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I'll answer that one with a question. Do you believe that my assertion that single motherhood leads to dependency and the overwhelming of the welfare system? I ask because others here celebrate single motherhood and Barton and I think that's a bad Idea. Your stats, whatever they are, and my stats that some here wish to dismiss could all be misrepresentitive of something, but what we can get form this discussion is that Atheist philosophies as demonstrated here are what Barton and I would call anti family. The anti family element tends to dependence, and a welfare state that is bankrupting the country. Barton and I are pointing to truth. I like that and as you said: But "like" and "trust" are not pathways to truth. However, they ARE often pathways to ERROR. It just may be that my liking Barton is not, in this specific case difinitively a pathway to error. I'm sure you could agree with that.


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The Moon is creeping up on Saturn tonight. The planet looks like a bright golden star well to the upper left of the Moon at nightfall.
Through a telescope, you can see Saturn's bright, beautiful rings. You can also make out a few dark "gaps" in the rings. They're not really gaps, though; they just don't contain as much material as the bright sections of the rings. They contain sheets of tiny grains of dust, as well as a few clumps of denser material.
One of those clumps is known as the Huygens Ringlet. It's on the inner edge of the dark Cassini Division. A recent study says it might have formed just a few decades ago.
The ringlet is less than 15 miles wide, and it circles only partway around Saturn. Unlike some similar structures found elsewhere in the rings, it's not flanked by small moons to act as gravitational shepherds, keeping the material in place.
To a pair of researchers from the Space Science Institute, this suggested that the ringlet must be quite young. In fact, their simulations show that the ringlet could have formed as recently as 60 years ago, when a comet slammed into a small moon. The collision pulverized both bodies, leaving a cloud of debris that quickly spread out to form a ringlet.
In this scenario -- which some other planetary scientists disagree with, by the way -- the material will quickly dissipate, and Huygens Ringlet will disappear.
We'll talk about one of Saturn's current moons tomorrow.
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Social media sites are playing an important safety role as the country braces for major new bushfires and grapples with potentially life-threatening heatwave conditions.
Soaring temperatures forecast to linger well into next week has put emergency services on high alert and prompted most to use Twitter and Facebook as a way to rapidly share warnings.
The nation's leaders were also in on the act, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard posting on Twitter: "Take care and stay safe as we face extreme heat around our nation."
"Listen to warnings on the high bushfire risk. JG."
Fire brigades were among the most active tweeters on Friday as they urged residents to prepare for new bushfires and issued a string of advice and edicts about already active blazes.
Tasmania Fire Service tweeted 13 times between midnight and midday (AEDT) on Friday, including an order for residents in Forcett and Lake Repulse to consider leaving their homes.
Paramedics, police and surf lifesavers all used social media to warn about the heatwave conditions, with temperatures expected to soar above 40 degrees across much of the country from Friday afternoon.
Ambulance Victoria was pulling no punches with some of it advice.
"It's hot - but motorcyclists still need full protective gear. Better to leave sweat on the road than half your skin, if you come off," it tweeted.
Emergency services have increasingly adopted social media accounts in the past three years, attracted by the ability to communicate quickly with wide audiences - including those in remote areas.
Fire services in particular have increased their use of Twitter and Facebook since Victoria's 2009 Black Saturday fires.
But authorities warn residents to verify all information on social media sites, particularly if it comes from an unrecognised source.
South Australia's Country Fire Service (CFS) launched its Twitter and Facebook sites a year ago and says the messages it sends on those accounts reach about 35,000 people.
Social media is sometimes the only way the CFS can contact people living in rural South Australia, particularly in areas where radio reception is sketchy.
Some young or less well-off people have told the CFS that they can't afford mobile phone credit, but do receive free Facebook access.
"I've had a couple of people who say that's the only way they can contact us - that staggered me," Mr Freeman told AAP.


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Chris Cillizza draws attention to South Dakota Democratic Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin's new advertisement supporting her reelection campaign. Sandlin is encouraging the people of South Dakota to disconnect her from Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the national Democratic Party:
In [the ad], Sandlin seeks — as so many targeted Democrats are doing this cycle — to distance herself from the goings-on in Washington (and even her own party).
"In Washington, they call this flyover country," says Sandlin as a view from a passing plane is shown. "They look down from 30,000 feet and don't care about our agriculture, the Second Amendment or our fiscally conservative values."
Sandlin add that she took on "liberal leaders" to protect South Dakotans' gun rights and "fought people in both parties who want to just throw money away."
The message is crystal clear: I am not one of them, I am one of you. (The "them" of course can be equally applied to her own party as Republicans.) Put another way, Sandlin is making an empathy argument: You know me and I know you so whatever you think of Washington, that's not me.
Every image (and word) in the ad is aimed at playing up that idea — from the fact that it is shot in South Dakota to the fact she is referred to as simply "Stephanie." Just in case you missed that message, Sandlin closes the ad with this line: "No matter which party's in charge, I do what's right for South Dakota."
Message: Stephanie thinks you're stupid. Sandlin must think South Dakota voters are really, really slow. If Sandlin followed the logic of her ad and wanted to do what's right for South Dakota, she would support Kristi Noem on November 2.
Incidentally, it looks like Sandlin voted in favor of the $860 billion stimulus bill. How does that square with South Dakota's "fiscally conservative fiscal values"? What a fraud. Stephanie, if you were a product instead of a politician, the Federal Trade Commission would come after you for false advertising.
JOHN adds: Here is Kristi Noem's YouTube response to Sandlin's ad. Polls show her surging past Sandlin, as she should:


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BURNABY, BC – When Darren Mattocks and John Thorrington pulled up with hamstring trouble on Sept. 29 against Seattle Sounders FC, it looked like a damaging setback for Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
But just as in that match, when the Whitecaps managed to hold out for a 0-0 draw despite making two forced changes before halftime, it seems the situation for the hamstrung duo might not be quite as bad as originally thought.
Mattocks did some light sprinting during a training session at Burnaby Lake field on Tuesday, and suggested his origins are helping him bounce back so quickly that he could return to action against Portland on Oct. 21.
"I think that's a Jamaican thing," the 22-year-old deadpanned when a reporter suggested he's a quick healer. "I think we heal really fast, so that's really good. I never expected to be [doing] light sprinting this week – I saw myself jogging back and forth with a trainer a couple of times – and I felt really well, so that's a positive sign for me."
Still, the injury has kept Mattocks out of contention for international duty with Jamaica for this round of World Cup qualifiers, and despite being pleased with how his hamstring has responded to treatment, his main priority is recovering fully before getting back to game action.
"That's the most important thing right now," Mattocks said. "I don't want to go into the Portland [Timbers] game or the next game and then sit out the rest of the season, especially when it's playoff time – so I want to make sure it's 100 percent and I'm ready to go."
The situation looked ominous for Thorrington too, when he left the field against Seattle with an anguished look – perhaps suspecting his season was done after suffering a number of muscular injuries related to a nerve injury in his back.
But, like Mattocks, the 32-year-old participated in a vigorous workout with the club's physio team, hardly looking like a player miles away from a return.
"At the time when you pull a muscle you never quite know the extent of it," Thorrington said. "It was just a frustrating moment – I think that's the emotion that people saw – but thankfully it is not as bad an injury as I initially thought.
"I'm back moving, hopefully I'll be back in training soon, and be back and available for the Portland game."
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Jacob B necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 20 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
We need a fun, engaging design that's going to showcase this unique and innovative business.
There are several items we want to draw attention to on the Home Page - the book 'Your Stage', the 'Kaleidoscope Instruments' (a range of colourful musical instruments), "Quote box" for rotating Testimonials and lastly, upcoming events.
Inclusive Programs - inclusiveprograms.com.au
Inclusive Programs facilitate the inclusion of individuals who are otherwise marginalised and often isolated. They provide fun, music-based activities where success of all participants is planned for and self-esteem is enhanced.
The current site is flash-based, and not performing, so JKB is re-vamping and improving the site.
This contest is for the Home Page design only - NO CODING needed.
Proposed navigation items are:
About Inclusive Programs
Our Book
Kaleidoscope Instruments
The Benefits
Our Programs
Photo Gallery
Contact Us
Please download logo and helpful images etc here:
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Regarding feedback on concepts - I will provide initial feedback onconcepts, and indicate whether a revision is needed, or if I will putit forward to the client. I will wait until I have a good number ofconcepts to put forward to the client, and then keep you apprised oftheir feedback and decision.
- fun, vibrant, bright colours - the colours used on the musical instruments (pics in rar file) should provide some direction here!
- Focus box for the book 'Your Stage'
- Focus box for Kaleidoscope Instruments
- Focus box for Upcoming Events
- Fixed width, 760px wide
- Design is to be provided as a layered PSD file
- We like repeating the main navigation structure in the footer (as quick links) along with standard copyright blurb
- no overly image-based designs - it's got to use colours and pictures appropriately, but NOT be a nightmare to slice up into HTML format OR take forever to download
- no Flash element placeholders (we won't be using flash on the Home page!)
- no Newsletter Signup / Client Login Boxes
- no Western Union payments


