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WHITLEY COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT/WYMT) - CORBIN, Ky. (WYMT) - A two vehicle crash in Whitley County killed one man and sent three others to the hospital. Police say they were more than likely an out-of-town family on their Memorial Day vacation.
Rhonda Wilder's house overlooks Cumberland Falls Highway, and she says she's seen many wrecks from her front yard.
"Every summer you know it's coming. We have a few wrecks in the winter time but summer is bad with the traffic coming off of the lake," said Wilder.
And she saw yet another one Sunday afternoon.
"The car was demolished. All the airbags, front and side airbags had been deployed, and you knew someone had been hurt really bad," said Wilder.
The Whitley County Coroner says 42-year-old Kevin Haack died in the crash.
His 47-year-old sister, her 17-year-old daughter, who was driving and a 10-year-old whose relation is unknown were also injured, and were flown to different hospitals.
Police say that members of Greenland Baptist Church across the street heard the accident happen during the service.
They say that dozens of them went to help the victims until first responders arrived.
Police say a service truck was driving southbound on Cumberland Falls Highway when a four door car pulled out in front of it. They think it was a family from Indiana in town for the holiday.
"They had other family members in different vehicles that were near the collision. They didn't see it happen, but they were near. They were all in the area, I guess vacationing at Luarel Lake.
The driver of the truck was not injured in the accident, and no other names have been released.
The Whitley County Coroner says Haack was not wearing his seat belt at the time of the crash.
The Whitley County coroner says 42-year-old Kevin Haack, of Bloomington, Indiana, was killed in an accident on Highway 25 in Whitley County.
It happened around 1:30pm Sunday on Highway 25 at Bee Creek road in front of Greenland Baptist Church.
All four of those injured were riding in the same vehicle. No one in the second vehicle was injured.
The driver, a 17-year-old female, was flown to the University of Tennessee Hospital.
A 10-year-old passenger was also flown out to the University of Kentucky Hospital.
The fourth person riding in the vehicle, a woman, was transported to Baptist Health in Corbin.


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MONROE, WI (WIFR) -- An elderly Wisconsin woman died Thursday night from severe injuries resulting from a two car accident. The crash happened about 8 p.m. at the intersection of N. Stagecoach trail and N. Tiger Whip Road in the Village of Nora.
Jo Daviess County Sheriffs say 69 year old Alice Wand of South Wayne, Wisconsin was killed when her car was hit by another car driven by 26 year old Dalton Weidner, of Monroe. Weidner failed to stop at a stop sign and hit the driver's side of Wand's car. She was airlifted to St. Anthony's Hospital where she was later pronounced dead.

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Edison Environmental School
924 Russell Street
Kalamazoo, MI 49001
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Friedman began working in the Athletic Department as the assistant volleyball coach in August 2005. She joined full time in February 2006 as the Department Administrator, and, in June 2011, was promoted to the Operations and Events Director. Her duties include, facility scheduling, facility maintenance, event management, as well as overseeing the equipment room and student employment in the building.
Friedman graduated from Brandeis in 2004 with a Bachelors Degree in American Studies, and received her Masters Degree in Project Management from the Brandeis Rabb School of Continuing Studies in 2010. As an undergrad at Brandeis, Friemdan was a four year member of the volleyball team, serving as captain her junior and senior year. She earned an Athletic Director Award as a senior.


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SourceForge Project Page is here
Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code. It has an
impeccable Unix pedigree, having been originally
developed at Bell Labs back in the days of the PDP-11. Cscope was
part of the official AT&T Unix distribution for many years, and has been
used to manage projects involving 20 million lines of code!
In April, 2000, thanks to the Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO) (since merged with Caldera), the code for Cscope was open sourced under the BSD license.
Screen shot of cscope in action:
C symbol: atoi File Function Line 0 stdlib.h <global> 86 extern int atoi (const char *nptr); 1 dir.c makefilelist 336 dispcomponents = atoi(s); 2 invlib.c invdump 793 j = atoi(term + 1); 3 invlib.c invdump 804 j = atoi(term + 1); 4 main.c main 287 dispcomponents = atoi(s); 5 main.c main 500 dispcomponents = atoi(s); 6 stdlib.h atoi 309 int atoi (const char *nptr) __THROW Find this C symbol: Find this global definition: Find functions called by this function: Find functions calling this function: Find this text string: Change this text string: Find this egrep pattern: Find this file: Find files #including this file:
Using Cscope on large projects (example: the Linux kernel)
Using Cscope with Vim --- translated to Chinese (external link)
Cscope support is built into Vim (so long
as it is compiled with the '--enable-cscope' option--this is the case for
most binary distributions). The Vim interface, and a set of key mappings
you may find useful, is documented in our Vim/Cscope Tutorial.
The Berkeley Vi editor (nvi) also works with cscope.
The XEmacs interface to cscope (which
also works with GNU
Emacs) is located in the subdirectory, cscope/contrib/xcscope/.
The source files contain all the installation and usage info you need to get started.
(Please contact Darryl Okahata for any queries regarding the XEmacs support.)
Cscope requires use of the (traditionally Unix-only) curses
screen-drawing library, so some form of curses support is needed to run
it on DOS or Windows.
Our download files include a zip file that contains a Cscope binary compiled with DJGPP (an open source compiler for DOS that has a fast native curses library). This binary should work on any version of Windows (3.1, 95, NT, 2000) or DOS. Note that it won't be able to see long filenames on NT4, and may show all kinds of strange bugs on 2000 and XP, which the DJGPP team is still working to resolve.
Windows NT and 2000 users also have the option of running Cscope under the CygWin toolkit, which provides a curses emulation library (among other goodies). Once Cygwin are installed on your system, you can compile and run Cscope just as if you were on a normal operating system (i.e. Unix).
If you experience problems with the latest release version, please try the latest top of tree code. If that doesn't work, please check our bug database, and add a new bug report if you don't see your problem listed.
Latest release: 15.8a (previous versions available at same link)
CVSROOT contents tarball updated at the end of each day (WARNING: is not very straightforward to use --- it's easier to just use anonymous CVS in most cases).
|Change Log
Cbrowser is an excellent GUI front-end written by Chris Felaco. It is available for cscope, as well as cs. It is now available on sourceforge.net. It can be downloaded from http://cbrowser.sourceforge.net
KScope is a great new GUI frontend for cscope based on the KDE environment.


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For most of us, yardwork and mowing the lawn is something that we would rather not think of. In fact, it's something that we would rather not have to even do. And if we can, we'd much rather give the neighborhood kids a couple of bucks to do the dirty deed. Well in 1985 a 15-year-old kid named Bryan Wilde was all too happy to be that kid doing your dirty deeds.
When I think back to my own lawn mowing adventures as an early teen, the couple of bucks that I made were quickly spent at the movies that Saturday night trying to meet girls. Being wise beyond his years (unlike a majority of 15-year-old boys), Brian actually saved his money. Since his preteen days, Brian can recall looking through the latest car magazines and wanting what he saw. And what he wanted was an old car he could hot rod around town in.
When his father noticed the determination in achieving his goals, a deal was made that he would match his son's earnings dollar for dollar. It wasn't long before Brian had enough in his pocket to start hunting for his project car. It just so happened that an Uncle had a friend who was selling a '56 Chevy. At the time Brian was unaware what a '56 Chevy looked like, but he knew he liked '55s and '57s. After looking at it, he fell in love and purchased the '56 for $1,500. After the purchase, Brian's dad drove it home for him, on account of Brian still being too young to drive!
This was just the beginning. Throughout his teenage years, Brian worked hard at saving money to build up his '56. After another 2 years had passed and more money was saved, Brian and his Dad started doing its first rebuild. Over the next few years he drove it every chance he got and even took it to Maryland's International Raceway for some Friday night drag races.
In 1994 the 350 was replaced with a 454-inch big-block and this engine swap prompted a second rebuild, which would last the next few years. The '56 has been nosed, decked, shaved and has had all the metalwork from the frame to the body completely redone. At that point, it was time for the paint, Mercedes Ivory and Indigo Blue, which was shot by Steve Lagana. In 2001, the bug to once again drive his car bit. And before the new interior was installed he took her on her maiden voyage, only to have rain and mud splattered all over the car. Such is life.
Shortly after, Kings auto upholstery of Roanoke Virginia did the custom interior and his dream was finally complete. From mowing lawns all those years ago, to the present...it's been a journey for Bryan Wilde, and half the fun has been getting there.
|Bryan Wilde
|'56 Chevrolet
|'73 454 big-block bored .030 over balanced and blueprinted, machined by Mancini Machine of Baltimore Maryland and built by Chris Duelley. estimated 500 hp at 6,500 rpm
|T-400 with a TCI torque converter
|9-inch with Mark Moser Axels and 4:11 gears
|Heidt's 2-inch drop spindles, pro shock coilovers and disk brakes
|Springs are HAL coilover, brakes are 11-inch Ford drums and an S&W Ladder bar with coilover shocks
|Boyds Vintage II 15X6, 3-inch backspacing
|Boyds Vintage II 15X10, 3 1/4-inch backspacing
|BFGoodrich Radial TA & Drag Rails P215/65R15
|BFGoodrich Radial TA & Drag Rails P315/60r15
|Danchuk grill, stock hood with Bird shaved, front and rear bumper by Bumper Boyz, Sikkens GM Indigo Blue and Mercedes Ivory paint by,Steve Lagana
|Pontiac Sunbird Bucket Seats, covered in Soft Touch in Bone. Royal Blue carpet by Kings Auto Upholstery, Inc, and Dakota Digital gauges, topped with a Colorado Custom Steering Wheel
|Sony Xplod with a Kenwood amp and speakers


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Gulf Coast Karters wishes GCKI members, Texas ProKart Challenge and Texas racers Good Luck this week at the SKUSA Supernationals XVI held at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV November 14-18, 2012. eKartingNews.com has the exclusive Trackside Live coverage of this year's event with five days of updating right from paddock and three full days of live audio broadcast at www.ekartingnews.com/live
Attention GCKI racers - 3G Kart Racing will not be at the race this weekend as they are preparing for the SKUSA SuperNationals in Las Vegas, NV - Go Team 3G! If anyone needs fuel, tires, etc... please visit the shop before Sunday. Thank you & Good Luck at the GCKI Fall 8 race this weekend!


