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Return to normalcy: Wapak restores power, ready for clean-up
Electric power should be restored to Wapakoneta city consumers as crews worked throughout the weekend, the mayor says, after straight-line winds Friday downed power lines, felled trees and caused extensive property damage.
He also noted additional services should be forthcoming to help deal with the aftermath.
"To my knowledge, everyone in the city should have their powered restored as of today (Sunday)," Mayor Rodney Metz told the Wapakoneta Daily News on the eve of a Wapakoneta City Council meeting scheduled for today at 7:30 p.m. "The last conversations I had with Electric Department personnel was that everything was up and running. There are some people who are not with our utility but are within the city limits that don't have electric power and that is the only thing."
Those city residents receive their electric power through Midwest Electric, which is working to restore power throughout their service area.
Due to the storm, Cridersville and the rural area serviced by American Electric Power and Dayton Power and Light are still without service.
The mayor said Wapakoneta city crews worked throughout the weekend to check electric lines and restore power. The city received mutual aid assistance from the villages of Minster and Orrville.
Metz also said city administrators intend to contact Gov. John Kasich's office this week to learn what money and services will be available to the city and its residents after Friday's storm left two-thirds of the state including Wapakoneta without power.
On Saturday, Kasich declared Ohio in a state of emergency and appealed to President Barack Obama for federal help. He received word later Saturday from Obama that his request for federal assistance was granted and Obama declared the state in a federal state of emergency. The federal declaration allows the federal government to support Ohio with direct assistance such as electric generators and water. Additional resources may be requested as needed.
"As I told the president this afternoon, Ohio is facing a severe situation. I appreciate his quick response and am glad that additional equipment and supplies will soon start arriving," Kasich said in a news release Saturday. "I've already declared a state emergency and activated the National Guard, and will continue to work with the EMA to evaluate the situation to determine our needs going forward."
Metz said city administrators will review the requirements for the state and federal aid because often there are some "strings attached" to meet the requirements.
"We will be contacting them about aid and what services we may be provided, but most of the time we receive money for overtime hours, time spent collecting limbs and debris and at times money to grind the material up," Metz said.
Locally, Metz said city administrators agreed to extend the hours of the composting facility and city residents could dump tree limbs and brush at the facility for free. He noted crews also would collect limbs at the curb in the near future.
He noted Wapakoneta City Tree Commission members will start to evaluate and to consider all the areas where city trees were destroyed.
In regard to Veterans Memorial Park, which had two dugouts destroyed and wires to light poles damaged, Metz said work would likely start soon to make the park safe for park visitors.
Metz clarified that Wapakoneta City Recreation Director Jack Hayzlett would determine if the park is safe for park visitors and the fields ready for play.
"As far as Veterans Memorial Park, the biggest issue is the two baseball field dugouts that were destroyed — one on field No. 1 and one on field No. 2 — so we will look at finishing the season up without both of those," Hayzlett said. "We need to get them cleaned so WRI (Wapakoneta Recreation Inc.) can finish up the season and then we will look at replacing them with something."
He said they have not done any work on the fields to this point to allow members of the Wapakoneta Police Department and insurance agents a chance to document and to assess the damage.
He said park crews are prepared to clean up the dugouts and other debris in order for a Pony League Championship between two Wapakoneta teams to take place, but there has been talk of rescheduling a time and place for the game.
As far as the Moon City Classic, Hayzlett said the park crews should have the grounds cleaned up in time for the tournament slated to start Friday and they are looking at some type of temporary shelters, tents or umbrellas for the two diamonds.
"I think it should be OK, but the only issue is we have to get the Electric Department out there to adjust the lights because the lights are pointing all over the place," Hayzlett said. "I know they will be busy, too, this week, but knowing there are 46 teams coming that I am confident they will do the best they can to get it completed this week for us."
For passers-by, the pool looked unaffected and opened on time on Saturday.
"The pool is fine," Hayzlett said during a Sunday telephone interview. "We had leaves in the pool, a couple of damaged chairs and the big umbrella has a couple of rips in it but it is usable until the end of the season."
He said they will turn those in on insurance.
"Mainly, we had to work on cleaning up leaves and debris in both pools," Hayzlett said. "The kids worked hard on Friday night and they returned at 7:30 a.m. Saturday and they had it ready to open at noon. It was pretty clean and today it looks fantastic. It was unbelievable they got that all done because there were hundreds of leaves."


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When you arrive on Columbia in BioShock Infinite, groups are already fighting, killing, and generally making the place a bloody wreck. That's sort of BioShock's thing. But just in case you want a deeper understanding of the political disagreements that led to all-out war, Irrational Games has released a new "Factions at War" trailer.
In it, Ken Levine explains the heady ideals of Columbia and the political turmoil that tore it apart. Plus we get to see plenty of the beautiful steampunk setting, and hear some personality from the protagonist. Check it out below, and read up on our E3 preview for hands-on impressions.
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KANSAS CITY, MO. — The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the leader in character-driven intercollegiate athletics, has unveiled its new Champions of Character online training for NAIA student-athletes.
Learn to Live 5 is the first in a series of Champions of Character Live 5 online training course developed with specific learning outcomes and research-based curriculum intended to have a measurable impact on student attitudes over time.
The 20-minute interactive program is an introduction to the Champions of Character Five Core Values — Integrity, Respect, Responsibility, Sportsmanship and Servant Leadership —and how they're applied on and off the field. Three additional programs focusing on modeling, leading and building values-based skills for life after college are expected to roll out in 2014.
A key milestone for Champions of Character Live 5 will be research-driven surveying of student-athletes to gauge the impact of deliberately teaching character over time. The NAIA is partnering with sports ethics and psychology professionals from TrueCompetition.org in conducting the research.
Since Champions of Character was launched in 2000, NAIA-member colleges and universities have made ongoing character education and professional development for coaches, athletics administrative staff and student-athletes a priority.
The Live 5 training follows the NAIA's successful Character-Driven Coaching course, launched in 2009. All NAIA coaches, including graduate assistants, are required to take the online course within the first two months on the job. More than 13,000 college, high school and youth coaches have also taken the course.
In 2009, NAIA member colleges and universities committed to putting Champions of Character values into play on both the field and in the stands. Hospitality and game management of NAIA athletics events and conduct in competition are framed by the association's governing policies and guided by Champions of Character principles. Today every school's progress in pursuing character education is tracked and recognized for achievements in training, promotion and conduct in competition.
Champions of Character also reaches high school and youth sports through its outreach activities conducted by member schools and participants at NAIA national championship events. Programs are tailored for all ages with those dedicated to parent expectations and behavior among the most popular.
Champions of Character is supported in part by the Champions of Character Foundation, which is dedicated to providing character training and resources to help those who work in athletics.


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9. Cloudera Impala
With its distribution of Apache Hadoop and related technologies and services, Cloudera is perhaps the most established of the big data companies. But that's not stopping it from developing some pretty cool stuff.
In October Cloudera released a real-time query engine for Hadoop called Impala that allows Cloudera Enterprise, the company's platform for managing massive amounts of data, to perform both real-time and batch operations on any type of structured or unstructured data. Impala manages data stored in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and Hbase database. And the new Cloudera Enterprise RTQ (Real-Time Query) software provides the tools needed to manage Cloudera Impala in production environments.
In June Cloudera released the 4.0 version of Cloudera Enterprise. And in December the company raised $65 million in venture funding to help it expand and continue its product development efforts.


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A 63-year-old predatory sex offender living in Texas told detectives he called 9-1-1 in July to confess to three Oregon homicides because he felt guilty, a Portland detective testified in court Monday.
Jeffrey Paul Cutlip was living in Brownsville, Texas, when he called police in July and confessed to three killings in the Portland area. Detectives Monday described Cutlip's detailed confessions during a bail hearing in Multnomah County Circuit Court.
He has been indicted in the deaths of 44-year-old Marlene Claire Carlson in 1975, 15-year-old Julie Marie Bennett in 1977 and 33-year-old Nielene Loribell Doll in 1993.
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I think currently this works differently, and by purpose. You choose highlighter set, then highlight the whole verse or specific words. In later case, this is set only for that particular text. For example, if you click on the verse number and apply highlighter, it will be applied to any text version for that verse. But if you instead select only words, without verse number, then highlighter will be applied only for that particular text or translation. This is very useful, because I can highlight differences in different translations. But highlighter sets are for different tasks — for example, when I study some text, I use one highlighter set to highlight verbs, places, nouns, adjectives, etc. And another set to highlight thoughts, important verses, etc. And I have another empty set — just one click and all highlights are off. Hope this will help you in your studies.
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trouserless writes with the news that AMD has invested heavily in Transmeta. The power-conscious chip company has been financially ailing of late. AMD is taking payment in stock, binding the two companies (both with suits pending against Intel) together. PC World reports: "Transmeta did secure a few licensing deals, notably in Japan, but it also wracked up heavy losses. In January 2005 the vendor announced job cuts and said it would switch its focus to licensing its power management technology to other companies. Later that year Transmeta agreed to sell its Crusoe chips to Hong Kong company Culturecom Technology Ltd. for $15 million in cash. Last year's deal with AMD, to resell Transmeta chips in Microsoft Corp.'s pay-by-installment PC initiative, raised the vendor's prospects again. But in March Transmeta said it faced delisting from the Nasdaq because its stock price fell below $1 for more than 30 consecutive days."


