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(ABC News) -- After decades of controversy, the all-male Augusta National Golf Club has admitted its first female members, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and business executive Darla Moore.
The prestigious Augusta National Golf Club is best known for hosting the Masters Tournament and the exclusivity surrounding the green jacket club.
Augusta National Chairman Billy Payne called the selection of the two new members "a joyous occasion" and a "significant and positive time in our club's history."
"These accomplished women share our passion for the game of golf and both are well known and respected by our membership," Augusta National Chairman Billy Payne said in a statement. "It will be a proud moment when we present Condoleezza and Darla their green jackets when the club opens this fall."
Rice, who served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush, said in a statement released by the club, "I have visited Augusta National on several occasions and look forward to playing golf, renewing friendships and forming new ones through this very special opportunity."
Rice's statement did not mention her ground breaking role or the club's long refusal to admit women members.
"I have long admired the important role Augusta National has played in the traditions and history of golf. I also have an immense respect for the Masters Tournament and its commitment to grow the game of golf, particularly with youth, here in the United States and throughout the world," she said.
Moore is the vice president of private investment company Rainwater, Inc. and founder and chair of nonprofit think tank, the Palmetto Institute.
"I am fortunate to have many friends who are members at Augusta National, so to be asked to join them as a member represents a very happy and important occasion in my life," Moore said in a statement. "Above all, Augusta National and the Masters Tournaments have always stood for excellence, and that is what is so important to me."
Since its inception in 1932, Augusta National has been embroiled in several heated debates for not allowing female club members.
The debate heightened in 2002 when Martha Burk of the National Council of Women's Organizations pressured the club to admit female members. The club's chairman at the time, William "Hootie" Johnson resisted, saying famously that women may one day be admitted to Augusta National, "but not at the point of a bayonet." The statement represented both the resolve of the club not to crumble under pressure.
The issue surfaced again in April when Virginia Rometty was appointed chief executive of IBM, a corporate sponsor of Augusta National. The CEO of IBM was traditionally admitted as a member of the club, but Rometty was not granted membership.
Another of Augusta National's club sponsors, AT&T commented on the historic admission.
"As a sponsor of The Masters, we applaud today's historic announcement by Augusta National and warmly welcome Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore as members of Augusta National," said AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson.


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All-Stars finish regional regional tournament 1-2
The Cottonwood Valley League All-Stars missed their chance at the 12-and-under Cal Ripken World Series Friday, but gained valuable experiences in the process.
"We developed some real friendships during the last month, and created some memories that will last a lifetime," manager Jayson Hanschu said.
The All-Stars went 1-2 in the regional tournament, beating Scottsbluff, Neb. 11-1 in the first game, then losing to teams from Park Hills, Mo. and La Junta, Colo.
The Park Hills team won the tournament, advancing to the World Series in Maryland. La Junta finished fourth.
Jorge Hanschu, Wesley Shaw and Hunter Griffin all hit home runs in the tournament.
"This was an amazing journey these players took over the last month," Jayson Hanschu said. "We coaches were honored to be part of it."

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A company developing a wind project on the Milton-Georgia line in Vermont has agreed to pay a $10,000 fine and contribute another $10,000 to a remediation fund for violations of its state permits during blasting for the project.
The Vermont Public Service Board issued the order to Georgia Mountain Community Wind last week. It's the result a negotiated settlement with surrounding neighbors.
The Burlington Free Press reports the company acknowledged that rock from blasting a road up the mountain likely flew onto a neighboring property with enough force to leave marks on trees.
The company also admitted violating a permit by twice failing to provide enough notice to neighbors of blasting and by blasting on a state holiday.


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Happy New Year everyone! Thank you for sticking around, for reading, for commenting and messaging, for posting and being all-around awesome people! I am so excited and thankful for all the wonderful, amazing people through this weird little thing! Is that incredibly saccharine and trite? It think it might be, or maybe it only is if you don't mean it.
2012 was the weirdest year for me, full of some really weird, sad, bad-luck ridden days (break-ups, dead crows, a case of shingles), and also some of the most fun (summer driving, visiting the best ladies ever, exploring abandoned buildings, getting a cat). Either way, I'm pretty excited for 2013! I think it's a way better number all-around, I think it has a good personality. In the meantime, I thought I'd do a quick post looking back on the past year. I don't feel entirely confident in my personal style, I still feel like I don't know how to describe it, that my mood of what I want to wear changes so much each day, but in looking back on the past year I feel like I've had some of my favorite outfits yet!
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The two-day celebration dedicating Oberlin's new building for jazz studies, music history, and music theory included performances by three legendary artists in stage, music, and film. Bill Cosby got the celebration off to a rip-roaring start by bringing his one-man comedy routine to an enthusiastic crowd in Finney Chapel on Friday, April 30. Opening the performance was composer and pianist Stanley Cowell '62, a Cosby favorite. The comedian, who has built a career on family-style humor, touched on such topics as his first-time experiences with jazz music and the amazing acrobatics involved in the dances couples performed when he was growing up. "When I was 6 there was no TV. I don't mean in my house. There was no TV anywhere. People who said one day you'll be able to see pictures in your house, they put those people away," he joked.
Like many who attended, Kassa Overall '05 got a kick out of the comedian's homespun humor. "Hearing Bill Cosby speak is a gift and I got to experience that," he said. "I love Oberlin." Tyler Grice '12 agreed, and said, "That was the most engaging human experience I've ever had." Promptly after Cosby's show, alumni and students entertained members of the Oberlin community in the 'Sco with a late-night jazz jam session.
The following day, the public was invited to a one-on-one with actor Avery Brooks '70 and Caroline Jackson Smith, professor of theater and African American studies. In his unmistakable baritone voice, Brooks spoke about the convergence of music, dance, and spoken word in his life as an actor and artist.
Describing Oberlin's programs related to jazz music and culture, Brooks said, "I don't know of any other place that exists that celebrates the history, the lineage, of arguably the other classical music in the world."
Rounding out the celebration was a momentous concert in Finney Chapel on Saturday, May 1, with special guest Stevie Wonder. Conservatory Dean David Stull '89 welcomed the audience with a special message he was asked to relay to the Oberlin community by President Barack Obama when accepting the National Medal of the Arts earlier this year: "Tell your team you're doing a great job." Stull also lauded Wendell Logan, the chair of Oberlin's jazz studies program, for his important role in building the program. "We should let Wendell Logan know what he means to us," he said. The audience responded with thunderous applause.
Wonder performed such pop masterpieces as "I Can't Help It" and "Superstition," while musicians such as James McBride '79, Farnell Newton '99, Theo Croker '07, Stanley Cowell '62, Jon Jang '78, and Leon Dorsey '81 (who also served as artistic director) kept audience members on the edges of their seats—and some dancing in the aisles. Overflow seating for the concert was provided at Warner Concert Hall and the Apollo Theatre, which reached full capacity. The Oberlin Jazz Ensemble provided backup and stepped out on its own with a full-force medley of some of Wonder's best-loved songs.
Students from the Oberlin City Schools and their parents were treated to a special concert by Stevie Wonder, and accompanied by members of the Oberlin Orchestra and conductor Bridget-Michaele Reischl. Audience members responded with a standing ovation as Wonder took the stage on Friday, April 30, and launched into Sketches of a Life, the composition he premiered in February 2009, when he received the Library of Congress's second Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. He began writing the song in 1976 and completed it the day Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa in 1994, Wonder told spectators. After he and the orchestra completed the piece, which included crowd-pleasing sounds of the artist's iconic harmonica, he playfully confessed, "I messed up the beginning. I lost my music earlier. I wasn't looking at what I was doing." The audience replied with laughter.
Although time was running short and Wonder was expected on Tappan Square for the honorary degree ceremony, he responded to calls for more: "I'm not really supposed to do this, but…" and as the first notes of "My Cherie Amour" rang from his keyboard, "I only play this song for special occasions." Sophia Warren, a fourth-grader at Oberlin's Prospect Elementary School, counts "My Cherie Amour" and "Superstition" among her favorites. "I was excited because I didn't know he was going to play my favorite song," she said. "I felt happy that playing for us was a special occasion for him."