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MARSHALL COUNTY, Okla. – An Oklahoma businessman continues his fight against the Oklahoma Department of Transportation as the days countdown until Highway 70 is expanded in Madill.
Gary Minor has owned his printing business for the past 33 years, and he says he's the only wants what's fair: compensation he says he's not getting from the state.
Minor has been fighting the state's expansion of Highway 70 for the past year. Plans call for the road to go right through his parking lot. When finished, the road will run just feet from his business.
Minor says state contractors came onto his property and tried to remove a sign and a smaller building.
"The last letter I got was August 1st to take physical possession of the property, this is not August 1st. We're still in July," says Minor.
Last year, Minor says state assessors once gave him $21,000 for compensation. Then they tried settling for more money which minor says is not enough to put an entrance on the back side of his building.
"They offered me $49,000 for possession of my property with any parking within eight to ten feet saying it won't affect my business. I don't know how they can figure that with people backing into a highway."
Officials from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation say their offer is fair.
"We're following uniform act. They have established guidelines for how we appraise property. We have to offer fair market value," says ODOT public information officer Susan Sanallison.
It that value that minor says won't cover expenses to remodel his building.
"Changing this building around front to back will cost $130,000-$150,000," adds Minor.
Minor says delayed court dates and mounting legal fees might cost him his business
"I'll have to sell everything I got."
Minor says he will keep fighting the state.
The case is scheduled to go to trial August 29th.


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During a special meeting Thursday, East Ridge City Council members delayed the election of a new court clerk and discussed the possibility of having the clerk's duties performed by the Hamilton County General Sessions Court clerk for the next 18 months.
The council decided in November to change the court clerk from a position appointed by the city judge to an elected position and initially set a special election for March 5. But Thursday, councilmen voted 3-2 to push the election back to the next county general election in August 2014. Mayor Brent Lambert and Councilman Larry Sewell voted against the delay.
Councilmen debated for about an hour before voting on the second reading of the ordinance. Vice Mayor Jim Bethune said he didn't think the 30-day qualifying period gave potential candidates enough time to prepare for the election.
"We gave people less than 30 days to pick up the papers and qualify," he said. "We've got three people who are qualified, and I've had three or four people tell me they would have qualified for the position with more time."
One of the reasons the council voted to switch to an elected clerk was because of what City Manager Tim Gobble described as "systematic administrative failures" within the office.
Gobble brought the issue to the council after disciplining Court Clerk JoAnn Thomas for insubordination and failure to notify witnesses properly in a Sept. 3 robbery case in which his daughter was a victim.
The councilmen agreed Thursday there are problems in the office.
"We've got plenty of time between now and 2014 to see what's going on," Bethune said.
Gobble pushed for an immediate special election, saying that having an elected court clerk would clarify who is in charge of the office. The City Charter gives administrative power to the city manager, while judicial matters are under the control of the city judge, new City Attorney Hal North said.
Lambert said the arrangement has caused some confusion.
"There's a tug-of-war going on here," he said.
Councilman Marc Gravitt suggested having the General Sessions Court clerk take care of the city clerk's duties until the 2014 election.
"That would alleviate us having to appoint [a replacement] and alleviate the need for a special election," he said. "And this would be someone who already knows what the job entails, because they've been doing it."
State law allows for such an agreement.
"The clerk of the General Sessions Court in the county may by agreement with the city or town serve as the clerk of the City Court," the Tennessee Code Annotated reads.
Councilmen agreed to look into the possibility, but Hamilton County Chief Deputy Clerk Susan Sissom said she wasn't sure how such an arrangement would work.
"We have never done that as far as I'm aware," she said.
Hamilton County Attorney Rheubin Taylor said the idea was new to him, as well, and he wasn't prepared to offer an opinion on the possible arrangement Thursday.
"I'm not aware of it ever having happened before," he said.
The East Ridge court clerk's office declined to comment on Thursday's meeting.


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(Neb.)-State Soybean Growers Advised To Watch For Stem And Root Rot
By: Roxie Graham-Marski Posted at: 09/03/2013 09:24 AM LINCOLN, Neb. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) - A University of Nebraska-Lincoln plant expert is urging soybean growers to stay vigilant for stem and root rots, including white mold.
Plant pathologist Loren Giesler says the rots continue to be a problem in Nebraska soybean fields. Giesler says growers have reported white mold in several fields in northern Nebraska.
Giesler says all soybean infections typically start at a node. The cool, wet conditions that occurred during this year's flowering were favorable for infections and fungus growth.
Giesler says he's received several calls about whether a fungicide should be applied. He says there's no good data to know for sure, but there may be some benefit in treating infections that are widespread.
For more information, visit http://pdc.unl.edu/home.


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LANSING (WILX)-- Is late summer too early to get a flu shot? Not really, according to the state health department.
This years flu shots are ready to go as September is the beginning of flu season.
"Right now is when we begin to see potential flu cases in Michigan," said Angela Minicuci, with the Michigan Dept. of Community Health.
This year parents should be doing their homework, because not all vaccinations are made equal. Some vaccinations have three strains, while others have four. There's the shot, nasal spray, and for the first time there's a separate shot for people allergic to eggs.
"The nasal spray and some shots have all four strains. The extra fourth strain is a "B" strain, and according to the CDC, "B" is more common in children. So parents need to look for the four strain vaccination," said Dr. Belinda Miller Topa, Medical Director of Kids First Immediate Care.
Miller Topa adds that getting something is better than nothing.
"The vaccinations are not 100% effective, but it's effective enough to be worth it."
Last year was a mild flu season for Michigan. If it gets colder, faster, this year it could peak early.
"We need to be prepared. Once it shows up, if it shows up early (like October) then we know it's going to be an aggressive season," said Miller Topa.
The vaccination takes two weeks to become effective.
It is early in the season, but if you get it now, according to the Department of Community Health, it will last the whole season.
"Right now is the time, Getting the flu vaccination is the single, best way to protect yourself from getting the flu," said Minicuci.


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Beginning this weekend a series of July art fairs will erect tents in a variety of fields from Bridgehampton to Southampton, offering attendees a pleasant environment to see work from galleries from the East End to Europe and beyond under one roof while benefiting some local nonprofit organizations.
First up is the oldest, ArtHamptons, which will begin its fifth iteration today at Nova's Ark Project in Bridgehampton with two benefit previews for the LongHouse Reserve. It will remain open through Sunday.
In addition to the offerings of its 75 or so exhibitors, there will be a number of events such as a birthday party for Cheech Marin of Cheech and Chong fame, who is a noted art collector, and a conversation with Dan Rizzie and Bruce Helander on the role of money in art making. A painting raffle and an event tomorrow, "Pollock at 100," will benefit the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs. Ed Moses, an artist and Gail Levin, an art historian and author, will also speak at separate events and Kristin Verano will offer a live performance. More information about these and other events are on the fair's Web site arthamptons.com.
Beginning next Thursday through July 22, artMRKT Hamptons will return in its second visit to the grounds of the Bridgehampton Historical Society's Corwith House. Its opening night preview will benefit the Parrish Art Museum. Guests will enjoy "refined" summer barbeque foods prepared by Leon Gunn, a Brooklyn chef.
Many New York City galleries will participate as well as some East End galleries familiar to those in East Hampton, Bridgehampton, and Shelter Island. Some 40 galleries will be included, a few from as far away as Oakland, Calif. (Gallery Sam), and Florence, Italy (Arte Nova).
On July 26, Art Southampton, an off-shoot of Art Miami, will open with about 50 exhibitors on the grounds of the Elks Club in Southampton. The preview will benefit Southampton Hospital. The next night, the fair will have an event to benefit the Watermill Center. A film about the life of John Chamberlain, a Shelter Island sculptor, will be shown, and Susan Davidson, a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, will speak on the artist's legacy. The fair will run through July 31.


