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Election of Mayor-President
The Chief Executive Officer of the City and Parish shall be a Mayor-President who shall be elected by the qualified voters of the Parish at the same time and for the same terms as the members of the Metropolitan Council, provided that the Mayor-President first elected shall take office for the purposes specified in Section 2.02 of this Plan of Government immediately following the promulgation of the results of such election. Thereafter the Mayor-President shall hold office for a term of four years beginning on the first day of January following his election. He shall be a qualified voter of the Parish and if any time during his term of office he shall cease to reside within the Parish his office shall be deemed vacant.
A person who has been elected to serve as Mayor-President of the Consolidated Government of the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge for three (3) consecutive full terms of office, such service being during a term of office that began on or after January 1, 1997, shall not be eligible for election as Mayor-President of the Consolidated Government of the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge for the succeeding term. (As amended on November 18, 1995)
For the term beginning on the first day of January l949 the compensation of the Mayor-President shall be fixed by the Parish Council at not less than ten or more than fifteen thousand dollars. Thereafter the compensation of the Mayor-President shall be fixed by the Metropolitan Council by ordinance adopted at least one year prior to the commencement of the term of the Mayor-President whose compensation is to be affected thereby and if no such ordinance be adopted the compensation of the Mayor-President will remain as previously fixed by the Metropolitan Council.
Chief Executive Officer of the Parish and City
The Mayor-President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Parish and City and shall have power, as authorized by the Metropolitan Council, subject to this Plan of Government, the ordinances and resolutions of the Metropolitan Council adopted in pursuance thereof, and the Constitution and general laws of the State, to supervise and direct the administration of all departments, offices and agencies of the Parish and City Governments the heads of which are appointed by him. He shall have all the powers and duties, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Plan of Government, conferred or imposed on the Mayor of the City of Baton Rouge by its Charter or which may be conferred or imposed on the Mayors of Cities by the general laws of the State applicable to such City. He shall have power to appoint and remove, subject to the provisions of Chapter 9, of this Plan of Government, the Director of Finance, Purchasing Agent, Personnel Administrator, the Department heads as listed in Section 5.01 and 5.02 of the Plan of Government, the Chief of the Fire Department and the Chief of Police, and such other officers and employees as the Council may provide by ordinances pursuant to this Plan of Government. In the case of any officer or employee who is not a member of the classified service as provided by Chapter 9 of the Plan of Government or by any general laws applicable to the City of Baton Rouge, the Mayor-President shall, before he may exercise the power of removal, first serve on the officer or employee sought to be removed a notice in writing setting forth the grounds of the proposed removal and fixing a time and place, not less than ten days after the service of such notice, at which the officer or employee shall be given an opportunity to be heard thereon. After such hearing, which shall be public at the option of the officer or employee, the action of the Mayor-President shall be final. The Mayor-President may suspend from duty for not more than sixty days any such officer or employee pending final action. (As amended December 6, 2014)
Duties of the Mayor-President
It shall be the duties of the Mayor-President:
(a) To attend, either personally or by representation, meetings of the Council. The Mayor- President may present to the Council written messages or information which in his opinion are necessary and expedient and shall have the right to speak at all meetings of the Council. The Mayor-President shall have no vote on the Council, but all ordinances enacted by the Council shall be submitted to the Mayor- President as provided in Section 2.l. of the Plan of Government. (As Amended October 27, l979) (As amended October 20, 2007)
(b) To keep the Council informed of the financial condition of the Parish and the City of all other matters pertaining to their proper administration, and to make recommendations concerning actions to be taken by the Council.
(c) To prepare and submit the annual budgets to the Council as provided in Chapter 8 of this Plan of Government.
(d) To prepare and submit to the Council not later than their first meeting in July of each year a concise and comprehensive report of the financial transactions and administrative activities of the Parish and the City and all districts of which the Metropolitan Council is the governing body, during the fiscal year ending on the preceding thirty-first day of December, in suitable form for publication, and to cause to be printed for general distribution to all citizens or request such number of copies of the same as the Council shall direct. (As amended October 20, 2007))
(e) To perform such other duties as may be prescribed by this Plan of Government or required of him by the ordinances of the Council.
President Pro-Tempore
The President Pro-Tempore shall preside over the meetings of the Metropolitan Council with the right to speak and to vote. If the Mayor-President is absent from the Parish and City or unable to perform his duties the President Pro-Tempore shall act as Mayor-President and in the case of a vacancy in the office of Mayor-President shall serve as such until the vacancy is filled as hereinafter provided. (As amended October 27, l979) (As amended October 20, 2007)
Vacancy in the Office of the Mayor-President
A vacancy in the office of Mayor-President, from whatever cause arising, occurring within one year of the expiration of his term shall be filled by appointment by majority vote of all members of the Metropolitan Council, but if the vacancy occurs more than one year prior to the expiration of his term, it shall be filled by vote of the qualified voters of the Parish at a special election called and held pursuant to the Louisiana Election Code, Louisiana Revised Statutes, Title l8. (As amended September 11, l982)
Division of Purchasing
There shall be under the immediate direction of the Mayor-President a Division of Purchasing. The head of the Division of Purchasing shall be the Purchasing Agent. He shall be a person skilled and experienced in private business purchasing or governmental purchasing and property control and accountability. It shall be the duty of the Purchasing Agent to purchase all supplies, materials, equipment, and contractual services, including insurance and surety bonds, for the use of the several departments of the Parish and City established by this Plan of Government, all districts of which the Metropolitan Council is the governing body, all other departments, boards, commissions, offices and boards to which this provision is constitutionally applicable, or which may request the services of the Purchasing Agent, henceforth referred to herein as using agencies, excepting the purchase of books for the public library. It shall be the duty of the Purchasing Agent to consult the head of each using agency as to the kind and quality of the supplies, materials and equipment to be purchased for it.
Further Powers and Duties of Purchasing Agent
The Purchasing Agent, for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of the preceding section, shall have the following powers and duties:
(a) To establish, with approval of the Mayor-President and after consultation with the heads of the using agencies concerned, standard specifications for supplies, materials and equipment required by the using agencies.
(b) To prescribe the time of making requisitions and the future period which such requisitions are to cover.
(c) To inspect or cause to be inspected all deliveries of supplies, materials and equipment, and to cause tests to be made when necessary, in order to determine their quality, quantity and conformance with specifications.
(d) To supervise and control such central storerooms as the Council may establish.
(e) To transfer to or between using agencies, sell or trade in, supplies, materials and equipment determined by him, with the approval of the Mayor-President and after consultation with the head of the using agency concerned, to be surplus, obsolete or unused.
(f) To maintain an adequate system of accounting for all property received and all property issued by the Division of Purchasing, in accordance with accepted principles of accounting for property and inventory control; and to maintain such inventory of all movable property under the control of the several using agencies as the Metropolitan Council may require.
