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The Central Connecticut softball team dropped a 3-2 decision to Toledo on Saturday morning before shutting out #15 NFCA ranked Stanford 5-0 in game two of the doubleheader in Clearwater, FL. Junior Kat Malcolm and freshman Alexis Debrosse each hit a two-run homer in the win.
GAME #2 vs. Stanford
Junior Laura Messina made her second appearance of the season in the circle against #15 Stanford (16-5), tallying her second-consecutive shutout of the season. Messina struck out five batters while allowing eight hits and two walks.
Messina now posts 21 career shutouts, adding to her own CCSU program record. She also added to her strikeout record, which now stands at 468.
The Blue Devils got started early, posting three runs in the top of the second. Sophomore Kenya McVey kicked off the inning with a double to left center. Debrosse followed it up with her first collegiate home run, giving CCSU a 2-0 lead. The Cardinals made a pitcher change after sophomore Hannah Cooper sent a double down the left line.
With Cooper on third, junior Kat Malcolm stepped up to the plate for her second double of the weekend, driving Cooper across the plate for a 3-0 lead.
CCSU struck again in the top of the fourth when Malcolm, who tied the CCSU single-season home run record in 2013 (10), blasted a homer, driving walked batter Ernst home and increasing the lead to five.
The Central defense stayed solid throughout the game, completing seven errorless innings.
The Blue Devils tallied eight hits and just three strikeouts in the matchup. Malcolm, Debrosse and Cooper led CCSU on offense, each going 2-for-4 at the plate. Malcolm and Debrosse also earned two RBI each.
GAME #1 vs. Toledo
Sophomore Sarah Gaalswijk made her first start in the circle as a Blue Devil, posting two strikeouts, two walks and two hits in three innings. Senior Julie Marks took over in the bottom of the fourth and allowed three hits and three runs, just one earned, while walking one. Marks takes the loss and her record drops to 0-2.
After five scoreless innings, the Blue Devils were the first to put a run on the board. Senior Tessa Brown smacked a single in the top of the sixth that landed her on first. Brown was brought in by a double from sophomore Eileen Purcell on the following at bat to put CCSU up 1-0.
Toledo (4-9) answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning, however, when a back-to-back error and a walk resulted in two runners on base who would eventually score.
Heading into the top of the seventh down by one, Central tied it up when freshman Sarah Drazin crossed the plate for her second run of the weekend.
The Rockets took the game in the bottom of the seventh when Chandler Rice doubled with no outs to bring in Alyssa Smith, who had reached first on error and stolen second.
CCSU tallied four hits in the game, led by Brown who posted two. Brown went 2-for-3 at the plate with one run.
The Blue Devils will be back in action tomorrow against Oakland in their final game of the USF Under Armour Invitational in Clearwater, FL. First pitch is scheduled for 9 a.m. Stay tuned to CCSUBlueDevils.com and Twitter @CCSUBlueDevils for updated LIVE STATS and LIVE VIDEO links.


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DETROIT - The Winter Classic between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings at Michigan Stadium has been reset for Jan. 1 after its cancellation this season because of the NHL lockout.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman made the announcement Sunday before the Red Wings hosted the St. Louis Blues.
When the game was called off, the league said it would schedule the next Winter Classic at the more than 100,000-seat stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The NHL said a world-record crowd for an ice hockey game could attend the annual New Year's Day game, surpassing the 104,173 who attended a game between the University of Michigan and Michigan State at Michigan Stadium in 2010.
Toronto and Detroit — NHL Original Six members — first faced off for a hockey game on Jan. 4, 1927, when the Toronto St. Patricks defeated the Cougars 2-1 in a game near Detroit.
Under the new realignment plan that will go into effect next season, the Red Wings and Maple Leafs will again compete in the same division.
"The history of the teams' cross-border rivalry, the nobility of The Big House, and the growing tradition of the NHL Winter Classic will raise the anticipation for this event to new heights," Bettman said in a statement. "We are delighted to offer our fans a spectacle at which the energy will be unmatched and the demand for tickets will be unprecedented.
"For anyone involved in any way — as a player, a coach, an official, a fan — this NHL Winter Classic will be a truly memorable hockey moment."
In the storied rivalry, Detroit (275-273-93-3) has earned 646 points against Toronto. The Maple Leafs are right behind, having garnered 645 (276-275-93-0) against Detroit.
The teams have also played 117 playoff games against each other, the second most in NHL history behind only the 170 between the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens.
Also, as originally planned, the Detroit Tigers' Comerica Park will hold a series of games in the two weeks leading to New Year's Day. They will involve the American Hockey League, college and high school as well as alumni and youth games.
The jerseys Detroit and Toronto will wear in the Winter Classic and the ones that will be worn during the alumni games were unveiled.
Downtown Detroit is expecting to welcome more than 250,000 visitors to the Hockeytown Winter Festival, an outdoor celebration of hockey at Comerica Park.
An outdoor rink will be placed on the infield of the ballpark that will feature games between teams representing every level of hockey, and it will provide opportunities for open skating for the public.
The festival will also include two games that will feature notable alumni of the Red Wings and Maple Leafs on New Year's Eve.
"In addition to representing a dramatic new step in the evolution of the NHL Winter Classic, the Hockeytown Winter Festival reflects the love Mike and Marian Ilitch have for the City of Detroit and its hockey fans," Bettman said. "The scheduled activities will bring tens of thousands of fans downtown to connect with the NHL Winter Classic excitement, to enjoy the festival experience and to share their passion for the sport."
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Now that Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber are reportedly no more, the Wizards of Waverly Place star is back on the market. So the inevitable question is: Who should she date next?
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Martha Raye (August 27, 1916 – October 19, 1994) was an American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television. She was honored in 1969 with an Academy Award as the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient for her volunteer efforts and services to the troops.
Raye's life as a singer and comedy performer began very early in her childhood. She was born at St. James Hospital, in Butte, Montana as Margy Reed, where her Irish immigrant parents, Peter F. Reed and Maybelle Hooper, were performing at a local vaudeville theatre as "Reed and Hooper". Two days after Martha was born, her mother was already back on stage, and Martha first appeared in their act when she was three years old. She performed with her brother, Bud, and soon the two children became such a highlight that the act was renamed "Margie and Bud." Some show business insiders speculated that the Judy Garland song from A Star Is Born, "I was born in a trunk in the Princess Theater in Pocatello, Idaho" was inspired by Raye's beginnings.
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Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was back in Centre County court Thursday to start his appeal process.
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Both prosecutors and Sandusky's defense team argued whether he got a fair trial.
This is the first time Sandusky will appear in court since June, when he was convicted on 45 of 48 counts of child sex abuse.
His defense team said they did not have enough time to prepare for the trial.
In addition, the defense is challenging testimony from a janitorial supervisor who told jurors second-hand information about what a co-worker had seen between Sandusky and a young boy in a Penn State shower.
