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Open That Bottle Night: February 27
In 2000, former Wall Street Journal wine columnists Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher created "Open That Bottle Night," which gets my vote for the best new holiday of the 21st century (so far).
The idea is simple: Too many people have a special bottle of wine that they're saving for a special occasion that never comes, and the wine languishes in the closet, un-poured. Gaiter and Brecher's big idea? Rather than wait for an occasion, create one.
The last weekend of February, when it seems the bleak weeks of winter will never end, seems an apt time. And so this year, Open That Bottle Night (OTBN to the faithful) lands on Saturday, February 27.
My top tip for OTBN night is this: Have a backup handy. On the off-chance that your wine has passed its window of opportunity, you'll still want something to sip.
Make the wine, not the food, the star of your OTBN night. Skip the full-blown dinner party and make it an evening of wine and nibbles.
If your OTBN wine lends itself to cheese fondue (perhaps a dry Pinot Grigio from Italy or a dry white Chignin from Savoie in southeastern France), here is a simple recipe for a cozy late-winter cheese fondue.
Have your first glass of wine before eating, then pay attention to how its flavor changes when you take your first bites of fondue.
Simple Cheese Fondue
Serves 4.
1 clove garlic, halved
1/2 pound Gruyère cheese, shredded
1/2 pound Emmental cheese, shredded
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups dry white wine (not your OTBN bottle)
A few gratings of nutmeg
2 tablespoons kirsch
Rub the inside of your fondue pot with the halved garlic, set aside.
In a large bowl, toss the cheese with the flour and set aside.
Place the wine in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a simmer. Add the cheese mixture, about a half cup or so at a time, stirring between each addition until smooth.
Grate nutmeg (not too much) over the top and stir until smooth. Add the kirsch and stir until cheese just begins to bubble. Turn off the heat.
Using a ladel, spoon cheese into fondue pot. Place fondue pot over heat, stir and serve with torn bread and a simple salad. Stir cheese frequently at the table to keep it evenly heated through, and to prevent burning on the bottom.


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Body of Denver woman dumped in remote Weld County field
Valerie Meeks lived a hard life.
According to Denver court records, she was arrested for prostitution on Nov. 11, 1988.
Three years later the 36-year-old woman disappeared.
According to a Denver Post news story, her daughter called police on July 3, 1991 and reported her missing.
Exactly two weeks later, the remains of a woman was found near Weld County Road 4 and Weld County Road 5 in a field near Erie.
Weld County coroner's office investigators identified the unclothed woman as Meeks. She had a plastic shopping bag over her head. Meeks had been asphyxiated.
Although detectives identified suspects they never had enough evidence to file charges.
William Hood is a retired investigator who works unsolved homicides for the Weld County Sheriff's Office on a part-time basis.
In recent years he re-opened the Meeks case and tracked down leads.
He said he doesn't believe Weld County was where Meeks met her killer.
Someone picked her up along the Colfax Avenue corridor in Denver or Aurora, killed her and took her body to Weld County and just dumped her, Hood said.
Whoever killed Meeks drove her north into a rural area to put distance between where she was picked up to throw off suspicion.
It was a risky tactic, though.
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Score one for Tom Cable: The Raiders coach will not face criminal charges for an alleged attack on one of his assistants.
Napa County District Attorney Gary Lieberstein made it official late Thursday, adding the evidence showed the man who claims Cable attacked him was not telling the truth.
"Our duty is to do the right thing for the right reasons," Lieberstein said. "Under the facts and circumstances of this case, it would be a miscarriage of justice to pursue criminal charges and we will not ask our citizens to give up their valuable time for jury duty, nor will we allow our criminal justice system to be compromised."
Former assistant coach Randy Hanson claims Cable attacked him on Aug. 5 during a meeting at a Napa hotel.
Hanson told Yahoo Sports Cable attacked him from behind and knocked him out of his chair causing his head hit a table. Hanson also alleged that Cable threatened to kill him before the other coaches pulled him away.
Lieberstein said his investigation came up with a very different story. He said the evidence showed Cable was angry and rushed toward Hanson, but was stopped by another coach. The DA described a three stooges type scene. He said the evidence showed that Cable became angry and rushed toward Hanson, but one of the assistants stepped between the coaches. Cable ran into the other assistant, who bumped into Hanson and knocked him out of his chair and on to the floor.
The witnesses said Cable grabbed Hanson by the shirt but never struck or threatened him.
"It should be further noted that within the past week and a half, Mr. Hanson showed up unannounced at the police department and made a statement to the effect that since the Raiders had not given him what he asked for, he would now fully cooperate with the prosecution," Lieberstein said.
Lieberstein said there were inconsistencies in what Hanson told the police and what he said in media interviews. He said those were not cleared up in a follow-up interview on Wednesday.
This does not mean Cable's troubles are over. Hanson will likely file a civil lawsuit.
Before the DA's announcement, Cable told reporters "no comment" repeatedly. And then, asked if he was looking forward to the matter being resolved, he broke down and commented anyway:
"Absolutely," he said. "That's something I will comment on. I coach this team. That's my job and I've been really focused on it. The fact that I believe in what's right is all I can say. Trust it."
Background: Hanson was one of the assistants hired for this year's staff before Cable had even gotten the job as head coach. Cable took over as interim coach last season when Lane Kiffin was fired after four games and reportedly tried to get rid of Hanson then, but owner Al Davis overruled him. Davis brought Hanson back on this season's staff a few weeks before announcing that Cable was hired as coach.
