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Student Interns Head Back to College to Tout Energy DepartmentA second class of student ambassadors have completed their internships with the federal government, and six of them will return to their college campuses talking about the Energy Department. Of the 30 participants in the 2009-2010 Federal Service Ambassador Program sponsored by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, six college students were enrolled in a new Energy Department-specific internship. Energy's program ...Published over 9 years ago |
Woman, 82, Accused of Having Gun in Fed BuildingAUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- An 82-year-old Maine woman faces charges after she tried to carry a concealed handgun into a federal building in Augusta. Imelda Yorkus, of Whitefield, said she forgot she had the gun when she tried to go to the post office in the Edmund S. Muskie Federal building on Tuesday afternoon. Security officers in the building discovered the ...Published over 9 years ago |
For Many in Forest Service, Benefits Kept Just Out of ReachWhen it comes to providing employee benefits, Uncle Sam strives to be a model employer. But there's rust on his halo. Take a look at thousands of Forest Service workers who get no health and retirement benefits, despite years of service to the federal government. They are temporary employees. It's not uncommon for temps to go without benefits, but these folks ...Published over 9 years ago |
Gunman Shoots Two Federal Employees at Las Vegas CourthouseA gunman fatally shot one federal employee and wounded another at a Las Vegas federal courthouse before being killed by U.S. marshals on Monday morning. The victims were a court security officer and a deputy U.S. marshal, who was listed in stable condition. "I can receive no news more grim or sobering than word of a line-of-duty death or injury to ...Published over 9 years ago |
GSA Lowers Mileage Reimbursement Rate in 2010The General Services Administration announced on Monday that it is lowering by five cents the 2010 mileage reimbursement rate for federal employees using private vehicles for government business. The new rate, which took effect on Jan. 1, 2010, is 50 cents per mile, down from 55 cents per mile in 2009. Unless GSA issues a mid-year adjustment, the rate will remain ...Published over 9 years ago |
Deputy Director Begins Work at OPMMore than five months after she was confirmed by the Senate as deputy director of the Office of Personnel Management, Christine Griffin this week begins her new post overseeing federal personnel issues. "I am very pleased to be able to work with Christine on important issues that directly affect the federal government and its workforce," OPM Director John Berry said in ...Published over 9 years ago |
Census Bureau Kicks Off Once-a-decade Head CountWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Census Bureau kicks off its $300 million campaign Monday to prod, coax and cajole the nation's more than 300 million residents to fill out their once-a-decade census forms. The bureau will mail out the 10-question forms to about 120 million households in March. On Monday, Census Director Robert Groves starts the nationwide campaign with an event ...Published over 9 years ago |
East Coast, West Coast Pay SpreadWhen the 2010 pay raise kicks in later this month, white collar feds on the West Coast will continue to be at the top of the government's salary totem pole. But the gap between federal pay rates in San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose-Los Angeles will narrow thanks to bigger locality adjustments for civil servants in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington-Baltimore. Under President ...Published over 9 years ago |
Next Target: Fast-Track Hiring Programs!Groups representing federal and postal workers and retirees have delivered the goods as never before. This year, 2009, will go down in the books as as-good-as-it-gets. The new Defense Authorization Act contains an array of eye-popping new benefits for federal workers in both major retirement systems, retirees and former feds who want to make a comeback in government. The back-stage lobbying ...Published over 9 years ago |
Federal Labor Unions Push Back Against Senator's TSA 'Hold'Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) announced yesterday that he will bring the nomination of former FBI agent and police detective Erroll Southers to head the Transportation Security Administration to the floor of the full Senate for consideration when lawmakers re-convene next month. The move comes as federal worker labor unions respond to the South Carolina Senator who is blocking Southers's ...Published over 9 years ago |
Senate Confirms 1st Openly Gay US MarshalMINNEAPOLIS – Minneapolis assistant police Chief Sharon Lubinski has become the first openly gay U.S. marshal. The U.S. Senate confirmed the Green Bay, Wis. native to be the U.S. marshal for the Minnesota district. Last week's confirmation also makes her the first female marshal in the state. Lubinski has served a number of roles with the Minneapolis Police. She was also ...Published over 9 years ago |
Pay & Benefits Watch: Benefits BreakthroughsFederal employees are set to receive smaller raises than they've become accustomed to, and lawmakers failed to secure civilians the same pay hike as their military counterparts next year. But despite that setback, 2009 was a big year for federal pay and benefits. Congress passed long-delayed changes to federal benefits policy and rolled back the Pentagon's controversial pay-for-performance system. A new ...Published over 9 years ago |