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Buddy Media CEO Makes Unforgettable 'We Got Bought' Video
Buddy Media is not a brand most consumers would recognize, but in the halls of social media and marketing, it's a king. It connects major brands with their customers throughout all the major social media networks. Now, thanks to a $689 million acquisition, it's set to become part of cloud computing and CRM giant Salesforce.com (the deal should close later this summer). Still, it's this incredible video that could make Buddy Media and its cofounder and CEO Michael Lazerow a household name.
As Lazerow explains in the text accompanying the YouTube video, the clip is raw and emotional. However, throughout it, Lazerow doesn't speak a single word. Instead, he tells his own remarkable story and a bit about the acquisition, via a keynote slideshow on his iPad. Lazerow, who has had a life-long heart condition is smiling during most of it, but he's also clearly wiping away a tear or two as he reacts to some of what he's sharing.
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American Serengeti : the last big animals of the Great Plains / Dan Flores.Material type: TextPublisher: Lawrence ; University Press of Kansas , 2016Description: 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780700622276; 0700622276; 0700622284; 9780700622283; 9780700624669; 070062466XSubject(s): Animals -- Great Plains -- History | Herbivores -- Great Plains -- History | Predatory animals -- Great Plains -- History | Natural history -- Great Plains | Human-animal relationships -- Great Plains -- History | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Plains -- History | Environmental degradation -- Great Plains -- History | Wildlife conservation -- Great Plains -- History | NATURE -- Endangered Species | NATURE -- Animals -- Wolves | NATURE -- Animals -- Bears | Animals | Ecology | Environmental degradation | Herbivores | Human-animal relationships | Natural history | Nature -- Effect of human beings on | Predatory animals | Wildlife conservation | Bison | Gabelbock | Grizzlybär | Pferd | Präriewolf | Wolf | Great Plains -- History | Great Plains -- Environmental conditions | Great Plains | Great PlainsGenre/Form: History. | Nonfiction.DDC classification: 591.50978 LOC classification: QL155 | .F55 2016Other classification: NAT046000 | NAT044000 | NAT003000
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Introduction: American Serengeti -- 1. Empires of the Sun : Big History and the Great Plains -- 2. Pronghorns : Survivors from a Lost World -- 3. Coyote : The American Jackal -- 4. Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses : The Horse Trade and the American Great Plains -- 5. The Most Dangerous Beast : The Grizzly, the Great Plains, the West -- 6. A Dream of Bison -- 7. Wolfsong Redux -- 8. Loving the Plains, Hating the Plains, Re-Wilding the Plains.
"Bison. Horses. Coyotes. Wolves. Grizzly Bears. Pronghorns. A la John McPhee and Edward Hoagland, noted Western and environmental historian Flores dazzles with his vivid, informed, and richly detailed essays on six iconic animals of the American Great Plains. Diving into their genetic past as far back as the Pleistocene epoch and on up to restoration efforts in recent times, Flores is especially evocative and illuminating about the lives of these animals (and their interactions with humans) in the several centuries running from the dawn of the Age of Exploration through the end of the Indian Wars"--
"America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, 'It is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals.' In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores draws a vivid portrait of each of these animals in their glory--and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers and ultimately a federal killing program in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Great Plains with its wildlife intact dazzled Americans and Europeans alike, prompting numerous literary tributes. American Serengeti takes its place alongside these celebratory works, showing us the grazers and predators of the plains against the vast opalescent distances, the blue mountains shimmering on the horizon, the great rippling tracts of yellowed grasslands. Far from the empty 'flyover country' of recent times, this landscape is alive with a complex ecology at least 20,000 years old--a continental patrimony whose wonders may not be entirely lost, as recent efforts hold out hope of partial restoration of these historic species. Written by an author who has done breakthrough work on the histories of several of these animals--including bison, wild horses, and coyotes--American Serengeti is as rigorous in its research as it is intimate in its sense of wonder--the most deeply informed, closely observed view we have of the Great Plains' wild heritage"--
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CHOICE ReviewAmerican Serengeti is a passionate elegy to the American Great Plains and their former fauna. Historian Dan Flores (Univ. of Montana, Missoula) draws deeply from his professional expertise and life as a denizen of this eco-region to create a poetic book that functions as both conservation manifesto and memoir. Writing for a general audience, as well as for students, the author masterfully renders an evocative portrait to elucidate all that has been lost--vast herds of free-ranging antelope and bison, with attendant predators such as wolves, coyotes, and grizzly bears. He interweaves First Nations' cultural perspectives into this compelling narrative. Today's conservation efforts to restore fauna are presented as commendable but resulting in a pale simulacrum of the North American Serengeti that once existed. Flores concludes by highlighting the restoration objectives of the American Prairie Reserve to "rewild" this system, which is the most promising path forward. The book could have used more detail and facts about conservation efforts and ecology. The bibliography that accompanies each chapter is helpful, but standard endnotes would have been more useful for academics and to ground the assertions made by the author. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers through upper-division undergraduates. --Cristina Eisenberg, Earthwatch Institute
Author notes provided by SyndeticsDan Flores is the A. B. Hammond Professor of History at the University of Montana, Missoula. He is the author of numerous books including "Horizontal Yellow: Nature & History in the Near Southwest" & "Caprock Canyonlands: Journies into the Heart of the Southern Plains", & the editor of "Jefferson & Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman & Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806" (University of Oklahoma Press).
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This week brings two major pieces of news for NVIDIA, both of which are evidence that the GPU maker is killin' it in the high-performance computing (HPC) space. First is the latest Top 500 Supercomputer List, which sees China's NVIDIA-powered Tianhe-1A vault past the US Department of Energy's Jaguar machine to the top of the list.
China's 2.57-petaflop beast is powered by a combination of Intel Xeon (Westmere-EP) CPUs and over 7,000 NVIDIA GPUs. It runs Linux, and uses a proprietary interconnect to glue the nodes together. The DOE's Opteron-based Jaguar isn't too far behind, though, at 2.33 petaflops; if the DOE added GPU coprocessors to the system, it could easily retake the top spot. The Chinese also hold the number 3 spot on the list, with another Westmere-EP-based system that uses an earlier version of NVIDIA's Tesla for a coprocessor. Japan comes in fourth with another Westmere-EP/NVIDIA combo, followed by another GPU-less, Opteron-based Cray system at the DOE.
One player that has definitely lost ground in the Top 10 is IBM, which has hardware (Cell) in only the number 7 slot this time around.
Most of the attention surrounding this latest list is about the fact that China has taken the HPC crown from the US. This is true as far as it goes, but it might be more significant if it weren't for the fact that Intel and NVIDIA are the two companies that supplied the silicon for China's winner, and both are, of course, based in the US. The only thing this says about China is that they have giant pile of US dollars that they can send back to us in exchange for some of our computer hardware—maybe if they built a few thousand more of these machines a quarter, they might put a dent in our trade deficit. Other than that it's hard to see the fact that they essentially bought a large supercomputer from us as a sign of anything other than the US's continued (though still imperiled) technology leadership. In other words, call us when a machine based on one of the domestically designed Chinese CPUs makes its way into the Top 10.
