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Jean Starr Untermeyer: poetry outlived her marriage
She focused on nature and domestic life as her subject matter and self-discipline and loss as her themes
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Lake Tōya in Hokkaidō, Japan, is a small tourist resort nestled among mountains and active volcanoes. Known for its serene landscape and relaxing onsen spas, it also has a darker side; in 2000, the majestic Mount Usu erupted and destroyed nearby roads and buildings. Today, hiking trails lead the curious visitor through the smoking fumaroles and abandoned remains.
On a sunny afternoon, the lake is a pleasant retreat. Cruise boats idle to and from Nakajima Island in the shadow of snowy mountains, while tourists flounder in row and pedal boats.
From April to October, evening firework displays draw families from the hotels in their yukata robes to watch the colors explode across the water. The people are friendly, and the restaurants are noted for their delicious "funka" ramen.
The town also has a sinister side. Fans of the Silent Hill computer game and movie franchise might notice similarities between Lake Tōya and the virtual "Toluca Lake." A previous G8 summit site, the town lies in somewhat faded glory with shabby buildings and silent, empty streets.
The imposing Windsor Hotel bears more than a passing resemblance to Silent Hill's Lakeview resort, especially when the morning mists roll in and obscure the point where water meets land. Swan-shaped pedal boats loom like monsters out of the mist and lap at the shore with eerie, disorientating noises. In the first few hours after arriving at Lake Toya, we didn't see a single soul.
Away from the peaceful onsen hotels, the Konpira Crater Trail has been preserved as a memorial to the eruption and winds through the remains of a bridge washed away by lava, an abandoned bathhouse and apartment building. Plant life sprouts out of broken glass and forces its way through cracks in the concrete walls. Pipes and ceiling beams hang like creepers in vacant rooms. Windows are empty holes. Everything is silent and untouched.
Also a short walk from the lake is the Nishiyama Crater Trail. The destruction here is far more shocking; cars have been flattened under concrete blocks, power lines have been ripped out of the ground and hang over the humped remains of roads between crooked phone poles. The ground is unstable as we walk among the steaming craters, threatening echoes of the future devastation lying beneath our feet.
Saddest of all, the trail ends at a kindergarten. Faded murals of animals and children still adorn the walls, the images torn apart by cracks in the concrete. A rusting, derelict school bus hides in the bushes (pictured). The jungle gym is warped out of shape, unusable. The quiet absence of laughter and play is painfully obvious in the afternoon breeze.
Lake Tōya is a welcome break from the frenetic bustle of Japanese cities and a tranquil place to rest, but the little town is also a reminder that the mountains are only sleeping and it may be just a matter of time before they wake again.


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BLOOMINGTON - Marjorie M. Turley, 100, passed away on Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, at Westminster Village in Bloomington, where she had resided for the past 10 years.
She was born on Dec. 22, 1913, to Oscar and Lou (Hitch) Voigt in Olney, Ill. She graduated from the University of Illinois in 1936. She married William Turley in 1939 and resided in Washington, Ill., for more than 60 years.
Marjorie is survived by her children, Marcia (James) Schoonaert of Indianapolis, Cynthia (Gary) Reynolds of Mesa, Ariz., and Richard (Vickie) Turley of Mackinaw; four grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill, in 2001; her parents; a sister; two brothers; and grandson, Brian Schoonaert.
Marjorie loved the games of golf and bridge, even celebrating her 100th year on the Eureka Golf Course last summer.
Memorials can be made to the Westminster Village Foundation, 2025 E. Lincoln St., Bloomington, Ill., or a
A memorial service will be later this spring with the assistance of Mason-White Funeral Home in Washington, Ill.
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Whoa. They say that bangs can change your look and give you a boost — just ask Michelle Obama. But in the case of quirky-cute actress Zooey Deschanel, who's known for her signature fringe, she's rendered instantly and totally unrecognizable without it.
The actress wore her face-framers swept back at the 2013 Met Gala this week, while the rest of her locks were pulled into an updo. Be honest — if we didn't tell you it was Deschanel, would you know it was her?
She looks markedly, drastically and severely different. Bangs are youthful, and without 'em, the 33-year-old Zooey does appear a tiny bit older.
Now we know why she rocks the bangs — because they flatter her face and look adorbs. Without them, she's still pretty, but she blends in with the crowd instead of standing out from it.
Zooey, you're beautiful and we love you. But please, we implore you — don't go sans bangs again. It's like one of those optical illusions we can't figure out.


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Start your Sunday Funday off right with Red Riser Yoga!! No experience necessary, $5 suggested donation, all funds go to a rotating charity. Bring your mat, bring a friend, and have fun. See you on the mat!
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MattTBF necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 19 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
Today's BIG Fail - http://www.todaysbigfail.com
Today's BIG Fail is an entertainment website specialising in video enterainment. Every day, we upload a video for our visitors to vote on – it's that simple!
We're after a new design to allow us to expand the website into new areas such as social networking integration and user intereaction, and we want you to be apart of it.
The main jist of our visitors are teenagers to mid-twenties. We do get a lot of visitors that are younger and a lot older also.
Our visitors primarily come from the USA, Canada and the UK, but also from various other countries such as Sweden, France, Germany and Australia.
We'd like to expand the website to allow us to add in more features for user interaction and to make it easier to surf the various parts of the website.
> Navigation
We'd like to have an easy-to-use navigation area to link to the various parts of the website, currently: News, About Us, Random
With the re-design, we'd be adding in more sections, so we need room for expanding.
A place for users to search from (so, properly intergrating the Google Search Bar) is also required.
> Video Placement
Similar to what we have already, videos must be the center part of the website. They are the reason visitors come to our website.
> Colours / Design
Go crazy! Don't stick to the same colours we have now. If you think something might work, try it! Suggestions from our users have been that we should adopt a different colour scheme, so here's the chance.
> Logo
The logo can be designed how you wish to fit in with the new design. Try to make it as unique and recognisable as possible.
> Ads
We'll need spaces for one or two adverts on the screen. We currently have one 728x90 and one 300x250 on our pages. The sizes and positions of these can be determinde by the designer.
I think that's about as specific as I can get. I'll be happy to answer any questions you have in the future.


