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Social media Web sites have become popular mechanisms by which gang members carry out drug-dealing and other illegal activity.
This trend is explored in the Chicago Crime Commission Gang Book, which also highlights profiles, colors and other identifiers of 70 of the most prominent street gangs in Chicago, a city estimated to have more than 68,000 gang members, according to a news release about the book.
Released Thursday, the book also contains maps of individual gang territories, and the gangs' old "manifestos" outlining their original bylaws and current negligence of them, the release stated.
The book was "developed as a training tool to be used by enforcement, parents, educators and business owners who may know little about street gangs operating in the city and suburbs," Jody Weis, president of the commission and the city's former police superintendentd, said in the release.
The book also includes data from a 2011 Chicago Crime Commission Survey of Gang and Drug Activity. One-hundred-seventy police agencies in the Chicago area participated in the survey, which found that graffiti, burglaries and drug-related activity are the most common crimes committed by gang members in the suburbs, the release stated.
The survey found the Latin Kings, Gangster Disciples, Sureno 13s, Maniac Latin Disciples and Vice Lords are the top five most active gangs within the jurisdictions of the 170 police agencies.
As for Chicago, "many residents of the city live and work within feet of a gang's operations," stated Weis. "Gangs constitute an entire sector of Chicago's population, yet even the law enforcement organizations that watch them daily cannot precisely gauge the extent of their presence.
"Gangs' mode of operation exists fully apart from civil society, yet the repercussions of their gun- and drug-related activities directly affect society's well-being."

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I'm sure that I'm not alone in this, but there are certain things I could live the rest of my artistic life without seeing.
I hope I never see another heritage photo wearing a dunce cap with fairy wings. If you were doing any kind of art journaling/ATC art back in the early 2000's you couldn't swing a dead rat on a string without hitting one of these layouts. They were cool at first, but quickly got monotonous.
I'm pretty over "zettiology" layouts by anyone besides Teesha Moore and even she's started moving in other directions in her art. It's just too distinctive for so many people to be doing. It doesn't feel fresh anymore.
This one hurts a little to admit, but as much as I love Ali Edwards as a person and her innovative projects, I wish that not every single person who does a "week in the life" or a "December daily" used all the exact same products that she does. It feels like 99% of those projects use her handwriting font too.
And I'm sure you guys remember when Elise Larson had her Love Elise scrapbooking line. I still think it's cute in small doses, but for a minute there it seemed like I was drowning in a sea of twee.
Were any of you scrapbooking back in the 90s? Do you remember how every layout involved cutesy country themed themes, tons of stickers, and pictures cut into shapes... like we're talking hearts, stars, or even like a palm tree? I remember. That was pretty much every single page in my first album. I remember being so dang excited to find a specialty scrapbooking shop that had literally rows of papers with plaid papers or the ones that are just blown up muted photos. And the stickers... omg. And every layout was 8.5x11. The first time I saw a 12x12 I was so confused.
Anyway, yeah... 90s era scrapbooking should never ever come back. Not even in that whole "the 60s are cool again" nostalgia cycle that seems to happen to clothes every 20 years or so.
Anybody else have any tends you'd rather would die a quiet death?


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THE DEADLINE set by Judge Denny Chin for a revised settlement agreement in the Google Books dispute passed on 15 September, with no new draft. Chin did not set a trial date at the hearing that day: he did set a timetable for steps toward trial in the case, which stems from Google signing agreements with libraries to scan their books and post the scans, or parts of them, online.
The next deadline is for the plaintiffs, the Authors Guild, individual book authors and several publishers, to deposit their arguments for this being a "class action" by 11 December. A "class action" is a mechanism in US law for a case to be brought on behalf of an entire "class" of plaintiff, without all those affected needing to individually sign up or even to be idenfified when the case starts.
And the sides have until 30 March 2012 to complete "discovery" - the process of demanding and supplying documents relevant to the case and the activity that caused it. That could be interesting.
The Authors Guild says Google's making books available online should lead to compensation to authors. Google maintains that this is an example of "fair use" - the ill-defined US legal doctrine over when a copyright work, such as a book, can be used without the owner's permisison.
Google was nevertheless prepared to fund the proposed settlement to the tune of US$125 million, offering up to US$60 to a sole author of a book registered with the US Register of Copyrights. In March Judge Chin ruled out that settlement proposal, not least on the grounds that it would have covered all authors who did not actively opt out, and would have create a monopoly in trade in "orphan" books - those whose authors cannot be contacted.
Negotiations toward a new settlement agreement continue in parallel. According to New York Law School associate professor James Grimmelmann, the publishers' talks with Google have made more progress than the authors'.
Meanwhile, on September 12 the US Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Écrivaines et des Écrivains Québécois (UNEQ), and eight individual authors, including Fay Weldon, launched a new lawsuit against the HathiTrust and four participating universty libraries.
Hathi has launched an interface to nearly 10 million books scanned by Google. It plans to start making what it regards as "orphan" books avilable online, starting on 13 October. Hathi has posted online a list of "candidate orphans", which at the time we checked appeared to be a test with 160 entries.
When the list was first posted, Authors Guild staff set about identifying the authors of books on the list. In less than three minutes they were on the phone to the wife of the literary agent of one, Jack Salamanca. His books were no longer on the list on 16 September, and a handful of others appear to have been removed.
The lawsuit asks the court to stop the publication online of allegedly "orphan" books - by implication until the US Congress - or Judge Chin - has decided how or whether that might be legitimised in law. The documents filed with the court note that Hathi and the universities have "taken the law into their own hands".
It is clear to the Freelance that the motivation behind the Hathi action is to set a precedent according to the libraries' - and Google's - taste, with the expectation that their illegal action will be legitimated by changing US law afterward.
The Authors Guild is already being portrayed by anti-copyright commentators as trying to lock up books; this rather ignores the effort it has put, and continues to put, into trying to negotiate a framwork in which orphan books can be used with minimum damage to known authors. That's not unproblematic - especially when it comes to works such as illustrations that are incorporated into books. The Hathi project and the lawsuit are all about tilting and re-levelling the playing field on which those negotiations take place.
Very likely, Google and those libraries that have allied with it have shot themselves in the foot here.


