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Prayer for Marquette
God, Father and Mother of us all,
bless the mission of Marquette University,
and bestow your grace on our strivings toward that
Motivate all students to seek wisdom:
through conversing, writing, and criticizing;
through exploration and imagination.
Inspire our faculty with effective ways
to touch the minds of the young,
and with insights into the beauty of your universe.
Help our administrators and staff
to foster learning, research, justice, and faith.
Watch over our alumni and friends.
Give success to our scholastic competitions and athletic
grant us good health and good humor.
In our neighborhood and in our country,
help all people to live in justice and peace,
and to find productive jobs,
so that they can care for their families.
Most of all, help each of us to grow
in love and understanding of your Son and our Brother,
Jesus Christ, who is the way to you, our Creator. Amen.


text: Proposed SNAP Cuts Could Jeopardize Farm Jobs December 30, 2012 11:00 PM Tweet U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) calls for cuts in SNAP at the 2012 Farm Journal Forum. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Boyce Thompson AgWeb Email Both House and Senate versions of the farm bill would slice into this political hot potato If the U.S. House and Senate split the difference on proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, as many as 3,000 jobs could be lost in agriculture each year. USDA estimates that every $1 billion in SNAP spending -- the government spent $78 billion last year -- helps create or maintain 3,000 farm jobs. That billion-dollar figure is roughly the amount that would be cut annually from the program if the House and Senate met in the middle over their respective farm bills. The House version of the bill would cut $16.5 billion over 10 years from the program, while the Senate's would cut $4.5 billion. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, made it clear at the 2012 Farm Journal Forum that SNAP cuts need to be part of a farm bill that will gain his support. He argues that real reforms can be made to the nutrition program without taking "one calorie off of one deserving person's plate." Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack, speaking at the same conference, acknowledged that fraud and errors can still be removed from the program even though they are at their lowest levels since the government began keeping track. "Now, can there be reforms to the system?," he says. "Absolutely. Can we continue to do a better job of integrity in the system, even though we are at record lows in terms of fraud and error rate? Absolutely. Until we have no evidence of fraud, and no errors, we'll always be able to do that." Vilsack attempts to marshal support Vilsack urges farmers to support SNAP, which he says provides a counter-cyclical benefit to agriculture during recessions, stabilizing food demand. The stimulus works its way up the food chain from grocers, to truckers, to the packaging and processing industries, creating thousands of jobs along the way. But he says it is "never thought about that way by farmers." Ninety-two percent of SNAP recipients fall into one of four needy groups, Vilsack says. Nearly half of them are children. "They are either a senior citizen who played by the rules and just living on a very, very small fixed income. They are a person with a disability. They are a child. Or they are someone who is in the workforce, working but because of the number of hours they work, or the wages they get paid, they just can't make ends meet by the end of the month. They are people playing by the rules that we care about." In August -- two months before the presidential elections and amid the farm bill debate in Congress -- the Obama Administration announced a series of what it called aggressive measures to counter fraud in the program. These actions included tougher financial sanctions for retailers who defraud the program and new requirements for states to ensure benefits go solely to eligible people. The House version of the farm bill would eliminate food assistance to more than 2 million people. The savings come primarily from eliminating a state option known as categorical eligibility, which extends benefits to people with disposable income below the poverty line, even if their gross incomes or assets are above the line. The Senate bill gets its savings by limiting state SNAP coordination with Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program payments. This provision is also contained in a bill that passed the House Agriculture Committee. USDA says SNAP feeds more than 46 million low-income people each month, about one in seven Americans. The average person receives $133.42 a month, or a little more than $4 a day. Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, N.J., made national headlines in December when he pledged to live on that daily amount, or about $1.33 per meal, for a week. Click here to read about his experience. The Heritage Foundation is one of the most vocal critics of SNAP, which accounts for 75% to 80% of farm bill spending. The organization largely seeks changes in SNAP because, the organization says, it is an "expensive, old-style entitlement program that discourages work, rewards idleness and promotes long-term dependence." Representatives have said in newspaper interviews that "high-income" farmers also benefit from the program. Advocates note that SNAP provided additional economic stimulus during the recession, boosting the fortunes of America's farmers. Spending on the program rose to $78 billion in fiscal 2011. The Heritage Foundation expects federal spending to decline as the economy improves. Temporary spending increases were contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Big growth in outlays The Congressional Budget Office reported in April that spending on SNAP benefits grew by about 135% between 2007 and 2011. About 65% of the growth came from an increase in recipients, "primarily driven by the weak economy." Another 20% came from temporarily higher benefit amounts. The remaining 14% stemmed from higher food prices and lower income among beneficiaries, among other factors. Lisa Sutherland, an adjunct professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth College who formerly worked as vice president of nutrition for Kellogg North America, notes data that show the program has lifted 3.9 million people out of poverty. "If you cut the program, how many people do you drop down into poverty?" she asks. For the 18 million food-insecure families in the U.S., she says, "food remains a privilege and not a right." SNAP funding in recent years has been directed to educating recipients on the value of nutrition. The program has supported government efforts to fight obesity. More than two-thirds of adults and one-third of children are overweight or obese, says Robin Schepper, the former director of Let's Move, a campaign to reduce obesity led by first lady Michelle Obama. Speaking at the Farm Journal Forum, Schepper questioned why so little government funding goes to fight obesity and so much goes to address chronic diseases that are often brought on by the condition. A full 21% of the federal budget is allocated to Medicare and Medicaid. "We don't talk about prevention. We could stem health costs if we dealt with well-care." Cutting federal funding will also cut into contributed aid. Lindsey Palmer, director of nutrition and community outreach at DC Central Kitchen, notes that every $5 in SNAP benefits generates $9 in total community spending, according to the USDA. "We have to figure out how to replace that money." Back to news

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The sports world is looking forward to Feb. 7 and the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
There are those who really look forward to the games every four years, watching the skiing, skating, and all the other events that have to do with snow and ice.
I am looking forward to the games as well, but my greatest interest will be in how they stage them.
When I heard some time back that Sochi was the site in 2014, I was taken back a bit. Sochi?
My memory of that city on the eastern shore of the Black Sea is one of palm trees and beaches. But not snow.
When I was there in October of 1989, I saw a beautiful resort city with long beaches and sun-bathing Russians. There was not a snowball in sight.
It was a semi-tropical setting not much unlike the beaches of the southeastern United States. There was one major difference, however. There is no sand on Sochi�s beaches. Just rocks.
That�s right. The beach is made up of rocks. They range from small pebbles up to softball-size stones � not the kind of thing on which you spread a towel and lie down. Instead, sun-bathers rent boards on which to lie. It�s pretty tough to walk on them as well.
I realized many would not believe I had been on a beach of rocks, so I actually picked up a few and brought them home. One is here on my desk right now. White, smooth, flat.
So my thought when I saw the news about Sochi hosting the winter games was one of wonder. I suppose the venue will be back in the Caucasus mountains to the east of the city. When on a boat in the Black Sea, you can see those mountains in the background, looming over that beach of rocks and palm trees.
