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Another day, another elected official calling for a video game crackdown.
Today it's Staten Island, where Richmond County (NY) District Attorney Dan Donovan has harsh words for Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. As reported by WABC-7, Donivan claims that Getting Up encourages illegal behavior.
"What it does is encourages and incites people to commit a crime of graffiti vandalism," said the D.A., who is asking retailers not to carry the game.
"This is telling you how to avoid detection by the police and how to avoid the mayor who's attempting to suppress your rights to express yourself," Donovan added.
For his part, designer Marc Ecko told WABC-7, "It's a little bit of much ado about nothing. He's really underestimating the intelligence of the consumer... There's this automatic dismissiveness to throw the baby away with the bath water and be dismissing about the game."
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Arbor Day - Trees Activities and Printables
National Arbor Day in the US is on the last Friday in April.
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600-Model Wine Cabinet (2 Cooling Units)
- Two individual compartments with separate cooling systems, one for red and one for white wines
- Hidden hinges
- Redwood / aluminum racking system
- Universal 3 3/4" racking to fit most bottle sizes
- White oak exterior / unfinished
- Two Wine-Mate self contained cooling systems (1500BTU each)
- Digital temperature controls
- White wines at approx 50°F
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- Dimensions: 51"W x 29"D x 88"H
- Approx. Bottle Capacity: 400 (200 per compartment)
- Temperature Range of Cooling Unit inside Wine Cabinet:
The WM-1500 BTU cooling units have the ambient temperature threshold range of 50°F-78°F.
The WM-2500 BTU cooling units have the ambient temperature threshold range of 50°F-95°F.
All wine mate units have the ability to cool a maximum of 25 degrees below the ambient temperature in the room.
Performance will vary depending on "R" value of insulation and if the cabinet has glass doors vs wood doors.
- Adding a stain/finish to the cabinet is recommended to prevent warping/mold. We are not liable if the staining/finishing is performed by a third party and damage to the cabinet occurs as a result.
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Because hospital reports of spiders living in women's ears and fish jumping down children's throats aren't harrowing enough, here's some more shudder gasoline for the nightmare conflagration raging in your brain. As The New Zealand Herald reports of a patient at Auckland City Hospital last week:
"The eel was about the size of a decent sprig of asparagus and the incident is the talk of the place," a hospital source said. "Doctors and nurses have come across people with strange objects that have got stuck where they shouldn't be before, but an eel has to be a first." [...]
"In response to a direct query from the Herald on Sunday, we can confirm that an adult male presented at Auckland City Hospital this week with an eel inside him," Matt Rogers, spokesman for Auckland District Health Board, said [in what was inarguably the most important press statement of anybody's career].
It is unclear what species of eel this was. And if anybody in the comments makes a pun about "eelicit behavior," shame on you, and shame on our culture wholesale for prodding you to this juncture.
PREVIOUSLY: Death by moray, Roman style.
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This module provides various time-related functions. For related functionality, see also the datetime and calendar modules.
Although this module is always available, not all functions are available on all platforms. Most of the functions defined in this module call platform C library functions with the same name. It may sometimes be helpful to consult the platform documentation, because the semantics of these functions varies among platforms.
An explanation of some terminology and conventions is in order.
DST is Daylight Saving Time, an adjustment of the timezone by (usually) one hour during part of the year. DST rules are magic (determined by local law) and can change from year to year. The C library has a table containing the local rules (often it is read from a system file for flexibility) and is the only source of True Wisdom in this respect.
The precision of the various real-time functions may be less than suggested by the units in which their value or argument is expressed. E.g. on most Unix systems, the clock "ticks" only 50 or 100 times a second.
On the other hand, the precision of time() and sleep() is better than their Unix equivalents: times are expressed as floating point numbers, time() returns the most accurate time available (using Unix gettimeofday() where available), and sleep() will accept a time with a nonzero fraction (Unix select() is used to implement this, where available).
The time value as returned by gmtime(), localtime(), and strptime(), and accepted by asctime(), mktime() and strftime(), is a sequence of 9 integers. The return values of gmtime(), localtime(), and strptime() also offer attribute names for individual fields.
See struct_time for a description of these objects.
Changed in version 3.3: The struct_time type was extended to provide the tm_gmtoff and tm_zone attributes when platform supports corresponding struct tm members.
Changed in version 3.6: The struct_time attributes tm_gmtoff and tm_zone are now available on all platforms.
Use the following functions to convert between time representations:
|seconds since the epoch
|struct_time in UTC
|seconds since the epoch
|struct_time in local time
|struct_time in UTC
|seconds since the epoch
|struct_time in local time
|seconds since the epoch
The module defines the following functions and data items:
The offset of the local DST timezone, in seconds west of UTC, if one is defined. This is negative if the local DST timezone is east of UTC (as in Western Europe, including the UK). Only use this if daylight is nonzero.
Convert a tuple or struct_time representing a time as returned by gmtime() or localtime() to a string of the following form: 'Sun Jun 20 23:21:05 1993'. If t is not provided, the current time as returned by localtime() is used. Locale information is not used by asctime().
Unlike the C function of the same name, asctime() does not add a trailing newline.
On Unix, return the current processor time as a floating point number expressed in seconds. The precision, and in fact the very definition of the meaning of "processor time", depends on that of the C function of the same name.
On Windows, this function returns wall-clock seconds elapsed since the first call to this function, as a floating point number, based on the Win32 function QueryPerformanceCounter(). The resolution is typically better than one microsecond.
Deprecated since version 3.3: The behaviour of this function depends on the platform: use perf_counter() or process_time() instead, depending on your requirements, to have a well defined behaviour.
Return the resolution (precision) of the specified clock clk_id.
Availability: Unix.
New in version 3.3.
Return the time of the specified clock clk_id.
Availability: Unix.
New in version 3.3.
Set the time of the specified clock clk_id.
Availability: Unix.
New in version 3.3.
The Solaris OS has a CLOCK_HIGHRES timer that attempts to use an optimal hardware source, and may give close to nanosecond resolution. CLOCK_HIGHRES is the nonadjustable, high-resolution clock.
Availability: Solaris.
New in version 3.3.
Clock that cannot be set and represents monotonic time since some unspecified starting point.
Availability: Unix.
New in version 3.3.
Similar to CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but provides access to a raw hardware-based time that is not subject to NTP adjustments.
Availability: Linux 2.6.28 or later.
New in version 3.3.
High-resolution per-process timer from the CPU.
Availability: Unix.
New in version 3.3.
System-wide real-time clock. Setting this clock requires appropriate privileges.
Availability: Unix.
New in version 3.3.
