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LITTLE ROCK � Heading into his last regular legislative session, and the first since Reconstruction with a Republican-controlled Legislature, Gov. Mike Beebe says he anticipates fights over issues like Medicaid and taxes but does not expect Washington-style gridlock at the state Capitol.
LITTLE ROCK � Heading into his last regular legislative session, and the first since Reconstruction with a Republican-controlled Legislature, Gov. Mike Beebe says he anticipates fights over issues like Medicaid and taxes but does not expect Washington-style gridlock at the state Capitol.
�I think y�all are making a bigger deal about this Republican-Democratic thing than I do,� Beebe said last week in an interview with the Arkansas News Bureau. �It was pretty even last time, and they seemed to work together. I think they�ll continue to work together. I don�t think they want to be seen as Washington, D.C.�
The 2013 regular session begins Jan. 14. Beebe, who is prevented by term limits from seeking a third term next year, said he expects to continue to have a good relationship with the House and Senate even though his party is no longer in the majority in either chamber. He said that as a 20-year veteran of the Senate, he relates well with legislators.
�Does that mean we won�t have fights? Of course not. Does that mean there aren�t some of them I don�t like? Of course not. Some of them don�t like me,� he said. �But generally speaking, the overwhelming majority of the members of the General Assembly, both Republicans and Democrats, I find it easy to work with because I have a great deal of respect for who they are, what they represent and what the body is, having spent a major part of my professional life there.�
Medicaid Expansion
One issue that could turn into a fight is the question of whether to expand Medicaid. Beebe favors expanding the state program to include people earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, which would add an estimated 250,000 people to the Medicaid rolls.
Under the federal Affordable Care Act, the federal government would cover the cost of the expansion for the first three years, after which the state�s share would gradually increase to 10 percent.
The Medicaid program is facing a projected $139 million shortfall. Republican legislators generally oppose the expansion, arguing that even with 90 percent of the cost paid by the federal government, the cost to Arkansas may be too high.
Legislative support is necessary because a three-fourths vote in both chambers is required to appropriate the federal funding for the expansion. Beebe acknowledged that achieving that threshold will be a challenge.
�If you had 70 Democrats (in the 100-member House), it might still be difficult to get three-fourths,� he said. �Now that doesn�t mean it�s not going to happen. I never say never.�
Beebe said he opposes an idea some Republican legislators have floated for delaying a vote on Medicaid expansion for a special session.
�If you can do stuff in a regular session, you do it in a regular session. It saves taxpayers� money,� he said.
Tax-Cut Proposals
Also sure to be debated during the session are various proposals for cutting taxes. Over the years, Beebe has successfully lobbied the Legislature to reduce the state tax on groceries incrementally from 6 cents to 1� cents per dollar spent.
In the upcoming session, Beebe is proposing to reduce the tax to one-eighth of a percent, which would eliminate all but the portion of the tax that cannot be changed without amending the state constitution. The proposed reduction would not take effect, however, until certain budget obligations, including desegregation payments to three Pulaski County school districts and payments on certain bonds, decline by at least $35 million for six consecutive months.
�If I could get rid of it all right now I would have proposed it, but in good conscience I don�t know how you�d get rid of the rest of it right now with a projected $139 million Medicaid shortfall,� Beebe said.
Some legislators have expressed interest in cutting other taxes, such as the capital gains tax and the income tax. Beebe said he would listen to any proposals, but �it�s very difficult to figure out where that money would be coming from.�
In the 2011 session, Beebe initially proposed only a reduction in the grocery tax estimated to cost about $15 million. But he ultimately agreed to a $35 million package of tax cuts, some of them pushed by a GOP contingent in the Legislature that grew significantly after the 2010 election.
Beebe subsequently blamed the additional cuts for budget reductions in a number of state programs, including aid to foster parents, an across-the-board increase for state colleges and universities, and a 1.86 percent raise for state workers.
School Funding
The Legislature may also revisit the issue of school funding. Beebe and some legislators have voiced displeasure with a recent state Supreme Court ruling that two school districts could keep money they collected through a statewide 25-mill property tax in excess of the state-mandated school funding level.
The state has asked the court for a rehearing. Beebe said that if the request is denied, he hopes the Legislature will change the law to make it clear that all money from the statewide tax is to be distributed equally to districts.
Beebe, first as a legislator and later as attorney general, was heavily involved in reforms that led to the Supreme Court�s 2007 decision in the Lake View school funding case that Arkansas� method of distributing money to public schools was adequate and equitable. The ruling ended 15 years of litigation.
�The big issue for me is that (the court) totally misstated, in my opinion, and did a complete reversal � in the tenets of the sacrosanct issue of Lake View. It�s a bigger issue than just this amount of money for three school districts or two school districts or six school districts. It is the whole issue of, what did Lake View really stand for?� he said.
Social Issues
The newly won Republican majorities in the Legislature have encouraged social conservatives who hope to introduce measures that have failed in past sessions. One bill expected to be filed would ban abortions after a fetus becomes able to feel pain.
Beebe said that as far as abortion is concerned, �I thought that was pretty well settled, but you�d have to look at a specific bill, see about its constitutionality.�
Rep. Denny Altes, R-Fort Smith, has said he plans to file a new version of a bill that has failed in the past that would allow handguns to be carried openly, with a permit.
�I have supported legislatively where we are on concealed carry permits. � But open carry, to have one on your hip like an Old West holster, I don�t think is healthy.� Beebe said.


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2011 Stats: .289/.434/.434 with 4 HRs and 14 steals in 15 attempts at the University of North Carolina.
Last year's rank: N/A
Acquired: Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 1st round (Number 30) of the 2011 June Major League Draft out of UNC.
