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It's contemporary, and already translated into almost every language on Earth.
OTOH The Bible is about the only book that wouldn't have earned them a DMCA slapdown affidavit.
OTOH The Bible is about the only book that wouldn't have earned them a DMCA slapdown affidavit.
I know you said that partly in jest, but I actually got a little depressed when I gave it some thought. Think of what we could have included: the music that influenced generations, films that invoke anger, sadness, joy, books that literally changed the way that the world thought -- and not one bit of it can be reproduced, all because some assholes wanted to collect a check from an animated mouse.
We fucked up somewhere.
nonsense. You do realise it is up to the copyright holder what permissions they grant right?
Not all copyright holders are cackling billionaire bastards.
As an experiment pick a dozen living writers, email them and ask them if any of them object to granting permission for their books to be published on this project. I'd be amazed if every single one of them didn't say "hell yes".
Don't tarnish the 99% of sane copyright holders with the stupidity of the noisy 1%.
I'm sure plenty of writers would be right onboard with the idea.
Convincing their publishers to allow it might be a little more difficult.
Nice rant.
Really, one would've thought the reason music and film wasn't included is because... well, you can't listen to sounds or watch movies on an etched nickel disk through a 1000x microscope.
But DMCA rants are a sure path to karma here, no matter how irrelevant to the discussion they are.
With the way things are going very soon the Bible will be the only book that's out of copyright....
With the way things are going very soon the Bible will be the only book that's out of copyright....
Some versions of the Bible are copyrighted. Any translation undertaken in the last eighty years or so.
Oh, and in Britain the Authorized King James version is subject to Crown copyright, which is perpetual. It's never going to enter the public domain. Probably not even if the monarchy were to be abolished -- any British government which saw fit to abolish the monarchy would likely retain its privileges for the state. Not that it seems like the monarchy's going away any time soon.
It has been two thousand years since some girl claimed that she got knocked up by a burning bush rather then her boyfriend and millions of people worship her as a virgin.
One person's cuckoo is another persons prophet. When everyone has forgotten Ron Hubbard was a bad Sci-Fi writer his novels may one day serve as the basis of a religion.
Nah, that could never happen.
Hundreds of millions of people base their lives around those stories.
Sort of.
When you point out the fine print to them, most of those people don't measure up so they're going to hell anyway. Might as well have partied.
If you read any one of the four Gospels
4? Oh yeah, that's right - the religious folks have only really bothered to keep around the gospels that suited their purpose. There were dozens of gospels, all from roughly the same era and time. Funny how only certain select ones are accepted.
It has been two thousand years since some girl claimed that she got knocked up by a burning bush rather then her boyfriend and millions of people worship her as a virgin.
That's got to be one of the silliest critiques of Christianity that I've read. Even setting aside Protestant/Catholic/Orthodox questions of the veneration of Mary.
People don't believe in Jesus because of Mary's claim that God made her pregnant. People believe in Jesus because of claims about his miracles & resurrection.
If you're going to give the pseudoskeptic's treatment to the virgin birth, you're doing it all wrong. You should be doubting whether Mary ever claimed such a thing--you should be speculating that early Christians made up the story.
But I realize that wouldn't make as effective an approach to junk rhetoric.
Hmm... I guess you could throw in some half-informed claims about "mistranslation" of Isaiah 7:14, while you're at it.
People don't believe in Jesus because of Mary's claim that God made her pregnant. People believe in Jesus because of claims about his miracles & resurrection.
Isn't a virgin birth one of those miracles? By casting doubt on that miracle, you cast doubt on Jesus's divinity.
But yes, the most important question to settle is whether a "Jesus" actually ever existed in the first place. There's not much evidence for that assertion outside the Bible.
It has been two thousand years since some girl claimed that she got knocked up by a burning bush rather then her boyfriend and millions of people worship her as a virgin.
And her prospective husband, rather than divorce her as he desired, ate a bad meal, saw a vision and decided to marry her anyway and raise the kid.
And a bunch of fishermen were persuaded by this kid, now-grown, to leave their steady jobs to wander around listening to him preach.
And after he was executed, they decided that rather than head back to fishing that they'd continue the job, annoying the local powers-that-were to the point that they themselves were executed.
Or...the girl was impregnated by God, her son was the Son of God, His miracles actually did convince a bunch of fishermen that He was on to something and so forth.
Which is more difficult to believe? That guys like Saul of Tarsus decided, 'hey, I'm tired of stoning these Christians; I'm gonna become one instead!' or that they he actually received a vision? That ignorant Judean fishermen thought it better to be tortured to death than to enjoy an old age surrounded by their grandchildren, or that they actually believed what they preached first-hand knowledge of?
Oh, and no mainstream Christians worship Mary. We venerate her, of course, since she is the Mother of God after all.
More importantly, though, it's a text that has a reasonable chance of surviving and being updated to remain understandable. Even if religion should start declining rapidly, it's played such a significant role in history and the text has been spread so widely that it's one of very few works I'd be willing to bet will exist in a "modern" translation 2000 years from now - a work that is currently considered a sacred text by more than half of the worlds population (both christians, muslims and jews) has a good shot at longevity.
What other texts do we have that has a similar chance of surviving? There are a lot of texts that are revered to some extent, but few or none that so many people have copies of, and even fewer currently widespread works that the next generation or the one after that will still have many copies of.
What other texts do we have that has a similar chance of surviving? There are a lot of texts that are revered to some extent
the man pages for emacs?
To give an idea of how embarrassing this will be, think of it like this: Bible-thumpers are the old Trekkies.
That's a ridiculous comparison. The bible is fictional.
Oh if only it mainly was. The problem is that there is far too much factual info in there and well the fictional/scifi elements get drowned out. I've tried to explain to my wife that of course there are huge chucks of the bible that are very factual. Why? The Jews used it as their history/moral/everything a person needed to know book and it was fairly up to date at the time. So of course all the cities/villages mentioned are likely to have actually existed. I try to explain to her its like if some one or family had been keeping a family history since the founding of the US, well in 2000 in the future they could use that family history to locate the cities/towns that said family lived. That part could be mostly factual, but that still doesn't mean everything in the book is factual. You could have a fictional story happen in a realistic setting and that doesn't make the story factual. Though 2000 years latter, if they find the setting, they may assume parts/pieces of the story are true.
That's a ridiculous comparison. The bible is fictional.
Oh if only it mainly was. The problem is that there is far too much factual info in there and well the fictional/scifi elements get drowned out. I've tried to explain to my wife that of course there are huge chucks of the bible that are very factual.
Given everything that is written in the bible, I would hardly describe the inclusion of the names of some towns and cities "huge chunks that are very factual". Everything else is just fantasy.
Actually, with the exception of specific conversations between two people, the bible has proven to be almost perfectly accurate.
Archeology, third party histories and other evidence pretty much always proves that the larger events and geographies are accurate.
-There are egyptian writtings that confirm the plagues.
-Sodom and Gramorrah have been found and were both destroyed at the same time, having burnt down.
-There is more third party documentation as to the life and crusifiction of Christ than there is for the life and death of Julius Ceaser.
-Paul's exploits were well documented
-the dead sea scrolls showend minimal historical drift in the text
The list goes on and on.
There are very few sections of the bible that are presented as fact when they may be religious allegory..the genesis story and Revelation are the big ones. Most other places the extraordinary occurances are events that DO happen (ie the plagues of Egypt) or are presented in dreams. But what I find so interesting about Genesis is that it actually does follow our current understanding of the creation of the universe, our solar system and the earth-moon system. I could easily beleive that a stone age man "receiving" an image of how the universe began would come up with a Genisis story from what he saw.
The astonding accuracy is a result of the honor placed on the document. Most of the old testement was kept in the Ark and once every 49 years it was taken out and read in public then returned to the Ark until about 60 AD. This archiving maintained the original text without historical drift. Once the new testament was cannonized in the 4th century, it was maintained equally zealously. Monks studies for years to be allowed to hand copy the bible and do so with such expertise that it was impossible to tell the original from the copy.
The reason conversations are necessarily excluded for the statment of accuracy is simply because there is usually no way to confirm or deny them. We only have Moses's word that a bush appeared to be on fire and talked with him. However we can reasonably assume that the text in the bible is the same text that was written 1,800 years ago.
You really should actually read the bible. It is a remarkably good read and provides real insight into that part of history, human psycology not to mention religious theory.
Something else that's been massively translated:
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/ [unhchr.ch]
I can't find a list of contents for the Rosetta Disk but hopefully it has this in bigger print than Genesis...
Ooh I just read down a bit further and discovered that yay, it does have it.
The problem, as usual, is in the presentation bias.