Senate OK's Health Care Measure, Reaching MilestoneWASHINGTON – Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill in a climactic Christmas Eve vote that could define President Barack Obama's legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the country's history. The 60-39 vote on a cold winter morning capped months of arduous negotiations and 24 days of floor debate. It also followed a succession ...Published over 9 years ago |
EEOC Proposes Changes To Federal Discrimination Complaint ProcessThe Equal Employment Opportunity Commission this week unveiled a wide range of changes to how discrimination complaints in federal agencies are filed, processed and decided. The recommendations were the product of an internal agency working group, led by acting EEOC Chairman Stuart Ishimaru, and inspired by a 2002 public meeting held to solicit suggestions for improving the EEO complaint process. Peggy ...Published over 9 years ago |
OPM Defies Order on Same-Sex BenefitsWith logic only a lawyer -- and perhaps only a government lawyer -- could love, the Obama administration is refusing to obey a federal judge's order that agrees with a position the administration supports. Last month, Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, ordered the Office of Personnel Management to allow health insurance companies ...Published over 9 years ago |
Obama Signs 3.4 Percent Raise For MilitaryPresident Obama signed into law on Monday a 3.4 percent pay raise for service members in 2010, while federal employee unions said they would push for parity between civilian and military pay in 2011. The military pay raise, included in the fiscal 2010 Defense Appropriations Act (H.R. 3326), was 0.5 percent higher than the 2.9 percent raise Obama requested in his ...Published over 9 years ago |
Going Political: Who Takes Appointments and Why"When the Senior Executive Service began 30 years ago, all the assistant secretaries for administration in the government," said Carol Bonosaro, "were career executives. Over time, you will now find only two who are career executives and that's because of statute." Which is a real shame, according to the president of the Senior Executives Association. Bonosaro told the Federal Drive that ...Published over 9 years ago |
Obama to Name Howard Schmidt as Cybersecurity CoordinatorSeven months after President Obama vowed to "personally select" an adviser to orchestrate the government's strategy for protecting computer systems, the White House will name a former Bush administration official to the job Tuesday. Howard A. Schmidt, who was a cyber-adviser in President George W. Bush's White House, will be Obama's new cybersecurity coordinator, an administration official said Monday night. Schmidt ...Published over 9 years ago |
FEATURES Rebooting ReformDismantling the embattled Defense personnel system could spark a reinvention of performance management across government. When President Obama signed legislation that repealed the National Security Personnel System, on a warm day in late October, the Rose Garden celebration seemed like a bit of a letdown. The rollback of the controversial Defense Department pay program was just one of many federal employee ...Published over 9 years ago |
Senate on track to approve health billThe Senate is on track to achieve one of President Obama's top priorities this year, a major overhaul of the country's healthcare system. The Senate is expected to hold a series of votes this week on the legislation, with final passage set for Christmas Eve unless Republicans relent and allow an early vote. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., admitted Sunday on Fox ...Published over 9 years ago |


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Eli's Continuous Delivery Project
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Project Overview
In early November I decided to implement a small Continuous Delivery project to give me a foundation for future projects and to get some more experience with build processes and automation. I chose the ASP.Net MVC MusicStore tutorial project as my guinnea pig and built a framework around it.
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery focuses on standardizing the environments and processes for product delivery, with an aim to create a clear and consistent process from committing new code to having a deliverable product. Creating a consistent process reduces variability and risks involved with manual deployment, ensures all "ready to be released" products meet our build and testing standards, creates a faster feedback loop so that problems are detected sooner (and thus can be fixed cheaper), and adds a level of auditability that rarely exists with manual deployment processes.
Useful Links:
Blog Posts
These are the posts that I created out of the work log/notes I took while implementing the project, starting with a general overview and then working through the details.
- Starting a Continuous Delivery Project
- Setting up the Continuous Integration stage
- Making MVC Music Store Testable
- Incorporating Unit Tests in the CI stage
- Automated Deploy and Smoke Test
- Automated Interface/Acceptance Testing stage
- Dashboard, QA and Production Deployment stage
Later Posts:
- Using Using SpecFlow to drive Selenium WebDriver Tests
- Automatically Version Control Your Jenkins Configuration
- Incorporating Load Testing into my Continuous Delivery Pipeline
- Adding Static Analysis
TeamCity (and sometimes Jenkins also)
As I continue to use this project for new and interesting experiments, I'll add the links above, even if they don't have much to do with Continuous Delivery itself.