Last June, the Twins departed from conventional draft wisdom (at least for the Twins) by drafting a Michael in the first round. You see, Michael was a college shortstop, the Twins don't draft college position players in the first round. They draft college control pitchers or high school position players, mostly toolsy outfielders. The Twins hadn't deviated from this formula since they drafted high school pitchers Kyle Waldrop and Jay Rainville in the first round of the 2004 draft. The Twins hadn't drafted a college position player since Matty Lecroy was drafted as a catcher out of Clemsen way back in 1997.
So, why the change of philosophy? The Twins have a system full of toolsy outfielders and plenty of strike throwing pitchers, but as I pointed out way back in September of 2010, the Twins have a real dearth of middle infielders. I identified there were only 6 SS on the 40 man roster at that time and all 6 of them have moved on. The Twins really need SS depth that can play in the majors soon.
So, the Twins changed their ways and drafted for need. Michael's abilities and polish suggest the got what they needed. From ESPN's Keith Law: "Levi Michael is a 20-year-old switch-hitting shortstop who can run; unless the ankle is somehow worse than I've heard, it makes no sense to me that he fell out of the top 20, and the Twins are very fortunate that they could grab him." and Baseball America had him ranked as there 22nd prospect. So, the Twins got value at #30.
So, what did the Twins get in Michael? As a freshman, he showed decent power with 13 HRs and a .290/.382/.527 line. As a sophomore he had a great numbers with a .346/.484/.575 line including 9 HRs, 20 SBs and only 26 K's in 214 ABs. His junior year he struggled a bit, especially near the end of the season. After his great sophomore season, his .289/.434/.434 line with only 5 HRs and 47 K's looks like a real drop off, but his struggles, especially at the end of the season could be tied to his ankle injury.
Michael is very polish and almost completely developed. He has decent speed and some gap power. He's a switch hitter that can hit from both sides of the plate and he is adept at working walks. He's considered decent defensively but he may have to move to second due to lack of range. He may not have much upside, but the ability he already possesses could be good enough to become a decent major league player.
Ideal scenario: Although he signed late, Michael will most likely start his pro career in Fort Myers. There are very few middle infield prospects in the Twins system and given his ability and polish, Michael move up to New Britain mid-season.
Path to the majors: Michael has the luxury of decent ability and polish at a position of great weakness in the Twins system. If he can play decent defense at the pro level and show any on-base and gap power, Michael could be with the Twins before the end of the 2013 season. He could very well be the Twins starting shortstop or second baseman opening day 2014.
Prospect #12 and the rest of the top 50 starts here.

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...where the 1234 is the bug ID from Bugzilla. This allows Bugzilla to track back to the commits made in that entry and helps us assemble release notes consistently.
...where the 1234 is the bug ID from Bugzilla. This allows Bugzilla to track back to the commits made in that entry and helps us assemble release notes consistently.
== Contributing Patches ==
== Contributing Patches ==
Revision as of 07:23, 20 June 2014
- 1 Managing Contributions
- 2 Identifying an Issue
- 3 Contributing Code
- 4 Setting up a flexible development environment
Managing Contributions
PKP code development, including external contributions, is managed between Bugzilla and Github. We prefer that issues be opened as either bugs or feature requests in Bugzilla, and that fixes are submitted as pull requests via Github, but we do still accept patches uploaded to Bugzilla itself if you do not want to submit via Github pull request.
Identifying an Issue
You can access our Bugzilla database here. We welcome any bug reports and feature requests, so long as they are understandably written and flagged correctly (mostly an issue of setting the severity between enhancement; trivial; minor; normal; major; critical; or blocker levels, although you can also set the priority as well if you'd like). You can see a great set of bug-writing guidelines here.
You are also advised to search for similar reports to avoid duplication.
Contributing Code
Contributing via Github
Contributing code via Github is our preferred method. Please see http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/HOW-TO_check_out_PKP_applications_from_git and http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/Frequent_git_use_cases for extensive instructions on the ins and outs of working with git repositories.
To contribute code back to us, feel free to submit a pull request from git.
If you are working against a particular entry in our Bugzilla database, use the following format for commit messages:
*1234* My Commit Description
...where the 1234 is the bug ID from Bugzilla. This allows Bugzilla to track back to the commits made in that entry and helps us assemble release notes consistently.
PKP library submodule changes
If you changed something in library, you will also need to commit the library submodule changes track in application repository. This is necessary specially for our continuous integration structure. Basically the submodule changes track commit will tell anyone that pull the application code where is the submodule repository HEAD, including the CI script.
The issue is that CI script is prepared to get the library from pkp official repository. In case of a pull request from a developer, we need to tell the CI script to also update the library with commits from the developer library repository. That way the CI tool can correctly build and test your pull request code, before merging. To make that happen, do the following:
- create your commits normally, both for application and library;
- if it happens that you have library commits, commit the submodule changes, inside the application repository, in a separate commit, making sure that it is the HEAD:
git add lib/pkp git commit -m '*1234* Any message here ##githubUser/branch##'
1234 is the bug ID; githubUser is your github user; branch is the branch in your github repository where the library commits are;
- push both library and application commits to your repository in github;
After doing this, you can create a pull request using github interface, and check the CI build result. If it doesn't pass, you can read the logs, see the errors, fix the code and update your pull request by pushing your code to your own repository again.
Contributing Patches
If you cannot or do not want to contribute via Github, you can upload patches directly to bug reports. We're always happy to receive patches, whether for contribution to a project or for general community availability on the forums. The one thing we do ask is that you provide the patch in Unified Diff format. If you are using our git instructions to work with the application codebase (highly recommended), you can create unified diffs via git using the following command:
git diff -u ./ > patch.diff
... which will find all differences in the working directory and recursively, and write them to a file called patch.diff.
Applying Patches
Patching Manually
If you want to apply a patch manually, whether from Bugzilla or from Github, download it to your development environment, and from the application's root directory and run
patch -p0 < ./path/to/patch.diff
The --dry-run option to the patch tool allows you to safely test the patch to see if it will apply cleanly, and if not, where the conflicts will arise.
