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We still shudder when recalling last year's chilling finale of the second season finale of "Boardwalk Empire," which – spoiler alert if you're still catching up on episodes – featured a general television no-no: the star killing off the co-star.
Nucky Thompson's merciless shooting of his surrogate-son-turned-regretful-rival Jimmy Darmody recalled the jolting whacking of Big Pussy on "The Sopranos" a dozen years ago. It also marked the no-turning-back moment in which Steve Buscemi's Thompson became TV's most stone-cold sociopath since James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano.
We mean that as a compliment. "Boardwalk Empire," the Prohibition-set HBO drama brimming with crime and corruption, enters its third season Sunday in a dangerous state of lawlessness that bodes for new explosive battles, internal and external.
The show ignited a slow-burning fuse two years ago, with its visually commanding premiere, directed by Martin Scorsese. The first season's deliberate wind allowed consummate character actor Buscemi, a seemingly odd choice for the top role, to emerge as a powerful leading man. Sure, from the start his Thompson was a crooked string-puller in the intertwined worlds of early 1920s Atlantic City politics and organized crime. But we initially saw only a clever, manipulative charmer who managed to keep from getting his hands too dirty – until his hand was forced.
As we've noted, "Boardwalk Empire" owes as much to the modern mob-movie genre led by Scorsese as it does to Shakespeare and Freud. While "The Sopranos" was primarily fueled, at least early on, by mommy issues, last season's heart of "Boardwalk" largely belonged to Daddy. Thompson despised his abusive father. Darmody lived his own version of the Oedipal nightmare, haunted by an illicit relationship with his mother that sent him from Princeton to World War I to the mob to killing his ruthless biological father (played by the great Dabney Coleman) in last season's second-strongest scene.
The season's stunning climax came when Darmody accepted the penalty for ordering an ultimately failed hit on Thompson, his flawed father figure. "The only person left to judge you is you," he tells Thompson as the trigger is pulled amid a driving rain.
The unnerving line sets the stage for this season, in which the now irrefutably amoral Thompson faces the test of preserving self-control amid challenges to his power from fictional versions of real mobsters Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano and Al Capone. We expect he'll be trailed by tin-masked assassin Richard Harrow, Darmody's well-armed wingman and fellow veteran who lost his soul and half his face over there. Thompson also could be done in by his own wife, Margaret, even as he plays father to her children in a bid to be a family man – a delusion that's probably more important in maintaining his own crumbling psyche than maintaining appearances.
We'll miss Michael Pitt as Darmody. But, then again, Vincent Pastore's Big Pussy turned up in various forms after his death to haunt Tony Soprano. In the meantime, Nucky Thompson's internal torment threatens to grow even as he confronts more immediate physical dangers. Check out a preview below:
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Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Theodore Sharp "Ted" Ligety (born August 31, 1984, in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American alpine ski racer. He was the 2006 Olympic gold medalist in combined and the two-time World Cup champion in giant slalom (2008 and 2010). Ligety won the gold medal in the giant slalom at the 2011 World Championships. As of February 2011, he has eight World Cup victories (all in giant slalom), 24 podiums, and 64 top-ten finishes.
Growing up in Park City, Utah, Ligety began skiing at two and racing at eleven. He attended The Winter Sports School and graduated in 2002. He was named to the U.S. Skiing Development Team and won a silver medal in slalom in the Junior World Cup in 2004. He made his first start in a World Cup event during the 2004 World Cup season in the giant slalom at Park City, and he was added to the U.S. Ski Team full-time in the 2005 season, during which he had four top-15 finishes in slalom, placing 24th overall in the discipline.
Ligety recorded his first World Cup podium finish in the first slalom of the season, at Beaver Creek in December, and followed that up with a second and a third during the next three slaloms. Ligety's first major victory of his professional career came at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, held at Sestriere. Ligety won the gold medal in the men's combined event, a major upset after the two racers favored to win the event failed to finish the slalom portion. At age 21, he became the first American man to win an Olympic gold medal in alpine skiing in a dozen years, since Tommy Moe won the downhill at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Ligety also became just the fourth American male skier to win Olympic gold, along with Moe, Phil Mahre (slalom, 1984) and Bill Johnson (downhill, 1984). At Turin, Ligety also participated in the giant slalom and the slalom, but he failed to complete either event. Following his Olympic victory in the combined, Ligety recorded his first World Cup victory, a win in the giant slalom in Yongpyeong, South Korea. He finished ninth in the overall World Cup standings for the year, marking the first time that three American men had placed in the top 10 (along with Bode Miller in third and Daron Rahlves in fourth), despite the fact that he did not compete in downhill or Super G that year.

