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The Simple Linux Backup project announced the release of version 0.3.2 yesterday. Simple Linux Backup is an easy-to-use program for backing up a desktop Linux system, with a friendly user interface. It was recently featured in Linux Format magazine.
This is a development release; it is still undergoing testing and may not be completely stable. It contains several bug fixes and minor enhancements.
Major enhancements in the 0.3.2 release include:
- Running Simple Backup Configuration Program now tests for the correct version of Java. If the reported Java version is less than 1.5, the user sees an error message and SBCP doesn't run.
- The latest versions of Eclipse SWT are now included.
- Minor changes were made to clarify certain text in a few dialog boxes. Note that the Turkish translation has NOT been updated. As a result, the above dialog box message clarifications do not appear in the Turkish version, and a couple of messages show up in English rather than Turkish.
- Internationalization support has been enhanced -- the standard wizard page buttons Back,
Next, Finish and Cancel now appear in the user's selected language. Note that currently
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For more information on the project, see the project home page. You can download the program from the project's SourceForge.net download page.


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The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference announced volleyball players who earned scholar athlete honors for the year, and Peabody-Burns graduate Danielle Savage was among the honorees.
Savage is a senior in elementary education at Bethany College, where she is on the volleyball team.
To receive scholar athlete honors, a student must be a sophomore or older, maintain a grade point average of 3.33 or higher, and letter in their sport. The conference named 57 scholar athletes in volleyball this year.


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Stereotypically, when one thinks of Philadelphia during the 19th century, an image comes to mind of a sophisticated urban area, filled with scientific, educational & cultural institutions, legacies derived in part from the preceding century, when such enlightened events as the signing of the 'Declaration of Independence' and the 'Constitutional Convention' transpired, a city which at at one time served as the capital of our nation, a metropolis blessed with famed citizens like Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Benjamin Rush.
However, there was another Philadelphia as well: a 'darker,' more sinister side, where superstition played a role in the lives of many of its residents, long after the Revolutionary War.
In March of 1827, Richard Barker was found in a dying condition, "on the pavement" in Shippen Street. He had for some days been residing among "a certain class" of people, one of whom "had the reputation of being acquainted with the black art--a conjurer..."
Lucinda Barker, the purported widow of Richard, visited the city in the summer of 1830, in an attempt to discover her husband's fate, and told the 'Court of Oyer & Terminer' of her incessant prayers aimed towards this discovery, that a "figure" had appeared to her, "dressed in a white shroud" and pleaded, " 'Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda, pursue my murderers, you will learn who they are from the police of New York and Philadelphia.' I answered quickly and repeated it, 'I will, I will, while I have strength and life,' and then it vanished."
Two sisters, Maggie Butler and Mrs. Ida Rehr in 1885, while running a produce stand at the Farmer's Market on 12th & Market Streets, "cowhided" or whipped an innocent man named Simon Harris, whom they believed had been "pilfering" baskets of fruits and vegetables from their stall. Having "consulted a fortune teller last week" they had been "told that the culprit was a blonde young man," thus they began to attack the passer-by who fit the fortune teller's description. Luckily, Harris failed to press charges against the two ladies, even though the man's face "showed several crimson streaks" which he received from the whip.
Prior to this event, Elizabeth White, described as "a mulatto woman," residing in 1859 between Sixth and Seventh Streets, in the city's Fifth Ward, was said by newspaper accounts to be "a Doctress and Astrologist by profession," who was stabbed by her husband "rapidly three or four times in the breast, and also cut her knee, and then fled, leaving his victim bleeding."
But perhaps the most sensational case, occurred in 1852, with newspaper headings entitled, "Superstition in Philadelphia," and "Witchcraft--Evidence of an Enlightened Age," when Mary Ann Clinton & Susan Spearing, residents of Southwark Ward, were formally charged at the 'Court of Quarter Sessions,' with "conspiring to cheat and defraud George F. Elliott, by means of fortune telling and conjuration," in order to extort money. The 'Commonwealth of Pennsylvania' alleged that the two women were giving Mrs. Elliott, "a bottle containing some portions of Mr. Elliott's clothing, and telling her that as the clothing decayed, so Mr. Elliott would moulder away, until he would finally die by virtue of the spell..."
It appeared that Mrs. Elliott suspected her husband was guilty of infidelity, a belief which "had so strong an effect upon her as to make her wish for his death." Thus, she had enlisted the services of Clinton & Spearing, who also encouraged the jealous wife, as an "ordeal of witchcraft," to "take her husband's clothes, tear them to pieces, fill the bottle with them, then boil the contents nine times, and this would give him such extreme pain as to cause his death."
To carry out the above 'spell,' Mrs. Elliott willingly had payed the two 'conjurers,' their required fee.
Not to be outdone, Mrs. Carmela Rubino to the north, in New York City, as late as 1910, charged Giovanni Leonardo & Leonora Buffano $276.00, for certain "black powders and blue ribbons," in order to drive away "devils." Mrs. Rubino's "demon dispellers" caused her to spend 50 days in jail, after she was convicted of "practicing medicine illegally," and was forced also to pay a fine of $500.00 for her "exorbitant fees for worthless concoctions."
The above accounts reveal that such incredulity was not limited to Colonial America, but existed well into the Modern era, and for that matter, has not entirely disappeared even in the 21st century. These accounts, their documentation and other similar events, can all be examined as part of the collections here at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.


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EDMONTON, Alberta, April 22 (UPI) -- A small flying dinosaur dubbed Microraptor was a capable aerial hunter, swooping and snatching fish from the water like modern birds, Canadian scientists say.
New evidence of Microraptor's hunting ability came from fossilized remains in China, the University of Alberta reported Monday.
"We were very fortunate that this Microraptor was found in volcanic ash and its stomach content of fish was easily identified," paleontology graduate student Scott Persons said.
Until now paleontologists had believed Microraptors -- about the size of a modern day hawk -- lived in trees where they preyed exclusively on small birds and mammals.
But analysis of the new fossil revealed its teeth were adapted to catching slippery, wiggling prey like fish, the Alberta researchers said.
