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DeEtte Gray's strategy for growing BAE I&S starts with culture
"When you go into that building, you are on a stage from the minute you walk in to the minute you walk out," said DeEtte Gray, who took her new job at BAE in June running a 7,000-person, $2 billion a year organization.
Teaching sixth and seventh graders taught her a lot about herself. "You learn what pushes your buttons and you learn how to control that," she said. "I learned leadership and temperament. And remember, schools can be very political places too."
Gray joined BAE from Lockheed Martin Corp., where she had worked for 13 years, and was vice president of the company's enterprise IT solutions business. She started as a software developer at Lockheed and then quickly moved into management. She was a vice president by the time she was 38 years old.
Just 43 now, Gray jokes that she never had a career plan, but she does have a guiding principle: reaching for assignments that make her stretch her abilities.
Whether it was moving from the classroom to local government programming geographic information systems, and then to the world's largest defense contractor, Gray said she has always looked for the next challenge.
The move to BAE is no different. The job doubles the number of people she is ultimately responsible for, and it comes at one of the tougher times in the government market.
Her business at BAE was built through a series of acquisitions over the last 15 years, and "we still have stovepiped businesses, so we are trying to get some efficiencies across the business," she said.
The process of creating shared human resources and financial systems were already underway when she joined BAE. Gray is continuing that effort and is particularly interested in leadership and technical training.
"My biggest priority is building a sustainable, growing business and that's difficult today," she said. "But there are several ways to do that."
Identifying and then developing key talent is a critical component of her strategy, Gray said.
Finding those rising stars is part of a culture change she is leading at I&S.
"We aren't there yet, but when you build a culture you start with what does top talent look like? What are the types of behaviors that top talent have?" she said.
Managers need to review their talent like they review financials. The annual review process has to include discriminators of top talent.
"You have to make sure your managers set the right example and that starts with management training," she said.
A key is rewarding and recognizing good behavior. "Eventually it becomes part of the culture. People identify top talent and people want to be them," Gray said. "And you have to communicate it."
Gray's focus on BAE's talent as part of her strategy is there because the company's people are the key to the company's success, she said.
"It is a very humble company, which is good, but in a competitive market you have to talk about the things you are good at," she said.
The company's talent lines up with areas of growth: intelligence analysis, training, cybersecurity, systems integration and development and IT support.
Gray's leadership team at BAE I&S includes Paul Falkler, vice president and general manager of IT and cybersecurity solutions, Jordan Becker, vice president and general manager of geospatial intelligence, Kate Hall, vice president and general manager of global analysis, and Brian Sheridan, vice president and general manager of what the company call its SpecTal business, which provides specialized security and intelligence consulting.
The competition BAE faces in them market is intense so the management challenge is positioning your company to be competitive, Gray said.
"Budgets are shrinking so you have to be relevant and agile in the way you bid, and the way you work day-to-day with your customers," she said. "You need a culture where everyone is thinking about how do we improve?"
That focus is as much internal as customer facing, particularly when looking at internal processes, Gray said. "Can you do something in 2 steps that now takes 10?" she said.
Gaining internal efficiencies isn't a matter of piling more work onto fewer people. "I don't believe we are going to get where we need to be by cutting people or salaries, but we have to be asking are doing things that add value?" she said. "If we are doing something that doesn't add value, then we should stop doing it."
In just the first few months on the job, Gray has been focused on getting to know her company and identifying the discriminators that will help BAE compete in a tough market.
While the company has distinct technology capabilities in areas such as cyber, training and enterprise IT management, Gray's focus always loops back to people.
"I want to build a culture where people want to work and they become your discriminators," she said. "It isn't rocket science, but it is back to basics and in this market you have to stay focused."
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@Don - out of all the scenarios (1-6) listed by you, which do you feel are the most important to BAE? Can you blur the lines between these since there are examples where companies fit in more than one category.
Focusing on people as the discriminator of competitiveness is essential. However the focus of the organization must depend on the domain of forces to which it must respond. Where a valued aspect is dominant, such as, reputation and image, economics and finance, mission and continuity of operations, indicators of competitiveness, supply chain management and outsourcing, and trustworthiness and high assurance, an optimum response may result, thereby, simplifying the making of commitments, setting goals, and conducting tradeoffs. In less optimal situations, a blend of valued but competing aspects may lead to a more diverse response to these forces.
1. An organization driven by reputation and avoiding the risk of loss of trust may place a high value on trustworthiness and security along with the steps needed to assure these attributes. The telecommunications, financial services, and medical sectors where trust is all-important fit the reputation scenario.
2. An organization driven by economics may place a high value on profitability and attributes like cost control, productivity, and span of responsibility. The financial services, manufacturing, and utilities and energy sectors fit the economics scenario.
3. An organization driven by mission may place a high value on sustainability, capability control, and capacity control as well as reliability, availability, security, and resiliency. The telecommunications, transportation, medical, and defense sectors fit the mission scenario.
4. An organization driven by competitiveness may place a high value on release frequency, time to market, and innovation as well as cost and schedule control and predictability control. The manufacturing and e-commerce sectors fit the competitiveness scenario.
5. An organization driven by outsourcing may place a high value on release frequency, time to market, and innovation as well as quality control, configuration management, and span of responsibility of onshore staff. The manufacturing sector fits the outsourcing scenario.
6. An organization driven by high assurance may place a high value on trustworthiness including quality control, defect free, predictability control, resiliency, and frequency of release. The telecommunications, financial services, transportation, medical, and defense sectors fit the high assurance scenario.
Most new leadership are like politician. They talk the talk and walk the walk. But nothing really gets done. BAE has a long history and culture. It's to be seen if anything really changes within the next 3 years to becoming the top 10 employer of the world.
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This section explains how you use SAAJ to send and receive a SOAP message. It is also possible to construct a SOAP message using SAAJ and to send it as the payload of a JMS message. For information, see Integrating SOAP and Message Queue.
This section provides a brief summary of the programming models used in SOAP messaging using SAAJ.
A SOAP message is sent to an endpoint by way of a point-to-point connection (implemented by the SOAPConnection class).
You use point-to-point connections to establish a request-reply messaging model. The request-reply model is illustrated in Figure 5–6.
Using this model, the client does the following:
Creates an endpoint that specifies the URL that will be passed to the SOAPConnection.call method that sends the message.
See Endpoint for a discussion of the different ways of creating an endpoint.
Creates a SOAPConnection factory and obtains a SOAP connection.
Creates a message factory and uses it to create a SOAP message.
Creates a name for the content of the message and adds the content to the message.
Uses the SOAPConnection.call method to send the message.
It is assumed that the client will ignore the SOAPMessage object returned by the call method because the only reason this object is returned is to unblock the client.
The SOAP service listening for a request-reply message uses a ReqRespListener object to receive messages.
For a detailed example of a client that does point-to-point messaging, see Writing a SOAP Client.
If a message contains any data that is not XML, you must add it to the message as an attachment. A message can have any number of attachment parts. Each attachment part can contain anything from plain text to image files.
To create an attachment, you must create a URL object that specifies the location of the file that you want to attach to the SOAP message. You must also create a data handler that will be used to interpret the data in the attachment. Finally, you need to add the attachment to the SOAP message.
To create and add an attachment part to the message, you need to use the JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) API. This API allows you to determine the type of an arbitrary piece of data, encapsulate access to it, discover the operations available on it, and activate a bean that can perform these operations. You must include the activation.jar library in your application code in order to work with the JavaBeans Activation Framework.
Create a URL object and initialize it to contain the location of the file that you want to attach to the SOAP message.
URL url = new URL("http://wombats.com/img.jpg");
Create a data handler and initialize it with a default handler, passing the URL as the location of the data source for the handler.
DataHandler dh = new DataHandler(url);
Create an attachment part that is initialized with the data handler containing the URL for the image.