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craiglm necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 77 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Serene Scenes Landscapes
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Sit back and enjoy the serenity in a fully customised Serene Scene garden. Whether it's paving, retaining walls, pool surrounds or turf, Serene Scene can do it all! There is no substitute for experience. And Steve Cope has over 10 years of hands-on experience in the landscape business. All our work practices reflect our environmentally conscious philosophy. Our team offer the expertise, honesty, integrity and reliability that you desire.
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Serene Scene Landscapes are a one-stop landscaping business, which provide the following services:
Paving to pool surrounds
Turf and water features
Garden Maintenance
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Storm Water
Home and business owners looking to landscape their yards with trees, shrubs, plants, as well as patios, walls and interesting lighting.
Serene Scene Landscapes requires a new website design. We're looking for a professional modern design that shows the quality of their landscape design and services.
http://www.serenelandscapes.com.au is the current website. It has served the company well, but it is in need of a redesign to make it more effective and appealing.
Website: Home | Contact | Landscape | Garden Centre | Upcoming Events | Photo Gallery
Preferred Colour Scheme: Site should be developed using the colours of brown, tan, hunter green, orange and other earthy colours that go with these colours.
Type of look that is trying to be achieved through the design:
They are looking for a high quality and professional looking site that matches the work they do.
The following 4 URLs represent similar content
Other Comments
Site design resolution should be 1024 x 768
Must incorporate existing logo; photographic representation of logo in banner will be considered
Don't need or want any coding, Photoshop file(s) only
The winner will need to design the following pages:
Home Page
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SOMERSWORTH — Budget season has brought a new concern for the city — the first implementation of the new tax cap.
Most city officials Foster's polled recently said the tax cap is worrisome as they approach the budget.
In November, Somersworth residents voted in favor of instituting a tax cap by a vote of 3,080-2,087.
"This will limit the increase in the city's property tax rate during a fiscal year to an amount not to exceed the property tax rate established during the prior fiscal year increased by a factor equal to the change in the National Consumer Price Index-Urban, as published by the U.S. Department of Labor, for the calendar year immediately preceding the year of the budget adoption," according to city documents.
The amendment would also provide the tax cap limitation could be overridden by a two-thirds vote of all members of the City Council.
The Somersworth City Charter states City Manager Robert Belmore must submit a budget proposal on or before March 15, 2013. Workshops and a public hearing will follow the proposal. The budget will begin in July 2013 and it will have to pass to start the new fiscal year at the end of June.
City Councilor David Witham has been working with the city's budget for three years and fought hard to keep the tax cap out of Somersworth.
"At the end of the day, we will move forward and work very hard for a streamline budget. I would hate to see any cutbacks in personnel in any department," said Witham.
If the choice came down to laying off employees or overriding the tax cap, Witham believes an override vote would be the wisest alternative.
Mayor Matt Spencer is trying to see both sides of the equation, when it comes to the tax cap, and remains optimistic elected officials will find a way to make it work.
"I believe this opens up innovation and creativity for the budget. If there is a blank check, people are going to spend. This is one way to control the tax rate, but I can still see how this may hinder an administrator," he said.
Other city officials do not share Spencer's optimism. City Councilor Martin Pepin believes the new rule puts Somersworth at a disadvantage.
"We are a very small community and we cannot expand like other nearby towns; we do not have the extra tax space. It puts us at a disadvantage. City Council tries hard to plan for the future and this hinders that," Pepin said.
City Councilor Dale Sprague was strongly opposed to the tax cap and remains concerned the spending restrictions will hamper the formation of a budget that has the city's needs as a priority.
"As a member of the City Council, I look at our needs not our wants. Every action has a reaction and we can't have city services without money. Our basic needs are going to be in jeopardy. If we have to stick to a specific dollar amount, it is unfair to deal with," said Sprague Thursday evening.
Superintendent of SAU 56 Jeni Mosca is already in the process of working on the school budget for the 2013-14 school year. "In essence we have another year to worry about this, but we want to keep everyone in our department," said Mosca in regards to the tax cap.
School Board Chairman Don Austin is determined to see the budget through, even though he describes the board as in a "hole" to start with.
"We want to keep the spirit of the voters in mind while we decide the budget. We are making smart improvements but everything is on the table when it comes to adjustments." Austin explained it has been already been very challenging even without the tax cap to provide certain services for the students.
"I'm hopeful we will continue to provide excellent services in different ways in order to continue to provide those services," he said.
Other School Board members expressed concerns about the tax cap, but would not make any predictions.
"It will take time to grow with. We could come to discover this will be a glorious thing, or it may turn in the other direction. The citizens voted, they gave us our opinion," said School Board member James Cowan.
Although the Somersworth school administration may have the willpower to endure supply and demand limitations, certain School Board members feel the tax cap will definitely hurt educational programs.
"I am very upset with the decision, but the citizens have spoke. We have been working diligently to provide for the children and residents at the same time. We have a fantastic school staff and administration. I am confident we will maintain the great job we have been doing," said Jessica Paradis, the newest member of the City Council and a mother of five enrolled in city schools.
School Board Member Ken Bolduc didn't hesitate for a moment about how he feels. "This tax cap is going to be detrimental for Somersworth," he said.
School Board member Dana Rivers holds a similar view. "We have a funded mandate we have to comply with. We will work with it, but it is really tough. I have to commend the people of the School Board. I see the taxpayers' point. All of us have high taxes, but we simply cannot slash anymore in our department."
Rivers also said the consensus of the board is to put money back into the budget for essentials. "Supplies are going to be an issue for the teachers and especially students. Crayons, computer programs, library tools; these are needs," said Rivers.
Despite the negative reaction from some councilors, a few said they were not worried about the tax cap.
"No one wants to pay taxes, but how are we going to do things? I do disapprove of the tax cap; however, no one is trying to fool anyone. Everything is expensive," said Councilor Marcel Hebet.
"I don't think this will effect the city. I think we can turn this into what we need. If something needs to be done, we will get it done," said City Councilor Jon McCallion. McCallion used High Street repair work as an example of how the tax cap will force officials to prioritize needs.
"Tax cap or not, we are going to fix it," McCallion said of High Street pavement problems. He said the council can put funds aside for capital improvements like the road work. " We want to attract people to our community and boost the economy with upgrades to the infrastructure. We want to invest in the downtown. Behind the scenes we are doing amazing things," McCallion said Friday.
Other members of the City Council and School Board could not be reached for comment.


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Exceptional Evan and His Seizure Dog
By Mimi Ausland
Evan Moss can't wait for next year when he gets his new dog and gets to "give him a big hug!" He has a huge reason to be excited for his future furry friend, because not only will he be a great companion, but he will also be a lifesaver. Literally.
Proud Evan!
Evan has epilepsy and suffers from severe, possibly life-threatening seizures. So when he and his parents (Lisa and Rob Moss) found out about a type of specially trained dog that can detect seizures and act to help him, they knew they needed to find a way to get one. That's when this amazing 7-year-old boy had the idea to write his very own book to help raise the $13,000.00 needed to buy a seizure dog.
It's one thing to have the idea to write the book and another to actually make it happen. But he did it – and did it really well. Evan wrote and illustrated "My Seizure Dog", available on Amazon.com. He even got to have his very first book signing where about 650 people came to buy the book and meet him. "The lines stretched out the door and down the block." Says Lisa. "We sold out of books and people still stood in line just to meet Evan". One of his favorite parts of the day was meeting service dogs. "There were 7 or 8 service dogs in attendance and Evan got to meet them and interact with them. He loves dogs and it seemed like every time he began to get tired another dog would come in and he would be recharged", Lisa says.
Everything about this story is exceptional. But the best part is that the Mosses have reached their fundraising goal to get Evan's seizure dog. In fact, he exceeded his goal and the extra funds raised will go to 4 Paws for Ability to help several other children in similar situations with their fundraising efforts.
Evan at his book-signing
Having this dog will turn Evan's life around. At one point, he was having 300-400 short seizures a month. Brain surgery stopped those from happening. But two years ago, much longer and more serious seizures started - the kind that can require serious medication and emergency medical response. Having a seizure dog can provide critical help.
The experience of Evan writing the book spurred Rob and Lisa to create the Seizure Tracker Web Site, a free and innovative way for epileptics (and other disease sufferers) to record and share the times and amounts of medications and events. The site has 8,000 registered users worldwide!
Despite having epilepsy, Evan is upbeat and excited about living life to the fullest. And in June 2012, when he receives his new dog, his life will become more full!
For more information, or to support 4 Paws for Ability, check them out here.