Thread-specific CPU-time clock.
Availability: Unix.
New in version 3.3.
Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a string representing local time. If secs is not provided or None, the current time as returned by time() is used. ctime(secs) is equivalent to asctime(localtime(secs)). Locale information is not used by ctime().
Nonzero if a DST timezone is defined.
Get information on the specified clock as a namespace object. Supported clock names and the corresponding functions to read their value are:
The result has the following attributes:
New in version 3.3.
Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a struct_time in UTC in which the dst flag is always zero. If secs is not provided or None, the current time as returned by time() is used. Fractions of a second are ignored. See above for a description of the struct_time object. See calendar.timegm() for the inverse of this function.
Like gmtime() but converts to local time. If secs is not provided or None, the current time as returned by time() is used. The dst flag is set to 1 when DST applies to the given time.
This is the inverse function of localtime(). Its argument is the struct_time or full 9-tuple (since the dst flag is needed; use -1 as the dst flag if it is unknown) which expresses the time in local time, not UTC. It returns a floating point number, for compatibility with time(). If the input value cannot be represented as a valid time, either OverflowError or ValueError will be raised (which depends on whether the invalid value is caught by Python or the underlying C libraries). The earliest date for which it can generate a time is platform-dependent.
Return the value (in fractional seconds) of a monotonic clock, i.e. a clock that cannot go backwards. The clock is not affected by system clock updates. The reference point of the returned value is undefined, so that only the difference between the results of consecutive calls is valid.
On Windows versions older than Vista, monotonic() detects GetTickCount() integer overflow (32 bits, roll-over after 49.7 days). It increases an internal epoch (reference time) by 232 each time that an overflow is detected. The epoch is stored in the process-local state and so the value of monotonic() may be different in two Python processes running for more than 49 days. On more recent versions of Windows and on other operating systems, monotonic() is system-wide.
New in version 3.3.
Changed in version 3.5: The function is now always available.
Return the value (in fractional seconds) of a performance counter, i.e. a clock with the highest available resolution to measure a short duration. It does include time elapsed during sleep and is system-wide. The reference point of the returned value is undefined, so that only the difference between the results of consecutive calls is valid.
New in version 3.3.
Return the value (in fractional seconds) of the sum of the system and user CPU time of the current process. It does not include time elapsed during sleep. It is process-wide by definition. The reference point of the returned value is undefined, so that only the difference between the results of consecutive calls is valid.
New in version 3.3.
Suspend execution of the calling thread for the given number of seconds. The argument may be a floating point number to indicate a more precise sleep time. The actual suspension time may be less than that requested because any caught signal will terminate the sleep() following execution of that signal's catching routine. Also, the suspension time may be longer than requested by an arbitrary amount because of the scheduling of other activity in the system.
Changed in version 3.5: The function now sleeps at least secs even if the sleep is interrupted by a signal, except if the signal handler raises an exception (see PEP 475 for the rationale).
Convert a tuple or struct_time representing a time as returned by gmtime() or localtime() to a string as specified by the format argument. If t is not provided, the current time as returned by localtime() is used. format must be a string. ValueError is raised if any field in t is outside of the allowed range.
0 is a legal argument for any position in the time tuple; if it is normally illegal the value is forced to a correct one.
The following directives can be embedded in the format string. They are shown without the optional field width and precision specification, and are replaced by the indicated characters in the strftime() result:
|Locale's abbreviated weekday name.
|Locale's full weekday name.
|Locale's abbreviated month name.
|Locale's full month name.
|Locale's appropriate date and time representation.
|Day of the month as a decimal number [01,31].
|Hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number [00,23].
|Hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number [01,12].
|Day of the year as a decimal number [001,366].
|Month as a decimal number [01,12].
|Minute as a decimal number [00,59].
|Locale's equivalent of either AM or PM.
|Second as a decimal number [00,61].
|Week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53]. All days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are considered to be in week 0.
|Weekday as a decimal number [0(Sunday),6].
|Week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53]. All days in a new year preceding the first Monday are considered to be in week 0.
|Locale's appropriate date representation.
|Locale's appropriate time representation.
|Year without century as a decimal number [00,99].
|Year with century as a decimal number.
|Time zone offset indicating a positive or negative time difference from UTC/GMT of the form +HHMM or -HHMM, where H represents decimal hour digits and M represents decimal minute digits [-23:59, +23:59].
|Time zone name (no characters if no time zone exists).
|A literal '%' character.
Here is an example, a format for dates compatible with that specified in the RFC 2822 Internet email standard. [1]
>>> from time import gmtime, strftime
>>> strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", gmtime())
'Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:17:15 +0000'
Additional directives may be supported on certain platforms, but only the ones listed here have a meaning standardized by ANSI C. To see the full set of format codes supported on your platform, consult the strftime(3) documentation.
On some platforms, an optional field width and precision specification can immediately follow the initial '%' of a directive in the following order; this is also not portable. The field width is normally 2 except for %j where it is 3.
Parse a string representing a time according to a format. The return value is a struct_time as returned by gmtime() or localtime().
The format parameter uses the same directives as those used by strftime(); it defaults to "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y" which matches the formatting returned by ctime(). If string cannot be parsed according to format, or if it has excess data after parsing, ValueError is raised. The default values used to fill in any missing data when more accurate values cannot be inferred are (1900, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -1). Both string and format must be strings.
For example:
>>> import time
>>> time.strptime("30 Nov 00", "%d %b %y")
time.struct_time(tm_year=2000, tm_mon=11, tm_mday=30, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0,
tm_sec=0, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=335, tm_isdst=-1)
Support for the %Z directive is based on the values contained in tzname and whether daylight is true. Because of this, it is platform-specific except for recognizing UTC and GMT which are always known (and are considered to be non-daylight savings timezones).
Only the directives specified in the documentation are supported. Because strftime() is implemented per platform it can sometimes offer more directives than those listed. But strptime() is independent of any platform and thus does not necessarily support all directives available that are not documented as supported.
The type of the time value sequence returned by gmtime(), localtime(), and strptime(). It is an object with a named tuple interface: values can be accessed by index and by attribute name. The following values are present:
|(for example, 1993)
|range [1, 12]
|range [1, 31]
|range [0, 23]
|range [0, 59]
|range [0, 61]; see (2) in strftime() description
|range [0, 6], Monday is 0
|range [1, 366]
|0, 1 or -1; see below
|abbreviation of timezone name
|offset east of UTC in seconds
Note that unlike the C structure, the month value is a range of [1, 12], not [0, 11].