We went into those mountains on one side trip while there, and they are really rugged. Our bus traveled a long a very narrow mountain road without any guard rails whatsoever, and we could look over the side to a straight drop for what looked like an eternity. I can see how there would be snow at the higher levels of those mountains in winter.
I have heard that arrangements have been made to have snow-making equipment on the ready, but I am not certain how that is going to work.
I hope things have changed there since 1989, especially in the hotels. We stayed in the Sputnik, just a short walk from the beach. It was maybe 20 stories high, and we were on the 17th floor. It was nice enough, but folders in the room showed interiors when the place opened 30 years earlier. Everything was still identical � furniture and everything else.
And several times during our stay, the elevators failed. We had to walk 17 flights of stairs on a number of occasions. No one seemed really concerned about getting the problem fixed.
In another hotel we visited � one that was part of a very well-known U.S. chain � there was a large hole in the wall in the lobby. And apparently it had been there a good while. No one seemed to care about it being fixed.
But that was when the country was still the Communist Soviet Union. I hope things have changed for the better in those hotels since then. I tried a search on the Internet for the Sputnik, but it is not there. Perhaps the name was changed after the Soviet Union collapsed.
There were lots of other hotels in Sochi, and many more nearby along the Black Sea. So there should be plenty of places to stay. But I hope the food is better. I am not really sure yet what I was eating in my time there.
Visitors can sail on the Black Sea, or they can travel just a short distance down to the Republic of Georgia. I visited the Georgia city of Gagra south of Sochi.
I have many good memories of Sochi, but there is one thing I do not remember.
I am anxious to see how a city lined with beaches and palm trees can host the Winter Olympics.
Don Bolden is editor emeritus of the Times-News. His column appears every Sunday. He can be contacted at email@example.com.


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The 0 will actually attempt to grab the current step of each query planfor all sessions.
Two considerations
- onstat -g pqs only shows all phases that have currentlyprocessed, plus the current phase.
- onstat -g pqs only shows active queries, once a query iscomplete the plan is gone.
Below is a sample based on the following query.
SELECT c.customer_num, fname,lname, company, o.order_num
FROM customer c, orders o, items i
WHERE c.customer_num= o.customer_num
AND o.order_num = i.order_num
GROUP BY c.customer_num, o.order_num, fname, lname, company
ORDER BY c.customer_num, lname, fname, company, order_num
As you can see an additional drawback is that the tables themselves are not named, but it does clearly show you the query tree as it was executed.
Mark Jamison


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The History of Mount Joy
The History of Mount Joy
Members of the Ramer family were not the only successful business owners in the 1800s. There was Abraham T. Moore and Son's pump factory, Peter Milne's Markham Mills, and John Monkhouse's planing mill. David Byer founded a skin cancer treatment institute that evolved into the Byer Cancer Hospital at 300 Main Street North. In 1890, Aretus Urmy opened a general store at 266 Main Street North. A school was erected in 1835. A later school near the northwest corner of 16th Avenue and Main Street North was later converted for use as the Markham Museum.
The arrival of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway in 1871 began a major period of growth and many parcels of land were sold for new homes and businesses. Today, the southern part of Peter Street still contains many houses dating from the late 1800s.
In February 1907, Mount Joy became a police village. This was a form of municipal government created in the early 20th century for communities where the finances or population were not enough to create a village. A police village was not incorporated by the provincial government but by a by-law of the district or county government. It had its own elected governing body of trustees, which could establish fire and safety services and regulations, erect streetlights, and build sidewalks, but otherwise remained within the jurisdiction of the higher level of government.
Mount Joy was given over to the Village of Markham on January 27, 1915, with terms set by the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board. The Village of Markham was to supply Mount Joy with, "electric light for domestic use, street lighting and water." Other provisions such as exempting Mount Joy from debts incurred by Markham, and holding the property assessment values for 10 years on agricultural property, were among other concessions and guarantees.


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Shoes.com Insider on Dyeables
For many women, the need to plan for a special occasion is par for the course. OK, so how do we think about planning for a special event? Let's start with "the 3 P's": planning, preparation, and post evaluation. Dyeables is attentive to the needs of women planning for special events and, for over 20 years, has been making it easier for its customers, more often women, to plan, prepare, and post evaluate.
While planning for that prom, wedding, anniversary, or fancy party, Dyeables is often perceived by women as a savior for understanding and anticipating their wishes and needs. Dyeables' brilliantly styled and colored silhouettes come in standard colors of white, nude, and black, and can be dyed to match 120 colors for any ensemble! It's versatility at its finest.
Now, it's time to get ready for the occasion with all the glam a woman deserves. Like a symphony, there is a lot to orchestrate. Everything must fit perfectly, including the dyeable shoes. Slip your feet into a beautiful pair of Dyeables shoes and very often you will fall in love. Dyeables provide you with comfort and style that will take you from walking down the aisle to the dancing on the ballroom floor.
Finally, the post evaluation of your special event takes place. As you flip through photos and experience pain-free feet the following day, you think how wonderful it is to have a pair of Dyeables shoes to make any special occasion extraordinary.


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Hi All,
We are currently migrating our in-house Windows Servers to OO in order for us to share files and mail etc across the group (currently 6 locations).
One of the things we have come across is getting a new user's data into their documents in OO. Our IT Department is setting up the user / group policies and 'inviting' new users to the portal, but there is no way for the technical team to import an employee's documents. There is not even the option for us to assign a 'username / password' for that user, then log in as them to import data, and for a service aimed at companies I would consider this an oversight. This places the responsibility over a technical task on the shoulders of non-technical (in our case at least) users.
My suggestion would be to allow the portal owner to assign a username and temporary password during user creation, and delay the invitation until any company document, mail set up is complete. Once finalised, the user is sent the invitation request and prompted to enter their own password when they accept.
This approach would allow the IT staff to go in and set up the more technical aspects of the (empty) account, and still retain personal security for the employee data when the account is in active use.
Danny Martin
Director of Group IT
Rural Retreats & Leisure UK Ltd


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Soft Tacos & Cupcakes: Menu for a Big Office Potluck Lunch
The Menu
Salads & Sides:
- Vietnamese Spring Rolls with Spicy Peanut Dipping Sauce
Edamame & Cauliflower Pasta Salad with Feta
- Quinoa and Black Bean Salad with Orange-Coriander Dressing
- Chickpea, Barley, and Zucchini Ribbon Salad with Mint and Feta
- Tri-Color Slaw with Lime Dressing
- Big Green Salad with Shallots, Chicken, Smoked Almonds, Goat Cheese, and Dates
- Spring Quiche with Leeks and Sorrel
- Cashew Chicken Salad Wraps (double this recipe)
- Pulled Pork Tacos
The Scene
The office. Ravenous co-workers. A few crock-pots sending tantalizing aromas over cubicle walls. The long table in the meeting room arrayed with mega-sized bowls of salad and platters of tasty bite-sized treats. Everyone breaks a little early and stays a little longer than their official lunch hour, lingering over the leftovers.