The formal dedication of the Bertram and Judith Kohl Building began with the sounds of live jazz in Warner Concert Hall and a dramatic delivery by Avery Brooks '70 of the Henry Dumas poem "Play Ebony, Play Ivory." The dedication concluded with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a champagne toast in the Bert and Judy Kohl Garden that extends from the building's third floor. Several members of the Oberlin community made remarks, as did architect Jonathan Kurtz of the firm Westlake Reed Leskosky, who emphasized how the excellence and determination of the people with whom he had worked at Oberlin inspired the entire team. He described his task as creating "a socially dynamic place to bring together people for whom excellence is just a habit."
"Music is a fundamental part of the Oberlin experience–not just for conservatory students, but for a large majority of arts and sciences students as well," remarked Robert Lemle '75, chair of Oberlin's Board of Trustees. "The Kohl Building literally embodies the idea that music is vital to life at Oberlin."
Touched by the celebration, Donna Kohl, wife of Oberlin trustee Stewart Kohl '77, teared up as she thanked those involved. "I never thought the building would be so spectacular," she said. The Kohls gave the lead gift—$5 million—for the building in memory of Stewart's parents, Bertram and Judith Kohl.
Stewart Kohl's remarks followed those of his wife. He predicted: "The Kohl Building is going to outperform even its own hype." Noting that Oberlin did not allow the jazz piano pioneer Dave Brubeck to use its best Steinway for his now-legendary 1953 concert, conservatory Dean David Stull '89 asked, "How do you get from there to here?" The answer, he said, was Wendell Logan, professor of African American music and jazz studies chair. Stull then announced that the building's commons area would be named for the revered professor. Logan ended the ceremony with advice: "Make sure the focus is on the music."
Students got a sneak peek the day before, dodging "wet paint" signs and construction workers who were still adding finishing touches to the building. "This is the coolest thing ever," said viola performance and religion major Mandy Hogan '13. "The vibe, feel of it, and the colors, are so jazz." The building's new state-of-the-art recording studio—a wood-encased, two-story room connected to a cutting-edge control center featuring digital and analog recording equipment—garnered some of the most awed student reactions. Said one student upon entering: "Epic."
"Oberlin is a remarkable place. And even by Oberlin's high standards, these are exciting times," noted Robert Lemle '75, chair of Oberlin's Board of Trustees, as he welcomed the large crowd that filled Tappan Square on the afternoon of Friday, April 30. "We are here to confer Oberlin's highest honor upon three exceptional individuals—Drs. William and Camille Cosby and Stevie Wonder. Unswerving dedication to excellence, and the relentless determination to help others are the hallmarks of their lives and work."
"Like true Oberlinians, Bill and Camille Cosby and Stevie Wonder believe that education empowers," said President Marvin Krislov. An eruption of cheers ensued. "On this glorious day we at Oberlin can say Dr. Cosby, Dr. Cosby, Dr. Wonder, you have brought sunshine into our lives," Krislov concluded. While conferring honorary Doctorate of Humanities degrees to the Cosbys, Johnnetta Betsch Cole '57 recognized the couple for their immense contributions as artists, educators, and philanthropists. Thanks to their efforts, 26 students at Oberlin have benefited through the Bill and Camille Cosby Family Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to needy and worthy African American students. Professor Wendell Logan, who conferred Wonder with an honorary Doctorate of Music degree, recognized the artist for his distinguished career as a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, as well as for his humanitarian efforts and philanthropic leadership. "[All of us] must understand that we have the responsibility being on this planet to love, and love, and love, for as long as we live," he told the crowd.
The James and Susan Neumann Jazz Collection, now part of the Bertram and Judith Kohl Building, was unveiled during a ceremony in Kulas Recital Hall. Neumann's collection, considered to be the largest privately held jazz collection in the country, contains more than 100,000 recordings, memorabilia, letters, posters, and autographs from some of the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century. "I was into the minutiae of jazz," the 1958 Oberlin graduate said. "I wanted to get everything [the musicians] ever produced. For instance, there's a recording of [jazz trumpeter] Kenny Dorham playing at a high school in Brooklyn and [jazz clarinet player] Buddy DeFranco with the National Guard playing in Arizona."
During the presentation, Neumann took a moment to bring to the podium James Newman who, as a student in 1953, was instrumental in bringing Dave Brubeck to Oberlin for a concert that became the groundbreaking Jazz at Oberlin LP, though he did so without institutional support. "They weren't eager to recognize jazz as a legitimate musical form," said Newman. With the opening of the $24 million Kohl Building, it's safe to say things have changed.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Former President George H.W. Bush may go home on Monday from the Houston hospital where he has been since November, a spokesman said.
"That's what we hope - awaiting final word from the doctors if it will be today or tomorrow," family spokesman Jim McGrath said in an email on Monday.
One of Bush's sons, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, said on Saturday that his father was expected to be released from the hospital on Monday, according to TCPalm.com.
The former president, 88, was admitted to Methodist Hospital on November 23 for bronchitis and then transferred to intensive care in December after coming down with a persistent fever and other complications. He was moved to a regular patient room after his condition improved last month.
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"I'm Not A Lawyer, But ..." : Right-Wing Media Disagree With Legal Experts On Fifth Amendment
Right-wing media figures argued that Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights at a congressional hearing by declaring her innocence before invoking those rights. By contrast, legal experts say Lerner's statement did not negate her constitutional protections.
Right-Wing Media: Lerner "Clearly Gave Up Her Fifth Amendment Right"
Fox's Napolitano: Fifth Amendment Is "An All-Or-Nothing Proposition." On the May 22 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, Fox senior legal correspondent Andrew Napolitano claimed that by giving a statement at the hearing declaring her innocence, Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment protections in part or in full:
NAPOLITANO: Look, there's a couple ways to look at this. The Fifth Amendment has been interpreted by the courts -- that's the amendment that says you don't have to testify against yourself -- as an all-or-nothing proposition. You either give no testimony other than saying who you are, or you answer all questions truthfully. If witnesses were permitted to pick and choose which question to answer, then they would control the forum rather than the questioner. So she either waived her Fifth Amendment right by making her statement -- meaning she now has to answer everything -- or she certainly waived her Fifth Amendment right about the statements she made. So when she said: "I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't break any laws. I didn't violate any IRS procedures," she waived her Fifth Amendment right on those three categories -- anything wrong, federal laws, IRS procedures. And the House of Representatives can go around the corner to a federal judge, not far from where I am now, and get an order directing her to answer their questions on those three subject matters because she volunteered to say that before she invoked the Fifth Amendment protection. [Fox News, Your World with Neil Cavuto, 5/22/13]
Fox's Krauthammer: "I'm Not A Lawyer, But" Lerner "Clearly Gave Up Her Fifth Amendment Right." On the May 22 edition of Fox News' Special Report, Fox contributor Charles Krauthammer claimed that Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment right after making a brief statement expressing her innocence:
KRAUTHAMMER: But I'm just astonished by how weakly and with such uncertainty [Rep. Darrell] Issa (R-CA) handled that. I mean I'm not a lawyer, but it is clear that if she makes a statement, a substantive statement on all of these things, and then says "but, I'm not going to answer your questions" that [Rep. Trey] Gowdy (R-SC) is right. You can't have it one way, speak on the issue and then say "I'm not going to answer your question." She clearly gave up her right -- the Fifth Amendment right -- if not entirely, at least on the things she said: "I didn't break any laws. I didn't break any of the regulations. I did nothing wrong." On those she must speak with the committee. [Fox News, Special Report with Bret Baier, 5/22/13]
Limbaugh: "The Fifth Amendment Is Not Intended To Be Used As A Shield." On the May 22 edition of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh argued that Lerner's statement waived her Fifth Amendment rights:
LIMBAUGH: It is as I thought: the Fifth Amendment is not intended to be used as a shield. The Fifth Amendment is simply there to make sure they prove it. You do not have to incriminate yourself, but once you assert your innocence and once you say you didn't do anything wrong, you can't then use the Fifth Amendment to say "I'm not answering questions." [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 5/22/13]
Fox's Gasparino: "I Don't Know How You Get Away With Taking The Fifth After You Start Defending Yourself." On the May 23 edition of Fox & Friends, Fox Business Network senior correspondent Charlie Gasparino claimed that Lerner should be held "in some sort of contempt" for issuing a statement of innocence before invoking her Fifth Amendment rights:
GASPARINO: That was bizarre. I mean I don't know how you get away with taking the Fifth after you start defending yourself. If this was a court of law you'd be held in contempt or something like this. It's a congressional panel. They should bring her back and hold her in some sort of contempt and get her to fess up here exactly who knew what where. What is really scary about this is that it shows you how bad and insane big government is. The guys on the top starting with the president, we don't know what happened down here. It shows you that if you were out there and you voted for this president and his economic agenda how unaccountable it is because he wants this big government where he doesn't have to account for anything. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 5/23/13]
Fox's Doocy: Lerner "Took The Fifth, And Now She Will Have To Face The Music." On the May 23 edition of Fox News's Fox & Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson claimed Lerner will "have to face the music" for her "serious and profound and almost unheard of error" :
DOOCY: So, the big question is: did she waive her Fifth Amendment rights by giving an opening statement? Legal experts say it could be interpreted as a subject matter waiver, where she made factual statements and then tried to clam up. But you got to wonder: you know, Lois [Lerner] has been before Congress a number of times, why is she afraid of telling the truth? [...] Lois should've just sat there and told the truth, but instead she took the Fifth and now she will have to face the music.