AttachmentPart ap1 = message.createAttachmentPart(dh);
Add the attachment part to the SOAP message.
After creating the attachment and adding it to the message, you can send the message in the usual way.
If you are using JMS to send the message, you can use the SOAPMessageIntoJMSMessage conversion utility to convert a SOAP message that has an attachment into a JMS message that you can send to a JMS queue or topic using Message Queue.
A SOAP application can use two error reporting mechanisms: SOAP exceptions and SOAP faults:
Use a SOAP exception to handle errors that occur on the client side during the generation of the SOAP request or the unmarshalling of the response.
Use a SOAP fault to handle errors that occur on the server side when unmarshalling the request, processing the message, or marshalling the response. In response to such an error, server-side code should create a SOAP message that contains a fault element, rather than a body element, and then it should send that SOAP message back to the originator of the message. If the message receiver is not the ultimate destination for the message, it should identify itself as the soapactor so that the message sender knows where the error occurred. For additional information, see Handling SOAP Faults.
The following steps show the calls you have to make to write a SOAP client for point-to-point messaging.
Get an instance of a SOAPConnectionFactory:
SOAPConnectionFactory myFct = SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance();
Get a SOAP connection from the SOAPConnectionFactory object:
SOAPConnection myCon = myFct.createConnection();
The myCon object that is returned will be used to send the message.
Get a MessageFactory object to create a message:
MessageFactory myMsgFct = MessageFactory.newInstance();
Use the message factory to create a message:
SOAPMessage message = myMsgFct.createMessage();
The message that is created has all the parts that are shown in Figure 5–7.
At this point, the message has no content. To add content to the message, you need to create a SOAP body element, define a name and content for it, and then add it to the SOAP body.
Remember that to access any part of the message, you need to traverse the tree, calling a get method on the parent element to obtain the child. For example, to reach the SOAP body, you start by getting the SOAP part and SOAP envelope:
SOAPPart mySPart = message.getSOAPPart(); SOAPEnvelope myEnvp = mySPart.getEnvelope();
Now, you can get the body element from the myEnvp object:
SOAPBody body = myEnvp.getBody();
The children that you will add to the body element define the content of the message. (You can add content to the SOAP header in the same way.)
When you add an element to a SOAP body (or header), you must first create a name for it by calling the envelope.createName method. This method returns a Name object, which you must then pass as a parameter to the method that creates the body element (or the header element).
Name bodyName = envelope.createName("GetLastTradePrice", "m", "http://eztrade.com") SOAPBodyElement gltp = body.addBodyElement(bodyName);
Now create another body element to add to the gltp element:
Name myContent = envelope.createName("symbol"); SOAPElement mySymbol = gltp.addChildElement(myContent);
And now you can define data for the body element mySymbol:
The resulting SOAP message object is equivalent to this XML scheme:
<SOAP-ENV: Envelope xmlns:SOAPENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <m:GetLastTradePrice xmlns:m="http://eztrade.com"> <symbol>SUNW</symbol> </m:GetLastTradePrice> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV: Envelope>
Every time you send a message or write to it, the message is automatically saved. However if you change a message you have received or one that you have already sent, this would be the point when you would need to update the message by saving all your changes. For example:
Before you send the message, you must create a URLEndpoint object with the URL of the endpoint to which the message is to be sent. (If you use a profile that adds addressing information to the message header, you do not need to do this.)
URLEndpoint endPt = new URLEndpoint("http://eztrade.com//quotes");
Now, you can send the message:
SOAPMessage reply = myCon.call(message, endPt);
The reply message (reply) is received on the same connection.
Finally, you need to close the SOAPConnection object when it is no longer needed:
A SOAP service represents the final recipient of a SOAP message and should currently be implemented as a servlet. You can write your own servlet or you can extend the JAXMServlet class, which is furnished in the soap.messaging package for your convenience. This section describes the task of writing a SOAP service based on the JAXMServlet class.
Your servlet must implement either the ReqRespListener or OneWayListener interfaces. The difference between these two is that ReqRespListener requires that you return a reply.
Using either of these interfaces, you must implement a method called onMessage(SOAPMsg). JAXMServlet will call onMessage after receiving a message using the HTTP POST method, which saves you the work of implementing your own doPost() method to convert the incoming message into a SOAP message.
Example 5–2 shows the basic structure of a SOAP service that uses the JAXMServlet utility class.
public class MyServlet extends JAXMServlet implements ReqRespListener { public SOAPMessage onMessage(SOAP Message msg) { //Process message here } }
Example 5–3 shows a simple ping message service:
public class SOAPEchoServlet extends JAXMServlet implements ReqRespListener{ public SOAPMessage onMessage(SOAPMessage mySoapMessage) { return mySoapMessage } }
Table 5–2 describes the methods that the JAXM servlet uses. If you were to write your own servlet, you would need to provide methods that performed similar work. In extending JAXMServlet , you may need to override the Init method and the SetMessageFactory method; you must implement the onMessage method.Table 5–2 JAXMServlet Methods
void init (ServletConfig)
Passes the ServletConfig object to its parent's constructor and creates a default messageFactory object.
If you want incoming messages to be constructed according to a certain profile, you must call the SetMessageFactory method and specify the profile it should use in constructing SOAP messages.
Gets the body of the HTTP request and creates a SOAP message according to the default or specified MessageFactory profile.
Calls the onMessage() method of an appropriate listener, passing the SOAP message as a parameter.
It is recommended that you do not override this method.
Sets the MessageFactory object. This is the object used to create the SOAP message that is passed to the onMessage method.
Returns a MimeHeaders object that contains the headers in the given HTTPRequest object.
Sets the given HTTPResponse object with the headers in the given MimeHeaders object.
User-defined method that is called by the servlet when the SOAP message is received. Normally this method needs to disassemble the SOAP message passed to it and to send a reply back to the client (if the servlet implements the ReqRespListener interface.)
The onMessage method needs to disassemble the SOAP message that is passed to it by the servlet and process its contents in an appropriate manner. If there are problems in the processing of the message, the service needs to create a SOAP fault object and send it back to the client as described in Handling SOAP Faults.
Processing the SOAP message may involve working with the headers as well as locating the body elements and dealing with their contents. The following code sample shows how you might disassemble a SOAP message in the body of your onMessage method. Basically, you need to use a Document Object Model (DOM) API to parse through the SOAP message.
See http://xml.coverpages.org/dom.html for more information about the DOM API.
{http://xml.coverpages.org/dom.html SOAPEnvelope env = reply.getSOAPPart().getEnvelope(); SOAPBody sb = env.getBody(); // create Name object for XElement that we are searching for Name ElName = env.createName("XElement"); //Get child elements with the name XElement Iterator it = sb.getChildElements(ElName); //Get the first matched child element. //We know there is only one. SOAPBodyElement sbe = (SOAPBodyElement) it.next(); //Get the value for XElement MyValue = sbe.getValue(); }
A SOAP message may have attachments. For sample code that shows you how to create and add an attachment, see Code Samples. For sample code that shows you how to receive and process an attachment, see Code Samples.
In handling attachments, you will need to use the Java Activation Framework API. See http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/glasgow/jaf.html for more information.
In replying to messages, you are simply taking on the client role, now from the server side.
Server-side code must use a SOAP fault object to handle errors that occur on the server side when unmarshalling the request, processing the message, or marshalling the response. The SOAPFault interface extends the SOAPBodyElement interface.
SOAP messages have a specific element and format for error reporting on the server side: a SOAP message body can include a SOAP fault element to report errors that happen during the processing of a request. Created on the server side and sent from the server back to the client, the SOAP message containing the SOAPFault object reports any unexpected behavior to the originator of the message.
Within a SOAP message object, the SOAP fault object is a child of the SOAP body, as shown in the figure below. Detail and detail entry objects are only needed if one needs to report that the body of the received message was malformed or contained inappropriate data. In such a case, the detail entry object is used to describe the malformed data.