Hanson was also a key player in the dispute that helped lead to Kiffin's firing. Kiffin suspended Hanson after the assistant criticized the coaching staff in a meeting following a 41-14 season-opening loss to Denver. Davis later reinstated Hanson and Kiffin was fired a few weeks later
Avoiding criminal charges gets Tom Cable off the hook with the NFL. Commissioner Roger Goodell told the Associated Press that the NFL is "allowing the criminal process to go forward for some period of time" before rendering judgment.
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A winner was selected from 157 designs submitted by 68 freelance designers.
We need a logo. We want something simple and stylish. Please read entire description thoroughly. Feedback will be provided on all entries promptly.
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Desired Color Scheme:
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Who We Are: We are an award winning designer and builder, specialising in luxury homes. We have been operating under the name of Classic projects for over 20 years. Our name is well known and respected. We now build more contemporary, modern homes however do not want to change the name, so we need the style to represent this.
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We want the logo to be very simple. Nothing that represents a house, but architectual lines could work. Please keep it simple but styish!
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By Kiva Fellows, Various corners of the globe
Around the world, Kiva Fellows are celebrating the start of 2011 in all sorts of different ways. Here's what some KF13-ers are doing to ring in the New Year.
Enjoy and Happy 2011!
Ellen Willems, Ecuador
Ecuadorians, as I was told, celebrate the coming of the New Year, and more importantly the going of the "Old Year" by making "monigotes". These are dolls made of old clothes, stuffed with newspapers or sawdust and sometimes with fireworks as well. They have masks made of papier maché. The monigotes represent the "Viejo" or Old Year and all the bad things that happened during that year. On New Year's Eve these monigotes are burnt in the streets.
New Year's Eve, as well as Christmas, is a holiday that is mostly celebrated with family. And traditionally all the family members work together to make the monigotes. In San José de Chimbo, the small mountain village where I am currently living, a judge, accompanied by the local band, goes around town to look at all the monigotes and to select the three most original ones.
Cooperativa San José will close its doors early on Friday and kick off the New Year's Eve festivities with an office party and its own monigote. I am sure that for me 2011 will start with a Big Bang because San José de Chimbo is known throughout the area as a mayor fireworks producer!
Betsy McCormick, Colombia
Two fun Colombian traditions to speak of:
1. People in Medellin wear yellow underwear on New Year's Eve because it's supposed to bring good luck.
2. At midnight, people run around the block toting empty suitcases behind them. This is supposed to bring travel in the new year.
Abhishek Banerjee, Armenia
New Year's Eve, similar to Christmas, is a holiday celebrated mostly with family. I have been told that generally, families get together for NYE to eat and drink. However, after midnight, many families then leave home and go visit their friends and neighbors, eat and drink some more and occasionally burst into dance. As a country that stays up into the late hours of the night quite often, this doesn't surprise me.
On a side note, Armenians follow the Gregorian calendar and their Christmas falls on the 6th of January. As a result, 30th Dec – 10th Jan is basically the time off for all offices and banks. SEF will also be closed till the 10th of Jan.
Personally, I am taking this long break as an excuse to fly out to Europe and ring in the new year with some old friends!
Julie Shea, Bolivia
Bolivians typically eat New Years Eve dinner with their families, after which the young people head off to parties with their friends. At midnight they eat 12 grapes each, presumably to represent each month of the coming year. Echoing the Colombian traditions (above), many people will walk around the block with a suitcase, which is supposed to bring travel in the new year. The women wear red underwear if they want love in the new year, yellow underwear for money. At 6AM when the parties are ending, everyone goes out for Fricasé, a traditional pork dish.
Tara Capsuto, Kenya
Christmas and New Years is a time when many Nairobians pack into overcrowded taxi-vans and buses and head home to their villages – where they have their ancestral roots — to celebrate the festive season with family and friends. Rising urbanization, especially over the last 30 years spawned the tradition of going home for the holiday. The capital city, renowned for terrible traffic, literally emptied out by December 24th. For both Christmas and New Years the tradition is to slaughter and roast a goat, which can be bought for 3,000Ksh ($37USD), or selected from the pasture for those families fortunate to have their own shamba (farm in Kiswahili). I'll be celebrating New Years in Zanzibar, Tanzania with some new friends!
Nick Hamilton, Dominican Republic
Dominicans celebrate New Year's Eve in the same way that they celebrate Christmas, which is actually celebrated on Christmas Eve. It's a time for families to get together and sit around a dinner table feasting on meat, rice, meat and more meat. Once they have seen in the New Year the young at heart will then go out and party until the early hours.
Having spent Christmas with my host family, I actually travelled to a beach resort called Cabarete with some friends and saw in the New Year there. We were a group of Argentinians, Italians, Dominicans and a Brit (that's me) and so we actually celebrated New Year four different times for each country over a 5 hour period, which was lots of fun!
Amber Barger, Mongolia
Mongolians traditionally ring in the New Year during the last two weeks of December. Each evening, different organizations hold their annual New Year's parties to celebrate achievements during the past year and to create a sense of motivation and community for the next year. Christmas and New Year celebrations are commonly thought to be the same holiday by many Mongolians. At New Year's parties you'll find Santa Claus and his scantily-clad snow girls playing silly games. The attendees will be charmed with an intertwining of live singing, dancing, and award –giving. All of this entertainment plus alcoholic beverages and dinner are included in the usual entry fee averaging anywhere from $25-85 USD per party. If you're involved in many organizations, you'll be expected to attend multiple New Year's parties each year. Ladies are sure to wear their glittery dresses and men wear their nice suits or traditional deels.
On the actual New Year's Eve, though, it's a family affair, as it's a common view that if you aren't home with your family on New Year's Eve, then you won't be home for most of the next year. The President of Mongolia normally gives a speech around midnight and the family members gather around the television to watch this.


