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Politicians are adept at playing coy, and City Manager Edward M. "Caesar" Augustus is no exception.
"I'm just focused on doing this job," he told me Tuesday. "They haven't even laid out the process yet."
The process to which he refers is the procedure for selecting a city manager when Augustus' term expires Oct. 3. And allow me to make a bold prediction: Unless Augustus is caught tinkering with traffic lanes on Belmont Street, or unless Konnie Lukes stabs him 23 times — wait, sorry, that was Julius Caesar — that process will be lackluster. For better or worse, stick a fork in the alleged search, because it's done. Hail, Caesar!
This is a curious state of affairs, because when the council wanted to appoint Augustus last month to succeed Michael O'Brien, pushback came from those who believed the council was conspiring to ram through a political insider without proper vetting or community input. So, to placate the critics, Augustus announced he would serve for only nine months, to give the council time to select his successor.
"I wanted to make sure people knew this wasn't a ploy," he told me, in a column Dec. 5. "I just wanted to take it off the table."
Consider it back on the table, even though an anoint-Augustus move is spearheaded by none other than Steve Quist, aka "Q," who calls himself a "community activist" because it sounds better than "Internet troll." A regular poster on Internet sites, the erratic Quist virtually assured the demise of the proposed slots parlor by promptly declaring himself in favor of it and setting up a Facebook page. Now, Quist has launched a similar effort for poor Augustus, which only shows that, contrary to widespread belief, you can't always pick your friends.
"This was a shock to me," Augustus said of the effort. "I would keep the door open, but if it means my integrity would be questioned, I wouldn't."
Quist isn't the only one who wants Augustus to stay on. Despite the fact that the disqualification of Augustus for re-appointment is written into his contract, distinct mumblings can be heard around City Hall: Well, he really is awfully qualified. And he's right here under our collective nose, so...
As noted, Augustus was coy, or perhaps conflicted, when I asked about his intentions.
"The council hasn't asked me," he demurred. "It's like reacting to something that's not real ... I'm not ready to make that decision."
He added, "It seems presumptuous to turn down an offer that hasn't been made." He also said he's been "led to believe" that the contract "may not be binding," which is likely true.
Language disqualifying Augustus was placed in the contract at the insistence of Councilor Lukes, who didn't just fall off the turnip truck and likely suspected what her colleagues were up to.
"If he wants to put a stop to the talk, he should do it right now," Lukes said this week. "I'm a little confused why we would say one thing and do another."
Lots of people like and respect Augustus, myself among them. As a former state senator and college administrator, he's earned a reputation as an honest, ethical guy who's adept at bringing people together.
But this is about process, not personalities. Personally, I believe it was rash and premature of Augustus to take himself out of the running for the permanent post, rather than calculating. Critics would call it disingenuous or worse.
Either way, unfortunately, it only feeds the public's perception that, when it comes to politics, the fix is in and words don't matter. That's never the best way to begin a new reign, whether in ancient Rome or here in Worcester.
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Buying Land
Rule Your World
In Second Life, you can reside in a place that is as unique and special as you are. Live in a friendly neighborhood or buy that private virtual island you've always dreamed of. Perhaps you'll become a landlord, or just host a party for your friends. Here, the weather never puts a damper on your plans.
Create the place of your dreams
It's all about personal expression
Whether you buy a few square meters or an entire island, land gives your creativity a blank canvas. Invite your friends to design and decorate your residence with you, or buy a pre-made home and have a housewarming party.
If you can imagine it, you can make it
In Second Life, there's always someone to talk to. Or dance with, learn from, perhaps even love. You can see the world without ever leaving your home. And here, there's no jet lag and the clubs are always open.
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- Canada's Vertigo-Inducing Capilano Suspension BridgeSince it was first constructed from hemp ropes and cedar planks in 1889, the Capilano Suspension Bridge has been giving pedestrians crossing the Capilano River in Vancouver, Canada a reason to hold their breath and say a prayer. In over 100 years of operation, the bridge, which measures 446 ft long and sits 230 ft above the river, has not only enthralled millions of visitors as they cross the icy waters below, but has also garnered its fair share of macabre stories - read on to learn more about this legendary bridge.1
- Canada's Vertigo-Inducing Capilano Suspension BridgeThe bridge was originally constructed in 1889 by George Grant Mackay, a Scottish civil engineer and park commissioner for Vancouver. Initially a wood construction, in 1903 the bridge was replaced with a wire cable bridge, then being completely rebuilt in 1956.2
- Canada's Vertigo-Inducing Capilano Suspension BridgeDuring the mid-20th century, local natives were invited to place their totem poles in the park, and the totems remain an integral part of the park today.3
- Canada's Vertigo-Inducing Capilano Suspension BridgeBut it wasn't until 1983 that the bridge was really met with some serious foot traffic. After changing ownership once again, the Capilano and the local forest were transformed into an eco-theme park called 'Treetop Adventures'.4
- Canada's Vertigo-Inducing Capilano Suspension BridgeTreetops Adventure was and still remains the first venue of its kind in North America, carefully preserving the land while bringing visitors closer to natutre. The new attraction consists of seven<a href="https://inhabitat.com/calatrava-reveals-new-foot-and-bike-bridge/"> footbridges suspended between old-growth Douglas Fir trees on the west side of the canyon, forming a walkway up to 98 ft above the forest floor.5
- Canada's Vertigo-Inducing Capilano Suspension BridgeThe park also features rain forest ecotours, award-winning gardens, nature trails, North America's largest private collection of First Nations totem poles, period decor and costumes, and exhibits highlighting the park's history and surrounding forest.6
- Canada's Vertigo-Inducing Capilano Suspension BridgeIt is estimated that over 800,000 visitors come to experience the bridge annually, making it one to the top attractions in all of Canada.7
- Canada's Vertigo-Inducing Capilano Suspension BridgeWith over a century of history under its belt, the bridge is not without strange stories. In 1999, a woman dropped her 18-month-old, disabled child off the bridge, claiming that she stumbled accidentally and the child slipped from her grasp. The child was not seriously injured, but the child was taken from her custody by officials. Another strange incident occurred in 2010 when a teenage tourist on a class trip from California climbed over a railing and fell nearly 100 feet from a fenced off viewing platform near the bridge. Unfortunately they did not survive and official RCMP findings reported that the teen on LSD at the time.8
- Canada's Vertigo-Inducing Capilano Suspension BridgeThe bridge is open year round, and is sure to provide for great memories -- that is if you can handle the vertigo.9


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
This activity demonstrates the range of ways that a primary source can be adapted and modified for students at different grade levels and reading levels.
Your new faculty advisory board just voted to change your university's admission policy. As dean of admissions, do you agree with the change that requires admission officials to meet enrollment quotas based on race?
Analyze historical artifacts by applying the same methods historians use to evaluate everyday items - from dishes, to clothing, to weapons - and consider what that data can tell you about the past.
Explore the contemporary approaches used to understand, treat and prevent psychological disorders. Learn about these approaches and then put each into practice with a patient.
You are the head of the Public Relations committee for your hometown Waste Removal Department. Create a poll for your department to find out how the public feels about waste incineration.
Review primary sources that examine historical events. Choose several sources that represent different perspectives of the era and create a narrative that represents a balanced view.
Travel back to the Renaissance period as a Portuguese spice trader with a large sailing ship. Success brings riches, failure brings ruin, so carefully decide which route, crew size, and goods to trade, and where to stop along the way.
View more than 1500 items, including photos, documents, maps, and other items, ready for your research and classroom use. Browse by unit title, region, and/or time period.
Take a thematic approach to art history and appreciation. Use this tool to browse through 223 pieces of artwork by theme, period, region or medium.
Cast your vote and answer some questions on the accuracy, usefulness and impact of polls.
Because the Constitution creates separate institutions that must share power, there will always be disputes over the basic principles. Check out some of the hot issues (term limits, electoral college, judicial review) that are in dispute even to this day.
What is your citizenship I.Q.? See if you can pass this civics exam on American history, the Constitution and our political system.
How well can you decide the balance of civil liberties? Review three case summaries as well as the laws and facts about each case and arguments, and then make a ruling.