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Stephen Fry Launches 'Prizeo' Platform to Turn Celebrity Star Power Into Cash for Good Causes
29 Nov, 2012, 15:30 GMT
LONDON, November 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
A new digital fundraising platform launches today, offering unique celebrity prizes in order to raise money and awareness for good causes.
The actor and presenter Stephen Fry, super chef Jamie Oliver, and boy band sensation JLS are the first amongst many big name stars who have already signed up to host campaigns.
Prizeo.com allows celebrities to engage with their Facebook and Twitter followers in order to promote the prize and raise money for the star's chosen charity.
Celebrities offer a 'money can't buy' prize or experience, for the public to win - and it only costs £1 to enter.
QI star Stephen Fry is the first to put the platform through its paces with his own fundraiser for Mind, the mental health charity. Fans could win a unique VIP QI experience which includes a rare opportunity to QI the quizmaster himself with their own questions.
Fry, a keen adopter of new technology said; "When I first heard the idea I thought, why has nobody ever thought of that before? Prizeo is a fresh, innovative and above all inclusive approach to fundraising. I'm a strong believer in using technology for good."
Prizeo is the brainchild of two young entrepreneurs, Leo Seigal (21) and Bryan Baum (22), who met while studying at Oxford University.
Taking time out between lectures they raised a staggering £650,000 by staging charity auctions for the philanthropic Aloysius Society.
Co-founder Leo Seigal comments: "Our unique and bespoke prize packages will allow people to not only interact closely with the charities they support, but also for celebrities to connect with their fans in a more meaningful way, allowing them to directly use their star power to help raise money for the causes closest to their hearts."
Prizeo have been accepted into Silicon Valley's prestigious Y Combinator, the birthplace of many successful digital start-ups including Dropbox, Reddit and Airbnb.
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Welcome to the XMLP project pageThe svn source code repository here is now not being updated. The current release is now found at https://launchpad.net/d2-xml, as the whole repository history has been imported. This means climbing up the learning curve using the Bazaar source code repository toolset. Its easy to get a bzr command line client and pull down a copy. I am also updating this SVN repository, by periodically updating my local svn checkout, and bringing it up to date from my local Bazaar checkout. So I may get confused, and this SVN repository may be a little out of sync sometimes. There are also some bug reporting, features on the new project site. I will be still checking on tickets here. The documentation here, such that it is, is already a bit out of date.
I played around with the original std.xml today, making a std.xml1, and without changing the design, I found a few different ways to tweak performance to near 50% better, based on what I found making the new parsers. Custom munch functions, that are used frequently are better than generic munch. The main parse function was restructured to better sequence, inoptimal startsWith function calls. I was amazed to find, on reading the parse code, that attribute values surrounded by single quotes are not supported, so I fixed that. So std.xml1, is a modified std.xml, only a fair bit faster (40-50%) on my limited indicative tests, and just a bit more compatible. Not nearly as fast or compatible as the 2 parsers in std.xmlp package, but it was good to get refreshed on the compactness and ideas in std.xml, even if it has limits. One problem in std.xml is the great deal of error checking code in the debug compiles, which drags down performance enormously. If any further work was done on it, I would get rid of the Item category arrays in element.
This project has a few XML parsers that can be used as an alternative to the std.xml parser. The code is for D2. There are effectively two different parsers.
- Slice Parse. Specialised string slicing parser (SP). The text is processed from a single string. The parser returns references to the original string slice, unless replacing entity references.
- Core Parse. A dchar input Range parser that conforms to the XML standards for input conversion, and processes DTD and external entities, and does full XML validation.
Both of these parsers inherit from a IXMLParser interface.
There is also a Document Object Model (DOM) module. This copies, more or less, the Node based classes, using pointer links and methods as found in Java and C++ implementations of a DOM.
The base parsers do not themselves depend on the DOM. Both parsers return a series of tokens in a XmlReturn struct.
/** Returns parsed fragment of XML. The type indicates what to expect. */ struct XmlReturn { enum { RET_NULL, /// nothing returned TAG_START, /// Element name in scratch. Attributes in names and values. Element content expected next. TAG_END, /// Element end tag. No more element content. TAG_EMPTY, /// Element name in scratch. Attributes in names and values. Element has no content. XML_DEC, /// XML declaration. Declaration attributes in names and values. STR_TEXT, /// Text block content in scratch. STR_CDATA, /// CDATA block content in scratch. STR_PI, /// Processing Instruction. Name in scratch. Instruction content in values[0]. STR_XI, /// XmlInstruction. Not implemented. STR_COMMENT, /// Comment block content in scratch. DOC_TYPE, /// DTD parse results contained in doctype as DtdValidate. XI_ENTITY, /// EntityData. Not implemented. XI_NOTATION, /// Notation data. Not implemented. RET_MAX /// Maximum value of this enum }; uintptr_t type = RET_NULL; string scratch; string[] names; string[] values; Object doctype; // maybe used to pass back a DTD or DocumentType object /// Retrive attribute value by name string opIndex(const(char)[] name); /// Retrive pointer to attribute value by name string* opIn_r(const(char)[] name); }
Using the IXMLParser interface.
There are about 3 main styles as to how to process XML documents using this project.
- Low level.
- XmlBuilder
- DocumentBuilder.
Compare them using books.xml, and a matching struct Books.
sourceXML = `<?xml version="1.0"?> <catalog> <book id="bk101"> <author>Gambardella, Matthew</author> <title>XML Developer's Guide</title> <genre>Computer</genre> <price>44.95</price> <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date> <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description> </book> . . . </catalog>`; struct Book { string id; string author; string title; string genre; string price; string pubDate; string description; }
Use IXMLParser.parse(ref XmlReturn) in a loop directly, process results into the programs data structures.
Call parse in a loop, until encountering start tag of interest. For multiple elements, use the TagStartSelect struct to pick individual handlers. There is a convenience function textSelect, to just pick out the text content of the element parse.
The implementation of TagStartSelect is not sophisticated. It tracks TAG_START , TAG_EMPTY, and TAG_END, tracks element depth and returns when it is zero. TAG_EMPTY indicates the element has no content. This happens after the parser has processed the attributes, and then processed a "/>" or a matching element "</endtag>". An element name match at any depth calls the element select delegate. Since the delegate will be called for both TAG_START and TAG_EMPTY, a delegate should check that the XmlReturn.type is not TAG_EMPTY to ensure that the element has some content, before nesting any further processing in the delegate. A delegate should process all further nested content, using a new TagStartSelect, or call textSelect(), if any is expected. If the xml document xml structure is not regular, or does not match the code, then unfortunate processing surprises will happen.
/// Use IXMLParser interface void directApproach(string s) { auto parser = new XmlStringParser(s); XmlReturn xret; Book[] books; // call this after starting a book element void buildBook() { Book book; /// in book element, interested in content of book.id = xret["id"]; auto xml = TagStartSelect(parser); // selector xml.select["author"] = (ref XmlReturn item) { book.author = textSelect(parser); }; xml.select["title"] = (ref XmlReturn item) { book.title = textSelect(parser); }; xml.select["genre"] = (ref XmlReturn item) { book.genre = textSelect(parser); }; xml.select["price"] = (ref XmlReturn item) { book.price = textSelect(parser); }; xml.select["publish-date"] = (ref XmlReturn item) { book.pubDate = textSelect(parser); }; xml.select["description"] = (ref XmlReturn item) { book.description = textSelect(parser); }; xml.parseContent(); books ~= book; }; // more direct while (parser.parse(xret)) { switch(xret.type) { case XmlReturn.TAG_START: if (xret.scratch == "book") { buildBook(); } break; default: break; } } OutputBooksXml(books); }
This looks something like the original books example, and forces nested delegate handling, with delegates for each kind of XML token. A major difference to std.xml that a handler for the root xml element needs to be setup.
void testExampleBooks(string s) { Book[] books; auto xml = XmlVisitor(new XmlStringParser(s)); /// Need to handle root element, as well as its content xml["catalog"] = (ref XmlVisitor b1) { b1["book"] = (ref XmlVisitor b2) { Book book; book.id = b2.attributes["id"]; b2["author"] = (Element item) { book.author = item.text(); }; b2["title"] = (Element item) { book.title = item.text(); }; b2["genre"] = (Element item) { book.genre = item.text(); }; b2["price"] = (Element item) { book.price = item.text(); }; b2["publish-date"] = (Element item) { book.pubDate = item.text(); }; b2["description"] = (Element item) { book.description = item.text(); }; b2.parseContent(); books ~= book; }; b1.parseContent(); }; xml.parseDocument(); OutputBooksXml(books); }
The preceding examples do a single pass through the xml document, and store items of interest. For multiple queries into the xml document, having the entire document as a DOM makes sense.
To build a Document object, create the IXMLParser from its source. Perhaps set a validation or namespaces flag. Create a DocumentBuilder structure and call the buildContent method.
void test_parse_sdom(string xml) { auto parser = new XmlStringParser(xml); parser.validate = true; auto builder = DocumentBuilder(parser); builder.buildContent(); Document doc = builder.document; }There are convenience functions to build a document from a file path or a string.
struct DocumentBuilder { static Document LoadString(string path, bool validate = true, bool useNamespaces = true); static Document LoadFile(string path, bool validate = true, bool useNamespaces = true); }Both of these functions will use the XmlDtdParser, as they do not know what to expect. The process of doing it all manually for the XmlDtdParser looks like this.
// create an InputRange source auto xinput = new SliceFill!(char)(src); // or if the source is a filepath, auto buffile = new BufferedFile(srcpath); auto xinput = new XmlStreamFiller(buffile); // create a document Document doc = new Document("Some name"); // create the parser IXMLParser cp = new XmlDtdParser(xinput, doc, true); // build the document DocumentBuilder b = DocumentBuilder(cp); // need to supply the Document object, otherwise will create another. b.buildContent(doc);
Catching Errors
The Parsers implement DOMErrorHandler and DOMConfiguration classes. These can be used to set an Exception Handler call back during the parse. To customize this, derive a class from DOMErrorHandler, and implement.
DOMConiguration uses Variant to store parameters.
This is why XmlDtdParser wants the Document as a parameter. It fetches the Documents DOMConfiguration to setup error handling, and find out parse settings. The cast(DOMErrorHandler) is essential. Of course the caller should still set try .. catch(ParseError exc) around the xml processing.
There is a IXMLParser error handler delegate, which can be set to intercept exception throwing. XmlDtdParser uses this to pass on exceptions to a DOMErrorHandler class.
alias ParseError delegate(ParseError ex) PrepareThrowDg;
void setPrepareThrowDg(PrepareThrowDg dg);
class ParseErrorHandler : DOMErrorHandler { override bool handleError(DOMError error); } //... Document doc = new Document("Doc"); // path here is just a tag label. auto peh = new ParseErrorHandler(); DOMConfiguration config = doc.getDomConfig(); config.setParameter("error-handler",Variant(cast(DOMErrorHandler) peh)); config.setParameter("namespaces", Variant(false));
XPath 1.0 query
There is an XPath 1.0 expression parser available. This returns a NodeList from a Document or Element argument.
/// get a NodeList out of Document using expression NodeList xpathNodeList(Document d, string pathStr) { XPathParser xpp; PathExpression pex = xpp.prepare(pathStr,InitState.IN_PATH); return run(pex,d); } /// get a NodeList out of Element using expression NodeList xpathNodeList(Element e, string pathStr) { XPathParser xpp; PathExpression pex = xpp.prepare(pathStr,InitState.IN_PATH); return run(pex,e); }


