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"When you would look over and see a man who had a large family, struggling hard up on a poor piece of land, you thought a great deal less of him than you did of your own master's negro, didn't you? Douglass tried to assure the president that h e never done so, but Johnson overrode him again, proposing a conspiracy between the "the colored man and his master, combined," to keep the poor white "in slavery" and deny him a share "of the rich land of the country." If granted the franchise, blacks might once more unite with their former masters against white workers. In any case, Johnson added, "the majority" had the right to decide on the ballot. This time, Douglass cut in and observed that in South Carolina and Mississippi, blacks were the majority. With barely "repressed anger,' the president rose and called an end to the exchange." It doesn't end there. The president , a Democrat and former military governor of Tennessee, fulminated to his secretary about "Those d[amne]d sons of b[itche]s" who "thought they had me in a trap. I know that d[amne]d Douglass; he's just like any nigger, and would sooner cut a man's throat than not."
America, as a friend remarked today, is lucky to have Ta-Nehisi Coates. Yesterday I posted an essay asking for a reconsideration of looting; it asked us to look at the politics of looting, as it were. We treasure the nonviolent tradition of MLK. It can be said that we fetishize it. But note the exchange above between Lincoln's successor and Frederik Douglass, not many years before the Republican Party, with the consent of Democratic satraps, returned the freedmen to their former masters and a state of peonage and terror for the next century. The freedmen were returned at the point of a bayonet, with a noose, with the burning of their homes. The threat of damage to life and property is a powerful tool:
"Property damage and looting" is a fairly accurate description of the emancipation of black people in 1865, who only five years earlier constituted some $4 billion in property. The Civil Rights Bill of 1964 is inseparable from the threat of riots. The housing bill of 1968—the most proactive civil-rights legislation on the books—is a direct response to the riots that swept American cities after King was killed. Violence, lingering on the outside, often backed nonviolence during the civil-rights movement. "We could go into meetings and say, 'Well, either deal with us or you will have Malcolm X coming into here,'" said SNCC organizer Gloria Richardson. "They would get just hysterical. The police chief would say, 'Oh no!'"
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Electric Cars: Your Next Plug-in Home Appliance
Engineers are making steady advances in lithium-ion battery technology, the same technology that power up some of our favorite electronics. These batteries provide all the necessary power, energy storage and durability for the next generation of electric vehicles and will makes cars similar to your other rechargeable devices in your home: you'll need to plug them in.
Nissan Leaf
At just above $20,000 after federal tax credit and state based incentives, this could be the most affordable EV Vehicle available today. This is an all electric, compact sized hatchback that seats 5 and have a top speed of 90 miles per hour. LED lights everywhere and all the gadgets you can imagine are stuck inside: a main system that connects to a global data center and supplies all kind of info and entertainment to the dashboard, maps with charging point locations is one example.
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Defined as an "extended range vehicle", the Volt is not a pure electric vehicle, but more of a hybrid, like the Toyota Prius. The Volt operates entirely as an electric car for it's first 40 miles after a full charge. It burns no gasoline during those miles, drawing energy form a 400 pound, 16 kWh lithium ion battery pack. Since 40 miles is not practical enough, it also has a tiny 1.4 gasoline engine that drives a generator (not the wheels) to charge the battery enough to give you additional 300 miles.
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Selwyn H. H. Carrington. The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xxii + 362 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2557-5; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8130-2742-5.
Reviewed by Matt D. Childs (History Department, Florida State University)
Published on H-LatAm (February, 2004)
The Caribbean Strikes Back: Eric Williams Redux
The Caribbean Strikes Back: Eric Williams Redux
In one of the latest books in a long historiographical tradition, Selwyn Carrington tackles the relationship between the abolition of slavery and the rise of capitalism. Carrington's book should contribute to a scholarly debate that will likely intensify, as the bicentenary of the British abolition of the slave trade will be commemorated in 2007. His study builds upon the foundational work of Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), which argued that Caribbean sugar plantations funded British industrialization that, in turn, made slavery an outdated mode of production. Subsequently known as the "Williams Thesis," the Trinidadian-born and Oxford-educated historian delivered the coup de grace to studies that explained emancipation through hagiographies of British abolitionists. Williams powerfully concluded: "The commercial capitalism of the eighteenth century developed the wealth of Europe by means of slavery and monopoly. But in so doing it helped to create the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century, which turned round and destroyed the power of commercial capitalism, slavery, and all its works. Without a grasp of these economic changes the history of the period is meaningless."[1] While other scholars had been working on economic explanations for abolition prior to Williams, none had stated the issue so bluntly and with such bold confidence as the Caribbean nationalist and future president of Trinidad and Tobago, much to the vexation of his imperial colleagues in Britain.[2]
After sixty years it is difficult to underscore the importance of the "Williams Thesis" for the study of Caribbean, Latin American, British Empire, African, African-American, and Atlantic World history. Carrington's book is yet another testament to its ongoing relevance. From a survey of the literature, there have been at least two edited books assessing Williams's work and more than three dozen scholarly articles, and in the massive 950-page Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean (1999), edited by B. W. Higman, no other scholar receives as much attention.[3] The most direct and enduring challenge to the "Williams Thesis" runs through the influential publications of Seymour Drescher, most notably Econocide (1977), Capitalism and Antislavery (1987), and The Mighty Experiment (2002).[4] Drescher has consistently argued that the abolition of the slave trade and slavery was not the result of British Caribbean economic decline with the rise of industrial capitalism, but what he terms "econocide," economic suicide as slavery remained extremely profitable. According to Drescher, slavery fell under the weight of a massive mobilization campaign in Britain founded on individual rights and new forms of political organizations. Selwyn Carrington's The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810 is the product of the author's ongoing published debate with Drescher.[5] Twenty years ago the editors of the Boletin de estudios latinoamericanos y del caribe apparently spoke too soon when they wrote the debate was closed after providing a forum for Drescher and Carrington to square off.[6]
Carrington's purpose in this book is to defend the "Williams Thesis" from past and future assaults by focusing his analysis on the declining profitability of British West Indian sugar plantations following the American Revolution. His analysis is built upon an impressive collection of sources from more than thirty years of research at the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the National Archives of Scotland, and most importantly the Public Records Office, among numerous others, dealing with the statistical, financial, and managerial aspects of slavery and sugar production. Carrington recognizes his analysis and argument follow that of Williams and the even earlier work of Lowell J. Ragatz, The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763-1833 (1928), but "Williams never had the opportunity to examine the wealth of plantation papers that can help us to resolve the matter" (p. 107). Consequently, the book's overall thesis and argument are not particularly innovative, but based upon a much larger documentary foundation than past works.
Carrington's book is organized by explaining the causal and sequential events that created West Indian decline. He opens by documenting the economic interdependence that linked the British Caribbean with the North American colonies as sugar, rum, and coffee left the West Indies in exchange for imported foodstuffs that fed the plantations. Once Britain severed the link between the colonies with the 1775 Prohibitory Act, the plantation complex had to be reorganized as sugar producers searched for imports from nearby Caribbean islands, Canada, and contraband trade sources. After the revolution, masters in Jamaica attempted to re-establish the old imperial relationship, but mercantilist policies frustrated their attempts to link the independent United States once again with Caribbean slavery. The remainder of the book deals with the failed strategies by masters and colonial officials to restore the profitability of West Indian slavery from diversifying production, dodging debt and insolvency, supplying their own food sources, reducing dependence on the transatlantic slave trade, and hiring out laborers during peak labor periods. In the end, Carrington argues the North American colonies provided a crucial link in the production chain that secured profitable returns on Caribbean sugar investments. Once the American Revolution severed the relationship between the two regions, the chains of British Caribbean bondage began to corrode.