Decide whether to agree/disagree with the change of policy that requires admission officials to meet enrollment quotas based on race. Then explore other methods to promote racial diversity at schools and universities.
Manipulate GIS map data of the Columbia River basin. Explore the basin and the effects of dams on the salmon population.
Learn about the economics of operating a chemical factory as you try to optimize the process of a simulated Haber-Bosch process ammonia fertilizer plant. Try to maximize profitability by using your knowledge of chemistry to fine-tune the reaction: adjusting temperature and pressure in the reaction chamber, switching the type of catalyst, and adjusting the rate that the product (ammonia) and impurities are removed.
Neither the president nor Congress appears to be near a solution on how to control the U.S. debt. Use this exercise to show them how to do it.
Curate a museum exhibit centered on the theme of "Conflicts in American History." Select artifacts, letters, paintings and other items, and then write descriptions of the items that tie them to the larger theme. View and print final compiled exhibit.
A timeline using historical maps shows the confluence of Islam and Russian rule in the area known as Dagestan. Follow the development of Islamic political entities in the area of present-day Dagestan.
Use real demographic data and a simulator to understand the factors that control human population growth, recognize the demographic transition in human history, and gain a sense of how population demographics has a very human impact in all areas of our planet.
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VFW Says: Boycott Mexican Products Until Tahmooressi Is Released!
"This is about politics, and if my government won't do anything, then I guess we need to let the power of the purse take over. No products, no travel, a total boycott … then maybe a dialogue will start." -VFW CIC Bill Thien Continue reading
Summer Jobs at Ft McCoy; Hiring starts in July!
Summer Jobs to SUPPORT OUR TROOPS at Fort McCoy!! Work assisting our soldiers! Continue reading
Janesville Post 1621 Co-Sponsors Fundraiser Poker Run in September
VFW Post 1621 is sponsoring this event and passing the word to our VFW comrades in the VFW who are motorcycle enthusiasts so they can learn about this event and come on down and take part in it. In fact ALL Veterans are invited to take part, as well as non-vets who want to support our troops and Vets! Continue reading


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Husband, Wife Win SDGA Mixed Team Championship
A week after the South Dakota Golf Association crowned a winner in the Match Play Championship, they did the same yesterday at Willow Run Golf Course for the Mixed Team Championship.
Husband and wife Ryan and Julie Jansa won the SDGA Mixed Team Championship, shooting a tournament-low 65 on Sunday, to go with their 67 on Saturday for a total of 132.
2012 Class AA State Champion Tommy Vining and 2013 Match Play runner-up Sydney Bormann came in second.


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Sunday Sweets: Off-the-Shelf Cuteness
It doesn't seem fair to only feature custom-order cakes on Sunday Sweets, so here are some gorgeous creations available right from the display case:
Stephanie S. found these in Hong Kong (aka the Capital of Cuteness):
Needless to say, I'm in love with these designs. The little dino totally reminds me of the "Rawr" shirt over on Shana Logic:
And here are some Sweets from the States (I think):
Adam R. found these on Manako's Flickr stream. Hey, I guess it IS possible to make Wreck-less doggy cakes!
And you guys are probably going to judge me for this, but I think these things Monique R. found are adorable:
Even if I can't say exactly what they're supposed to be. Um, maybe owls? Wingless, marshmallow-shaped, fuzzy lil' owls?
I'm thinking of starting something new with Sunday Sweets: weekly assignments. I'd give y'all a theme - Broadway, video games, animals, etc. - and then you send in nominations for me to feature. The submissions can be your own work or from your favorite bakery. What do you think - sound like fun? Let me know in the comments, along with any suggestions you have for themes beyond your average wedding/birthday/shower fare. Thanks, guys!


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PartPal needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 101 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
We need a modern "Web 2.0" style logo for our business. Needs to be simple so it can be used on all forms of media, print, web, fabric.
We are an automotive parts listing service with a new website in development and require a modern logo to go with.
Our colors are Green & White. - If you have an idea using other colors feel free to use them but the primary must be green.
On our website (http://www.partpal.com) you can see our current logo. We are looking for something similarly simple, yet needs to be a little more modern and have more 'design flair'
We would like "Logo" and "Text" portions, much like the current logo ""PPpartpal" So that we can use the logo separate if required.
The logo will be placed on the side of various race cars, and street vehicles. Keep this in mind when designing.
- Must use Green, bright and eye catching
- Must be able to be used on all media forms ie) Print, Web, Fabric.
- Logo must be easily identifiable from a distance
- Logo & Text must be able to be used separately
- Needs to be vectorized, prefer Illustrator files.
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Driving to work this morning viewing the effects of the terrible thunderstorms that spared my neighborhood but hard hit the one right next to mine, I was listening to Christian radio. Out of the blue comes TD Jakes' booming voice. In it, he first speaks of how much he loves America and so forth. I immediately thought of Jakes doing this to exploit anger over Barack Hussein Obama, Michelle Obama, and Jeremiah Wright's considerably less than jingoistic statements and actions. Then he went into his exhortation spiel for people to register and get out to vote.
First, I see Lifeway Bookstores, owned by the Southern Baptist Convention, selling TD Jakes' doctrinal error (oneness pentecostalism and the Word of Faith/prosperity doctrine are but a few of his MANY problems) and now the National Religious Broadcasters are using this guy. I had been using the NRB as a sort of a refuge from the blatant charismania that you will find on The Word Network, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Daystar, etc. So I just ignored the heavy Pat Robertson presence on the channel, as well as their "white Europeans are the descendants of the children of Israel … the Danube River is so named because of the tribe of Dan" show that comes on early in the morning. I also ignored their embrace of the Ellen White Seventh Day Adventist cult. So I suppose that I cannot cast NRB aside on Jakes' account, since the ones that I just named are hardly better – if anything some might be worse – or else I would be reacting out of a personal dislike for Jakes rather than on principle. (On the other hand, Slice of Laodicea has criticized NRB, albeit for different reasons, such as this post stating that not one red cent of NRB's $5 BILLION IN ASSETS is being used to defend the faith from Oprah Winfrey.)
Incidentally, speaking of TD Jakes and PR spots, he has another one out (I did not catch the sponsor!) promoting single sex education, saying that "boys need their own schools so that they will be able to, you know, romp and stuff (his choice of words not mine!) and that boys learn differently from girls and needed their own classrooms in order to be accommodated. So … it looks like Jakes is not that far removed from Jeremiah Wright's separatist doctrines after all?
I have to be honest, back when I was part of the religious right and allowing my worldview to be shaped by the Washington Times and the National Review, I was in full agreement. But now … I just recall reading about this inner city public school that went all male. Sure, the discipline problems decreased and the test scores went up. But when they interviewed the boys that attended the school, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WANTED THEM TO BRING THE GIRLS BACK! Why? Because, er … BOYS LIKE GIRLS! Or at least they are supposed to anyway. Perhaps now that T.D. Jakes is on board with the new world order's gay rights agenda (and yes this is relevant … perhaps due to his son) he thinks it is OK. To me, the whole single sex education thing … who wants it? Certainly not the kids. Not the administrators or teachers. Parents go for it only because they are desperate for any hook or angle to improve the failing school systems that the government is ruining on purpose. Not even the old fashioned religious sorts – of which I am one – think that it is a good idea anymore, where you were supposed to keep boys and girls separate in their little boarding or finishing schools (where they were supposed to look OH SO CUTE in their little uniforms I guess) UNTIL GRADUATION DAY WHEN YOU MARRY THEM OFF.
Sorry people, but society has changed. Not all of the changes have been for the good, but methinks that one of the most important things for a boy to learn from school is how to treat a lady and how to behave yourself in their presence. For some of us guys, those things do not come naturally, and you only learn them through trial and error. Especially error. (If you don't learn to handle competition and rejection in junior high and high school, how on earth are you supposed to handle being turned down for jobs, promotions, college choices, etc. later in life?) So … HOW ON EARTH ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO LEARN THOSE THINGS IF THERE ARE NO GIRLS AROUND TO LEARN THEM FROM?
