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We were in Paducah, Kentucky, today and we drove the short distance across the river and up to Metropolis, Illinois, so Isaac could go to the Superman Store. He has been grieving for about a year now that he lost his Superman winter hat that he bought there last time.
Metropolis, Illinois, just north of the Ohio River on Interstate 24, was officially granted the title of "Superman's Hometown" by DC Comics in 1972. They could hardly deny the honor to Metropolis because it is the only city in the US with that name and in the Superman comic books, Clark Kent lived in the city of Metropolis.
When you walk into the Superman Store, you notice immediately that it's very blue inside -- Superman blue, that is. The store is full of Superman memorabilia of all sorts: comic books, posters, costumes, t-shirts, hats, key chains, lunch boxes, dolls, and much, much more. Isaac bought a visor that has a Superman emblem on it.
A Superman Museum adjoins the Superman Store, but it was closed. I have never been in it, but Isaac has, and he says it is chock full of all sorts of Superman memorabilia. The clerk told us that the owner has the largest Superman Collection in the USA and that only a portion of it is on display in the Superman Museum.
Across the street, a huge Superman stands on the town square, guarding the Masac County Courthouse. The motto on the statue's base, "Truth - Justice - The American Way," is appropriate for a center of local law and justice. Isaac agreed to pose with the big guy. He also posed with Clark Kent but he refused to stand behind the headless cutout of Superman or beside Betty Boop. He was finished with photographic nonsense.
On the opposite side of the courthouse, two of the largest maple trees I've ever seen grow on the lawn. I tried to stretch my arms around the smaller one to estimate its girth, and I am sure it is more than 12 feet around. A small white haired lady who was smoking on the courthouse steps observed my tree-hug without emotion. I'm sure the folks in Metropolis are used to the strange things tourists do.
Harrah's Riverboat Casino is probably a bigger attraction in Metropolis than Superman, sad to say. It has a large facility and extensive parking lots along the Ohio River's banks, a half dozen blocks from the courthouse.
It would be interesting to know how much clear profit from the casino has actually been realized by the city of Metropolis. I suppose it has brought some jobs to the town, but there has surely been a considerable expense in infrastructure and law enforcement as well as a loss of peace and quiet.
Harrahs even has buses that go to various towns (including Hopkinsville) to transport people to the casino. I suspect there's a two-fold motive. It does provide safe transportation to people who have drunk too much, and it also provides a way for people to get to the boat and gamble even if they don't have a vehicle they can drive there.
Metropolis seems to have an awakening interest in preservation and restoration. As in many towns in this area, some of the biggest old buildings in Metropolis were built between 1885 and 1900. I saw signs in some of their windows that said something about a downtown preservation group. An attractive old home near the river has been made into the Isle-of-View bed-and-breakfast.
Just a short distance up the river on the outskirts of Metropolis, Fort Massac State Park offers nice picnic and camping facilities. (Bring squirrel proof containers -- the park is full of those little critters.) The reconstructed fort is the jewel of the park and it represents far more history than I can go into here.
If you ever pass through southern Illinois on I-24, I recommend Metropolis as an interesting place to spend a few hours of tourist time. And of course, Paducah, Kentucky is right across the river and it's also an interesting place to visit, so you might want to get a room and spend the night.


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Payday: The Heist, a cooperative first-person shooter from Overkill Software, came out two years ago to a mediocre reception. Payday 2 looks to seriously improve upon its predecessor, offering 20 times the amount of missions, more distinctly unique classes, and powerful new player abilities.
The core of the Payday series, however – robbing banks with a team of heavily armed, clown mask-wearing specialists – is still very much intact. Check out some new images from Payday 2 below.
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Lupe Fuentes was born January 27, 1987 in Colombia to a Spanish father and a Columbian mother; she was raised in Madrid, Spain. She started her porn career in 2006 performing as Zuleidy or Zuleidy Lapiedra. Lupe has done upwards of ten hardcore porn movies to date, some including anal sex. Also known as Little Lupe, she uses her tiny stature and youthful demeanor to her advantage in role-playing situations.
Already one of the most famous porn stars in Spain and Latin America, Zuleiday moved to southern California, changed her name to Lupe Fuentes, and took the porn business by storm. One of Lupe's most creative movies, simply called "Lapiedra," is fashioned after "A Clockwork Orange" and is a representation of her offbeat view of the world. In 2009, Lupe filmed "100% Zuleidy: Top Anal Teen" for Private Media, which became the studio's top selling title of the year. Lupe signed on as a Wicked contract girl in 2010 and filmed the smash hit "Lolita," a film that showcases her hardcore sensuality. As her worldwide star status shot into the stratosphere, she began dating Evan Seinfeld, aka adult performer Spyder Jonez, and created her own line of sexy clothing for very petite women such as herself.
In 2006 Lupe was nominated for a FICEB Ninfa Prize (Spain's annual porn film festival and awards ceremony): Best New Spanish Actress for "Posesión." Three years later, the French Hot D'Or Awards nominated her Best European Actress for "100% Zuleidy." In 2010, the AVN Awards recognized her as a Best New Web Starlet nominee and she won a F.A.M.E. Award for Favorite New Starlet.


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This is GM's self-proclaimed "no-excuses hybrid." You can have it all: a gargantuan SUV with seating for eight, a big 6.0-liter V-8, towing, hauling, four-wheel drive, and fuel economy. That's right, GM's first "full" hybrid boosts the four-wheel-drive Chevrolet Tahoe/GMC Yukon's fuel economy by a whopping 43 percent on the EPA city cycle and five percent on the highway cycle to a V-6 Toyota Camry-shaming 20-mpg city rating, as well as a 20-mpg highway rating (21 city and 22 highway on two-wheel-drive models).
As part of this "no excuses" business, GM is proud that, unlike some single-purpose hybrids (think two-seater Honda Insight), the Tahoe maintains all existing functionality and features. Mark this one down: The Tahoe is the first hybrid to come with keyless starting; heck, it's even standard. That's right, Mr. and Mrs. Overindulgent American Greenie, the press of a button fires up six liters of gas-guzzling V-8 goodness in the driveway. You may be worried about your carbon footprint, but a cold leather seat is no way to start the morning.
What, you thought Toyota would think of this first?
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Making this fuel-economy leap possible is a host of changes, but the most interesting is GM's patented two-mode hybrid transmission that packages in the same space as one of the company's venerable four-speed automatics. What sets this system apart from the popular Toyota hybrid arrangement is that the Tahoe can run as a continuously variable transmission (CVT) and an automatic through one of four fixed gear ratios. With their theoretically infinite ratios, CVTs are much better than conventional automatics at keeping engines spinning at the most efficient speeds, but at constant highway speed, that advantage can be nullified by the internal friction inherent to CVT operation. In hybrids, the energy loss can be even worse because the drivetrain must also spin an electric motor. The Tahoe, however, can switch over to a more-energy-efficient mechanical path (one of the fixed ratios in the automatic) to minimize wasted energy whenever possible. Whereas the Prius is always processing its power through the CVT, even at inefficient highway speeds, the Tahoe's system is better and can simply bypass the electric motors and lock onto a gear.
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ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND - August 28, 2011: The Boston Cannons won the team's first Major League Lacrosse (MLL) championship with a 10-9 win over the Hamilton Nationals at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Anchored by Bud Light Player of the Game Jordan Burke and with seven players scoring, the Cannons became the latest Boston sports team to win a championship.
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"I'm very proud of this groups," said Cannons head coach Bill Daye. "All season they worked hard and bought into our plan. 11 wins in 2011 and we're MLL champs!" Daye has been a part of the Cannons for all 11 seasons, first as a player, then assistant coach and finally head coach.
