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These reports, mandated by Congress in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Trade Act of 1974, describe the performance of government that receive U.S. foreign assistance and of all United Nations member states, in practicing their international commitments on civil, political, individual, and worker rights, as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UN and the Chinese government produce similar reports.
2015: released April 13, 2016, celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the reports and focused on how governments suppress civil society groups, such as through broad counterterrorism or national security laws or burdensome administrative and bureaucratic procedures.
2014: released June 25, 2015, noted three trends: "While our reports continue to focus on the behavior of governments – which bear responsibility for the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in their territories – the year 2014 will be remembered as much for atrocities committed by non-state actors. The brutality of these actors is one of the notable trends in the 2014 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices....Even as authoritarian governments become more aggressive in cracking down on freedom of expression, including through the use of new media, civil society is emerging as an increasingly powerful actor on the international stage, as people in every country become more connected and better informed. The unique role of technology in combatting as well as carrying out human rights violations is another trend evident in the 2014 human rights reports....In 2014, corruption prevailed in too many societies and too many unrestrained rulers used it to cement their overall grip on power. The growing recognition of the correlation between corruption, human rights abuses, and repressive governance is the third trend noted in these reports."
2013: released February 27, 2014: "The past 12 months have seen notable human rights developments in five key areas:
- a continued crackdown by governments on civil society and the freedoms of association and assembly;
- growing restrictions on free expression and press freedom;
- accountability deficits for security force abuses;
- lack of effective labor rights protections; and
- marginalization of vulnerable groups, in particular:
- religious and ethnic minorities;
- women and children;
- LGBT persons and communities; and
- persons with disabilities"
2012: released April 19, 2013. The introduction notes the following trends: shrinking space for civil society activism; ongoing struggle for democratic change in the Middle East and North Africa; emergent democratic transition in Burma; freedom of expression, including by members of the media, and Internet freedom; marginalization of members of vulnerable groups.
2011: released May 24, 2012. The introduction states: "New connective technologies spread news of citizen activism, and political change, around the world. People continued to find innovative ways to use technology to break down the walls of fear and isolation that undemocratic governments erected to try to keep their populations quiescent...yet repressive regimes also used those same technologies to spy on their own citizens for the purposes of silencing dissent."
2010: released April, 2011. The introduction states: "This report provides encyclopedic detail on human rights conditions in over 190 countries for 2010. Because we are publishing this report three months into the new year, however, our perspectives on many issues are now framed by the dramatic changes sweeping across countries in the Middle East in 2011.
2009: released March 11, 2010. The introduction summarizes three trends: "There still are an alarming number of reports of torture, extrajudicial killings, and other violations of universal human rights...Restrictions on freedom of expression, including on members of the media, are increasing and becoming more severe...A third trend we observed is the continuing and escalating discrimination and persecution of members of vulnerable groups."
2008: released February 25, 2009. The introduction states: "United States foreign policy revolves not only around effective defense, but also robust diplomacy and vigorous support for political and economic development. A vigorous human rights policy reaffirms American values and advances our national interests."
2007: released March 11, 2008. In the introduction, the report acknowledges: "the Department of State remains mindful of both international and domestic criticism of the United States' human rights record. The U.S. government will continue to hear and reply forthrightly to concerns about our own practices, including the actions we have taken to defend our nation from the global threat of terrorism."
2006: released March 6, 2007. Themes similar to those found in 2005.
2005: released March 8, 2006. The introduction highlighted six broad themes: "countries in which power is concentrated in the hands of unaccountable rulers tend to be the world's most systematic human rights violators; human rights and democracy are closely linked; some of the most serious violations of human rights are committed by governments within the context of internal and/or cross-border armed conflicts; where civil society and independent media are under siege, fundamental freedoms of expression, association, and assembly are undermined; democratic elections by themselves do not ensure that human rights will be respected, but they can put a country on the path to reform and lay the groundwork for institutionalizing human rights protections; and progress on democratic reform and human rights is neither linear nor guaranteed."


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'English Patient' author here, April 15
Posted April 12, 2002; 02:59 p.m.
Author and poet Michael Ondaatje will read from his work in a program at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, in McCosh 50.
Ondaatje won the Booker Prize, England's highest honor for fiction, in 1992 for "The English Patient," which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film. He also has won Canada's Governor General's Award and the Canada-Australia Prize.
His other works include a memoir of his childhood, "Running in the Family"; a collection of poetry, "There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning To Do"; and several novels, "Anil's Ghost," "In the Skin of the Lion" and "Coming Through Slaughter." He has taught for many years at York University in Toronto.
The reading is sponsored by the Canadian studies program and the Council of the Humanities .
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Dead men tell no Tales, cut an arm off of each one of them and send them back home. Kind of hard to climb on to a ship with one arm isn't it?
Should not be long before you either have a bunch of one armed gangstas or a trembling populace afraid to Jack another boat.;)
Yes, I know it would be curel and breed more terrorists but life is tough but tougher if you F WITH THE U.S.A.!
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I wouldn't mind the Shockwave HISS (more for the 3.75" scale Soundwave and the BAT, though the HISS itself is sweet). I'm just not holding my breath.
That's my jacket!
Has anyone had luck with the Dollar General Joes? I've struck out so far, but will hopefully be searching in Bakersfield next Friday.
Really hoping they at least become "Big Lots Joes" as well.
That's my jacket!
I came across the 'Dollar Store' Joes at a comic convention this past weekend, though they unfortunately turned out to be Hundred and Thirty Dollar store Joes.
So it looks like the movie has been pushed forward to a March 2013 release to accommodate 3D conversion.
So are the stores going to even sell these figures now? I know some stores already have them out on the pegs, but what about the places that are supposed to put them out next week? Geez, what a crazy move.
"You know I love the guy but I swear he writes like freaking Yoda."-Dean Winchester
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Wow, of all the SW/Transformer/Joe/Marvel related fiascos Hasbro has been responsible for in recent months, this might take the cake!
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This is really worrisome. Those figures are hitting already (I mentioned in the LA thread that I found the first four vehicles but passed since they'd be on sale at some point). I'm not sure it's possible to delay them. So we're probably getting a line of toys that don't closely resemble anything we know already, based on a sequel to a movie that sucked and the toyline bombed, without a movie for almost a year?
Best case, those figures will rot on shelves, some will be pulled, and all will wind up at Ross or clearance racks.
I'm really not liking what the logical outcome of this scenario is. I'm looking at my Renegades Tunnel Rat in front of my computer right now, and thinking he might just be one of the last Joes I'll have the opportunity to buy for quite some time.
That's my jacket!
Man, it must suck to be Hasbro right now! First, all the layoffs due to declining profits, and now they have a mountain of movie tie-in toys to move and no movie to support it! They can't be happy about this! I don't personally believe that a media tie-in is necessary to sell toys if you have good product, but I suppose we shall see. Who can really tell if general consumers will consider this 'good product' anyway?