Like I said, TD Jakes may have his own reasons for wanting to turn your local public school into Morehouse College or similar, and whatever they are I oppose them 100%. All the more reason why the Southern Baptist Convention should not be selling this guy's books and NRB shouldn't be using him for their get out the vote campaign. But I suppose that this oneness anti – Trinitarian heretic is just too good at making money and moving public opinion for these people to pass up. That is, unless they are actually along with Jakes, on his side. After all, the Southern Baptists refuse to do anything about the likes of New Age heretic Erwin McManus and Council on Foreign Relations worker Rick Warren (and Richard Land too?), and as stated earlier, Al Sharpton Al Gore global warming propagandist partner Pat Robertson is a major partner with the NRB.


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Managing your finances before homeownership to save your home from a foreclosure
Are you planning to purchase a new home? If yes, you have to buck up your finances so that you don't fall in trouble in the near future and then risk losing your home to a forced foreclosure. Managing your finances is the most important job that you have to do when you plan to take out a home mortgage loan from a bank. The mortgage loan entails your home as collateral so that when the borrower defaults to make the payments on time, the lender can foreclose the house and recuperate the money. "How much house can I afford" is the most important question a borrower should ask himself before taking the plunge. Here are some important steps that you should take in order to manage your finances once you plan to take out a home loan.
- Stop all the unnecessary expenses: Whenever you contemplate buying a new house and forget paying further rent, you should stop making all the unnecessary expenses that you can do without. If you don't read magazines, stop the monthly subscriptions to magazines. If you can cook well, stop dining out every weekend as this will save your dollars in the long run. You can even do without the cable connection at home. If you can build an emergency fund, you can easily take out a mortgage loan at an affordable rate.
- Stop using your credit cards: Are you aware of the fact that the mortgage lender will check your DTI ratio or the debt-to-income ratio that is the ratio between the total monthly debt obligations with your monthly income. If you keep on purchasing things with your credit cards, you'll drown in unsecured debt and thereby be forced to take out a home mortgage loan at an unaffordable interest rate. Therefore, stuff your wallet with cash so that you may stop buying things when you're exhausted.
- Save enough money: Yes, this is the ultimate secret that will take you to the path of a smooth mortgage loan approval. The mortgage loan underwriter will check the amount you're paying down while taking out the loan amount. The more you pay down, the lower will be the rate offered to you. You should save enough money so that you can at least pay down 20% of the loan amount and avoid paying PMIs later on.
- Keep track on your credit score: Don't take any wrong step that can hit your credit score. Pull out a copy of your credit score time to time so that you know where you stand financially. Repair your credit as much as possible so as to grab the best mortgage loan at the most covetable cost.
When you're dreaming of homeownership, make sure you follow the money tips mentioned above. By taking all the tips mentioned above, you can get the most appropriate loan in accordance with your affordability. Don't forget to ask yourself "how much house can I afford" before taking out the loan.


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Several of WWE's top superstars brought out their weapons on Friday.
Nah, nothing illegal. No chairs or tire irons. Just their golf clubs.
Imagine, if you will, The Big Show towering above a tee box with a custom-fitted Callaway Big Bertha driver. Now that's a weapon.
The stars were out in full force, north of Toronto at the lovely Angus Glen, for WWE's Road to Summerslam charity golf tournament, with $20,000 being raised to benefit about as good a charity as there is -- Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Now this wasn't a normal day for the superstars, or for the fans who got a chance to golf alongside heroes and heels alike.
Imagine golfing with Snitsky. A villain with a menacing look. But he seems, gulp, like a nice guy. I've decided that maybe it really wasn't his fault.
Rosey is one-half of the tag-team champs, along with The Hurricane. He's one big boy, weighing in at about 365 lbs. And after spending 18 holes with him, he's my new pal. Who wouldn't want a buddy with that kind of size? You know how inevitably once during a round of golf someone in the foursome behind you will drive a ball that lands perilously close to your group? Well, I want to have Rosey in my group when the offending goof sheepishly comes to pick up his ball.
Rosey, admittedly, doesn't play a lot of golf, but his father-in-law Frank would have been proud of him Friday. Rosey came through with a couple of huge putts in our six-under-par group effort.
"He's tickled pink that I'm here," said Rosey.
And when you hang out with these guys for the better part of six hours, you hear some stories.
"I walk in and Big Show says: 'Rosey, look at this.'
"I look over and Big Show is lying on the ground ... and Carlito is standing on Big Show's hands. Big Show starts lifting him."
Rosey has a lot going for him outside the ring: A wife and two young kids -- Jordan, 7, and Madison, 18 months. But he enjoys getting out and whacking the ball around, if only to keep his wife's dad happy. And if golf doesn't come naturally, wrestling does. That's just what happens when your dad is Sika, half of the infamous Wild Samoans, along with Rosey's uncle Afa. The family circle extends to wrestlers like The Rock, Rikishi, Samu, Yokozuna and Jamal.
Booker T is the golfer of the group. At least that's what the rest of his wrestling peers say. The Book, who lives in the Houston area, carries a 15-handicap.
Asked if he thinks Booker T is doing any Spineroonis on the course, Rosey answered: "If he makes a good shot we'll hear him, doesn't matter where he is on the course.I wouldn't be surprised if he's got his pyro with him."
Others on hand included one of my personal favourites, Christian ... okay, I admit it ... I'm one of the peeps.
And The Big Show is ... well, he's The Big Show. And whatever he tells me, that's pretty well good. No argument necessary.
"Golf is like sex, you don't have to be good to have fun," he said., following that up with: "My driver looks like a Volkswagen on a stick."
Let's leave the last word to heavyweight champ John Cena, part of the winning team who carded 11-under-par: "This is why it was a great day. No. 1, Snitsky didn't kill anyone. No. 2, Coach didn't win. No. 3, Coach didn't win. And No. 4, Coach didn't win."
On this day, even the Coach, Jonathan Coachman, was a Good Guy. Cheered (with a couple of jeers thrown in) for one day. And maybe one day only. Good golf course. Good charity. And heels and heroes alike, good people.
- Hulk Hogan prompted "You Screwed Bret" chants when he ripped on Shawn Michaels on RAW. Michaels may hear much of the same tomorrow night when he visits Montreal. And with the recent talks between Bret Hart and Vince McMahon, you've got to at least wonder a bit if Hart will appear on RAW. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking.
- I think the new Rob Conway gimmick works. Good theme song. Good look, even with the "see-through" panties. Much better than being cast as a French sympathizer as half of La Resistance.
- Edge will appear at the 1200 St. Laurent Toys R Us, today to sign autographs from 1-3 p.m., before later facing The Big Show at the Corel Centre show at 7 p.m. Drop by and say hi to Edge (Adam Copeland), then check out the RAW house show.
- I don't know about anybody else, but I'm a bit creeped out by the Rey Mysterio-Eddie Guerrero angle on Smackdown! They will face each other at Summer Slam, with custody of Rey's real-life eight-year-old son, Dominik, on the line. Sure, it's only an angle, but I'm still uneasy with the idea.
- The RAW Diva Search winner will be crowned tomorrow in Montreal. All three of them are very hot so it's hard to pick a winner.


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Orson Welles' camera, a cigar ashtray and a script for "Citizen Kane'' were among the late director's belongings sold at a New York auction.
Sixty-seven lots fetched a total of $180,000 at Heritage Auctions on Saturday, including the buyer's premium.
Margaret Barrett, Heritage's director of entertainment-linked auctions, called the items "a piece of cinema royalty.''
Two dozen pages of script for the 1941 masterpiece "Citizen Kane'' went for $15,000, far surpassing the $2,000 presale estimate.
Welles' old Bell & Howell movie camera used to record a bullfight in Spain sold for $37,500, against a $2,000 estimate.
And a silver-plated cigar ashtray Ernest Hemingway gave Welles fetched $5,000 -- six times the expected price.
Also on the block were other memorabilia the director's daughter, Beatrice Welles, kept for decades in Sedona, Arizona.