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Paul Rabil, smothered by Warrior MLL Defensive Player of the Year Brodie Merrill, contributed two assists in the win. Casey Powell, who rejoined the Nationals for the end of the regular season - debuting in the August 6 defeat to the Cannons - proved he is still one of the best in the game with four goals, striking first in the second, third and fourth quarters.
Ryan Boyle opened the scoring on an early man-up opportunity for the Cannons on an assist from Rabil. Kevin Crowley answered for Hamilton, followed by a goal from Codie Jamieson to put the Nationals on top 2-1, the only lead they would have in the game.
Matt Poskay scored two in row on assists from
Kyle Sweeney and Boyle to give the Cannons a 3-2 edge at the end of the first quarter.
Powell scored early in the second quarter to tie the game at three, but the Cannons controlled the scoreboard for the rest of the first half, beginning with an unassisted goal from
Mike Stone. Poskay completed his hat trick, set up once again by Boyle, and Rabil found
Brad Ross to end the half with a 6-3 Cannons advantage.
After Powell's third goal to start the third quarter,
Pat Heim got room and scored unassisted. With three penalties totaling seven minutes on
Jack Reid, the Cannons played shorthanded for the end of the quarter.
Matt Smalley scored his first career post-season goal on a precise feed from Boyle before Powell scored unassisted and Brett Bucktooth found Jeremy Boltus to cut the Cannons' lead to 8-6 going into the final 15 minutes.
The teams traded goals throughout the final quarter, beginning with Powell's goal from Jordan Hall. Heim scored his second unassisted goal of the night, but Merrill scored immediately off the following face off.
Kevin Buchanan scored the game winner 45 seconds later, diving across the crease to beat Brett Queener. Codie Jamieson scored once more for the Nationals with 32 seconds left in the game, but it was not enough as the Cannons held the ball to complete the victory.
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Author Notes: I loved the BLT's my mom made me when I was little, with tomatoes fresh from her garden. They were still warm from the sun, and when combined with the salty bacon and crispy lettuce, along with the crumbly white toast (what is it that's so comforting about toasted bread?) and a healthy dollop of mayo, it was like summer on a plate. Living in Manhattan, Greenmarket tomatoes are the closest I get to tomatoes from the garden. My husband wanted grilled steak for dinner, and I wanted a BLT. So I made the BLT into a side dish and we both got our way. Ahhh, marriage and the art of compromise... —Meredith Shanley
Food52 Review: What struck us immediately about Meredith Shanley's recipe was its cleverness. That and the fact that it calls for bacon. In a smart maneuver, Meredith not only uses cubed bacon in the salad, but she saves some of the drippings for the dressing, a bright lemony affair made creamy with Dijon mustard and a touch of mayo. The juices from the tomatoes meld with the dressing, helping to make a little go a long way, and peppery arugula keeps the salad from being too rich. Resist the temptation to use too much bread, or the salad won't be balanced the way it should be. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 4
For the Salad
large loaf ciabatta bread, cubed
small to medium sized tomatoes, largely diced
ounces slab bacon, cut into cubes
handfuls arugula, roughly chopped
Creamy Lemon Dressing
lemon, juiced
zest of 1/4 lemon
teaspoon Dijon mustard
teaspoon leftover bacon drippings
tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
teaspoons mayonnaise
Salt and fresh cracked pepper, to taste
- Preheat oven to 350.
- In a single layer on a cookie sheet, place cubed bread. Toast in oven until golden and dried through completely.
- In a medium sized saute pan, cook bacon until slightly crispy and nicely browned. Remove to paper towels, reserve 1 tsp drippings.
- Combine the dijon, lemon juice, zest, salt and pepper to taste.
- Whisk together bacon drippings and olive oil, then add in a slow stream to Dijon mixture.
- Once dressing is emulsified, whisk in mayonnaise until fully incorporated and slightly creamy.
- Toss tomatoes, bacon, bread, salt and fresh cracked black pepper with dressing.
- Just before serving, toss in arugula. Check for seasoning, serve.
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One thing I would add, which is specific for the iDevices would be text size adjusting. I had a problem with my tumblog a while back where Mobile Safari would increase the text size of the content area, so much so that it would make the text larger than the H1's and H2's. This can be easily remedied by adding this to the CSS to stop Safari from automatically adjusting any text:
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If you were a girl in the 80s or 90s, odds are you carried some fresh-ass Lisa Frank insanity with pride. Whether it was a unicorn shitting sparkles on your binder or a cracked-out koala bear clinging to a rainbow tree for dear life on your jumbo pencil, this magical shit grabbed our imaginations and our parents' cold hard cash. Well, if you want to relive precious childhood memories, and also really love COLOR!, the bitch is back, and Urban Outfitters, the store you'll never admit you spend all your money in, has gotten their hands on some of her finest deadstock, and are selling it at measly four billion percent markup.
I don't know if there's a more Urban Outfitters thing that Urban Outfitters could do than to bring back Lisa Frank? Well, maybe if they made their own version, Fisa Lank, and then hoarded all the money forever, but honestly, buying all this actually old shit and reselling it is probably just cheaper than stealing ideas. ALLEGEDLY.
The Lisa Frank goodies includes notepads, stickers, and my favorite: JUMBO ERASERS! Like erasers, but huge, colorful, sometimes sparkly, and always extra smelly. Bring them all to me immediately. Or don't, save your money and buy drugs, it's a cheaper high.
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TROY - Identifying and preventing bullying will be the topic of an April 4 Civic Issues Forum at Troy University.
The forum, presented by the University's Office of Service Learning and Civic Engagement in conjunction with the David Mathews Center for Civic Life, will be held in room 212 of the Trojan Center beginning at 5 p.m. on Thursday. It is the second of four forums in which students from First-Year Learning Communities will lead discussions about topics of importance in today's society.
Students from the Healthy Futures Learning Community will lead the discussion on identifying and preventing bullying.
"Each year the Mathews Center, through which these forums are funded, takes on a different civic concern. This year's focus is on bullying," said Jonathon Cellon, coordinator of learning initiatives in the University's Office of First Year Studies. "When you look at the statistics dealing with the instances, as well as the consequences of bullying it is pretty mind-blowing. Through these forums we hope not only to bring awareness to the issue but also form strategies for dealing with the problem throughout our community."
The series of forums kicked off on March 28 as students examined what role communities play in preparing children for tomorrow's jobs. The forums will continue on April 11 examining the topic "Shaping Our Future: How Should Higher Education Help Us Create the Society We Want?" and wrap up on April 18 with the discussion "Sustaining Ourselves: How Can We Best Meet the Needs of Today and Tomorrow?"
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Beth Bechky joined New York University Stern School of Business in July 2013 as a Professor of Management and Organizations with a courtesy appointment in NYU's Department of Sociology. She teaches courses in managing high performance teams and negotiations.
Professor Bechky is an ethnographer who studies interactions and dynamics at organizational and occupational boundaries. She is interested in how workers collaborate to solve problems, coordinate their activities, respond to surprises and innovate. She has published her work in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science and American Journal of Sociology.
Professor Bechky is the co-editor of Qualitative Organizational Research and was formerly a senior editor at Organization Science. She was on the council of the Organization, Occupations and Work division of the American Sociological Association from 2009-2012.
Prior to joining NYU Stern, Professor Bechky held professorial positions at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Graduate School of Management at the University of California Davis.
Professor Bechky received a B.S. (with Honors) from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, and an M.A. in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University.