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EUREKA, Ill.-- The Greenville College volleyball team continued their SLIAC undefeated streak with a 3-1 victory over Westminster.
The Panthers captured the first set 25-20, took the second set 28-26, lost the third set 28-26, and won the fourth set 25-15.
Corrine Coon had a team high of 20 total points in the match. She recorded 18 kills, one service ace, two block assists, and 14 digs for the Lady Panthers.
Nicole Schaeffer earned 14 points for the Panthers. She had 12 kills, 21 digs, two block assists, and an ace throughout the four sets she played.
Savannah Sells added another 10.5 points for Greenville on eight kills and five block assists. Ellen Lueking had a season-high 49 assists and recorded two aces in the match.
With a record of 11-3 (5-0 SLIAC), the team will take on Fontbonne on Tuesday, Sept. 24, in hopes of keeping their streak alive. The match is set to begin at 7 p.m. in St. Louis.


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START Aims to Stop Teen Crashes
NEWPORT CITY – "If you don't think it can happen to you, you've already made your first mistake."Those words are at the end of a video the Stop Teen Alcohol Risk Team (START) brought to the North Country Union High School Driver Education Class this week. START consists of local and state law enforcement agencies and the court diversion program. The video showed newspaper clippings and graphic still photographs of a fatal drinking and driving accident nearly 10 years ago. The accident happened after two local friends had been drinking. The driver of the car sustained injuries and served jail time. Her friend died in the crash. A person in the second vehicle also sustained injuries.START members talked about the consequences of underage drinking. "That's the message we're trying to get across," said Sgt. Larry Smith of the Vermont State Police. The second message START sends is to trust the system. "The system is designed for success. It was put in place because people make mistakes and this is a way to mitigate those mistakes."Both Smith and Newport City Police Officer Royce Lancaster like to think START's efforts have made a difference over the years. The state formed START after several fatal alcohol related crashes involving teenagers occurred in the state. One of those accidents happened on Interstate-91 near Orleans in the late 1990s.Stephanie Bowen from Diversion added that, in 1998, Vermont, per-capita, lead the country for teen alcohol fatalities. Orleans County was the leader in the state for those statistics. The message Bowen hopes to send is simple: "Think, think before they do something reckless and ruin their lives and the lives of others."North Country driver education instructor Trish Buttice said the information START presented was "very informative" and the students may think twice about drinking alcohol."The students have a lot of questions, but sometimes they feel it's not appropriate to ask an officer out in public," Buttice said. "This gives the students an opportunity to see the officer both as a professional and as a human being."The presentation brought a lot of surprises for the students. Senior Reba Wilcox said the video showed that rescue crews had to cut open the cars to get the victims out."It was very sad," said Wilcox of the video itself."I learned more about drinking and driving that I probably wanted to know," said sophomore Thomas Martin. "It definitely taught me not to drink and drive."Fatal accidents do happen in the area but are rarely talked about, Martin said.


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The handouts from Friday's Writing-Sample Workshop are now posted on the Legal Research & Writing Program page under "Resources and Links": http://law.wisc.edu/lrw/resource_index.html. Handouts include a list of tips for writing samples and an annotated sample office memo. Students may receive individual assistance with their writing samples from the law school's Individualized Writing Instruction Service in room 2378.
Submitted by Ursula Weigold, Prof. on December 20, 2010
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I trying to use a MX212 Display but im getting no joy, all i see is the custom boot image i put on it on xpee.
But on both the MO display and the keyboard ive got additional keys that XEV is not seeing.
Both are UBS devices but how do i logg and tag these hidden keys?


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MINEVILLE, N.Y. — Lisa Rae Sprague, 48, of Mineville, N.Y., died Jan. 13, 3013, at Elizabethtown Community Hospital, with her family by her side.
She was born on Dec. 14, 1964, at Elizabethtown Hospital. She was the daughter of Donald and Patricia Sprague.
A former resident of Orwell, Vt., she worked at Simmonds Precision in Vergennes, Vt., and elsewhere in Addison County. She fought multiple sclerosis for over 28 years. Her niece Stacy Anderson and her best friend, Becky Sheppard, were with her constantly during the last seven days of her life.
The Addison Independent publishes paid obituaries and free notices of passing. Paid obituaries cost 25-cents per word, and $10 per photo. The obituary will publish as it is submitted on the date of the family's choosing.
For those who do not wish to purchase an obituary, the Addison Independent offers anyone with a local connection the opportunity to publish a notice of passing. These notices may be up to 100 words and are subject to editing by our news department.
Submissions must be received by 11 a.m. on Wednesday for publication in the Thursday paper and 11 a.m. on Friday for Monday's paper.
Generally, obituaries follow this form:
TOWN — Name, age, of town, died on date, of cause of death. He/She was born on date in town, the son/daughter of father's name and mother's name, including maiden name in parentheses.
Then include a paragraph or two about where the person went to school and what they did for work; where they lived, who they married and when.
Add a sentence or two about what made the person special to family and friends, including hobbies, avocations or other telling details about their life.
He/She is survived by spouse's name; children named individually (and their spouses and towns of residence, if appropriate); siblings named individually; number of grandchildren, parents or other immediate family members.
He/She was predeceased by names of immediate family members.
A memorial service will be held (fill in details of date, time, and place, plus officiate if applicable) with interment at (place). Memorial contributions may be made to (name and complete address, if applicable).
Obituaries may be e-mailed to: [email protected]


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By Tiernan Ray
Regarding speculation this morning that Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) may have attracted the interest of activist investors, and Carl Icahn in particular, CNBC's David Faber a short while ago reported the company has had no discussions with Icahn
"HP has had no conversations at this point in any way with Mr. Icahn or aware he owns any single share of the company stock," writes Faber.
Faber writes that regarding the potential for a breakup of HP, it doesn't seem like something that's imminent:
Nothing indicates to me, at least, that the board, andmanagement are anywhere near deciding to go down that road.many times when meg whitman has been with us, she indicated this is an important year, 2013, for hewlett-packard. and perhaps if it doesn't work, in terms ostrategy, they don't start to get traction, you may see a change if something breaks. but not at least at this point.
Faber notes that Relational Investors's Ralph Whitworth is already one activist on the HP board.
Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets, who has a Hold rating on HP shares, today reiterated to me in a phone conversation his view that a breaking-off of the PC and printer units might not be a bad thing.
"They've got to make bigger, bolder decisions to right the ship," White says, noting the stock's 80% decline since April of 2010.
HP shares are up 50 cents, or almost 4%, at $14.30.


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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed a dual product launch with the release of new managed services for Windows developers alongside its new Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Microsoft SQL Server.
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With ASP.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk now provided, the company says that developers can take advantage of managed database and application services to deploy SQL Server databases and ASP.NET applications using familiar Microsoft tools.
Amazon says that as of now, RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 — but there are plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year.
NOTE: Amazon's corporate definitions of its services are (arguably) clouded by an over-preponderance of management/marketing terminology. Put simply, the Amazon RDS technology proposition offers developer/DBA personnel the opportunity to set up, scale, and operate a relational database by automating many of the software installation, patching, monitoring, analysis, back up, and disaster recovery tasks that would normally be part and parcel of the job.
"Amazon RDS now supports three of the most popular relational database engines, giving businesses the flexibility to launch a managed Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL database based on the needs of their application. With Amazon RDS, customers no longer have to become experts in database set-up and management and can shift their focus to building and improving the capabilities of their applications," said Charlie Bell, vice president, Amazon Web Services. "We're excited to give Windows and ASP.NET developers new options for taking advantage of AWS to quickly deploy and easily manage their databases and applications in the cloud."
Further to its work with the Amazon RDS, the company has also detailed its Elastic Beanstalk cloud service, which is intended to provide programmers with a means of deploying Java and PHP (and now ASP.NET) applications in the AWS cloud.
Subsequent to a "simple" upload, an application's needs are served in terms of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. Elastic Beanstalk uses the IIS 7.5 software stack, so existing ASP.NET applications can (in theory) be deployed with minimal changes to the underlying code.
Amazon encourages programmers looking to get started in this space to use its own AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio or the AWS Management Console to create applications and environments.