Despite Carrington's detailed argument on decline following the American Revolution, scholars will undoubtedly continue to debate what type of "decline" caused abolition as the epicenter of Caribbean sugar production hopped from island to island starting in the seventeenth century. Ultimately, this must be a question for the "New Economic History" of profits and productivity as many have looked at the same data and drawn radically different conclusions. Carrington's focus on Jamaica to the neglect of other thriving British West Indian sugar colonies, such as Demerara, only acquired in 1803, would refine some of his conclusions. Quantitative historians will be quick to point out that while slave imports did not return to their mid-eighteenth-century levels, from 1780 to 1808 over 400,000 slaves arrived in the British Caribbean despite interruptions in transatlantic trade caused by the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars. Moreover, if analysis were expanded beyond the British Empire, more weight would have to be accorded to sugar production in Saint Domingue up until 1791 and then in Cuba for the nineteenth century to explain decline.
Ironically, scholars may find Carrington's book much more useful not for its stated purpose of proving the "hypothesis that the British sugar islands declined at the end of the eighteenth century" (p. xx), but for documenting changing labor and production strategies in Caribbean slavery. Carrington's discussion of debt underscores the often-minimized precarious position of planters, as historians tend to describe them as a homogenous "elite." The so-called "amelioration" policy of fostering natural increase among the slave population reflects masters' recognition of slavery's horrific human cost that literally worked laborers to death. Given that both planters and abolitionists championed the policy of "amelioration," scholars should investigate more closely how these avowed ideological enemies shared many similarities. The interdependence between the Caribbean and British North America emphasizes the two regions need to be studied as a single unit, rather than separate colonies projected backward through the modern nation-state model.[7] His chapter on planters' diversification of crops and adoption of the Otaheite and Bourbon canes indicates the widespread use of science in the service of sugar. The detailed chapter on the system of "hiring-out" slave laborers demonstrates that many slaves likely worked on multiple plantations and in urban areas during their lifetimes. The decline in foodstuff imports from North America placed greater need for slaves to produce and market their own crops, a decisive step toward freedom recognized by various scholars.[8] On all of these topics Carrington brings new evidence to the table, inviting other scholars to elaborate and expand on his insights.
These widespread changes in sugar production at the end of the eighteenth century indicate much more than simply that "[s]lavery as a labour system undoubtedly had run its course" (p. 221). Other scholars could easily regard them as indications of an innovative, dynamic, and adaptable institution, rather than simply signaling an inevitable decline. In explaining Cuban abolition, historian Manuel Moreno Fraginals also regarded many of these similar innovations as decline, despite the fact that the plantation system survived and slavery fell only after a long and protracted death, as emphasized in the work of Rebecca Scott.[9] Part of the reason that these issues are not explored more deeply is that Carrington is tied to a dependency model of historical explanation in which individual actions, dilemmas, and crises matter little in the overall analysis. His own approach to abolition echoes Williams's belief that "[t]hese changes are gradual, imperceptible, but they have an irresistible cumulative effect. Men, pursuing their interests, are rarely aware of the ultimate results of their activity."[10] Carrington's argument that decline occurred long before the end of the slave trade leads him to an anticlimactic conclusion: "In reality, not much occurred in the colonies with the passage of the act abolishing the slave trade" (p. 220). What the abolition of the slave trade meant for masters, colonial officials, slaves, and abolitionists in 1807 is not explored in detail by Carrington.
In a telling and honest statement aimed at showing the difficulty of extrapolating a causal argument for abolition from evidence that illustrates how contemporaries understood the problem, Carrington remarked, "observers always considered measuring the income and profitability of West Indian plantations a very tricky enterprise" (p. 241). After more than sixty years of scholarly debate surrounding the "Williams Thesis," the issues remain as sticky as Caribbean molasses for many historians. For some readers, the polemical debate over the numbers will call to mind Benjamin Disraeli's adage that "there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Only time will tell if Carrington's book will live up to the high expectations of Colin Palmer's foreword as "likely to be the most important work on the economic history of the Caribbean" since Capitalism and Slavery (p. xvi). Or, if it can stand against what will undoubtedly be another critique from Drescher and others. While Caribbean scholars no longer focus only on abolitionists to explain the end of the British transatlantic slave trade in 1807, these ideas still circulate widely in the general public and even surprisingly among numerous academics. Even in the popular press that would be labeled "leftist" or "radical," British abolitionists continue to occupy center stage in discussions of emancipation. In only the most recent example ("Against All Odds" by Adam Hochschild in the January-February 2004 issue of Mother Jones), little attention is given to economic forces with most of the explanation detailing the heroic acts of the abolitionists. The ongoing persistence of these ideas indicates that Carrington is justified in arguing that the "Williams Thesis" still has its place as a critique of British imperial historiography. As the latest advocate in the historical debate, The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810 deserves to be read widely.[11]
[1]. Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944), p. 210.
[2]. See for example Lowell J. Ragatz, The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763-1833: A Study in Social and Economic History (New York: Century, 1928); and William Darity, Jr., "The Williams Abolition Thesis before Williams," Slavery & Abolition 9, no. 1 (1988): pp. 29-41.
[3]. See Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman, eds., British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987); Heather Cateau and S. H. H. Carrington, eds., Capitalism and Slavery Fifty Years Later: Eric Eustace Williams: A Reassessment of the Man and His Work (New York: Peter Lang, 2000); Seymour Drescher, "Capitalism and Slavery after Fifty Years," Slavery & Abolition 18, no. 3 (1997): pp. 212-227; and B. W. Higman, ed., Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean, vol. 6, General History of the Caribbean (London: UNESCO Publishing, 1999).
[4]. Seymour Drescher. Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997); idem, Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in a Comparative Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1987); idem, The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in the British Emancipation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
[5]. See Selwyn Carrington, "The State of Debate on the Role of Capitalism in the Ending of the Slave Trade," Journal of Caribbean History 22, nos. 1-2 (1988): pp. 20-41; idem, "British West Indian Economic Decline and Abolition, 1775-1807: Revisiting Econocide," Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 14, no. 2 (1989): pp. 33-59; Seymour Drescher, "The Decline Thesis of British Slavery Since Econocide," Slavery & Abolition 7, no. 1 (1986): pp. 3-23.
[6]. See the articles by Carrington and Drescher in "Debate: Econocide and West Indian Decline, 1783-1806," Boletin de estudios latinoamericanos y del caribe 36 (June 1984): pp. 13-67.
[7]. For a recent example showing the possibilities of connecting the two historiographies, see Andrew Jackson O' Shaugnessy. An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).
[8]. The literature on this subject is vast; for an overview see Ira Berlin and Philip Morgan, "Introduction," in The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas, eds. Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan (London: Frank Cass, 1991), pp. 1-27.
[9]. Manuel Moreno Fraginals, El Ingenio: Complejo, econ=mico social cubano del az=car, 3 vols. (Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1978); Rebecca J. Scott, Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).
[10]. Capitalism and Slavery, p. 210.
[11]. Adam Hochschild, "Against all Odds," Mother Jones (Jan.-Feb. 2004): pp. 66-73.
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Last week, Rachel spent time in New York City for The CW's upfronts in support of her new TV show, Hart of Dixie.
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Melbourne industrial sales highest in over a decade at nearly $1.9 billion
A record industrial property investment sales market of nearly $1.9 billion in the year to March has seen yields in Melbourne heading back to pre GFC levels as a broad cross section of investors chasing better returns focus on well located and securely leased assets, according to Savills Australia.