Relevant Links
This section is relevant live links for code and deployed artifacts.
- 'Production' (Build Version Number in bottom left corner)
- MVCMusicStore.Main Repository - Main Mercurial Repository on BitBucket
- MVCMusicStore.InterfaceTests Repository - Automated Test Project Mercurial Repository on BitBucket
Later Additions
This is a brief list of items that have been added after the initial blog series was completed. Changes here may be reflected in various code repositories or on the 'production' site.
- Centralized Settings - Converted all jobs to use a settings file for passwords, server names, and URLs using Jenkins EnvFile Plugin
- Versioned Job Configs - Added all Jenkins configs to a Hg repository and setup a job to automatically push updated configs to central Hg repository (currently private because I'm paraniod I'll accidentally check in some credentials)
- Static Code Analysis - Added a Gendarme run and the Jenkins Violations plugin to capture the results
- Additional Analysis via Static Analysis plugins
- Added detection of specific tasklist items (TODO, HACK, REFACTOR) via the Task Scanner Plugin
- Added a duplicate detection run with Simian that is captured by DRY plugin
- Added capture of build warnings via the Warnings Plugin
- BDD Tests - Added SpecFlow to the InterfaceTests project and started building out more extensive coverage
- Load Tests - Adding a load testing build step to load test a deployed site and graph results over time
I'll continue to add items as I do them and may post some later blog posts for some of these.
Technology Choices
The project required the use of a number of different technologies along the way. This is a list of the main ones:
- VMWare Server
- Hosted the Build Server and Beta Server
- Windows 2008 Server
- OS for the Build and Beta servers
- ASP.Net MVC 3
- Development stage, to get more practice with MVC
- Entity Framework
- Development stage, I don't really care for entity framework, so I'm trying to use it more
- MS Test
- Development stage, I like MS Test for the dev stage because of it's integration into Visual Studio
- Mercurial
- Source Control, local and BitBucket
- Jenkins
- Jenkins, I'd heard good things about it, lots of plugins, I'd only ever used TFS in the past for CI and Chrissie already has posts on TeamCity :)
- MS Build
- CI Stage, MS Build to build the code, transform configurations, and create the deployment package
- Deploy Steps, IIS 7 supports the new WebDeploy capabilities, which will make deployment much easier
- MS Deploy
- Deploy Steps, I haven't had an opportunity to do more than push the "Deploy" button in WebMatrix, looking forward to getting more in depth with WebDeploy
- VBScript
- Deploy Steps, A small vbscript capable of using XMLHTTP to make raw HTTP GET requests (potentially switch to PowerShell later)
- Nunit
- Automated Test Stage, Platform and testrunner for the automated interface tests
- Selenium WebDriver
- Automated Test Stage, Automated interface testing to be driven by the Nunit framework
- Build Pipeline Plugin
- Dashboard, There is a build pipeline plugin for Jenkins that I intend to try out
- Communications, I'll be using twitter for status notifications at each stage
Jenkins Plugins
This is the list of the Jenkins plugins used over the course of the project.
- Build Pipeline Plugin
- Copy Artifacts Plugin
- Green Balls Plugin - Displays Successful jobs with Green light rather than Blue
- Mercurial Plugin
- MSBuild Plugin
- MS Test Plugin
- NUnit Plugin
- Parameterized Trigger Plugin
- Twitter Plugin
The version of Jenkins updated several times during the post, the latest version used with the blog post series was 1.442 (though I have another update to apply tonight to 1.443).
What I Skipped
There were several places I skipped over things that would be part of a production pipeline. The notable items are:
- Administrator Accounts - I am using local administrator accounts for deployments due to the time limitations and my level of annoyance with MSDeploy
- Database Deployment - The database is using Compact SQL and checked in and deployed as part of the project - this allowed me to skip database deployments but wouldn't be workable in a production environment
- Limited Test Coverage - I created enough tests to be used in their respective stages, but unit test coverage was limited and I can't bring myself to call the interface tests acceptance tests because they were even more limited
- Configuration Management - There isn't any, mostly because of the shortcut with Database Deployment

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by Sue Ann Rybak
Spring is finally here, and it's the perfect time to hit the trails or do a little gardening.