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#oak bedroom sets
Bedroom Furniture
Oak Furniture Solutions are one of the leading stockists of solid wood and oak bedroom furniture in the UK. We offer a wide range of high quality, durable solid oak bedroom furniture pieces. Our bedroom furniture collection also offers a number of different solid wood types including pine, walnut, ash, mango and more.
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Trade and Investment
Investment Incentives
Encouragement of Investment Law (Law No. 10)The Encouragement of Investment Law, No. 10 of May 1991, was enacted to encourage investments in economic and social development projects, approved by the Supreme Council of Investment, which is composed of various government ministers. Applications for approval of projects must be filed with the relevant ministry that will forward them to the Council for approval.
Approved projects may then import all equipment and supplies needed, without limitation, in order to establish, develop or enlarge the project. Such importation is exempt from taxes, customs and any other duties. Nonetheless, taxes and duties are levied on all imported equipment that is used to operate the project on a continuing basis.
Depending on the type of project, certain tax exemptions are granted for periods ranging from five to seven years. Furthermore, all projects covered under Law No. 10 are exempt from Syrian foreign exchange control. After five years, the portion of foreign investment equal to the amount of shares held in such a project may be repatriated to the foreign investor, based on the actual value of the project. The amount transferred may not exceed the initial currency investment. Should circumstances that are beyond the control of the investors arise, repatriation may begin within the first six months of the project. Annual profits and interest earned, through the use of foreign capital, may be transferred abroad.
The Investment Law's main provisions are as follows:
-The project must correspond to the government's aim for the relevant sector;
-Import of production inputs such as machinery, equipment and vehicles is free of customs duty;
-Mixed-sector companies in which the Syrian government's stake is at least 25 percent or companies that export 50 percent of their products receive a seven year tax holiday;
-Private-sector companies receive tax incentives five years;
-Foreign exchange capital can be repatriated after five years, and, if the project fails through circumstances out of the investor's control, such capital can be repatriated after six months;
-Profits can be transferred freely;
-50 percent of expatriate salaries and 100 percent of expatriate severance pay can be repatriated.
A 1996 decision by Syria's Supreme Council for Investment states that the expansion, modernization and development of projects under the 1991 Investment Law No. 10 will not receive any new tax benefits. Seven years after the law's implementation, it has not achieved its goal of attracting foreign investment. Businessmen complain that the law is irrelevant under current business conditions. Most foreign investment in Syria has come from expatriates or businessmen from Arab countries. Furthermore, many projects approved under this law were never executed because of marketing and other bureaucratic problems.
Incentives for the Tourism IndustrySeveral laws provide incentives for the tourism industry and certain other industries. These incentives, under Decision 186, include a seven year exemption from all taxes on the operation of tourist establishments, an exemption from paying income tax on up to 50 percent of the profits, certain import and customs exemptions, and some exemptions allowing bank accounts to be maintained in foreign currency.
According to Decrees 46 and 162 and Law No. 36, investments in hotels, restaurants and approved tourism projects enjoy certain benefits which may include an exemption from tax for between five to seven years, for example, hotels, restaurants and entertainment areas having a deluxe or first class rating.
Imported building materials, furniture and installations for these tourism businesses are also exempt from customs duties if such imports are used in order to enable a hotel or restaurant to maintain its deluxe or first rate rating.
Trade RegulationsBefore 1990, Syrian policy was geared to substituting imports with domestically produced goods. The government, however, has eased regulations to the point that advance deposits for imports of food and industrial inputs have been abolished. The most significant change has been in financial transactions. According to statistics by the Syrian government, 95 percent of exported and imported goods are priced at the neighboring countries' rate, which has gradually replaced the alternative rates for different goods. Furthermore, exporters do not have to exchange their foreign exchange earnings with the Commercial Bank of Syria if they then want to finance imports. The 25 to 30 percent share in foreign export proceeds that must be exchanged at the commercial banks are now also subject to the neighboring exchange rate.
All documentary transactions for imports must be by a letter of credit opened at the Commercial Bank of Syria. Typically, the bank requires the importer to cover 100 percent of the transaction from his own resources offshore or from funds generated by exports. Syrian importers often use free-of-payment or 180-day-credit facilities clauses. In this case, the importer pays through his offshore bank either cash in advance or via L/C, and the bill of lading is then sent to the Commercial Bank of Syria. Alternatively, an importer may use foreign exchange earned from exports and deposited in the Central Bank of Syria.
Free Trade ZonesFree trade zones have been established in Damascus, Aleppo, Tartus, Latakia, the Damascus international airport and in Adra. Article 6 of Decree 84 of 1972 encourages certain kinds of investments in free trade zones, authorizes the importation of foreign goods to these zones, and permits re-exportation that is not subject to the laws on foreign trade, customs duties or taxes. The Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade may authorize the establishment of warehouses in a free trade zone.
Up to 20 percent of imports to such warehouses may be granted an exemption from the usual limitations imposed on imports into the Syrian market, provided they do not compete with local industries or with a state-run monopoly. Priority in establishing an operation in a free trade zone is given to industries that use components or raw materials produced in Syria, complement existing industries in Syria, satisfy a local demand or employ a large number of Syrian workers.
Trade AgreementsA cooperation agreement has existed between Syria and the EU since 1977 that sets preferential tariffs for a wide range of agricultural produce as well as import ceilings for crude oil, petroleum products and cotton fabrics. These ceilings are above normal customs duties applicable to third countries. Syria is also included in the EU plan that allows industrial products to enter the EU market duty free. There are special regulations to the agreement, regarding technical and financial cooperation, which were renewed in 1991 and are now focused on supporting Syrian economic reform measures, especially in private sector development in agriculture, manufacturing, science and technology, as well as external trade.
Syria entered an agreement for Economic and Social Cooperation and Coordination with Lebanon in September 1993, which regulates the general framework of bilateral relations between the two countries in such areas as trade, movement of people and capital, residence, employment and transport. The sale of agricultural products in both countries is conducted by a joint Syrian-Lebanese marketing company. Other later concluded bilateral accords regulate water sharing in the Orontes river, labor relations (addressing the legalization of an estimated 500,000 or more Syrian workers in Lebanon), tourism and cultural relations.
Trade agreements with other countries, especially Arab countries specify products that can be traded in both directions under preferential terms. Such trade is often limited to specific transactions, such as the importation of equipment under a particular contract or tender. No formal trade relations exist with Israel, although illegal trade has become more prominent since the peace process began.
While the political sector is characteristically hesitant and reserved, the existing illegal trade indicates that the private sector seems interested in entering into trade and general business relations with Israel as soon as the political barriers will be removed.
CustomsCustoms duties can range from 1 percent to over 100 percent on certain items. Law No. 1 of 1980 created a Unified Tax on Imports which ranges from 6 percent for goods exempt from customs, and from 35 percent for goods subject to customs tariff, to more than 100 percent. Machinery and materials imported for new industrial investment, under certain circumstances, may, upon application to and approval from the government, be exempt from import duties.
The customs procedures require that goods imported be accompanied by invoices that list the producer of the goods and their country of origin in Arabic. The invoice must also include an Israeli boycott clause and, in some cases, a health declaration.
Private Sector InvestmentUntil the 1990s, private sector involvement in industry was limited by a number of regulations. In the past decade, the relaxation of certain restrictions allowed the private sector to import parts, equipment and other industrial inputs. Currently, private sector involvement is significant in the textile, food, leather, paper, and chemicals sectors, while heavy industry remains state-dominated. The Syrian government, however, has started to open up these industries to private-sector investment as the public sector cannot meet rising demand. There are plans to open the country's first privately-run sugar factory, and a private Saudi-Syrian joint venture has plans to open a cement factory.
In agriculture, the private sector dominates approximately two-thirds of cultivable land, with state-farms and cooperatives accounting for the remainder.
Public Sector ProcurementPublic sector procurement in Syria is regulated by Decrees No. 195 of 1974 and No. 349 of 1980, which set forth regulations governing contracts and tenders for public establishments, companies and enterprises. The decrees impose a number of regulations requiring the buying entity to solicit bids by announcing requirements through the Daily Bulletin of Official Tenders. The announcement of tenders with deadlines of less than forty-five days is not uncommon, however, suggesting that in certain cases, the contest may have already been decided beforehand.
Foreign companies may bid directly or through the use of a duly-registered Syrian agent. Offers, accompanied by a bid bond of 5 percent of the offer value may be submitted. Before an L/C is obtained, the supplier must submit a 10 percent performance bond. The Commercial Bank of Syria requires that all bonds be issued according to the Syrian Official Text.
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AVILA BEACH — Some of the most impressive albacore scores in
years on the Central Coast got halted by the first big winter-like storm of the
fall, but the signs of albacore both before and after the big blow offer
promise that with a few days of good weather, the Central Coast's albacore bite
could shape up to be this fall's highlight.
Early in the week it was
flat-out slam dunk fishing for skiffs and the only sport boat to run on a crew
trip. That boat was the Princess,
which had a crew trip captained by John Rowley score 40 albacore for 4 anglers
last Tuesday. And here's the kicker: they didn't even have live bait.
Things were looking prime for
the Pacific Queen, which left
Fisherman's Landing in San Diego with live bait and picked up passengers — and
more live bait — at Ventura Sportfishing to run a 2-day trip that left from
Ventura and returned to Patriot Sportfishing Friday night. The run found 10
albacore, then the first 1½-day trip of the fall out of Patriot left Friday
night and returned to Patriot Sunday morning with 28 albacore to 42 pounds. Pacific
Queen owner/operator Bill Cavanaugh
is encouraged by the signs he saw, and thinks there is a lot of promise in
several different zones. It's just about getting good weather and coverage in
the weeks to come.
"There are three zones where
I saw good signs and we caught fish, we just kind of ran out of time two days;
on the 2-day trip the fish we caught we got on late, there were little spots of
jumpers and albacore on sauries," said Cavanaugh.
On the 1½-day that fished
Saturday, the warmer, 62-degree water that the fish had come from before the
storm had dissipated, but late in the day Cavanaugh found a bubble of the 62
degree water and they picked up 28 albacore on jig strikes and bait stops.
"By noon we didn't have a
fish on the boat and we were not in the warm water that was on the Terrafin
picture from the night before. I saw a jig boat 5 miles to the northwest, and
figured he was in the warm water, but he wasn't; when we got close he called me
on the VHF and said he had 180 albacore on the jigs in the same area the day
before, but the water had broken down and he didn't have a fish," added
The captain of the jig boat
said that he had ran through some 62 degree water to the southwest, so that's
where Cavanaugh pointed the Pacific Queen to look around for the afternoon. Getting into the pocket of 62-degree
water ended up producing 28 beautiful grade albies by day's end.
"We had jig strikes and bait
fish and they reacted good, boiling up and everything," said Cavanaugh. "They
are beautiful fish; the average fish were 30 pounds and we had a 42 pounder for
The bite is really hinging on
the weather. In typical Central Coast fashion it was up for the last round of
trips, but overall sentiment is that with a stretch of good weather — and some
more coverage — this fall's bite could be classic Central Coast albacore
On Sunday Virg's got its
first trips of the week out after the Princess' big score; the fishing was down
— the Admiral had 2 albacore and
the Princess turned in 6 of the
20- to 25-pound albacore from around Sur Canyon — but the tough fishing came on
the heels of no boats being out in days due to weather. With more skiff and
sportboat coverage this week there should be a better picture of what is around
so far as albacore and water edges.
The Virg's will have a trip
out Monday night for Tuesday, and more trips will be scheduled. The Pacific
Queen has both 1½ and overnight trips scheduled. Michele Leary at Central Coast
Sportfishing will be offering 12
hour trips limited to 15 anglers. The next trip will be this Saturday.