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I am using linux mint 15, 64-bit, cinnamon. The root partition was formatted before installation, but I initially used an existing home folder (from mint 13). However, the behaviour persists in a new account. The same icons are missing in cinnamon, KDE and XFCE (which is why I posted this here, there is no general desktop forum to post this). I also tested with the live CD, and the icons are missing there as well.
Initially system tray icons do move, and there seems to be an attempt to render the icon, however, only a black bar is included for less than 50th of a second (see attachment for screenshot).
Searches resulted in several articles about completely missing system trays and some patched issues from older distros. It also resulted in this possibly relevant old thread: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=112348, this unfortunately did not offer a solution.
I really hope someone can help me fix this, the missing media player icons are not really a problem, but liferea becomes much less useful without a tray icon.
To fix this I tried:
- -changing the desktop theme
-using a different desktop manager
-using a new user
-reinstalling affected programs
-reinstalling cinnamon
- -system tray site:linuxmint.com
-linux mint 15 system tray
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-linux mint 15 icons missing
-linux mint 15 notification area icons missing
-linux mint 15 system tray icons missing
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System: Host: xxxxxx Kernel: 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.7.3) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 15 Olivia
Machine: Mobo: Medion model: X6816 version: 1.0 Bios: American Megatrends version: 206 date: 11/21/2011
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-2670QM CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 17558
Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz 3: 800.00 MHz 4: 800.00 MHz 5: 800.00 MHz 6: 800.00 MHz 7: 2201.00 MHz 8: 800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
Card-2: NVIDIA GF106M [GeForce GT 555M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
X.org: 1.13.3 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) tty size: 154x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio: Card: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.8.0-19-generic
Network: Card-1: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak] driver: iwlwifi ver: in-tree: bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 9000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 750.2GB (37.9% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_HN size: 750.2GB temp: 39C
Partition: ID: / size: 28G used: 11G (40%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 351G used: 255G (77%) fs: ext3
ID: swap-1 size: 10.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 240 Uptime: 1:31 Memory: 1902.9/5879.9MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.7.3 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4
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[Info 19:13:52.185] Running Banshee 2.6.0: [Ubuntu quantal (development branch) (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2012-10-09 14:30:02 UTC]
[Warn 19:13:53.066] Caught an exception - System.ApplicationException: Invalid frame dimensions (in `Hyena.Gui')
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OSEC Congressional Testimony
Testimony of Robert B. Reich Secretary of Labor, before the House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Trade, U.S. Trade Competitiveness and Workforce Education and Training, [7/25/96]
Mr. Chairman, Congressman Rangel, members of the subcommittee:
I am delighted to have the opportunity to present testimony today and I look forward to answering any questions you may have.
Let me commend you for holding this hearing, because I believe you are on to something here. You are making the right connections -- the right links.
For America to succeed in the 21st Century, our industries must succeed in the global marketplace.
For our industries to succeed, their workers must be highly productive.
And for workers to be highly productive, they must have the education and training necessary to keep them in tune with the onward march of technology.
As America moves further into this age of information and global competition, it becomes increasingly important that we make critical investments in our "human capital" -- that is, in the knowledge, education and skills of our workers.
Today, tomorrow and far into the future, a highly-skilled workforce is and will be our comparative advantage.
It's true on a national scale and it's true for individual companies, as well. One study has found companies that introduced formal employee training programs experienced a 19 percent larger rise in productivity than firms which did not train their workers. Two recent studies of 3,000 businesses showed that a ten percent increase in the average educational level of the workers paid off with productivity increases of between five and nine percent in the manufacturing sector, and six to 13 percent in the non-manufacturing sector.
The fact is, Mr. Chairman, training works. Don't just take my word for it. George David, the CEO of United Technologies -- which is spending millions of dollars to help employees get more education -- put it best: "It's in our interest to have an educated workforce."
I could give you volumes more from CEOs, economists, investors and academics about these payoffs, and how a better-trained, better educated workforce is so vitally important to the future of the nation's enterprises.
Last Sunday, The New York Times ran a lengthy article about the new, well-paying, high-skill jobs that are being created by this economy in great abundance. The article focused on the Minneapolis area, where the jobless rate is less than three percent and employers are reporting that they're having trouble finding enough workers who have the necessary skills to fill these good-paying jobs.
And Minneapolis, the article indicates, mirrors the national economy.
Which begs the question: How do we grow this economy in a non-inflationary way? It seems to me that raising the skill levels of workers -- and with it their productivity and the nation's competitiveness -- is, and should be, a vital part of the equation.
Nowhere, however, has the impact of education, or lack of it, been felt more acutely than in the homes of America's working families.
Skills have always made a difference in income, but today that difference is enormous. Earnings for men without college degrees -- three out of four working men -- have fallen by 12 percent since 1979. And, over the same time period, the income gap between men with college degrees and those with high school diplomas has widened from 49 percent to 96 percent. For women, the disparity has gone from 44 percent to 84 percent.
One study, reported in the newspaper the other day, says that this gap may be levelling off. But whether it's 70 percent, 80 percent or 90 percent, it's a substantial difference. And other research indicates that the least-educated are less likely to improve their skill levels over the course of their careers.
Americans whose skills are out of date, or out of sync with the economy, risk falling farther behind.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about half of the new jobs that will be generated over the next decade will require some post-high school education, and many will require advanced technological skills.
Left unchecked, the widening disparities in income and opportunity can undermine the coherence of our society. A society too sharply divided between winners and losers cannot win in the global competition of the 21st Century.
So what do we do about it?
Getting the economy moving again -- creating a framework for businesses and working families to succeed -- has been the first order of business in this administration. Under our watch, unemployment is down, interest rates are down, inflation is low, and the economy has generated 10 million new jobs.
But there's a second challenge, and that is restoring wage growth and economic security for the majority of working families, and making the American dream of opportunity for all a reality for all who are willing to work for it.
And central to the task of meeting that challenge is to help Americans get more education and build their skills. Doing so is important to working families. It's important to our industries. It's important to our future competitiveness.
That's why the President has proposed to expand our standard of education from 12 to 14 years. He would do that through tax credits that would enable virtually anyone to attend two years of community college at no cost. Those credits could also be used for job training and re-training.
Or, families could get tax deductions of up to $10,000 a year to help them offset college tuition costs.
The President has also consistently favored the exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance under Section 127 of the IRS Code. And he has called for a new small business tax credit for 10 percent of the amounts paid for employee education and training.
We're working to change our unemployment system into a re-employment system that will help dislocated workers get the training they need to move them into new and better jobs.
We have begun the process of working with the states to set up "One Stop Career Centers." Any job seeker can go to these centers and get information on where the jobs are, where the training is, and how to get it.
We're proposing to put more power into the hands of unemployed, dislocated workers by combining scores of federal job training programs into a simple voucher that they can use as they please to get the training they feel they need.
In partnership with state and local governments, and the private sector, we're continuing to build School-to-Work opportunities throughout the country. Since its enactment two years ago, states report that more than a half-million high-school students have participated in School-to-Work programs in communities nationwide. Businesses are also becoming involved, with many students getting real job experience with participating companies. This initiative is preparing young Americans for the jobs of the future.
School-to-Work, training vouchers or "skill-grants," and our efforts to help dislocated workers find new jobs -- all are important components of our strategy of building a highly-skilled workforce that will keep our nation prosperous in the new global economy.
These initiatives have received broad, bipartisan support in the past. The nation's business leaders have been supportive. And that's why it is so disheartening that the President's workforce development legislation has been stalled here in the Congress. The attacks from outside groups on School-to-Work and America's Job Bank have been distorted, misleading and outrageous. America's workers deserve better. America deserves better.