Savills' Victorian research manager, Monica Mondkar, said the $1.89 billion of industrial property sold was up on last year's record of $1.75 billion, and more than 40 percent up on the five year average of $1.21 billion. Industrial properties valued over $30 million accounted for 56 percent of the total sales by value while the North-West region that accounted for the greatest dollar volume with 62 percent of total transaction value.
Ms Mondkar said Trusts were the biggest purchaser class with 30 percent of the total sales while foreign and private investors joined in the competition to drive down yields which had continued to firm over the last five years from a range of 7.75 to 8.75 percent in 2011 to a current 6.25 to 7.5 percent.
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Located on the highly regarded Paramount Industrial Estate, the property was sold with a five year lease to Frucor Beverages at a current passing net rental of $433,000 per annum.
Mr Jones said a number of factors were driving the current industrial investment surge.
"What we are seeing in 2016 is a continuation of a much stronger investment market which began to show positive signs in 2013 and has now posted the highest industrial investment total in more than decade.
"There are a number of key drivers, the impact that low interest rates has on borrowing being the chief among them but also on returns from other types of investment, and this has led to a rise in the number of syndicates, high net worth individuals and self-funded retirees in the market chasing better yields,'' Mr Jones said.
He said low interest rates had also adversely impacted the income of some self-funded retirees with conservative low-yielding investments and this had led to a significant rise in SMSFs seeking higher yielding assets.
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Mr Jones forecast yields to settle below 7 percent with blue chip assets to see more sub 6.5 percent results as the availability of office market investments dwindled and the competition for industrial assets intensified.
"We have recently witnessed super prime activity below 6 percent and there is little doubt we are going to see more of that as the year progresses given the current demand for industrial assets," Mr Jones said.Download Report (PDF)


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Examples in which these observational skills are required include, but are not limited to: palpation of peripheral pulses, bony landmarks and ligamentous structures: visual and tactile examination of areas of inflammation: visual and tactile assessment of the presence and degree of edema: and observation of the patient/client during interview and history taking. Communication Skills Students must be able to communicate in many forms; these include: verbal and non-verbal language, reading, writing and computer literacy (including keyboarding skills). Students must be able to communicate in English in oral and written form with faculty and peers in classroom and laboratory settings. Students must be able to communicate effectively and sensitively with patients/clients and caregivers, maintain written records, elicit information regarding mood and activities, as well as perceive non-verbal communications. Students must also be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with other members of the health care community to convey information for safe and effective care. Psychomotor Skills Students, in the classroom, must have the ability to sit, stand, and/or walk, for up to 10 hours daily. In the clinical setting, students must have the ability to sit, stand or walk for at least eight hours daily—modified according to the schedule of the specific facility to which a student is assigned (which may be up to 12 hours per day). Students must possess sufficient motor function to elicit information from the patient/client examination, by palpation, auscultation, percussing, and other examination maneuvers, including reliably reading meters, dials, and printouts. Students must be able to execute movements (including grasp (gross to fine), twist, bend, stoop and/or squat) required to provide general and therapeutic care, such as positioning, lifting, or moving immobile and/or bariatric patients; gait training using therapeutic aids and orthotics; positioning and performing manual therapy/manipulation techniques; performing non-surgical wound debridement; and placing electromyographic electrodes. These skills require coordination of both gross and fine muscular movement, equilibrium, and the integrated use of touch and vision. Students must have the ability to respond quickly to emergency situations. Cognitive Skills Students must demonstrate the ability to receive, comprehend, recall and interpret, measure, calculate, reproduce and use; to reason, analyze, integrate and synthesize information across the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains in order to solve problems, evaluate work, and generate new ways of processing or categorizing similar information in a timely fashion as listed in course objectives. In addition, students must be able to comprehend the three-dimensional relationships and to understand spatial relationships of structures. Each person must possess the emotional health required to fully use his/her intellectual abilities, exercise good judgment, prompt and safe completion of all responsibilities related to patients and caregivers. Examples in which cognitive skills are essential include: performance of a physical therapy evaluation, including extracting and analyzing physiological, biomechanical, behavioral, and environmental factors in a timely manner; use of examination data to formulate and execute a plan of physical therapy management in a timely manner, appropriate to the problems identified; and the reassessment and revision of plans as needed for effective and efficient management of physical therapy problems in a timely manner. All of these must be consistent within the acceptable norms of clinical settings. Behavioral and Social Attributes Students must possess the psychological ability required for the utilization of their intellectual abilities, for the exercise of good judgment, for the prompt completion of responsibilities inherent to the diagnosis and care of patients/clients, and for the development of mature, sensitive, and effective relationships with patients. Students must be able to tolerate physically and mentally taxing workloads and function effectively under stress. They must be able to tolerate and adapt to a changing, unfamiliar (and perhaps, uncomfortable) environments, display flexibility, respect individual differences, and learn to function in the face of ambiguities inherent in the clinical problems of patients/clients. As a component of their education, students must demonstrate ethical behavior. Examples include recognizing and appropriately reacting to one's own immediate emotional responses to situations while maintaining a professional demeanor.


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2109?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12580510#action_12580510 ] Daniel John Debrunner commented on DERBY-2109: ---------------------------------------------- Just to add I think the current commit changes fix two bugs: 1) If a network server shutdown also shuts down the database engine and authentication is enabled then previously the database shutdown would fail. E.g. a clean shutdown would not occur and recovery would be needed. 2) Any user on the same machine could shutdown any network server even if they did not posses any valid authentication credentials. > System privileges > ----------------- > > Key: DERBY-2109 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2109 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Security > Affects Versions: 10.3.1.4 > Reporter: Rick Hillegas > Attachments: DERBY-2109-02.diff, DERBY-2109-02.stat, derby-2109-03-javadoc-see-tags.diff, DERBY-2109-04.diff, DERBY-2109-04.stat, DERBY-2109-05and06.diff, DERBY-2109-05and06.stat, DERBY-2109-07.diff, DERBY-2109-07.stat, DERBY-2109-08.diff, DERBY-2109-08.stat, DERBY-2109-08_addendum.diff, DERBY-2109-08_addendum.stat, DERBY-2109-09.diff, DERBY-2109-09.stat, DERBY-2109-10.diff, DERBY-2109-10.stat, DERBY-2109-11.diff, DERBY-2109-11.stat, DERBY-2109-12.diff, DERBY-2109-12.stat, SystemPrivilegesBehaviour.html, systemPrivs.html, systemPrivs.html, systemPrivs.html, systemPrivs.html > > > Add mechanisms for controlling system-level privileges in Derby. See the related email discussion at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.db.derby.devel/33151. > The 10.2 GRANT/REVOKE work was a big step forward in making Derby more secure in a client/server configuration. I'd like to plug more client/server security holes in 10.3. In particular, I'd like to focus on authorization issues which the ANSI spec doesn't address. > Here are the important issues which came out of the email discussion. > Missing privileges that are above the level of a single database: > - Create Database > - Shutdown all databases > - Shutdown System > Missing privileges specific to a particular database: > - Shutdown that Database > - Encrypt that database > - Upgrade database > - Create (in that Database) Java Plugins (currently Functions/Procedures, but someday Aggregates and VTIs) > Note that 10.2 gave us GRANT/REVOKE control over the following database-specific issues, via granting execute privilege to system procedures: > Jar Handling > Backup Routines > Admin Routines > Import/Export > Property Handling > Check Table > In addition, since 10.0, the privilege of connecting to a database has been controlled by two properties (derby.database.fullAccessUsers and derby.database.defaultConnectionMode) as described in the security section of the Developer's Guide (see http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.2/devguide/cdevcsecure865818.html). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Sorry I didn't get to this on Sunday but better late than never, so here's the fourth part in my TV Pairings ...