The one other possibly significant China-related twist to this story is that the US lifted some of its high-tech export restrictions just last summer. Back in the early part of the decade, there was a lot of talk of Japanese limitations on exports of the PlayStation 2, for fear that a competitor like China might gang together a bunch of them into a supercomputer for military use. The US had similar controls in place, but these controls have steadily been lifted over the past few years. And now we have China knocking us off the top of the supercomputer list.
But ultimately, the real story here is that NVIDIA's bet on Tesla is really paying off. NVIDIA was the first to take the HPC potential of the GPU seriously, and they've invested considerable resources into winning this market in both hardware and software. Intel and AMD would both love to be competitive here with a data-parallel coprocessor, but right now NVIDIA owns this growing market. The Chinese system uses a derivative of NVIDIA's Fermi architecture, which is well-suited to exactly this sort of application.
Amazon goes Tesla
The second big NVIDIA announcement of the day came from Amazon, which is adding a GPU instance option to EC2. Called "Cluster GPU Instances," the new node type will give you two Fermi M2050 GPUs and two Nehalem Xeons. There's a page up with details, and the specs for the new instances are as follows:
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I am a Calvinist, but my family is Arminian/Dispensationalist/Charismatic. Would it be wrong for me to occasionally attend a mid-week worship service with them?
Unless there are factors of which I am unaware, I do not see a problem with your worshiping occasionally with family who are true believers in Christ but not Calvinists by persuasion.
The Apostle Peter begins his second general letter this way: "To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Pet. 1:1). We should by this standard be able to worship with any person who has a "like precious faith."
That faith is well-summarized in the so-called "Apostles' Creed." For centuries this has been the standard for Biblical orthodoxy, and though sometimes used carelessly (such as by Roman Catholics), it helps us to ascertain whether others who call themselves Christians share the same basic beliefs that we hold dear. If your family members can readily affirm these tenets and give evidence of the new birth, there are good grounds for worshiping together.
But what of the differences between Calvinists and non-Calvinists? Do these differences interfere with worship? On occasion they do, so we need to be careful. For example, Charismatics may insert "personal revelations" into the worship experience either by tongue-speaking or by deliverances of messages called "prophecy." This makes for a very uncomfortable situation for those who believe that special revelation has ceased and that the Bible is the completed form of revelation, which is not to be added to or taken away from.
Another problem might arise over worship practices that do not follow what the Reformed churches call "the regulative principle." Simply put, this principle requires that we worship God only in the ways specified in the Bible (see Westminster Confession, Chapter XXI). In many modern evangelical churches things go on in services that are supposed to be worship but that have no Biblical warrant (such as ballet dancing, poetry reading or even a rock concert.) If you are invited to join such or similar proceedings, you might want to think twice about it.
Nevertheless, if our consciences will allow it, we ought to encourage other believers and rejoice with them. Consider these passages from Romans 14 and 15, where in the Apostle Paul urges mature believers to "receive," that is, "welcome," those of like precious faith, but whom we may think to be "weak" in faith due to past or present influences. Romans 14:1, "Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things". Romans 15:7, "Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God."
We may consider Arminians or Dispensationalists to be doctrinally "weak," but they often have zeal and piety that can encourage Calvinists. If they are willing to "receive" us, let us also "receive" them that we may together worship our God and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Fullback Patrick DiMarco started 5 games last season
The Kansas City Chiefs released four players Thursday, including quarterback Alex Tanney, who gained acclaim when a Youtube video showing him making a series of tricky throws went viral.
Tanney spent time on the Chiefs' practice squad but never made the active roster.
The Chiefs also released fullback Patrick DiMarco, linebacker Cory Greenwood and offensive lineman Bryan Mattison.
DiMarco started four of the five games he played in last season, but was made expendable when the Chiefs drafted fullback Braden Wilson last weekend and then traded cornerback Javier Arenas to the Arizona Cardinals for another fullback, Anthony Sherman.
Greenwood played 48 games for the Chiefs over the past three seasons, primarily on special teams, while Mattison played 19 games over three seasons in Kansas City, St. Louis and Baltimore.


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Symmetry wrote:As Saxi pointed out earlier, the folks asked were only people who were editors under the regime, or people who the magazine considered to be solidly libertarian by the editors of the magazine.
Is it really that shocking to you that all of the people employed by the solidly Libertarian Party chief editor and all of the staff went for Johnson or said that they weren't going to vote?
Your poll indicates that my suspicions were correct.
saxitoxin wrote:To Recap -
Sym: Reason is a crazy libertarian website!
Correction: Reason is a 50 year-old print magazine named the 21st best magazine in America by the Chicago Tribune
Sym: Reason would naturally only endorse the Libertarian candidate!
Correction: In 2008 the plurality of their staff endorsed Barack Obama, the Democrat candidate.
Sym: Well, well ... any difference in 2008 was because of a change in editors. Their 2012 editor wrote a pro-Libertarian book - there was a radical editorial shift!
Correction: Their 2008 editor wrote the same book (they were co-authors).
Sym: I DON'T CARE. Reason is the mouthpiece of the Libertarian Party!
Correction: Reason pushes an overtly libertarian viewpoint like New Republic pushes an overtly center-left viewpoint. New Republic is not owned by the Democrat Party, Reason is not owned by the Libertarian Party.
If you want to join in discussions about USA politics, I think you need to spend some time educating yourself about the major players in the principal commentary journals, don't you agree? I'm sure you do. You've made yourself look a little silly in this thread by very basic factual errors and wild attempts to cover them up by making even bigger factual errors.
I'm glad you've come around now. Hopefully you will educate yourself a little more before spouting off nonsense.


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Gay marriage to be introduced in Scotland
- Published
Scotland could become the first part of the UK to introduce gay marriage after the SNP government announced plans to make the change.
Ministers confirmed they would bring forward a bill on the issue, indicating the earliest ceremonies could take place by the start of 2015.
Political leaders, equality organisations and some faith groups welcomed introducing same-sex marriage.
But it was strongly opposed by the Catholic Church and Church of Scotland.
The announcement was made in the wake of a government consultation which produced a record 77,508 responses.
Same-sex couples in Scotland currently have the option to enter into civil partnerships and the Holyrood government has insisted no part of the religious community would be forced to hold same-sex weddings in churches.
The Scottish government said;
- it would work with UK ministers to amend equality laws to protect celebrants from legal or disciplinary action if they refuse to take part or speak out against same-sex ceremonies.
- a bill would be brought forward to the Scottish Parliament later this year to bring in the change.
Scotland's deputy first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said: "We are committed to a Scotland that is fair and equal and that is why we intend to proceed with plans to allow same-sex marriage and religious ceremonies for civil partnerships - we believe that this is the right thing to do.
She went on: "The Scottish government has already made clear that no religious body will be compelled to conduct same-sex marriages and we reiterate that today. Such protection is provided for under existing equality laws.
"However, our view is that to give certainty on protection for individual celebrants taking a different view from a religious body that does agree to conduct same-sex marriages, an amendment will be required to the UK Equality Act."