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It was by far the most unexpected news coming out of Syria. Syrian students are officially not authorised to wear the niqab (fully covered voile) in public and private universities. In the name of protecting Syria's laïque identity. Surprised? read on… Echoing similar laws being passed in Europe, a ministerial official at the Ministry of […]
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A hit at the 2012 Berlinale,This Ain't California takes a look at the transformation of Germany over the course of 40 years through the lens of three skateboarder friends.
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This Ain't California (Marten Persiel | 94 min.)
This movie is about skateboarding. This movie is about East Germany. This movie is about childhood. This movie is about a charismatic, irresistible, driven, complex, handsome personality. This movie is about free spirit and rebellion. This movie is about regrets. This movie is about the bizarre twists our lives take. This movie is about drinking and sex and pretty girls and cigarettes and trashing things. This movie is told in super 8 flashbacks, DSLR, photos, animation, 80's German punk music. This movie is sad, this movie is fast, this movie is funny, this movie is intellectual, this movie is angry, this movie is sweet, this movie is clever, this movie is rad.
This fun and insightful documentary shows that behind the Iron Curtain, teenagers were still teenagers. It's amazing to see youthful rebellion in the face of political and familial pressure in such a unique place. So while the film tells a universal and political story, what makes This Ain't California such an emotionally powerful history is the personal touch – the filmmaker lived through the era, and was a key protagonist in the counter-cultural anarchy flashing brightly on screen. When the Berlin Wall fell, the members of the semi-secret GDR skate-punk community scattered, and many haven't been in touch for years. Rallying around a seminal figure for all of them, the group comes together again, returning to their roots: the fascist architecture which shaped their skating, the rickety water-damaged wooden boards of decades ago. The resulting reunion is the spark behind emotionally-charged and dashingly cool archival footage that will make dazzle and touch skaters and non-skaters alike. Rooftop is proud to bring this radical film to the roof of Open Road, a working skate park.
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Sandra Sam Chandler, 51, died Monday morning, June 24, 2013, after complications from ovarian cancer.
Born in Jamaica, West Indies, Sandra is survived by her husband, Dennis Chandler, sons Jonathan and Michael, mother, Ivy Senior, sisters Suzanne, Sharon and Simone, nieces and nephews.
A celebration of life ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, June 28, 2013, at the Key West Mortuary, 328 Truman Ave.


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Memorial service for Dahlen set, Sept. 7
Posted August 30, 2007; 06:35 p.m.
A memorial service for Francis Anthony (Tony) Dahlen, a Princeton professor of geosciences, is being planned for 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, in the University Chapel.
Dahlen, who was widely considered the top theoretical seismologist in his field, died of cancer June 3 at the University Medical Center at Princeton. He was 64.
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Lectures focus on 'Surviving Death,' May 9-11
Posted April 25, 2006; 02:35 p.m.
"Surviving Death" is the theme of three lectures by Princeton philosopher Mark Johnston scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, May 9-11, in 101 McCormick Hall.
Johnston's lecture topics are: "The Uses and Abuses of Heaven," May 9; "The Self as Dreamt by the Objects," May 10; and "A New Refutation of Death," May 11.
Johnston is the Walter Cerf *41 Professor of Philosophy. His areas of interest include ethics, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophical logic.
The talks are designated as the philosophy department's Hempel Lectures, in honor of the renowned philosopher of science and longtime Princeton faculty member Carl Hempel, who died in 1997.


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Assisted reproduction technologies have helped many people who otherwise could not have become parents of biologically related children. But these technologies tend to be costly and invasive. Their success rates, though improving, are still low. Most important, the long-term risks to women and children have not been well studied. Treating infertility has become a highly competitive business, and the field itself is notoriously under-regulated. Many experimental techniques are put into clinical use before they are adequately tested.
Other social, ethical, and practical concerns have also been raised: payments to encourage economically vulnerable women to provide eggs for other women's fertility treatment or to become surrogates; the increasing number of fertility clinics that offer social sex selection; and other forms of screening, testing, and selecting embryos. More radical reproductive technologies such as reproductive cloning and inheritable genetic modification (changing the genes we pass on to our children) are being used in animals, and though clearly dangerous, are being contemplated for use by humans.
It is not uncommon for those advocating these technologies to appropriate the language of reproductive choice to argue that parents should have the "right" to choose their children's characteristics. But as an increasing number of reproductive rights leaders point out, there are important differences between choosing when and whether to bear a child and creating a child with specified traits.


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Arab-Israeli peace is lecture topic
Posted September 17, 2008; 05:18 p.m.
Aaron David Miller, a former Department of State adviser on Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, will speak on U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Miller's lecture shares the title of his recent book "The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace."
Miller is currently a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. From 2003 to 2006 he was president of Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building leadership skills among young people from regions of conflict. For the previous two decades, he served at the Department of State as an adviser to six secretaries of state, helping formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process. He has written three books on the Middle East.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.


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Heart disease is the number one cause of death among women. Raise awareness and your own heart rate in the Go Red Run 5K Run and Walk held annually in memory of Robin Seay. Put on your best red exercise gear and jog it out, then celebrate at Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina Pavilion with awards, music, and raffles. To carbo-load in advance, join a pre-race dinner for $15 or $20 the day-of. Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina Pavilion, 20 Patriots Point Rd., Mount Pleasant. Saturday, 9am. $35. (843)792-1414, www.muschealth.com


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Elise Blumann painted Perth's Swan River and the native melaleuca trees of the region many times. Escaping the Nazi regime that devastated much of Europe, German-born Blumann came to Perth with her husband and two children in 1938. Educated at the Berlin Academy of Arts and the Royal Art School Berlin, Blumann was familiar with the modern art of the German Expressionists, Matisse, Picasso, Kandinsky and Chagall. In Australia Blumann's painting was unconventional, however her peers regarded her as a valued member of Perth's artistic community.
In Storm on the Swan Blumann uses broad sweeping gestures – strong horizontal and diagonal brushwork – to capture the power of a storm. Wind and rain beat against the limbs of the trees which appear to almost float in space. This dynamic and sensitive composition displays Blumann's modern approach to her art and her desire to capture the 'essential spirit' of nature.1 Areas of the painting's surface are blank, while others are scratched with the end of her brush to indicate sharp, fast, rain. This is a vigorous, physical and quickly executed work, a powerful response to the speed in which a storm can approach and pass.
1 John Scott & Richard Woldendorp,Landscapes of Western Australia, Claremont, Western Australia: Aeolian Press, 1986, p. 17.


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In my mailbox today was a surprise! Straight from KB Toys online, my Darth Vader EpIV and Count Dooku mini lightsabers!
As soon as I had the cash scraped together to get these two beauties, they were sold out everywhere I looked except for KBToys onlne.
Let me just say the Darth mini is my new favorite. So many more intricate parts and details than any of the other minis in my collection so far.
This brings my collection to one Anakin Gold chase, one Anakin regular, 2 Best Buy exclusive Sidious minis, the Darth, the Dooku, and the Obi Wan Mini.
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wvCAFV1...?v=wvCAFV1YfAo Imagine this song played on opening night. Slow motion. Out from the tunnel enters NYG... To war gentlemen.
We need our own version of fireman ed. Imagine if the entire stadium erupted in this at kickoff...
The majority of fans in Giants Stadium (now, Met Life Stadium) wont even yell on defensive 3rd downs, and will complain if you are standing up in front of them. We have the worst "home field" advantage in the NFL.
Now you want them to chat? LOL.
i thought the home crowd was pretty loud in last years playoff game against atlanta.
"What are we gonna get?"
"Who are we gonna beat?"
"Who's gonna show up and play?"
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Hayden Valley Elementary School kindergarten teacher Laura Voorhees reacts Thursday morning after learning she won the Peabody Energy Leaders in Education Award. Peabody Energy Colorado Director of Human Resources Scott Harrell and Peabody Energy Leaders in Education Program Manager Maureen Moore visited the school and presented a gift basket and a check for $1,000 to Voorhees during a school assembly.
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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal Jackson Bureau
Mississippi voters in November 2011 approved a requirement that people display a government-issued photo identification to vote, but before it goes into effect it still must be approved by the U.S. Department of Justice or the federal courts. Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, who oversees elections in Mississippi, discussed voter ID implementation with the Daily Journal's Bobby Harrison.
Q. What is the latest on the Mississippi voter photo identification law? Where does it stand in the process?
A. The U.S. Department of Justice asked for additional information in October to consider before preclearing Mississippi's constitutional voter ID law. We will submit all the final regulations Jan. 11 to the Justice Department at the end of the 30-day public comment time for the regulations. We will ask the department to preclear based on the proposed regulations that are extensively researched based on a survey done on election day last month.
Q. Assuming the law is finally approved by the Justice Department or by the federal courts, what would be the next step? What is your office doing to get ready for it?
A. We released our expert research from the election day survey this past Wednesday. It showed that basically 98.3 percent of the population have a voter ID and only 0.8 percent had no ID and 0.9 percent refused to answer the question. We have released the regulations for implementation of voter ID.
We signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Vital Records to provide pre-verification of birth certificates in Mississippi and 45 other states for each circuit clerk's office for free. We finished a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Transportation to use their network to provide free transportation. We will arrange for transportation in counties not covered by MDOT.
Q. You have yet to ask for any state funding to enact the law. Will that be an issue during the 2013 legislative session? How much money do you think it will take?
A. We are going over the implementation budget now. I expect that to be less than $200,000 which will include all of the cameras in the circuit clerk's offices and the creation of the free voter ID.
It also will include outreach and training and a marketing budget … We will be submitting it to the Legislature before the session.


