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- INTERPOL Lilongwe
Member since :
31 août 1966
Headed by the President of the Republic of Malawi, the Malawi Police Service (MPS) is part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Security.
In addition to providing national law enforcement services, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Security is responsible for Prison Services and Immigration.
MPS is commanded by an Inspector General assisted by two Deputy Inspectors General in charge of Administration and Operations respectively. The Deputy Inspectors General are responsible for running the general administration and operations of the entire police service as well as the MPS Headquarters.
To enable MPS to serve and secure a population of more than 14 million people, the force divides its administrative and operational activities into four police regions.
Operational responsibilities
- Airport Security;
- Community Policing;
- Criminal Investigation;
- Explosives, Firearms and Ballistics;
- Marine Corp;
- Radio Communication;
- Police Mobile Service;
- Prosecution Service;
- Traffic and Transport.
INTERPOL Lilongwe
The INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) for Malawi sits structurally in the MPS Criminal Investigation Department (CID), meaning the eight staff members work side by side with CID units including
- Fiscal Fraud Section;
- Dangerous Drug Section;
- Criminal Records Section;
- Canine Section;
- Motor Vehicle Theft Unit;
- Forensic Science Services;
- Firearm Registry;
- Homicide Investigation Section.
- provide investigative support to domestic, regional and international investigations into national and transnational crime;
serve as a platform permitting domestic law enforcement to :
- take their investigations beyond national borders for police cooperation and input;
- access INTERPOL's wide range of criminal databases;
- access critical information on latest developments and trends in cross-border crime;
- coordinate local, regional and international police operations, training sessions and law enforcement workshops;
- populate INTERPOL databases;
- contribute towards national police capacity building programmes and raise awareness about INTERPOL at national level.
Crime priorities
- Cybercrime ;
- Drug trafficking;
- Economic and commercial crime:
- Environmental crime;
- Illegal immigration;
- Illegal firearm trafficking and related cases;
- Motor vehicle theft;
- Terrorism;
- Trafficking in human beings;
- Violent crime.
Wildlife crime: experts recommend an integrated global response
Contrefaçon : des individus arrêtés et des marchandises saisies lors d'opérations menées dans le monde entier
1 500 policiers engagés dans une opération ciblant les réseaux criminels en Afrique orientale et australe
Organized crime networks behind ivory and rhino horn trafficking targeted in East Africa
Red Notices 1
SALMAN Age today: 21 years old
Nationality: India
Yellow Notices 1
TEKETANI Age today: 21 years old
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September/October 2006
Cycles and Seasons — Editorial
Much of humanity's response to cycles has to do with a fundamental misunderstanding of time, which is a faculty of the brain but not a reality to the soul. That awareness, together with St. Paul's observation—"I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content"—can help us to work creatively and hopefully with the present cycle, as it affects both the personal life and the life of humanity as a whole.
The Great Approaches (The Coming New Religion), Part IV — Djwhal Khul
Hands across the Kingdoms: A Meditation in Libra — J. S. Bakula
The middle path of Libra is to choose the wisdom of the "in between", the way that leads between. This is also the Tibetan term for what Westerners like scholar Robert Thurman know as Liberation Through Understanding in the Between, the subtitle of The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Spiritual Development and Nervous Diseases, Part II — Dr. Robert Assagioli
Many serious disturbances, which sometimes amount to diseases, are due to a special cause and have their origin outside the personality of the sufferer. This cause is the "mystical substitution", by means of which an ardent, loving and generous soul may attract to itself the inner suffering and even the physical symptoms of another person.
Libra: Guarding the Secret of Balance — Sarah McKechnie
It's said, "Before creation, silence and the stillness of a focused point." Silence—how little we have of that today. I wonder particularly about the effects of the lack of silence on our children, who lead such busy, often over-scheduled lives.
A Cosmic Stem Cell—In the Light of Truth, Religion and Science — Shirley Teper
One might envision that eons ago, it was the compressed energy and buried light inherent in a cosmic stem cell that exploded in the Big Bang. And then spreading throughout primordial space as the pure essence of complete consciousness, this inexhaustible reservoir of primal Light unfolded into increasingly less subtle, less potent, separate and diverse realms ultimately expressing in all of creation including the limited human mind and then the mind's many distinctive fields of inquiry.
The Season Withdrawal from Maya, Glamour and Illusion — A Student
We are aiming for simplicity in form and activity, and so we will need a garden designed along Zen-lines. We must decide which parts of our life and service are deciduous or evergreen expressions—those which we can let wither and fall from the structure of the self, or those which must remain as new branchlets of the greater Self we are learning to become. The evergreen expressions may be quietly germinating from seeds dropped aeons ago upon our garden by Gardeners more accomplished than us who have passed this way before.
White Magic — Donna Mitchell-Moniak
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French mezzo-soprano Béatrice Uria-Monzon will replace Christine Rice in the role of Princess Eboli for all performances of Don Carlo due to an acute chest infection. To recover, Christine requires a period of complete vocal rest.
Béatrice Uria-Monzon will make her Covent Garden debut in the role, having previously sung it in Berlin, Vienna and Toulouse. Her other roles have included Giulietta in Les Contes d'Hoffmann at La Scala, Milan and for the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Charlotte in Werther for Rome Opera, and Judith in Bluebeard's Castle for Paris Opéra. Her recent roles include Venus in Tannhäuser in Paris, Carmen in Barcelona and for Zürich Opera, La Fenice, Venice; and Ghita in Der Zwerg for Paris Opéra.
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skiboshinc needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 248 designs submitted by 62 freelance designers.
The Edit Academy
I am a film/television editor who is starting an online editing educational program where young kids looking to break into film/television production can come and learn how to become a film/television editor.
My target audience are young 20 something technology geeks that want to learn how to become a video editor. They definitely love apple and everything that Steve Job has released to the market. Think computer geek, but also a little sheik.
Like the headline reads I am looking for something simple, yet sleek. Think apple ipod/ipad/iphone design.
I am thinking keeping it to two colors. I am thinking White on Black or Blue on Black (I am not sure how that would read).
I would like the name to be prominent. It should somehow surround a symbol of "Academy" or "Film Editing".
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Trying to keep this short and simple, like I want the the design, so I will stop here and see what you come up with. I am looking forward to seeing your work.
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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
2006 Media Releases
In response to the EMS report released today by Councilman Jon Camp, Mayor Seng said, "The fact is that the federal government pays only about 55 percent of its bill to transport Medicare patients. This situation has put ambulance service in Lincoln and many other communities in the position of subsidizing the federal government and in a financial bind. This is not fair to the City, and it is costing Lincoln taxpayers money.