For more Windows (and general) information, also see this forum thread.
Patching from Github
You can grab "patches" from Github by finding that particular commit's has and cherry-picking it:
First, find the hash for the commit you want to apply locally. The hash is the last string in the commit's URL, for example for the commit found at https://github.com/pkp/ojs/commit/4aba081d35133c1ee9a9e1f3b9166ca5db5fd48d it would be "4aba081d35133c1ee9a9e1f3b9166ca5db5fd48d".
Next, make sure your local repository is up to date (NB that this does not automatically merge all new remote commits to your repository, it just stores them locally):
git fetch
Then, cherry-pick the commit you want to apply by hash:
git cherry-pick 4aba081d35133c1ee9a9e1f3b9166ca5db5fd48d
Setting up a flexible development environment
NB: This is not a beginner's installation/configuration tutorial. We only highlight a few important differences from a standard installation as a help for experienced PKP, database, PHP and web server users.
Install and Configure Databases
- There is nothing special to the database installation. Use your OS' standard installation procedure to install the necessary databases you want to test in parallel.
- Edit config.inc.php to switch the database connection.
Install and Configure supported PHP versions
- Download or build the PHP binaries you want to test (newer versions can be downloaded from php.net or are part of the standard OS distributions, older versions must be built from source).
- You'll need the thread-safe version if you want to test mod_php in Apache.
- Install all binaries and configuration separately. Do not create any shared files or configuration (separate php.ini, separate installation directories).
- On Windows:
- Get the PHP zip arquive distributions where available and unzip them into separate folders.
- XAMPP has lots of old Windows binaries if the version you look for is no longer officially supported on php.net.
- Download the thread-safe VC6 version as VC9 versions are not compatible with Apache.
- Do not install DLL files in C:\WINDOWS or any other directory on the path.
- Do not install any registry keys.
- Do not configure any shared environment variables.
- Exception: Install PEAR in a central folder that is accessible by all PHP versions. Install necessary PEAR dependencies (e.g. PHPUnit, etc.) - see separate documentation on this Wiki for that.
- Edit the development php.ini files as required:
- extension_dir must point to the absolute path of the version specific extension binaries
- enable extensions required by PKP software (e.g. database client, GD, etc.)
- optional: error_reporting, display_errors, log_errors, error_log, max_execution_time, xdebug
- Test all PHP installations separately: /path/to/php -c /path/to/php.ini -v (This should discover most problems with wrong extension paths).
Install and Configure Apache
We use Apache so that we can test CGI, FCGI and Module configurations in parallel. Install Apache 2.2 (standard distribution for your OS). Then get and install mod_fcgid as explained on the linked web pages.
All the magic lies in Apache's httpd.conf. Here's the Windows version. It should be easy to adapt that to your specific OS:
#General CGI Support <IfDefine CGI> LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php </IfDefine>
#General FCGI Support <IfDefine FCGI> LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so AddHandler fcgid-script .php <Directory "C:/path/to/your/pkp/doc/root"> Options +ExecCGI </Directory> </IfDefine>
#PHP 4.3 support <IfDefine PHP43> <IfDefine CGI> Action application/x-httpd-php "/php-cgi/php.exe" ScriptAlias /php-cgi/ "C:/path/to/php43/" <Directory "C:/path/to/php43"> Order allow,deny Allow from 127.0.0.1 </Directory> </IfDefine> </IfDefine>
#PHP 5.2 support <IfDefine PHP52> <IfDefine MODULE> LoadFile "C:/path/to/php52/php5ts.dll" LoadFile "C:/path/to/php52/libmysql.dll" # This is required (PHP52 only) otherwise PHP might load libmysql.dll from MySQL's own bin LoadModule php5_module "C:/path/to/php52/php5apache2_2.dll" PHPIniDir "C:/path/to/php52" </IfDefine>
<IfDefine FCGI> FcgidWrapper "C:/path/to/php52/php-cgi.exe" .php </IfDefine>
<IfDefine CGI> Action application/x-httpd-php "/php-cgi/php-cgi.exe" ScriptAlias /php-cgi/ "C:/path/to/php52/" <Directory "C:/path/to/php52"> Order allow,deny Allow from 127.0.0.1 </Directory> </IfDefine> </IfDefine>
#PHP 5.3 support <IfDefine PHP53> <IfDefine MODULE> LoadFile "C:/path/to/php53/php5ts.dll" LoadModule php5_module "C:/path/to/php53/php5apache2_2.dll" PHPIniDir "C:/path/to/php53" </IfDefine>
<IfDefine FCGI> FcgidWrapper "C:/path/to/php53/php-cgi.exe" .php </IfDefine>
<IfDefine CGI> Action application/x-httpd-php "/php-cgi/php-cgi.exe" ScriptAlias /php-cgi/ "C:/path/to/php53/" <Directory "C:/path/to/php53"> Order allow,deny Allow from 127.0.0.1 </Directory> </IfDefine> </IfDefine>
DocumentRoot "C:/path/to/your/pkp/doc/root"
<Directory "C:/path/to/your/pkp/doc/root"> Options +FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
Now all you need to switch configurations is starting Apache like this:
http -D(PHP43|PHP52|PHP53) -D(MODULE|CGI|FCGI)
A few examples:
http -DPHP43 -DCGI http -DPHP52 -DMODULE http -DPHP53 -DFCGI


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Mayor demands three-year accounting, suggests city may drop the non-profit's services
DocumentMemo from Mayor Jerry Sanders' Office to the San Diego Data Processing Corp. questioning agency salaries and raises
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SAN DIEGO – The city's nonprofit data processing agency budgeted $600,000 in raises and bonuses for its 250 employees this year – a largess that Mayor Jerry Sanders is questioning given current economic conditions.
Although included in the budget for the fiscal year that will end June 30, all the money was not necessarily paid out, officials say. No additional raises or bonuses are included in next year's budget.