I got myself a copy of this rosetta thing and well, see for yourself:
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I agree, it's a shame they had to fill it with it with mythology, instead of something more useful like some sort of documentation of our current scientific knowledge, information about actual significant historical events, or something.
Whether we like it—or agree with it—or not, the Bible is something that is very important to a very large number of people on Earth. Genesis, in particular (and much of the rest of the Old Testament) represents a creation myth believed to lesser or greater extent by 3.8 billion of our 6 billion-odd people (Wikipedia's estimate of the number of believers in Abrahamic religions).
Just because we agnostic or atheist geeks think that such things are embarrassing doesn't make it any less representative of the world we live in.
Dan Aris
Whether the Genesis account is believed or not, it is familiar to a large number of people. Whether you believe it or not, it's an important part of western culture. Trying to ignore it would be like trying to ignore Shakespeare in English literature.
Just because we agnostic or atheist geeks think that such things are embarrassing doesn't make it any less representative of the world we live in.
Yep. I'm a flaming atheist, and I'm fine with them having used Genesis. I'd bet it's the single most translated text in the world.
If I'm going to build a bridge that I want to last 500 years, I'm going to take a hard look at all the bridges that have lasted that long already.
The plan is to mass produce them, eventually. I expect that if they do find a way to manufacture these cheaply, other projects will want to manufacture their own discs, esp. with stuff like Wikipedia. It would be nice if they became popular with publishers and the like. Having a couple of these around is good, but having a more heterogeneous collection of high-density durable information repositories scattered around would be priceless.
And as a fan of dystopian future scenarios, the very idea of future prim
This would be a logical thing to put into deep space - on the Moon or on Mars, say. It is a good environment to preserve things, and any future civilization is going to look up our space probes sooner or later.
If they could get permission, it might also make sense to bury one of these in a waterproof enclosure at the Georgia Guidestones [wikipedia.org] - the huge Monoliths in Georgia in 8 different languages.
If they could get permission
Permission from who? The Illuminati?
Do you have their email address?
Also, part of the purpose of the Long Now Foundation is to make current scientific knowledge available to our descendants in the event of a global catastrophe. By the time they've (re)developed the technology required to retrieve something from space, there isn't a huge amount more we can teach them.
That's why you would hide it in an intuitive place. In the middle of the biggest crater on the moon, for example, inside a big, obviously artificial thing. A black monolith, say.
I know this is a joke, but seriously it makes more sense.
Of course we are assuming that in 2000 years we will still have spaceflight and not be in some sort of virus zombie filled post apocalyptic mad max sort of existence.
Generally speaking getting any physical object to last 2000 years is a tough sell, particularly if you are trying to protect tiny (microscopic even!) details. This is largely due to the fact that we have this pesky atmosphere and weather (and geology to a certain extent).
On the moon howev
For something that's actually intended to be an archive, perhaps. But this is expressly designed to be merely a curiosity, not an archive. So why bother going to the tremendous effort of sending it to a different planet?
The information that interests the archaeologists is, more often than not, the information that no one is particularly interested in preserving. Things like records of lawsuits, records of amounts of produce, textbooks used for education
Hence, Petrushka's Made-up-on-the-spot Rule One: The documents that a society most wants to preserve are exactly those documents that archaeologists will be the least interested in. Because they know that stuff already. (Sure, there are exceptions for truly ancient civilisations where literally nothing else survives except for official documents, but
than carving it in stone
This thing will end up in 2000 years on someones altar as they make sacrifices to some weird god thinking it's a source of untold power. Then some nut with a hat and whip will come along and steal it for a museum only to have it end up on a coffee table somewhere.
2000 years from now some primitive creature will be trying to crack some kind of nut for food and end up using this as a fancy nut cracker.
Okay, so they include a 6x glas sphere. How nice, but you need a 500x microscope to read it. The sphere has a large base and it can be opened. Why not include the tool to read the document with the document?
Who is to say that whoever finds it in the future has access to such a powerful microscope? For most of history we haven't.
Nice idea, but geez, think things through, this could be found by the same kind of people who made the original rossate stone. Do you really want them to wait hundreds of years to develop magnifcation good enough to read it?
Why not include the tool to read the document with the document?
That's how they make their money! It's brilliant! Give away the media for free, then in 2,000 years, sell the 500x microscope "readers" for a *huge* profit! Just make sure the teaser text and critical reviews are readable by the naked eye.
That's a lot of Phil Collins - three Genesis albums!
Surely a greater variety would have given a broader view of our world! Maybe some Elton John, and Boney M at least!
Actually, if it's the first three Genesis albums, there's not a lot of Collins. He didn't join them til the third album. It is, however, a lot of Gabriel, Banks, and Rutherford.
Just so long as they didn't do what the BBC did in the 1980's with the UK's modern "Doomsday Book" history archive project. The archive went on a Laserdisc, and what hardware today can read that format (not the machines on ebay)?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/11/bbc_domesday_project_saved/ [theregister.co.uk] or
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/research/domesday.htm/community.htm [nationalarchives.gov.uk]
This disc is being designed to be read through analog processes.... and in fact the first few words can be read with the naked eye, and gradually get smaller to the point that each attempt to magnify the words shows there is much more on the disc.
Each language that is being used is also given "equal" treatment, other than some languages tend to be much more verbose than others such as Latin languages vs. Germanic languages or even the most efficient being Chinese (in terms of characters per word/idea in the language)
The Romans managed to preserve their language and culture for 2000 years completely by accident. Do you really think all the stuff we're doing today will vanish in the same time span.
In far less than 100 years the whole of today's Internet will fit on a single USB stick - smaller than a single shard of Roman pottery.
The Romans managed to preserve their language and culture for 2000 years completely by accident. Do you really think all the stuff we're doing today will vanish in the same time span.
It wasn't completely by accident - many early Roman and Greek works were deliberately preserved in the monasteries. Compare for example what happened to ancient Carthaginian culture, which is approximately the same age and which was nearly exterminated: about all that we know about them was written by their opponents.
replicate the disk promiscuously
Only nerds too long in their basements would use this kind of terminology !
The rest of us would say "make a lot of copies".
This sounds great. Now we need one with a copy of Wikipedia on it, so that all human knowledge can be preserved as well.
Oh, that would be lovely. "Albert Einstein was a scientist who JASON MAYNOR SUCKS COCK developed one of the most important theories..."
To have any hope of surviving and being found in thousands of years, they need massive replication. Oh, I am sure they picked the best of materials, and they will last, but at $25,000 per, there just aren't going to be many of them left in 2,000 years because there weren't many of them made.
I would favor a cheaper mass produced product. Maybe something that on average doesn't have much hope of lasting more than a few hundred years, but if you make millions of them and shill them on the home shopping network - maybe somebody will have a hope of finding one in the distance future perfectly preserved in a redneck's hermetically sealed grave.
I'd suggest using something like a CD mastering process to stamp an analog message into a gold foil disk, that is then embedded in high quality, impact resistant glass. The glass seals against corrosion and moisture (if you are too cheap to go with the gold foil), and acts as a sacrificial surface that can take scratches bumps and dings and still be polished up by future archeologists.
if you treat this disk the way the original rosetta stone has been treated, nobody will be able to decipher it afterwards. The only reason we were able the rosetta stone: The chars were relatively big. High information density and long lifetime (in any conditions) are contradictions....
Yours, Martin
Speak for yourself, man, all the geeks in us already found a better way long time ago. We store our important stuffs for long term archival in newsgroups.
Personally, I'd probably place the things into a number of satellites and keep them in orbit around the earth with just enough to keep the orbit from decaying. Then, tie the controls for maintaining the orbit to a series of earth based beacons. In the event that every beacon on earth fails, the satellites could then be instructed to enter into decaying orbits to seed the discs onto the earth's surface contained within a protective shell to prevent burning up on re-entry. This would increase the odds of the discs being found by keeping them closer to the earth's surface and their landing points would deform the surrounding land enough to warrant investigation.
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A judge has delayed until next year the trial of two Wichita restaurant operators accused of employing people who are in the country unlawfully.
U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten on Thursday postponed the trial of Yong Lin, 33, and his wife, 29-year-old Zhuo Mei Weng, until March 11. The couple had been previously scheduled to go to trial on Dec. 17.
The couple is charged with conspiracy and harboring people who are in the U.S. unlawfully. The indictment alleges they paid the workers at their World Buffet Grill in cash and failed to complete employment eligibility forms.
The judge noted in his order that the defense needs more time to review and discuss the evidence with the couple. He also noted other professional obligations of counsel warranted a delay.