The Scottish government said it was now going ahead with another consultation to consider what extra measures are needed to guarantee freedom of speech, including the protection of religious beliefs of teachers and parents in schools.
Ministers said the Scottish Catholic Education Service would continue to decide on the faith content of the curriculum in Catholic denominational schools.
Welcoming the government's approach, Tom French, policy co-ordinator for the Equality Network, said: "Same-sex marriage is about equality and freedom - the freedom for couples, and religious and humanist groups that want to, to celebrate same-sex marriages, but equally, upholding the freedom of other religious groups to say no to same-sex marriages.
"That's the right way for Scotland to deal with the different opinions on this."
The Church of Scotland, which will report on its own investigation of the issue in May 2013, expressed concern the government was rushing ahead with its plans.
The Rev Alan Hamilton, convener of the Church of Scotland legal questions committee, said: "We are acutely aware that opinions differ among our own members and that many people are anxious and hurt in the current situation.
"We believe homophobia to be sinful and we reaffirm our strong pastoral commitment to all people in Scotland, regardless of sexual orientation or beliefs."
He added: "We are concerned the government will legislate without being able to effectively protect religious bodies or their ministers whose beliefs prevent them from celebrating civil-partnerships or same-sex marriages."
A spokesman for the Catholic Church in Scotland said: "The Scottish government is embarking on a dangerous social experiment on a massive scale.
"We strongly suspect that time will show the Church to have been completely correct in explaining that same-sex sexual relationships are detrimental to any love expressed within profound friendships."
Civil partnerships in Scotland offer the same legal treatment as marriage, but are still seen as distinct from marriage.
The UK government, which is consulting on changing the status of civil ceremonies to allow gay and lesbian couples in England and Wales to get married, wants to make the change by 2015.


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WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The Washington Navy Yard shooter was delusional and thought he was being controlled by low-frequency electromagnetic waves, an FBI official said Wednesday.
Assistant FBI Director Valerie Parlave said during a news conference that a multiagency investigation had determined Aaron Alexis, 34, killed 12 people and wounded three others at random as he moved through the naval complex building before law enforcement officers killed him Sept. 16.
"There are multiple indicators that Alexis held a delusional belief that he was being controlled or influenced by low-frequency electromagnetic waves,'' Parlave said.
She said investigators found documentation in which Alexis stated, "Ultra-low frequency attack is what I've been subject to for the last three months, and to be perfectly honest that is what has driven me to this.''
Alexis had scrawled "My ELF weapon" on the shotgun he used in the attack. Parlave said "ELF'' was an apparent reference to extremely low-frequency waves, a technology used for submarine communications, but which conspiracy theorists contend is used for government monitoring and manipulation of people.
Parlave said investigators concluded none of the victims had been hit by friendly fire and Alexis had not told anyone of his intentions to go on a rampage with a shotgun he had bought just two days prior.
She said while Alexis, a private contractor in an information technology project at the complex, had "routine performance-related issue" at work the Friday before, there was no indication it had upset him, and there was no relationship between him and any of his victims.
"There is no indication he target anyone he worked for or worked with," she said.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday President Barack Obama will keep exhorting Congress "to do the right thing" and pass legislation aimed at reducing gun violence while at the same time the administration will take steps that don't require legislative action.
"I think our record on pursuing common-sense measures to reduce gun violence this year is robust, to say the least," Carney said. "And the president will continue to push that agenda, as I think he made clear."
Three of the victims of the mass shooting were remembered Tuesday at memorial services.
Services for John Johnson, 73, in Gaithersburg, Md., and Mary Frances DeLorenzo Knight, 51, in Virginia's Fairfax County were private, The Washington Post reported.
Hundreds of people gathered at a funeral home in Woodbridge, Va., for a service for Kathleen Gaarde, 62, a financial analyst who had worked for the Navy for more than 30 years.
Her husband, Douglass, said in his eulogy that Kathleen would have disliked the pomp of the service, the sailors standing at attention as a trumpeter played taps and the flag handed him by an admiral.
"Tough," he told his wife, looking upward.
Gaarde talked of how he and his wife had been apart for less than two months in their 43-year marriage. He came close to tears as he described their plans for retirement.


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Cookie Monster Cupcakes (via Memebase, from a post at Geekologie)
Stay tuned for more great CraftFails soon!
Oh no! Those cakes are on my to-make list. Now I'm scared!
Wow! Cookie Monster has melted! Thanks for the laugh!
ROFL! Love it!!! Thanks for the laugh this morning!
Some frosting doesn't hold up to decorating. Also the cupcakes have to cool completely so that it doesn't melt. Wilton has recipes online for frosting that can be used to decorate that will hold it's shape. Better luck next time.
My daughter says, " I bet they still tasted just fine!"
As someone who learned to tame the CMC, I'll tell you the secret– coconut. Mix a little in your frosting to give it the authentic muppet fur look.
You are now a Pinterest star, and making hundreds of people laugh. Daily. How does that make you feel? I'd be proud. Very proud.
Awesome tag line. 'Nailed It.'
Now they are Perry the Platypus!
OMG! I laughed so hard at this!!!! This could be me! I was gonna do a craft fail round-up but now I see there is a whole site dedicated to it- new fan. :)
And had to share on my fan fb page and craft forums. LOVE this.
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From previous experience, as someone had also pointed out above that either its the icing or they were not cool enough….
I wouldn't be scared to try it, just need patients and time.
I'm so glad someones else had the nerve to show a less than perfect food attempt. I had a similar experience with a pencil cake.(A picture is on my blog about perfection.) At least we tried and the kids get to eat the results. Remember the food in magazines and on pinterest is FAKE FOOD!
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MILTON — The following are the most recent arrests from the Aug. 28 through Sept. 5 by the Milton Police Department:
Aug. 28 — Kimberly A. Leary, 41, of Pineland Park, was charged with stalking.
Aug. 30 — Melissa McCassie, 19, of Elm Street, was charged with possession of drugs and unlawful possession of alcohol.
Aug. 31 — Robert Fuller, 42, of Beechwood Drive in Haverhill, Mass., was charged with the violation of operating without a license.
Sept. 1 — Kristina M. Buswell, 19, of Swan Lake Avenue in Belfast, Maine, was charged with the violation of unlawful possession of alcohol.
Sept. 2 — Rose Brannan, 57, of Middleton Road, was charged with simple assault.
Sept. 3 — John Paul Ruperti, Jr., 37, of Gran Avenue in New Haven, Conn., was charged with the violation of operating without a valid license. Craig Jewett, 43, of Main Street, was arrested on a warrant with the Dover Police. Thomas J. Kane, 56, of Center Road, was charged with possession of drugs.
Sept. 5 — Joyce E. McCassie, 48, of Elm Street, was charged with stalking. Eugene A. Keator, 37, of Silver Street, was charged with hindering apprehension and resisting arrest.
Sept. 9 — Matt Shaw, 31, of Idle Wood Lane in Kittery, Maine, was charged with simple assault.