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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama welcomed the LA Galaxy to the White House on Tuesday afternoon to commemorate their 2011 MLS Cup championship, offering warm praise and a level of friendliness and familiarity that wowed even the most experienced members of the squad.
Speaking to a packed crowd in the historic building's sumptuous Palm Room, the president described the exploits of a glitzy, title-winning team which overcame a range of obstacles to fulfill their substantial potential in fairly dominant fashion last season. Yet while he mentioned leading lights Robbie Keane, David Beckham and Landon Donovan, the nation's Chief Executive also hailed LA's important role players like Omar Gonzalez and A.J. DeLaGarza.
"The big names came through in the clutch, but they didn't do it alone," President Obama said. "For a group with so much firepower, this team shone on defense, recording 17 shutouts. Together you pulled off one of the toughest feats in team sports: you lived up to the hype. You combined star power, hard work and it paid off."
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While events of this type can often feel formal and fleeting, Obama showed sincere comfort with the team and knowledge of both the sport and the league, which gave the trip extra meaning for Donovan and his teammates.
"It makes you realize that people care, people take notice," said the Galaxy captain. "At the end of the day, we're just playing a soccer game, so I get it, there are a lot more important things going on in the world. But it's still cool to know that you inspire people and people care about what you're doing.
"He's probably become a soccer fan," Donovan added in reference to the president. "You could tell that it's not someone just writing and telling him what to say. You could tell he genuinely knows what's going on and hopefully we keep it up – we want to keep him on board."
The president singled out Beckham for extra ribbing, introducing the 37-year-old Englishman as "a young up-and-comer on the team" before cracking a string of jokes about Beckham's age compared to his younger teammates, his well-known status as a domesticated father and even his line of fashionable underwear.
Galaxy players react to meeting President Obama
"It was funny. Embarrassing, but funny," noted Beckham with a grin as he spoke to members of the media in the White House's China Room after the presidential audience. "[Obama] made a few comments, actually, about me today: the underwear, being a dad to some of the kids, and also my facial hair. He's very charismatic, he's a huge character and it's a huge honor for us to meet him today."
Beckham, like the rest of the room, was overcome with laughter by Obama's teasing, though he later struck a pensive note as he considered this latest milestone on his long journey since arriving on American shores in 2007.
"It's amazing. It's a huge honor for every one of the players, the club, the franchise, to be invited here after the championship," he said. "And I think it's an amazing tradition to have as well, for teams to be able to come here. Because you come out of meeting the president, and it's a motivation – it motivates you to want to come back next year. I hope we do, because it's a great day, a proud day for all of us."


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The Secrets of Flight
Why Transportation Security Administration guards don't have to tell you what they won't tell you.
By Steven Aftergood
Updated Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004, at 1:26 PM PT
"Before the Law stands a doorkeeper" begins Franz Kafka's famous parable, which tells of a man who seeks "admittance to the Law" but who is denied access by the doorkeeper—something he did not expect.
The Law, he thinks, "should surely be accessible at all times and to everyone."
Former Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, R-Idaho, experienced the existential horror of being governed by secret laws last month while attempting to board a United Airlines flight from Boise to Reno. When pulled aside by security guards from the Transportation Security Administration for additional screening, including a physical pat-down, Chenoweth-Hage requested a copy of the federal regulation authorizing such searches. Her request was denied.
"She said she wanted to see the regulation that required the additional procedure for secondary screening and she was told she couldn't see it," local TSA Security Director Julian Gonzales told the Idaho Statesman.
Chenoweth-Hage said that if she couldn't see the regulation, she wouldn't submit to the pat-down. If you don't allow us to search you, you can't fly, they responded. And so she didn't, getting into her car and driving to Reno instead.
A case can be made that airline security would suffer if the criteria used for screening passengers were to be revealed. Such a disclosure would make it easier to circumvent passenger screenings. But Chenoweth-Hage wasn't asking for such details, only for the legal authorization for pat-downs. Why couldn't they at least let her see that? asked Statesman correspondent Dan Popkey.
"Because we don't have to," replied TSA doorkeeper Gonzales.
"That is called 'sensitive security information.' She's not allowed to see it, nor is anyone else," he said.
How did we come to such a pass?
Unlike most forms of classified national security information, which are based in executive order, the concept of "sensitive security information" originated in a 1974 statute, the Air Transportation Safety Act. The intent of SSI was to prohibit disclosure of several categories of information, including information "detrimental to the safety of persons traveling in air transportation." As initially implemented, SSI was applied rather narrowly to the nuts and bolts of airport and airline security programs. Theoretically, an unlimited number of SSIs can be promulgated—as long as they fit the broad definition set down by law. As official secrets go, SSIs are fairly tame. Several government employees have been fired or forced to resign for making unauthorized disclosures of SSIs, but it's not a crime.
But a little-noticed passage in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 expanded the scope of SSIs to prohibit disclosure of information that "would be detrimental to the security of transportation." This change in wording ushered in an expansive new interpretation of SSI. A May 2004 Federal Register notice spelled out 16 categories of information that may now be designated as SSI. These include not only airport security plans (as before) and threat assessments, but also records of security inspections and investigations, names of security personnel, and training materials. More problematically, "security directives" such as the one that Chenoweth-Hage requested are exempt. And for good measure, the 16th category is a catch-all exemption for "other information" that TSA may at its discretion determine should be withheld.
"By removing any reference to persons or passengers, Congress has significantly broadened the scope of the SSI authority," wrote Congressional Research Service analyst Todd B. Tatelman in a new report. "As a result, it appears that the authority to classify information as SSI now encompasses all transportation-related activities including air and maritime cargo, trucking and freight transport, and pipelines." This latent authority could be used to expand the current secrecy regime into other areas of transportation and national infrastructure. Already, "the number and scope of [security directives]" designated as SSI "has markedly increased" since Sept. 11, 2001, as noted by an internal TSA memo.
The TSA, which is now part of the Department of Homeland Security, has deployed its new secrecy authority with gusto. The TSA signed a security agreement with the Des Moines, Iowa, police department last year as a condition for the city receiving federal financial assistance for airport security.
"If I hadn't seen this contract I wouldn't have believed it could happen in America," Police Chief William McCarthy told the Des Moines Register. Its non-disclosure requirements were so stringent that it might have prevented officers from "reporting the arrest of a drunk at the airport" without first consulting TSA, he said. Similar agreements have been signed with police departments in other cities around the country.
Following the intervention of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, TSA Administrator James Loy reportedly "clarified" that the agreement was merely intended to ensure that the federal government was directly notified of security incidents at airports "rather than learning of events through the press." Although police initially believed that the agreement itself was secret, TSA eventually advised that only an appendix on airport security needed to be withheld.
Meanwhile, say some internal critics, SSI authority has already been used as a cudgel to impose security discipline and rein in dissent.
After MSNBC reported last year the TSA's decision to remove federal air marshals from certain long-distance flights to economize, TSA launched a probe to identify who had revealed such sensitive security information to the media. A new Department of Homeland Security inspector general report noted that "air marshals from two locations said that they were threatened with arrest and prosecution if they were found to have released sensitive security information (SSI), even though release of SSI is not a prosecutable offense."
Software designer John Gilmore ran afoul of another SSI directive in 2002 after refusing to present a photo identification before boarding a flight. Gilmore has challenged the constitutionality of this practice with a lawsuit. Citing security concerns, the government says the case cannot be argued in open court. In his suit, he claims he was told that there were "security directives that mandated the showing of ID, but that he couldn't see them." The directives, he learned, "are revised as often as weekly, and are transmitted orally rather than in writing. To make things even more confusing, these orally transmitted secret rules change depending on the airport."
Responding to a different lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Northern California contesting the administration of the so-called "no fly" list, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer agreed that some SSIs go too far.
"The Court's preliminary review of the voluminous material demonstrates that in many instances the government has not come close to meeting its burden [to justify withholding], and, in some instances, has made frivolous claims of exemption," Breyer wrote in a June 2004 opinion. "General statements that, for example, the information is sensitive security information, are inadequate to satisfy the government's burden."
Although some of the contested material in that proceeding has now been disclosed, the government seeks dismissal of the larger case.
Despite some hopeful signs of resistance from feisty individuals and the occasional judge, the challenges posed by SSI are likely to continue and to grow. The root of the problem lies in the very definition of the term. Instead of articulating reviewable criteria for designating information as "sensitive," Congress said in effect that SSI is whatever the TSA says it is. This momentous transfer of authority to the executive branch won't be remedied until Congress recovers its appetite for oversight and accountability.


