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It's a conundrum. Sure, publishing your application in Apple's App Store helps spread your work, but Apple places additional restrictions through the App Store terms of service, which is in direct violation of the GPL, and therefore, a copyright violation. I don't think I need to remind you that in all cases - all of them - where the GPL went to court, the GPL was upheld. No matter the country.
But is it really a GPL violation? The sources can still be downloaded somewhere else, and the VLC application has an about box with information on where to get the source code. Originally, the issue was that Apple placed their own terms of services as an addition to any existing licenses which may be governing an application; they later changed this so that the original license remains applicable, without Apple's additional restrictions.
However, here's the tricky bit as I see it. Parts of Apple's terms of service apply to the App Store service as a whole, and another part to individual applications. While the latter bit has been made GPL-compliant by the described change, the former bit has not. That first bit covers things like the DRM which ties your device and your account to iTunes - which covers your downloaded applications as well.
This bit very much means that distributing GPL applications through the App Store is in violation of the GPL, and this is where a number of VLC contributors have drawn the line. The hope is that Apple will change its terms of service, but I think this is highly unlikely to happen, as they'd need to make special exceptions for GPL-licensed works that could easily be used as loopholes to also fiddle with other software.
The most likely outcome is that Apple will simply pull VLC from the App Store, which is sad for VLC users (VLC is quite popular in the App Store). Still, I'm in full agreement with the VLC developers (so is the FSF, obviously) who are unhappy about their code being in the App Store.