Make It Happen
Besides variety and cupcakes, an office potluck also requires some coordination. It's good to designate some people for salads and sides, some for main dishes, and some for desserts — and don't forget to nominate someone (or two) to bring drinks. Clear out some fridge space the day before so that people have somewhere to stash their dishes until lunchtime.
The dishes listed in the "Menu" above are truly just suggestions. Most of them are things that feed a crowd, don't need to be reheated, and don't require more than a plate and a fork for eating. It's nice to break out of the basic "lettuce + cherry tomato" salad scene and bring in a few grain salads and lighter pasta salads. The pork tacos are best if you can finagle a crock-pot to warm it up before lunch.
The desserts speak for themselves! Cookies, bars, and cupcakes are the mainstay of an office (or any!) potluck — things that people can nibble now or take back to their desks if they want.
What are your favorite dishes for office potlucks?
Related: Potluck Etiquette: What Are Your Rules?
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Our Top 15 Desserts for Spring
Greens like asparagus, artichokes, and ramps get all the attention come springtime, but your desserts need a little lightening and brightening too! It's time to move on from the rich chocolate and caramel sweets of winter and try something fresh.
Today we're highlighting 15 of our favorite dessert recipes for spring. From rhubarb crumble pie to lemon no-bake cupcakes there's a bright, fresh treat here for everyone.
I'm personally super excited to make the Heavenly Lemon Bars again, they might (probably) be my favorite springtime treat. I'd also like to try my hand at the rhubarb crumble pie to take advantage of what's in season.
What are your favorite dessert recipes for spring?
- 1 No-Bake Lemon Cream & Coconut Icebox Cupcakes
- 2 Rhubarb Crumble Pie
- 3 Lemon Yogurt Icebox Tart
- 4 Rhubarb Coconut Honey Tart
- 5 Heavenly Lemon Bars with Almond Shortbread Crust
- 6 Rose, Orange, and Cardamom Mini Layer Cakes
- 7 How to Make the Best Coconut Macaroons
- 8 Meyer Lemon Shaker Pie
- 9 Big Pink Rhubarb Cake
- 10 Lemon Cream Icebox Cake
- 11 Elderflower Lemon Cake
- 12 Lemon-Blueberry Yogurt Cake with Lemon Cream
- 13 Goat Cheese, Honey & Pistachio Mini Cheesecakes with Meyer Lemon Cream
- 14 Fresh Grape Cake with Luscious Lemon Sauce
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Directed by John Hayes
Starring: Michael Pataki, William Smith, Diane Holden and Lyn Peters.
Grave of the Vampire follows in the path of the recently released Yorga movies with the Draculaesque many fanged vampire of the early 70s. They are actually quite refreshing, especially because they harken back to the days when not all vampires were underwear models with perfect hair who have an anti-hero complex.
This film sees the amorous Leslie and Paul leave a party to go and do the nasty in the local cemetery, a place where apparently they first consummated their relationship. Leslie remarks in a foreboding fashion that she believes cemeteries will never frighten her. Paul uses this opportunity to propose to Leslie, giving her his grandmother's engagement ring, and they return to the car for some backseat action while an ominous fog begins to fill the cemetery. The crypt of Caleb Croft creaks open, and vampire once known as Charles Croydon awakens from a decades slumber, his stiff bones and cobwebbed suit lurching out of the coffin to attack the unweary couple.
|Caleb Croft rises
A homeless bum who sleeps in the cemetery witnesses all of this, having been awoken by the commotion, and passes this scene onto the investigating detective. After showing several photos of the usual suspects to Leslie who is recovering in hospital from the rape, and is unexpectedly pregnant from the assault, he comes to the belief that Caleb Croft was not only the suspect, but is also a vampire.
|Who's next?
Fed on bottled blood from her own body, the boy who hides and plays in the shade grows to become a handsome dhampir, and after burying his mother swears vengeance on Caleb Croft and vows to destroy him.
|The Yorga-like fangs of the 70s
James befriends several of the students, who are also students of the occult, including Anita who also discerns Lockwood' true identity, and after demanding to be made a vampire, meets a nasty death with a kitchen knife at her apartment.
|Anne becomes the unwilling vessel for Sarah
|James Eastman: Like Father, like Son
James returns to declare his true identity, which Croydon seems demonically pleased about. After a brief struggle the dhampir gains the upper hand, stakes Croydon ridding the world of his evil. With his last undead breath, Croydon curses his son and like him becomes a full vampire, with all the cravings and powers of the forces of darkness, rising from his father's corpse to make Anne his first victim.
I have a few problems with this film, besides the fact it seems to be compared with the Yorga films. To me it seems like it's missing scenes, perhaps a great deal of them and/or suffers from a bad edit. The film seems to leap from when Anne and James discovers Anita's bloodless body in the shower, to the seance scene at the vampire's house. There is just no logical jump between the two scenes.
Another problem I have is that it seems that Croydon is not overly suspicious of James, and doesn't do some investigating on his own. James gave himself away in the first meeting, establishing the link between Croydon and Croft, and the fact they were both vampires, and seemed to taunt Croft with this knowledge, albeit challenging him. If I was Croydon this would have certainly raised a few red flags for me, especially after stealing the book from the reference library that James referred to in that initial meeting, which would have confirmed suspicions. For a centuries' old vampire, he seemed to be rather dense. Lastly it seemed he had misplaced morality. He was willing to kill anyone that got in his path or discovered his identity (besides James), but wanted to lend a book from a library that detailed his past crimes instead of just stealing it.
Despite these niggling faults, it's still a rather enjoyable and dark vampire film, one of the few gems of the 1970's. Pity they don't make vampire films like this or Yorga anymore. So let's bring on more vampire underwear models instead.
My score is 6/10.


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WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Will 'truth about Obama' be sold on eBay?
Bids soar past $15,000 for alleged proof of president's Kenyan birth
Editor's note: Since this story broke, the bids for this eBay item reportedly topped $1,000,000, according to WND readers who have been tracking the auction, but this fifth attempt by the seller has since been scrubbed from the eBay site again.
Four times an eBay auction page listing an allegedly genuine copy of Barack Obama's birth certificate – from Mombasa, Kenya – was scrubbed from the popular Internet site, presumably for violating eBay's policy prohibiting the sale of government documents.
But now a fifth posting promising "the truth" about Obama's birth, this time in the form of a written dissertation – sidestepping the restriction against auctioning government documents – has remained on the site for hours; and the top bid has skyrocketed past $15,000.
Original eBay offer for Obama's 'Kenyan birth certificate'
As WND reported, the eBay seller, known to the public only as "colmado_naranja," alleged that he obtained President Obama's birth certificate while traveling in Africa. He explained that the Kenyan natives boasted that Barack Obama II was born in the Coast Provincial Hospital in Mombasa at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961, which correlates with speculation that has existed over President Obama's birthplace since even prior to his election.