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Parents are very busy managing different needs of the people around them; specifically the needs of their children. The activities mentioned below are simple, inexpensive, and can be adapted for various family members.
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Parents can serve as role models by introducing new foods in a persistent but non-coercive fashion. Studies show that repeated exposure is most critical during the early years of life and that it can take five to ten exposures to a new food before a child will accept it. In addition, parents should consider smaller portion sizes, encourage children to stop eating when they feel full, and avoid using food as a reward. Parents also should stock their homes with healthy products, particularly fruits and vegetables, to encourage their children to choose them as snacks.
Remember when providing these activities or healthy foods, it is vital that they be presented in a positive, cheerful way. The key is to promote a healthy view on physical development for a child.


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library, a collection of books or other written or printed materials, as well as the facility in which they are housed and the institution that is responsible for their maintenance. Modern libraries may contain a wide range of materials, including manuscripts and pamphlets, posters, photographs, motion pictures, and videotapes, sound recordings, and computer databases in various forms.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- The Modern Library
- Evolution
- Notable Libraries
- Bibliography
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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|Oracle® Database Recovery Manager Reference
10g Release 1 (10.1)
Part Number B10770-01
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Text description of datafileSpec
A subclause that specifies a datafile by filename or absolute file number.
SQL command.
? to represent the Oracle home and
@ for the Oracle SID.
|See Also:
"Placeholders" to learn about the difference between single and double quotes, as well as the behavior of environment variables in RMAN quoted strings
|Syntax Element
Specifies the datafile by using either the full path or a relative filename. If you specify a relative filename, the filename is qualified in a port-specific manner by the target database.
Specifies the datafile by using its absolute file number. Obtain the file number from the
This example copies datafile
?/oradata/trgt/users01.dbf to disk, specifying it by filename:
BACKUP AS COPY DATAFILE '?/oradata/trgt/users01.dbf' FORMAT '?/oradata/users01.cpy';
This example copies datafiles
3 and
4 to disk, specifying them by file number:
BACKUP AS COPY DATAFILE 3 FORMAT '?/oradata/df3.cpy', DATAFILE 4 FORMAT '?/oradata/df4.cpy';


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I've got this table:
id | name
1 | John
2 | John
3 | Peter
4 | Mike
5 | Mike
And I want to get the unique names, getting the latest one in the list. I could go for:
SELECT DISTINCT name FROM table ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 2
This would get me: Mike and Peter. All good. However, I also need the IDs, so then DISTINCT does not work anymore. What would be the right query to get:
5 | Mike
3 | Peter
In words: the latest 2 entries that are unique


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Haskell logos/Logo design tools
Participating in The Great 2009 Haskell Logo Contest
Designing a logo can be difficult without the right tools.
This is a list of currently known tools to help you design your ideal Haskell logo. If you know of any new tools, or have advice on how to use them more effectively, feel free to add to this page!
Available Tools
web 2.0 Logo Creator Online Online logo design tool. Simple to use. For simple textual logos.
GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program GNU Image Manipulation Program. A freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Inkscape Open source vector graphics editor. A powerful, flexible tool for designing logos.
Before & After magazine Professional design magazine, focusing on typeface families.
How to Design a Logotype from Conception to Completion | Blog.SpoonGraphics Logo design site, featuring a step-by-step tutorial for logo design using Adobe Illustrator.
How To Design A Logo Graphic design site with advice on designing logos.
Where to Submit Your Logo Entry
Just submit them at Haskell logos/New logo ideas by December 31, 2008. Don't miss the deadline!


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If these are going to keep coming, this is going to keep being a lot of fun for us. Let's see what we can figure out here.
Yet another shot of Gia, hmmm? Krysten Ritter is lovely and amusing, don't get me wrong. But methinks that, while the story is always the most important, it doesn't hurt to move the actors who have become more high profile into higher-profile roles – or, at least, they're the ones getting pictures taken of them.
This is arguably good news for Deputy Leo fans. I am hoping it is also good news for my beloved Enrico Colantoni. I hope it doesn't cut down on the appearance of, say, Mac, whose fan following at this point is probably self-contained to those who are going to see the movie already.
Other assumptions – that is some serious makeup Veronica has on. I'm going to assume there's a reason for it, and further assume that, in the catching us up for the seven ("ten"? There is supposed to be a high school reunion involved here) years since we last saw V, that she'll explain some of the differences between being a teenaged sleuth and a grown woman who needs to worry about covering bags under her eyes, on top of everything else.


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2012 CFDA After Party Pictures
Inside the CFDA Awards Champagne-Fueled, Dance-Filled Afterparty
Inside the CFDA Awards Champagne-Fueled, Dance-Filled Afterparty
By all accounts, the CFDA's official afterparty at the Top of the Standard in New York City Monday night was an unforgettable evening of celebration.
The party — hosted by Nadja Swarovski — hit its stride shortly after midnight. Rodger Berman and Rachel Zoe were reportedly among the first to arrive, and things livened up considerably by the time winners Joseph Altuzarra and Billy Reid arrived — followed shortly by Jason Wu and Olivier Theyskens. A stream of Moet & Chandon champagne from the open bar put everyone in the mood to dance. Garance Doré kicked her heels off to join the revelry, and an eyewitness spotted Hamish Bowles cutting a rug, too. But perhaps the most spirited celebrators at the afterparty were also the most clandestine. Brad Goreski told a reporter, "Alex Wang and Erin Wasson are dirty dancing over there in the corner right now."


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23 East Elm Avenue
Quincy, Massachusetts 02170
Campus Map
From the West:
365投注官网 Follow the Massachusetts Turnpike (Route 90) eastbound onto the Southeast Expressway (I-93) south. Follow the directions from the north to continue.
From the North/Boston:
Take I-93 south to Exit 12 (marked 3A South, Neponset/Quincy). Follow the exit road as it circles to the right under the expressway and over the Neponset River. The roadway then splits: bear left under the sign "Squantum and Wollaston Beach." This takes you onto Quincy Shore Drive. Follow Quincy Shore Drive for about a mile and a half. Turn right onto East Elm Avenue. The main gate is several blocks up on the left.
From the South:
Take I-93 north from I-95 or from Route 3. Follow I-93 north to exit 8 (marked Furnace Brook Parkway). Follow Furnace Brook Parkway to the fifth set of lights and turn left onto Hancock Street. Go 1/2 mile to Elm Avenue and turn right. At the end of Elm Avenue the road splits. Turn right onto East Elm Avenue.
By Public Transportation:
ENC is a ten-minute walk from the Wollaston "T" stop on the Red Line. Upon exiting the train, go down the stairs and out the doors located to the left. Walk through the parking lot toward the CVS visible ahead and to the right. The road which borders the T parking lot to the right and passes by CVS is Beale Street; upon reaching Beale, turn left and follow Beale to the first large intersection (Hancock Street). Turn right onto Hancock. Continue past Dunkin Donuts and turn left onto Elm Avenue across from Friendly's, and 7-11. Follow Elm Avenue for several blocks until the road splits. Bear right onto East Elm Avenue (the Nease Library is on the corner of Elm and East Elm Avenues) and proceed through the main gate.
365投注官网enc can also be reached by the #212 north quincy bus which stops at the elm avenue side of the college's nease library. call the mbta at 1-800-392-6100 or 617-222-3200. you can also visit for schedules.
Parking Information:
Limited parking is available on campus and is available only with a permit. Upon reaching the college, contact the Office of Safety and Security to obtain a temporary parking pass. Their office is located in the Mann Student Center and is open from 9:00 am-3:00 pm. If you reach campus after the office is closed, you may dial 617-745-3911, or pick up any campus phone and dial extension 3911 to reach a security guard for assistance with obtaining a temporary pass.
Chartered Buses to ENC
Must use Hancock Street as buses and commercial vehicles are not allowed on Quincy Shore Drive or Furnace Brook Parkway. We suggest that you also compare to a Massachusetts map before deciding your best route.


