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GOSHEN — The Republicans' plan for redrawing Orange County's political map offers mixed prospects for the current Democratic lawmakers, hobbling some with heavily Republican districts while leaving others in safely Democratic turf or improving their districts' enrollment splits.
The long-awaiting proposals were released Wednesday, pushing the county's once-a-decade redistricting into high gear after months of planning behind the scenes. A legislative committee already has endorsed the maps, setting the stage for an expected public hearing on March 11 and a vote to approve them on March 14.
Shut out of the planning and confronting an unexpectedly tight schedule, Democrats voiced objections at a meeting of the Legislature's Rules, Enactments and Intergovernmental Relations Committee Tuesday.
"I would think you would have inoculated yourself against criticism by having a more, open transparent process," Democratic Leader Jeff Berkman told Legislator Chairman Michael Pillmeier, who drafted the maps with Republican Legislator Katie Bonelli.
"I think we're put in a position like, 'Take it or leave it,'" he said.
Democrats, outnumbered in the Legislature and unlikely to block a Republican redistricting plan, could take comfort that none of them had been paired off. But voter registration figures provided Wednesday by the Board of Elections show the new lines tilting enrollment against some Democrat legislators and preserving edges for most Republicans.
Matt Turnbull, a Hamptonburgh Democrat who unseated Republican appointee James Petro in a Republican-leaning district in 2011, would face a bigger enrollment disadvantage this fall in his proposed new district. Republican voters would outnumber Democrats by 9 percentage points in the redrawn to 11th District, compared to a 5-point spread now.
Turnbull said Wednesday that the proposed maps appeared politically motivated, but expressed optimism about his own re-election and welcomed the addition of parts of Blooming Grove to his district.
"I believe I'm going to win, because I'm on the right side of the issues," said Turnbull, who has helped lead the Democrats' fight to renovate the county Government Center rather than replace it, as County Executive Ed Diana wants.
Legislator Mike Anagnostakis, a Town of Newburgh Republican who has fought Diana's push to privatize the county nursing home, also appears to have paid a price in redistricting.
His district, which now has an even Republican-Democratic split, would be flattened into a strip stretching from the City of Newburgh to Walden, with a 6-point Democratic enrollment edge.
Like Turnbull, he brushed aside the political tinkering.
"I believe if you're on the right side of the issues, there's nothing that could happen to you," Anagnostakis said at Tuesday's meeting.
He did question the proposal to add a corner of the City of Newburgh to his district, suggesting that the partitioning of the city into three legislative district might raise civil-rights issues for its voters.
Bonelli said at Tuesday's meeting that many of the proposed district changes were dictated by geography and population figures.
She compared manipulating the map to working with a Rubic's Cube, with movements in one place compelling changes elsewhere,


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A while back, our fabulous members had a chance to tell us why they loved the MNjcc. The answers were inspiring, touching, and heart-felt. So I decided I wanted to hear from the staff. I wanted to know why they loved working at the MNjcc, and the reasons were again; so inspiring, touching and heart-felt that I wanted to share them with as many people as possible. So I turned it into a Facebook contest. Each day, one reason was posted on our facebook page. The reason with the most "likes" and comments won.
Now that all the reasons have been posted and a winner officially announced, I thought I would share them all with you, in a neatly compiled list.
There's 14 reasons in this particular list- as a reader, member, student, patron or guest, if you have a reason that you love our JCC that you would like to add, leave it in the comments! It makes me happy to come to work every day knowing that I'm surrounded by happy and grateful people!
Reason #1 (posted Thursday, April 7th): "I love my job because I get to see little children parade through the lobby and put smiles on everyone's faces"
Reason #2 (posted Friday, April 8th): "Because it's ours"
Reason #3 (posted Sunday, April 10th): "I love working here because when everything else in my life makes me miserable, coming to work with all these wonderful people makes me happy…. if only for the remainder of my shift"
Reason #4 (posted Monday, April 11th): "I love the baby parade! The teeny, tiny toddlers come downstairs from the daycare and waddle into the lobby and out into the playground. They are so adorable. They remind me that the JCC really is for all ages! "
Reason #5 (posted Monday, April 11th): "I love my job 'cause of all the awesome-fantastic people I get to work with!"
Reason #6 (posted Tuesday, April 12th): "I love working at the J because it's the friendliest environment I've ever worked in. I feel right at home with the staff, the members and volunteers. It's a great place to work and play (fitness) and be entertained."
Reason #7 (posted Tuesday, April 12th): "I love working at the J because everyone is family- without the dysfunction!"
Reason #8 (posted Wednesday, April 13th): "I love my job because everyone here works as a team. Everyone wants to help everyone else out and never makes anyone feel that they are a burden"
Reason #9 (posted Wednesday, April 13th): "I love working at the J because my colleagues are some of the warmest, friendliest individuals I've ever met!"
Reason #10 (posted Thursday, April 14th): "The reason why I love working at the JCC is the staff. The people I work with are the best the JCC has. The passion and dedication everyone puts in their work is noticeable. Adding to that, everyone has a hidden or not so hidden talent that makes this place very special!"
Reason #11 (posted Thursday, April 14th): "I love surprising people when I greet them by name out in the "real world"! I like to say "Hi, how are you doing!" to Members in local supermarkets, clothing stores, bike shops, you name it….after they recognize me in my civvies, they say "Hi" right back and can't believe that I remember them outside of the gym!"
Reason #12 (posted Friday, April 15th): "Right as I got to work this morning I heard a mother scream: 'No! No French kissing your sister!', and then got offered free kosher pastries by two different people. I love my job."
Reason #13 (posted Sunday, April 17th): "I love my job at the MNjcc because of the array of extraordinary people I work with. I collaborate with the most interesting, talented, patient and funny people I've ever met. I also love my job because I feel like I get to engage directly with my community."
Reason #14 (posted Monday, April 18th): "I heard somewhere that it takes a community to raise a child. That is just what I get working at the MNjcc. My daughter and I are surrounded by a wonderful, supportive and caring community family. And that's why I LOVE working here!"


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The cashier at Del Taco is required to maintain the work code and follow the company's policies. He/she is required to be a real team player and always aim to set high standards at work. The main responsibility of the cashier is to complete the sales transactions.
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He/she will also have to perform support staff functions, which include:
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- Receives payments from customers
- Receives payments and accurately counts them
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- Must have at least 1 year of working experience in a restaurant or in the hotel chain industry
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 16, 2013) – Lyn Yee Choo (Kuching, Malaysia) and Ana Gerbasi (Caracas, Venezuela) will compete in the USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships in Memphis, Tenn., this weekend. The duo will be one of just five ranked doubles teams participating in the tournament.
Choo and Gerbasi will enter the regional tournament riding the momentum gained in last weekend's ETSU Fall Invite, in which the duo dropped just four games en route to winning the No. 1 doubles title. The tandem also took home the doubles titles at the Elon Fall Invitational and the USC Upstate Fall Classic earlier this fall.
Earning the No. 51 ranking in the ITA Women's Preseason Doubles Rankings, the pair represents the highest ranked doubles team in ETSU Women's Tennis history.
Gerbasi and Choo teamed up to win 24 matches last season, including several wins over nationally-ranked teams. The duo went unbeaten during league play en route to leading ETSU to its fourth regular season conference title in the past five seasons.
Choo and Gerbasi are slated to open doubles play against Laurence Guevremont and Eve Repic of Tennessee Saturday, Oct. 19 at 8:00 a.m. with the winner playing again at 10:00 a.m.