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Submission + - Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser (ibtimes.com)
redletterdave writes: "Just six months after Google Chrome eclipsed Mozilla's Firefox to become the world's second most popular Web browser, Chrome finally surpassed Microsoft's Internet Explorer on Sunday to become the most-used Web browser in the world, according to Statcounter. Since May 2011, Internet Explorer's global market share has been steadily decreasing from 43.9 percent to 31.4 percent of all worldwide users. In that time, Chrome has climbed from below 20 percent to nearly 32 percent of the market share. Yet, while Chrome is now the No. 1 browser in the world, it still lags behind Internet Explorer here in the U.S., but that will soon change. Chrome currently has 27.1 percent of the U.S. market share, compared to Internet Explorer's 30.9 percent, but IE is seeing significant drop-offs in usage while Chrome continues to rise."


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EDITOR'S NOTE: The Times-Call's series Take Two revisits people we have written about in the past year. Take Two stories will run on Mondays.
FREDERICK -- Downtown Frederick has a couple of restaurants and as of March 4 it has a new coffee shop, too: Carbon Valley Coffee Roasters.
Dustan Flanagan, who owns the shop with his wife, Deborah, thinks there's room for more places to eat and gather.
"We're hoping to attract some other operators downtown, too," Dustan Flanagan said Friday, sitting in the dining area of the couple's shop. "This would make a great dining destination."
Flanagan said he's been investing in buildings and properties in Frederick for about 12 years, and he's a believer in the community's potential.
Carbon Valley Coffee Roasters
Location: 214 Fifth St., Frederick
Hours: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday
Phone: 720-484-4338
"We live right in downtown," he said. "We're all in."
This is the couple's first business together. Deborah used to own a salon in town a few years ago, Flanagan said. And he still draws a paycheck from the corporate world, working in sales and marketing.
The Flanagans bought what used to be a drive-through liquor store at 214 Fifth Ave. to put in the coffee shop. He took out the drive-through part, he said, because he wants the shop to be a gathering place for people. And what used to be the driveway on the side of the building will eventually be turned into an outdoor patio area, he said, with a stage that could feature family entertainment occasionally.
He said inside the shop, they have reserved some space where locally made products -- baked goods, smoked meats, or jams and jellies, for example -- will be featured.
The town of Frederick provided the Flanagans with a faade improvement grant that he took advantage of to put some extra touches on his building, including a neon sign and an awning. He told the Times-Call in November that those are things he would have put up anyway but the grant allowed him to do it much sooner. He applauded the town for launching the program and trying to inject vitality into the downtown.
He and some other merchants are also in discussions to put together a downtown business association, Flanagan said, and the town has been supportive of that idea.
Another important part of his business is the coffee roasting side of things. His is a coffee shop where all of the beans are roasted in-house.
"I don't know what the percentage is but it's unique -- and it's a big advantage to us," Flanagan said.
Aside from being able to offer customers their very fresh coffee, Flanagan said he'll soon be selling Carbon Valley Coffee wholesale to another coffee shop and that a restaurant in Frederick is already a wholesale customer.
Tony Kindelspire can be reached at 303-684-5291 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Saturday, January 06, 2007
So I can now add snowboarding, to the ever growing list of sports I love!!!
I had so much fun. Thanks Dominic for taking me. I didn't even complaine or did I ;)
The first few runs were all about becoming one with the board. Once I figured that out. I got it. I connected with my board and the snow. Did I tell you I hate the cold & the snow. Well I use to.
I told myself I must learn to love it, and I do.
I did spend quite a bit of time in this position. But so did a lot of people.
I can't wait to go again. I already have it planned out when I get back from Hawaii. I want to get good.
I went out running Friday in Tahoe around 4:30pm, not a smart thing to do when there's tons of snow and ice on the ground. I only ran for 45 min. But when the sun went down it got cold. I made it back to the motel just in time. I was so cold. My hands were so sore. It felt like someone hit each one of my finger tips with a hammer. My toes were very numb too. But the pain in my finger tips was almost unbearable. It took at least 15 min. until the pain stopped. Poor Dominic didn't know what to do. So he took my hands and put him under his shirt, on his stomach. It worked, and the pain started going away from the warmth of his body. He said my hands were like ice cubes.
Oh., and by the way I was wearing gloves. Lesson learned, two pairs of gloves next time and no running after 3pm in the Winter in Tahoe.
Well at least next weekend I will be in Hawaii. Won't have to worry about the cold or snow.
10 comments:
- Ultra Okie said...
your are too cool Catra! I wish I could get out and try some new things. I have had my fingers get so cold I could hardly stand it when they started warming up. really painful!!
Glad you had a rockin' time. Need any crew in Hawaii! ;)
- Jullian said...
Positive vibes girlie....
i send soon my packing list for PCT
sounds great Hawaii !!!!!!
- Bob Gentile said...
LOL --LOOKS like U had a Blast!! not a fan of the snow and cold but that does look pretty neat...
Ya can U imagine the frostbite peeps get when they climb Mount Everest, U had a little taste on how scary frostbite can be--watch it!
OK Umm can I be the cabana boy for your Hawaii trip I promise fresh fruit, clean towels and deep messages :-)
- Geoff said...
I was going to suggest that you should come up to Alaska one of these years to run the Susitna 100 (www.susitna100.com)... after this post i'm not certain this would be the best idea. then again, what fun is it to only do things that seem like a good idea?
- Catra said...
Hey Bob-
I know I better get use to the cold. I was just not prepaired. I will be very prepaired by the time I head out on my Everest Journey.
- Catra said...
hey geoff-
I was telling my friend Dom about that race in Alaska after my frost bite went away.
I said I'd never do it but yesterday I thought. I will do it the same year I do Badwater. To the Hottest Ultra and the coldest Ultra in the same year.
I like the whole Idea of the runner pulling their gear along.
I'm sure I could do it!
- Flatman said...
I want to try s.b. sooo bad! Looks like loads of fun...
- JeffO said...
Try WindStopper fleece conversion mittens with the optional finger hoods. Those are fantastic.
Bought mine at EMS. I'm sure you can find the same thing from other brands.
If you're out in sub-zero, try using those as liners and cover them with a large pair of Goretex mittens. Use the lanyards on the mittens 'cuz you'll be frequently yanking them off to use your fingers.
Good evening folks, I'm new here. I have been reading thru the threads, and there is some crazy people here, do you have room for 1 more?
LINDENHURST, N.Y. — Three thieves who allegedly stole 14 global positioning system devices didn't get away with their crime for long. The devices led police right to their home.
Town officials said the thieves didn't even know what they had: they thought the GPS devices were cell phones, which they planned to sell.
According to Suffolk County police, the GPS devices were stolen Monday night from the Town of Babylon Public Works garage in Lindenhurst. The town immediately tapped its GPS system, and it showed that one of the devices was inside a house. Police said that when they arrived there, Kurt Husfeldt, 46, had the device in his hands.
Husfeldt was charged with criminal possession of stolen property. His 13-year-old son also was arrested on grand larceny charges.
Town officials said the boy committed the burglary with Steven Mangiapanella, 20, also of Lindenhurst. He was charged with grand larceny.
Babylon installed 300 GPS devices in snow plows, dump trucks, street sweepers and other vehicles last January.