In calls to mktime(), tm_isdst may be set to 1 when daylight savings time is in effect, and 0 when it is not. A value of -1 indicates that this is not known, and will usually result in the correct state being filled in.
When a tuple with an incorrect length is passed to a function expecting a struct_time, or having elements of the wrong type, a TypeError is raised.
Return the time in seconds since the epoch as a floating point number. Note that even though the time is always returned as a floating point number, not all systems provide time with a better precision than 1 second. While this function normally returns non-decreasing values, it can return a lower value than a previous call if the system clock has been set back between the two calls.
The offset of the local (non-DST) timezone, in seconds west of UTC (negative in most of Western Europe, positive in the US, zero in the UK).
A tuple of two strings: the first is the name of the local non-DST timezone, the second is the name of the local DST timezone. If no DST timezone is defined, the second string should not be used.
Resets the time conversion rules used by the library routines. The environment variable TZ specifies how this is done.
Availability: Unix.
Although in many cases, changing the TZ environment variable may affect the output of functions like localtime() without calling tzset(), this behavior should not be relied on.
The TZ environment variable should contain no whitespace.
The standard format of the TZ environment variable is (whitespace added for clarity):
std offset [dst [offset [,start[/time], end[/time]]]]
Where the components are:
Indicates when to change to and back from DST. The format of the start and end dates are one of the following:
time has the same format as offset except that no leading sign ('-' or '+') is allowed. The default, if time is not given, is 02:00:00.
>>> os.environ['TZ'] = 'EST+05EDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0'
>>> time.tzset()
>>> time.strftime('%X %x %Z')
>>> os.environ['TZ'] = 'AEST-10AEDT-11,M10.5.0,M3.5.0'
>>> time.tzset()
>>> time.strftime('%X %x %Z')
On many Unix systems (including *BSD, Linux, Solaris, and Darwin), it is more convenient to use the system's zoneinfo (tzfile(5)) database to specify the timezone rules. To do this, set the TZ environment variable to the path of the required timezone datafile, relative to the root of the systems 'zoneinfo' timezone database, usually located at /usr/share/zoneinfo. For example, 'US/Eastern', 'Australia/Melbourne', 'Egypt' or 'Europe/Amsterdam'.
>>> os.environ['TZ'] = 'US/Eastern'
>>> time.tzset()
>>> time.tzname
>>> os.environ['TZ'] = 'Egypt'
>>> time.tzset()
>>> time.tzname
See also
|The use of %Z is now deprecated, but the %z escape that expands to the preferred hour/minute offset is not supported by all ANSI C libraries. Also, a strict reading of the original 1982 RFC 822 standard calls for a two-digit year (%y rather than %Y), but practice moved to 4-digit years long before the year 2000. After that, RFC 822 became obsolete and the 4-digit year has been first recommended by RFC 1123 and then mandated by RFC 2822.


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MARSHALL - After a home robbery nearly three weeks ago, one Marshall resident is still dealing with the loss of some very special items.
Former Mizzou football player, Kurtis Gregory, came home to his front door cracked open. The television was still mounted on the wall, so a break-in did not cross his mind. But as soon as he walked toward the door, seeing broken wood around it, and his play station gone, he realized there was a problem.
"My first reaction was like 'What the heck is going on, is someone messing with me?'" said Gregory.
Some big items, such as a play station and gun were stolen from the house. However, more meaningful items were taken away from Gregory that day, such as his football bowl rings, watches, and his fiancé's wedding band.
"Play Station, don't care about. Revolver, don't care about. I just want the football stuff back and the rings, especially the wedding band because I'm getting married in December so it'd just be really nice to get that back because we picked it out together," said Gregory.
Saline County Sheriff Wally George said, "The thing with these burglaries is that they are usually people who are heavy drug users and they look for anything they can to pawn. Not looking to keep it, but just thinking 'I can sell that pretty dang fast and that's usually the reason those burglaries occur here.'''
There have been three to four robberies around Gregory's property. "Because of this, I think we are looking at the same people for Kurtis and that's the leads we are following up on now," said George.
George warns people to keep doors locked, report suspicious activity, and call police right away if someone breaks in.


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Checkity check it out Let's see what this app is all about. Oh what, Double ex L has a new crazy iPhone app? Wow it lets you drop rhymes and rap, freestyling all over a 30-second track.
If you didn't notice We love this sort of hocus pocus. You got 30 seconds to spit To prove you're the shit With words out your lip. It's uploaded to their website So you better keep your head right And make sure your rhymes tight. The public is gonna rate you, hopefully they won't hate you, just don't be a disgrace dude.
Don't worry, the app has other stuff too, like hip hop trivia, rapper tweets and news, hell you can even find the location of your crew. But the freestyle feature is called Ready or Not, If you think you're the next rap superstar give it a shot! [iTunes via Mashable]


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Yorozu Kensuke
Contemporary dance / Apprentice
At the age of five, Kensuke began studying ballet in the USA and continued his training at Mie Hatanaka Ballet Studio in Japan. In 2006, he joined the summer programme of San Francisco Ballet School on a full scholarship, and later went to The Washington School of Ballet, also on full scholarship. There, he was trained by Kee-Juan Han, Carlos Valcarcel and Rudolf Kharatian.
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Netgame necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 142 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
Edited Contest Notes: As you can see from the designs we like---the more Corporate and solid you can make us look the better. We still have not nailed the perfect design, so please try again---color is secondary but should be two colors that say 'stable'.
Help us with our corporate logo. The company is about leveraging processes to improve marketing results. We thought there might be some way to incorporate the L in the AdLeverage name to show leverage. We're thinking we might use red and gold, or burgundy and gray...the colors are secondary to the design. Please just do what you guys do best which is crank out some awesome designs.
AdLeverage.com - Processes That Improve Marketing Results
This is our first contest. We are very anxious to see the results. We are looking for a logo for our company which has unique processes to improve an advertisers marketing results. We use analytics, split-testing, process improvement, time-motion studies and predictive modeling to give an advertiser an edge. We can optimize campaigns so that that go from losing money to making money for almost any type of company. I don't know how to express all that in a logo, but I'm excited to see what original ideas you guys come up with.
- We're open to the tagline too. We know we deliver better results for advertisers, leverage your assets to deliver better ads, we improve processes so you get a better ROI.
- I don't think we want to 'normal' stuff like 'gears spinning' or the arrows running in a circle.
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Hansen's advice to Cowgill key to outfielder's approach
HOUSTON -- Three years ago, when backup outfielder Collin Cowgill was with the D-backs and assistant hitting coach Dave Hansen was with the Dodgers, Hansen -- fourth all-time in pinch-hits -- provided some key advice that helped Cowgill on a day like Saturday.