In a Monday memo, the Sanders administration asked for an accounting of salaries and bonuses paid for the past three years – and raised the possibility that the city will no longer use the agency's services.
Sanders said any increases at a time when other city employees have had their pay frozen or reduced sends the wrong message.
"We're not accusing anybody of doing anything wrong, but I think that one of the things that happens in some of these corporations that are actually quasi-city entities is there's not much attention paid to them in the budget process," Sanders said.
San Diego Data Processing Corp. was created by the city in 1979 to handle information technology systems. A six-member board oversees the agency's $48 million budget and approves salaries.
Tom Fleming, the agency's president and chief executive, said the budgeted salary increases were scaled back significantly as the city grappled with financial problems.
"We're very concerned about compensation and spending city dollars because we do understand the situation they have and we try to in every way save as much money for them as we can," he said.
For example, Fleming said the agency has saved the city about $2 million this year by reducing merit increases from 5 percent to 3 percent, increasing the employee share of medical premiums and canceling promotions.
Fleming also said he turned down the $67,466 bonus included in the budget for him, although he accepted a $9,200 raise for a new total salary of $239,200.
The city is asking for a wide range of financial information from its agencies following a bonus scandal involving the Southeastern Economic Development Corp., which oversees redevelopment of seven square miles east of downtown. SEDC president Carolyn Smith was fired in July for giving herself and staffers $872,000 in bonuses over five years, which an auditor later called fraudulent.
Of the $597,578 in raises and bonuses budgeted at Data Processing this year, most are annual merit increases, which range from $207 for an administrative assistant to $9,200 for Fleming.
Jay Goldstone, the city's chief operating officer, wrote Monday's letter to the agency.
"If they were giving pay raises, merit increases and bonuses, at a minimum it shows poor judgment," he said. "Obviously it flies in the face of what the mayor has done in his three years in office, what the city has done, in terms of holding salaries firm."
Charles Connoy, the agency's board chairman, said city officials are heavily involved in the formation of DPC's budget.
"We're pretty transparent," he said. "Looking at those other guys like SEDC and so forth, Data Processing Corp. has got to be a model for all of them based upon the kind of transparency we have with the city."
Nader Tirandazi, the city's financial management director, said he attends the agency's meetings but did not know the merit increases were being awarded.
City Councilman Kevin Faulconer said he shares concerns over salary increases at a city agency when city workers have given up $30 million in pay and benefits.
"Now is not the time to be talking about pay raises," he said. "We are cutting back and rightfully so. So I'm very concerned about the position of DPC and I'm looking forward to their answers."


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Eco websites Mother Nature Network and TreeHugger merge
Mother Nature Network, an environmental website co-founded by Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell, has developed an atypical advertising approach. It sells year-long sponsorships, not pop-up ads.
On Thursday, two of the nation's largest environmental websites plan to announce their partnership and expanded use of atypical advertising to attract new sponsors, including Wal-Mart.
Mother Nature Network, co-founded by Rolling Stones' keyboardist Chuck Leavell in 2009, and TreeHugger, bought by Discovery Communications in 2007, have agreed to a jointly owned partnership. Together, they have more than 7 million monthly visitors and 26 full-time staffers.
"This is a true example of one plus one adding up to three," says Joel Babbit, co-founder and CEO of Mother Nature Network who will serve as CEO of the combined companies. He says search engines will rank the websites' content higher because of their expanded reach.
He says the websites will continue to operate independently for the "immediate future" but after a month or two, they may merge. "It won't have the word 'eco' or 'green' in it," he says, adding that those terms are overused in the environmental space. He says he may need to expand staff but also can't rule out layoffs.
"It's a really good partnership for us," says TreeHugger editor-in-chief Meaghan O'Neill, who helped found the website in 2004. She says many decisions are still to be made about how the two companies will partner, but she says Mother Nature Network's unique approach to advertising "could be a good thing for us."
Mother Nature Network (MNN) doesn't sell traditional ads but rather year-long $300,000 sponsorships for each of its websites' segments or channels. For example, Mercedes-Benz is the sponsor of its transportation one and AT&T backs its "gadgets and electronics" one. MNN produces a series of videos that the sponsors rotate in a designated spot on the website.
Babbit says companies want to develop relationships with readers so they welcome his approach, which he'll expand to TreeHugger. He says MNN has increased its sponsor revenue, despite a still-sluggish economy, from $2.2 million in 2009 to $3 million in 2010, $4.1 million in 2011 and a projected $7 million (combined with TreeHugger) this year.
In January, he says, Wal-Mart is becoming an especially large sponsor of a new editorial section that will highlight how people, products, companies and organizations are helping the environment.
'It's a growing trend," says Rick Edmonds, media business analyst at the Poynter Institute, a non-profit school for journalists, of the sponsorship approach. He says several companies are experimenting with that model, because typical pop-up ads and banners aren't popular with readers or bringing in enough revenue.
"There's no reason big companies can't do that, too," Edmonds says.
While TreeHugger focuses mostly on environmental issues, Mother Nature Network has broadened its purview to include personal safety and finance as well as health and family activities. Babbit says the environment is only one part of a "responsible lifestyle," adding that people who smoke and drink heavily are rarely adamant about protecting the planet.