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What We Do
(A shorter version of this response appeared in the Seattle Times)
May 8, 2013
by Cindy Zehnder & Tom Peterson
Workforce training programs are helping Washington residents get into better paying jobs and stimulating our economy at a rate that exceeds the state's public investment—over $7 billion in additional earnings and tax contributions over the lifetime of the most recently evaluated participants.
Without these programs, laid off workers, single parents who lack a high school diploma, people with disabilities and others with obstacles to employment would not have a pathway to family wage jobs.
Take, for example, Maggie who was laid off after many years in customer service at an airline company earning $12 an hour. As her debts began to pile up, the workforce development system helped Maggie get retraining and case management support from her local workforce development council. Maggie now works at an area hospital full time as a registered nurse at $27 an hour with benefits.
There are countless stories like this so you can imagine our grave disappointment when we read in a Seattle Times guest editorial an attack on our state and local workforce development programs. The article's unsubstantiated claims run counter to the facts.
Independent research by the state's Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board (Workforce Board) demonstrates that participants in workforce development programs routinely have higher employment rates and greater earnings than people from similar backgrounds who do not participate in the programs. Statewide, the net benefit over the course of time for the almost 100,000 workforce training participants in 2012 will exceed $7 billion in the form of higher salaries, reduced social service costs and more taxes paid.
In the Seattle area, which was singled out by the article, the employment rate for adult workforce program participants was around 78 percent and for youth over 83 percent. The cost per participant for the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County (WDC) ranges from $1,500 - $6,500 (nowhere near the $29,000 stated in the article). This range speaks to the tailored nature of workforce development services because those with greater obstacles to employment often need more support to be able to acquire and hold gainful employment.
The WDC's mission and the mission of the state's workforce system is to support a strong economy and the ability of each person to achieve economic self-sufficiency. Based on a nationally recognized Self-Sufficiency Standard which establishes what a person must earn to be able to support themselves, nearly two-thirds of workforce training system customers in King County reach or exceed self-sufficiency after exiting a WDC workforce program.
But workforce programs do more than move people into a better living standard. They help our economy grow by focusing our limited training resources to where the jobs are. The Workforce Board's most recent estimate for Washington's mid-level skill gap indicates that projected job openings from manufacturers, equipment installers and repairers, health care providers and security firms will exceed our talent supply by 3,000 per year based on the current level of support for our state's workforce programs. This information will now be used to focus our limited training resources to meet this need.
Given the proven success rate of these programs and the demand from employers, we should be investing more, not less, in workforce programs. In fact, the Workforce Board's independent evaluation of workforce programs show that most programs return far more in tax revenues than they cost taxpayers in public spending. These are the facts and to learn more about our workforce training system, we encourage you to look at the performance results of these programs.
(Cindy Zehnder is vice-president of Gordon Thomas Honeywell- Governmental Affairs and chair of the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board. Tom Peterson, vice-president/general manager of Hoffman Construction Company and the vice chair of the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County.)
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Caregiver Support Series, Part 3
Age Group: Adults & Seniors
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The Dolphins find themselves in quite a hole right now.
They are 0-3 after playing their worst game of the young season today, a 23-13 loss to San Diego.
And the news gets worse:
Miami's prospects of salvaging this young season have taken a hit in that starting quarterback Chad Pennington left the game in the third quarter with a right shoulder injury. The extent of the injury is not known right now, but it didn't look good. Pennington could be out a while.
On defense, Joey Porter, who led the team in sacks a year ago, also could not finish the game. He left the game in the fourth quarter with the hamstring injury he was nursing all week.
Chad Henne took over for Penninton and didn't exactly play Lou Gehrig to Pennington's Wally Pipp. Henne was chased, hit and picked off.
That interception was by Eric Weddle and returned 32 yards for a touchdown.
Henne finished with 10 completions on 19 attempts for 92 yards. His long completion was for 27 yards to Ronnie Brown. His QB rating was 44.2.
Henne did lead an inconsequential fourth-quarter TD drive.
The defense? Fine up front. Terrible in the secondary.
The Dolphins gave up two looong pass plays -- of 55 yards and 47 yards. And, the troubling thing is there was double coverage on both passes and the receiver still came up with the ball against two Miami defenders.
As outlooks go things look seriously bleak for the Dolphins now.


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MARENGO -- Celebratory photo opportunities have been rare for the Wauconda boys basketball team.
But the Bulldogs are determined to change the way people picture their program in Lake County. That determination was evident Saturday night when they faced Sycamore in the championship game of the 63rd annual E.C. Nichols Tournament.
And answering every challenge gave Wauconda players and coaches the chance to joyfully pose for plenty of photos with the title plaque after a gritty 53-48 victory at Homer "Bill" Barry Gymnasium.
"My mom just showed me the other night in the program that the last time we won this tournament was 1978," said Wauconda senior Austin Swenson. "I was just shocked."
Ending a 34-year title drought shouldn't be shocking since Wauconda (9-6) has now won eight of its last nine games. Especially since it wasn't fazed by another close game under championship pressure as it avenged a 2-point tourney loss last week to Sycamore (9-5) in pool play.
Kodey Thomas scored 12 of his game-high 17 points in the second half, Swenson had 15 points and hit three 3-pointers and Keith Blomberg, Devon King and Dion Head all made critical late-game plays for the Bulldogs.
"Everybody on our team knows how to play together," Thomas said after hitting 7 of 10 shots from the field.
"We're very unselfish," said Blomberg, whose 7 points included 2 free throws in a bonus situation for a 51-45 lead with 9.5 seconds left. "We don't care about points, we care about the 'W' at the end of the game."
A pair of 3s by Thomas to start the second half capped an 11-point run that put Wauconda ahead 30-24. But Sycamore never let the lead get larger and was poised to repeat last week's comeback when Mark Skelley (13 points) hit a running 12 footer for a 44-43 lead with 3:58 left.
Wauconda didn't panic even after a missed shot gave Sycamore a chance to extend the lead.
"We've played games like this all year long," said Wauconda coach Scott Luetschwager.
"It plays to our advantage because we've been in it a couple of times," Blomberg said. "We're not afraid to play close games."
Head's steal led to his go-ahead baseline drive at 2:51 and a missed 1-and-1 set up Thomas' drive through traffic to make it 47-44 at 2:13. After Sycamore's Scott Nelson split 2 free throws, Head missed a drive but King was there for the rebound basket and 49-45 lead at 1:32.
Then, after King missed a 1-and-1 at 1:07, he dug in with Swenson, Blomberg, Head and Thomas on defense to force Sycamore to burn more than 45 seconds before it missed a shot and then committed a turnover.
"We all kept our confidence high and trusted one another," Swenson said.
After Blomberg's free throws, Jake Winters' hit a 3 with 2.2 seconds left and Sycamore called time. But Head started the long-awaited celebration by hitting both free throws in a bonus situation with five-10ths of a second to play.
"We all play as one and we all know at the end of the day the victory is what matters," Thomas said.
"This meant a lot to the guys," Luetschwager said. "We've gone through some lean years, so we can enjoy this."


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Dekendria Reshay and Anthony Langhorn of Stuttgart announce the birth of their daughter, Cerenati Imoni Dasarei Langhorn.
Cerenati was born Oct. 13 in Little Rock, weighing 8 pounds, 10 ounces and measuring 20 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Desnka Vincer and Alesha Vincer of Stuttgart. Paternal grandparents are Linda Langhorn of Stuttgart and Barry Langhorn of Little Rock.