"He said to show up every day like you're starting," Cowgill recalled, "that way it's not a surprise when you are."
Cowgill -- only 27 years old, but already on his fourth team -- made his first start of the season when he batted leadoff and played right field against the Astros in the second of a four-game series. Seven days earlier, he got word that he had beaten out J.B. Shuck for the backup-outfield job, even though Shuck batted .293 while playing in 129 games the prior season.
Cowgill figured his right-handed bat and versatility went a long way towards landing that role, and he's right. He called finding out he won the job "bitter-sweet," because it also meant Shuck would go to the Minors.
"We're teammates, we're friends," Cowgill said of his relationship with Shuck. "There's no hard feelings when that happens. You're both fighting for the same thing. That's just the way the game is, that's the way baseball is. Every spring is going to be like that, where there's guys that are battling. I went through it with the Mets, I went through it with the A's. And every team you go through, there's going to be competition. Especially this team, with the mainstays in this lineup."


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We need to find a Rays Cartoonist!
I have been jealous of people with an artistic talent for drawing for a long time. Sure, I used to dabble in simple cartoon characters and landscapes as a kid in Art class, but the really defined and articulate professionals who day in, and day out compose and construct a simple one panel cartoon are imagery masters to me.
With a single comical image, they can conjure up emotions and events that take me sometimes 5-6 paragraphs to illustrate with words. They can do stuff with the flick of their wrist that I could not even fathom with my keyboard and mouse.
So as the Tampa Bay Rays ready today to leave the Charm City, I am instantly drawn to the Baltimore Sun website to catch the daily cartoon antics of Mike Ricigliano, who has been doing a daily Baltimore Orioles cartoon for over 20 years for the Baltimore Sun.
And if you want, you can scroll through Ricigliano's daily images here
But it has been great for the past few years to check in on Ricigliano's impression of the Rays versus Orioles series, and get some impressive artwork, plus a few chuckles along the way. But seriously, I wish the Rays or the St. Petersburg Times could find a qualified cartoonist who would do the same thing for this community.
The Times did have a great cartoonist for years named Don Addis, but he is now creating in that big inkwell in the sky and is not available for the job. And I grew up with Addis's artwork daily at the Times, plus he did the character imagery of "Pushy DaBroom" a quasi-janitor/journalist who erratically used to appear to write a sports opinion column in the Evening Independent .
The imagery created by Addis made you want to like Pushy, and his opinions sometimes took a deep soulful look into situations that some journalist tried to shy away from at that moment in time. But the one panel imagery of Addis spoke volumes about the piece even before you set your eyes upon the written words.
Sometimes I think that is needed again with the Rays. A simple one panel cartoon or image that could take all the words opinions and clutter and simplify it into a neat and thought provoking image.
And with the media giants crying "foul" on the abusive use of long words and sentences today, it might be a great clarifying use of imagery that would fit conveniently within a box in the corner of the page. And it could instantly take a situation, such as the swirling Major League Baseball Trade Deadline and use a simple image of a Rays player with the names of players thought to be within the Rays trade bubble, it could actually achieve the action of showing the magnitude of the trade scenario without clogging up the paper with 10-12 paragraphs on the same item.We all know that saying, "A picture paints a thousand words", and a cartoon can use that same old quote and click it up a notch. This is something I really feel passionate about, but I do not have the creative drawing talents to pull this off myself.
But there has to be a guy sitting in Art class right now, or maybe creating glorious illustrations in a tattoo parlor that could produce a daily mesmerizing cartoon that could bring together the collective Rays Republic. Maybe I will again go out and buy an artist's pad and some ink and try to produce something like this myself, but then again, stick people probably will not excite anyone, especially my eight grade Art teacher.
- Posted on July 21, 2010 at 1:17 pm
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Die südafrikanische Pressefreiheit findet keine Anwendung auf Blogger. Wer schützt die Netzaktivisten?
(Autor/ Editor: Ghassan Abid)
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Die Pressefreiheit muss in allen Staaten der Welt, auch in Demokratien, ständig verteidigt werden. In Südafrika steht die Presselandschaft besonders unter Druck. Mail & Guardian, das Flaggschiff des investigativen Journalismus, ist mehrfach durch den Staat und einer Reihe von Konzernen vor Gericht gezerrt worden – aktuell durch die Unternehmens- und Managementberatung Bososa. Die Aufdeckung der Quellen, der Whistleblower, ist in den meisten Fällen das Ziel von juristischen Auseinandersetzungen. Die Verfassung garantiere das Recht auf Quellenschutz, wenn ein hohes öffentliches Interesse bestehe, so der Blogger und selbsternannte "Media-Freak" Akanyang Merementsi aus Rustenburg. Er bedauert jedoch, dass den Bloggern kein Rechtsstatus auf journalistische Privilegien zusteht – ähnlich in Deutschland. In den USA hingegen existieren bereits Organisationen wie Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), die den Bloggern umfassende Hilfe in Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Rechtsberatung- bzw. vertretung anbieten. Bezüglich der geplanten und vom ANC geplanten Presseregulierung, wonach im Rahmen des sog. Protection of Information Bill Journalisten bei der Veröffentlichung von geheimen Informationen mit bis zu 25 Jahren Haft bestraft werden können, führt Akanyang die Zunahme von Falschmeldungen an. Die südafrikanische Presse hat in den letzten drei Jahren nach Angaben des stellvertretenden Presse-Ombudsmann für einen Anstieg der Beschwerden von 70 Prozent gesorgt. Falsche Informationen und unethische Meldungen dienen dementsprechend als Grundlage zur Presseregulierung. Ferner bemängelt Akanyang die fortwährende Schwarz-Weiß-Einteilung der südafrikanischen Gesellschaft und vor allem die von Weißen betriebene Assoziation von Problemen wie Armut, Kriminalität, mangelnde Bildung und Korruption mit der schwarzen Hautfarbe. Er hasst es, dass Schwarze per se in "Verdacht" gestellt werden.
2010sdafrika-editorial staff: We would like to welcome on SÜDAFRIKA – Land der Kontraste – the German Gateway to South Africa – a Rustenburg based blogger Akanyang Merementsi. Dear Akanyang, according to your Akanyang Africa blog you are a "media freak". Which aims are you following with your online media?
Answer: My blog addresses a range of topics and these include politics and media developments in South Africa (African and abroad). I am passionate about media and politics and this must have something to do with the fact that I almost became a journalist in my last year (2007) at North West University's Mafikeng campus in the North West province.