CARLSON: Well, since I'm not a lawyer -- I always wanted to be one -- but I consulted Judge Andrew Napolitano this morning. Here's what he said about it: "It was a serious and profound and almost unheard of legal error. She can now be compelled to answer questions about the substance of the denials she uttered before she invoked the Fifth Amendment privilege." And that's what Darrel Issa believes. He's now possibly going to subpoena her and hold her in contempt, if she does not come back and answer questions. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 5/23/13]
Fox's Van Susteren: Lerner's Statement Was "Probably One of the Dumbest Things She Could've Done." On the May 22 edition of Fox News' On The Record with Greta Van Susteren, the host claimed Lerner is now in a position where courts could "compel her to testify" because of her broad statement of innocence:
VAN SUSTEREN: You know, I've gone back and forth all day long, whether you're right or wrong -- you're right or you're wrong -- and then it occurred to me that this is probably one of the dumbest things she could've done. And her lawyer, who I know, probably advised -- because if you think about it, is that all she had to do was go in here, take the Fifth, leave the building, and she could've said the same thing on the steps of the United States Capitol. Everyone in the media would've followed it, we would've all been replaying it, and then she wouldn't be in this position where you guys are thinking about going to court to compel her to testify as a waiver.
GOWDY: That, or have her lawyer read her statement or post it on Facebook. She had a lot of options, but she didn't choose any of those. She came, as you noted, came to our committee hearing under subpoena, took the oath. She had already warmed us she might invoke, and then she testified. I mean, what she did was testimony. So my question to Chairman Issa is: when do we get our chance? You say you didn't lie to Congress, you say you didn't break any IRS rules. Let us decide that. Let us ask you some questions. Chairman Issa has got a couple different options at his disposal, one of which is to bring her back tomorrow. I promise you, Greta, if she comes back tomorrow she will invoke, which will then set up a contempt analysis. [Fox News, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, 5/22/13]
Breitbart.com's Pollak On Lerner's Remarks: "An Opening Statement On Record ... Would Waive Her Rights." In an update to a May 22 article, Breitbart.com editor-in-chief and former Republican nominee for Congress Joel Pollak claimed that Lerner's "opening statement" disqualified her from Fifth Amendment protections:
It is possible that Lerner anticipated an eventual subpoena and therefore chose to place an opening statement on record even though doing so would waive her rights. She has been accused of lying to Congress. [Breitbart.com, 5/22/13]
Actual Legal Experts: Lerner's Statement Doesn't Negate Her Rights
Fifth Amendment Expert: "Select Invocation" Such As Lerner's Happens "All The Time." In a May 22 article, New York magazine's Dan Amira and Regent University Fifth Amendment expert James Duane explained that Lerner's statement is not in fact a waiver of her constitutional rights, and that such statements occur frequently in congressional hearings:
Had this been an actual criminal trial, in an actual courtroom, and had Lerner been an actual defendant, then yes, it would not have been permissible for her to testify in her own defense and then refuse cross-examination on Fifth Amendment grounds. But a congressional hearing is not a criminal trial in two important ways, Duane tells Daily Intelligencer.
First, unlike in a trial, where she could choose to take the stand or not, Lerner had no choice but to appear before the committee. Second, in a trial there would be a justifiable concern about compromising a judge or jury by providing them with "selective, partial presentation of the facts." But Congress is merely pursuing information as part of an investigation, not making a definitive ruling on Lerner's guilt or innocence.
"When somebody is in this situation," says Duane, a Harvard Law graduate whose 2008 lecture on invoking the Fifth Amendment with police has been viewed on YouTube nearly 2.5 million times, "when they are involuntarily summoned before grand jury or before legislative body, it is well settled that they have a right to make a 'selective invocation,' as it's called, with respect to questions that they think might raise a meaningful risk of incriminating themselves."
In fact, Duane says, "even if Ms. Lerner had given answers to a few questions -- five, ten, twenty questions -- before she decided, 'That's where I draw the line, I'm not answering any more questions,' she would be able to do that as well." Such uses of selective invocation "happen all the time." [New York, 5/22/13]
WSJ: Legal Expert: "A Denial Is Different Than Disclosing Incriminating Facts." A May 22 article on The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog explains that while Lerner's remarks exist in a legally ambiguous space, legal experts say "it didn't seem that Ms. Lerner disclosed any incriminating facts that would demand further explanation" :
Ms. Lerner, who was subpoenaed to testify, wasn't taking the stand at a criminal trial. But it's generally accepted that the same protections apply in congressional investigations.
To guard against distorted testimony, courts have held that you can't selectively invoke the privilege by picking and choosing the details that you disclose.
But it's never been clearly articulated exactly what constitutes a waiver of privileges in this situation, Andrew D. Leipold, a professor of criminal procedure at the University of Illinois College of Law, told Law Blog.
The same issue came up in 2002, when Bernard Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom, rankled members of the House Financial Services Committee when he asserted his Fifth Amendment rights after declaring himself innocent of criminal conduct and defending his role at the company in brief prepared remarks. He was never charged with contempt of Congress.
But while it would have been safer for Ms. Lerner to not saying anything, it's doubtful that Ms. Lerner went too far in her opening remarks, legal experts said.
Yale Kamisar, a retired University of Michigan law professor who is an expert on criminal procedure, said it didn't seem that Ms. Lerner disclosed any incriminating facts that would demand further explanation.
"A denial is different than disclosing incriminating facts," he said. "You ought to be able to make a general denial, and then say I don't want to discuss it further," he said. [The Wall Street Journal, 5/22/13]
Former Harvard Law School Dean: Fifth Amendment Holds In Criminal Court, Why Not In "Legislative Inquiry" ? A May 22 article at The Guardian's U.S. News blog recounts America's complex history with the Fifth Amendment, citing an essay by legal scholar Erwin Griswold. While the contexts differ, Griswold's argument for the Fifth holds:
A Harvard law school dean, Erwin Griswold, mounted the seminal defense of the practice in a 1954 essay titled The Fifth Amendment: An Old and Good Friend. Revolted by the personal destructiveness of the McCarthy era, Griswold drew a comparison between criminal courts and congressional hearings:
In our criminal courts, we would never think of requiring an accused person to answer questions. He doesn't have to take the stand at all, and if he does do so, he has the protection of an impartial judge, and the right to have his counsel speak in court on his behalf. Why should it be so different in a legislative inquiry, when the information that is sought relates to the witness' own conduct? [The Guardian, 5/22/13]


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First Steps
Simply start the PulseAudio daemon with the argument
pulseaudio -nC
This will present you a screen like this:
Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information.