"Now we know that Microraptor operated in varied terrain and had a varied diet," Persons said. "It took advantage of a variety of prey in the wet, forested environment that was China during the early Cretaceous period, 120 million years ago."
This is the first evidence of a flying raptor able to successfully prey on fish, the researcher said, with Microraptor's wings configured something like a biplane.
"It had long feathers on its forearms, hind legs and tail," said Persons. "It was capable of short, controlled flights."


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I haven't forgotten about those coveted in-house job listings. In fact, today I made sure to hit a few with logos that you'd recognize.
Responsible for all Litigation and Technology Licensing matters for DreamWorks Animation to ensure maximum protection of the organization. – Oversee all Litigation matters for the studio working with in-house staff as well as outside counsel. – Consult with DreamWorks Technology leadership and strategic technology partners regarding legal/contractual matters. – Responsible for negotiating technology licensing deals, patents and intellectual property. – Oversee intellectual property, anti-trust, and patent infringement claims. – Involved in strategic production initiatives on an as needed basis.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in Litigation AND Technology Licensing – Experience negotiating technology licensing deals, patents and IP. – Entertainment and copyright experience a plus. Member of California Bar Association and JD from accredited law school. – Strong negotiating, writing and communication skills. – Experience managing staff. – Sense of urgency and responsiveness. – Limited travel.
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Verizon Wireless is seeking a talented attorney to join its Regulatory Law Group within the Legal and External Affairs Department office in Washington, D.C as a counsel. This is a senior position that will represent the Company in federal and state courts, as well as in proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission, state public utility commissions, and other agencies. This person will also draft and review applications for licenses and other authorizations, pleadings and other documents, and assist internal clients in complying with numerous federal and state regulatory requirements. This position will report to the Deputy General Counsel for Regulatory Law.
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Spike TV – Vice President for the Spike TV Business & Legal Affairs department working on Spike TV original programming transactions concentrating on animation, scripted and alternative development and production matters.
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- Develop and supervise creation of deal structures, parameters and documentation templates and forms.
- Advise and counsel the client groups on a variety of complex business and legal matters.
- Liaison with a broad range of MTV Networks departments (Production Management, Labor & Employment, Risk Management, Litigation, Online, Music & Media Licensing and Pre-Broadcast Review) to implement production legal policies and procedures.
- Liaison with a broad range of Spike TV departments (Ad Sales, Marketing and Promotion, Talent and Special Events, Programming and Spike Digital Entertainment) regarding the exploitation of Spike TV programming.
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- Maintain relationships with key managers, agencies and attorneys in the entertainment community.
We have some big plans for 2010 including the launch of our new job board. The goal is to move our job listings series¹ over there.
Right now, we're reaching out to legal employers and asking them to join our Beta team. (In less nerdy terms, a team of brave trailblazers who are willing to post their legal positions on our job board. Basically, they post for free during our launch, receive discounts for all eternity, and are pampered with praise and adulation.)
Until we're ready to fully transition over to the job board, we'll continue to post jobs that we find here. Hey, we may as well get the firm's attention, right? Show 'em the awesome caliber of our readers.
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Sprinkle the chicken strips with the fresh tarragon and the salt and pepper, then dust with flour. Melt about half the butter and use it to sauté the chicken strips until just cooked through. Remove the skillet from the heat and set aside.
Sauté the shallots, garlic and mushrooms in the remaining two tablespoons of butter until they are just brown. Pour the wine over the vegetables and cook over high heat until the liquid is reduced to just a few tablespoons.
Add the chicken stock to the mixture and cook over high heat. The liquid will come to a boil and reduce. Continue cooking until the liquid is reduced by about one-half. When the liquid has reduced adequately, add the cream and return the chicken and juices to the pan.
Heat through and serve immediately, garnished with chives.
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Um so…did I mention I am also recovering from a sinus infection? How about a YouTube clip of children using obscene language?
Awwwww, right? So this guy I kind of know predicts the Blazers will beat the Rockets, only to be "schooled" as the saying goes by the Lakers, but adds that it will be "valuable experience for this promising young team," which is sort of how I feel about all my humiliations minus I guess the parts about "young" and "promising."
I find it always helps whenever I am writing about a challenging new topic to find sympathetic characters to whom I can relate and reading the internet I am starting to feel like this Greg Oden guy might understand. If A.J. fires me tonight maybe I'll just start a screenplay about what would happen if we met and by some unlikely sequence of events found ourselves charged with looking after an ethnically-diverse passel of potty-mouthed pipsqueaks, like a sort of fusion of Ghost World and Dangerous Minds. Probably though I will just get drunk.


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At the hotel chain with a name synonymous with exceptional service, a colleague said Carla Benesh is poised, confident and eloquent. Moreover, he says that if he were assembling a dream management team, he would make her a member. In four years in the human resources industry, all spent with the 36,000-employee hotel chain, she has earned the support of superiors who ask her for guidance in complex situations. Yet she also gets their full compliance with the company's employee performance review and tracking system. She also has sharpened the skills to advance in the industry by demonstrating focus and strengthening the discipline within the company. Ms. Benesh achieved that by creating sustainable programs at the hotel, particularly in areas that help new human resources professionals and other new hires succeed at the company. She supervises all of the department trainers at the Ritz-Carlton Cleveland — it calls them learning coaches — and champions the hotel's program of certifying new and recertifying employees to ensure their continuous improvement.
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I recently meet a person through a friend and the subject of religion arose. I talked about my lack of belief and my reasons carefully as I didn't know the person. To my surprise he told me he was an atheist 'once'. Intrigued my this I asked for a little more detail.
He told me a similar story to mine, he was born into a very religious family and when he questioned himself about religion he realized he actually had no belief in any deity. Then he told me a close family member had passed away and that he had 'found' his faith again and did so because he couldn't imagine there not being a place where he would meet this person again.
After some thought I have two questions as a result of this conversation I'm hoping some of you can answer.
Mainly for interest's sake has anyone ever meet an person who was an atheist but converted to a religion without the influence of a family member, close friend's death, terminal illness etc. You know just one day upped and choose to be religious without an underlying reason.