So we'll fight on -- because our economic competitiveness is at stake, because these initiatives work, and because they are right for the economic future of our country.
Inevitably, some workers, particularly those with lower-skills, will be displaced by trade. That is precisely why we should continue to fund programs such as the Trade Adjustment Act and NAFTA-TAA -- so that we can ensure that these workers, who are hit hardest by the effects of trade, have an opportunity to re-enter the workforce with enhanced skills. Further, we need to continue to support Title III of the Job Training Partnership Act, which serves workers who have been affected by other economic changes.
And we must continue to seek ways to use education, training and job-placement initiatives as a vehicle of hope for those who live in America's most impoverished areas -- places where jobs are scarce and the prospects for employment are diminished. We simply cannot expect to build a world-class workforce while so many are left behind.
On that point, let me commend Congressmen Rangel and Houghton for their work in reshaping the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit into the new Work Opportunity Tax Credit. The bills that have passed the House and Senate address many of my concerns and those of the Office of Inspector General, and I look forward to working with you further as they are taken up in conference.
There is one other element of our strategy, Mr. Chairman, which I believe is also vitally important to this challenge -- and that is encouraging the private sector to do more to upgrade the skills of their workers.
We know that government cannot possibly do what is needed to ensure that more than 100 million working Americans get the opportunity to learn more, to work smarter and to stay ahead of the technological curve. In fact, we are paring back the amount of resources that government devotes to this task.
So the private sector has to do more. Many companies are going the extra mile to help their workers upgrade their skills. And they are making money in the process.
At the President's conference on corporate citizenship here in Washington a couple of months ago, we heard the CEO's of several companies -- large and small -- outline their strategies for increasing worker education and training. We heard about on-site education centers offering basic math and reading courses to production workers. We heard about college tuition reimbursements and in-house training programs to which every worker must devote five percent of his or her work time. We heard about huge investments of company resources on training.
So, many companies are taking the ball and running with it. We ought to be encouraging others to follow their lead.
Mr. Chairman, there is no doubt that this nation has the resources to make its workforce the most productive on the planet. Doing so would make us a shoe-in to win the global economy of the 21st Century. The question is whether or not this nation's institutions will join together to make the necessary investments in the skills of our people.


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In the new issue of Ms. magazine - now on newsstands - Money editor Martha Burk reveals how women will get another nasty Valentine this year from President George W. Bush: an annual budget request that cuts a wide range of programs affecting mostly women and redistributes that money to tax cuts and spending that mostly benefit men.
As the Bush budget slashes funding for education, childcare, health research, Medicaid, food stamps and job training - vital programs that benefit women - Burk says it's time we place the budget under tough scrutiny with a new type of analysis known as gender budgeting. Employed in the U.K. and other parts of the world, gender budgeting evaluates national budgets for gender fairness, looking at how apparently gender-neutral models and policy-making tools may actually have an implicit gender bias.
For instance, Burk takes a hard look at the war in Iraq , which provides huge government contracts to male-dominated companies and creates jobs almost exclusively for men. Burk points out exactly what those war monies could buy: For example, just one day of the war could buy health care for 423,529 kids, or homes for 6,500 families. And for the cost of just 3 hours and 34 minutes of the war, the U.S. could annually fund the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, which provides food for expectant mothers, babies and the elderly poor.
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|2011-07-02, 15:42
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EMDAS 2011 - July (Searching!) Entry Thread
Entries! (July 2-23)Welcome to the July EMDAS Writing Competition!
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Theme: Searching!
June Winner: WordShaker - "You Can't Help It"
This month's theme is 'Searching'. "Be it literal or metaphorical, we're almost constantly looking for something." -WordShaker
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I'm coming up with something now, hopefully I'll be able to complete an entry by the end of the week.
What I'm expecting to see though is something meta, like an entry about "A (failed) search for a good thing to write about..."
|2011-07-21, 06:59
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Act II - Night Eternal
Countless years passed since Lilet and her would be assailants died a pitiful death in Silver Moon Castle. Few in her home town of Oasis remembers that night, and nobody in the mountain town of Six Forks had even heard word of it; well, with the exception of one—but even in death he would not speak of it.
It is summer in the town of Six Forks, or at least what the locals would call summer. Being a northern mountain city summer just means a lower chance of blizzards, longer days in the chilling sunlight, tamer winds, and of course fewer avalanches. But all is not gloomy in town, because this year is special. This year is the 40th year in the kings reign and as tradition would have it, every ten years a festival is held. Lords and ladies from across the realm will gather and bring forth their champions, sons and on some occasions their daughters in a bid to gain favor for their house. The festival is not limited to nobility however, anyone may participate as long as they have acceptable coin in hand. Each festival many strange warriors from foreign lands joined in, poisoned by the allure of the grand prize, a hefty percent of all entry fees. In a past festivals a lowly mercenary recruited by the military even became a rich lord, all though application of brute force and a little bit of luck.
The festival has yet to begin but carriages and horses trample can be heard as the masses of participants squeeze though the narrow mountain passes and flooding into the town. A small boy, who goes by the nickname of Winter, no bigger or smarter then a plank, watches in awe the nobles passing though the gates and streets of town and riding towards the upper houses and fancy taverns though the the serpent road. The one and only road though the entire town. The boy, and his band of hooligans, know what the nobles want, they know how in a few moons all of these rich bastards will depart for the summit, at the end of the serpent, where they will battle in the ancient arena.
"We should go Winter." said January pulling on Winters ragsJanuary moved back and the others, December and February, were left dumbfounded for a moment by his grand speech, but quickly followed with a shout of acknowledgement. Winter and the rest continued to admire the rich bastards for a few hours more but eventually they got hungry and returned to their secret base where they had burrowed some supplies from the orphanage. There they plotted of a way to get into the festival proceedings, and join the fray. None of them really thought about the part where they would have to fight and win, sadly thinking wasn't one of Winters qualities as a leader. But still, the little runt came up with a plan, which by his own words was just stupid enough to actually work. The rest all exited by his little stroke of genius committed to it as well.
According to Winters plan they gather all their secret supplies of food and journey to the third peek. There a group of mercenaries was sent to recover a mountain lion tooth for a certain sorcerer. They will sneak up on them at night and steal the tooth then accept the reward from the sorcerer on their behalf. They took with them weapons, stolen a year and a half ago from the cellar of a burnt up house, they were all pretty much scrap metal as far as anyone was concerned but for Winter they were treasure.
Meanwhile as Winter and conspirators tracked though shortcuts in the mountain, deep deep down at the bottoms of the earth someone finally awoke. Heart still, voice cut, Lilet found herself in a giant pit with spikes all around her. There was no air, no feeling, just a still calmness and a sense of shifting. As she looked up black rocks seemingly floated above her, and a swirl of darkness covered the top, the only exit. As she moved forward and tried to grab on to a rock her hand just passed though. She tried again and in frustration with effort she finally was able to grab on. She slowly pulled herself out of the pit and went into the darkness at the top. As she come out a chill went though her spine as behind her the pit she had emerged from was filled with molten lava. She paused for a moment, took a deep breath and with an unnerving calm called Mephistos name.
"Awake at last I see." said Mephisto echoing though her mindLilet did as Mephisto suggested and went to the pond. She placed both hands on the molten rock and surprisingly to her felt no fear and second thoughts in doing so. As she focused silver flowed into her and formed her bones and wove itself into gloves, chains and knightish gear around her. Ash formed into gloves, boots and covered part of her spirit hair, while various poisonous gases condensed and formed into skin.
"Feeling better?" said MephistoMephisto did not answer, instead a airy silence swept in. Lilet could feel he didn't want to tell her, and after a few moments she asked another question instead.