Now you can issue CLI commands as described here. If you already have
pulseaudio started use pacmd command to open the CLI. Another way to start
pulseaudio is by specifying a configuration script like that one included in the distribution on the command line:
pulseaudio -nF pulseaudio.pa
This will load some drivers and protocols automatically.
The best idea is to configure your daemon in
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LOOK AT MY HORSE (also known as "Get on My Horse" and "Amazing Horse") is the most controversial internet phenomenon to date. Look at my horse my horse is amazing is a reminder of woman's discrimination and the extinction of transport by horses. My horse is amazing is a viral animation of an Amazing Horse and a courteous and honorable man wearing a top hat and yelling and singing with a woman "shut up woman get on my horse".
The gentleman and woman are singing and dancing to the music played by the amazing horse. Get my horse, myhorseisamazing, my amazing horse has funny lyrics. The my Amazing Horse video was uploaded to the enternets in September 2009. Shutupwomangetonmyhorse video has inspired other getonmyhorse fans to create their own covers such as the look at my horse mp3 which is available for download at the top of this page. Look my horse (http://www.lookatmyhorsemyhorseisamazing.com/) is sometimes misspelled as look at my hourse (http://lookatmyhorsemyhorseisamazing.com/).
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8 hospitals earn hip and knee Blue Distinction
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has selected the following Sentara Healthcare hospitals as Blue Distinction Centers for Knee and Hip Replacement, part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program:
- Sentara CarePlex Hospital
- Sentara Leigh Hospital
- Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital
- Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center
- Sentara Obici Hospital
- Sentara RMH Medical Center
- Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital
- Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center
Blue Distinction Centers are nationally designated healthcare facilities shown to deliver improved patient safety and better health outcomes, based on objective measures that were developed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies with input from the medical community.
Knee and hip replacement procedures are among the fastest growing medical treatments in the U.S., according to studies published in the June 2014 Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Hospitals designated as Blue Distinction Centers for Knee and Hip Replacement demonstrate expertise in total knee and total hip replacement surgeries, resulting in fewer patient complications and hospital readmissions. Designated hospitals must also maintain national accreditation.
Sentara is proud of these hospitals for being recognized by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield for meeting the robust selection criteria for knee and hip replacements set by the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program.
"Sentara is dedicated to excellence and innovation in our Sentara OrthoJoint Center® programs," said Carole Guinane, Vice President, Sentara Orthopedic Services. "We are committed to enhancing patient and family education about the joint replacement experience, enabling patients to return home quicker and improving their overall experience with us. And, we are thrilled Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has recognized nearly every hospital in our system for our focus on quality care and customer service."
Since 2006, the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program has helped patients find quality providers for their specialty care needs in the areas of bariatric surgery, cardiac care, complex and rare cancers, knee and hip replacements, maternity care, spine surgery, and transplants, while encouraging healthcare professionals to improve the care they deliver. For more information about the program and for a complete listing of the designated facilities, please visit www.bcbs.com/bluedistinction.


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For the people who know me, the title of this project will be read as "well that sounds about right". For the rest of society it may need some modicum of rationalization. To that end, have you ever missed the doorbell ringing? Perhaps you were in the shower or vacuuming the floor. Well, fear no more; you won't miss hearing this one.
The video can be seen here; sadly the camera cannot pick up how loud it really is. The fact that the entire assembly wiggles when activated should give you a bit of an idea how much air is being passed through it though.
I was given this Lunkenheimer steam train whistle as a birthday gift quite a few years ago. I came up with the idea to make it into a doorbell shortly thereafter for pretty obvious reasons, but I was unsure how I wanted to execute the wireless part of it. As you can see here I ended up using an el-cheapo wireless doorbell. This solved a lot of problems for me, not the least of which is that I can let the bell ring for a bit first before activating the steam whistle so my heart remains firmly in my chest rather than being startled to death every time UPS stops by.
Circuit wise, this doorbell came with an led on the front that blinks when the bell is activated. So, when I was designing the circuit in my head, thinking I would have to tap into the circuit board to get a logic signal; turns out I could just make a simple circuit to 'watch' the led; a photo transistor with a 10k pulldown works a treat. The sprinkler solenoid is rated at 24VAC. I don't know why they are AC and they work fine on DC, but it was easy enough to make a power supply that had the 24VAC and 12VDC so I did. The 5v RadioShack relay annoyed me when I found out it was going to draw 83mA and I would need a transistor amplifier. Yeah, not that big of a deal, but I thought I was being clever instead of using one of the 12v automotive relays from the junk box.
I took the spring and valve out of the steam whistle so that it could be operated solely by the sprinkler solenoid. This allows a massive amount of air to be passed through the whistle so "tuning" it was necessary by screwing the bell part in closer to the air escapement. I was hovering over the whistle when I tried out the circuit for the first time and it literally blasted the eye glasses off of my face.
The doorbell has, I think, 7 different rings to it. I settled on the "fog horn"; it cracks me up. It reminds me of Eeyore for whatever reason. Then the train whistle kicks in so it is like the whole thing goes from depressive to bat shit hyper in 3 seconds. For now it does a toot tooooot as you would imagine. It uses up pretty much all the air in the compressor in that short amount of time.
The video can be seen here; sadly the camera cannot pick up how loud it really is. The fact that the entire assembly wiggles when activated should give you a bit of an idea how much air is being passed through it though.
Here is another vid of the doorbell in action. The whistle is set inside of the house while I activate it from outside.
I am still trying to find a good way to upload code, but for today here it is:
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IBM beams in Tivoli monitoring from the cloud
Web watches over on-premise infrastructure
IBM has been a busy bee floating chunks of its big, complicated, on-premise IT management software into the cloud in order to woo small- and mid-sized businesses.
The latest to receive a web-based treatment is IBM Tivoli Live, a web-based service that takes several bits of the company's on-premise Tivoli monitoring products and serves it up from Big Blue's own halls.
Just to be clear, that's a web-based service checking on the health of on-premise IT. Somewhat an odd proposition. But IBM claims the deal will let smallish and medium-ish firms avoid making a huge initial investment in hardware and software licenses to do it in-house.
The web-based Tivoli Live supports monitoring of 25 to 500 nodes. It's split into two tiers of service plus one add-on.
A "Touchless" option monitors devices and operating systems (Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX) using an agent-less Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.1. That goes for $44 per month per node.
Meanwhile, An agent-based OS and application monitoring option uses IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.1 and IBM Composite Application Manager for Applications, costing $58 per month per node.
IBM charges $14 per month per service extra for historical trend analysis, plus performance and capability reporting.
The service also requires a rather steep one-time $6,500 setup fee per customer for "on-boarding costs." Service contracts are a minimum of 90 days and run from one to three years. Hmm, while the service itself may be on-target, it seems the terms and initial fee are a bit binding to really appeal to small company types. ®


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Swimming Pool Evaporation - stop the cycle!
by Sean Griffin, June 29, 2009
Evaporation can be stealing water from your pool and money from your wallet. Water costs money yes, but water that has been treated and heated costs more!
There are a few simple tricks that can be implemented to reduce your evaporation and save you some green.
Evaporation is the process by which water is converted from its liquid form to its vapor form and thus transferred from land and water masses to the atmosphere. Evaporation accounts for up to 90% of heat loss from a swimming pool.