In Philadelphia, we are lucky to have Fairmount Park, one of the largest city-owned parks in the country. It contains more than 9,000 acres of rolling hills, gentle trails and shaded woodland. But while almost everyone appreciates its breathtaking landscapes, very few residents lend a hand to maintain its natural beauty.
One of the easiest and most inexpensive ways of maintaining a beautiful, flourishing woodland is to cut back invasive vines. Dense thickets of invasive vines limit plant diversity, which reduces food and shelter for wildlife. Invasive vines shade out native seedlings resulting in fewer trees. Reduced tree cover also reduces storm water interception.
The Local sat down with Ken LeRoy, a certified arborist who has worked at the Morris Arboretum and occasionally teaches at Mt. Airy Learning Tree.
"Everyone is talking about invasive trees and no one is talking about invasive vines," LeRoy said.
"Unfortunately, we're not doing anything to manage invasive vines in our cities or suburbs. I would really like to see patches of woods in our city given some priority because we talk a lot about trees and how great trees are – but we don't do anything to maintain or manage our woods."
LeRoy said invasive vines are especially problematic in young woods. He said the vines wrap around the trees and strangle them. LeRoy added that while vines are an important part of the environment, several invasive vines like English ivy and grape vines are smothering forest by not allowing the forest to regenerate tree growth.
"We are really losing opportunities to absorb carbon in our woods by allowing vines to just overtake everything," LeRoy said.
He said invasive vines grow rapidly, especially in disturbed areas where trees have been cut, and vines such as bittersweet are long flowering and are easily spread by birds and squirrels.
"I am really campaigning for vine management," LeRoy said. "It's not that I want to eliminate all vines, I want the woods to grow."
He said invasive vines such as English ivy grow fast but they don't grow fat.
"They put their energy into sprawling," LeRoy said. "They really benefit from a higher carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere because it grows more rapidly. If you give a tree a hundred years, it's going to grow 50 to 60 inches in diameter and grow a hundred feet tall. But if you give a hundred years to a vine, it's not going grow in diameter – it's going to sprawl."
LeRoy hopes that this article will encourage residents to cut back invasive vines in their backyard and volunteer to help maintain small patches of woods in their community. He added that invasive vines can be a major nuisance in backyards by killing trees and overrunning lawns and gardens.
"As a society, we talk about the importance of preserving land, and yet we're not really taking full advantage of the opportunity to grow trees there," LeRoy said, "simply because we're not managing vines – and it's such a simple thing. The forest is a wonderful thing, and when we neglect it, it expresses itself as a tangle – not a forest."
So, this spring why not cut down some invasive vines in your backyard or volunteer to help Friends of the Wissahickon to maintain and preserve our natural green spaces?


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Liz McNaughton needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 171 designs submitted by 49 freelance designers.
Treval Engineering
A small family business specialising in structural steel fabrication, petrochemical/mechanical pipework and tank refubishments.
* We sell steel direct to the trade. We have a CAD drawing office and fabricate (cut, drill and weld) steel for larger building companies and property developers.
* We fabricate and fit steel pipework at Oil Terminals.
* We repair and refurbish storage tanks at Oil Terminals
It is time to rebrand the company to have an identity that reflects the areas of specialism, type of work and their approach in a more professional manner.
The logo/branding needs to reflect -
Larger than we really are !
Professional & experienced
Approachable & trustworthy
The logo needs to be modern, energetic and vibrant.
The company has a broad customer base -
Steel fabrication - Small to medium sized building companies & property developers
Pipework & Tank Refubishments - Multinational Oil Companies & Government Bodies
Logo can either use just Treval or Treval Engineering - we are open to suggestions.
The logo will be used on all company stationary which will have a white background, except for business cards.As we have dirty hands they need to be on a dark background.
It needs to be effective on black & grey for our vehicles.
It will be used on all PPE worn on site - safety helmets, hi-vis jackets, overalls, T shirts etc.
Branding to be carried through to the website.
There are no other restrictions to colours in the design.
Supply in layered psd or png format
Please do not use stock images
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Digital Primates works and lives in the development community. To that end, we share what we know and we give back what we can.View Open Source Projects
Adobe has long occupied a top spot in the delivery of online streaming content. Their Primetime solution is used by many of the world's top brands to deliver content from sporting events to feature films and original content.
Herff Jones
Herff Jones engaged Digital Primates with the direction to find and fix the problems, wherever needed in the applications and, by extension, across the enterprise.
At Digital Primates we have made a name for ourselves building applications to meet the needs of the enterprise.