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Continuing the debate on the two-state vs. the one-state ideas, I asked Henry Norr for permission to cross-post his terrific analysis that was first published on Mondoweiss on Sept. 18.
Norr is a retired journalist and longtime activist. He has written widely on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and over the last decade he has spent a total of six months volunteering in various capacities in the occupied Palestinian territories, most recently two months in Hebron. In 2011 he was a passenger on "The Audacity of Hope," the U.S. boat in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that planned to run the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
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Every week this year seems to bring some new obituary for the two-state solution. Both in Israel and in the U.S., more and more politicians on the right (the Netanyahu-appointed Levy Committee in Israel; settler spokesman Dani Dayan in the New York Times; the legislatures of Florida and South Carolina; even, apparently, the Republican National Committee) have been coming forward to acknowledge what many on the left have argued for years: there's only one state between the river and the sea, and there's no realistic prospect of that changing.
From a different perspective, several prominent long-time champions of the two-state approach have joined the chorus just in the last couple of weeks: Nahum Barnea, widely described as "the dean of Israeli columnists;" Henry Siegman, the former Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress; and Richard Silverstein, the well-known Tikun Olam blogger, who titled his post "Two States Are Dead, Long Live the New State!" Meanwhile, the brightest lights on the left are increasingly focused on mapping out what a one-state solution might look like.
I hesitate to disagree with such a diverse array of pols and pundits, but I don't buy it. In fact, there's plenty of evidence that a two-state outcome - of sorts - remains very much in the cards: I think it's almost certainly what Netanyahu et al. are planning, if not for the immediate future then for some opportune moment down the road.
In fact, I believe those announcing the demise of the two-state solution are inadvertently sowing an illusion that could be damaging to the movement for Palestinian rights.
On one level, of course, I agree completely: the kind of two-state solution liberal Americans, Israeli left Zionists, and Palestinian Authority loyalists have long imagined (and right-wing Zionists have feared) - that is, a state with at least many of the attributes of sovereignty along something close to the 1967 borders - is dead. But that's nothing new: the whole idea was probably stillborn at Oslo, but if there was ever a possibility it would come to life, that chance ended years ago, as the settler population swelled into the hundreds of thousands, successive Israeli governments kept building out the infrastructure to support them, and Israelis of all stripes realized that no one - not the U.S., not the U.N., not the E.U., and not the Arab states - was actually prepared to do anything to impose the two-state "international consensus" they all talked about.
The only thing that's changed in recent years is that liberals and moderates are finally shedding their blinders, and the right is emboldened to say openly what it always sought privately.
But to acknowledge that one idealized version of the two-state solution is dead doesn't necessarily mean that other versions of it aren't possible. It certainly doesn't mean, as many of the recent obits imply, that the only issue before us now is the nature of the single state - i.e., will Israel continue denying any real legal and political rights to the Palestinians of the West Bank, even if it formally annexes their land? Will it devise some new form of limited pseudo-citizenship for them? Or will it finally fulfill the fantasies of the farthest-right (expelling the whole Palestinian population) or the dreams of many of us on the left (granting them full and equal rights)?
Each of these alternatives strikes me as completely implausible. After all, although the Zionists have always sought to control all of "Greater Israel," their elite has also been guided from the beginning by another principle: not just maximizing their territory, but minimizing the number of Palestinians on it, in order to ensure Jewish control. If they had their druthers, most Israelis would no doubt opt for complete ethnic cleansing (a.k.a. "transfer"); the only reason it hasn't happened is that their leaders haven't been confident the world would let them get away with it, especially in view of the resistance the Palestinians would likely put up. That remains the case today, I believe. (Of course, in the event of all-out, sustained regional war, all bets would be off...)
But as long as transfer is off the table and millions of Palestinians remain on their land, the Zionist leadership has consistently chosen not to incorporate all of it into their state: That's why Ben Gurion didn't push to "finish the job" in 1948, and why Israel didn't annex all of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip after the 1967 war. That's why Sharon pulled back from Gaza in 2005. And that's why I can't see complete annexation of the West Bank now.
What seems much more likely is that the Israelis will seek to preserve the status quo as long as possible, while they keep expanding the settlements and quietly driving out as many Palestinians as they can (mainly by making their lives miserable and hopeless) - all the while blathering about the need for negotiations. Is there any reason to think that Washington and the Europeans wouldn't let them get away with this little game, just as they have for so many decades?
And if at some point, from somewhere, there did arise real pressure to resolve the issue - or if the Israelis succeed in so demoralizing the Palestinian population and corrupting its leadership that they can impose the terms they want - I'm convinced they'll actually implement a two-state "solution."
It just won't look anything like what the peace processors have pretended to discuss for the last 20 years. Forget the 1967 borders - Israel will annex the majority of the West Bank. What they'll leave for the new state is an archipelago of minuscule fragments, including the main Palestinian population centers, all cut off from one another and surrounded by what will become officially Israeli territory.
Specifically, in terms of the supposedly short-term administrative divisions originally laid out in the "Oslo II Agreement" between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1995, count on Israel to formalize its currently de facto but complete control of Area C, which represents 62 percent of the West Bank's land area. It includes all the settlements, the buffer zones around them, the Israeli highways, the IDF bases and "firing zones," and the entire Jordan Valley except the city of Jericho. (See this factsheet from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and especially the European Union report "Area C and Palestinian State Building," released early this year, though dated last July).
The real beauty of Area C, from the Zionist perspective, is that swallowing it up, even without further ethnic cleansing, would increase the state's non-Jewish population only modestly: after decades of decline, its Palestinian population is down to somewhere between 92,000 and 150,000 people, depending on whose estimate you believe - not much more than 5 percent of the West Bank total. Thanks to a systematic and amply documented Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing[1], the Jordan Valley in particular has been almost completely depopulated of Palestinians: in 1967 it was home to between 200,000 and 300,000 people, but now the total, not counting at least 9,400 Jewish settlers, has dropped to 56,000, of whom 70 percent live in Jericho (Area A), according to the EU.
To top it off, the Israelis might also grab some choice bits of Area B, where Jewish settlers have recently begun, for the first time, to set up settlement outposts. But it's hard to imagine them taking it all: it's only 20 percent of the West Bank, but nearly a million Palestinians (41 percent of the West Bank Palestinian population) live in the villages and towns it encompasses. It's no secret that Israeli Jews are already obsessed with the "demographic timebomb" represented by the roughly 1.5 million Palestinian citizens inside the Green Line - would they really want to add another million, just in order to achieve formal control of such a modest area?
And as to Area A - 14 separate fragments encompassing all the major Palestinian cities on the West Bank - only fanatics determined to control every inch of Eretz Yisrael, regardless of the consequences for the Zionist project, would want that incorporated into the state as long as its Palestinian population remains. After all, it's only about 18 percent of the West Bank - about 4 percent of the area of Mandatory Palestine - but it's home to roughly 1.3 million Palestinians, which means that swallowing it up would nearly double Israel's Palestinian population, even without counting the Area B population.
Few if any of those proclaiming the death of the two-state solution argue that Israel is ready to grant full citizenship to the 2.3 million Palestinians of Areas A and B. When they talk about a single state, they're assuming, at least implicitly, that Israel will continue to deny the population the right to vote and other civil and legal rights. But if Israel were to formally annex the whole area while continuing to deny citizenship to the natives, the state and its defenders in Europe and North America would face even more difficulty than they do today in trying to refute the charge of apartheid. At that point, it would almost certainly face an accelerating loss of liberal support and renewed condemnation from most of the world, and the size and power of the already growing BDS - boycott, divestment, and sanctions - movement would swell, perhaps finally approaching the proportions of the movement against South African apartheid in the 1980s.
Why would the Zionists risk all that, when they have alternatives? Why won't they just stretch out the status quo as long as possible? And then, if they have no other choice, they can resort to their own version of the two-state solution: either unilaterally or in conjunction with a quisling Palestinian leadership, they could simply annex Area C (and whatever parts of Area B they want) and declare the remaining fragments of the West Bank to be the Palestinian state. Undoubtedly, the Israelis would insist on demilitarization and a variety of other limitations on the sovereignty of this Palestinian entity, but they could still call it a state.
In fact, Bibi Netanyahu and his cronies have long hinted at such a "solution." In 1996, when he was first elected prime minister, he promised to implement the Oslo agreement, but compared the kind of entity he had in mind for the Palestinians to either a territory with the right to hold a referendum on sovereignty, like Puerto Rico, or a demilitarized state like Andorra.
When David Bar-Illan, then director of communications and policy planning in Netanyahu's office, was asked about statehood, he answered "Semantics don't matter. If Palestinian sovereignty is limited enough so that we feel safe, call it fried chicken." And just last year, when Moshe Ya'alon, Netanyahu's deputy prime minister and minister of strategic affairs, was asked to explain his thinking about a Palestinian state, he put it even more clearly: "Our intention is to leave the situation as it is: autonomous management of civil affairs, and if they want to call it a state, let them call it that. If they want to call it an empire, by all means. We intend to keep what exists now and let them call it whatever they want."
This scenario sounds somewhat like what the South African whites tried to do in the apartheid era by setting up black bantustans. Of course, they didn't get away with it, but there's another precedent where similar plans succeeded (from the occupier's perspective): right here in the U.S.A., Israel's prime supporter and role model, federally recognized tribes are nominally sovereign nations. Indeed, the "Navajo Nation" is larger than West Virginia. (The comparison to apartheid South Africa probably has more resonance with contemporary Americans, but I've always thought the closest analogy to the Palestinian situation was the white man's treatment of native Americans.)
Some astute observers of Israeli politics have been predicting the annexation of Area C - Jeff Halper has repeatedly warned about this possibility (see, for example, Frank Barat's interview with him in Al Jazeera in May), and just last month Israeli historian Ron Pundak, who helped negotiate the Oslo agreement and later the Geneva Initiative, laid it out very clearly in a Haaretz column entitled "Decoding Bibi's West Bank Agenda." My impression, though, is that this very plausible scenario is getting lost in the rising tide of rhetoric about the death of two-state solution and the not-very-likely prospect of a single state.
Does it matter? I think so, insofar as the progressive community can still hope to have some effect on what happens in the Middle East. Consider this scenario: suppose Netanyahu (or a successor) goes to the UN (probably not this year - he's too preoccupied with Iran - but maybe next year, especially if Romney wins) and boldly declares that it's time to end a stalemate that has gone on long enough. Since the Palestinians can't get themselves together and won't negotiate, he'll announce, Israel is going to settle the conflict once and for all by recognizing a Palestinian state. That state will encompass, basically, Areas A and B; simultaneously, Israel will set setting borders for itself that include Area C.
Instead of recognizing this maneuver as the grotesque landgrab it really would be, Washington (whoever's in charge) and most of the media would undoubtedly hail him for his "boldness," "courage," "vision," and "fairness." They'll declare his plan a "magnanimous compromise," "the fulfillment of the long-held dream of a two states living side-by-side in peace and prosperity," blah blah blah.
How the Palestinians would react, I certainly can't say. Let's hope they could overcome their current divisions and apparent exhaustion and rise up with sufficient numbers, militancy, and creativity to make the world recognize that this kind of "two-state solution" is no solution at all.
But whatever the Palestinians do, they'll need help from supporters abroad, especially in the U.S., who can expose the Israeli ploy as a farce and a fraud. And if we're going to play that role, we'd better be prepared for what's really in the cards, instead of wasting our time either wringing our hands or celebrating over the supposed demise of the two-state solution.
[1] The ethnic cleansing of the Jordan Valley began in June 1967, when Israeli forces razed numerous villages and camps housing 1948 refugees, driving out perhaps as much as 88 percent of the population - even though no major military battles were fought in the area. Since then, Israel has worked quietly but relentlessly to finish the job, first by preventing the return of refugees (and routinely shooting those who tried), then by establishing a variety of policies and practices designed to deny the remaining Palestinians any prospect of a decent life. Among the techniques employed to this end: land theft (for settlements, "military zones," and "nature preserves"); physical harassment by settlers and soldiers; home demolitions (40 percent of all the structures Israel demolished in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 2011 were in this sparsely populated area); planning restrictions and denial of permits for even the most modest construction (out of 440 permit applications in 2010, the latest data available, four were granted); destruction of foreign-aided development projects (including European-funded solar panels); theft and murder of animals; and, perhaps most egregiously, a variety of policies that limit Palestinian access to water - deliberate destruction of Palestinian cisterns, denial of pipeline service by the Israel water company, outrageous pricing of water from other sources, and drilling wells much deeper than the Palestinians', so the latter run dry as the water table is depleted to fill settlers' swimming pools and nourish their export crops.
Although the Jordan Valley commands little attention in the West, it must be the best documented case of ethnic cleansing in human history. Good recent overviews include "The Forcible Transfer of the Palestinian People from the Jordan Valley," by Al-Haq legal researcher Mercedes Melon; a report and interactive feature from B'Tselem, entitled "Dispossession and Exploitation: Israel's Policy in the Jordan Valley and Northern Dead Sea" ; and a beautifully illustrated report from the Ma'an Development Center called "Parallel Realities," comparing the lives of Palestinian residents and Jewish settlers in the Jordan Valley. See also the website of Jordan Valley Solidarity, a network of Palestinian grassroots community groups and international supporters, and two excellent documentary films, the LifeSource collective's "Jordan Valley Blues" (2010) and Al Jazeera's superb "Last Shepherds of the Valley," aired and posted just last month.
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NEW YORK -- The other night, I watched Four Nights in October, the ESPN 30-for-30 documentary on Boston's comeback against the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS.
One thing that stuck with me was Kevin Millar's enthusiasm before Game 4. The Red Sox were facing elimination after getting pounded 19-8 in Game 3, but the next day during batting practice, Millar kept saying, "Don't let us win this game."
In other words, the Yankees would be in a lot more trouble than they knew if the Red Sox could just get the ball moving in the right direction. There's a quote from Yankees GM Brian Cashman in today's New York Post:
We had the Red Sox's number for a hundred years and they found a way. This game can turn around real quick on you in an ugly way. We are doing everything possible to win and not take anything for granted.
This isn't about winning three games. It's about winning one game. Even if the season were to end Sunday night, one win at least changes the story a little. One win would snap this 11-game postseason losing streak. One win would make the Yankees sweat.
You know they don't want this series going back to Minnesota, so the pressure swings to them in Game 4. Worry about Games 4 and 5 if you get there. Just win one game.
Update: Manager Ron Gardenhire had hinted about moving a lefthanded hitter behind Joe Mauer for this game, and Jason Kubel will be there, despite his .080 career postseason batting average.
Kubel has two hits in three career regular season at-bats against Hughes, and this will be the most favorable pitching matchup Kubel sees all series.
"I like that if Joe gets on, first base opens up there -- a chance for him to jerk a ball through the hole. Kubel jerks the ball a little bit more. [Jim] Thome -- they move the defense around so much, it's a little screwed up. Kube -- it's normal, he'll get a chance. ... When there's a righthander out there and Mauer's up, they have a tendency to pitch around him a lot if first base is open. With Kubel behind him, it seems like it works pretty good."
Gardenhire also said he'd consider putting Alexi Casilla in the lineup but he decided to go with the same nine players who started the first two games. The decision came down to J.J. Hardy or Casilla, and Hardy gets another chance.
"I decided not to mess with Hardy," Gardenhire said. "I like the fact that with this guy pitching, I can hit and run with Hardy. He's a very good hit-and-run guy. We talked about maybe trying to move some runners, hitting and running tonight. Hardy's really good at that."
Note: Head to La Velle's blog for his five keys to a Twins victory in Game 3.
Update: Gardenhire said Nick Blackburn definitely will start Game 4, if the Twins win tonight. They are not considering having Francisco Liriano return on three day's rest.
1. Denard Span, CF
2. Orlando Hudson, 2B
3. Joe Mauer, C
4. Jason Kubel, RF
5. Delmon Young, LF
6. Jim Thome, DH
7. Michael Cuddyer, 1B
8. Danny Valencia, 3B
9. J.J. Hardy, SS
Starting pitcher: LH Brian Duensing (10-3, 2.62 ERA)
1. Derek Jeter, SS
2. Nick Swisher, RF
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5. Robinson Cano, 2B
6. Marcus Thames, DH
7. Jorge Posada, C
8. Curtis Granderson, CF
9. Brett Gardner, LF
Starting pitcher: RH Phil Hughes (18-8, 4.19 ERA)
Yankee Stadium. First pitch: 7:37 p.m. (Central). TV: TBS. Twins Radio Network
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Insomniac on Fuse: 'people want new IP all the time'
Insomniac Game's CEO Ted Price and Fuse dev Brian Allgeier have discussed why releasing a new IP like Fuse so late in the currency cycle makes sense, and have argued that gamers will still want current-gen titles even after PS4 and Xbox 720 have launched. Get their rationale below.
Speaking with OXM, Allgeier stated that Fuse's timing is ideal, given that the industry is sequel-heavy right now, "I think this industry thrives on new IPs and I think it's what keeps things going and renews it. This was a great opportunity for us to come out with a game when a lot of other people are coming out with sequels."
CEO Ted Price added, "The market is always evolving, and it's really difficult to predict what's going to happen. Especially today because it's not just about consoles anymore – people are playing games on whatever.
"We've heard over the years at Insomniac that people don't just want sequels. They want more than just sequels. They want new IP and they want new IP all the time. This was a great opportunity for us to stand out against the rest of the games and do something for players."
VG247 interviewed Insomniac regarding Fuse recently, and went hands-on. We found it to be rather dull and lacking in character. Check out our impressions below:


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My kids were starting to complain about SD bread. So I made a loaf of My Daily Bread.
I went with a lower hydration on this one as well - in the KA the dough ball was only mildly sticky and the kneading hook certainly worked the dough over. It windowpaned after roughly 10 minutes of kneading.
Interestingly the final loaf was less crusty and slightly firm and springy. Hard to describe, but definitely less crusty than previous loaves. It was cooked on a pizza stone at 500F for 10 minutes, then 450F for another 10 or so until golden and internal temp 205F.
Crumb was a bit on the fine side, oven spring was significant. I'm noticing that the SD cultures result in large holes in the crumb, and the use of commercial yeast results in a much finer crumb. Why is that?
The kids freaked out over the loaf, they loved it ... it was obliterated in about a day.


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McDonald's began trialling Innocent Smoothie pouches in 2007, as part of its Happy Meal Offering for children.
However, customers failed to warm to them and found them to be too filling alongside their Happy Meals.
As a replacement, McDonald's has rolled out Fruitizz, a fizzy fruit juice drinks for children, which is being sold with children's Happy Meals.
It has also decided to make its smoothies in-house.
McDonald's is trialling testing two "iced smoothies" for adults, which are blended in-store, across 63 restaurants in Wales and in the four restaurants at the Olympic Park.
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I could use some nursing advice. I've been EBFing my 16 wks old DS. It was a bumpy start but things have mostly worked themselves out. The main problem we initially had was that I have large breasts and relatively flat nipples, so my small baby had a tough time getting a good latch; but that hasn't been a problem for the last couple of months since he's gotten bigger/stronger. Lately however, after I letdown my breasts and nipples become extremely soft making it nearly impossible for DS to get a good latch. Pre-letdown and post-letdown he nurses really well; but after the initial flow has passed he gets very fidgety/frustrated and constantly pulls off and back on, presumably trying to get a better latch.
I'm not sure if this is a latch problem, or if the fact that my breasts are getting soft so quickly indicates a supply problem. I SAH so I've been a fairly casual pumper and have never gotten great volumes from pumping, but in the last couple of weeks my output seems to have dropped from 2-2.5 oz to more like 1.5-1.75 oz per session. I attributed this to the fact that DS started sleeping through the night around 8-10 weeks, but now he's up again for an additional night feeding.
FWIW, his wet diapers seem to be about the same; but we switched to primarly cloth around 12 weeks so I'm of course changing those a little more frequently--so it's hard to compare exactly.
DS's weight gain has always been consistent but he's toward the bottom of the curve, so there's not as much room for error (hence my concern)
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The snow has been piling up on roofs, roadsides and anywhere, really, where there�s been room in this record-setting winter, but when the warm-up comes, that melted snow could be finding its way into basements and through ceilings.
The National Weather Service in Grand Rapids is warning that the high snow depth, lots of moisture in that snow and large amounts of ice on waterways could mean flooding once the warm weather arrives.
�When it gets above 50 degrees, that�s when we see some real efficient melting going on,� said meteorologist Nathan Jeruzal of the Grand Rapids office.
Weather.com says the Holland area could experience 30s and 40s through next week.
The National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center has West Michigan with at least a 50 percent chance of seeing above-average temperatures through Feb. 26 and a more than 60 percent chance of above-average precipitation.
The average high for late February rises from 36 degrees to 39 degrees by the end of the month.
Normally, snowmelt is a slow process, according to the weather service, with melting rates comparable to light to moderate rainfall. Warm temperatures with high dew points, meaning it�s humid, and night temperatures above freezing can significantly speed up the melting.
And that melting can cause problems for homeowners, travelers and along rivers.
�To start, you need to get the snow off of roofs and windowsills,� said Stacy Segrist Kamphuis of The Insurance Group in Holland.
The heavy snow with rain on top could easily damage roofs, and the water from melting snow could destroy the paint and rot the wood along windows, she said. The same goes for snow drifts along wooden doors and frames � remove the snow before it starts to melt and the water warps and destroys the wood.
Ice dams along roofs should be taken care of, too, because they can cause leaks inside the house.
�Those big, pretty icicles have to come down,� she said.
Snowbanks along stairs should be cleared, she said, so melting snow doesn�t refreeze, causing people to slip and fall.
And the big snowbanks along the side of the house should be moved away from the foundation so they don�t melt directly into the home, she said.
�Keep spreading out those snowbanks,� she said.
The amount of standing snow is equal to more than 2.5 to 3 inches of rain, according to the weather service. With the ground still frozen from 2 to 6 inches deep, the water has few places to go.
While taking care of the outside of the home, people also need to be careful, Kamphuis said. Her company has seen many cases of people hurt lifting snow or slipping on ice.
�They definitely need to take care of their home and their health,� she said.
The melting snow could make driving a challenge.
�All of that snow piled up along our roads will begin melting, and you may encounter areas that have water over the roadway. Use caution,� said Capt. Frank Baker of the Allegan County Sheriff�s Office.
The melting could cause localized road flooding that could cause drivers to hydroplane and lose control. Large puddles could hide deep potholes that could damage vehicles.
�Do not drive through areas that you are unsure of the depth,� Baker said.
Dirt and gravel roads could be difficult to get through as the snow melts. Refreezing will occur, making bridges and overpasses especially slippery, he added.
Area rivers could become clogged with ice as the temperatures warm and the ice breaks up and heads down river, causing floods, Jeruzal said.
�We�re watching this closely,� he said.
People along rivers need to keep an eye on National Weather Service alerts and be prepared to evacuate, said Beth Thomas, Ottawa County emergency management director.
Residents should know the evacuation route and have an emergency kit that includes food, water, batteries and first-aid materials.
The Grand River in Robinson Township has topped its banks in the spring, as has the Kalamazoo River in New Richmond.
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The snow has been piling up on roofs, roadsides and anywhere, really, where there�s been room in this record-setting winter, but when the warm-up comes, that melted snow could be finding its way into basements and through ceilings.