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BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said Sunday that the three people killed last month after U.S. soldiers shot at their car in one of the most secured areas of Iraq were civilians, not criminals as the military initially reported.
The correction came more than a month after a bank manager at a branch inside the airport, Hafeth Aboud Mahdi, and two female bank employees were shot at by U.S. soldiers as they sped to work on a road within the secured airport compound. The road is used only by people with high-level security clearance badges. The car veered off the road, hit a concrete blast wall and burst into flames.
The original statement said that Mahdi and the two women were "criminals" and that an American convoy on the side of the secured road came under small-arms fire from the vehicle. Soldiers said they shot back. A weapon was found in the debris and two U.S. military vehicles were struck by bullets from the attack, the statement on June 25 said.
"When we are attacked, we will defend ourselves and will use deadly force if necessary," Maj. Joey Sullinger, a spokesman for 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, said in a statement at the time. "Such attacks endanger not only U.S. soldiers but also innocent civilians, including women and children, traveling the roadways of Baghdad."
On Sunday the story changed and the tone was apologetic. A military statement said that neither the civilians who were killed nor the soldiers were at fault for the deaths. An investigation found that "the driver and passengers were law-abiding citizens of Iraq."
Soldiers had pulled off the road because one of the vehicles in the convoy was having maintenance problems. As they worked on the vehicle they saw Mahdi's car and thought it was moving too quickly toward them, the statement said. Believing they might be in danger, the soldiers warned the car. When the driver ignored the signals they shot at the vehicle, the statement said.
The alleged attack and the weapon that was said to have been recovered from the burned vehicle were misunderstandings, the statement said.
"This was an extremely unfortunate and tragic incident," said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff, MND-B and 4th Infantry Division, in a statement. "Our deepest regrets of sympathy and condolences go out to the family. We are taking several corrective measures to amend and eliminate the possibility of such situations happening in the future."
Mahdi's son, Mohammed Hafeth, said the statement was insufficient.
He said the image of his father's burning vehicle haunts him. He'd waited in his father's office that morning surprised that he wasn't there yet. They'd left at nearly the same time that morning.
Hafeth drives bank employees to work. That morning his father offered to take one of Hafeth's passengers and picked up another female bank employee who lived nearby their central Baghdad home.
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As he sat in the office a colleague walked in and told Hafeth his father's car was broken down on the airport road. Hafeth reached for his car keys.
"I'll drive," he recalled his colleague saying.
As they approached his father's car he saw the flames. He jumped from the car and started to run toward the burning vehicle, but U.S. soldiers blocked his way.
"Go," he recalled them ordering. But he said he couldn't move. He dropped to the ground and wept as his father burned inside the vehicle.
"Why did they kill him like this?" Mohammed Hafeth said Sunday in a phone interview. "We demand that they send those soldiers to an Iraqi and American court."
Mahdi was the father of six, including Hafeth. Hafeth said he now shoulders the financial responsibility for his family on his approximately $100-a-month salary.
"I was shocked that my father was killed by the Americans," he said. "Supposedly we move in a secured area ... we used to wave at them and they waved at us."
Hafeth said he didn't accept the compensation offered by the U.S. military. They offered $10,000, he said, and that wasn't enough for his father's car let alone his father's life.
"My father was a peaceful man," he said. "He never did anything wrong. Everybody knew his good reputation and everybody liked him."
McClatchy Special Correspondent Laith Hammoudi contributed to this report.
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Whoever hts the ball over the fence must be the one to retrieve the ball and ask for it in an accent!
We played in the middle of our street so whoever is in bat needs to weelie the bin out the way when cars come by. and over the fence was 6 and OUT!
I play Cricket with my 4 year daughter in backyard and she always wants to bat first saying "throw me easy ball papa so that i can hit six" and most of the times ball goes to our neighbours backyard and the rule is if it goes there she has to get it
In our cricket game there is no such thing as a "golden duck" or "duck." It's like life. You get a second chance! Thanks Optus!
The backyard cricket rule we have is the back leg has to be grounded at all time or else the short is not considered valid also one handed catch only, over the fence is out (the one who hits gets the ball) only ground shorts.
If it crosses the boundary wall and out on the road directly, its out. Underarm bowling. Catching on one bounce is out too provided it's via one hand only. No running runs till the ball crosses the bowler.
The first person to get a duck in our family game has to cook the BBQ or get a round of drinks depending!
If the dogs get the ball then who ever thad the ball last has to to chase the dog to get it back and clean the slobber off
Don't WOOOOOO like an idiot when you win!
Over the fence is out, If you hit it you must run and all catches done one handed
You can catch the batter out normally or off one bounce off anything one handed. One bounce off the ground, garage wall, fence etc -
Our backyard rules are hit it away from the windows, over the fence is out and no girlie bowling that includes me (grew up with brothers).
one hand one bounce
Caught off the roof one handed and you're gone!
In our cricket game there is no such thing as a "golden duck" or "duck." It's like life. You get a second chance!
One hand, one bounce, allowing for snag sandwich/beer holding in the other hand. Truly tackling the important aspects of the game!
Playing in the middle of the road with a garbarge bin as the wicket!
Pets now count as fielders, ever since my Dad got caught out by the Border Collie and refused to walk....
We take over the Cul-de-sac, whole street joins in, first one out is on traffic control, making sure nobody passes the blockades we put up.
Be yourself and enjoy the game are only rules of family's backyard cricket game . It is about spending quality of time with my family and friends .


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Ford Ranger Stalling/Dying Problems
1999 Ranger XLT 3.0L Automatic 77,000 miles
It started tonight and at first cut off a couple of times then it started happening more frequent while driving. All of the lights and everything stay on. There has been no check engine light, etc.
See also: How to find a good mechanic
It started tonight and at first cut off a couple of times then it started happening more frequent while driving. All of the lights and everything stay on. There has been no check engine light, etc.
See also: How to find a good mechanic
ceedubz Posts: 1I'm not sure about the 99 ranger but i've been having the same problem with my 2005 Ranger edge 4.0L Automatic 33,000kms. i had it checked out at the dealership and the told me it was the inertia sensor, i guess when it is bumped or jolted it cuts off the fuel. now i figure it had to be a fuel pump problem but i guess i'll have to wait and see when i pick the truck up tomorrow.0
we have a 2000 ranger 4x4. 4.0 engine, auto with o/d. when starting up a grade, truck will hestiate . have had trans and engine checked. locals say"good luck". any ideas?0
obyone Posts: 8,054When was the last time you replaced your fuel filter?0
twice in the last six months0
tinydog2 Posts: 1have read thru posts, but can't make sense out of most of them, so here goes and thanks in advance for any help.
3 litre V6 5speed manual. Have changed fuel pump because CTC mechanic said fuel pressure was too low, nothing changed. Then they said there was a possible NO SPARK situation or maybe even the computer was faulty.So figuring these guys were going to try leading me around by the nose, i pulled truck out of shop.
At home i tried starting it myself by spraying Quick-start into intake. truck will run til i stop spraying. there is fuel at fuel rail (don't now name but looks like tire valve) .
also did change coil pak just to be sure , also new battery.
xscout Posts: 141The fact that it runs as long as you spray the Quick-Start shows the engine is not getting fuel. Either the computer is not firing the injectors or something is keeping the pressure in the rail way too low. I would go back to the low or no fuel pressure as the first thing to check.0
jfchain Posts: 1Engine misses when accellerating at 70 mph + above , becoming more frequent, fuel filter maybe?0
cybrjgr Posts: 11985 Ranger V6, 2brl carb, manual trans. has a chronic problem of stalling during slow down at turns and intersections. It will start right back up. It runs great except for the stalling and it burns a little oil. I recall my dad having similar problems years ago but he has passed away so I can't go to him for help like I use to. The truck has new belts, plugs, rotor, cap, plug/IGN wires, fuel filter, air filter, oil, oil filter, thermostat, radiator, fan, the engine is timed, the cooling system is flushed, I cleaned the carb out with carb cleaner and I ran ChemTool fuel additive through a full tank of high octane fuel.