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When a couple moves in together, it's not just the people who must adjust. If either partner has a dog, it's important to help a pet adjust to the combination of two households.
"Dogs have different personalities, and while some are excited to have new people in their lives, other pooches may need some time to adjust," says animal behaviorist Mary Burch, director of the American Kennel Club's Canine Good Citizen program. Burch offers tips on how to ease your dog's transition into married life:
Introductions are key. Consider your dog's personality when introducing her to a new love interest. Tailor the first meeting to what will make her most comfortable. And, the first meeting should be in a neutral space: For an outgoing dog, it could be a dog park, for a shy dog, perhaps a friend's backyard. Praise your dog when she interacts well with your future spouse and set aside several subsequent meetings before you combine households.
Discuss expectations. You and your spouse should discuss your dog's current routines. Will you share walking or feeding duties? If so, set up a schedule and stick to it so your dog's life remains consistent.
Continue working with your pooch. It's easy to get distracted by your own life adjustments, but Fido should remain a priority. Keep his schedule as consistent as possible, with walks or playtime at the same time daily. Your dog is likely to feel less stress if one-on-one time remains regular.
For more advice on raising a healthy, happy dog, visit the AKC website at akc.org.


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March 19, 2010
The Loyola Law Review in the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law presents "Getting to Yes: New Perspectives in Legal Negotiation and Persuasion." The symposium is on Saturday, March 27, from 1-5 p.m. in the College of Law, Room 405. It is free and open to the public. CLE credit of 4.0 hours is available to lawyers for $20. A reception will follow.
In the current legal environment, settlement, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution are encouraged more than ever before. This year, Loyola Law Review's symposium will examine the comprehensive nature of effective legal negotiation, providing attendees with a thorough overview of both the negotiation process and the necessary requisites of effective negotiation. Effective tactics and response strategy will be discussed in depth along with a range of other topics from distinguished authorities.
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Manchester Police: Proud, and hurting
March 25. 2013 10:36PM
You can feel the pride that members of the Manchester Police Department have in their force, their comrades, themselves. If you happened to be there yesterday, as we were, you could also see how hurt they are right now.
They are proud and they worry what people will think of them in light of the news story elsewhere on this page, the story about one of their own being accused in a serious weekend hit-and-run incident in Bedford. They seem not only furious that one of their own could allegedly act this way; they worry that such an incident will overshadow the work they do in trying to protect the peace in a city that is not only New Hampshire's largest, but one that is trying to assimilate an ever-increasing minority and immigrant population.
Beyond that work, which probably doesn't get the credit it deserves, here are a few things you may not know.
In this city of 108,000, with a force of more than 200 officers, there were fewer than 50 citizen complaints (filed by just 39 individuals) against the police last year, with just nine substantiated.
Over the weekend, a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into the Merrimack River was saved when responding officers formed a human chain and pulled her to safety. One of the officers had rescued the same woman from the river two weeks ago.
When an officer found a disoriented elderly man in a snowbank recently and returned him to his home, the officer and the officer's son then went out and bought a new battery for the man's wheelchair. Not as sexy as the New York City photo of the cop who bought boots for a street person, but a random act of human kindness.
None of this is to say that the cops here are angels, or that they don't slip up on occasion, sometimes badly.
But the true test of such a force is its reaction when the slipup occurs.
Not just the official response from the chief, in dealing with the individual. But the real-time, human reactions of its members. One told us yesterday, "It's ripping our guts. We know what's coming (with the news story), and it hurts what people will say."
The fact that they care about their work and about the reactions of the people who pay their salaries and depend on their actions says a lot, we think.


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AttachmentExtractor 22.214.171.124 Requires Restart
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Extracts all attachments from selected messages and then can delete, detach or mark-read.
About this Add-on
220.127.116.11 doesn't really fully work with Thunderbird 5-8 - there are a number of errors thrown and its probable that some functions won't work but there was a large demand for an update and this was the quickest solution.
I've rewritten large parts of the code in 1.4 but there are some features missing so its not been released yet. Its available as a beta in the Development Channel below if you want to give it a try. As your preferences are migrated in 1.4 you will loose them if you decide to go back to an older version afterwards.
Just select the messages containing the attachments you want to extract and select 'Extract Attachments' and this extension does the rest. No more having to go through each message to extract the attachments!
Check out the settings dialog for the different options.
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After you've used AttachmentExtractor for a while please come back and write a review.
If you find any bugs, or want to request a new feature please use the bugtracker on my website. Use the feedback form on my website(in the 'contact me' section) to ask me any questions - asking a query or mentioning a bug in the discussions section is less practical because I'm not going to be able to answer unless I happen to check here.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Democrat Charles Rangel on Monday filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to overturn a 2010 House decision to censure him for financial wrongdoing.
The suit contends that staff and members of the House Ethics Committee that conducted the probe against the Harlem lawmaker willfully suppressed evidence of misconduct in how the investigation was conducted, and that had the facts been known there would have been a "different outcome."
The 82-year-old Rangel, whose four-decade-long career in the House was blemished by the financial scandal, continues "to suffer irreparable harm that cannot be compensated by money damages," Rangel's lawyer, Jay Goldberg, writes in the suit.
The complaint states that had the committee's chief counsel told the lawmaker of improprieties in how the probe was conducted, Rangel would have made a motion to dismiss the case against him.
The committee "acted knowingly, intentionally and willfully to frustrate the goal of assuring adherence to plaintiff's due process rights," it said.
The suit was filed against House Speaker John Boehner, then-Ethics Committee chair Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., five Republicans then serving on the panel, and several staff members.
Rangel, in an emotional appearance on the House floor after the House voted 333-79 to censure him, acknowledged that he had made mistakes but asserted that at no time had he been dishonest or tried to enrich himself.
The committee found that Rangel had underpaid the IRS for 17 years by failing to pay taxes on income from a rental unit in a Dominican Republic resort, had filed misleading financial disclosure reports, had set up a campaign office in the Harlem building where he lived that had been designated for residential use only and had used congressional letterheads to solicit donations for a center named after him at City College of New York.
It was only the 23rd time in the House's history that a member was censured, the most severe punishment short of expulsion.
Before becoming embroiled in the ethics case Rangel had chaired the House Ways and Means Committee, the influential panel that writes tax policy.
There was no immediate comment from Boehner's office on the lawsuit.


