposal of radioactive waste, and to issue regulations for implementing those laws."
In the second case, Printz v. United States in 1997, the court "struck down a provision of the Brady Act – a federal gun-control law – that required state and local law enforcement to run background checks on handgun purchasers."
From these two cases, Klukowski explained, "emerged the anti-commandeering principle, holding that the 10th Amendment forbids the federal government from commandeering – or ordering – any branch of state government to do anything. The states are sovereign and answer only to their voters, not to Washington, D.C."
The commandeering principle is the real problem for Obamacare, write Klein and Elliott, since the law requires each state to set up an insurance exchange.
"It then requires the states to pass regulations for implementing those laws. And it further requires the states to dedicate staff and spend state money to administer those programs," said Klukowski.
In his opinion, Obamacare is a "straight-out repeat of those 1992 and 1997 cases."
"The main difference is that Obamacare violates the anti-commandeering principle in a far more severe and egregious way than those previous laws ever did," Klukowski concluded.
"Impeachable Offenses" cites Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution, which states: "All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives."
The Sacramento, Calif.-based Pacific Legal Foundation filed a challenge to Obamacare that contends it is unconstitutional, because the bill originated in the Senate, not the House.
The foundation claims that under the Origination Clause of the Constitution "all bills raising revenue must begin in the House."
The tip to follow this course of action came from the Supreme Court itself. In his June 28, 2012, ruling, Chief Justice Roberts took pains in the majority opinion to define Obamacare as a federal tax, not a mandate.
The Justice Department claimed that the bill did not originate as a spending bill and therefore does not violate the Origination Clause.
The bill, which began life as House Resolution 3590, then called the Service Members Home Ownership Act, was stripped of its contents after it passed in the House in a process known as "gut and amend." The legislation was replaced entirely with the thousands of pages of what eventually became Obamacare and given a new name.
The Obama government's position is that while using the resolution as a "'shell bill' may be inelegant … it's not unconstitutional."
The foundation's response, as documented in "Impeachable Offenses," was that "it is undisputed that H.R. 3590 was not originally a bill for raising revenue. … Unlike in the prior cases [cited by the Justice Department], the Senate's gut-and-amend procedure made H.R. 3590 for the first time into a bill for raising revenue. The precedents the government cites are therefore inapplicable."
While the Justice Department contended that raising revenue was incidental to Obamacare's "central purpose" – to improve the nation's health care system – the foundation's attorney, Timothy Sandefur, disagreed.
"What kinds of taxes are not for raising revenue?" he asked.
The Commerce Clause, as stated in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, grants Congress the right to regulate interstate commerce, not intrastate commerce, Klein and Elliott note.
Since the 1930s, Supreme Court decisions have interpreted the Commerce Clause broadly," writes Ilya Somin, an associate professor of law at George Mason University School of Law and co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review.
"But every previous case expanding the commerce power involved some sort of 'economic activity,' such as operating a business or consuming a product. Failure to purchase health insurance is neither commerce nor an interstate activity. Indeed, it is the absence of commerce," Somin added.
Georgetown University Law Center professor Randy Barnett, a former student of Harvard Law School professors Charles Fried and Laurence Tribe, "both of whom argued for the constitutionality of the [economic] mandate," writes Klein and Elliott, has been referred to as "the 'mastermind' of the legal challenge" against ObamaCare.
Barnett opined in a March 2011 debate with his former teachers: "Though Congress can compel people to be drafted into the military or sit on a jury, those activities relate to, as the Supreme Court put it, the 'supreme and noble duty' of citizenship . . . There is no supreme and noble duty of citizens to enter into contracts with private companies."
Barnett added that "the mandate would result in a 'fundamental alteration in the status of American citizens.'"
Even the Congressional Budget Office weighed in, stating in January 2010: "A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States."
Obamacare affixes a financial penalty on Americans who fail to purchase health insurance in order to regulate behavior – regulatory powers not granted in the Constitution, documents "Impeachable Offenses."
Scott P. Richert commented after the Supreme Court ruling: "Congress has been given the green light to do something that even the most imaginative interpretation of the Commerce Clause would not allow: to compel the supposedly free citizens of the United States to purchase anything that Congress deems in those citizens' best interest – or to compel them to purchase one thing rather than another."
Richert, who is executive editor of Chronicles, the monthly magazine published by the conservative think tank the Rockford Institute, continued: "All Congress has to do is to pass legislation levying a tax on those who, say, fail to purchase smoke detectors for their homes, or who insist on purchasing a car that runs on gasoline over one that runs on electricity."


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By Benjamin Millar
Tributes have been pouring in for prominent Melbourne street artist 'Sinch', electrocuted while train surfing at Balaclava train station on Friday.
Jordan Porter, a 26-year-old Balaclava man, was electrocuted just before 2.30pm after stripping naked and climbing into the roof of the outbound train as it pulled into the station.
A memorial Facebook site sprung up in his honour on Saturday and followers began spraying Metro trains and the Balaclava station with 'Sinch' in his memory.
Tributes were flowing for Porter on Saturday on The Best of Melbourne Graffiti Facebook page.
Ashley Goudie posted that it was a sad day for the graf community and anyone who knew him.
"Rest in Peace you king! Melbourne won't be the same," posted Jake Robson.
Shocked witnesses of Porter's death said they saw him remove his clothing before climbing between train carriages and jumping onto the train roof.
Witnesses said he was naked and walking on the roof when he fell on top of the train's electrical system, "convulsing and shaking" and on fire.
Police are investigating the possibility the stunt was being performed as a friend filmed from a nearby bridge.
A Reddit user wrote he had known Porter his whole life and the tragedy had left behind "a gorgeous 6-year-old daughter and a grieving family."


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In this week's issue, TIME's Belinda Luscombe looks at the wave of alimony reform sweeping across the U.S. and the women driving the change: the first and second wives who think it's time for the old rules to go.
Today, from 12:30 PM [ET], Luscombe will be taking over our Facebook page to discuss divorce's changing future. There are multiple factors in question, as she writes: Should men still have to pay alimony when women can now make (almost) as much as men? And if we abolish alimony, how do older women without job skills get by?
Care to join us? Follow along with the conversation here and let us know what you think.