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Instead of continuing his attempts to climb the baseball ladder, former Orioles minor league first baseman Mike Flacco has traded in his glove and bat for a pair of football cleats and a helmet.
The younger brother of Ravens quarterback and Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Joe Flacco, Mike Flacco is now set to play tight end for the University of New Haven. After being traded to the Boston Red Sox this spring, the 26-year-old opted to end his baseball career and is now on the voluntarily retired list.
While Mike Flacco hasn't played football since high school in Audubon, N.J., the 6-foot-6, 250-pounder impressed New Haven coach Pete Rossomando during a recent workout.
"He's a very smooth athlete who caught the ball very, very well," Rossomando said during a telephone interview with The Baltimore Sun. "He hasn't played football in a long time. He's very raw, but has great athletic ability. He seems to have a good head on his shoulders. I really enjoyed talking to him.
"He comes from a great family. The parents really set the precedent there. We'll see what happens, but I'm really excited to get him out here working with our coaches. He's a great kid."
A 2009 Orioles 31st-round draft selection out of the Community College of Baltimore County-Catonsville, Mike Flacco was traded to the Red Sox for cash considerations on March 15.
He finished his minor league baseball career last season, primarily playing at Single-A Frederick (four games for Double-A Bowie), hitting .214 with eight home runs, 15 doubles, one triple, seven stolen bases, 31 walks and 62 strikeouts.
In 2011, Mike Flacco was the starting first baseman for Frederick as the Keys won the Carolina League championship when he batted .250 with five home runs and 22 RBIs in 50 games.
Now, Mike Flacco becomes the third brother to play college football. John Flacco is a reserve receiver after walking on at Stanford.
"We just want the kid to be successful and don't want to put too much pressure on him," Rossomando said. "He's not going to step in and be Joe Flacco. He's Mike, not Joe. I just want him to do the things he does well and not worry about having to live up to expectations. He gave it a good run with baseball, and now he's giving football a shot."
The Chargers compete at the Division II level, finishing 10-1 last season.
Mike Flacco will be a sophomore in the classroom and in terms of eligibility. He has been training at TEST Football Academy in Martinsville, N.J., and has NFL ambitions.
"He hasn't blocked anybody, so it will be interesting to see how he develops as a blocker," Rossomando said. "He's got to play for the University of New Haven or he won't play for the NFL. He's got some work to do, but he's a great guy who's willing to put in the work. He's a very humble guy, similar to Joe in that respect.
"He's a very low-key, humble guy who's going to work hard and try to impress you. I like that about him. He's got an opportunity to compete here and he can be a good player. With his ability, he can be knocking on the door rather quickly."


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The cruise ship Costa Concordia lays on its side off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012.
AP reports from The Hague, Netherlands: The ship's owner and insurer have yet to decide which salvage company will be awarded the multimillion-dollar contract to remove the massive cruise ship, but experts are already speculating how the daunting task will be tackled.
"The scale of this vessel is unprecedented," former Smit executive Hans van Rooij told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "It's 290 meters (950 feet) long and 35 meters (115 feet) wide, so it's enormous."
Authorities must decide what to do with the stricken 115,000 ton cruise ship. NBC's Mark Potter reports.


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Cystic Fibrosis
Could a Sweat Test be Wrong?
My son has had respiratory problems since he was six months old and admitted to hospital several times. He also suffers with greasy bowel movements, bloated tummy and upset tummy on a regular basis and poor growth. He had the sweat test when he was 2-years-old which came back negative. He has also been tested for celiac disease twice which also came back negative. He has recently been diagnosed with nasal polyps and the doctors have referred him to be tested again. Should I be worried that the first sweat test was wrong?
Unfortunately, there is no test that can't be wrong. Particularly, as I am sure you have noticed, your youngster has some features that are commonly seen in CF. It is most appropriate that the test get repeated to be sure he is not missing out on treatments that might help him stay healthy, grow well and minimize the impact of infection.
It is important to be sure that a sweat test is done according to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation guidelines, in an accredited center with enough experience at doing the test to optimize the accuracy. You want an answer to this angst producing test and you want it to be the correct answer.
Since I cannot know where you are located, you should check with the CF Foundation nationally, www. cff.org to find out whether your center is such a center. I wish you the best of luck in your search.
Karen S McCoy, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Professor at the School of Allied Medical Professionals
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University