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Cremeland gets a jump on springStaff Report
March 08. 2013 11:16PM
MANCHESTER -- The official first day of spring may not be until March 20, but Manchester's real start to spring is the opening of Cremeland.
The Valley Street eatery, now in its third generation of family ownership, opens every year on the second Saturday of March.
A problem clearing the parking lot of snow Friday morning was just a temporary glitch. By afternoon, the parking lot was clear and scallops were being floured, in anticipation of today's opening-day seafood rush.
Owner Nicole Queena said: "We're known for our fresh, quality product." While seafood is a big draw, there are staples for the non-seafood crowd.
Queena said although some would call it fast food, that's not accurate. It may not take long for an order to be ready, but it's not like the fast food of many restaurants.
"We're not pulling it out of a freezer and zapping it in the microwave," she said. It's cooked for the customer and they have to wait for their order number to be called.
Queena said there's a good reason to open in March when business isn't as intense as in the summer months. "A lot of it is training the help. Fine tuning," she said.
If your tastes run more to dessert than the main course, fear not.
Although the peak of the ice cream season is June, July and August, Queena said Cremeland is prepared for year-round ice cream lovers on opening day. "All the favorites," she said.
Queena doesn't worry about snow cutting into business. "We've been fairly lucky," she said. "We always get one storm." but it doesn't last like it would in January.
That said, she's happy that the forecast is for warming temperatures through the weekend.
"If we get 50 or 60 (degrees), this place will be hopping," she said.
Cremeland, at 250 Valley St., is now open with spring hours of 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.


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I hate to admit it, but I'm a hoarder. Yes, like those insane people on the A&E TV show. Only my hoarding is all virtual. For example, take the image above. That's just a tiny part of my Google Reader home page. That's a tiny part of my Google Reader home page AFTER reading most of the day on a recent Sunday. I still had thousands of entries to go after hours of reading. On top of that, I subscribe to some technical e-newsletters. I'm a member of quite a few LinkedIn discussion groups, each of which produce daily and weekly newsletters. (I only subscribe to the weekly versions). Then there's Twitter too. In all, there are THOUSANDS of interesting floating through the ether which I'd been trying to collect and, occassionally, read. Bah humbug!
The Downside of an Information Hoard
You might think that, as an IT professional, hoarding information is good for you. After all, the more you know, the more effective you are at your job, right? Uh - no. I've discovered a few downsides to keeping all of this information around. First, I lose time on administrivia, uh, I mean administration. I can't think of a time when a search on Google has not produced the information that I'm interested in. So by spending time keeping up with my blog feeds, adding new blog feeds, deleting old ones, and so on, I lose time administrating something that really doesn't need to be administrated.
Second, there's the time it takes to read all of these entries - many long hours to read thousands of entries per month. I've actually figured out a little trick to make this go a lot faster. What's that trick? Well, previously, I used to start reading my entries and then clicking "Next Entry" each time. Even when I skipped a lot of entries, just slogging through them all was a big time drain. Now, I simply select large swathes of entries that I'm not interested in and click "Mark as Read" without ever opening them. Works great! I've also gotten a lot more aggressive about dropping bloggers and RSS feeds that offer low value. A lot of bloggers have popped up who only recount things which are available in Books On-Line. Why spend any time on that at all? I'm looking for strong insight, experiences, and analysis - not simple technology facts. (A follow on thought to this tip is that "Bloggers Should Write Meaningful Article Titles!")
Third, and more importantly, information hoarding takes a big emotional toll on me. Maybe it's a factor of just how my brain works and is completely inapplicable to you. But in my case, I always carry a subtle nagging feeling when I have unread entries in my various accounts. Even when I know that these entries are optional and that it's not necessary for me to read any of these things, I still feel like I should read them. Basically, it makes me feel like I should be working all the dang time and that makes me feel anxious. Anxiety makes me less productive and more prone to burn-out. And anxiety bleeds through my work hours into my home life. It makes it hard to enjoy a movie with the kids or some gardening in the yard. All because there's that feeling that I haven't gotten the hoard processed yet.
The Solution to the Information Hoard
I mentioned a couple specific techniques for thinning out the hoard in paragraph two. To summarize, first, subscribe to only those bloggers, feeds, and newsletters which add actual understanding to your life. Second, open and read only those entries that matter and skip the rest. Those are techniques for dealing with lots of entries to read. But my last problem, the anxiety issue, was a little bit harder to solve.
Like a lot of internal ways of handling life's problem, the answer is simple but not easy. Similar life problems with simple but difficult solutions might include feelings of guilt (the solution is confession) or anger (the solution is forgiveness, either of yourself or for the other party). So what's the solution to anxiety? Here's my thought process - the answer to my information hoard is about values. What do I mean? I value these various things because they make me better at my job. Losing things of value causes me some anxiety. My anxiety has its roots in the feeling that I'm letting things of values (these various blog entries) slip through my hands. Why would you ignore things of value, or even worse, get rid of them?!? On the other hand, if you asked me what I really and truly valued most in this world, I'd answer with "my family and loved ones". But again, do I actually demonstrate this priority with my time? Not nearly enough. Therefore, the answer is to properly appraise the value of my time. When I think about it rationally, I think that this sort of reading is worth about 30 minutes per day, maybe a full 60 minutes when there's something really important to learn or someone really significant to listen to.
That's it. After 30 minutes, I can walk away from any sort of reading guilt-free. So what's my new solution to the information hoard and the anxieties that it's been producing? A quick check on the writers and topics I care about the most and then "MARK ALL AS READ". Yes, there will be more to read tomorrow. But now I no longer carry an ever increasing load saying to myself "Someday I'll get to that". I feel better already.
Feedback Requested
What's your strategy to dealing with your information hoard? Are you still keeping everything you ever produced or read digitally? Does my approach sound reasonable and workable to you? Or am I off base?


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Barcelona success became a curse - Guardiola
Pep Guardiola has revealed he decided to leave Barcelona in 2012 because he felt he could no longer reach his players and his glittering reign had come to feel like "a curse".
Guardiola, now with Bayern Munich, succeeded Frank Rijkaard as Barca coach in 2008 after an impressive spell in charge of the club's B team and, in a remarkable four-year spell, won 14 trophies including two Champions Leagues and three La Liga titles.
However, throughout his tenure he had always refused to commit to the club long-term and, in April 2012, he announced that he would be leaving at the end of the season, telling a news conference: "I have nothing left and need to recharge my batteries."
The announcement had followed a 3-2 aggregate defeat to Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals, when the Blues came back from 2-0 down in the second leg at the Camp Nou to claim a 2-2 draw despite being down to 10 men after John Terry's dismissal.
Guardiola said that match, which had hinged on a Ramires goal on 45 minutes and a Lionel Messi penalty miss after the break, had convinced him he could no longer continue at the club with which he had made his name.
"That was a moment of great sadness - as if suddenly someone had switched the floodlights off," he told the Audi Annual Report in one of his rare interviews. "We were better than our opponents but in the second leg conceded an unnecessary goal and the next thing we knew we were out of the competition.
"That was a very hard defeat for me. I had the feeling that I was no longer able to reach my team, and if you can no longer reach your players then it is time to move on."
Guardiola, who was a player in Johan Cruyff's legendary 1992 European Cup-winning side, said his unprecedented success on the Barca bench ultimately proved his undoing.
"We were incredibly successful - 14 titles within four years meant the best era in the club's history - but such things can also be a curse," he said. "I found it increasingly difficult to motivate my team."
The former Spain international ultimately spent a year away from coaching as he recuperated in New York, during which time he was heavily linked with jobs in the Premier League - notably Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United - as well as AC Milan in Serie A.
However, in January 2013 it was confirmed that he would replace Jupp Heynckes as Bayern coach at the end of the season, and he revealed he had first made contact with the German club's hierarchy during a preseason tournament in 2011.
He said: "Over an espresso I discussed my career plans with [chief executive] Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and [president] Uli Hoeness. Bayern's current success was not foreseeable then."
The news of his appointment was first reported by Sky Italia, and Guardiola believes he knows the source of the channel's information.
"It appears that Silvio Berlusconi, who was president of AC Milan and the Italian Prime Minister at the same time, talked -- maybe because I did not sign for his club," he said.