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Town officials have approved another Fort Myers Beach sign variance to further shorten its noncompliance list among island businesses within the sign ordinance.
The Beach Town Council unanimously granted Beach Theater officials a requested variance for its sign to be 37 square feet in sign face area and 7'10" in overall height as well as maintaining its backlit changeable message panel.
Council members cited the unique environment of the property and business as a main reason for their approval. They suggested amending the sign ordinance to allow theaters a special exception, but the process would take three to four months and other businesses are currently waiting in the variance process.
The issue involving internal illumination in the existing sign and its location's set back distance were also addressed.
"It seems like this variance comes down to the lighting. I've been down there many nights, and I certainly don't find it offensive," said Councilman Dan Andre.
"If I am driving I don't try to look at the sign because it is set way back," said Councilman Jo List. "There is the letter of the law and the spirit of the law, and I am trying to find a balance between the two for our taxpayers.
Town staff recommended that Council not approve the variance request due to no "exceptional or extraordinary conditions inherent to the property" and no verifiable hard case situation. The Town sign ordinance specifies a business' overall sign height be no more than 6 foot, six inches tall and have no more than 32 square feet of sign face area.
But Dolphin Inn at 6555 Estero Blvd. -Beach Theater's neighbor- was granted a nine foot overall sign height last November. Beach Theater's sign also sits atop a raised grade on the businesses' parking lot.
Town officials would rather businesses use external lighting as specified in the ordinance than the internal illumination that Beach Theater's sign currently possesses.
"The entire panel is illuminated rather than just the letters or symbols as required by code," said Town Zoning Coordinator Leslee Chapman. "The granting of this variance would be injurious to the surrounding neighborhood. It is not in compliance with our sign code."
The initial property of Beach Theater at 6425 Estero Boulevard was permitted back in 1997. Tree foliage covers most of the building, making signage on it tough to read. Thus, there is no signage on the elevated building in use. Many passers by do not recognize it as a movie theater and a restaurant with an alcohol license.
Last year, Town Local Planning Agency approved the Beach Theater sign during its hearing process by a 6-1 count.
Applicant William McMullan and Beach Theater co-owner Nick Campo looked at external lighting, but thought floodlights may cause more of an issue. Both also stated the Town's hedge-size requirements already block a portion of the sign and that another variance request ($2,000) would be needed to lower that foliage height.
"We feel that this is a unique business for Fort Myers Beach," said McMullan. "We are working very diligently on the marketing end of this. Businesses in Time Square do wish that Beach Theater would remain open."
Sea turtle lighting requirements were discussed.
"I can tell you that I have had to change the wattage of my light bulbs in the parking lot due to illumination, but I have never had an issue with the turtle inspectors on the sign," said Campo.
Interim Mayor Alan Mandel told the applicants he appreciates the landscaping on the property and commiserated with them about the visual blockage.
"I think it does make it difficult to see what movies are playing on the lower end of that sign," he said. "Would the nature of this business be different because they do have to change the lettering on the sign on a regular basis?"
A suggestion was made to take height off the top of the sign, where the property's numerical address sits, and place it at the base to make the signage more visible.
With "less than a handful" of business sign holders yet to work with Town officials or communicate with them about variance requests, out-of-compliance signs are dwindling on Estero Island but proper regulation should be heeded.
"Keep in mind that the decisions that you make have an impact on future decisions," heeded Town Manager Terry Stewart. "The decision you make today will set precedence."


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Bartlett and Sharma
The Drawing Room in East Hampton will have solo exhibitions by Jennifer Bartlett and Raja Ram Sharma beginning tomorrow. Ms. Bartlett will show 20 paintings on mulberry paper with squares of gold, silver, and platinum leaf. They were inspired by the themes and techniques she used for a ceiling installation in Homan-ji, a Japanese temple, in the 1990s. The artist has used a grid to organize the compositions, which include snapshots of objects she saw in Japan as well as the colored squares. She lives in Amagansett and New York City.
Mr. Sharma will show "Contemporary Paintings From Rajasthan." He is a temple painter in India and makes cloth paintings of Krishna for Hindu temples. When he is not working on this sacred art, he makes his own miniature paintings about contemporary life in Rajasthan. He works in gouache with one-hair brushes on paintings no larger than six by eight inches depicting landscapes that embrace larger concerns. Palace architecture and gardens are among his other subjects. The exhibitions will be on view through Oct. 29.
Closing the Parrish
The Parrish Art Museum closed its doors on Tuesday in preparation for the move to its new facility on Montauk Highway in Water Mill. The new building will open to the public on Nov. 10. Although the museum on Job's Lane in Southampton will be closed for exhibitions, it will host two events there before and after the move.
The first is a Pecha Kucha gathering on Sept. 20. Rapid-fire presentations by artists and others, it was known previously as Lightning Round but now by its internationally recognized title. Parrish Presents, a bazaar and auction that happens each year during Thanksgiving weekend, will take place there from Nov. 23 to 25. The offices will continue to operate at the Job's Lane site until mid-October.
The grand opening of the new Parrish will be free to the general public and will continue throughout the long Veterans Day weekend to Nov. 12. A series of special previews will begin on Nov. 3 for museum donors and community groups. Those will continue through Nov. 9.
Stone in Southampton
New work by Dick Stone, a Bridgehampton-based painter, will be on view at 4 North Main Gallery in Southampton beginning on Saturday with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m. Mr. Stone, who paints in a structured and colorful abstract style, studied for four years at the Art Students League in New York City with Raphael Soyer, Moses Soyer, George Bridgman, and Chaim Gross. He then attended the Yale University School of Fine Art, where he studied with Josef Albers before receiving a bachelor's degree.
He had a successful career as an illustrator before moving on to photography and filmmaking for commercials, which earned him several Clio Awards. He painted in his free time throughout his career and then took it up full time upon his retirement in 1989. In 1993, a fire destroyed his Sag Harbor studio and all of its contents, some four decades of work. These paintings reflect the artist's evolution since then. The show will be on view through Sept. 17. A closing reception will be held on Sept. 15 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Matsuoka at Olko
The Monika Olko Gallery in Sag Harbor is showing work by Lynn Matsuoka, who lives in Bridgehampton, through Wednesday. Drawings from the Hampton Classic and paintings from her "Diver" series, inspired by the Olympics, are on display.
As a reportage artist, she works at sporting events, rehearsal stages, and high-profile court cases. "I work quickly to produce an initial line drawing, indicating light and shadow, add color, and then often finish the piece in my studio," she said in a release. She has worked with a long list of performers, sports stars, and dignitaries.
Her work is also on view at Sen in Sag Harbor, where viewers can order a commemorative sushi roll in her honor.
10 Artists at Ashawagh
ARTX10 will feature the work of 10 artists at Ashawagh Hall in Springs beginning Saturday with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. The artists include Phyllis Chillingworth, Hector de Cordova, Alex Ferrone, Steve Haweeli, Gordon Matheson, Jim Miller, Bill Negron, Alyce Peifer, Frank Sofo, and Kris Warrenburg. They will offer a range of styles and mediums from plein-air landscapes to mixed-media abstractions and aerial photographic images.
Ross at Watermill
Sculpture by Carol Ross can be seen at the Watermill Center through the end of the month. On view are 20 welded steel and aluminum sculptures with archaic, classical, and modern allusions but finished in a contemporary style, with metal flake paint and aerodynamic forms. The exhibition is accessible through the marked paths off the driveway at the center from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.