My second question, a more personal one, is when someone close to you dies, is it a pitfall to convert/reconvert to religion? I have been extremely fortunate not to have someone close to me die yet, but after having this conversation I have wondered what I will do once this inevitability does happen, as I can see it as being the weakest and most vulnerable time that will befall me. I know this isn't something that everyone will be comfortable discussing, and I apologise in advance if this question upsets anyone.
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My sister passed away on 14 April. I have found myself wishing I were able to believe that there is something beyond this world. I think it's a matter of not wanting to tell oneself 'it's over.'
@ Kevin - I am very sorry for your loss.
I understand that feeling too well, Kevin. My sister was murdered on June 5th last year. It's difficult letting go. I agree that the feeling of I don't want this to be the end is probably where the idea of an afterlife came from to begin with, but that doesn't make the truth any less true. I suppose being a naturalist made that easier for me to accept. It was preparing for her funeral that I realized just how much I had really let go of any concept of God and the supernatural. I had considered myself an agnostic, but looking back, I realized I was an atheist.
I don't know the circumstances of what you are going through, but I can say that time lessens the pain and sense of loss. It never really goes away, but slowly it gets better. Accepting that loss was for me the first step to healing.
And Sean, I do see clinging to religion in times of sorrow as a pitfall. I can't blame people for doing it. My parents, brother, and extended family are all currently doing that. It brings comfort. It brings a definitive community. At the same time, once you start believing that the person you care for is waiting for you in eternal paradise, you stop accepting that they are gone and are instead just waiting to see them again. Now on top of it all, to leave behind the idea of a divine entity is to also leave behind the idea that you will never again see those you love and care for. You'd have to break open all those old wounds and finally deal with that loss. This is not to mention the complete load of baggage that comes with returning to religion, the needless shame for the things you've done, the needless guilt of denying that a god-like being ever existed, and all the rules, hypocrites, and stupid bullshit that probably encouraged you leave in the first place.
A quote I've always liked from the infamous Jack Sparrow, "The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do." You can either accept that death is the end or you can't, but either way you've got to square that by your onesie, savvy?
I'm very sorry to hear that, SH!
i doubt that when anybody close to me dies, that i will convert back. but sometimes i find myself wishing there was at least a point after death where you can meet your loved ones one more time before its really over but who knows what really happens when we leave this place.
My second question, a more personal one, is when someone close to you dies, is it a pitfall to convert/reconvert to religion?
@Sean - No, I don't consider it a pitfall (for myself). Just because you desperately want something does not guarantee you will get it. However, I suppose one could hope to be united with loved ones after death, but even it turns out you are able to be united, somehow, it still does not mean there has to be a god involved. I will say I have yet to lose someone who is close to me, so I am not speaking from experience.
Some of my close relatives have died, and it did not affect my disbelief. As long as you keep in mind why you disbelieve, it will not affect you too much. You may wish you can believe it, but you wont, because you cant. To me it just sounds like this individual believes because he needed to ease the pain.... wishful thinking..we are all human in the end
Yes, my best childhood friend was an atheist and is now an apologist for the Catholic church! I've lost grand parents, a brother, both parents, and numerous other friends and relatives, and have never considered converting nor wishing to.
I just recently lost my cousin who was my best friend. After all that it actually made me face that I'm really an atheist and accept it. I was never really religious before, just did it to keep the family happy. Once he died all people would say was, "It's God's plan. He needed him more than we do." And I thought, wtf? Why in the hell would an all powerful invisible man in the sky, need my cousin? I just had an anger towards everyone using religion as a crutch. This got me to thinking more on the subject for once and I finally realized, I don't (can't and never can) believe an angry, jealous, and all powerful being could really be up there controlling everything. Because he's doing a shit job if he is.
Anywho, the death of a loved one had the opposite reaction on me. And I would love to believe he did go over to some wonderful place and I'll see him again, but I just can't. What helps me through is just knowing while he's not here, I still have the memories of our time together. But it does seem like it's been a lot tougher for me to get through than the rest of my family that believe it was "God's Will". It sucks but with time I know I can move on.
My Nana died, we were extremely close, but I still didn't believe in their religion despite her piousness. I'm ok with never seeing her again because we had such an amazing 18 years together.
Leaving the adendum "especially after someone has died" aside, the philosopher Norman Malcolm is said to have converted after he formulated a variation on the Ontological Argument he found persuasive. You can google it if you're at all interested.
1) I've never met anyone who converted back to religion merely for comfort after a death
2) My wife and I actually had to put one of our kitties down on Monday. Luna loved us and especially followed me around like a kid following around it's daddy. So, to suddenly lose her was really hard on us. Part of me wished there was another life for her, or that she would be reincarnated. But through it all, I realized that it was just wishful thinking... a way to try and make myself feel better about losing a friend. But if I'm honest with myself, I know that the lovable kitty she was, died with that injection that ended her suffering, but also the brain activity that made her uniquely her. She'll be greatly missed, but she's gone now. I'm just so thankful that we rescued her, and got the years that we did. We did plant a rose tree over her though, so in one sense, she'll live on when her matter is recycled. :(


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The Wall Street Journal sat down with Apple CEO Tim Cook and SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller to discuss some of the reasons Apple chose to bring the iPad experience over to the Mac. During the interview, Cook went over some of the changes we'll be seeing in Mountain Lion and how they plan to allow the iPad and laptops to coexist while merging the user-experience in many ways.
"We see that people are in love with a lot of apps and functionality here," said Mr. Cook, 51 years old, pointing at his iPhone. "Anywhere where that makes sense, we are going to move that over to Mac." [...] Mr. Cook said he already thinks of Apple's iOS and OS X operating systems "as one with incremental functionality." He said both laptops and tablets will continue to coexist, but he didn't rule out that the technologies could converge further.
Cook also touched upon some of the rumors related to Apple using their own integrated SoC (system-on-a-chip) across the the gamut of their products -- from mobile to the desktop -- although he was rather vague on the subject while leaving it open to possibility.
When asked if Apples iPhones, iPads and Macs might run the same microprocessor chips, he said: "We think about everything. We don't close things off."
Phil Schiller also went over some of the reasons Apple is attempting to merge the mobile and desktop experience between iOS 5 and OS X Mountain Lion, indicating they took a "logical pass" at the user-experience in order for everything to make sense to the end user.