High ambient outside air temperature will increase a pools evaporation rates but an enclosure should slow it down. Pool covers can also decrease evaporation rate. Evaporation rates depend on the temperature in the water and the temperature in the air, the actual humidity of the air and the velocity of the air above the surface. Most of the heat required for the evaporation is taken from the water itself. Not only does evaporation steal water, but hot water is the first to go.
The best way to reduce evaporation and the loss of energy is to cover the pool with a solar blanket or automatic cover. Pool covers can reduce evaporation by up to 98% saving you money on water and pool chemicals. Pool covers can reduce chemical consumption by 35-60% and can save up to 70% on operating costs.
In cases where a cover is impractical you can reduce the velocity of wind traveling over your pool surface by planting bushes and plant life around the pool. Fences and gates will also deter heat and evaporation loss from pool. Liquid solar blankets are also available creating an invisible layer of protection on your pool surface.
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|About the Center for Civic Education
The Center for Civic Education is an independent, non profit organization with offices in Los Angeles. California, and Washington D.C. The Center's domestic programs are implemented in every state, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. The Center's international programs involve partnerships with more than eighty other nations.
The Center has its roots in the interdisciplinary Committee on Civic Education, which formed in 1965 at the University of California, Los Angeles, to develop more effective curricular programs in elementary and secondary civic education. In 1969 the Center became affiliated with the State Bar of California, and in 1981 it was established as an independent nonprofit organization.
The principle goals of the Center's programs are to help students develop
Ultimately, the Center strives to develop an enlightened citizenry by working to increase teachers' and students' understanding of the principles, values, institutions, and history of constitutional democracy.
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Prostate Cancer Screening Recommendations
Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
Since free PSA tests are usually used in patients with total PSA values >4.0, what is the significance of a total value of <4.0 (2.8 in my case) with a free PSA of 15%? What type of screening would you recommend?
Alan J. Wein, MD, Professor and chair of the Division of Urology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Chief of Urology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
There is no significance of a PSA of 2.8 with a free PSA of 15%. Prostate cancer is rarely seen in men younger than 50 years old. The chance of developing prostate cancer increases as men get older. So, if you are over 50, you should continue to have a PSA yearly. Black males are more likely to develop prostate cancer than white males. Black males are also more likely to die of prostate cancer than white males. So, if you are over 40 years old and African American, you should continue to have a PSA yearly.
Family history of prostate cancer is also a significant factor when screening. A man whose father, brother, or son has had prostate cancer has a higher-than-average risk of developing prostate cancer. So, if you are over 40 with a first-degree relative who had prostate cancer, you should continue to have a PSA yearly.
The only exceptions to the above recommendations would be:
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For Young Athletes, Injuries Need Special Care
More Programs Are Using Procedures and Surgical Techniques Tailored for Kids
Children's hospitals are expanding programs to care for a fast-growing category of young patients: injured athletes.
The rehabilitation needs of children and teens are different than those of adults. More sports medicine programs are working exclusively with young athletes, using surgical techniques and physical therapy protocols that don't interfere with growing bones and cartilage.


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KoKit is a framework collection, that extends the functionality of GNUstep's Foundation and AppKit. Basically it's a collection of classes we use repeatedly, so instead of adding the source again and again, we decided to create KoKit.
It currently consists of the following frameworks:
- KoBase is the low-lewel framework in the KoKit framework collection. It provides some simple to use debugging aids, instance counting to discover and track memory leaks, and functions for easy C string manipulation.
- KoFoundation is an extension to GNUstep's Foundation framework. It adds additional containers, such as LIFO (stack) and FIFO (queue), a signal handler and more.
- KoAppKit is an extension to GNUstep's AppKit framework. It adds a collection of useful extensions and widgets that make GUI development a bit easier.
- KoCrypt provides a collection of classes of cryptographic algorithms and categories for quick and easy access.
- KoNet is a collection of classes that deal with BSD socket programming.
- Tryst is a proof of concept implementation of Apple's Bonjour (formerly known as Rendezvous) for GNUstep.
Bonjour allows you to register a network service, such as a printer or file server, so that it can be found by name or browsed for by service type and domain.
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image credit Stevie Nicks/Morrison Hotel Gallery
Stevie Nicks may have found fame in Fleetwood Mac, but she is nothing if not her own super star, apparently. Concurrent with the October 7th release of her new solo album 24 Karat Gold - Songs from the Vault and her upcoming tour with the fully reunited Buckingham Nicks era Fleetwood Mac line-up, Morrison Hotel Gallery will debut Stevie's 24 Karat Gold photographic exhibit featuring a collection of Nicks' intimate and meticulously executed Polaroid self-portraits created while at home and on the road between 1975 and 1987. The exhibit begins in New York City on October 10th and 11th at 201 Mulberry Street, moving from there on to the Morrison Hotel Gallery Loft at 116 Prince Street for the month of October. Prints will be available for sale through the website, the gallery in Soho and and through Morrison Hotel Gallery's Los Angeles location at the Sunset Marquis Hotel, October 12th to the 21st.
Given that many of the songs recorded for this new album were written between 1969 and 1987, this exhibition presents a fitting glimpse into the clandestine musings of an artist at work. "I always hoped that there would be some kind of an outlet for them," Nicks says of these images. "When I started looking back at these songs I wrote years ago to select what I would record for my new album, I began to look at all the Polaroids I had taken during that time. For every love affair I had, there are pictures. "


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OC3D Rig Gallery - jamesriley94
OC3D Rig Gallery - jamesriley94
Published: 28th January 2013 | Source: OC3D Rig Gallery |
OC3D Rig Gallery - jamesriley94
We have been noticing quite a few very good projects popping up in our Project Log section of the Forum recently and we though it's about time we showcase some of them. If you haven't been there go take a look and even leave a log of your own if you're planning a new build or even doing some mods of your own.
Today it's the turn of jamesriley94, this user started off with his project/gallery called 'insert meaningful title here' which was a very good build which consisted of:
Intel 3770k
P8Z77 deluxe board
8GB Mushkin Blackline ram
Noctua D14
Corsair AX850 With braided cables
Crucial M4 128GB
CoolerMaster 690 II
There were a few plans in the pipeline such as watercooling and a few other tweaks but in the end the next little update consisted of getting rid of the noisy 7650, changing all of the out of place red fans for Silverstone Air Penetrators and most disturbing he ditched the Noctua fans :o
So the ending spec of the system was:
P8Z77 deluxe
D14 with Silverstone fans
Crucial M4
This Elusive OC3D Xmas competition came around dubbed 'Custom Corsair Christmas Compo' and as most people on the forum did he entered hoping to win some goodies, well this year was his lucky year and he won 3rd place which entitled him to a £150 SpecialTech voucher and a selection of Corsair goodies which included the Vengeance 1500, M90 and the MM400.
Let's start with what James did with the SpecialTech voucher. From the looks of things he planned to watercool his system in some way be it the Corsair h100 or a custom loop.
So James bit the bullet and decided to go buy some goodies with his winnings, roughly around half of his watercooling equipment was covered by the voucher and he put in some cash himself to get what he wanted.
He started off by getting hold of a NZXT Switch 810 and a Radiator, his original plan was to get something like a Trooper/Stryker and mod it however due to being a uni student there is a restriction on having power tools in halls. Also being a uni student limited his choices in purchases so there was no custom made parts or special fittings.
So after ordering most of the Watercooling equipment, case and everything else that he needed he though what the heck and went all out so ordered himself a new GPU and block.
Now some people are thinking ooooo 2 670's well unfortunately his KFA2 670 wasn't a reference design and he didn't like the idea of a universal block, so in the end he went for a Raystorm GPU & CPU block's.
He based most of his choices on reviews and advice from the one and only OC3D along with some previous experience.
He then looked back on how much he spent and it came close to £750 excluding the voucher, this got him thinking and he came up with the notion of well what are student loans for if not for watercooling?
The final spec after the new gear was added :
P8Z77-v Deluxe
AX850 with blue braided cables
8gb Mushkin Blackline
Xonar Essence STX
Crucial M4 128gb
NZXT Switch 810 Matte Black.