With vast experience in Banking, Health Care, Insurance, Entertainment and many other industries, we excel at taking your business requirements and building a customized solution uniquely fitting your needs.
With expertise in HTML/JS as well as Flash, Flex, .Net and Java, Digital Primates is the right solution for all your enterprise application needs.
At Digital Primates, building next generation applications is our raison d'être. Today, that next generation includes applications for all your mobile needs.
We routinely build mobile applications iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, and more. We will work with you to understand your specific needs, before recommending whether an application should be written natively or in a cross platform technology like PhoneGap, Adobe AIR, or Appcelerator. We know there are no one size fits all solutions, but we can bring the same expertise to your projects as we have brought to some of the best known brands on the planet
Digital Primates has built video applications for several of the most watched video events ever broadcast on the Internet.
Live events or Video on Demand? Desktop or Mobile? Streaming or Progressive Download? Codecs? Bitrates? Aspect Ratios? Digital Primates can help you with all of these questions and more. We have built solutions for live events (sports, award shows, etc.) as well as short and long form video on demand applications. We build custom solutions for video broadcast and consumption. We have delivered these solutions on the desktop and mobile devices with large scale success.
As members of the MPEG-DASH promoters group we are constantly staying on top of the newest innovations in video technologies so we are always ready to deliver solutions to maximize the return on investment for your business.
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Michael co-authored Adobe Flex 3 and 4: Training from the Source and Breaking Out of the Web Browser with Adobe AIR, and has also published a series
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:: Virgo approved during 1/05 meeting (from rt PMC list, will be in M6?)
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:: BPEL approved on mailing list (as in M5?)
:: Others?
:: Others?
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=== Plans ===
Revision as of 17:02, 30 January 2012
|Meeting Title:
|Planning Council Conference Call
|Date & Time:
|Wednesday, January 04, 2012, at 1200 Eastern
|For the call-in numbers, see the "Project Review" number on Foundation Portal page.
Members and Attendees
Note: "Inactive" refers to Strategic Members or PMCs we have not heard from for a while, and have been unable to convince to participate. Those members can become active again at any time. Contact David Williams if questions.
Note: feel free to correct any errors/omissions in above attendance record.
Y = Yes, attended
N = No, did not
R = regrets sent ahead of time
D = delegated
X = not expected
- Any?
Indigo SR2
- Any issues?
Issues or Exceptions
- Any issues? Everyone in? Any exceptions known?
- Exceptions for projects not in M4, that still will to join Juno:
- Virgo approved during 1/05 meeting (from rt PMC list, will be in M6?)
- BPEL approved on mailing list (as in M5?)
- ... code recommenders (in by M5, but not in M4?) Did anyone bring them forward for exception?
- Others?
- Anyone "dropping out" that should be removed from aggregation build?
- anything to look at?
Juno+1 Name
- Kepler (EMO has vetted the name ... thanks Chris!)
Other Business
- Need discussion and decision on "what is allowed in common info center". Pros? Cons? Alternatives? See bug 369395.
- Thoughts on "Java Development Tools" category? See bug 369258 [Immediate issue has been resolved, but, not many comments ... so, feel free to comment or open new bugs on "categories"].
- Fair (and desired?) to add "provide non-greedy repository" to requirements? 'Should' or 'must'? See Provide_optimized_p2_repository section. I propose:
Clarification on 01/23/2012: the repositories produced and contributed (for Juno and subsequent releases) must use p2 publishers that use greedy='false' by default. See bug 247099 and the p2 Publisher wiki for some history and details on this issue of greedy vs. non-greedy requirements.
- Project Priorities: Please review and be prepared to discuss this proposed "policy document" about project priorities.
- Still comfortable with "4.2 as primary"?
- Anything else?
Next Meeting
- March 7, 2012 (our regular "first Wednesday" meeting, at Noon Eastern).


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Pysan needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
SchoolLife101.com is a college student specific listing site (similar to Craigslist) with a focus on textbook listings. The site is built, and ready, just looking to add the final piece, We're looking for a simple, clean, elegant, memorable, web 2.0ish logo to finalize the design around. This is a guaranteed contest.
We are about to launch in a major way to numerous college campuses across the USA. We are looking to a logo design that will be catchy and grab the attention of students looking for a more financially rewarding way in which to sell their textbooks, and a more cost-effective way to acquire them. Our primary focus is textbooks in the beginning, with the option of any other items they wish to list, and then eventually to become a social networking site.