Competitive Bidding
Before making a purchase or contract the Purchasing Agent shall give opportunity for competitive bidding under such rules and regulations, not in conflict with general law, as may be established by the Metropolitan Council. With the approval of the Council, the Purchasing Agent may reject any or all bids and readvertise for bids; provided that competitive bidding shall not be required in the case of contracts for professional service and for services for which the rate or price is fixed by a federal or state authority authorized by law to fix rates or prices. All sales made by the Purchasing Agent shall be made on the basis of competitive bids after such public notice as may be prescribed by the Council, by ordinance and all sales shall be to the highest bidder.
Accounting Control of Purchasing
All purchases and contracts executed by the Purchasing Agent shall be pursuant to a written requisition, in such form as may be prescribed by the Director of Finance, from the head of the using agency whose appropriation is to be charged or from the head of a division or other operating unit thereof to whom such authority has been delegated by the head of the using agency in writing, filed with the Purchasing Agent. No purchase order made or contract entered into by the Purchasing Agent shall be valid unless there be endorsed thereon the certificate of the Director of Finance that there is an unexpended and unencumbered balance in the appropriation and allotment applicable thereto. Nothing herein, however, shall be taken to prevent the Purchasing Agent from making purchases for a stores revolving fund which the Metropolitan Council is hereby authorized to establish, and to make sales from the stores account to the several using agencies based on their requisitions; provided that the Director of Finance certifies that there is an unexpended and unencumbered balance in the appropriation and allotment to be charged.
Records Relating to Competitive Bidding
A record of all bids, showing the names of the bidders and the amount of the bids, and indicating in each case the successful bidder, together with the originals of all sealed bids and other documents pertaining to the making of purchases and the award of contracts, shall be preserved by the Purchasing Agent for six years in a file which shall be open to public inspection during regular business hours.
Transaction Not to Be Divided
No transaction, which is essentially a unit, shall be divided for the purpose of evading or so as to evade the intent of Section 4.09.
Financing Mayor-President's Office
The number and compensation of the employees in the office of the Mayor-President, including the Division of Purchasing, shall be fixed by the Metropolitan Council. The compensation of the Mayor-President and all other expenses of his office, including those of the Division of Purchasing, shall be provided by appropriations made by the Council.
Chief Administrative Officer
(a) For the purpose of assisting in the supervision and coordination of the duties of the Mayor- President's office, the Mayor-President may appoint a Chief Administrative Officer who shall be an unclassified employee in the office of the Mayor-President. He shall perform the duties hereinafter enumerated and may appoint one secretary or confidential assistant who shall likewise be unclassified. All other employees assigned to his office shall be appointed and removed subject to the provisions of Chapter 9 of this Plan of Government.
(b)The Chief Administrative Officer shall have the following minimum qualifications:
(l) At least five years' experience in an administrative capacity; and,
(2) Must have graduated from an accredited four-year college or university.
(c) The Chief Administrative Officer shall assist the Mayor-President in the duties of his office and shall have and perform the following mandatory duties:
(l) Make studies of the internal organization and procedures of any office, department or board, and require such reports from any of them which he deems necessary.
(2) Make reports prescribing accepted standards of administrative practice for all administrative offices, departments and board.
(3) Prepare an annual statistical report of City and Parish operation for submission to the Mayor-President and the Metropolitan Council, including appropriate recommendations for revisions and changes in administrative practices and other departmental procedures.
(d) Anything in this Chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, the compensation of the Chief Administrative Officer and all other expenses of his office shall be provided by appropriations made by the Council. (As amended November 3, l964) (As amended October 20, 2007)


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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The hardliners' last hurrah
Cuban Americans have long been the only reliably Republican segment of the Latino electorate. When you add the fact that the hard-line Cuban vote is located mainly in the important state of Florida, and the fact that it generates considerable campaign donations for the Republican Party, it has earned a favored position in Republican politics.
But this is changing. Look at Miami-Dade County, where the Cuban vote is concentrated, with a population that is 65 percent Latino: Al Gore won 53% of the Miami-Dade vote in 2000, John Kerry won 53% in 2004, President Obama won 58% in 2008 and 62% yesterday.
In yesterday's Florida exit polls, the Cuban vote split evenly: Obama 49-Romney 47 (NBC News) and Romney 50-Obama 47 (Fox News). The rest of Florida's Latino vote went for Obama, 68-32.
So there are problems for Republicans.
First, the old reliable hard-line Cuban Americans are no longer capable of delivering a majority of their own community's votes for the GOP. The community is changing. Half of Cuban Americans – Obama's Cuban Americans – are either not single issue "anti-Castro" voters, or they support the President's policies that give them the freedom to decide how often they can visit their families in Cuba and how much money they can send to support them. Who would have imagined that President Obama could liberalize Cuba policies and increase his Miami-Dade margin by four points? The Cuba policy that Governor Romney proposed – reverting to Bush policies that limit visits to once every three years and remittances to $100 per month – is incapable of making this situation better for the GOP, and can only make it worse over time. Each year for the past four years, an average of 39,521 Cubans have become legal permanent residents of the United States. These are not people who are 80 years old, who left Cuba in 1960, and have no connection or affection for those they left behind.
Second, the Republican hard-line approach on Cuba is irrelevant to the real Republican problem, which is to address Latinos not of Cuban descent. These are people who live under the normal set of immigration rules, not the ones that apply to Cubans whose illegal immigrants are welcomed and given government benefits and a quick path to a green card as soon as they arrive. In fact, when Republicans emphasize their affinity with Cuban immigrants, they underscore their distance from the life that all other Latino immigrants live every day. This is why Senator Rubio is so overrated as a Republican emissary to Latinos nationwide – he supports the open-door policy with free government benefits for his own, and opposes it for everyone else.
With all respect to Governor Jeb Bush, the Republican problem with Latinos is not a problem of "tone," it is one of policies that are harsh and convey disrespect, to put it mildly.
Republicans need to have a debate about immigration, and if they start one – or even if they do not – the hard-line segment of the Cuban American community will find that it no longer holds a favored position. Calle Ocho is losing its ability to deliver votes. It is less powerful in Miami-Dade and less important in Florida. And in the issue that matters for Republicans, connecting to Latinos nationally, it has no role to play at all.
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- Antonio said...
Good analysis, Peter. There is also a change in the way Cubans who left the island recently perceive themselves relative to other Latinos. I have heard anti- Castro Cubans say "I am not Latino, I am Cubano."
I have a Cuban friend who left the island as an adult in the 1990s, and he sees himself as Latino as the next guy from Mexico. - November 8, 2012 at 1:06 AM
- Anonymous said...
Dear Mr. Peters,
You are right in pointing out the fact that the political future of the Republican party depends on securing an adequate share of the Latino vote that is the fastest growing segment of the US electorate and that this requires a change in the Republican attitude towards immigration.