Sept. 10 — Michael T. Cady, 44, of Pineland Park, was arrested on a warrant for simple assault.
Sept. 11 — Glen O. Hunter, 58, of Highland Avenue in Milton Mills, was charged with unsworn falsification.
Sept. 13 — Shaun Jones, 35, of Mooney Street in Alton, was charged with driving while intoxicated second offense and habitual offender.
Sept. 16 — Courtney E. Alessi, 22, of White Mountain Highway, was charged with hindering apprehension. Joseph A Staples, 22, of Charles Street, was charged with operating without a valid license.
Sept. 18 — Richard E. Stuart, 80, of Milton Road, was charged with reckless conduct.


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WSJ/NBC Poll: Most Americans Don't Trust ObamaCare
In a new poll, a large number of uninsured say the new federal health-care law, known by many as ObamaCare, will have a negative effect on their family. WSJ's Louise Radnofsky explains how the law is struggling to gain support. Photo: Getty
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Overseas Will Always Require OversightBy Joshua Weinberger Print
Hiring outside contractors to develop software no longer qualifies as a radical move.
Former GE chief executive Jack Welch once famously declared that "70-70-70" would be his company's rule for sending technology work offsite: 70% would be done by outside suppliers, 70% of that overseas, and 70% of that in India.
Sounds like a lot. In fact, India's slice of the U.S.' overseas technology work is on the order of 80% to 85%, according to Aberdeen Group and Forrester Research. But that figure may ebb, as India becomes just one of many offshore options, instead of the clear favorite.
Indeed, India may be a victim of its own success, says Nokia head of planning Hannu Kivilinna. "When a company doubles its resources from one to two or 10 to 20, that's not a management problem. When you double from 10,000 to 20,000, that poses management problems." Even a country of a billion people can only produce a finite number of engineers.
The options for managers like Kivilinna will proliferate as more work seeks more labor in low-cost havens. The total number of technology jobs moving overseas will increase by at least an order of magnitude over the next 10-to-15 years, according to Forrester.
Not that India will wither as a source of programming talent. While India's share of work might shrink, it still will likely have the largest slice of a much bigger pie.
But India is not the only nation where coding work can get done quickly, cheaply and effectively.
In fact, other countries such as China and the Philippines are cutting prices in comparison to India, in much the same manner as India compares favorably against the U.S.
Chinese programming may not yet be as sophisticated, but the Chinese are already able to underbid for the pure coding work that used to be the Indians' bread and butter.
According to Indian trade group Nasscom, in fact, the average pay of a Chinese worker is $13,832 a year. Her Indian counterpart? $15,776.
To claim the savings, Indian firms already have established a few Chinese outposts of their own. That means Kivilinna could wind up hiring an Indian services firm, but getting code from China anyway.
With Chinese firms nipping at their heels, Indian developers such as Infosys and Wipro have begun to climb a bit higher on the value chain, building on their reputations for delivering quality code to engage previous clients on newerand more lucrativeprojects.
The result? Other countriesPoland, Mexico, South Africaare grabbing what India leaves behind.
Customers, meanwhile, often end up seeking or being offered a blend of services that involves programmers on many shoreseven in the United States.
The LexisNexis Group, for example, has had a text-entry contract in China since the early '80s, says Bradley Clark, manager of global resourcing. For more involved work, it turns to four Indian vendors. But LexisNexis also has one in the Philippinesfor "a specialized, lesser-skilled area of software engineering."
A few years ago, for any complicated project, "India was really the only choice," Clark says. Even today, for top-flight certification and skills, "all the big guys are in India." Certification, he says, "hasn't played as big a role with the Philippines. You can get the work done, but there's slightly more risk."
In a very real sense, where everyday, noncritical software work gets created may be irrelevant. As James Fridenberg, a vice president for Farmers Insurance Group, says, "I'm blind to anything but quality and cost." Hideto Shimosato, general manager of the Epson Software Development Laboratory, says, "The most important issue is if we can trust the outsourcing company. Does the company keep its promises?" Once the trust is gone, so is the relationship.
Just as relying on one nation is going away, so is relying on just one vendor. Farmers divides its work among three Indian providers, and always looks for two. "We have a two-vendor strategy by design," Fridenberg says, referring to the top two firms in his stable, "to ensure that no one vendor gets too comfortable. We want to leave our options openit helps balance out the relationship."
Ace Hardware director of application development Jay Heubner, who has one main vendor in India, may be looking to spread out in the future, but only "from a risk-contingency planning perspective," he says. "I've had talks with a company in the Philippines, and we're still doing some meetings with [Indian] competitorsbut there would need to be a compelling reason to engage in a knowledge transfer" to a new contractor.
Using overseas programmers for data security projects, though, still needs sorting out. "The whole idea of 9/11 caught us totally off-guard," says Jeffrey Campbell, vice president of technology services and CIO of BNSF Railway. "We realized for the first time that there were things we should have taken care of up front: dedicated encrypted transmission lines; ensuring that all people working on our account had extensive background checks; [and] setting up a 'nearshore' site in Canada" for disaster recovery.
Thanks to exchange rates and government subsidies, AMR Research even notes that a $70,000 programmer can be had in Canada for about $15,000.
So, in some cases, the right shore may not even be offshore.
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15. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebthomas.diesler Apr 27, 2010 2:54 PM (in response to dknox)
The discussion is internal to the Enterprise OSGi Expert Group (EEG)
For our purposes the enterprise jar is a superset of the compendium. Specifically, we currently don't need any service APIs from the compendium (on the left) that are not part of enterprise (on the right).
For your initial HttpService prototype however, you can work with compendium and ignore enterprise for now.
16. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebbosschaert Apr 28, 2010 3:02 AM (in response to dknox)
Hi David,
David Knox wrote:
where is that discussion? My searches didn't produce it. The reason I ask is the contents of osgi.enterprise.jar and osgi.cmpn.jar are not mutually exclusive. Maybe reading the discussion will help clear this up.
The discussion is here: https://mail.osgi.org/pipermail/eeg/2010-April/006437.html if you work for a member company you can easily get a username/password and participate!
Work is currently underway to get the enterprise.jar in maven central.
WRT to the enterprise jar not being a subset/superset of the compendium jar... It will probably be a subset in the future. The compendium jar contains all the interfaces for all the compendium specifications and the compendium specs are normally all the specifications that aren't in the core - this includes all the enterprise specifications.
The reason the enterprise specs aren't in the compendium right now is simply because the enterprise release was ready about 6 months after the compendium spec.
The enterprise.jar and OSGi 4.2 Enterprise Specs are a focused set of specifications aimed at enterprise usage.
17. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox May 24, 2010 4:01 PM (in response to thomas.diesler)
Hi, After a couple of weeks of build magic, I'm able to begin this again.
Status: Current code is in http://github.com/jbosgi/jbosgi-http.git
The code starts a tomcat7 server. I think I'm ready to begin integrating with the osgi framework more completely.