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Have you noticed spring weather is a super hot topic already? So why not prepare early and look for some fabulous junk for your garden? Here are a few ideas I'd LOVE to do myself…
French Country Cottage – Old bicycle flower planter
Who doesn't love the framework from an old bike? Well, this one just got better with toppled over lilacs. Gorgeous! I love these kinds of 'planters' because it's an easy move when you need to mow the lawn. Easy is good.
Chipping with Charm – tool box flower planters
Laurel stacks some tool boxes filled with annuals to brighten up a little spot in the yard. I think this idea is darling.
Snowflakes and Dragonflies – chicken feed flower planter
A sweet old rusty chicken feeder has never looked so good, filled to the brim with violas. So pretty!
Eclectically Vintage – Umbrella flower wreath
Kelly's fresh take on a front door wreath chimes in well with April showers. The umbrella containing water is genius!
Old kettle herb garden – Funky Junk Interiors
This collection of quirky old kettles that have seen better days are prettied right up again sprouting fragrant herbs. I really enjoyed moving this little group around to different locations just for fun.
Junk styled planters on HomeTalk
The amazing HomeTalk community comes to the rescue once again with never ending junky garden container inspiration. Curated by Barb Rosen. You'll love this collection!
I also have a post showcasing many junk features in my own garden on HomeTalk HERE.
You can follow my own HomeTalk ramblings HERE.
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Serious Reads: Watching What We Eat, by Kathleen Collins
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In today's food- and foodie-obsessed culture, cooking shows have taken on an amazing cultural importance. From Ina Garten to Guy Fieri, from old-school Ming Tsai to the newest competition show on the Cooking Channel, everyone has their favorite program and style of culinary entertainment. Kathleen Collins explores the history of food television in her new book, Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows.
Collins catalogues food television into three time periods: the early period of 1946 to 1962; the middle period of 1963 to 1993, and the modern period of 1993 to the present. 1946 marked the beginning of television and cooking shows; 1963 brought the enormously influential Julia Child to the scene; and 1993 was the year that the Food Network changed the face of food television forever. Each period of cooking shows reflects certain cultural and social tropes of the time, and Collins calls upon the broader historical context to explain how and why food television is a continually evolving genre.
The first food programs were, perhaps unsurprisingly, a little dry. Often hosted by prim and proper married women, the shows were for homemakers. Dione Lucas was the star of this period, and her stern demeanor brought both adulation and scorn. But the invention of canned goods, convenient kitchen appliances, and the early stirrings of feminism began to change the tone of food television in the late 1950s. The stage was set for a more natural female host when Julia Child's The French Chef premiered.
Child remains one of the most heralded and important television chefs. Her frank attitude, large and not entirely feminine build, and flexibility with her recipes was appealing to a growing audience of both men and women. Television was still an almost untapped resource in the early 1960s, and programmers came to realize that food TV was a big crowd pleaser. Soon, several important food shows—with hosts like Craig Claibourne, Graham Kerr, and James Beard—came on the air.
When the Television Food Network aired in 1993, the idea of a 24-hour food channel was almost laughable in the industry. How could one fill so much time with just food-centric programming? The entrepreneurial minds behind the network realized quickly that food shows should be tailored to people who love to eat—not just people who love to cook. This approach led to a variety of easy-to-follow, beautifully shot shows with engaging hosts.
Collins' account of the history of cooking shows is interesting, readable, and relevant. For any of us who have spent an afternoon (or many afternoons) in front of a screen full of delicious treats, cooked for our entertainment by a suspiciously attractive host, it's worth reflecting on how we came to be so cooking obsessed. And Collins' uncritical, well-researched tone makes this a great read for learning more about one of our favorite pastimes.
About the Author: A student in Providence, Rhode Island, Leah Douglas loves learning about, talking about, reading about, and consuming food. Her work has also been featured in Rhode Island Monthly Magazine.
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First the good news:
It looks like the end of
the year bonus is making a comeback.
A recent national survey
conducted by Challenger, Gray and Christmas found about 75 percent of
private employers planned to offer some type of year-end bonus this year. That
number, according to the survey, is up from 53 percent in 2011.
Julie Talenfeld, president of Boardroom Communications in Plantation, Florida, participated in that trend. She says she has given out generous holiday bonuses
to well deserving staff for the past 25 years. She says she also gives 10-percent commissions
on new business and employees get spot bonuses for every media hit they generate
for clients every day. Julie has found giving incentives to employees creates a happier work environment.
According to the survey, 14 percent of bosses will give out money — $ 100 or less — to all employees and 13 percent will give some type of non-monetary gift as a sign of appreciation.
But not every employer agrees or wants to give out year-end bonuses:
While there may be more happy employees as 2012 comes to an end than this time last year, the Challenger survey showed that about a fourth of the companies said there would be no bonuses this year. Bonuses are a particular rarity in public sector jobs.
Here's why some employers have gone the year-end bonus route — they're workers are being asked to do more, more, more and bonuses are a one time boost – a way to reward employees without having to make a long-term payroll commitment.
Now, for a reality check:
Challenger said his company isn't projecting many changes when it comes to pay raises. Instead, he said, companies are expected to "hold down salary ranges" in 2013.
Knowing this, what are your thoughts on year end bonuses? Should employees take them and be thankful or negotiate for a raise. And, should employers give
everyone the same amount as a year end bonus or should it be based on an employee's


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Description: I don't know how many people would want to learn how to draw a magician, but just in case there is someone out there that has a hobby or want to one day becomes one of these magical illusionists, I wanted to be sure that I put something up for everyone. I wanted to go with what folks expect to see when it comes to visualizing what these men and woman look like. Of course I had to go ahead and make my magician look sort of like an anime figure, and I know that this type of concept isn't all that traditional, but I figured since almost everyone that comes to Dragoart like anime/manga anyway, why not go with the flow. Nonetheless it should be an entertaining tutorial to follow I mean the magician has his wand, top hat, and there is even a rabbit peeking through too. You can tweak this magician if you want and add your own personal touches, or you can just leave it be and do follow what you see. Either way learning "how to draw a magician" is not only different, it's also fun. Have a great time with the tutorial guys, and if there is something, or someone you would like to see drawn out step by step style, don't forget to ask. See ya folks!