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I'll be blogging over the next few days from the Dream, reviewing the ship in real time on a daily basis and offering my initial thoughts and reactions as my family -- my wife, Nancy, and 10-year-old daughter, Hannah -- travels on our first cruise, Disney or otherwise. (And I'll have more on Wizarding World and Disney World in the coming weeks.)
Full coverage: Read the Day 2 and Day 3 dispatches and view photos from the Disney Dream
The newest ship in Disney's growing fleet has been taking passengers on three- and four-night cruises to the Bahamas for a few weeks now.
We glimpsed the Dream for the first time from the Magical Express bus, which whisked us in just under 75 minutes from our Disney World hotel to the Port Canaveral, Fla., terminal.
The 4,000-passenger Dream -- dressed in classic Mickey Mouse colors with a royal blue hull, red funnels and yellow life boats -- dwarfed a Carnival ship docked at a nearby berth. A 14-foot-long Sorcerer Mickey cast a spell on the ship's stern.
Our check-in at the terminal took less than half an hour, as we passed through Disney's crowded but efficient terminal with relative ease.
As we stepped onboard, our family was introduced by name over a public address system while crew members applauded our arrival into a glittering gold -and wood-toned Art Deco-style lobby topped with a glistening crystal chandelier. "I feel like someone special," Hannah said.
The entertainment started immediately with a 30-minute "Sailing Away" embarkation show on deck with singers, dancers and a dozen Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse, dressed in sailor blues. Set to energetic songs that you'd hear at a wedding reception or a pro hockey game, the live performance, backed by video clips on the "funnel vision" jumbo screen, played more like an infomercial for the ship than a send-off show.
Under slate-gray skies, gusty winds stiffened the red, blue and gold metallic streamers that crew members handed out to kids watching the show. The bands of rain that streaked across the Florida peninsula in the morning were threatening to return as we sailed out of port. Staffers turned the collars up on their heavy jackets while stubborn tourists stood poolside watching the performance in shorts and sandals, sipping pina coladas and insisting on vacation attire despite the weather.
Growing weary of the salesmanship about two-thirds of the way through the show, we headed down to Deck 8 to inspect our stateroom.
We'd managed to snare one of the most coveted rooms on the ship. It was not one of the royal suites (1,800 square feet) or the smaller concierge suites (600 square feet) or any of the 1,000-plus ocean-view staterooms (240 to 300 square feet).
After hours of searching online, we'd booked one of the veranda-less, 200-square-foot inside staterooms. The draw: a virtual porthole that combines a real-time live video feed of the ocean with a rotating cast of three dozen animated characters that splash up on the cleverly camouflaged LCD screen.
Disney says passengers have been refusing complimentary upgrades because they prefer the rooms with the 24-inch-wide, high-tech portholes, a first for the cruise industry. Of the 1,250 staterooms on the Dream, only 150 come with the popular portholes.
Our soundless yet soothing porthole looked aft, with seagulls trailing in our wake as the last glimpse of Florida coastline slipped out of view. Russell, the cherub scout from the "Up" movie, floated past our porthole clutching dozens of colorful balloons. A switch next to the bed allowed us to turn the virtual porthole on and off but I wished for a similar switch that would pump in some sea air.
Being new to cruising, I knew the staterooms would be small, but the reality of three people trying to unpack in such a tiny space made me uncommonly claustrophobic. Thanks to the aforementioned Magical Express bus service, our bags were waiting for us in our room – a perk well worth the $35-per-person fee.
The Art Deco-style room, with a maritime-inspired motif, included a queen-size bed with 300-thread-count sheets (to Nancy's delight); a convertible sofa bed but no pull-down bunk as promised (to Hannah's dismay); a desk big enough for a laptop; a diminutive 22-inch flat screen TV; an iPod dock; a mini-fridge; and enough closet space for the three of us to snugly stow our stuff. The raised bed made it easy to tuck luggage underneath.
The diminutive bathroom, which felt a bit bigger than an airplane lavatory, was equipped with a basketball-sized sink, a toilet, a shower with a tub barely big enough for 5-foot-tall Hannah and a hair dryer (the most essential room accessory, in Nancy's opinion). The 100% Egyptian cotton towels added a touch of luxury to the otherwise cramped quarters.
When we booked our three-night cruise, we selected the early dinner with a late show option, versus the flip-flop scenario. Disney employs a rotational dinner and theater system, with passengers cycling through three restaurants (with the same dinner companions and wait staff) and three shows during the cruise.
On the first night, we drew the Animator's Palate, a 700-seat restaurant designed like an artist's workshop, with paint-brush-shaped pillars and pencil sketches lining the walls.
After everyone sat down, the lights dimmed, the music swelled and bubbles filled the picture frames, transforming the restaurant in the round into a show floor starring the "Finding Nemo" characters.
Crush the sea turtle "swam" around the restaurant across 100 cleverly camouflaged LCD screens – the common denominator behind many of the technological innovations aboard the Dream. With the help of microphones concealed in table centerpieces and a team of technicians hidden backstage, Crush interacted with passengers by name during the real-time exchange before teaching everybody how to surf.
Families with kids populated nearly every table, with shrieks and cries emanating from the little ones throughout the nearly two-hour dinner service, resulting in an atmosphere closer to preschool daycare than high-end elegance.
Our dinner companions, from a small town in Tennessee, had been on a couple of cruises before, sans kids. They had decided to book this one on Super Bowl Sunday when they realized that an incoming snowstorm would knock their three kids out of school for the long weekend.
Before the cruise, I'd expected the Animator's Palate to be the highlight of our trip, with the show outshining the dinner in the ship's marquee dinner show. But to my surprise, few folks even watched the underwater scenes unfolding on the screens surrounding them and many were too embarrassed or disinterested to engage in conversation with Crush when he stopped by their table for a chat.
Even more surprising was the complete lack of "show" from Disney's renowned storytellers. For most of the dinner service, the screens served as little more than atmospheric, animated aquariums with the occasional sight gag floating past. The entire production was largely unintrusive until the finale, when the waiters forced everyone to participate in a Crush-led, dude-a-thon sing-a-long that quickly became annoying. The whole experience was a letdown for me.
As for the food, I found my beef tenderloin to be tasty though unmemorable compared to the surroundings. Nancy, who is a much more discerning diner, found the portion sizes, the taste of the risotto appetizer with the salmon main course and bustling though forgetful service to be underwhelming. Hannah thought our waiter, a lovable lunatic named Suleyman from Turkey, was hilarious and laughed at all of his jokes.
After dinner, we filtered into the 1,300-seat theater for the "Golden Mickeys," an award show-style revue celebrating the musical heritage of Disney animation.
The production quality settled somewhere between theme park and Broadway, leaning slightly toward the former, with some fun and colorful costumes, solid though rote performances and little in the way of sets and props.
Set pieces included scenes from "Snow White," "Toy Story" and "Lion King," with the highlights including rope acrobatics during "Tarzan," martial arts during "Mulan" and some stunning ball gowns during "Beauty and the Beast."
My favorite moment was the Cruella De Vil segment with Dalmatian dancers decked out in spotted sport coats and black bowler hats. The weakest scene included the unfamiliar music and characters from "Rapunzel." The oddest moment occurred when bubbles began dropping from the ceiling during the "Little Mermaid" scene, leading many to momentarily fear that the roof was leaking – a very bad feeling on a ship.
Overall, the "Golden Mickeys" exactly met my somewhat lowered expectations, which is to say I had hoped for more but was suitably satisfied by the hour-long experience.
Well, that's all for now.
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SCGS at RootsTech Conference, February 2-4, 2012
We will be stationed at booth 629, across the aisle from the computer access area. In the area you will find other organizations such as the National Genealogical Society, Federation of Genealogical Studies, Association of Professional Genealogists, NEHGS, and the Utah Genealogical Society. It is an honor to be included among such organizations.
Thank you to the RootsTech planners who, in responding to calls from the community, adapted their vision of the exhibit hall to include genealogical societies as well book publishers and sellers.
Societies hold a pivotal role in transforming old school genealogy into the future's technology-driven solutions. The transition will not happen overnight but it is inevitable.
Societies help educate members about tools that can relieve some of the drudgery of collecting, evaluating, organizing and managing data. Already, a handful of societies have actively embraced technology and deliver services using these tools (webinars, web-based chapter meetings, offering online databases of information collected by the organization) for their members and genealogists around the world.
Be sure to stop by the booth to say hi, to pick up information about our Jamboree Webinar Extension Series, and to register for Jamboree.
We look forward to seeing you!
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Motor Fuels Tax Rule 510
Application and Reporting of the Petroleum Transfer Fee
Current status: being negotiated
Committee: Product Taxes Rules Committee
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The Daily Tribune (http://www.dailytribune.com)
Sunday, March 16, 2014
The shortstop of the future the Detroit Tigers traded for at last year's deadline will not be the shortstop of the present.
The Tigers confirmed Sunday that Jose Iglesias will start the 2014 season on the disabled list, and no timetable was given for his return, leaving a gaping hole indefinitely at the spot the organization thought it had filled for the foreseeable future.
Now what?
Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski told reporters in Florida that the Tigers will look internally to fix the solution first, but added "we will keep a pulse on what's going on outside the organization," according to the Detroit Free Press' Anthony Fenech.
MLive's James Schmehl reported Dombrowski said he'd fielded two phone calls Sunday morning from other teams, gauging interest in potential deals after the news started to leak out Saturday afternoon and evening.
As has widely been reported, they could go after free agent Stephen Drew, who is as of yet unsigned, but is tied to draft pick compensation.
The Tigers' internal candidates include Danny Worth — the most experienced shortstop, who returned to the organization after being designated for assignment, but is out of options — along with Hernan Perez and Eugenio Suarez. Utility man Steve Lombardozzi played some shortstop in the minors, but is probably not a long-term solution at the position.
If the Tigers were able to get along with those same internal candidates for several months during the season, though, they probably wouldn't have felt the urgency to trade for Iglesias in the first place. His acquisition was predicated by the fact that the guy who was then the starting shortstop — Jhonny Peralta, who signed with St. Louis as a free agent in the offseason — was about to be suspended for 50 games.
At the time, Dombrowski was asked if the Tigers could've lived with internal candidates.
"The way I look at it — there's two different ways to look at it, and unfortunately I don't know the total answer here. But if you're talking about 15 days disablement, we're prepared for that. I mean, (Argenis) Diaz, Worth, (Ramon) Santiago. They'd prepare you for 15 days," the GM said at the time.
"Fifty days, if it comes to that, and a postseason run, not saying you may not win with that, but you'd like to be stronger. And this puts us in a stronger position."
There is no clear timetable for Iglesias' return, either.
He's missed two weeks — and all but one spring training game — with what was diagnosed as shin splints. It was something he dealt with last season, as well.
He was outfitted with new orthotic devices intended to reduce the pain, but as of yet, they have not worked. The Tigers said that Iglesias would consult with foot and ankle specialist Dr. Thomas Clanton in Colorado on Tuesday for a second opinion.