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Prevost bus converter Liberty Coach Inc. will be showcasing an integrated speaker system built by English-based KEF as part of this week's 2014 Florida RV SuperShow in Tampa. According to a press release, the company introduced the KEF system last May.
"From our standpoint, it's a match made in heaven," said Frank Konigseder Jr., vice president and co-owner of Liberty Coach, with locations in Stuart, Fla., and the Chicago area. "For decades, Liberty Coach has been recognized as the best of the best in Prevost coach conversions. KEF enjoys comparable stature within their market."
KEF is designed with separate integrated sets of speakers for TV viewing in the main living area, bedroom and the exterior of the coach. Components include compact, powerful in-ceiling speakers featuring KEF's patented Uni-Q source driver array, which achieves "a level of sound quality over a broad area not possible with conventional speakers," the company said.
"The sound is just incredible," Konigseder said. "To me, there's no question that our conversion to the KEF system was instrumental to the phenomenal sales success of our 2014 model year motor coaches."
"KEF is excited to partner with Liberty Coach in creating what we truly believe is 'the greatest sound on wheels,'" said David Kroll, national sales manager of KEF/GP Acoustics (U.S.) Inc.


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White Papers and Application Notes
Measuring and Calculation of Positive Corona Currents Using COMSOL Multiphysics®M. Quast[1] and N.R. Lalic[1]
[1]Gunytronic GmbH, St Valentin, Germany
The sensor type developed by Gunytronic uses corona discharge for measuring flow rates in exhaust streams of automotives, aircrafts and industrial plants. This paper will present the development of testing equipment used in laboratory for investigating physical relations on corona currents, charged particle transport, the calculation of the collateral electric fields and high potentials. This enhanced understanding of the nature of corona currents was used to improve the geometry of the sensor system. Improving the sensor properties will be issue of another paper, which will be published soon. Here we will give some deeper insight in the collaboration of mathematical simulation and physical experimental work in the lab and vice versa.


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The start/finish is located at 300 Concord Road, Weston, MA 02493. We'd recommend you use your favorite mapping app to guide you. Parking is in an open field adjacent to the start/finish. We will have volunteers assisting you with parking. 7:45am is the mandatory briefing.
The Trail Animals Running Club (TARC) Spring Classic Trail Race. Hosted by TARC, this has become an annual addition to the New England trail running scene. A traditional low-key, welcoming trail running community atmosphere and event. No swag, no awards, no whining! And NO REFUNDS and NO RACE DAY REGISTRATION. Race results will be located on Ultrasignup. Ideal trail race for those new to trail running as well as veteran ultra runners. Distances offered: 10K, half-marathon, marathon and 50K. Fully stocked single aid station at start/finish. 10K starts at 8:00 am, all other races start at 8:15 am. Mandatory trail briefing at 7:45 am. Runners will have 8 hours to finish all distances, and must start their final lap by 6 hours (2pm). Be sure to bring bottle to carry hydration. Course Description: Pristine trails in the woods of bucolic Weston, MA, located just seven miles west of Boston. Course is 10K loop that is 100% trails, mostly single track, flat with a few rolling hills, rocks, roots, creek crossings and a little mud thrown in. Will be a fast course.


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The Wikipedia article on Wavelet Transform states that:
Wavelet compression is not good for all kinds of data: transient signal characteristics mean good wavelet compression, while smooth, periodic signals are better compressed by other methods, particularly traditional harmonic compression (frequency domain, as by Fourier transforms and related).
What is the precise quantification of this statement? For the smooth periodic signals we have for example: if the signal is of class $C^d$ of $d$-times continuously differentiable periodic functions, then the partial Fourier sum of order $N$ gives uniform approximation error at most $N^{-d-1}$. What would be the corresponding characterization for wavelet series?
To make the question more concrete: if the signal is piecewise $C^d$-periodic, with, say, one discontinuity, what approximation error do I get with $N$ wavelet coefficients (the Fourier approximation gives only $N^{-1}$ away from the discontinuity)? Conversely, how many coefficients do I need to get an accuracy $\epsilon$?


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Lets try this since its getting so popular and was a suggestion from a new member to put it up and try it as a forum.
Use this control to limit the display of threads to those newer than the specified time frame.
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Public Engagement Websites
EngagingPlans reaches, informs, and involves citizens and stakeholders in public projects and decision making. This one-stop hub forms the backbone of your project communications, keeping documents, events, news and FAQs clear and up-to-date in one accessible location. Give community members a voice and collect feedback via discussions, surveys, or an idea wall.
Whether you're envisioning the future of your neighborhood, updating your comprehensive plan, improving regional transit, or master planning a town center, sharing progress and gathering public input online are core elements of a successful engagement strategy. EngagingPlans simplifies these elements, making it easy for project teams to communicate with community members.
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US deploys military to help find Nigerian girls
Washington: The United States has sent 80 service members to Chad in Central Africa to support a growing international effort in neighbouring Nigeria to help locate and rescue the schoolgirls abducted by an Islamist extremist group last month, White House officials said.
The US military personnel are not ground troops. They are mostly Air Force flight crew members, maintenance specialists and security officers for unarmed Predator surveillance drones that will help search for the more than 260 Nigerian girls seized by the Boko Haram group.
''These personnel will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area,'' read the White House statement, which formally notified Congress about the deployment.
For the past 10 days, the US military has been flying manned and unmanned surveillance aircraft over heavily forested regions in north-eastern Nigeria, where intelligence officials believe the captors are hiding the girls. But the aircraft have had to fly hundreds of kilometres to reach the search area, limiting the time they can spend over the region.
In contrast, the Predators will operate from a large air base in N'Djamena, the Chadian capital, very near the search area across the border. France, the former colonial power in Chad, has long stationed fighter jets and other aircraft at the same air base.
''The force will remain in Chad until its support in resolving the kidnapping situation is no longer required,'' said the White House statement, which was released on Wednesday.
The deployment to Chad augments a team of about 30 specialists from the State Department, the FBI and the Pentagon, who have been sent to Nigeria to advise officials there. About half are military personnel with medical, intelligence, counterterrorism and communications skills.
However, US military officials have emphasised the difficult nature of the mission. On Tuesday, Pentagon press secretary, Rear Admiral John Kirby, called the search for the missing girls tantamount to finding ''a needle in a jungle''.
US officials have said the kidnappers may have broken up the hostages into smaller groups and dispersed into a wider area. Some officials have speculated that the girls could have been smuggled into neighbouring countries.
Paul Lubeck, a sociology professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz and who has done extensive research in Nigeria, said the country's security forces are up against a formidable group in Boko Haram. ''These guys are better organised, more highly motivated and have better arms than the Nigerian military,'' he said. ''The Nigerian military is decayed.''
Additionally, because the Nigerian force has a history of brutality, US military advisers face restrictions in the assistance they are able to provide. As part of an agreement reached this week, American military personnel are permitted to share some information – such as aerial imagery – but not all raw intelligence.
As the US steps up intelligence-gathering efforts there, Professor Lubeck said, there's the possibility that Nigerian forces could mishandle it. ''Any time the Nigerian military attempts to intervene to release hostages, the hostages are killed,'' he said. ''You might get them the intel, but how to get them released safely is the real challenge.''
The deployment comes as Boko Haram assaulted three villages in northern Nigeria, killing 48 people, residents said on Wednesday. The attack came hours after twin bombings claimed at least 118 lives in the city of Jos, in an attack the government blamed on the Islamic extremists.
Jos is tense with fears the attack could inflame religious rivalry. The city in central Nigeria sits on a volatile fault line dividing Nigeria's mainly Muslim north from the predominantly Christian south and has been a flashpoint in the past for deadly conflict between adherents of the two religions.
Boko Haram, the group suspected in the attack, wants to impose an Islamic state under strict Shariah law in Nigeria, though half the country's 170 million people are Christians.
Officials in at least three other central and central-north states have suggested the extremists are feeding into tribal and religious tensions to spread the insurgency from their stronghold in Nigeria's north-east into an area where thousands have been killed in recent years in disputes over land, water, religion and tribe.
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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
2010-05-28 23:47:02.143 MainServer::HandleVersion - Client speaks protocol version 56 but we speak 50!
sudo apt-get install -f pluto-mythtv-plugin
Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency treeReading state information... Donepluto-mythtv-plugin is already the newest version.The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libx264-79 libmath-round-perlUse 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
wombiroller:I have had the same messages in different mythtv versions in lmce. The solution has always been very simple ..... leave it alone.I come back to it after an hour or so and it just works. Not really a fix but it has worked for me and others.http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9857.0Barney
Hi All,Having a few issues after the 0.23 update - wondering if anyone can help.I can watch live TV, but only for a minute or two. After that it crashes to the error "video frame buffering failed too many times".Using a HDhomerun on a Hybrid. Was working fine until the upgrade from 0.22 to 0.23. I tried deleting and reading the cards, rescanning channels just in case (100% signal btw). Reload/Reboot. No change.Checked the mythtv backend logs and see this error a lot, assuming it might be the cause?Code: [Select]2010-05-28 23:47:02.143 MainServer::HandleVersion - Client speaks protocol version 56 but we speak 50!Does this means I have some backend/front end mismatch?I dumped a few more lines in pastebin if this makes sense to anyone:http://pastebin.com/R0wYpxErAny ideas?Cheers,WR