We don't yet have a color scheme, so that's completely up in the air also.
Something that looks good on a white background as well as knocked out on a color-background.- Solid vector art that works great in print as well as on-screen, in one color or many
- A logo that scales well given where we are looking to take our business
- Want an icon to use in addition to text (think Nike, Pepsi, Coca-cola)
- Audience 18-24 age college students
- Our site is SchoolLife101.com, must make sure the 2 L's in the middle are distinct so as to minimize misspellings.
- .com is optional in the logo.
- We are partial to blue, but greens could work as well
- Possible Tagline: The Student Resource.(optional)
- Complex graphics
- The logo found on our site is NOT what we want! Please don't use that as a reference.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Petition asks for a street named for Victoria Soto, a teacher slain at Sandy Hook
STRATFORD -- If Chris Barbee and nearly 2,300 other petition signers have their way, North Parade will be renamed Victoria Soto Way.
"It's an effort to do something positive," said Barbee, who like Soto graduated from Stratford High.
His petition, on Change.org and linked to Facebook, asks the Stratford Town Council to change the name of the street that runs between Stratford High School and Town Hall after Soto, 27, a teacher killed in the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Barbee said the effort grew out of desire to "ensure her actions will never be forgotten."
He didn't expect the effort to snowball the way it has.
The petition has garnered signatures from all over.
"Too often, the true heroes are overlooked," wrote Walt DeSoi, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., in signing the petition.
"We should never forget the bravery she showed in the face of evil," wrote Jackie Manhart, of Yorktown Va.
"The only thing that makes this at all possible to cope with is hearing about the heroic stories like that of Vicki Soto," said David Solano of Norwalk, who said the Newtown tragedy has severely damaged the entire country mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
Karla Baldwin, walking the street into Town Hall recently, agreed. Baldwin went to school with Soto's sister. She thinks renaming North Parade would help students focus on the heroes from the schoolhouse.
According to reports, Soto hid as many of her students as possible in her classroom, saving a number of them.
Fred Knapp, 19, a cousin, said renaming North Parade to Victoria Soto Way would honor her sacrifice.
"The main thing Vicki's immediate family wanted to do, as I'm sure every family wanted to do, was tell her story so she wasn't just a statistic or another victim," said Knapp. "They wanted to make sure people saw that she was a genuinely loving and caring person. Renaming the street of her alma mater after her would be a perfect tribute to who she was and where she came from."
Soto graduated from Stratford High in 2003. Members of her class have started a scholarship fund in her name. They are also composing a book, called "Letters to Vicki."
Stephen Raguskus, from Stratford's Class of 1978, came up with the idea for the street name change and teamed up with Barbee, from the Class of 1996, to start the online petition. They aren't even sure a petition is necessary to get the street name changed. Last spring, the town renamed a street across from Town Hall in honor of Fire Lt. Thomas McCabe, a fallen firefighter. In that case, all it took was a resolution and vote by city council.
Mayor John Harkins, through his office, had no comment Monday, citing respect for the family.
It is also uncertain what sentimental value North Parade holds. The name has been around since the ground where the school and town hall now sit was a military training area during colonial times. The school's nickname used to be the North Paraders; now it's the Red Devils.
Better, said Michael Gray of Stratford, to have the street named after Soto, who in his opinion, was a hero.
"They name streets after heroes," he said.


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imqcmd subcommand argument [ options] imqcmd -h|H imqcmd -v
-H or -h provides comprehensive help. The -v subcommand provides version information.
When you use imqcmd, the Command utility prompts you for a password. To avoid the prompt (and to increase security), you can use the -passfile pathToPassfile option to point the utility to a password file that contains the administrator user name and password.
Example: imqcmd query bkr -u adminUserName -passfile pathToPassfile -b myServer:7676


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Q*bert Trivia (PlayStation 3)
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Critic Score
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
User Score
5 point score based on user ratings.
1001 Video GamesThe Arcade version of Q*Bert appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Board game adaptionIn 1983 a board game adaptation of Q*bert was released, challenging one player to activate as many pyramid tiles as die rolls permit while a second player directs the movements of his antagonists.
Cancelled versions
- A Famicom version of Q*Bert was announced, but cancelled.
- Six months after release, Davis developed a update called Faster Harder More Challenging Q*bert which ramped up the difficulty because he felt the original became too easy. It was not released because it was seen as too similar and too near to the first version. Sometime in the 1990s he released for free through the MAME emulator.