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Manages the operations of assigned restaurant; responsible for achieving planned sales and profit levels for the restaurant through the implementation, management, and enforcement of company policies, procedures, programs, and performance standards.
Directly supervises all managers and employees during the entire hours of operation of assigned restaurant. Accountable for all administration and operations, ensuring execution of all employee duties to guarantee maximum guest satisfaction and a quality work environment.
Reports directly to Regional Manager
Internal Contacts: Extensive contacts with all levels of store personnel as well as all home office departments.
External Contacts: Extensive contacts include guests, distributors, repair technicians, vendors, salespersons, and community organizations and schools.
Responsible for achieving plan profit levels while ensuring maximum guest satisfaction.
Plans and analyzes unit's manpower, ensuring sufficient development and training of all
employees, including management.
Conducts employment activities to include staffing (hire/fire responsibilities) interviewing,
training, and conducting performance reviews with all dining room personnel, as well as,
recommending salary increases and preparing employee documentation.
Required, under certain circumstances, to perform/assist all functions for all positions
in the restaurant.
Ensures that all menu items are prepared, portioned, and presented properly in a clean
safe, and sanitary manner according to all established procedures, performance standards,
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Ensures the unit's compliance to productivity and service standards with a sufficient
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energy conservation, repairs, security measures, and adherence to safety and sanitation
Ensures that inventory levels for both food and non-food items are properly maintained in
accordance with company guidelines through correct ordering procedures and efficiency
usage and yield application.
Anticipates, identifies and corrects system breakdowns to achieve guest satisfaction.
Accountable for accurate financial data to include: payroll, cash and receipts, productivity
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Attends scheduled regional meetings; makes presentations as requested.
Extensive standing, without breaks
Exposure to heat, steam, smoke, cold
Reaching heights of approximately 6 feet and depths of 2 1/2 - 3 ft.
Must have high level of mobility/flexibility in space provided
Must be able to fit through openings 30' wide
Must be able to work irregular hours under heavy pressure/stress during busy times
Bending, reaching, walking
Communicating with guests; telephone etiquette; operating cash register
Carrying trays of food products weighing about 20 pounds for distances up to 30 feet
Lifting up to 50 pounds
High school diploma; some college or degree preferred.
Two years previous managerial experience; preferably in the food service industry.
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Comming with the whole new look and feel, and soon to be grand opening of Tempest Night Studios, we are now offering sub-forums to any web-comic who needs a place to rest it's discussion. (Tempest-night.com Still being worked on, though WILL be finished by the end of the week!)
The idea is that each person brings in members to the web-comic scene, and therefor, allows other webcomics to be known as well. Ie: alot more traffic for everyone.
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Kimberly Perry Calls in Help to Plan Wedding, Won't Be Performing
Kimberly Perry may seem like she has it all together, but there are some things the rockin' frontlady can't do -- and that includes planning a wedding. The blonde Band Perry singer says she's called in backup, including her mother, to help pull the event together. And no, she won't be performing on her special day!
Taste of Country Nights host Sam Alex sat down with the band and caught up with Kimberly about her upcoming nuptials with J.P. Arencibia of the Texas Rangers. With a busy schedule including tour dates, the Perry sister understandably doesn't have much time to plan the wedding herself.
"I only know how to do one thing and that's play a show and playin' a show," Perry says. "So I have my mom [who] is really great at this sort of thing. We've got a little bit of help."
Kimberly will get to enjoy her wedding day and not have to worry about anything -- especially performing. The couple is hiring their own wedding performer to serenade them and their guests.
"I am not performing," Kimberly assures.
"Yeah, she'll have a mic at the altar," Neil jokes.
The lead singer admits she's definitely more excited than her two brothers. "I think I'm more excited than Reid and Neil," she dishes. "They're just tired of, like, talking about details at this point. Well, you're listening to details, you're not as much talking about 'em."
Either way, we know Kimberly will make a beautiful bride on her special day! Congrats to the happy couple!


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It was a hard job to restore the forum... Horrible ! Now everything is fine. Feel free to let me know any problems... The server seems faster... And the forum too. At least for me...
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2009-10 Indoor: Won gold in the shot put (13.75m) and bronze in the weight throw (15.14m) at the America East Championships… Placed sixth in the shot put with a throw of 14.01m at the ECAC Championships… Set a UMBC season-best mark in the shot put of 14.08m at the New York Armory… Won the shot put at the Rider/Lafayette Winter Games… Named team's Most Valuable Athlete at UMBC's varsity awards ceremony in May.
Background: Was Maryland 3A State Champion in the Shot put in 2008 and 2009… Won 3A State crown in the discus in 2008… Won 3A Regional champion in the shot put and discus in 2009… Was named Harford County Athlete of the Year in 2008… Was named to the All-Metropolitan team in 2008… Was named 3rd team all state in 2008 and 2009… Was named to Harford County All County team 2007-2009…
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Salibu: 20/08/10 wrote:You have all been Swalched.
Swalchy wrote:Congrats on the version 18 release, LF!
Your never-ending dedication to the SF3 TP isn't appreciated often enough!
Boegy wrote:Hey guys,
I used the patcher because I'm on Windows 10. I also checked off for paul_met's mod to be installed as well. I know some people were saying that it removes the black bars at the bottom and top of the screen. However, for me it looks the same. Not sure if its my monitor which is a 24" 1920x1080, my SFF setup or maybe I misread something in the forums. Any help would be great.
EricLegacy21 wrote:First I must say congrats on Version 18 Second, I tested the patching on Windows 10, works great! And third, I did try using Daemon Tools Lite version 10.5 and it seems to be working okay for the patching process as well! Thanks again for the continued work on the project!