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TCIC(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual TCIC(4) NAME tcic -- Databook PCMCIA controller driver SYNOPSIS tcic0 at isa? port 0x240 iomem 0xd0000 iosiz 0x4000 pcmcia* at tcic? controller ? socket ? DESCRIPTION NetBSD provides support for the Databook DB86082, DB86084, DB86184, and DB86072 PCMCIA controllers. SEE ALSO isa(4), pcic(4), pcmcia(4) HISTORY The tcic driver appeared in NetBSD 1.4. NetBSD 8.1 May 21, 1999 NetBSD 8.1
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Financial Planning Education Vision 2020: ENGAGEMENT – APPLICATION – ASSESSMENT
Capital Hilton – Washington, DC – August 9-10, 2012
CFP Board's annual conference brought together representatives from institutions around the country that provide professional financial planning education and assist individuals in pursuing CFP® certification. It provided an opportunity to connect with CFP Board and faculty and program directors from financial planning education programs around the country, to share best practices for financial planning education, and to learn about CFP Board's commitment to education partnerships.
This year's theme, Financial Planning Education Vision 2020: Engagement, Application, Assessment, was a platform furthering our discipline relative to engaging students, applying context to the classroom or learning platform, and assessing student achievement. This year's conference was both a showcase for innovative ideas as well as forward thinking, considering financial planning education in the near future.
Read below for more about the 2012 conference, and save the date for the 2013 CFP Board Registered Program Conference on August 8-9, 2013!
Opening Session: Building for the Future: Engagement; Application; Assessment Dr. Charles Chaffin, CFP Board Download presentation (PPT; 2.06MB)
Keynote Session: From Content to Competency: Incorporating the CFP Board Student-Centered Learning Objectives in your classroom and online learning platform Dr. Jesse Arman, College for Financial Planning Michael Cates, CFP®, College for Financial Planning Dr. Michael Gutter, University of Florida Adam Kashuba, Northwestern University Dr. Peter Kaye, Northwestern University Dr. Charles Chaffin, CFP Board
General Session with CFP Board's Leadership Alan Goldfarb, CFP®, 2012 Chair, Board of Directors Kevin R. Keller, CAE, CFP Board CEO
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Delivering Personal Financial Planning Education Using a PC Tablet Dr. Hyrum Smith, CFP®, Virginia Tech
Formal and Informal Student Assessment Methods in the Financial Planning Classroom Charles Moran, CFP®, State University of New York at Cobleskill Dr. Sam Basu, William Paterson University
The Case-based Classroom: Bringing the Harvard Approach into Your Capstone Course Dr. Ruth Lytton, Virginia Tech Derek Klock, Virginia Tech
Perils and Pitfalls of Case Development Dr. Ruth Lytton, Virginia Tech Derek Klock, Virginia Tech Dr. John Grable, CFP®, University of Georgia
Using Tobin's Q to Conquer Investor's Greed and Fear
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Financial Planning Association: Student Chapters Marvin Tuttle, Executive Director and CEO of FPA Lauren Schadle, Associate Executive Director and COO of FPA
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Hands On Financial Planning: Educating Beyond the Classroom Dr. Jacob Sybrowsky, Utah Valley University Dr. Jerry Mason, Utah Valley University Dr. Lukas Dean, William Paterson University Dr. Hyrum Smith, CFP®, Virginia Tech
Relationships Matter: The Power of Student and Alumni Engagement An Essential Component to Maintaining a Dynamic Program Dr. Erroline Williams, Duquesne University
Ooze Your Confidence: Teaching Practical Client Communication Skills for the 21st Century CFP® Professional Ron Rhoades, CFP®, Alfred State University
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I lost my father in 1997, and he never lived here... but he did visit Buckhead... LONG ago. He visited me several times after I moved to Atlanta in 1989, but when he was still a kid, he was passing through Buckhead with a few teammates. He was a student at the Columbia Military Academy in Columbia, TN, and on the Rifle Team. They had just completed a competition in South GA, and were passing through on the way back to school. It would have been around 1946... and my father would have been around the tender age of 14.
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Favre: See Mooch I can do whatever I want here, even take a leak in my helmet and put it on coach Chil...... Oh hey coach!ReplyDelete
Chilly - I got a Croc ring.ReplyDelete
Farve - No way can I see?
thrid guy - Nothing to see
"Who do you guys think you are, Jenn Steger?"ReplyDelete
"It's okay, coach. I really didn't listen to 'Mooch' either."ReplyDelete
- Dave in WIAugust 20, 2010 at 9:32 AM
Chilly: Brett, it looks better on a Vikings helmet than it did on a Croc. Mooch, lend me your phone so I can get a picture - what's Jenn's number?ReplyDelete
Holy s%&(.. he does know a bit of the offense!ReplyDelete
- PackersRSAugust 20, 2010 at 1:12 PM
Favre: Chad Ochocinco has that towell, I'll show him! Yeah, that's much better. Only it's not crocked enough...ReplyDelete
Mooch: You're right, I remember it being way more crocked.
Chilly: Don't worry, Brett. I'll give you a hand.
This comment has been removed by the author.ReplyDelete
Cant send any more pictures of that, I'm a grandpa!ReplyDelete
Coach, I didn't recognize you without your Blond Ambition World Tour headset.ReplyDelete
Favre "Who? This guy? My new agent. I fired Bus-he couldn't get me a Crocs marketing deal. Just goes with me everywhere now, like Yoko did with John Lennon"ReplyDelete
Chilly "I thought there was something weird when he wanted to size up my feet."
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2010 at 10:52 AM
chilly.... I love you soooo much Brett. How do you like the new helmet/camera phone I got ya?ReplyDelete
Brett..... thanks coach, Jens gonna love the close up.
Mooch.... Why am I soooo gay? Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Chilly: I'm in Charge!ReplyDelete
- ChazmanAugust 22, 2010 at 9:47 AM
It's called Peek-a-boo helmet. I remove the helmet . . . peek-a-boo!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Childress: So that's where you got the number '4' for your jersey Brent?ReplyDelete
Brent: Shut up!
Mariucci: I've been chasing the wrong quaterback! I wonder if that '12' on Aaron Rodgers jersey means anything?!
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- Introduction
- Why a Regimen Fails
- Drug Resistance
- Adherence
- Treatment Failure Due to Side Effects
- Expert Guidance
- Creating Your Next Regimen
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- Therapy Options After Several Failures
- Checking the Blood Levels of Drugs
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Most people living with HIV will face making decisions about treating their HIV disease at some point. Over time, some will change their regimens for various reasons, and likely change them several times. This can lead to being in a position where there are few options for adding new HIV drugs when it's necessary.
Having extensive experience with various regimens is one reason you may face choosing third line therapy. Another reason could be that your HIV has become resistant to at least one drug in each of the three major classes: protease inhibitors, NRTIs and NNRTIs. A third reason includes treatment failure on at least two other regimens. The specific reasons why you switched from specific medicines determine if or how these drugs might be used again in another regimen.
Sometimes, people refer to third line therapy as salvage or rescue therapy. True or "deep" salvage therapy is when a person literally has no treatment options with resistance and/or intolerance to virtually all HIV drugs. Most people with some treatment failure do not need true salvage therapy. It's often possible to create a viable, if not ideal, regimen for people even if you believe you've run out of options.
This publication sheds light on issues to consider when you're confronted with making decisions for third line therapy. It also helps guide people who face true salvage therapy.
Why a Regimen Fails
In general, a regimen has failed when your HIV level:
- does not drop by at least 90% within the first six months on a new regimen, and/or
- becomes and stays (on at least two tests in a row) detectable again after being undetectable.
Discovering the reasons why your current regimen is failing (and past regimens if possible) is key to creating a new one. The main reason that some people switch individual drugs or their entire regimens is because their current combination no longer keeps their HIV levels undetectable. For others, HIV levels may be only one factor among others that contributes to a failing regimen. These can include:
- developing drug-resistant virus,
- difficulty with staying on a regimen,
- not having high enough blood level of drugs, and
- side effects.
Drug Resistance
Drug resistance occurs when HIV can reproduce in the presence of drugs. Cross resistance occurs when HIV that reproduces in the presence of a particular drug can also reproduce in the presence of other drugs in the same class. For instance, HIV that's resistant to Sustiva (efavirenz) is usually cross resistant to both Viramune (nevirapine) and Rescriptor (delavirdine). When a person develops drug resistance or cross resistance, it can severely limit effective the options of HIV drugs.
Two kinds of tests help determine if your HIV has become resistant. Both require that your HIV level be at least 1,000 for best results. The genotype test finds out which drugs your HIV has become resistant to. The phenotype test is used to find out the degree of resistance. However, both can fail to detect resistance because drug-resistant HIV may not be present in the blood sample, or may be present at too low a level for detection.
It's important to emphasize two points. The first is that resistance tests give the most meaningful results when they're done while you're on HIV therapy. This way, the results are likely most relevant to the drugs you're taking. The other is that the results are only part of the story when considering other drugs. Considering your history and experiences with other regimens is critical to choosing the best drugs to use for your next regimen.
One factor that can lead to drug resistance is not taking your meds exactly as prescribed. People are far more likely to get and maintain undetectable HIV when they take more than 95% of their doses as prescribed. Even when adherence is nearly perfect, however, treatment failure can occur. More than one study found that drug-resistant HIV could be found even in people who adhered to their regimens most of the time. Identifying why adherence is challenging for you and doing something about it is important. (Project Inform's publication, Adherence: Keeping Up with Your Meds, has helpful tips.)
Treatment Failure Due to Side Effects