At the time I developed a keen interest in media and politics which played a role in my becoming a writer for the university student newspaper, The Album. The stint, however, only lasted for a couple of months until sometime August that year when the university, strangely, decided to close down the newspaper due to lack of funds. In my first issue I had only written one feature involving a student whose residence room had caught fire and burned most of her belongings. I also contributed in the news snips section of the newspaper.
But as for political interests, I hope my Aquarius star attributes of curiosity and inquisitiveness have nothing to do with it. But I suspect they do.
2010sdafrika-editorial staff: You are criticising several cases of organisation that are in confrontation with press institutions. For example in the juridical case between the enterprise BOSASA against Mail & Guardian newspaper. Is the South Africa state sufficiently protecting bloggers and journalists?
Answer: On the Mail & Guardian vs. Bosasa saga I was merely concerned that there was such great silence from other media houses in the country that previously claimed to support press-freedom but had failed to come to the defence of M&G when it was being forced through the Court to reveal sources that had leaked certain information to it. And as far as I understand newspapers like M&G are protected by the Constitution from not revealing their sources if their revelations are "in the public interest", which the Bosasa stories were, according to my understanding. Therefore it was sad that only one organisation was behind M&G in court while others like Democratic Alliance, Cosatu, etc. were silent.
So journalists enjoy more protection than bloggers (like myself or any other for that matter). This is because, so we are told, we are not and cannot claim to be journalists who enjoy some great protection from the Constitution.
I do not think bloggers can claim to be journalists and therefore claiming their rights, but I truly believe that we bloggers do not enjoy any protection at all to date.
Not even international organisations I have interacted with can easily help me fight any legal battle for me a South African blogger. Or if they were, it would be difficult as they would first have to find their peer in my country who would be willing to represent me. In June last year I asked Rebecca Jeschke, a media relations director at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – a US-based organisation that fights for what it called the Bloggers' Rights – about her organisation and what it does. With offices only in San Francisco, Jeschke said the organisation's "legal guide" whose "law [is] referenced" in the US "likely doesn't apply to South Africa".
Asked how EFF defended bloggers in other parts of the world – South Africa as an example, she said they worked on "an activism level". "We can and do call attention to important international cases, and work on international policy issues. But we don't do on-the-ground legal work for cases outside of the US". Although they would not be personally helping bloggers if they faced lawsuits, Jeschke said, however, that EFF can be contacted for assistance and they "will try to help find appropriate legal assistance". "But we can't provide that assistance ourselves for cases outside of the US", she said.
If you will remember a blogger had written a story for which s/he was fined over a million Pounds/Euros/dollars. This, the Court found later, was because, unlike journalists, she was not protected from not disclosing sources. What bloggers can only exercise but with caution is our right to freedom of opinion and expression which are enshrined in the South African Constitution. So this is an indication that bloggers do not have much protection as journalists do.
2010sdafrika-editorial staff: What is your opinion with regard to the ANC's planned Protection of Information Bill? Will the government be cutting press freedom?
Answer: I have not read the revised version of the proposed regulation, even the old one I had not finished reading. However, those that had read both versions and whose judgements I trust are of the opinion that the Protection of State Information Bill in its current form might be unconstitutional.
For example, at the time of doing writing veteran Human Rights lawyer George Bizos of the Legal Resources Centre reportedly had his submission to Parliament on the bill that: "as it stands, [it] runs contrary to and indeed threatens many of the fundamental values and principles enshrined in the Constitution". This is the general view in the country and of course many of us are inclined to believe that for as long as the bill is not in line with the constitution as alleged – where the media and press rights and freedom and their constitutional obligations to report without fear and or favour are not recognised, where whistleblowers are protected and that any information can be leaked and or reported in the "public interest" – then we need to be worried and concerned as a nation because many secrets (often by political parties, corruptable businesspeople, government departments and private businesses) are very much likely to be covered up with the passing of these laws.
So by introducing a law such as this and the ruling party's proposed Media Appeals Tribunal – our media would be very much limited to reporting alleged/suspected corruption where leaked evidence thereof do exist. Therefore, to a great extent, these laws would be "cutting press freedom".
Having said this, however, the media (especially on MAT proposal) is as much to blame for many of its unethical and irresponsible reporting, some of which are way out of line with the South African Press Codes.
For example, I blogged on May 7 last year, asking: "Is Sunday Times living up to this Code of Conduct?" In another blog entry published at the same time, I asked: "Has Sunday Times breached the Press Codes on its 'Dis-Grace' story?" Below is just a few of my articles published on my blog in which I criticise the press/media:
- M&G newspaper fighting solo Court battle to protects its sources
- Is Rupert Murdoch doing a Bosasa on M&G?
- Why our media should sleep on its 'self-regulation' bed now more than ever
- Does the media report or assume news?
- Is there 'copy and past' in SA newsrooms?
- What editors need to do to avoid a repeat of The Star and Daily Sun (newspapers) on Malema
- Is Avusa Media consistent with columnists?
- Did Avusa and Sunday Times "raise controversy without thought for the consequences" with Roberts' column?
- When should "sources" be used?
- Interview with SA Press Council and Press Ombudsman
- Did Sunday Times act "ethically" in publishing "Against The Rules Too" report?
- Public Protector vindicates me on Sunday Times' "unethical and unlawful" publication of Against The Rules Too
- M&G playing political games with anonymous sources?
- Was Mbeki wrong about Press Freedom in 1996?
- Sunday World and Sunday Times "slave for formula"?
- Has Mail & Guardian confused you on the Maharaj saga?
- Was Sowetan's Mathale "dare" Zuma claim misleading?
In February this year South African Press Council released figures in which it noted the increase of complaints against newspapers. Deputy Press ombudsman said at the time that there was a 70% increase over the last three years in the number of complaints about incorrect or unethical newspaper reports. He said the complainants grew from 150 in 2009 to 213 in 2010 and 255 in 2011.
While criticising the media on 13 March, Press Ombudsman Joe Thloloe said his office experienced "problems… with the way ([newspapers] ignored correspondences" from his office, naming The Times newspaper as one of the culprits. This, however, is not to say the press should be suppressed as it now is tempted to with these laws although the government has denied this.
2010sdafrika-editorial staff: South Africa is still challenged with many socio-political problems like crime, corruption and poverty. Is the government by President Jacob Zuma doing enough for the South African people or which policies should be changed?
Answer: I would like to believe that the government is doing its best – though not enough – to fight poverty and corruption the country. On 11 March 2012, I was called an "idiot" by someone on Twitter when I put it to him that we – especially white people in the country – have a tendency of saying crime, education and corruption is a "Black problem" or the "ANC problem". Which are not. So for as long we have people who still 18-years into our democracy see crime, education and crime as a "black person's problem" then we have a long way to go in overcoming these challenges.