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The full board will vote on the selection after taking public testimony during its March
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As chief executive officer of MBTA, Grabauskas had oversight of a 6,100-employee operation, with an annual operating budget of $1.4 billion and an annual capital budget of more than $500 million, with operations in 175 municipalities throughout eastern
Massachusetts and Rhode Island. His work also included completion of several capital expansion projects, including an 18-mile commuter rail line. Grabauskas has also served as a senior fellow for public policy at the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth and as Secretary of Transportation for the state of Massachusetts, with oversight of a $1.4-billion annual administrative budget and an annual capital budget of more than $1.8 billion. In that cabinet-level role, Grabauskas had oversight of MBTA, highways and municipal airports.
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|Roswell Daily Record, July 8, 1947, announcing the "capture" of a "flying saucer." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Posted: 07/12/2013 06:52:25 AM MDT
ROSWELL, N.M.—A new website supported by a Roswell museum gives people a chance to prove that we are not alone in the universe.
The Roswell Daily Record reports (http://bit.ly/12IRq7M) that the recently launched roswellsightings.com allows anyone on Earth to upload photos or videos of sightings or encounters with what they believe are UFOs.
The website is based in New York and is from a partnership with the Roswell-based International UFO Museum And Research Center.
The user-friendly website allows people to share recordings on social network sites or watch the latest scientific news or other videos.
Program designers say they hope to complete a smartphone app to upload videos and photos to the site.
So far, witnesses have posted sightings from Argentina, Brazil, and South Africa.
Information from: Roswell Daily Record, http://www.roswell-record.com


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Summertime is just around the corner. Is your Inner-Griller itching to get out? Have we got some fun for you!
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Festivities begin at 9am with the 2 Mile Run/Walk for the Q.
While that is going on, the Amateur Tailgate Competitors begin setup to show off their skills grilling, smoking, and bragging! The Sedalia LIONS Club challenges you to put together a team and represent your Company, Club, or Group and compete in the Amateur Tailgate BBQ Competition.
Everyone knows that someone who proclaims they're a 'Master Griller', now's your chance make it official. This will be a great event and a super time to mingle with other local business owners, grill, drink cold refreshments, enjoy the outdoors with Music, Smoke, and Friends. If you don't want to compete and just want to eat and enjoy the night, The Sedalia LIONS will be serving their WORLD FAMOUS (we live in a small world here) BBQ and all the trimmings! Make a day out of it and spend it with the LIONS!
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Nick Clegg and the President of the Lib Dems Tim Farron will open the party's spring conference on Friday, urging the party to put the past behind them and fight for every seat in May's local elections.
Tim Farron, who has been openly hostile to some of the NHS reforms likely to be debated this weekend, will tell activists that the party has much to be proud of in terms of getting its policies into law.
"We got three quarters of our manifesto into Government policy, so I hereby allow you to stop saying sorry for the quarter we didn't get," he will tell delegates in Gateshead.
"And if people wanted that missing quarter, well they should have flipping voted for us shouldn't they?"
This year's spring conference takes place under the shadow of resentment by many Lib Dems at Andrew Lansley's Health and Social Care Bill, which is still stuck in the House of Lords.
Nick Clegg and the senior Lib Dem Peer Baroness Williams insisted at the end of last month that they had secured changes to the Bill to ensure that profit was never put before patients.
However many attempts in the House of Lords to weaken Lansley's aim for greater competition in the NHS have failed to pass in the Lords, and the Bill remains more or less in the same state as it was before the letter was signed.
There is a risk that delegates - who within the Lib Dems have much greater powers than similar activists than in other parties - could pass a motion this weekend demanding further changes to the Bill.
Huffpost UK asked the prominent Lib Dem blogger Mark Pack whether he expected a motion calling for the Bill to be dropped.
"That's an outcome," he said. "I think the most likely outcome will be that because of the respect that Shirley Williams is held in, they'd push for a number of changes but not oppose the passing of the Bill."
But Pack said it was misleading to see any grassroots motions against coalition policy as a defeat for Lib Dem members of the Cabinet.
"I think the thing to bear in mind, Lib Dem parliamentarians quite like being pushed by the grassroots. If you go into negotiation with a Tory opposite number to try and push them on an issue, if you can publicly demonstrate to them that you're under pressure – that makes your negotiating position stronger.
"The party's experience after the last spring conference was hugely helpful in terms of strengthening the party."
In his speech on Friday Nick Clegg is expected to say: "We've made some difficult decisions, not all of them popular. But we made all of them with only one test in mind: What was the right thing to do for the country?
"And now it is time to move on. To stop justifying being in Government and start advertising being in Government. To stop lamenting what might have been and start celebrating what is. To stop defending our decisions and start shouting our achievements from the rooftops.
"So let's tear off that rear view mirror and look straight ahead. Let's get on with the job that we all came into politics to do. Making this a more liberal nation."


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Joe W. Namath will be very disappointed. But it was not in doubt.
Brian Costello @BrianCoz
Rex Ryan will address the media at 4:45 tomorrow. Guess he's staying.
Joe W. Namath will be very disappointed. But it was not in doubt.
i want this fraud fired and gone.
Of course he is.
It's cheaper to keep 'er.
You almost have to extend him if he stays... What OC/DC will want to come here if they think Rex could be on a one more year trial? Just because he isn't fired tomorrow does not mean he won't go. Once a new GM is hired he might be let go... I imagine that Woody will want to have a new GM in place by the League Championship Game....
Means nothing.
Remember Woody wasn't even at the game. He could still be traveling and meeting with people.
The man has TWO YEARS remaining on his current contract, not one.
If it was one, he'd be gone Yesterday.
Whomever Woody hires as New GM is going to have to deal with Rex for at least a year and I think that new GM will end up being Clinkscales.....
(although Woody not being there could also mean that he's still looking, not only for GM candidates but new Coaching candidates as well)
But SAR is never wrong.
Means absolutely nothing. Even if they hire a GM that has the choice on Rex he would likely stay under contract for a little while. Even Clinkscales is hired I will be seriously pissed.
It only means he hasn't been fired today. Woody wasn't at that game today for a reason.
I smell a house cleaning.