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Irish defender Sean St. Ledger has offered his sympathy to Wolves star Kevin Foley, axed from the Ireland squad at the last minute by manager Giovanni Trapattoni last week.
Trap opted to include Paul McShane and not Foley when he had to submit his final 23 man squad for the Euros tournament to UEFA.
Foley said he felt "betrayed" by Trapattoni and may not play for Ireland again as long as he is manager.
And St. Ledger said, "I am sure his emotions at the moment are taking over. I am sure he will have a word with his family and talk it over and I am sure he will make the right decision.
"And I think you just have to respect that if he doesn't want to. I think all the boys want him to play again because he is a great lad and he is a very good player at the same time.
"His recent injury may just have come at the wrong time. He obviously proved his fitness but the manager made his decision and you just have to go with it."
St. Ledger added, "It is tough because everyone really, really likes him. It's tough, don't get me wrong. And everyone feels for him.
"If it was me, I would be absolutely gutted and obviously he was very, very emotional. So it is a tough one to call."
Bilic Respect
CROATIAN boss Slaven Bilic has denied rubbishing Ireland's European Championships hopes and admits they will be formidable opponents in Poznan on Sunday.
Bilic was in the stands as Ireland drew 0-0 with Hungary in Budapest on Monday night.
He told Irish reporters afterwards, "In Croatia, someone has not twisted my words, but made it up like I said that you don't have a good team and blah, blah.
"It's totally nonsense. I have big respect for your team -- we played against your team last summer.
"It's an unbelievably competitive team. They are very solid, they play very simple football, they don't take a lot of risks.
"But they are still dangerous enough with some really good forwards -- two strikers and two wide men who are very quick. One on one, they can decide a game."
A former teammate of Richard Dunne's at Everton, Bilic was impressed with the Irish defender again on Monday.
He added, "It's very hard to get a clear chance against them. Richard Dunne is a leader, he's the organizer. He's a great player."
"I admire him. He was young when we played together at Everton but you could see he was going to the big stage and the big time, and I'm so glad for him. He's a great guy."
Holy Trap
IRELAND boss Giovanni Trapattoni has confirmed that he will sprinkle Holy Water around the team dug-out at the 2012 European Championship finals.
Trap said: "Yes, I will do it, I will sprinkle it everywhere. It's not so God will help us to win but to offer us protection against jinxes."
Soccer Shorts
BIRMINGHAM boss Chris Hughton is no longer wanted by West Brom as their new manager but Norwich are keen to talk to him about their vacancy after Paul Lambert's departure for Aston Villa . . .
CELTIC have confirmed that coach Alan Thompson was sacked over the phone by manager Neil Lennon on Sunday. Thompson is now taking legal action against the club . . .
IRELAND'S under-21 side drew 2-2 with Italy in a Euro Championship qualifier in Sligo on Monday afternoon when Robbie Brady and Greg Cunningham got the goals . . .
ULSTERMAN Brendan Rodgers is the new manager of Premier League giants Liverpool.
Healy Fit
LEINSTER prop Cian Healy is fit to play for Ireland in their first summer test against New Zealand at Auckland Park on Saturday, but fellow front rower Mike Ross is a major doubt.
Healy returned to training on Monday to prove his fitness to coach Declan Kidney ahead of the opening game of Ireland's tour.
Ireland are given little or no chance of beating the world champions, but full-back Rob Kearney believes they can take inspiration from last year's World Cup win over Australia when they face the All Blacks.
He said, "It was a huge occasion for us to turn over Australia in a World Cup.
"As players, we always believe that we can match it with the best teams in the world when we turn up and we play good rugby. As a player and as a team, you have to believe that.
"There wasn't a huge element of surprise for us (afterwards) as a group of players. What's important for us is that we keep trying to reproduce that form.
"We set a bar there in that game, a standard, and it is important for us to keep matching that."
Ireland have never beaten New Zealand but the Leinster full-back added, "Saturday is our best chance to beat them because it is our next chance. And if the first test doesn't go our way then the one after that will be our best chance again after that."
O'Brien Double
IRISH trainer Aidan O'Brien and his teenage son Joseph made history as Camelot moved a step closer to flat racing's Triple Crown with a stunning win in the English Derby at Epsom.
The pair became the first father and son partnership in history to win the biggest race of the flat calendar to add the Derby to the 2000 Guineas title.
Now a tilt at the St. Leger and the treble awaits for the horse brilliantly steered home by 19-year-old Joseph to the delight of his watching father.
Joseph was happy to sit towards the rear for much of the mile-and-a-half journey, beginning to make headway on the outside of the field rounding the home turn before a burst of speed that secured a five-length success.
Winning jockey Joseph said, "I was a bit worried as he didn't come down the hill at all. He didn't handle the track that well, so he did well to win.
"He's a very special horse and I'm just very fortunate to be on his back."
Aidan O'Brien said, "You can't even dream of days like this.
"I was always happy, I know Joseph's body language by now and he looked confident.
"No one can describe the feeling, things like this don't happen. We'll give the Triple Crown a lot of thought and the boys will make a decision and do whatever is best for the horse.
"The Triple Crown would be incredible."


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The Good, as in my recent front porch makeover.
the Christmas lights still out--but not on--at the end of February (I'm happy to report that I risked frost bite fingers
to finally un-wire these and put them away).
leftovers that haven't been cleaned up since
decorating for a wedding in December.
(My husband and I both laugh and cringe at this sight.)
No one has a perfect life. Everyone's life is a combination of good, bad, and ugly. But the more we look for the good and give it the attention it deserves the more we come to see that life really is what we choose to put our focus on.


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Who Would Leave You Starstruck?
How many Dallas Cowboy fans have met a player and was so in awe that you where Starstruck?
My granddaughter asked me if I had ever met a player and if I passed out. Well, I didn't pass out, but close to it when my parents surprised me by being taken back stage when Danny White was singing in Tulsa.
I couldn't speak.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Daryl Johnston and I talked to him about the picture I brought to sign of his first touchdown.
Another time, Ken Norton Jr. asked me about my Zuba pants when he was signing my football card, and Nate Newton was a sweetheart when he signed a picture for me.
That made me wonder, what player would actually leave me Starstruck now?
I would have to say it probably would be Emmitt Smith, Tony Romo and DeMarcus Ware. I don't think I would be speechless, but I sure would be shaking in their presence.
What we want to know is which current or past player would leave you Starstruck?
Tell us your Starstruck stories.
I know I am not the only fan that has had that experience, so please share your own experiences with us. I can't wait to hear your stories.


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LAST SEASON: 40-27-15, 95 points. Won Stanley Cup.
COACH: Darryl Sutter, 2nd season with Kings, 25-13-11; 12th overall, 434-333-142 in NHL.
ADDED: RW Anthony Stewart.
LOST: RW Kevin Westgarth.
PLAYER TO WATCH: C Anze Kopitar. The Kings' leading scorer in five straight seasons injured his knee in Sweden shortly before the lockout ended. He's not expected to opening day, and if his injury lingers, Los Angeles' offense will be compromised.
OUTLOOK: With Kopitar, Jonathan Quick, Dustin Brown and every significant player returning from the first championship team in franchise history, the Stanley Cup holders believe their continuity in a short season gives them a strong chance at a repeat.
LAST SEASON: 49-22-11, 109 points, Central Division championship. Lost to Los Angeles 4-0 in second round.
COACH: Ken Hitchcock, 1st full season with Blues, 43-15-11; 16th overall, 576-365-169 in NHL.
ADDED: RW Vladimir Tarasenko, LW Jaden Schwartz, D Jeff Woywitka, D Colin White.
LOST: RW B.J. Crombeen, D Kent Huskins (unsigned unrestricted free agent).
PLAYER TO WATCH: Shifty, inventive LW David Perron has potential to lift a grinding offense that ranked in the bottom third of the NHL after scoring 42 points in 57 last season after recovering from concussion that sidelined him a full season.
OUTLOOK: The Blues stood pat after second-best point total in franchise history, banking on continued development of youthful roster, and figure to be among top teams in Western Conference. Hitchcock was NHL coach of year, elevating play across the board of roster that was 7-7 before he replaced Davis Payne.


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The Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Department invites the public to review and comment on the draft LPlan2040, the 10-year update to the Comprehensive Plan. LPlan2040 looks ahead 30 years at how Lincoln will grow, where residents will live and work, and how they will travel. The public is encouraged to review the draft plan and submit feedback in the following ways:
The Planning Commission will make recommendations to the City Council and County Board, which are expected to hold hearings and take action to adopt the Plan in October. The draft Plan is the result of a year-long public process that included the guidance of a citizen group called the LPlan Advisory Committee (LPAC). LPAC included all nine members of the Planning Commission and 11 others appointed by Mayor Beutler to represent a broad range of interests. Hundreds of residents took part in community meetings and workshops, and thousands offered input on the website, the Virtual Town Hall and through other communications.
"I'd like to express my appreciation to the members of the advisory committee for their hard work and dedication, and also to the community as a whole for the valuable input you have given us during the past year," said Planning Director Marvin Krout.
The transportation chapter of LPlan 2040 makes up a separate document known as the Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). The LRTP is required for the City and County to receive federal transportation funds, and it must be adopted by the Lincoln Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), a separate agency with representation from the City, County and State. The MPO Officials Committee is expected to review and adopt the LRTP this year.