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Hi again, Merry Christmas and happy new year to all 🙂
One of my favourite new products in recent months is Google Music, a new cloud-based music system which allows you to keep up to 20,000 tracks on Google's servers. In a similar fashion to Apple's iCloud, this music can then be accessed at any time via your Android devices or a web browser. Having used Google Music for nearly 2 months now, I absolutely love it – so much so that I've cancelled my Spotify subscription.
Around a year ago the media hard drive in my home server crashed, causing me to lose almost all of my digital music collection. Recently I've been starting to re-import my CDs so they can be uploaded to Google Music, going via my laptop. Problem is that the CD importing is happening via iTunes, and my 5-and-a-half-year-old macbook certainly isn't as fast as it used to be – the spinning beach ball of doom regularly pops up. So why not let my home server take the strain? Pop in a CD, let the server automatically rip it and eject when it's done, and have that new music automatically uploaded to Google. That's entirely possible on a headless Debian server.
My starting point was a blog post which deals with ripping CDs on a headless server using ivman to listen for an audio CD being inserted and abcde for ripping. However, I later discovered that ivman has effectively been abandoned and has since been replaced by halevt.
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Gone south
Posted by Bob on November 24, 2003
In Reply to: Gone south posted by masakim on November 24, 2003
: : : : Can someone help? I need to know the origin and meaning of the phrase "went South on me." Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
: : : My understanding of the phrase is, if a project has gone south, it's "in the toilet," "gone bust," etc.
: : From Merriam-Webster online (meaning No. 2):
: : Main Entry: 1south
: : Pronunciation: 'sauth
: : Function: adverb
: : Etymology: Middle English, from Old English suth; akin to Old High German sund- south and probably to Old English sunne sun
: : Date: before 12th century
: : 1 : to, toward, or in the south
: : 2 : into a state of decline or ruin. Causes the sluggish economy to go south -- G. F. Will.
: go south (also head south, take a turn south) 1 v phr by 1940s To disappear; fal by or as if by vanishing.... 2 v phr by 1925 To abscond with money, loot, etc. ... 3 v phr underworld by 1950 To cheat, esp to cheat at cards.... 4 v phr by 1980s To lessen; diminish.... [probably fr the notion of disappearing _south of the border_, to escape legal pursuit and responsibility; probably reinforced by the widespread belief that the soul after death journeys to the south, attested in American Colonial writing fr the middle 1770s; _GTT_, "Gone to Texas, absconded," is found by 1839]
: From _Dictionary of American Slang, Third Edition_ by Robert L. Chapman
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: The market then rallies, falls back to test its low -- and just keeps "heading South," as they say on the Street. (_Business Week_, Sept 21,1974)
: Rosy view of VCR impact was somewhat contradicted during dinner talk by Frank Biondi, exec. vp of Coca-Cola's Entertainment Business Sector and ex-chmn. of HBO. In other countries, when VCR penetration hits 30%, "theatrical attendance starts to go south and very quickly," Biondi said. (_Communications Daily_, Feb 1985)
: A PC clone may go south, and you're left with a pile of junk that is not supported by anyone. (_InfoWorld_, Dec 1990).
: Those who get their economic news from television may come away with the impression that the economy and the stock market are two sides of the same coin. If the market is heading south, then the economy must be, too. But it's not true. (Alan S. Blinder, "Stocks Are Only Part of the Story," _New York Times_, July 21, 2002)
What makes the metaphor work vividly is that our orientation to maps makes us think of South as Down.
- Gone south R. Berg 25/November/03
- Gone south pdianek 25/November/03
- Gone south James Briggs 25/November/03
- Gone south -- Pilots go west Ward Fredericks 26/November/03
- Gone south -- Pilots go west Cath from Beaumont 's Angels 28/November/03
- Gone south -- Pilots go west Ward Fredericks 26/November/03
- Gone south James Briggs 25/November/03
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Even with the rising popularity of smartphones that boast impressive stereo audio and complex data-intensive functions, sometimes you just want to make a simple call. For those who chat on the go often, not having to clutch a handset while talking is even more of a boon. Paying through the nose for a decent Bluetooth earpiece, though, isn't a good option for anyone. Enter the $49 Plantronics M55. This stylish device brings hands-free dialing capabilities to the table for not much cash. Though not as fancy as higher-priced headsets, it's ultracompact, lightweight, and certainly worth a look.
The compact and affordable Plantronics M55 (pictures)See all photos
Bluetooth headsets are certainly convenient gadgets, but they can often be large, bulky, or just plain unsightly. Plantronics designed the M55 so as not to commit the same fashion faux pas. Weighing just 8 grams (0.28 ounce) and crafted to fit inside the ear, the M55 is about as inconspicuous as hands-free headsets get. It's lighter than other minute Bluetooth competitors such as the 0.32-ounce Motorola Elite Sliver and the 0.29-ounce Jawbone Icon. Still, Plantronics' own featherweight Marque M155 is even more microscopic and tips the scales at a mere 5.7 grams, or 0.2 ounce.
The M55 sports a similarly thin and svelte rectangular design to the Marque. With a glossy black surface trimmed by metallic silver edges, this headset too has an elegant and premium look. Unlike the Marque M155's iPhone-like key, however, the new M55 uses a nondescript call button that's etched in gray and blends into its front face. On top is a wide volume key that you tap to cycle through the M55's loudness levels. Underneath, placed along the bottom edge, is the headset's sturdy power switch. I particularly like the M55's standard Micro-USB port, located on the edge closest to your ear, which is more convenient than a proprietary power connection.
Made to sit inside the ear, the M55 has an earbud covered by a clear silicone sheath. While the sheath has a looped stabilizer that helps the earpiece fit more securely, it doesn't come with alternate sizes of earbuds. If the earbud is too large or too small for your specific ear, there's not much you can do to remedy the situation. That said, once I pushed the device in place it remained firmly lodged. The M55 is also light enough that I'd forget I was wearing it after a few minutes.
Despite its small footprint, the Plantronic M55 is quite a capable little headset. It handles the typical Bluetooth hands-free functions such as answering and making calls over a wireless Bluetooth connection. In addition, the M55 provides helpful alerts in a friendly female voice stating remaining talk time when it's switched on or when a call is incoming. It's able to carry out some native vocal commands too. For example, you can say "Ignore" or "Answer" to expedite calls without lifting a finger.
Like other Plantronics headsets, the M55 comes with a year of the company's basic Vocalyst service. It allows users to send e-mails, listen to news, sports, and weather information, and post social media updates (Facebook and Twitter) just by speaking. Be advised though that Vocalyst requires a payment of $2.49 monthly or $24.99 annually. Vocalyst Pro (which also lets you to send text messages via voice) costs $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year.
Of course, you can also use the M55's call button to control the headset's operation. You can tap once to answer calls, and hitting the key will also tell the device to reconnect to paired phones if you lose Bluetooth connection. Holding down the button for 2 seconds kicks the M55 into voice-dialing mode, while pressing it for 1 second will dismiss calls as they occur.


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"Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself" wants to remind people the innate power for self-healing that we all have. The book starts with an introduction by Kriss Carr, who shares her experience with thriving with a chronic disease.
Dr. Lissa Rankin is a medical doctor, who decided to help people to heal in a more holistic way and to move away from the often dualistic approach which is so common in "Western" medicine. She brings a lot of wisdom to the table, supporting it with scientific evidences.
There is a need to show, again and again, that there is no real external healing, but that healing happens from the inside out. While external interventions may be beneficial, and sometimes necessary, what happens afterward is about what happens inside us. Lissa fills this need, showing cases where patients achieved results that were considered unattainable, by changing their behaviors and beliefs.
Dr. Lissa Rankin looks into the "placebo effect", and other aspects of healing which question our contemporary understanding of prevention, recovery and interventions.
Disclaimer: I received this book for free from Hay House Publishing for review purposes.


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5 burning questions for the Texans
Questions for the Texans as they prepare for their regular-season opener at San Diego and Gary Kubiak's eighth season as coach:
Q: Is QB Matt Schaub good enough to help the Texans win a Super Bowl?
A: Of course, if the Texans get the Schaub who helped them start 11-1 last season. Of course not, if the Texans get the Schaub who threw one touchdown pass during the last four games, in which the Texans blew home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. He threw for 4,008 yards and 22 TDs. He doesn't throw many interceptions (12), and he doesn't get sacked too much (27). He throws the ball away rather than force it into coverage. They need the Schaub who threw four touchdown passes at Denver (31-25), threw for 527 yards and five touchdowns at Detroit (34-31) and helped them beat Baltimore (43-13) with two touchdown passes, 256 yards and no interceptions.
Q: Can Arian Foster and Ben Tate stay healthy enough to give the Texans the kind of ball-control running game Gary Kubiak demands?
A: One reason the Texans have led the NFL in average time of possession the last two seasons is because Kubiak emphasizes the run. They've ranked second and eighth in rushing the last two seasons. Foster has recovered from calf and back injuries and should be ready for San Diego on Sept. 9. Tate has been healthy in preseason. This is the last year of his contract. He's looking at a possible big payday as an unrestricted free agent. When both backs are healthy, they might be the best 1-2 punch in the NFL. The worst thing that could happen is for both of them to get injured at the same time.
Q: Will the right side of the line with tackle Derek Newton and guard Brandon Brooks be improved over last season, when it was the weakest link on offense?
A: It better be. The offensive coaches - not to mention the players - don't want to be a left-handed unit. Newton was forced into starting duty before he was ready. He played hurt near the end of the season. This is his third season. He's 100 percent from his surgery on a patella tendon. The coaches said he had a good camp and preseason. Because of experience and health, he should be better than last season. Brooks, in his second season, has replaced Ben Jones as the starter. Like Newton (6-6, 330), Brooks (6-5, 325) is a wide load. The coaches believe Brooks will solidify the position and improve almost weekly.
Q: Why will this defense be better than last season, when the Texans allowed 29 touchdown passes - 11 more than the 2011 season?
A: First of all, the Texans faced better quarterbacks last season. Aaron Rodgers (six), Tom Brady (four) and Peyton Manning (two) combined for 12 touchdowns. They play Manning and Brady again, both at Reliant Stadium. Getting Brian Cushing back will help because he can pressure the quarterback as well as drop into coverage. Getting free safety Ed Reed should help, assuming he'll be ready early in the season. They need to get a better pass rush from outside linebackers Brooks Reed and Whitney Mercilus to take the pressure off J.J. Watt.
Q: Speaking of J.J. Watt, he insists he can play better this season. Is that possible considering the kind of season he had last year?
A: We learned last season not to doubt the NFL Defensive Player of the Year, but he sets the bar so high he'll almost need a pole to get over it. Imagine Watt registering more than 201/2 sacks, 42 hits on the quarterback, a team-leading 107 tackles and 16 pass deflections. He could become the first player to be voted NFL Defensive Player of the Year in consecutive seasons. Offensive coordinators and line coaches have had an offseason to plan for Watt. But defensive coordinator Wade Phillips has had an offseason to devise ways to free him up.