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I have 14 songs in a playlist in director which are controlled by a flash movie. Stop/Play/Prev/Next etc.....
I have a little animation in flash that when one of the buttons above is pressed the song title that is being played pops up. I have one problem to overcome, this is in Director when you use the playlist command, the songs will play one after another, how can I tell when the next track has started so I can send a command to the flash movie to display the next track name...
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US courts ruled in the Adobe case that Rot13 was a form of copy protection.
1. Rot-13 is an encryption device, assuming your comment is correct.
2. ROT-13 is a simple substitution cypher. Decryption is defined as subtracting 13 characters, wrapping at A, where ROT13 encryption is defined as adding 13 characters, wrapping at Z.
3. By extension, any substitution cypher is a DMCA-approved cypher.
And if my luck holds out, I'll own "404" next.
Yeah, funny, and all that. But people here frequently don't get the point.I'll be googling 5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA everyday until I win that lotto jackpot
... and don't think I won't. I'm crazy enough to do it. I swear I am. Really.
In none of these cases is talking about it a crime. It's also not a crime to talk about releasing the decryption key. But releasing the encryption key IS illegal under current law.You don't charge mystery writers for murder just because they show in detail how to do so.
You don't charge news reporters with breaking-and-entering because they communicate to the public how breaking-and-entering was performed.
You don't censor history books because they outline how to commit acts of genocide.
It's not the number - it's the context of the number. Yes, I can use this number for my WEP key. I can print it on my T-shirt, print it on toilet paper and wipe my ass with it. I can do whatever you want with this number so long as I don't identify it as the decryption key for YOUR encrypted data.
Absolutely wrong. Context is not important at all here. According to what you say, I can post the DeCSS code, so long as I don't say what it is? (DeCSS and the AACS key are both treated the same under the DMCA's n
Google seriously overestimates the number of results it returns.
For example, on page 1:
Results 1 - 10 of about 417,000 for 5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA
But clicking to the end:
Results 471 - 473 of 473 for 5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA
Here is my number... I wonder if its also an AACS key by coincidence
"Your proposal is acceptable.""You can have my (F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088), when you pry it from my cold dead fingers."
Please fork over 5 trillion dollars and your first born child.
Trust me on this, make them keep their first born, nuthin' but trubbel, I tell ya
13256278887989457651018865901401704640 is mine - don't touch it - I warn ya ! Nor do you touch 718624318471594843*2^64 + 15582831591453788352 which is also mine. Mine MINE MINE.
In fact any arithmetic expression or part thereof that evaluates to 13256278887989457651018865901401704640 is mine too !!! - oh wait
It's mine! Stay away!
Microsoft is Good!
NetBSD is slow!
OpenSource licensing is for idealistic hippies!
Hmm... Let's see now:
It seems like the infamous "Step 2" is "Trick slashdotters into including a DMCA DRM Circumvention Scheme in the Subject of their replies.
Your proposal is acceptable.
If everybody starts taking their own 128-bit number, so that no one else can use it, what are we going to do when we run out of 128-bit numbers?
I never thought there would *actually* be a campaign to use up all the GUIDs [f8d.org].
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Professor Russell Cowburn, lead researcher of the study from the Cavendish Laboratory, the University of Cambridge's Department of Physics, said: "Each step on our spintronic staircase is only a few atoms high. I find it amazing that by using nanotechnology not only can we build structures with such precision in the lab but also using advanced laser instruments we can actually see the data climbing this nano-staircase step by step.


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Up for auction through Mecum is a 1969 Chevrolet Corvette - but this isn't any beautiful old '69. This Vette is the last documented L88 Coupe produced, making it an awesome collector's piece. The car will roll across the block in Dallas this coming Saturday, September 7th, at 2:45 p.m..
In a beautiful shade of Fathom Green with Saddle Tan leather interior, the Vette is a real head-turner. It was built on December 4, 1969, which was the final day of L88 production, and possesses an NCRS Top Flight Award for 2013. L88 Corvettes featured a 427 cubic-inch powerplant and were only made in small numbers. They were produced from '69 through '69 with only 116 being manufactured in '69. With a base sport coupe running somewhere around $4,781 brand-new, the L88 option would cost an additional $1,032.15 - a pretty penny in 1969.
The Vette features an M22 4-speed transmission, transistorized ignition, and of course, shoulder belts and headrests. It comes complete with SS brakes, a J50/J56 power special heavy-duty braking system, and a stainless exhaust, as well as F41 suspension and a 3.70 positraction rear. Tinted class all around, Rallys, T-3 headlights, and all five original white-stripe tires really give the car an old-school and nostalgic appearance. It even has the spare jack and jack tools!
An owner's manual and sales brochure will be included in the sale, along with a documented build sheet, tank sticker, owner history, NCRS certificate, judging sheets, and title search. The Vette was originally sold out of Smiley Chevrolet-Olds of Milan, Missouri.
You may remember reading about a certain orange '69 L88-spec Corvette in the June 2013 issue of Super Chevy. Said Vette belongs to Julie Pennington and is considered the quickest "pure stock" L88 in the world and winner of the "Triple Crown of the 2012 Pure Stock Drags (fastest qualifier, low e.t. of the meet, and winner of the Top Gun Shootout). Read more about the 2012 Pure Stock Drags here: http://www.superchevy.com/events/sucp_1304_pure_stock_drags_2012/
For more information on this stunning example of American automotive history, visit the Mecum Auctions website, or the listing directly by clicking here.


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On Monday, the BCS National Championship featuring Florida State and Auburn University will mark the end of the confusing and controversial Bowl Championship Series. Dennis Dodd from CBS Sports speaks with NPR's Arun Rath about what this means for the future of NCAA football.
Controversial Since Day 1, Bowl Championship Series To End
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Police have charged five people from a family, including a set of 18-year-old triplets, after seven police were injured while responding to a domestic violence incident in Sydney's south-west.
The Bankstown family allegedly launched the attack on police, leaving one with a black eye, another with a bite wound and others concussed and bruised, police said.
Police had to call for back up and use capsicum spray to subdue their alleged attackers.
A 46-year-old man, a 21-year-old man, two 18-year-old men and an 18-year-old woman were arrested at the scene and taken to Bankstown police station.
They were all charged with affray, assault police, hinder police and resist arrest. One of the 18-year-old men was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
All five have been refused bail to appear at Parramatta Bail Court on Thursday.
Police responded to reports of domestic violence at a family's house in Ogmore Court, Bankstown, about 12.35am on Wednesday.
When officers were leaving the house via the driveway, one of the family members allegedly punched a probationary constable in the face, leaving him with a black eye.
About six other family members joined in the attack as officers tried to stop them, police said.
A man who lived on the street said the police were called to the home because of a loud family dispute.
"It was only a verbal fight but nothing physical. We don't know who called the police but the violence started when they arrived," he said.
"I think the problem was the police went on to the property and the brothers were angry about that. They were shouting at the police. Yelling. They wanted them to go.
"Police started using pepper spray and it was going everywhere. It really got out of hand."
The five family members were taken to Bankstown Police Station, where they were questioned before being charged.
Three officers were treated at Bankstown Hospital, but have been released.