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"Tales of the Holohoax" and Denmark's anti-Muslim cartoons
Satire demonized and criminalized in Britain
by Michael Hoffman — Revisionist Review Feb 8, 2010
One grows weary of pointing to the disparity between how "Holocaust" revisionists and Muslim haters are treated in the media and the courts both legal and of public opinion. Kurt Westergaard, the artist who drew the anti-Mohammed cartoon in Denmark is a hero of the European Union. His "freedom of expression" is jealously guarded, and used as a pedagogic tool for hammering Muslims concerning the glories of modern Western human rights' standards. When Muslims respond that the Danish cartoon was bigoted and racist, they are dismissed as backward peasants from Neanderthal societies who have yet to learn the rudiments of Enlightenment tolerance.
Meanwhile, revisionist expression concerning Talmudic Judaism or the alleged execution gas chambers of Auschwitz is another matter entirely. In the latter case, the "racist" pejorative is gleefully pinned on revisionists by the media and the courts, thereby acting as a solvent for weakening any claims to apply the western heritage of freedom of the press to revisionist writers or satirists.
Hence, Simon Sheppard, who received a lengthy prison sentence in part for distributing in England this writer's satirical comic book Tales of the Holohoax is described by all British media, from the snooty BBC to the proletarian "Sun" newspaper, as a "racist."
The unjust assignment of this pejorative is the impregnable wall that has been erected to isolate Mr. Sheppard's case from that of the anti-Muslim Danish cartoonists, and causes him to forfeit the civil liberties protections of Europe's supposed guardians of freedom against Islamic fundamentalism. The possibility that Europe might need to be guarded against the racist tyranny of fundamentalist Orthodox Judaism is policed out of consideration.
What precisely is there that is "racist" about the Tales of the Holohoax cartoons? The media do not scruple to attempt an analysis because they are under no pressure or obligation to do so. Satire is only a noble weapon when it is used against "demon Islam," while Judaism and Holocaustianity are sacred dogmas in Europe. Satirizing these sacred cows is a "disgusting hate crime."
Westergaard is portrayed as a defiant saint, while Mr. Sheppard and his partner in "criminal" satire, Stephen Whittle (they are known collectively as the "Heretical Two"), are less than zero in the eyes of the Western gatekeepers of morality and history – "race hate criminals" – in the purple prose of the BBC. The fact that these two have been stigmatized as "racist" is sufficient to render the stigma a reality, even when the facts bear witness to the contrary.
The "revisionist community," with some notable exceptions (Lady Michelle Renouf, Dr. Robert Faurisson, Willis Carto, Herman Otten) is reluctant to mention Tales of the Holohoax in connection with the plight of the "Heretical Two." The publication itself and the heretics who circulated it would now be a cause célébre if the current "revisionist community" had any of the public relations instincts of Ernst Zundel.
In the 2009 Christmas list of imprisoned revisionists and their jailhouse mailing addresses circulated around the Internet and published in certain revisionist newsletters, under the names Sheppard and Whittle the reason given for their incarceration was an oddly generic one: "sought asylum in the U.S." But the reason they were asylum seekers was noticeably absent. By this omission, reference to Tales of the Holohoax and its author were sent down the memory hole — by revisionists themselves.
I have seen no sustained analogy concerning this writer or Mr. Sheppard, and Mr.Westergaard. And since it has been decided that Tales of the Holohoax shouldn't be mentioned or discussed, no parallels are drawn between this writer's satirical gas chamber cartoons and the anti-Muslim ones in Denmark. A magnificent opportunity is thereby lost.
Culpability for this loss also rests with the Muslim and Arab media who have failed to compare the two sets of cartoons and the fate of the distributors.
No European has gone to jail for satirizing Islam or its prophet. On the contrary, the defiance of the Danish cartoonists is celebrated, rewarded and protected, while Sheppard rots in a British prison for distributing a satire that pokes fun at Talmudic tall tales recycled for modern consumption during and after World War II.
Racist pair lose jail term appeals
The Sun (UK) January 29, 2010
A RACIST man has lost his appeal against the UK's first conviction for inciting racial hatred online. But the Court of Appeal in London did reduce Stephen Whittle's sentence of two years and four months by six months. Another man, Simon Sheppard, who was also convicted of inciting racial hatred, had his term of four years and ten months cut by a year. Whittle, 42, and Sheppard, 52, were jailed at Leeds Crown Court in July last year after they were charged, under the Public Order Act, with publishing racially inflammatory material, distributing racially inflammatory material and possessing racially inflammatory material with a view to distribution. Whittle, from Preston, was found guilty of five offences and Sheppard, of Selby, North Yorkshire, was found guilty of 16. During their first trial in 2008, they skipped bail and fled to California, where they sought asylum claiming they were being persecuted for their right-wing views, but were deported. The police investigation began after a complaint about a leaflet called Tales of the Holohoax, which was pushed through the door of a Blackpool synagogue and traced back to a post office box in Hull registered to Sheppard.
Published material found later included images of murdered Jews alongside cartoons and articles ridiculing ethnic groups. At the appeal, Sheppard's counsel, Adrian Davies, challenged the convictions on the grounds of jurisdiction, the meaning of "publication" and whether the material on the internet was "written material" within the meaning of the Act. He said the articles complained of were posted on a website in California where there was no doubt that they were "entirely lawful and enjoyed the highest degree of constitutional protection under the laws of the United States." There was no evidence that anyone in England and Wales, except for the police officer, who the Crown did not rely on as a member of the public under the Act, had ever read any of them. "Despite this, Mr Sheppard has been sentenced to a longer term of imprisonment than Abu Hamza," he told Lord Justice Scott Baker, Mr Justice Penry-Davey and Mr Justice Cranston. Giving their ruling, Lord Justice Scott Baker said the trial judge was right to hold that he had jurisdiction to try the pair because a substantial measure of the activities constituting the crime took place in England. He said the judge had also correctly addressed the issue of publication – the material in the case was available to the public despite the fact that the evidence went no further than establishing that one police constable downloaded it. And the words "written material" in the Act were sufficiently wide to include articles in electronic form. On the question of sentence, he noted that the judge had said he had rarely seen or read material that was so abusive and insulting in its content towards racial groups in this country. (End quote)


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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) � In a stunning reversal of fortune, Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko left imprisonment yesterday and spoke to a massive, adoring crowd, while her arch-foe President Viktor Yanukovych decamped to eastern Ukraine and vowed he would remain in power.
Protesters took control of the presidential administration building and thousands of curious and contemptuous Ukrainians roamed the suddenly open grounds of the lavish compound outside Kiev where Yanukovych was believed to live. Parliament, which he controlled as recently as a day earlier but is now emboldened against him, yesterday called for his removal and for elections on May 25. But Yanukovych said he regards the parliament as now illegitimate and he won't respect its decisions.
The political crisis in the nation of 46 million, strategically important for Europe, Russia and the United States, has changed with blinding speed repeatedly in the past week. First there were signs that tensions were easing, followed by horrifying violence and then a deal signed under Western pressure that aimed to resolve the conflict but left the unity of the country in question.
Tymoshenko, whose diadem of blond peasant braids and stirring rhetoric attracted world attention in the 2004 Orange Revolution, was both sad and excited as she spoke to a crowd of about 50,000 on Kiev's Independence Square, where a sprawling protest tent camp was set up in December. Sitting in a wheelchair because of a back problem aggravated during imprisonment, her voice cracked and her face was careworn.
But her words were vivid, praising the protesters who were killed this week in clashes with police that included sniper fire and entreating the living to keep the camp going.
"You are heroes, you are the best thing in Ukraine!" she said of the victims. The Health Ministry yesterday said the death toll in clashes between protesters and police that included sniper attacks had reached 82.
And she urged the demonstrators not to yield their encampment in the square, known in Ukrainian as the Maidan.
"In no case do you have the right to leave the Maidan until you have concluded everything that you planned to do," she said.
The crowd was thrilled.
"We missed Yulia and her fire so much," said demonstrator Yuliya Sulchanik. Minutes after her release, Tymoshenko said she plans to run for president, and Sulchanik said "Yulia will be the next president � she deserves it."
Under the agreement signed Friday, Yanukovych faces early elections, but it is unclear when they will happen.
His authority in Kiev appeared to be eroding by the hour.
Yanukovych spoke on television in Kharkiv, the heartland of his base of support and ironically the same city where Tymoshenko was imprisoned.
He truculently likened his opponents to the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and accused them of a putsch.
"Everything that is happening today is, to a greater degree, vandalism and banditry and a coup d'etat," he said. "I will do everything to protect my country from breakup, to stop bloodshed."
Ukraine is deeply divided between eastern regions that are largely pro-Russian and western areas that widely detest Yanukovych and long for closer ties with the European Union. Yanukovych's shelving of an agreement with the EU in November set off the wave of protests, but they quickly expanded their grievances to corruption, human rights abuses and calls for Yanukovych's resignation.
The conviction of Tymoshenko was one of the underlying issues driving the protests.
After the 2004 Orange Revolution helped bring Viktor Yushchenko to the presidency, Tymoshenko became prime minister. But when Yanukovych won the 2010 election, Tymoshenko was arrested and put on trial for abuse of office, an action widely seen as political revenge.
Yesterday, before Tymoshenko's arrival, other opposition figures hailed Yanukovych's deteriorating hold on the country.
"The people have won, because we fought for our future," said opposition leader Vitali Klitschko to a euphoric crowd of thousands on Independence Square. Beneath a cold, heavy rain, protesters who have stood for weeks and months to pressure the president to leave congratulated each other and shouted "Glory to Ukraine!"
"It is only the beginning of the battle," Klitschko said, urging calm and telling protesters not to take justice into their own hands.
Top EU foreign envoy Catherine Ashton welcomed the release of Tymoshenko as "an important step forward in view of addressing concerns regarding selective justice in the country."
The president's support base crumbled further as a leading governor and a mayor from the eastern city of Kharkiv fled to Russia.
Oleh Slobodyan, a spokesman for the border guard service, told The Associated Press that the Kharkiv regional governor and mayor left Ukraine across the nearby Russian border.
Another service spokesman, Serhiy Astakhov, said the former prosecutor-general and former taxation minister were prevented from leaving on the order of unspecified law-enforcement agencies.
Russia came out yesterday firmly against the peace deal, saying the opposition isn't holding up its end of the agreement.