XSPC Raystorm Waterblock
XSPC 680 Razor Waterblock
Alphacool UT60 360mm Rad
XSPC D5 Reservoir with pump
Mastercleer Hi-Flex 7/16 with Bitspower 1/2 fittings.
So now on to some glory shots with all his lovely new kit installed.
As for the other prize's that he won well he has decided to hand them back to OC3D for someone else who could benefit more than himself. This decision was down to the fact that he has very similar gear and would have been very insincere of him to pretend that he would use the prizes.
I then asked him what made you decided to decline them and not simply sell then as some may do. His reply was a very modest and compelling, he was against selling them as he didn't think it was right and that they could go to someone who would actually use them and be very grateful for them.
Another reason behind this was the fact that the forum has helped him a lot with advice and many other things so it seemed right to give back and possibly inspire others to help out on the forum if they can. Kudos for the kindness mate it's nice to see.
James did say he would like to thank SpecialTech for not only the voucher but the awesome service when ordering.
If you would like to visit his gallery feel free to do so in the OC3D Forums
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Shame you got rid of the CM case, could have been a really good mod,
im half tempted to buy it and show you what you coulda done and take it to i49
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My own follow-on comment was:If we make the river flow backwards, do we have to get everyone in Missouri to move to Nebraska and everyone in Nebraska move to Missouri, just to make the vector mathematics work properly?
I spent minutes deciding between "maths" (better for me and most of the world who care) and "math" (better for you colonials) before deciding upon "mathematics"!
Added the quotes retroactively. Sadly it does make an edit tag appear now that the thread has responses. I've also noticed a great deal older comic entries have very broken formats. I was wondering if we took the time to make new threads if the mods would merge them for us to fix the top post.


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The number one question on everyone's mind with Crank 2 is, How the heck is Chev still alive and kicking? This trailer lays it all on the line.
Chev (Jason Statham) gets scraped off the ground and thrown into surgery. A mob boss starts harvesting off his organs starting by replacing his big heart with a mechanical one. He escapes, but now he has to charge up his fake heart every so often with electricity — or else wild, wild sex with Amy Smart.
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Robert Reich: How Unequal Can America Get Before We Snap?
Date: 5/9/2005; 59 minutes
Robert Reich, a visiting professor at the UC, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and former U.S. Secretary of Labor talks about the inequality of income, wealth and opportunity in the United States and asks his audience to speculate on what will happen if these trends continue. (#9521)
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Mrs. O Charms Cape Town
Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP Images
Mrs. O was in Cape Town, South Africa today, where she answered student questions at the University of Cape Town, followed by a visit to the District 6 Museum.
The First Lady's outfit du jour includes a Reed Krakoff coated boucle blazer, last seen here, paired with navy trousers and a printed top Duro Olowu top (see reader Kemi's analysis here). Nava Zahavi earrings accessorized the look.
Update: One more photo from later in the day, as Mrs. O participated in activities to raise awareness for HIV prevention at Cape Town Stadium. It's tempting to re-title this post 'Having a Ball'!
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Kensington, Jul 2001, 22.00, 360 pp. ISBN: 1575666707 In Syracuse, Noah's Ark sells exotic pets, but the owner Robin Light fails to make enough money to pay her taxes. If she does not come up with some cash soon, she will be forced to declare bankruptcy. Robin moonlights as a private detective, but is so desperately strapped for income, she accepts two cases simultaneously. The first case involves a fifteen-year-old runaway whose pa...
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== Creating New Packages ==
== Creating New Packages ==
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Creating New Packages
CVSROOT=/cvs/pkgs cvs co CVSROOT cd CVSROOT/admin
See below for detail of invoking the scripts.
- Check Bugzilla Ticket to make sure it looks ok
- Add the package information to the packagedb with pkgdb-client
- Use pkgdb2branch to create the branches on the cvs server
4. Update koji.
Using pkgdb-client
Use pkgdb-client to update the pkgdb with new information. For instance, to add a new package:
pkgdb-client edit -u toshio -o terjeros -d 'Python module to extract EXIF information' -b F-10 -b F-11 -b devel python-exif
To update that package later and add someone to the initialcclist do:
pkgdb-client edit -u toshio -c kevin python-exif
To add a new branch for a package:
pkgdb-client edit -u toshio -b F-10 -b EL-5 python-exif
To allow provenpackager to edit a branch:
pkgdb-client edit -u toshio -b devel -a provenpackager python-exif
To remove provenpackager commit rights on a branch:
pkgdb-client edit -u toshio -b EL-5 -b EL-4 -r provenpackager python-exif
More options can be found by running pkgdb-client --help
You must be in the cvsadmin group to use pkgdb-client. It can be run on a non-Fedora Infrastructure box if you set the PACKAGEDBURL environment variable to the public URL:
export PACKAGEDBURL=https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb
Using pkgdb2branch
Use pkgdb2branch.py to create cvs branches for a package. pkgdb2branch.py takes a list of package names on the command line and creates the branches in cvs that are specified in the packagedb. For instance:
./pkgdb2branch.py python-exif qa-assistant
Will create cvs branches specified in the packagedb for python-exif and qa-assistant.
pkgdb2branch can only be run from cvs-int.
Update Koji
Optionally you can synchronize pkgdb and koji by hand: it is done automatically hourly by a cronjob. There is a script for this in the admin/ directory of the CVSROOT module.
Since dist-f11 and later inherit from dist-f10, and currently dist-f10 is the basis of our stack, it's easiest to just call:
./owner-sync-pkgdb dist-f12
Just run
./owners-sync-pkgdb for usage output.
This script requires that you have a properly configured koji client installed.
owner-sync-pkgdb requires the koji client libraries which are not available on the cvs server. So you need to run this from one of your machines.
In the CVSROOT/admin checkout, there is a shell script called addpackage. It reads in and parses a New Package Request on stdin, and after checking, generates the new pkgdb entry and makes the branches. There are confirmation prompts along the way to check that each step is right.
You need to invoke the script with your cvsadmin FAS account name (NOT the new package owner's name):
./addpackage spot
Helper Scripts
These scripts are invoked by the scripts above, doing some of the heavy lifting. They should not ordinarily be called on their own.
/usr/local/bin/mkbranchwrapper is a shell script which takes a list of packages and branches. For instance:
mkbranchwrapper foo bar EL-5 F-11
will create modules foo and bar for devel if they don't exist and branch them for the other 4 branches passed to the script. If the devel branch exists then it just branches. If there is no branches passed the module is created in devel only.
mkbranchwrapper has to be run from cvs-int.
mkbranchwrapper is not used by any current programs. Use pkgdb2branch instead.
setup_package creates a new blank module in devel only. It can be run from any host. To create a new package run
setup_package foo
setup_package needs to be called once for each package. it could be wrapped in a shell script similar to
#!/bin/bash PACKAGES="" for arg in $@; do PACKAGES="$PACKAGES $arg" done echo "packages=$PACKAGES" for package in $PACKAGES; do ~/bin/setup_package $package done
then call the script with all branches after it.
setup_package is currently called from pkgdb2branch.
Pseudo Users for SIGs
See CVS_admin_requests#Pseudo-users_for_SIGs for the current list.
Retire Packages
Any packager can retire a package. click on the retire package button for the package in the webui. There's currently no pkgdb-client command to retire a package.
Unretire Packages
Any cvsadmin can unretire a package. Simply use pkgdb-client to assign an owner and the package will be unretired.
$ pkgdb-client -o toshio -b devel qa-assistant
As a cvsadmin you can also log into the pkgdb webui and click on the unretire package button. Once clicked, the package will be orphaned rather than retired.
Performing mass comaintainer requests
- Confirm that the requestor has 'approveacls' on all packages they wish to operate on. If they do not, they MUST request the change via FESCo.
- Mail maintainers/co-maintainers affected by the change to inform them of who requested the change and why.