In singles action, Gerbasi will take on Lipscomb's Deahna Welcher Saturday afternoon at 1:00 p.m., while Choo will face Alexa Flynn of Chattanooga at 2:00 p.m.
The University of Memphis, the host school for the event, will be tweeting out results via the school's twitter handle @UofMTennis, as well as maintaining a live blog which can be accessed at GoTigersGo.com once the tournament has begun.


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In the legendary heyday of City College in the 1930s and '40s, Rivera's could have been a classic story of upward mobility. Had she enjoyed similar opportunities, she might even have wound up with Irving Howe and Daniel Bell, "arguing the world" in the cafeteria alcoves. But Rivera's mother–who was injured at the Bronx factory that she worked at many years ago–is on public assistance. When Rivera turned 18, welfare caseworkers told her she would have to report for twenty to thirty hours a week to the city's Work Experience Program (WEP) if she wanted to keep collecting the benefits she and her mother depend on. "They offered me jobs working in the park, cleaning toilets, cleaning transportation." The long hours would have made it nearly impossible to continue at Hunter as a full-time student. At 18, Rivera was faced with a choice between quitting school for a dead-end job and losing her family's income.
For middle-class Americans, society offers myriad incentives for higher education: scholarships, interest-free loans and the "Hope" tax credits. But for women on welfare, it's a different story. In September the 1996 welfare reform law was up for Congressional reauthorization. The vote did not happen then, because of divergences between a bill in the Senate, written by moderate Republicans and Democrats, and the Bush Administration's vision of welfare reform, reflected in a House bill. The welfare law expired September 30, and no compromise bill or temporary legislation is yet ready to take its place.
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Harvard sophomore midfielder Sophie Legros of the Crimson women's soccer team has traveled to Kenya on a service trip with the Coaches Across Continents program. Legros will write blog experiences during her trip, beginning with the blog below about her arrival in Kisumu, Kenya.
Blog post No. 1 by Sophie Legros.
Although I arrived in Nairobi, Kenya three days ago, my trip to Africa actually started long before the day I took the British Airways flight from London to Jomo Kenyatta airport. Although one cannot survive Africa without understanding the meaning of the word "adaptability," preparation is key to having a safe and enjoyable stay in Africa. I took a course called Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World (by C. Elkins) that gave me a grasp on how colonialism changed "traditional" Africa, what impact colonial policies still have on African countries and what challenges the continent faces today. I learned more about the history of the Kenyan and Ugandan people and the struggles they have been through such as the Kikuyu being chased from their land and the repression of the Mau Mau or the Civil War and political unrest in Uganda that lasted many years after independence, partly due to the divisions existing between the Northern and Southern regions. I also educated myself on the important issues Coaches across Continents deals with – like HIV/aids or female empowerment- and the messages the organization wants to convey. Reading China Keteisti's Child Soldier: Fighting for my Life gave me some insight on what the former child soldiers in Pader District, Uganda have been trough. Learning about how empowering women can help developing communities (Half the Sky, by N. Kristof and S. Wuduun), made me understand the importance of Coaches across Continents' Female Empowerment initiative. The idea, called "The Girl Effect," is to create a virtuous circle where a girl or a woman gets an opportunity to participate in the society, allowing her to have an education, get married later, reinvest in her family, and create healthier and better communities. Allowing girls to play with boys and women to coach children is a way of empowering them, giving them responsibilities and changing mentalities.
Besides this, the practical part of the preparation consisted of vaccinations, buying half my suitcase worth of medicine, finding the cheapest flight (which most of the time involves three connections and a full day of travel), and getting information about how to get from the airport to the town where we will be working, how to acquire a visa etc. – something that is much more complicated than it seems when dealing with Africa.
So, after avoiding the ash cloud from the Iceland volcano and after having to change my flight from Brussels to London that was canceled because of British Airways' strike I finally made it to Nairobi. It was nighttime and already dark outside but I already recognized the frenzy that characterizes the drivers in Kenya. I was told that you must be aggressive when driving in Kenya, otherwise you would never arrive at your destination. Anna, the coach who picked me up at the airport, and I headed back to the airport early in the morning to catch our forty-five minute flight to Kisumu. The pilot warned us that the landing would be rough due to the conditions of the Kisumu's airport runway. The airport was made up of a small building and two uneven cement lanes. Upon our arrival, we had to wait for a few minutes before crossing the runway in order to let another plane take off. We then waited in the breathless heat for workers to bring our suitcases on a cart and lay them down on the ground for us to pick up. My belongings came after the cart's second trip to the plane and back. I am glad I am not the Dutch woman whose suitcase did not make the journey. A group of school children in uniform, who may have been in recess, or on a field trip, were intently watching the entire process. When we were waiting for the head of Kisumu Youth Football Association to pick us up, they went back to school while another group of older school children replaced them. We enjoyed a few minutes of rest at the Sooper Guesthouse before heading over to the first session with the local coaches.
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KALAMAZOO—A Western Michigan University alum's "deeply archived" documentary that tells the origin story of the revolutionary dance company the Joffrey Ballet, and covers the ballet's 56-year history to present day, will have its national PBS premiere Friday, Dec. 28, on the network's "American Masters" program (check local listings).
Bob Hercules' film, "Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance," chronicles the company's modest start with a handful of touring dancers to its rise as one of the world's preeminent ballet companies. Led by visionaries Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, the company helped transform the world of American dance. The company became known for ballet that was classical at its core but also influenced by modern movement and unorthodox artistic choices.
"They were very liberated because they weren't beholden to those older European and Russian traditions in dance," Hercules, a 1979 graduate of WMU, veteran filmmaker and co-owner of Chicago-based Media Process Group, told the WMU Magazine for a recent article about his documentary. To read the entire story online, visit wmich.edu/magazine and click the Winter 2012 issue.
About the documentary
Narrated by actor Mandy Patinkin, Hercules' film was first shown to a sold-out audience in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City earlier this year. The Village Voice characterized the documentary as "deeply archived," while Film Journal International heralded it as a "bountiful feast for dance lovers, as well as a thrilling story of artistic endeavor for everyone to savor."
The film includes interviews with Joffrey dancers talking about the art form, the ballet company's late founders, Joffrey and Arpino, and just what made the company so special. The film also discusses and features excerpts from some of the Joffrey's most famous works over time, including "Astarte," "Trinity" and "Billboards." The film's website, joffreymovie.com, previews the documentary and offers biographical sketches of dancers.
"It was a tremendous experience to make this film," Hercules says. "It's one of those things where you pinch yourself and say, 'Did that really happen?'"
In January and February, audiences at the University will be treated to performances of the Joffrey Ballet piece, "Viva Vivaldi," performed by WMU dance students under the direction of guest artist Willy Shives. Shives, a Joffrey ballet master, happens to be one of the many dancers featured in Hercules' documentary.
Performances of "Viva Vivaldi" are set for 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 31-Feb. 2, and 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 3, in the Shaw Theatre at the Gilmore Theatre Complex on WMU's main campus.
To learn more about WMU alumnus and filmmaker Bob Hercules, visit Media Process Group at mediaprocess.com.
For more information about "Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance," visit the documentary's website, joffreymovie.com, or the Facebook page associated with the flim.


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I should have gotten a picture of this but.....
There is a slightly aged farmer that will sit on the side of SR16 not to far from Green Cove Springs, Fl. this time of year with the back of his truck piled high with some of the best greens ( collards, turnips, mustards...... ) that he grows on his farm over by Lawtey.