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After Guantanamo, Freed Detainees Returned to Violence in Syria Battlefields
Release of Five Senior Taliban Figures from the U.S. Detention Center Renews Debate
CASABLANCA—A decade ago, the U.S. released three hardened Moroccan militants from Guantanamo and turned them over to the Moroccan government on the assumption they wouldn't return to the battlefield.
They wound up leading one of the most violent Islamist groups fighting in Syria's civil war.
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Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a successful deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government grant, plans are underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu.
Visiting Australia to discuss Linux and open source software in education at this year's linux.conf.au in Melbourne, independent open source consultant Ricardo Gonzalez, said there were a number of factors that led to Linux being chosen over the venerable Microsoft Windows.
Gonzalez, based in Manila, told Computerworld Linux became popular in the Philippines soon after the 1997 Asian financial crisis when open source was investigated for its value proposition to organizations.
"Open source was a viable business alternative because no one was doing it commercially," Gonzalez said.
While Gonzalez was teaching the IT dealer network how to profit from open source, Microsoft launched its anti-piracy policy in the Philippines, so he told the government there was an alternative.
Also at the time, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Education launched the PCPS program, or PCs for Public Schools with the aim of providing one PC for each of the 10,000 public high schools in the country.
With funding from the Japanese government, the PCPS program started around the 2000 timeframe when the contractors installed Windows PCs, but five years later it was discovered a lot of the computers were not being used because nobody knew how to use them.
A company by the name of Advanced Solutions Inc (ASI) asked Gonzalez to come on board as a consultant as it was preparing to do bids for 1000 schools. However, this time it would not be only desktops, but one server, 10 desktops, and Internet connectivity in every school.
"We wanted to use Fedora 5 and it went all the way to office of [the Filipino] President and they kept passing it around saying 'why would they offer something for free, and how would they support and teach it'," Gonzalez said. "The project dragged on for four to five months to a point where Microsoft matched the price by offering Windows XP for $US20 a copy and throwing in Office for $US30, but we still came out cheaper. Microsoft was also providing free training to high school teachers."


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List of unnamed Federation starships of the Miranda-class.
Stranded in Spacedock
In 2286, this unnamed Miranda-class starship was disabled, during a layover in the Earth Spacedock, by an unknown alien probe. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
Qualor II hulks
In 2368, the hulks of two unnamed Miranda-class starships were stored at Surplus Depot Z15 in orbit of Qualor II. (TNG: "Unification I")
Evacuation of Veridian III
In 2371, an unnamed Miranda-class starship assisted the USS Farragut and an unnamed Oberth-class vessel in recovering the crew of USS Enterprise-D from Veridian III, following the forced crash-landing of its saucer section. (Star Trek Generations)
Battle of Sector 001
In 2373, two unnamed Miranda-class starships fought against the Borg in the Battle of Sector 001.
The first Miranda-class was on the starboard side of the Borg cube firing photon torpedoes as the ship approached Earth.
The second Miranda-class was on the port side of Borg cube attempting to evade the Borg's tractor beam as it targeted nearby ships, including an Akira-class starship, and the USS Defiant. (Star Trek: First Contact)
Gilhouly's task force
In mid-2373, three unnamed Miranda-class starships, accompanied by two unnamed Excelsior-class starships, were part of Admiral Gilhouly's task force that arrived at Deep Space 9 to assist the space station against the Dominion threat, shortly after they entered the Alpha Quadrant and were joined by the Cardassians. (DS9: "By Inferno's Light")
Second Fleet
In late 2373, several unnamed Miranda-class starships belonged to the Second Fleet.
While the Dominion attacked Deep Space 9, during the Second Battle of Deep Space 9, several of these vessels crossed the Cardassian border and destroyed the Dominion shipyards on Torros III. These ships later joined with the USS Defiant and IKS Rotarran, following the evacuation of DS9, for a counterattack against the Dominion forces. (DS9: "Call to Arms")
Three months after the start of the war at least three Miranda's were part of the retreating Second Fleet. (DS9: "A Time to Stand")


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Instead of writing your own timing code, I will show how to use the module timeit that is included in Python.
But first a question:
Why is there a time it module and why would you want to use it? After all the simple timing function from atraubs tutorial looks so simple:
import time def simple_timer(func, *args): start = time.time() func(*args) return time.time() - start
There are a few little problems:
You didn't turn the garbage collector of. If it works while you are timing you get unpredictable results.
You used time.time(). Fine on Linux, but don't forget to change that to time.clock() on a Windows machine. time.time on a Windows machine only measures in steps of 1/60 seconds.
By the time you thought about all those little details you probably have recreated the timeit module ;-)
Now lets start with a silly example:
>>> import timeit >>> timer = timeit.Timer(stmt='print "I will be timed"', setup='print "I am the setup code"') >>> total_time = timer.timeit(number=3) I am the setup code I will be timed I will be timed I will be timed >>> print total_time 0.0150561332703 >>> times = timer.repeat(repeat = 2, number = 1) I am the setup code I will be timed I am the setup code I will be timed >>> print times [0.0035791397094726562, 0.0040519237518310547]
What did we do? Obviously first we imported the timeit module. Then we set up the timing environment, by passing python code as two strings to timeit.Timer.
Timer takes two arguments: setup and stmt. setup will be executed, before we actually measure the execution time and stmt is the code we actually want to measure.
They default to 'pass', so when you don't need any setup code you can omit setup.
The Timer class has two methods, timeit and repeat. When we use timeit, we pass it an argument number. It runs the setup code once
and then executes statement number times. It returns the total time it took for that (excluding the setup of course). The default value for number is 1000000 in case you don't pass it the argument.
repeat takes two arguments, repeat and number. I guess you already figured out: In our example it does the same as if we were running timer.timeit(number=1) two times and put the results in a list.