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Blizzard's latest and last offering in the faction short story releases we've seen all expansion is the one I was looking forward to most of all, because of those questions. The Jade Hunters by Matt Burns touches on the story of the August Celestials -- not the creatures themselves, but the organization, and how it came to be. But that's all a backdrop to the far larger story being told, one that finally highlights and talks about the three dwarf clans brought together in Cataclysm.
Oh, and it also talks about that statue that we completely destroyed in the Jade Forest.


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Extra offseason work paying off for Moore
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Matt Moore told reporters when camp opened that he worked out with Pro Advantage Training in Arizona for three months this offseason in hopes of getting past any physical issues in 2014.
Moore did not work out in Arizona prior to the 2013 season, which was a change after doing so prior to the 2010, '11, and '12 campaigns.
In addition to avoiding injuries, Moore said he hoped to get his body more behind his pitches, rather than just his arm, and perhaps even find a few miles per hour for his fastball.
On Sunday, after throwing a live batting practice, Moore noted that he felt noticeably better than he did a year ago. Rays manager Joe Maddon couldn't help but notice Moore's work.
"He worked out of the windup and out of the stretch, threw some really good curveballs, had a lot of hop on the ball," Maddon said. "I'd say for the first day I saw him pitch to live hitters his velocity looked pretty impressive. So I don't know exactly what it was, but there was a lot of jump on the ball and some really good break."
Moore said it was too early to tell if his offseason work had paid off with added heat to his fastball.
"I haven't had a radar gun, but the ball just feels really good right now, the timing of things coming out," Moore said. "Feels like the ball's carrying to the target a little more than me trying to drive it. Those two mindsets are a little bit different. But we'll see when things come out."
He observed that when he is throwing the ball well, he's "not reaching back for more."
"I don't need to throw the ball any harder, because it's already getting there fast enough," Moore said. "Now, just make sure that I'm kind of painting that stroke. Make sure that I'm staying in my lane. Make sure that my body is staying back. And usually if the ball is coming out good and my arm feels quick, if that's a good word for it, if it feels like that, usually my mind isn't thinking, like, 'Get down that hill, get down that hill.' Usually I have a little more clarity on the mound, probably a slower heart rate, whatever you want to call it."


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- At a networking event, the prince complimented guests' impeccable English
- Qatar's energy minister asked if Charles spoke any Arabic
- He said he was learning but it was not easy
Prince Charles is learning Arabic but said he's having a difficult time of it.
At a networking event Thursday in Qatar for alumni of UK universities, he complimented guests on their impeccable English.
Qatar's energy minister inquired if Charles spoke any Arabic.
"I tried to learn it once but I gave up. It goes in one ear and out the other," he answered.
Laura Sullivan, a spokeswoman at Clarence House, confirmed Thursday that Prince Charles has taken lessons.
"He definitely has been having Arabic lessons," she said.
Sullivan was quick to point out the prince has mastered other languages.
"He definitely speaks Welsh as I've heard him myself," Sullivan said. "French is a definite, and he is very good at that."
The Prince of Wales is on a tour of the Middle East with his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall.
On Wednesday, they visited a camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan.
In Qatar, the Duchess will attend workshops on literacy and women's empowerment while Charles meets with the Crown Prince of Qatar and the country's prime minister.


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The true depth of connection between team members is an invisible quality that is only seen when it is reflected in the actions of the team under the most challenging of circumstances.
Don't look up 'Viscosity' in the dictionary if you want a good description of highly effective teams. I don't assume you want your team to be "gooey." And yet I can't imagine any other term that so effectively describes that "stuff" that flows throughout a highly cohesive team and keeps them smoothly humming along under the greatest of stress.
What is that mysterious quality that truly connects team members, lubricates difficult situations and keeps friction from building to a point where parts and systems begin to break down? I call it Viscosity. It's not quite invisible. And yet it's also not a team component that's easily held up for examination. It tends to slip through the fingers of those trying to mold it into an easily recognizable and tangible shape that can be examined, probed, prodded and dissected for clear and perfect understanding.
It is the truly ineffable. And yet, as my colleague Jeff Salz states, it's the only thing that really eff-ing matters.


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Don't Be Afraid to Feel
by Sheri Rose Shepherd
Weeping may last through the night but joy comes with the morning. — Psalm 30:5https://www.youtube.com/embed/aSWNwCtYHSs?rel=0
If you feel lonely and rejected or fearful and ashamed, what do you do with your emotional pain? You may have been afflicted by the unloving blows of another person or maybe by your own disobedience. But whatever the cause, you don't have to feel guilty for crying out to God. When you do cry out, you are identifying with Jesus. You are learning to know Him and the fellowship of His suffering. When you hide out, you are identifying with Adam and separating yourself from the sweet fellowship of God.
There is no easy way to deal with emotional pain, but God promises that those who sow with tears will reap with joy and the same is true for you.
Just remember: The same resurrection power that raised Jesus from the dead will give you the power to deal with your pain and lead you to a more intimate relationship with Him! You will be able to experience excellence in your life in a way you could never have dreamed possible.
God's Letter to You
I believe if The Lord was going to write you a personal letter about battles this life brings it may read like this….
My Princess,
I know you wonder where I am in the middle of your pain. Although you can't see Me, My eyes are always on you, and I see every tear that has ever rolled off your precious face. My Father's heart breaks as I look for ways to remind you that My comfort is only a whisper away. Your feelings will always deceive you, which is why I gave you My Holy Spirit. The next time your heart doubts Me, pray and reflect on the last time you were sure I had forsaken you. Remember that I was there all along, working out what you could not see in your moment of mourning. I have always been with you; I was there when you cried your first tear, and I will be there to catch your last tear on earth. This weeping will not last, My Love, but it will lead you back to Me, where your joy, hope, and love will once again be restored as you soak in My presence.
Your Tender, Loving God
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Our God does not waste pain . . . but He does wipe away every tear.