"I appreciate the effort put forward by Mr. Camp's committee to examine our City's emergency medical services system. City staff contributed hours of time preparing information, which the committee analyzed. Portions of the report will be helpful, such as the suggested changes on billing. However, some of the committee's recommendations, such as the proposed rate increases, need further scrutiny.
"The citizens of Lincoln expect and deserve quick response time and a high quality of care from our ambulance service, and those are my top priorities. I am concerned that some of the operational proposals might cost more, slow response times and decrease the quality of care.
"I look forward to seeing which of the committee's proposals Mr. Camp will bring forward for further consideration. Our goal continues to be an effective and efficient ambulance service."


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|Aerospace Engineering and Design
Access to the Terascale system leads to more accurate flutter predictions for the F-16.
"The Angel of Death is abroad in the land, only you can't always hear the flutter of its wings," said Winston Churchill in the fall of 1944. He was talking about the infamous V-2 rocket, some 500 of which rained death and terror on British civilians during the last eight months of World War II.
As the world's first supersonic weapon, the V-2 fell from the sky silently, giving virtually no warning of impending destruction. It had no wings to flutter, only tail-fin stabilizers, and although Churchill was speaking metaphorically, he referred unknowingly to a major obstacle that confronted the German technologists.
Flutter as a phenomenon of flight engineering means a vibration that can amplify into structural damage. As a matter of "what if" history, it undoubtedly saved lives and may have altered the war's outcome. Because of flutter, about 70 early V-2 flights crashed or veered off course as the rocket arrived at supersonic speed. By September 1944, when the Germans overcame the problem and began firing V-2s at London and other targets, Hitler's secret weapon was too late and too inaccurate to seriously hinder the Allied advance.
"The V-2 is where panel flutter was discovered," says Charbel Farhat, professor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "The rocket structure was a thin container, and it was flexible, at least at the scale of forces encountered in transonic flight." As the V-2 went from subsonic to supersonic speed, its metal skin shook apart.
Flutter still challenges designers of high-performance aircraft. As recently as September 1997, wing flutter partly the result of faulty structural maintenance caused an F-117A Nighthawk, the first operational "stealth" plane, to lose most of one wing and crash at an air show. "Flutter can be catastrophic and must be avoided at all cost," says Farhat, who directs the University of Colorado's Center for Aerospace Structures, an interdisciplinary center focusing on aircraft structural technology.
For about 10 years, Farhat has worked to develop more sophisticated computational methods for predicting the "flutter envelope" of high-performance aircraft and to encourage wider use of these methods in industry. Through a collaborative program with Edwards Air Force Base, he's been trying out his methods on the F-16 fighter.
"We do blind tests," explains Farhat. "We develop the simulation technology and try it on the aircraft. Then they fly it to get actual flight data, and we see how we're doing." In the spring of 2001, "friendly user" time on the prototype Terascale Computing System allowed him to improve the resolution of the F-16 model and achieve his best results to date.
The Flutter Envelope
Although most of us have experienced in-flight turbulence, we may not for good reason be looking out the window to see the wings shimmy as the plane encounters a turbulent patch. Made of flexible material, aluminum or composite, modern high-speed aircraft experience stress in the range of 40,000 pounds per square inch. When these structures vibrate, the engineering question is whether the air will absorb the vibration or amplify it into flutter. The answer depends, says Farhat, on three things speed, altitude, and stiffness and mass of the structure.
To calibrate these interactions, the design process aims at accurately predicting the plane's flutter envelope a curve that plots speed versus altitude. "At a given altitude," says Farhat, "it tells you the speed not to exceed, even if the engines can do it, because any perturbation is going to be amplified. You want that speed to be relatively high, so flutter won't bother you. It's often the determining factor in the design of wings and tail surfaces."
Obviously, the plane's mission is crucial in flutter analysis. "If I've built the engine to deliver Mach 2 performance," says Farhat, "and analysis tells me that at 30,000 feet the flutter speed is Mach 0.7, then I have to go back to structural design." For supersonic fighters especially, because their mission requires aggressive, high-speed maneuvers, flutter is a sensitive factor.
Even for supersonic fighters, however, relatively uncomplicated analytical techniques that can be solved with "linear" mathematics give reliable flutter predictions at subsonic and supersonic speeds. "These linear methods simplify many things," says Farhat. "They break down to a simple equation that can be solved on your PC in almost real time. You have a linear structure and a linear fluid, and you can predict the flutter envelope even before you fly the aircraft."
The problem comes in the transition from subsonic to supersonic flow, what's called the transonic regime from about Mach 0.85 to almost Mach 1. By definition, transonic flow begins at the speed where a wing first hits supersonic shock. Linear methods can't reliably predict flutter in this transitional regime, and the aircraft industry for many years has relied on wind-tunnel testing.
But wind-tunnel testing for flutter is a much more complex process than for aerodynamics. What matters in aerodynamics is shape, and a scale model can be built from nearly any material. To model flutter, the model has to reproduce the stiffness properties of the full-scale plane and vibrate in scale with reality. For this kind of wind-tunnel testing, the industry has relied for years on the experienced craft of expert structural-modeling engineers.
Even so, to build one model, test it, interpret the data, and plot five points that describe the curve of the transonic flutter envelope, says Farhat, takes at minimum a year. As computational technology improves in both hardware and software, it has begun to step forward as an alternative.
A Three-Field Formulation
While linear methods don't reliably predict flutter in the transonic regime, the continuing evolution of high-performance computing makes it feasible to turn to more sophisticated techniques. As with other "aeroelastic" instabilities such as buffeting due to velocity fluctuations in the airflow, flutter involves the interaction between flow and structure. To realistically predict how the structure moves in time requires solving equations of motion for the structure simultaneously with those for the fluid flow, and this turns the mathematics into a complex "nonlinear" problem.
Over the last decade, Farhat's research group has developed a set of simulation programs, called AERO, that implement this more sophisticated approach through an innovative "three-field formulation." Computational fluid-dynamics problems are solved by overlaying the structure with a fine-mesh grid that gives coordinates in space at which to calculate forces. The nonlinear coupled approach requires that the fluid also be represented as a computational mesh, with exchange of energy between the air and the vibrating structure calculated at the intersections between these two grids.
Difficulties arise, however, because structural vibration necessarily changes the shape of the grid, potentially introducing serious error into the calculation unless the structure grid can simultaneously be redrawn at each microsecond time-slice of the calculation, which is impracticably cumbersome. To circumvent this problem, Farhat treats the movement of the computational mesh as a third field that interacts with the structure and the fluid. "This three-field formulation," he says, "has shed new light on the mathematics of the coupled fluid-structure problem and enabled us to develop faster algorithms."