Unfortunately, side effects can go hand-in-hand with the getting benefits of being on HIV therapy. Some may moderately impact your quality of life or they may only last a short time. Before you switch your HIV drugs, it can help rule out their possible causes or consider ways to manage them. (Project Inform's publication, Dealing with Drug Side Effects, offers helpful tips.)
Deciding what to do about other side effects, like elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, insulin resistance and fat redistribution, can be more challenging. Since many people have limited treatment options, switching from the offending drugs simply isn't an option. In this case, the choice may be to switch to a regimen which includes drugs they've used before that carry fewer risks for these side effects until other drugs become available.
If you've had side effects with a drug or regimen in the past, it does not necessarily mean you can't use it again. Some people find that a drug that had caused them unacceptable side effects before actually causes them no side effects whatsoever when they used it again.
Similarly, it can be difficult to know which drug in your regimen was the culprit for a given side effect. If you're taking four drugs, you might be able to use two or even three of them again with no ill effects.
It's also sometimes very difficult to sort out drug side effects from the symptoms of HIV disease. Did a drug cause your diarrhea or was it caused by HIV or something else altogether? As long as the drug can be used safely again, it might still stay in your toolbox of options. It might take some mental preparation and planning in case the side effect re-emerges. But in general, having stopped a drug because of side effects doesn't always rule it out for future use.
Research shows that people with lower CD4 counts are more likely to experience side effects, and they tend to be more severe. Therefore, if you started a drug regimen in the past when your CD4 count was lower than now, you may be less likely to experience trouble.
Expert Guidance
When forming a new regimen, it's especially important to have expert guidance when making these complex decisions. People who see an HIV experienced doctor are less likely to face disease progression than those who see doctors with less experience.
For those who can't see an experienced doctor, a regional AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) site may help provide expert guidance to your doctor. You can reach these centers at www.aids-ed.org or by having your doctor call 1-800-933-3413 (not available to patients). Lastly, the American Academy of HIV Medicine at www.aahivm.org can guide doctors and patients to other doctors who the Academy certifies as HIV specialists.
Creating Your Next Regimen
The most ideal regimen contains at least two potent drugs to which you have no resistant HIV, preferably ones you've never used before. Many studies show that people who start a regimen with at least two new, fully active drugs are likely to have better treatment outcomes.
For some people, the recently approved drugs -- Intelence (etravirine), Isentress (raltegravir) and Selzentry (maraviroc) -- are enough to make a regimen with two new drugs. For others, these might only offer one. Some people will depend on expanded access programs, third line therapy studies, or a mix of these to access other new drugs.
The Pace of Drug Development
Developing new drugs is an uneven and unpredictable process. For example, from late 2006 to early 2008, four new drugs were approved, including two new classes. This allowed many people with limited treatment options to construct new potent, fully active regimens -- often for the first time in many years. Unfortunately, no new drugs are expected until sometime in 2010. If you're heavily treatment experienced, with resistance to many of the older HIV drugs, this new crop represents a great chance to create an effective and durable regimen.
Therapy Options After Several Failures
It's possible to find a successful regimen even when you can't construct a new one with two new drugs. The success of these strategies may not equal that of a completely new regimen, but they have produced favorable results in at least some people in studies to date. These strategies often need expert guidance and monitoring. They may also come with other risks of side effects and disease progression.
Staying on Your "Failing" Regimen, With Stable CD4s
Sometimes, when HIV changes and becomes resistant to some drugs, it may not reproduce as well. This is particularly true with protease inhibitors and some NRTIs -- Emtriva (emtricitabine/FTC) and Epivir (lamivudine/3TC) -- that cause HIV to develop the M184V mutation.
When HIV doesn't reproduce as well on its own, for example with the M184V mutation, this is called a reduction in its viral fitness or replication capacity. So, when HIV has poorer viral fitness in people whose CD4 counts remain high and stable, it may allow them to stay on their "failing" regimens, with some benefit, as they wait for new treatments to become available.
A major risk when staying on a failing therapy is having HIV that
develops several mutations, which increases your chance for both resistance and cross resistance. Another risk is that as HIV levels climb above 100,000 in treatment experienced people, it may lower their chances that their next regimens will work as well. Although staying on a failing regimen is far from ideal, it may be useful for some people awaiting new drugs.
Interrupting Therapy Before Starting a New Regimen
Some studies have used a structured treatment interruption (STI) before switching to a new or recycled regimen. It was hoped that drug-resistant virus would fade into the background during the interruption. In theory, this would allow wild-type HIV (virus that's sensitive to the HIV drugs) to take over, giving people a more beneficial response to the new regimen.
The results from these studies are mixed. One shows some benefit to taking an STI before starting a new regimen while others show none. In each, those who interrupted therapy had significant increases in their HIV levels and steep drops in their CD4 counts. The main danger of using STIs in third line therapy is the risk for serious disease progression. In all studies, people who tried STIs typically lost at least half of their CD4 counts. People who have low CD4 counts at any time are at the greatest risk from STIs.
There's a growing body of evidence suggesting that STIs are risky. By far the most important study in this regard was the SMART study, which compared continuous HIV treatment to intermittent treatment guided by CD4 counts in about 6,000 people worldwide. As reported here, SMART was stopped early when higher rates of illness and death were seen among people in the intermittent group. Other studies, including PART, DART and TRIVICAN have found similar risks for STIs. For more information, read Project Inform's publication, Structured Treatment Interruptions.
Creating a New Regimen, With Expert Guidance, With Five or More Drugs
Several studies have looked at the possible benefits of using multiple drug combinations after treatment failure. This is sometimes called megaHAART or gigaHAART. Although one study looked at a regimen with two NNRTIs (Sustiva and Viramune), most of them included using two and possibly three protease inhibitors along with NRTIs. Up to four NRTIs were sometimes used. The challenges of such a strategy are obvious. The more drugs a person uses, the higher their risk for side effects and the greater the possible impact on their quality of life.
At best, these strategies have provided only modest benefits in most cases and often increase side effects and greatly complicate managing drug interactions. The trend now is to try and reduce the number of drugs a person is on, when that can be done safely. In fact, the Federal Guidelines just added language on how and when to safely reduce the number of drugs a treatment experienced person is taking.
Checking the Blood Levels of Drugs
Some researchers believe that variations in how a person's body breaks down (metabolizes) drugs may be largely responsible for treatment failure when a person adheres to their regimen. HIV drugs are generally developed to produce the largest drops in HIV with the fewest side effects in most people. However, some people will accumulate levels of drug that are higher than average, perhaps leading to more side effects. Others won't maintain enough drug, perhaps leading to resistance. So even though some people may take all their prescribed doses, there may be times when there's too little or too much drug in their systems.
For this reason, several European nations routinely check the blood levels of HIV therapy after starting a person on a new regimen. When problems are found, they adjust the dose to ensure that a person is getting an adequate dose of drug. This process is commonly called Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM), and it has been used for quite some time in other diseases.
A few studies that have used TDM in treating HIV have shown a better response in people whose levels of drugs are consistently at ideal levels. These and other studies have also shown greater side effects in people whose drug levels were consistently too high.
However, there are two problems with using TDM for HIV. First, the level of drug in a person's body can vary somewhat from day to day. This can be especially true for women during their periods or pregnancy. Second, most HIV drugs work inside cells, and TDM tests generally measure the amount of drug in blood plasma, or outside cells.
While it's logical to assume there's a strong relationship between the amount of drug found outside and inside cells, the limited amount of this research has produced conflicting results. In the US, standard TDM lab kits are not available for HIV drugs. It's now being studied in the US and may have more of a role in the future. Outside these studies, there's no way for most people to use TDM to guide their treatment decisions.
A Final Word on Third Line Therapy
The first step in developing a strategy for third line therapy is to understand why your current regimen is no longer working and why earlier ones have "failed". This helps make clearer what options truly are available to you. Resistance test results are necessary to guide these decisions.
Ideally, creating a regimen with at least two drugs that are active against HIV is often possible by using resistance test results, expert guidance and new treatments. When it's not possible, getting into expanded access programs and clinical studies may offer other options for you.
Some people may continue to benefit from their current regimens even as their HIV levels increase. Therefore, those who can safely wait for new drugs to become available in order to build a new regimen with two active drugs may wish to do so. However, waiting until your HIV level climbs above 100,000 may further limit your treatment options down the road.
Over the past 10 years, most new HIV drugs have been studied first in people with extensive treatment experience. Some of the newer generation of drugs have shown the best-ever results in these people. While many have been helped by these new drugs, Project Inform continues to push for new options for heavily treatment experienced people.