When asked if Apple was worried about the iPad taking over Mac sales, Cook tried to calm the concerns by explaining how iPhone and iPad users flock to the Mac after realizing how much better of a user-experience the devices provide, although he did admit Mac sales have been slightly canalization by the iPad in the most recent quarter.
Mr. Cook said the Mac remains an "incredibly important" part of the company and that it is already benefiting from the success of the iPhone, particularly in China, where Mac sales doubled last year. "They know about Apple and what Apple stands for," he said. "Then they search out and look for the Mac."
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion will be available later this summer, with a developer preview hitting the channel this Thursday.
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Glee star Lea Michele slips on the ruby slippers for this animated 3D musical update of The Wizard of Oz, directed by Daniel St. Pierre and written by Adam Balsam, Randi Barnes, and Barry Glasser. Kansas has been devastated by tornadoes. Returning home to find the farm in ruins, young Dorothy is transported back to Oz, and embarks on a quest to save her old friends the Lion (Jim Belushi), the Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), and the Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer). Oliver Platt, Hugh Dancy, Megan Hilty, and Martin Short also contribute voices for an epic fantasy featuring music by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance.
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Many travellers associate the island with wild parties and package holidays for young tourists hell bent on having a good time, but Mallorca's quieter resorts are fantastic places for families with children to take a summer holiday, and the combination of great tourist amenities and historic sightseeing will keep everybody entertained and happy.
Puerto Pollensa and Cala d'Or are quiet and the beaches uncrowded, a great location for the kids to build sand castles and play with buckets and spades, but remember to pack the sunscreen as the temperatures in summer months can be searing. El Arenal boasts an enormous waterpark, as do Alcudia and Magalluf - what could be a more perfect day out for the kids? Take the kids go-karting in Magalluf, or enjoy a family horse-riding trip to see the island from Alcudia. A trip to Marineland, in Costa d'en Blanes, to watch the dolphins and sea lions perform, or be mesmerised by the sharks in the aquarium, is a must. On days when outdoor activities are not an option for kids on holiday in Mallorca, many of the hotels feature kids clubs, or children's indoor playgrounds, and there are other options such as Mallorca Aquarium in Porto Cristo. Of course, the city of Palma has many attractions for a rainy day, but those wanting to stick to their chosen resort certainly shouldn't be bored either.
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Software Tools for LEED Certification and Energy Credits
To have a building certified by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), architects and designers can use several tools to demonstrate that the building complies with various sustainable design requirements. The USGBC certifies the building through the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. This is a voluntary, consensus-based performance rating system. This article discusses the software that may be used to verify compliance.
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CHICAGO (CNN) -- On a chilly afternoon this fall, teenagers across Chicago's South Side were busy at work, earning $8.75 an hour to hand out fliers with a message of non-violence.
"Our message that we're giving out today is about being healthy," said 18-year-old Lucia Eloisa. "One of the key pointers is about taking time to reflect and seek inner peace."
Eloisa's part-time job was paid for by an ambitious state-funded program to keep at-risk teenagers out of trouble. It pumped nearly $55 million into Chicago's toughest neighborhoods and three of its suburbs to stem unrelenting gang violence.
A four-month CNN investigation found that not only did the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative (NRI) pay teens to hand out fliers promoting inner peace, it also paid these at-risk teens to take field trips to museums, march in a parade with the governor, and even attend a yoga class to learn how to handle stress.
Earlier this year, state legislators passed a resolution demanding the state conduct an audit on the program. That audit is under way.
Supporters say the program kept kids off the streets of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods and helped expose inner city youth to a broader culture, as well as cultivate future leaders.
But critics wonder if it was just a waste of taxpayers' money, considering that the city's murder rate has risen since the program began two years ago.
Or worse: was it just an effort to buy votes ahead of a tight race for governor?
Stemming crime or gaining votes?
Pat Quinn became Illinois' governor in 2009 in the wake of a corruption scandal that took down his predecessor, Rod Blagojevich. After serving out the rest of Blagojevich's term, the former lieutenant governor narrowly won the Democratic primary to vie for a full term in 2010.
That fall, Quinn faced a tough challenge against his Republican opponent to retain the governor's seat.
In October 2010 -- less than a month before the gubernatorial election -- Quinn announced his Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, which he said would "take on the root causes of violence" in Chicago and across Illinois by creating "about 3,000 part time and permanent jobs for young people so they have a positive way to go."
"And we mean business," Quinn said at the October 6 news conference. "We really understand how important this is."
Quinn's political opponents have questioned the timing of his announcement.
"I mean, we're in a budget crisis," said Illinois state Sen. Matt Murphy, spokesman for the Republican state appropriations committee. "We were back then. We have since been in a violence crisis in Chicago, and you look at this, and you say for political purposes, you're taking precious and limited taxpayer dollars and spending them on political purposes rather than solving the violence problem in the city of Chicago. And it was wrong."
Murphy believes that Quinn's real motivation for implementing the program was to secure votes in Chicago's heavily Democratic districts on the South Side.
Just days before Quinn publicly unveiled the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, the state agency that would oversee the program expressed concern about how it would be funded.
"There was discussion regarding the payment for this initiative, as the state is already late on payment of existing bills to community-based agencies with state contracts," according to the minutes of the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority's September 30, 2010, meeting, which were obtained by CNN.
At the meeting, an official from Quinn's administration assured state officials that the program would have the necessary funds.
"The governor's office is committed to allocating some of the funds for this initiative immediately and will allocate the rest after the election," the official said, according to the meeting's minutes.
Murphy called that statement a "smoking gun." It shows, according to Murphy, "that motivation for this program was to get money out in politically important neighborhoods for Gov. Quinn before ... a tight election."
Murphy and other Republican legislators point to the fact that most of the program's funding went to black neighborhoods in Chicago that were ultimately critical to Quinn's election.
"Why on earth would anybody in a government position talk about the timing of an election with the release of public taxpayer dollars if it wasn't for the political advancement of their boss?" Murphy said, referring to the Quinn staffer's comments.
"I wouldn't say it's buying votes," said Democratic state Rep. Thaddeus Jones, when asked about the timing of the governor's announcement of the anti-violence program. "I could see (it as) currying favor."