That is all fine, but we usually want to time a function we already have written. We don't want to put that whole code in triple quotes, we want to pass it directly to timeit.Timer. How do we do that? You might think of the following:
>>> import timeit >>> def silly(x): return x >>> timer = timeit.Timer(stmt='f(3)') >>> print timer.timeit(10) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#19>", line 1, in <module> print timer.timeit(10) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/timeit.py", line 193, in timeit timing = self.inner(it, self.timer) File "<timeit-src>", line 6, in inner NameError: global name 'f' is not defined
Oops, what happened? timeit sets up it's own namespace for running the test code. An isolated namespace might be a good idea, but f isn't defined there. We need to import f into that namespace first:
import timeit def silly(x): return x timer = timeit.Timer(stmt='silly(3)', setup='from __main__ import silly') print timer.timeit(number=10)
That is the main recipe for using timeit. Obviously, if silly was in a different module we would replace __main__ with silly's module name.
There are two convenience functions in the timeit module, timeit and repeat. They are just little wrappers that spare us some typing. We can call them like:
timeit.timeit(stmt=..., setup=..., number=...)
instead of:
timer = timeit.Timer(stmt, setup) timer.timeit(number)
A few more notes:
timeit.Timer takes a third optional argument, timer. But usually you are fine with the defaults (time.time on Linux, time.clock on Windows)
timeit can also be used from the command line. Just type in
python -m timeit -h
to see how to use it. Is is rather self explaining.
Also timeit is meant to measure execution time for 'small' bits of code, like isolated functions. The problem is not that is easily chokes on larger programs. But for that purpose there are better tools.
You might want to see which function called which function how many times and how long that took respectively. cProfile come to mind for that purpose.


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This guide deals with the process of implementing responses to problems in problem-oriented policing (POP) initiatives. It addresses the reasons why the responses you plan to implement do or do not get properly implemented, and how you can better ensure that they do. The guide does not address the broader issues relating to implementing a problem-oriented approach to policing within a police agency, matters that have been more fully explored elsewhere. 1
The POP literature has paid a fair amount of attention to the processes of analyzing the nature and extent of problems and developing suitable responses to them. Relatively little attention has been paid to the actual process of implementing the responses, and to the factors that are important in getting it right. 2 It is clear from POP studies, however, that implementation failure is common.
Implementation takes place in the "response" phase of the SARA (Scanning, Analysis, Response, Assessment) problem-solving model. The response phase actually comprises at least three different tasks: (1) conducting a broad, uninhibited search for response alternatives; (2) choosing from among those alternatives; and (3) implementing the chosen alternatives. 3
There are four basic reasons why any particular problem-solving initiative might fail:
This guide concerns itself principally with the third of these four reasons: successful or failed response implementation.
The guide is divided according to the four key stages of implementation:
Bear in mind that POP initiatives are of varying scope and complexity, ranging from highly localized projects that a lone police officer might address as part of his or her routine duties, to ambitious projects affecting the entire jurisdiction that require a team of specialists to address. Therefore, the factors and recommendations discussed here will have more or less importance, depending on the POP initiative's scope and complexity.
You must take into account a range of factors before beginning the implementation process. In some cases, these factors are a given and cannot be influenced. Understanding these will help in selecting responses and in planning how you will implement them. In other cases, you can alter the factors to generate a more satisfactory outcome from an implementation perspective. Regardless of the type of factor concerned, they help to set the context within which future implementation will be undertaken.
There are six key factors that you should take into account before starting implementation: 4
Each of these factors is discussed in the following pages.
Responses are more likely to be implemented where there is clear support for them within the organization undertaking the implementation. This is particularly important where an organization is expected to invest resources in an initiative. Here, there are a number of questions that you should ask that may affect internal support:
You should consider each of these issues before starting an initiative, as a lack of organizational support could make it more difficult to win the necessary resources and colleague support to complete the work required. It is also important to bear in mind that internal support will also be helpful if there are subsequent implementation problemsespecially problems involving external partners or the local community.
While it is important for the initiative to have the support of the organization responsible for its implementation, it is equally important to win the support of the specific people tasked with delivering the initiative. In the context of implementing POP initiatives, it is desirable that the people needed to implement responses feel some sense of ownership of the action plan. 5 You can cultivate a sense of ownership in key people by providing them with opportunities to influence the project's direction, such that they feel they are not merely implementing somebody else's plan, but implementing their own. Conversely, a lack of input by key people at meaningful project stages can lead to their lack of commitment to implementation. 6
Ideally, the same people should remain actively involved throughout a project, from initial problem identification to analysis to response development to response implementation to assessment. Ideally, those who spearheaded the problem analysis would have the capacity and desire to put their resultant plan into action.
In some cases, action plans are developed without the input or commitment of those who will be tasked with putting the plan into action, such as professional grant writers, whose role is to bid for external funding. This obviously can have a detrimental effect on winning ownership for an initiative if it is felt that the solution to the problem is imposed on those tasked with carrying it out.
Where it is impossible for the lead problem analysts to implement the action plan, the next best possibility is for the plan to be officially assigned to one or more people who will be held accountable for carrying it out. When responsibility for implementing an action plan is neither assumed nor assigned, the plan typically lies dormant.
The lead researchers of the earliest POP initiative examining the problem of drinking drivers concluded that the failure to fully implement the recommendations for action arising out of the inquiry were largely attributable to the fact that no one person within the police agency had or was given responsibility for doing so. 7 By contrast, the recommendations for action that emerged out of the same researchers' analysis of a second problemrepeat sex offenderswere promptly and effectively implemented owing largely to the fact that a police lieutenant was tasked with doing so. 8
A sense of ownership of a response plan is unlikely to be created merely by assigning it to someone, or by providing extrinsic motivations such as financial reward. For example, where police officers or others agree to carry out certain assignments principally because there is overtime compensation to be earned from doing so, it is often the case that the commitment to carrying out the plan as originally designed is weakened.