Rome - Atia/Marc Anthony
Now, these two were quite a lethal explosion. I know Atia may have been traded in for Cleopatra but her and Marc Anthony were a bloody brilliant pairing during this whole series. One of the many memorable things about this HBO classic.
Game Of Thrones - Renly/Loras
It's hard to find a relationship that comes to er being sweet. I could've gone for Ned and Cat but we didn't get enough interaction with them and Drogo and Dany didn't start off sweetly, so I guess it's Renly and Loras that scoop this one. Here's hoping there's more with them in the second season.
The Vampire Diaries - Caroline Forbes/Matt Donovan
Forget the Katherine/Stefan/Elena/Damon quadrangle, the best relationship that I witnessed in the first two seasons was the one between ditzy vampire Caroline and the rather sweet Matt. Kinda like this show's version of Jessica and Hoyt really.
Smallville - Chloe Sullivan/Oliver 'Green Arrow' Queen
This show has had it's fair share of relationships, a lot of them rather stormy as well but I did like the relationship between Chloe and Oliver that developed in the last two seasons of the season but that's probably down to them being two of my favourite characters as well.
Camelot - Merlin/Morgan
This show might have gotten canned but Merlin and Morgan were the best pairing of antagonists going. Seriously, I could watch these two trying to outwit each other more than the other characters. Damn you Starz for cancelling the show.


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Thanks Rob!! I have been suffering from the same problem for the past 12 years. It is only getting worse and worse, effecting my life and relations. I don't know how to get out of the loop. It is like: while(1) { execute}.
For Mental Health Awareness Month, I want to open up about my OCD. This is something I'm extremely uncomfortable doing, hence the reason I'm doing it.
"The next suitable person you're in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation and look at the person closely and say, "What's wrong?" You say it in a concerned way. He'll say, "What do you mean?" You say, "Something's wrong. I can tell. What is it?" And he'll look stunned and say, "How did you know?" He doesn't realize something's always wrong, with everybody. Often more than one thing. He doesn't know everybody's always going around all the time with something wrong and believing they're exerting great willpower and control to keep other people, for whom they think nothing's ever wrong, from seeing it."
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
Have you ever thought something really weird or inappropriate? Just a passing jolt of lightning that hits your consciousness, you think to yourself, "where the heck did that come from?" It might be accompanied by a little bit of anxiety, but this likely fades pretty quick, and you go about your day.
In psychology, these are known as intrusive thoughts, and they are extremely common. A survey of over 700 healthy adults suggests that 94% of people have intrusive thoughts (and I'm guessing 6% of people are lying). These commonly include inappropriate violent, sexual, or blasphemous themes, but can span a spectrum as wide as the human imagination. They come at seemingly the worst possible times, and can attach themselves to the things we hold most dear. But most people are able to let them come and go without paying them much mind, simply shrugging them off with, "that was weird."
But not me, nor the 2.3% of adults who suffer with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Most people probably have no idea that I struggle with OCD. I didn't even really know that I struggled with it until recently. I don't have to wash my hands repeatedly, or check the oven dozens of times to make sure it's off, so it wasn't easy for me (or others) to recognize less obvious symptoms. It's common for OCD to go undiagnosed upwards of 17 years for most sufferers (PDF). It is also a very misunderstood disorder, perpetuated by the public's belief that it's about repetitive hand-washing or keeping things more organized than normal. But for a better understanding, check out the Wikipedia article on obsessions and compulsions to get an idea of what it's really about. It has far more to do with the inability of an OCD sufferer to handle an unwanted thought than it does with organization or cleanliness.
To put it simply, OCD is mostly about intrusive thoughts (obsessions) causing anxiety, followed by a series of compulsions to try and make the anxiety go away. These compulsions get lengthier over time as their effectiveness fades, resulting in the anxiety worsening; a vicious cycle for sufferers. They can take many forms, from physical rituals to mental rumination.
For me personally, if something triggers an "obsession," I deal with a seemingly overwhelming sense of anxiety and dread (known as spikes) that I can't seem to kick unless I go to battle with my own mind. I try to figure out if the thoughts mean anything about me while I search for 100% certainty that they don't (an OCD trap). After these grueling sessions, likely out of sheer mental exhaustion, I am able to go about my day. In the past, I kept these mental compulsions very private, embarrassed of how I couldn't magically control my own thoughts. I wondered if I was slowly going crazy.
Instead of being able to shrug an intrusive thought off, here's how my brain works:
So what am I doing to work on this excessive brain activity? While there's no "cure" for OCD, I'm currently working with a therapist who is trained in Exposure-Response Prevention (ERP), one of the most proven methods for helping lower the symptoms of OCD. It's an exercise in facing these scary thoughts head-on and resisting the urge to go through compulsive loops to neutralize the associated anxiety. Long story short, it's retraining my brain to understand that thoughts are just thoughts, anxiety is temporary, and no amount of compulsions are going to help the anxiety go away faster.
Some days are better than others, but overall, things are definitely improving in this process. If you're worried about your own thoughts, I encourage you to talk to your doctor. I waited way too long to do so myself.
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Thanks Rob!! I have been suffering from the same problem for the past 12 years. It is only getting worse and worse, effecting my life and relations. I don't know how to get out of the loop. It is like: while(1) { execute}.
This article has really helped me. After my brain injury, my OCD has been a lot stronger then it used to be. I always had some OCD, but now it's is a bit crazy sometimes. I just have to remember that none of these thoughts are going to be in my mind for the rest of my life. All of these thoughts will be, eventually, not in my mind anymore and I will be able to think much clearer again. For right now, every time I think about a dreadful thought that isn't true at all but is only being used by my OCD, I replace that thought with a more pleasant thought. I have to remember that I am actually getting better all the time and that I so much stronger then I was four years ago. Again, thanks so much for this article!


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Did you notice the big change on the home page of Provectus Biopharmaceuticals' (PVCT) web site today?
Here's a screen shot of the site today. PV-10 is referred to as an "Investigational Drug for Cancer."
No big deal? Well, take a look at what Provectus' web site looked like yesterday:
PV-10 is a "Breakthrough Cancer Drug"? Really? That's news to all of us, given Provectus is supposed to hear back from the FDA this week about the request to grant PV-10 Breakthrough Therapy status for skin cancer. So far, Provectus has said nothing about the FDA's response.
If Provectus hasn't heard from FDA yet on PV-10's "Breakthrough" status, why describe the drug on the home page of its web site as a "Breakthrough Cancer Drug"? Today, PV-10 is merely an "Investigational Drug." Maybe someone at the FDA caught a glance at Provectus' web site and slapped a wrist. We all know Provectus would never try to fool investors. Nah, this fine, upstanding company would never do something sneaky like tricking people into thinking PV-10 was granted Breakthrough Therapy status when it wasn't.


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Restaurant owner success depends on YOU!
As a restaurant owner, you're under a great deal of pressure. Every day, there's scheduling, inventory, purchasing, guest relations, social media – oh, and cooking and serving! What do you do in your "off" hours? Is there such a thing as "off" hours? Not for most folks in the mom & pop stage. You've got to professionalize to get time off.
These leadership success books are simply required reading for restaurant owners. Each of these books is on my personal bookshelf and endorsed for their relevance, utility and ability to help you as a restaurant owner. Use these resources to improve your life, business and relationships. Get at it!
Restaurant owner success can be learned:
If you're a restaurant owner, the most important thing you can be doing every single day is grow! Leadership in your business doesn't happen in a day, it happens through a daily commitment to growth and development. The biggest success gap is the gap between what we know and what we do.