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A luscious layer cake bursting with the bright flavor of sunshine! Fresh lemon zest and juice permeate every corner of this sweet and tart cake, from the moist crumb to the delectable cream cheese frosting.
It's scrumptious straight from the fridge, like drinking cold, sweet lemonade on a sweltering summer day when your mouth is as parched as a desert. Similar and a whole lot better, because it's in dessert form! And what could be better? Dessert trumps everything.
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It's not often you can get the majority of farmers and ranchers to agree on anything. So it's no small achievement that the Food and Drug Administration has managed to unite producers of all stripes in their opposition to its proposed safety rules.
The Food Safety Modernization Act was passed by Congress late in 2010 with the goal of mandating best safety practices for producers and processors while making it easier for regulators to trace foodborne illnesses back to their source.
FDA's 1,200 pages of proposed rules to implement the act address food safety controls for the growing, harvesting, packing and holding of produce for human consumption. They have come under fire from an increasing number of farmers and industry groups that say they aren't practical and are too costly.
For example:
• Onion producers in Idaho, Oregon and Washington say ag water provisions in the rules establish a standard that is impossible for growers who irrigate from open ditches to meet. No approved treatment method exists, nor would it be economical if it did exist. Fruit growers have similar concerns.
• The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement asserts that its existing food safety program already exceeds proposed requirements for produce under the Food Safety Modernization Act. It wants the FDA to accept its audits rather than subjecting producers to a second set of reporting standards.
• Organic producers are dismayed by proposed rules that would require farmers who fertilize with untreated manure to wait nine months before harvesting crops that come in direct contact with the soil.
Producers who use composted manure would have to wait 45 days. Growers say in many cases those rules are unworkable, and more strict than the National Organic Program rules. They fear the rules will either require small producers to double their production or adopt conventional growing methods.
• The law exempts producers who sell less than $500,000 in product from most the rules. Larger producers say that's not fair because small growers aren't immune to pathogens that cause illness. Small growers are concerned because under certain conditions their exemption can be lifted by the FDA, which would subject them to expensive regulation.
The FDA has made an effort to listen to producer concerns and tweak the rules before making them final. The public comment period for the proposed produce safety rules ended Nov. 22, but agency officials have agreed to provide additional opportunity for farmers to offer input before the rules are finalized.
The nature of that opportunity, however, is a bit fuzzy. Seventy-five members of Congress have asked FDA to conduct another formal comment period.
That makes sense given the ongoing concerns.
The final rules must be scale-appropriate and realistically attainable.
No one can argue with food safety in the broad strokes. But entire sectors of the ag economy could disappear in the details of this law.


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1) Watching the Junior Division!! They were amazing. Videos coming soon!!
2) Showcase Division:
I am kicking myself for not seeing this live (I missed it by 25 seconds). This must have been unreal!! Sitting in the kitchen watching this was still an emotional experience, so I can only imagine what it must have been like being in the ballroom during this momentous occasion. While watching the video, I was screaming and hooting and hollering for them!! I actually shed some tears in honor of their awesomeness. Fuck, this totally touches my heart.
SOOOOO many people have talked about doing something like this, yet they actually put it together and threw down! Uh, the blue balls experience of them doing Balboa instead of swinging out left me wanting more. Thank goodness they finally provided the much needed release by teaming up and swinging out!!
3) Cabaret:
Dargoff showing us the importance of good hygiene. And lemme tell ya, sex sells!
Tips & Tops and their newest routine:
Nothing quite like Man-on-Man + hat-on-hat dancing if you ask me! Well done Gentlemen, you were wonderful.
The ending is my favorite part. I LOVE Footloose!
4) Classic Division:
In my eyes, Tommy & Alice won this competition. Their choreography is stunning, easy to understand yet still complex, exceptionally well danced, beautifully performed, and they both make the other person shine. To me, this is one an example of one of the best partnerships out there today. You two are such an inspiration!
For more on the Classic Division, click here!
5) Nathan Bugh in the Solo Charleston spotlights. Genius I tell ya!!!
6) Champion J&J:
This one knocked it out of the park for me! I'm always super impressed with how Peter is able to dance with the ladies of any size and still retain the integrity of his movement. Uh! Check out his kick ups at 0:37, his spin at 1:09, and how they play off each other at 1:25! And Alice is just amazing! Favorite moments by her: swing out variation at 0:22, her swivels forward at 0:57, and her shapes on her Rocks at 1:43!
Otherwise, the dance between Andy Reid and Mia Goldsmith just flowed. It was magical. Honestly, I couldn't remember anything they did after the dance was over other than being swept away by how well they connected to each other and the song. Oh yeah, and the dance with Todd and Frida was ok (I'm being sarcastic)…….it was fabulously hilarious!!!
7) Pro-Am
This cat has been dancing lindy hop for a year and a half (or something close to that). How ridiculous is he?!!! Uh yeah……wow is right!
Isn't she fabulous?! Sasha Gross was in the Junior's Program and she killed it!
8) On a personal level:
Getting 2nd place in the fiercest Classic Division I've seen in the Lindy Hop world. I was told the difference in score between Kevin & me and Skye & Frida was only one judge which means there was someone who thought that was a first place routine! Looking forward to seeing the score sheets!
Taking 2nd place in the Solo Charleston contest! Normally I try to prepare by creating routinelettes so I have something to fall back on in case I go blank in a contest, but this year I just didn't have time to get any together. I spent some time working on my lines using the Big Apple choreography, but otherwise, that was just me dancing (*chin up…..very proud of myself). Would love to see the scores on this one as well!
Having a blast in the Champion Strictly!! We had to battle our way out of prelims and since Kevin and I haven't gotten to train the way we'd like (he's been injured), we decided to fall back on the ol' personality thing. Thank goodness we had Baltimore's support!! I don't remember much about the prelims other than doing swing outs across the entire crowd (crowd pumping anyone?) AND having our seamless room take-over thwarted by the ever-so-gorgeous Pontus and Isa. Luckily we didn't completely run into them…..our awesomeness was just slowed down.
Fortunately, Kevin and I made it to finals which gave us the opportunity to crowd surf the Baltimore contingency!!!! The second half our our second solo starts with The Move of the Weekend, The Chase, and ended with us hurling ourselves on top of the crowd!!! Glory in it's finest red & blue outfit if I do say so myself!!
9) MOVE OF THE WEEKEND: The Chase
You know the old adage "pink is the new black"? Well, "the chase is the new swing out" according to this weekend. SERIOUSLY, it was a college kids drinking game dream!! I need to watch through 2 more divisions, but I'm confident in saying that there was at least one chase break in EVERY division. I'm even guilty of it myself. I'll compile a list of people who are guilty of such things and hopefully someone will put a video together of all the Chases from the weekend. *wink wink, nudge nudge lindy scene
10) Last but not least, just being there was a highlight. Getting to see so many friends, having someone buy me cupcakes (thanks Michelle), having some incredible dances, teaching with two of my favorite people, being asked to work with the future of our Lindy Hop community and having a blast doing so, competing against the best lindy hoppers in the world, being cheered on by the community I love, dancing to extraordinary live music, and seeing the fruits of everyone's labor were a few of the many reasons this weekend was sensational.
Thank you to Tena, Nina, and Sylvia for running this event AND to all of their staff; without you the event wouldn't happen. I'd also like to give a shout out to all the competitors that came to compete this weekend; you are helping lindy hop continually grow and your contribution is duly noted. A huge thank you to all of the people that filmed the event and put video online for the world to see! Finally, an enormous thank you to everyone in the audience; thank you for coming to support and cheering for everyone as they put their heart and soul on the floor. Baltimore especially, I love you. xxoo