Any ideas will be helpful because I am at the end of my knowledge. Thank you.0
edhughes Posts: 1I own a 2005 Ranger. I brought it new in Feb of 2005. Three times it has stalled on me. The first time it was after I had parked it nose down on a hill, it started, but died soon after. Then an hour later it started up and no problems...at least not until a week later. At that time it did it after coming out of a parking garage. This time it was towed to the ford dealership (where by the way it started just fine the next day) and after looking through everything and testing all aspects. They shrugged their shoulders and replaced the fuel line. This was 7000 miles ago (just before my 30k checkup). This Sunday it stalled again. After sitting on a hill, nose down, and about four miles from where I started it. While waiting at an intersection. Once again it was towed, started the next day and the repair shop (not a ford dealership) couldn't find the problem. So I drove it home. It is now three days later and no problems? I was told it might be the inertia sensor. But I didn't hit any bumps. And while it was sitting I had used the AC. My repair man and I are puzzled! I don't want it stalling in a dangerous area. Somebody please help me figure this one out. :sick:0
My 1998 Ford Ranger is in the shop again! It stalls and now it won't start. We have had work done on it by the Ford Dealer, couldn'f fix it, the local mechanic has it and he seems to think the gas is too rich (?). Wants to replace the distributor.
Does anyone know anything about this? Sound familiar?0
With the original problem in this thread it turned out to be the ECM. Have since traded the Ranger in for a Toyota Tundra (08 with the 5.7) and am very happy with it with no problems at all.0
A 98 has a distributor?0
Apparently some models of the 1998 series do have distributors. When the Ford Dealers (2) were through with working on it they couldn't tell us what the problem was, maybe it was this, maybe it was that, but after over $2,400 worth of work we gave up on Ford. Took it to a little local mechanic who thought he could fix it, but no luck. Now it is with another mechanic who is talking about $800 to replace the distributor, but again no guarnatees. I am ready to chuck the darn thing or just put it on the property and grow flowers in the bed of the truck!!!!!!!0
mgr1 Posts: 1Having read the above, here's my 2 cents worth.... mabey someone can make something out of it: I have a 1989 Ranger with 2.3L fuel injected engine (5s manual) and this problem has cropped up only in the past year. It starts fine and runs fine but occassionally either when cruising for a few miles at 35 mph or after slowing down for a turn and giving it the gas again, the engine will hiccup or cutout (stall) for anywhere from a second or two to nearly a minute before I can start it again. No "check engine" light. I've had the truck checked and the EGR valve assembly was replaced as well as the throttle body overhauled.
I'll be taking it back into the shop shortly but after reading the manual and the above threads I'm thinking that the problem is definitely fuel related. Mabey the inertia switch but I'm more inclined to believe the fuel filter or fuel pressure regulator or one of the two fuel pumps (there are two: a high pressure and a low pressure pump). Unfortunately, I don't have the equipment to check this stuff....... I'll keep you guys posted. Any thoughts would be appreciated.0
Don't know about the 89's however on our 98 we have had the fuel system completely overhauled, new filter, new pump etc. Still stalls and will start when it feels good and ready. Sometimes right away sometimes a week or so later.
I'm giving up, donating it to a charitable org. and taking it off on my taxes for this year.
Better luck with yours.0
The fuel pump relay? These can go bad, or their connectors get corrision and make bad connection. These are usually in the fuse box under the hood, or on the side of it. Be worthwhile to buy a new one for a few dollars and pull the old one when it is stalled and put the new on in and see if it starts.0
pistolnoon Posts: 1Was driving my 93/94 Ford Ranger P/U Standard Transmission today and it died suddenlly on the highway, the highway was very noisy and could not troubleshoot, so I added gas and tried to start it but it would not run, the starter runs OK, then added fuel to the intake manifold to see if it world start with help but would not. The fuel pump kicks in ok and you can hear it running so I checked for spark and their is not spark. Got abit of a shock to my hand from the spark plug wire after trying to check the sparkplugs but they will not spark.
Had it towed home to work on it myself because I cannot afford to fix it in a garage. So I took my electronic tester and checked the fuse panel and all the fuses are ok, checked the diode in the fuse panel and it is OK,then went on to the EEC relay and it is Ok, and even replaced it with new one, and checked the fuel injection relay and it is Ok.
So that must make the crankshaft positon sensor?And the coil pack?Is their an ignition control module?Where would it be located?
Any help appreciated.
bruce75 Posts: 1My 3.0 Engine runs fine when the weather is day, but on rainy days it runs really rough. Maybe someone can help me. I just purchase the truck recently from an out of town party, so am unaware of the recent maintenance.0
I would try new wires and plugs first.0
Just thought I would put this here for anyone who might find it useful. I have a 2006 Ford Ranger 4 cylinder w/25500 miles, the other day I was driving down the highway and it just shut off, no warning lights just died and would not restart. It would turn over and die instantly. I recalled a few months ago while a friend was driving it, it also stalled and restarted after about 5 mins while sitting at a light. I thought nothing of it really because it had not happened to me. Long story short, $550.00 dollars later, minus the$100.00 tow it was the mass air flow sensor. Of course my warranty expired the month before and I was also told it was caused by a cheap air filter being used at a oil change place, replaced at 18,000 miles. I have the filter and it looks fine to me, but I am not car expert of any means. So maybe my pain in my wallet might help someone else save a few hundred bucks. It looks like it would have been easy enough for me to change but I had no idea where to start. :mad:0
Thats a new one, never heard that before. I've heard that people that use the after market oilable filters may kill the MAS because oil from the filter will coat it. But never heard of a filter so bad that it killed one.
Better possibility is that messing with the filter left a connection open between the air filter and the MAS, letting air and dust in.
And, I did not know a bad MAS would suddenly totally kill a motor. I can see making it run badly, and giving bad milage, but kill a motor? Maybe a bad MAS where the little wire/s inside totally broke would shut a car down. This would be a defective MAS, not a filter problem coating the wire with dust.
The symptoms you describe sound more like a Crank Position Sensor failure. These will kill a car instantly. And if it is an intermident failure, the car will restart, until the failure becomes complete.
Overall, sounds like it could be a BS from a service writer. Look at your receipt, see if they charged for a MAS or Crank Sensor. I do hope that whatever they did keeps you up and running.0
they replaced the MAS and I have the old one that was taken out and they replaced the air filter which I also have. The air filter does not look like its in bad shape either. I took it to the dealer where I bought the car and that is what was done. So far so good.0
rfelix Posts: 1I've had my Ranger for over two years now, and have not had a lick of trouble. Recently, the Ranger started running like chitty-chitty-bang-bang, I suspected water in the fuel and added dry gas with no luck.
The Ranger acts like it isn't getting fuel and I have to keep the engine revved up to keep it from stalling. Once I get it rolling, it still bucks and jumps occasionally. I'm living on a very tight fixed income so I can't just drive it to a garage and have it diagnosed with the computer error codes.
Is changing the fuel filter or 02 sensor worth a try, or should I wait until I can have a computer put on it?0
If the Check Engine Light isn't on, 'putting it on a computer' may not tell you anything. If it has set a 'soft' code that has reset itself, it might be helpful if the code is still in history. But if a sensor is seeing a critical problem, it will have the Check Engine light turned on.
A fuel filter replacement might help.
At 7 years old, you might also need new plug wires and/or plugs.