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Scatophagus argus
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Scatophagus argus (Linnaeus, 1766)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
Chaetodon argus Linnaeus, 1766
Chaetodon atromaculatus Bennett, 1830
Chaetodon pairatalis Hamilton, 1822
Ephippus argus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Scatophagus aetatevarians De Vis, 1884
Scatophagus argus argus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Scatophagus argus ocellata Klunzinger, 1880
Scatophagus bougainvillii Cuvier, 1831
Scatophagus maculatus Gronow, 1854
Scatophagus ornatus Cuvier, 1831
Scatophagus purpurascens Cuvier, 1831
Scatophagus quadranus De Vis, 1884
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Collen, B., Richman, N., Beresford, A., Chenery, A. & Ram, M. (Sampled Red List Index Coordinating Team)
|Carpenter, K.E., Livingstone, S. & Polidoro, B.
|De Silva, R., Milligan, H., Lutz, M., Batchelor, A., Jopling, B., Kemp, K., Lewis, S., Lintott, P., Sears, J., Wilson, P., Smith, J. & Livingston, F.
Scatophagus argus has been assessed as Least Concern. This species has a very large distribution, extending from the Persian Gulf to the east coast of Australia. Although harvested for food, medicine, and the aquarium trade, it is of little commercial importance. This species is also able to utilise a number of habitat types that undergo large scale environmental fluctuations, indicating resilience and adaptability.
|Range Description:
|Scatophagus argus is distributed from the Persian Gulf, past India, and into the western Pacific. Its distribution extends from Japan in the north, to New South Wales, New Caledonia, and Fiji in the south (Randall 2005). The FAO (2001) states that the distribution of this species also extends further east in the Pacific, to French Polynesia. Scatophagus argus has also been recorded from Micronesia.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Australia; Bangladesh; Cambodia; China; Fiji; French Polynesia; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Japan; Kuwait; Malaysia; Micronesia, Federated States of ; Myanmar; New Caledonia; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Samoa; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; Tonga; Vanuatu; Viet Nam; Yemen
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – southwest; Pacific – western central
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|There is no population information available for Scatophagus argus.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|The scat, Scatophagus argus, is usually found in estuaries, harbours, mangrove sloughs, and the lower reaches of fresh water streams, especially those with high mineral concentrations. Tiny juveniles float in the surface film (Kuiter and Debelius 2001). This species feeds on benthic algae, plant matter, and small benthic invertebrates. It is a schooling species. Individuals typically grow to 20–30 cm. Filipino fishers believe the dorsal, anal, and pelvis spines are venomous and capable of inflicting painful wounds.
|Freshwater; Marine
|Congregatory (and dispersive)
|Use and Trade:
|Scatophagus argus is harvested as a food source using traps and nets. However, it is not thought to be of commercial importance due to its small size. It is also used in Chinese medicine and for the aquarium trade.
|Major Threat(s):
Scatophagus argus is harvested as a food source using traps and nets. However, due to its small size, it is not thought to be of commercial importance. It is also used in Chinese medicine and for the aquarium trade. However, due to the low commercial value of this species and its venomous spines, harvesting is not considered a major threat at present.
This species occurs in some estuarine environments that are subject to high levels of contaminants from shipping (oil and fuel leaks, ballast water, anti-fouling paints), coastal development, and pollution from upstream. However, these are localised threats, and not known throughout its entire range.
|Conservation Actions:
|There are no species-specific conservation measures in place for Scatophagus argus. However, it may occur in a number of marine protected areas. Further research on the harvest levels and extent of harvest of this species is needed.
|Collen, B., Richman, N., Beresford, A., Chenery, A. & Ram, M. (Sampled Red List Index Coordinating Team). 2010. Scatophagus argus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T155268A4761779. . Downloaded on 16 October 2018.
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AP Israeli warplanes attacked a "terror site" south of Beirut, the Lebanese capital Friday, Israeli officials said. The attack was sparked after militants fired four rockets into northern Israel Thursday. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces said the rocket attack was a "blatant breach in Israeli sovereignty that jeopardized Israeli civilian life." The IDF also said it blamed the Lebanese government for the attack. But a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command said he was "shocked" that the site in Beirut was attacked since a Sunni group linked to al-Qaida had said it fired the rockets at Israel . The Abdullah Azzam Brigades, an al-Qaida inspired group based in Lebanon, claimed responsibility for the rocket attack in a post on Twitter. Get More at NBCNews
AP Typhoon Utor slammed into the Philippines Monday causing landslides and floods, in addition to cutting power and communications and leaving nine fishermen missing, weather and disaster officials said. The typhoon was the year's most powerful, packing winds of 87 mph near its center and gusts up to 105 mph. The storm weakened slightly after hitting the country's north and is moving west-northwest at 12 mph, officials said. Utor is the 12th tropical cyclone this year and is expected to pass through the country's northern provinces before exiting towards the South China Sea by Tuesday, weather and disaster officials said. Get More at NBCNews
AP Toyota voluntarily recalled 342,000 compact Tacoma pickup trucks from between 2004 and 2011 due to faulty seat belts, NBC News reported. The recall was the latest in a series from the Japanese automaker highlighting problems with the Tacoma's airbags to excessive corrosion, as well as a potential fire hazard. Toyota ordered a similar recall earlier this year of 310,000 of its FJ Cruiser sport-utility vehicles. Get More at NBCNews
AP Egypt's call to disband protests by the Muslim Brotherhood movement "will trigger chaos," the Islamist extremist group Jamaa al Islamiya warned Thursday. The country's interim rules have pledged to take all "necessary measures" to deal with sit-ins, claiming they pose a threat to the country's national security. The Egyptian military installed the interim government after it overthrew elected President Mohammed Morsi on July 3. The Muslim Brotherhood protests have been continuing since then. Plenty of bloodshed has accompanied the protests, as protesters have clashed with security services. At least 100 people were killed on Saturday alone. The extremist group is known for the 1997 Luxor tourist massacre, but has since renounced violence. Get More at NBCNews
A recent public spat between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul may be a preview of the contentious battle for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, NBC News reported. The men have traded personal insults and harsh words in the media, which began last week when Christie – regarded as a top contender for the 2016 GOP nomination – criticized Paul's brand of Republican libertarianism a "very dangerous" trend for the party. Rand retorted taking jabs at Christie's requests for Superstorm Sandy relief aid for his constituents. The public dispute continued until Paul offered an olive branch of sorts and asked Christie to come to Washington, D.C. for a "beer summit" to mend things. Get More at NBCNews
North Korea is demanding the release of its cargo ship carrying missile equipment and a couple of Cold War-era fighter jets, which were seized by Panama. The cargo loaded in Cuba was found hidden under sacks of brown sugar. North Korea's foreign ministry called Panama's search under the pretext it was carrying drugs "fiction" and said the cargo shipment was a legitimate business deal. The cargo was apparently being sent to North Korea for repair and then planned for a return to Cuba "according to a legitimate contract," a spokesman for the KCNA news agency said. The U.S. has said the shipment of arms or related material would violate at least three U.N. resolutions and insisted the organization investigate. Get More at NBCNews.com
Nelson Mandela spent his 95th birthday and "Mandela Day" in a South African hospital as his condition was "steadily improving," the South African government announced Thursday. One of Mandela's daughters said that he had made "dramatic progress" and that she expected him to be released from the hospital "anytime soon." Mandela's birthday, July 18, was proclaimed "Nelson Mandela International Day" by the United Nations in 2009 – an idea inspired by Mandela himself in a speech he gave in London on his 90th birthday. The current South African president, Jacob Zuma, wished Mandela a "joyous 95th birthday" in a statement. The Mandela family plans to gather by his hospital bedside for a traditional birthday lunch, while South Africa and scores of his admirers around the world plan a day of non-stop events, big and small. Get More at NBCNews.com
AP Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced to five years in prison Thursday. Navalny, 37, an anti-corruption blogger and Moscow mayoral candidate is the most prominent leader to be tried in Russia since Soviet times. Navalny was found guilty of heading a group that embezzled $480,000 from a state-owned timber company in 2009. At the time, Navalny had been an unpaid advisor to a provincial governor in Kirov when he started an anti-corruption blog that gained a mass following and propelled him into the limelight. Navalny penned the phrase, referring to Vladimir Putin's United Russia party as "the party of crooks and thieves" and was a leader during the country's demonstrations in response to the parliamentary election results in late 2011. Get More at NBCNews.com
AP The capture of a Mexican drug cartel leader Monday may lead to a surge of violence in Mexico. The Los Zetas leader, Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, 40, and two companions were traveling when Mexican Marines began to pursue them, the Mexican government said. The Zetas leader and his companions were flown to Mexico City, where they will be ultimately tried. Trevino Morales is being charged with ordering the kidnapping and killing of 265 migrants, along with several other murder charges, torture and other crimes. Trevino Morales' capture was seen as a major victory for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who promised to reduce violence in Mexico when he came into office in December 2012. But the kingpin's capture may to lead to more violence as rivals move to capture his area of influence and others vie for the cartel's top position. Get More at NBC News
At least 20 children in India died Tuesday and several more were taken to hospitals with apparent food poisoning after eating free school lunches provided at their school. Police said the children ranging from ages 8 to 11 in the Indian state of Bihar fell ill after eating a lunch of rice, soybean and legumes. The exact causes of the deaths won't be known until autopsies are done. Dozens of local residents took to the streets, throwing stones at a police station and setting buses and other vehicles on fire, according to television footage. A chief minister in the Indian state has ordered an inquiry and offered 200,000 rupees to the families of those who have died. Get More at NBCNews.com
AP Accused Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger could come face-to-face with former partner Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, when he testifies in Bulger's racketeering and murder trial Tuesday. Flemmi, 78, was the No. 2 man in the Winter Hill Gang, but stayed in Boston to face federal charges in 1994, while Bulger went on the lam for 16 years. Flemmi pleaded guilty to 10 murders in 2003. Tensions have flared during Bulger's trial, as former colleagues have testified against him, inciting Bulger to lose his cool. Bulger is accused of taking part in 19 murders and a range of other crimes, but has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. Get More at NBC News
AP Russian President Vladimir Putin wants National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, who has spent weeks holed up at a Moscow airport, to leave Russia, he said Monday. But the president also signaled that the former U.S. spy agency contractor was closer to meeting Russia's asylum conditions. Snowden has been at the airport since June 23, when he left Hong Kong, in the hopes of traveling to a country that would offer him asylum. Putin said that the U.S had effectively trapped Snowden by preventing him from reaching other counties that would offer him shelter. But he also said that Russia would only offer Snowden asylum if stops actions that could be harmful to the U.S., where Snowden is wanted on espionage charges. He told human rights groups last Friday that he wanted temporary asylum until he could travel to Latin America, where three countries have offered him shelter. Get More at NBCNews.com
AP Egypt's new interim government was being sworn in Tuesday, on the heels of violent clashes overnight around the country following former President Mohammed Morsi's ouster this month, the Associated Press reported. Interim President Adly Mansour was swearing in the new cabinet, headed by new Interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi and composed largely of liberals and technocrats — the sort of composition for which the opposition had been hoping, Al Jazeera reported. Five of the ministerial posts were being filled by women, and many of the ministers had held their same posts under Morsi. Meanwhile Tuesday, a U.S. envoy visited Cairo and met with interim leaders, though he was snubbed by Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and the group that toppled Morsi. Overnight, seven people had been killed and hundreds injured in some of the fiercest street battles with security forces yet since Morsi's ouster. Get More at NBCNews.com
AP One of the six anonymous women who served on the jury in George Zimmerman's trial spoke out Monday night for the first time, telling CNN's Anderson Cooper she felt Zimmerman meant well but was overzealous the night he fatally shot Trayvon Martin following a confrontation. Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter Saturday, and on Monday, Juror B37 said she had "no doubt" that Zimmerman feared for his life and was acting in self-defense when he shot the 17-year-old. She said she believes the neighborhood watch volunteer was well intentioned but became overzealous because of a string of break-ins in his Sanford, Fla. neighborhood. Juror B37 — who signed with a literary agent Monday and plans to write a book — told CNN that only three of six jurors thought Zimmerman should be acquitted when deliberations began; two believed he was guilty of manslaughter, while one felt he was guilty of second-degree murder, she said. Get More at NBCNews.com