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Cluster Systems Management (CSM) for AIX® is designed for simple, low-cost management of distributed and clustered IBM Power Systems in technical and commercial computing environments. CSM, included with the IBM AIX V6.1 operating system dramatically simplifies administration of a cluster by providing management from a single point-of-control.
CSM reduces the cost and complexity of systems management
CSM is a comprehensive systems management tool designed to reduce the cost and complexity of system deployment and maintenance by enabling a small number of administrators to manage large environments efficiently:
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- CSM provides monitoring with automated responses and notification to ensure problems are recognized and addressed quickly with minimal distraction.
- CSM simplifies management with pre-defined functions for common tasks and pre-defined monitors for key system metrics. Complex functions and monitors can be defined for easy, single-command or point-and-click use.
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In addition to providing all the key functions for administration and maintenance of typical distributed systems, CSM is designed to deliver the parallel execution required to manage clustered computing environments effectively. CSM provides the following system management capabilities for IBM Power Systems nodes in a managed cluster:
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- Security configuration across the cluster is performed automatically, eliminating the need to manually distribute encryption keys etc.
- Create node groups within the cluster and manage machines by group. Node groups can be defined manually or dynamically.
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- A configuration file manager to distribute and synchronize files across nodes or node groups in the cluster.
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Hotter Than Ever
The year 2012 was the hottest on record in the United States
If 2012 felt like it had the warmest winter and most sizzling summer you've ever experienced, you're right—it did. Temperatures soared so high, so often, that the average temperature in the contiguous U.S. smashed the previous record set in 1998. (Contiguous refers to states that share a border with another state. The contiguous U.S. does not include Alaska and Hawaii.)
The average temperature in the U.S. mainland's 48 states during 2012 was 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit. That's a rise of one full degree over the previous record.
That one tiny tick up the thermometer might not sound like a lot. But scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—the government agency that released the weather numbers report last week—say that little degree could be a very big deal.
"[A] one-degree change can alter [the planet's] global circulation patterns, which control areas of heat and drought," Deke Arndt, NOAA's climate monitoring chief, told USA Today.
The U.S. experienced many severe weather events throughout 2012. The nation had its worst drought in more than 50 years. Central states in the U.S. were hard hit, losing many crops and animals to high heat and lack of water. Dry conditions from record-high temperatures also fueled wildfires, which burned more than 9 million acres.
Other areas had too much water. Eleven storms, including Superstorm Sandy, each caused significant damage along the country's coasts. The United States has spent billions of dollars recovering from these extreme weather events.
Many scientists say that climate change is one of the reasons behind the wild weather of 2012. But they also say it is difficult to draw a direct connection between one type of weather event and one aspect of climate change.
Although the U.S. endured its hottest year on record in 2012, on the planet overall, last year was only in the top 10 for highest global temperatures.


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Raw visited the Barclay's Centre in Brooklyn for the first time, just 24 hours after Money in the Bank pay-per-view.
Raw kicked off with new general manager Brad Maddox coming out to introduce himself, on his first ever Raw.
However, John Cena interrupted him to tell everyone he was still champion and Maddox then made history by telling Cena he could pick his own opponent for SummerSlam.
Randy Orton then came out to tell John that he is never going to know when he will cash his briefcase in and Fandango danced out to say he deserved the title shot.
Randy and Fandango began fighting, so Maddox made the first match of the night between the two and Randy got a quick RKO for the pin.
Backstage AJ was apologising to Dolph for costing him the title the night before, Dolph said it was fine and he needs to move on, AJ hugged him, only for Dolph to reply "move on from you."
Back out in the ring Mark Henry was cutting a promo asking John Cena for another title shot because he thought he took John Cena to the edge at the pay-per-view and was up for it again, only for The Shield to decide they had heard enough and attack Heny, they left him on the floor after a spear and their infamous three person powerbomb.
In a rematch for the World Championship Dolph had been handed another shot at the title, this time he hit the famouser and was about to cover Del Ri, only for the bell to ring.
The referee stopped counting and looked up to see it was AJ, the referee continued the match but Del Rio kicked Dolph in the head for the win, AJ attacked Dolph for dumping her after the match only for Big E Langston to come out and attack Ziggler some more - built up for a match at SummerSlam?
R-truth, who is rarely seen these days, came out singing his song, only for the lights to go out and The Wyatt Brothers to appear, they attacked R-truth before knocking him out of the ring and Bray Wyatt talked about him not being the truth they were looking for and some of the strangest things I have ever heard, only for the audience to keep chanting "What?" My thoughts exactly.
The fans got to vote who they wanted to face The Real Americans, out of Tuns Of Funk, The Uso's or Prime Time Players, the fans chose The Uso's and Jimmy and Jay got the upset of Zebb Colters Americans.
Damien Sandow was in action against Christian the night after his Money in the Bank briefcase win, Christian got the upset but the real story was Sandow's tag team partner was unimpressed about him double crossing him at Money in the Bank and so came out and attacked Sandow after his match, only for Damien to run off into the crowd.
The Diva's were in action, after AJ was busy with Dolph, Brie Bella and Naomi faced off - Naomi os one of the most athletic diva's WWE has ever had, her flexibility rivals that of Melina and her in ring style is second to none, she made quick work of Brie, who herself is a talented Diva, this girl is in need of decent finishing move though, Naomi got the win off a cross body.
One of the big questions from last night was why did Heyman attack Punk? Last night on Raw we found out, Heyman and Punk cut a promo, Punk saying he had 13 stitches in his head because of his old valet and Heyman saying Punk dropped him after he returned from the break after WrestleMania and he felt cheated.
Punk then told him he was going to hurt everyone who got in the way of him and Heyman, and he was going to get Heyman for what he did, only for Heyman to call out Brock Lesnar who hit Punk with an F5 through the announce table, Punk looked pretty banged up after, landing alot of the force on his neck.
Brad Maddox earlier made the match of Y2J vs RVD both men no tranger to each otehr and former World Champions, they had an impressive match hitting each other with evrything they had but Rob Van Dam got the pin after a five-star-from-splash.
The big news of the night was that Cena was going to choose his opponent for Summerslam, so all the WWE locker room was waiting on stage for the champ to arrive, John then said he would let the audience pick by cheering when he said a Superstars name.
He then said had he missed anyone and the croud started chanting "YES" and Cena smiled, he tried to announce who he chose and the crowd started chanting "Daniel Bryan."
Cena then said he respected the beard and had chose this person because they deserve the opportunity. He chose Daniel Bryan which was a very popular decision with the fans.
John Cena vs Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship. Raw looks to be firing on all cylinders as of late, the writers are really starting to get it right and it's exciting to think of what we can expect from the next month of WWE. Stay tuned because The Biggest part of the summer is just four weeks away.
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Address to the MOFGA Annual Meeting
January 9, 2007
by John Bunker - Outgoing President of MOFGA's Board of Directors
The purpose of the Association is to help farmers and gardeners grow organic food, protect the environment, recycle natural resources, increase local food production, support rural communities, and illuminate for consumers the connection between healthful food and environmentally sound farming practices.
- MOFGA's Mission Statement
As we enter the new year we find ourselves living in a world in deep, severe and some would say irreversible crisis. We in this room did not create this mess, nor did we ask for it. We certainly do not deserve it. It has been in the making for many years. It is ours only in that we inherited that which others created. Perhaps they were reckless; perhaps malicious; perhaps ignorant. Most likely they were simply doing the best they could do. In any event, we have no choice other than to accept the present as it is.
We would like the powerful international business community to act responsibly on behalf of humanity and the earth itself. But they have not, they are not, and most likely they will not. We would like state and federal government to act responsibly on behalf of humanity and the earth itself. Sadly, they have not done so, they are not doing so, and most likely they will not do so in the future.
But while the past is set, the future is not. The future does not yet exist. It is up for grabs. We will determine the future by our behavior today. Call it our responsibility, our opportunity, our privilege, or perhaps our curse. None the less, we are faced with this prospect.
As we take up this task, we need not accept a vision of the future with which we do not agree. We can create a different kind of vision of the future than others offer. We can create that vision, articulate that vision and implement that vision. Some might like us to give up. It would be convenient if all of us would simply capitulate, and allow others to determine what is yet to be.
I have heard MOFGA minimized by others as a niche organization. If government had been doing its job, if businesses had been acting responsibly, perhaps MOFGA would be a niche organization and joyfully so. I have heard us minimized as being naïve. Is it naïve to want our grandchildren to have clean soil, air and water? Is it naïve to want our grandchildren to have access to clean healthy food? Is it naïve to want our grandchildren to live in an inhabitable world? I think not.
Rather, I say it is naïve to think that we can endlessly poison our land, water and air and never have to pay the price. It is naïve to think that agriculture utterly dependent on non-renewable energy is sustainable. It is naïve to think that driving cars and building more and more and more roads is sustainable. It is naïve to act as though the oil will not run out. It is naïve to think that economic growth is sustainable. It is naïve to think we can protect our plant world from being poisoned by GMO's.
I have also heard others say that it is not right to ask people to sacrifice our way of life for the good of the earth. But have we not already done so? I would say that we have sacrificed our air, our water, our soil, our health, our communities and perhaps even our future.
And I hear this question, "Who is going to pay to create this sustainable future? We can't afford it. We need jobs." To that I ask, who will pay to feed us when the oil runs out and we can no longer truck our sustenance from Chile and China and South Africa? Who will provide Vacationland's jobs when it is no longer "Camden by the sea," but rather "Camden in the sea?"
We can not afford
to act now. We can not afford
to deal with climate change now. We can not afford
to deal with loss of farmland and lack of food security now. We must "protect the environment, recycle natural resources, increase local food production, support rural communities, and illuminate for consumers the connection between healthful food and environmentally sound farming practices."
Let us create a Maine where all young children have the opportunity to plunge their hands into the soil, get dirty, learn how to grow vegetables and know where their food comes from. Where our children drink milk from Maine cows, bottled in Maine dairies. Where all our bread is made with Aroostook grain. Where our meat is raised and slaughtered here in our state. Where Maine canneries pack the products of a thousand small Maine producers. Where young aspiring farmers can find the affordable land they need to grow food for Mainers.
Let us create a Maine where all the hospitals, colleges and schools serve Maine food in their cafeterias. Where
Mainers have access to fresh, healthy food. Where our crops are not threatened by GMO¹s. Where farmers can raise livestock without I.D. tags. Where the food scraps in every Maine town are returned to the soil to feed Maine people again and again and again. Where Mainers can see for themselves all the contents of the food in the grocery store by reading the label on the box or can. Where farming becomes the most noble of professions and where farmers are among the highest paid workers, not among the lowest. Where our food system is truly secure because it is, as we say, "made in Maine." Where our food system is truly sustainable.
There now exists a world wide movement of local groups like MOFGA- each in its own way, acting to create a different kind of future. A future based on fairness, justice, respect, kindness and sustainability. A future based on collaboration and cooperation. This is a different kind of globalism: one where humans think together and communicate with one another on a global scale, while they act locally to create local sustainable communities, local sustainable economies and local sustainable food systems. MOFGA has been a leader in this movement for the past 35 years. Or, more accurately I should say that MOFGA has been
this movement for the past 35 years and now finds itself among the leaders worldwide.
In October several of us from MOFGA attended the five day Slow Food conference called Terra Madre in Turino, Italy. Attending were 5000 farmers from 150 countries, 1000 chefs and 500 agricultural educators. It became clear to me at Terra Madre that MOFGA is a part of a worldwide movement. Groups from around the globe are working to create a different kind of future. It was an incredibly inspired and inspiring event.
It is up to MOFGA to create, articulate and implement this vision of the future for Maine. The work we do will lead us towards a truly just, sustainable world. What we in this room do well
here in our state
will effect the future of all Mainers for generations to come. We do not need to fix it for others around the world. Our work is here in Maine. What we do here will be noticed around the country and around the world by others. It will serve as a model for others as they seek to create
own future. It will also be noticed by the state and the federal government. It may even inspire their own courage to assist us in creating an inhabitable, prosperous, sustainable earth for future generations.
We in MOFGA are among those who will make the difference. We can lead the way. One day others will look back on what we've done with gratitude to have inherited it as their past. Thank you very much for all you do for MOFGA and for Maine.
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Submission + - Legal Firm Threatens Citizens Advice Bureau (bbc.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC reports that RLP, a legal firm that sues shoplifters on behalf of retail groups, has shown its ignorance of the Streisand Effect by attempting to censor The Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) and other consumer websites. RLP has accused CAB of harassment and is demanding that they and other consumer websites remove all 'defamatory posts' and publications. This is the latest salvo in a long running battle and although organisations like CAG (Consumer Action Group) have removed some offending posts, CAB and the Legal Beagles website are refusing to remove content and have accused RLP of trying to stifle reporting of adverse court judgements against them.