But is this feasible or are you asking for a political oxymoron or indulging in wishful thinking?
The United States obviously needs to find a way to efficiently regulate its immigration problems.
With a standard of living that is much higher than its southern neighbors it is a magnet that attracts the inhabitants of near by countries.
If unrestricted immigration were to be allowed there would be massive population flows into the US that would continue till the US standard of living would equalize with those of the neighboring countries.
So a system of immigration quotas and restrictions have been set up to avoid this and protect the US standard of living.
The problem is that this system is inefficient and incapable of allowing the US government to control the inflow of immigrants from its southern neighbors and must be reformed.
A way must be found to:
1. Stop illegal immigrants from working inside the US.
2. Make the US maritime and terrestrial borders less porous.
3. Regulate the problem of illegal immigrants already residing inside the US.
4. Simultaneously efficiently regulate immigration while at the same time facilitating an adequate supply of temporary low paid workers that the US economy requires.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties are interested in finding an adequate solution to immigration reform because it is essential to long run US national interests.
But there are significant differences between them as to how to go about implementing the reform.
Cantaclaro - November 8, 2012 at 10:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
Although not entirely, these differences center fundamentally, not in the measures necessary to restrict the illegal immigrants access to work or to stop them from entering US territory but rather on:
1. What proportion of the illegal immigrants are to be allowed to stay within US territory, become legal residents and eventual US citizens.
2. The severity with which the deportation of illegal immigrants will be undertaken.
Since all recent immigrants have a lower standard of living and fundamentally belong to the working or lower working class they naturally favor the Democratic party and allowing a larger number of them to eventually become US citizens and vote would threaten the political interests of the Republican party.
For the same reason the Republican party sees the presence of a large number of illegal immigrants within US territory as a potential threat to its interests and favors a more muscular approach to illegal immigrant detection and deportation.
This approach makes the US citizens of Latino origin feel threatened and defensive and makes them hostile to the Republican party.
So there is a fundamental conflict of interests between the Latino US citizens and the Republican party which is not going to go away.
Asking the Republican party to change its hostile attitude towards an increased Latino US electorate which they feel goes against their political interests is oxymoronic wishful thinking.
Furthermore, if immigration reform is attempted these Republican contradictions with the increased Latino presence in US society are going to become more evident and the problem is going to be aggravated instead of attenuating.
In short, It just ain't going to happen Mr. Peters.
All of which makes me believe that in the future we are reversing the trend, the political pendulum is heading in the other direction, and we face a period of increasing Democratic party hegemony in US politics.
Cantaclaro - November 8, 2012 at 10:32 AM
- Anonymous said...
on the mark on much of those comments. particularly truthful is the marco rubio insight. i am sick and tired of the experts touting rubio as the next big republican thing, either a vp or even presidential nominee in 2016. he has absolutely little cred in the latino community for the reasons you stated. and he doesn't have much cred in the cubano community because of his twisting of his family's history. picking him to connect with the latino vote would be as effective as picking sarah palin was for the women's vote. but that's typical republican thinking. regarding the changing dynamics in the cuban american voting community, im surprised you didn't at least in passing mention joe garcia's victory over riviera. certainly had something to do with the corruption charges, but i think it also is a good indication of where the cuban american voting will go in the future, and if more moderates like garcia are elected, then maybe finally the siege against cuba will end. it is such good news to see the republican control of the cuban american vote is ending -- due mostly to the demographics. the ending of the first generation of exiles in miami and the first generation of revolutionaries in havana will signal real change, and we took one step closer to that this week - November 8, 2012 at 1:24 PM
- Anonymous said...
I agree with the previous analyst that both the changing demographics in Miami and the end of the fistr generation of revolutionarie in Havana bring us one step closer to a democratic transition in Cuba because it makes it easier for internal protests to grow in Cuba and to accelerate reforms and for the US government to follow a more intelligent policy towards the island based on the conditional lifting of the embargo in exchange for democratic reforms.
However, I believe that the existing privileged elite in Havana will attempt to pass the torch to its next generation and to preserve the totalitarian system and its privileges as long as possible.
I believe that the Cuban ruling class will try by hookand crook to hang on to power for as long as its Mexican predecessors which lasted from 1910 to 2000.
The developments my fellow analyst mentions are, talking in mathematical terms, just a (preliminary) necessary condition but not the (final) sufficient one.
The sufficient one is providing the Cuban people with free access to information so that they become aware that their totalitarian system is the cause of their plight and make determined efforts to change it.
And in providing them free access to information, the United States has an important role to play by:
1- Providing Cuban Americans all possible opportunities to travel to the island and to aid their relatives there so that the population of the island becomes more aware of the difference between life in their island and abroad.
2- Creating mesh networks on the island that will provide a part of its population with direct, unsupervised and uncensored satelite access to the internet.
3- Helping to create internal channels of distribution that will use lower level technology such as cds, dvds and flash drives to help the informed minority to distribute the information it has obtained throughout the island.
The US government must also make optimal use of its leverage by not to lifting the embargo unconditionally without requesting some democratic reforms in return for each concession it makes.
Such policies will foster Cuban democratic reforms without requiring excessive US intervention in the island's politics and minimizing the necessity for an eventual US military intervention in its affairs.
They will also avoid a significant backlash against the US Cuba policy among the Latino population in the US and throughout Latin America and the underdeveloped world.
In short the US policy has to play an active role in to expedite the thriumph of democracy in Cuba but US policy must be implemented in an intelligent and moderate way in order to accomplish its goals without an excessive backlash.
- November 8, 2012 at 2:52 PM
- Anonymous said...
no cantaclaro, the single most effective step to change the regime in havana has been, is and always will be to let US citizens travel there freely:
the totalitarian state cannot survive 5 mio Yankees p.a. -
which is why the regime is using every opportunity, starting with the downing of the avionetas in 94 and now with the incarceration of Gross, to give the US reasons NOT to change its current policy of denial of elementary freedom to travel to Americans.
this argument is not even considering the highly contradictory US policy of allowing their citizens to travel to and trade with EVERY other undemocratic country on the planet, incl. North Korea, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
- November 9, 2012 at 1:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
the downing of the planes was complete and total provocation on the american side, they could have stopped the bttr illegal overflights at any time, but refused to despite repeated warnings from the cuban govt. the jailing of gross was again completely the fault of us policy usaid knew what was going to happen to gross. the cuban government reacted as any other govt would. it is just one of the ridiculous myths that the cuban side does not want normal relations, and tries to sabotage any american overture. the americans have never had to had any reasons to put siege on cuba in fact the reasons keep changing based on us needs, not cuban. and the proof that the us does not want to end siege, simply look at the conditions they have imposed in the past, met by the cubans, then changed. they constantly change the goalposts. us policy has never been to engage cuba, only to destroy the revolution. so if the theory is that free travel by us citizens would destroy the revolution, why hasn't it been done?