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The Rev. Jimmy Rowe, the academic/community coordinator and co-founder of the NU applied urban ministry program, announces the start of the spring 2013 cohort of classes of the successful applied urban ministry professional development certificate program.
The spring 2013 cohort of classes will start with a mandatory orientation on Feb. 19, 2013; with the academic classes starting on Feb. 26 at 6 p.m.
The professional development certificate applied urban ministry program at Niagara University was designed by faith communities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls and is designed and conceptualized as a "mini-seminary." The goal of the applied urban ministry program is to develop a set of applied skills to make pastors and lay-Christian leaders more effective in efforts to animate and lead their congregations and communities. Instructors are selected from different denominations and areas of expertise in order to bring a comprehensive view to church leadership, faith and the people who support their churches.
Students must complete 11 courses in order to complete the final requirements to graduate. The program consists of four core courses, three courses from either clergy or lay tract, and four elective courses.
Organizes said the glory of God's blessing to the participants of this faith journey is that the applied urban ministry program is tuition free. There is a non-refundable application processing fee of $35. Returning students who wish to take any of the new applied courses can do so for a modest re-enrollment fee of $5.
For more information regarding how to enroll into the applied urban ministry certificate program, contact Niagara University's Office of Continuing Education at 716-286-8181 or online at http://www.niagara.edu/ce.


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After a flurry of rumors surrounding Beyonce's womb, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that the "Baby Boi" singer is expecting a second child.
Beyonce spoke earlier this month about expanding her family so that baby Blue Ivy could be a big sister and have company.
After she was forced to cancel a show in Antwerp the rumors intensified, despite doctors pointing to "dehydration and exhaustion." Her dress at the Met Gala camouflaged her stomach well enough to quiet some rumors and spark some more.
Jay-Z and Beyonce have been tight-lipped about the pregnancy, but multiple sources have confirmed to E! that the new baby is already on the way.


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Corn futures tumbled the most in five weeks, leading declines in wheat and soybeans, after the U.S. said inventories will be bigger than analysts' forecast as global production rebounds from a drought last year.
Record domestic corn output of 14.005 billion bushels this year will more than double inventories before the harvest in 2014, and soybean production will be 3.39 billion bushels, the most ever, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in a report. While drought damage late last year will reduce the 2013 U.S. wheat harvest, global output will rise 6.1%.
Corn, soybean and wheat futures that surged as the drought cut output in 2012 have tumbled into bear markets this year, easing global food prices that are down 9.5% from a record in February 2011. Even after wet, cool weather in April and May delayed planting, the USDA said it expects a 30% jump in 2013 corn production in the U.S., the world's largest grower and exporter, and a 12% increased for soybeans.
"The market is reacting to the larger supply forecast than people expected," Dale Durchholz, the senior market analyst for AgriVisor LLC in Bloomington, Illinois, said in a telephone interview. "This report signals there is no shortage developing, and takes away much of the speculator incentive to be bullish."
Corn futures for delivery in December, after the harvest, fell 2.4% to $5.3775 a bushel at 1:14 p.m. on the Chicago Board of Trade, heading for the biggest drop for a most-active contract since May 6. Prices through yesterday tumbled 35% from a record $8.49 in August.
Bigger Inventory
U.S. corn inventories before the 2014 harvest will total 1.949 billion bushels, up from 769 million this year, the lowest since 1996, the USDA said. The average estimate of 30 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg was 1.829 billion. The government said production in 2013 will be higher than the average estimate of 13.82 billion, based on a separate Bloomberg survey of 28 analysts. Farmers collected 10.78 billion in 2012.
World corn inventories on Oct. 1, 2014, will total 151.83 million metric tons, up from 124.31 million this year, the USDA said. Analysts expected 151.21 million tons, the average of 16 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey.
U.S. wheat stockpiles on June 1, 2014, were forecast by the USDA at 659 million bushels, more than the 655 million expected by analysts and down from 670 million projected in May. Production in Kansas, the biggest U.S. producer, was pegged at 307.8 million bushels, up 2.7% from a May forecast, as precipitation in May boosted prospects for late-blooming plants.
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The 27-year-old bagged a double in the victory on Monday, in a result that helps Sevilla's chances of playing in the Europa League next season
The hosts went ahead in the fourth minute when Negredo rose highest to nod home Ivan Rakitic's free-kick.
Despite the early goal, both sides settled, and it was not until the 55th minute that Carlos Gurpegi added parity to the scoreline when his flicked-header from Ibai Gomez's free-kick deceieved Beto in the Sevilla goal.
The visitors were handed fresh impetus in their pursuit of a winner when Fernando Navarro was shown a second yellow card for a foul on Aritz Aduriz.
Bilbao failed to capitalise on their numerical advantage however and it was soon 10 against 10 when Aymeric Laporte got himself booked twice in three minutes and followed Navarro down the tunnel.
Despite little time remaining on the clock, a late twist saw Negredo strike to claim all three points for Sevilla, tapping home from close range after Jose Antonio Reyes fired across the face of goal.
Unai Emery's men now move to within six points of seventh-placed Real Betis, who occupy the third and final Europa League place.
However, Sevilla have the opportunity to bridge that gap to just four points when they take on Pepe Mel's side at the Benito Villamarin this Friday.