Being lovers of collards we are regular customers........
Last week we stopped and bought a couple of big bunches on our way out to check the game cams. Needed 2 bunches ( He gives a lot for the money! ) because we had the sausage from the last hog a friend's son shot ready ( I really like people that share game! )and the boys at the market had asked for a special lunch.
When we got home Louann washed and chopped the collards and then put them in the pressure cooker along with a couple of pounds of the sausage. Ended up being over 3 cookers full of collards and sausage.
And yes it was good!
So, as I said there was over 3 cookers full, which meant that a little bit of the collards ended up uncooked in the frig. And truth be if I had know how little was left I'd of just carried it out to the pigs with the rest of the trimmings......anyway it was sitting in the frig.
Now this afternoon Louann is in the kitchen frying up some fish we caught yesterday, along with a some shrimp from earlier in the year, when for some crazy reason she pulls out those few uncooked collards we had left and starts tossing them into the fryer.
Now I know the fancy restaurants fry spinach, and I'll admit I like it.......but folks fried collards are even better!!
Next time you are slicing venison back-strap into the grease be sure and have some collards around, well worth the effort.
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It sounds pretty good, but collard greens are about $3 per "bunch" around here. ...and those "bunches" are not what you find down south. Around here, that bunch is about 8 leaves.
I think a regular batch of collard greens would cost about $60.
Don't even try it. It's even worse than the internet would lead you to believe.
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The opening of big movieplex cinemas in Zagreb has led to the dying out of old cinema theaters in the city center. The City of Zagreb, which is the owner of the old cinema Lika, decided to reuse the space for new cultural facilities. In that scenario old cinema Lika was given the role of a new dance center.
Fifty years of contemporary dance culture in Zagreb has produced about 40 dance troops, with this project all of them will have a new home in the city centre. The cinema is located in a derelict residential block only 100 meters away from the Zagreb's main square. The entire project's program is determined by the gross developed area defined in the master plan and it places the project in the old cinema shell. The new dance center which will house numerous dancers, choreographers, art troops and companies will have three multipurpose studios (one large studio with 150 telescopic seats and two smaller training studios), three spacious dressing rooms, bathrooms, storage for props and technology and office spaces.
The only new architectural element of the center is the new entrance lobby, a polyvalent space in the service of communication and meeting with a cafe, library and a video store. It was interpolated on the basis of almost default parameters of the existing neighbouring houses. The volume and its broken forms also suggest dance movement and they are a new sign and connection element between the courtyard and the roof terrace. The roof terrace is the final element of the center and an important part of the project of preservation and restoration of Zagreb's last open roof stage.
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Earlier, the official said that by using the alternative payment system foreign firms would be able to do business with sanctioned Russian companies. Turkey, China, India and others are among the countries that might be interested in a SWIFT alternative, as Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out in a speech earlier this month, the US's willingness to blithely sanction countries from Iran to Venezuela and beyond will eventually rebound on the US economy by undermining the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency. To be sure, the Russians aren't the only ones building a SWIFT alternative to help avoid US sanctions. Russia and China, along with the European Union are launching an interbank payments network known as the Special Purpose Vehicle to help companies pursue "legitimate business with Iran" in defiance of US sanctions. Given its status as a major energy exporter, Russia has leverage that could help attract partners to its new SWIFT alternative. For one, much of Europe is dependent on Russian natural gas and oil. And as Russian trade with other US rivals increases, Moscow's payments network will look increasingly attractive,particularly if buyers of Russian crude have no other alternatives to pay for their goods. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest US leaving INF will put nuclear non-proliferation at risk & may lead to 'complete chaos' The US is pulling out of a nuclear missile pact with Russia. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty requires both countries to eliminate their short and medium-range atomic missiles. Published 22 hours ago on October 21, 2018 By The Duran Via RT… If the US ditches the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), it could collapse the entire nuclear non-proliferation system, and bring nuclear war even closer, Russian officials warn. By ending the INF, Washington risks creating a domino effect which could endanger other landmark deals like the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and collapse the existing non-proliferation mechanism as we know it, senior lawmaker Konstantin Kosachev said on Sunday. The current iteration of the START treaty, which limits the deployment of all types of nuclear weapons, is due to expire in 2021. Kosachev, who chairs the Parliament's Upper House Foreign Affairs Committee, warned that such an outcome pits mankind against "complete chaos in terms of nuclear weapons." "Now the US Western allies face a choice: either embarking on the same path, possibly leading to new war, or siding with common sense, at least for the sake of their self-preservation instinct." His remarks came after US President Donald Trump announced his intentions to "terminate" the INF, citing alleged violations of the deal by Russia. 'Giant leap backward to the Cold War era'? https://t.co/FBj2ppFLVk — RT (@RT_com) October 21, 2018 Moscow has repeatedly denied undermining the treaty, pointing out that Trump has failed to produce any evidence of violations. Moreover, Russian officials insist that the deployment of US-made Mk 41 ground-based universal launching systems in Europe actually violates the agreement since the launchers are capable of firing mid-range cruise missiles. Leonid Slutsky, who leads the Foreign Affairs Committee in parliament's lower chamber, argued that Trump's words are akin to placing "a huge mine under the whole disarmament process on the planet." The INF Treaty was signed in 1987 by then-President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The deal effectively bans the parties from having and developing short- and mid-range missiles of all types. According to the provisions, the US was obliged to destroy Pershing I and II launcher systems and BGM-109G Gryphon ground-launched cruise missiles. Moscow, meanwhile, pledged to remove the SS-20 and several other types of missiles from its nuclear arsenal. Pershing missiles stationed in the US Army arsenal. © Hulton Archive / Getty Images © By scrapping the historic accord, Washington is trying to fulfill its "dream of a unipolar world," a source within the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "This decision fits into the US policy of ditching the international agreements which impose equal obligations on it and its partners, and render the 'exceptionalism' concept vulnerable." Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov denounced Trump's threats as "blackmail" and said that Washington wants to dismantle the INF because it views the deal as a "problem" on its course for "total domination" in the military sphere. The issue of nuclear arms treaties is too vital for national and global security to rush into hastily-made "emotional" decisions, the official explained. Russia is expecting to hear more on the US' plans from Trump's top security adviser, John Bolton, who is set to hold talks in Moscow tomorrow. President Trump has been open about unilaterally pulling the US out of various international agreements if he deems them to be damaging to national interests. Earlier this year, Washington withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program. All other signatories to the landmark agreement, including Russia, China, and the EU, decided to stick to the deal, while blasting Trump for leaving. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Converting Khashoggi into Cash After two weeks of denying any connection to Khashoggi's disappearance, Riyadh has admitted that he was killed by Saudi operatives but it wasn't really on purpose. Published 22 hours ago on October 21, 2018 By Jim Jatras Authored by James George Jatras via The Strategic Culture Foundation: The hazard of writing about the Saudis' absurd gyrations as they seek to avoid blame for the murder of the late, not notably great journalist and Muslim Brotherhood activist Jamal Khashoggi is that by the time a sentence is finished, the landscape may have changed again. As though right on cue, the narrative has just taken another sharp turn. After two weeks of denying any connection to Khashoggi's disappearance, Riyadh has 'fessed up (sorta) and admitted that he was killed by Saudi operatives but it wasn't really on purpose: Y'see, it was kinda'f an 'accident.' Oops… Y'see the guys were arguing, and … uh … a fistfight broke out. Yeah, that's it … a 'fistfight.' And before you know it poor Jamal had gone all to pieces. Y'see? Must've been a helluva fistfight. The figurative digital ink wasn't even dry on that whopper before American politicos in both parties were calling it out: "To say that I am skeptical of the new Saudi narrative about Mr. Khashoggi is an understatement," tweeted Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. "First we were told Mr. Khashoggi supposedly left the consulate and there was blanket denial of any Saudi involvement. Now, a fight breaks out and he's killed in the consulate, all without knowledge of Crown Prince. It's hard to find this latest 'explanation' as credible." California Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that the new Saudi explanation is "not credible." "If Khashoggi was fighting inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, he was fighting for his life with people sent to capture or kill him," Schiff said. "The kingdom and all involved in this brutal murder must be held accountable, and if the Trump administration will not take the lead, Congress must." Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan must think he's already died and gone to his eternal recreation in the amorous embraces of the dark-eyed houris. The acid test for the viability of Riyadh's newest transparent lie is whether the Turks actually have, as they claim, live recordings of Khashoggi's interrogation, torture, murder, and dismemberment (not necessarily in that order) – and if they do, when Erdogan decides it's the right time to release them. Erdogan has got the Saudis over a barrel and he'll squeeze everything he can out of them. From the beginning, the Khashoggi story wasn't really about the fate of one man. The Saudis have been getting away with bloody murder, literally, for years. They're daily slaughtering the civilian population of Yemen with American and British help, with barely a ho-hum from the sensitive consciences always ready to invoke the so-called "responsibility to protect" Muslims in Bosnia, Kosovo, Libya, Syria, Xinjiang, Rakhine, and so forth. Where's the responsibility not to help a crazed bunch of Wahhabist head-choppers kill people? But now, just one guy meets a grisly end and suddenly it's the most important homicide since the Lindbergh baby. What gives? Is it because Khashoggi was part of the MSM aristocracy, on account of his relationship with the Washington Post? Was it because of his other, darker, connections? As related by Moon of Alabama: "Khashoggi was a rather shady guy. A 'journalist' who was also an operator for Saudi and U.S. intelligence services. He was an early recruit of the Muslim Brotherhood." This relationship, writes MoA, touches on the interests of pretty much everyone in the region: "The Ottoman empire ruled over much of the Arab world. The neo-Ottoman wannabe-Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan would like to regain that historic position for Turkey. His main competition in this are the al-Sauds. They have much more money and are strategically aligned with Israel and the United States, while Turkey under Erdogan is more or less isolated. The religious-political element of the competition is represented on one side by the Muslim Brotherhood, 'democratic' Islamists to which Erdogan belongs, and the Wahhabi absolutists on the other side." With the noose tightening around Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS), the risible fistfight cock-and-bull story is likely to be the best they can come up with. US President Donald Trump's having offered his "rogue killers" opening suggests he's willing to play along. Nobody will really be fooled, but MbS will hope he can persuade important people to pretend they are fooled. That will mean spreading around a lot of cash. The new alchemy of converting Khashoggi dead into financial gain for the living is just one part of an obvious scheme to pull off what Libya's Muammar Kaddafi managed after the 1988 Lockerbie bombing: offer up some underlings as the fall guys and let the top man evade responsibility. (KARMA ALERT: That didn't do Kaddafi any good in the long run.) In the Saudi case the Lockerbie dodge will be harder, as there are already pictures of men at the Istanbul Consulate General identified as close associates of MbS. But they'll give it the old madrasa try anyway since it's all they've got.Firings and arrests have started and one suspect has already died in a suspicious automobile "accident." Heads will roll! Saving MbS's skin and his succession to the throne of his doddering father may depend on how many of the usual recipients of Saudi – let's be honest – bribery and influence peddling will find sufficient pecuniary reason to go along. Saudi Arabia's unofficial motto with respect to the US establishment might as well be: "The green poultice heals all wounds." Anyway, that's been their experience up to now, but it also in part reflects the same arrogance that made MbS think he could continue to get away with anything. (It's not shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue, but it's close.) Whether spreading cash around will continue to have the same salubrious effect it always has had in the past remains to be seen. To be sure, Trump may succeed in shaking the Saudi date palm for additional billions for arms sales. That won't necessarily turn around an image problem that may not have a remedy. But still, count on more cash going to high-price lobbying and image-control shops eager to make obscene money working for their obscene client. Some big American names are dropping are dropping Riyadh in a sudden fit of fastidiousness, but you can bet others will be eager to step into their Guccis, both in the US and in the United Kingdom. (It should never be forgotten how closely linked the US and UK establishments are in the Middle East, and to the Saudis in particular.) It still might not work though. No matter how much expensive PR lipstick the spinmeisters put on this pig, that won't make it kissable. It's still a pig. Others benefitting from hanging Khashoggi's death around MbS's neck are: Iran (the drive for regime change rests on twin Israeli and Saudi pillars, and the latter is shaky right now); Yemen (support is building for Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's bill to cut of support for the Saudi war effort against that unfortunate country); and Qatar (after last year's invasion scare, there's no doubt a bit of Schadenfreude and (figurative) champagne corks popping in Doha over MbS's discomfiture. As one source close to the ruling al-Thani family relates, "The Qataris are stunned speechless at Saudi incompetence!" You just can't get good help these days). Among the losers one must count Israel and especially Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. MbS, with his contrived image as the reformer, was the Sunni "beard" he needed to get the US to assemble an "Arab NATO" (as though one NATO weren't bad enough!) and eliminate Iran for him. It remains to be seen how far that agenda has been set back. Whether or not MbS survives or is removed – perhaps with extreme prejudice – there's no doubt Saudi Arabia is the big loser. Question are being asked that should have been asked years ago. As Srdja Trifkovic comments in Chronicles magazine: "The crown prince's recklessness in ordering the murder of Khashoggi has demonstrated that he is just a standard despot, a Mafia don with oil presiding over an extended cleptocracy of inbred parasites. The KSA will not be reformed because it is structurally not capable of reform. The regime in Riyadh which stops being a playground of great wealth, protected by a large investment in theocratic excess, would not be 'Saudi' any longer. Saudia delenda est." The first Saudi state, the Emirate of Diriyah, went belly up in 1818, with the death of head of the house of al-Saud, Abdullah bin Saud – actually, literally with his head hung on a gate in Constantinople by Erdogan's Ottoman predecessor, Sultan Mahmud II. 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Meaning of B0058 engine trouble code is a kind of body trouble code and theoretically you can drive for a few weeks or even months with a broken MAF sensor. You will notice a decrease in gas mileage and over time the car will eventually start stalling a lot. At a shop, the replacement cost is between $240-$400 depending on the car, but that's usually the cost of parts because the labor is relatively simple.
B0058 Fault Symptoms :
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B0058 Possible Solution:
The crankshaft sensor signals the fuel injection computer or the ignition control when the cylinders are firing. This causes the ignition coil to provide a spark and the injector to inject fuel into each cylinder at the right time.If either sensor isn't working correctly, the car will run rough and the engine will be less efficient. In later car models, the car's computer can usually keep the vehicle running, but the engine warning light on the dashboard goes on to warn the driver.
B0058 Code Meaning :
|OBD-II Diagnostic Body (B) Trouble Code For Engine
|Intake Valve Control Solenoid Circuit Low
|Ambient Air Temperature Sensor Circuit Low
|Cylinder 1 Injector Circuit Low
|Clutch Position Sensor Circuit Malfunction
The poor running symptoms are consistent with a MAP sensor malfunction. In addition, in some cases, a bad MAP sensor will not throw a code. Again, the ELD code likely represents a separate wiring issue.