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Of course, gd.NET staff could just look up your IP, and do some "digging" to find out who you are and who you work for. :D
That's true, though finding out identity from IP address is a rather chancy affair. But we don't do that. There are a lot of people here in that situation, actually... it's one of the main reasons the site still has anonymous posting.


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Lecture examines 'Pakistan in Crisis,' Dec. 4
Posted December 3, 2007; 06:22 p.m.
"Pakistan in Crisis: Law, Power and Politics Under Pervez Musharraf" is the title of a lecture by Pakistani scholar Osama Siddique scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, in 2 Robertson Hall.
Siddique is currently an associate professor in the Department of Law and Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan. He will speak about the nature of the current legal and political crisis in Pakistan, the public reaction and U.S. policy implications.
The lecture is sponsored by Pehchaan, a Pakistani student group, as well as the Program in South Asian Studies, the Program in Law and Public Affairs, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Davis International Center and the Global Issues Forum.


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WPR - Kathleen Dunn talks with Antonia Juhasz
WPR Radio
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss current gas prices and the oil industry.
Guest: Antonia Juhasz, Director, The Energy Program, Global Exchange. Author, "Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill."
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The ancient Jewish town of Gush Halav is still nestled in the Galilee mountains on the forested slopes of Mount Meron not far from Safed. It's now a village called Jish where among the historical and cultural attractions (including a good Middle Eastern restaurant or two) are the tombs of several Torah sages.
The best known of these is the tomb of Shmaya and Avtalyon. They were among the Zugot, which means "pairs," sages who governed the Jewish people in Roman times. Over the years, one member of each of the Zugot would head the Sanhedrin (the Jewish council), and the other, the court. The tradition of Shmaya and Avtalyon's tomb in Galilee goes back to the 16th century and Rabbi Isaac Luria's mystic work the Zohar, which mentions the benefit of prayer at the graves of the righteous. The Talmud says Shmaya and Avtalyon were the descendents of the notorious Assyrian conqueror Sennacherib, one way of saying that anyone can be redeemed –– a good thought for any age!
The small stone tomb building, with picnic tables in its courtyard, has a double, sky-blue dome. Inside is an ancient Roman sarcophagus missing its lid.