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Kyle Lowry didn't start against the Hornets. He certainly finished them off, though.
DeMar DeRozan scored 30 points and Lowry, back from a partial triceps tear that kept him out of seven straight games, had two huge baskets in overtime as the Toronto Raptors held off New Orleans 104-97 on Friday night.
The Raptors, who never trailed in the second half, scored nine of the first 11 points in overtime after blowing a seven-point lead in the last 1:30 of regulation. Amir Johnson scored under the basket to give Toronto a 93-91 lead. Lowry then drove the baseline for a reverse layup and hit a 3-pointer to make it 98-93.
New Orleans never got closer than five the rest of the way.
"We came out with a fury (in overtime)," Lowry said. "We came out shooting to win the game."
Toronto coach Dwane Casey kept Lowry's replacement, Jose Calderon, in the starting lineup at point guard, saying before the game that Calderon had "earned it" when the Raptors recently won five in a row. Both players were on the floor at the start of overtime, when Lowry hit his two biggest shots.
He finished with 17 points on 5-of-7 shooting, with a team-high eight assists and zero turnovers in 27:31.
"He was a little rusty and got a little winded," Casey said. "That's why I had to get him out a little bit. But his aggression helped us, his toughness helped us."
Lowry was conscious of not trying to force too much, an issue before he got hurt. Toronto had been 2-14 in the 16 games he played and 7-6 in games he missed.
This time, he helped the Raptors overcome a tough shooting night from Calderon, who went 1 of 6 but had six assists.
"The last couple of weeks, the team has been moving the ball really well," Lowry said. "I just wanted to keep that going and not try to do too much. Jose is a great player and he made great decisions. He spaces us very well and makes our job a lot easier."
DeRozan hit two free throws and an outside shot that made the score 102-95 with 31.7 seconds left. Alan Anderson added 14 points for the Raptors.
Rookie big man Anthony Davis led New Orleans with 25 points and nine rebounds. Greivis Vaszquez added 20 points, 14 assists and nine rebounds, falling just shy of his first career triple-double.
The Raptors won for just the third time in 18 road games. The Hornets fell to 3-12 at home and 0-3 in overtime.
With Toronto leading 85-83, DeRozan scored on a driving layup, then stole Austin Rivers' pass and converted a three-point play to make the score 90-83 with 1:38 left.
The Hornets responded with a 3-pointer from Brian Roberts and a driving layup by Vasquez to cut the margin to 90-88. After DeRozan sank one of two free throws, the Hornets' Ryan Anderson drained a tying 3-pointer that hit the rim twice before falling in with 8.1 seconds left.
DeRozan had a chance to win it at the buzzer, but his fallaway from the baseline clanged off the rim.
The Hornets hardly hit anything in overtime, going 2 of 11 from the field.
"That was huge, no question," Casey said. "Those are the kind of big-time plays we've struggled with sometimes, but tonight we got it."
The Hornets tied the score three times in the third quarter and again on Ryan Anderson's clutch 3-pointer near the end of regulation but could not pull ahead. Vasquez missed an open 3 in overtime that would have given them a 96-95 lead.
"The energy we expended to come back in the fourth may have hurt us in overtime," Hornets coach Monty Williams said. "You have to tip our hat to (the Raptors). They did what they needed to do in overtime."
Lowry scored a fast-break layup off Ryan Anderson's turnover to spark a run that put the Raptors up 81-68 midway through the fourth quarter.
The Hornets responded with a quick 8-0 spurt on a three-point play by Davis, two free throws from Vasquez and a 3-pointer by Ryan Anderson that cut the deficit to 83-78 with 4:04 left.
"We had that momentum to force overtime," Davis said. "We tried to use all of our energy and momentum from the crowd to stay in the game, but we were not making shots. We were missing layups. It's tough because we had a second chance to get back in the game."
Toronto scored 23 points off 16 New Orleans turnovers. The Hornets forced only seven miscues, getting five points off them.
The Raptors also took advantage of several Hornets droughts. New Orleans missed 11 of its last 14 shots in the first half and went cold in the second half, making only three field goals from the 3:30 mark of the third quarter to the 6:15 mark of the fourth.
The Raptors led 48-42 at halftime despite shooting 16 of 41 from the floor (39 percent) and 1 of 12 from 3-point range.
NOTES: Hornets reserve forward Jason Smith returned from a seven-game absence due to a torn labrum, scoring two points in 12:10. ... Toronto outscored New Orleans 49-31 off the bench. ... Hornets center Robin Lopez, who has 85 points in his last four games, finished with nine on 3-of-8 shooting. ... Ryan Anderson had a game-high 12 rebounds.
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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George Mendonsa, 89, holds one of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century at his Middletown, Rhode Island home. In the photograph, Mendonsa is widely believed to be the sailor kissing an unsuspecting nurse (actually a dental hygenist) on V-J Day in Times Square in 1945. The photograph was taken by Life Magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt.
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Forrest Laws, director of content for the Penton Media Agriculture Group, spent 10 years with a metropolitan daily newspaper before joining Delta Farm Press in 1980. He has written extensively on farm production practices, crop marketing, farm legislation, environmental regulations and alternative energy. He now oversees the content creation for Delta, Southeast, Southwest and Western Farm Press and for BEEF, Corn and Soybean Digest, Farm Industry News, Hay & Forage Grower and National Hog Farmer. He resides in central Iowa in the middle of the largest corn patch in the world.