B0058 OBD-II Diagnostic Body (B) Trouble Code DescriptionB0058 engine trouble code is about Clutch Position Sensor Circuit Malfunction.
Main reason For B0058 CodeThe reason of B0058 OBD-II Engine Trouble Code is Ambient Air Temperature Sensor Circuit Low.
B0058 DTCs may also be triggered by faults earlier down the line. For example, a dirty MAF sensor might be causing the car to overcompensate in its fuel-trim adjustments. As a result, oxygen sensors are likely to report fuel mixture problems.


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WASHINGTON — Women in the military must have the same opportunities as men to take on grueling and dangerous combat jobs, whether loading 50-pound artillery shells or joining commando raids to take out terrorists, defense leaders declared Thursday as they ordered a quarter-million positions open to service members regardless of gender.
As Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, signed an order wiping away generations of limits on women fighting for their country, the military services said they would begin a sweeping review of the physical requirements. At the same time they acknowledged that women have been fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than a decade.
Women make up about 14 percent of the 1.4 million active U.S. military personnel. More than 280,000 women have been sent to Iraq, Afghanistan or neighboring nations in support of the wars. Of the more than 6,600 U.S. service members who have been killed, 152 have been women.
The leaders said no physical standards will be lowered just to send more women closer to the battlefront.
"I fundamentally believe that our military is more effective when success is based solely on ability and qualifications and on performance," Panetta said at a Pentagon news conference. "Not everyone is going to be able to be a combat soldier. But everyone is entitled to a chance."
It won't happen quickly or easily. But in the end, he said, the U.S. military and America will be stronger for it.
Dempsey didn't rule out women serving even as members of elite special operations forces, including the Army's Delta Force and the Navy's SEALs, whose members killed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
Dempsey said that because of the particularly punishing physical standards and training required for those teams, it might be years before they include women.
But he also said, "I think we all believe that there will be women who can meet those standards."
Recent surveys and experiences suggest the transition may not always be easy. When the Marine Corps sought women to go through its tough infantry course last year, two volunteered, and both failed to complete the course. And there may not be a wide clamoring from women for the more intense, dangerous and difficult jobs, including some infantry and commando positions.
Representatives of the military services said they will look at each job and military specialty that is currently closed to women and examine the requirements that troops must meet. In some cases — because of equipment upgrades, new technology and automation — the requirements may change, but in no case will they lower the standards in order to allow women to qualify.
As an example, a loader on a tank crew must be able to lift a 50-pound, 2-foot-long artillery shell, spin 180 degrees and load it into a tank's cannon. Because of space constraints in the tank, it requires a great deal of upper body strength to hoist the shell.
Troops asked about the change said they just want comrades who can do the job.
"This gives us more people to work with," said Sgt. Jeremy Grayson, assigned to field infantry at Fort Bliss, Texas. "But they would have to be able to do the physical stuff that men do. Like in some jobs in infantry you're out there for a long time, or in artillery there is heavy work. And they have to be able to pull their own weight."
As a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point two years before women were admitted, Dempsey said he has seen the changes over time.
In 2003, when he went to Baghdad as commander of the 1st Armored Division, Dempsey recalled that he jumped into a Humvee on his first foray out of the forward operating base.
"I slapped the turret gunner on the leg and I said, 'Who are you?' And she leaned down and said, 'I'm Amanda.' "
"And it's from that point on that I realized something had changed, and it was time to do something about it," Dempsey said.
But Dempsey cautioned that no one knows where future conflicts will take place. That is why the military needs time, he said, to review and possibly revise standards for combat jobs. The historic change overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to thousands of front-line artillery, infantry, armor, special operations and pararescue jobs.
The Navy also announced that it is opening jobs for female sailors on smaller attack submarines — ships that had traditionally been closed to women largely due to privacy concerns in extremely close quarters.
There long has been opposition to putting women in combat, based on questions of whether they have the necessary strength and stamina for certain jobs, or whether their presence might hurt unit cohesion. But the Pentagon's announcement was largely hailed by lawmakers and military groups. There were only a few offering dissenting views.


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Full Menu
Beethoven's famous 'Pathetique', 'Moonlight', 'Tempest' and 'Appassionata' sonatas played to perfection by pianist Artur Pizarro.
'An exceptional album of Beethoven from a rising young pianist'. Gramophone
The Studio Master files are 96kHz/24-bit.
This recording is also available in Hybrid SACD Multichannel on CKD 244.
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Artur's choice of instrument for the CD has been informed by intensive aural research into a large number of Beethoven piano cycles on disc. Though in many ways out of fashion, his choice of a Blüthner concert grand piano, model 1 allows him to create his own soundscape: "I selected a Blüthner because it's more nimble than a normal 20th-century grand, more transparent in texture. I wanted something ridiculously expressive."
"The popularity of these sonatas can probably be attributed to the public's liking for titles, since those with titles are among the best loved." So said the pianist Edwin Fischer; however unfair it may be on those Beethoven sonatas (or Haydn symphonies for that matter) lacking a sobriquet, the memorable nicknames undoubtedly helped to establish these works in the public imagination, where they have remained since Beethoven's day.
Unlike the other works on this recording, the Grande Sonate Pathétique was so titled by its composer. Its mood of high seriousness is established in the Grave introduction, which turns out to be rather more than that. Its reappearance in the development and recapitulation looks forward to the "arrest/movement" polarization of the Op. 31/2 Tempest sonata. The popularity of the Pathétique is due in part to the straightforward appeal of the Adagio cantabile, a simple rondo whose memorable theme is sung out in the rich tenor register of the instrument. The concluding Rondo, despite the defiant "Beethoven-in-C-minor" final gesture, is lighter in mood than its preceding movements; its rather elusive theme, which Beethoven is said to have played "humorously", is a world away from the brow-furrowed sentiments of the opening movement.
The "moonlight" title derives from a striking image from the pen of the poet and critic Ludwig Rellstab – "a boat visiting the wild places on Lake Lucerne by moonlight". The predominantly low sonorities of the opening Adagio sostenuto certainly conjures up a crepuscular scene. Timothy Jones has suggested that the constant piano (or softer) dynamic and the desolate, tolling melody could be "a representation of Beethoven's impaired auditory world and – at the same time – a lament for its loss". The brief Allegretto – "a flower between two abysses" in Liszt's telling phrase – is directed to be played attacca from the Adagio and serves as a moderately-paced bridge between the slow opening movement and the climactic finale. Beethoven employed a similar formal strategy both in Op. 27 No. 1 (like the Moonlight entitled Sonata quasi una fantasia) as well as the preceding Op. 26 sonata. In all of these works, Beethoven finds new ways of interconnecting materials between movements and of transferring weight to the finales. The concluding Presto agitato of the Moonlight transforms material from the Adagio sostenuto in a movement of astonishing drive and force.