I would also like to believe that we have good policies in fighting these but sometimes lack of community involvement (for whatever reasons) is probably one of the reasons why there is little success in sorting out our education, crime and poverty and corruption challenges.
2010sdafrika-editorial staff: Some voices are denouncing the continuous fragmentation of the South African society in blacks and whites. Would you confirm this perception?
Answer: I have realised that we have accepted and see ourselves on racial terms: black and white people. To achieve the rainbow nation envisioned by former President Nelson Mandela will take probably longer than it took apartheid to rule South Africa. Seeing ourselves as just one human race will be hard-work and not an easy road, I must add.
One of the issues that often come up is that of white people failing to accept some of the awful things their forefathers had done to ours. And it is sad that some of these things still happen to this very day. To address this, I would suggested that we have some sort of a Race Debate because surely Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission did little job in helping both blacks and whites accept one another and our differences. But at the same time – as mentioned in my blog post published on 25 March 2012 and titled "My 'Black Man Code' or is it a 'Trayvon Martin' moment? – I think white people "… tend to treat us blacks with suspicion" and I hate it.
Associate Press Writer Jesse Washington coined The Black Man Code and he told his son to "Understand that even though you are not a criminal, some people [white in particular] might assume you are, especially if you are wearing certain clothes". So to a "black male… [to] go above and beyond to show strangers what type of person you really are" – as Washington told his son to do – it will be difficult because this always gives us blacks The Black Man Code. Worse, it sometimes makes us experience that "Trayvon-Martin moment".
2010sdafrika-editorial staff: Which impressions do you have from Germany and Germans?
Answer: Unfortunately I cannot form any opinion of Germany and or its people because I have not had any interaction with them.
2010sdafrika-editorial staff: Akanyang Merementsi – media freak & blogger – thank you very much for this interesting interview!


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[Editor's note: This morning we received the following announcement from Cliff Shaw at Mocavo.]
A little over a year ago, Mocavo acquired ReadyMicro and the incredible mind known as Matt Garner. One of Matt's lifelong passions and curiosities is to enable computers to read historical handwritten documents to bring genealogy search to the next level. It's well known in the genealogy industry that historical handwriting recognition is the Holy Grail – the single largest technological advancement that would enable more content to become accessible online (except for maybe the invention of the Web). For the past year, we've joined with Matt to tackle this very hard problem, and have finally made enough progress that we can begin to report on it.
Let me start by explaining the problem. Ask a computer to read the page below and it will stumble all over place.
OCR (optical character recognition) technology could read some of the typewritten text – but would be confused by the handwriting (and invent typewritten letters that it thinks it sees inside handwritten text). To make matters worse, this page has multiple typewritten font types, including one that looks like cursive handwriting.
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Now that we've detected where the handwriting is, we can start having some fun. Let's go back 130 years and change the ink from black to blue.
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Let's talk recognition.
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After you've heard "A Thankstaking Story," check out this devotional thought. (If you haven't heard the episode, check out the Media Player. You can also find a station in your area.)
By Bethany Brown
Around this time of year we hear a lot about being thankful. At my house, we put kernels of corn or fall leaves in a basket and name a thing that we're thankful for. My list usually includes my mom and dad, food to eat, a house to live in, toys to play with, Adventures in Odyssey to listen to…and the list goes on. I have a lot of things to be thankful for. But the more I read my Bible and listen to Odyssey, the more I realize that I have so many things to add to my list.
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If I were stuck inside on Thanksgiving Day, I bet that I could find a lot of things to be thankful for. I could be thankful for God, for the fact that He loves me and sent us His son Jesus for me. I could be thankful that I was able to pray and talk to God whenever I want. And I could thank God that I can live as His child.
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Fresh salmon, fish meal, ground barley, chicken meal, brewers rice, whole oat, brown rice, chicken fat preserved with mixed tocopherols (a source of vitamin E), cellulose powder, beet pulp, whole flax seeds (a source of omega-3 fatty acids), chicken liver digest, sun-dried tomato pomace, lecithin, potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, calcium propionate, choline chloride, dried apples, cranberry powder, glucosamine sulfate, dehydrated kelp, Yucca schidigera extracts, ferrous sulfate, garlic powder, chondroïtin sulfate, zinc oxide, Dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E), dried blueberries, anis seed, juniper, milk thistle, cinnamon, thyme, chicory root, devils claw extracts, sodium selenite, thiamin mononitrate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, manganous oxide, nicotinic acid, calcium d-pantothenate, retinyl acetate (vitamin A), cholecalciferol (vitamin D3), folic acid, riboflavin, menadione nicotinamide bisulfite (vitamin K3), biotin, vitamin B12 supplement, cobalt carbonate.
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Crude protein 26 % minimum
Crude fat brutes 16 % minimum
Moisture 10 % maximum
Crude fiber 4.5 % maximum
Crude ash 8.5 % maximum
Vitamin A 12 600 IU/Kg
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First, second and fourth ingredients are named meat products.
Uncertain meat content, use of low quality grain and controversial filler.
The first two ingredients of this food are both named meat products. The first is salmon, inclusive of water content. Once this is removed, as it must be to create a dry food, the ingredient will end up weighing around 20% of its wet weight. It is thus unlikely that this is the true first ingredient in the food, but would be more accurately placed further down the ingredient list. This is not a major concern, since the second and fourth ingredients are both meat products in meal form.
We are unable to find any guarantee on the manufacturer site that the fish products used in this food are free of ethoxyquin (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish products and which is banned from use in human foods due to the belief that it is carcinogenic).
The food contains several grains - four ahead of the fat content. This serves to limit our confidence in the overall meat content of the food. The grains used are of mixed quality. Barley, whole oats and brown rice are decent quality, but brewers rice is a waste product.
Cellulose powder is filler - otherwise known as sawdust. Beet pulp is another low quality ingredient and filler. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required. We note that this product includes synthetic vitamin K, a substance linked to liver problems and that is progressively being removed from better quality dog food products.
This food has been rated 3* primarily on its meat content, however the other ingredients are not of high quality and a 2* rating was strongly considered.
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We're all for stepping outside our style comfort zones. It's healthy every once in a while to push the limits, wear something outrageous, and dare yourself. And, the latest collection from Aperlai is basically all about that. The French collection — lead by the seriously chic Alessandra Lanvin — is known for blurring the lines between art, architecture, and fashion. And, for spring, there's no shortage of showstopping selections.