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FITCHBURG -- Will keeping a database of updated contact information for rental property owners and managers help to turn around problem properties in the city?
Councilors Jody Joseph and Nicholas Carbone and the Elm Street Area Neighborhood Association believe it will be a step in the right direction.
They've jointly filed a petition to create and enact a property registration ordinance that would require all owners of rental properties to submit contact information to reach them -- or local designees if they do not live locally -- as well as occupancy and utility information and whether or not smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are present.
"We're looking for accountability," Joseph said. "If there's a problem with a particular building and it's a repeat problem, then we know who to go after for the problem."
And he doesn't mean simply to contact them if there's a fire, shooting, pipes leaking or other emergency at their buildings--or if it's a known location for out of control parties--it could also be used for helping the city to bring legal action against owners who neglect their properties and allow them to become dangerous.
"We have a lot of absentee landlords in the city of Fitchburg, and a lot of problem properties in the Elm Street area," Joseph said.
The idea for the ordinance came from a group of both tenants and landlords associated with the Elm Street Area Neighborhood Association, or ESANA, who wanted to easily be able to contact owners who are not taking care of their properties.
Maritza Rivera, who heads the ESANA, believes that having this contact information readily available to both the city and the general public will give owners more incentive to keep their properties safe and up to code and will allow neighbors to directly address concerning issues.
"We felt it was hard to get in touch with many property owners," she said. "They were unlisted, or hadn't updated their information with the city in a long time. It made it very difficult to contact them in general."
Aside from helping to fix eyesore properties, Rivera said the information would be useful in finding out whether units at a particular property were being rented out or to simply compliment an owner who's doing a great job at taking care of their property.
Joseph said the Twin Cities Community Development Corporation has been working with the ESANA for the last two to three years to learn more about crafting this ordinance. A group even visited an area in New York with a similar ordinance to learn about what did and didn't work there, he said.
"This isn't a reinvention of the wheel," Joseph said. "It's something that works in other places."
The only potential problem Joseph foresees is that council members who own rental properties and thus financially benefit from them will have to recuse themselves from any discussion on the ordinance. He knows at least four current councilors to whom this applies.
The ordinance will next be discussed by the Legislative Affairs and City Property committees.
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Mark Kerr Has No Chance In Hell, Oddsmakers Say
(For reasons that are still unclear, "Neanderthal Knight Rider" never got picked up by any major network.)
Former Smashing Machine Mark Kerr is forty years old, riding a four-fight losing streak, and weighing a not-so svelt 263 for his fight with "King Mo" Lawal at tonight's troubled M-1 "Breakthrough" event. You can decide for yourself which of those factors played the primary role in making him an almost comical 8-1 underdog in this fight. BetUs currently has Kerr at +800, while Lawal is going off at -1600. If you're not much of a gambler, let us just tell you that that's basically like oddsmakers saying there's a better chance of Kerr's head exploding on the walk down to the ring than there is of him winning this fight.Read More DIGG THIS


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Clint Hurdle of the Pittsburgh Pirates has been named National League Manager of the Year by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
The announcement for the American League's top manager is coming up.
Hurdle, in his third season as Pirates manager, led a 15-win improvement that landed the team its first winning record and postseason appearance since 1992.
The Pirates went 94-68, finished second in the NL Central behind the St. Louis Cardinals and beat the Cincinnati Reds in the wild-card game. They lost to the Cardinals in the NLDS.
Hurdle topped fellow finalists Don Mattingly of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Fredi Gonzalez of the Atlanta Braves for the award.
He received 25 first-place votes and 140 points overall to top Mattingly, who garnered two first-place votes and 68 points. Gonzalez had three first-place votes and 43 points.
Hurdle is the second Pittsburgh manager to win the award after Jim Leyland, who was honored in 1990 and '92.


text: Home > Sports Cardinals rout Nationals to take 2-1 series lead By Steve Ginsburg, Reuters Posted at Oct 11 2012 10:21 AM | Updated as of Oct 11 2012 06:21 PM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn WASHINGTON - The St. Louis Cardinals moved to the cusp of National League Championship Series by routing the Washington Nationals 8-0 on Wednesday, spoiling the first home postseason game in the nation's capital since 1933. St. Louis leads the best-of-five National League Division Series 2-1 and can advance to the next round with a victory on Thursday at Nationals Park. The Cardinals wasted little time in dampening the spirit of the home crowd by scoring a run in the first on an Allen Craig double, while adding three more in the second on a Pete Kozma homer into the left-field stands. Kozma said he would have been happy with a sacrifice fly. "We had a runner on third, less than two outs, so I was just looking for first pitch in the zone, put it out in the outfield," he said. A sacrifice fly by Daniel Descalso in the sixth hiked the Cardinals' advantage to 5-0, before Yadier Molina's bases-loaded walk an inning later had the record Nationals Park crowd of 45,017 searching for the exits. Chris Carpenter scattered seven hits over 5-2/3 innings to get the win, while Edwin Jackson, who was with the Cardinals during their World Series title a year ago, suffered the loss. The 37-year-old Carpenter had a nerve issue with his shoulder and arm and missed virtually the entire year, returning for only three starts at the end of the season. "I challenge myself in many ways, and this was another challenge mentally to go out and make pitches and do the things that you're supposed to do to be successful," he said. "No matter if I've got one start, no starts, or 35 starts, bottom line is, you go out there on the mound and make pitches and eliminate all of the distractions, and I was able to do that for the most part today." Nationals manager Davey Johnson refused to believe his club was ready to throw in the towel, saying there are "a couple more battles we need to win." "We are not out of this by a long shot," he said. "Keep us in the ballgame tomorrow, get a few key hits, we're right back in it. Shoot, I've had my back to worse walls than this." With the Cardinals leading 6-0 and the once-boisterous crowd looking ahead to Thursday, Matt Holliday banged a single to left, scoring Jon Jay and Carlos Beltran. St. Louis first-year manager Mike Matheny told his club not to be rattled by the raucous crowd. It did not matter since the Cardinals' early scoring took them right out of it. "There's a buzz all over this city," he said. "We just go out and play our game and try not to let that get in the way, whether there's a lot of life or no life at all. "The guys just have to put their head down and play their game." The last playoff game played in Washington was 79 years ago when the Senators lost the World Series to the New York Giants in five games. (Editing by Frank Pingue) Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Read More: major league baseball St. Louis Cardinals Washington Nationals /news/05/27/18/dating-pinuno-ng-psg-balik-leyte-na/video/entertainment/05/27/18/watch-4th-impact-dessa-in-a-vocal-showdown/news/05/27/18/buenavista-bohol-mayor-shot-dead/overseas/05/27/18/second-batch-of-ofws-from-kuwait-now-in-ph/video/entertainment/05/27/18/watch-maja-yassi-in-another-much-awaited-dance-off