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New remarkable natural and cultural sites to be added to UNESCO's World Heritage List will be announced at the meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Paris, June 19-29. A total of 42 sites will be considered for inscription this year.
After rigorous evaluations of this year's nominations, IUCN, the advisory body on natural sites, will present its recommendations to the Committee for the new iconic natural areas to be added to the prestigious list. Natural sites from 13 countries will be considered for inscription.
IUCN will also be reporting back on monitoring missions it conducted to 16 World Heritage Sites in 2010 and 2011 and will recommend those under the most severe threat to be inscribed on the List of World Heritage Sites in Danger.
IUCN and the other Advisory Bodies recommend ways of strengthening the World Heritage Convention. "The World Heritage Convention will be turning 40 next year," says IUCN's Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre. "We see this as an opportunity to celebrate its success but also carry out some much needed reforms to strengthen its unique role in securing the conservation of these exceptional places and their contribution to sustainable development."
Mining and oil and gas exploration
"Natural World Heritage Sites represent a commitment to future generations that the international community needs to uphold," says Mariam Kenza Ali, World Heritage Monitoring Officer at IUCN. "In order to do this, mineral and oil and gas exploration should not be permitted within World Heritage Sites because of the serious and irreversible damage that could be caused to the Outstanding Universal Value of the world's most important natural areas."
Safeguarding our natural heritage.
"There have been concerns about growing politicization within the Convention," says Tim Badman, Director of IUCN's World Heritage Programme. "This meeting is important to both reinforce the Convention's reputation for the highest technical standards, and to take decisions that will maximize conservation results on the ground."
For more information, please contact:
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We have a big butt and big tits wonder for you this week on Monster Curves. This redhead goes by the name of Rainia Belle, and she is super stacked. this episode started off in one of the best possible places, which is in the shower. It was hot, steamy and Rainia was showing off her incredible tits and big ass by putting them on the glass. When Tony and the crew saw this, they were super excited to jump into the episode. Rainia came out of the shower naked, and Tony went straight to eating her pussy. She got super heated up, dropped to her knees and started sucking his cock with a fury. Once he was good and hard, Tony turned that big bubble booty around and stroked that pussy, as Rainia's big tits bounced around everywhere. They ended fucking all over the room, and she had multiple orgasms. Tony got his too though and busted his cum load all over those perfect tits.
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The S Line was named in honor of the streetcar's two founding cities, Salt Lake and South Salt Lake, as well as the Sugar House neighborhood it calls home. S Line cars will feature a distinctive white and silver design that reflects the area's industrial heritage.
"This is no ordinary rail line," said South Salt Lake City Mayor Cherie Wood. "This represents a piece of the city's industrial history that we are all so proud of."
The S Line cars will be the same Siemens S70 cars used on TRAX lines, although they will run as single cars and will operate at speeds of 20 mph or less. The decision allows the Utah Transit Authority to save money by utilizing the same maintenance facilities for TRAX and the S Line.
The streetcar will feature seven stops and will run from the heart of Sugar House's shopping district to the Central Pointe Station, where riders can connect with TRAX. The S Line corridor will feature a landscaped linear park with a walking and biking path that connects to Parley's Trail.
Testing will begin next week to allow for operator training and signal and traffic light testing.


text: Residential property values dipped by 1 to 2 percent on average in the town's revaluation for this fiscal year, Assessor Dorothy Wilbur stated in an announcement on the certification process. Her department has posted the assessed valuation, which is the basis for tax bills, for properties in town online at www.stow-ma.gov. Appeals can be filed through the abatement process after tax bills are issued this month, Wilbur noted in her statement.


text: teen birth rate Garfield County Grapples with High Teen Birth Rate By Marci Krivonen • Dec 27, 2013 www.garfieldcountyprep.org Ten percent of all pregnancies in Garfield County are to teenage mothers. That's high compared to the national average. One non profit is working in schools to help bring down the teen pregnancy rate. They're counting on a combination of education, access to contraception and community involvement. Aspen Public Radio's Marci Krivonen reports.


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Astronomers Solve Puzzle of the Mountains That Fell From Space 51
Astronomers think that early in its life, Iapetus must have been hit by another moon, sending huge volumes of ejecta into orbit. Some of this condensed into a new moon that escaped into space. However, the rest formed an unstable ring that gradually spiraled in towards the moon, eventually depositing the material in a narrow ridge around the equator. Cassini's next encounter with Iapetus will be in 2015 which should give astronomers another chance to study the strangest mountain range in the Solar System."


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Press Release
Landmark Global Initiative Seeks to Reduce HIV Among Gay Men by Tackling Widespread Stigma and Discrimination
December 10, 2010
Oakland, Calif. -- The Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) today announced the launch of an ambitious international initiative to address rising rates of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) by working to reduce stigma, discrimination and violence against this marginalized population. Supported by a consortium of funders, including ViiV Healthcare's Positive Action Program, the Levi Strauss Foundation and Hivos, the landmark project signals a growing recognition of the connection between homophobia and the spread of HIV.
"We are thrilled to announce this exciting new initiative on International Human Rights Day," said MSMGF Executive Officer Dr. George Ayala. "Every person deserves the right to fair treatment and freedom from persecution. The more we learn about HIV, the more we see that working to eradicate stigma, discrimination, and violence is essential to securing the right to health for MSM. Until recently, stigma and discrimination were not seen as serious drivers of the epidemic. This represents a major turning point, and we are proud to stand with our partners as we tackle this crucial issue head-on."
The technical assistance (TA) program will support grass-roots activists in Central America, North Africa and Southeast Asia with trainings and funding to develop and implement innovative rights-based advocacy projects. By building the advocacy capacity of local activists to reduce stigma, discrimination and violence against MSM, the initiative aims to reduce rates of HIV among this hard-hit group.
A small but growing body of literature indicates a strong connection between human rights violations and negative health outcomes among sexual minorities. Past research among MSM has linked experiences of social discrimination and violence with poor mental health, increased substance abuse, and higher levels of sexual risk-taking. A recent qualitative study conducted by the MSMGF among 39 MSM and transgender people from 27 countries has added to mounting evidence that even the most basic HIV prevention and treatment interventions have been severely undermined by stigma and discrimination.
"Stigma and discrimination keep large numbers of gay men around the world from accessing essential health resources," explained Michael Joyner, Director of Positive Action at ViiV Healthcare. "They just don't feel welcome at healthcare facilities."
MSM experience higher rates of HIV than the general population in nearly every country that reports reliable epidemiological data. In many cases, these differences are extreme. In Central America, for example, Honduras recently reported HIV prevalence rates of 12.4% among MSM, as opposed to 0.8% in the general population. On average, MSM in low- and middle-income countries are 19 times more likely to be infected with HIV than the general population.
"It is our hope that, through this initiative, we can address both the insidious problems of social discrimination and the skyrocketing rates of HIV in our communities," said Dr. Ayala. "After all, without addressing one, we cannot address the other."
The new technical assistance program will begin early next year.
The Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF) is an expanding network of AIDS organizations, MSM networks, and advocates committed to ensuring robust coverage of and equitable access to effective HIV prevention, care, treatment, and support services tailored to the needs of gay men and other MSM. Guided by a Steering Committee of 20 members from 17 countries situated mainly in the Global South, and with administrative and fiscal support from AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), the MSMGF works to promote MSM health and human rights worldwide through advocacy, information exchange, knowledge production, networking, and capacity building.
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Kosher Gifts and More for Hanukkah and Holidays
Here at Challah Connection, we are always developing new kosher gifts for you to share with friends and family. To that end, we travel to many national food shows and gourmet food shops in Manhattan, Brooklyn and our local CT neighborhood–wherever we know fabulous foods exist that can be paired into fabulous kosher gift baskets.
In time for your holiday gift giving, I am pleased to announce terrific new kosher gifts for Hanukkah and Christmas as well as some gorgeous new Judaica (menorahs and dreidels) that we have sourced for Hanukkah. All of these new gifts make terrific Hanukkah gifts and Holiday gift baskets.
One of my favorite new kosher gifts, NYC Food Tour Tower, is a collection of NYC iconic foods such as Dr. Brown's soda, black and white cookies and more, assembled in sturdy "keeper" boxes that display a dramatic photo montage of NYC and Brooklyn's top spots.
Another great new gift is our Happy Chanukah Chocolate Gift Box, so happy-looking and delicious.Our new Blissful Brownie Gift Box is great for large volume corporate gift giving or as a gift to Aunt Sue. As for Jewish and Judaica gifts, we have some gorgeous new menorahs, dreidels and decorations from Emily Rosenfeld, Gary Rosenthal, Tamara Baskin as well as a beautiful new ornament.
Shopping for a baseball fan? There are alot of you out there. I know that I will be giving my Yankee-fan-son "Jeter's 3000 Hit Baseball." For my nephew, who just moved into his first post-college apartment, what could be better than "Ballparks of the MLB," a framed piece that includes real dirt from every MLB ballpark? Pretty exciting!
I hope you'll take a few minutes to peruse our new and "old favorite" holiday gifts. As I hope you realize, we work very hard to find the finest gifts for all of your gift-giving needs. If you have product suggestions, please let me know, we want to hear them!
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Quite a good article on UEFI in LXF 171, less complacent than some I have seen, but it still leaves me with questions.
It says (penultimate column):-
" there is another way ... it doesn't involve a distro getting anything signed .. uses a pre-bootloader similar to the shim .. also signed by Microsoft's key"
Let me be clear where I am coming from : I do not wish to use anything that has paid a fee to Microsoft.
So even if I get an independent distro, which has not paid MS, it will still need the Linux Foundation pre-bootloader that has a key bought from MS. And even if I turn off Secure Boot, that pre-bootloader will still be present and required as part of the boot sequence - am I right?
Or will there be a version of this pre-bootloader tailored for people who permanently turn off Secure Boot at the outset and which therefore requires no paid key from MS?