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WEST CHESTER — Note to criminals: Always remember to check the tank before driving to the scene of the crime.
That lesson was hard-learned by a Philadelphia man who was apprehended by police after the car he used to violently smash into an East Pikeland man's vehicle after the victim cancelled a date with a prostitute was found by police stalled outside of Phoenixville.
Authorities said that defendant Kevin Smith and the woman were found in the car used in the assault about three miles from the intersection in rural Kimberton where the crime occurred. The car had run out of gas, according to the prosecutor in the case, Assistant District Attorney Kelsey Gvodich.
Smith, 46, of Island Avenue in Philadelphia, was sentenced Thursday to nine to 23 months in Chester County Prison and two years' consecutive probation by Chester County Common Pleas Judge Anne Marie Wheatcraft. He had pleaded guilty to charges of simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, and prohibited offensive weapons.
According to a criminal complaint filed in the case, at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 30, Officer Joseph Heyman of the East Pikeland Police Department was dispatched for a report of an erratic driver near the intersection of Hares Hill Road and Route 113.
When he arrived he found a township man, Mark Yerges, in a Hyundai Sonata that was heavily damaged.
Yerges told Heyman that he had answered an ad on Craigslist earlier that day to meet a woman, arranging to hook up with her at a location not far from his home. When he learned that she was, in fact, a prostitute and that "money was supposed to be exchanged," Heyman wrote in the complaint, he apparently had second thoughts about the matter and tried to call off the meeting.
But when he arrived back at his home in a small subdivision off Route 23, he spotted the woman and a man later identified as Smith sitting in a black 2007 Toyota outside his townhouse. Yerges told police that he became concerned, and tried to drive away and evade the pair.
He left the development, but the Toyota followed him with Smith at the wheel, the complaint stated. The Toyota followed Yerges' car closely, even as Yerges began driving at a high speed to get away.
Eventually, Yerges attempted to make a left hand turn from Route 113 onto Hares Hill Road. But the Toyota drove up next to him in the oncoming lane of traffic and rammed into the Sonata from the side. Yerges told Heyman that he feared for his life.
Yerges was able to continue on to Hares Hill Road into West Pikeland, where he got away from the Toyota, which police found stalled by the side of the road in the 1100 block of Kimberton Road.
Smith was charged with assault and weapons offenses after a search of the Toyota turned up a baseball bat with a knife taped to it. He was held on bail in county prison and will be eligible for parole in November.
In addition to the prison time and probation, Smith was ordered to make restitution totaling $7,731 for the damage to the Hyundai. The female passenger in Smith's car was not charged.


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The recent rash of unrelated murders in Bay County continues this past weekend with a double murder Saturday night.
Bay County sheriff's investigators believe 21-year-old Thomas Couch had been arguing with his roommate, 20-year-old Daniel Fabris. There were outstanding warrants on Fabris and Wade had allowed him to live at his home on S. Gay Avenue to avoid arrest.
That evening, while Couch was cleaning his gun, he accidentally fired a round into the ceiling of the home. Investigators believe Fabris grew angry and left, fearing deputies would arrive to investigate the gunshot.
When Fabris returned around 11 o'clock the two began arguing again. That's when Couch allegedly shot Fabris several times.
Seventeen-year-old Nichole Savageau was in the trailer at the time of the shooting. When she saw what happened she tried to run, but Couch shot her multiple times as she was running out the door. She died across the street in a neighbor's yard. She had just turn 17 that day.
Thomas Couch is being held at the Bay County Jail.


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- Africa Open, Round Four
Fichardt hangs on to claim Africa Open
Darren Fichardt survived two late bogeys to win the Africa Open by two shots on Sunday.
His two-shot margin of victory over second-placed Gregory Bourdy and Jaco Van Zyl earned him a fourth win on the European Tour and ensured that the Africa Open title stayed in South African hands for the fourth year running.
After his victory Fichardt admitted that the stuttering end to his final round - a 71, his worst of the competition by two shots - was due to complacency.
"I started losing focus," Fichardt said. "I was four shots ahead and I started taking it for granted. I was putting unbelievable and then I missed a short putt at the 14th and thought, 'What's going on here?'"
Andy Sullivan was the highest placed Englishman, finishing in tied fifth position, five shots behind Fichardt.


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"We don't normally have a spare spot on any rack," said Jack Williams, a sales associated at Total Firearms in Mason.
Williams has been using guns his entire life and has never seen anything close to the sales the store is experiencing.
"[We have] zero inventory or two or three where we normally have two thousand or four thousand guns at times in stock," said Williams.
Since the 2012 presidential election and shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary he said people's purchasing patterns have turned frantic.
"The funny thing is they come in and they are looking for a hand gun, they might leave with a shot gun, or they are looking for a shot gun for bunny hunting or sport shooting and walk away with a hand gun," said Williams. He has never experienced such purchasing patterns in 52 years of dealing with guns.
Bottom line, the people who come to buy a gun don't leave the store without a gun in hand.
"Every state I've called, shops that I've called, are very low or out," said Williams. "I mean if this keeps going the shop will be closed in a couple of weeks. I mean it's bad. It's going quick."
Stores across the state and country are having similar experiences.
"We've probably tripled production and in the last two months we have received orders that we are still waiting on to get raw material for," said Ed Strange, the owner of Wicked Grips.
Since 2009 the number of hand guns being registered in Ingham County is up 35 percent. 603 more guns were registered last year than in 2009.
In 2012 84 percent of registered hand guns owners in Ingham County also got Concealed Pistol Licenses.
The number of licenses given out each month has increased dramatically. From 55 in January two years ago to 215 this year. That's up nearly 300 percent.
Shelves that normally would be filled with guns are empty.
"When you buy a firearm, you are not just buying a firearm. You have to have the accessories to support it, the ammunition to fire it, you have to have the holsters and the belts and the safety equipment like safes and things like that. So it was just a snowball effect," said Strange.
Whether you like guns or not, all those purchases are good for the economy.
Just outside Flint--in Davison, Michigan--is 87-year-old Williams Gun Sight Company. It's as close to a firearm manufacturer as you can get in the state and is one of the largest gun sight manufacturers in the world.
"We do about 400 different items, said Dan Compeau, the Chief Operating Officer at Williams Gun Sight Co. "We fit a lot of different makes and models. We do peep sights, open sights, and lately its been the handguns sights that we've seen the most growth in."
Dan Compeau has been in the business for 30 years. He says despite new hires and more shifts, the industry simply can't keep up with the demand.
"We have about ten CNC machines that do different operations so [each product] moves from station to station to get all the different machining processes done to it," said Compeau, as he gave News Ten's Brian Johnson a tour of the sight shop.
Williams Gun Sight Co. manufactures hundreds of thousands of sights and scopes each year.
"All these jobs are made in America," said Compeau.
The national gun debate which threatens to limit guns has dramatically increased sales, and is the driving force behind the record numbers.
It took the City of Lansing six months to get 122 guns off the streets through a buyback program, but Williams Gun Sight Co. is currently selling that many guns each day and so are other stores across the state.
"This is by far crazier than anytime in the past. Sales are double some days, some days triple what they normally are," said Compeau.
The industry is all a boom. While gun advocates don't want to see more restrictions put on the books, no one can deny all the talk of guns is good for business.
"These products are made in the USA and if they stop [or restrict these], it is going to hurt us terrible," said Williams.
In January a state senate committee passed a bill that would exempt any Michigan-made guns and ammunition from federal regulations.