To validate his approach, Farhat has used AERO to simulate flutter on the F-16. With modeling information provided by Lockheed-Martin, Farhat's team constructed a structural mesh with 168,799 separate elements, and a corresponding fluid mesh of 400,000 grid points. Using a 32-processor SGI Origin 2000 system, AERO simulated a clean-wing F-16 configuration without underwing attached weapons for one aeroelastic response, one point on the flutter envelope, in about four hours of computing time, demonstrating that AERO can be a practical simulation tool. Comparison with flight-test data showed reasonably good accuracy, within about 15 percent.
A series of runs on the prototype Terascale Computing System, however, demonstrated what can be gained with faster processing. The TCS ran AERO roughly twice as fast per processor, and using all 256 processors the overall capability increased by another factor of eight. "We were running easily an order of magnitude faster on the Terascale machine," says Farhat, "so you can imagine what a boost this was to our simulation."
The improved capability made it feasible to use a fluid mesh with 1.5 million grid points. "With the bigger machine," says Farhat, "we found we could use a finer mesh, and this improved the quality of our results." The higher resolution mesh brought agreement with flight-test data to within five percent.
Farhat notes his simulations have dealt with only one F-16 configuration, and many other configurations must be correlated with flight data, but the results are encouraging. "This shows that better computational capability can substantially improve our technology. With these kind of advances, the three-field formulation is proving itself as a mature, fast and reliable approach to model some of the critical flight conditions encountered by high-performance aircraft."


text: It's been a while since the New York Times Sunday Book Review had a regular science fiction book column. So it's great news that The Third Bear author (and io9 contributor) Jeff VanderMeer has launched a new, semi-regular book column called "Science Fiction Chronicle." The first outing covers a nicely diverse bunch of authors from major and small presses, including Karen Lord, Ian McDonald and Karin Lowachee.


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The Right Colored Wedding Dress
Adding colour to their gowns expressing their personalities and to keep the wedding look updated.
Color could be added to a wedding dress with embroidery, a band at the top of the neckline or bottom of the hem, within the open train, or a sash around the waist. Wedding brides are incorporating their best colors be it purple, green, or black or just adding color to match with their wedding party. Brides in China wear red and a bride from Ireland may have a bodice of emerald green velvet.
You may desire to choose a wedding gown that isn't white at all. It will be surprising to your guests, but it will also be memorable. If you want to make sure that a colored dress still has the feel of a wedding dress, choose a silhouette that your average wedding guest wouldn't wear - like a full skirted ball gown. It may be rich gold or deep violet, but it will still resemble a traditional wedding gown.
Maybe you have a classic dress that is a family heirloom that has unfortunate staining. If the fabric is in good shape, speak with a professional and find out if the dress will withstand being dyed a slightly darker color. It's a great way to preserve a piece of your family history.
You don't have to have a bold colored dress. Some brides opt for a colored dress for practical reasons. It may be that the pure white of a traditional dress doesn't flatter your skin tone or maybe this isn't your first wedding. In any case, you may choose a dress in a subtle champagne, silver, or a pale pink. Adding color to your wedding dress doesn't have to be some huge fashion statement.
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Happy 2019! If you're a reader of mastheads, I'm tempted to say you need to get a hobby. But if you read this issue's small print, you may notice that this is issue No. 1 of volume No. 100 of Sales & Marketing Management magazine.
By TOM GRUBB
Time is the enemy when it comes to outselling the competition. The problem is there's never enough time for your reps to connect and sell to all of the prospects and customers they'd like. Sales reps get stuck in voicemail hell and seemingly endless "digital conversations" that drag on like slow motion games of Ping-Pong. If you can compress the time it takes to get to your prospects and customers, you can cover more ground faster than the other guy.
How can you manufacture time? Think of it as a game of addition and subtraction: Do more of the things that drive revenue, and less of the things that don't. It sounds simple enough, but in fact it's very hard to add or subtract anything to or from a caller's time because there are a growing number of activities consuming more of their time and very few that truly free it up.
On the time consumption side, they have to feed the CRM system, research online, attend sales meetings, go to training – oh yeah, and get on the phone and talk with prospects and customers. Notice I said talk with prospects and customers, not dialing, leaving voicemails, messing with interactive voice response systems, or talking to gatekeepers.
By reclaiming all the time your sales team burns trying to reach the people they want to talk with and applying that time to talking with prospects and customers, you gain competitive advantage. If your sales reps use live conversation automation to have 10 live conversations for every one that your competitor's sales rep has, you are going to win more business on the basis of sheer velocity.
But there's more than just raw speed in the advantage you gain. By accelerating your capacity to connect in real time by phone with the people you want to reach by a factor of 10, you can optimize sales performance in powerful ways that aren't available when live conversations are spread out over days and weeks instead of hours and minutes. With the volume and velocity of your live conversations running hot, you can test, measure and optimize these key areas that impact performance:
Introducing high compression and acceleration to the process where your outbound callers have live conversations gives you significant competitive advantage. You can cover more ground in less time with fewer resources than your competitor, and deploy live conversations as a new class of corporate assets that enable you to outperform, outsmart and outsell the competition.
Tom Grubb is Vice President of Marketing at ConnectAndSell. He has 20 years of experience leading marketing at established and early stage companies including ThreatMetrix, Intuit, Embarcadero Technologies, Sybase, and co-founder at Bluecurve, which was acquired by Red Hat in 2000.


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Founded in 2007, BARK is an all-volunteer program
that encourages children to increase their reading skills and self-confidence
by reading aloud to certified therapy dogs. Students find it intimidating
to read in front of classmates, but love to read to the non-judgmental, calming
dogs. BARK now has 170 teams listening to kids in more than 100 schools and
libraries in California.
BARK teams also visit nursing homes, senior living facilities, veterans centers, and even de-stress college students during finals week.
Does Reading to the Dogs Really Help?
A study at UC Davis (Feb 2010) showed that kids in reading dog programs increase their reading skills by 12% to 20% over kids not in a reading dog program. Because our volunteers are certified as therapy dog teams, they can also visit hospitals, nursing homes and other locations.
Educators we have worked with report 82% of BARK students increased their reading skills, self-confidence, and/or class participation.
(Tobey at Elementary School in Wilmington)
Students read to dogs 15-20 minutes once per week for eight weeks. They are given a bookmark with photos and information about the dog they are reading with.
(Gracie at San Juan Capistrano Library)
BARK dogs also attend open houses, back-to-school nights, Dr. Seuss week, book festivals, and other special events.
(Herbie at Artesia Library)
Go to CALENDAR to see where you
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Our Read-A-Thon day was a success!! and Reading to the dogs was a HIT!!!
I wish I had a camera filming the moment when the dogs arrived - all the little kids were having lunch outside and they went crazy after seeing the dogs coming to our school!!! It was like celebrities arriving to the Red Carpet!!!