- November 9, 2012 at 6:08 PM
- Anonymous said...
In international politics every move you make has its costs and benefits and they must be weighed before deciding what to do,
I am in favor of allowing Cuban Americans free access and expenditures in the island but not allowing the rest of the American citizens and residents to do so because I believe in the first case the benefits outweigh the costs and in the second case the reverse is true.
On what do I base my apparently contradictory position?
First of all Cuban Americans speak the language and have friends and family among the population of the island. This allows them to speak to members of their families and friends in a more open way with less fear of being denounced to the security police.
They are also able to clearly communicate to them the differences existing between life in Cuba and in other countries.
They are also living proof of these differences through the expenditures they make while in the island and the standard of living they exhibit.
All of which has a highly subversive long run effect on people who knew them but remained in the island when they left.
Finally a great part of the Cuban American dollar expenditures in the island and remmitances sent from abroad is dedicated to aiding their families and friends.
True all the money they send as remmitances and spend in the island in the final analysis is spent in the dollar stores and winds up in the government's hands and this allows the totalitarian government to hang on to power.
However I believe that the subversive effects of their presence and the benefits they provide to the survival of the island's population outweigh these disadvantages.
Normal Americans however, do not speak the language, are less able to communicate with the local population and the Cuban population does not identify itself with them and does not view them as role models.
Thus their presence does not have the same long run subversive effect as the Cuban American.
Nor are the expenditures they make in the island directed towards providing aid for the survival of the local population.
A much larger proportion of these expenditures goes into the government coffers without passing through the population's hands and are thus available to squander by the ruling elite.
Since their presence does not have the same long run subversive effect and since it benefits the population less and the survival of the totalitarian government more, I believe that the costs of American tourism to the island outweigh its benefits and thus do not favor it.
Cantaclaro - November 24, 2012 at 10:49 PM
- Anonymous said...
I am not in favor of keeping the embargo in place until the Cuban government is overthrown nor of lifting it unconditionally.
I believe in the middle of the road policy of ending it gradually step by step in exchange for Cuban government reforms that favor a demcoratic transition and a return to a market economy.
Furthermore, I believe that tourism of the non cuban segment of the American public should be used as the principal US carrot to encourage the Cuban government to carry out the needed reforms.
I am in favor of the US government setting up yearly quotas for American tourists that would be allowed to visit the island.
I also believe that these quotas should be varied in accordance with the results of the program of political and economic reforms that will be carried out in the future by the Cuban government.
If there is a steady pace of reform measures that favor a democratic transition and free market reforms these quotas should be raised as a reward for such performance.
If the reforms are blocked or if they are pushed back, the quotas should be lowered.
IMHO it would be extremely candid to give away the principal means of leverage that the US has to influence the Cuban democratic transition without getting any reforms back in return.
I believe that a policy of conditionally lifting the embargo in exchange for reforms will be a more efficient way to return Cuba to democracy and an productive economy than one based on unconditional lifting of the embargo without requiring reforms in return.
I also believe that people who favor and unconditional lifting of the embargo and allowing all american tourist who wish to do so to travel to Cuba, do not have as a their principal objective the long run interests of the Cuban people.
What they are after is to increase the dollar revenue fo the island believing that this will result in increased purchases of American agricultural products, medicines and industrial goods and in profitable opportunities for investment in the Cuban tourist industry.
However, they do not seem to be aware that a good chunk of these additional dollar incomes will simply be transferred to secret bank accounts abroad by the priviledged elite and will not be used to increase the standard of living of the Cuban population nor to buy American goods.
They also overestimate their possibilities for profitable investmentes in the Cuban tourist sector.
It will be difficult for Americans to be allowed to carry out unrestricted investment in the principal foreign exchange earning sector of the Cuban economy.
If they are allowed at all, it will be as junior partners of the Cuban elite that will reserve its more profitable portions for itself.
For all these reasons I favor the conditional lifting of the embargo instead of doing so unconditionally.
Also using American tourism intelligently as an the main incentive for such reforms.
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Google ditches JavaOne over Oracle's Android suit
Sharing thoughts now 'impossible'
Google has said that due to Oracle's lawsuit against the company over the use of Java in Android, it will not be attending the annual JavaOne developer conference this fall. Following Larry Ellison's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, JavaOne is now run by Oracle.
Google says that it has attended JavaOne every year since 2004.
"Like many of you, every year we look forward to the workshops, conferences and events related to open source software. In our view, these are among the best ways we can engage the community, by sharing our experiences and learning from yours," Google open source programs office man Joshua Bloch said Friday in a blog post.
"So we're sad to announce that we won't be able to present at JavaOne this year. We wish that we could, but Oracle's recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally."
Notice that Bloch characterizes Oracle's suit as an attack "against open source" — not just Google — echoing an earlier statement from the company. Some parts of Android are proprietary, but it is mostly open source, including its Dalvik virtual machine.
Earlier this month, Oracle filed a complaint in a Northern California federal court accusing Google of deliberately infringing various Java-related patents and copyrights that Oracle acquired with its purchase of Sun Microsystems. The suit waves seven patents, claiming infringement by Android, including Dalvik and the Android software development kit.
Dalvik — like the rest of Android's open source code — is published under an Apache 2 license, and it's built on a subset of the Apache Software Foundation's Project Harmony, an open source version of Java Standard Edition (Java SE). ®


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Welcome to a new issue of DT Make It Monday. Today it's my turn and I want to show you how to make a cute gift with C.C. Cutters dies.
I needed a gift for Mother's Day and bought a beautiful pot of flowers. Now I still needed a matching card. But why always giving away cards? Then I saw the C.C. Cutters Cube Box die and Christine's cute baby tower came into my mind. That's it!
I took the C.C. Cutters Bubble Alphabet die. You see that it is one big die but of course you can also cut single letters. It's so easy!
Just cut your cardstock into little pieces and only cover the letters you want to cut with it.
Run the die with the cardstock pieces trough your cutting machine.
And you will get single letters.
I needed 'MAMA' which is Mum in German.
Then I cut four C.C. Cutters Cube Boxes, adhered them together and decorated the cube bar with different die cuts.
And this is the whole gift set. My mother liked it a lot!
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-- Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt And KISS Are In The Rock Hall.
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Senate Approves Jeh Johnson As Homeland Security Secretary. (Politico)
Angela Merkel Elected As German Chancellor, Starting Third Term. (BBC)
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Uncontained Wildfire Burning In California's Big Sur. (San Francisco Chronicle)
3 Firms To Pay $1 Billion To California Areas In Lead Paint Lawsuit. (Los Angeles Times)
Lotto Officials Wonder If Mega Millions Jackpot Could Hit $1 Billion. (CNN)
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While driving the lovely and scenic Route 50 to return some videotapes the other day, I noticed a sign that informed me that February was not just the month of the year when we celebrate Black History.