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Being a sports fan doesn't end when the season does, you need to analyze, reflect, and debate things like awards, so let's get started:
National League Cy Young: Jake Peavy. No real debate here. Led the league in strikeouts, strikouts per inning, wins, WHIP, and ERA, and came just short of the playoffs. Runner Up: Brandon Webb.
American League Cy Young: C. C. Sabathia. On the surface, it looks like a real close race here with Beckett and maybe even Lackey, and the press seems to think Beckett is a lock because he got 20 wins. However, Sabathia beats Beckett in WHIP, IP, K, GS, CG, SHO, K/BB ratio, which are all key ace/stopper stats. Runner Up: Josh Beckett.
Note: Expect a surge in baseball-related posts over the next couple of weeks 🙂


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Relay For Life holding soup supper
Preparing for kickoff event
ARENAC COUNTY — Before too long it will be July. And with July comes Relay For Life.
The Arenac County Relay For Life is starting 2011 with its soup supper, which will be held Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in Standish on Saturday, Feb. 26, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Chairperson Penny Page said that pricing for the soup supper is still undetermined, but the event has become a major fundraising source for Relay For Life.
"The (soup supper) has become a tradition for us," she said. "It is an event that has continued to get bigger the past few years."
Now in its fourth year, Page said the soup supper has been drawing larger crowds in recent years.
"Last year we went full scale for the first time," she said. "We are taking donations for making recipes, like bean soup, or chicken soup."
Page said that cancer survivors who come to the soup supper will eat free.
"We let them eat for free as a way to honor them," she said. "We want to sign up more survivors to be part of Relay, and we want them to have a good time."
Despite economic troubles in Michigan in recent years, Relay For Life in Arenac County has continued to grow.
Page said that in 2010 the group's goal was to raise $60,000. They ended up with $78,000.
"We are aiming for $80,000 this year," she said.
For the 2011 campaign, Relay For Life has currently raised $2,844.56. Page said that Arenac County is hoping to increase from 26 Relay teams, to 40.
"We have 26 teams registered and a few more pending," she said. "We encourage everyone to join us."
Page said that Relay For Life will also be hosting a kickoff event on April 19, at the Standish-Sterling Central High School Commons from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
"We welcome anyone and everyone to come to the event," she said.
Page added that Arenac County will be receiving some awards, including one national award.
"The American Cancer Society has named the Arenac County Relay For Life group for an All-American award," she said.
Paige said that Relay For Life is always looking for additional members and teams.
For more information, contact Penny at 989-654-3452, or online at www.relayforlife.org/arenaccountymi.
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I don't know what to say. Last week I had some fun making ridiculous predictions for the season in this column, in an attempt to mock the unpredictability of the NFL in it's current state. Little did I know what I had stumbled onto. I made 4 predictions in a row. All ludicrous.
* The Atlanta Falcons will win their division.
* I really hate to break this to you, but Brady and the Patriots are going to suck.
* Bill Belichick will be completely honest and accurate with his injury reports.
* Tomlinson is going to have a horrible season.
Well, the Falcons looked like a team that could win their division. Brady got hurt and the Pats barely escaped the cellar dweller Chiefs. Belichick amazingly left Brady off the injury report for the first time in three years. And Tomlinson? Well, yeah he did get 14 fantasy points but for him that is kind of horrible. Plus he is now experiencing toe problems.
What the hell? Man that is some flat out scary stuff right there my friend. Such is life in the NFL. The unthinkable? Think it.
By the way, there is one prediction I left off last week's list. I am going to win the lottery. Yeah, it's lame. But worth a shot.
The Brady injury is the huge thing though. You can go ahead and re-write the story of the 2008 season right now. This changes everything NFL and fantasy-wise. It seems every year a star player goes down in week one. Brady was the biggest yet. He was drafted relatively high because of his record setting season, in most leagues I think he probably went first round.
Drafting a quarterback in the first round is hard to overcome in fantasy football. And when your guy goes down 15 minutes into the season? That's the fantasy equivalent of walking into a casino with your life savings, putting it all on red and coming up black.
Speaking of first round disappointments, lets take a look at the early scorecard: Hmmm. Only Portis, SJax, and Brady had weak games. But on the not so bright side, Moss lost Brady for the season, and Barber and Tomlinson are banged up a bit already.
Yep. It's going to be a long season. Might want to put on that thinking cap. Players are already dropping like flies in a bug bomb.
I really hate to use this public forum to gloat. But since it is one of my many serious personality flaws, there is little I can do about it. Two words. Chris Johnson.
I drafted him on all my re-drafts and managed to get him in my keeper league as well. I basically hinged my entire draft strategy on Chris Johnson. After week one all I can say is WHEW! That's a load off. Now if he can just do that 14 more times I'll clear off the shelf space for some more trophies.
Speaking of trophies, is it just my imagination or does it suddenly feel like the Lombardi is anybody's trophy at this point? I mean, the Patriots have been brought down to the "mortal" level with the loss of Brady. And the Colts and Chargers suffered week one home losses to last year's NFC never rans. This could be interesting. Not as interesting as that night when I was a teenager and two of my female friends came over and we accidentally came across my dad's hidden Gin bottle. But interesting.
10)Seahawks: It isn't just the fact that they lost a road game. It's the fact that they got their asses handed to them, and lost the only "proven" receiver they had left on the roster. Holmgren hung around for one year too long. And apparently I picked one hell of a time to trade for Hasselbeck in my dynasty league.
9) Lions: As with last season, it appears I have a serious error in my players to avoid list. Last year it was Randy Moss. This year it looks to be Michael Turner. Yikes. If he could play the Lions every week he would be a beast. But then again, who couldn't? I'm not ready to proclaim myself an idiot on that one based on one week. But he sure did look good. Especially to the guy that used him and Drew Brees to take down the best fantasy team I drafted this year. Yeah, you guessed it. I lost my game with the second highest points in the league. In week one. Why does God hate me? Is it just because I am nasty and hateful or is there more? I guess I shouldn't complain. If God really hated me he would have made me a Lions fan.
8) Patriots: Why has fate suddenly turned on the Patriots? It was all there for them. The perfect season? Crushed. And now, the easiest projected schedule in the history of the NFL down the drain. I would normally mention right about now how Brady was on my "players to avoid" list in a transparent attempt to spray verbal perfume on my Michael Turner fiasco, but considering the tragedy of Brady's injury, I think that would be in really bad taste so I am not going to mention that.
7) Raiders: I have been pretty rough on Al Davis and the Raiders organization. Maybe I should try a little kindness instead. I should try to think of something nice to say. Hmm. I've got it! It is nice that you are in the same division with the Chiefs. If you and the Chiefs were the two ugly chicks left at the bar at closing time, you would have just as good a chance at being taken home, having a paper bag put over your head and ravaged from behind as the Chiefs. Which is pretty much what you can expect to happen every time you take the field this year.
6) Dolphins: The good news? They actually resembled an NFL team. The bad news? They resembled a losing NFL team.
5) 49ers: I think we can all agree that game went just about as badly as expected. I was curious to see how Martz would deal with this nondescript cast. And now I know. It looked a lot like his Lions teams from the last few years, minus the talent. But basically the same results. This is not going to be pretty. I'm thinking that 20th round pick of J.T. O'Sullivan was even more of a waste than I thought at the time.
4) Redskins: Square Peg - Jason Campbell. Round Hole - West Coast Offense.
3) Chiefs: Are they the NFL's version of Tonya Harding? No. They aren't masculine enough. But they did go from a team that Patriots fans pitied on Sunday morning to one that they hated on Sunday afternoon. And they came a whisker away from sending the game to overtime. They have already achieved way more than I thought possible.
2) Bengals: I really stirred up the hornet's nest last week with my preseason ranking of the Bengals as #2 on the Misery Index. I was quite surprised to find that there were people out there that actually didn't think they were going to suck. I suspect Bengals fans might not be quite as stirred up this week after actually seeing the "product" on the field. Sorry guys. I had to brace you for it. Kind of like a new prisoner braces for Bubba after lights out. There was no way you were going to like it, but at least I tried to warn you. I'll need one pack of smokes from each of you.
1) Rams: Yeah, I could smell it. I could smell it a mile away. Rancid leg of Lamb. The Rams aren't "back." Steven Jackson is not back. The offensive line is not back. Orlando Pace's shoulder is not back. AC/DC's best album was Back in Black. Linehan can start to pack. 'Cause this team isn't going to win jack.


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In this quick tip from NetTuts.com today they show you how to set up custom error logging for your PHP application with the help of the set_error_handler function.
In today's video quick tip, we'll review the process of setting custom error handlers with PHP. Along the way, we'll also learn how to log and email those potential errors to ourselves. That way, even when your web application has been deployed, you'll be the first to know when an error is encountered.
They make a custom handler, nettuts_error_handler, that takes in the error information and translates it into an error message that's emailed to an admin of the site. It also checks the error reporting level to see if it needs to display the error back to the user or not. This helpful hint is part of a screencast, but they've provided the code separately to make it easier to work with.