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ROCKFORD – Drew LeBlanc kept his stick on the ice and his eyes on the puck.
In a flash, Rockford IceHogs defenseman Adam Clendening snapped a pass from the blue line toward LeBlanc, who stood to the left of the net. LeBlanc caught the pass and quickly slid the puck across the goal crease to teammate Brad Winchester, who punched in an easy goal.
In a perfect world, LeBlanc would have worn a Blackhawks sweater and prompted a dance party for 20,000 strong in attendance. Instead, LeBlanc's heads-up assist took place in front of a set of empty bleachers at a recent IceHogs practice and prompted no dancing, only another drill.
Welcome to life in the American Hockey League.
It's a million miles from last season, when LeBlanc won the Hobey Bakey Award as college hockey's best player and signed a contract with the Hawks. The view from here is much different than in April, when the former St. Cloud State center made his NHL debut with Patrick Sharp on his left wing and Patrick Kane on his right wing.
"That feels like a long time ago," LeBlanc said. "We've strapped on the skates a lot of times since then. Obviously, the goal is to make it back there. I'm trying to do the best I can to improve down here."
Yet the adjustment from college to the pros has proved to be difficult.
LeBlanc, 24, has tallied seven goals and 10 assists in 51 games with the IceHogs. He ranks 10th on the team in scoring and has a minus-2 rating with about two months to go in the regular season.
Meanwhile, the Hawks have turned to other young players such as Ben Smith, Brandon Pirri and recent trade acquisition Peter Reign for depth at forward.
IceHogs coach Ted Dent said LeBlanc's attention to detail could help to set him apart.
"He's definitely committed to his profession," Dent said. "He works extremely hard. It's been an adjustment, for sure. I think he'd be the first to admit that to anybody.
"But he's not afraid of the challenge, and he's getting better every day as the season goes on. All first-year players, they progress at different time frames. Drew's on the right path."
It's a path that started in LeBlanc's hometown of Duluth, Minn., and continued 150 miles south to St. Cloud, where he led the Huskies to their first Frozen Four appearance in school history. Several teams pursued LeBlanc as a free agent, but he signed with the Hawks because of their proven track record of developing NHL talent.
The Rockford-to-Chicago blueprint has included more than a dozen players in the past few seasons, including Brandon Saad, Andrew Shaw, Marcus Kruger, Nick Leddy, Niklas Hjalmarsson, Bryan Bickell and Corey Crawford.
An added bonus: playing in the same organization as Jonathan Toews.
"He's like the model of what a centerman should do and be," LeBlanc said. "So you watch him, try to put yourself in his shoes, and try to think like he's thinking."
LeBlanc, who majored in math education, is thoughtful and measured with his answers. Teammates admire how he is one of the last players to leave the ice after practice.
"He's a great guy," fellow center Joakim Nordstrom said. "He's pretty quiet, but he's very smart, so every time he says something, everybody listens.
"He works really hard both on and off the ice. He spends a lot of hours in the gym and stays on the ice after practice to work on small details. He's certainly knows what it takes to have a good career."
But LeBlanc is not there yet, as he'd be the first to admit.
"Ideally, it would be almost to make it feel like college again – to play at that level with that confidence," LeBlanc said. "I think confidence is the biggest thing at this level."
• Northwest Herald sports columnist Tom Musick can be reached at email@example.com and on Twitter @tcmusick.


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Dee Aker Joins Women's Hall of Fame
Thursday, March 27, 2014
U-T San Diego -- They have dedicated themselves to everything from promoting peace abroad to strengthening community services in Barrio Logan. On Friday, five local women will be honored for their contributions by being inducted into the San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame.
"Their lifetime work and achievements have improved the lives of many and have left a lasting impact," said Ashley Gardner, executive director of the Women's Museum of California. "They are the unsung heroes of our time, whose stories can be inspiring to all of us."
Diane Lee (Dee) Aker is being recognized in the Trailblazer category. She is currently the interim director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego and the founder of the Women Peacemakers, WorldLink and Nepal Peacebuilding Initiative programs. (Full Story)
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While a large number of people paid under $2, the average price factored out to $2.03, with a few generous souls giving as much as $50. The sale resulted in pushing some 57,000 copies of the year-old game, generating over $114,000 as determined by the average price.
2D Boy also ran a short survey, asking users how much they paid, their reasoning, and what they think the game should be worth normally.
"One thing that the survey data might suggests is that despite there being a lot discussion around what games are worth and the dollar value of an hour of play, few people chose their price based on the perceived value of the game," wrote 2D Boy's Ron Carmel on the company's blog. "How much the person feels they can afford seems to play a much larger role in the decision than how much the game is worth."


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The FAA's voluntary safety program, which protects U.S. airlines, repair stations and other aviation organizations from rule violations under certain conditions, for a second time will come under the scrutiny of the U.S. Transportation Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Starting Sept. 19, the OIG will launch an audit of the FAA's voluntary disclosure reporting program (VDRP) to determine if the incident disclosures meet the agency's requirements for protection from legal action and public disclosure. The audit, which is expected to take 10-12 months to complete, was mandated as part of the four-year FAA funding bill signed into law in February 2012.
Questions about the validity of the program emerged less than a year after the FAA rolled out the program in 2006, when whistleblowers disclosed VDRP abuses by an FAA principal maintenance inspector (PMI) and Southwest Airlines.
In the OIG investigation that followed, officials found that the PMI had "permitted and encouraged" Southwest to submit a VDRP filing for missing the due date on fuselage crack inspections for a large number of Boeing 737 classic aircraft, as required by an airworthiness directive (AD).
"[Southwest Airlines] made the disclosure and indicated that it came into the compliance with the AD, meaning it had inspected or grounded all of the affected aircraft," the OIG said in its December 2008 report. "In fact, the airline had not done so, continuing to operate the aircraft for eight days after the carrier had notified FAA."
In all, Southwest operated 146 aircraft on 1,451 flights carrying 145,000 passengers during the eight days, said the OIG, adding that five of the aircraft were later found to have fuselage cracks. The FAA proposed a $10.2 million fine to the carrier, but ultimately settled for $7.5 million on the condition that Southwest complete 13 safety-related improvements.
VDRP is among a handful of voluntary programs that the FAA uses to advance safety standards will affording protection for those you provide information.
"While [VDRP] provides an important opportunity to identify and mitigate safety issues that might not otherwise come to the agency's attention, it also requires close monitoring by the FAA to ensure the program is not misused," says the OIG in its announcement of the audit.
To receive protection from enforcement actions, an organization must notify the FAA "immediately" upon finding out about an infraction and before the agency learns of the issue "by other means." In addition, the error must be shown to be inadvertent, and the company must take immediate action to fix the problem with a comprehensive solution.
As required by the FAA funding bill, the OIG is charged with determining whether the FAA ensures that air carrier disclosure reports meet entry requirements before being accepted into the program, and whether corrective actions air carriers have implemented to close out the incidents were effective.