Quinn ended up winning the 2010 election by less than one percentage point, largely due to the turnout of the black vote in Chicago.
'A lot of baloney'
The Illinois governor strongly denied there was any political motivation behind the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative.
"That's a lot of baloney, and you know they know that," Quinn told CNN last month. "As a matter of fact, the people making those charges were all running against me. It's all politics."
Quinn insisted that the initiative was a direct response to the incessant violence that gripped Chicago during the summer of 2010.
"The bottom line is, I went to the funerals of three police officers in 2010," Quinn said. "I spoke at all three of those funerals. Gang-bangers had shot down those officers."
Quinn said he formed an anti-violence commission -- which included Chicago residents who had lost loved ones to violence -- that made recommendations that led to the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative.
"That commission recommended having youth programs, opportunities for mentorship and jobs to keep young people away from the gangs," Quinn said. "I followed their advice and we've followed that all the way through. And this is not political. It's designed to help everyday people stay away from violence, protect their safety, make sure their young children, especially in poor neighborhoods that have no jobs, have a better way."
But records obtained by CNN show the NRI program was under way before those recommendations were released.
After a series of open meetings in Chicago and other areas, the commission issued a list of recommendations on September 13, 2010, according to the commission's chair, Teresa Garate. Those recommendations -- like the program itself -- focused on four areas: counseling and alternative education, prisoner re-entry, job creation and community development.
But a week before those recommendations were issued, Chicago aldermen began receiving a letter from the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority's (IVPA) director about the NRI program. The September 7, 2010, letter stated that "the initiative is on a very fast track, so we are requesting that you respond immediately to this request." The IVPA is the state agency that oversaw the NRI.
When asked about those records, a Quinn spokesman confirmed that the program was in the works before the commission issued its recommendations.
What the program actually did
Politically motivated or not, it's hard to argue that the nearly $55 million spent on the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative helped stem violence in Chicago. Two years after the program was implemented, there have been 476 murders in the city, a nearly 20 percent increase over 2011.
The governor defended the program, saying that he had to do something to address the situation.
"You take it one year at a time and you try to evaluate the programs, and find out what is working and what isn't working so well," Quinn told CNN. "And you focus on the things that work well. But you don't just say we're not going to do anything."
The program was set up so quickly that there was no formal way to measure its results, according to hundreds of documents reviewed by CNN and interviews with those who participated in the program.
Records provided to CNN show that $54.5 million was spent on the NRI program, mostly through the governor's discretionary fund, which doesn't require legislative approval.
The only data on the program's accomplishments come directly from the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority. The NRI states that it created more than 3,484 jobs, provided counseling for more than 3,100 children, and helped 1,175 ex-cons.
The NRI's self-reported results are being examined by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago. No formal report has been issued.
CNN reviewed hundreds of documents related to the program and conducted dozens of interviews with program participants which show how some of the money was spent:
NRI participants were paid $8.75 an hour, first to receive mentoring from adults, and then go out to pitch positive messages and hand out fliers in their neighborhoods.
Lazaro Vasquez, 18, said although he couldn't explain how the message in the fliers he was handing out would help stop violence, he supported the program.
"I just know that I'm trying to do my best that I can (to) pitch that message to youth, and let them know that we're trying to help the community," he said.
In another instance, students earned $8.75 an hour to visit the DuSable Museum of African American History and to the National Museum of Mexican Art.
"It was an effort to expose the students to a broader perspective on the cultures in their neighborhood and provoke some discussion," explained Dan Valliere, executive director of Chicago Commons, one of the lead agencies under the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative.
"The goal is to shift youth attitudes and help them develop a perspective on how they can be leaders and impact their neighborhood in a positive way. Over time, this kind of work can help reduce violence. There is research and experience to back that up."
Students were also paid to attend a yoga class as part of the program's effort "to point them out of their comfort zone ... think differently and become more a leader in their own neighborhood," Valliere explained.
The NRI also paid teens from the Better Boys Foundation to march in the 82nd Annual Bud Billiken Parade on August 13, 2011, with Quinn, according to records and video of the parade.
"Their job was promoting positive messages, etc., which is what the parade is about," a spokesman for Quinn said.
An audit of one of the Nighborhood Recovery Initiative's lead groups -- The Woodlawn Organization -- uncovered a "lack of clear accounting and record keeping" and "questionable decisions." The group, which has a two-year contract, received $1.2 million before the state de-funded it.
According to the audit -- which is separate from the ongoing state audit of the entire NRI program -- The Woodlawn Organization used the money to buy $2,000 in American Express gift cards for two employees working for one of its subcontractors.
The two staff members "had to work far more hours over the course of the program than they were paid to do," said Joel Hamernick, director of the subcontractor, Sunshine Gospel Ministries.
Hamernick told CNN that his group got permission from The Woodlawn Organization "to make these two gift cards available to this staff in order to show our appreciation for their hard work."
Georgette Greenlee-Finney, the former executive director of The Woodlawn Organization, did not return repeated phone calls from CNN. James Taylor, attorney for The Woodlawn Organization, said the group would provide all documentation requested by the state for its audit of the NRI.
Illinois legislators, like Sen. Murphy, have been demanding specifics about whether the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative delivered on its promises.
"At first blush, this appears to have been a misuse of taxpayer dollars," Murphy said. "We've been asking for answers ... on where this money was spent, how it was spent. You know, this is state taxpayer money."
It's not only Republican legislators who have asked for more specifics about the NRI.
Rep. Jones sent a letter in August to the state agency overseeing the program asking for a "list of administration costs" associated with NRI and a list of groups that have submitted audits.
The letter was sent in August to Barbara Shaw, the former director of the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority, who has since retired from state government. Jones said he never received a response.
"There still needs to be some examination of where the money went," Jones said. "If the money didn't go to the anti-violence programs, I'm not going to let it rest on deaf ears."
Mixed results
Examples of the apparent misuse of the program's money don't surprise Mike Shaver, whose organization, Chicago Children's Home and Aid, received $2.1 million for its role as a lead agency for the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative.
He and others say the initiative was just too big, and providers were not equipped to evaluate which programs were working and which were not.