Just as internal support is essential to successfully implement a response, so too is external support. There are potentially a number of sources from which you might obtain external support.
In some cases, you can implement responses without requiring external organizations support or cooperation, using the police agencys internal skills and expertise. However, increasingly, multifaceted initiatives involve working with other partner organizations, drawing on their particular mandate and expertise to complete aspects of the required work. 9
In engaging with partner organizations whose support is essential, it is important to take into account the culture, perspective, objectives, and performance indicators under which the organizations operate. 10 Partnership-working is likely to be most successful where there is mutual benefit from engaging in an initiative. Therefore, you must understand how an external organization is likely to receive involvement in a given response and, where necessary, sell the benefits of involvement in their own terms. Indeed, responses are more likely to be implemented if the people and organizations tasked with implementation feel they are competent to carry out the activity, one that fits their conception of what they or their organization should be doing. For example, police are more likely to conduct criminal law enforcement activities because such activities fit squarely within the scope of police competence and self-image. They are likely to be more reluctant to engage in other sorts of tasks, such as providing social services. So, too, with other agencies. The Boston Gun Project, which comprised an interagency task force, appears to have apportioned the various tasks that were part of its overall response plan in accordance with the participating agencies' respective competencies and self-images. The police engaged in enforcement crackdowns, the clergy and gang outreach workers offered aid to gang members, probation officers supervised their clients, prosecutors prosecuted crimes, and so forth. Responses were faithfully implemented perhaps in part because no agencies or people were asked to stretch their conventional sense of their own function. 11
In other circumstances, an organization may undertake an initiative without taking into account the existence of other organizations delivering similar interventions in a similar area. In the United Kingdom, police target-hardening of burglary victims homes, undertaken under the auspices of the Home Office-funded Reducing Burglary Initiative, sometimes conflicted with the work of local charities that were target-hardening the homes of vulnerable people (including burglary victims) in the same areas. It is therefore useful to consider who else is undertaking similar interventions for the same target area/group and to engage them in participating in the initiative, rather than setting up new structures that end up competing for the same intervention recipients. 12
Response plans that enjoy grassroots community support tend to be more likely to be implemented than those without it because you can convert such support into political influence, which can mobilize resources and action. Indianapolis police could sustain an intensive effort to stop vehicles, search for guns, and investigate suspicious drivers and occupants in a predominantly minority community owing in large part to police preparatory work to gain community understanding of and support for the initiative. 13
Before implementing a response plan, you should consult with those community members whom the action will most affect. This may include active forms of consultation, such as community meetings and meetings with key community representatives, and more passive forms of consultation, such as letters to local community members informing them of the response plan. The response plans effectiveness may depend in part on this consultation. 14
When media coverage of an initiative presents the police agency in a favorable light, it can provide a substantial boost to response implementation in several ways:
Media coverage, however, is not universally supportive of initiatives to address particular problems and can, in fact, thwart them. When Lauderhill, Fla., police filed a nuisance abatement action against a commercial property owner as a means of controlling an open-air drug market operating on the property, local newspaper coverage was hostile to the police action, adopting the editorial view that only drug dealers and buyers should be held responsible for the drug market, not the property owner, and further questioning police motives. Although the adverse media coverage did not ultimately hinder the legal action, it did weaken public support for it. 15
Leadership associated with the project is key, both in terms of the person taking an initiative forward and in terms of the implementing organization as a whole. Where individual project leadership is concerned, it is often cited as one of the factors influencing response implementation. 16 Indeed, it often seems that a strong leader can make a success of even the weakest of responses due to his or her diligence, persistence, and perseverance in the implementation process. These people schedule and lead meetings, perform the tasks they have agreed to and hold others accountable for doing the same, and generally do whatever is necessary to keep the project a priority concern. These people often exercise a degree of leadership not commonly expected of their rank and position. They press ahead unless made to stop. This highlights the importance of carefully selecting a project leader. It should not simply be a matter of who can spare the time, but rather who is best for the job, preferably with a track record for delivering on past projects.
Where organizational leadership is concerned, response implementation can be assisted by strong senior management leadership. This can provide support and encouragement for a project, as well as address high-level problems should the need arise. It can also be beneficial where high-level policy changes are involved. This was exemplified when the Fremont, Calif., police chief spearheaded his agency initiative to change its response to burglar alarms. In the face of strong alarm-industry opposition, the chief pressed the case for a policy change by carefully presenting his agencys internal analysis of its response to burglar alarms to alarm owners, elected officials, and the public at large. 17
In police agencies in which initiative is not encouraged among the lower ranks, POP projects can fail because the higher-ranking executive officers on whom project leadership depends can become easily distracted by other pressing concerns. The lack of engagement by high-ranking officers at critical junctures in the project can mean that the project achieves less than it might otherwise.
Good senior management leadership should also help to create an organizational attitude in which failure is acceptable, but where failing to try isnt. Organizations with a strong blame culture will stifle innovation and creativity by making staff wary of trying something new, for fear of being seen to fail.
Good communication is essential with all parties involved in a project. From the outset, all parties should be aware of what is expected from them, and differences of opinion should be addressed early on, before they adversely affect peoples relationships.