Apparently, February is also National K-9 Obesity Awareness month, and let me tell you that I immediately thought to myself, "Finally, someone is addressing an issue that has been overlooked for far too long: fat dogs."
Hopefully, you can sense my sarcasm as I'm laying it on pretty thick in this case.
It got me thinking about how many weeks or months out of the year we are given a specific window to honor or recognize certain causes, cultures, genders, holidays, and/or events. I was only slightly surprised when I found the rather lengthy list.
Now, I'm not in any way undermining the tradition of honoring things like Black History Month, although I do think that it's interesting that they appointed our shortest month of the year for the rich history of Afro-Americans. I also think that holidays like Veterans Day, Memorial Day, the 4th of July, and the other big ones so to speak are super important to teach our kids about, and have that day off from work to celebrate over some grilled hamburgers and canned Coca-Cola.
What I don't get it is how things like National Safe Boater Week, National School Lunch Week, and National Save Your Vision Week ever got passed by Congress or requested by Presidential proclamation to have a specified week of awareness raised each year.
This realization came on the heels (though not necessarily as a result) of what is considered by many jaded single people to be a "Hallmark" holiday when we celebrated Valentine's Day yesterday. The annual event where men all over the country wine and dine their ladies at fine eateries and purchase shiny or chocolate covered objects for them is one that has seemingly been around for generations. Yet, at its humble beginnings in the 19th century, Valentine's Day was the day that short and thoughtful handwritten notes were exchanged between lovers. Obviously, those thoughtful handwritten notes evolved into witty-phrased gift cards and the ever-popular singing cards, and the multi-million dollar industry that is "being romantic."
Though many scorned singles may be against V-Day, there are plenty of other observed days that should get people looking at just as cynically. I mean, if you can give a whole week to creating awareness about crappy school lunches, is it so bad that we stop the crazy train of our hectic lives and tell our women that we love them and buy them some flowers?
I mean, if the Beatles were right and "All You Need Is Love", then shouldn't it be Valentine's week? Granted, all the men in the world would be broke, so perhaps that isn't a good idea, but I think you get my point.
We've got Groundhog Day for chrissakes, which being from Western Pa. originally, I can vouch that the annual rodent weather report is just an excuse for warming the winter blues with copious amounts of barley and hops in a Punxsutawney field somewhere. We've got St. Patrick's Day, which has become a day when everybody is drunk while pretending to be Irish. We've got Mardi Gras, which is a rich tradition of throwing a big party to celebrate the upcoming Lenten season and Fat Tuesday is the night where you get "Yer Ya Ya's" out before you give stuff up for Lent.
Fat Tuesday is now a chain of bars and a home base for Girls Gone Wild-type tomfoolery. In hindsight, I doubt that getting those types of Ya-Ya's out were what people had in mind when the tradition of Mardi Gras started.
Pretty much every state has their own day (Maryland's is March 25), and some groups get multiple days. Father's and Mother's Day is well known, but there is also a Parents Day that is supposed to be celebrated on the fourth Sunday in July. What else is interesting is the amount of ideas and causes that get specific days such as Loyalty Day (May 1), Freedom Day (Feb. 1), and Law Day (coincidentally and ironically on May 1 also same as Loyalty Day).
We spend days honoring our flag, our trees, our constitution, our heart, our secretaries, our children's health, and even a whole week honoring our transportation.
The entire month of May honors the Steel Industry as well as the Asian Pacific Americans that live in this country. February is a very busy month as we celebrate Black History Month, American Heart Month and Valentines Day.
I guess the point is that everyone has a cause that they are fighting to get people to know about, and some causes like Cancer Control Month (April) are in my opinion much more necessary than Sober Boater Week or K-9 Obesity week. The question is whether or not we need to have specific dates set aside for us to take notice of every cause that is out there or every event that has ever happened?
I mean, do we?
If that is the case, and the people that want the world to know how to keep your dogs from becoming land manatees (my guess is less table scraps and actually walking them) got a specified time to preach their cause, how long before every week or even day is designated to some ridiculous cause that people want donations for, like National Turf Toe week?
I mean how many NFL careers have been shortened by the tragedy of Turf Toe?
I'm sure it's more than you think.
So, I guess in this month of celebrating Black History and telling your lover that you really do love them by showering them with spa packages and red roses, perhaps we should realize that there are never enough hours in the day, days in the week, weeks in the month, or month in the year to truly be aware of everything that is going on.
As long as you stick to the big ones however, like calling your Mother, remembering our history, and telling your girl that you love them, you should get by pretty well.
I'm sure you can catch up on what they're having for lunch in our nation's schools some other time.
I'm pretty sure they're still serving sloppy joe's.
And remember to walk your dog, because there might just be no bigger problem facing our world today than the fight against K-9 obesity.
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What is VOCALS?
What if you wanted to learn more about the climate system of a very large area such as the Southeast Pacific Ocean? What would be involved in studying how the oceans, land, and atmosphere interact? You would need to assemble a team of experts from around the world and have them plan a field experiment that would collect lots of data to be analyzed.
This is exactly what the VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS) field campaign intends to do! VAMOS stands for Variability of the American Monsoon System. VOCALS is a month long international field experiment focused on learning more about the interactions between the South American Continent and the Southeast Pacific (SEP) Ocean. If you think that experiments only take place in laboratories, you will be interested to learn that the VOCALS team plans to work in the big outdoors! The SEP area includes the land of subequatorial Peru down to about 35 degrees South in Chile and the Southeast Pacific Ocean out to about 110W. Although slightly outside of this area, Easter Island is also considered to be part of the study area. This climate system of this very large area has not been nearly as well studied as the Northern Pacific or Atlantic Oceans. The VOCALS campaign will change that!
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VOCALS will need the expertise of over 150 scientists, engineers, and technicians from 40 universities and nine countries. New observational technologies will be used to collect much-needed information about the SEP. They will utilize four aircraft and two research ships containing scientific instruments. Buoys in the ocean and land-based observation stations in Chile will also collect and contribute data to VOCALS research.
Although it will take place in October 2008, a field campaign of this magnitude requires considerable planning and coordination to prepare. And once the data has been collected, the researchers will be involved for several years in the analysis. They will use this information to improve their models of the Earth system.
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While we are in a dark night of the soul experience, hold steady knowing the light will appear once again.
Whenever a word is overused, it is most likely being misused, and over time, it begins to lose its meaningfulness. For example, we often refer to a fleeting feeling of depression or a period of confusion, as a dark night of the soul, but neither of these things qualifies as such. A dark night of the soul is a very specific experience that some people encounter on their spiritual journeys. There are people who never encounter a dark night of the soul, but others must endure this as part of the process of breaking through to the dawn of higher consciousness.