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News: Announce: Subversion hosting at Gna! opens
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Announce: Subversion hosting at Gna! opens
Item posted by Timothee Besset <ttimo> on Fri Mar 18 20:39:10 2005.
You now have the choice between CVS, Arch and Subversion[1] to manage your source code at Gna!
Here are the features currently available:
- anonymous read via svn://svn.gna.org/svn/$project (TCP 3690)
- anonymous read via http://svn.gna.org/svn/$project (TCP 80)
- viewcvs for svn at http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/$project
- authenticated read/write access for project members at svn+ssh:// email@example.com/svn/$project (TCP 22)
If you want to use Subversion for your project, you will need to log into your project administration page, and enable it in the Active Features section. Your project repository will be created on the next hourly cron job.
The same must be done if you want to use GNU Arch - even if you already have an Arch repository.
Please note that while we don't expect any major issues, the Subversion support should be considered beta. Mainly because a number of features are still missing and will be implemented more or less shortly (commit emails and end user documentation).
We will be monitoring the support tracker[2] closely to make sure things are working smoothly.
Note that it is not planned in a near future to allow web homepages at home.gna.org managed with these two Source Code Manager.
[1] http://subversion.tigris.org/
[2] https://gna.org/support/?func=browse&set=open&group=admin
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Woo! Cool! (posted by dylanwh, Mon Mar 28 03:10:09 2005)
That's really spiffy. :)
I wonder if it will be possible to import a svn repository
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OK, I left Michigan last summer, spent three months in Nebraska, and now live back in Colorado. I program mostly in XSLT these days and have added Windows XP and MacOS X machines to my collection of 'puters. :-)
OK, I left Michigan last summer, spent three months in Nebraska, and now live back in Colorado. I program mostly in XSLT these days and have added Windows XP and MacOS X machines to my collection of 'puters. :-)
We probably still have work at least until the end of June 2004.
[editted to remove stupid crap] I should keep my mouth shut.
Well, let's see if our contract survives the reorganization where I work. We won't know until the end of September.
I have been working here for 12 months now. Businesses all around where I live keep laying off more workers.
Another year of not being able to attend the Ottawa Linux Symposium. Too much work to do, though I live in Michigan, so I could actually drive. I _so_ want to visit the Glenn Gould exhibit at the National Library of Canada...
We are under a big crunch at work. Lots of things to do, fix, and get into production. :-)
OK. We got the new contract/tasking-order. I've been working since August 19th. I'm assigned to 8 projects in various overlapping capacities.
I was unemployed for 14 months. Don't let it happen to you. But I wish I was doing exciting work in Haskell or something.
[Damn, I should keep my mouth shut.]
We're waiting to see if we get to keep our contract. Oh, the joy of recompete. 5 year contracts that have to reviewed and renewed annually, and then opened for competition again after 5 years.
I guess there's always something that keeps me complaining or worrying.
OK, so I start my new job on August 19th.
Nevermind. I was going to start my new job August 5th, but now I have to wait and see if they get the new contract. They won't know until mid-August, so I probably can't start until August 26th or September 2nd. If they win the contract. In the meantime, I may have to sell my car. Fifteen months of unemployment.
OK. I'll stop complaining... I got a job. I'm leaving Colorado and moving back to Michigan to work at my old job.
The job market seems to continue getting worse as more accounting "scandals" come to light. The analysts that predicted that employment, particularly in high tech, wouldn't resurge in the USA until the summer of 2003 may actually have been _optimists_.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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CreAgri, Inc.
CreAgri, Inc., a supplier of antioxidant polyphenols from the pulp of organic olives, offers wellness in the form of Hidrox, a powder available for use in functional foods and beverages.
Hydroblend, Inc.
Hydroblend, Inc. introduced a fully certified organic product line and can provide single or multi-step coating systems, from pre-dusts to batters and bread crumbs.
Total Lubricants USA, Inc.
Total Lubricants USA, Inc., formerly Keystone Lubricants, now offers a slide chart that enables users to match the correct Nevastane H1 food grade lubricant to the specific application.
VDF FutureCeuticals Inc.
VDF FutureCeuticals Inc. introduces FruiteX-B, a calcium fructoborate supplement proven to reduce pain associated with osteoarthritis and improving general bone health.
Frutarom USA Inc.
Frutarom USA Inc. recently introduced new flavors with distinctive characteristics for beverage, baking and savory products.
Ozone Safe Food Inc.
Ozone Safe Food, Inc. announced July 12 that results were received from Assumption University (www.au.edu) in Bangkok, Thailand, for their broad spectrum bacterial testing on surface pathogens using Ozone Safe Food's 100 PSI mobile ozone unit.
Pharmline Inc.
Pharmline Inc., a supplier of high-quality nutritional ingredients and phytonutrients, has introduced a high-purity lutein product, Hi-Fil Lutein Beadlets.
Rollprint Packaging Products, Inc.
Rollprint Packaging Products, Inc. introduces ClearForm thermoformable bottom web a new, economical option for thermoform/fill/seal applications for frozen food manufacturers.
Meissner Filtration Products, Inc.
Meissner Filtration Products, Inc. introduces the Accuflux Pocket Pro filter integrity tester. This new, lightweight, hand-held instrument tests the integrity of membrane filters using the pressure hold method.
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc.
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. announced Oct. 5 that its new hybrid Ion Trap-Time-of-Flight instrument has received an R&D Magazine '2005 R&D 100 award.'
MasterControl Inc.
MasterControl Inc. on Oct. 25 unveiled a complete and easy-to-use solution for companies seeking compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), a sweeping reform in corporate governance meant to prevent financial malpractice such as seen in the Enron and WorldCom scandals.
SVF Flow Controls, Inc.
The SMC9 from SVF Flow Controls, Inc., is a multiported, four-seat ball valve that is ASME/BPE-compliant and features an integral ISO-5211 mounting pad for pneumatic or electric automation.
Ecolab Inc./Charm Sciences
Ecolab Inc. and Charm Sciences have introduced novaLUM, a palm-sized luminometer that is packed with powerful HACCP-friendly tests to aid in ATP-based hygiene monitoring programs in the dairy, food and beverage processing industries.
D.D. Williamson & Co., Inc.
As a result of acquiring Wisconsin-based Dinesen Trading Co., color maker D.D. Williamson & Co., Inc. now offers a wider range of natural food colors.
Loma Systems, Inc.
Loma Systems, Inc.'s new Celsius non-destructive temperature measurement system for refrigerated food applications helps processors manage and control energy costs.
BETE Fog Nozzle, Inc.
BETE Fog Nozzle, Inc., has introduced the Twist & Dry Knife-edge Carrier, a solution to product buildup on spray-dry nozzles.
Gainco Inc.
The new dual-indexing bulking and batching system from Gainco, Inc. is designed to optimize meat and poultry packing operations.
BETE Fog Nozzle, Inc.
SpiralAir nozzles from BETE Fog Nozzle, Inc. use a three-stage process for more efficient atomization at comparable flow rates.
Rollprint Packaging Products, Inc.
Rollprint Packaging Products, Inc. has developed a cost-effective packaging film that aggressively seals through food product contamination. Rollprints Legato lidding film is an oriented polyester film, extrusion-coated with Allegro M sealant.
BETE Fog Nozzle, Inc.
XAAD nozzles from BETE Fog Nozzle Inc. utilize pressure-fed air atomizing spray for a wide range of applications. These nozzles feature extremely fine atomization, internal mixing, a moderate forward spray projection and a 70° hollow cone spray pattern.
EMEC Americas, Inc.
EMEC Americas, Inc. introduced a microprocessor controlled metering pump that automatically calculates the parts per m (ppm) of required chemical concentration based on the flow rate received from an inline meter.
Arcadia Biosciences Inc.
Arcadia Biosciences Inc. has developed safflower plants with seeds containing 65 percent GLA (gamma-linolenic acid) in oil.
Blue California Inc.
Blue California Inc. has developed an innovative form of lutein with excellent solubility in cold water.
Mettler-Toledo Safeline, Inc.
Mettler-Toledo Safeline, Inc., a supplier of metal detection and x-ray inspection equipment, introduced the HDS (Heavy Duty Sausage) Pipeline metal detector, which is sensitive to all metal types for the sausage industry.
CombiScale Inc.
The CS-10 Big Bucket model from CombiScale Inc. is a 10-head, large capacity combination scale designed for larger products with weights of up to 6.5 lbs (2.6 kg). It is said to be ideal for food applications.
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Break Up Quotes, Sayings about break ups
Once they see you're doing better without them, that's when they want you back.
Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or make you happy.
Breakups hurt, but losing someone who doesn't respect and appreciate you is actually a gain, not a loss.
Do yourself a favor and don't stay updated with those who you realized weren't good for you. You don't need to know how they're doing.
When your ex says "you'll never find anyone like me" Just smile and reply "that's the point".
Just because I let you go, doesn't mean I wanted to.
Sorry, but I don't need any part-time people in my life. You're either with me or you're not. You can't just come and go as you please.
Dear heart, please stop getting involved in everything. Your job is to pump blood, that's it.
How can I move on when I'm still in love with you?
Sometimes, you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care but because they don't.
You still care.
I didn't stop loving my ex, I just stop believing that we were meant to be.
The memory of you is like a cobweb that lingers in my mind and stings through my organ of fire.
I will forget you as a nightmare that cripples my mind.
Stop holding on to what hurts and make room for what feels good.
Sometimes breaking up is just another way to say, "Open your eyes and use your mind".
Being friends with your ex shows you two are mature enough to get over the fact that you weren't meant to be together.
You have given me so much pain emotionally and physically. Maybe it's time for me to move on and forget you. For you really don't deserve me.
I miss every minute then I remember all the pain and heartaches every second and swear not to go back again. Goodbye.
Why is it that you wanted me to be yours so badly, then walked away without looking back and have never remembered me since?