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A nanny reveals ways of making children behave that are much more effective than a time-out in this fantasy comedy based on the "Nurse Matilda" books for children by Christianna Brand. Near the dawn of the twentieth century, Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) is a widower who must tend to his business as an undertaker while looking after his brood of seven children. Brown's offspring are a singularly ill-mannered lot who have managed to drive away 17 different nannies when their father arranges for one Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) to help out with the children. McPhee is an strange looking woman with a large nose, protruding teeth, and pock-marked skin, but it isn't long before the kids realize she has magical powers and isn't afraid to use them to help keep them in line. While the children aren't taken with McPhee's insistence on such things as saying "please" and listening to their elders, it becomes clear everyone has bigger things to worry about. Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) has insisted that if Mr. Brown cannot find a new wife within a month, she'll take custody of one of the children and cut off Brown's inheritance, and while Brown and the widow Mrs. Quickly (Celia Imrie) seem fond of one another, his ineptitude in courtship seems to insure he'll never get her to the altar. But while the Brown Children realize Nanny McPhee is a formidable opponent, she can also be a valuable ally as they learn to make use of her talents by being better children; they also discover that as they behave better, she begins to look less frightening. Emma Thompson, who played the title role in Nanny McPhee, also wrote the film's screenplay. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Posted July 24, 2006 – When it comes to the sky, you can learn a lot just by noticing colors. Take the sky itself. We all know that deep blue means clean dry air while a cloudless milky sky is a sure sign of moisture. This is true because tiny water droplets reflect all the sun's colors equally: When red, green, and blue light strike us simultaneously the mix is perceived as white.
Now check out the stars. On summer nights the two brightest are Arcturus and Vega, both high up. Their pastel tints are obvious at a glance: orange and blue. Each has meaning. If a planet like Venus or Jupiter is out, its whiteness tells us that it reflects the sun's colors equally. This in turn reveals that we're not looking at liquid water or methane gas, which absorb red and reflect blue, and explain why Earth, Uranus, and Neptune appear bluish from space.
Star colors tell a different tale because they emit their own light. A blue star like Vega is always super-hot; a ruddy star like Arcturus is cool. The temperature indicates the rate at which the star's nuclear furnace consumes fuel, which is a function of pressure and mass. So, heavy stars are blue. Their rapid consumption of hydrogen makes the star "burn itself out" quickly, and this gives yet another morsel of information: Blue stars are always young stars, because they die in their adolescence. All this from a quick glance at a star's color.
People sometimes wonder why a reddish star should be cool, when, around here, things glow red when they're hot. But think: When you heat a piece of metal it first starts to glow a dull red. As it gets hotter it becomes orange, then yellow, and then white. It would turn blue when it got super-hot, except that it melts first.
Meteor colors are yet another story. Here we have a "flame test" for the meteor's composition. A green meteor might indicate an unusually high copper content. Actually, green is a rare sky color except for auroras. The Northern Lights are mostly green because that's the dominant color oxygen emits when it's stimulated by electricity. Auroras are seen on other planets, too. But on no other do they appear green. A green aurora is a tell-tale sign of abundant oxygen. And since copious free oxygen only occurs on a planet that has plants that can produce it — seeing green on a far-away world would be a wonderful clue that it may be inhabited by life!
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The 2014 season is here and no matter how many years of racing triathlons, the first few races are never easy. To have a great front end of your race season you must pay attention to your pre race details and the execution of your first discipline.
Again huge congrats to Dawn A, who finished the 70.3 World Championship yesterday. She got beat up on the swim by the young men who started just after her wave, survived the massive down pour on the bike and pushed through the hot, sunny and humid 13.1 mile run. Great experience. Canada did well. I believe we won at least 3 World Titles.
I found out that I actually was in FIRST with 2 miles to go. There was a long 1 mile grind then a long 1 mile downhill to the finish. With about 600m to go, 2 men ran by me fast! One of them was young, while the other man was older, short and moving fast. YUP... no age on his calf (due to rain) and I have no idea. But he was going so fast I just did not have much anyways. At the awards, he told me I passed him at about the 8 mile mark but he kept me insight. He used me to pull him through the field for the last 4 miles. He then attacked, and attacked hard. I high fived him and felt better about the way I lost first place. He was a super nice guy. He also mentioned he was going to World XTERRA this year. He knew who I was from my XTERRA history. It was a really cool connect with a man who lives half way around the world.
What a fantastic weekend our CSR team had at the Chinook Triathlon.
In a simulated triathlon when approaching the wall for a turn, try to swim a quick and short diagonal approach when coming into the wall for a turn. This results in a straight forward push off, and you will be on the side that you will swim back. This allows the swimmer, who is likely drafting you, to do the same, and keeps the lane organized for optimal flow without head on collisions. This really applies to swimming at any time. The exception is when experienced swimmers tumble turn and push off deep enough to actually go under the approaching swimmer... yikes.
Well duh! But when the sun shines on your while exercising, it is an entirely different stress! Secondly, I have to say this... every athlete present in Kona was elite. Elite age groupers sporting less than minimum body fat and just ripped! What a spectacle of amazing athletes.
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October 16, 2017
Whether your business needs temporary workers to get through the holiday season or you hire short-term help on a regular basis, the process of finding the right candidates can be challenging. Try applying these strategies to make seasonal staffing easier:
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) J.J. Redick scored 24 points, Arron Afflalo and Glen Davis each had 22 points, and Nikola Vucevic added 18 points and 13 rebounds as the Orlando Magic rallied to beat the Phoenix Suns 115-94 Sunday night.
The Magic trailed by as many as 13 points early in the second half, but used a 40-point third quarter to build as much as a 21-point cushion in the fourth.
Luis Scola led the Suns with 24 points and Michael Beasley added 22. But Phoenix's shooting eroded overall in the second half.
With the victory the Magic opened a season 2-0 for the first time since 2009-10. The Suns lost their fifth straight game in Orlando.
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A 7-year-old girl will testify in court against the woman accused of abducting her from a Philadelphia school and brutally raping her last year, prosecutors say.
The trial of Christina Regusters, 21, was set to begin inside a city courtroom on Thursday, but was delayed after two jurors were dropped from the case.
In January 2013, the former daycare worker dressed in a burqa, or traditional Muslim face covering, and signed the girl, then 5 years old, out of Bryant Elementary School in the Cobbs Creek section of the city, according to police and a grand jury. Surveillance video captured the woman leaving the school.
Then, officials say Regusters took the girl to a nearby home where she blindfolded and then assaulted her. The girl was found early the next morning, in the freezing cold, on a Delaware County, Pennsylvania, playground. She had been dumped there wearing only a T-shirt.