The dark night of the soul invites us to fully recognize the confines of our egos' identity. We may feel as if we are trapped in a prison that affords us no access to light or the outside. We are coming from a place of higher knowing, and we may have spent a lot of time and energy reaching toward the light of higher consciousness. This is why the dark night has such a quality of despair: We are suddenly shut off from what we thought we had realized and the emotional pain is very real. We may even begin to feel that it was all an illusion and that we are lost forever in this darkness. The more we struggle, the darker things get, until finally we surrender to our not knowing what to do, how to think, where to turn. It is from this place of losing our sense of ourselves as in control that the ego begins to crack or soften and the possibility of light entering becomes real.
Some of us will have to endure this process only once in our lives, while others may have to go through it many times. The great revelation of the dark night is the releasing of our old, false identity. We finally give up believing in this false self and thus become capable of owning and embracing the light.
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On December 13, 2000, seven convicts break out of a maximum-security prison in South Texas, setting off a massive six-week manhunt. The escapees, dubbed the "Texas Seven" by the media, overpowered civilian employees and prison guards in the maintenance shop where they worked and stole clothing, guns and a vehicle. The men left a note saying: "You haven't heard the last of us yet."
Soon after escaping from the Connally Unit lockup in Kenedy, Texas, the fugitives picked up another getaway vehicle, allegedly provided by the father of one of the men, and robbed a Radio Shack store in Pearland, Texas, making off with cash and police scanners. On Christmas Eve, the escapees, who had been convicted for a long list of violent crimes, including murder, rape and robbery, struck a sporting-goods store in Irving, Texas, where they stole a large amount of cash and weapons. In the process, the men killed police officer Aubrey Hawkins, shooting him multiple times with multiple weapons and running him over. The Texas Seven then fled to Colorado, where they purchased a motor home, told people they were Christian missionaries and spent the month at a trailer park near Woodland Park, Colorado.
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In February 2001, the six surviving members of the Texas Seven were indicted on capital murder charges in the death of Officer Hawkins. Each man was later convicted and sentenced to death; several were later executed.


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I often realize that I want to place a bounty on a question, but already have a bounty in place. So far three simultaneous bounties have been allowed, but I find I forget many times which questions I wanted to feature with a new bounty, when one of my old bounties is done. A bigger problem for me actually now is the two day wait; I know I will want to bounty a question because I'm either not getting an answer (non-Meta), or will want to draw attention to the question (Meta).
Could we get the ability to queue up a bounty so that when our one bounty is awarded the next takes its place?
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I've been meaning to get around to making coffee and walnut cake for years, and what better excuse to make a big decorated cake than a party! So, today, I made one, finally! Taking inspiration from Darina (did I mention how much I love the Ballymalloe Cookery Course book?), I added walnuts to the basic coffee cake recipe and doubled the buttercream quantity so there'd be some to go on the top.
In the unlikely event that you don't like walnuts, you can leave them out. In the more probable event that you do, buy more than you need for the recipe, I find other halves are inclined to start gobbling the nuts before you realise.
The original recipe called for irel, which is a coffee essence sort of product. I think it's a sort of chicory/coffee syrup that you can use for cooking or making hot drinks with. Instead I used some strong coffee and misused my mokka pot to make it. I half filled the water resevoir and filled the coffee part as normal, giving a shorter stronger coffee (this is not how you're normally supposed to use them). I poured the coffee over ice into a jug when it was done and put it in the fridge to cool completely. I had some leftover coffee after the cake, so I stirred in some milk for a lovely iced coffee treat. (I love coffee, in case you didn't know this :) ).
- 225g butter
- 225g caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 225g self-raising flour
- 6 dessert spoons strong coffee (you could probably substitute in instant or irel if you prefer)
- 100g of walnut halves (keep the 8 best looking halves for the top of the cake, and roughly chop/crush the remainder)
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line two 20cm cake tins (a bit of butter under the baking paper helps to keep it in place.
Cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy. Then beat in the eggs one by one, beat them thoroughly, the first one is the hardest. Add the (sifted) flour and mix well. Add the coffee and walnut pieces and then divide the mixture between the two tins. Bake for 30 minutes until the cakes are firm and the sides start to come away from the edges of the tin.
Turn out on to a wire and remove the baking paper and then you can flip them over if you don't want to have lines on the cake. Wait until they're cool before you begin to ice them.
- 125g butter
- 250g icing sugar
- 4 tsp instant coffee in 1 tsp of hot water (I know, the shame of having a jar of instant, had to buy my first jar in years just to make the cake, ruining my coffee snob credentials)
There are two ways to make the icing, the easy way and the hard way. The hard way is to cream everything together by hand (I tried this at first). The easy way is to bung everything into a food processor, or in my case, a chopper and blitz till it's smooth. When it's all creamed together by either method, place the bottom piece of cake on the plate you'll be showing the cake off on, then spread half the icing on. Place the top part on top and put the remainder of the icing on top. Decorate with the remaining walnut halves. If you want enough to cover the sides, increase the quantity of icing by at least half (I always make a mess of the sides of cake so extra icing is handy for patching holes).
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Air Arabia receives the 6000th Airbus A320 as part of its fleet
Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa, today announced that it has taken delivery of its 37th aircraft, the 6000th Airbus A320 made to date. The aircraft, which has been adorned with a commemorative 6000th logo, was unveiled at a ceremony in Hamburg, Germany, attended by senior officials from Air Arabia, Airbus and CFM as well as the entire Airbus technical team.
Air Arabia has now received 23 of the 44 A320 aircrafts ordered from Airbus in 2007, and once completed in 2016, the order will more than double the size of Air Arabia's existing fleet.
Adel Ali, Group Chief Executive Officer, Air Arabia said: "The delivery of our 37th aircraft marks a significant step in the development of our fleet expansion strategy. We are proud to be in the process of creating the industry's most modern fleet as we look forward to receiving seven more aircrafts this year. Air Arabia is committed to not only providing customers with the best value for money and most convenient flights, but these new aircrafts also ensure the highest quality of travel and comfort."
The latest A320 aircrafts come equipped with Shraklets, fuel saving large wing tip devices which reduce fuel burn and emissions by significantly improving the aerodynamics of the aircraft. Air Arabia is the first carrier in the Middle East to fly these planes.
The A320 Family is the world's best-selling and most modern single aisle aircraft Family. All Air Arabia aircraft cabin interiors are fitted with a world-class comfort seats offering highest seat pitch of any economy cabin across the globe and therefore, offering passengers extra leg room to sit back and relax during their flight.


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The World Health Organization has reported 10 confirmed cases on the island. The CDC says it's the first time the disease has been reported among non-travelers in the Western Hemisphere.
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Cardinal George Pell returned this week to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in relation to the Ballarat and Melbourne case studies.