The SOAP Fault element defines the following four sub-elements:
A code (qualified name) that identifies the error. The code is intended for use by software to provide an algorithmic mechanism for identifying the fault. Predefined fault codes are listed in Table 5–3. This element is required.
A string that describes the fault identified by the fault code. This element is intended to provide an explanation of the error that is understandable to a human. This element is required.
A URI specifying the source of the fault: the actor that caused the fault along the message path. This element is not required if the message is sent to its final destination without going through any intermediaries. If a fault occurs at an intermediary, then that fault must include a faultactor element.
This element carries specific information related to the Body element. It must be present if the contents of the Body element could not be successfully processed. Thus, if this element is missing, the client should infer that the body element was processed. While this element is not required for any error except a malformed payload, you can use it in other cases to supply additional information to the client.
The SOAP specification lists four predefined faultcode values. The namespace identifier for these is http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/.Table 5–3 SOAP Faultcode Values
Faultcode Name
The processing party found an invalid namespace for the SOAP envelope element; that is, the namespace of the SOAP envelope element was not http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ .
An immediate child element of the SOAP Header element was either not understood or not appropriately processed by the recipient. This element's mustUnderstand attribute was set to 1 (true).
The message was incorrectly formed or did not contain the appropriate information. For example, the message did not have the proper authentication or payment information. The client should interpret this code to mean that the message must be changed before it is sent again.
If this is the code returned, the SOAPFault object should probably include a detailEntry object that provides additional information about the malformed message.
The message could not be processed for reasons that are not connected with its content. For example, one of the message handlers could not communicate with another message handler that was upstream and did not respond. Or, the database that the server needed to access is down. The client should interpret this error to mean that the transmission could succeed at a later point in time.
These standard fault codes represent classes of faults. You can extend these by appending a period to the code and adding an additional name. For example, you could define a Server.OutOfMemory code, a Server.Down code, and so forth.
Using SAAJ you can specify the value for faultcode, faultstring, and faultactor using methods of the SOAPFault object. The following code creates a SOAP fault object and sets the faultcode, faultstring, and faultactor attributes:
SOAPFault fault; reply = factory.createMessage(); envp = reply.getSOAPPart().getEnvelope(true); someBody = envp.getBody(); fault = someBody.addFault(): fault.setFaultCode("Server"); fault.setFaultString("Some Server Error"); fault.setFaultActor(http://xxx.me.com/list/endpoint.esp/) reply.saveChanges();
The server can return this object in its reply to an incoming SOAP message in case of a server error.
The next code sample shows how to define a detail and detail entry object. Note that you must create a name for the detail entry object.
SOAPFault fault = someBody.addFault(); fault.setFaultCode("Server"); fault.setFaultActor("http://foo.com/uri"); fault.setFaultString ("Unkown error"); Detail myDetail = fault.addDetail(); detail.addDetailEntry(envelope.createName("125detail", "m", "Someuri")).addTextNode("the message cannot contain the string //"); reply.saveChanges();


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Congress Looks To Outlaw E-Voting Machines Without An Audit Trail
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In the meantime, it looks like Congress must be up for continuing this "conspiracy." Despite the fact that most in Congress seemed to show little to no interest for many years as security experts pointed out the problems with the machines, now they're talking about introducing new legislation that would require that e-voting machines have an audit trail. It's not clear how a system that allows for recounting the votes is a way to add more fear to the e-voting process and keep us home, so I hope the same commenter can enlighten us on how this conspiracy works.


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The motorcycle brand Voxan saw new life in 2010, when it was bought by Venturi Automobiles, and transformed into an electric motorcycle company. A pet project of billionaire Gildo Pallanca Pastor, Voxan debuted its first motorcycle, the Voxan Wattman, in 2013. You either loved it, or hated it…we were of the latter opinion.
Production details on the Voxan Wattman were sketchy at the time of the bike's release, and Pastor has a reputation of not seeing project through to their finish. Therefore, it is not surprising that reports out of France say that Venturi has pulled the plug on Voxan, and the Wattman.


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A series of trials was held between 1945 and 1947 to prosecute surviving German war criminals after the Second World War. The German city of Nuremberg was chosen as the location because it had been the symbolic birthplace of the National Socialist ('Nazi') Party.
The first trial was held before an international military tribunal composed of judges from the Allied nations of Russia, the USA, Britain and France. It focused on prominent leaders such as Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess. Others, such as the so-called 'doctors' trial' (officially USA v. Karl Brandt et al.), were held before US military courts.
The doctors' trial was held between 9 December 1946 and 19 July 1947. It prosecuted Nazi doctors for their roles in human experiments conducted on prison camp inmates. Josef Mengele was one of the most notorious Nazi doctors, although he was not tried because he avoided capture.
This trial had a great effect worldwide. People were shocked by the horrific things done by doctors in the name of medical research and the Nuremberg Code was developed as a result. It is the basis for all rules regarding human experiments, including the requirement for informed consent.
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TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) Brazil has been closing its training sessions to fans, but some of the country's top celebrities have had no problem getting close to the players.
Two soap opera stars were among those allowed to watch the team practice Tuesday. Juliana Paes and Carolina Dieckman even took their kids to the training camp in Teresopolis, a mountain city about an hour from Rio de Janeiro. Both posted photos of their afternoon escapade on social media.
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- By Tales Azzoni - www.twitter.com/tazzoni
SAO PAULO (AP) - Actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson shared a family photo on Twitter, everybody on the edges of their seats for the U.S. Some crossed fingers, others clenched fists.
Professional sports teams and athletes from the United States took to Twitter on Tuesday to support the Americans against Belgium, along with some well-known actors like the Hanks family.
Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco 49ers NFL team all posted photos on their Twitter pages featuring photos of their teams on half the screen and the U.S. World Cup squad on the other. Each photo said, ''ARE YOU READY?''
The San Diego Chargers' photo featured a flag covering the football field at Qualcomm Stadium with the words, ''Go get `em!''
Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester posted: ''(hash)IBELIEVETHATWEWILLWIN!''
The Seattle Seahawks cheered DeAndre Yedlin with (hash)SeattleLove when the Seattle Sounders player came on in the second half in place of injured right back Fabian Johnson.
- By Janie McCauley - www.twitter.com/JanieMcCAP
SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) - In the great tradition of food bets between political leaders, Matthew Barzun, the U.S. ambassador to Britain, has challenged his Belgian counterpart to a friendly wager.
Under the terms proposed in a letter from Barzun: If the Americans win the World Cup round of 16 game between the countries, Guy Trouveroy will cook Belgian waffles for Barzun and his colleagues at the U.S. Embassy. If Belgium wins Tuesday, Barzun will cook American pancakes for the Belgians at their embassy.
RIBEIRAO PRETO, Brazil (AP) - France coach Didier Deschamps had a spot of microphone trouble during his World Cup news conference Tuesday.
First, the sound was too loud, with Deschamps' booming voice resonating around the Pedro II theater house in Ribeirao Preto, where France holds its media activity. Then, it was far too quiet and he could barely be heard.
''Everything OK, chief? Hello?'' a bemused Deschamps said as he turned to the sound technician, who was desperately trying to fix it.
Deschamps carried on talking, but the problem persisted.
''Is he trying to wind me up? They've sent the cook instead,'' Deschamps joked. ''This is a disaster.''
The issue was eventually resolved, and Deschamps was free to talk about Friday's quarterfinal against Germany.
- By Jerome Pugmire - www.twitter.com/jeromepugmire
SAO PAULO (AP) - Every time Pele was shown on the giant video screen, the crowd booed.
More than 20,000 Argentina supporters made the Sao Paulo Fan Fest their own Tuesday for the round of 16 match against Switzerland.
Some wore Lionel Messi masks and white and light blue wigs. Many were shirtless, standing under the sun for hours.