It was a beautiful and educational experience for all of us!!! We just loved having the dogs and their moms with us!!! What a gift for our school community!!! What a treat!!! You all gave us a precious memory.
Thank you!!! Thank you so much!!! Please let everybody know how grateful we are for giving us the opportunity to enjoy this great experience.
God bless you all!!!
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30 Oct 2010
Not truly popular here in England until fairly recently, it seems we have taken a leaf out of the books of our friends across 'the pond' in America and Halloween is becoming big business.
But I digress.
I'm not a big fan of horror stories and certainly no fan of horror films - as I was saying to one blogger buddy THE SHINING and THE SIXTH SENSE are about as brave as I get - so imagine how scared I was when I found myself living the stuff of my nightmares (cue creepy music.)
As many of you know I love the Christmas markets in Germany and as we have friends there Husband dearest and I aim to visit every other Yuletide. Usually we stay with friends but due to a change in circumstances this particular year we found ourselves staying in a hotel.
A huge, rambling building, though we arrived late at night, there was not a light on in the place. "I'll just give the night porter a knock," said Andreas, our friend who, as always, had collected us from the airport.
Standing freezing in the street, it seemed an age until Andreas appeared, along with him a man who could well have starred in a 'horror' film - picture RIFF RAFF from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (OK so I may have exaggerated here) - who pulled out a huge key and let us in to the seemingly deserted hotel. (I swear the door creaked as he opened it but as I said I have a vivid imagination.)
Now as anyone who has ever travelled at Christmas will tell you hotels are generally bustling with lots of guests coming and going. I wish. With not even a receptionist in sight, Riff Raff examined our passports, got us to sign the visitors book (were those cobwebs?), gave us a bunch of keys and got Andres to inform us that as well as the keys to our room, he had also given us the keys to the hotel, could we make sure the doors were locked if we needed to go out. Yeah! Now I was scared.
Anyway we made our way to our room along corridors reminiscent of those in The Shining (post 1970 for those of you who haven't seen the film) I swear I would not have been at all surprised to see twins appear (SEE CLIP but only if you are not easily scared - oh and take note of the decor!)
Eerie enough? Next morning, after a shower, in which I got Husband dearest to stand guard just in case, (Need I mention the shower scene from the film Psycho? Click HERE if you haven't seen it but be warned it is scary) we went down to breakfast only to find a table set for two, but still with no other living being in sight (not that there were any dead beings in sight either you understand.).
Never have we stayed in a more strange hotel and though I'm sure some would pay good money to have had such an experience we never went back. Actually I'd love to tell you that though we walked down this very street countless times after this we never again saw the hotel BUT this wouldn't be the truth as we did indeed see the hotel again - we just never saw anyone go in OR come out.
PS. To see my Halloween Survival Guide simply click HERE.
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- Misha1989 said...
Woah! That must have been creepy. One of my friends once stayed in a hotel room which was supposedly haunted. It did not scare her at all. She was actually excited. As for me, I would die of terror in such situations.
- 30 October 2010 at 09:52
- Arti said...
Thats scary.. Thank God, I have never had such experiences or else I would have freaked out completely... Btw, the ring is the sacriest movie that I have ever seen..
Have a lovely weekend:)
- 30 October 2010 at 11:25
- Kelly said...
What a wonderfully creepy story!!! (and you told it so well!)
There are actually two versions of The Shining. Supposedly Stephen King was dissatisfied with Stanley Kubrick's movie (Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall) and redid it as a mini-series starring Steven Weber and Rebecca DeMornay. I was given the latter on DVD by my brother and his wife since they live near the hotel that was used for the Overlook. I will say, though, I always think of Nicholson in that "heeere's Johnny" scene whenever The Shining is mentioned!
- 30 October 2010 at 17:45
- Oddyoddyo13 said...
That is so creepy! Rain or not, I would've turned around and found another hotel!
Great post today! :)
- 30 October 2010 at 18:04
- Alyce said...
What an odd hotel! I am with you - those movies you mentioned are about as scary as I can stand.
- 30 October 2010 at 18:06
- Suko said...
Sounds like spooky-ooky fun! Terrific post, Petty. Have a safe and happy Halloween!
- 30 October 2010 at 19:41
- Dorte H said...
Great story! Thanks for sharing this one.
- 30 October 2010 at 21:43
- naida said...
Great story, I want to visit that hotel now! lol
- 31 October 2010 at 02:17
- GMR said...
Whoa. O_O Sounds like you almost had an encounter with the ghosty kind...or at least met with your active imagination....either way, glad you made it out in one piece!
- 31 October 2010 at 02:30
- A said...
Don't scare me please. I might be traveling soon....
- 31 October 2010 at 02:50
- chitra said...
I was really scared and was wondering what is going to be the next sentence. To tell the truth I haven't taken seen both the clippings. Now you know how scared I am.
- 31 October 2010 at 03:35
- Alison said...
What do people typically do in England on Halloween? Do kids go trick-or-treating? Is it spelled "Halloween" or "Hallowe'en" in England. The Harry Potter books (british edition) use the latter spelling.
- 31 October 2010 at 14:30
- Melissa Gill said...
There's nothing as scary as real life.
- 31 October 2010 at 16:26
- Alexia561 said...
There's nothing creepier than an empty hotel! *shivers* I'm not a big fan of horror movies either. Too scary!
- 1 November 2010 at 02:10
- Sanand said...
Quite eerie, I'd say. Wish you a joyous and prosperous New Year in 2011.
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Another example of something to watch out for when using references with arrays. It seems that even an usused reference to an array cell modifies the *source* of the reference. Strange behavior for an assignment statement (is this why I've seen it written as an =& operator? - although this doesn't happen with regular variables).
$array1 = array(1,2);
$x = &$array1[1]; // Unused reference
$array2 = $array1; // reference now also applies to $array2 !
$array2[1]=22; // (changing [0] will not affect $array1)
[0] => 1
[1] => 22 // var_dump() will show the & here
//above was Noted By Dave at SymmetricDesign dot com//
//and below is my opinion to this simple problem. //
This is an normal referencing problem.
when you gain an reference to a memory at some variable.
this variable, means "memory itself". (in above example, this would be -> $x = &$array1[1]; // Unused reference)
and you've copied original one($array1) to another one($array2).
and the copy means "paste everything on itself". including references or pointers, etcs. so, when you copied $array1 to $array2, this $array2 has same referencers that original $array1 has. meaning that $x = &$array1[1] = &$array2[1];
and again i said above. this reference means "memory itself".
when you choose to inserting some values to $array2[1],
$x; reference is affected by $array2[1]'s value. because, in allocated memory, $array2[1] is a copy of $array1[1]. this means that $array2[1] = $array1[1], also means &$array2[1] = &$array1[1] as said above. this causes memory's value reallocation on $array1[1]. at this moment. the problem of this topic is cleared by '$x', the memory itself. and this problem was solved by unsetting the '$x'. unsetting this reference triggers memory reallocation of $array2[1]. this closes the reference link between the copied one($array1, which is the original) and copy($array2). this is where that bug(clearly, it's not a bug. it's just a missunderstanding) has triggered by. closing reference link makes two array object to be separated on memory. and this work was done through the unset() function. this topic was posted 7 years ago, but i just want to clarify that it's not a bug.