In each of the seller's first four attempts at auctioning the "evidence" of his claim, which would presumably render Barack Obama ineligible to serve as president for violating the "natural born citizen" clause, colmado_naranja mentioned an alleged Kenyan birth certificate that "proved" his story.
In this latest and thus far most successful attempt at auctioning "the truth about Obama," the seller does not even mention the birth certificate, though his suggestion that the purchaser bring an expert to verify the "supporting evidence" allows potential buyers to reach their own conclusion:
"Feel free to bring along with you a forensic examiner to authenticate my dissertation," states the seller's latest auction page. "You may refuse payment should you find that my dissertation is without merit. Upon request (during in-person viewing of dissertation) all supporting evidence will be made available to you."
While WND has made repeated contacts with colmado_naranja, the validity of his claims – as well as the previously advertised "Kenyan birth certificate" – remain a mystery, for the seller has refused to allow the document to be seen or photographed.
In the original listing, colmado_naranja explained, "I am not posting any photos of the birth certificate here on eBay. I have not seen this birth certificate anywhere on the Internet, to post it here on eBay would lead to a flood of facsimiles on the Internet. This would inadvertently decrease the value of the certificate as well."
At least one investigator, who has traveled to Africa and sought the birth certificate from the very same hospital, however, told WND he remains "skeptical" of the eBay auction's claims.
WND's senior staff writer, Jerome Corsi, traveled to Kenya in 2008 to look into Obama's past and remaining ties to the nation.
While there, however, immigration authorities detained Corsi and his publicist – holding them under armed guard and without food – to prevent Corsi from holding a news conference revealing what he had discovered, eventually requiring thousands of dollars in bribes to set the writer free.
Corsi told WND that despite contacts in government offices, the help of others and even the offer of financial reward, the Coast Provincial Hospital in Mombasa would not confirm Obama's birth there nor provide access to records.
"When I was there, I tried to get records from that hospital, but I couldn't do it," Corsi said. "The hospital either had no records or wouldn't release them.
"That's what makes me skeptical," Corsi continued. "How did [colmado_naranja] get the birth certificate, if it's real?"
Corsi wouldn't rule out the possibility that the eBay seller may have somehow obtained a genuine document, but stated only that his efforts in Kenya proved fruitless.
WND has continued to attempt to contact the seller through several channels, but thus far, examining the document colmado_naranja claims to hold has proven as difficult as examining the records at the Coast Provincial Hospital.
Obama's eligibility questions
President Obama's place of birth, however, remains only one of several questions and possible avenues for answers that remain in determining whether or not Obama is a "natural born citizen" under the U.S. Constitution and eligible to serve as president.
WND has reported on dozens of legal challenges to Obama's status as a "natural born citizen." The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."
Some of the lawsuits question whether he was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama's American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.
Other challenges have focused on Obama's citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.
Send a contribution to support the national billboard campaign that asks a simple question: "Where's the birth certificate?"
Complicating the situation is Obama's decision to spend sums estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to avoid releasing a state birth certificate that would put to rest all of the questions.
WND has reported that among the documentation not yet available for Obama includes his kindergarten records, his Punahou school records, his Occidental College records, his Columbia University records, his Columbia thesis, his Harvard Law School records, his Harvard Law Review articles, his scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, his passport, his medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records.
"Where's The Birth Certificate?" billboard in Pennsylvania
Because of the dearth of information about Obama's eligibility, WND founder Joseph Farah has launched a campaign to raise contributions to post billboards asking a simple question: "Where's the birth certificate?"
The campaign followed a petition that has collected almost 400,000 signatures demanding proof of his eligibility, the availability of yard signs raising the question and the production of permanent, detachable magnetic bumper stickers asking the question.
The eBay birth certificate seller is a self-proclaimed "collector of old Dominican and Cuban money" and has worked in the Congo.
"This spring I traveled through Kenya and its capital Nairobi. I was overwhelmed by the 'iconicized' face of U.S. President Barack Obama that displays itself throughout the country. I had lunch at a small eatery and noticed that the club sandwich with fried plantains was now known as 'Obama's Plate of the Day,'" the seller wrote on the initial auction page. "As an American I was bombarded with questions in English (English is national language of Kenya) on my feelings and opinions of a Kenyan governing the United States of America. The first several times I responded in saying that not enough time had elapsed since Barack Obama's appointment as president of the U.S.A., and that I'd have to hold my official opinion until at least January 2010, a year in office might be sufficient for me to judge his ability to govern the U.S.A.
"Naturally I thought that by 'Kenyan' they were referring to Barack Obama's blood, being that his father Barack Obama Sr. was a native of Kenya. After a day and a half of my being in Nairobi I learned that they were literally referring to President Barack Obama Jr. as being born in Kenya, a native of Kenya."
The seller also cited the fact that Obama has not release his "Hawaiian" birth certificate. His administration, the seller says, "in an attempt to put the birth certificate issue to a rest, has presented the American public with a fake, forged, fraudulent Hawaiian birth certificate."
The "certification of live birth" posted online and widely touted as "Obama's birth certificate" does not in any way prove he was born in Hawaii, since the same "short-form" document is easily obtainable for children not born in Hawaii. The true "long-form" birth certificate – which includes information such as the name of the birth hospital and attending physician – is the only document that can prove Obama was born in Hawaii, but to date he has not permitted its release for public or press scrutiny.
Oddly, though congressional hearings were held to determine whether Sen. John McCain was constitutionally eligible to be president as a "natural born citizen," no controlling legal authority ever sought to verify Obama's claim to a Hawaiian birth.
Your donation – from as little as $5 to as much as $1,000 – can be made online at the WND SuperStore. (Donations are not tax-deductible. Donations of amounts greater than $1,000 can be arranged by calling either 541-474-1776 or 1-800-4WND.COM. If you would prefer to mail in your contributions, they should be directed to WND, P.O. Box 1627, Medford, Oregon, 97501. Be sure to specify the purpose of the donation by writing "billboard" on the check. In addition, donations of billboard space will be accepted, as will significant contributions specifically targeted for geographic locations.)
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Nordstrom Inc. JWN, -0.65% reported late Thursday third-quarter profit rose 15% to $146 million, or 71 cents a share, from $127 million, or 59 cents a share, a year ago. Revenue for the quarter ended Oct. 27 rose to $2.81 billion from $2.48 billion. Gross margin slipped to 37.1% from 37.3%. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had predicted the Seattle-based department-store chain would earn 72 cents a share on $2.71 billion in revenue. The company tightened its 2012 earnings outlook to $3.45 to $3.50 a share from its earlier range of $3.40 to $3.50. Nordstrom shares fell as much as 3.2% to $53.65 in after-hours trade.
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Court rejects Florida law requiring drug testing for welfare recipients
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a temporary ban on a law requiring drug testing of Florida's welfare recipients.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled that a lower court was right to temporarily halt enforcement of the state's drug-testing program. The opinion said the state of Florida hadn't shown a "substantial special need" for such mandatory drug testing.