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Directory Listing
Let unieject be the default virtual/eject provider.
Updated packages list, make use of pmake as make command.
Added virtual/glut.
Having binutils in the system profile might be a useful thing
and openssh
add freebsd-contrib to system, perhaps
we kinda need zlib, you know
Make virtual/ghostscript point to ghostscript-gnu and mask app-text/ghostscript as it doesn't work on freebsd.
Removed old profile.
Add virtual/mta default virtual.
Add gettext and libiconv to profile as per bug #84683.
Added packages.build file (quite of)
Updated virtuals with virtual/dhcpc. Added new system packages: file, virtual/dhcpc, tnftp (replacement for lukemftp), bsdtar and tchsh.
Added othe useflags to use.mask.
Add bsdmake alias for freebsd packages.
CHOST for new Gentoo/FreeBSD is *-gentoo-freebsdX.Y.
Masked metamail for fbsd.
Added n32/n64 o use.mask.
Added virtual/eject with sys-apps/eject-bsd.
set FETCHCOMMAND to fetch
Default editor set to vim as nvi has some strange sys-libs/db dependencies.
app-admin/fam won't work, just rely on gamin. Updated virtual/fam definition. Note that it needs a patched Gentopia's gamin as per bug #92573.
use-masked termcap-compat for new vim.
Mask libcap as it's linux-specific.
Added two more useflag to use.maks.
Created x86 profile before release. Useflags are masked/unmasked accordlying.
Masked eject.
Masked strace as it doesn't work on fbsd.
Fixed aliases for *make stuff.
Added MAKE default for latest portage which works fine now (should at least)
Added ghostscript to virtuals.
Added utempter to general masking as it's unusable on non-Linux systems.
Added virtual/utempter.
Removed use.masking of opengl and xv waiting for binutils which works. Masked sys-libs/pam to fix all the packages which needs to change depend and pamd file.
Moved virtual/cron from common to different profile versions as in 5.4 it's no more provided by freebsd-usbin.
Removed bc from profile.
Readded ELIBC to USE_EXPAND whcih i forgot
Rename LIBC variable into ELIBC.
Merged common virtuals and fixed virtual/fam.
use.masked opengl and xv until we find how to link with glu.
Moved in default-bsd/fbsd some vars from 5.3/make.defaults to share them with 5.4.
Added USERLAND, KERNEL, LIBC variables and updated USE_EXPAND
Added mask for openssh which uses pam_stack instead of include syntax. Added pam stuff in system.
Added mask for older mailbase packages which uses pam_stack. Doesn't force gcc4 as 3.4 builds using gcc4 compiler.
Removed special make ebuild from profile as we are going to use the portage one.
Removed gtar alias, using bsdish tar for now.
Added *very* experimental 5.4 profile which uses portage packages instead of builtin them.
added fam
autotools in system
unmask m4 and add to system
fixed broken atom
Added ncurses to profile
bug 89181
added virtual/mta, which for some reason wasn't there.
Merged patches made by Diego Petteno (iFlame). Thus, closing bug #84898
removed emake=make alias
mask sys-apps/texinfo since it's causing ugliness
fixed p.mask invalid atom
Removed old profile
Added new ebuild for freebsd-headers based on sources from 01/03/2005
Changed gawk dep to point to latest overlay ebuild
Added more provided packages to package.provided and added gawk to profile.bashrc
Added groff and grep to package provided
lock gawk to 3.1.4
system needs binutils
sandbox doesn't work
Various changes: - added ebuild for freebsd-shared - added -crypto and -shared in profile - updated digests
Added baselayout to system profile
Removed texinfo from the profile. Texinfo breaks -contrib
Bumped portage version; updated baselayout ebuild
updating profile a bit
Bumped patched portage to -r8
changed default ACCEPT_KEYWORDS
5.3 uses gcc3.4 => change -mcpu to -mtune in default CFLAGS
Corrected virtuals
Updated profile with some changes removing 5.2.1 ebuilds from system
New profile based on FreeBSD 5.3
added various non-freebsd packages that we need
Added 5.3 profile
Updated 'packages' to fit the new freebsd-mk-defs ebuild
Unset USERLAND and updated freebsd-sbin in packages to version 5.2.1-r1
Profile must use at least freebsd-usbin-5.2.1-r1
Updated profile with some newer packages. Also modified patch entry
Added gcc to package.provided and added a mask to to readline-4.3* to packages
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Connect and Engage: Making History
by Jing FongJan 16, 2009
- To teach happiness, be happy. Teachers, in particular, need support to be passionate and content in a challenging profession. The Center for Courage and Renewal's "Courage to Teach" supports this belief with essays, articles, and a retreat program.
Visual Learning: NYC Pillow Fight
by Jing FongDec 29, 2008
- Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. With this YES! lesson plan, you and your students can luxuriate—and pause—to truly understand an image, its message, and why it's interesting (or not).
Three Cups of Tea
Dec 17, 2008
- In Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson, and journalist David Oliver Relin, take you on a journey that begins with a climber's failed attempt to scale Pakistan's K2 and follows with his repaying a poor Pakistani village that nursed him back to health by building them a school.
Happy Teachers :: Reader Comments
Dec 17, 2008
- The Winter 2009 issue of YES! investigates how to be happy … sustainably. We asked you about happiness in the classroom and beyond. Here is what your colleagues say.
Finding Happiness Beyond the Classroom
by Chris GoodmanDec 17, 2008
- At 19, Chris Goodman has worked in the field of education for six years, beginning as a math tutor. Today, he helps inspire students in Baltimore to fight for their rights.
Connect and Engage: Happiness
by Jing FongDec 17, 2008
- These two top-notch resources offer opportunities for you and your students to truly understand the benefits of giving, and the strengths and virtues that make people and communities thrive.
Happiness in the Classroom and Beyond
by Jing FongDec 17, 2008
- Classroom resources from the Sustainable Happiness issue of YES! Magazine.
Connect and Engage: Addressing Fear
by Jing FongOct 27, 2008
- Here are lesson plans and how-to resources forcoming to terms with false assumptions about immigrants, the current economic crisis, and walls that separate important relationships. Simply put, it's about addressing fear with clarity and calmness.
The Story of Stuff: The Bigger Picture
by Jing FongFeb 04, 2008
- Take a look at our YES! articles to support teaching with The Story of Stuff. Use these stories to get your students thinking and talking about the golden arrow of consumption, our identity as consumers, the purpose of an economy, what makes us happy, globalization, and what a just and sustainable world could look like.
Connect and Engage :: Consumption
by Jing FongJan 30, 2008
- Resources to accompany the January/February 2008 Education Connection newsletter on The Story of Stuff and Consumption: Facing the Future, The Center for Ecoliteracy, UNESCO, and Redefining Progress.
A Life Lived Whole
by Parker PalmerNov 08, 2004
- What happens when people refuse to live a lie?
Questions for Students: Going Forward Full Circle
by YES! for Youth Education ProgramAug 23, 2004
Questions for Reflection: Reclaiming America
by YES! for Youth Education ProgramAug 23, 2004
Young People And Their Watershed
by Diane GalushaDec 31, 2003
- Catskill Watershed Corporation funds a student project to prevent erosion and preserve water quality
When Youth Lead
by Elise Miller, Jon SharpeMar 31, 2003
- Teens in a conservative agricultural town discover dangers that others had tried to ignore
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Dress rehearsal?
Or main event?
Two nights before the Ducks and Kings play the first outdoor game in California in NHL history, they met indoors Thursday night at the Honda Center. By game's end, it was hard to imagine it could get much better Saturday at Dodger Stadium.
The teams traded eye-catching goals, heavy checks and dashes up and down the ice before the Ducks took a 2-1 victory in front of a standing-room-only crowd of 17,503. It was only the second meeting between the teams this season and everyone got their money's worth.
The entire hockey world will be watching, including an expected sellout of 54,000, when the NHL stages the first warm-weather outdoor game on Saturday at the iconic ballpark. The rink is in place, the ice is ready, and all that's needed is the arrival of the teams on Saturday.
They will each practice on the rink today, testing the handiwork of NHL ice-making guru Dan Craig and the other elements. If the Ducks and Kings were looking past Thursday's more traditional matchup, it was impossible to tell.
The Ducks scored three times in the second period to take a 2-1 lead over the Kings.
Yeah, well, apparently so was referee Eric Furlatt, who ruled that rugged Ducks forward Tim Jackman ran into Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick as a shot from the perimeter settled into the back of the net for the tying goal midway through the second period.
Only trouble was, as TV replays clearly showed, the slight contact occurred after the puck was in the net and had no bearing on Quick's ability to play the shot. Ducks fans howled in protest while Kings fans could take some comfort in a dubious call going their way.
Last week's baffling no-call in Detroit isn't easy to forget. The Kings were trying to protect a 2-1 lead when the Red Wings' Niklas Kronwall fired a shot that was deflected high into the protective netting behind the goal and out of play. The puck dropped into the goal off Quick's back.
The goal shouldn't have counted, the game shouldn't have gone to overtime and, in the minds of the Kings, the Red Wings shouldn't have been able to record a 3-2 victory after a shootout. It was the first defeat in the three-game losing streak the Kings took to the Honda Center.
In most regards, the blown call served to ignite the Ducks' rally from a 1-0 deficit.
Dustin Penner scored the tying goal on a power play at 13:51, chipping a rebound into the net for his first goal against his former team. Penner's goal was his 12th in 41 games this season with the Ducks. He had only 11 goals in 117 games over two-plus seasons with the Kings.
Patrick Maroon, a fourth-line grinder who would fit it nicely with the Kings' physical style of player, then put the Ducks ahead 2-1 at 17:53 of the second period. Maroon beat Quick with a wraparound, swinging behind the net and stuff the puck home from the right goal post.
The Kings took a 1-0 lead on Anze Kopitar's first goal in 11 games, a rebound into an open net only 3:13 into the game. After a Ducks turnover, Trevor Lewis raced ahead of the flatfooted defense and delivered a shot that goalie Frederik Andersen handled.
Ducks defenseman Francois Beauchemin didn't get back quickly enough to prevent Kopitar from scoring for the first time since Dec. 31 against the Dallas Stars. The Kings outplayed the Ducks the rest of the first period and outshot them by 13-4.
Falling behind isn't the curse for the Ducks that it is for other NHL teams, however. The Ducks went into the game with a stunning 15-6-1 record when the opposition scores first. None of the league's other 29 teams is over .500 when trailing to start a game.