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Three Sisters Scarves # Three
pattern: my own
24 comments:
- Rina said...
Und auch dieser Schal ist einfach bezaubernd. Vielen Dank für die Anleitung. Aber woher nehme ich all die Zeit um die wunderbaren Dinge zu stricken ???
- September 12, 2008 7:19 a.m.
- 2paw said...
Though all the scarves are gorgeous, the green one is my very favourite!!!
- September 12, 2008 8:41 a.m.
Thank you for the patterns, and I'm happy that the errata was found before I started.
My favorite is Sister #1 but I think it has more to do with the color than anything else.
- September 12, 2008 10:07 a.m.
- MrPuffy said...
They are all uniquely gorgous and will most certainly be appreciated!
Thank you for sharing your patterns. These scarfs are such a perfect use for that yarn.
- September 12, 2008 1:09 p.m.
- hannah said...
The scarfes are so gorgeous! What a lovely gifts.
I agree with you: winter knitting is a lot of fun. I also like working with wool.
- September 12, 2008 2:02 p.m.
- lexa said...
Such gorgeous scarves!
- September 12, 2008 2:10 p.m.
- Kate said...
They are beautiful,thank you very much for the pattern.
I do really agree with you, pure wool is the best.
- September 12, 2008 2:43 p.m.
- Helen said...
Thanks so much for the pattern. I would love to make a couple for xmas gifts.
I check your blog every week or so. I love your knitting and I must see how the dogs are doing. :)
- September 12, 2008 6:06 p.m.
- sgeddes said...
Beautiful! I'm sure they will be well loved. My favorite pattern is the blue one, but I prefer the green color. You've done some lovely work!
- September 12, 2008 8:31 p.m.
thanks for sharing the patterns!
though i love working with wool, and do it all the time, i am sad that summer is over! and i hope for a long indian summer.
socks have been worn.
all the best,
- September 12, 2008 10:10 p.m.
- Ann said...
Lovely scarves & Thanks so much for sharing the patterns.
- September 12, 2008 10:27 p.m.
- pat said...
3 lucky SILs! You are a scarf designing/knitting whiz!
- September 13, 2008 7:26 a.m.
- Angelika said...
Another masterpiece. You are so nice to knit this for your SILs. I think I would only do that for one or maybe two of mine and trust me, I have a bunch more than that.
- September 13, 2008 8:38 a.m.
- Knatolee said...
You know, I have been working on the same knitted/beaded scarf for the entire summer! :) Your speed and skill amaze me. This scarves are absolutely gorgeous. I hope everyone who receives gifts of your knitting realizes how lucky they are!!
- September 13, 2008 9:35 a.m.
All three are really pretty. Thank you for sharing the pattern!
- September 13, 2008 6:35 p.m.
Phew! Three scarves is quite the feat! I still like the blue one best I think but they're all lovely. :-)
- September 13, 2008 8:21 p.m.
- Carrie K said...
I'm sure they'll appreciate them, they're darling.
- September 13, 2008 11:40 p.m.
- Jeanne said...
Gorgeous scarves - thanks for the patterns!
- September 14, 2008 9:11 a.m.
- hakucho said...
Another beautiful scarf. All three are very lovely and I'm positive all your SIL's will LOVE them :)
- September 14, 2008 3:11 p.m.
- Beverly said...
The scarves are beautiful. Your sisters are going to enjoy them.
- September 14, 2008 10:22 p.m.
- Gloria Patre said...
Your scarves are spectacularly beautiful!!! The colors are superb and each one is truly a luxury accessory! Kudos to you! Standing ovation!! Lucky, lucky SILs!!
- September 16, 2008 2:03 p.m.
- Kris said...
All hail wool ;). I agree with you on the wool thing. I live in a rather warm climate and would much prefer working with wool.
Although, I have to say the seasilk yarn is beautiful and so are the scarves. Your SIL's are very lucky.
- September 19, 2008 7:10 a.m.
- Robin said...
The scarves are just beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing the patterns. I may make one a mother-in-law scarf.
- October 05, 2008 11:20 p.m.
- hexli said...
Toll sind deses Schals.
Ich habe mir das Muster für den grünen Schal heruntergeldaden. Ist das in Orndung oder durfte ich das nicht?
Ich möchte daraus ein Weinachtsgeschenk machen.
Sei lieb gegrüsst.
LG hexli
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Here we enter classic
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City of Thieves
. The fifth book in the successful
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Ian Livingstone
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Terror stalks the night as Zanbar Bone and his bloodthirsty Moon Dogs hold the prosperous town of Silverton to ransom. YOU are an adventurer and the merchants of Silverton turn to you in their hour of need.
Your mission takes you along dark, twisting streets where thieves, vagabonds and creatures of the night lie in wait to trap the unwary traveller. Beyond lies the most fearsome adventure of them all – the tower stronghold of the infamous Zanbar Bone! Part-story part-game, this is a book with a difference - one in which you become the hero! A pencil and an eraser are all you need to make your journey. YOU decide which route to take, which creatures to fight and which dangers to risk.
City of Thieves
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The actual plot in this book centres around Zanbar Bone. Bone is an undead lord who resides in his tower not far from Port Blacksand. His dreaded Moon Dogs and Spirit Stalkers, as well as a number of traps within the tower itself protect him from foolhardy adventurers like you.
Zanbar Bone can not be killed by normal means, and only a silver arrow and special compound will be enough to see him fall before your eyes.
You are called to the aid of Silverton, a town that Zanbar Bone has decided to cause turmoil in. He has demanded that he is delivered the daughter of Owen Carralif for his own pleasure, and he did not take the consequent refusal lightly. Zanbar Bone then sends his Moon Dogs to terrorise Silverton, and they enter the houses of the locals causing death and despair. Naturally, you accept the quest of dealing with the evil one, and are told to hunt out the wizard Nicodemus in Port Blacksand, as only he knows how Zanbar Bone can be killed.
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If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Say It Loudly
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- Samantha Dugan said...