Whenever Pele, the Brazil great attending the game at nearby Itaquerao Stadium, was shown on the screen, they screamed that he has nothing on Argentina legend Diego Maradona.
Thousands of Argentines streamed into Brazil even if they couldn't afford or obtain tickets.
- By Adriana Gomez Licon - www.twitter.com/agomezlicon
SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) - Wearing a sparkly Uncle Sam hat and with the Stars and Stripes draped over his shoulders, Brian Fuqua was among the American fans strolling through The Pelourinho, the historic center of Salvador, about six hours before the United States played Belgium in the World Cup on Tuesday.
The 26-year-old from Denver arrived last month before the Americans' opener against Ghana in Natal to follow the team around Brazil. Despite the tough first-round group that included Portugal and Germany, he bought tickets for the second-round match in Salvador before leaving home.
''I was hopeful and optimistic. I thought maybe we had like a 25 percent, 30 percent chance to get out,'' he said. ''I like Brazil a lot. I'm actually going home on July 17, and I was going to stay no matter what.''
If the U.S. had finished first in Group H, the Americans would have skipped Salvador and played Algeria on Saturday in Porto Alegre.
''Had they won the group, I would have looked at the cost to get to Porto Alegre,'' he said.
American fans in red, white and blue seemed to outnumber red-clad Belgium supporters by about 3 to 1.
Jeremy Rambo, a 27-year-old originally from Laramie, Wyoming, has attended the Americans' first-round games in the northeast Brazilian cities of Natal and Recife. He bought his first-round tickets on FIFA's website and Tuesday's through the American Outlaws supporters group
He plans to stick around for the rest of the tournament.
''If they make it, I might have to go to Brasilia,'' he said, looking ahead to a potential quarterfinal.
- By Ronald Blum - www.twitter.com/ronaldblum
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Tattoos are painful, but this one must have hurt even more.
Chilean striker Mauricio Pinilla recently got his 119th-minute World Cup miss against Brazil etched into his back. Next to the image of his shot slamming off the crossbar, it reads: ''One centimeter from glory.''
Pinilla's tattoo echoes the frustration of most Chileans. Thousands of them jumped up in the stands at Mineirao Stadium - and millions at home - on Saturday in the final moments only to watch Pinilla's shot hit the bar. The story is well-known by now: Brazil ended up winning, Chile was sent home in tears and the post has quickly turned into a loathed symbol of the country's 14-year jinx against Brazil.
The two teams had met three times in previous World Cups, with Brazil winning in the 1962 tournament in Chile, then in France 1998 and South Africa 2010.
- By Luis Andres Henao - www.twitter.com/LuisAndresHenao
SAO PAULO (AP) - The chant resonates throughout the bleachers: ''Sui-ca, Sui-ca.''
It's the Portuguese word for Switzerland, and those cheering on the Swiss in Tuesday's World Cup round of 16 game are not European fans draped in red but rather dozens of locals dressed in their national team's traditional yellow. The reason for their newfound affection for the Swiss? Their opponent of the day - hated South American rival Argentina.
''It's nice. We are a little country and we need all the support we can get,'' said Peter Adolf, a 32-year-old fan from Bern, Switzerland. ''But we know is it because they hate Argentina.''
- By Aron Heller - www.twitter.com/aronhellerap
Associated Press reporters will be filing dispatches about happenings in and around Brazil during the 2014 World Cup. Follow AP journalists covering the World Cup on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP-Sports/world-cup-2014


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BRIDGEPORT -- More than 20,000 people will descend on the city's downtown this weekend for the 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship at the Webster Bank Arena.
The event will kick off Saturday with a free pre-game party featuring live music and refreshments at 10:30 a.m. on the arena plaza on Main Street.
Top-seeded UConn will headline the day's action against fourth-seeded Maryland in the regional semifinals at 2:30 p.m. Second-seeded Kentucky will face sixth-seeded Delaware at noon in the other semifinal.
The two semifinal winners will meet Monday night with a trip to the Final Four in New Orleans on the line.
"Bridgeport is proud to host players, coaches and fans from these four excellent programs in our thriving Downtown," said Mayor Bill Finch. "With the entire slate of games nearly sold out, this promises to be a great weekend for basketball and a great weekend for the businesses, restaurants and hotels in Bridgeport and the surrounding area. I would urge fans to take part in Saturday's Pre-Game Party, and, after the games to enjoy one of our great downtown restaurants and nightspots to experience Bridgeport hospitality firsthand."
That restaurants will be buzzing with activity and hotels will be filled to capacity proves that the championship will have a short-term impact on the city, said Paul Timpanelli, president of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council. Immeasurable, however, are the long-term impacts of having the regional event in the city, he said.
"To me, the most important thing is that we have an opportunity to bring people here, who may not have been here before, and they have a positive experience that they will share with others," he said. The city will also benefit from having its name in every paper across the country that reports on the NCAA event, alongside the names of other major cities hosting the NCAA games, like New Orleans where the finals will take place, Timpanelli said. "It just puts you in a whole new ball game," he said.
Both Saturday games are sold out and tickets are limited for the final game between the two weekend champions on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets holders are advised to arrive early to every game, as parking and lines to get into the 9,000-seat arena will be long.
The tickets remaining as of Thursday -- in the end zone -- can be purchased by logging onto www.ncaa.com/tickets, visiting the Webster Bank Arena box office or calling 800-745-3000.


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Follow Reznov
Conk out the guard, and until you find something better, your fire button will also do melee. Unless you're fond of thinking you're playing Richard B. Riddick in a videogame, it's suggested that you follow Reznov as quickly as possible. Once you meet Sergei, no more enemies attack until you exit the jail.
After the giant prisoner gives the Russian guard a gastronectomy, take the Markarov pistol and follow the inmates.
Take the 9x18 Markarov handgun from the slain guard and wait by the sides of the door. After the initial rush, follow Reznov and Sergei to the mine cart.
Follow Reznov when the machinegun fire slackens. Crouch, follow the cart, and be wary of the enemy guards who appear. Two rounds of 9x18 Markarov will down a soldier. Pop and move.
Follow behind the cart (ducking) and place two shots on each Russian prison guard as they swarm up the sides. Blow away the enemies and wait when the cart stops. Once the explosion occurs, you are free to step out from cover and follow Reznov to the next phase of the escape.
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In the building where you use the slingshot, locate the intercom station where Reznov stops briefly. There is a tape player on top of the equipment there.
Head into the small building, and while Sergei starts breaking down the door to the armory, you need to get to the roof and help the other inmates. To use the slingshot, simply approach it to "glue" Mason's body to the sling's basket. The shot will be loaded automatically. From there, simply walk back to give your sling the oomph needed to fling the contents.
Destroy all three of the targets with one Molotov cocktail each. Working the slingshot is easy -- by pulling back fully, the shot will always travel in the same arc. Place the bottom tip of the aiming target on top of the target you want to die in a fiery death, and release the joystick. Very easy цомраде.
For the hit, place the top of the target at the bottom tip of your aiming reticle, pull back all the way, and let fly the Molotov cocktail. At least you're not dropping Stalin's breadbaskets.
Destroy the chopper
Regroup with Reznov and take up a 7-shell shotgun. Head outside, blast the lock, and then the first Russian bastard you see. Swap the Markarov handgun for a trusty AK-47 and start the hosing. The right path has an RPG soldier on the roof, and by the time you reach the left side (towards the building where you down the chopper), more troops will have deployed. Take the path of least resistance and duck into the marked building.
Wait for these guys to drop the harpoon gun before stepping out sideways -- this is so you can pick up and fire the harpoon gun at the chopper instantly instead of using up precious milliseconds to turn and fire.