- Download a copy of this script:
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=fedora-infrastructure.git;a=blob;f=scripts/pkgdb_bulk_comaint/comaint.py;hb=HEAD
- Edit the script to have the proper package owners and package name pattern.
- Edit the script to have the proper new comaintainers.
- Ask someone in sysadmin-web to disable email sending on bapp01 for the pkgdb (following the instructions in comments in the script)
- Copy the script to an infrastructure host (like cvs01) that can contact bapp01 and run it.


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Lil Johnny's has teamed up with Salty Air Open Market to bring the locals our delicious menu twice a week. We will be serving lunch and dinner. Even some Fisherman to Chef specials with the onsite Seafood Market, so watch for the announcements of daily specials. Local businesses will be able to text in their orders and have it ready when they arrive. Just another step for us to serve our favorite communities.
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Hampton Plantation State Historic Site
1950 Rutledge RD
McClellanville, SC 29458Get Directions
Phone: (843) 546-9361
City: McClellanville
Region: Coastal & Islands
Hampton Plantation State Historic Site
Tucked away in the remote last vestiges of a colonial-era rice plantation, Hampton Plantation State Historic Site is both bucolic and evocative.
The plantation's Georgian-style mansion and well-kept grounds serve as an interpretive site for the system of slavery that helped build such plantations into the greatest generators of wealth in early American history. They also tell the story of the freed people who made their homes there for generations after emancipation.
Visitors can explore the mansion, wander the plantation grounds or just look out upon Wambaw Creek at the remains of rice fields that once stretched as far as the eye could see. George Washington had such a view when he stood on the Hampton family's portico in 1791.
A historic kitchen building, huge live oaks, camellia gardens and archaeological sites also tell the story of Lowcountry rice culture.
Hampton is an ideal place to discover the surrounding Santee Delta's natural beauty, which inspired the works of a South Carolina poet laureate, Archibald Rutledge, who lived here and gave it to the people of South Carolina as a legacy.
The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark.
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Latest media releases
UBS Gold & Numismatics - Auctions 50 and 51.
The Numismatic Department of UBS AG in Basel begins the New Year with a double auction, held from January 30 to February 1, 2001 in the Hotel Radisson SAS in Basel.
The sales start with the jubilee auction 50 that contains, corresponding to the event, 50 choice rarities.
The sales catalogue is published entirely in colour, with magnifications and detailed pictures of the individual coins, ingots and medallic gems. The extravagant presentation enhances the special nature of these objects and shows special details in magnification.
For the first time a gold ingot and a $20 coin from the US mail ship SS Central America, that sank in the year 1857 are being offered in Europe, as well as precious coins and medals from the whole world - ancient to modern.
Further rarities are three "Gnadenpfennige" or largesse medals from Bavaria, Brandenburg-Prussia and Palatinate-Simmern that represent exceptional artistic merit. Specially notable is a coronation tankard from Prussia containing 61, in part, extremely rare coins.
The total estimation of this sale is CHF 1,4 - 1,8 Mio.
The immediately consecutive auction 51 contains 2568 lots with a total estimation of CHF 2,2 Mio.
Gold and silver coins, medals and bank notes from diverse countries and special series of Switzerland, Germany (with the Kingdom of Westphalia), Russia, Holy Roman Empire / Austria and South American countries are offered in this sale.
The auction begins with 232 lots of Swiss coins, including an exceptional series of rare bank notes.
Belgium contains outstanding mintages from Brabant and Flandres. Specially notable are patterns of the Kingdom from the King Faruk of Egypt Collection. Germany follows with 467 lots, including a series of coins from the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia (100 lots), then France, Greece, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Portugal.
Russia is represented with an impressive series of 12, 6 and 3 rubel platinum coins.
The Swedish section contains a decorative "Gnadenpfennig" representing highest artistic workmanship, as well as a gold medal commemorating the death of King Gustav Adolph. Coins and medals from Spain, Czechoslovakia, Turkey and Hungary end the European section.
After a few items from African states, a very large group of South American coins, including lots of very rare minors, will be auctioned. Specially notable is a large series of Brazilian coins of over 240 lots.
Canada and a larger group of US coins complement the American section. The sale ends with a smaller group of Asian and Australian coins.
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A secluded Mediterranean Mansion, exquisite & extraordinary in style & design. When passing through the stunning iron gate you will be surrounded by a colonnade of trees leading to the circle driveway that displays a bronze fountain with life-size statues representing the 4 seasons. The exterior facade is made out of solid Michigan bricks, themed arched windows, & a steep roof. The idyllic backyard features a large terrace,a gazebo made from Corinthian Columns that support a large dome of wrought iron, & an indoor gazebo with a wood burning stove. Accentuating a few of the elegant interior features there are eye catching ceiling, 3D wall & scene paintings throughout the house from artist A.Sikora. The granite staircase, crafted in Italy with a wrought iron floral design, connects all three levels. A spacious kitchen, with glazed white & mahogany cabinets, connects to the dining room & a breakfast nook in an open floor concept. A labored attention to detail throughout!Appraisal on file.
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Jules was brought up in a deeply Christian family. His parents Delphin and Opportune Tannery, who were Roman Catholics, gave him his early education, but he was also greatly influenced at home by his elder brother Paul Tannery who had a passion for classics and philosophy. Jules attended schools in several towns as his parents moved because of his father's job, but he completed his secondary education at the Lycée at Caen.
At Caen Jules proved himself to be a truly outstanding pupil, winning prizes and delighting his parents who were very keen to see their sons achieve great things with their education. Completing his secondary education in 1866, Tannery sat the entrance examinations in science for both the École Normale Supérieur and the École Polytechnique. Having attained the highest possible grade in both examinations, he had the choice of the two schools and, perhaps rather surprisingly, chose the École Normale Supérieur.
Graduating in 1869 and placed top of among all the graduates in that year, Tannery became a mathematics teacher at the Lycée in Rennes, then in 1871 he moved to teach the Lycée at Caen. This proved to be a difficult time for him, for he had been given a very strict Christian upbringing, but had became deeply interested in the culture of the ancient scholars. In particular he admired the ideas of Lucretius, a Latin poet and philosopher who lived in the first century BC. Lucretius's ideas on ethical and logical doctrines caused Tannery to undergo a religious crisis as he found himself drawn towards the philosophy of this pagan writer.
In 1872 Tannery returned to Paris and began teaching at the École Normale Supérieur. He had left the school without studying for his doctorate and, now that he had returned there, Hermite encouraged him to undertake research in mathematics. He was awarded his doctorate in 1874 for his thesis Propriétés des intégrales des équations différentielle linéaires à coefficients variables Ⓣ.
Tannery was an outstanding teacher of mathematics and he taught at a number of different establishments. He taught higher mathematics at the Lycée Saint-Loius, and taught at the Sorbonne. Then in 1881 he was appointed Maître de Conférences at the École Normale Supérieur, and soon after this to the École Normale for women in Sèvres. From 1884 he was an adviser of studies at the École Normale and, from 1903, Professor of differential and integral calculus at the Faculty of Science in Paris. Speziali, writes in [1]:-
... Tannery played an important role in the pedagogical reforms in France at the beginning of the twentieth century. Through his lectures and supervisory duties at the École Normale this gifted teacher gave valuable guidance to many students and inspired a number of them to seek careers in science (for example, Paul Painlevé, Jules Drach, and Émile Borel).His main contributions were to the history and philosophy of mathematics. He also wrote some excellent books with a large impact on younger mathematicians. Speziali, writes in [1]:-
Tannery possessed considerable gifts as a writer. the pure and elegant style of the poems he composed in his free hours clearly bears the stamp of a classic sensibility. his vast culture, nobility of character, and innate sense of a rationally grounded morality are reflected in his Pensées, a collection of his thoughts on friendship, the arts, and beauty. often they exhibit a very refined sense of humour.Tannery worked on Galois' notes and letters. On June 13, 1909, a plaque was placed on Galois's birthplace at Bourg-la-Reine. See THIS LINK. Jules made an eloquent speech of dedication. It was published in the Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques (1909). It is worth noting that Tannery had been an editor of the Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques since 1876 and he continued in that role until his death. He worked on this major project with Darboux, Hoüel and Émile Picard. Tannery made an impressive contribution to the Bulletin, writing large numbers of reviews. For example he wrote over 200 book reviews for the Bulletin in the period between 1905 and 1910.