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Senate-passed bail reform initiative clears NH HouseBy Dave Solomon
State House Bureau
April 19. 2018 11:44PM
CONCORD — A Senate-passed bill to reform the bail system in New Hampshire cleared the House in a voice vote on Thursday, despite opposition from law enforcement.
SB 556, which passed the Senate in a voice vote on March 8, would establish new criteria for judges to consider in granting the release of defendants before trial.
Judges would be required to take income and ability to pay into consideration when setting bail for low-level offenses. Low-level offenders, charged with non-violent crimes, with no evidence that they are a risk of not showing up at trial, would qualify for personal recognizance bail.
The House amended the Senate bill, so the two chambers will have to resolve their differences before it can head to the desk of Gov. Chris Sununu.
"Gov. Sununu is monitoring the bill and continues to have some concerns," said Sununu's spokesman Ben Vihstadt.
The bill is designed to prevent people from being jailed before conviction for no reason other than inability to pay bail.
"In some cases, people feel it is better to plead guilty to a crime they did not commit than to use a bail bond company or stay in jail while awaiting trial," according to Rep. Kate Murray, D-New Castle. "Our system of justice is supposed to be based on incarcerating those found guilty of a crime, not keeping in jail those who are presumed to be innocent until proven guilty because of their lack of financial resources."
The bill also streamlines the process for obtaining an annulment for violation-level offenses or low-level misdemeanors.
Tuftonboro Police Chief Andrew Shagoury, who also serves as president of the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police, said in public hearings the chiefs he represents support the concept of bail reform, but are concerned about what he called "a major shift in policy."
"We shouldn't be running debtors' prisons, but we need accountability in the system," he said.
New Hampshire is partnering with other states in a national campaign to reform a bail system that critics say discriminates against the poor and working class, fails to protect public safety and strains public resources.
Judge Tina Nadeau, chief justice of the Superior Court, kicked off the campaign at the State House on March 19, announcing a partnership with the national Pretrial Justice Institute and its "3 Days Count" campaign.
The name is derived from studies that show three days in jail is all it takes to turn someone's life upside down.
"The ultimate goal is to make sure that dangerous people and the people with the highest risk of flight are the people being detained, and not people who simply can't afford to post bail," said Nadeau.
SB 566 is not directly tied to the "3 Days Count" campaign, but law enforcement officials fear that the combination of the two will result in dangerous changes to bail procedures.
The Association of Police Chiefs initially supported SB 566, but withdrew that support after the "3 Days Count" initiative was announced.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the conservative Americans for Prosperity both applauded the House vote.
"The passage of SB 556 on a voice vote demonstrates the strong bipartisan support for bail reform and commitment to ensuring that people are not held in jail pretrial simply because they cannot afford $100 bail," said Jeanne Hruska, policy director for the ACLU-NH.
Greg Moore, AFP-NH state director, said passage of the bill would be a win for taxpayers as well, given the high cost of incarceration, estimated at about $3,200 a month per person.
"Reforming our bail laws so that those who have not been convicted of a crime aren't forced to sit behind bars simply because they are unable to pay is a victory not only for those who could lose their job, their car and their home because they can't make bail; it's also a win for property taxpayers who won't have to pay to jail these individuals," he said.
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My opinion and response to the Honorable Lynn Jenkins, U.S. Rep. District 2, "Your Representatives," Sept. 21-22 edition of the Times, is the following:
To the editor:
My opinion and response to the Honorable Lynn Jenkins, U.S. Rep. District 2, "Your Representatives," Sept. 21-22 edition of the Times, is the following:
She declares that she intends " - to make life a little easier for them. This is what I intend to do."
The "them" are the "Kansans who are struggling to fight for themselves and their families in this weak economy." Does she plan to start doing this when she goes back this time; or, does she imply she has been doing this already? In any event, how is it making life easier for Kansans who are struggling, to have food stamps funds cut about $4 billion a year for the next 10 years?
It has been reported on the NOW, MSNBC show, Sept. 19, that 20,000 Kansans will be removed from this SNAP due to this funding cut. An included working requirement does not make it easier for those that need this assistance, it makes it more difficult.
The jobless rate is up in our state according to Aug. 20, 2013, LV Times, "Jobless rate up in state" article by the Associated Press, by .1 percent. Although there have been 23,300 private sector jobs gained over the past year, there are fewer people working in Kansas at the same time there are more people in the available labor pool.
Likewise, how would defunding Obamacare make life a little easier for them? How is allowing insurance companies to drop paying customers at will; not respect pre-existing conditions; spend more than 20 percent on administration (executive bonuses?); not allow college-age children to remain on parents' health plan; not being able to search out best subsidized (making affordable) plan in the competitive exchange; not having employers for the first time offer health insurance to their employees; not paying for prenatal care, physicals, mammograms, make it easier for us Kansans?
How can the dismal work record of the House of Representatives make it easier?: Where is the health care replacement plan alternative, to see if it will make life easier in Kansas? Where are the required passed appropriations bills along with or in response to a conference reconciliation of the passed Senate budget?
Why 42 times passing a resolution defunding ACA, time could have been used to pass those appropriation bills? Why no jobs bills or bills that would relieve the sequestration cuts? Why has the immigration bill not been brought up? This would make our Hispanic struggling families life a little easier. This is not to say legislation has not been passed, only that it was passed knowing that the legislation would not go further than the House. How could such legislation make life easier in Kansas?
I would think passing helpful legislation to Kansans even with Democratic support would make life easier in Kansas. When legislative time, bills and conferences are ignored, whose life does it make easier?


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The TLC77xx family of micropower supply voltage supervisors provide reset control, primarily in microcomputer and microprocessor systems.
During power-on, RESET is asserted when VDD reaches 1 V. After minimum VDD (≥ 2 V) is established, the circuit monitors SENSE voltage and keeps the reset outputs active as long as SENSE voltage (VI(SENSE)) remains below the threshold voltage. An internal timer delays return of the output to the inactive state to ensure proper system reset. The delay time, td, is determined by an external capacitor:
td = 2.1 × 104 × CT
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Except for the TLC7701, which can be customized with two external resistors, each supervisor has a fixed sense threshold voltage set by an internal voltage divider. When SENSE voltage drops below the threshold voltage, the outputs become active and stay in that state until SENSE
voltage returns above threshold voltage and the delay time, td, has expired.
In addition to the power-on-reset and undervoltage-supervisor function, the TLC77xx adds power-down control support for static RAM. When CONTROL is tied to GND, RESET will act as active high. The voltage monitor contains additional logic intended for control of static memories with battery backup during power failure. By driving the chip select (CS) of the memory circuit with the RESET output of the TLC77xx and with the CONTROL driven by the memory bank select signal (CSH1) of the microprocessor, the memory circuit is automatically disabled during a power loss. (In this application the TLC77xx power has to be supplied by the battery.)
The TLC77xxI is characterized for operation over a temperature range of 40°C to 85°C; the TLC77xxQ is characterized for operation over a temperature range of 40°C to 125°C; and the TLC77xxM is characterized for operation over the full Military temperature range of 55°C to 125°C.
The 3×3 mm DRB package is also available as a non-magnetic package for medical imaging application.