Oh goddamn it Lettie. I told her if I was going to ghost write her letter she had to come up with her own ending. Just stuck the "Go fuck yourself" in there as a stand in, as well as a nod to her tremendous success regardless of research skills, humility or talent. See if I help her out again....plagiarizing hobag is on her own from now on.
- April 16, 2012 at 9:04 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
My Gorgeous Samantha,
I had a hunch that was your work--that gratuitous mention of the Loire Valley tipped me off. I rather liked Lettie's closing, though I'm pretty sure it wasn't aimed at me and was just her usual electronic signature.
Go fuck y..I mean, I love you.
- April 16, 2012 at 9:28 AM
- PaulG said...
"Putting the teague back in fatigue"... hoo boy, that's deep, even for you! Write on, Señor Hose!
- April 16, 2012 at 9:59 AM
- Thomas said...
Dear Mr. Hosebender,
If you insist on printing other people's letters without their permission, let me tell you that you are a lowlife, a fink, a thief, a pretender (and "only you" can be "the great pretender") plus, you have no screwpulls.
Go ahead and print this letter. I dare you. You haven't the guts, have you?
Sure, I could say more, but why should I waste my valuable time.
And don't flatter yourself. I never read your blog.
I do, however, write my own blog of wine reviews, so if you happen to have any samples that you think might make my spine tingle, please send them and I promise to give them good reviews--don't forget to include the $95 per bottle. I can also offer you an introduction to Mr. McInerney, but that will cost you at least one night on the town, in the bright lights with Mr. McInerney and his dropped names.
If that doesn't sit right with you, GFY.
- April 16, 2012 at 6:01 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Well, I'm nothing if not quotable. So I'm nothing.
I've got screwpulls, Ah-So, I just don't use 'em.
Jay McInerney? Oy. He's the master of meaningless book jacket blurbs. He pads his sentences more than an Alabama judge.
But I do loves me some hate mail.
- April 16, 2012 at 6:37 PM
- Dave Larsen said...
Hosemaster, Thanks for sharing the private letters of these very public figures. They may, however, feel like you've violated their trust by forwarding their comments. I can only imagine what they will say when they find out.
- April 16, 2012 at 8:13 PM
- John M. Kelly said...
I just love it when people can't figure the difference between satire and Fat Tire. Let me know if any of these very pubic figures has a problem - I have friends in low places (as I'm sure you have always secretly thought).
BTW - I also hate you, you troll. It pisses me off that you never ridicule ME. Me me me me! I am AT LEAST as ridiculous as the rest of your skewer-ees (bark, bark!)
- April 16, 2012 at 11:19 PM
- Dave Larsen said...
I love it that you think I was making a serious comment. It was my way of suggesting a next chapter to this story line. Nice poodle impersonation though.
- April 17, 2012 at 6:22 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
These are my FRIENDS in the wine business. You should see the mail I get from the people who don't like me. I didn't even know it was possible for suspicious white powder to fall from an email...
I must be doing something wrong if people ask me to ridicule them. But be careful what you wish for.
- April 17, 2012 at 8:43 AM
I can attest that John Kelly needs attention of any kind. He's barking for a roasting, but it might be up the wrong tree.
As always, a great read. I will add the Limburger line of "I'd have paid your mother to have used birth control" to my repertoire of classically good insults.
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* Point your konqueror to [http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeprint/html/classKPrinter.html kde:kprinter]
* Point your konqueror to [http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeprint/html/classKPrinter.html kde:kprinter]
Print Hello World on your printer.
This code will work for KDE 3 as for KDE 4.
/* This prints Hello World on your printer
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
KAboutData aboutData( "test", "test", "1.0", "test", KAboutData::License_GPL, "(c) 2006" ); KCmdLineArgs::init( argc, argv, &aboutData ); KApplication khello;
KPrinter job; job.setFullPage( true ); if ( job.setup() ) { QPainter painter; painter.begin( &job ); painter.drawText(100,100,"Hello World"); painter.end(); // this makes the print job start }
You need a KDE instance to print, because this instance stores your configuration, including your printer configuration. You create one by instanciating the KApplication class.
Quite complicated:
gcc print.cpp -o print -I/home/kde-devel/qt-unstable/include/Qt \ -I/home/kde-devel/qt-unstable/include/Qt-Core \ -I/home/kde-devel/qt-unstable/include -I/home/kde-devel/kde/include \ -L/home/kde-devel/kde/lib -L/home/kde-devel/qt-unstable/lib -lkdeui \ -lkdecore -ldl -lkdeprint
Quite easy:
gcc printtest.cpp -o print -I/usr/lib/qt3/include -I/opt/kde3/include \ -L/opt/kde3/lib -L/usr/lib/qt3/lib -lqt-mt -lkdeprint
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Above we have links to bills that have been filed for the 85th Legislature. We have the bills grouped into those amending the Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and other bills of interest to TDCAA members.
For information concerning legislation filed during the 85th Regular Session or any other past session, visit the state legislature's web site at http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/.
For all other legislative inquiries, e-mail Shannon Edmonds, Director of Governmental Relations, or call him at (512) 474-2436.


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Microsoft has released a new commercial for the Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 920, and in it they show off both Apple's iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy S. A lot. So much, in fact, it's hard to know what the commercial is about until the very end, when the Lumia 920 finally makes an appearance. Anyone outside Microsoft see the problem there?
The theme is: Don't fight. Switch. The setting is a wedding where the groom and the bride's side both use different phone platforms, and quickly get into a heated, and pretty funny war of insults that escalates into full-blown Mobile Kombat. When nothing but dust and decimation remains, the waiters wonder if Lumia couldn't just help them all get along.
Here's what Microsoft's Michael Stroh had to say on the Windows Blog:
I chuckled when I first saw the spot. As you'll see, it plays off the strong—even irrationally strong—feelings some of us harbor about the technology in our purses and pockets. You might recognize someone you've met among the wedding guests. You might see shades of yourself. I sure did—and smiled.
I did as well. And it wouldn't be out of place on a late night comedy show. Actually, it would kill as comedy. But this isn't comedy, it's the real, brutal, smartphone market, and here is that Microsoft is promoting Apple and Samsung over their own brands, and that's exactly what happens to them in the market already. Apple had a "switcher" campaign for the Mac many years ago, and while they had a generic "PC" character, he was seldom if ever branded, and there certainly wasn't ever any recognizable, competing hardware in the frame.
Ultimately, however, I didn't really end up caring any more about Windows Phone than I did at the beginning, and that makes it a pretty ineffective commercial. Give it a watch and tell me what you think. Anything there that's better than, I don't know, say Microsoft actually releasing an XPhone Halo edition?
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Revision as of 23:33, 6 August 2007 by EliotBlennerhassett (Talk | contribs)
How to use the Mercurial (hg) repository.