At about this age, on my 94 I started to hear ignition noise over the radio, even the FM radio. It only had about 50,000 miles, but it was about 7 or so years old. The truck still ran fine, but when you hear ignition noise on the radio, you have to know the wires are breaking down. A new set of wires and plugs stopped the noise.0
saintmica Posts: 1ditto on the plugs and wires. i have an 01 that had them replaced when I bought the truck used at 24,000. It now has 98,000 and started missing occasionally after rough idling for about a year. decided to check a plug and see how it looked and the wire fell apart as I removed it and the plug was completely shot. I checked the gap (supposed to ..052-.056 or something) and it was almost at .145 and looked terrible. I blame the crap gas we have around here.
after a new set of plugs and wires she runs great again and gas mileage jumped from 15 mpg up to 19 mpg overnight.0
marshallw2 Posts: 1just replaced fuel pump and filter... now, above 35 miles per hour or on incline truck losses power but does not stall. any suggestions ?0
hault Columbus OhioPosts: 129ford had a class action lawsuit in california. there is an electronic part near the distributor on many ford vehicles from at least the 1980's through around 2000. when it gets overheated the circuit shorts and causes the engine to die. After it cools down the circuit is complete and vehicle runs again. The part is inexpensive.0
I have a 1995 Ford Ranger XLT 4 cylinder stander w/325,000 miles truck loose power when the outside temperature reach 100 degrees, then it start to stalled. I have done a tune-up and replace fuelpump and fuel filter,Air filer and Air mass censer. the problem corrects itself in the morning when is cool then it runs normal.
only when is hot outside is when truck stalled and rough idle
any suggestions..
you may have carbon build up I have sea form motor treatment and it help. hope this helps
rick2343 Posts: 2driving down the road at any speed the truck will just die out but it does not have any problem of starting up and keeping on going tried replacing the coil pack and that didnt do it, i need help have afeeling im gonna spend more money than is needed...0


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Hi Erik, The specific issue of attribute order was addressed satisfactorily at the face to face, i.e. the group spent longer on it than we really had and came to a resolution on this issue. Perhaps it would have been resolved more quickly and more like the proposed alternative if we had had the benefit of you being there. However, the working group did sufficiently consider the issue of attribute order and produced a wording that does not require support for attribute positioning beyond what is clearly needed within XPath. In other words, we do not require attribute order to survive a DOM mutation, which the XPath data model does not address, but we continue to allow attributes to be in a particular order during evaluation of an XPath, which is allowed by XPath even if different implementations will produce different orders. We believe that the result is a sufficient relaxation to allow the implementation phase (i.e. CR) to proceed. Thanks, John M. Boyer, Ph.D. STSM: Lotus Forms Architect and Researcher Chair, W3C Forms Working Group Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software IBM Victoria Software Lab E-Mail: email@example.com Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/JohnBoyer Erik Bruchez <email@example.com> Sent by: email@example.com 06/25/2007 09:12 AM Please respond to email@example.com To email@example.com cc email@example.com Subject Question about resolution for action 105 All, Just before the f2f, I agreed to do some more of the editorial work related to xforms:insert and xforms:delete, namely related to the issues I had submitted. I haven't done that work yet, but I was looking at what was involved and I noted that there has been some discussion at the f2f about issue 105: http://htmlwg.mn.aptest.com/cgi-bin/xforms-issues/Actions?id=105 Issue 105 is the same issue Joern raised quite a while ago, issue about which I posted back in February (in our private mailing-list at the time) a proposal for a resolution: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-forms/2007JanMar/0114.html For convenience, and in order to make the message public, I attach this proposal again. I am not sure I understand exactly the discussion or the resolution taken at the last f2f, but I am not sure my proposal was looked at. My proposal included updating point 6a, removing point 6b, and updating point 6d as well (solution #2 in the proposal). I proposed that we eliminate completely the need for talking about attribute order or inserting among sibling attributes because that's a flawed concept in my opinion. However, it seems that the f2f resolution still talks about a "list", which I find disturbing because a list implies order, and our wording seems to still want to allow the user to manipulate this order. I think we should favor a solution which does not require us to talk about attribute order. In addition, I don't think there is much of a use case for this anyway, and I don't think you can manipulate attribute order in XSLT or other XML-based languages. -Erik -- Orbeon Forms - Web Forms for the Enterprise Done the Right Way http://www.orbeon.com/ ----- Message from Erik Bruchez <email@example.com> on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:37:22 +0100 ----- To: Forms WG <email@example.com> Subject: Proposal for xforms:insert and attributes All, 1. XML background ----------------- As Joern pointed out a while ago, in XML, attributes do not have a significant order. This is made clear in a few key specifications: 1. XML Information Set http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/#infoitem.element "[attributes] An unordered set of attribute information items, one for each of the attributes (specified or defaulted from the DTD) of this element. " 2. XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM) http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#document-order "The relative order of Attribute Nodes is stable but implementation-dependent." 3. Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html "Interface Node [...] Attributes [...] attributes of type NamedNodeMap, readonly [...] NamedNodeMaps are not maintained in any particular order. Objects contained in an object implementing NamedNodeMap may also be accessed by an ordinal index, but this is simply to allow convenient enumeration of the contents of a NamedNodeMap, and does not imply that the DOM specifies an order to these Nodes." Ok, convinced yet? ;-) As sides nodes, which may be useful to understand what follows: o While attributes have an element as a parent (in XDM), or owner element (Infoset, DOM), elements do *not* consider attributes their children. o Attributes don't have following or preceding siblings (in XDM, siblings are defined relative to the "children" property, which doesn't include attributes). See also XPath 1.0: "the following-sibling axis contains all the following siblings of the context node; if the context node is an attribute node or namespace node, the following-sibling axis is empty" In short, the idea of attributes in XML is that they are unordered name/value pairs that are part of the properties of an element. While they are considered nodes, they do not behave like most other node types (element, text, PI, and comment). 2. Current spec text and implications ------------------------------------- The issue in the XForms 1.1 spec is in section "9.3.5 The insert Action". I paste below the offending text: Point 6a and 6b: "If the cloned node is an attribute, then the target location is before the first attribute of the insert location node." Implicitly, point 6d: "Otherwise, the target location is immediately before or after the insert location node, based on the position attribute setting or its default." This text suggests that you can: 1. Insert an attribute so that the attribute is the "first" of an element's attributes. 2. Insert an attribute "before" or "after" another attribute. To be fair, some DOM implementations do represent attributes as a list, and do allow implementing this behavior. But the text strongly suggests that attribute order is a common property of attributes in XML or DOM, while in reality it is not the case at all. I believe that we need to correct the text to remove the mention or implication of attribute order, and leave attribute order to implementations. This is not an interoperability issue, as various XML specifications tell us that we should not rely on attribute order anyway. 3. What XForms 1.0 allows ------------------------- As a reminder, in XForms 1.0, it was not possible to: 1. Insert an attribute *into* an element (nodes are only inserted before or after an existing node). 2. Duplicate attributes with something like this: <xforms:insert nodeset="@*" at="2" position="before"/> While I think that the above is allowed by the spec in XForms 1.0, it does not make any sense in XML as it means that an existing attribute is *duplicated*. And of course it is strictly forbidden to have duplicate attributes (i.e. two attributes with the same QName) in XForms. So when we are talking about inserting attributes in XForms 1.1, we are talking about a new feature that was not previously available in XForms 1.0. 4. What we need to change in XForms 1.1 --------------------------------------- Now back to what we need to be able to achieve in XForms 1.1. I think that adding an attribute to a node is a necessary feature. This can be achieved with: <xforms:insert context="my-element" origin="instance('foo')/@bar"/> This case is covered in point 6a and 6b (BTW I recommended removing 6b in a previous email). I recommend we update the text to the following in 6a (and again, remove point 6b): "If the cloned node is an attribute, then the target location is as an attribute of the insert location node." I am now 100% happy with the "location is as..." formula, which doesn't sound very English. If somebody has a better suggestion, let me know, but I think this is understandable. Now case 6d covers the case where we insert as a "sibling" of other nodes. This case is funny because, as I mention above, attributes don't have siblings. We have at least two choices here: 1. Change 6d as follows: "Otherwise, if the insert location node is an attribute and the cloned node is an attribute, the target location is as an attribute of the element owning the insert location node. Otherwise, the target location is immediately before or after the insert location node, based on the position attribute setting or its default." (Note that as usual invalid node combinations are covered in point 7.) This does away with the idea that you insert an attribute "before" or "after" another attribute. This I think is the least we can do. 2. Or conclude that the whole concept of inserting an attribute as preceding or following sibling of another attribute is flawed, and simply consider that trying to do so should simply nop. When writing something like: <xforms:insert nodeset="@*" at="2" position="before" origin="instance('foo')/@bar"/> not only do we stretch the concept of sibling nodes, but also @at loses its meaning and so does @position. And really, what we are actually waying here is that we want to insert a node "into" a node-set, but forgetting that there is no underlying concept in XML for doing so. So this option would add to 6d (or add before 6d) the following: "Otherwise, if the insert location node is an attribute and the cloned node is an attribute, the cloned node is ignored." I am leaning towards #2 because #1 is really a conceptual stretch and because if the goal is to insert an attribute into an element, there is already a syntax to do this. -Erik -- Orbeon Forms - Web Forms for the Enterprise Done the Right Way http://www.orbeon.com/Received on Tuesday, 26 June 2007 22:01:39 UTC
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I'm not necessarily afraid of backdoors, but I'm wondering whether I can trust the process of finding quality primes. I don't want to find out in a year that all the CSP generated RSA parameters had a flaw and the primes are following a simple pattern. The successful GCD attack on one in every 200 out of thousands of publicly available RSA keys made me wonder.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus pointed out that "there are almost half a million more people unemployed today than four years ago."