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Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore have discovered the primary mechanism driving the extrusion of dying cells from epithelial monolayers. This work has been published in Nature.(Saw et al., Topological defects in epithelia govern cell death and extrusion, Nature 544, 212–216 [12 April 2017] doi:10.1038/nature21718).
Schematics showing the arrangement of cells in normal epithelial tissue (a), following the introduction of a topological defect (b) and the site of cell death and extrusion following the appearance of a topological defect in the epithelial layer (c). The blue gradient region represents a concentration of compressive force.
The removal of cells from a tissue occurs regularly. Not only are damaged or dying cells removed, but the process of cell extrusion can prevent regions from becoming overcrowded. This is particularly important not only during developmental processes when tissues and organs are being formed, but also in diseases such as cancer, when tumors grow uncontrollably. Despite the importance of cell extrusion in development and aging, as well as the pathological importance in cancer progression, the cues that flag a cell for removal were poorly understood.
Now, by studying single-layers of epithelial cells grown in the lab, scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, and Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS and University Paris Diderot (France) in collaboration with researchers from Oxford University (UK) and Institut Curie (France) have found that the major factor driving cell death and removal relies on the physical arrangement of cells in the surrounding cell layer. In particular, the appearance of defects in the cellular patterns of epithelial layers promotes cell death and elimination from the tissues.
There are several examples in nature where a molecule or cell type aligns in a defined manner. Bacteria colonies, fat molecules, and even internal components of the cell, are just a few examples. Another well-known example corresponds to liquid crystals, a state of matter between a solid and a liquid, which can consist of rod-shaped molecules. Under certain conditions, these molecules can align along a preferential orientation when altered by electric, magnetic fields or temperature. This phenomenon is particularly well-known since it is exploited in technologies such as liquid crystal displays. In this case the optical properties of liquid crystals are determined by their alignment. Shifts in their alignment determine what we see on the display. As in any crystal, a perfect arrangement does not exist in liquid crystals and defects emerge in their arrangement that strongly modify their physical properties. The starting point of this study was to show how the behaviour of the cell sheet is analogous to liquid crystals.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former NFL All-Pro safety Darren Sharper will remain in a Los Angeles jail for the foreseeable future as he faces criminal charges in two states and sexual assault investigations in three others.
Superior Court Judge Renee Korn ruled Thursday that Sharper should remain in jail without bail after authorities this week indicted the Super Bowl champion on charges that he drugged and sexually assaulted two women in Tempe, Ariz., in November.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles will have the first opportunity to place Sharper on trial on charges that he drugged and raped two women in October after meeting them at a West Hollywood nightclub.
Korn said in her decision that Arizona authorities want to extradite Sharper to face trial there after the proceedings in California.
In addition to the Arizona case, Sharper remains under investigation for similar sex crimes in Florida, Nevada and Louisiana.
He has pleaded not guilty in California, and his lawyers say he will vigorously deny the allegations he faces elsewhere.
Korn refused a request Thursday by Sharper's attorneys to release him on house arrest while his case in Los Angeles is pending. It will take months for his case to be resolved.
Both the California and Arizona cases allege Sharper, 38, used the drug zolpidem — which is sold under several brand names, including Ambien — on the women before abusing them. The Arizona case accuses the athlete of drugging three women and sexually assaulting two of them.
Sharper appeared in court Thursday in an orange jail jumpsuit, flanked by two of his lawyers. He was previously released on $1 million bail in the California case but turned himself in on Feb. 27 after an arrest warrant was issued in New Orleans. He has not been charged in that state.
In a bail motion filed last month, a Los Angeles County investigator described a pattern in which the former football star met women at clubs or parties and lured them to a hotel room, where authorities say they were drugged and raped.
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The warrant does not elaborate on how the information was obtained or disclose the names of the witnesses.
Korn set another court appearance for Sharper for March 24.
Sharper was selected All-Pro six times and chosen for the Pro Bowl five times. He played in two Super Bowls, one with the Green Bay Packers as a rookie and was part of a successful championship run while with the New Orleans Saints.
He retired after the 2010 season and was working as an analyst for the NFL Network before being fired after the rape allegations surfaced.
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Sherrye Hammond stood by Thursday morning and watched as the home she has owned for 13 years was demolished.
Sherrye Hammond stood by Thursday morning and watched as the home she has owned for 13 years was demolished. Baskets of clothing and other belongings sat at the roadside, waiting to be moved to storage. But Hammond shed no tears as the walls of the blue-and-white, wood frame and stucco house crumbled.
"I am just happy," she said as the excavator's powerful jaws chewed into the north side of the small structure.
The worn-out house at 618 NW Seventh Ave., in the city's Tucker Hill section, will be replaced by a new dwelling. The city of Ocala, Workforce Connection, Habitat for Humanity and the Ocala Police Department, working through the Phoenix Rising program, have joined forces to see that Hammond gets a new roof over her head.
James Haynes, the city's senior manager of public reinvestment, said Hammond's 850-square-foot home was on the city's list to be rehabilitated as State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) funds, administered by the Florida Housing Finance Corp., became available.
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Phoenix Rising started in 2011 as the brainchild of former Ocala police Chief Samuel Williams. The program is open to young adults ages 18 to 21, and participants must be low-income and have at least one "barrier" to success, such as a skills deficiency.
Workforce Connection's Youth Connection Program now oversees Phoenix Rising.
In June, Workforce Connection received a $1.08 million Youth Build grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to be used for academic and occupational training for at risk-youth. The grant will help fund up to four more Phoenix Rising Youth Build projects in Ocala.
The $48,000 cost of Hammond's home will be paid for with $15,000 from the Workforce grant and $33,000 from the city's SHIP funds. Money from the grant also will provide some of the building materials.
Hammond's new house will be built on the same site as the old one and will be the same size, although a different configuration. The new house will have three bedrooms and two bathrooms, compared to the two bedrooms and one bathroom in the old home.
"Habitat has a great layout they use," Haynes said.
When Hammond was asked what she was looking forward to most in a new home, she said, "heat."
Then she paused a moment and began rattling off a list.
"A new washer and dryer. A new stove. A new bathroom most of all. That's the most exciting thing. That's my best place in the house," Hammond said.
Hammond watched as the contractor, Smoothscape Tractor Services Inc., turned the house into splinters.
Hammond's mother, Dorothy Kemp, kept calling the city for her daughter to find out when the project would start.
"Every month I was on the phone because she's been on the list for 13 years," said Kemp, who lives in Richmond Heights. "I am happy for her."
Kemp has lived in Ocala her whole life and her daughter was born and raised in Ocala.
While the new house is being built, Hammond will live with daughter Shanda Hope.
"Hopefully, Habitat will get their notice to proceed on Monday, Sept. 9," Haynes said. "That's when Habitat will start their site preparation."
In the meantime, youths from the Phoenix Rising Program will start classroom training before they get hands-on building experience. The youth will be supervised by Habitat for Humanity.
"October 7th is going to be the official wall raising," said Brad Nimmo, Habitat's president and CEO.
The house is scheduled to be completed within 16 weeks, ending Dec. 28.
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Integration tests are a scam. You're probably writing 2-5% of the integration tests you need to test thoroughly. You're probably duplicating unit tests all over the place. Your integration tests probably duplicate each other all over the place. When an integration test fails, who knows what's broken? Learn the two-pronged attack that solves the problem: collaboration tests and contract tests.
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Integration tests are needed
FirstName LastName
On Mars when the actual parachute successfully opened the deceleration "jerked" the lander, then the detachment subsystem interpreted the jerking as a landing and successfully (but prematurely) detached the parachute. Oops.
Integration tests may be costly but they are necessary. Sometimes there aint no substitute for end-to-end testing. These testing concepts were developed 50+ years ago in the fields of quality control and industrial engineering. I wish more "Agile" community was aware of this existing body of knowledge.
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Declan Whelan
Contract tests
Sune Simonsen
First off, this is one of the best presentations I've seen in a long time - very inspiring.
I was thinking about what you said about contract tests. In the system you describe every interaction has a mocked call to an interface if I understand it correctly. Each of these interactions must be verified to be supported on the interface for the contract to be fulfilled. If we could in some way describe the mock expectation as a data structure that also could be used by the contract test, wouldn't we be home safe? Then we should just make an expectation on the mock object using the data structure and use the same data structure in our contract test to make the assertion. In a way our expectations on the mock is the contract on the interface.
Sorry if I'm just totally wrong.
Kind regards Sune Simonsen (Jayway)
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When an integration test fails, who knows what's broken?
Jonathan Allen
I can't understand why the so-called "Agile Comunitity" has such a hard time with this concept. Perhaps you should hire some college kids to teach you about debuggers in your bootcamps.
Re: Contract tests
Esko Luontola