Once inside the building, you should be safe from enemies. Head upstairs once you're health has regenerated and stop at the door. When both of the prisoners are killed by the chopper's guns, run out quickly to the harpoon gun, turn 90° right and hip-fire the weapon at the chopper (Reznov will blcok you from going back inside). With some luck, you will have hit the chopper (this kills the gunner instantly) and you can head back down.
Fight to breach the main armory
There is a pre-set AK-47 with a Kosteyer grenade launcher just leaning against the pillar inside the armory building's 1F. Take it and use the grenades judiciously (you don't get extras). Keep the shotgun around though -- you will need it later. Head upstairs (carefully) and thin out the enemies.
After opening the shutter, wait in the booth for Reznov's bot to sneak past. If you don't, you might as well retry the level, because you glitched him out of the map.
Aim for the closing shutter and get inside. To continue the mission, locate the booth with the shutter's controls. Open the shutter to let Reznov in. From this booth, you are relatively safe. Use the opportunity to snipe some of the enemies on the catwalk.
Vorkuta - Intel 2
From the shutter release control booth, head out the door and stop. Turn to Mason's left about 120° and go past the stairs. You will locate a small room with a tape player inside.
Head upstairs to the second level to get a checkpoint and follow Reznov to the welder. The enemies who appear now will have ballistic armor (they look like the blue Russian SWAT troops in Modern Warfare 2's "No Russian"). If they don't notice you (on Hardened or Veteran) you can take one down quickly with a shotgun (up close), otherwise, you will need to use grenades and some choice shots on their heads to kill.
Enemies fast-rope in from the ceiling, and are perfect for an impact grenade. Remember that the projectile needs a distance to spin before arming itself. Fired too close, the detonator will not arm, and the explosive will not go off. Use the riot shells to surprise the enemy as they step past its protection.
Protect Reznov until he moves to a large steel door and starts cutting. You can use the riot shields to reduce the amount of gunfire you get from one firing arc. Survive the enemy counter-attack -- use up all your ammunition if you like. When Reznov opens the armory, take the mini-gun inside.
Fight outside and reach the prison gate
The mini-gun has 999 rounds, and pretty much destroys everything it hits, so feel free to "-pre-spin" (aim) the barrel and let out a few bursts of gunfire on enemies who are not yet focused on attacking you.
A mini-gun pretty much means you can destroy what you want.
While firing the mini-gun, you cannot sprint or move quickly, so you need to use your firepower to silence the other side before they can attack. Destroy vehicles early, as well as the red explosive drums, and you should be relatively fine.
Reach the train by motorcycle
After being gassed, you will lose all weapons and wind up in the prison motor-pool. Your next goal is to ride the motorcycle to freedom. Before you do that, make sure you're ready to leave.
Vorkuta - Intel 3
Before you get on the motorbike, check the shelf behind Reznov's motorcycle for a tape player.
The rest of the stage is a motorcycle race (with shotguns) and a truck ride to the speeding train. Enjoy, unless you're after some extra task.
Destroy all the enemies on moving vehicles in the motorcycle and truck section of the prison break (not the FOX TV show). There are multiple targets and your "Terminator 2" shotgun can only fire two shots before it needs a brief 1½ seconds to reload.
The only enemies that count are the ones on mobile vehicles, meaning motorcycles -- the trucks are a gray area, since some stop while others do not.
The first three enemies are on bikes just after crashing through the gate; slow down slightly to take them out.
The next two enemies are after the ramp jump onto the road. Catch up and zap both.
You may encounter a few more bike enemies here (you can ignore the one eenmy-laden truck you encounter on a bike since they disembark and won't count) so destroy them as you see fit.
The key thing to know as you approach the roadblock (and are forced to veer right into the river) is that a bike enemy will hop the enemy blockade and try to ram you. Take him down before following Reznov across the stream.
As you race towards the truck you hijack, you will encounter a few more bike soldiers. Slow down slightly so you can shoot them down.
Once on the truck, crank up your sensitivity, do not aim down sight (wider view) and sweep the trucks and motorcycles that swarm you (left and right).
The notification for this task will appear before you jump; if you don't get it, you can fail jumping (you start at the truck, not the bike), and try again.
The motorcycle has decent handling and a sawed-off Olympia that's deadly at long range. The DShK machinegun on the Technical is even better -- it has no cool down and fires as fast as the mini-gun. Hose, hose, hose!
Rest and Recovery
In the plot-only chapter U.S.D.D. just sit back and enjoy the view -- especially that of the ladies. It's good to be back, eh?
Clearing this the first time will unlock a few extra points and trophies on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, but nothing else. For this guide, that chapter is lumped in with the aftermath of Vorkuta.
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This is a stunning, spacious chalet with amazing views of mountains and La Tania village. 5 mins walk to town and ski gondola with ski in - ski out access. Charlie our chalet host was AMAZING so anyone heading out this season is in for a treat! The Molten Brown goodies and daily champagne were the icing on the cake and we will definitely come back again. A great bunch of people and amazing holiday - thanks!
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We had the most wonderful holiday in this chalet and our chalet maid Mhairi was the most hospitable young lady you could wish to meet. Just one criticism was that their is not enough storage space could do with a chest of drawers in the bedrooms. Well done Igluski.
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Opinion: Obama's New, Old Jobs Plan
WSJ editorial board member Steve Moore on President Obama's economic speech at Knox College. Photo: Associated Press
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I ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel you're looking a live shot from Illinois ... where prison Obama will soon give a major speech on the economy while Street Journal Editorial board member Steve Moore joins me from Washington ... to talk about some of the themes that the president is going to roll out ... by Steve ... again a focus on inequality in the middle class ... are these are it seems to focus on ... well certainly the middle class is spending were very poorly done during the recession and an obviously in the post recession period there's no question about it ... that I think this kind of middle-class anxiety is the Number one economic issue out there right now Mary so I think he is right to focus on the middle class ... but here's the problem for the president ... you know the first of all he said he may want a statement that I just have to clarify ... he said that from nineteen seventy nine through two thousandseven the middle class has been made almost no progress and that all the benefits went to the Reds and that is just flat out not true Mary we know from the evidence from the Census Bureau ... that that that the middle class increased their living standards by about thirty three percent over that period which is ... which is alot progressively it's not true that only the rich did better ... but the problem for the president is guess what period has been a I just atrocious for the middle class ... on the last four years where the middle class has lost according to Census Bureau numbers ... of almost three thousand dollars of income ... even during a period of supposedly copper ... to state the president is going to watch ... for in the old new economic strategy more this buying ... more spending more support for our gang more green jump up and ... what is the record of the last five years to allies ... about ... the effectiveness of these kinds of strategies ... well that was a much new here that was what was so surprising in reading through the speech Mary is all of these are kind of recycled ideas stale ideas that ... Obama put in place ... for the first term and ... you know Republicans would be very wise to say when you're talking about a sort of second stimulus fewer ... of massive newest not spending spree on education on infrastructure and technology Mr. present that's what we getting your first term ... as created the weakest expansion ... on operate out of a recession since the end of World War two ... those policies happen out more ... Steve is a good politics to attack the sequester as Americans didn't seem to buy ... that scare tactic the last time Democrats tried it ... the first was totally backfired on the president ... of politically remember when it closed on the White House to ... denote your office and and I threaten to cut shutdown national parks and saw ... that completely backfired in the public said wait a minute there's so much waste in the budget why a cheap adding that rather than the essential vital services but there's a more important point here Mary which is ... upside from the politics the sequester spending cuts is the reason ... that the dots is fallen one of the major reasons I believe that I think there's a lot of other economists who agree with me ... that these reductions in government spending are actually very halted for the economy ... the liberating money for private sector infrastructure and capital development which is what we need in this country so ... to come up with we wanna bring the budget on in the dumps about these kinds of across the board cuts I think a very healthy ... Steve what else could the president do we talked alot about copper mines of the province in Congress gridlock what are some things that ... if he propose them Republicans when ... we agree and eleven ... first the love they say that's that I'm actually somewhat optimistic about the ... direction the U S economy I know that use me an outlier of editorial board but I'm one of the optimists I think things are actually picking up we had a good piece in the paper by David now that's a great economist who made this point yesterday ... not your questions what is Washington a half to do all answer the question Mary just get the hell out of the way and just don't A I actually come the conclusion especially with this precedent that gridlock is a good thing that he actually on finding some sort of the tax reform I ask how actually getting rid of Fannie and Freddie any irony ... we can compromise on immigration for ... I am with you on all of those things my point is I'd like to we really think we're going to get any kind of bought ... on sensible tax reform under this president I don't think so but she raised a very good point about one every could find bipartisan agreement and I got my fingers crossed on this one married and that is immigration reform I'm I'm with you on that I think immigration reform ... that have actually increases visa for high skilled talented people would be a huge plus for the American economy ... huge plus for the American economy will see what happens there but in terms of this beach ... it's more of the same UN fortunately weighing sixty


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When I first appeared on this case, the ADA wanted my client to do 20 hours of community service. Sometimes DAs make up their own laws. This is not the ADA's fault. We have a new DA in Albany County, and this is part of his agenda. It's quite disturbing because he ran on a drug policy reform platform, and now he is giving the worst deals on minor marijuana offenses. No other county DA in the area seeks community service on a UPM.