The ruling, authored by Circuit Judge Rosemary Barkett, added that "there is nothing inherent to the condition of being impoverished that supports the conclusion that there is a `concrete danger' that impoverished individuals are prone to drug use."
Tuesday's decision means that the law will continue to not be enforced as the courts continue to resolve the underlying legal issues.
Florida officials previously argued that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, benefits are intended to ensure family stability and child welfare, and that drug use subverts both of those aims.
But opponents said drug testing as a condition of getting welfare benefits is an unconstitutional search and seizure.
Florida's law requires welfare applicants to pay for and pass a drug test to get benefits. The drug testing was in effect in the latter half of 2011 before being halted by a federal judge. The American Civil Liberties Union had challenged the law's constitutionality.
The state then appealed the preliminary injunction to the 11th Circuit.
The circuit court's opinion also dismissed the state's argument that the testing for drugs without suspicion is OK because potential recipients sign a consent form.
The court said the state cannot condition welfare benefits "on the applicant's forced waiver" of his constitutional right.


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Latest features (version 1.4) include the ability to tweet / facebook / email articles to your followers and 'achievement unlocks' (which are really just a cunning way of the App saying 'did you know I could do this'). Version 1.5 brings video support.
Hey, 'Gadget Watch' is a work in progress, please feedback any thoughts you have or issues you encounter using the feedback option within the App itself. I'll try and incorporate your ideas in the next free update of the app.
4 days after airing and the viewer stats look pretty impressive with almost 36,000 views. This highlights the main difficulty that an 'Indie dev' usually has when marketing your apps – gaining some 'reach'! (Thanks Laura)
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Organizers of Minnesota's bid for the 2018 Super Bowl said Wednesday that local companies have already stepped up to cover most of the costs.
Richard Davis, co-chair of the bid committee and chief executive of U.S. Bancorp, told reporters that just within the first seven days of the drive, local companies pledged enough money to cover 75 percent of the estimated $30 million to $40 million needed to defray the costs.
They expect to line up the rest within the next few weeks. Davis and his fellow co-chairs gave reporters few details about the 180-page proposal they submitted to NFL team owners and officials on iPads donated by locally based Best Buy Co. Inc.
He said they didn't want to divulge their "secret weapons" to Indianapolis and New Orleans, the other cities competing for the 2018 game. The three cities will make their presentations to NFL team owners in two weeks and a decision is expected soon after.
Minneapolis last hosted the 1992 Super Bowl. Indianapolis hosted it in 2012. New Orleans has hosted it 10 times, most recently in 2013. New Orleans also is keeping some specifics of its bid confidential, but, if successful, intends to promote the Super Bowl as the kickoff to the city's 300th anniversary celebration.
"A good portion of our bid focuses on the year 2018, which will be a major milestone for the city with a number of new capital improvement projects benefiting the Super Bowl," said Sam Joffray, a spokesman for the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation. Those projects include upgrades to the state-owned Superdome, additional streetcar lines and new public spaces such as the riverfront Crescent Park, not far from the French Quarter.
"New Orleans presented a very flexible bid allowing the NFL a number of choices in terms of how they would like to configure the Super Bowl footprint for official events and fan activities at multiple venues," Joffray said.
Indianapolis bid leaders released details of their plan Wednesday, highlighted by the news that Colts owner Jim Irsay is expected to make the final pitch for his city to fellow owners on May 19 in Atlanta. Irsay has been undergoing treatment since March when he was arrested near his home in an Indianapolis suburb.
The arrest report said he had $29,000 in cash and bottles of prescription drugs in his car. Davis said the Minnesota proposal includes tax rebates that would be a fraction of the extra revenue the state stands to collect if it's chosen to host the game.
Mostly, Davis and his fellow co-chairs stuck to broad themes about the benefits to the community and the NFL and the chance to show off - on an international stage - Minnesota in winter and the Vikings' futuristic new indoor stadium now rising from a pit where the old Metrodome once stood. Davis said they'll also highlight how a February 2018 Super Bowl in Minneapolis would come just a week ahead of the Winter Olympics.
The festivities would be coordinated with other events such as the St. Paul Winter Carnival. "We're going to celebrate winter. And we should, because we do it well - better than anyone. We're going to talk to the owners about how it's about time that the NFL brought America's game around the country, like a caravan, and started taking it out from the southern states and bring it around to the rest of the world. We should be the first," Davis said.
Davis said the $1 billion new stadium will be "the biggest and the best in the NFL" with some of the closest seating to the field. The co-chairs said any Super Bowl bid requires some tax breaks but promised that state and local governments will come out ahead on taxes.
Some of the breaks will require legislative approval, they said, while an exemption from state sales taxes for Super Bowl tickets remains on the books from 1992. They said political leaders have provided assurances there won't be a problem.
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Despite a choppy performance over the last few weeks, the Dow charged 14% higher in the first six months of the year in its best first half since 1999.
Today's Markets
According to preliminary calculations, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 124 points, or 0.81%, to 14903, the S&P 500 fell 7.4 points, or 0.46%, to 1606 and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.4 points, or 0.04%, to 3403.
For the first six months of the year, the Dow added 13.8%, the S&P 500 tacked on 12.6%, and the Nasdaq jumped 12.7%.
Traders continued paying close attention to the U.S. economy, the world's biggest.
The Institute for Supply Management-Chicago's PMI gauge fell to 51.6 in June from 58.7 the month prior. Wall Street expected a shallower fall to 56. The reading suggests the Midwest manufacturing sector expanded at a slower rate in June from May. A reading on consumer sentiment from Reuters and the University of Michigan came in at 84.1 in late June, up from a preliminary reading of 82.7. Wall Street expected the measure to rise to 82.8.
Both reports provide an early look at how the economy is performing in the end of the second quarter.
On the corporate front, BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) revealed a surprise fiscal-first quarter loss Friday, sending shares of the embattled smartphone maker plummeting in the pre-market. Nike (NYSE:NKE) posted better-than-expected results on the top and bottom lines.
In metals, gold fell $9.50, or 0.78%, to $1,202 a troy ounce. The precious metal is trading at its lowest level in close to three years and is looking to close out its worst quarter on record.
Oil rose 10 cents, or 0.1%, to $97.15 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline was flat at $2.742 a gallon.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 fell 0.32% to 2612, the English FTSE 100 ticked up 0.11% to 6251 and the German DAX dipped 0.17% to 7977.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 surged 3.5% to 13677 and the Chinese Hang Seng rallied 1.8% to 20803.


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ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan said Saturday the country is going through a "true normalization" process that will result in a "new Turkey."
"What is being experienced in Turkey is true normalization," Today's Zaman quoted Erdogan as telling officials of his Justice and Development Party at a meeting in Kizilcahamam.