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St. Pauls Lutheran Church of Green Isle invites you to their Soup And Sandwich Fall Get Together on Sunday, Nov. 10th at the church. Tickets are $7 for adults, $4 for children 6-10. On the Menu: Chicken Noodle Soup, Wild Rice Soup, Cream of Broccoli Soup, Egg Salad Sandwiches, and Ham Sandwiches. Proceeds go to Mission Projects.


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Once a character is a Best Friend to Ella, she sends the character a letter in the mailbox, along with a . Tree Seed Pack
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Hello <player>,
I hope that this letter finds you well.
I am so very glad that we are best friends now, so I got you a few gifts. I didn't want you to be lonely on your farm, so I'm giving you my most favorite cat - Luna. Please take good care of her. You'll find her on your farm the next time you visit.
These trees have brought me great joy in the past, and I hope they bring you the same happiness.
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Gordy's County Market, a familiar name in Chippewa Falls, will soon be opening a third grocery store in Eau Claire.
The general manager says Gordy's has been looking to expand and when Supervalue representatives approached them about purchasing Cub Foods on Birch Street in Eau Claire, they accepted.
All 94 workers will stay after the acquisition.
"As we all know, the people make the company what it is so we plan on keeping the people all there and keeping everybody's status the same," says Jeff Schafer.
The ownership will officially change hands on June 26 at midnight.


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A four-year plan by the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to transform Taiwan into a sports-friendly country with 50 sports centers across the nation recently came under fire from Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators, who said it was seriously behind schedule.
In 2010, the Sports Affairs Council (SAC) — which is set to be downgraded to a department under the Ministry of Education tomorrow — allocated NT$13.26 billion (US$455.1 million) to subsidize local governments in two phases to construct sports centers, each of which was to be given a maximum of NT$200 million.
In the first phase, subsidies are to be used for preparatory works — planning, designing, conducting feasibility studies and soliciting business for the planned sports stadiums. The second-phase subsidies are to mainly cover the construction costs of such establishments.
However, with only one year left before the project's deadline at the end of this year, the Ma administration had only constructed 27 centers — about half of its goal — as of last year.
DPP Legislator Hsueh Ling (薛凌) said that while an expectant mother would take about nine months to deliver a baby, it would be next to impossible for the Ma administration, which has repeatedly failed to fulfill its promises, to meet its objective in one year.
"I am afraid that the Ma administration is destined to become, once again, a Pinocchio whose nose grows longer with each lie he tells," Hsueh said.
An assessment report recently compiled by the National Audit Office singled out a few planned centers where the population number has fallen, saying they are overly optimistic about their future performance or haven fallen behind their construction schedule, Hsueh said.
"Those costly sporting stadiums may risk becoming more 'mosquito-breeding sites' around the country once their construction is completed," Hsueh added.
According to council regulations, a sports center must be located in an area where the population exceeds 10,000, or which sees more than 150,000 people in its extended service region within a 10km radius from the center.
DPP Legislator Hsu Chih-chieh (許智傑) accused the central government of shirking its responsibility and said it should have talked to local governments upon detecting problems with finishing the project, instead of setting them aside until the last minute and then blaming the local governments for the delay.
Hsu was refereeing to a progress report on the project by the council during a joint meeting of the legislature's Finance Committee and Education and Culture Committee in early November.
The report attributed the project's possible delays to several local governments, saying some of them have shown less willingness to build sports centers due to a difficulty in finding a suitable location in metropolitan areas for the establishments.
It also cited requests by a few local governments to increase the budget to up to NT$400 million per stadium.
Questioning the NT$200 million budget cap for each planned sports center, DPP Taipei City Councilor Wu Su-yao (吳思瑤) said that of the 12 sports centers built in Taipei's 12 administrative districts, the one with the lowest construction costs was the Beitou (北投) Sports Center, which still spent about NT$288 million.
"The Neihu (內湖) Sports Center's NT$712 million construction cost is the highest among the sports centers in the city," Wu said.
DPP Legislator Yeh Yi-jin (葉宜津) accused the Ma administration of class discrimination and unequal allocation of resources between urban and rural areas.
Citing as an example a sports stadium in Greater Tainan's Sin-ying District (新營), Yeh said that the indoor basketball court of the center suffered from a leaking roof and damaged flooring, but the district had a hard time trying to obtain a budget of only hundreds of thousands of New Taiwan dollars for maintenance from the central government.


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Benfica 2-0 Spartak Moscow: Cardozo double puts Portuguese back in contention
Jorge Jesus' decision to bring on Oscar Cardozo for Benfica at half-time put paid to Spartak Moscow's hopes of getting a point in this Champions League Group G match, as the 29-year-old struck twice in the second half to light up the Estadio da Luz and hand his side a deserved 2-0 victory.
Cardozo wasted no time in leaving his mark on the game after being introduced at the break, scoring two goals in quick succession, the first a powerful header from close range, and the second a well-taken half volley from 10 yards out.
Despite both teams being guilty of conceding a number of free kicks in the opening 10 minutes, the home side were clearly on top as the Spartak defence struggled to deal with the vibrant play of Ola John and Lorenzo Melgarejo playing on the left-hand side for Benfica.
Having started the match distinctly on the back foot, Spartak managed to fashion the first clear goalscoring opportunity in the 13th minute when Diniy ar Bilyaletdinov forced a smart low stop from Artur, after the Russia international had latched on to a brilliantly disguised reverse pass from Dmitriy Kombarov.
The Aguias continued to dominate possession despite that Bilyaletdinov chance, and very nearly took the lead in the 22nd minute only for Eduardo Salvio to blast a shot into the side netting after the ball fell invitingly to him inside the Spartak penalty area, as the away side failed to clear their lines following Artem Rebrov's diving save from Lima's curling effort.
The visitors' full-backs, Kirill Kombarov and Evgeniy Makeev were enduring an increasingly torrid time as the first half wore on, as Benfica looked to play the ball out to John on the left and Salvio on the right, whenever they could.
Rodrigo came within inches of making it 1-0 to the hosts in the 40th minute, but could only look on in anguish as his devilish free kick from the right flew just wide of Rebrov' s right-hand post with the Spartak goalkeeper well beaten.
Jorge Jesus made an attacking change at the break, bringing on Cardozo for Rodrigo, yet it was Spartak that came close to taking the lead early in the second half through Bilyaletdinov. The attacker wasted his second chance of the evening though, firing straight at Artur after some fine build-up play involving Ari and Dmitriy Kombarov.
After having one finely-taken effort ruled out for offside just minutes after being introduced, Cardozo then gave Benfica a legitimate 1-0 lead with a close-range header in the 55th minute. Melgarejo was instrumental as he ghosted into the box on the left, before lifting a perfect cross to the Paraguayan striker, who then headed the ball downwards past Rebrov and into the back of the net.
Spartak moved Evgeniy Makeev across from left-back to right-back after Kirill Kombarov was withdrawn following Cardozo's first goal, but this did l ittle to stem Benfica's potent attacking threat down that side of the pitch as Melgarejo and John continued to wreak havoc.
Jesus' decision to bring on Cardozo continued to prove to be an inspired choice as the attacker then struck the crossbar in the 66th minute with a firm header after connecting well with John's inviting corner from the left.
That same duo combined again just moments later to make it 2-0 to Benfica, with Cardozo adjusting his body well to meet John's bouncing cross with his left foot and divert the ball into the back of the net from 10 yards.
Spartak's evening went from bad to worse in the 76th minute as Nicolas Pareja was dismissed for an awful challenge on Cardozo inside the penalty area. However the striker's chance to complete his hat-trick eluded him as his firmly-struck spot-kick was tipped on to the crossbar brilliantly by Rebrov.
Cardozo had one final chance to make it three goals in 45 minutes late in the game, but after racing through on goal he poked an effort just wide of Rebrov's right-hand post under pressure from Juan Manuel Insaurralde.
Benfica's impressive victory this evening reignites their hopes of progressing from Group G, and increased their unbeaten run of home games against Russian opposition to six.
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