"Remember, they said if we pass this trillion-dollar stimulus that we'd have 5.5 percent unemployment today," Mr. Priebus reminded viewers on "Fox News Sunday." "What that means, if they kept their promises, there would be 8.5 million more people employed today."
Per the Obama campaign's talking points, Democratic National Committee Chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz – also speaking on Fox – countered with figures of her own: the private sector adding jobs for 28 months in a row and more than 4 million jobs added since Obama took office at a time when the economy was losing some 700,000 jobs a month.
"The progress that we are making is moving us forward," she said. "We haven't gone far enough. But we need to keep pressing forward and continue to focus on middle-class tax breaks and making sure that we can create jobs and make sure that we get the economy moving forward, and great if Republicans would join us in that effort."
The main line of Democratic attack Sunday was on new reports by Vanity Fair and the Associated Press regarding Romney's offshore investments.
"He bet against America when he put his money in Swiss bank accounts and tax havens and shelters and also set up a secret company, the shell company in Bermuda," Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said on ABC's "This Week." "I've never known of a Swiss bank account to build an American bridge, a Swiss bank account to create American jobs…. That's not an economic strategy for moving our country forward."
Senior Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod invoked an unpopular Republican specter to charge that Romney may be "the most secretive candidate that we've seen, frankly, since Richard Nixon."
Republicans fended off such charges as a "distraction" (Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on ABC) or a phony attack on a successful businessman who earned his wealth through innovation and hard work.
"He hasn't paid a penny less in taxes by virtue of where these funds are domiciled," Romney spokesman Kevin Madden said in statement to Fox News. "His liability is exactly the same as if he held the fund investments directly in the U.S. As a U.S. citizen, he is accountable for U.S. taxes. Some investments in some foreign countries can be tax havens. But Mitt Romney does not hold any such investments."
Romney surrogates also answered criticism from some conservatives that he hasn't articulated his own plans for economic recovery and health care insurance reform.
"Right now, Romney is smart to wait before he starts laying out proposal after proposal," former Mississippi governor and former RNC chairman Haley Barbour said on CNN. "The people will then compare that to Obama's record, and that referendum on his record will happen."
Still, other Romney backers remain uneasy about their man being "risk-averse," as conservative columnist George Will put it on ABC.
"He does seem to be in something like a four-corner stall in basketball," Mr. Will said. "But you can't get to the NCAA championship, you can't get to the presidency running out the clock. So he's going to have to do something more than say Obama's not working."
Following their down time, Romney and Obama will be back on the campaign trail this week. Obama travels to two key states: Iowa and Virginia. Romney will be stumping in Colorado and Texas.
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The passing of coach Chuck Noll got me thinking about his Pittsburgh Steelers dynasty of the 1970s. It really started in 1972, when they went 11-3 and lost to the undefeated Miami Dolphins, 21-17, in the AFC championship game.
The Steelers won Super Bowls in 1974, '75, '78 and '79. This was a team that had Terry Bradshaw at quarterback, John Stallworth and Lynn Swann at receiver, Franco Harris at running back — Hall of Famers all — and yet they were most prominently known for their defense. The Steel Curtain of Mean Joe Greene, L.C. Greenwood, Mel Blount and perhaps the greatest 4-3 linebacker set of all-time in Jack Ham, Jack Lambertand Andy Russell.
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Canadian Librarians 'Owe Duty Of Loyalty To The Government,' Must Self-Censor Opinions Even In Private
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Librarians can play an important role in any society that depends increasingly on access to information to function. One of their jobs is to help people find what they are looking for, in a neutral, objective way, without imposing their own ideas or values in the process. Sadly, it looks like that won't be possible in Canada any more, now that librarians are expected to sign up to a new Code of Conduct imposed on them by the Canadian government.
Here's one problematic section:
Employment in the public service involves certain restrictions. Public servants owe a duty of loyalty to their employer, the Government of Canada. This duty derives from the essential mission of the public service to help the duly elected government, under law, to serve the public interest and implement government policies and ministerial decisions. The duty of loyalty reflects the importance and necessity of having an impartial and effective public service in order to achieve this mission.
"A duty of loyalty to their employer, the Government of Canada": I think Stalin would have approved of that. Although there is a token invocation of "the importance and necessity of having an impartial and effective public service", it's clear that obedience to the ruling powers overrides any misguided desire to be impartial. That imposition of an overtly political line to everything librarians do in their jobs is bad enough, but it gets worse:
As public servants, our duty of loyalty to the Government of Canada and its elected officials extends beyond our workplace to our personal activities. Public servants must therefore use caution when making public comments, expressing personal opinions or taking actions that could potentially damage LAC [Library and Archives Canada]'s reputation and/or public confidence in the public service and the Government of Canada. They must maintain awareness of their surroundings, their audience and how their words or actions could be interpreted (or misinterpreted).
"Maintain awareness of their surroundings" is a particularly fine Orwellian phrase that basically means: watch what you say, or else there will be trouble. Of course, one famously dangerous environment is the online world:
With the current proliferation of social media, public servants need to pay particular attention to their participation in these forums. For example, in a blog with access limited to certain friends, personal opinions about a new departmental or Government of Canada program intended to be expressed to a limited audience can, through no fault of the public servant, become public and the author identified. The public servant could be subject to disciplinary measures, as the simple act of limiting access to the blog does not negate a public servant's duty of loyalty to the elected government. Only authorized spokespersons can issue statements or make comments about LAC's position on a given subject. If you are asked for LAC's position, you must refer the inquiries, through your manager, to the authorized LACspokesperson.
Yes, you see, even that private little blog where you make a witty remark about the stupidity of some of Canada's glorious leaders could cause you to be subject to "disciplinary measures" (and please, do remember that parts of Canada are just as cold as Siberia....)
The attempt to dress up this pompous control-freakery as moderate and reasonable -- "through no fault of the public servant" etc. etc. -- would be rather amusing were it not part of a much larger move by Canada's rulers to stifle dissent. Canadian scientists, for example, have been subject to these kind of humiliating restrictions for some time, as the BBC reported last year:
The allegation of "muzzling" came up at a session of the AAAS [American Association for the Advancement of Science] meeting to discuss the impact of a media protocol introduced by the Conservative government shortly after it was elected in 2008.
Adapting some words penned in a much more serious situation, we might say:
The protocol requires that all interview requests for scientists employed by the government must first be cleared by officials. A decision as to whether to allow the interview can take several days, which can prevent government scientists commenting on breaking news stories.
Sources say that requests are often refused and when interviews are granted, government media relations officials can and do ask for written questions to be submitted in advance and elect to sit in on the interview.
First they censored the scientists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a scientist.
Now might be a good time for Canadians to say "enough is enough"....
Then they censored the librarians, and I did not speak out, because I was not a librarian.
Then they censored me, and there was no one left to speak for me.
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Newscaster Falls Hard For Teleprompter Prank From 'Anchorman' [VIDEO]
Weatherman Brian Niznansky of NBC26 in Green Bay, Wisconsin cemented his spot in the Ron Burgundy Hall of Shame when he proved that, like Will Ferrell's famous 'Anchorman' character, he will read anything that is put on the Teleprompter.