Communication associated with an initiative needs to be multidirectional and possibly involve different messages for different groups. Those with whom communication should be undertaken include
From the outset of a response, it is important to have in mind the resources available to complete an initiative. All responses will be subject to four key constraints: time, costs, other resources, and quality. Where time is concerned, there will usually be a deadline by which the response is expected to be completed. Costs refer to the financial expenditure or hard cash associated with the implementation. In many responses, some cash must be expended in the process. Other resources refer to the myriad other things that an organization can bring to a response. These will include staff time, office space and equipment, vehicles, etc. These are often viewed as free from the organizational perspective, but are subject to an opportunity costif they were not devoted to implementing this response, they could be used for other purposes. Quality refers to how the response is completed and how thoroughly a job is done.
From a resourceallocation perspective, there will be tradeoffs among these four constraints. For example, a job may be completed in a shorter time if more other resources are devoted to it. Alternatively, a response may be completed at a lower cost by reducing the quality of the work that is acceptable. From the outset of implementation, it will be important to keep in mind each of these constraints, which will reflect the resources available.
While initiatives are often provided with time and other resources, there is often a problem with accessing working capital required to pay for the project's running costs. This could be because there are insufficient funds available or the administrative mechanisms that govern public organizations expenditures stifle the ability to make timely purchases. An evaluation of the U.K.s Arson Control Forums New Projects Initiative found that while the funding had allowed local fire and rescue services to recruit arson task forces, some couldn't implement initiatives due to a lack of funds. 18 By contrast, some of the arson task forces leveraged in significant additional funding from partner agencies by offering some funding themselves.
There are a number of issues associated with staffing that need to be addressed from the outset. These include
Each of these is discussed in turn below.
Creating a specialized assignment to address a problem appears to increase the likelihood that action plans will be implemented. Specialized assignments might be in the form of special task forces, specialized units, detachments, and other similar arrangements. The specialization of the assignment might be either to the particular problem or to some sort of problemsolving unit within which the people assigned can choose problems to address and concentrate their work on them. Among the most successful POP initiatives, one more commonly finds them occurring within the context of specialized rather than generalized assignments.
Typically, specialized assignments provide not only the time and other resources necessary to the task, but also they often yield greater accountability because responsibility for addressing particular problems is more firmly established. Specialized assignments can also prevent staff from being used for other duties by protecting them as a dedicated resource.
Additionally, specialized assignments offer other intangible benefits to the people assuming those assignments: prestige, freedom from ordinary duties, greater autonomy over working conditions, and so forth. To the extent the people value these benefits, they have incentives to ensure that action plans are implemented and that the project appears to be moving forward and producing results.
In many cases, the staff available to undertake a response may be nonnegotiable, based on who is then available. However, if possible, identify people with relevant skills and experience to implement the initiative. Furthermore, people with a good network of contacts in partner organizations can prove extremely useful, as it can mean the formal lines of communication between agencies can be circumvented, thereby getting the job done more quickly, and possibly with less potential for a refusal to cooperate. In addition, local knowledge of an area and the people that live there can prove useful for dealing with problems on the ground. In short, dont underestimate the importance of informal contacts.
When current staff are not available and budgets allow, it may be necessary to recruit new project staff. This has frequently been shown to take longer than anticipated, with a recruitment process often taking six to nine months before the candidate starts work. This can have a detrimental impact on an initiatives timing, especially if implementation cannot begin until that staff member is in place.
Many positions will be funded on short-term contracts, and this creates uncertainty for staff funded in this way. One can usually expect a staff member to start looking for a new job six months before the contract termination. This can create problems of continuity if the staff member leaves some months before the end of the project, as there is likely to be insufficient time to recruit a new staff member. In turn, this can affect the degree of implementation that can be completed.
For agencies large enough to justify the cost, it may be preferable to hire and develop permanent support staff who have the necessary knowledge, skills. and abilities for problemoriented projects. The permanent support staff should then be able to manage most projects internally, and even if external aid is needed, the permanent staff can work with the external staff to help ensure continuity.
For a discussion of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for effective problem analysis and management, see Boba (2003) [PDF].
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All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
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Common side effects of this medicine include:
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Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
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Once fertilized plants can self-seed but others need a little assistance. Many flowers will turn into fruits and berries so birds and mammals are invited to eat the fruit, ingest seeds and distribute them via their droppings.
Other plants have fruit or nuts that require an animal to open it to let the seeds or nuts fall out, carry them on their fur to a new site or bury them.
Birds see more in red and yellow which is why many berries are those colours.
In countries where birds feed from flowers many native species are also red or yellow to attract nectar feeding avian species like Hummingbirds.
Birds love small berries like; Cotoneaster, Berberis, Pyracantha, Sorbus (Rowan), Crataegus (Hawthorn) as well as most of your small fruits like Raspberries and Redcurrants if given half a chance so cover your crops.
Bees see more in blues and purples and according to research bees see yellow flowers as blue too.
They are not restricted to this colour spectrum but gravitate towards them first.
Lavender, Nepeta, Penstemon, Escallonia and Allium are all great bee attractors.
Butterflies prefer more open flowers as unlike bees they can't crawl into bell-shaped ones so Buddleia, Lilac, Red Valerian (although it can self-seed quickly in a garden), Verbena bonariensis and Scabiosa are perfect for them.
If you're a fan of Stag Beetles then old log piles in corners are great homes for them.
They have been in decline over the years but by offering them ideal habitats they will potentially come. If only we could send slugs and snails packing.
It's no good attracting bees and butterflies in the summer if the flowers die so please, please, PLEASE water your plants.
Leaky water pipe systems can save you time and are relatively inexpensive if you have an outdoor tap. If you want to go one step further you can get easy to install systems with timers from most garden centres and DIY stores.
Seasonal tips for July/August
• Water young plants well.
• Dead head flowers to prolong display.