"What happened to the sword?"Lilet paused for a moment and recollected on events past, a life lost. She took in the demon's explanation but still thought more about the time which had passed since her death.
"Where are you?" said LiletLilet felt strange talking with the demon so much, and just proceeded to find the exit of the volcanic cave. She followed the gust of air and eventually after spinning around in circles a few times reached an exit. What she saw however made her wish she would have gotten lost forever. To her right forests of mushrooms and vines grew from the ceiling and reached heights even the largest of buildings she had seen in her lifetime could not contest with. In the distance she could see stalactite the size of mountains, but more terrifying of all was what was bellow her. An endless pit as large as an ocean and as deep as the sky. It was as if the world had been turned upside down, literally.
1486 words. Had to cut a little bit at the end of the chapter to make it fit, but I don't think it lost much. You can read the extra paragraph and dialog in the archive version. Sorry for any typos, just wrote it in one go, since I'm a tad busy; hopefully I'll have more time next month.
Since it's close to the end, I'll just call it final entry.
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|2011-07-21, 23:14
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Two entities stood upon the sacred alter; one on the ascending steps, the other at the very top. A ghostly voice once again echoed across the ruin walls.
"Again, I ask thee..."
"Humanity loves it more than life,
They fear it more than death.
The wealthy yearn for it,
The poor are its abundant keepers."
The man swallowed hard as he glanced back towards the bottom of the stairs. It was at this point that he considered that disturbing these sacred ruins might have been a bad idea. No amount of treasure could amount to the blood that had already been shed.
'Answer, or suffer as they did.'
No contributory thoughts entered the man's mind. His entire body trembled as the scent of fresh blood once again entered his nostrils. If he didn't want to end up like the others, a response would have to be constructed.
"There's a key part to this." he thought.
The entire irony of this question seemed to be that it was directly targeting his group. They spent their days keeping to themselves and treasuring only their vast wealth; a starving, dying person on the street would mean nothing to them. Perhaps the idea was to associate themselves directly to the 'humanity' that was referred to in the riddle.
'Humanity loves it more than life.' He thought of Sam, the first man to answer. A wild gambler who took every chance he had to gain money, he had joined the group for that sole reason.
'They fear it more than death.' The one that entered his mind was William, the serial rapist that had been living the majority of his life as a criminal. With his record, they would definitely put him on death row if caught, yet here he was without a care.
'The wealthy yearn for it.' Turning back, he saw Alexander, the treasure hunter that had set up the entire trip. Blinded by riches, he had only invited people of his type to come along.
'The poor are its abundant keepers.' Miles was someone that the man knew too well. The murderer of his sickly mother who had been released due to a lack of evidence.
His heart ached as he attempted to look at himself as a human.
"And I am Kyle Browne, the spiteful and hateful individual that killed Miles. I should be dead like the rest of them, but here I stand. What do I now value more than life? What do I now fear more than death? What do I, a hateful man, yearn for? What do the beggars on the street own that I don't?
Taking a deep breath, Kyle faced the ghostly spirit hovering over the locked box.
"My answer is...nothing."
The spirit let out a shrieking sound as it evaporated into the heavens. Reaching the top of the alter where the treasure box lied, Kyle gave it a soft brushing with his hand and turned around to face his dead companions.
"For you, greedy humanity. Everything you deserve is in here."
I'm going to post this as my final entry as well- didn't have much time to think about this month's entry.
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Nasdaq Meltdown Prompts Questions
A technical glitch knocked out trading in Nasdaq securities for three hours, an unprecedented meltdown that highlighted the fragility of the financial world's electronic backbone. Chris Dieterich discusses on the News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Maplegum (Enterprises)
Maplegum (Enterprises) has been established by a Canadian born business woman permanently residing in Australia - hence the name which is a combination of the two countries' most iconic native trees...the Maple tree (leaf) of Canada and the Gum tree (leaf) of Australia.
With the business founder herself being a hybrid of Canadian and Australian heritage and citizenship, she wanted the business name to reflect her personal affinity for both countries as well as the potentially International nature of the business.
Just as a Maple or Gum tree has one main trunk with many branches growing off of it - so too does this business structure. Maplegum Enterprises is essentially a holding company under which several diverse businesses currently operate / will operate in the future.
In the future, each branch of the business will use the root name of "Maplegum" followed by the business descriptor - ie) Maplegum Consulting, Maplegum Events, etc.
For now, the name Maplegum Enterprises will be used on the business cards and business stationery.
Finally, the name Maplegum was also chosen for its association with imagery and adjectives that describe these trees as well as the business itself....budding opportunity, growth, evolution over time, diverse branches, freshness, vibrancy, turning over new leaves and inspiring.
Please consider these descriptors in your stationery design work.
The challenge with specifying the target audience in this instance, is that due to the diverse nature of the varied businesses under the Maplegum name - the target audiences are also varied and diverse.
In some instances the business will be dealing with consumers and in other instances a variety of organisations and corporations. For the most part, within all of these scenarios, the audiences will be made up of men and women (in relatively equal proportions) aged 30 - 60 with an active, optimistic, empowered approach to business and life.
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Business Stationery design ideas using the Maplegum Enterprises logo and elements for (1) Business Cards (2) Note Cards (3) Letterhead.
Business name is Maplegum Enterprises and company logo attached in ai file.
Notes about logo:
(i) Maplegum is primary business name and Enterprises sub-business name.
(ii) Logo font style to remain unchanged.
(iii) Green primary colour. Black/greyscale can be used for "Enterprises" and other text.
(iii) When used with Maplegum name, the maple & gum leaves should hang together off the M.
(iv) Entwined maple & gum leaves can also appear (together) on their own (without Maplegum) within the designs.
Challenge is to avoid looking "Christmas-like".
- Landscape
- 91mm x 55mm (incl 1mm bleed)
- Single or double sided print
(a) Maplegum Enterprises
(b) Laura Ovens, Managing Director
(c) Mobile: +61 xxx xxx xxx
(d) email: firstname.lastname@example.com
(e) Address: Level 1, 810 Pacific Hwy, Gordon NSW 2072
(f) web: http://www.maplegum.com.au
- A5 folded landscape (210mm long x 150mm wide unfolded) and (105mm long x 150mm wide folded) + allow 1mm bleed.
- Logo on front of card
- Contact info on back
- Blank or faint watermark on inside
Specs: A4 page (300mm long x 210mm wide)


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Ed Miliband's tuition fees policy would favour people on £72k pa
Liberal think tank Centre Forum has been busy crunching some numbers, and their findings don't make happy reading for Labour's seemingly-doomed leader.
Ed Miliband has made a big socalist play of his alleged plans to force nasty bankers to subsidise cheaper degrees for the bright teenage children of hard-working families.
Yet through its complexities, Miliband's plan would typically benefit "graduates in their fifties earning £72,500".
The study says: "Virtually no one in the bottom half of the earnings distribution, and virtually no one under the age of 35, will stand to gain from Labour's plan."
The policy of lumping further taxes on the financial sector "will be harmful during a period of economic recovery".
It also adds: "Given the way that the student loan system works, the majority of the gains are illusory – what government gives on one hand, it takes back on the other."
Indeed. Taking with one hand to give back (less) with the other. Nice to know someone else has noticed that.
Anyway, it looks like Our Vince is happy with the report:
"I would urge anyone attracted to Labour's proposals to read this very informative analysis," Vince said. "It makes clear that the policy only benefits wealthier, older graduates, and it exposes Labour's claim that they want to help young people as completely false."