Criminal prosecutors say they were planning to interview the victim via video, but withdrew that request on Thursday. They instead confirmed that the girl, who still must undergo reconstructive surgery because of the severity of her injuries, would come into the courtroom and testify in person. She is set to take the stand on the second or third day of trial.
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During pre-trial arguments on Thursday, prosecutors fought to include evidence they allegedly found on Regusters' bedroom computer. The district attorney said they uncovered graphic cartoons depicting sexual humiliation were often watched. But Common Pleas Judge Jeffery Minehart ruled the the drawings were inadmissible because it's not a crime to possess such images in Pennsylvania.
However, prosecutors will be allowed to introduce other evidence that they say points to Regusters' guilt. They say Regusters' internet history showed the woman searched for Muslim clothing and how to get rid of rape DNA.
Investigators said they were able to pull DNA from the shirt the girl was wearing to link the case to Regusters.
W. Fred Harrison, Jr., the defendant's attorney, argued anyone could have used the woman's computer to watch the videos and search the internet.
Prosecutors will also highlight allegations from Regusters' past. The woman was accused of touching the 7-year-old daughter of a cousin, prosecutors said. They say there was also another incident at a daycare, but did not expand on those allegations.
There is a gag order in effect with the case, but in the past Regusters and her attorney have denied the rape claims. She had to be moved to a Lehigh Valley prison to await trial after being assaulted in a city prison.
The case has rocked the city, resulted in criminal and civil lawsuits and inquiries about school security. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said the case gave him nightmares. The girl's family filed civil lawsuits against Regusters and the School District of Philadelphia.
There have been allegations that other people were involved in the girl's kidnapping and assault, but Regusters stands as the only one charged.
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Remembrance of things kosher
For Proust, it was the taste of madeleines that brought back memories. For me, it was the smell of tzimmes, cooking on my mother's stove. For a friend of mine, author Cameron Stracher it was the taste of warm jello.
I had coffee with Cam the other day and he told me about how he used to love visiting his bubbe in Brooklyn. She lived in a walk-up flat and it was three flights up to get to her tiny apartment. But he and his brother and sister didn't mind, because once they got there, the smells of her cooking filled their noses.
And pretty soon, she would be bringing out dish after dish of her Jewish specialties; Brisket, kasha varnishkes, stuffed cabbage, and always homemade babka; for dessert. So much food!
She also served a special drink that my friend had never had anywhere else. It wasn't until years later that he and his sister figured out what it was. Warm jello!
I laughed at his story, but then I remembered similar strange things growing up. I remember my bubbe soaking fish in the bathtub—can that be?—to make gefilte fish.
What is about growing up Jewish, Cam asked, that makes so many of your memories be about food?
I think it's because so much of our tradition is about nurturing with food, comforting with food, and even remembering that we haven't always had enough food to eat.
So many of us, like my warm Jello drinking friend, have stories and memories that belong only to us and to our families. They tell us apart from other people like birthmarks. Maybe it's a simple memory, like Great-Aunt Rose standing at her soup pot, tasting the chicken soup and adding just a pinch more salt. Maybe it's more involved, like the time Grandpa hid the afikomen and forgot where he hid it…forever!
Do you have a story or a memory you'd like to share about food and growing up? I'd love to hear about it and possibly include it on Challah Connection. Please email me your story as a Word document (no more than 500 words please and if you could spell-check it, that would be helpful) for possible publication.
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We're not out to play the part of legitimate critics here, but when we do have problems with the show we articulate them playfully and with good humor. I think we were true to that throughout the podcast, and Jessa/Roi in particular nailed that tone during the revival discussions.
I might see if theres a way I can stick it up here though, might as well have someone enjoy it since I did the work.
So, yeah Founders Mutation
Maybe it was just the fact Mulder and Scully had slotted right back into working The X-Files after all these years, to be working together as they were. It felt lazy of the revival - they just took the show from two decades ago and stuck it in the present without any real effort. I found it jarring after the setup of MS1; that we were suddenly in this world. On reflection, the episode might have played better to me had it been broadcast as the 5th as originally intended. I did rewatch all 6 in production order (which does on the whole work a LOT better) but I think by that point Id already built up animosity to the episode. However, it should play better in that original order because the arc of M&S reconnecting and learning to communicate with each other has already played out by this point. But everyone else seems to love the ep


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France's Hollande: awaiting Siemens' Alstom offer
BERLIN (AP) — President Francois Hollande says France is awaiting a detailed offer from German industrial conglomerate Siemens for France's Alstom, but won't prejudge the outcome of a potential takeover battle with General Electric Co.
Hollande says GE's offer for the energy-related businesses of engineering company Alstom isn't good enough, though Alstom favors it. Siemens is considering making an offer for its power-generating business.
Hollande said Saturday after meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel that France is "particularly attentive" to implications for jobs, locations and where decisions are made.
Merkel said the matter is a business decision "in which, at least from the German side, we're not interfering" but indicated Berlin would view a deal positively "if it brings advantages."


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What a week- getting out an ad for Black Friday and the holiday season in general has been extraordinarily tough on me, including run-ins with my daughter who thinks my procrastination has caused her undue grief. Well, at least she's got a safe target for her venom; better me than others! Is she right though? Well, sure, definitely something to it; if I had no interruptions, I'd have no problem getting things done quickly, but that's not the life I lead. And my thinking is that, even if I did start very early, I'd still be fussing with it right through to the end.