So when that happened, I made a "letter motion" (I sent a letter and said "Judge, I move for ...") for dismissal under 170.56. I appeared in Court tonight and the ADA still insisted on community service.
We approached and discussed with the judge. In this case it helped that my client already volunteers extensively doing something very nice and noble. The ADA initially told the judge that he did not have the authority without her consent. I disagreed. We took a break while she looked it up. We went back in front of the judge and she admitted I was right. Yes, that does something for the male ego. :-)
So the judge granted my motion, and because of NY law regarding UPM and this dismissal, it's as if it never happened. My client was never arrested, under New York law.
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"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight paths for your feet." Michael Brady has an impressive list of accomplishments and is currendy a probate judge in Logan County, who deals with juvenile cases. His advise to Amherst students was build strong family situations and Five alumni of Marion L. Steele High School were inducted into the school's Gallery of Success last Friday. They include Major Thomas Stokowski, Deborah Meesig, Mary Tettaton relations. If students weren't fortunate now and develop them for enough to have them at *** ume toy *}•■ havc fam'- home, they should find out lics of meir own- He used a Bajwa, Michael Brady and Wayne Garland. They were chosen on the basis of the personal and professional contributions to others. recent Nike commercial as an example of accomplishment through guts "You have to just do it You have to push your head down further and just do it" Wayne Garland is also successful in real estate, owning his own firm in Columbus. He mentioned that not many accolades were given him in school, and he just had to take time and grow up. Just because others may not be- ' lieve you can succeed, don't let that stop you. "Success is small steps accomplishing small goals." Deborah Meesig, also a resident of Columbus and a surgeon, told students to set their minds to do something. "If you have a goal • follow it. If you work hard, you can accomplish anything you want to." Major Thomas Stokowski, reminisced about school, football and the Army. He stressed that peer pressure can be used in a positive sense, that good peer pressure can push one beyond the envelop of mediocrity. His heroes are men and women in the Army who "Reached back for that little bit extra to drive on." He discouraged all students from quitting, so that after they have been out of high school 21 years, they too will have no regrets. Neighborhood's ^paee-age' house on tour of homes The American Association of University Women, (AAUW) is holding its annual tour of homes Saturday Oct 2. Proceeds are placed into a scholarship fund trom which many area students have benefited since its inception 41 years ago. Tickets and visit guidelines are available from Joan Parsons in Lorain at 288-0676, or from Patti Wegehaupt in Amherst at 988-8016. The $10 tickets are also available from: Higgins Pharmacy, Off Broadway Flowers, David Anthony Salon, Fratiane Flowers, Palace Civic Center, The Mermaid's Tail, Brandau Jewelers, Zelek's Florist, Sisson's Flowers and the William's House. One of the six homes in this year's tour of homes has been chosen from the Amherst area. The Lesner home, located at 45180 Middle Ridge Road, is known as the "Jetson House" by the neighborhood kids because, of its space-age appearance. Mark Lesner grew up in the Highland Park area of Lorain, graduating in 1972 from Admiral King High School. He attended Baldwin- Wallace during the 1972-73 school year,-before electing to work for a year at the steel mill. Lesner then returned to college, switching to Kent State University, and graduated from there with a five-year architectural degree in 1979. At first glance at the house, one might wonder if Frank Lloyd Wright had built a home in Amherst. In bet architect and owner of this home, Mark Lesner of Mark Lesner and Associates, was strongly influenced by Wright and some of the famed architect's design tech- CONTINUED on page S .Anyone who has ever wondered what the inside of this house, at 45180 Middle Ridge Road, looks like on the inside will get a chance to see it firsthand by buying a ticket to tho AAUW tour of homes. 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Started in 2014, this event proved to be very popular. There is a large car park for the bikes and plenty of seating on the patio beside the car park.
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Ideal location just outside of Yeovil on the A37, Yeovil to Dorchester road. Easy ride for the locals and also good ride from Weymouth and Dorchester.
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Let's face it. We all have that "special" someone in our life. By "special" I mean disruptive. By "disruptive" I actually mean toxic.
Everything and everyone they touch seems to turn into something negative. I'm not talking pessimistic. I'm saying that everything around them literally turns bad.
I have run into few, and managed to slip by without infection, but one is all it takes.
Bad apple, black sheep, spoiled milk, yellow snow, (insert analogy here). There's reason for these labels. There's reason hit movies are made about such personalities. There's reason drama surrounds them.
It makes me wonder if they know. Do they know people are giving them a chance? Do they know toleration is an extraordinarily mild way of describing what others are going through while around them? Do they realize their toxicity and just accept it?
It may sound like I'm ranting, and maybe I am a little, but I'm really intrigued by this personality trait. I'm very interested in the intrusiveness and wrecking ball effect these people have on our lives. I'm even more fascinated (somewhat) in why we tend to "put up" with them.
You know the horrific aftermath of a nuclear bomb, yet you patiently wait as it's being created then are expected to look away while it is being dropped.
Is it just easier? What is going on here? Why?
Are we to blame?
I think it all comes down to a bit of naivety alongside our seemingly natural drift toward mediocrity. Sometimes it's hard to be good to ourselves.
Either way it's bad. So I invite you all to join me in first identifying these "special" ones, then happily deleting them from your life.
Surely a life size "UNLIKE" button will be invented soon…
James Bridges is the advertising director for the Shawnee News-Star.


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Michael Ansara, an actor who had a busy career in TV and movies for 55 years, has died at the age of 91. The tall, deep-voiced, Syrian-born Ansara was cast as a wide array of Native Americans, Arabs, Mexicans, and other exotic types, though he was perhaps best known for playing the legendary Klingon warrior and diplomat Kang in episodes of three different series in the Star Trek franchise.
In the mid-'40s and well into the '50s, Ansara made flyspeck appearances, often uncredited, in several films, including South Sea Sinner (1950), Soldiers Three (1951), My Favorite Spy (1951), the Joseph Mankiewicz production of Julius Casar (1953), The Robe (1953), The Egyptian (1954), and The Ten Commandments (1956). From 1956 to 1958, he had a co-starring role as Cochise on the TV Western Broken Arrow.
After that series ended, Ansara played an Apache turned U. S. marshal on Law Of The Plainsman, a series that was spun off from an episode of The Rifleman. It lasted one season. In 1961, he starred in the movie Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea with his then-wife, Barbara Eden. He then spent most of the '60s doing guest shots on episodic TV, including three appearances on Eden's sitcom, I Dream Of Jeannie.