You can read the report BY CLICKING HERE .Tags: Centre Forum, Ed Miliband, Labour, Student fees


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Most, if not all, IT workers are hard-core geeks at heart. And like most geeks, they experience full-on techno lust for cool and unusual gadgets.
Of course, IT geeks appreciate many of the same gadgets that appeal to general consumers. But for this list, rather than include the usual suspects such as iPads, iPhones and Kindles, we've decided to focus on gadgets that have a very special geek angle, which goes a long way toward making them the perfect gifts for the fellow IT geeks on your list.
Canon EOS-1D X
The Canon EOS-1D X DLSR is a feature-rich camera for the prosumer, so why include it in our round-up? The built-in Gigabit Ethernet jack used to transfer images over the wire. The transmission is automatic, too. Pick the images to transfer, and the camera will wait until it has a connection before sending, making it easy to go from the field or studio right into a workflow.-- Mike Fratto
Price: $4,999
FXI Technologies Cotton Candy
What's 3.1 inches long, 1 inch wide, less than half an inch tall and packs a quad-core ARM A9 1.2 GHz processor, quad-core GPU, 802.1 b/g/n, Bluetooth, 1 Gigabyte RAM, a micro-SF slot, and a USB and HDMI connector? FXI Technologies' Cotton Candy. A tiny computer that relies on an external USB power source and HDMI-capable screen, Cotton Candy can run Android or Ubuntu Linux, and a virtualization client for other operating systems. While it's not available yet, your geeky loved ones will gladly take an IOU and wait for this puppy to ship. -- Mike Fratto
Price: Not disclosed; rumored to be $200
Google Translate
Probably the coolest mobile app I've ever used, Google Translate is the closest thing to the universal translator from Star Trek. Google Translate can translate text between nearly all languages, but the coolest thing is its conversation mode, which makes it possible to have a back-and-forth conversation with someone while the app translates each side of the conversation. -- Jim Rapoza
Price: Free
HP TouchPad
My pick for gadget of the year is HP's TouchPad tablet computer. Like the majority of the world, I thought tablet PCs had a very limited market for vertical applications like healthcare. Then Apple came along and convinced the majority of the world that life without a tablet wasn't worth living. As with the iPod and iPhone, the company re-imagined a technology and virtually overnight stood atop a mushrooming market that nobody else had envisioned. However, after playing with an iPad, I again decided to pass on tablets as something that didn't fit into my needs or budget. And then along came HP, which broke through my tablet indifference by offering the TouchPad at one-fifth its manufacturing cost. At $100, I suddenly saw the light and realized my long-buried tablet envy--right up until they decided not to produce the system any longer and ran out of units before I could get my hands on one! -- Steve Wexler
Price: $100, if you can find one.
Kogeto dot
Kogeto's dot is a lens attachment for the iPhone 4 and 4S that turns the lens into a panoramic camera. You can shoot 360-degree video and, using the app, you can play the video back and swipe to rotate the view. You can share your videos with your friends, using either another iPhone or Flash in a browser. The app doesn't support stills or streaming. -- Mike Fratto
Price: $79
Kymera Magic Wand Remote Control
Who doesn't want to point a wand at a TV and make it do your bidding? With a limited number of gestures, the Kymera Magic Wand Remote Control lets you do most common functions with a flick of your wrist. Yelling magic phrases, optional. -- Mike Fratto
Price: $89
Movi: Cisco TelePresence On the Go
When people think of Cisco TelePresence, they think of the room-based studios costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, but Cisco has broadened its portfolio to include more sensible and affordable TelePresence options, including Movi, an HD camera that clips onto a laptop and plugs into a USB port. The camera works on the Cisco Callway hosted service, which, for $99 a month, allows mobile workers to join an HD videoconference on the fly. Movi is typically sold to enterprises that distribute multiple units to their road warriors, so it's not like you can pick up one camera for yourself at Best Buy. Still, it's a way to make TelePresence more approachable. -- Robert Mullins
Price: $99 per month
Obscura Digital Pool Table
If you like billiards and high tech, you can combine them into the coolest pool table on the planet, the Obscura Digital Pool Table. Three different effects are available to suit your moods. It can fit your existing table or be shipped with one. -- Mike Fratto
Price: $25,000
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18 October 2011
Although the Honda S2000 is one of our favorite all time cars, one of the parts we like the least about the car is the brake system. Although they are perfectly adequate for street duty, the stock brakes do not match the excellent handling ability of the car and are not up to snuff for track day use. S2000s that are tracked heavily, especially on non-staggered setups running 245 or 255 width front tires, are prone to cracking front rotors. The added traction from the wider front tires means more braking power and therefore more heat the front brakes must dissipate. This added heat is simply beyond the capacity of the stock brakes' design, leading to oft cracked rotors.
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September 9, 2013
Chef is a configuration management system that is widely deployed by Operations teams around the world. Tools like Chef can bring sanity and uniformity when deploying a massive Riak cluster; however, as with any tool, it needs to be reliably tested, as any misconfiguration could bring down systems. Here is the story of Chef and Riak.
The first public Chef Cookbook was pushed to Github on July 18, 2011, back when Riak 0.14.2 was the latest and greatest. We started by making the basic updates for releases but, as both the Riak and Chef user base grew, so did the number of issues and pull requests. Even with some automation, testing was still time consuming, error prone, and problematic. Too much time was being spent catching bugs manually, a familiar story for anyone who has had to test any software.
Our initial reaction was to only keep what we knew users (primarily customers) were using. As testing the build from source was so time consuming, it was removed until we could later ensure that it be properly tested. We knew that we had to start automating this testing pipeline to not only maintain quality, but sanity. Fortunately, Chef's testing frameworks were beginning to come into their own and a free continuous integration service for GitHub repositories called TravisCI was starting to take off. However, before talking about the testing frameworks, we need to cover two tools that help make this robust testing possible.
Vagrant is a tool that leverages virtualization and cloud providers, so users don't have to maintain custom static virtual machines. Vagrant was on the rise when we started the cookbooks and was indispensable for early testing. While it didn't offer us a completely automated solution, it was far ahead of anything else at the time and serves as a great building block for our testing today.
There are also a variety of useful plugins that we use in conjunction with it, including vagrant-berkshelf and vagrant-omnibus. The former integrates Vagrant and Berkshelf so each Vagrant "box" has its own self-contained set of cookbooks that it uses and the latter allows for easy testing of any version of Chef.
Berkshelf manages dependencies for Chef cookbooks – like a Bundler Gemfile for cookbooks. It allows users to identify and pin a known good version, bypassing the potential headaches of trying to keep multiple cookbooks in sync.
Now, back to testing frameworks.
Enter Foodcritic
Foodcritic is a Ruby gem used to lint cookbooks. This not only checks for basic syntax errors that would prevent a recipe from converging, but also for style inconsistencies and best practices. Foodcritic has a set of rules that it checks cookbooks against. While most of them are highly recommended, there may be a few that don't apply to all cookbooks and can be ignored on execution. Combine this with TravisCI, and each commit or pull request to GitHub is automatically tested.
While this is helpful, it still didn't actually help us test that the cookbooks worked. Luckily, we weren't the only ones with this issue, which is why Fletcher Nichol wrote test-kitchen.
Test-kitchen is another Ruby gem that helps to integrate test cookbooks using a variety of drivers (we use the Vagrant driver). For products like Riak and Riak CS, there are a number of supported platforms that we need to run the cookbook against, and that's exactly what this tool accomplishes.
In the configuration file for test-kitchen, we define the permutation of Vagrant box, run list, and attributes for testing as many cases for the cookbook as needed. With this, we are able to execute simple
Minitests against multiple platforms and we can also test both our enterprise and open source builds at any version by configuring attributes appropriately.