Do the right thing.
Start your growth and development journey today. Don't wait another moment. What will happen if you don't? You'll wake up a year from now and be in the same place. It's your choice. Decide to progress forward! Make it your business to grow every single day. It's YOUR choice!
As a restaurant owner, your goal is to move your business forward while learning all you can, teaching your associates and holding everyone accountable — including yourself! To your growth!
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Founding Partners and Entrepreneurs, Josh Boyd and Derek Graham, began their careers in the corporate world. Experiencing first-hand the impact of 12-Hour office days- which routinely ended with late night calorie-rich social dinners, Josh and Derek finally had enough. Choosing to break the cycle and face change head on, Josh and Derek decided to put their health first as they were "sick and tired" of being sick and tired. After all- if they weren't at their best mentally, emotionally and physically, their business endeavors, relationships and overall health would pay the ultimate price.
Founding the 12 Week Fitness Challenge, Josh and Derek both achieved unprecedented levels of fitness. The nutritional knowledge gained and High Intensity Interval Group Training experience opened their eyes to a prescription that was powerful for change. However, they also recognized the role that community played in their personal achievements and realized that this was part of the dynamic platform that was needed to propel their success. Aligning the core components of sustainable nutrition education and group training in an environment that was fostered by motivation, support and solutions…The 12 was born.
The 12's Group Training classes target specific muscle groups daily, providing clients of every shape, size and ability with a focused workout that reveals irrefutable results. We utilize a scientific approach that is designed to produce the maximum results.
Relentlessly working to bring The 12 experience to life in locations near and far, The 12 began in 2013 with 90 members and has grown to over 7,500 active members as of 2016. By joining forces and following their purpose, Josh Boyd and Derek Graham have been able to touch the lives of many and cherish each day their team of dynamic professionals gets to impact their community. Recognized as industry leaders and innovators, The12 continues to be on the forefront of the fitness industry, always and in all ways.


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It's been a while since I wrote - a lot of things happening, a very busy RL, no time for SL, and broken ADSL at home which I have no time to fix for now. But thought to write up something to show I am still alive :-)
As I've already wrote, I think - I've got a shiny new eeepc a few months ago. All well, but its internal flash (which they call "solid state disk") broke at some point - giving the hardware errors. The failure happened at a very distinct moment in time - I left the eeepc on for a few days, and then - whoops. I do not suspect the FUDed "flash wear" - because there were even the read errors. Much more a possible overheating causing it to fail. So, since I do not believe in warranty (And the warranty on this item would've caused more pain anyway), I decided to buy a SD card and use it as a main storage - the experiments showed that the built-in flash was dead only in some selected range, so the first few dozen megabytes were usable.
My favourite Gentoo was out of question immediately - it'd be a madness to compile everything on a system with a smaller CPU and a very slow flash-backed storage. So, I've evaluated a few others and finally settled on Debian - since it was apparently the only one who was ok with my SDHC 4Gb card that I bought.
There was not much to an install - just follow the instructions here and I got a working system.
However, at first when I tried to just use SDHC, it failed to boot from it - complaining that the cylinder number is larger than the one supported by BIOS (notably, after the boot the SDHC card appears to work fine).
So, in the end I made the following: boot into installer from the external USB memory stick, then blow away the default partition table on the internal "Hard Disk" and create two partitions on it - the first one will be the root partition, the second one is the exact copy of the installer USB stick image.
Using the same trick that GRUB uses to boot windows, I can force the installer to boot - so I have a way to recover the system in case something goes wrong. (I think it's pretty hard to install grub from the installer itself - I used the root filesystem that was previously installed - so technically I went through the install procedure twice).
The side benefit of such a setup is that now internally I have only the grub/kernel - and everything else is on the SDHC card - so in theory if I unplug that one, I can have an alternative setup (and in the case of the external HDD it can be even Gentoo).
Monday, July 21, 2008
Installing debian on eeepc instead of Xandros
It's been a while since I wrote - a lot of things happening, a very busy RL, no time for SL, and broken ADSL at home which I have no time to fix for now. But thought to write up something to show I am still alive :-)


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i hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.
we have nathan at the lakehouse with cici + pops
b + i are off to the KXT Summer Cut concert.
i am so excited!
a mini music festival in the rain...oddly enough makes me incredibly happy
all this month my saturday songs will be from bands that will be at summer cut.
today i leave you with a song by The Orbans. (one we are looking forward to)
now how to get a good enough camera in the door. hmm.


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The Green Deal is the Government's retrofit scheme to make homes and businesses more energy efficient at no upfront cost. The Green Deal is part of the Government's Energy Bill, which outlines the need for an accreditation system for both the energy efficiency advisors and the builders doing the work.
Richard Diment, Director General of the FMB said:
"The Government is completely right to recognise the fact that accreditation is vital to the success of the Green Deal. The opportunity to transform our existing homes is too big an opportunity for legitimate builders seeking new work to be to be undermined by the cowboy builders who need to be stamped out from the construction industry once and for all. It is important that those charged with carrying out the energy efficiency improvement work are recognised as competent in order to safeguard householders as well as reputable builders."
"Unlike other countries there is no formal registration system for builders in this country with the result that every year over £170 million is stolen by unscrupulous builders from homeowners across the UK. The Green Deal gives us an opportunity to tackle this problem and the Government and the building trade must not be found to be wanting; the Green Deal 'quality mark' must stand up to the test."
"Sadly it seems thus far that the Government has failed to take proper account of the need for sufficient incentives for homeowners to upgrade their properties. Housing is responsible for more than a quarter of the UK's carbon emissions, As new build adds only 0.75% to the total housing stock in any one year, it is essential that a market is created to drive the retrofitting of our existing stock. Therefore, financial incentives, such as a reduction in VAT, are desperately needed to help cover the upfront costs and kick-start the retrofit market."
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For the final episode of the Wind Voyager Triple-S Post Show, we've got Redman behind the desk. He shares his positive experience at REAL, his desire to return and his mission to learn how to kiteboard. The Method Man & Redman Show was incredible, with over 1000 people in the backyard it's safe to say "that s*^# was bananas!". The Wind Voyager Triple-S Post Show is signing off, thank you for tuning in, we'll see you next year.
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2017 Wind Voyager Triple-S Invitational Results & Post Show Episode 6
The Wind Voyager Triple-S Invitational took place June 3rd-9th, 2017 on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in the REAL Slick. 30 riders from 15 different countries traveled to The Wind Voyager Triple-S Invitational to test their skills on the KOA Resorts Kicker, Core Super Kicker, North A-Frame, Liquid Force Reverse Rainbow and the John Wayne 82ft Mega Rail. The Man and Woman to claim first place have their names etched on the Perpetual Trophy and have earned their place in kiteboarding history. With $50,000 on the line, the stakes are high and riders were eager to show what they've got.
Over the course of the week Cape Hatteras received a myriad of conditions. We started the competition on the first day of the waiting period on Sunday, June 4th and finished the following day, Monday, June 5th, with perfect southwest wind and optimal conditions to compete. Once the heats had been completed, we had a day of excellent surf, then a change in wind direction favored the Oceanside for some freeride action around the island. On Friday the wind let up for near perfect surf conditions. Kiters were flying sizes ranging from 13 meters to start the competition on Sunday and 6 meters to finish Monday evening.