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After failing to land DL Keith Bryant with the final scholarship available for this year's class, USC considered sending an LOI to DE Kendal Vickers of Havelock, NC, but decided to hold the scholarship. However, USC did send non-binding paperwork to Vickers which he signed. Vickers committed to the Gamecocks in November. The Gamecocks took his pledge knowing he would have to enroll in a prep school this fall. Vickers played primarily offensive tackle in high school but the Gamecocks see him growing and developing into a defensive end. USC announced a signing class of 21 including three players who enrolled in January.
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Long live Terry Bradway!
Overall, I like idzik's methodical approach. Now, only when gets rid of Sanchez, can the rebuilding really begin.
Long live Terry Bradway!
I'm sure Idzik has "his guys" - like most executives do. So the people that are going to be let go - happen to do the same job as the people Idzik wants to bring in.
Not scapegoating or even a knock on their ability.
I'm sure it's not a coincidence it's a west coast person, considering Idzik's prior role.
wonder if bradway stays, he's a respected scout who wasn't used properly by tannenbaum.
Let's recap.....
1) Removed two biggest distractions facing team this year, Revis and Tebow
2) Managed to get team 40-50 MM UNDER cap for next year.
3) Put buffoon of a head coach back in his box.
4) Had good draft according to NFL personnel people, not talk show idiots.
5)Taking control of organization, like a GM should do.
So far, this guy has been great. Keep going, John.
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If you look at the teams ahead of the Jets in the 3rd round, every team had either drafted a top 12 QB in 2010, 2011, or 2012, except for San Diego (Rivers), Houston (Schaub), and Buffalo (Just redid insane contract for Fitzpatrick), and Seahawks (Just signed Matt Flynn).
Once the draft got to the 3rd round, the Jets (if they wanted him, and there's no way to know if they even would have drafted him) probably thought they had a great shot at getting him as long as no one traded up.