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Linux Server Troubleshooting With strace
Interpreting the output
A system call is a message from the program to the kernel. User programs on a modern system run in a little sandbox: they're not permitted to interact directly with the computer (so you can't just shove numbers directly into registers to do things, as you could back in the day). Instead, every time the program needs to interact with the rest of the system, it sends a request (a system call) to the kernel. strace tracks these messages. Do remember, then, that if you don't see any strace output for a while, it doesn't necessarily mean that your program is stuck. It might just be doing something within its own sandbox that doesn't require any communication with the rest of the system.
strace program will do the job, but it outputs everything straight to standard error (i.e. to the screen). As you'll see, there can be quite a lot of output; so it's usually best to use the -o option to set an output file:
strace -o outputfile.txt programSome editors (e.g. vim) can syntax highlight strace output. This means that different parts of the file, and different parts of each line, are shown in different colours. This is incredibly useful, and I strongly recommend using one of these editors to look at your strace output.
Interpreting the output
Try strace -o strace.out ls -l, then open strace.out in your preferred editor, with syntax highlighting turned on.
Before delving into any of the detail, look at the basic structure of each line. strace records each system call made by the program, and outputs it as a single line. The name of the call is at the start of the line, its arguments are in brackets, and the return value is after the = at the end of the line. The first couple of lines from ls -l should look something like this:
execve("/bin/ls", ["ls", "-l"], [/* 21 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x619000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2b412f2b9000 uname({sys="Linux", node="juliet.example.com", ...}) = 0The first line shows a system call to execve, whose arguments are:
- the location of the program being executed (/bin/ls)
- an array of the two arguments passed in from the command line (ls and -l)
- a pointer to the 21 variables in the environment passed in to the program.
- Skip Ahead
- 1. Interpreting the output
- 2. Interpreting the output