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posted by David Adams on Tue 20th Dec 2011 06:06 UTC
2011 will go down in the history books as a great year for tablets mostly for Apple's iPad however, not all tablet vendors fared as well as Apple. It's not for lack of products that prevented Android tablets from taking any market share away from Apple this year. By our calculation, over 100 tablets were introduced since the iPad however, we defy even the most tech-savvy of you to name more than a few of them. What was so wrong with the competition that it failed to make any inroads in the tablet market, at least until the Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble Nook came along?


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FRISCO, Texas (Tuesday, June 24) – FC Dallas has transferred 20-year-old goalkeeper Richard Sanchez to Tigres UANL of Liga MX. Per team and league policy terms of the deal will not be disclosed.
A product of the FC Dallas Academy, Sanchez signed a Homegrown contract with MLS in 2011 at age 17. A mainstay on Mexico's youth national teams, Sanchez has spent the majority of the last few seasons on national team duty, helping the Mexico U-17 National Team to a World Cup Championship in 2011 and representing the U-20 squad as a starter for all four matches at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2013.
In MLS Reserve League action, Sanchez went 2-1-1 with a 1.50 GAA for the 2012 FC Dallas Reserves. The following season, he joined Fort Lauderdale Strikers on loan, starting 14 matches for the NASL side and finished with a 5-6-3 record, 1.428 GAA and three shutouts.
So far in 2014, Sanchez logged 135 minutes of Reserve League action with one win, a clean sheet versus Montreal to start the season.
Full Name: Richard Sanchez
Date of Birth: April 5, 1994
Hometown: Little Elm, Texas
Birthplace: Mission Hills, Calif.
Height: 6-3
Weight: 197
Position: Goalkeeper
Country: Mexico
Transaction: FC Dallas transferred (GK) Richard Sanchez to Tigres UANL.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Season 5 of The CW's "The Vampire Diaries" ended with characters Damon and Bonnie (played by Ian Somerhalder and Kat Graham) being separated from their loved ones as they enter a mysterious, purgatory-like dimension.
The cast returned to Comic-Con on Saturday where they played a video of Somerhalder and Graham wondering about their fate off-screen, now that their characters are trapped in oblivion. Are they off the show? Will they get a spin-off?
Somerhalder, Graham along with Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Matt Davis and showrunner Julie Plec attended the panel to tease the new season premiering Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. EDT.
"The Vampire Diaries" is a about vampires, werewolves, doppelgangers, witches and a few humans living in and around the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. It's loosely based on a book-series.
A few panel spoilers:
—Season 6 picks up about four months after the events of the finale.
—Davis' character Alaric, back from the dead and a full-time cast member again, is now a college professor.
—Plec doesn't see Dobrev's Elena turning to her former flame Stefan Salvatore for anything other than friendship, now that she's separated from Damon. "Right now the love between Damon and Elena is so strong," she said.


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It's been a while since I've had to realize that just because something looks easy doesn't mean it really is. How many times I've watched from the sidelines as an attending and senior resident waded deep into the abdomen, hunting out a cancer or perforation and resecting it. For some reason, that particular endeavor, more than peripheral vascular surgery, or breast surgery, or bariatric surgery, has captured my interest. (The closer I get, I'm starting to question that interest, but that will take a while to sort out.) First I was impressed, then I started to think that it didn't look that difficult, and surely I could do it, too.
So it has been my picture of the glory of being a senior resident to participate in a major abdominal case. I got one, once, as a second-year, but I was pretty lost, and mostly just assisting the attending. She did let me do a few key parts, and that has pulled me back for more; but I had never really done such a big case.
Until last week. The chief was scrubbed in a Whipple, so I got the colectomy. Which was fair, as I had been rounding on the patient for the last week, as the attendings discussed back and forth whether or not to proceed with surgery. The indication was a little uncertain, and the patient was far from being a good operative candidate. Textbook, in fact, for who you should go to all lengths to avoid operating on. Finally, though, circumstances forced our hand, and we decided to go ahead.
It was a little bit of a rocky start when, while anesthesia was intubating the patient, and the attending and I were reviewing the CT scan, he asked me, "So how many of these have you done?" I'm a bad liar. I hesitated for a second. "A few." He raised an eyebrow. "Well, one actually – and a couple more, laparoscopically, on pigs." He started laughing. "Next you're going to tell me, none, but you dissected it in anatomy class first year of med school!"
I was kicking myself for once again being too truthful for my own good, (such a fine line between endangering the patient by claiming to know how to do something you don't, and destroying your chance of getting to practice by admitting to too much ignorance), but when we had all the drapes up, and the suction and bovie cords thrown off, the attending, hardly glancing in my direction, said, "Let's start" – and the scrub tech handed me the knife. First time any attending ever let me set out on my own private expedition, as it were, to get into the abdomen. No directions, no comments, as I started cutting down to the fascia; just a minimum amount of counter-traction.
It only got better from there. He discussed the next steps with me as though I had any idea or say in the matter, and then let me do virtually every bit of the work, for the next several hours. And it was work. I had thought holding a retractor for hours at a time was hard work. Not much, compared to trying to hold back six feet of intestines with three fingers, spread the mesentery with the other two, and cut with an accuracy of millimeters with the other hand. And at every step, the thought that if my hand shook, or I misinterpreted the nature of what I was looking at (harmless fat, vs. a significant vessel), I could kill the man who had put his life in my hands.
I was tired, and ready to be done a good while before the end; but of course the most significant parts – the anastomosis, and the fascial closure come at the end. The idea of doing a couple of these a day – and maybe more at night – as early as next month, and certainly for years afterwards, is a just a little bit staggering. (And I now have a lot better understanding of what the attendings and chiefs have been complaining about when they discuss the difficulty of operating on obese patients. Even in a person who's only moderately obese, the weight and depth involved in abdominal surgery, and the strength needed to work against it, is significant and exhausting, and the visualization is frustratingly poor.)
But everything comes with practice, right? And what triumph when I found the right plane, when the anastomosis went together, when the skin was closed, when the patient woke up (and was still alive a week later, proving that the textbooks don't have the final say).


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I hope my request for help doesn't violate the site rules, but I think I need the advice of a professional, and this seems to be the place to find them.
Our five year old A/C unit went out (nothing would come on) this past weekend and to make a long story short, the tech that came out claimed that after he blew the transformer he had just replaced, he realized the problem was actually a bad controller board, a Carrier HK42FZ013. This was this past Sunday. He was to return on Monday after he got a new board and and new transformer.
He arrived late yesterday and proceeded up to our attic. I was already a bit suspicious, but my instincts really started flairing when he was in our attic for almost two hours replacing it. Access to the controller board is fairly easy on our Carrier 58STA070, so I couldn't understand what the problem was. He finally got the unit operational, I paid him and then asked for the old board. He first told me he had already taken it out to his truck, and when I said I'd like to have it, he refused, saying he couldn't let me have it - company policy. We were still inside the house and I could see the box on top of his tool bag despite what he had said and, well, I took it and refused to give it back to him. I figured it was still my board, whether it was a dead one or a live one. Of course my suspicions deepened as he insisted I return it to him or he was going to go up to our attic and remove the "new" one. I was polite, but explained to him that that simply wasn't going to happen and invited him to call his boss or we could call the sheriff, but he wasn't leaving with my control board. I have the board.
My suspicion is that I now have in my possession a perfectly good control board. I even wonder if I am holding the brand new board that, after discovering it wasn't the problem, he continued to trouble shoot. That's the only reason I can figure why he was so adamant about leaving with it (and perhaps cover himself in the process).
Anyway, I am hoping somone here can offer me some guidance on what I can and should do at this point.