References to the game
- Q*bert is referenced in the Futurama episode Anthology of Interest II. The episode consists of three shorts; one of which involves Fry asking the "what-if" machine "what if life was more like a video game." Q*bert is one of the aliens that invades Earth. He comes out of one of the Invaders.
- Q*bert is referenced in a flashback in a Family Guy episode. Stewie first says that a certain incident was worse than being Q*bert's roommate, where it then cuts to Stewie laying in the middle of the pyramid asleep with Q*bert jumping down turning on the tiles. Stewie then wakes up and says "It's all night with the lights, listen if you're gonna keep this up I'm not splitting the electric bill".
- A Q*bert arcade machine is seen in Ghostbusters: The Video Game on the second floor of the firehouse. Sadly, the game is not playable.
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For Kaitlyn Jo "Katie" Mills, now 7, taking the multivitamin-size white pills "was like someone had finally put a key in and unlocked her."
After joining a clinical trial at Boston Children's Hospital, Katie started to speak in complete sentences for the first time, her 30-second attention span extended into minutes, and she was finally able to retain information from one day to the next, said her mother, Susan Mills.
"We'd had a child who had basically been 2 years old for four years," said Mills, of Whiteville, N.C. But after four months, "she was communicating in ways she had never done before. It was amazing. It was like it was a totally different child."
The study, testing an old drug on children with a rare genetic condition called tuberous sclerosis complex, is drawing attention because the disease often — as in Katie's case — leads to autism.
Up to half the people with tuberous sclerosis develop autism, and the hope is that any treatment that works well against tuberous sclerosis might also benefit others on the autism spectrum.
A number of trial participants have reported dramatic gains such as Katie's, while others haven't noticed much of a difference. Families, though, won't know until the trial is over at the end of next year whether they received the drug or an inactive placebo. So for now, there's no evidence that giving the drug to tuberous sclerosis patients or people with autism is beneficial.
At the very least, doctors hope that by researching the rarer condition — which strikes about 1 in 6,000 newborns and spurs the growth of benign tumors — they will gain insights into autism. The government estimates that autism affects 1 in 50 children, causing social and communication problems and repetitive behaviors.
Researchers frequently use diseases that involve simple, clear gene mutations, like the ones in tuberous sclerosis, to better understand more complex conditions such as autism that involve hundreds of genes. Because so many genes underlie the disorder, "one pessimistic point of view would be that you'd need 500 different drugs to help individuals with autism," said Dr. Mustafa Sahin, who is leading the trial at Boston Children's. "But maybe, these 500 genes converge on certain common pathways and they can be rescued by common drugs."
Autism advocates are cautiously optimistic that the medication Sahin's team is testing will be that common drug. "I keep my fingers crossed," said Daniel Smith, senior director of discovery neuroscience at the research and advocacy organization Autism Speaks, which helped fund the research.
In the study, 50 children with tuberous sclerosis are taking everolimus, a drug similar to rapamycin — used for decades to prevent rejection of transplanted organs — or a placebo for six months. The goal is to combat symptoms of the disease. Roughly one-third of tuberous sclerosis patients develop epilepsy, particularly in early childhood, so researchers also hope to learn more about that condition, Sahin said.
Melanie Vogel of Danvers is pretty sure her daughter Riley, 6, was getting the real medication.
Vogel signed Riley up for the trial after what she sarcastically describes as last year's Christmas present: the discovery of four brain tumors, including one at the top of Riley's spinal cord. That tumor shrunk from 10 to 7 millimeters, Vogel said, but it resumed growing after she finished the trial and is bigger than ever, according to a recent MRI scan.
Now, Melanie and her husband, Kevin , wake up every morning not knowing whether this will be the day Riley will be struck with a horrible headache, double vision, or vomiting — signs that the tumor has begun to choke off her spinal cord. If that happens, she will be rushed into emergency brain surgery at Children's.
Riley doesn't have autism, but her mother said the sprightly girl also made mental advances during the trial: Her brain fog seemed to lift, and she was speaking in more complete sentences and cracking jokes for the first time.
"She blossomed," said Melanie Vogel, who has a high-powered job at Oracle and organizes an annual fund-raiser for tuberous sclerosis called Rock 4 Riley. Still, Vogel isn't sure she wants Riley on rapamycin long-term because the side effects are unknown.
The changes 12-year-old Tom Koprowski experienced were more subtle than the girls', though his mother, Kim, thinks he, too, was getting the real drug, not sugar pills.