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|Chris Marsh
This will be the official thread of the Play by Post. Campaign details appear on the Obsidian Portal site. The campaign will start once everyone's characters are made and ready to go. This is my first time running (or participating at all) in a Play by Post. Please don't hesitate to offer up suggestions, requests, and other sundry feedback.
|Morkeleb the Mighty
|Odric the Stout
Gentlemen, I've arrived.
|Gaius Lirsiiv
|Gaius Lirsiiv
|Odric the Stout
Is it just me or are there a lot more hot female Avatar pics than useful male ones?
Right? I had a tough time finding anything at all. I was thinking I ought to remake my guy as a werewolf or something because I saw like 54 werewolves.
|Thorgrym the Tracker
I'm here but still trying to figure this out.
So, the actual playing will be here? The Obsidian Portal site is just to keep things organized?
I'll try to keep working on figureing out how to put an avatar/pic up.
|Thorgrym the Tracker
You guys weren't kidding about the pages of useless avatar pics. I sifted through the first 20+ pages and finally selected this dog.
I'll keep looking and try to find a normal looking human male at some point.
|Odric the Stout
This will be the official thread of the Play by Post. Campaign details appear on the Obsidian Portal site. The campaign will start once everyone's characters are made and ready to go. This is my first time running (or participating at all) in a Play by Post. Please don't hesitate to offer up suggestions, requests, and other sundry feedback.
OK, deadline passed. all guys made? Good. I roll for initiative, something something something, loot the bodies.
|Thorgrym the Tracker
|Chris Marsh
A quick bit of poking around leads you to the address on the card, a fortune teller named Zallara makes her both her career and home here. The shop door is closed, but immediately next to it is a door that leads to the living quarters above. It's a well adorned, but simple apartment. The stairs lead directly to a dining area.
The cozy chamber within this small home is filled with a fragrant haze of flowers and strong spice. The haze comes from several sticks of incense smouldering in wall-mounted burners that look like butterfly-winged elves. The smoke itself seems to soften edges and gives the room a dream-like feel. The walls are draped with brocaded tapestries, one showing a black-skulled beast juggling men's hearts, another showing a pair of angels dancing atop a snow-blasted mountain. A third tapestry on the far wall depicts a tall hooded figure shrouded in mist, a flaming sword held in a skeletal hand. Several brightly-colored rugs cover the floor, but the room's only furnishings are a wooden table covered by a bright red throwcloth and several elegant tall-backed chairs. A basket covered by blue cloth sits under the table.
A piece of paper bearing handwriting that matches the Harrow Card rests on the table under a small river-smoothed rock.
|Morkeleb the Mighty
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Being the first to arrive at said address, I look about the room for doors other than the one I came in.
Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 20 <--ha!! BAZINGA fist natural 20 of the campaign!!!
I take out the Harrow card invitation and place it on the table. Then, anticipating the arrival of "others like me," I take one of the chairs away from the table into a corner, facing the door. My staff leans within easy reach as I sit and wait.
|Gaius Lirsiiv
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Gaius walks around the room, and gently lifts and looks behind each of the tapestries. He looks to be examining the workmanship, but is also checking behind them for concealed doors or compartments.
After examining behind each of the three tapestries, he'll slap down The Rabbit Prince, Prince side up on the table and take a seat facing the exit.
He will slyly use the toe of one boot to lift the blue cloth from the basket and tilt his head to see peek under the table and into the basket. He does this as he runs his palms over the underside of the tabletop looking for anything unusual.
Keftan arrives at the address a little before the light of the day has faded, and knocks on the door to the quarters. He'll either wait until he's admitted by Zallara, or another adventurer comes along and forces the door.
EDIT - Upon seeing Gaius and Morkeleb enter, he follows; and reads paper on the table.
|Antoine Gagnon
|Morkeleb the Mighty
|Morkeleb the Mighty
it's a function of the boards. Allow me to elucidate y'all.
anything in quotes below, don't actually type the quotes. :-)
DICE to roll dice, type open brackets "[" then "dice" then closed brackets "]" Then, indicate the number and type of dice ("1d20" or "6d6") and any additions or subtractions. Then type open brackets "[" then "/dice" and closed brackets "]"
SPOILERTo make a "spoiler" like I did above, go bracket "spoiler=some text" bracket. (if it's a message just for Chris, you might write "[spoiler=DM]") Then type what you want under the button, then wehn you're done, it's bracket "/spoiler" bracket.
To boldface (I like to do that when my character talks) it's bracket "b" bracket, then bracket "/b" bracket.
To italicize, same as bold except use i
To make it purple text, same as above except use ooc (for "out of character") Typically used for, you guessed it, out of character text like this
|Thorgrym the Tracker
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I walk into the room. I pause for a moment and study each person already there. I give a polite nod to all. I place my invitation card on the table with the others. The card is face up showing the Survivor. I don't remove the rock but read what I can of the paper on the table.
I pull out a chair and sling my beat up pack over the back of it before I sit down.
(Thanks for the elucidating Mike. I'll try to keep all this stuff straight. So when we use the brackets for dice rolls, the computer makes the rolls for us?
I can't make your bracket stuff work. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.)
|Odric the Stout
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You hear slow, heavy deliberate thuds ascending the stairs. The footfalls are loud and seem ominous as the stairs creak beneath their weight. As the footsteps reach the top stair, you may hear a slight wheezing, sounding like it comes from some horrible creature. The wheezing is accented by a muffled curse and a heavy hand rests on the door latch. The door swings wide, allowing a sour stench to waft into the room. In the shadows of the stairwell a looming figure shrouded in darkness stands, feet spread wide. His bulk is impressive. As he strides into the room you see a large man dressed in adventuring clothes. A heavy pick at his belt with the head carved into the likeness of a ferocious eagle bangs against the door frame as the large man squeezes through. He has the hilt of a sword protruding over his right shoulder and beneath his rough clothes the creak and soft jingle of buckled-on leather armor sound through.
A cautious grin breaks across his pasty face through three day's growth of black stubble. He looks around the room and notes the other invitations on the table. He places his down atop the pile and picks up the stone weighing down the note. His bleary eyes squint to read the characters upon it.
Gentlemen, I'm Odric. I've arrived. Which of you has summoned me? No doubt you've heard of me? Can you read this? it looks a little blurry to me.
Odric thrusts the paper towards the apparently erudite man in the corner, assuming he is probably in charge around here.
1d20 ⇒ 18
test roll
|Chris Marsh
Phil, Mike's directions are a little complicated. Try this:
[dice]1d20+5[/dice.] will get you the roll. Put in whatever the formula is. Just delete the extra period I put in the [/dice.] You can also do bold with a B in the brackets, italics with an I and purple with OOC.
The text of the note is easy enough to read, and it's not sinister in the least:
Underneath the basket is an assortment of wine, cheese, and bread.
|Odric the Stout
Odric's bulk as he searches under the table nudges and lifts the table a bit. As he emerges with half a bread and some cheese gripped in one huge hand, an opened bottle of decent wine in the other and a cork in his mouth, he bangs his head quite forcefully on the edge of the table.
A long slurping swig later Odric wiped his mouth with the back of the bread and cheese-laden hand and offers the remains to the human man sitting at the table. he thrusts his large hand in the general direction of the man as he does so and puts his well-worn boot up on the chair before him. Offering his hand, Odric asks the man's name with a mouth full of food and an obvious rush of goodwill aimed at the fellow.
|Thorgrym the Tracker
I accept some bread, cheese, and a swig of wine.
My name is Thorgrym, but some just call me Grym.
Thorgrym shakes hands firmly before sitting back down.
Testing 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
|Odric the Stout
So... This note I received mentioned Gaedren Lamm. It said there would be others like me here - I'm assuming you hate the man as well? Are we brought together to track him down and destroy him?
As he says Gaedren's name, Odric's eyes clear, his massive fist clenches and his brow lowers. This is a man who obviously has a deep-seated hatred for Lamm.
|Gaius Lirsiiv
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A handsome man with elven features beneath his neatly trimmed beard smiles and calmly takes out a knife and begins performing tricks with it. His smile is sardonic and gleeful.
Are we to be wolves then and hunt the Lamm? Perhaps we're here for Lamm's slaughter? Or perhaps this is an elaborate trap and we're here for Lamm's slaughter? Either way, have a seat with this spooky chap and myself and we shall sup and await our host to reveal who is to be the butcher and who the feast. I am Lirsiiv, called Gaius by some. I see we each have reason to seek the miserable shepherd. Shall we share our tails and see if they are wolves' or sheep?
Gaius is dressed in black leather accented with yellow trim. It is clean and well maintained, but only of average quality. He carries a mostly empty backpack and a couple of small weapons at his belt. Around his neck is an amulet, three blades pointed outward around a disc.
|Bofus Beerswizzler
I assume, Gaius, by "spooky chap" you mean me? Well, thanks for that. I'd also have appreciated "unassuming," but I'll take what I can get. I take a bit of cheese.
(I speak quietly, but not without confidence. Merely stating facts.)
Forgive me, but I'm not accustomed to dealing with people in what one might call a "normal" situation. I've been a student at The Acadamae for some time, which lends itself to hours upon hours of isolated study.
The only part of this statement taht comes out wiht some emotion is "I've been a studetn at The Acadamea" which clearly has a tinge of pride in it
So, Gaius, as you have suggested the sharing of stories, would you be so kind as to begin?
|Thorgrym the Tracker
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At Gaius's talk of a trap, Thorgrym loosens his sword in its sheath.
We are a wolfpack. If this is a trap he will see we have teeth. Lamm needs to be hunted down for his crimes. I am here because he poisoned my best friends. I found them dying in horrible pain. I know they were just dogs but they were loyal to me and showed me more kindness then almost anybody in this city. I loved them.
Thorgrym now seems a little uncomfortable for having spoken so much at one time. He takes another swig of wine and sits back in his seat eager to see this play out.
Thorgrym isn't nearly as massive as Odric but he is strong looking in a lean sort of way. His brown hair looks as if it has been roughly shorn close to the skull with shears. His studded leather armor is well worn but looks recently oiled and treated. His brown woolen pants are patched in several places. At his left hip rests a curved sword, like a scimitar or heavy sabre. It looks old but servicable. A long straight knife hangs on his other hip. Over all this rests a dirty gray cloak.
|Gaius Lirsiiv
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Still smiling and flipping a dagger, Gaius nods to Thorgrym in understanding and begins his own tale:
Once I was a Little Lamm; My fleece was black as night; And every where that Gaedran led; I hid from others' sight; I slipped and sneaked and stole and took; I listened for the Herd; And every day I hurried back for fear of Gaedran's crook; Then one day, I lingered out and strayed too far from home; I wrapped myself in yellow silk and no longer wished to roam; But back to Gaedran, home at last, now marked by Savored Sting; He beat me down, left me to die, a pulped and bloody thing; And now I seek to right the scale; A third sting I will learn; And down inside the halls of Hell; I'll send his soul to burn.
|Ferox Kerr
There is a knock at the door. A tall, gaunt man clad in weathered black leathers opens the door. A polished, gold key hangs from his neck. Several days growth covers his jaw and his eyes are bloodshot. He pauses in the doorway, taking in the room and the company awaiting him before entering fully. He crosses to the table and lays his Harrow card down atop the others.
Hello, everyone. I apologize for my tardiness. I'll assume you've all made introductions to each other. I'm Ferox Kerr.
|Morkeleb the Mighty
sorry that my "Bofus Beerswizzler" avatar is up there; it's my default and I forgot to change it when I posted, and it was too late to edit my post--you get like 1 hour after posting to edit--by the time I noticed it.
@ Gaius: You were a Little Lamm too? Interesting. I wonder if you ever gifted me with books or other writings while I was also under Lamm's heel; I'd recieved things of that nature over the years from others I knew not. Lamm used me for my mind, rather than my fingers. I hadn't been actively seeking to avenge myself on him, but if the opportunity presents itself . . . let's just say I won't find it unsatisfying.
@Ferox: I nod at the newcomer. Greetings, Ferox. I am Morkeleb. I indicate each person in turn. This is Gaius Lirsiiv, Odric the Stout--apparently by name AND by appearance!--Thorgrym, and Keftan. We've just started discussing our ties to the villain, Gaedren Lamm. Apparently Gaius and I share the dubious distinction of having been one of the "Little Lamms." Grym here had his beloved pets--forgive me, sir, compainions more accurate?--poisoned by Lamm. Odric has only expressed a hatred for the man that he has not yet explained the cause of.
What I'm most curious of is, who orchestrated the assembly of this party, for what purposes, and how did they find and choose us as individuals?
|Ferox Kerr
Ferox studies each of you briefly as Morkeleb calls you out. He pulls aside one of the tall-backed chairs and sits down.
I've not had the pleasure of meeting Mistress Zallara before. Considering our invitations and her profession, I would guess she'll say that Fate brought us together. Though, from her invite, it would seem that she has a score to settle with Lamm, as do the rest of us.
|Gaius Lirsiiv
@Morkeleb: Gaedran had many lamms, and I suspect more than one cell. I might remember you. Were you the slight lad with the cough? The one he kept reading schematics and keeping the books?
Gaius snickers
You were called Johnny, then. I filched you a book about bridges once, in exchange for a favor to be named later.
|Chris Marsh
A middle-aged Varisian woman with long dark hair enters mid conversation. She looks at you each in turn before sitting down at the table. Once comfortable, she scoops up the cards and begins shuffling them idly. Her skill with the deck is obvious to anyone who watches how the cards seem to float and dance over her hands and the table. With a nod of her head, she indicates that the you all should sit at her table (if you have not done so already) conveniently, there are exactly enough chairs for you. Once you are all seated, she speaks in a soft but clear voice:
Thank you for coming, my friends, and for putting up with my unconventional method of contacting you. I have reason to remain hidden, you see—a terrible man would see great harm done to me if he knew I was reaching out for help. This is a man you know, for he has done something terrible to each of you as well. I speak, of course, of Gaedren Lamm, a man whose cruelty and capacity to destroy the lives of those he touches are matched only by his gift for avoiding reprisal. You see, a year ago, his thieves stole this, my Harrow deck, from me. It is important to me, an heirloom passed down through a dozen generations, and also mysole means of support. When pickpockets stole it, my son, Eran, tracked them down. The thieves were in the employ of Gaedren Lamm, and in reward for finding them, Gaedren murdered my son. "I sought help from the Guard, but they turned me away. And so I asked around. I paid bribes. I consulted my Harrow deck for advice. And recently, I was rewarded—I found out where Gaedren dwells. He can be found in an old fishery north of here at Westpier 17, where he trains his abducted children to be pickpockets and counts his stolen treasures. "And now, I need your help. I cannot hope to face this man on my own, and the Guard moves so slowly that if I were to go to them, Gaedren would certainly know of their coming well in advance. Even if they did arrest him—what guarantee would I have he would be punished? This criminal has evaded the law for decades. But you know of these frustrations as well, for word on the street has it that Gaedren has wronged each of you, too. So there we are. It is time for him to pay. If you accept this task, I shall perform the Harrowing, and we shall see what the future holds...
|Chris Marsh
Zellara stops shuffling the cards, and waits for you to confirm.
To do the Harrowing I need to know only the ordering of your seating. There are six of you, starting to her left is position 1. Then it proceeds to her right to position 6. Post your position. First come, first serve. When all are situated, the Harrowing will begin.
|Thorgrym the Tracker
|Morkeleb the Mighty
I'll follow Grym's lead--I was first, I'll take position 1
I'll not lie and say the thought of repaying Lamm for his misdeeds doesn't appeal to me. I've heard that seeing your enemy shriek and writhe under your mind's grip is one of the more satisfying rewards of power; I intend to find out whether this is true. I also accept.
|Odric the Stout
Nearly empty wine bottle in hand, Odric takes the sixth seat, closest to Zellara's right hand. As he does so he hitches up his trousers and attempts to ignore the ominous creaking of the chair.
Lamm kidnapped my master's son because the brewery where I was apprenticed was late on Lamm's "protection" payments. I have been unable to track the man down and I've had similar experiences with the town guard who were reluctant to help me. I do not accuse them of corruption and complicity in Lamm's schemes and designs, but really what else could explain their inexplicable inability to locate and arrest the man?
Odric makes an abortive offer around the table with the wine bottle and drains the last of it before any could respond.
The man is evil, Morkeleb I'd like to see some of that shrieking and writhing, but I've got a more direct way to elicit it. Before we kill the man though, If the boy still lives I've sworn an oath to rescue him for my master.
|Gaius Lirsiiv
If revenge is your aim, then I'll see it done. Besides, I have not been harrowed in quite some time. Let us see what awaits.
Gaius is in position 3, so he can look her straight across and better take her measure.
|Antoine Gagnon
|Morkeleb the Mighty
Click on your name, and create a profile. Fill those fields out--gender, race, class--and they'll auto-fill.
I'm going to be using my profile on this board as my "wokring stuff" since I can't get to Obs Portal from work. I'll have current spells known and spells prepared on that profile; that way, if I'm ever not available someone can use my profile ot post for me and actually do stuff like cast spells. :-)
|Gaius Lirsiiv
Ferox sits down in the fifth seat.
I'm in. Lamm needs to answer for his crimes.
And what brings An Inquisitor of The First Vault here to associate with the likes of us miscreants and cutthroats?
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|Morkeleb the Mighty
|Gaius Lirsiiv
I mean no offense... Bounty Hunter, Gaius begins. He looks over Thorgrym The Tracker and notes important details. To the Abadarans, especially an Inquisitor, we are all miscreants and cutthroats. Are we not, Master Ferox?
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Behold, The Harrowing
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At the stage of the Choosing, you each received a card of the Harrow:
1. Morkeleb. . .The Tangled Briar
An old evil shall endanger the Present.
2. Keftan. . .The Crows
The taking of something loved can be righted.
3. Gaius. . .The Trumpet
This card plays the role of declaring power heretofore unknown.
4. Grym. . .The Mute Hag
A dark secret made exposed, or a pact made undone.
5. Ferox. . .The Bear
In a show of brute force, triumph.
6. Odric. . .The Empty Throne
This one plays a role in which a loss leads to later good fortune.
Displayed before her were 9 cards:
The Wanderer
The Survivor
The Avalanche
The Inquisitor
The Waxworks
The Peacock
The Mountain Man
The Carnival
The Queen Mother
The first card is The Wanderer, which is fitting as it represents having found worth in something currently disgarded. But what makes it truly interesting is that The Wanderer is boxed in by two perfect matches. Beneath it the Inquisitor represents an immutable past, one that must be accepted, yet the other border is the Survivor. The Survivor is rebirth through ordeal. This triad gives us confidence that our path is the right one. The most striking point of the other cards is the Avalanche. It is both honorbound and evil, yet in a place of freewilled goodness. This is a portent of crisis that may be averted. It is unclear why it is here, but a dark crisis will lead to a powerful triumph. In the center position rests teh uncertain present. The Waxworks is a card of entropy. The present and future will not look as they do now. The Peacock sits in the uncertain future and shows personal growth from entropy. The bottom row represents the darkness, past, present, and future. The physical presense of the Mountain Man gives way to the false promises and dreams of the present, but your future is opposed by the Queen Mother. Be weary of the fealty that grants power. Unfettered it spells your doom.
Now the Harrowing is complete, and Lamm will not stay long. I beseech you to go forth and balance the scales. With that a suddenly tired and forelorn Zellara gathers the cards and looks at you all, locking eyes for a brief moment and transmitting the deepest sorrow.