"We weren't able to get enough information about what was going on in our own program to understand whether we were having the desired impact," said Shaver.
Others involved with the Chicago anti-violence initiative underscored the successes of the program -- like keeping kids off the streets -- while acknowledging more needs to be done.
"We engage with the kids and things of that nature, do booster training and get them life skills and coping skills," said Lamont Coakley, an adult mentor. "It's just limited on the funds. If we can get funded to hire all the youth, then it would work.
"Because if we really look at it, when they're at their training, when they're at work, they're not shooting anyone."
Father Michael Pfleger, of the Church of St. Sabina -- another of the NRI's lead agencies -- said the program's overall success shouldn't just be measured by Chicago's crime rate.
"Let's not say because the NRI can't show evidence of crime being down that it's failed," Pfleger said. "No, I look at the NRI with the boots on the street and within the community that we're helping from getting worse."
That sentiment was echoed by the Illinois governor:
"It does work when you intervene, when you keep people on a positive path, doing good things for their community instead of getting involved with gang-bangers and drug dealers that afflict many communities, and use violence to kill children in particular," Quinn said.
"Most people who have looked at this issue, who are experts, say the best way to fight the violence is to have after-school programs for children who can get in trouble after school, have programs of mentoring so they have positive role models, have programs where they can have a job, even if it's just a part-time job, a seasonable job."
But Murphy said those temporary jobs are just "another way of providing welfare."
"You're not giving young people a chance to advance by giving them this flier-passing-out job," Murphy said. "You're not creating an environment where job growth that is lasting is going to take hold."
Today, the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative has been scaled back, with a much smaller budget of just $15 million. It's also being managed by a different state agency.
And the jobs? A spokeswoman for the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority said that's being reworked to put "youth in more traditional employment and mentoring situations."
CNN's Sara Anwar contributed to this report.
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Egg (Emacs got Git) was forked from Magit and has developed independently since 2008. Egg has built-in blame-mode that can relocate the blamed commit back into the DAG view (log-buffer). Normally unreachable commits in the reflogs can also be brought back into the DAG view, making refs recovery error-proof. Egg supports interactive rebase by marking directly on commits (to be picked, edited or squashed) in the DAG view. Egg also has extensive support for pickaxing (only showing the diffs with the search term, highlighting the search term, etc.) The default colours are terrible but can all be customized.
Egg provide Git's functionalities via 3 components:
- the minor mode to perform git's operation on the file of the current buffer. The minor mode also has two ancillary modes:
- the blame mode: where block of lines are point the finger at the last commit that modified them.
- the inline-diff mode: where fine-grain sub-hunks can be moved back-n-forth between the index and the work-tree's file.
- the status buffer: this buffer provide commands to deal primarily with the work-tree, the index and HEAD. Operations such as stashing WIPs are performed in this buffer.
- the log buffer: this buffer provide commands to manipulate the commits DAG. rebase, merge, cherry-picking, etc. are performed in this buffer.
- Homepage: http://bogolisk.github.com/egg/
- Project Page: http://github.com/byplayer/egg (stable), http://github.com/bogolisk/egg (bleeding-edge)
- Repository: git://github.com/byplayer/egg.git
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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Jan. 23, 2013) - Hesperian Capital Management Ltd. ("Hesperian"), announced today that it intends to carry out the tax-deferred rollover of Norrep Performance 2012 Flow-Through Limited Partnership (the "Partnership") into the Norrep Energy Class of Norrep Opportunities Corp. (the "Mutual Fund") effective March 8, 2013.
The rollover will be a transaction pursuant to which the assets of the Partnership will be transferred to the Mutual Fund, on a tax deferred basis, in exchange for securities of the Mutual Fund. Following this, the Partnership will be dissolved and the securities of the Mutual Fund will be distributed to the Limited Partners (i.e. investors) pro rata on a tax deferred basis. There will be no fees or costs charged to the investor as result of the rollover event.
Investors may indefinitely defer the capital gains tax liability that occurs at disposition of the investment by continuing to hold the Norrep Energy Class mutual fund shares or by initiating a tax-deferred switch to another mutual fund class within the multi-class structure of Norrep Opportunities Corp.:
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By Rob Schabert, Tennessee Tech Sports Information Director
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Tech's women's and men's cross country teams open the 2013 season Friday evening when they compete in the 12-school Western Carolina Invitational in Cullowhee, N.C. The women's two-mile race begins at 6:30 p.m. EDT, followed by a men's 5K event at 6:50 p.m.
Veteran coach Tony Cox expects nine women and nine men to represent the Golden Eagles, capping off a summer of individual training to prepare for the season.
Running for Tech in the women's race will be seven returnees and a pair of newcomers, while the men's race will feature four newcomers and five returning distance runners.
The Tech women's lineup will include five seniors, led by Rebecca Cline from Spring Hill, Tenn., and Peri Winborne from Knoxville, Tenn. Cline finished either first or second on the team in every meet last season, including leading Tech at the OVC Championships. Winborne, still working her way back from injury, placed fourth on the team in most meets during the 2012 cross country season before returning to form during the spring track season.
The other seniors are Yeshi Dohrman, Amelia McCoy and Meghan O'Donoghue. The returning group also includes junior Elizabeth Mitchell and sophomore Landy Loving. Dohrmann, Loving, and McCoy all saw action last year, while O'Donoghue did not run in the fall. Tech's two new faces who will run Friday are sophomore Sarah Willson and freshman Claire Cashin.
John Greene, who headlined the team in 2011 but sat out all of 2012, returns to the course this fall and should run near the front of the pack in every race. He will be joined among the leaders by senior Matthew Bishop, who topped Tech a year ago in half of the races. Senior Sterling Smith, who led Tech in one race and was second on the squad in most other events, will also challenge for team leadership. Other returnees back in action are junior Matt Pennycuff and senior Nathan Snow.
The four new faces in Tech's lineup include freshmen Brennan Huber, Sam Lariviere, Jordan Roth and Daniel Williamson.