Émile Picard writes in [2] about both Jules Tannery and his brother Paul Tannery:-
They were extremely close all their lives. Of very different natures, the two braothers complement each other ... Jules's philosophy ... did not free him from intellectual anxiety. his outlook was less universal than his brother's, but also more profound. He had both the subtle mind of the metaphysician and the penetrating insight of the disillusioned moralist.
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Compiled from Marion archives
january 2, 2003
The Marion County Courthouse looked stately in the snow following an unexpected storm Thursday afternoon. Meteorologists said the surprise snowstorm formed in the Rockies, gathered moisture, then moved into Kansas dumping between one and six inches of snow around the county and contributing to several accidents.
Jason Matz, Marion High School senior, has been named to the 3-A All-State Football Team. Matz also received all-league honors and will have the honor of having his picture hung on the Wall of Fame at the Marion High School Gymnasium. He is the son of Craig and Denise Matz.
Obituaries appearing in this issue include those of Della Rittgers, Harold McKibbin, Thelma Schlotthauer, Bud McLinden, Irene Frantz, and Scott Mason.
Two Marion County employees, Jim "Butch" Cogdill and Dale Snelling, were honored for 40 years of service as Marion County employees in December at the county's annual Christmas party. Each received an engraved knife.
The engagement of Gabrielle Dawn Longhofer and Christopher Case Darrow is announced this week by their parents. The couple plans to be married May 31.
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The Artist's Soul: Daily Nourishment to Support Creative Growth
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In The Artist's Soul, Linda Coons offers support and encouragement for the artist within each of us.
In the tradition of The Artist's Way, Coons leads the reader through exercises that encourage the development of creativity. In addition to being designed as a daily companion for artistic recovery, her book also acts as a reference tool that can be accessed to aid us in everyday struggles.
The Artist's Soul is a wonderfully practical guide that allows readers to connect with the most healthful, creative parts of their souls.
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* Parked by a mansion in the northeastern part of [[Starfish Island]].
* Parked by a mansion in the northeastern part of [[Starfish Island]].
* [[Ocean Bay Marina]], Ocean Beach.
* [[Ocean Bay Marina]], Ocean Beach.
* Behind the [[Malibu Club]]
* Behind the [[Malibu Club]]
== See also ==
== See also ==
Revision as of 21:44, 21 December 2012
Grand Theft Auto.
GTA Vice City
GTA Liberty City Stories
GTA Vice City Stories
|Vehicle type
|Civilian car
|Body style
|2-door sports car
|2 (driver and passenger)
"What a great car. Always wanted one of these."
- Official Vice City Bureau of Investigation file description.
The Stinger is a two-door sports car which originally debuted in the original Grand Theft Auto, and recurred in the form of different designs.
In both GTA 1 and GTA 2, the Stinger is based on some form of a classic Chevrolet Corvette; the GTA 1 rendition is based on a 1968—1972 Chevrolet Corvette, while the GTA 2 rendition is based on a 1963 Corvette Split-Window. In both instances, the name is a reference to the Corvette Sting Ray;
STINGRAY is also the internal name of the GTA 2 rendition.
While fashioned as a sports car, the Stinger in GTA 1 has relatively average performance, with average acceleration and top speed (but a slightly fast reverse speed), adequately responsive brakes, and average grip and cornering; the car does, however, have a decent export value of $8,000 if delivered in mint condition at a dock. The Stinger in GTA 2, however, performs substantially better, with good acceleration and a high top speed; however, the car still has average braking and steering, which are not able to handle high speeds, resulting in the Stinger having to perform wider turns when moving fast. When crushed in GTA 2, the car awards the player an ElectroFingers pickup.
GTA 2 (In-game with lights).
GTA III — GTA Vice City Stories
In GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories, the Stinger bears a passing resemblance to several different cars, including the Porsche Boxster, Toyota MR2 Spyder, TVR Chimaera and Lexus SC; the Stinger may also appear with or without a roof (a softtop in GTA III and a hardtop in GTA Liberty City Stories). Its performance is better than most vehicles, but is the least powerful of all the 2-door sports cars, with little tendency to drift due to its four wheel drive.
In GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories, the Stinger resembles a 1968—1973 Ferrari Daytona Spyder, an apparent homage to Sonny Crockett's Ferrari Daytona Spyder replica, yet another one of GTA Vice City's references to Miami Vice. While similar in performance to the GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories Stingers, the Stinger in GTA Vice City is very unusual in that it is front wheel drive, something which was and still is very rarely seen on cars with this kind of performance.
A working name given to the Stinger in GTA III is "Shark", as evidenced in the "official" website for Capital Autos [1].
GTA III (Rear quarter view; top down).
GTA Vice City (Rear quarter view).
GTA Liberty City Stories (Rear quarter view; top up).
GTA Vice City Stories (Rear quarter view).
The Yakuza variant of the GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories renditions, the Yakuza Stinger, shares the same four-wheel drive configuration as a regular Stinger, but handles better and has slower acceleration because it is much heavier than the normal Stinger. The Yakuza Stinger is customized in the import tuner style, both of which might imply that the Stinger is made in Japan.
- In the During development of GTA Liberty City Stories, there was a yellow Stinger supposedly reserved for use by the Sicilian Mafia. White Stingers, which are also available in normal traffic, are featured in the finished version of the game.
- The GTA Vice City rendition of the Stinger made an appearance in Manhunt 2.
- Despite being a commonly found car in GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories, only 122 genuine Ferrari Daytona Spiders were ever produced in real-life,[1] and Ferrari Daytona Spider replicas are often built from Daytona Coupe (which are ten times as common) or Chevrolet Corvette chassis'. The Ferrari Daytona featured in Miami Vice, for example, is a Corvette-based replica.[2]
- Appears in traffic in all three cities: Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City.
- In single player, the Stinger is exclusive to the Industrial District of Anywhere City, appearing in traffic as well as the following parked locations:
- A parking lot north of the church in Tedium.
- Northwest side of a parking lot in Gonad two blocks east of the Sennora police station.
- East side of houses and an open garden area in Tabernacle, west from conveyor belts next to the Tabernacle car shop.
- A parking lot in Sennora several blocks north of the Zaibatsu crusher.
- In multiplayer, the car can be found near the starting point of Bonus Levels A, B, and C.
- Driven around Staunton Island and Shoreside Vale.
- Parked in a backlot car park on the southwestern most block in Bedford Point, Staunton Island.
- Parked by a mansion garage in Cedar Grove, Shoreside Vale.
- GTA Vice City
- The house behind a gate just north of the Vercetti Estate, Starfish Island. (It's the building just east of the house with the Rockstar logo pool)
- GTA Liberty City Stories
- Driven around Staunton Island and Shoreside Vale.
- GTA Vice City Stories
- Spawns at a parking space in Downtown near the police station.
- Parked in the parking lot behind the fire station, Downtown.
- Parked in the InterGlobal Films studio in Prawn Island (sometimes appears in place of the Deluxo).
- Spawns in Ocean Drive, along a row of parked cars in Washington Beach.
- Parked by a mansion in the northeastern part of Starfish Island.
- Ocean Bay Marina, Ocean Beach.
- Behind the Malibu Club, Vice Point.
- 3321 Vice Point hotel, Vice Point.
See also
- Stinger Z29, a sports car in GTA 1.
- Yakuza Stinger, the Yakuza version of the Stinger.
- Police Stinger, a police car in The Ballad of Gay Tony bearing no similarities with any earlier Stinger.