Indirectly, we have Beethoven to thank for the "tempest" tag to his D minor sonata Op. 31 No. 2. Anton Schindler, one of Beethoven's circle, reported that he once asked Beethoven to explain the "key" to the Op. 31/2 and 57 sonatas, to be gnomically advised "just read Shakespeare's Tempest." The story has the ring of truth about it; it was not the only time that Beethoven made reference to Shakespeare with regard to hidden "programmes" in his music. If it was his intention to link his genius with Shakespeare's, it worked; during the nineteenth century, the notion became a critical commonplace. The D minor sonata opens with a stark opposition of materials; a soft, arpeggiated chord, marked Largo, followed by a nervous burst of active music, which has more than a hint of the opera house about it. The arpeggios take on an unsettling quality when they reappear at the beginning of the recapitulaion. They flower into strange recitatives, their poetry intensified by their very wordlessness. As Charles Rosen has remarked, Beethoven's direction to hold down the sustaining pedal at this point lends them "a hollow and even cavernous quality like a voice from the tomb". Both the arpeggiated chord and elements of the recitatives are employed in the succeeding Adagio, in which the concept of opposites is also continued. Here, the farthest reaches of Beethoven's piano are exploited in a dialogue of extreme registers. In the concluding Allegretto, the arpeggio is transformed into the material for a nagging perpetuum mobile in which the intimation of the human voice, ever present during the first two movements, seems entirely absent.
Czerny declared that Beethoven's Op. 57 sonata is "much too magnificent" for its Appassionata title. Beethoven disliked the nickname provided by his publisher, although he declared himself satisfied by the work itself. The enormous scale of its opening movement is symphonic both in structure and sheer volume; for the first time, a work for solo piano could challenge the power of an orchestra. The Appassionata could only have been conceived for a state-of-the-art instrument. In 1803, Beethoven acquired an Erard grand piano, which afforded him an extended treble range as well as considerably increased robustness. The Walter fortepiano on which he performed the Pathétique would have been reduced to matchwood by the shattering power of the fortissimo chordal assaults which Beethoven unleashes at various points in this stormy movement. The Andante con moto presages Beethoven's visionary slow movements in his final sonatas. A stately, chorale-like theme is subjected to three variations, which ascend by degrees into higher registers of the instrument. As Donald Francis Tovey remarked, the Andante is "…a dream that must be shattered at the first hint of action." The finale, a tumultuous Allegro ma non troppo, is a sonata form in which Beethoven directs the performer to repeat both the development and recapitulation, thereby creating an effective counterweight to the massive opening movement. In the coda, the pulse is further increased to a Presto for a savage, Dionysiac dance that breaks into a final, frenzied statement of the opening material.
Programme Note by Sandy Matheson, Edinburgh, January 2003
Recorded at Potton Hall, Suffolk 16 - 18 October 2002
Artur Pizarro plays a Blüthner concert grand piano model 1 (280cm/9'2") supplied courtesy of the Blüthner Piano Centre, London W1
Artur Pizarro uses the Heinrich Schenker edition originally published by Universal-Edition A.G. Vienna in the republication by Dover Publications Inc.


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Twitter Is Like A Casual Conversation Among Friends Over Dinner
from the that's-it dept
Roger Ebert has been using Twitter quite a lot lately, and he came to it after being one of the Twitter-haters (like many people are), and he's now written eloquently about how he realized his initial thoughts on the service were wrong:
I vowed I would never become a Twit. Now I have Tweeted nearly 10,000 Tweets. I said Twitter represented the end of civilization. It now represents a part of the civilization I live in. I said it was impossible to think of great writing in terms of 140 characters. I have been humbled by a mother of three in New Delhi. I said I feared I would become addicted. I was correct.Now, part of that is the fact that he has lost his voice, which has made it difficult for him to have good face-to-face conversations, something that he can do on Twitter. And it's that aspect of it that made him realize what a useful service it is:
I am in conversation. When you think about it, Twitter is something like a casual conversation among friends over dinner: Jokes, gossip, idle chatter, despair, philosophy, snark, outrage, news bulletins, mourning the dead, passing the time, remembering favorite lines, revealing yourself.A bunch of people sent this story over, and initially I wasn't sure if there was anything to say about it. But those few lines above so accurately describe the value of Twitter that it seemed worthwhile to post. I know it won't convince those who still see no need for the service, or those who feel the need to immediately put it down without additional thought, but for those who have found the service to be useful, the point Ebert makes above is what makes it so valuable. For me, personally, I've found that those sorts of "conversations" have allowed me to stay much more in touch with friends and family around the world, while also making new friends and acquaintances along the way. It really is just an ongoing conversation, and in a world where conversation matters (as I believe it does now, more than ever), the tools that make conversation easier are too important to simply brush aside as useless.


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Obsessive New Manager Watch: Multiple Reports Suggest Joe Girardi is the Top Target
[You knew this wasn't going to take more than a day to become an Obsessive Watch, right?]
There's still a ton to digest from yesterday's Dale Sveum firing, and the managerial search that begins today. While everyone roots around trying to dig up a list of potential candidates, the one name that even a casual fan could have come up with is not only the most prominent, it may be the most viable.
I refer, of course, to New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi, who is in the last month of his contract with his team. From here, he could re-sign with the Yankees, move on to another team, or take some time off to do a little TV work. If it's going to be that middle option, the Chicago Cubs reportedly very much hope it will be with them.
According to reports from Dave Kaplan, Bob Nightengale, Dan Bernstein, and Wallace Matthews, among others (some of whom merely imply interest), Girardi is the Cubs' top choice. According to Nightengale, for example, the Cubs are "targeting" Girardi, and believe he would be a "perfect fit."
Nightengale adds, however, that Girardi appears to be seriously considering the year-off/TV option, rather than re-upping with the Yankees or jumping ship to the Cubs.
In the end, though, there's plenty of smoke to suggest that the Cubs are affirmatively interested in Girardi – and he definitely checked all of Theo Epstein's enumerated boxes yesterday (and let's not ignore that he offers certain marketing advantages) – rather than this being a mere media creation, connecting obvious dots and what-have-you. This could be a situation where Girardi's family wants to stay in New York, Girardi wants to spend more time with his family, the Cubs want Girardi, and Girardi likes the idea of going to the Cubs. Add that all together in a stew, and you get a difficult situation to sort out (real life tends to be full of 'em). We'll see how it plays out.
Yankees GM Brian Cashman is meeting with the media today, and he indicated that negotiations with Girardi's camp on a possible new deal have already started. Cashman expects to sit down with Girardi's agents tomorrow. It sounds like the Yankees will make a significant bid to keep Girardi.
It's worth pointing out, and I'll discuss this separately, that both Matthews and Nightengale mention that Brad Ausmus – previously mentioned as a candidate, and then dismissed by some reports – is also one of the Cubs' top choices. Things are never this simple, but you should probably prepare to hear a whole lot of "Girardi Plan A, Ausmus Plan B" type stuff over the coming days and/or weeks.


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Anne L. (Sheehan) Kelly
Anne L. (Sheehan) Kelly, 86, of Squantum Drive, passed away on September 22, 2012 surrounded by her family at Scalabrini Villa in North Kingstown. She was the wife of Joseph A. Kelly, Esq. for 57 years.
Born in Providence, she was the daughter of the late William and Nora (McCagney) Sheehan. Anne was a graduate of Mount Pleasant High School in 1943 and Katharine Gibbs in 1945. She was a secretary at Brown University and later for the Veterans Hospital in Providence. She retired in 1956 having served as a legal secretary for 6 years. She was a member of the Saint Paul Church Women's Club. She devoted herself to her family and her greatest joy was her three granddaughters.
Besides her husband; she is survived by her daughter, Paula A. Kelly, Attorney, of Barrington; three granddaughters, Kathryn, Elizabeth and Emily Migliaccio. She was the mother of the late Joseph A. Kelly, Jr.; sister of the late V. Lloyd Sheehan and William A. Sheehan.