On the run: Cross country teams open season Friday evening in North Carolina
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Zero-Emission Vehicle Legal and Regulatory Activities - Background
This page last reviewed October 14, 2011
The Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulation was
first adopted in 1990 as part of the Low Emission Vehicle
Program. Although it has been modifed several times over the
years, as shown in the timeline on page four, it still remains an
important program for California's air quality and has spurred many new
technologies that are being driven on California's roads.
While critics maintain that the ZEV regulation is a failure, in reality many successes have come out of the regulation. For instance, nearly 2 million Californians are driving partial zero and advanced technology partial zero emission vehicles (PZEV and AT PZEV). These vehicles have near-zero tailpipe emissions, zero evaporative emissions and an extended emissions warranty of 15 years or 150,000 miles. In fact, they are 80% cleaner than the average 2002 model year car.
In addition to the variety of PZEVs and AT PZEVs available, gas-electric hybrid vehicles are also a success. With more than 400,000 hybrids on California's roads, they give consumers a way to reduce emissions and fuel consumption. Although these "near- zero" emission vehicles provide critical pollution reductions in the near term, with the increases in California's population and in the number of miles we travel each day, we must continue to pursue pure zero emission transportation technologies.
The Board's motivation has always been to have zero emission technologies on the roads on a mass scale as soon as possible. Whether using fuel cells, battery electric vehicles, or other technologies, our commitment to zero emissions has never wavered. Our strategy, however, has appropriately considered the state of technology, market factors, economic impact, and our mission.
The Zero-Emission Vehicle Legal and Regulatory Activities page provides more information about the ZEV Regulatory activitiies over the years.
The ZEV Program Timeline:
|California embarked on a plan to reduce vehicle emissions to zero through the introduction of the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Program. At that time, the Board required that in 1998, 2% of the vehicles that large manufacturers produced for sale in California had to be ZEVs, increasing to 5% in 2001 and 10% in 2003.
|The ZEV mandate was adjusted to eliminate the "ramp up" years but left in place the 10% ZEV requirement for 2003, and again in 1998 to allow partial ZEV (PZEV) credits for extremely clean vehicles that were not pure ZEVs. The underlying goal, however, never changed. California remained committed to seeing increasing numbers of ZEVs in the vehicle fleet. The challenge was determining how to reach this goal.
|The challenge at this time was to maintain progress towards commercialization of ZEVs, while recognizing constraints due to cost, lead-time, and technical challenges. The 2001 modifications allowed large manufacturers to meet their ZEV requirement with 2% pure ZEVs, 2% Advanced Technology PZEVS and 6% PZEVs.
|Due to a lawsuit filed against the Board, a federal district judge issued a preliminary injunction that prohibited the Board from enforcing the 2001 ZEV amendments with respect to the sale of new motor vehicles in model years 2003 or 2004. Once the Board adopted the 2003 Amendments to the ZEV regulation, the parties to the lawsuits agreed to end the litigation.
|In order to address the preliminary injunction and better align the program requirements with the status of technology development, staff proposed additional modifications to the ZEV regulation in March 2003. The reasons and benefits are described above.
|ARB held a Technology Symposium and an Independent Expert Review Panel submitted their report on the status of all ZEV technologies.
|Staff went to the Board in early 2007 with the information gathered from the Symposium as well as the report from the Independent Expert Review Panel. The Board determined that staff should recommend changes to the regulation for the 2009 and subsequent model years.
|The Board approved modifications to the regulation at the March 27, 2008 hearing. The Board also directed staff to redesign the ZEV Program so it will affect the 2015+ model years.
|The Board heard about staff's plans to redesign the ZEV program (2009 ZEV Review)
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· present; "The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated"; "bestow an honor on someone"
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Synonym(s): lend, impart, contribute, add, bring
Hypernym(s): change, alter, modify
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Wildcard Components and Content Validation
Wildcard components are used to increase flexibility in what is allowed to appear in a content model. These components are supported in the XSD language in the following ways:
Element wildcard components. These are represented by the <xsd:any> element.
Attribute wildcard components. These are represented by the <xsd:anyAttribute> element.
Both wildcard character elements, <xsd:any> and <xsd:anyAttribute>, support the use of a processContents attribute. This lets you specify a value that indicates how XML applications handle the validation of document content associated with these wildcard character elements. These are the different values and their effect:
The strict value specifies that the contents are fully validated.
The skip value specifies that the contents are not validated.
The lax value specifies that only elements and attributes for which schema definitions are available are validated.
Lax Validation and xs:anyType Elements
The XML Schema specification uses lax validation for elements of the anyType type. Because SQL Server 2005 did not support lax validation, strict validation was applied for elements of the anyType. Beginning with SQL Server 2008, lax validation is supported. Content of elements of type anyType will be validated using lax validation.
The following example illustrates the lax validation. The schema element e is of the anyType type. The example creates typed xml variables and illustrates the lax validation of the element of the anyType type.
<schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
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DECLARE @var XML(SC)
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1.2.1 Global Injection Molded Magnets Production and CAGR (%) Comparison by Type (Product Category)(2012-2022)
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1.2.3 Magnetic Material: Ferrite
1.2.4 Magnetic Material: NdFeB
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1.2.6 Other
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1.3.2 Motors
1.3.3 Sensors
1.3.4 Injection Molded Rotor Assemblies
1.3.5 Insert Molded Magnetic Components
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Johnny Jolly's comeback attempt officially is underway.
Jolly saw his NFL career gutted by drug use that led to an indefinite suspension and prison time. The Green Bay Packers kept their faith in Jolly and now are giving the defensive tackle an opportunity to regain his roster spot following a three-year layoff.
"It was excellent. It was excellent," Jolly said Tuesday, via The Associated Press, after arriving at Packers minicamp. "I'm out there laughing and joking with the guys, it just felt like I never left. It was just like, man, this is a relief. Oh my God, I'm back on the field, practicing with the dudes I love to play ball with. It was great."
Packers coach Mike McCarthy gave an honest answer when asked how difficult it will be for Jolly to make it back. He hasn't played a snap since the 2009 season.
"Well, we're going to find out. If an individual can do it, I believe Johnny Jolly is that man," McCarthy said, via ESPN's Jason Wilde. "He has the toughness, the drive, the passion. I don't know offhand how many players are in our locker room that were teammates with Johnny.