This competition has never been tighter, with the top kiters sharing similar bags of tricks. It was all about the details to determine standings. The winners were the riders going the biggest, holding their grabs the longest, maximizing rotations and showing the best style. After an intense final round, the Women's podium ended with Sensi Graves taking 4th place after some hard crashes and not scoring a kicker hit. Karolina Winkowska took 3rd; she's a fierce competitor who showed some of the best hits in the round. Annelous Lammerts shocked the crowd with consistency and amplitude to earn her 2nd place. The top spot on the podium was taken by Colleen Carroll, who threw down a crow mobe in the end to edge her above the rest of the field.
The Men's division was stacked both with kiteboarding legends and newcomers eager to prove themselves to the world. In the end, Eric Rienstra scored 5th place. This guy is known to be one of the best freeriders out there with an impressive bag of tricks.He threw down some bangers but really showed his competition experience by landing his stock tricks and putting up scores before going for broke. In 4th place, we've got Billy Parker, potentially the most low-key pro kiteboarder in the field. This loving father always throws down and is no stranger to the podium, his spins are always well executed and his presses are deep. 3rd place brings us to Brandon Scheid. This guy is known for going huge and this year's competition was no exception. From the clean Moby Dick 5, to the biggest 720 of the competition, Brandon put on an incredible show, rightfully placing him on the podium. After four years atop the podium, Sam Light has been overthrown and has taken 2nd place. He rode incredibly well, scoring hits that would have placed him easily in first for previous years. In the end, it was Ewan Jaspan who displayed the best performance and combination of technical hits, amplitude, style, and execution to score 1st place, $12,000 and his place in kiteboarding history.
Ewan Jaspan – $12,000 | Naish | Australia
Sam Light – $7,500 | Slingshot | Great Britain
Brandon Scheid – $5,000 | Liquid Force | USA
Billy Parker – $3,000 | BEST | USA
Eric Rienstra – $2,000 | CORE | USA
Alex Maes – $1,500 | Cabrinha | Belgium
Pierre Vogel – $1,200 | Takoon | France
Noe Font – $1,000 | North | Spain
Aaron Hadlow – $800 | North | Great Britain
Craig Cunningham – $600 | North | Canada
Ramiro Gallart – $500 | Liquid Force | Argentina
Axel Tack – $400 | | Liquid Force | Belgium
Colleen Carroll $5,500 | North | USA
Annelous Lammerts $3,300 | Cabrinha | Netherlands
Karolina Winkowska $2,000 | Slingshot | Poland
Sensi Graves $1,000 | Liquid Force | USA
Post Show Episode 5
We've brought Colleen Carroll behind the desk to break down the KOA Resorts Kicker. She shares what style of hits are most common on this feature vs. the CORE Kiteboarding Super Kicker. Once we've talked about the hits Colleen shares what it is like being on the water and sharing the session with the Women's field. Although the competition is fierce these women are all friends, pushing each other to ride their best and help each other when they are down. In the Carolina Brewery Last Call we're talking about the Method Man & Redman Show. Check back for the next episode where we will share the final results from the 2017 Wind Voyager Triple-S Invitational.
Post Show 4 with Mix Master Mike & Sam Light, Oceanside Photo Gallery
Sam Light joins us for Episode 4 to break down what it's like to ride the John Wayne Cancer Foundation Mega Rooftop, from the gap to technical presses he shares all. After Sam's segment, the boys are back behind the desk to compare hits across the Wayne and enlighten us as to what the Judges are looking for. Once you know all about the John Wayne 82ft Mega Rooftop we have special guests Mix Master Mike, Daddy Brady and Big Hair joining Trip for the Carolina Brewery Last Call. Mike goes deep and shares his experience at REAL, his obligations to his friends and what it's like to partner up with the Dubplates like Voltron. Check back tomorrow for another episode of the Post Show where we will share more.
Sunset Swim Charity Fashion Show Gallery
Post Show Episode 3 Tech Out & Lifestyle Gallery
Post Show Episode 3 Tech Out
What makes a hit stand out from the rest when the level of riding is sky high? Riders need to lock into presses, maximize spins, and hold grabs as long as possible to make the best impression and attain the highest scores. Brandon Scheid breaks down the Liquid Force Reverse Rainbow, from the nicknames to the type of hits we will see. Brandon shares what makes this feature "Oh so nice". After we learn about zeaching and hit technicalities we move into the Carolina Brewery Last Call where American Pinup joins us after their show on the waterfront stage. Enjoy this highly technical episode and check back tomorrow for another episode of the Wind Voyager Triple-S Post Show.
Competition Day 2 Post Show & Gallery
The level of competition has never been higher in the REAL Slick. Monday, June 5th provided breeze steadily increasing through the day, enabling us to make it all the way through the final rounds of the 2017 Wind Voyager Triple-S Invitational. The Women brought the best riding we have witnessed in the event's history, with big kicker hits and technical slider riding shown throughout each heat. The Men battled it out all day, constantly upping the ante, answering one another's tricks and pushing themselves to new heights. The afternoon brought enough wind for impromptu mega loop session in between heats, riders were looping over the entire park and putting on an incredible show for the spectators on the Slick Dock. Stay tuned for more episodes of the Post Show packed with special guests and more action throughout the week.
Competition Day 1 | Post Show & Gallery
With day 1 one of the Wind Voyager Triple-S Invitational done, we bring you the Post Show Episode 1. In this episode, the hosts share the highlights of the day and invite special guests behind the desk. The riders are constantly pushing the limits in the REAL Slick with Kelsick, Jaspan & Scheid throwing back to back to back 720's being a standout battle. The Women's field has never been more competitive with style and amplitude at an all time high. After the riding overview, we have special guests, Ky-Mani Marley, and Big Hair joining us for the Carolina Brewery Last Call. These guys just went kiteboarding for their first time and share their experience on the Wind Voyager Triple-S Post Show.
Wind Voyager Triple-S Opening Ceremonies Gallery
The Wind Voyager Triple-S Opening Ceremonies always make for an incredible night at REAL Watersports. With all of the best riders together in one place it's impossible not to get stoked on the week ahead. After the Open the Invited Riders threw down in the park and waited for DJ Chela to crank up the tunes and light up the dance floor to kick off the 2017 Wind Voyager Triple-S Invitational.
Wind Voyager Triple-S Open Results & Gallery
The Wind Voyager Triple-S Open kicked off Friday, June 1st. Up and coming kiteboarders made the pilgrimage to REAL Watersports to compete for the last remaining spots in the Wind Voyager Triple-S Invitational. We faced a roller coaster of a forecast, with an initial puff of wind from the North on Friday riders set out to compete with kites. Once we got a few hits done, the tables turned when the wind changed to an offshore direction and slowly died through the day. Riders waited to start but eventually finished the day sessioning the park behind Jetskis.
Waking up on day two, we all reached for our phones to check Ikitesurf and were faced with a light wind forecast. The Open would be run, but behind Jetskis rather than kites. After making it through all of the riders we were able to finish the contest but just as the skis were docked the wind turned back on, the riders were stoked and we got back in the water to re-run the competition with kites. This is a kite competition after all and despite the extra effort, it was the right thing to do.
The Men's division brought fierce competition, with Brendan Kerr of California eventually taking the win with a clean backmobe off of the Core Super Kicker and a highly technical assault of the North Kiteboarding A-Frame. In second place we have REAL's own Jeremy Jones. We were missing one invited rider in the main event, leaving three vacant seeds and providing room for three Open Riders to enter. Rounding it out in 3rd place, REAL Coach, Aaron Roberts displayed the skills to earn the final seed in the 2017 Wind Voyager Triple-S Invitational. The Women's division was faced with injury and an inability to compete, with the result being a DNF (Did Not Finish). We're all looking forward to watching these up and coming riders compete in the 2017 Wind Voyager Triple-S Invitational.