OK, regarding the ride. Yes, we're going to start at the traditional Thanksgiving Day ride time of 8am, same place as the regular ride (Olive Hill & Canada Road). The plan is to head up 84 (not Old LaHonda, believe it or not) and out to La Honda, over Haskins to Pescadero, north on Stage and back on Tunitas. Should get us back to the start by 12:30, likely a bit earlier. –Mike–


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Marinda du Plessis of BMW deserves a Sweet Service Award this week, for helping Whale Cottage Franschhoek to receive payment for a large booking from the company for a launch of a new vehicle, which event BMW is hosting in Franschhoek. The company has very strict payment procedures, and Marinda made it possible for all payment hurdles to be smoothed over. She even went as far as depositing a cheque for payment at the bank on a Saturday morning, her day-off, as BMW does not pay by bank transfer.
The Sour Service Award goes to Tourvest Travel Services and Metroplitan Life. A PA of the insurance company made a booking for a single guest for one night at Whale Cottage Franschhoek, but demanded completion of an 8-page document to be registered as a vendor on the company's financial system two days before the guest's arrival, when payment had long been due. The document states the company's "business rules", governing its relationship with its vendors, requests an authorisation from the vendor that it can receive payment by electronic funds transfer, has a difficult questionnaire probing the relationship between the vendor's staff and Metropolitan, and ends with an indemnity against Metroplitan being held liable for taxes by SARS as a result of the vendor doing business with Metroplitan. This is the most unusually onerous document ever seen in the hospitality industry, and therefore Whale Cottage Franschhoek declined the booking. The response from the Metropolitan Life staff member was unkind, probably because they would not find another accommodation establishment willing to go through such a bureaucratic booking and payment procedure long after payment was due already. Metropolitan has an in-house travel agency, American Express Travel, and they were informed by the insurance company of the booking cancellation, even though they were not involved in the booking at all.
The Team Leader Natasha Wolfaardt and General Manager: Business Development, Harvey Lines, of Tourvest Travel Services, the corporate entity owning American Express Travel and other related travel agencies, took great exception to Metropolitan being awarded the Sour Award, and sent an e-mail of verbal abuse to Whale Cottage, threatening to communicate to its agency companies and fellow members of the hospitality industry that Whale Cottage had declined a booking! "On behalf of Tourvest Travel Services, being American Express Travel Services, Seekers, Indojet & Maties, please be advised that our national network of offices will be instructed not to sell your property with immediate effect. Furthermore, I will make sure that our considerable corporate client base, our fellow members at ASATA and all of our other peers within the travel & tourism sector in SA are made aware of our experiences dealing with you. I have been in travel & tourism for over 22 years based throughout the world and have never come across anything as short-sighted as your attitude before. I lie, you remind me of Basil Fawlty. Clearly your business is immune to the economic crisis that is affecting most people on this planet, which I guess is worthy of some type of accolade so congratulations on that, though it doesn't quite beat the Sour Service award that you have kindly bestowed upon us. I notice from you email that "wir sprechen deutsch". Shame you don't know how to speak to potential customers in English!" wrote Mr Lines.
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When I compiled the list of top global law firms, I had to guestimate which firms would make the list. With a number of firm closings this past year, I knew a few of the AMLAW 200 firms would need to rise to the occasion.
Some of my guestimates turned out to be incorrect. So is life.
For the first 25 firms (alphabetical), two firms that I bet on lost: Bracewell & Giuliani (Texas oil!) and Cahill Gordon. I should have bet on Boies Schiller (litigation) and Blank Rome (full service, Philadelphia! firm), as they both made the AMLAW 100 list.
Therefore, the list of the first 25 BigLaw Tech Scores (in alphabetical order) includes Bracewell and Cahill and skips over Boies Schiller and Blank Rome.¹
I'll include Boies Schiller and Blank Rome next time in my effort to be complete. Therefore, the next list will be comprised of 27 firms.
It is obvious that law firms are reticent when it comes to embracing new technology. Thus far, however, the BigLaw Tech Scores serve as a vote of confidence for the law firms – who no doubt assessed the risks and benefits – and, ultimately, decided to take the leap to develop their presence on the web.
The firms with the highest BigLaw Tech Scores – Alston & Bird (19 points), Crowell & Moring (18 points), Cooley Godward (15 points), and Bryan Cave (15 points) – all jumped up in rank in 2009 and realized an increase in revenue.
The firms with the lowest BigLaw Tech Scores – Baker Hostetler (6 points), Bingham McCutchen (6 points), Cadwalader (6 points), and Cravath (6 points) – all jumped down in rank in 2009 but the firms split as to how their revenues changed. The two B firms realized an increase in revenue whereas the two C firms saw a decrease in revenue.
Obviously, there are a lot of factors that can change the AMLAW rankings, even assuming some of the players from last year were still around.
For example, each firm's practice areas and specialties may explain the differences in rank, change in rank, or change in revenue. Maybe each of the firms that rose in rank on the AMLAW chart – those that simultaneously scored the highest on the BigLaw Tech Scores – focused on bankruptcy or securities litigation or practice areas that remained busy throughout the financial crisis. On the other hand, perhaps, each of the firms that decreased in rank on the AMLAW list – those that simultaneously scored the lowest on the BigLaw Tech Scores – specialized in capital markets or mergers and acquisitions or real estate. In other words, the practice areas that got hit the hardest.
Therefore, I decided that it would be prudent if I also considered the specialty areas at each of the top ranking BigLaw Tech Scores as well as at each of the bottom ranking BigLaw Tech Scores.
Here are the profiles from each of the firms U.S.A. Chambers & Partners rankings:
Alston (BigLaw Tech Score = 19)
Baker & Hostetler (BigLaw Tech Score = 6)
Bingham McCutchen (BigLaw Tech Score = 6)
Bryan Cave (BigLaw Tech Score = 15)
Cadwalader (BigLaw Tech Score = 6)
Cooley Godward (BigLaw Tech Score = 15)
Cravath (BigLaw Tech Score = 6)
Crowell (BigLaw Tech Score = 18)
Interestingly, out of the lowest ranking tech scores, Cravath seems to be the only one heavily weighted towards the financial services industry.