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From: Chris Cera
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Editor: vi or emacs?
I want to know what editor Tim O'Reilly uses: vi or emacs? Could you please tell us why?
-- Chris
I have to confess that I'm a "vi guy." When I was new to UNIX, I actually started out using emacs (not GNU emacs, but Gosling's Emacs, in the early days of the emacs wars) and loved it. But then one day, I discovered that someone had blown away the custom emacs profile that I had gotten comfortable with. It took about a week for me to get it restored, and in the meantime, I switched to vi, and got hooked.
What I especially liked about vi was precisely that I didn't have to have all these nifty customizations to make it really usable. What really distinguished vi from emacs in my mind was that it was just there on any system I sat down at--tremendously portable. I didn't have to copy my emacs profile around to sit down and do useful work on someone else's machine.
Once you learn vi's admittedly unintuitive style, it is remarkably easy to use and tremendously powerful. Like a lot of things about UNIX, it only *seems* difficult. After a small barrier to entry, it is orders of magnitude more powerful and easy to use than commercial word processors. (But that's true of emacs as well!)
Despite emacs' higher profile as a free software poster child, I think more people actually use vi than emacs. We sell more copies of our vi book than of our emacs book -- almost twice as many each year. This could be because emacs has a free manual that is distributed with it. But I saw a matching statistic at Linux Expo, where O'Reilly sponsors a vi vs. emacs paintball game each year. I happened to check the signup list, and noticed that there were about twice as many people signed up for the vi team as for the emacs team. (Maybe they just like the vi t-shirt -- the team "uniform" -- more than the emacs t-shirt, but I don't think so.)
But I don't want to pour gasoline on this fire, any more than I want to pour gasoline on the perl vs. tcl vs. python fires. Both vi and emacs are great editors, and both are very widely used within O'Reilly. If you went down the list of our editors, you'd get strong partisans of each.
P.S. If you want to read more on why I like vi, you need only turn to the opening pages of our book Learning the vi Editor. While I don't have an author credit on the cover, I actually wrote a large part of the fourth and fifth editions, including the opening paean to the virtues of vi.
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Skip to comments.Egypt: Coptic church cancels Sunday mass for 1st time in 1,600 years
Posted on 08/19/2013 8:08:38 PM PDT by Nachum
Amid escalating violence against Egypts Copts, churches in Minya, located in upper Egypt, cancelled Sunday Mass for the first time in 1,600 years. Other churches in Minya also didnt hold prayer services.
"We did not hold prayers in the monastery on Sunday for the first time in 1,600 years, Priest Selwanes Lotfy of the Virgin Mary and Priest Ibram Monastery in Degla, just south of Minya, told the al-Masry al-Youm daily.
He said supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi destroyed the monastery, which includes three churches, one of which is an archaeological site. One of the extremists wrote on the monasterys wall, donate [this] to the martyrs mosque, Lotfy added.
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Very sad/ You're in my prayers, my brothers and sisters. :(
Very sad/ You're in my prayers, my brothers and sisters. :(
I shall pray for the congregation. I have a close friend here that grew up in Egypt and who is a coptic Christian. I have been well aware for sometime how serious this has been. Part of me is glad it is coming to a head. The world needs to see and hear all that is happening to the Christians in Egypt. Many prayers up for the Christians in Egypt and worldwide.
Thanks Nachum. Additional.
Minya Churches Cancel Second Mass for First Time in 1,600 Years [Egypt]
God bless these people...
personally, I would like all the Coptic Christians to come here, by the tens of thousands....maybe we can have a spiritual revival....
Well, that's that. They had a good run while they lasted. Sad nobody supported them.
The article doesn't back up the claim of the headline. I was expecting to see something like "the last missed Mass was on June 23, 413," or something. It would have been interesting to see some information about their record-keeping that lets them make this claim.
Hmmmmmmm. No Jews around to kill, let's go find the Christians! Hmmmmm, not many of them around, let's go kill a Sunni (if you're a Shiite) or a Shiite (if your'e a Sunni). Gotta kill or burn something!
We in the Christian Communities of America need to pray for our brothers in Christ. We should be sending money—donations to the Coptic Orthodox Church—BLESS program to help them pay to rebuild and bury their dead. The fanatics are burning all Christian Churches including Roman Catholic, and Prostestant.
The mask of Satan his gone from the face of these terrible men. Pray that the Brotherhood is banned and peace restored to this ancient land.
Don't forget that the nearest bunch of Jews are all armed to the teeth. Much easier to kill unarmed Christians.
Wonder how long it will be before we see this in America?
The last time a commandeered (by Jihadists) armored vehicle broke through the barrier, an Israeli Apache tracked it for a mile and then let lose with a very destructive munition.
The Muslim/Arabs always learn the hard way.
OMG....the Church has been there for 1,600 years.....there is a MASS EVERY SUNDAY in a Church.......geesh.
The last time they canceled a Mass was over a hundred years before Mohammad showed up...
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This past March the NMCA-Edelbrock Drag Racing Series roared into action at the season opener at Bradenton Motorsports Park (Bradenton, Florida). Our attention was focused on not only the 6-second, 200-mph Pro Street cars but also the nearly dozen different heads-up and index categories. Reports from Florida included a 7-second '69 Camaro in True Street (30-mile drive followed by three consecutive runs without a cool down) to one of our favorite categories, Xtreme Street where the cars run low 8s on true 10.5-inch tires and loosely limited engine combinations. We missed the season opener but jumped on tour at its second event, which took place at Maple Grove Raceway (Reading, Pennsylvania), to catch the action. It was a hot and humid weekend but it didn't seem to slow down the competition as a few competitors reset different class records.
We caught up with the wild and crazy True Street ride that ran 7s in Florida and it was built and driven by PSI Motorsports' Frank Soldridge (You can read about it in an upcoming issue as a full feature). Maple Grove Raceway is his home track and the crew had the ProCharger-blown ride tuned up for 7.70s in competition, Soldridge won the class with a 7.84 average. Joe Dunne destroyed the Pro Street record with his '68 Camaro by going 6.19. Dave Beeson and his Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based '77 Camaro posted a jaw-dropping 7.28 performance in Nostalgia Pro Street. He had two tenths on the rest of the field. Beeson and crew chief Kenny Lafferty spent quite a bit of time with the NMCA tech officials but the Camaro was declared legal and his record was made official.
The action was tight and the cars were gorgeous and we plan on hitting a few more NMCA events before the season is over.


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Frightening, all the time.
I just saw this image and it had me in stitches. It is beyond bizarre. Thought I'd share it.
I love how photographers can art direct (con) these dunce celebrities into posing in the most outlandish (read stupid) poses. What a friggin' tool.
Frightening, all the time.
I don't like anything about her even her crap from the adams apple up air controlled voice.
Are these the same shots Nicole did? Know she is ok for a Red head.
Never liked her and don't find her remotely attractive.
She looks much better then normal in these pics. Id bang her.
Nice legs though...
Did anyone see Nicole Kidmans spread she just did in a magazine. Looked hot as hell. I'd post pics but using a phone.
needless to say, upon reading the thread title and seeing who the author was I expected something completely different.
I am disappoint, muchacho.