First, I'm using an ant script to build locally, this was a simple way to start. But now, the build for jbosgi-http should start fitting into the project. I'm not very familiar with maven...
I've run mvn install and I can see straight away that the servlet3.0 and tomcat7 libraries need to be added to the pom. The new dependencies need to be in the maven repository, right?
18. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebbosschaert May 24, 2010 4:21 PM (in response to dknox)
Hi David,
The servlet 3.0 API from Sun/Oracle is distributed through CDDL (I think), which might be an issue. You can get an apache licensed version of this from here: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/geronimo/specs
WRT to Tomcat, I thought 6.0.x was the latest, but I might have missed something there This one is available from here: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tomcat/
Since this is the maven central repo, you shouldn't have to do anything special to include them in the build. Just specify the dependencies (the exact groupId/artifactId/version can be found in the poms under the locations above) and maven should pull them in.
Hope this helps...
19. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox May 25, 2010 10:29 AM (in response to bosschaert)
Hi David,
Initially we wanted to use the Servlet3.0 API to dynamically create servlets and add/remove resources. Tomcat7 is distributed with and uses the Servlet3.0 api.
I don't have deep knowledge regarding Maven, but maybe I can use a local repository for the tomcat libs.
20. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebbosschaert May 26, 2010 3:19 AM (in response to dknox)
I would always try to use the artefacts from maven central or some other centralized maven repo rather than running your own, if possible. Sure you can use (controlled) mirrors, but if you run your own repo with artefacts that might also exist somewhere else is increases the chance of duplicates appearing in your local .m2 directory or worse, on your build path...
21. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox May 26, 2010 11:21 AM (in response to bosschaert)
Hi David,
Yep, I agree the best option would be to use the artifacts from a centralized and common repo. Whether we do or not includes the question of building on the Servlet 3.0 api. An HttpService can certainly be built on Tomcat6 using the catalina APIs. However, the Servlet 3.0 API does make it easier and cleaner. It was also the decison early in this topic. If the HttpService is built on tomcat6, there are more questions: (1) which tomcat6 distro to use?; (2) which distros are we constrained to by the repo?
I'm assuming the best option would constrain things too much, limiting our options, and prefer to stick to tomcat7 with the Servlet3 api.
Another option that I think is the most practical: use a basic ant build script for the time being, and integrate with maven later. The maven repo discussion is moot in that case until a later time.
22. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebrmaucher May 27, 2010 8:30 AM (in response to dknox)
Hi David,
I read you are using Tomcat for this development at the moment. Actually, you must be using the JBoss Web artifact from Maven (see the artifact used in AS). The API is quite similar, if not identical for what you are using, so the transition should be fine.
23. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox May 27, 2010 3:01 PM (in response to rmaucher)
I've added [1] to the project's pom.xml dependencies. Maven fails during the compile and I learned that jetty is pulling in the earlier 2.5 servlet api while I'm trying to pull in servlet-api-3.0.0-beta-2. We have two servlet specs in the build.
I'm not sure how to fix this. If jetty is removed as a dependency there will be problems with org.xml.sax and other packages. I ran maven -X and confirmed that the libraries for the artifacts in [1] are on the build Classpath.
What does [2] do? I ask because I suspect that the javax.servlet package should be moved into <Import-Packages>
-- dave
[2] <_exportcontents>
<!-- javax.servlet*;version=2.5,-->
Any ideas welcomed.
24. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebbosschaert May 28, 2010 3:28 AM (in response to dknox)
Hi David,
If jetty is pulling in servlet 2.5 and you don't want that, you should be able to disable the transitive dependency by using an exclusion, something like:
<artifactId>the unwanted servlet dep</artifactId>
<groupId>its group ID</groupId>
You can figure out what to exclude by running mvn dependency:tree.
<_exportcontents> is used to export a package that is inside en embedded library without copying it to the bundle classes as well. I suspect that the bundle you're building contains the servlet jar inside (or at least did at some point). If you do just Export-Package it will take all the classes from the servlet.jar and copy them to the bundle classes location. <_exportcontents> prevents that duplication while still exporting the packages.
For more info see here: http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-maven-bundle-plugin-bnd.html
If you don't embed the servlet.jar 3.0 you definitely need to import it using <Import-Package>.
However if you decide to embed the 3.0 servlet.jar you're making life easier for other people in that they don't have to install that interfaces bundle themselves. In many cases an OSGi HTTP Service implementation embeds this library so that people can simply take the HTTP Service bundle, install it and it works. In this case you should both Import-Package and Export-Package the javax.servlet* packages! While this may sound a bit funny for interfaces packages this is what you should do to maximize the possibility of class-space consistency across bundles if there is another bundle that also exports the same version of javax.servlet*.
As an example I'm developing a bundle that implements a servlet, hence I'm implementing javax.servlet.Servlet (directly or indirectly). I can pick up that interface from any bundle that exports it. If your http implementation does not Export-Package javax.servlet I will not be able to load the servlet class from you and hence you won't be able to use my servlet as javax.servlet.Servlet has been loaded from another bundle (even though the class might be identical, you will get a classcastexception). Both exporting and importing a package solves this issues.
25. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox May 28, 2010 4:27 PM (in response to bosschaert)
I was not able to solve the problem with exclusions. It's possible the groupId and/or artifactId are not correct.
Export-Package and Import-Package includes the jbossweb packages. The packages are also Embedded-Dependency-s.
There is a work-around for the time being: by changing the order of the dependencies and putting the jbossweb packages before the jetty package which changes the order of jars in the build classpath. The changes have been checked in. I attached the bundle/pom.xml here for convenience.
Next week I'll work on fixing the junit test.
pom.xml 5.4 KB
26. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebbosschaert May 31, 2010 7:31 AM (in response to dknox)
Just curious, what is the output of mvn dependency:tree?
27. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox Jun 1, 2010 12:38 PM (in response to bosschaert)
Hi David,
The output is posted below. A synopsis: By changing the order in the dependency tree, i.e. placing the jbossweb-3.0-beta2 dependency before the jetty dependency, the build works. If the jetty dependency is placed before jbossweb in the dependencies, the build fails because the servlet 2.5 lib is included in jetty (org.ops4j.pax.web:pax-web-jetty-bundle:jar). The exact error is a "symbol not found" on javax.servlet.ServletContext.
I put two exclusions in the jetty dependency. It appears that the jasper exclusion is working because those classes aren't in pax-web-jetty-bundle-0.7.2.jar. The servlet-api exclusion isn't working. The javax.servlet classes are in pax-web-jetty-bundle-0.7.2.jar
[dknox@localhost jbosgi-http-git]$ cd bundle
[dknox@localhost bundle]$ ~/bin/apache-maven-2.2.1/bin/mvn dependency:tree
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'dependency'.