"What is normal is allowing headscarf-wearing students to enter university campuses. What is normal is ... attendance of headscarf-wearing deputies in Parliament, but they're being prevented from doing this so far. What is normal is allowing every language to be spoken freely. This is what is happening now."
The prime minister made frequent references to his desire to see a "new Turkey" in which everyone is accepted.
"There won't be sufferings of the past in the new Turkey," Erdogan said.
The prime minister rejected contentions of growing polarization in Turkey, with critics assessing blame on the ruling party.
"Such claims that there is polarization and interference in people's lifestyles [by the government] are brought to the agenda from time to time to undermine democratic politics," Erdogan said.polarization among the society.


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A federal judge has refused to acquit or grant new trials to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, his father and a city contractor.
The decision Thursday clears the way for Kilpatrick's sentence for corruption on Sept. 3.
Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson were convicted in March of a sweeping scheme to enrich themselves through fixed contracts, bribes and kickbacks. Kilpatrick's father, Bernard, was convicted of a tax crime.
Kwame Kilpatrick appeared in court wearing tan prison clothes. He and Ferguson have been in custody since being found guilty in March. Ferguson will be sentenced on Sept. 4.


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Qualcomm has traditionally been weak in the GPU department with their Snapdragon chips, but that is all set to change with the upcoming Adreno 320 GPU found in the new Snapdragon S4 Pro. Early benchmarks from Anandtech and other sites show that this new GPU is faster than anything we have ever seen in an Android device.
This week Qualcomm uploaded a new video of their Snapdragon S4 Pro running against a competitor's quad-core platform (Tegra 3) in the graphics test GLBenchmark 2.5. We can see that the Adreno 320 GPU runs the benchmark pretty smooth while the GeForce GPU in the Tegra 3 stutters. To be fair to NVIDIA, their Tegra 3 chip first appeared last year and the Snapdragon S4 Pro is not even available in any shipping devices.
That should change in the coming months as several OEMs have already announced smartphones with the Snapdragon S4 Pro, including the highly anticipated LG Optimus G. It's great to see Qualcomm focus on graphics performance, and we hope they increase their efforts with Android games optimized for Snapdragon devices. Qualcomm released their Snapdragon GameCommand showcase app earlier this year, but they have not updated it in a long time.
If I worked for Qualcomm, I would send Gameloft a huge fat check to make sure that Modern Combat 4 was available as a flagship title for Snapdragon S4 Pro devices at launch.
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CREW and Former Cong. Candidate Dr. David Gill Sue IRS Over Tax Loophole for Dark Money Groups
WASHINGTON - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and former congressional candidate Dr. David Gill filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for flouting a federal law barring 501(c)(4) organizations from engaging in political activity. Groups such as the American Action Network (AAN) have relied on an IRS-created tax loophole to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on electioneering activity without disclosing their donors.
CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan stated, "Disgracefully, the IRS has sat on its hands for the last two election cycles while 501(c)(4) groups have been formed expressly to run negative attack ads funded by anonymous donors. When called out, the IRS has said only that it is 'aware' of the public's concern. Now the IRS can explain its deplorable inaction in federal court."
In 2012, David Gill, an emergency room physician, ran for Congress in Illinois'13th district. AAN, headed by former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), funded false and misleading negative ads and robocalls against Dr. Gill, forcing his campaign to spend significant time and money attempting to counter them. AAN reported spending nearly $1.5 million opposing Dr. Gill — more than $1 million of which funded negative ads in the final weeks of the campaign.
AAN received substantial financial contributions from both insurance giant Aetna and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, both of which oppose the single-payer, national health care plan supported by Dr. Gill. The ads AAN ran against Dr. Gill falsely claimed he was a "mad scientist" who wanted to destroy Medicare and raise taxes. Reputable polls indicated Dr. Gill led throughout the campaign, but in the wake of the AAN ads, Dr. Gill lost by 0.3 percent of the votes, making it the third-closest House race in the country.
"Campaigns should be transparent," said Dr. Gill. "Voters should know who is funding political advertisements, so that they have the information necessary to properly evaluate the claims contained therein. By its inaction, the IRS has allowed shadowy groups to influence elections under a cloak of darkness." Gill went on to note, "I ran for office because I believe in the democratic process and public service. I am taking this action against the IRS in furtherance of those beliefs — to ensure that anonymous dark money groups cannot continue to taint the political process by operating under the guise of social welfare organizations."
Federal law states 501(c)(4)s must operate "exclusively for purposes beneficial to the community as a whole." In contrast, IRS regulations allow a group "primarily" engaged in activities that promote the public welfare to take advantage of 501(c)(4) status. Many 501(c)(4) groups have interpreted this to mean they can spend up to 49 percent of their funds on political activities. The lawsuit, however, alleges the IRS regulation is invalid because "exclusively" and "primarily" are not synonymous and 501(c)(4) groups should be barred from engaging in political activities.
In its 2010 application to the IRS, AAN stated it expected to spend less than 20 percent of its resources on political activities. Within days of receiving IRS approval of its 501(c)(4) status, AAN acknowledged it planned far greater political activity than it had represented. Previously, CREW has filed two complaints with the IRS and one with the Federal Election Commission, alleging AAN violated tax and campaign finance laws.
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No doubt about it, the proposed 1,700-mile-long Keystone XL oil pipeline has become a political ping-pong ball, with congressional Republicans and President Obama batting it back and forth with rising election-year ferocity.
In denying a construction permit for the controversial energy project on Wednesday, well ahead of the Feb. 21 deadline for announcing his decision, Mr. Obama caught his congressional adversaries off guard. The Obama campaign then immediately released its first broadcast ad of the 2012 campaign, accusing "secretive oil billionaires" of spreading misinformation about the administration's record on clean energy.
Obama's move, and the previous one by Congress to graft the pipeline decision onto end-of-year legislation to extend the payroll tax cut for American workers for 60 days, indicates that the nation's energy future is likely to be a significant campaign issue in Election 2012.
The president signaled that his pipeline decision included some tit for tat. "This announcement is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline but the arbitrary nature of a [congressional] deadline that prevented the State Department from gathering the information necessary to approve the project and protect the American people," Obama said.
GOP congressional leaders, of course, slammed the decision. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said the move "shows a fundamental disconnect with job creation in this country." House Speaker John Boehner said: "This is not the end of the fight."
Republicans could yet try to revive the oil pipeline, perhaps by attaching it to upcoming legislation. Congress must soon take up the payroll tax cut, again, and needs to address a looming 27 percent cut in fees to physicians who treat Medicare patients, as well as whether to continue to extend federal jobless benefits.
A conference committee set up to resolve an impasse over extending the payroll tax cuts through fiscal 2012 has set its first formal meeting for next Tuesday afternoon, upon the Senate's return. Senate Finance chairman Max Baucus (D) of Montana and House Ways and Means chairman Dave Camp (R) of Michigan, the lead negotiators, have begun informal discussions.
Many energy-state Democrats, as well as trade unions with a stake in the project, backed the pipeline and opposed Obama's decision to sideline it. The Laborers' International Union of North America called the White House decision "politics at its worst."