While there are discrepancies, there are also a lot of similarities. The high BigLaw Tech Scores do not stand out as "experts" in highly lucrative fields compared to the low BigLaw Tech Scores. The firms seem pretty even.
(Of course, with the caveat, that the types of clients these firms represent may vary.)
To reiterate, the BigLaw Tech Scores compared to the AMLAW rankings may be coincidental, especially because this was a very small sample. Once I go through all 100 firms, the evidence to support this claim may or may not be stronger. Again, I realize, there are a lot of factors that may change a firm's profit and/or their rank on the AMLAW list.
Nevertheless, law firms need to revitalize their business structure and embracing technology – though scary (!) (for everyone!!) – is a cost-efficient method to improving client services and internal morale.
So, without further ado…
My wish list for BigLaw Tech Scores 2010:
- Attorney cell phone numbers listed on firm profiles
Think this is outlandish? Many attorneys include their cell phone numbers on their "in case of emergency" out-of-office replies. That is, of course, if their firm even allows out-of-office replies.
Many sales trainers advise sales people to give out their cell phone numbers (and recruiting trainers). Meanwhile, clients tend to respect personal lives as much as they appreciate convenience.
- Skype IDs
Free. Video. Conferencing. Look tech-savvy and service oriented at the same time. (For firms who do this already, consider entering this competition – deadline June 15, 2009).
- Demonstrated understanding of user experience design and human factors
Based on what I've seen so far, I'd be surprised if law firm web designers have ever heard of those concepts.
- Shortcuts to LinkedIn profiles (law firms or individual attorneys)
Wouldn't it be that much easier for colleagues, clients, or potential clients to connect with a firm or an attorney if the LinkedIn profile was listed on the firm's website?
- Firm and/or individual Twitter accounts
- Blogs
Rule of thumb: if the first 5 hits on Google highlight recent layoffs, attorney suicides, or pending lawsuits – it's time to get involved in the conversation.
- A consistent look-and-feel across blogs including their URLs²
This is about branding and presentation. A global law firm should look like a cohesive, organized entity. This takes planning, a little bit of foresight, and a helpful IT department to clear up any confusion.
(See also : user experience design and human factors.)
- Podcasts
I've never been in the A/V club. I was a cheerleader and I rowed.
Earlier this year, I went out and bought this microphone to make my YouTube video for my first webinar.
PC users can create podcasts with Audacity (open source) and Mac users can use GarageBand . After the file is created, a firm can host it on its servers. Once there is a permanent URL or RSS feed, the podcast can be submitted to iTunes.
Law firms have plenty of content too. They simply need to find the person with the best radio voice to read all of those client alerts or firm newsletters.
- Self-hosted WordPress accounts on the firm's servers
Domain? Check. Host/server? Check. Design and layout? Check. Check.
(See : firm's home page; see also : uniform web pages).
Cost? Free.
(What can I say? After using Blogger, WordPress, and Joomla, I'm a WordPress junkie.)
And, a report placed on every attorney's desk so he or she knows who visits the website, how they found the website (i.e. what search words did they use), whether they are a new visitor or a loyal visitor, how many minutes they spent on the site….
(Note: Attorneys should be able to decipher the analytics report to assess their current marketing strategy.)
- Sitemeter or other third-party tracking
Google and other analytics solutions encourage users to optimize solutions with supplementary data.
- Feedburner for RSS feeds
Once a user decides to subscribe to a site's feed, they continue to receive the content but they no longer need to visit a website. Without clicking on the site, their visits and behaviors will not be picked up by services like Google analytics.
Nevertheless, these subscribers – arguably the site's most loyal readers – are important in terms of analyzing trends and marketing goals. This is why services like Feedburner are beneficial.
- Personalized domains for WordPress.com, blogger, or typepad
Again, this is a branding issue that some may find nit-picky or silly. Using a blogging platform is one solution to maintaining a blog. These solutions make blogging accessible to people who do not know computer languages such as HTML or CSS . Nevertheless, a blogging platform – used as a hosting site – and a website domain are two separate entities.
If a lawyer is blogging professionally, whether independently or on behalf of his or her firm, it seems like a sensible purchase to splurge on a professional URL at $22.50 per year, $9.99 per year, or $9.99 per year. True, those are affiliate links to sites that offer domains (read! like! support!). However, the advice still stands (and, feel free to research domain services on your own!). Think of it as the modern day equivalent of printing your résumé on good quality paper.
Ok, Ok. These are long term goals. I know not all of them will work and not all of them will be implemented by next year. But, these are simply suggestions to keep law firms moving forward.
I have to say thank you to the first 25 firms that I research. In this type of scrutiny, the first group always has it the hardest (especially if the group – the first large law firms in alphabetical order – has no idea they are being scrutinized).
I'm excited to see how the next firms compare!
¹ My incorrect assumption about Bracewell & Giuliani pains me because the firm came out on top with a BigLaw Tech Score of 22 points. (On the other hand, their high tech score and failure to jump up to the AMLAW 100 list sort of ruins my analysis below.)
For similar but opposite reasons, I hate to leave out Cahill because it was one of the lowest scoring firms with a BigLaw Tech Score of 6 points and, well, it didn't rise to the occasion.
² It also pains me to criticize firms for their inconsistent URLs when they are way ahead of the curve in terms of embracing technology.


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Google's market cap passed Microsoft's for the first time in the companies histories this morning, Bloomberg News tweeted.
At the start of the year Google was $19 billion behind Microsoft in market cap. Thanks to a recent rally, Google has narrowed the gap, and this morning it closed that gap entirely.
For what it's worth, according to Yahoo Finance, Microsoft still has ~$3 billion lead over Google. That lead could easily disappear again if Google surges and Microsoft sinks or stays still.
Just two years ago Microsoft was the most valuable tech company in the world. It is now behind Apple and will pretty soon fall permanently behind Google.
Steve Ballmer needs Windows 8 and the Surface tablet to be big hits if he doesn't want to fall even further behind.
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