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Filed Under (The HELL You Say!) by admin on 11-11-2010
Another election is over and the sweet promise of more change in two short years is wistfully blowing. It looks like it will be a humdinger of a Thanksgiving for Republicans.
While I will be giving thanks, I won't be celebrating. The new Congress, packed with what Bob Livingston correctly calls the Ruling Elite, will be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.*
Some think the nation took a turn for the worse with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I disagree. What came after FDR was total victory over Hitler and Tōjō as well as immense new wealth. By the late 1950s America was rich, stable and could call on the most dominant army ever assembled.
From the ashes of World War II the United States was the only major power that became richer rather than poorer. By the early 1950s the U.S. was the world's largest creditor and was posting unprecedented trade and budget surpluses. America's immense agriculture base and mineral wealth were just beginning to be exploited, and the country was the number one producer and exporter of crude oil.
Writing for Benjamin M. Rowland's 1977 book, Balance of Power or Hegemony: The Interwar Monetary System, Charles P. Kindleberger said that in 1950 Washington possessed $20 billion in gold reserves or almost two-thirds of the world's total of $33 billion.
In 1950 America's per capita gross domestic product was seven times that of Japan's and was almost double that of Great Britain's. Today Japan and Great Britain have per capita GDPs that measure more than three-quarters of America's. In fact Ireland, home to one of the worst famines of the post-Industrial Revolution, has a higher per capita GDP than does the United States.
America's economy was also a dynamo that just kept spinning faster. Measured in constant dollars, the nation's GDP rose tenfold between 1940 and 1969.
A half century later the U.S. was the largest borrower in history, the biggest buyer of fossil fuels and was posting staggering deficits. And by the dawn of the 21st Century the U.S. held slightly more than 25 percent of the world's official gold reserves, or about $355 billion worth. That won't even pay down 4 percent of the $13 trillion in U.S. Federal debt.
The onset of the massive decline began in the 1960s under President Lyndon Baines Johnson. It is worth noting that that Democratic President's agenda was similar to President Barack Obama's. Both set out to redistribute America's wealth and both sent young men to fight and die in a losing war halfway around the world.
America was on the brink of revolt following Johnson's election in 1964. It is worth remembering that things did not get much better after his successor — the deeply conservative President Richard Nixon — was elected four years later. Over the next decade American's fortunes became progressively worse, and the nation has continued in a state of decline that persists to this day.
It all adds up to America's grand decline, declared National Affairs earlier this year in an article with the headline, "Complexity and Collapse: Empires on the Edge of Chaos."
"Imperial collapse may come much more suddenly than many historians imagine," is the summation of that article written by Niall Ferguson. "A combination of fiscal deficits and military overstretch suggests that the U.S. may be the next empire on the precipice." You can read the article here.
Ferguson cites two troubling trends in America's decline:
First, that America's public debt may skyrocket from 44 percent of GDP before the 2008 financial crisis to more than double that figure within a generation.
Second, China will have a larger economy than America in 17 years and India's GDP will exceed America's in less than 40 years. If so, the U.S. could soon be a third rate power.
Ferguson is not the first historian to point out that America is an empire in decline. In 1987, Paul Kennedy's book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000 traced the decline of dominant nations beginning 500 years ago.
Kennedy's conclusion is that all great powers have a natural progression that starts with a rise to prominence and then an inevitable decline. This erosion of wealth and influence has affected every leading power including Spain, the Habsburgs and Britannia.
"Imperial expansion carries the seeds of future decline," wrote Kennedy. "If a state overextends itself strategically… it runs the risk that the potential benefits from external expansion may be outweighed by the great expense of it all."
This phenomenon of "imperial overstretch," says Kennedy, is common throughout history.
Even America's own regression has long been understood. In the 1960s, Arkansas Senator William Fulbright, the Democratic chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, wrote the book, The Arrogance of Power. He was highly critical of overspending and the Vietnam War. The title became something of a slogan for the antiwar protests of the 1960s.
In the 1980s I started doing my own research into America's decline. I found that in the 1950s one out of every three cars made worldwide was built by General Motors. At that time, GM sold more than one out of every two cars made in America. By the late 1980s, GM's share of the domestic market had fallen to around 35 percent, and today it stands at less than 20 percent.
At the height of American power, General Motors President Charles Wilson said, "What's good for General Motors is good for the country." I think the converse could also be argued. America's Ruling Elite seem as arrogant as Charles Wilson and Henry Ford II and if that is the case the nation itself is headed for bankruptcy. The only difference is that General Motors could count on Washington to bail it out. But who can bail out America?
Yes, we have elected a new Congress. And yes, in two years we might have a new President. But how much of a difference will it make? Not much. Consider that America has been in a state of decline for more than four decades. The nation's multitude of problems — the war in Afghanistan, the energy and debt crisis, illegal immigration and spread of immorality — cannot be cured over the next few years.
My friends, the die is cast for America just as it was for all the great empires. Consider Spain. In the late 16th Century it was the most dominant power in the world. One hundred years later the plague, corruption and sweeping emigration had reduced Spain's population from 8 million to 7 million. By then it hardly mattered who carried the crown once worn by the laudable Charles V.
A more contemporary example is England. After compiling huge debts and barely surviving the onslaught of Nazi Germany, did it much matter if Conservative candidate Winston Churchill or his opponent, Labour's Clement Attlee, formed the Government that was elected in 1945? Of course it didn't; not in the long run. And neither will it much matter who we elected last week or whom we elect two years from now.


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Earlier this year, LG announced three new Android powered smartphones, the Optimus L7 II, Optimus L5 II and Optimus L3 II. The South Korean mobile phone manufacturer has already launched the dual-SIM variant of Optimus L7 II and Optimus L3 II in India. Infibeam, a popular online retailer has already started selling the Optimus L5 II Dual smartphone. This indicates that the company will soon launch the Optimus L5 II Dual in India.
The mid-range Optimus L5 II Dual is the successor of the not-so-popular Optimus L5 Dual. This handset runs on the Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) Operating System. If you are planning to buy one, then check out the complete specs below.
LG Optimus L5 II Dual features a 4 inch IPS display, sporting a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, 1 GHz single-core processor, Dual SIM capabilities, 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and LED flash, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, 3G Connectivity and much more.
Other features include a FM Radio with RDS, A-GPS, 4 GB internal memory, MicroSD card slot, 32 GB expandable memory, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP, 512 MB RAM, Accelerometer, microUSB 2.0 and a 1700 mAh battery. This handset measures 118.4 x 62.2 x 9.2 mm and weighs just 100 grams.