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Current Law Students / Re: Help! Am going to be a defense witness in a rape case and need practice ?'s« on: December 03, 2007, 05:55:09 PM »
it sounds like your entire issue is your current credibility. by pledging to tell the truth you're agreeing to put aside any slant. simply dictating that, at the time, she was your colleague/best friend/whatever, you establish a fact pattern of being in the know at the time. if anyone asks why you are not friends anymore simply state it is because of this issue or a behavioral pattern within her actions you don't agree with. loading your answers, however, is incredibly immoral, as is making this post as it may limit your credibility


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HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's Department of Education is toughening its standards for policing wayward teachers, who are seemingly growing in number.
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's Department of Education is toughening its standards for policing wayward teachers, who are seemingly growing in number.
Every year, hundreds of educators are accused of misconduct, from helping students cheat to sexually abusing students.
From 2008 through 2011, the department averaged 250 annual complaints, said Shane Crosby, an assistant attorney who handles these cases. In 2012, the department received 563.
Sometimes these complaints result in criminal charges, and sometimes they don't. Still, complaints of misconduct to the Department of Education could lead to a teacher losing their state certification, which is required for employment.
Gov. Tom Corbett's proposed 2013-14 budget recommends adding $775,000 to the department's Office of Chief Counsel, expressly to address the increase. Crosby said the state typically resolves about half of all new cases in the year they are opened.
"But with this increase in the caseload, when we receive 563 cases in one year, we're not going to be able to do that," he said.
Crosby said a variety of reasons may have contributed to the increase, but he partially attributed the spike to the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case at Penn State, which raised awareness of teacher misconduct.
His division is also handling more than 100 cases related to the statewide cheating scandal on Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests, where educators changed answers.
Crosby said a "high priority" is placed on cases involving sexual misconduct, or those in which the health and safety of students can be jeopardized.
"Some cases do go on the back-burner while we do address the more serious cases," he said.
The budget proposal would add three staff members to the educator discipline division, and two staff members to the Professional Standards and Practices Commission, which hears the cases.
Terri Miller, president of Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Misconduct and Exploitation (SESAME), said the group supports legislation that increases funding for any kind of awareness training or investigations of misconduct.
But as far as comparing the volume of Pennsylvania's misconduct allegations to other states, there's no way to do it. Miller said the federal government does not require states to gather or remit such data.
In Pennsylvania, complaints with the Department of Education are filed in two main circumstances: cases of criminal misconduct or non-criminal misconduct.
State law spells out certain crimes in which a conviction means a teacher will automatically lose his license — such as homicide, rape or theft — but the department still handles the process of revocation.
In the non-criminal realm, cases may involve inappropriate behavior, such as a teacher viewing pornography in the classroom. For that teacher to lose his certification, attorneys such as Crosby would have to prove more likely than not that the conduct occurred. It's less of a burden than the "beyond a reasonable doubt" prosecutors must prove in criminal court cases.
Crosby said many of the cases are what he calls "uncharged criminal misconduct." That could be a case of a teacher accused of misconduct who is prosecuted due to lack of charges, evidence or case dismissal. Or it could be a situation in which an educator has frequent flirtatious behavior with a student.
Crosby expects the division's caseload to increase even further as lawmakers consider making changes to the Professional Educators Standards Act. One of those changes would remove a one-year statute of limitations on such complaints.
Another would require districts to report all accusations of misconduct to the state. Now, the law requires reports when administrators believe there is "reasonable cause" to believe conduct occurred, Crosby said.
"Sexual misconduct is underreported as a result of that," he said.