text: Dear FSU, Im hoping someone on here might have the knowledge (and patience) to help me translate MRI findings to everyday speak and maybe someone has experience with this type of injury and its management... Here is what happened: early July impact injury to right ankle This was from a downward fall of about 3-4 feet, all my weight ended up on the outside of my right ankle and it kind of bent outwards and started swelling immediately; however, it didnt hurt much and I was able to walk almost normally the following day; there was a lot of purple bruising which went away within days, but the swelling persisted. I was concerned that the impact force might have done some internal damage to my ankle or that there might be hairline or stress fracture. I went to my GP a few days later to get the foot checked out and just in case I needed an xray. The GP decided that nothing was broken as I was able to walk normally, but did give me a referral to see a physio upon my request (note: this is Australia physiotherapists are the practitioners of choice with most injuries). I saw a physio, he gave me some strengthening exercises to do, and recommended massage and a bit of tight bandaging for the swelling. July to October I gradually resumed some of my usual activities, though at a very reduced intensity. Some movements caused a bit of tenderness in the ankle. There was no pain, but the ankle stayed visibly puffy and seemed to give me a bit of a niggle at times. I had this strange feeling of it not being quite there like if it would take a second or two for the ankle to get activated and recognize the rest of my body and do what I was asking it to do. October by this point I felt that the ankle had recovered to about 90%. Still puffy, and some movements would cause a bit of a reaction not pain, not tenderness, but just a reaction of sorts, which I wasnt having in the other foot. late October - I wanted to get back into long distance running, and wanted to make sure it would be okay, so I went to see my sports physician (he had helped me with a weird impingement in my other ankle a couple of years ago by means of a cortisone injection). Sports physician ordered xray just in case, which came out fine, so he gave me a cortisone injection and said I should be good within 2-3 weeks. Two days later I woke up at night in agony and unable to walk I could not bear to stand on my foot (it would bear weight, but it would be incredibly achy). The foot felt extremely stiff and sore. I called the doctor who said a flare up can happen from time to time and to give it a couple of days. And indeed three days later my foot seemed back to normal. Except the following night I once again woke up in immense pain (the worst pain of my life which would not lessen even with a maximum dose of over the counter painkillers). I called the doctor again, who said that the foot wasnt behaving the way it was supposed to and recommended a MRI if the pain didnt settle. I had a couple more (though slightly less intense) flare ups, and eventually booked the MRI. mid-November MRI I can copy the full report separately, but here are the conclusions: transchondral lesion of the medial talar dome with a focal chondral defect and quite extensive bone oedema extending through the medial half of the talus This was 3 weeks after the cortisone injection. And over 4 months following my initial injury and nearly 4 months of using the foot with it being about 90% ok. I had had NO pain and NO difficulty with walking for most of those 4 months, until after the cortisone injection. My sports physician had a look at the MRI results and said Id given the ankle a nasty bash and that he was concerned about a bit of bone which seemed to have come detached. Diagnosed bone bruising and advised time, but told me to keep being active if I wanted to. In the month after the MRI, the flare ups subsided to an extent, but only to an extent. They became shorter in duration but very unpredictable. Sometimes, it would flare up for a 20 minute period - very randomly. One weekend, I went on an outdoors trip and found myself unable to walk upon arrival (this time, the ankle felt painful and tender when deployed over uneven terrain, there was no stiffness). However, the following morning it felt fine and I was able to do a few hours of (very easy) rock climbing and then walk over rocky terrain with no problem. Similar thing happened a couple of weeks later on a beach weekend the first day walking over uneven, moving sand was hurting, the following day it was fine. I saw the sports physician again, who was puzzled, and told me that he could not justify sending me to a surgeon because I was not in pain and able to do whatever I wanted most of the time. He reckoned the ankle needed more time. He could not explain why the flare up happened after the cortisone injection and why it was so severe when Id been ok for 4 months. Today: Its 10 weeks since the cortisone injection, 7 weeks since the MRI and exactly 6 months since the injury. The flare ups are still happening, but their nature has changed now its just intense stiffness which does not respond to pain killers or to anti-inflammatory medication. Taping the ankle doesnt do anything. Sometimes the stiffness develops after activity (like gentle hiking), sometimes for no apparent reason at all and hangs about for about 16 hours, then goes away quite suddenly. I can be limping badly and then walking almost normally 5 minutes later, until the next flare up. Any sort of hopping/jumping up and down causes dull but strong pain. Im trying to get another appointment with my sports physician, but hes booked out for a few weeks. What Id like to know: - what does the MRI mean (i.e. what is actually wrong with my ankle in non medical speak???) - how can it be that it was 90% fine for 4 months and then became pretty much unusable immediately after the cortisone injection (I could understand a gradual worsening over the last 6 months if there is a damage inside my ankle, but the suddenness and intensity of the pain is puzzling) - what now? wait more and do nothing in the meantime? investigate surgery options? - is surgery the only way? - if I need to have surgery, how long will I be out of activity? how long will it take before I can head out for a cruisy casual 30+ km run? will I ever be able to do that again? It is pretty clear that the injury is affecting me and getting in the way of what I want to do. It would be fine if I lived a more sedentary lifestyle. But I dont. I am a very active person (long distance running, trail running, hiking, rock climbing, bike and other activities in the outdoors has to be outdoors and in nature). The added complication is that Im a full time student and very pressed financially and only have basic health insurance which has a restricted level of cover for things such as arthroscopy and surgery (it might cover the investigation, but not any actual repair work). I dont have the means to pay for surgery. Not being able to do things is killing me and Im really struggling on a mental/emotional level. Activity, especially long distance running, is my way to inner peace and a means of working through stress and bad days etc.. Im dealing with some personal stuff at the moment also, and its been quite uphill. Ive been crying every day and really struggling. I cant bear the thought of not being able to run and climb for months. I hope someone here will be able to shed some light. Thank you so much in advance. Full MRI findings There is a discrete osteochondral lesion seen over the medial side of the talar dome. There is a focal 2mm area of chondral deficiency associated with a transchondral cleft. There is intense high signal seen through the talus. In addition, there is a second osteochondral lesion seen over the lateral side of the talar dome. There is a focal area of chondral loss with subcortical cystic change and a moderate amount of bone oedema. In addition, there is a large ankle joint effusion with a synovitis. The subtalar and talonavicular joints are intact. I note an accessory os navicularis and this distorts the talonavicular joint ligament. The anterior process of the calcaneus is preserved. The Achilles tendon and plantar fascia are preserved. The ligaments of the distal syndesmosis are intact. The has been high-grade tearing of the anterior talofibular ligament with a disorganized frayed ligament. There is scarring of the extensor retinaculum and there is marked thickening and fraying of the calcaneofibular ligament. I note an intrasubstance split within peroneous brevis at the level of the fibula and indeed there is high signal seen within the fibula itself. The flexor tendons are normal. There is increased fluid in the tibialis posterior tendon sheath.


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CBDMP is joining the over 350 members of the National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN) to alert women of childbearing age about the critical link between diabetes and increased risk for birth defects. January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month and this year's focus is addressing diabetes among women of childbearing age.
Although diabetes has been identified as a public health concern, the general public is unaware of the complications that uncontrolled diabetes can have on both the pregnant woman and her baby.
Studies have demonstrated that the key to a healthy pregnancy for women with diabetes is keeping blood glucose in target range – both before and during pregnancy. Babies born to women with diabetes, especially women with poor diabetes control are at greater risk for birth defects.
The National Birth Defects Prevention Network is working with health care providers around the country to encourage diabetes prevention and control for the over 60 million women in the U.S. of childbearing age.
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Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
(John Dewey)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
(George Washington)
Gig'em Aggies!! BTCO'77HOO t.u.!!
Pete, you and Buzz don't get it. It's more about appearance than anything else. He is wearing traditional "Black Panther" garb. He is presenting himself as a Black Panther. If I stood outside a polling station wearing a KKK robe, would that be ok? Do you think anyone would have a problem with it if I was polite and opened doors for people? If he is an "official" poll worker, he shouldn't be wearing a Black Panther beret and military insignia. Go ahead and spin this any way you want but it is what it is. The double standards in today's society are ridiculous, especially when it comes to race. Terry Bradshaw makes an inside joke about fried chicken when Reggie Bush scored a touchdown and everybody screams racism. His joke was between him and another commentator and had nothing to do with racism or Reggie Bush but that's not how the liberal media made it sound. Yet, a Black Panther can stand outside a polling station during a Presidential election and it's ok.
I am not spinning any thing. for starters all I saw was a black guy wearing a barea and opening a door for people. I have read nothing into the video. . I have no idea if he is a black panther or an x green barea. If indeed he is a black panther,,,he has every right to hate white people just as the KKK has the right to hate black people. As long as they don't do harm ,,,who gives a rats ass what they believe. He appeared very harmless to me in the video. As long as he remains harmless he can dress and do what he chooses. Personally that would not intimidate me or my wife.
I also understand the double standard and where you guys are coming from. But fox news is kin with cnc,,same mother different father or same father different mothers.
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Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Psalms 12: 8
The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exulted
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
He wouldn't intimidate me either Pete but in an election where every single vote makes a difference, he should not be there. Period. Just because he doesn't intimidate me doesn't mean he wouldn't intimidate my mother or wife. The Black Panthers are a hate group and it's sad that a member of hate group is allowed to stand outside of a polling station. I don't give a rat's a$$ how nice he is.
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."--George Orwell.
The way Gooser looks at it,,,
If he wants to be a door man,, he needs to dress like it.. Dont they have a uniform??
Wheres the Union Now???
is he a scab worker??
I think it Classy they want to do this,, but really,, its a Tux,, white shirt,, cumberbun,, and Spats!
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
(John Dewey)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
(George Washington)
Gig'em Aggies!! BTCO'77HOO t.u.!!