Kang, who Ansara first played in a third-season Star Trek episode, "Day Of The Dove" in 1968, might have been just another guest shot, but the character caught the imagination of Star Trek fans, and of Ansara himself, who described the experience of reading the script and recognizing "how special the role was and how rare it was to find a character like this in either film or television." Some three decades later, he was given the chance to reprise the role, first on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and then on Voyager. Accounting for the character's enduring popularity, Ansara gave himself partial credit for having played not "as a bad guy" but as "a dynamic character" who "was doing what he thought was right."
Ansara also appeared in Larry Cohen's It's Alive (1974), The Message (1977), The Manitou (1977), and the late-'70s TV series Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, where he had a recurring role as the villainous Kane. He later voice the role of Mr. Freeze in the '90s animated Batman series and several of its spin-offs.


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SK8435 : Lock 17, Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire
taken 13 years ago, near to Woolsthorpe by Belvoir, Lincolnshire, Great Britain
The Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal was built from the River Trent in Nottingham to Grantham, some 33 miles between 1793 and 1797 at a cost of £118,500 and narrow boats and barges transported coal, building materials and groceries through 18 locks to Grantham. On the return journey they transported corn, malt, beans, wool and other agricultural produce. Due to the development and the success of the railways the canal was closed in 1935 and left to its fate. Over the years it fell into disrepair with many of the "fixtures and fittings" being demolished.
The Grantham Canal Restoration Society is an active body which has been working towards the reopening of the canal as a recreational and commercial waterway. Whether this will ever happen is up for debate with many obstacles in the way.
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December 11, 2013
The Basho team congratulates Covata on the successful launch of Covata Safe Share earlier today. Covata Safe Share is a document security solution that enables the guaranteed secured sharing of data to users on any device, anywhere, while also addressing the risk of data leakage and loss. Covata Safe Share embeds Riak as the highly available distributed database managing user, access-control, and document data. Over the past several months, Basho and Covata have collaborated together to address enterprise-class requirements for sensitive document data sharing.
Covata Safe Share is a web-based interface that guides users through the simple process of selecting a file to protect, assignment of authorized or ad hoc Collaborators, and defining the access controls that identify the conditions under which the file can be accessed. Originators can revoke access to any file at any time or change the access controls to adapt to evolving circumstances and requirements. Data can be stored on one or more cloud storage providers, giving the organization complete deployment flexibility. Organizations retain full ownership of the encryption keys, access controls and audit data, and can store these elements on-premises while moving secured data to the cloud. This prevents the cloud storage provider from gaining access to sensitive data.
The growth in cloud storage continues to accelerate. Basho is excited to continue to work with Covata to "protect data wherever it goes."
Covata's press release, Covata Introduces Safe Share For Securing Data In The Cloud, has additional detail on the launch.


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For those of you who have RIMS setups similar to the one I'm describing, what amperage are you using to power your setup? Could I get away with using a 15A outlet?
You may need to try another circuit if that is the case since there may be other loads that you don't know about on the circuit you are using.
I would check the specs on the 1500W element. 1500W is PROBABLY a 120v element.
A 240V/4500W element driven at 120V will give you 1125W of heating. You won't be happy with this if you want to step up the mash temperature. I know from experience with that exact setup. I'm going to either upgrade to 240V (need new 240 GFI outlet) or go with a direct-fire mash tun.
I'll have to look at my multimeter to see if it even measures amps.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- The redesigned 2014 Cadillac CTS sedan that rolls out next month will be priced from $6,000 to a whopping $16,000 above comparable 2013 models. Some Cadillac dealers are quietly grumbling that those lofty stickers will alienate loyal customers.
It's steep, no doubt. But after driving the next-gen CTS during a media launch here, here's my take on why it's not as outlandish as you might think.
- The leap forward in performance and refinement makes any '14-to-'13 comparison almost impossible.
The next-gen CTS moves to the same lightweight platform on which the critically praised ATS compact sedan rides. Two new engines enter the lineup: a 2.0-liter turbo and a 3.6-liter twin turbo V-6.
The mid-sized sedan is 5 inches longer, with a roomier rear seat, but sheds 250 pounds by swapping aluminum for steel in the doors and engine cradle, for example. It's faster, more powerful, more fuel-efficient and handles better. Behind the wheel, you're hard-pressed to remember that you're not piloting an ATS.
- Of course, redesigned cars should always outperform those they replace; that doesn't give General Motors license to jack up the price indiscriminately. But consider the loads of added content: More than 20 features come standard on the 2014 CTS that weren't on the 2013. They include the CUE infotainment system; an eight-speed transmission on rear-wheel-drive V-6 models; Brembo brakes; selectable drive modes for icy weather or track time; a bevy of safety gear; and enough LED lights to ring the top of GM's Renaissance Center headquarters back in Detroit.
- The ATS, launched last year, gives cover for a pricier CTS.
The CTS has pulled double duty in Cadillac's lineup since its debut in 2002, serving both as the brand's entry-level offering and as a mid-sized luxury car expected to take on the Mercedes E Class and BMW 5 Series. Now "we've got that support below from the ATS," says Lisa Sieradski, CTS product manager. She expects some price-sensitive CTS shoppers to gravitate to the ATS, "which isn't a bad thing."
- The CTS' price is still below that of the E class and 5 series and in line with the Audi A6.
This is probably the most important factor. Cadillac engineers gushed that the new CTS is 200 pounds lighter than the segment-leading E Class, more agile and better handling than any competitor, and just as luxurious. Why not price it accordingly?
Consumer Reports magazine stuck a feather in the cap of Cadillac's price planners this week, touting the CTS as "the more fun-to-drive and the less conservative alternative to Lexus and the German brands."
Some dealers and loyal Caddy customers will wonder whether the price increase is too far, too fast. Consider it inevitable growing pains along Cadillac's path back to luxury credibility.


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Four recent graduates of the Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication at St. Bonaventure University received accolades in the 2012-13 New York State Associated Press Association (NYSAPA) Awards.
Samantha House, '11, won first place for beat reporting and first place for continuing coverage for her work with The Citizen in Auburn. Chris Michel, '10, of the Olean Times Herald, won third place in the continuing coverage category as well. Jim Miller, '05, of the Finger Lakes Times, won first place in the business/finance category. A team from The Citizen which included House and Kelly Voll Gottula, '06, placed second in the depth reporting category.
All four will receive their awards at the NYSAPA Awards banquet and symposium on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at the Genesee Grande Hotel in Syracuse.
Pauline Hoffmann, dean of the school of journalism and mass communication, said the success of these graduates is a testament to the education they received while at St. Bonaventure.
"It is exciting to see so many of our J/MC alumni succeed in journalism," she said. "It speaks to the emphasis we place on quality, ethical writing and reporting."
House, who has been on the court reporting beat at The Citizen, said her education as a journalism and mass communication student played a crucial role in cultivating not only her skills as a journalist, but the moral compass of the Franciscan tradition as well. This awareness and empathy helped her succeed in the emotionally-charged environment of the courtroom.
"I learned that words have power — the power to hurt as well as heal. So I entered the newspaper world knowing that above all, I must report with empathy and compassion. That compass has served as a great guide," she said. "It is impossible to observe the rehashing of such tragedies without being affected by the pain felt by victims' families. But when it comes time to write, I leave my thoughts far away from my keyboard. Everyone deserves a chance to speak — including the guilty."
Miller's three-part series in the Finger Lakes Times, "Where We Were, Where We Are and Where We're Going," looked at the Finger Lakes region's recent economic history.
"Conventional wisdom holds that we were somewhat insulated from the recession's worst woes," he said. "We wanted to explore that idea, show what happened here during the recession, find out how well we recovered from it and look at the challenges and opportunities that the region will face in the years ahead."
Miller said his time at St. Bonaventure was crucial in helping him become a successful writer and reporter.