"He's definitely someone that you know can do it," McCarthy went on. "But this is more of a question about life and second chances. We feel that he's gone through the necessary rehabilitation and training to get to this spot. I'm excited to give him this opportunity."
Jolly undoubtedly is an underdog at this stage. He's 30 and acknowledges he's not yet in football shape. He's a long shot to lock down a roster spot, but he's fortunate the opportunity even exists.
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In early November 2012, Kempsey (NSW) racegoers and townsfolk will attempt to break the world record for the greatest number of people wearing Akubra hats. 'We need at least 1,000 proud Akubra owners in the CBD on Race Day to make the world record official', say the organisers. 'And everyone in the local community is invited to take part.'


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Episode 2 of Teaching The Robots To Sing is a gentle introduction to command-line TDD in JavaScript. You can see it here in Flash format:
You can also download it:
episode2.m4v (for iOS, OS X, and Apple TV)
I'm going to build a class on videos like this.
The class itself consists of biweekly videos. The first video was 35 minutes, the second was just under 10; upcoming videos will fall within a similar range.
If you want to see these videos, you need to sign up for my new class, which consists of 3 months of biweekly videos, alternating with biweekly 1-hour Campfire chats. In other words, a chat, then a video, then a chat, etc. Discussions in the Campfire chats will shape the videos I make. It's like Destroy All Software with office hours (plus JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Node.js, Backbone, Socket.io, and, most of all, music). I'm going with office hours because I want to make sure people really learn what I'm teaching; I'm making the videos biweekly because I want them to be FAST AS BALLS.
Speed matters, and not just for web sites. I recently talked to a pair of great engineers about screencasts. Many people love screencasts, but not everybody. Of the two hackers I was talking to, one never watches screencasts at all, because he feels they're too slow; the other one watches them, but watches them in QuickTime, and uses QuickTime's adjustable playback rate to speed up the video to twice its normal speed. Personally, I love screencasts, but I use that double playback speed trick myself sometimes.
I thought about this and decided it's about the editing, because I saw something similar while giving presentations. In 2008, I spoke in front of at least 15 conferences and user groups, maybe 20 or more. I developed a rapid-fire presentation style where I kept putting new slides on screen, because I found that if I didn't, people started looking at their laptops instead of paying attention to my talks. I wanted people to pay attention to my talks, so I made my presentations grab their attention. I got great feedback when I did this. I even got a wild standing ovation after my talk at RubyFringe in Toronto. People still email me now, in 2012, four years later, having just discovered video of that talk, to tell me they love it.
People actually love irrelevant distractions. For instance, here is an unnecessary koala.
Don't tell me that koala isn't adorable.
There were over 500 slides in my RubyFringe talk, and I spoke for approx 50 minutes. That's a very rough average of 10 slides per minute, or a new slide every six seconds. In the average screencast, the image on screen cuts much more slowly than that. But people today are used to fast cuts, so I took the time to apply this style to my videos. I counted the cuts, zooms, and transitions in the first six minutes of the above video, the second episode in Teaching The Robots To Sing. I counted about 94 cuts in those six minutes. The style continues like that through the whole video. So 94 cuts in six minutes (360 seconds) means the shot changes every four seconds, on average.
My theory is TV and movies have made a certain pace feel natural to us, with the obvious corollary that anything slower feels unnatural. I also feel zooming in on key pieces of code makes code demonstrations easier to understand, and it's not just me:
So the videos come out biweekly because I want to take the extra time to make them fast, exciting, and incredibly easy to watch -- which means extra time editing on my end to save time on your end with an exceptionally watchable video -- and in addition to biweekly videos, there's also biweekly Campfire chats. They're an hour long max (less, if you bail) and they alternate; you get a video week and a Campfire week. No matter how many people sign up, there will never be more than 11 people in any one Campfire chat -- each chat gets 10 regular participants, max, including myself, plus an 11th empty slot in case somebody misses their own usual chat schedule and wants to sit in on another class's chat. This is because I want to make sure everybody participates. Small class sizes make that easier.
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Head coach Cameron Rast, on game: "It was a tough game and we knew it would be, but the guys were ready to play. We came out early and put them under pressure and got an early goal so that really helped us. Overall, I am pleased with the effort tonight and we got a great result."
Rast, on scoring goals: "We talked a lot about winning the ball and following up on opportunities and both of our goals came from extra effort. Keith (DeVey) kept going and was rewarded with a rebound and Sean (Danzeiser) showed great determination to get free. He then showed us some of his talent with a great finish."
Rast, on Peter Lowry's 70-yard shot: "He had beaten the goalkeeper for sure and only the cross bar was there to stop it. Even their coach looked over and said `Wow'. That is what you have to say about a play like that because it was amazing. It was great to see that kind of class from him because he has that ability. Unfortunately it did not go in, but it was still spectacular."
Forward Keith DeVey, on goal: "I knew that Amaechi (Igwe) would get a good shot off so I just continued my run and the goalkeeper couldn't handle it and I was able to put it away. The game started off very intense and their fans were really into the game, so getting that early goal kind of took a bit of their energy away.
DeVey, on seeing game out: "When we scored our second goal they put in some tall players up front and started sending a lot of balls into the box. I think that we dropped in a bit and held them off pretty well. It shows that we can play both the skillful passing game as we did at the start of the game and also the hard-nosed, tough game like the last 25 minutes. Having both of those styles will be important as the season goes on."
Midfielder Erik Ustruck, on win: "It is a good win for us and it is always nice to get a road win in conference. We expected a tough game in difficult conditions and we got that, but we played hard and got the win we came up here for."
Ustruck, on quick start: "We have been talking a lot about the first five minutes of each half and getting off to good starts. Tonight we got off to a great start with the goal and we kind of put them on their heels right away."
Forward Sean Danzeiser, on goal: "Chris Sauter served a ball in and I got a little lucky because their left back slipped a bit to help keep the play alive. Then I was able to get the ball away from him. It felt great to finish it since I missed a great chance on Friday and I did not want to miss again."
Danzeiser, on emotions after win: "We came up here in cold weather in front of a good crowd and got a win in their house so it feels great right now. Now we have to keep it going next weekend."


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