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Golf Tip of The Day
If you put a log on the ground and asked someone to take out a chunk of wood from the log they would most likely swing the ax into the log at an angle and create sliced out section from the log. This action is done with an abrupt angle of attack into the wood log.
We hear all types of golfers say "I need to feel the swing". Here is a simple drill to feel where your shaft and clubhead are located. If you are a right handed player, hold a golf club only in your right hand and make a golf swing half way back (lefties use your left hand).
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Take a divot for normal yardages with your irons. At impact feel about 70% of your weight on your left foot at impact. (right handers) Take a practice swing and hold at impact to feel the 60% weight on the left foot.
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Many golfers try to make a complete backswing based on how far their hands and arms go back. In reality, your backswing is completed when your shoulders have made a full turn. Turn hands, arms and shoulders together on the backswing. Once your shoulders have finished turning,
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While spending time on the practice tee at a recent PGA tour event, I was relieved to witness the best players in the world working diligently on the very same thing we as teachers work on with amateur golfers. The common denominator: alignment.
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There are two concepts that will help a new golfer get out of the sand almost every time. The first is skimming the sole of the sand wedge through the impact area. Find a firm area on the grass and start making swings where the golfer hits the ground.
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Chipping is a lesson that is often taught, but rarely executed properly. Your body weight is intended to stay forward, but many people shift their weight away from the target. This instantly causes the bottom of the swing to strike behind the intended spot and cause the dreaded sco
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The most common saying in golf is "keep your head down." The question is, are you actually picking your head up? When you hit a thin shot that dribbles along the ground, it would seem that a player must have picked their head up.
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The most common saying in golf is "keep your head down." The question is, are you actually picking your head up? When you hit a thin shot that dribbles along the ground, it would seem that a player must have picked their head up.
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If you are looking for a simple approach to your short game, try 'putting with loft'. If your relationship with the lob wedge is on the rocks, consider trying a 7, 8 or 9 iron when you are in near proximity of the green. Use the same address fundamentals you would when usin
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The most common thing that causes poor contact in shots around the green is the hands and wrists trying to scoop the ball in the air. The scooping action results in punishing shots that are bladed over the green or hit fat and fall short of the target. The scooping action of your h
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With over 60% of your strokes coming from inside of 100 yards, it is essential that you spend a proportionate amount of time on your short game as you practice. You should devote most of your short game practice to putting and chipping.
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Syrian Islamist rebel groups announce merger into single command
Seven Syrian Islamist rebel groups announced Friday that they'd combine operations in the face of a fierce offensive by troops loyal to President Bashar Assad, a move that would turn the disparate groups into the largest anti-Assad faction.
The groups said their new affiliation would be called the Islamic Front and would aim to replace Assad's government with an Islamic state.
Two of the anti-Assad movement's most effective forces, the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, both of which are al Qaida affiliates, weren't named as part of the new coalition. But the new grouping left the door open to cooperating with them.
"The Islamic Front is an independent military and social force that is aimed at bringing down Assad's regime in Syria and at replacing it with a just Islamic state," the groups said in a statement.
The Islamic Front would be composed of the largest rebel fighting force in the north, Liwa Tawhid, and the most powerful faction fighting in Damascus, Jaysh Islam. The other groups that agreed to the new unit are Ahrar al Sham, Liwa al Haq, Ansar al Sham and Suqour al Sham, as well as a smaller Kurdish group, the Kurdish Islamic Front.
In an interview with the Al Jazeera satellite news channel, an official from the new group said the negotiations to form the new command had taken seven months.
Amad Essa al Sheikh, the head of the Consultative Council of the new Islamic Front, said the goal of integrating the factions was to bring about "a paradigm shift in the armed rebellion by closing ranks and mobilizing them to become the real alternative to the dying regime."
It was the second major reorganization of the rebels, and it seemed to cement the end of the role of the U.S.-backed Supreme Military Council as the primary coordinator of rebel factions. In September, some of the same groups announced that they'd no longer recognize the authority of either the Supreme Military Council or the Syrian Opposition Coalition, the civilian umbrella group that the United States and other Western countries have recognized as the legitimate Assad opposition.
Friday's announcement also left out some of the major moderate rebel factions, such as the Farouk Brigade, which was once one of the most powerful anti-Assad groups.
Creation of the Islamic Front had been widely expected after Assad's forces scored a string of victories in the north and around Damascus amid allegations of betrayal and infighting among the rebels. That fighting was particularly pronounced between Farouk and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, though it also pitted the Islamic State against Liwa Tawhid in Aleppo.
"They want a revolution and not politics and foreign agendas," another official, Ahmed Musa, told Al Jazeera.
The move also was spurred by the death of one of the rebels' most effective commanders in Aleppo, Liwa Tawhid's Abdul-Qadir Saleh, in a regime airstrike that many of his followers suspected was the result of betrayal by other rebel groups.
Ahmed Issa al Sheikh, the commander of Suqour al Sham, a group whose fighters are primarily Salafists, followers of a conservative style of Islam, will head the Islamic Front after a three-month transition, the group announced.
The new military commander will be Zahran Alloush, who last month helped consolidate most of the rebel groups fighting in Damascus into a single command, Jaysh Islam.
"This is an extremely significant development, both in terms of symbolism and the military effect it will likely have on the ground," said Charles Lister of IHS Jane's, a defense consultancy. "The most militarily powerful Islamist rebel groups have effectively united their forces under a front intended specifically to be representative of the on-the-ground realities."
Lister estimated that combining the groups would create a force of at least 45,000.
In other statements, several other factions said they'd work with any group that was intent on removing the Assad regime and replacing it with Islamic rule, a clear indication of a willingness to work with the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
"The doors are open to all the military factions, and a committee is working to study the entrance of all groups that also want to join," Liwa Tawhid spokesman Abu Firas told the Agence France-Presse news agency.
Lister said the new command's most significant impact might be to streamline fundraising to equip the rebel movement.
"What's perhaps most important looking forward is how this may unite tens of thousands of Islamist rebel fighters under a single or at least a consolidated financial backing structure," he said. "Several Gulf states have been identified as having maintained close relations with the groups involved today, most notably Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Uniting under one single banner should always result in more effective military action on the ground, but with a consolidation of external backing, the formation of this new front should prove a landmark moment for the revolution."