Her funeral will be held on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 8 :30 a.m. from the Russell J. Boyle & Son Funeral Home, 142 Centerville Road, Route 117, Warwick. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. in St. Paul Church, One St. Paul Place, Cranston. Burial will be in St. Francis Cemetery, Pawtucket. Visiting hours will be held Friday from 4-8 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations to St. Paul School, 1789 Broad St. Cranston, RI 02905 in her memory would be appreciated. Boyleandsonfuneralhome.com


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Mac Utilities
Listed below are helpful applications for Mac as well as browser plugins, which extend the functionality of your UW Oshkosh Google Apps account.
The Academic Computing Helpdesk provides limited or no support for the utilities listed on this page. The helpdesk is able to assist you with general questions about using Google Apps and help you establish or reset a password. If you have any questions please contact the helpdesk at (920) 424-3020 or email@example.com.
Google Drive for Mac
Install this app to sync your Google Drive files to a folder on your Mac. Google Drive will keep your files in sync across all your computers and mobile devices, including Google Docs files and other file types. Google Drive comes with 5GB of free storage.
Google Notifier for Mac
The Google Notifier for Mac adds icons to the OSX menu bar to notify you of new messages and upcoming calendar events and allows you to set Google Apps as your default mail application. Please Note: When configuring your account, you will need to enter your full UW Oshkosh Google Apps email address (email@example.com) and password.
Download Google Notifier for Mac.
Google Talk Voice and Video Plug-In
Install the Google Talk Voice and Video Web browser plug-in to enable Skype-like voice and video calling inside your Gmail window using the Google Talk chat.
Download Google Talk Voice and Video Plug-In.
Google Email Upload for Mac
Transfer email stored on your Mac to UW Oshkosh Google Apps (for example mail saved to your computer through Mac's mail program). After installing use your entire email address (email@example.com) and your UW Oshkosh Google Apps password to transfer email to UW Oshkosh Google Apps. Please Note: Migrating large amounts of data may take several hours.


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|Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
10g Release 1 (10.1)
Part Number B10339-02
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The ALLCOMPILE program compiles every compilable object in your current analytic workspace, one at a time. As it works, ALLCOMPILE sends to the current outfile messages that show the name of the object being compiled.
ALLCOMPILE [n]
An INTEGER expression with a value of zero or higher. The expression specifies the number of objects to be compiled before an UPDATE command is executed. For example, when you specify
1, an UPDATE command is executed after each object is compiled. When you specify
0 (zero), all the objects are compiled and an UPDATE command is executed only at the end. When you omit the argument, no UPDATE command is executed by ALLCOMPILE. Frequent updates during an ALLCOMPILE help ensure the most efficient use of space in the analytic workspace.
ALLCOMPILE uses the COMPILE command. This means that it will check for syntax errors as it compiles an object, and it will record error messages in the current outfile as appropriate.


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One of the most lucid and devastating testaments to the relationship—or clash—between fathers and sons is a long letter written by Franz Kafka in Schelesen, Bohemia, in November 1919. It begins:
Dearest Father: You asked me recently why I maintain that I am afraid of you. As usual, I was unable to think of any answer to your question, partly for the very reason that I am afraid of you, and partly because an explanation of the grounds for this fear would mean going into far more details than I could even approximately keep in mind while talking. And if I now try to give you an answer in writing, it will still be very incomplete, because even in writing this fear and its consequences hamper me in relation to you and because the magnitude of the subject goes far beyond the scope of my memory and power of reasoning.
More cold and stiff than recriminatory or angry, the letter's tone is that of a clinical examination. By exploring the abyss that divides father and son, Kafka undertakes an autopsy of the power incarnated in the stern and distant figure of the father. Next to this big, physically imposing man, who presents himself as the sole bearer of truth, the young Kafka feels helpless and weak.
"You were for me the measure of all things," he writes, in acknowledgment of his subordinate position. "From your arm chair you ruled the world. Your opinion was correct, every other was mad, wild, meshugge, not normal." The son finds himself trapped in an inhospitable place, the laws of which he is unable to decipher, because the person responsible for enforcing them—the elder Kafka—doesn't even do so in a systematic way:
Hence the world was for me divided into three parts: into one in which I, the slave, lived under laws that had been invented only for me and which I could, I did not know why, never completely comply with; then into a second world, which was infinitely remote from mine, in which you lived, concerned with government, with the issuing of orders and with annoyance about their not being obeyed; and finally into a third world where everybody else lived happily and free from orders and from having to obey.
The whole literary universe of Kafka, from The Metamorphosis to The Trial, seems to coalesce along these lines: suddenly, for no reason at all, a person finds himself in an incomprehensible situation, subject to accusations or arbitrary punishments, reduced to the condition of an insect, a pariah, an accused man. Too often Kafka is mistaken for a writer of the fantastic, but there is no more realistic description of the awakening of the consciousness of a son or citizen subject to implacable authority than Kafka's letter. The consequence, according to young K., is the loss of one's voice; in a home—or a society—where disagreement is banned, words lose their meaning: "What I got from you…was a hesitant, stammering mode of speech, and even that was still too much for you, and finally I kept silent, at first perhaps from defiance, and then because I couldn't either think or speak in your presence."


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– Jim Ross gave props to John Cena and Brock Lesnar after their Extreme Rules match last night:
"Credit also goes to Brock Lesnar in a losing effort. Loved his offense. Cena endured an amazing beating. Both men are legit beasts."
– WWE Champion CM Punk revealed in an interview this weekend that Paul Heyman will be going to WWE headquarters in a few weeks to sit down with Punk and do commentary on some of his matches. The footage will be for Punk's WWE DVD that comes out soon. Heyman will also be interviewed for the DVD.
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42 U.S. Code § 2000cc–2 - Judicial relief
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(a) Cause of action
A person may assert a violation of this chapter as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and obtain appropriate relief against a government. Standing to assert a claim or defense under this section shall be governed by the general rules of standing under article III of the Constitution.
(b) Burden of persuasion
If a plaintiff produces prima facie evidence to support a claim alleging a violation of the Free Exercise Clause or a violation of section 2000cc of this title, the government shall bear the burden of persuasion on any element of the claim, except that the plaintiff shall bear the burden of persuasion on whether the law (including a regulation) or government practice that is challenged by the claim substantially burdens the plaintiff's exercise of religion.
(c) Full faith and credit
Adjudication of a claim of a violation of section 2000cc of this title in a non-Federal forum shall not be entitled to full faith and credit in a Federal court unless the claimant had a full and fair adjudication of that claim in the non-Federal forum.
(e) Prisoners
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to amend or repeal the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (including provisions of law amended by that Act).
(f) Authority of United States to enforce this chapter
The United States may bring an action for injunctive or declaratory relief to enforce compliance with this chapter. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to deny, impair, or otherwise affect any right or authority of the Attorney General, the United States, or any agency, officer, or employee of the United States, acting under any law other than this subsection, to institute or intervene in any proceeding.
(g) Limitation
If the only jurisdictional basis for applying a provision of this chapter is a claim that a substantial burden by a government on religious exercise affects, or that removal of that substantial burden would affect, commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, or with Indian tribes, the provision shall not apply if the government demonstrates that all substantial burdens on, or the removal of all substantial burdens from, similar religious exercise throughout the Nation would not lead in the aggregate to a substantial effect on commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, or with Indian tribes.