If anything, Niznansky gets off easy, as his colleagues prank him by having him read the fairly innocuous 'Anchorman' line "I love lamp."
Check out Niznanasky's blunder below. As a bonus, you can also watch TNT NBA broadcaster Charles Barkley — who didn't get off so easy — fall for the same trick.
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Dwyane Wade asked a Chicago judge to suspend ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches-Wade's right to visitation with their two children after a Father's day weekend incident that delayed the boys' return to his custody and led to her arrest. Siohvaughn Funches-Wade was charged with two counts of attempted child abduction, two counts of unlawful visitation interference and one count of resisting arrest, Cook County Sheriff's spokesman Frank Bilecki told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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HighStranger needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 135 designs submitted by 43 freelance designers.
HighStranger.com was TechCrunched at the end of August and now there are thousands of people waiting for us to launch.
Our first order of business is to dump the hideous website and logo you see now http://highstranger.com and replace it with something sweet, starting with the logo, which is what this contest is for.
While this contest is for the HighStranger™ logo only, we hope that it will quickly (ideally immediately) lead to one or more follow-on projects working directly with one or more people we meet through this contest. Additional information about those follow-on projects is available in the design brief.
HighStranger™ helps people find and connect with each other across cultures, time, and space. We help you save time, find, filter, locate, and connect, especially when you're on the go and/or want to meet or connect with people from or in other places, scenes, cultures, and sub-cultures.
If you're in the cannabis culture or you know about it, you know what we're talking about. It's about new friendships and experiences, opening our eyes and minds. Maybe Timothy Leary said it best: "Turn on, tune in, drop out" (that quote, BTW, is not about drugs):
"Turn on" means go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. "Tune in" means interact harmoniously with the world around you - externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. "Drop out" suggests an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. "Drop Out" means self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. —Timothy Leary.
Maybe that sounds "hippie" to some people, and maybe they're right, because we do indeed question authority, seek truth, and seek to free ourselves from societal restrictions, fears, and divisive beliefs.
This contest is to create the HighStranger™ logo, which should, ideally, consist of the written brand name plus an associated icon (for example, Twitter + its bird icon). The icon is not required (but it would be nice).
A PDF design brief, including images, is here:
What we're looking to do with this contest is establish a direct connection with one or more designers for additional design work, starting as soon as possible (basically immediately, depending on your availability).
Even if you don't participate in this contest, maybe you can pass it along to your friends and colleagues who might be interested. You can do that directly or, even better, through Facebook or Twitter. If you want a chance to win a free HighStranger t-shirt, see here: http://highstranger.com/contest
The contest has been guaranteed AND extended for three days and ends on Saturday, November 13th.
General comments:
1) High and Stranger should be on one line unless there is a reason for them to be on two, such as you can see in one highly rated submission.
3) No ALLCAPS.
3) If you incorporate a bong into your design, please make sure it looks like a bong and remember there are lots of different styles of bongs, not just the one that seems to keep cropping up over and over again here. In case anyone else is planning to use a bong in their design, here is some inspiration: http://goo.gl/JjWPM
4) No need to put a registered trademark or TM symbol in the design, those kinds of details the winning designer will add later, as part of the polishing process we'll do with the contest winner after awarding the win to him or her.
5) You can put variations with and without some sort of ".com" in the design if you want. That's totally optional. Can either be a URL or just a .com, such as what Fossa22 did here (link to portfolio): http://99designs.com/users/436376/f…ns/5971539
6) Nice to see versions for light and dark backgrounds, such as specified in the design brief and shown in some of the higher-rated contest entries so far. That's optional for the contest entry, but is a required deliverable as per the design brief.
7) Remember, you are doing this in Adobe Illustrator or another VECTOR program, the layered output of which we can and will work with in Adobe Illustrator.
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OK.gov is funded primarily through transaction based applications which do not require any tax expenditures from the state. More than 20 years ago, the state of Kansas initiated one of the most successful business models in the country. This model is known as a self-funding portal. This model is currently used in 30 states throughout the U.S., including Oklahoma. OK.gov is unique in its model for cooperation. It is a government service administered for the good of the public, while benefiting from the entrepreneurial spirit and efficiencies found in private business. OK.gov was created for the purpose of providing all Oklahomans with equal access to governmental and other public information via the Internet.
The initial phase, funded by the Oklahoma Office of State Finance, created the state portal and established the foundation for all levels of government to have an online presence. The second phase involves contracting with state agencies to bring their services online. Funding options for this phase include the assessment of modest online fees for a select set of commercially valuable information and services. OK.gov has not replaced the traditional means of obtaining any government records or services. If any record or service is normally available for free, it can continue to be obtained for free through traditional means of service delivery.
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Maya Angelou Puts It in Perspective
We see it all the time, every day in our personal and professional lives.
We most certainly see it on the Internet, which gives people free speech but not the responsibility that goes with it. Cowards suddenly find courage on the Internet, where they can post lies, smears, and personal attacks while hiding behind the anonymity of their modem. They can engage in offensive behavior that would get them a punch in the nose if they did it in the real world.
I doubt poet Maya Angelou had that in mind when she wrote "Hater." A friend sent me the poem a couple days ago after a spate of posts on various sites by anonymous people attacking me for saying that a certain recently published book had credibility problems.
Well, yesterday's New York Times article validated what I've been saying for the last month. 'Nuff said.
But given the general tendency on the Internet to smear someone when you can't win an argument on its merits, I thought I'd share this poem with my readers because it has a lot to say about the world we live in.
A hater is someone who is jealous and envious and spends all
their time trying to make you look small so they can look tall.
They are very negative people to say the least. Nothing is ever
good enough! When you make your mark, you will always attract some
haters…That's why you have to be careful with whom you share your
blessings and your dreams, because some folk can't handle seeing you
It's dangerous to be like somebody else…
If God wanted you to be like somebody else, He would have given
you what He gave them! Right? You never know what people have gone
through to get what they have.
The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but
they don't know my story… If the grass looks greener on the other side
of the fence, you can rest assured that the water bill is higher there
We've all got some haters among us! People envy you because you can:
Have a relationship with God
Light up a room when you walk in
Start your own business
Tell a man / woman to hit the curb (if he / she isn't about the right thing)
Raise your children without both parents being in the home
Haters can't stand to see you happy, Haters will never want to
see you succeed, Haters never want you to get the victory, most of our
haters are people who are supposed to be on our side. How do you handle
your undercover haters?
You can handle these haters by:
1. Knowing who you are & who your true friends are *(VERY IMPORTANT!!)
2. Having a purpose to your life? Purpose does not mean having a job.
You can have a job and still be unfulfilled. A purpose is having
a clear sense of what God has called you to be. Your purpose is not
defined by what others think about you.
3. By remembering what you have is by divine prerogative and not
human manipulation. Fulfill your dreams!
You only have one life to live…when it's your time to leave this earth,
you 'want' to be able to say, 'I've lived my life and fulfilled
'my' dreams,… Now I'm ready to go HOME! When God gives you favor, you can
tell your haters, Don't look at me…Look at Who is in charge of me…'
I think this also applies to fandom in general. Why do people look for the first opportunity to tear down a successful person? Maya Angelou has the answer — it's jealousy.
Read Angels fan boards, and inevitably you'll find people who claim to be Angels fans but have nothing positive to say. They look for any excuse to rip the players, management, executives. I remember one person telling me he would refuse to visit my web site unless I only wrote negative articles! Another person lectured that I should only write articles that would make me "popular." ?! It's not about being "popular," it's about expressing my opinion, like it or not. Maya Angelou's warning about trying to be like everyone else reminded me of the demand that I only write articles which would make me "popular."
One big reason why I've done FutureAngels.com since 1999 is I so enjoy being around a team environment where everyone is (or at least should be) geared to a common goal — winning. Individual goals are subservient to the team winning. I get to be around people who are positive, goal-oriented, and (for the most part) self-sacrificing.
It would be nice if the people who spend so much time on the Internet spewing bile would invest that time instead in making a positive contribution to humanity. But as Maya Angelou notes, for some people, "Nothing is ever good enough."


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