"Our professors taught us to write clearly and concisely," he said. "For a series like this, which involves many numbers and complicated concepts, that was vital. The J/MC faculty insisted on accuracy, fairness and precision. In this series, as in all the work I do, I tried to keep those lessons in mind."
Hoffmann expressed that she and her fellow faculty and staff strive to give students a solid yet versatile foundation of writing and communicating that can be applied to numerous technologies.
"While technology changes the delivery of news, the essentials are the same and we remain committed to teaching them," she said. "We are also committed to ensuring our students are prepared to communicate in an ever-changing technological arena. We are in touch with industry professionals, particularly alumni, who advise us with curriculum necessities beyond our core competencies."
Miller said he believes it's still important for local journalists to be recognized for their work, even at a time when newspapers appear to be declining.
"It shows that we're still here, still relevant and still striving to do good work," he said. "It shows that we can still tell stories that matter, stories that inform and stories that people want to read."
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NEW YORK — Optimism that a budget deal will be reached in Washington helped lift the stock market in early trading today. A pair of economic reports also brightened the mood.
A half-hour after the opening bell, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 50 points at 13,034. UnitedHealth Group led the 30 stocks in the Dow, rising 66 cents to $53.43.
Lawmakers are negotiating a deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff," a collection of tax hikes and federal spending cuts set to start Jan. 1. Later Thursday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will meet with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid to push the negotiations forward.
In other trading, the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose seven points to 1,416 while the Nasdaq composite gained 19 points to 3,011.
The Commerce Department raised its estimate for U.S. economic growth to an annual rate of 2.7 percent in the July-through-September period. That's much better than the 2 percent rate estimated a month ago and more than twice the 1.3 percent rate logged in the three previous months.
Growth during the end of the year is likely to take a hit from Superstorm Sandy, along with worries that Congress won't avoid falling over the fiscal cliff. Economists estimate that growth is slowing to a rate below 2 percent in the current October-December period.
The Labor Department also reported that the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped to 393,000 last week, in line with what economists had expected. It was the second straight drop after Superstorm Sandy drove applications higher earlier this month.
Some retail stores posted poor sales numbers, driving their stocks lower. It's a critical time for retailers, who log a huge chunk of their yearly profits in the weeks running up to the holidays.
Kohl's plunged $5.41, or 10 percent, to $45.74, the most in the S&P 500 index. The company posted a drop in sales and said stores in the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, areas hit by Superstorm Sandy, fared the worst. Results at Target, The Gap, and others also fell short of Wall Street expectations.
Kroger Co. rose 82 cents to $25.88 after the supermarket chain reported stronger quarterly profits and raised its earnings outlook for the year. Stronger sales helped the operator of Fred Meyer and Food 4 Less stores post better results than analysts had expected.


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Mumbai: Skipper Alastair Cook continued to torment India with yet another gritty batting display while Kevin Pietersen returned to form with an unbeaten half-century to give England a slight advantage in the second cricket Test here on Saturday.
Also read: Ojha carrying forward Bishan Singh Bedi's legacy »
Also read: Let's not ruin Pujara's surge with unnecessary comparisons »
After dismissing India for 327 in the first innings, England moved to a comfortable 178 for two in 65 overs before the stumps were drawn on the second day, with the visitors trailing by 149 runs.
At close, the left-handed Cook, who had scored a big century in the first Test, was unbeaten on 87. The more aggressive Pietersen was batting on 62 after a stay of 127 minutes during which he faced 85 balls and hit nine fours.
Cook batted for 251 minutes and faced 209 balls, striking a six and ten fours in the process
The third wicket duo has so far put on 110 runs in 186 balls. For the record, Cook has batted for 960 minutes in all in the three innings he has batted during the series.
With three more days left in the second game of the four-match series in which India are 1-0 ahead, a result is on the cards on a track that is aiding the spin bowlers.
England, though, looked to have a slight advantage with a settled and experienced pair at the wicket and some more batting to follow.
On a wicket where the spin duo of Monty Panesar and Graeme Swann ran through the star-studded Indian batting line-up in which Cheteshwar Pujara (135) and Ravichandra Ashwin (68) stood out, the trio of home team spinners looked largely clueless against the determined Cook and Pietersen.
Barring the twin strike by left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha in the space of 11 balls just before tea, the home side`s spin attack looked far less menacing than both Panesar (five for 129) and Swann, who ran through the tail today to end up with figures of four for 70.
Cook again showed monumental patience to lead his side`s reply. Anything bowled at the stumps was blocked, balls outside the off were cut while the ones outside the leg were swept. He gathered his runs mostly in singles to frustrate the Indian spinners, just like he had done for nearly 12 hours in Ahmedabad.
With a sweep shot before tea, Cook surpassed Pujara as the highest run-getter in the series. The shot, incidentally, hit Pujara on the right side of his rib cage, forcing him to leave the field and seek medical attention. He did not come out to field after tea.
Substitute fielder Ajinkya Rahane, too, had to duck at times to avoid getting hit by the England captain`s sweeps. He eventually received a painful blow on his left elbow by Kevin Pietersen`s powerful sweep off Harbhajan Singh.
Pietersen, who looked in a hurry in the opening game, adopted a slightly different approach. He dispatch Harbhajan with lofted shots but played cautiously against Ojha, who had dismissed him twice in the first game. The batsman was also careful against Ashwin.
Pietersen, however, survived a confident appeal for a catch off Ashwin when he was on 45 in a team score of 146 for two.
Umpire Aleem Dar, who gave a wrong decision to send back Zaheer Khan in the morning by declaring him caught in the leg trap, did not agree to the Indians` vociferous appeal against Pietersen when the ball ballooned to backward short-leg fielder Virat Kohli.
Pietersen soon raced to his half-century with a back foot cut off Ashwin in 63 balls.
He had come to the crease after Ojha struck two blows in his three-over spell late in the second session to dismiss opener Nick Compton and Jonathan Trott in successive overs.
Cook and his opening partner Compton had negotiated the spinning ball to raise the visitors` hopes till Ojha struck.
Ojha had the dogged Compton caught at slip with a sharply turning ball for 29 and then fooled Trott with an arm ball to trap the batsman leg before as England slumped from 66 for no loss to 68 for two.
Their dismissals brought together Cook and Pietersen who batted out the last session while adding 101 runs.
Neither Ojha nor off spinner Ashwin, who took four wickets in the first game, got the same amount of turn or bounce that Panesar found in the morning.
Both were also guilty of not sticking to a consistent line, with Ashwin slightly better than his spin partner till Ojha came on for a fresh spell to claim two quick wickets.
Harbhajan, playing his first Test after the disastrous tour to England in 2011, started off well by getting some turn and bounce, but later on became predictable and could not trouble the batsmen.
While Ojha was the most successful Indian bowler of the day with two for 65, Ashwin and Harbhajan gave away 54 and 47 runs, respectively, without tasting success. Zaheer Khan bowled economically in short spells.
Harbhajan was not summoned into the attack till the 25th over while Yuvraj Singh was not given a single over by skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
In the morning, England finally dismissed Pujara for the first time in three innings as India were all out 22 minutes before lunch.
Pujara was the ninth man out at 316, after batting for almost the entire day yesterday and with just half an hour left for lunch today.
It was Pujara who pulled India out of a deep hole on the first day when India were struggling at 169 for six at one stage. He was lured out by Swann and wicketkeeper Matt Prior did the needful.
Pujara`s seven and a half hour vigil lasted 350 balls. He struck 12 fours.
The Rajkot?born player had made an unbeaten 206 in the first Test.
But despite Pujara`s brave effort, India, resuming on 266 for six, lost their remaining four wickets for the addition of adding 61 runs with Swann sending back Pujara, Harbhajan and Zaheer in the space of 10 balls.
India`s last four wickets added 158 runs, which helped them bounce back from the precarious position.
Panesar, who dismissed overnight batsman Ashwin, finished with a five-for, his first against India and 11th overall.