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A United Airlines Pilot detained at Heathrow when a colleague smelled alcohol on his breath has admitted to showing up for work over the legal limit:
51-year-old Erwin Washington, of Colorado, was due to pilot a 767 from London to Chicago when his colleague raised the alarm. Washington was arrested and found to be three times over the limit for flying. He has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in England next month. The maximum sentences in such cases is two years in jail.
Allegedly Drunk United Airlines Pilot To Be Tried In London [ABC]
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Saturday Morning Physics: And You Thought Learning Happened Only During the Week
Early in the morning on Saturdays this past winter, area students and teachers came to JMU to explore cutting-edge research topics in physics and astronomy. Professors took turns discussing their own specialties and favorite topics including astronomy, Albert Einstein and the Big Bang Theory.
JMU's Physics and Astronomy Department, in collaboration with the Office of Outreach and Engagement, hosted the second annual "Saturday Morning Physics" series to build on to the knowledge of students and teachers alike.
Saturday, January 28th marked the first session of the spring semester program. Almost 70 participants gathered in Miller Hall to listen to the opening lecture.
With enthusiasm for all things science, Dr. Adriana Banu, an Assistant Professor at JMU, kicked off the program discussing radioactivity and the atomic nucleus. Students laughed and followed along as Dr. Banu went through the history of science and the basics of the atom. There were familiar faces in the crowd of students, a few who had attended last year, as well as some new students and teachers that came ready to experience college level physics.
"I came by myself last year, this year I brought the students," said Dottie Edwards, a teacher at Strasburg High School who brought five students with her. "It wasn't hard to get students here. They jumped right in."
Local teachers and students are utilizing the program to not only learn new information, but to expand on what they already know. "We get a deeper understanding of what we learned in class," said Spotswood High School senior Ashley Lenhart.
During the program, the audience is encouraged to participate in interactive lessons. One Saturday, students helped to create a "human computer" using the binary code and building blocks. At the end of every session, interactive quizzes were given using handheld clickers that have become the norm in JMU's science classes.
Students were asked a number of questions that complement the lesson they learned that day. A prize was given to the students that had the highest scores on the quizzes at the end of the entire program.
As an added bonus, participants receive certificates of attendance, students can receive college credits, and teachers can earn continuing education units.
"Last year's program turned out to be a huge success that exceeded everybody's expectations. This year, we've experienced the same thing," said Dr. Banu.
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Book tells how 18th-century newspapers covered war
ALBANY, N.Y. >> It was the 18th-century version of a tweet: a two-sentence, 25-word dispatch in a London newspaper reporting the American colonies had declared their independence from Great Britain.
The events of the Revolutionary War may seem like ye olde news to today's history students, but they were breaking news to people on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and newspapers were the main source of information. Some historians theorize there would have been no American Revolution without the era's newspapers, even though they tended to be four-page publications crammed with information that was days, weeks or months old.
"Newspapers are what fanned the flames of rebellion," said Todd Andrlik, whose collection of 18th-century newspapers is the focus of a book published this month.
"Reporting The Revolutionary War" (Sourcebooks) primarily focuses on the turbulent 20-year period between the end of the French and Indian War and the conclusion of the American Revolution. The large-format book features reproductions of the actual newspaper pages from the era, with contextual essays written by three dozen historians, scholars and authors.
"For 250 years, newspaper accounts have been relegated to footnotes," said Andrlik, a marketing executive for a Chicago-area construction firm.
Over the past five years, his collection of newspapers from the 1700s has grown to more than 400, including editions of American and British publications that are among the rarest of their kind. Andrlik's book is unique because it compiles so many primary sources in a single publication, according to one Revolutionary War author and historian.
"I've seen nothing like it and I've been studying the Revolution since 1955," said Thomas Fleming, whose contribution to the book details the obstacles the Americans and British faced in negotiating a peace treaty to end the war.
Getting news into print was a hands-on, time-consuming task in the late 18th century. It could also be life-threatening, especially if a newspaper printer was on the wrong side of the rebellion.
Word of the outbreak of fighting at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, wasn't front-page news in nearby Boston because there were no front pages being published: Most of the city's printers had fled from the British occupation forces, Andrlik said. Two days later, a newspaper in Portsmouth, N.H., was one of the first with a page one story of the battles, publishing an account under the headline "Bloody News."
The news of the American Declaration of Independence was published in the London Gazette on Aug. 13, 1776, barely five weeks after the Continental Congress had finalized the document. Tucked between business notices and brief overseas dispatches, the short note served as a news bulletin at a time when the typical trans-Atlantic voyage could take up to two months:
"Advice is received that the Congress resolved upon independence the 4th of July; and, it is said, have declared war against Great Britain in form."
"Newspapers in those days had the same attitude toward a hot story: They got it into the papers as quickly as possible," Fleming said.
Full versions of the rebellious colonies' declaration were appearing in British publications just days later. One Scottish periodical provided its own analysis of the document, including a snarky response to what became one of the Declaration of Independence's best-known lines: "In what are they created equal?"
Fleming said the American population was "amazingly literate" during the period, and the new nation's military and political leaders such as George Washington and John Adams realized how newspapers could be as important to the Revolution's success as the outcome of any battle.
He pointed out how Washington started his own newspaper to fill an information void while his army was fighting in New Jersey.
"You didn't have to hold rallies," Fleming said. "You were rallying them with this journalism."


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With my EMT class finishing up, hopefully I will pass the final test on March 18th and then be able to start getting another large campaign ready to run for another group of players. This time I will be getting together a campaign that takes place in the Dragon Lance saga. It is actually the Classics Volume I that has all four of these adventures together: Dragons of Despair, Dragons of Flame, Dragons of Hope, and Dragons of Desolation.
Yes, I have been a Player in the campaign, years
As is obvious from how long it has been since the last post to my blog, the group never really got going for running the "Lost Caverns of Tsojcnth" campaign for the second group. As usual, had half the people that said they wanted in, not show for scheduled game sessions even after saying that they would be able to be there on that particular day. After the third time that we only had half the players show, the other 4 pllayers and I agreed to wait until we could find 4 other people that
And the good news is that at this time there is now 8 players signed up for the campaign. This will allow for all the characters to be involved from the beginning. One player will have to leave earlier than the rest to go to work, but that will be able to be "written" into the game.
Stay tunned for the campaign log to follow......
This campaign will be started on October 21. At this time there are 5 players signed on. If nobody else signs on, I will be running one of the clerics as an NPC. Both of the clerics and 1 fighter are the characters that are still available. I am preparing everything to allow for all 8 characters but will be able to easily adjust for as low as only having 5 plus the NPC cleric. This game will be looking at having one session per month, so that means there will be one log entry per month. If for some
At this time there are 5 people signed up to play in the new (second) running of the "Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth" campaign. Hopefully between now and Aug. 25th, we will get the other 3 seats filled and be able to start this on that day. Anyone interested can send me a PM or post on the campaign thread in the Find or Advertise a Game section of the Forums. Again, this will take a very long time to complete, so be prepared for a game that won't be done in just a handfull of gaming sessions.


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An Iphone pic my sister took of my son and his new car, a 1991 BMW 328is (s I'm told is for lightweight sport version) mechanically and outside restored, we only have o finish the interior. I''m not sure what makes a kid desire an old 150hp car when there are plenty of much more powerful V8's in the same or cheaper price category. He's grinning ear to ear our entire drive back (we flew out from Illinois to LA to get a rust free version) and I must say it's smooth and runs very well. So far were getting 31-33mpg.. not sure if that' good for this car. The police are attracted to this car like white on rice.. so far I've been issued 2 warnings and him 3.. No tickets yet.
An Iphone pic my sister took of my son and his new car, a 1991 BMW 328is (s I'm told is for lightweight sport version) mechanically and outside restored..
It's a reversed manifestation of the American Dream, Steve: you guys fancy European rust and I drool over the idea of a '59 Coupe de Ville.Beware the rear suspension of that Beemer; I'm told it's not the more stable sort found on later models... in other words, you can lose the tail quite easily, especially if it rains. Or so they say. Either way, take care, both of you. But it certainly looks very cool.However, it isn't only BMW: I know a lawyer who sold a 911 because it was impossible in the wet. My bro'n'lo and his wife are both Merc fans - they have now dumped her SLK for a new A-Class because neither his Brabus nor her sports job were any good on ice or snow and the daughter wanted her FWD Corsa back! They should have learned to drive.Thank goodness relative poverty has made me careful and I have a Fiesta. (Well, that's my face-saving story and I better stick to it.);-)Rob C
Steve, we only got the 328 motor in the later E36, not the E30 as pictured. BUT, we had a homegrown 155 kw 325iS called the "Shadowline" and later a homegrown 333i. I used to drool ( and still do) over a henna red one that lived in my street. That straight six's howl sends shivers down one's spine when at full tilt...http://www.alpina-archive.com/?page_id=7678http://www.alpina-archive.com/?page_id=7671&nmt=333i
1. We just like cars. All of them. We just returned home after a 2300 mile return trip and the car ran like a top the entire time. It also revealed it's personality in the form of a few rough edges we'll sort out as time goes on.2. I've heard of this.. Hopefully with the new springs, shocks, poly bushings, and lowering.. it will be a better performer. The guy even added an M3 steering rack. It handles somewhere between a car and a go kart.. 3. After this trip I hope you don't mind sliding over and sharing your seat with me.
The BMW that most captured my lust was the 850...
Funny taste you have, Rob. That was the car of choice for Russian mafia in the 90s.
Maybe it was too cold in Russia for the mist to be able to form inside?...
Not sure if these should be here or in the CellPhone thread. Distracted on the way to lunch and out with the iPhone5:
How come I missed this thread recently?
Rob,You might also have missed one a little closer to your heart on the "Without Prejudice 2" thread.W


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Democrat gun-grabbers will do almost anything to get the American people to surrender their right to own firearms.
For instance, New York senator Chuck Schumer, during an interview with the liberaleoisie at AOL's Huffington Post, called the NRA a "fringe group" of extremists.
My dictionary defines "fringe" as something regarded as peripheral, marginal, secondary, or extreme in relation to something else.
The NRA is the largest gun rights organization in America with a membership of 4.25 million members, making it anything but a fringe group. Following the Sandy Hook massacre, an additional 250,000 members joined the organization.
As we noted earlier today, it now looks like odds are against Democrats enacting any kind of significant gun legislation, not unless a boatload of Democrats want to fall on their swords – in other words, nothing substantial will be gained as a result of Schumer's lies and the emotional reactionary propaganda now being dispensed by the establishment media.
Schumer admitted that Democrats will have "to push hard" to accomplish anything. It will be interesting to see how many of his co-conspirators will push so hard they end up forfeiting their cushy government jobs.
Of course, in the circus world that prevails in the district of criminals just about anything is possible. The NRA has in the past compromised with the anti-gun radicals and may do so again, especially with the political heat rising.
Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America has listed a few of these compromises.
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