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Big City Saloon opening downtown Friday
SPOKANE, Wash. - One local businessman is economy works in his favor as he opens the first, full-time country and western venue in downtown Spokane in the past five years.
The Big City Saloon could be a fun place for city slickers to kick up their heels but also represents another way of attracting visitors from outlying areas.
When it comes to award shows, country is now beating out all other forms of music in viewers. 14 million people tuned into last month's Country Music Awards and now there's a new place to hear country's greatest hits right here in Spokane.Big City Saloon
"People who want to have a good time want to come down to a clean, new, upbeat, high energy night club and have a great time and still be safe," Sean Mooney of the Big City Saloon said.
On Thursday crews were putting the finishing touches on what Mooney hopes will be a fun place where people can come down and dance to both live and recorded country music.
'This room the theme is the saloon theme where it's more of a dance room. On the other side of the room we'll end up with a show bar over there. We'll have an interactive staff that will sing. We'll have drums mounted on the walls with drummers who will play on the walls we'll also have pianos and guitar players," he explained, adding he's hoping to attract country music fans from Colville to Colfax.
The Big City Saloon even has a mechanical bull you can ride.
"I think it would be good fun for people to go down there and experience a new bar and bring a different night life to the downtown area," country music fan Nick Godbout said.
The saloon has a soft opening Friday night.
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"MAY I come in? I hope I do not disturb you, my dear friend," said Bonaparte, late one evening, putting his nose in at the cabin door, where the German and his son sat finishing their supper.
It was now two months since he had been installed as schoolmaster in Tant' Sannie's household, and he had grown mighty and more mighty day by day. He visited the cabin no more, sat close to Tant' Sannie drinking coffee all the evening, and walked about loftily with his hands under the coat tails of the German's black cloth and failed to see even a nigger who wished him the time of day. It was page: 116 therefore with no small surprise that the German perceived Bonaparte's red nose at the door.
"Walk in, walk in," he said joyfully. "Boy, boy, see if there is any coffee left. Well, none. Make a fire. We have done supper, but—"
"My dear friend," said Bonaparte, taking off his hat, "I came not to sup, not for mere creature comforts, but for an hour of brotherly intercourse with a kindred spirit. The press of business and the weight of thought, but they alone, may sometimes prevent me from sharing the secrets of my bosom with him for whom I have so great a sympathy. You perhaps wonder when I shall return the two pounds—"
"Oh, no, no! Make a fire, make a fire, boy. We will have a pot of hot coffee presently," said the German, rubbing his hands and looking about, not knowing how best to show his pleasure at the unexpected visit.
For three weeks the German's diffident page: 117 "Good evening" had met with a stately bow; the chin of Bonaparte lifting itself higher daily; and his shadow had not darkened the cabin doorway since he came to borrow the two pounds. The German walked to the head of the bed and took down a blue bag that hung there. Blue bags were a speciality of the German's. He kept above fifty stowed away in different corners of his room—some filled with curious stones, some with seeds that had been in his possession fifteen years, some with rusty nails, buckles, and bits of old harness—in all, a wonderful assortment, but highly prized.
"We have something here not so bad," said the German, smiling knowingly, as he dived his hand into the bag and took out a handful of almonds and raisins; "I buy these for my chickens. They increase in size, but they still think the old man must have something nice for them. And the old man—well, a big boy page: 118 may have a sweet tooth sometimes, may he not? Ha, ha!" said the German, chuckling at his own joke, as he heaped the plate with almonds. "Here is a stone—two stones to crack them—no late patent improvement—well, Adam's nut-cracker; ha, ha! But I think we shall do. We will not leave them uncracked. We will consume a few without fashionable improvements."
Here the German sat down on one side of the table, Bonaparte on the other; each one with a couple of flat stones before him, and the plate between them.
"Do not be afraid," said the German, "do not be afraid. I do not forget the boy at the fire; I crack for him. The bag is full. Why, this is strange," he said suddenly, cracking upon a large nut; "three kernels! I have not observed that before. This must be retained. This is valuable." He wrapped the nut gravely in paper, and put it carefully in his waistcoat-pocket. page: 119 "Valuable, very valuable!" he said, shaking his head.
"Ah, my friend," said Bonaparte, "what joy it is to be once more in your society."
The German's eyes glistened, and Bonaparte seized his hand and squeezed it warmly. They then proceeded to crack and eat. After a while Bonaparte said, stuffing a handful of raisins into his mouth,—
"I was so deeply grieved, my dear friend, that you and Tant' Sannie had some slight unpleasantness this evening."
"Oh, no, no," said the German; "it is all right now. A few sheep missing; but I make it good myself. I give my twelve sheep, and work in the other eight."
"It is rather hard that you should have to make good the lost sheep," said Bonaparte; "it is no fault of yours."
"Well," said the German, "this is the case. Last evening I count the sheep at the kraal— page: 120 twenty are missing. I ask the herd; he tells me they are with the other flock; he tells me so distinctly; how can I think he lies? This afternoon I count the other flock. The sheep are not there. I come back here: the herd is gone; the sheep are gone. But I cannot—no, I will not—believe he stole them," said the German, growing suddenly excited. "Some one else, but not he. I know that boy. I knew him three years. He is a good boy. I have seen him deeply affected on account of his soul. And she would send the police after him! I say I would rather make the loss good myself. I will not have it; he has fled in fear. I know his heart. It was," said the German, with a little gentle hesitation, "under my words that he first felt his need of a Saviour."
Bonaparte cracked some more almonds, then said, yawning, and more as though he asked for the sake of having something to converse page: 121 about than from any interest he felt in the subject—
"And what has become of the herd's wife?"
The German was alight again in a moment.
"Yes; his wife. She has a child six days old, and Tant' Sannie would turn her out into the fields this night. That," said the German rising, "that is what I call cruelty—diabolical cruelty. My soul abhors that deed. The man that could do such a thing I could run him through with a knife!" said the German, his grey eyes flashing, and his bushy black beard adding to the murderous fury of his aspect. Then suddenly subsiding, he said,—"But all is now well; Tant' Sannie gives her word that the maid shall remain for some days. I go to Oom Muller's to-morrow to learn if the sheep may not be there. If they are not, then I return. They are gone, that is all. I make it good."page: 122
"Tant' Sannie is a singular woman," said Bonaparte, taking the tobacco bag the German passed to him.
"Singular! Yes," said the German; "but her heart is on her right side. I have lived long years with her, and I may say, I have for her an affection, which she returns. I may say," added the German with warmth, "I may say, that there is not one soul on this farm for whom I have not an affection."
- "'Love so amazing, so divine,
- It fills my soul, my life, my all.'"
After a time he sank into a less fervent mood, and remarked,—
"The coloured female who waits upon Tant' page: 123 Sannie appears to be of a virtuous disposition, an individual who—"
"Virtuous!" said the German; "I have confidence in her. There is that in her which is pure, that which is noble. The rich and high that walk this earth with lofty eyelids might exchange with her."
The German here got up to bring a coal for Bonaparte's pipe, and they sat together talking for a while. At length Bonaparte knocked the ashes out of his pipe.
"It is time that I took my departure, dear friend," he said; "but, before I do so, shall we not close this evening of sweet communion and brotherly intercourse by a few words of prayer? Oh, how good and how pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the dew upon the mountains of Hermon; for there the Lord bestowed a blessing, even life for evermore."
"Stay and drink some coffee," said the German.page: 124
"No, thank you, my friend; I have business that must be done to-night," said Bonaparte. "Your dear son appears to have gone to sleep. He is going to take the waggon to the mill to-morrow! What a little man he is."
"A fine boy."
But though the boy nodded before the fire he was not asleep; and they all knelt down to pray.
When they rose from their knees Bonaparte extended his hand to Waldo, and patted him on the head.
"Good night, my boy," said he. "As you go to the mill to-morrow, we shall not see you for some days. Good night! Good-bye! The Lord bless and guide you; and may He bring you back to us in safety, to find us all as you have left us! And you, my dear friend," he added, turning with redoubled warmth to the German, "long, long shall I look back to this evening as a time of refreshing from the presence of page: 125 the Lord, as an hour of blessed intercourse with a brother in Jesus. May such often return. The Lord bless you!" he added, with yet deeper fervour, "richly, richly."
Then he opened the door and vanished out into the darkness.
"He, he, he!" laughed Bonaparte, as he stumbled over the stones. "If there isn't the rarest lot of fools on this farm that ever God Almighty stuck legs to. He, he, he! When the worms come out then the blackbirds feed. Ha, ha, ha!"
He looked in at the kitchen door. The Hottentot maid who acted as interpreter between Tant' Sannie and himself was gone, and Tant' Sannie herself was in bed.
"Never mind, Bon, my boy," he said, as he walked round to his own room, "to-morrow will do. He, he, he!"