The Download page has more information about repositories and mirrors.
Get a copy of the repository
cd alsa-hg hg clone http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-driver alsa-driver hg clone http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel alsa-kernel
Get latest updates
cd alsa-driver hg pull -u cd alsa-kernel hg pull -u
Create a working copy
hg clone alsa-driver alsa-driver-fixbug1 cd alsa-driver-fixbug1 ./cvscompile do { code; test;} until finished; hg commit -m"Fixed the foo in bar"
What to do about sending the changes back
hg diff > fixbug1.patch # email fixbug1.patch] to alsa-devel
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FOX may have passed on 'Breakout Kings' but A&E has greenlit 13 episodes of the series. Filming begins
in the fall and will air in 2011.
Source: TVGuide.com
According to TheFutonCritic.com
Brooke has been cast in the FOX drama pilot 'Breakout Kings' about "a team of U.S. Marshals paired with a
group of convicts to apprehend recently escaped prisoners." Brooke's character is reportedly one of the
Marshals, "Julianne Simms, the 'funnel' of the group - 'all information, tips and data go through her.'"
According to
Fancast.com Brooke will be appearing in a March episode of 'How I Met Your Mother' as Amanda, the
new girlfriend (who isn't the mother) who's brought to Lily's birthday party.
Update: Brooke's episode, Say Cheese, airs March 22nd!
Happy Birthday Brooke! And to our site visitors, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Brooke will be appearing on Canadian TV screens in 2010 on Astral Media's The Movie Network and Corus
Entertainment's Movie Central in the 13 episode comedy series, "Call Me Fitz." The series, starring
Jason Priestley, is about "a used-car dealer who pushes the boundaries of acceptable behaviour just a few
steps too far." Brooke plays Fitz's secretary Sonya.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Host and top-seeded Springfield College defeated the MIT women's volleyball team, 25-23, 25-21, 25-13, in the semifinal round of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship Tournament. With the loss, the fourth-seeded Engineers closed their season with a record of 21-14.
Kelly Schulte tallied eight kills, two aces, and two blocks as Trinity Leonard posted seven kills and six digs. Kristine Bunker chipped in four kills and four blocks while Cecily Joujon-Roche totaled three kills, three aces, and three blocks. Jenny Li bolstered the front row with five kills and three blocks as Katie Spielbauer led the defense with 13 digs. Natasha Jensen added 10 digs while Sharon Hao registered 27 assists and nine digs.
The Pride jumped all over the Engineers to start the match as it opened up a quick 6-0 lead after Kim Giaquinto hammered a ball down the line. MIT put forth a steady comeback as it eventually grabbed a 14-13 lead after a Pride attack error. The hosts eventually regained the lead and snagged a 24-20 advantage, only to have MIT score three straight points, capped off by a double block from Schulte and Joujon-Roche, to make it a one-point game at 24-23. Springfield looked to Tessa Smolinski and the first-year pounded home a kill to give SC a 25-23 win.
Springfield squandered another big lead in the second as its 20-12 lead nearly disappeared after an 8-2 run, highlighted by a block by Li and Bunker. Leading 22-20, Springfield benefited from an MIT attack error, and used a Heather Lively kill and Sarah Lang-Rodean solo block to take a two-set lead.
In the third, Springfield held a slight 9-7 lead after a Hao service ace, which forced the Pride into a timeout. A Giaquinto kill out of the break set the tone, as Springfield finished the match on a 16-6 run, with Giaquinto smashing a kill on match point to put the Pride in the conference championship match.
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Hilarious Way Rebecca Judd Is Going To Tell Her Twins Apart
Apparently when you're having twins, there's more to worry about than the logistics of feeding them both at the same time.
Like, for example, how you're going to tell them apart.
But it sounds like Rebecca Judd has been doing some research, because the soon-to-be twin mumma has revealed her nifty - and hilarious - trick for keeping tabs on which baby is which.
And it involves a mani-pedi.
"Attention identical twin mums!" the TV host posted on Instagram. "Just curious: How many weeks gestation did you deliver at?
"[And] at what age could you tell them apart? Straight away, hours, days, weeks, months or still can't? Any tips?
"I've packed some nail polish for one of them!"
Attention identical twin mums! Just curious: 1. How many weeks gestation did you deliver at? 2. At what age could you tell them apart (😂🙊)? Straight away, hours, days, weeks, months or still can't? Any tips? I've packed some nail polish for one of them. EDIT: thanks everyone for your replies. Soooooo many good tips! I'll definitely be putting some of them to good use. On a side note- gosh there are a lot of identical twins out there!
Bec certainly doesn't seem to be the only one employing the toe-painting trick; one commenter wrote that while she had done the same thing, she had been "too tired to tell them apart, so who knows now if I mixed them up. Oops."
And plenty of experienced mums had an even better idea, advising the 31-week-pregnant mother-of-two to stick to a colour scheme for the sake of pictures.
"Make sure you have a 'code' for photos or you'll never know who was who," one savvy commenter wrote, while another explained that she had "always dressed one twin in something purple, be dummy or socks" to make it easier for looking back on snaps.
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Politico Incorrect
What the politics Web site deletes from its articles without telling anyone.
Correction, 6:45 p.m.: Shortly after we published this piece about Politico's unacknowledged corrections, Politico contacted us to tell us that it had acknowledged almost all these corrections. (Politico appended the corrections after we asked about them but before we published our story.) To see our corrections of our mistakes about their corrections—still with us?— click here.
Last month, Politico reported on the fallout from the mess Gen. Stanley McChrystal had made for himself in his interview with Michael Hastings in Rolling Stone. A day later, the Columbia Journalism Review noticed that Politico had removed two key sentences from its article. The deleted passage had speculated that a freelance reporter such as Hastings"would be considered a bigger risk to be given unfettered access, compared with a beat reporter, who would not risk burning bridges by publishing many of McChrystal's remarks." Politico said the edit was made for concision. Yet it got me wondering: How often does Politico, in the din of the news cycle, make significant changes to its copy after publishing it—without telling readers?
Part of the answer, of course, depends on your definition of the word "significant." But part of it is simply math. To get the raw numbers, I wrote a series of fairly simple computer programs to monitor changes to all major Politico articles at regular intervals. (Here is more detail than you probably care to know about the programs.) After three weeks and nearly 400 articles, I have my answer: about 3 percent of the time.
By the end of last week, 217 of the 382 articles (57 percent) tracked had been changed in some way. Because the program detects even the most trivial changes, like the deletion of superfluous white space, the vast majority of these changes were unremarkable. Amid hundreds of these trivial changes, however, we found 12 noteworthy alterations. That amounts to 3.1 percent of the articles we monitored. (We've posted the list in reverse-chronological order.)