[INFO] Building JBossOSGi Http Bundle
[INFO] task-segment: [dependency:tree]
[INFO] [dependency:tree {execution: default-cli}]
[INFO] org.jboss.osgi.http:jboss-osgi-http:bundle:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] +- org.jboss.osgi:jboss-osgi-spi:jar:1.0.7-SNAPSHOT:compile
[INFO] | +- args4j:args4j:jar:2.0.12:compile
[INFO] | +- org.jboss.logging:jboss-logging-spi:jar:2.1.0.GA:compile
[INFO] | +- org.jboss.osgi.jmx:jboss-osgi-jmx-api:jar:1.0.5:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.apache.aries.jmx:org.apache.aries.jmx.api:jar:0.1-incubating-20100329:compile
[INFO] | +- org.jboss.osgi.vfs:jboss-osgi-vfs:jar:1.0.0:compile
[INFO] | +- org.jboss.shrinkwrap:shrinkwrap-impl-base:jar:1.0.0-alpha-7:compile
[INFO] | | +- org.jboss.shrinkwrap:shrinkwrap-api:jar:1.0.0-alpha-7:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.jboss.shrinkwrap:shrinkwrap-spi:jar:1.0.0-alpha-7:compile
[INFO] | \- junit:junit:jar:4.6:compile
[INFO] +- jboss.web:el-api:jar:3.0.0-beta-2:compile
[INFO] +- jboss.web:jasper-jdt:jar:3.0.0-beta-2:compile
[INFO] +- jboss.web:jbossweb:jar:3.0.0-beta-2:compile
[INFO] +- jboss.web:jsp-api:jar:3.0.0-beta-2:compile
[INFO] +- jboss.web:servlet-api:jar:3.0.0-beta-2:compile
[INFO] +- org.ops4j.pax.web:pax-web-jetty-bundle:jar:0.7.2:compile
[INFO] +- org.osgi:org.osgi.core:jar:4.2.0:provided
[INFO] \- org.osgi:org.osgi.compendium:jar:4.2.0:provided
28. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox Jun 1, 2010 1:22 PM (in response to dknox)
I was able to find more by running mvn -X install. I don't know enough about maven yet to figure it out but, there's enough to google on though. I posted a few of the details below. Question: It seems awkward to me that we are importing jetty into our own httpservice. JBossWeb provides javax.servlet, jasper, etc. and jmx is part and parcel of jdk1.6. Would it be practical to jettison jetty?
The first sign of a problem is:
[WARNING] Warning building bundle org.jboss.osgi.http:jboss-osgi-http:bundle:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT : Split package javax/servlet
Use directive -split-package:=(merge-first|merge-last|error|first) on Export/Private Package instruction to get rid of this warning
Package found in [Jar:jsp-api, Jar:servlet-api, Jar:pax-web-jetty-bundle]
Reference from /home/dknox/.m2/repository/org/ops4j/pax/web/pax-web-jetty-bundle/0.7.2/pax-web-jetty-bundle-0.7.2.jar
Classpath [Jar:., Jar:jboss-osgi-spi, Jar:args4j, Jar:jboss-logging-spi, Jar:jboss-osgi-jmx-api, Jar:org.apache.aries.jmx.api, Jar:jboss-osgi-vfs, Jar:shrinkwrap-impl-base, Jar:shrinkwrap-api, Jar:shrinkwrap-spi, Jar:junit, Jar:el-api, Jar:jasper-jdt, Jar:jbossweb, Jar:jsp-api, Jar:servlet-api, Jar:pax-web-jetty-bundle, Jar:org.osgi.core, Jar:org.osgi.compendium]
The fatal bit is:
[WARNING] Warning building bundle org.jboss.osgi.http:jboss-osgi-http:bundle:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT : Superfluous export-package instructions: [javax.servlet*, org.apache.catalina*, org.apache.el*, org.apache.jasper*, org.apache.cometd*, org.jboss.web*, org.apache.coyote*, org.apache.tomcat*]
[ERROR] Error building bundle org.jboss.osgi.http:jboss-osgi-http:bundle:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT : Unresolved references to [javax.annotation, javax.annotation.security, javax.ejb, javax.el,......
29. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox Jun 1, 2010 2:28 PM (in response to dknox)
I've worked out the error and warnings. I don't think this solves the collision with jetty. Both mvn install and mvn compile are working. The plan this week is to work on mvn test and get that working.
changed Embed-Dependency to -
<_exportcontents> contains only javax.servlet*;version=3.0.0-beta-2,
The JBossWeb and Tomcat classes are included in <Import-Package> as is javax.servlet.*


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According to estimates by policymakers, activists and scholars the number of modern day slaves ranges from about 10 million to 30 million people.
But how many of those slaves work for you? Now that is the unsettling question being posed by a new online tool and mobile app. It's called Slavery Footprint. It's the latest initiative from the anti-slavery Call + Response campaign in partnership with the U.S. State Department.
It allows consumers to measure to what extent they are complicit in the use of forced labor around the world. (Learn more about the tool and technology's "slavery" problem from CNNMoney.com)
CNN talked to Justin Dylan, who leads the Call + Response campaign, for more information about the app.
CNN: What do you hope to achieve with the Slavery Footprint app?
DYLAN: Well, with Slavery Footprint what we didn't want to do is create another calculator that only spits out bad news. What I believe is that people carry around stories and not necessarily statistics. So with Slavery Footprint we actually wanted to be able to tell you the story of your life and how it fits in with the globalized economy.
Today, slavery is worse now than it ever was before, but most people have a hard time of understanding how it affects their lives. Slavery footprint is the first chapter for most people in understanding how it directly affects their lives, but most importantly about what they can do to change it.
CNN: Now you worked with the U.S. State Department to create this app. What kind of support did they give you?
DYLAN: Well, they were phenomenal not only in their sharing of knowledge, but they helped the beginning of the funding of the app and really were able to use a lot of their relational equity to be able to bring the right kind of experts and stakeholders to bare on this.
The technology that we've created and the algorithm that we've created around Slavery Footprint is a very vetted and multi-stakeholder approach where we're able to use vetted data to be able to determine the slavery in different types of products that we use every day while being very brand agnostic. We don't go after any particular brand, we're talking about different types of products that you use every day, which is very important.
CNN: Now this new app, it follows the Call + Response app as well as your documentary of the same name. So do you feel that consumers are taking notice? Do you feel that the concept of buying slave free is really gaining traction now?
DYLAN: Well, I think we're getting there. I think we've just lit the fuse on the rocket. What's really going to make the rocket take off is if a consumer start to embed the story of other people who are being exploited to produce their lifestyles. If consumers can start to absorb that, that story into their lives, and more importantly amplify that story in the marketplace.
Nobody cares about this.smh we rather spend time worrying about what charlie sheen is doing
Wow, you hit the nail on the head. So sad, but so true.
Bread and Circuses.
Isn't making money off of an anti-slavery app for a phone the same as making money off of slavery? This should be absolutely FREE!
My English class is currently working on a modern slavery. If you have a minute please visit our site at tinyurl.com/BCDSFightsSlavery. We have created videos to help spread the word and tell people how they can reduce their slavery footprint.
It's better rich countries give up luxury lifestyles and export teachers of all academic fields to educate poor countries' youth. It used to be a few rich who ransacked the planet but now billions of humans doing it our planet cannot be sustained.