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- Click on the myStaffingCRM nav item in the left menu
- Click on Job Openings
- Double click the job "Hospice Inpatient…"
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- Click on the Search External Resume DBs button
Our partner, TalentFilter, provides recruiters with instant access to 100s of free and subscription based resume databases. As TalentFilter finds resumes that match the job, the resumes are automatically pushed into myStaffingCRM.
Of course, the recruiter also desires to advertise the job opening.
- Click on the Information link in the left nav of the job opening.
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- Double click on the Job Site URL field.
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Once candidates are added to the job via her internal database, external database, or new applications, she can easily step through the candidate pool, and see at a glance the job requirements compared to the candidate's qualifications.
- Click on the Information link in the left nav of the job opening.
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Quadara, A., Nagy, V., Higgins, D. & Siegel, N. (2015). Conceptualising the prevention of child sexual abuse: Final report (Research Report No. 33). Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies.
The Sexual Violence Research team at AIFS explores issues relating to sexual violence.
Sexual violence is highly prevalent in our society, yet forms of sexual violence such as child sexual abuse, sexual assault and sexual exploitation remain some of the most under-reported of serious offences. Research has found that many people in the community hold attitudes and beliefs that justify, conceal, excuse, or minimise sexual victimisation. Victim/survivors often do not speak out about these experiences because of fear, shame and the lack of community understanding about the range of circumstances in which sexual violence occurs, and its impact on victim/survivors.
Sexual violence often intersects with other forms of harm such as family and domestic violence, bullying, and interpersonal violence more broadly. Sexual victimisation also has complex relationships with mental health, relationships, parenting, alcohol and other drugs, and social disadvantage.
These intersections can present challenges for prevention efforts, policy development and service responses.
About Sexual Violence Research
The Sexual Violence Research team (SVR) at AIFS focuses on exploring issues related to sexual violence, such as:
- child sexual abuse
- child and adolescent problem sexual behaviours
- adult sexual assault
- prevention of sexual violence
- perpetration and sexual offending.
A key focus of our work is on understanding how these issues connect to other domains of child and family well being (see AIFS Violence and Families page).
Recent publications
Family relationships and the disclosure of institutional child sexual abuse
A research report conducted for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse by AIFS has examined the long-term effects of disclosures of institutional child sexual abuse on survivors and their families.
Implementing trauma-informed systems of care in health settings: The WITH study. State of knowledge paper
This paper examines the available literature on trauma-informed frameworks, models and guidelines that guide organisations to improve service provision to survivors of sexual violence with mental health problems.
Establishing the connection [between alcohol and other drug use and sexual victimisation]: ANROWS State of Knowledge paper
This report explores the association between alcohol and other drug use and severity of, or vulnerability to, sexual violence and re-victimisation.


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|History - 2001
|Please click on the years to see the initiative, project, or program which was added to our organization each year. Because, at Windsor Place where "Good enough is never good enough, if better is possible", we will keep adding to this chronology.
2001 - New 32-unit Assisted Living facility opened.
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Wetsuit Seamstress
Presupuesto $30-250 USD
I am working on a prototype for a women's spring wetsuit that I am designing. I would need someone to help that is experienced with neoprene, zippers and the glueing process of wetsuits - or at least someone that feels they are up for the challenge! There is potential for future work. I am extremely exciting to work on this project and look forward to hearing from all applicants! : )
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I grew up mending my brother's and my own wetsuit in Long Beach, CA. I'm a pro! Depending how bad the damage is, I may be able to get it back to you the same day :)


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NewTo Ventures needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 80 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
NewTo / NewTo.com
We are a new start-up internet company, creating a website to help people become acclimated to a new area. We've all been new to an area (or moved) at some point, and there's a lot to do and get used to. NewTo is here to help. We want to ease the stress of our users by providing useful information on your new area, including but not limited to: business listings, neighborhood info, moving info/check lists/services, user reviews and a wiki site for users to post their findings.
Anyone new to an area! Anyone moving, people who want to review local businesses and post their findings.
There are no exact requirements at this point. Be creative! The focus is on new, not only on moving. Think Yelp! and CitySquares mixed with a moving feature. We want people to feel helped and value the content we provide.
Thanks in advance!
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Daily Roundup: Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley + More
Carrie Underwood visited an elementary school to sing with the chorus this week, but in the end, it was the fifth-graders at PS22 that ended up leaving her 'Blown Away' (pun very much intended). Also in Taste of Country's Daily Roundup is Brad Paisley's appearance on 'South Park' — and even if you're not a fan of the often crude cartoon, this is one episode you will want to watch.
Find those stories and more hot country music headlines in our list, brought to you daily. In addition to happenings in our genre, also find out why Justin Bieber is talking about getting engaged (!!!!!), what one pre-teen did to make her mom really mad, and see why Chris Brown's "love" of animals has a rights group fuming.
Today on Taste of Country:
Carrie Underwood Stops by Elementary School to Perform 'Good Girl' With Fifth Grade Chorus
Brad Paisley Makes Guest Appearance, Performs National Anthem on 'South Park'
Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles Tries Out Potential 'Duets' Partners
Rodney Atkins to Use Talents to Raise Money for Cancer Research
Tyler Farr to Make Grand Ole Opry Debut
Miranda Lambert Gets Stock in the Green Bay Packers
Best Weekend Jam – Readers Poll
Lady Antebellum's New 'Perfect Day' Video Gives a Look at Their Best Moments
Picture of the Week: Blake Shelton Goes Hardcore With Pistol Annies
Win a Camouflage Guitar Autographed by Tyler Farr
Eli Young Band Start Thinking About Third Album
Taylor Swift Would Be Olivia Newton-John's Pick for a 'Grease' Remake
Blake Shelton to Debut New Single 'Over' on 'The Voice'
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Justin Bieber Talks About Getting Engaged
Mom Uses Facebook to Punish Disrespectful Daughter
Animal-Rights Group Not Happy With Chris Brown's Dog Business
Six-Year-Old Ethan Playing Billy Joel's 'Piano Man' Is The Sweetest Thing You'll See All Day
Little Nicki Minaj Fans Sophia Grace and Rosie Perform 'Starships' on Ellen


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[Darren Bloggie Giveaway] Will Pan Unleashed World Tour Singapore Concert Press Conference + WIN Concert Tickets!
Darren Bloggie Giveaway This entry came a little late as i was busy with work and this press conference was held in may when he was in town for his first local ticketed concert promo. Was really happy when i received the invitation to attend the press conference as a media and i think you guys are not aware that i'm actually quite a fan of him as i do listen to his songs and will usually sing his songs at ktv sessions ;P I still remember my first encounter meeting him in person was in a KTV room many years ago and i got to sing with him in the room too! haha but sad to say, i can't find that pic i took :X Anyway, back to the topic. So i attended the press conference that day and he is still as bubbly and i am glad that he managed to do so well now. He is really a very hardworking artiste. 🙂