Source(Pub. L. 106–274, § 4,Sept. 22, 2000, 114 Stat. 804.)
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The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, referred to in subsec. (e), is Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101(a) [title VIII], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321, 1321–66, as amended. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1996 Amendment note set out under section 3601 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and Tables.
Section is comprised of section 4 ofPub. L. 106–274. Subsec. (d) ofsection 4 of Pub. L. 106–274amended section 1988 (b) of this title.
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IRVINE, CA -- Sept. 10, 2012 -- Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that Steve Milligan will become chief executive officer of the company on January 2, 2013, succeeding John Coyne, who is retiring on that same date. Milligan, 49, is currently president of Western Digital and will retain the title of president when he becomes CEO. Following Coyne's retirement, Milligan will be appointed to the Western Digital board of directors.
"We are grateful to John Coyne for his many years of dedication and strong leadership," said Tom Pardun, chairman of the board. "He and his team have strategically positioned the company at the center of the storage industry, as a consistently profitable market and technology leader well positioned to address the tremendous opportunities in the changing digital world.
"We are fortunate to have another accomplished and experienced leader in Steve Milligan, ready to lead the company at this exciting time," continued Pardun. "We believe Steve's vision and demonstrated leadership skills will serve our customers, employees and shareholders well in the years ahead. The strong working relationship between John and Steve will provide for an orderly transition in the months ahead."
Coyne, 63, has served as CEO of Western Digital since January 2007 and spent the vast majority of a distinguished career in the electronics industry with Western Digital, joining the company in 1983. Under his leadership, Western Digital became the world's largest maker of hard drives, through a relentless focus on the quality and reliability of its products, product portfolio expansion to capture evolving market trends, efficiency in its manufacturing operations and asset management, and excellence in its customer and supply chain relationships. In the last six years, Western Digital has grown its revenue three fold, been consistently profitable, generated significant cash and completed several successful strategic transactions including the recent acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), formerly the hard drive division of Hitachi Ltd.
Milligan rejoined Western Digital earlier this year as president as a result of the HGST acquisition. He had served as HGST's president from March 2009 to December 2009 and as its president and chief executive officer from December 2009 until Western Digital's acquisition of HGST in March 2012. From 2007 to 2009, he served as HGST's chief financial officer. From 2004 to 2007, Milligan served as chief financial officer of Western Digital. Previously, he held a variety of financial and accounting roles at Dell and Price Waterhouse.
Under his leadership, HGST initiated a significant transformation of its business to focus on market-driven leadership, sustainable growth, operational excellence, and financial discipline. These initiatives helped HGST significantly improve its operational performance and achieve consistent profitability prior to its acquisition by Western Digital.
Before launching his career in business, Milligan was a long-time resident of Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from the Ohio State University.
About Western Digital
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., is a global provider of products and services that empower people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. Its subsidiaries design and manufacture storage devices, networking equipment and home entertainment products under the WD®, HGST and G-Technology brands. Visit the Investor section of the company's website (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.
Western Digital, WD and the WD logo are registered trademarks in the U.S. and other countries. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies.


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Raspberries In Carbon County
THIS DISCUSSION ASSUMES A BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOLOGY OF RASPBERRIES AND BLACKBERRIES. (For more basic and specific information on bramble production explore the links in the boxes to the right.)
Raspberries and blackberries are brambles. They can be grown successfully in Carbon County with proper care and environmental modification.
There are three things in the Carbon County environment that can cause problems for the erstwhile bramble grower—soil, spring winds, hot summers. Awareness and modification of these conditions will help berry growers in Carbon County be more successful.
Brambles prefer soils that have a lower pH than the soils of Carbon County. Modifications and amendments can be made that will help ease the negative effects of our soils on the productivity of brambles.
The chemistry of Carbon County soils is such that iron, and less frequently zinc, is not as readily available as brambles prefer; this results in a condition called iron chlorosis (or zinc chlorosis). Iron chlorosis can be easily recognized by the yellowing of the younger leaves while the veins remain a darker green color. In severe cases even the veins and older leaves may yellow. Successive years of iron chlorosis will result in weakened plants that will be more susceptible to diseases and insects.
Adding composted organic matter before establishing a berry planting will help with both pH and soil quality. Using fertilizer containing sulfur will also help the soil pH some. Finally, adding an iron amendment to the soil and applying a liquid chelated iron directly to the leaves of the plants will also help. Foliar application of chelates provides a very short term but rapid response. Chelates can also be applied to the soil and watered into the roots for a good response. Best results will be obtained by applying iron twice in the growing season, once in May and again in September.
Utah State University Extension Specialists recommend EDDHA-based chelates, such as Miller's Ferriplus (Miller Chemical), Sequestrene 138 Fe (Becker Underwood) or similar product (generally designated with the "138" chemical identifier) at a rate of 1 to 2 pounds per acre banded along the row and then watered into the soil with at least one inch of irrigation water. Always follow the label directions of whatever product is being used. Keep in mind that the soil is a very large mass of very strong chemistry. In Carbon County soil amendments for brambles will likely be needed every year for the life of the plants.
There are many other general fertilization considerations for brambles, particularly nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Explore the articles in the box to the right for more care information.
Spring Winds
Carbon County is subject to cold, strong and prolonged winds in the spring. These winds can have a detrimental effect on the floricanes of both raspberries and blackberries, more particularly blackberries. To avoid wind problems either plant the berries in a protected spot, erect some sort of windbreak where you want to plant, or plant ever-bearing (primocane-fruiting) varieties.
Hot Summers
Brambles produce very well in cooler summer temperatures. High summer temperatures during flowering and fruiting, such as experienced in late July and early August in Carbon County, can reduce overall yields and will certainly lower fruit quality. One common condition associated with high summer temperatures is the appearance of sun scald--bleached out (white) druplets on the sun-exposed side of the fruit. This condition can be circumvented by selecting varieties that produce a crop at times other than the high-temperature season of the summer. These varieties may be either very early summer-bearing varieties (this may be an exercise in futility) or ever-bearing (primocane) varieties. Study the characteristics of the varieties on the raspberry variety link in the box to the right.
Another management tool that will help with high, summer temperatures is to provide afternoon shade. This can be accomplished by planting on the east side of a building or structure, or erecting shade cloth—20% - 30% shade should be adequate. Proper irrigation management and a mulch that maintains cool root zone temperatures will also alleviate heat stress. Soil cooling mulches include clean wheat straw or white plastic.
These management considerations, in addition to regular cultural practices for brambles should help to make raspberries and blackberries productive over many years in Carbon County.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Coming off a record week, the stock market is drifting lower in light trading Monday.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell two points to 14,395. That's a drop of less than 0.1 percent. Intel led the Dow lower, slipping 1 percent.
Last week, the blue-chip index posted four straight days of record highs after blowing past its all-time high on Tuesday. It ended the week up 2 percent.
There were no major economic reports to drive trading on Monday. Later in the week, the government will release figures for the federal budget in February, as well as reports on consumer prices and industrial production.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell three points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,548. The Nasdaq composite dropped seven points, also 0.2 percent, to 3,238.
Of the 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 index, telecom and energy companies dropped the most, slipping almost half a percent.
The S&P 500 index is now trading around 15 points, or 1 percent, short of its all-time closing high of 1,565.
In the Treasury market, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was 2.04 percent, unchanged from late Friday.
On Friday, the Labor Department said that U.S. employers added 236,000 workers to their payrolls in February, pushing the unemployment rate down to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008.