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Issue Type: New Feature Created: 2007-02-13T12:42:26.000+0000 Last Updated: 2010-07-01T08:13:37.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): Reporter: Bill Karwin (bkarwin) Assignee: Ralph Schindler (ralph) Tags: - Zend_Db
Related issues: - ZF-3493
Attachments: - Odbc.php
Create a new adapter that supports the PHP ODBC API.
Posted by Bill Karwin (bkarwin) on 2007-04-10T16:29:24.000+0000
Assigning to Darby.
Posted by Bill Karwin (bkarwin) on 2007-04-10T16:30:40.000+0000
Correcting mistake in Summary field.
Posted by Bill Karwin (bkarwin) on 2007-05-29T10:47:18.000+0000
Sorry for the switcheroo - I thought I was looking at a different JIRA issue.
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2007-10-29T18:12:36.000+0000
How far is the status for this issue ?
Actually there is no way to connect to a problematic mssql database where only odbc works like stated within PHP's own PDO documentation.
Do we have any taskplan for realisation ?
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2007-10-30T02:08:26.000+0000
I attached an ODBC system Adapter for PDO. Not fully tested, but connects, and processes queries.
I tested it only with systemdns. Set the option 'dbname' for the database to connect to. Not listed connections should also work, but I didn't test it.
Any response would be great. I could add this to incubator if others are willing to test it also.
Posted by Darby Felton (darby) on 2007-10-30T06:12:43.000+0000
Yes, we have been wanting an ODBC adapter for some time, and this would be a great start. I would be willing to test this, definitely. Since this is a DB adapter, no proposal is needed, according to the historical record. Thanks, Thomas!
Posted by Wil Sinclair (wil) on 2007-11-05T16:29:55.000+0000
Hidden costs: there exists a great variety of ODBC drivers that may have subtle incompatibilities or specialized options. Need to test with unixODBC and FreeTDS as well as Windows ODBC driver manager.
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2007-11-06T13:22:31.000+0000
I don't know what you mean with hidden costs about the code I added but related to incompatibilities the only working solution in my eyes would be to add an table to the documentation with additional data.
We would have to define a sort of testbed which will be tested against different database connections. So the result could look like this:
DB / Select / Order / Left Join / Transaction Mssql / X / X / X / --- Access / X / X / --- / ---
Posted by Bill Karwin (bkarwin) on 2007-11-06T13:48:59.000+0000
Wil copied and pasted the "hidden costs" comment from an email I sent him some time ago.
I meant the cost of testing multiple configurations, and supporting them. Some people will try to use the ODBC adapter with unsupported brands of RDBMS. This may become a growing support cost to respond to these users, troubleshoot their issues (i.e. install a strange brand of RDBMS to reproduce the user's issue), and enhance the Zend_Db_Adapter_Odbc to satisfy them.
How many brands of RDBMS back-end should be included in the test suite? Should you test ODBC connected to Microsoft SQL Server only, or also test ODBC connected to MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, and SQLite? Given the current architecture of the Zend_Db tests, this will be complex, because different tests need to be skipped depending on the SQL behavior of the back-end. If you test only MS SQL Server, how will you respond to a user who reports a bug when using Zend_Db_Adapter_Odbc connecting to Oracle?
Regarding incompatibilities or specialized options, I meant things like driver-specific connection properties and driver-specific extensions, etc. Not necessarily SQL features supported by the RDBMS. Character set support is a good example, because some different RDBMS use different names for the same charsets.
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2007-11-06T15:07:17.000+0000
Well I don't know how ODBC works under Unix but under Windows you normally define systemdns and you will not have any additional connection properties because you define them within the ODBC manager and not within your PHP code.
We are able to connect to undefined dbs like shown within PHP's documentation, but we are not able to provide informations to connect to all possible ones. Maybe some examples but this is basically a PHP problem and not a ZF one.
Same thing with supported features. This is why I said to add a chapter to the documentation describing which dbs have been successfully tested and what won't actually work.
I would not want to add over 100 different ODBC connection tests... it would be better to have the testsuite configurable to everyone could test his ODBC connection. Complete testsuits would only be done for the main RDBMS.
Anyway... if all is too much complicated I would propose not to include the ODBC adapter and let him in the labratory.
I just can say that I was not able to connect with any adapter to my MSSQL database... this was the reason to create the ODBC adapter. And I think that several other out there would like to have this adapter included.
Posted by Bill Karwin (bkarwin) on 2007-11-06T16:06:55.000+0000
Yes, the MS SQL Server compatibility is the primary motive for implementing an ODBC adapter. We talked to a developer at Microsoft and she admitted that the pdo_mssql driver has issues and it is not being maintained any more.
I recommend designing the unit tests for the ODBC adapter with the assumption of a connection to MS SQL Server. In the documentation, describe this as the purpose for the ODBC adapter. Also state in the doc that using the ODBC adapter with any other RDBMS is not officially tested or supported. No need to write a comprehensive compatibility chart, because this would be a very long document.
That's my feedback for what it's worth.
Posted by Darby Felton (darby) on 2007-11-06T16:15:40.000+0000
I like what Bill says here. Any objection to moving toward resolution this way?
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2007-11-07T01:32:20.000+0000
I agree because the MSSQL Server was my intention to begin the development for this adapter.
So we would just support a way to connect also with non-configured RDBMS additionally to System-DSN. But Zend_Db would only be tested and officially working with MSSQL. Other RDBMS would be good but are not the goal of this adapter.
Posted by Wil Sinclair (wil) on 2007-11-08T21:18:19.000+0000
Isn't the future of connecting to SQL Server from PHP the driver that was announced at ZendCon? http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx/… If MSSQL Server access is the issue, why not build an adapter on top of this driver?
I could still see an ODBC driver like the one that Thomas has put together, but I'm very reluctant to add anything to core with such a large caveat (it's only been tested against some databases and db configs). I think it's obviously a highly useful addition, but AFAIK we haven't had to make such a caveat before and it erodes the high-quality claim of ZF core somewhat; if we proceed, I would want to discuss among the team and community whether it's more appropriate for lab or incubator.
Posted by Wil Sinclair (wil) on 2007-11-08T21:23:10.000+0000
Setting the Target Release and Fix Versions to None and Unknown. Progress on the implementation of this feature should definitely continue- especially as it seems to be a very popular one- but we should wait until it has been decided to include it in core to set release versions.
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2007-11-09T00:56:27.000+0000
Well... I didn't know that driver. It's too new
But there are some problems :
And related to ODBC... ODBC was created to support almost any database which has an connector to it. I don't see this as problem. But I can live with anything you decide.
But there may be a solution... we could rename it to ODBC_MSSQL or something and allow only to support mssql through the driver-directive.
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2007-11-22T03:37:29.000+0000
Unassigned as help was not accepted from the main authors.
Posted by Wil Sinclair (wil) on 2008-03-25T20:43:51.000+0000
Please categorize/fix as needed.
Posted by Rob Allen (rob) on 2008-04-08T05:39:46.000+0000
Some notes for others:
For dynamic ODBC DSNs for SQL Server at least, you need a $dsn returned from _dsn() of the form:
"odbc:DRIVER={SQL Server};UID=username;PWD=password;DATABASE=databasename;SERVER=(local)"
Also, in describeTable(), I needed to add ``` after the first call to fetchAll() (3rd line of non-comment code in the function) to prevent a "Connection is busy with results for another hstmt" error with SQL Server 2000.
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2008-07-21T23:45:15.000+0000
Just for you information:
I've worked sometimes on this issue. The dev-team decided to divide this class in multiple classes so we define WHICH ODBC connection is supported.
The problem is that a ODBC adapter would imply to support ALL ODBC Connections which is not possible. But if we divide this into multiple subadapters, one for each possible RDBMS this is no longer a problem.
/Adapter /Adapter/Odbc /Adapter/Odbc/Mssql.php /Adapter/Odbc/Excel.php /Adapter/Odbc/Access.php
and so on. Keep this in mind before integrating the incubatored class to core. The incubatored class was tested with MSSQL2000 and MSSQL2005.
Greetings Thomas
Posted by Lucas Thomas (ljthomas) on 2008-07-31T11:22:30.000+0000
These are just some notes on this class file while testing. Even though this class file is going to get split up, I'm assuming the functionality currently in incubation will get used in the end resulting class files.
I hope this helps.
Posted by Gil Gates (gatesg) on 2008-10-15T06:27:18.000+0000
AFAIK the quoting issue is related to php/ext/pdo_odbc/odbc_driver.c : odbc_handle_quoter() which is not implemented as of php 5.2.6. A quick'n' dirty solution, and not even fully tested, is to overload quote() and quoteInto() methods into Odbc.php itself.
As an example I'm attaching a new Odbc.php with these overloads.
Posted by Gil Gates (gatesg) on 2008-10-15T06:28:48.000+0000
Support for quote() and quoteInto()
Posted by Wil Sinclair (wil) on 2008-12-04T12:53:16.000+0000
Reassigning as Ralph is the maintainer of Zend_Db
Posted by Bart McLeod (email@example.com) on 2008-12-10T13:53:38.000+0000
Related to issue ZF-3493, I provided a patch there for odbc support in the existing mssql adapter and it seems to work, although I did not do extensive testing, so this is very vague.
However, the existing Mssql adapter already supports different drivers. We could do this for any adapter: if you want odbc, specify odbc as the pdoType. Just an idea anyway, given al your considerations above, I feel this might not be feasible.
Posted by Yanko Heinze Yslas (yaheys) on 2009-08-21T13:49:17.000+0000
Why is now N/A priority?
Posted by Ralph Schindler (ralph) on 2009-09-01T08:19:26.000+0000
Since the release of SQL Server Driver for PHP, it seems like the primary reasons for attempting to include odbc support have diminished. Is there any reason why we should persue this in light of the Zend_Db Sqlsrv adpater?
Posted by Bart McLeod (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2009-09-01T08:30:31.000+0000
The only reason one could want ODBC support is if one could use this from a linux box to connect to a remote windows box SQL server instance. On a windows box itself, de SQL Server Driver is the prefered option.
Posted by Adam VanBerlo (nix0n) on 2009-09-01T08:43:29.000+0000
Correct, the SQL Server driver provided by Microsoft is only supported on Windows boxes. Microsoft is deprecating the use of dblib drivers (i.e. unicode field results refused by server to dblib clients).
On Linux boxes, the only options are dblib and ODBC. ODBC is still the preferred option in Linux. That is until Microsoft ports the driver to Linux. Unless there is some reason to believe that such a port is on the horizon, I believe there is still reason to pursue a PDO/ODBC adapter.
On a personal note, I do have a stake in this adapter.
Posted by Eugene Morgan (eugenemorgan) on 2009-09-01T09:01:37.000+0000
An ODBC adapter would also be useful for other RDBMSs besides SQL Server -- for example IBM DB2. You have to pay for a driver from IBM to access DB2 through PDO IBM. I have rigged up my own adapter for this purpose, based on the work already started here, although it is pretty weak and I would love to be able to use an official ZF adapter.
Posted by Ralph Schindler (ralph) on 2009-09-01T09:03:53.000+0000
ok, thats a valid point.
So I need some background. Assuming I am on *nix or mac, and want to enable pdo/odbc, what set of technologies do I have to have installed? How do I get a working stack that will be capable of talking to sql server on windows?
Posted by Ralph Schindler (ralph) on 2009-09-01T09:10:07.000+0000
Eugene: why cant you use the IBM DB2 RTCL for the client library, thus use the Zend_Db_Adpater_Db2 adpater?
Posted by Adam VanBerlo (nix0n) on 2009-09-01T09:47:16.000+0000
Ralph: AFAIK, the only technologies required (besides those you've already assumed) are:
You might find some useful information, and drivers, in these places: http://www.sommarskog.se/mssqlperl/unix.html http://www.sqlsummit.com/ODBCVend.HTM http://www.unixodbc.org/drivers.html
As mentioned in that first link, most of the drivers (at least the good ones) are commercial drivers. However, you may find that most of the vendors offer free trials.
Posted by Eugene Morgan (eugenemorgan) on 2009-09-01T10:43:59.000+0000
Ralph, Unfortunately because the host machine is an AS/400, it's my understanding that DB2 Connect is required. Looks like RTCL would work great for DB2 running on AIX or something else though.
Posted by Ralph Schindler (ralph) on 2009-09-03T12:59:28.000+0000
I think we should re-evaluate the goals here.
It seemed like originally, the goal was to provide access to MSSQL via PDO/ODBC (via freetds/unixODBC). I've examined this route (and it was painful indeed.) Unfortunately, the freetds through unixODBC doesnt even pass 1/2 of the unit tests we have. The majority of them fail on a casting text to int issue that seems pretty common on the internets.
So, for WinPHP -> SQL Server, we have the Sqlsrv extension which is well maintained and supported by MS. For *nix/PHP -> SQL server, we have PDO_Mssql/Dblib (via freetds) which appears to be fairly robust and by my calculations, passes all of the same tests as Pdo_Mssql (via ntwdblib.dll) running from windows.
Ultimately, I don't think we can implement this inside a single adapter. This is b/c mainly, adapter are tied to a specific vendor implementation. That means that the metadata queries like describeTable(), listTables() and limit() are vendor specific. As you can see inside Pdo_Odbc attached, the limit() is very MSSQL centric. If the goal was to provide different vendor implementations, that would have to be done on an adapter-by-adapter basis. So, if someone wanted to provide a working Pdo_odbc adapter for the say Access, Excel or even DB2 driver; then they would have to propose something like this:
Pdo_Odbc_Access Pdo_Odbc_Excel Pdo_Odbc_Db2 and so on.
These drivers will have to pass a great majority of the unit tests as well as work on multiple platforms.
All that said, this is still open for discussion, but I feel like its coming close to "Won't Fix". I am open to working with anyone on specific adapters, but he above requirements would need to be met, and my current research concerning the state of the underlying drivers leaves me skeptical.
Posted by Florin Diaconeasa (fdiaconeasa) on 2010-06-29T01:21:24.000+0000
Any action on this issue the one related? I'm currently looking for a method to connect to a MSSQL server from a unix host.
Thank you,
Posted by Mickael Perraud (mikaelkael) on 2010-07-01T08:10:33.000+0000
@Florin: I use the adapter Pdo_Mssql with the option pdoType = dblib (http://fr2.php.net/pdo-dblib)
See http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/…
Posted by Florin Diaconeasa (fdiaconeasa) on 2010-07-01T08:13:37.000+0000
yes, i'm using the same adapter at this moment, but from what i see this is experimental:
Have you found an issue?
See the Overview section for more details.