So true.
1% of the world population owns 47% of world wealth and resources, while 50% of the world population shares about 3% of wealth and resources. The rich will never give up their priviliges. There is not enough resources for all population to have the same power and food consumption as rich classes. The rich are paying poor to fight for their lifestyle and corrupt them by infiltrating their own culture into their poor countries.
Beg pardon, but not following the math.
– 01% own 47% of "wealth" and resources. Okay.
– 50% share 03% of "wealth" and resources. Okay.
Where is the other 50% of wealth and resources?
Is half the world (the 01% plus the unlisted 49%) doing just fine?
Please clarify. VR
100% – (1%+50%) = 49% ... is the rest of the rest of the world population. Their share is:
100% – (47%+3%) = 50% ... of the world resources.
So 50% is doing just fine, but 49% is doing not so fine and they want to have the same share as the others. But the world does not have enough for all to have the same share as the upper half (and certainly not as the top 1%). That's why those at the top are against redistribution of the resources – they would have to give up something. It is quiite predictable that someone will call me a communist.
You remember when the playing field was level? It was not that long ago, only a short 800 years or so. It was called the Dark Ages.
That 1% of the world who own everything, actually knows how to make things run, you know the things you expect in your daily life.
That 1% know well how to run the world for their own benefit. From dark ages they colonized the world, they were bringing slaves in shackles to labour for them, they destroyed the countries they colonized, installed corrupt governments, they are still milking those countries once set their foot in. And if they do not obey they use their propaganda and their powerful armies to bring them back in line. All this in the name of democracy, progress and peace.
We are used to take as much as we can. But it does not mean that we need to. On one side there are huge numbers dying from hunger, on the other side there are huge numbers fighting obesity. The field is not level (and it has never been) but we should learn to live on every part of it so that we leave enough space and resources for others.
In dark ages they would call inquisition on me ...
Slavery can be under hypnosis. http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-623058
How many slaves work for CNN?
What does it take to get justice for William B. Brock the Volkswagen executive that was murdered for joining the $70 million dollar class action discrimination lawsuit against the automaker...? Please take a look at the NY Times article... http://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/29/us/bias-suit-made-grimmer-by-a-suicide.html Then view the following and please help expose corporate cover-up and murder... http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=108286581312&topic=16187 and let's get Justice For William B. Brock. It was known that Mr. Brock received threats on his and his families life from Volkswagen and after he died the $70 million dollar lawsuit faded away. But law enforcement refuses to investigate the facts.
We are all sinners.
I don;t know what mine is, but it's better be HUGE!
I drink coffee, smoke cigars, burn imported wood in my fireplace, drive a car that gets 9 miles to the gallon, and live, alone, in a 6 bedroom 3,500 square-foot oil heated house, with no insulation in the walls or cealing and all I use are incandescent bulbs.
Did I mention I don't own a single Energy Star rated appliance and have a 7-foot charcoal grill?
"Slavery footprint."
I do not think it means what you think it means.
I personally refuse to feel guilt for the sensitivities of leftists who in reality want me to be at slave level myself.
Denial is easier than acceptance bro
So – how about an expose? I've heard rumors that Apple's primary supplier in China has the highest incident of suicide among factory workers worldwide. So – get that information, and publicize it. Which American companies are taking advantage of slave labor? No one knows. No one can even guess. And, almost no one cares, as long as they can get their shiny pretties cheap, cheap cheap!
new or old news for everybody. WE ALL ARE SLAVE IN THE SYSTEM. VOTE RON PAUL FOR 20012
I can't wait 18,000 years for Ron Paul. Can't he run next year instead?
I wish I had more faith that movements like this will have lasting impact. I hope so. As consumers we demand low prices and market availability, and although so many will feel a sense of outrage and a rush of desire to do something, if real, meaningful change meant we would have to give up or pay a significant premium for our iPhones or iPads or (insert product you feel you can't live without) it will never gain the necessary momentum. We are not rational creatures, we are rationalizing creatures who will always find a way to justify the means to achieve our ends.
Slavery has an ancient history going back over 4,000 years. War captives, debters, criminals, unwanted children, political losers, and other sources have long provided a source of markable slaves for the local, regional, and world wide market. It is an evil trade that creates social and economic destruction where ever it is found or its efeects are found. Most of the colonies in West Africa were founded to destroy this trade. The Sudan and Somalia were occupied primarily to stop that slave trade to the Middle East and North Africa that continued into the 20th cent. What do you think the vilence in Darfur is all about. Get your facts straight. Slavery as a horror continues under many guises thru out the world-use the truth to stop it. Few nations are totally free of this horror.
When you go to a store to buy goods, and the only good to buy are made by slaves then what else are you going to feed your family. Time will tell you that sometimes you don't have a choice to survive. If you people want to end world slavery then burn all establishments that sell slave labor goods, kill any man who peddles items made from blood. To stop this will only take radical change and nothing less.
The same people who wrote this article said, we don't want to name the companies who are using slave labor to produce their goods! Really....then how are we going to stop buying their goods and make them change how they produce them! Sounds like more liberal Lip Service to me! You want to tell me it's my fault that slaves are being used but offer a solution that blames no one! I call BS!!!!
I don't shop at any of the places you mentioned David B. Are you connected with a Union?? Aren't Union Members slaves to the Union? LaborRights.Org has done nothing that I'm aware of to stop Slavery.
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Radiation plus chemotherapy may be used when pancreatic cancer is inoperable. Radiation therapy alone may also help relieve abdominal and back pain symptoms associated with pancreatic cancer.
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External radiation therapy is the type most often used to treat pancreatic cancer. With this form of radiation, rays are directed at the tumor from outside the body. Treatments are usually given five days a week, for about five minutes per session, over the course of weeks or months.
Intraoperative electron beam radiation therapy can be given while the abdomen is opened during surgery. In this case, after as much of the tumor as possible is removed, a large dose of radiation is given directly to the pancreas. This method of radiation may be followed by a course of external radiation therapy.
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From working under him to working beside him, Kirk Muller will be joining one of his former coaches, Ken Hitchcock, behind the St. Louis Blues bench.
Muller, who, as a player, suited up for Hitchcock's Dallas Stars for three seasons, was hired by the Blues on Tuesday. On March 5, the 48-year-old from Kingston, Ont., was fired as head coach of the Carolina Hurricanes.
"We are excited to add Kirk to our staff," Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said. "He was a Stanley Cup-winning player, and as a coach, has shown excellent communication skills and the ability to relate to both young and veteran players."
A reliable two-way player for 19 seasons, Muller had an 80-80-27 record during his first NHL head-coaching gig in Carolina.
Muller's coaching experience includes an assistant coaching job with the Montreal Canadiens from 2006 to 2011. He was also an assistant coach for Team Canada on three occasions, most recently at the 2012 world championship.
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Also, as always, the buttons for the old formats are still in place so you can enjoy the stats in whatever flavor of the game you prefer more.
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