Granted, if you need to spin up a ton of virtual machines in parallel, you'll want a beefy machine, but the upside is that you'll have a nice status report to know which permutation of platform/build/version failed.
Why is This Important?
With these tools, we are able to make sure our builds pass all tests across platforms. Since we have many customers deploying the latest Riak and Riak CS version with Chef, we need to ensure that everything works as expected. These tools allowed us to move from testing every cookbook change manually to automatically testing the permutations of operating system, Chef, and Riak versions.
Now everyone gets a higher quality cookbook and there are fewer surprises for those maintaining it. Testing has shifted from a chore to a breeze. This benefits not only our users, but ourselves included as these cookbooks are used to maintain our
Riak CS demo service.
Check out our
Docs Site for more information about installing Riak with Chef.
Special thanks to Joshua Timberman (advice), Fletcher Nichol (test-kitchen), Hector Castro (reviews and PRs), Mitchell Hashimoto (Vagrant), and Jamie Winsor (Berkshelf).


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The renaissance of direct current power transmission: why now and what makes it special?
Direct current is currently enjoying a renaissance of sorts. It can be transmitted over long distances, which means it may help solve a variety of energy-related issues throughout the world. This use of direct current technology has the potential to expand the scope of power grids in general and transform the world's energy landscape as we know it.Learn more ►


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National Film Preservation Foundation
Grants ranging from $1,000 to $18,000 to USA nonprofit and public institutions to preserve noncommercial film materials that have historical and cultural significance. Applicants must register by January 26, 2018. Grant funds must be used for preservation expenses only and may not be applied to operational, staffing, or shipping costs (with the special exception of nitrate materials).
The grant must be used to pay for new laboratory work involving the creation of:
- New film preservation elements (which may include soundtracks) and
- Two new public access copies, one of which must be a film print.
- Closed captioning for sound films destined for online or television exhibition.
GrantWatch ID#: 178260
The cash award ranges from $1,000 to $18,000.
The grant period runs from June 2018 to August 2019. The funds can be applied only to work commissioned after the grant start date.
Grants are available to public and 501(c)3 nonprofit institutions in the United States that provide public access to their collections, including those that are part of federal, state or local government. The grants target orphan films (1) made in the United States or by American citizens abroad and (2) not protected by commercial interests.
Materials originally created for television or video are not eligible, including works produced with funds from broadcast or cable television entities.
How to apply:
1. Identify film or footage collection to be preserved
Identify materials in your collection that meet the criteria listed above and decide what laboratory work needs to be done. For guidance on planning a preservation project, please consult The Film Preservation Guide: The Basics for Archives, Libraries, and Museums (attached).
2. Register with the NFPF
E-mail the NFPF regarding your archive's interest in applying. Provide your name, institution, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, and a brief description of your project. The NFPF will then contact you to discuss your project.
If your project meets the eligibility requirements, you will be invited to submit a letter of application. The registration deadline is January 26, 2018.
3. Complete a proposal with laboratory cost estimate
Write a proposal in the form of a letter (4 to 6 pages), with one laboratory estimate (NFPF grants do not cover administrative costs). Applicants may provide up to five digital still images or a video copy of the proposed project.
4. Submit application
All applications are due by February 23, 2018. Applicants will be notified regarding grant decisions in June 2018.
The Film Preservation Guide: http://www.filmpreservation.org/preservation-basics/the-film-preservation-guide-download
Before starting your grant application, please review the funding source's website listed below for updates/changes/addendums/conferences/LOIs.
Register to apply and submit applications as PDF or Word files to: email@example.com
Or mail in hard copy applications to the following address:
National Film Preservation Foundation
145 Ninth Street, Suite 260
San Francisco, CA 94103
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Ryan Dafforn, College Coach & Former Purdue Swimmer, Opens Up About Coming Out
When he came out during to his Purdue teammates during his senior year, Ryan Dafforn was quickly recognized as a trailblazer. Now, as a college coach, Dafforn opens up about his decision to make a big splash and be himself a few years back.
In a blog posted at Go Athletes today, Ryan writes:
My name is Ryan Dafforn. I'm originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and am currently a graduate assistant coach for the swim and dive teams at Defiance College, an NCAA Division 3 School in Defiance, Ohio. From 2007-2011, I was a swimmer and four-year-varsity-letter-winner for the Purdue University Boilermakers men's swim and dive team. It was during my senior year that I came out to my team.
Before I get to that part, though, I don't want to give the wrong impression: the realization and understanding that occurred on my road to self acceptance was difficult. I struggled heavily with understanding and accepting who I was. Everything I was told by society, surroundings, and friends up to that point said that being gay was wrong, unnatural, and weird. Non-straight people were killed, shamed, disowned; I didn't want that for myself. Fortunately, one thing that I never questioned was that my parents and my sisters would never stop loving me, no matter what I told them or confessed to them. This was in large part to the relationship I knew I shared with each of them and the love I knew they had for me. I was very fortunate. This doesn't mean I wasn't scared. I was terrified and nervous at the thought of coming out to my family despite our bond.
My friends and teammates at Purdue were another story. I wasn't sure how the ones I had spent the majority of my time with the previous three years — practicing, socializing, going to class, even living with — would react to my news. I had a few openly gay teammates at Purdue but always kept my distance from them in fear of being guilty by association. Spending all that time pretending I was something I was not, hiding who I was, and constantly monitoring my actions and words was taxing but successful to a degree. Friends and teammates continued to ask me about girls and I continued to lie, hoping they wouldn't know my secret.
After coming out to my parents and being more open, I grew more comfortable and felt it was time to come out to my entire team. I approached this much differently than with my family. By December of my senior year I had begun dating someone, and in doing so and being comfortable about it, the coming out process with my team and friends just naturally happened. I didn't have to have a talk with each one individually, although I did speak with a few individually, especially if someone had a question. It was this really awesome, cool and open dialogue between my teammates and me. Believe it or not, most were mad at me for not coming out sooner and telling them. I thought that was the coolest reaction.
My teammates and friends expressed that nothing changed in how they viewed me or in our individual friendships. They had so many questions and I enjoyed answering them. It showed me they cared by wanting to be more informed and wanting to understand. A surreal feeling took over. For eight-plus- years I had dreaded this moment and thought it would never happen. In reality, coming out to my team and friends was a complete relief and moment of pure happiness.
Working as a graduate assistant coach now, I want to help create an environment, especially in athletics, where people don't have to live in fear. Where bullying, harassment and language isn't continuously pushing people further and further away from being comfortable with who they are.


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Over the years, I've run across a fair bit of prejudice against lawyers. I'll not suggest that lawyers don't earn a certain amount of disdain, but when a white, tobacco-chewing, sheriff implied that if I came through his county after dark I'd never leave it, I felt that was a little excessive. My crime was to be representing a black man from New York who I thought was probably innocent of killing a white policeman in Mississippi. As if that were not enough, I had suggested that the sheriff, "Goon" Jones to his friends, might be an itty-bitsy mite racist because he called black people "colored boys" and had poured moonshine over the head of a civil rights worker before shaving his hair off.
For this reason, I feel a little sensitive when people attack other lawyers who are vigorously defending their clients in capital cases. It is all the more worrying when the assault comes from The New York Times, as happened recently in the case of Joshua Komisarjevsky, who is charged in the deaths of three people in a Cheshire home invasion case that went to trial this week.