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he threw TWO passes up for grabes which saw 2 SF DBs collide while trying to pick it them off. that rarely happens and it happeend twice in this game.
Got TWO muffed punts/fumbles that set him up deep in SF territory which led t all their pts the last 3 qtrs.
Had a Bradshaw clear fumble whistled dead late in the 4th which would have set SF up in chip shot range for the win.
He wasn't bad but he didn't carry them, D and STs won that game.


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Gamco's Ward Defends Apple on Bloomberg TV, Still Buying the Stock
Posting here for my colleague Tiernan Ray, who wrote in a short while ago:
Howard Ward, chief investment officer for Gamco's Growth Equities fund, was on Bloomberg TV with Deirdre Bolton, a short while ago, talking up why the fund is still buying Apple (AAPL).
Ward likes the cheap valuation, and the prospects of a higher dividend:
Expectations have been driven so low that it has become a tremendous valuation story on its own, and then with a financial component as they consider what to do with their dividend, perhaps bringing in a whole different class of investor. This is a company that will earn more money than any other company this year. We're talking about $42 billion in net income, and paying out $10 billion. They are making 25% of that free cash flow from the US, and so you can see how easy it would be to increase that payout by 50%, say to to $15.7 billion. Now, maybe that's at the high end of expectations, but you should see a nice jump in the dividend soon. I think a boost of 20% to 50% is probably an 8 out of 10 [in terms of probability]. The time frame is probably the release of March quarter earnings, so, the second week of April, though it might come sooner because of the anniversary of the dividend [which was a year ago today.]
Asked about Samsung Electronics (005930KS) and competition generally, Ward dismissed the concern, arguing that Apple will gain share in smartphones in coming years as it moves into lower-priced models of the iPhone for emerging markets:
Let's talk about market share. You hear lots of talk about Apple losing market share. But their market share a year ago was 19%, and today it's 19%. The share gains by Smasung have been at expense of Nokia (NOK) and BlackBerry (BBRY) and others. They've lost market share, Apple has not lost. Apple is not even addressing yet the largest market opportunity, in emerging markets. Share in emerging markets will become significantly greater in next year or two, they are going to address that market, which they haven't done. China is a very competitive market. Apple is there now, but to a much smaller extent. A lot of their phones are in the black market, selling as unlocked, at very high prices.
Asked about gross margin concerns, Ward dismissed it as well:
This concern about gross margin is overly stated. I think it will be pretty stable, 35% to 41% rate, somewhere in there over the next few years. I think there's a lot of things that are going to work for Apple; product refresh, deals with carriers such as China Mobile (CHL).
Lastly, Ward defended CEO Tim Cook:
Look, we're holding this company to a standard we're not holding any other company. Wall Street, take your foot off the throat of Tim Cook and let him do his job, he's given us no reason not to have confidence in him.


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Is selenium the future of test automation? That leads us to yet another important question, what was the past of test automation? Well…,I was just kidding. There are numerous amazing test automation tools out there but none of them could takeover the field of test automation. Why? It's because, when you take a closer look at any testing project, the complexity increases so much that it takes a real tester with highly sophisticated testing practices and coding skills more than a mere tool to handle those situations. Yes, any tool no matter how good it is, cannot simply provide the foundation for a sound test automation framework. It is we, the "testers", who can do it! But how?
This article shows step-by-step how selenium with a hybrid of other tools and practices could be used by the tester to develop a highly maintainable, robust, sophisticated and sound test automation framework.
This article gives a 30-feet overview of how a test automation framework with selenium looks like.
Would you be interested to know how I can automate tests in just six weeks while others usually take over six months? I automate far faster and much cheaper than anyone else can do! Come on, my little secrets are so little.
Often in a testing project we tend to handle things in our own way that we see fit. The delicate test automation framework gets upset due to these gimmicks. Let me introduce you to the few main things that really counts during test automation:
Separation of test verification from test script
Even if you are new to automation you can easily get a hang of it as you follow the steps outlined. Let me illustrate these principles with a simple demo.
To execute the practical demonstration in this article we require the installation of JDK, Selenium Server, Selenium client driver for java, ant, TestNG, eclipse and TestNG plugin for eclipse.
For installation/setting up of Selenium, please refer the article "Selenium RC configuration for java – all in a nutshell".
In this demo I am using Ubuntu as platform. You could use your favorite platform for coding. So, let us walkthrough the steps for developing a robust and highly maintainable test automation framework with selenium.
Suppose we want to dress perfectly for the weather with a rain hat, a rain coat and an umbrella. Now let's develop a selenium test automation framework to test a very simple application that I have created called Weather Monster – "http://weathermonster.heroku.com/".
A configuration script contains the key value pair needed to setup the test environment. These values could be changed dynamically using a shell script.
Let's create a shell script to dynamically start the selenium server.
Create a new folder called "config" in the weatherMonster project and place the below shell script named config.sh in it.
#!/bin/bash cd ~/Documents/working/installable/selenium/jar\ files/ gnome-terminal --title="config" -x bash -c "java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0rc2.jar"
This shell script navigates to the folder path containing the selenium server jar file (Replace this path with respective path on your machine). It then opens a new GNOME-TERMINAL named config and runs the selenium server by execution of the command "java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0rc2.jar"
To grant execution privileges to the script use chmod command as below:
chmod 777 config.sh
Then run the script using the below command:
We need to run this script each time before test suite execution to start the selenium server.
Right click the src folder and create a package named config. Right click the config package and create a java class called seleniumTest.java
Let's assign values to the environment variables such as host, port, browser and so on.
Since we do not want to hard code the test data and we would like to decouple test data from test execution let's assign the test data to the variables separately in the config folder and organize them as shown below:
package config; import com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium; import com.thoughtworks.selenium.HttpCommandProcessor; public class seleniumTest { /*Environment variables*/ public final String HOST = "localhost"; public final int PORT = 4444; public final String BROWSER = "firefox"; public final String BASE_URL = "http://weathermonster.heroku.com"; //To set the baseURL and server port public final HttpCommandProcessor PROC = new HttpCommandProcessor(HOST,PORT, BROWSER, BASE_URL); //To create a selenium object for passing as variable public final DefaultSelenium Selenium = new DefaultSelenium(PROC); /*Timeout*/ public final String TIMEOUT="60000"; /*Weather Monster home page*/ public final String HOME_MSG = "This is weathermonster, bringing you the weather"; public final String HOME_PAGETITLE = "Weather Monster"; }
A module is a small independent script that represents AUT(Application Under Test). The most commonly used methods in the test case should be created as modules in separate folders that can be called and reused by many test cases. This increases the maintainability of the test suite. If there is a change, it needs to be applied only in one single place as opposed to all the places thus saving lots of time and cost.
Modularization also makes the test case easy-to-read and understand.
Consider the below test automation code. Can you understand it? It is a technical stack containing all the configuration details which is very hard to understand.
The test case should list the user actions not the technical details. This makes the test case customer-focused and easy-to-read. Now, let's move out all the technical stack from the test case to a separate module.
Right click the src folder and create a package named module. Right click the module package and create a java class called testInit.java.
Here we code all the technical details of starting selenium server for test initialization so that the actual test case is freed from these unnecessary details and can cover the main area to test.
package module; import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*; import org.testng.annotations.*; import config.*; public class testInit extends SeleneseTestBase { //Declare a new selenium test seleniumTest test = new seleniumTest(); @Test public void testSetup(DefaultSelenium selenium) { try { //Open, maximize and focus on the facebook page. Delete all cookies selenium.start(); selenium.open("/"); selenium.waitForPageToLoad(test.TIMEOUT); //Handles timeout exception selenium.windowMaximize(); selenium.windowFocus(); selenium.deleteAllVisibleCookies(); //Clear all session cookies before testing } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }
Now that we already have modules for test setup and initialization, the writing of a selenium test case doesn't take much effort. All we need to do is just call these modules and reuse them in our test case. This allows us to focus more on the customer.
A good automation script should contain the actual code logic to perform and validate a business scenario.
Right click the src folder and create a package named testSuite. Right click the testSuite package and create a java class called weatherMonsterHome.java
package testSuite; /* Test case for weather monster home page*/ import module.*; import config.*; import org.testng.annotations.*; import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*; public class weatherMonsterHome extends SeleneseTestBase { //Declare a new selenium test seleniumTest test = new seleniumTest(); testInit setUp = new testInit(); @Test public void testWeatherMonster() { /*Test the home page of Weather Monster * Pass the expected message and page title of the home page as parameters */ setUp.testSetup(test.Selenium); weatherMonster(test.Selenium, test.HOME_MSG,test.HOME_PAGETITLE); } public void weatherMonster(DefaultSelenium Selenium, String strHomeMsg, String strExpectedHomePageTitle) { try { /*Verification of Weather Monster home page*/ assertTrue(Selenium.isTextPresent(strHomeMsg)); System.out.println("Message on the Weather Monster home page is displayed successfully"); assertEquals(Selenium.getTitle(),strExpectedHomePageTitle); System.out.println("Title of Weather Monster home page is correct"); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }
This decoupling of test script from all the test execution details has made the test case a very easy-to-read list of user actions.
Ultimately the test structure is as below:
RemoteTestNG starting
Message on the Weather Monster home page is displayed successfully
Title of Weather Monster home page is correct
PASSED: testWeatherMonster
We have missed out on a few little secrets of test automation like intelligent exception handling and data-driven testing. We shall get introduced to them in our next article, so stay tuned!
Feel free to ask any question or post comments.