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Crusaders fall to Falcons 12-7
The Elk County Catholic Crusader football squad was handed their first loss of the season on Friday evening, falling to the Coudersport Falcons 12-7 in a match played at Dutch Country Stadium. "We never really got the offense going," said ECC coach Travis Skrzypek. "I thought we had a nice drive in the third and again in the fourth. We had to punch in at the end of the game and we didn't get the job done."The Crusaders were led on the ground by Cole Gerber with 52 yards on 11 carries. Brock McCullough added 45 yards on 16 carries and returned the opening kickoff 80 yards for the team's only touchdown. "That was a good start," Skrzypek said of McCullough's kickoff return. "Brock motored down the sideline."Quarterback Mitchell Vallone was 3-of-8 for 22 yards and an interception. McCullough caught one pass for seven yards; Gerber caught a pass for five yards, and Montana Schneider caught a pass for 10 yards. For Coudersport, Caden Whitman finished with 108 yards on 23 carries. Quarterback Tim McCusker was 5-of-13 for 81 yards and two interceptions. Clayton Wilson had a 41-yard touchdown catch. For the Crusader defense, Pat Brennen and Clayton Housler both had interceptions. Elk Catholic won the coin toss and chose to receive the opening kickoff. McCullough fielded the kick and returned it about 80 yards for the team's sole touchdown. Scott Krellner added the PAT to give the Crusaders an early 7-0 lead with 11:45 remaining in the quarter. Hank Cappiello's ensuing kickoff unintentionally seemed more like an onside kick, but the Crusaders ultimately benefitted from the miscue as Coudersport fumbled the ball and Elk Catholic was able to recover. "Hank miskicked the kickoff," Skrzypek explained. "We recovered the onside there. It really wasn't an onside kick, but we jumped on it. We were off to a good start but we just couldn't get that offense going."The two teams traded punts, and on the following ECC drive the team looked to be gaining some momentum when Vallone's pass was intercepted by Tim McCusker. From there, the Falcons needed just three plays to find the endzone as McCusker connected with Clayton Wilson on a 41-yard pass for a touchdown. Coudersport was only able to cut into the Crusader lead, but not tie it, as the PAT failed, making the score 7-6 in favor of Elk Catholic with 5:23 remaining in the quarter. The teams each traded a pair of possessions before Coudersport took back control of the ball just before the end of the first half. This time the Falcons needed 12 plays to drive 54 yards to the endzone and take over the lead on a 2-yard run by McCusker. The PAT again failed, giving Coudersport a 12-7 lead with 6:36 remaining in the half. McCusker's touchdown would be the final score in the contest. "We had a little talk at halftime, and I thought we came out in the third quarter and we started to move the ball," Skrzypek said. "We were looking a little better and hitting the holes harder, but we couldn't punch one in." The Falcons tried to extend their lead at the end of the third quarter, putting on a 15-play, 71-yard drive that saw them ultimately turn the ball over to the Crusaders at their 17-yard line after they failed to pick up enough yards on fourth down. Elk County Catholic tried to get back into the game on their ensuing possession as they drove 49 yards in nine plays; however, they lost ground on their next three plays and turned the ball back over to Coudersport. Coudersport picked up a pair of first downs and then McCusker took a knee to let the clock run out and give the Falcons the 12-7 victory."The Coudersport team [is] well-coached and classy," Skrzypek said following the game. "They're a classy group of guys and they played their hearts out tonight. It was a good game." Game notesWith the loss, Elk Catholic is now 2-1 on the season and 2-1 in the Allegheny Mountain League. Elk County Catholic's varsity cheerleaders held a cheer clinic for 31 participants in kindergarten through sixth grade. The youngsters assisted the varsity squad throughout the first quarter of the game by cheering and performing a dance. Elk Catholic will travel to Port Allegany to take on the Gators next Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Unofficial game statisticsEC CFirst Downs 9 12Yards gained rushing 100 148Passes attempted 8 13Passes completed 3 5Intercepted by 2 1Yards gained passing 22 81Total yards 122 229Punts-average 4-31 2-44Penalties-yards 1-10 3-15Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-1Offensive plays 44 56Score by quartersCoudersport 6 6 0 0 12Elk Catholic 7 0 0 0 7ScoringFirst quarter - Elk Catholic - Brock McCullough returned opening kickoff 80 yards. Scott Krellner kicked PAT, 7-0, 11:45. First quarter - Coudersport - Clayton Wilson caught 41-yard touchdown pass. PAT failed, 7-6, 5:23. Second quarter - Coudersport - Tim McCusker 2-yard run. PAT failed, 12-7, 6:36. Individual statisticsRushing - Elk Catholic - Cole Gerber, 11 carries, 52 yards; Brock McCullough, 16 carries, 45 yards; Mitchell Vallone, 7 carries, -2 yards; Hank Cappiello, 2 carries, 5 yards. Coudersport - Caden Whitman, 23 carries, 108 yards; Mitch Freeman, 8 carries, 10 yards; Jason Gibson, 3 carries, 7 yards; Tim McCusker, 7 carries, 3 yards; Alex Furman, 2 carries, 20 yards. Passing - Elk Catholic - Mitchell Vallone 3-8-22. Coudersport - Tim McCusker 5-13-81. Receiving - Elk Catholic - Brock McCullough, 1 catch for 7 yards; Cole Gerber, 1 catch for 5 yards; Montana Schneider, 1 catch for 10 yards. Coudersport - Alex Hutcheson, 1 catch for 11 yards; Clayton Wilson, 1 catch for 41 yards and a touchdown; Caden Whitman, 2 catches for 10 yards; Ethan Hite, 1 catch for 11 yards.
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Answers Needed From The 2009 Training Camp
Well, training camp is here as it started yesterday. The Cowboys enter this year's training camp with a lot of unanswered questions. We all are seeking answers to the following questions:
Who will be the number 2, 3, & 4 wide receivers?
Who will be the starting right cornerback?
Will LB Bobby Carpenter be playing a more active role this year?
How will we ensure that all three of our running backs get carries?
Will the offensive line be able to provide better pass and run blocking?
Will wide receiver Roy Williams be able to put up comparable numbers to that other wide receiver we had?
Will Jason Garrett's offense be able to get back to where it was two years ago?
Will the special teams be able to perform better under Coach DeCamillis?
These are some of the many questions that training camp should help to provide and yes some of the questions we will not know until the season begins. I believe that this year's camp will be harder and more will come out of it than did last year. I believe the Cowboys have learned that you get what you put into it.
Yes, last year we started out okay, but we did not finish okay and I believe that training camp instills that work ethic that can carry you through the year. The young players on the team need to step up and play big and I think that will. I hope that we start strong out of the gate and do not let up until we have won the Super Bowl!


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President Barack Obama's approval rating hit a new low this week as fallout from the disastrous health care rollout mounted.
The plummeting job rating could limit the president's ability to get much done the last three years of his term. But it has even bigger ramifications for the most prominent Democrat who hopes to succeed him in 2016: Hillary Clinton.
Clinton is clearly aware of this problem and taking early steps to run not as Obama's successor but as his antidote, a pragmatic, business friendly moderate who will ease the constant partisan strife in Washington and focus all her energy on creating jobs and growing the economy.
The signs of her early efforts to move away from Obama are subtle but unmistakable. As Philip Rucker noted in The Washington Post this week, Clinton's recent speeches, along with those of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, tend to roast everyone in Washington for creating a climate corrosive to economic expansion.
Both Clintons train most of their rhetorical fire on Republicans. But their message extends to the entirety of the Washington power structure, which tacitly includes Obama.
(Read more: It's crisis time for Obamacare)
"We are careening from crisis to crisis instead of having a plan, bringing people to that plan, focusing on common-sense solutions and being relentless in driving toward them," Hillary Clinton said at the Center for American Progress last week in a speech that could easily have come from a corporate CEO.
The movement away from Obama is also clear in Clinton's relationship with financial industry leaders in New York.
Obama still turns up in Manhattan for fundraising events he detests. But Wall Street long ago gave up on the idea of having any real relationship with or influence on the president, who spent a good bit of time ripping financial executives as "fat cats" standing in the way of reform. Obama has also shown more interest in what elite opinion columnists have to say than he has in listening to corporate executives.