"Once again the president has sided with environmentalists instead of blue collar construction workers – even though environmental concerns were more than adequately addressed," said LIUNA president Terry O'Sullivan, in a statement. "Blue collar construction workers across the US will not forget this."
The pipeline, which is to extend from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to refineries in Texas, is projected by its owner to create some 20,000 jobs in construction and related suppliers and to deliver some 830,000 barrels of oil per day to US refineries – or about half of what the US currently imports from the Persian Gulf.
Environmentalists caution that a spill could be disastrous, especially in the scenic Nebraska Sandhills and the Ogallala Aquifer, where the pipeline is currently sited.
"The Keystone XL pipeline is a complex project which deserved the careful consideration regarding its environmental and economic impacts that the Obama administration planned to provide," said the National Resources Defense Council and other environmental groups and unions, in a statement on Jan. 18. They called the GOP push for a rapid decision in exchange for extending payroll tax cuts "a cynical move."
Obama administration officials say approval of the pipeline project is still possible, but it will require owner TransCanada to propose a new route through Nebraska.
Meanwhile, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm of House Republicans, is ramping up its own campaign to dub the White House decision "part of a deliberate Democrat strategy to 'explicitly abandon' the working class in 2012.
"Canada has energy and jobs that could be destined for the United States of America, and this administration has just decided that instead they should be destined for China," said House GOP conference chairman Jeb Hensarling of Texas, at a briefing on Jan. 18. "It's a sad day."


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Financial Assistance OfficePicken Hall 202Fort Hays State University600 Park StreetHays, KS 67601
Online Inquiry FormPhone: 785-628-4408
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Division of Student Affairs
Military service offers an array of education benefits to service members.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Education and Training Contact Information:benefits.va.gov/gibill
Learn more about the processes and procedures to receive your benefits.
Complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to determine your federal financial aid eligibility.
Use this website to assist in determining your eligibility for Post 9/11 - Chapter 33 benefits.
Register at eBenefits to view the status of your benefits, change direct deposit information, access VA documents/letters, transfer Post-9/11 benefits, and access other resources.
All students who are receiving either the Montgomery GI Bill Active duty or Selected Reserve MUST verify their enrollments monthly to receive payments. This verification can be done either by using the WAVE application or by using the automated telephone system (TVR) at 1-877-823-2378 and following the prompts. WAVE for Post 9/11 and Chapter 33 are excluded.
Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship
Public Law 111-32, the Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship, amends the Post-9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33) to include the children of service members who die in the line of duty after Sept. 10, 2001. The benefit is effective August 1, 2009, the same day the Post-9/11 GI Bill takes effect. Eligible children attending school may receive up to the highest public, in-state undergraduate tuition and fees plus a monthly living stipend and book allowance.
Montgomery GI Bill - Active Duty (Chapter 30)
The MGIB program provides up to 36 months of education benefits. This benefit may be used for degree and certificate programs, flight training, apprenticeship/on-the-job training and correspondence courses. Remedial, deficiency, and refresher courses may be approved under certain circumstances. Generally, benefits are payable for 10 years following release from active duty. Chapter 34 (old G.I. Bill) may also be eligible for benefits.
Montgomery GI Bill - Selected Reserve (Chapter 1606)
The MGIB-SR program may be available for members of the Selected Reserve. The Selected Reserve includes the Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve and Coast Guard Reserve, and the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard. This benefit may be used for degree and certificate programs, flight training, apprenticeship/on-the-job training and correspondence courses. Remedial, deficiency, and refresher courses may be approved under certain circumstances.
Post 9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33)
The Post 9/11 GI Bill provides financial support for education and housing to individuals with at least 90 days of aggregate service on or after September 11, 2001, or individuals discharged with a service-connected disability after 30 days. You must have received an honorable discharge to be eligible for the Post 9/11 GI Bill.
Reserved Educational Assistance Program--REAP (Chapter 1607)
REAP was established as a part of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2005. It is a new Department of Defense education benefit program designed to provide educational assistance to members of the Reserve components called or ordered to active duty in response to a war or national emergency (contingency operation) as declared by the President or Congress. This program makes certain reservists who were activated for at least 90 days after September 11, 2001, either eligible for education benefits or eligible for increased benefits.
Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Program--DEA (Chapter 35)
DEA provides education and training opportunities to eligible dependents of veterans who are permanently and totally disabled due to a service-related condition, or who died while on active duty or as a result of a service related condition. The program offers up to 45 months of education benefits. These benefits may be used for degree and certificate programs, apprenticeship, and on-the-job training. If you are a spouse, you may take a correspondence course. Remedial, deficiency, and refresher courses may be approved under certain circumstances.
Veterans Educational Assistance Program--VEAP (Chapter 32)
VEAP is available if you first entered active duty between January 1, 1977 and June 30, 1985, and you elected to make contributions from your military pay to participate in this education benefit program. Your contributions are matched on a $2 for $1 basis by the Government. This benefit may be used for degree and certificate programs, flight training, apprenticeship/on-the-job training and correspondence courses. Remedial, deficiency, and refresher courses may be approved under certain circumstances.
Vocational Rehabilitation (Chapter 31)
A veteran or service member pending separation from military service for medical causes may be eligible for these benefits if: 1) he or she incurred or aggravated a service-connected disability on or after September 16, 1940, which entitles him or her to VA disability compensation, and 2) he or she is in need of vocational rehabilitation because the disability causes an employment handicap which has not been overcome by education or training. Vocational rehabilitation services may generally be provided for up to 48 months within a period of 12 years from the date he or she is notified of entitlement to VA disability compensation.
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I updated my ST2 2 days ago, but when I ran the update I can't open ST2 at all. When I try open it through terminal I get this message:/usr/bin/sublime-text-2: line 2: 3823 Segmentation fault /usr/lib/sublime-text-2/sublime_text $*
I installed ST2 from the ppa at ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2.I am running Ubuntu 11.10, 64 bit.
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I seem to be having the same problem. I, similarly, run Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit and have installed ST2 from the same ppa as OP.
When I try to run from a terminal I get the following error message:/usr/bin/sublime-text-2: line 2: 4947 Segmentation fault /usr/lib/sublime-text-2/sublime_text $*
I just installed the latest update from the ppa and it is working now.
I had been going through ST2 withdrawal
Hello guys I get the same! using the same webupd8 ppa!
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Same happens running the app I downloaded
./sublime_textSegmentation fault
does anybody have an older version on their hd?an older version might work for us
Neither the current regular build nor the current dev build have this problem - it sounds like you're using an old dev build. I don't know the details with the PPA you're using, but if you use the version from sublimetext.com/2 it'll run for you.