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You might have seen the construction happening along Route 23 near the start of Route 401 in Elverson. However, you may not have known about the new milking robots prompting the expansion of Kurtland Farms, owned and operated by Tim and Deborah Kurtz and family.
The public is invited to view the Lely Astronaut Robots at their Community Open House on Sept. 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Open House will allow families to learn more about this new endeavor and also hear about the farm�s adoption of environmentally sound practices.
The open house is family friendly, with a self-guided tour, activities for children and free milk and ice cream for all. Parking is at the Twin Valley Elementary Center with a shuttle to the new robotic dairy barn.
Reading the Kurtland Farms� fivefold mission statement with the headings profit, people, leadership, having fun, and honoring God may make visitors want to be part of this new robotic dairy farm. The Kurtz family understands there are general misconceptions in the dairy industry about food safety and animal well-being and they work hard to help people in the community and at large understand the big picture.
A move in the direction of robotic dairy farming is a clear path to maintaining his moderate-sized herd, with a desire to not only maintain a high measure of food safety and well-being for his cows, but to do this all within the parameters of being environmentally sound, Kurtz said.
Robotic milking provides �cow-related information unobtainable in a conventional situation, thereby making it possible to manage animals at an individual level,� according to the Lely Robotics website. Though this helps a dairy farmer make better and more strategic decisions for the benefit of the cow�s health, this is still a lot of work. Tim mentioned that one of the misconceptions of their new expansion is expressed by this frequently heard comment: �Now you can relax. The robots can do it for you.�
Tim knows firsthand that dairy farming is just plain work, robots or no robots. The new field of dairyrobotics enables a farmer to work smarter, but there is no way around the inordinate amount of work it takes to maintain a financially and environmentally sound dairy operation. Yes, the robots help to cull and maintain all the information one could ever want on each and every cow, but humans still must plow, plant and harvest. And until the bright red Lely Astronauts can do more than obtain information while milking a cow, the staff of Kurtland Farms will continue to fix the problems the robots detect.
The community open house for the new robotic farm, on Sept. 7 is an opportunity for the public to view the four robots involved in the milking process. The Lely Astronaut Robots help to provide an environment that minimizes the cows� stress, provides consistency in milking and reduces the amount of wasted milk that occurs frequently in dairy operations. Visitors will also learn about Kurtland Farms� commitment to stewardship practices. These practices range from 100 percent no till planting to crop rotation, grazing, recycling manure for cow�s bedding and mulch and the covered manure lagoon.
Kurtland Farms, in keeping with a desire to support local businesses, has invited local vendors to be a part of the day. Visitors can purchase lunch items from Twin Valley Coffee, Stampede Smokin� BBQ, Churchtown Women�s Auxiliary, Conebella Farm and Allegheny Valley Yogurt.
Local businesses will also be present to show how they were a part of Kurtland Farm�s move from
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Walter Investment Management Corp. Announces Definitive Agreement To Acquire Correspondent Lending And Wholesale Broker Businesses From Ally Bank
2013-02-18 12:30 ET - News Release
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Walter Investment Management Corp. (NYSE: WAC) ("Walter Investment" or the "Company") today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the correspondent lending and wholesale broker businesses of Ally Bank. Upon the completion of the transaction, the Company anticipates it will employ approximately 300 of the correspondent lending and wholesale broker businesses' employees. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Mark J. O'Brien, Chairman and CEO of Walter Investment said, "This transaction brings to Walter Investment a team of knowledgeable, experienced employees with which to pursue correspondent lending opportunities, using the outstanding capabilities resident in the recently acquired ResCap originations platform. We look forward to working with this team as we execute on our strategic plans for the originations business."
About Walter Investment Management Corp.
Walter Investment Management Corp. is an asset manager, mortgage servicer and originator focused on finding solutions for consumers and credit owners. Based in Tampa, Fla., the Company has over 3,700 employees and services a diverse loan portfolio. For more information about Walter Investment Management Corp., please visit the Company's website at www.walterinvestment.com.
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little more than an added complexity to getting what you want from the internet in China
Basic communication shouldn't take heroic levels of bravery. People have been imprisoned in China for doing less than what she is doing.
As someone who's lived in Beijing for 5 years, it's not all that heroic. There are millions of people posting things, and they just get deleted wack-a-mole style if the content is not "harmonious". The only people that get arrested are serious critics of the government who get a lot of exposure. The average middle class person in Beijing is definitely more informed about a lot of things that your average American Fox viewer. Anyway they don't care too much about the smaller upper and middle classes - the firewall and the scare tactics are mainly targeted at the masses.
All that that means is that at any moment she could post the 'wrong' thing that generates lots of attention and find herself in trouble. The fact that it does happen sometimes is more than enough to make the behavior brave in my opinion, certainly braver than anything I've done with my life. And by the sound of it she is the source for a substantial amount of leaks through the firewall, just because it gets propagated through many different blogs and silently deleted doesn't mean that no one is looking for the source. Saying no one really gets harassed unless they get a large audience puts these people at the whim of their audience, what they're doing is dangerous because at any moment, without them changing anything at all, they could find themselves in very deep water.
The average middle class person in Beijing is definitely more informed about a lot of things that your average American Fox viewer.
Ahh, ok i get it. So the average Beijing person is definitely more educated than Homeless Americans too right? Or do you just like comparing apples to oranges. I'd say the average American isn't a fox news viewer or subscribes to their Jerry springer style sensationalist shows.
There are millions of people posting things, and they just get deleted wack-a-mole style if the content is not "harmonious".
What I don't understand is the mindset of the army of censors the government must employ. It would be extremely difficult to find enough Americans to do that job without creating a sizable group trying to disrupt the system from the inside. Granted, we are pretty hard-core about our free speech and free press liberties compared to most nations outside of Scandinavia, but I just don't g
heck people have been imprisoned in China for less than what we do on
You missed the engineering feat in the summary.
"the pyramid branches out"
Imagine. If the Egyptians had been able to do that, the pyramids might not be precisely pyramids!! Or, would they remain pyramids, with little branches supporting yet more pyramids? Hmmmm. Most interesting!
Once again: if you want to poke a stick in the eye of Chinese internet censorship, on all of the web pages that you control, add in some terms from the List of words censored by search engines in the People's Republic of China [wikipedia.org] (preferably, post the Chinese characters, not the English transliterations.)
Give the firewall some false positives.
On the internet, where there's a will there's a way.
If you accept that postulate, I've got a corollary: On the internet, whoever has the strongest will gets his way. The "evade content censorship" goal has no inherent superiority over the "censor content" goal. Whichever goal has the most (or most potent) resources applied can still win out.
Who wins really depends on what you define as the goal. If you define the goal of censors as "preventing any undesired material from getting through" then they are doomed to failure. They would need to win every single time, squashing every single instance of material that they wish to block. The evaders would only need to get one piece of material past the censors to win.
The real goal is much more complicated, and depends on critical mass of information being achieved for the evaders to win, while the censors need only prevent this critical mass from being achieved. It's much like childhood vaccinations. For the disease to win, it needs to reach critical mass in the herd, infecting a certain percentage of the population to become self-perpetuating. For the herd to win, it needs to prevent the disease from reaching critical mass. A few small pockets of individuals can be sacrificed for the greater good of the herd, but as long as those pockets are small and contained, critical mass won't be achieved, and a full-blown outbreak can be prevented.
So what do you think the Chinese government's goal is? The blocking of every instance of undesired material from getting through, and "protecting" every single citizen? Or is it prevention of critical mass, which would mean that enough people learn the truth that they decide to overthrow the government?
then you end up wiith better lock pickers.
We might see some 'revolutionary' developments in collaboration come from this, hopefully we can all learn from it.
then you end up wiith better lock pickers.
We might see some 'revolutionary' developments in collaboration come from this, hopefully we can all learn from it.
The problem is that we're all using the same tools to achieve different goals. I use Google Docs to share song names and artists that I like with my friends simply because all the other site solutions (like Last.FM) are flash laden crap that I have no control over and never can find the bands I listen to like The Wapsipinicon. And I can throw a link to a blog with a publicly legally available promotional mp3. So the Chinese goal is a lot more serious and has this oppressive government forcing them to be
>We might see some 'revolutionary' developments in collaboration come from this, hopefully we can all learn from it.
The problem is that we're all using the same tools to achieve different goals.
So unless our government gets to be as bad as theirs (and I'm not saying that's out of the question), I don't know what tactics they are dreaming up that are going to help me right now or improve my collaboration. And they don't seem to be writing a whole lot of ground breaking software
Behold: Freenet [freenetproject.org]
"By the time all is said and done, Chinese censorship is little more than mocked by thousands of people like Xiaomi" Now, let's put that number, "thousands", into perspective: China has a population of about 1.3 billion.
And 384 million of which are Internet users--nearly a quarter of the world total. The 'thousands' I was referring to are the people like Xiaomi who translate the content. Then thousands for each of those people post to their blogs. Then some undetermined chain goes into effect where they keep reposting and sending. It's immeasurable but this is just on the producing end of it. There's obviously a demand for this material so you can be sure that millions are reading these posts and reposts and e-mails. While we'll never be able to settle on whether it's 10 million or 100 million that have accessed a non-harmonious article in the past year, you can be sure it's in the millions for readership
If you read the article (and I thought I made it clear in the summary with the pyramid analogy), it sounds like there are a lot of eyes on this stuff. Nothing to sneeze at like you did. In the end, the article made it seem like accessing the New York Times interview with Google cofounder Sergey Brin (in wihch he speaks out against China's censorship) was not that hard of a thing to do if you wanted to do it in China.
That's like saying nobody uses Microsoft Windows because only a few few hundred (thousand?) people built the software. It's typical that the content providers are a smaller group then the content consumers. People like Xiaomi are likely your "hardcore" group, the group that feels the strongest about it and which always makes up the smallest %.
Most people consume media, not distribute it.
Could the reason that China has so many cyber-criminals be a side-effect of the Great Firewall of China?
``This is a government that is unable or in some cases unwilling to crack down on many illegal and harmful practices.''
That sounds a lot like a typical corrupt government, to me. I seem to recall corruption has been receiving quite some attention in official political statements in recent years. Any insights on how things are progressing there?
Kind of like how in the US we have so many drug criminals.
The Internet has empowered the Chinese people more than the combined effects of 30 years of [economic] growth, urbanization, exports, and investments by foreign firms.
This, along with their human rights violations & lack of good global citizenship sounds like a really good reason to cut them off to me.
It's their government that's fucked up. Not the people. The people (for the most part) are great.
If you really step back and examine it, America and most other countries are basically in the same situation at varying degrees of fucked-upedness. It's the vocal minority, or in religious circles, the vocal majority, and the governments in power that are totally fucked.
Overall, you'll find people are good. It's the politicians and those in power that are total douche-bags.
Why the random bash on religion?
Because religion is the cause of a great deal of dumbassery in the USA.
It isn't the cause, it's the vehicle. Some people are assholes. They would be assholes with or without a religion. Some people are willfully ignorant. They would be so without religion. Religion is a way for assholes to gain the support of and to control the willfully ignorant.
Uncontrolled willfully ignorant are less harmful than the willfully ignorant under control of assholes.
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
Simply having difficulty getting your message out, or not having people listen or care, is NOT censorship.
No, it's not censorship. But as a means of controlling public opinion, ignoring or marginalizing inconvenient information is just as effective if not more so. At least in China people know the state controlled media is state controlled. If there's any doubt as to the power of American propaganda look at the history of Cannabis prohibition. We're coming up 70 years of prohibiting this dangerous drug
``i wonder if the additional reliance on your neighbor would create a tighter knit, more ready to challenge the government community.''
I think this is the case, and it makes you wonder why governments engage in censorship. On the other hand, I don't think the Chinese government has a lot to fear at this point - there are lots and lots of chinese people who agree with any given policy of the government, and as long as economic growth stays high, I don't think the populace will massively decide to go slaughte
These are the cheerful murderers we want to give control of routing and DNS to?!
Thus spake the master programmer: "When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"