In the McChrystal meta-controversy—the one about Politico's deletions, not McChrystal's quotes—Politico deputy Managing Editor Tim Grieve said that he deleted the freelancers-vs.-beat-reporters sentences "solely for the purposes of keeping the story tight and readable" while he "substantially reworked" the article. *Politico often updates articles continuously, its editors say, as a story evolves. Sometimes, but not always, a story will receive a second timestamp (marked in red) to indicate to readers that it has been updated.
Probably the most baffling series of unacknowledged corrections visited an appreciation of the late Sen. Robert Byrd, an article Politico could have started preparing before it even launched. The initial version, published at 6:49 p.m. on June 28, included this account of Byrd's gradual decline in legislative power:
But first in 1986, Byrd surrendered the Majority Leadership, and twelve years later, the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee—for the good of the Senate and his party.
The next morning, at 6:13, Politico updated this sentence, extending his chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee for another decade:
But in 1986, Byrd surrendered the majority leadership, and 22 years later, the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee—for the good of the Senate and his party.
In fact, Byrd stepped down as chairman of the Appropriations Committee in 2008, not 1998. But wait! At 7:51 a.m., the sentence changed again:
But at the end of 1988, Byrd surrendered the majority leadership, and 10 years later, the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee—for the good of the Senate and his party.
Almost there! But Politico again miscalculated the year Byrd surrendered his Appropriations Committee chairmanship. At 9:24 a.m., the sentence made one more attempt at scaling Mount Accurate:
But at the end of 1988, Byrd surrendered the majority leadership, and 20 years later, the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee—for the good of the Senate and his party.
Actually, Republicans controlled the Senate from 1981 to 1987, so Byrd had surrendered the majority leadership for those years, too—a fact the article doesn't acknowledge until 10 paragraphs later. At least we know that, whatever he did, it was always for the good of the Senate and his party.
Among the pool of articles we monitored, Politico issued just three corrections. One notified readers that Howard Kurtz did not publish the first report of a massage therapist's sexual-harassment allegations against Al Gore in the Washington Post. * One regarded the participants in a recent climate meeting. And one acknowledged that the site misidentified the author of a letter to President Obama. On the other hand, Politico failed to acknowledge changes it made on roughly a dozen articles, depending on how you count it. (See our list of deletions, corrections, and changes to judge for yourself.) After we contacted Politico with our list of unacknowledged corrections, the site's editors appended correction notices to most of the articles in question. *
The Web provides countless ways to deal with corrections—inline notices, hyperlinks, RSS feeds, and so on. Scott Rosenberg, Salon.com co-founder and director of MediaBugs.org, last week published four basic guidelines for online corrections. They're by no means the only solution, but they form a solid framework:
- Append a note to any article that's been corrected, explaining the change;
- Keep a list of these changes, linking to the corrected articles, at a fixed location on the site;
- Post a brief corrections policy, with information about how readers can report errors they find;
- Make sure that your corrections listing page and your corrections policy (whether they're on the same or different pages) are part of your site navigation—they should be accessible by one click from any page on your site.
By this standard, Politico fails on all four counts. The site has no plans to publish a corrections policy, Editor-in-Chief John Harris said: "I'm not sure there needs to be a black-and-white policy." But Politico "ought to think about" keeping a running list of corrections, and its unwritten policy. Politico's unwritten policy is to append notices to articles "where something substantive was not correct," Harris said. In many of the stories cited in the sidebar, Harris acknowledged, "there was no thought or judgment applied." .
[Update, July 20, 11:35 p.m.: As Politico's editors also pointed out to us, many of the changes Politico made to its stories would have been permitted under Slate's own corrections policy. Under Slate's policy, we do not notify readers about minor corrections that we ourselves catch within 24 hours of publication.]
Since its launch, Politico has garnered widespread attention—and some derision—for its obsessive and detailed coverage. In many respects, it serves as a wire service for the digital age. But in the service of its "Win the Morning, Win the Afternoon, Win the Evening" strategy, Politico seems to have rewritten the old wire-service motto. It's no longer, "Get it first, but first get it right." For Politico, it's more like, "Get it first, and if you don't get it quite right, quietly change it later."
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C orrection, July 20, 6:45 p.m.: This article originally misquoted Politico Deputy Managing Editor Tim Grieve as referring to a "substantial rework" of an earlier piece. His phrase was "substantially reworked." ( Return to the corrected sentence.) The article also stated that Politico appended corrections to six of the articles we showed them. By the time this article was published, Politico had appended corrections to most of the offending articles. ( Return to the corrected sentence or view the updated sidebar.) A previous version of this article also incorrectly stated that Politico had originally incorrectly stated that Howard Kurtz published the first report of sexual-harassment allegations against Al Gore. Rather, Politico had incorrectly stated Kurtz published the first Washington Post report of the allegations, a mistake which Politico editors later corrected.


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Is Vermont's answer to climate change blowin' in the wind?
Virtually all the climate change experts have concluded that yes, wind has to be part of the solution.
Unless renewable energy becomes a substantial portion of America's energy mix, they say, we will continue our dangerous reliance on coal and natural gas for electricity.
Because these fossil fuels release carbon that is driving us over the climate change cliff, we have to find safer alternatives, and do it now.
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VERGENNES — On a snowy March 15 evening, Vergennes police were helping Vermont State Police direct traffic around a rollover accident at the top of Woodman Hill when they arrested a Stockbridge woman for driving with a blood-alcohol content they alleged was more than three times the legal limit.
ADDISON COUNTY — State police at the New Haven barracks are working with several police agencies in California investigating numerous recent reports of fraud. The investigation does not suggest that the recent cases are linked in any way.
Trends have been phone calls or Internet orders to rural businesses around Addison County where an order is made and money is exchanged. In some cases, purchases are being bought with stolen credit cards and, in other cases, businesses are swindled into sending money to the offender(s) via MoneyGram or Western Union to California.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police received a call from a shocked Buttolph Drive resident who had found a male college student from Alaska sleeping on her couch on March 13. The student told authorities he was trying to find the Courtyard by Marriott hotel.
Police said the Buttolph Drive resident ended up taking the student to the hotel.
In other action last week, Middlebury police:
• Responded to an unlawful trespass complaint in the Case Street area on March 11.
MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central Supervisory Union Board on Wednesday evening offered the job of superintendent to Peter Burrows, principal of Willamette High School in Eugene, Ore., and Burrows accepted.
Burrows will replace Superintendent Gail Conley, who will retire at the end of June.
With varying degrees of dismay, a couple of Vergennes Union High School boys' basketball backers recently wondered why the Independent did not honor the Commodores with a Monday front-page photo after they completed their 24-0 season.
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