Instead of creating the mocks and setting the expectations in the tests of a client class, move all the mocking code to static helper methods in the contract test class. For example the contract test class would have a method 'mockAnEmptyRepository()' and whenever some other test needs to collaborate with an empty repository, they would create the mock using 'RepositoryContract.mockAnEmptyRepository()'.
The goal of this approach would be that when the contracts and the mocks are in the same class (or at least very close to each other), it will be easier for the programmer to check that all the mocks obey the contracts.
Still another idea that I had:
In the contract tests, wrap the object under test into a proxy which implements the same interface as is being tested. When the contract tests are executed, the proxy will collect data about the method parameters and return values. Then this same data would be used to automatically verify that given the same initial state* and parameters, the mocks will return the same return values.
* By initial state I mean for example, that in the contract test class there is an abstract method 'createAnEmptyRepository()' which creates the object under test. The same contract test also has a similarly named method 'mockAnEmptyRepository()'. Here the "initial state" is "an empty repository". The analyzer will group those two together, and check that the object returned by 'mockAnEmptyRepository()' behaves the same way as the one returned by 'createAnEmptyRepository()' does.
Re: When an integration test fails, who knows what's broken?
Esko Luontola
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Esko Luontola
2. GUIs are best implemented so, that their logic is decoupled from their presentation. The logic can be driven with TDD, after which the presentation will be mostly declarative and simple glue code. The presentation will anyways need to be tested manually, to make sure that it looks right.
3. Multithreading is best when avoided. Design the application so that the need for multithreaded code is restricted to only a few classes (for example using message-passing).
4. I did not claim that there is no need to know how to use a debugger. I said that there is very rarely need for them (maybe once a month), because with TDD you find the cause for a failure much faster - if you changed one line and it caused the tests to fail, the probability is very high that the problem is on that one line of code.
Re: When an integration test fails, who knows what's broken?
Frank Smith
To slightly rephrase my original statement for clarification purposes, I was referring to the "myth that you don't need to know how to use a debugger [well]" because you are using TDD.
I like agile (even most Agile) techniques and I've been using TDD for almost 10 years. I seldom, if ever, use a debugger to diagnose a problem in my unit tested code. However, I use a debugger for other purposes and I believe it's important to not allow those skills to deteriorate.
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Frank Lee
I enjoyed JB's presentation.
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Mike Bria
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Mike Bria
I think what good TDD allows me to do is (for the grand majority of my time) ignore usage of a debugger to determine anything about the code I'm now developing.
Do I still need to fire it up (and be effective with it) to diagnose bugs sometimes - absolutely.
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Excellent presentation
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Stefan Hendriks
One question about Contract Tests though; it is said earlier that you should not test a platform. I assume this also means you should not test a Webservice (client code) you generate (lets say from a WSDL) your client code from. (makes sense)
Instead , the Contract Tests should test the interface of the service that you define (that will use the webservice eventually).
Do I understand this correctly?
Ie, to clarify, lets say I have a Webservice, that has an implementation using SOAP. I have my own service (interface) that will answer questions for my code / features using my service. I would end up with:
MyCode <-> IMyService (with implementation MyConcreteService using IWebservice->SOAPWebservice)
The Contract Test would test only IMyService (and has a test class for every implementation of that interface) as it is unwise (and especially slow) to test the actual webservice.
Unit Tests vs. Functional/Integration Tests
Filipe Esperandio
I also think we need to automate some (not all, impossible, but some) of the functional tests (customer tests, end-to-end tests)in order to quickly see if some functional behavior breaks when some change is done on our code, even UT is passing.
An example is if you want to perform a re-factory on your code, probably you will lose UTs and you need an automated way that test the entire behavior from the interfaces signatures. What should be a good practice for this scenario?
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J. B. Rainsberger
I don't generate web services from WSDL often enough to have formed an opinion on that specific case. I guess I would either have to trust the generator or not trust the generator, then act accordingly. If I consume the WSDL, then I would probably writing Learning Tests to document how to use that web service correctly, rather than writing tests to prove its basic correctness
Looking at your specific example, I would use Learning Tests to discover or confirm the behavior of SOAPWebService, then use that information to implement MyConcreteService correctly by stubbing/mocking methods on IWebService. The more I trusted SOAPWebService, or the product that generated it, the less I'd worry about writing exhaustive Learning Tests for it.
I certainly wouldn't test the web service client generator which, in this case, represents the platform.
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Re: Unit Tests vs. Functional/Integration Tests
J. B. Rainsberger
You equate functional test with customer tests with end-to-end tests. I use them differently. Everything I've said about integration tests apply to tests programmers write to gain confidence in the correctness of their code.
I usually automate all the routine customer-level checks in a system. Many of those end up as end-to-end tests, but in a highly modular system we can easily check a lot of business value without resorting to end-to-end tests.
"An example is if you want to perform a re-factory on your code, probably you will lose UTs and you need an automated way that test the entire behavior from the interfaces signatures. What should be a good practice for this scenario?"
I use a combination of collaboration tests and contract tests. To read more about those, go to thecodewhisperer.com.
Re: Unit Tests vs. Functional/Integration Tests
There's a thing about contract tests that I think can be misleading.. Can you really rely on them to integrate things? When you a run a integration test, the method's client can get an outcome that you didn't test on your collaboration tests. Worse, you're mock can return a outcome that is possible (contracts test won't complain) but simply never happens in a real scenario.
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Why Integration isn't a Scam... the missing part of your Induction
Chris Desmarais
However... you missed something when you said you could almost prove your contract based testing by induction. In order to prove by induction you need to do two things:
- prove that if something works for n then it works for n+1
- prove that it works for one initial value of n
I can see a proof of how contract/collaboration testing would work for a new case if it worked for the first case. That definitely seems provable. You can't stop there though, you need a proof that it works for a first case.
Imagine a web service. You can test the client to make sure that it will use the contract properly, and you can test that the service fulfils that contract without ever actually testing that the client can actually reach the web service (maybe the service is on the other side of a firewall).
So while I totally believe in what you've written about using collaboration/contracts as the bulk of testing. There is one small test (likely set of tests) that you need to make sure that the system actually works: integration tests. In my mind integration tests should be a small set of tests that test that the client and service can talk to each other at all using the contract. Probably just one test for each reasonable type of output. Generally I'd expect one test to make sure that the client could get any results from the service, and one test to make sure the client could get exceptions thrown from the service. That's probably enough. You can rely on the contract for the vast bulk of testing but there is a small set of integration tests that I think are critical (and I wouldn't rely on them being in the user testing).
Again, love the topic and it helped clarify something I've been trying to explain, so that's probably just a small nit but an important one.
Re: Why Integration isn't a Scam... the missing part of your Induction
J. B. Rainsberger
I know that's not tremendously rigorous, but you get the idea.
You point out the issue of a web service failing because of, for example, a firewall in the way. Let's assume you wrote no automated programmer test for that; how would you learn about it? I assume that you'd discover it with an end-to-end test somehow, in system testing, in manual/exploratory testing just before shipping the feature outside the programming team. Someone will say "I didn't think of that". It happens. I ask: which tests did you miss in this case?
You could use integrated tests, but you don't need them. Instead, when you design the client, you ask yourself, "What could go wrong in trying to use the server?" You list a few things. Now you need to find out how the system will notify you of those things: timeouts, exceptions, messages, callbacks, violent crashing, infinite loop, whatever. When you explore how the system notifies you of things gone wrong, you're discovering the contract, so you now have enough information to write a contract test for the web service server/platform, and then the corresponding collaboration tests for the web service client.
Now you're going to miss stuff, and so yes, someone will have to put the pieces together eventually and try them out. I don't dispute that, nor do I recommend against it, but I absolutely do recommend against using end-to-end tests as a reason not to write better isolated tests. One doesn't /need/ integrated tests to deal with the problem you've described. On the contrary, I find that when I focus on isolated, collaboration and contract tests, I miss fewer of the kinds of problems you described, as I consider more detailed parts of the contract between client and server.
Thank you!
Contract tests look like a scam
Dimitry Polivaev
Re: Contract tests look like a scam
J. B. Rainsberger
In the case of the PostOffice, the contract will probably mostly describe how the abstraction reports errors, in addition to how clients will describe the message and its destination, then each implementation will verify that indeed the message is sent over the appropriate transport to the specified destination.
However you mock a method goes into the contract for that method. So mock the minimum you need, and when it seems like you have to mock too much, and especially when it seems like you have to mock the same pointless details in many tests, then you're almost certainly missing an abstraction in the middle.
I hope this helps.