Komisarjevsky's lawyer, described in the article as a "lanky raconteur named Jeremiah Donovan", is labeled "a disgrace to the bar" — a quote attributed to Connecticut state Sen. Edith Prague. Sen. Prague, who some might view as a disgrace to the Senate, had previously suggested that "Mr. Komisarjevsky should be hanged 'by his penis from a tree…'"
My organization, Reprieve, has been assisting the defense in investigating Mr. Komisarjevsky'sEuropean family background in order to help establish mitigating information for the defendant. We offer legal support to prisoners around the world who are unable to afford help themselves. Mr. Komisarjevsky's grandfather was a famous Russian theater director who traveled widely in Europe.
To be sure, for the last four years, journalists have feasted on the story of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, murdered in their home in 2007. Mrs. Petit was strangled and a fire was started in the family home, ultimately resulting in the deaths of the two girls in their bedroom. In yards of column inches, readers have been offered the most lurid details, some true, some imaginary. One man, Steven Hayes, has already been sentenced to die for the crimes and, despite doubts concerning his involvement and intentions, Mr. Komisarjevsky faces the same fate.
Few will have heard that it was Mr. Komisarjevsky who first informed the authorities of the murder of Mrs. Petit by Mr. Hayes; still fewer, that Mr. Komisarjevsky told the police that the two girls were still alive, that there was still a chance to save them (the manner in which the police burst in apparently exacerbated the fire such that the girls died). In all the articles baying for blood, never once has it been mentioned that Mr. Komisarjevsky didn't intend that anyone should die.
The New York Times described Mr. Hayes' lawyers — by way of contrast — as taking a "markedly different … gentlemanly tack" in presenting their case. That is all well and good but, as the lawyers concede, when they used this strategy they lost.
With all the hype it is nigh on impossible for Mr. Komisarjevsky to receive a fair trial. Unprecedented levels of prejudice have already been recorded in this case: in a survey of the jury pool, 99.5 percent recognized the case — the highest of any known case ever surveyed, including the Oklahoma City Bombing case. Even more disconcerting, 85.3 percent of the pool believed that Mr. Komisarjevsky was definitely or probably guilty of capital murder. The judge, who took umbrage when Mr. Donovan said it was unjudicial for him to hand out his home-baked cookies to courtroom spectators, had refused to move the trial elsewhere.
I believe in free speech. But I also believe in due process. If the New York Times chooses to descend into the mire, then the case should be moved elsewhere. And Jeremiah Donovan should be lauded, rather than pilloried, for trying to protect the rights of one who even The New York Times has chosen to hate.
Clive Stafford Smith is director of Reprieve, nonprofit group based in London that supports the rule of law.


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I sit in a rolling chair and like a doctor I roll between my counter areas. Grab markers and go! I am surprised there is not a worn path. With kid grabbing anything loose and dog at my feet I work as quick as possible so that I don't get bumped and have to fix a mistake. On a good day I can work while the little one naps (about 1 hour a day).
I would have loved to show you a neat and clean, sanitary, organized space...but that just isn't me at this time in my life. This is the chaos I live in, and frankly I am okay with it until life slows and I can make it all pretty. When I am coloring it just doesnt matter. I love my Copic colors in view and out for display...they make me happy. I usually work directly in front and to the right of my monitors and that is the only place with a clean space (normally). I have about 4 or more projects and deadlines going on at once and a pile of stuff pending once I get a spare moment. This is my life. So I am normal (well maybe not so much), I am messy, I am always working the night before a deadline, and I am happy with it. Don't worry...I know where everything is! Thank you for stopping in, glad I could give you a peek at my life as it is right at THIS moment!
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Nov. 4, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Kevin Davies and Dylan Sheehan scored second-half goals as fourth-ranked Brown held off Yale 2-0 on a chilly late afternoon at Reese Stadium. Erik Geiger made five saves in goal for the Bulldogs.
Brown (13-1-1, 5-0 Ivy) controlled play in the first half, outshooting Yale 13-1, but Geiger made four saves to help keep the Bears off the scoreboard. Brown finally broke through in 60th minute when Davies's header from in front went into the left side of the net.
Late in the second half, the Bears added an insurance goal. Sheehan settled a cross and blasted a shot into the left corner.
"Brown is playing very well," said Yale head coach Brian Tompkins. "They played with great intensity and put a lot of pressure on us in the first half. We were a little tentative. In the second half, I thought we played with a lot more confidence."
The Bulldogs (3-7-5, 1-2-2 Ivy) had a couple of opportunities in the final 45 minutes. Brad Rose fired a hard shot from 20 yards out, but Brown goalkeeper Paul Grandstrand moved to his left and caught it.
Yale also had a goal nullified by an offsides call.
"Because we have so many young players, we are learning how to work hard, but also learning how to work smart," Tompkins said. "We have to learn to trust our ability. Even though the result didn't go our way, this was a good experience for us."
Grandstrand made two saves, both in the second half, to post the shutout for Brown, which has now seven straight games.
Yale returns to action next Sunday at Princeton. Kickoff is slated for 4 p.m.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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Some people collect stamps, others rare coins while many of us tend to assemble masses of Pez dispensers. When lawyers use the term "collecting" they are referring to a legal term – "enforcing a judgment". The English translation of the term is "collecting the money that a court has determined is due his/her client". Laypeople […]
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J.P. Norden's visit to Walter Reed
J.P. Norden's visit to Walter Reed
J.P. Norden visited Walter Reed on a trip his surgeon had planned to give the Marathon bombing victim inspiration.
Dr. E.J. Caterson, who had done a surgical stint at the military hospital, managed to arrange what he called a "mental therapy" tour.
Norden and his girlfriend, Kelly Castine, met Colonel Ramona Fioery, Chief of Staff of the Army Nurse Corps.
"Don't get down," Sergeant Christopher Anderson told Norden. "You just got to take it with a sense of humor."
Ross Colquhoun armed Norden and Castine for a combat simulator. When they were done, the Navy veteran told Norden to "keep on rocking."
Norden (left) said he would try to describe what he saw to his brother, who is also an amputee after the bombing. "It's amazing," Norden said.


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Charles Edward �Chuck� Barnard, the former director of the Havelock Parks and Recreation Department, died Sunday from cancer at the Crystal Coast Hospice House in Newport. He was 72.
Charles Edward �Chuck� Barnard, the former director of the Havelock Parks and Recreation Department, died Sunday from cancer at the Crystal Coast Hospice House in Newport. He was 72.
Barnard served in the Marine Corps for 30 years, retiring as a master gunnery sergeant. He worked in the recreation department for 14 1/2 years, including time as director.
He was a member of the Havelock-Cherry Point Rotary Club and was at one time the chairman of the Havelock Historical Society.
He ran for mayor in 2009 against Jimmy Sanders, coming up just 13 votes short.
�It�s the closest election I�ve ever been in,� Sanders said at the time. �I think Chuck ran a good campaign and he got his voters out.�
Barnard said he was disappointed in the loss and would be back to run again, but earlier this year, when the battle against cancer was taking its toll, Bernard said he would not be able to enter the 2013 municipal race.
Dave Smith succeeded Barnard as recreation director in January 2004.
�If I had questions, he�d help out,� Smith said. �There were several times I might have something on the agenda and Chuck would pull me aside and say �Hey, this is what I experienced on this� and he would call me after the meeting and give me something that might be helpful toward the project.�
Smith said Barnard would frequently walk around the grounds at the recreation center with his first wife Paula, and after her passing, Barnard planted a weeping willow there in her honor. Just down the path, behind two softball fields, Barnard planted another tree for himself, a red maple. Helping him plant the trees was his new wife, Nancy.
Barnard is survived by his wife, three sons, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at Cherry Point Methodist Church. Visitation is scheduled for 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the church.