Sadly, the much needed front-facing camera is missing from the device. Currently, you can get this handset in two colors – Black and White. LG Optimus L5 II Dual is expected to come with a price tag of Rs.14,999, however Infibeam is currently selling this device for Rs.11,499 (approx. $210). To get this handset. head over to this page.


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Heavy rainfall brings severe flooding east of Pittsburgh
Flooding shuts down numerous roads in Armstrong, Butler, Indiana, Westmoreland counties
Residents in Westmoreland County are cleaning up after heavy rainfall caused severe flooding Wednesday afternoon.
Weather Watch 4 Chief Meteorologist Mike Harvey reported Apollo, in Armstrong County, saw more than 2 ½ inches of rainfall, while nearby Saltsburg had around 3 inches.
Sky 4 flew over the area, where flooding of streets, fields, bridges and houses, as well as submerged vehicles, could be seen from the air.
Officials said at least 200 homes sustained flood damage, mainly to basements. Three roads in the area had to be shut down at one point. They described it as the worst flooding since Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
"It's really bad. It was really bad. We had Ivan maybe, seven, eight years ago. It wasn't this bad," said Paula Shaffer who had nine inches of water inside her home.
Shafer and her neighbors spent Thursday cleaning up from the storm.
"I opened up my back door to let the water out, and it just came rushing out like a river," said Cynthia Savannah. "My husband's tools are all covered. I think we lost our dryer, we may have lost our freezer, I haven't even tried the washing machine to see if it works."
As sirens sounded, neighbors braced for an overwhelming cleanup. On Dime Road in Parks Township, the rushing water from a nearby creek ripped a shed off the ground, and tore it apart, before moving move through the rest of the neighborhood.
Sandra Sheasley lives in Parks Township and says, if she was home at the time, her car could've been next.
"When I pulled in the driveway I cried, but when you see other parts of the place, that's nothing compared to the house," said Sheasley.
Her yard was wiped out, and everything in her basement was swimming in muddy water.
Just a few miles down to River Road, people like salon owner Teri Biddle say they never saw it coming.
"It just kept coming through, came through like a river," said Biddle.
And then there was this: A Jeep on River Road at Eleventh Street, stuck with water up to the hood. John Steele watched as the water rose and the driver escaped.
"She was out of there pretty quick, she was out and the water was waist high when she jumped out," said Steele.
But then Steele had to deal with his own mess. His AJ's Tire Shop now underwater. Only with the fire department's aid and equipment, could he bail it out.
"Was this worse than Hurricane Ivan?" asked reporter Andrew Del Greco. "Yeah we've never had that much water, that fast," said Steele.
While Steele and so many others are down, at least for now, they say they're never out.
"We'll be back open tomorrow, nobody is paying me if that door isn't open!" said Steele.
While families in the area say they would have to work all night long, they say fortunately at least no one was hurt in Wednesday's flooding.
Channel 4 Action News' Ashlie Hardway reported from Route 711 near Donegal Lake Road in Westmoreland County, where emergency crews used boats to rescue residents who were trapped inside their homes by flooding.
Rescue teams pulled two people from a trailer. "The water come down the roadway, started to rise, they both panicked, called 911 and the swift water teams were dispatched," said Scott Grahn, a member of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
"The basement is filled with water and I know have a lake instead of a yard and the firefighters have been unbelievable helping out and pumping. Unbelievable," said Mary Kay Huesdash, at the corner of Old Franklin Road and Route 711.
On Raymond Avenue in Latrobe, firefighters were pumping water from several homes that had their basements flooded.
Boats were even pulled into streets to get people out of their homes.
Thursday, residents pulled their muddied and destroyed belongings from their homes and apartments.
"When I came home yesterday, the water was clear up to the edge there," said Margaret Barger, who lives near Raymond Avenue in Latrobe. "I'm 72 years old. It's hard to start over."
Barger said she called the American Red Cross to ask for help. A few miles away in Cook Township, Lyndsey Neiderhiser spent the morning on the phone with her insurance company.
"It rained really hard again, and the front yard was flooded up to here. You can see where the line is at," she said. "It was like a waiting game; waiting and wondering, 'Is this going to ruin everything?'"
Flooding was also reported throughout Westmoreland County, in Derry, Ligonier, Stahlstown and Washington Township.
The flooding caused numerous state highways to shut down. Westmoreland County officials asked people to use caution when driving because there is still ponding on the roadways.
Anyone who needs a free flood clean-up kit can contact the American Red Cross or visit the municipality offices in Avonmore, Allegheny Township, Derry Township, Washington Township, Loyalhanna Township and Unity Township, Westmoreland County.


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I'm Dark Imperator, a member of the French forum Brickpirate.net. I live in Saint-Etienne, a town situated near Lyon.
As you, I'm keen on the brick, and more particularly on city (mainly modulars) and castle themes.
I enjoy when this two themes are linked. For instance, I work at the moment on an old modular house which is built next to the bulwarks of a city, for my historic neighborhood.
In castle, I prefer the civilian life than the big castles and other knights, even if there is a lot of beautiful MOCs on the net. I'm fond of "Archenval", created by stephle59.
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If you are craving for a good Kuala Lumpur fried Hokkien Mee and do not mind going to Setapak for one. Then I would recommend you this coffee shop.
Kedai Kopi Dan Makanan Hong Lai is housed along the main road of Genting Kelang, Setapak and it's near to the road junction to Air Panas.
Just look at the fierce flame from the burning charcoal and these young assistants will soon take over the business and will continue to provide us the traditional way of Kuala Lumpur signature fried noodles.
The Master Cook of Hong Lai who having been pampering his patrons with good charcoal fried noodles. And his patrons have never failed to return for more of his delicious fried noodles.
It was surely a long wait for his favourite moonlight "kuay teow". And the good news was he was satisfied with the taste of his noodle and he do not mind the wait.
This is the moonlight fried koay teow "Yip Kong Hor" and is Zu Yi's favourite noodle. He has been pestering me to bring him here at Hong Lai for this dish. And at last he got it.
The first time I ate this kind of noodle was in 1976 and it was a shock to me seeing the fat & oily yellow noodles in dark soy sauce. Over the years I have got used to it and have cultivated a love for it. Hong Lai's fried Hokkien Mee is magnificent and I love it very much.
"Kung Fu" Fried Koay Teow or aka Cantonese Fried Noodle is also as delicious.
We went for more noodles and ordered another dish of "Lor Mee". We just wanted to try more and it was great especially eaten with a bit of Chinese vinegar.
Kedai Kopi Dan Makanan Hong Lai
Jalan Genting Kelang
Setapak, Kuala Lumpur