Giving evidence over the course of four days, via video link from Rome, Pell modified slightly his previous public positions. But, fundamentally, he insisted that he knew little, and fulfilled his duties in relation to what he did know.
On several occasions, counsel assisting the royal commission suggested that Pell's claims to be ignorant of child sex offending in various contexts was implausible. If everyone around Pell knew, how could he not have known?
The forms of denial
One of the most important lessons we have learnt from Pell's appearance is the church was – and still is – in a state of denial. It is in denial about the harms of sexual abuse, and about the adequacy of its responses to allegations of abuse.
Being in denial is a curious thing. In denying something, you implicitly admit that there is something to deny.
The late sociologist Stanley Cohen examined this phenomenon in his last book. Cohen argued that we have myriad techniques of keeping disturbing knowledge at bay: there are many ways of not knowing.
The simplest is literal denial. We saw plenty of this from Pell. He repeatedly said that he never knew of allegations of abuse; that he never heard rumours of Gerald Ridsdale's offending when they shared a presbytery in Ballarat.
Even less plausibly, Pell claimed that advisors and colleagues deliberately kept information from him. As journalist David Marr wrote, Pell was apparently:
… hoodwinked decades ago by an archbishop, a bishop, his colleagues and even the Catholic Education Office.
A more nuanced way of avoiding knowledge is interpretive denial. This involves keeping knowledge at a distance by accepting a fact but giving it a different interpretation.
So, when questioned about his time as a consultor in Ballarat, Pell insisted that paedophilia was never mentioned in discussions of why priests were being moved unexpectedly between parishes. Many of his fellow consultors knew that child sex offences had been committed, and "homosexuality" may have been mentioned as the reason for the priest's removal.
But Pell, incuriously, chose not to see the possibility that the homosexual conduct may have been intergenerational. He asked no questions, and admitted:
It was a sad story and of not much interest to me.
The most disturbing form of denial on display in Pell's four days of testimony, however, is implicatory denial: a refusal to see the legal and moral implications that follow from information.
Pell went to great lengths to explain that, in almost all cases, he did everything that was appropriate to his role at the time. He was repeatedly challenged by counsel assisting and the commissioner, Peter McClellan, that a priest might have a moral responsibility that exceeds the literal duties assigned to their role. But Pell rejected this proposition:
He has a moral responsibility to do … what is appropriate to his position.
Pell claimed that in his positions as priest, consultor and auxilliary bishop, he did all that was appropriate to his position. He simply reported any allegations that he thought were plausible to his superiors. That they neglected their duties was not his responsibility.
What chance of change?
Pell may be right that that the lion's share of blame for the gross miscarriages of justice being examined by the royal commission should be laid at the feet of his dead and dying former superiors. But what is also emerging is graphic evidence of the dysfunctionality of Catholic governance on this issue.
As my research has shown, Roman Catholic canon law – ironically – has the oldest and most clearly articulated legal provisions for the prosecution of sexual offences against children. Yet the enactment of these provisions is entirely in the diocesan bishop's hands.
A diocesan bishop has a fundamental conflict of interest in the discipline of clergy in their diocese. He is simultaneously responsible for the pastoral care of the priest and for their punishment. This contravenes a basic principle of natural law – that no-one should be a judge in their own case.
If church authorities had believed the children's allegations, investigated them and kept records of those investigations, it is possible that offending priests could have been removed and disciplined. Instead, allegations were regarded as implausible, offending priests' denials were believed, and records were destroyed.
And where allegations were too stark to be denied, the gravity of the offending was denied, and priests were sent for "counselling" and relocated.
It is evident that Archbishop Frank Little and Bishop Ronald Mulkearns neglected their responsibilities and even contravened canon law in their dealings with sexually offending clergy. But Pell's claims to have fulfilled his moral responsibility in the face of this dysfunction ring hollow.
Pell chose to keep knowledge of his fellow priests' offending at bay and allowed his superiors' neglect and malpractice to continue. After the exposure of this legal dysfunction and moral cowardice, we can expect the royal commission's recommendations will include changes to Roman Catholic governance and canon law.


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A year ago, Nate Nathan, an Arizona land broker, struggled in vain to sell several hundred home sites in Vistancia, a new-home community about 15 miles from downtown Phoenix. He listed the lots for $54,000 apiece, but no buyers would offer more than $45,000.
All that changed over the past year. As Phoenix home prices picked up, builders suddenly started coming to Mr. Nathan and making ever-higher offers. This year, he has sold 850 lots, including 250 lots for $96,000 apiece in the past 45 days.
"The world has just woken up and said, 'We need land!' " Mr. Nathan said.
What is happening in Phoenix is happening in real-estate markets all over the U.S. The rebounding housing market has sparked a sharp rise in land prices, creating big profits for land investors but putting pressure on builders to further increase the price of new homes.
Land values across the U.S. rose on average 13% in 2012, the first annual gain since 2005, according to estimates in a March report by Zelman & Associates, a housing consultancy. The increase was fueled primarily by growing demand among builders for finished lots, or ready-to-build home sites with roads, sewage lines, electrical-power hookups and other infrastructure in place.
"There's no question the land market has gotten heated of late," said Richard Dugas, chief executive of PulteGroup Inc.,the nation's second-largest home builder by volume, on the company's most-recent earnings conference call. "In some markets it's a real challenge to get land deals to pencil."
For consumers, costlier land means more-expensive houses. Land cost constitutes 21.7% of the final sale price of a new home, according to the National Association of Home Builders. As land prices rise, builders tend to pass 100% of those costs on to consumers.
Buck Horne, a housing analyst with Raymond James & Associates, predicts that new-home prices will rise 10% to 15% in 2013, chiefly because of rising demand and because of the scarcity of land. "Buyers who can't afford to pay up now are going to have to wait. Maybe they'll have to rent for awhile," Mr. Horne said. "They may miss out on the first stage of price appreciation."
This is a significant shift from the economic downturn, when builders halted development and liquidated land for pennies on the dollar. From 2006 through 2011, residential land lost a cumulative 58% of its value, Zelman says.
To be sure, land prices nationally are still far from the peak levels reached in 2005 and 2006. They also are notoriously volatile. In 2009, for example, as the first-time home buyer tax credit stimulated demand for lower-priced new homes, land prices rose, but leveled off and fell slightly when the tax credit expired and demand cooled.
This time, the new-home market appears to be gaining traction. The Census Bureau reported that in February, builders were on pace to sell 411,000 homes this year, an annual increase of 12.3%, while the rate of new-home construction rose 27.7% in the past year. Finished-lot prices rose about 18% in the past year in Raleigh, N.C., a market that has seen several national builders open up shop recently, research firm Metrostudy reports.
In Houston, finished lots in "A" locations—in good school districts with easy commuter access to job centers—are selling for $1,000 per foot of frontage, according to Metrostudy. At the peak of the housing boom, Houston lots sold for $800 per front foot, said Brad Hunter, Metrostudy's chief economist.