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so the common anodes are connected to a DC voltage, in this case I used +5 volts
s it just a digital High/Low (1/0)
so that should take care of the brightness/dimming?
i am just trying to simulate a basic 8x8 common anode matrix (row scan) in LTspice
trying to obtain voltage/current waveforms.
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Studio 4°C is widely regarded for its involvement with animated works that stand apart from the mainstream (see Arete Hime, Detroit Metal City, Memories). At times they've dabbled in the experimental and here with Mind Game directed by Masaaki Yuasa, we see this fully realised. This film is an unbridled and unabashed showcasing of ambition. Beneath a sometimes confounding visual spectacle, lies a heart warming tale about (some absurd) trials and tribulations of life resulting in a simple take home message. Live it. Visually speaking, the... See full review


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By Jaeyeon Woo
Kim Jong Un at a soccer game Wednesday, pushing forward on his new goal: turning North Korea into a sports power, like East Germany
Kim Jong Un enjoys an approval rating among North Korean voters of more than 50%, the latest poll shows. That's close to Shinzo Abe territory, easily above Barack Obama's 45%.
Well, sort of. Polling hasn't yet caught on in North Korea. For that matter, neither has voting. But the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University interviewed 133 North Koreans who fled the country from January 2012 to May 2013, and asked them to estimate Mr. Kim's approval rating while they were in the country; 62% of the former North Koreans put it at more than 50%.
And what's not to like? More than 81% of the respondents said they had three meals a day, up from 75% of the previous batch of defectors surveyed, though no meaningful change was reported in the quality of the food. (The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the North Korea's agricultural production last year was up 5.9% from a year earlier.) And 44% said they bought one or two pieces of clothing a year, up from 35% in the previous report. And this sounds familiar: More than 93% of the clothing they bought was made in China. (North Korea was in second place, at 3%.)
It points to a successful consolidation of power for the young leader, who took over with the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, in December 2011. That seemed uncertain a year ago, at least based on the institute's previous report on defector interviews. Speaking then with 122 people who had fled North Korea between January 2011 and May 2012, it found that 58% were unhappy with the choice of the young Mr. Kim as successor. (Of course, people who flee the country may tend to be more dissatisfied with it than people who remain.)
The new leader seems to be tightening his grip, with 45% saying society is tightly under control, up from 36% in the previous report. Anti-regime leaflets and graffiti are a bit less common (but maybe that's the high approval rating at work): 66% of the latest group said they'd seen such things, down from 73% in the 2012 survey and 70% in 2011. Travel to other parts of the country has become more difficult. The percentage who reported having done so, after rising for five consecutive years—to 70% among the defectors interviewed in 2012, from 56% among those interviewed in 2008—retreated to 64%.
But private markets are on the rise. Nearly 95% said they shopped for clothes in informal markets and 76% had experience of selling stuff on a market on their own. There's even a private market for housing, with 67% reporting they purchased their house by themselves, only 14% on the government's arrangement.
And despite the government's endless effort to attribute all economic difficulties to U.S. enmity ("blockade" is one of the Korean Central News Agency's favorite words), the number of people who blame the U.S.—for the food situation in particular—remains quite low, at 6% among the latest defectors. Of course, a regime that declares "Kim Jong Il ushered in the new era of prosperity unprecedented in the Korean history" is likely to have some credibility issues with the people actually experiencing the era firsthand.


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I don't think we have one of these threads yet... or do we? I couldn't find one in the search. *shrug*
Anyhow... here's a video that causes me great joy whenever I see it on my French & Saunders DVD. Jennifer Saunders may be best remembered in the States as Edina Monsoon from Absolutely Fabulous and Dawn French is often remembered from The Vicar of Dibley.
Dawn, who is a rather ample woman, manages to channel Bjork perfectly. One of the in-jokes is that she is shopping in "Iceland", which is a UK food retailer that doesn't stock fresh items-- just canned and boxed things. Bjork is from Iceland, the country.
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Yes he has a chance to be an Eli QB but he needs to consistently be a top guy, not one week great the next week mediocre/bad. Until he does that he won't truly be an elite.
W/o the D playing incredible football they never win the SB, never get to the SB. they would have been out in GB.
if he plays well earlier in games does he need all the comebacks? That's been a knock on sanchez too and a fair one.
he didn't have 15 4th qtr comebacks, he had 8 which is still outstadning but not 15 and he did throw some bad 4th qtr picks making those comebacks necessary.