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It's never fun being laid off, but those who have been say they're making the most of it.
A recent CareerBuilder survey showed that 22 percent of workers who have been laid off said they were spending more time with family and friends while looking for work. Aww, that's nice.
Fifteen percent said they're fixing up their homes, 14 percent said they're exercising more, 7 percent are going back to school and 4 percent are starting their own business.
That makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. But for those who have been in this situation before, there's some skepticism about this list. Working out more? Enjoying time with family? When you're down on your luck, that's often replaced by cheap whiskey and, well, more cheap whiskey.
So what are those surveyed really doing? If we had to guess...
- 20 percent are mastering Twitter
- 19 percent are already bored with Twitter
- 16 percent are searching for a big bag of money in their backyard
- 15 percent have built a profitable city in Sim City 4
- 3 percent drank their Uncle Walter under the table
- 2 percent regretted drinking their Uncle Walter under the table
So there you go. CareerBuilder might want to put some shine on the unemployed's shinola, but the truth is out there.
Buck up, our jobless brethren. Here's hoping this economic downturn turns around soon and everyone can get back to working instead of being forced to hang out with Uncle Walter.


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Real GDP — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of only 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2012, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 2.0 percent. The second quarter figure is an estimate, and is subject to possible revision.
The deceleration in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected a deceleration in personal consumption expenditures, an acceleration in imports, and decelerations in residential fixed investment and in nonresidential fixed investment. These developments were only partially offset by an upturn in private inventory investment, a smaller decrease in federal government spending than in the previous quarter, and an acceleration in exports.
The decleration in personal consumption was significant. In the first quarter it increased by 2.4 percent; in the second quarter by only 1.5 percent.
The weak second quarter numbers aren't a surprise. But if the downward trend persists over the next few months, Mitt Romney will have to be favored to win in November, I would think.