Hi,I have this Segmentation Fault using "Sublime Text 2 Build 2217" on UbuntuUbuntu 10.04.4 LTS (lucid) 64 bits
Both of PPA (webupd8team) and Download page (c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Subl ... 64.tar.bz2) copies produce the same result.But it is fine when I changed to the 32bits version (c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Subl ... .1.tar.bz2) of sublime text 2
I started the sublime-text from the command line, after the program pops up, every key stroke (shift, alt, .......) produce 'Segmentation fault' and the sublime dies:
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Darwin commute - more folks doing it.
Postby Supe » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:29 pm
I ride to work 3-4 days a week (depending if it is hammering down with rain). I've noticed that more people are out on their bikes for the work commute and reckon this is encouraging sign of cycling take up in Darwin.
I have noticed some cyclists riding on road, in wet and low light conditions without helmet, which is pretty crazy. I don't bother with helmet if its just ducking up to the local shops/markets but if I'm commuting to work, I'm donning the helmet. Most drivers are quite considerate and I haven't been called out in ages. I guess people are starting to get used to the idea of cyclists out and about using it for transportation as well as recreation/fitness.
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Postby Supe » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:56 pm
Whilst commuting to work with a fellow traveler, one of the commuters coming the opposite way shouted (along with clenched Marxist/Leninist solidarity type fist) Go cyclists! An activist type. If I had a Che shirt, my bonding would have been complete. That was cool.
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Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:49 pm
I lived on the coastal road around Nightcliff.
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Postby Timbuctoo » Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:39 am
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PS> The new Tiger Brennan extension will apparently have a two way bike track on it which will be totally separated from the road by a curb. This will eventually mean 0 stops for cyclists all the way from Palmerston - Darwin.
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Postby Chanboy » Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:49 am
I can imagine bike riding in the middle of the build up season to be quite a sweaty affair...
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Re: Darwin commute - more folks doing it.
Postby Timbuctoo » Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:51 am
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Re: Darwin commute - more folks doing it.
Postby eucryphia » Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:08 pm
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Re: Darwin commute - more folks doing it.
Postby Supe » Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:31 pm
Timbuctoo wrote:I'm about to start commuting. I just bought a secondhand but hardly used road bike and I live in Palmerston, work in the Darwin CBD. I'm thinking of starting with just 2 days per week until I feel right for it. I have also seen plenty of people riding about without helmets on the highway which is rather deadly.
Riding to the city from Palmerston will be a tough starter ride. I bought my bike from the shop in the city and rode it home (I lived in Palmerston at the time) and by the half way mark, I wondered if the ride was ever going to end. This was on heavy hardtail MTB, with slammed seat (cause riding with a high seat post looks dorky). Now it's my daily el crappo commuter and the seat post is much higher, though not as high as I'd like it.
+1 on the lack of helmet and riding on road. I wised up as soon as I got in a minor bingle. Car cut me off with nowhere to go, I hit their front end. The next days ride and (subsequent), I don a helmet. I don't bother if it's just up to the local shops though.
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Re: Darwin commute - more folks doing it.
Postby Fred Nurk » Tue Dec 22, 2009 5:22 am
Whilst commuting, I regularly used to ride home at about 1900, so it'd be rather dark by the time I hit Palmerston. The locals are probably the most dangerous thing on the track by then, they're hard to spot in the dark.
It wasn't the shortest distance for me though, it might be a bit of a struggle at first, but its worth it in the end. If you ride in off peak times you can catch the lights easier and they won't slow you down.
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Re: Darwin commute - more folks doing it.
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Re: Darwin commute - more folks doing it.
Postby stnfldr » Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:51 pm
Just posted back up to Darwin 3 months ago, interested in chatting to anybody up here who likes to tinker/fix up bikes. I have a few built bikes and 3-4 bikes that I am building up. Or if you just wanna say hi.
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Re: Darwin commute - more folks doing it.
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Re: Darwin commute - more folks doing it.
Postby Abe » Tue May 25, 2010 9:41 pm
One thing I've noticed about Darwin traffic in the afternoons is that people get steadily narkier the later it is. If I leave work at 4:45 its all nice, by 5 people are in a bit of a hurry, 5:30 and its not unusual to get cut off, by 6:00 it seems that all motorists are looking to kill everyone and if they kill themselves in the process, so much the better.
Needless to say, its an extra incentive to leave work on time.
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Postby sandman » Mon May 31, 2010 1:33 pm
Abe wrote:Needless to say, its an extra incentive to leave work on time.
Abe, that's why we live in the Territory, cause we can ?
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Re: Darwin commute - more folks doing it.
Postby bardynt » Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:58 am
yer i ride from the northern suburbs to the city
i tend to stick to the cycle track esp at the time you leave
Darwin drivers are crap esp when lately how many young drivers on mobiles phones sit two inches from cars and end up dead
so i avoid the roads most of the time
esp when the job i used to be in went to a lot of accidents scenes, a lot of were caused by the driver behind two inches off there ass. They were paying more attention to the mobile phone or coffee in hand.
also today some idiot in modded up car racing at lights up along northern suburbs was hoping he would hit the gutter then the tree maybe would of had one less idiot driver of car in Darwin. might be bit harsh but these idiiot kill someone then end up with some suspended sentence for taking out someone innocent.
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Is anyone on the forums using Xubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft and have
gone as far as to upgrade to 4.4 rc2 but have noticed that suddenly
the Right click > system > Time and Date no longer works.
If i run it ( time-admin ) as root it will execute but it dumps the core
if run as user from console. Trying to get a confirmation before i post a bug.
I have Edgy Eft but I don't have a Time menu entry, nor if I run time-admin in a terminal.
I did a synaptic search for time-admin as a package, description and provided package, no results at all.
Simon. (^_^)
TIP: Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
How did you install RC2 at all?
Did you delete the RC1 that is installed as a package from Xubuntu first?
Xubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" Xfce 4.4 beta 2 with ATI Radeon Mobility 9600
Is there a Howto for replacing older Xfce versions from Xubuntu with the latest one via installer?
Xubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" Xfce 4.4 beta 2 with ATI Radeon Mobility 9600
I cheated, I built the new version on a working system in /opt then I copied /opt to CD. I formatted the / partition and reinstalled a server and copied /opt back again. Then I added bit and pieces as required, often using the Xubuntu packages as a reference. If I try and install x.deb and it needs y.deb then I installed y.deb manually. This works most of the time, I have had to install an awful lot of gnome though. I am having fun and the system works, not sure I'd recommend it though! :-)
Does that make sense?
Simon. (^_^)
TIP: Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Hmm, sounds like too much work for me
I downloaded the bin installer, but I am not sure if I should install it right now, or uninstall the Xfce package from Xubuntu before....
Anyone who did it before me?
Xubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" Xfce 4.4 beta 2 with ATI Radeon Mobility 9600
It works for me.
Hi all,
I have aproblem with the upgrade to RC2 on Xubuntu Edgy Eft. I have copied the bin installer and when I am trying to lunch it it says "Unable to connect to Xserver. This installer requires X11 to work, please correct the problem and try again.". The same file, on a Slack 11.0 worked well. What is happening on Xbuntu (it's a fresh intall of Xbuntu) ?
Best regards,
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