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James wants to get the floaters' input, and Janelle and Kaysar say it's pointless because Danielle will tell them what they want to hear, Marcellas will keep changing his mind, and Erika won't commit to anything. They don't think Erika has the guts to come after them. It just keeps going back to Diane and Goobie, no matter what they do, just like all of these conversations. And also like all these conversations, they all have floaters they are friendly with, and the more the field narrows, the more it makes it tough to find people to put up. James has a valid point that last week he put up Jase because he was promised Goobie was leaving this week. Now they want Diane out over Goobie.
Meanwhile downstairs, the conversation isn't any more agreeable. None of the floaters can decide who should go up either. Danielle thinks it will be Goobie and George on the block, and she says she can't vote out George because of her agreement with him. Erika wants George out, and you have to notice how the only time she commits, it's to commit on middle of the road person like George. Marcellas wants Goobie out, and is upset with Erika for wanting to keep him.
The conversation disburses in the HoH as Will enters for his bath. The other guys tease Janie that they'll leave her alone to share a bath with Will. James leaves, Will is in the bathroom with a closed door, and the rest continue their talk, not knowing how they'll handle James, as they're afraid he can turn it around against them. It's not clear how much of this Will can hear from the bathtub.
Once Howie leaves, and only Kaysar and Janelle are left, Will calls out that he needs some sponges and ducks, as he wants to have a puppet show. Goobie joins in on the fun. He names the ducks and sponges after all the HGs. Dr. McDreamy, Fanelle, Rick Foogie, Faysar, you get the picture. However, Kaysar corrects him that it should be Dr. McFullofHimself. He lays out scenarios in the duck pond leaving Foogie as the good guy that mean Fanelle wants to take out, leaving Dr. McDreamy come save the day. Lord help me.
This guy is irritating, and I want him out badly. Yet, I sit here watching him do this puppet show in the bathtub, and I'm falling for the act hook, line, and sinker. He's adorable sitting there like that. He has such a … baby face that makes this all believable. I don't know if there's another person there that could pull that act off.
James goes outside and finds Diane and tells her about BB6ers plans to take her out. He urges her to go to them, plead her case, and tell them she is not hooked up with Chill Town. He also tells her that both he and Howie want her to stay. I think Howie might have a thing or two to say about this, as he said he wants Diane out. This could come back to bite James.
Will is still performing his puppet show, has Howie get him a candy bar, and pretends to eat it to get a penalty nomination. Kaysar says he knows what Will is doing. He's trying to get a penalty nomination to save his buddy. He offers them a final six of BB6/Chill Town, but the offer is interrupted by James and Danielle. They leave and Marcellas then comes up and leaves. Everyone wants to talk to the HoH, but can't because Will is holding court. He's no dummy sitting up there in the bathtub. He asks Kaysar and Danielle to join him for a We Are the World reenactment.
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The new dances this week were taught by Bill.
Arcanul de la Fundul Moldovei was the intermediate dance that Bill taught. He learned it from Mihi David.
The video below is almost like the way Mihai taught it. There is an extra step in the dance in the version that Mihai taught in Tennessee in 2011
Here is a group from Copenhagen doing the dance the same music but different steps.
Dunav's version is below
A PDF description of the dance as taught at the 2003 Door Count Folk Festival by Alexandru and Mihai David. The dance that Mihai taught Tennessee has one more figure.
The other dance that Bill taught was Shareni Chorapki, a dance of Bulgarian origin that can be found in Greek Macedonia in the region of Drama. It is basically a Devetorka. Below are some videos of the dance and some commentary. The name can be translated into 'Patterned Socks" or Multi-colored Socks.
Will you be dancing with any children soon?
Have a great time dancing, playing or listening to the music.
Another Day, Another Dance,
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The title is "Frozen," but the latest animated fairy tale from Disney is far warmer than that icy name suggests. A lively and funny break-out-in-song musical, it's the kind of movie you probably think about when you think "Disney cartoon."
That's not always been the case for animated films released by Disney over the past couple of decades. With such lackluster releases as "Meet the Robinsons," "Treasure Planet," "Chicken Little" and "Bolt," the one-time animation king of the hill was for a while there seemingly in desperate need of a dose of its old mojo.
Thank goodness, then, for competition. With Pixar threatening to steal its crown as the elite animation studio -- and, to a lesser extent, DreamWorks Animation -- Disney as of late has been getting back to what it does best. Its past handful of major releases, "The Princess and the Frog," "Tangled" and "Wreck-It Ralph," have been artful, whimsical, heartfelt and -- best of all -- fun.
"Frozen," co-directed by "Tarzan" helmer Chris Buck and "Wreck-It Ralph" screenwriter Jennifer Lee (shockingly, the first woman to direct a theatrical animated feature for Disney), continues that re-ascent. When it's all said and done, "Despicable Me 2" will likely go down as the year's highest-grossing animated film, but "Frozen" -- the 53rd theatrical animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics catalog -- is the most complete we've seen so far in 2013.
As with so many of Disney's classic films, it's all loosely based -- very loosely -- on a time-tested fairy tale. In this case, it's Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen."
The story, in Buck and Lee's version anyway, focuses on two young sisters, the daughters of the king and queen of the snowy Nordic kingdom of Arendelle. The elder sister, Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel), isn't an ordinary princess, however. She, we learn, was born with a special gift that lets her do things like conjuring ice and snow from her fingertips. Unfortunately, it's a gift she neither understands nor welcomes. Even worse, she can't control it.
To protect her from claims of sorcery -- and the resulting pitchfork- and torch-wielding villagers -- Elsa's parents decide to sequester her from the entire kingdom, including from her playful and precocious little sister Anna (Kristen Bell). When the king and queen's ship goes down in a storm, Elsa ascends to the throne -- and, eventually her secret comes out.
Cue the scared mob of villagers, who chase her out of the kingdom -- but not before she inadvertently unleashes eternal winter on the kingdom. And then cue a journey by Anna to find her sister and bring her back home where she belongs.
Along the way, "Frozen" rolls through its share of genre cliches: There's the hunky stranger who helps Anna along the way, the comic-relief sidekick (in this case a misshapen snowman brought to life by Elsa's powers during her hasty exit), and a dose of palace intrigue compliments of those eager to snatch Elsa's recently vacated throne.
Also, as beautiful as the wintry landscapes are, the design of the characters is less than impressive. Plastic-y and doll-like, they are largely an ordinary-looking lot.
Still, the best moments in "Frozen" are far more noteworthy than any flaws. That includes some nicely played twists to the surprisingly fresh story, a raft of well-drawn characters -- including some genuinely three-dimensional female characters -- as well as touching emotional themes.
The real highlight, though, is the music by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Sure, there's a dash of Broadway cheesiness in many of the song-and-dance numbers, but they are sweet nonetheless -- and catchy to boot. Clearly, Disney has designs on adapting "Frozen" for the stage should it do brisk enough business at the box office.
And smart money says it will do brisk business. Starting with the delightful Mickey Mouse cartoon "Get a Horse" -- a seven-minute snatch of animated lagniappe that will screen before all showings of "Frozen" -- and right down to the "hidden" scene following the closing credits (as well as a joke hidden near the end of the credits), "Frozen" arrives in theaters Wednesday (Nov. 27) as a sure bet for Turkey Day viewing for families.
It's also a heart-warming -- and welcome -- return to form for the House of Mouse.
3 stars, out of 5
Snapshot: An animated Disney musical comedy, loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen," about a spunky young princess who seeks out to find and rescue her ostracized sister, chased into the wilderness because of her special powers.
What works: The musical numbers are lively and the overall story is fun.
What doesn't: The design of the human characters is less than impressive, and the story isn't without its genre cliches.