That is great news for private-equity firms and other land investors, including Paulson & Co., Angelo, Gordon & Co. and Starwood Capital Group, that crowded into the land market at its 2009 trough.
"This is exactly what we predicted would happen," said Tom Shapiro, president of GTIS Partners, a New York-based private-equity firm that 3.5
years ago started buying lots in suburban new-home communities at an average of about 20% of peak pricing. "The rate of recovery in some of these markets has just been incredible," he said.
Since 2010, GTIS has amassed a portfolio of about 30,000 home sites and has started selling out of its land positions for large profits. In the past three months, the firm says it has almost sold out 400 lots in Carillon South Lake, a development near Dallas, where it bought land in 2010. "We doubled our equity," said Rob Vahradian, a senior managing director with GTIS.
Meanwhile, with the inventory of finished lots dwindling, investors are beginning to bid up raw land, as well. A recent survey by Zelman showed that demand for raw land has grown in each of the past five fiscal quarters.
Justin Good, a land broker with the Raleigh office of Cassidy Turley, points to a parcel of raw land in North Raleigh that sold in April 2012 for $235,000 per acre. Now, builders are making offers more than 35% higher than that price on an adjacent piece of raw land. "That's staggering," Mr. Good said.
Robbie Whelan, Wall Street Journal.


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'FIRST ever' Linux, Mac OS X-only password sniffing Trojan spotted
Windows? Who the hell uses that?
Security researchers have discovered a potential dangerous Linux and Mac OS X cross-platform trojan.
Once installed on a compromised machine, Wirenet-1 opens a backdoor to a remote command server, and logs key presses to capture passwords and sensitive information typed by victims.
The program also grabs passwords submitted to Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Chromium web browsers, and credentials stored by applications including email client Thunderbird, web suite SeaMonkey, and chat app Pidgin. The malware then attempts to upload the gathered data to a server hosted in the Netherlands.
The software nastie was intercepted by Russian antivirus firm Dr Web, the company that carried out much of the analysis of the infamous Flashback trojan. Dr Web describes Wirenet-1 as the first Linux/OSX cross-platform password-stealing trojan.
Multi-platform virus strains that infect Windows, Mac OS X and Linux machines are extremely rare but not unprecedented. One example include the recent Crisis super-worm. Creating a strain of malware that infects Mac OS X and Linux machines but not Windows boxes seems, frankly, weird given the sizes of each operating system's userbase - unless the virus has been designed for some kind of closely targeted attack on an organisation that uses a mix of the two Unix flavours.
Analysis work on the Wirenet-1 is ongoing and for now it's unclear how the trojan is designed to spread. Once executed, it copies itself to the user's home directory, and uses AES to encrypt its communications with a server over the internet. ®


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A 22-year-old man affiliated with Neo Nazi groups decided to vandalize what he apparently believed to be a "Jewish" house of worship in Mobile, Alabama.
The man arrested, Thomas Hayward Lewis, was charged with third-degree criminal mischief, criminal possession of explosives and possession of a controlled substance.
The words "Juden raus," which is German for "Jews get out," was spray painted on a building occupied by a religious group known as the "Congregation Tree of Life."
However, the congregation named is really not Jewish at all, but rather composed of self-proclaimed "Messianic Jews" that are essentially fundamentalist Christians who "believe" in "Jesus Christ," reports the Press Register.
After all, a belief in Jesus is what defines Christians and Christianity, not Jews, who historically are defined by a belief in Judaism.
To put this in context imagine a group of Krishna devotees declaring that they were somehow fulfilled "Krishna Christians."
And the young Nazi is either too ignorant or just plain stupid to make such distinctions.
It seems that within this idiot's confused mind pretended "Jews" are as likely as real Jews to become the focus of his wrath.
Ironically, the neo-Nazi and the targeted congregation actually appear to share at least one thing in common.
That is, both would like to see an eventual end to Judaism, as we know it, albeit by different means.
One peacefully through religious conversion and the other through violent extermination.


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If I see a color on my computer screen that I'd like to use somewhere else, I want to know that color's hexadecimal code. Conversely, if I see a color's hex code, I want to know what that coded color looks like on-screen.
Some time back, I wanted an application that does both those jobs simply in Linux. The best tool I found was gcolor2, described below. It's great for finding hex codes, but it doesn't display colors in a large enough 'swatch' to suit me. To do that job I wrote a simple script, also described below.
#Picking a color
gcolor2 is a GTK+2 color selector available in most of the Linux repositories. It has a simple and familiar-looking GUI (first screenshot). Click on the eyedropper button at left and your mouse cursor changes to an eyedropper. Position that eyedropper anywhere on your screen and left-click. The color under the cursor will appear in the right half of the color box to the left of the eyedropper button (second screenshot). The color's hex code ('color name'), HSV and RGB values and opacity will be shown, and the color's position on a color wheel will be marked.
Once you pick a color with gcolor2, you can modify it by changing its HSV or RGB values, its hex code, or its position on the color wheel. As you make your changes, the color displayed in the color box will change. You can also save a color within the gcolor2 application and choose your own name for it: click on the 'Show saved colors' text, and a 'Save' button and a list of already saved colors will appear. To compare your saved color with a new one, select a new color. The color box will now show your saved color on the left and your new color on the right.
To display a color without selecting one with the eyedropper, enter a hex code (with leading #) or HSV or RGB values in the appropriate places in the gcolor2 GUI. The coded color will appear in the right half of the color box.
Displaying a color
The color box in gcolor2 is too small for me! I like to see a big swatch of a color before I use it. The following script allows me to enter or copy/paste a hex code, then see a 400 x 400 pixel swatch of the coded color:
color=$(zenity --width=150 --entry --title="Swatch maker" --text="Enter the hex code:")
if [[ $? == 1 ]]
else [[ $? == 0 ]]
convert -size 400x400 xc:#$color /tmp/swatch.png ; display -size 400x400 /tmp/swatch.png ; rm /tmp/swatch.png
Copy/paste this code into a text editor, save it as swatch.sh and make the file executable.
I use a launcher icon in my desktop's panel to start the script. When I click on the icon, I see a Zenity dialog box into which I enter a hex code, without the leading # (third screenshot). If I click Cancel or the exit button at top right, the dialog box disappears and nothing more happens. If I press Enter or click OK, a 400 x 400 pixel swatch of my coded color appears in the centre of the screen (fourth screenshot). To make the swatch disappear, I just press 'q' or click on the exit button on the swatch window.
The script relies on the ImageMagick program included in most Linux distributions. The convert
command creates an image file (swatch.png) in the /tmp directory, colored as specified in the Zenity box. The display
command then puts that image on the screen. When you exit the swatch, the rm
command deletes the image file from the /tmp directory.
Happy color picking!