• Prune early summer flowering shrubs.
• Mow lawns regularly.
• Leave water out for birds.
• Consider who will look after any garden requirements should you be going on holiday.
Go to gardens.wellgroundedgroup.com
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- Learn about Kent's great gardens at event opened by Great British Bake Off runner-up
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he caravan was ready to move out. The wagons were lined up. The mood was somber. One who was there reported that "there was a silence and stillness of the voice that betrayed the sadness of the heart." Behind them the makeshift camp where some had spent three months of a Tennessee summer was already ablaze. There was no going back.
A white-haired old man, Chief Going Snake, led the way on his pony, followed by a group of young men on horseback. Just as the wagons moved off along the narrow roadway, they heard a sound. Although the day was bright, there was a black thundercloud in the west. The thunder died away and the wagons continued their long journey westward toward the setting sun. Many who heard the thunder thought it was an omen of more trouble to come.¹
This is the story of the removal of the Cherokee Nation from its ancestral homeland in parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama to land set aside for American Indians in what is now the state of Oklahoma. Some 100,000 American Indians forcibly removed from what is now the eastern United States to what was called Indian Territory included members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes. The Cherokee's journey by water and land was over a thousand miles long, during which many Cherokees were to die. Tragically, the story in this lesson is also one of conflict within the Cherokee Nation as it struggled to hold on to its land and its culture in the face of overwhelming force.
The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward. It also promotes a greater awareness of the Trail's legacy and the effects of the United States' policy of American Indian removal not only on the Cherokee, but also on other tribes, primarily the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole.¹ W. Shorey Coodey to John Howard Payne, n.d.; cited in John Ehle, Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (New York: Doubleday, 1988), 351.
About This Lesson
Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
Locating the Site: Maps
Determining the Facts: Readings
Visual Evidence: Images
Putting It All Together: Activities
How the National Register
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
The lesson is based on the Major Ridge House, the John Ross House, and Rattlesnake Springs, several of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Major Ridge House and the John Ross House have been designated National Historic Landmarks.


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Hopes are rising after the sighting of a possible Scottish wildcat was spotted on camera by a gamekeeper on a grouse moor in the Angus Glens.
The sighting is rare as wildcats are Scotland's most endangered mammal and there may only be a few left in the country.
A local gamekeeper claims he spotted a possible wildcat enjoying a meal of rabbit when he checked footage from the camera he is operating as part of Scottish Wildcat Action's drive to conserve the species.
Bruce Cooper, head gamekeeper, a member of Angus Glens Moorland Group, was checking film on Wednesday evening when he saw the cat with highly distinctive markings.
The glens of Angus were identified last year as being one of the six priority areas for wildcat conservation and the grouse estate – where the sighting was recorded – lies within the Cairngorms National Park.
Images of the cat have now been sent by Mr Cooper to the project team for identification before it is decided what the next steps should be.
Mr Cooper said: "The trail cameras were installed in the New Year and I was checking the film for the second time when I saw the cat. It came to a bait of rabbit and it looks like the real deal, although that will have to be established now."
Project officers at Scottish Wildcat Action will now examine the images as pure wildcats have a thick, ringed blunt tail with no stripe and tabby markings.
Hebe Carus, Scottish Wildcat Action officer, who is leading activity in the Angus Glens and Northern Strathspey areas, said: "Reliable identification requires having a variety of different views of the cat and looking for the seven main defining features.
"Only after analysing the pictures Bruce has sent can I confirm whether the cat displays all the defining features of a genuine Scottish wildcat.
"At the cameras there is also a scented post with Velcro on to capture hairs so we can analyse DNA. So far, we have no hairs to analyse, but we hope the cat returns so we get more photos and possibly a hair sample."


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Its quite funny when he calls pull is his favourite shot, decent talent though.
Its quite funny when he calls pull is his favourite shot, decent talent though.
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Interesting as I've never ever seen an international batsmen quite that crap against the short ball, he wasn't even ducking, just fending it away with his gloves. He definitely has the reflexes to play it, but as mentioned earlier if you haven't been taught it early as a kid it will be very hard for him to learn now. Basically he needs a LOT of net sessions in a bouncy net with the bowling machine sending down short stuff at 85-90. Needs to build himself a back foot technique from scratch, both defensive and attacking shots. I reckon we should ship him off to the Australian academy and let one of the Chappell brothers loose on him. Even if he was merely adequate on the back foot, he's so strong off the front he could be a useful player. Rohit Sharma needs to tighten his technique, it's got too much off Yuvraj about it with the lazy arm movements.
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I'm not sure if he even practices the hook in net practice.
Imagine the Premier League (football) with predominantely English players.
All-Time Test XI:
Gavaskar, Boycott, Tendulkar, G.Pollock, V.Richards, Sobers, Gilchrist (wk), Warne (c), Waqar/Wasim, Lillee, Ambrose.
Zaheer definitely benefitted from County Cricket
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Players like RP Singh had simple things wrong. He had a weakness in the upper thigh, which was fixed with the appropriate strength regimen - why couldn't an Indian coach have noticed that? Because Indian state boards hire people to pay back favors, not the people best qualified. And Zaheer is a miles better bowler after his stint with Worcestershire.
Players do not make the best coaches, and they may not know anything about fitness (especially the Indian team), biomechanics, etc. I firmly believe that county cricket is one of the best things any young player can do, in terms of his career. The resources and training you get is second to none. The WI bowlers of the past used it as a finishing school, and for good reason.
It's too bad there is no formal relationship to exchange players between first class teams around the world. I think it would do everyone a lot of good.
-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
How the Universe came from nothing
Rumored to be a Murali clone. Has an action that resembles Murali's or so I heard.
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