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I don't care if apps are allowed/removed, but the more people who "object" to "racism", the more likely those rights to express such a statement is lost.
I'm confused. Isn't the answer to hate speech not censorship but MORE speech which denounces the hate speech and points out why it's wrong? Isn't the right response to racist speech to stand up and object, not to the publication of the idea, but to the holding of the idea in the first place?
As far as I am concerned, if there are restrictions placed on free speech by anyone but yourself, then we cannot call it free.
No restriction is even being contemplated to be placed on the speech. What's being requested is that Google refuse to publish. If I send a letter to the editor of the local paper and they decline to publish it, are my rights being denied?
I have the right to free speech. I can spew the vilest, most horrendous, most bigoted stream of bile and hatred that I care to produce. That's what free speech means. But you have freedom of association and you have the freedom to use your owned resources as you like. My right of free speech doesn't obligate you in any way to help me to spread my word. And Google is under no obligation to publish the speech of the app writer. They have chosen to do so, and may very well continue to do so. I have no issue with that. But if they change their minds, it is not a restriction on free speech and it does not violate anyone's rights.
"And the questions they asked showed they had not the slightest clue as to what a political campaign is all about and the role of money that it plays in political campaigns. And I remember when Russ and I walked out of there, I said, Russ, we're going to lose and it's because they are clueless."
Yeah, that's pretty much how we feel every time we see the latest Internet bill you're proposing.
"Whatever content we distribute we want to be in control of that," he said. "I think obviously, any company wants to be responsible for the information that gets distributed."
Whatever content my Adroid devices distribute I want to be in control of that. I think obviously, any individual wants to be responsible for the information that gets distributed.
I'll make a deal with you. You give me back my phone and I'll give you back your manuals.
You mean a tool who's primary purpose is to allow people to communicate is being used to communicate?
Psst, I hear gangs have also discovered cars, which allow them to broaden their range considerably; GPS units, which allow them to easily find locations to terrorize; and hotels, which allows them to range further afield from their home territories.
Hmm, I'm not sure the statement can actually be said to support a falsehood, since it made no explicit claim as to the accuracy of the estimate. However, I fully agree that part of a reporter's job is to verify the accuracy of what he/she reports, and to note when there is substantial question as to the veracity of the claim being reported. For example, if a reporter were to note that the moon landings have been claimed to be a hoax, that would be a true statement. A responsible reporter, however, would make sure that he/she also reported that the claims are generally considered to be unreliable and have few or no mainstream backers.
So, Stephanie Clifford, reporter for the NY Times, can you give any evidence whatsoever to support the claim that you made in your article this past weekend that counterfeiting "costs American businesses an estimated $200 billion a year?" I don't think that Clifford can, because that number has been thoroughly debunked time and time again.
Actually, Clifford can provide support for her claim. All she has to do is link to the report in question. Clifford didn't claim that there were $200 billion in losses. Rather, she truthfully reported the fact that losses have been estimated to be $200 billion.
Mr. Pedantic
(PS - if the signature wasn't enough of a hint, tongue firmly planted in cheek on this post.)
To expand further on why Universal's argument that enforcement is hard also applies to Veoh, Veoh would have to police all uploads for not only Universal's copyrights but any copyright owned by anyone anywhere in the world. This is just as big a Whack-A-Mole game for Veoh as policing all the websites is for Universal.
I've never been to Newser before (and, after seeing their hideous front page, won't go back again) so I'm not sure if it's a new practice or not, but I clicked on a couple of stories and they all had direct links back to the source. Something like "blah blah blah," SourceWebsite said, where SourceWebsite is the name of the actual site and a direct link back to the original article.
I don't think it's so much making things up as it is making logical errors. In this case, I think Techdirt's response is missing the point of the article. The intended claim is that IF the manufacturer had implemented IP protection and not allowed other manufacturers to copy the design, they'd now be the only authorized manufacturer of one of the most popular weapons in the world and thus have a cash cow that would have prevented their current profitability issues. The problem with this line of reasoning is that one of the reasons that the AK-47 is so popular is that it was so widely manufactured and thus so easily available. If the design had been locked up behind IP walls, it's quite likely that it would never have achieved its current popularity and may even be a footnote in the pages of weapons history by now.
It is just technobabble. I saw this yesterday and am just as confused.
No need to be confused. You simply need to realize that the wrong question is being asked. The question being asked is "How can we ignore all of this new technology and roll things back so that our outdated business model still works?" So the proposed solution is to make digital copies somehow work like physical copies. If you look at things through Clueless-Music-Executive goggles, it makes sense. Of course, those goggles hide all sorts of realities that doom the attempt to failure, but no one's ever accused CMEs of being particularly bright or perceptive when it comes to dealing with the realities of the market.
That depends in part on what you mean by "law" and "crime." Downloading music and similar activities is prohibited by DoD policy on DoD computers. Violation of that by military members is essentially failure to obey a direct order, which certainly does open up the member to prosecution. It's doubtful (though not impossible) that the member would go to a Court's Martial, but members have received Non-Judicial Punishment for violating IT policy. Non-military personnel, such as civilian employees or contractors, would probably not face legal prosecution, but could face consequences, including loss of their job.
So it's arguable that the information provided is factually correct. However, it's extremely misleading in that it seems to imply that the act of downloading music is always in and of itself illegal/immoral. The training should distinguish between illegal downloading, and legal downloading that violates DoD policy.
(I'm retired Navy now working as a Network Engineer on a DoD network. I haven't had to take this training yet but I probably will in the near future.)
Not without getting the video owner's permission, they shouldn't.
And if using an executive's picture on a wanted poster is fair use due to it's transformative nature, why isn't this fair use of the song?
Let me start by saying that I don't buy Apple's arguments for a second. It's lame and obviously a scare tactic that Apple is hoping with influence the non-technical members of the committee. That beings said, I think their argument is being somewhat mischaracterized above. Their argument isn't that the DMCA will prevent terrorists from jailbreaking the iPhone. Their argument is that the DMCA will prevent or at least slow down the proliferation of tools that would allow the terrorist to jailbreak iPhones.
This is pretty silly, since there are already plenty of tools out there to do so, but at least there's a thread of attempted logic there. They aren't claiming that a terrorist is going to say "Gee, I'd like to jailbreak this iPhone and attack a cell tower but the DMCA says I can't, so I guess I won't." They're saying that adding an exemption would make it easier for a terrorist to find the tools to do the jailbreak.
IANAL but it sounds to me that if I purchase a product and give it to you, you must pay taxes on the purchase price but if the product was originally free, there is no tax. I wonder if this is intended to thwart you sending your out of state buddy the money, having him download the file and send it to you.
To correct myself, the Q&A does make this clear. You just have to read down a ways:
Digital products given away for free
There is a use tax exemption for the recipient of digital products given away for free. (See 606). There is also a sales and use tax exemption for the person purchasing digital products, digital codes, or remote access software to give it away for free. The purchaser must provide an exemption certificate. (See sections 503(1)(b) and 603(2) of the digital products bill).
Take a look at the bill itself, particularly section 606. The PDF is available here.
The Q&A doesn't make it clear but section 606 of the bill itself says:
The provisions of this chapter do not apply in respect to the use of digital products or digital codes obtained by the end user free of charge.


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Work has begun to reduce the shopping centre's £1.4million annual energy bill
Shopping centres generally consume large amounts of energy. Artificial lighting along with space heating and cooling are often the main sources for this energy consumption.
With current annual CO2 emissions of 8,000 tonnes Bluewater shopping centre in Kent has acknowledged that something needs to be done to reduce this. They have begun work with the energy analysis software company Sefaira to lower the centre's energy consumption and carbon footprint.
Sefaira chief executive Mads Jensen said: 'These sorts of [energy] figures are typical across the retail industry'
'Combined, the country's 40 biggest shopping centres consume about £40million of energy annually. Our challenge is to raise the efficiency at Bluewater and halve its energy consumption.'
Sefaira software is being used to analyse the shopping centre's carbon footprint through looking at the current building fabric, heating and cooling systems, lighting, daylighting and building controls.
They will begin the process by 'pinpointing' the inefficiencies throughout the public areas of the building.
Through this analysis they will design a programme of future upgrades and improvements to the shopping centre. Carrying out the analysis first will allow them to work out what improvements will deliver the maximum savings at the least cost.
Lend Lease who manage the Bluewater shopping centre described this approach as a 'holistic way to enhance energy efficiency'.
Lend Lease's head of sustainability, Pascal Mittermaier said: 'Over the past years we have worked very hard to manage energy use at our retail centres, achieving reductions of around 20 per cent.
'But we are reaching the limits of what traditional methods can achieve. If we want to make another major step, we need to rethink our overall approach.
'Traditionally building operators have taken a piecemeal approach to managing facilities, focusing on lighting one year, doors the next. This can only improve inefficiencies by upto 3 per cent.
'What we are embarking on with Sefaira is a deep integrated analysis of huge amounts of data – then sequencing in changes to deliver substantial savings for a significantly smaller capital outlay. Our ambition is to reduce common energy use by 50 per cent.'
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