Voice cast: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana, Alan Tudyk. Directors: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee. Rating: PG, for some action and mild rude humor. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes. Where: Find New Orleans showtimes.


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Le Mer 14 novembre 2012 21:27, "Gérard Talbot" a écrit : > Le Ven 9 novembre 2012 3:28, Zhang, Zhiqiang a écrit : >>> Zhiqiang, let me know if you have more tests (and which tests) to > review, to approve. >>> Gérard >>> -- >> Hi Gerard, > >> background-size-002 to 034 (except background-size-008 above) need to > be >> reviewed again, and to be approved :). > > http://test.csswg.org/source/contributors/intel/submitted/css3-background/background-size-025.html > > background-size-025: we want tests to avoid fractional pixels all the > time. Sub-pixel positioning is not required by user agents. I believe we > need some other images besides cat.png. The 2 problems with cat.png is > that 98px wide by 99px tall is likely to create fractions of pixel as > those numbers are difficult to divide without causing fractions; the > image itself does not fully fill both dimensions of the rectangle. > > > Also, this comment seems wrong: > > " > So, the rounded height of the image is 66.6px, [200px / rounded (200px / > 60px)] > and the width is rescaled to 60.0px to keep the original > aspect ratio. > " > > The width should be rescaled to 98px mult 66.66667 divided by 99px == > 65.993px > > The test logic is correct and acceptable. It is just that we don't know > and we can not predict the actual dimensions (it could be 66px or 67px > or 66.6px or 66.7px) and therefore there can be a partially displayed > cat of 1px horizontally and of 1px vertically: this is actually what > happens too in Opera 12.10. And 1px multiplied by 3 cats == 3px. > > I've just checked background-size-025.html on IE10 and it seems there is > a loss of 2px for the right-most cats (3rd column) and a loss of 2px for > the bottom-most cats (last row). > > Conclusion: we need another image besides cat.png and we need values > that will avoid creating fractions in calculations and when rescaling. I am working on other images which would avoid creating fractions in calculations and when rescaling and which could be reliable and helping human testers notice test failures. It's not as easy as one might think. Top and left sides of such images should be with a distinct color and/or distinct pattern. Right and bottom sides of such images should use another distinct color and/or distinct pattern. That way, an human tester would see if a 1px is missing at right and/or bottom and if 1px is incorrectly repeated at right and/or bottom. When the background-size: with round value fails, then it is because there is a partially displayed image on the right and/or at the bottom. So, this explains the need to have differentiable color and/or pattern for the image. > ------------- > > http://test.csswg.org/source/contributors/intel/submitted/css3-background/background-size-026.html > > A reftest for this test is doable, possible, available: > > http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/review/reference/background-size-026-ref.xht > > Approved. > > ------------- > > http://test.csswg.org/source/contributors/intel/submitted/css3-background/background-size-027.html > > This test is more difficult than it may seem. > > background-repeat: repeat round; > background-size: 60px auto; > height: 180px; > width: 180px; > > 1- > background-size: 60px auto: > " > An 'auto' value for one dimension is resolved by using the image's > intrinsic ratio and the size of the other dimension > " > If intrinsic ratio is 1:0.989 (1:[intrinsic width/intrinsic height]), > then the image is rescaled to the dimensions 60px wide and 60.61px tall. > > 2- > Then, background-repeat: repeat round adds an extra step: > > Newest height = 180px / round (180px / 60.61px); > Newest height = 180px / round (2.955); > Newest height = 180px / 3; > Newest height = 60px; /* to be repeated vertically a "round" number of > times */ > > > So, before being repeated vertically, the image height should be > rescaled again from 60.61px to 60px. > > Right now, Firefox 16.0.2 under Linux KDE 4.9.3 and Firefox 19a1 under > Windows XP SP3 fail background-size-027 by one pixel and I am not sure > why. Firefox currently does not support background-repeat: round according to: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548372 and to some basic tests. >>From 99px to 60.61px to 60px, calculations and handling of fractions > could cause a 1px to be loss somewhere. > > ------------- > > http://test.csswg.org/source/contributors/intel/submitted/css3-background/background-size-028.html > > " > So, the image should be rescaled to 49px by 49.5px > and be repeated four times in horizontal and vertical. > " > > > Firefox 16.0.2, Opera 12.10 and Chrome 23.0.1271.64 (all under Linux KDE > 4.9.3) fail this test because of fractional pixel in height. Either the > cat images are not perfectly identical (Firefox) or there is a tiny > extra 1px missing (Opera) or a tiny extra 1px shown (Chrome): 3 > different renderings! IE10 renders it like Opera: there is 1px missing. -------- http://test.csswg.org/source/contributors/intel/submitted/css3-background/background-size-029.html " So, the rounded width of the image is 65.3px, [196px / rounded (196px / 60px)] and the height is rescaled to 66.0px to keep the original aspect ratio. " The design logic of background-size-029.html is correct; the problem is the fraction of pixel. If 65.3px is rounded down as actual value, then we may well see a 1px extra of the cat image on the right. This is exactly what happens in Opera 12.10 under Linux KDE 4.9.3 and such rendering by Opera is correct, is not wrong. Now, a very strict tester (or a software) would say that there is a partially displayed cat image in the page... Thursday and Friday (nov. 15 and 16), I will continue to work on making your background-size-[025-034] tests more accurate and not creating fractional pixel. I'm sure I am getting close to fixing that issue. Gérard -- Contributions to the CSS 2.1 test suite: http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/ CSS 2.1 Test suite RC6, March 23rd 2011: http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/toc.html CSS 2.1 test suite harness: http://test.csswg.org/harness/ Contributing to to CSS 2.1 test suite: http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/web-authors-contributions-css21-testsuite.htmlReceived on Thursday, 15 November 2012 05:24:51 UTC
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Lawyers for Manafort co-defendant Gates seek to withdraw over rift -filing
WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The legal team representing Richard Gates, a business associate of U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, wants to stop representing him due to "irreconcilable differences," according to a court filing unsealed on Wednesday.
Manafort and Gates were both indicted in October by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, as part of his ongoing investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
Trump has denied any collusion occurred, and Russia has denied meddling in the U.S. election.
Shanlon Wu, Walter Mack and Annemarie McAvoy, the three lawyers representing Gates, first revealed their plans to withdraw from the high-profile criminal case last week, but the reasons for their request to drop the case were all under seal.
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A closed-door hearing was held earlier on Wednesday on their motion to withdraw, but the judge has not yet issued a ruling on their request.
Manafort and Gates face charges including conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and failure to register as foreign agents in connection with their political work for a pro-Russia Ukrainian party.
Both have pleaded not guilty.
Since last year, Manafort and Gates have both changed lawyers.
Manafort was previously represented by Reginald Brown at WilmerHale, but switched and hired Kevin Downing shortly after his Virginia home was raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in July.
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Gates was initially represented by a federal public defender when he made his first court appearance in October before he tapped Wu.
He added McAvoy and Mack to his legal team later that fall.
CNN has previously reported that Gates has since hired Tom Green, an attorney at Sidley Austin.
However, Green has not filed a formal appearance in the public court docket, and was not present during Wednesday's closed hearing.
Some have speculated that Gates could be changing his legal strategy or potentially considering a plea deal, though it remains to be seen.
Some of the reasons for why his lawyers are withdrawing from the case still remain under seal.
But in the one document made public on Wednesday, his lawyers wrote that due to the irreconcilable differences, it makes their "effective representation of the client impossible."
A trial is expected sometime in the fall. Both Manafort and Gates are due to appear in court again on Feb. 14.
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