When Tom, of Bethlehem, N.H., was diagnosed three or four years ago with Asperger's, a condition on the mild end of the autism spectrum, his doctor realized that his early childhood epilepsy and the Asperger's might be signs of tuberous sclerosis. Three tumors found in his brain clinched the diagnosis.
Koprowski said Tom benefited more obviously from medications he takes to treat his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, though his sixth-grade year, while he was in the clinical trial, was his best yet. He nearly caught up to his grade level in school, thanks at least in part to a great teacher.
Now in the first days of seventh grade, Tom still struggles socially, often misinterpreting other people's words and intentions, Koprowski said. But the boy is also developing a sense of humor and loves soccer, puzzles, Pokemon, and anything technological.
"His wiring may be a little different, but in a lot of ways it's a gift, too," said his mother, who traded her career as a veterinarian to teach special education so she'd have more time with Tom.
All three mothers said they participated in the trial to help others who are worse off than their children. They had to make eight to nine trips into Boston during the trial, for MRIs, blood draws, and psychological and other tests.
"Anything we can do to help her or other children in her situation, we're more than willing to do what it takes," said Susan Mills who, along with her husband, Doug, knew Katie had tuberous sclerosis before they adopted her as a toddler.
The disease is caused by genetic mutations that affect cell growth, and scientists don't fully understand why it so often triggers autism. But mice with the tuberous sclerosis gene mutations behaved more normally and their tumors shrunk when they were given rapamycin, said Steve Roberds, chief scientific officer for the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance, which also helped fund the trial.
Rapamycin is also used to treat several types of kidney and breast cancer, and it's being explored against Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and heart disease, and aging more generally.
Matt Kaeberlein, who studies rapamycin at the University of Washington, said he was initially surprised to learn the drug was being studied as a treatment for autism — not only diseases related to aging.
Perhaps that's because the protein that rapamycin acts against in the body, called mTOR, "is really important, and when it doesn't work the way it's supposed to, things go wrong — whether that's during aging or during development," he said. "Or it could be that there are underlying mechanisms between aging and autism that we don't yet appreciate."
Either way, Susan Mills is convinced that the rapamycin-like drug was responsible for Katie's gains during the trial, and believes that Katie has been slowly losing ground this summer since her time in the study ended.
"We're back to having to really struggle with things," Mills said.
She's asked Sahin to help her get the drug for Katie.
"I should be better at waiting," Mills said, "but I want to see that spark come back again."Karen Weintraub can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter @kweintraub.
Correction: Because of a reporting error, an earlier version of this story incorrectly described the drug being studied. It is Novartis Oncology's everolimus, which is similar to rapamycin.


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Pr Aimé Nianogo, IUCN Regional Director for West and Central Africa, took part in a ceremony on October 15th in Washington DC, marking the signing of grant agreements under the Building Resilience through Innovation and Knowledge Services (BRICKS) project supporting the Great Green Wall Initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The ceremony was chaired by Colin Bruce, World Bank Director for Strategy and Operations in the Africa Region, with Djimé Adoum, Executive Secretary of the Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), Khatim Kherraz, Executive Secretary of the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS), and Aimé Nianogo, Regional Director of the West and Central Africa Office of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN-PACO).
The BRICKS project is the regional component of the Sahel and West Africa Program to Support the Great Green Wall Initiative, the GEF and World Bank contribution to the Great Green Wall Initiative (SAWAP/GGWI). It will provide knowledge and monitoring services to twelve countries from Senegal to Ethiopia and will help to disseminate the lessons and good practices.
"This initiative will enable IUCN to strengthen its support to IUCN members and partners in the 12 countries of the SAWAP Programme", while at the same time increasing synergy with other international and regional institutions in the region, said Pr Nianogo. "We look forward to providing technical expertise from around the world and facilitating experience and lesson sharing among various geographic contexts in Africa".
SAWAP/GGWI aims to expand sustainable land and water management in targeted landscapes and in climate-vulnerable areas in West African and Sahelian countries. The SAWAP is composed of twelve investment operations implemented by twelve countries using resources from the GEF, the Least Developed Countries Fund, and the Special Climate Change Fund in addition to World Bank investments in agriculture, local development, forests, energy, or disaster risk management.
"The GEF is delighted to be helping countries of the Sahel and West Africa region move forward with the Great Green Wall Initiative," said Ishii Naoko, CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility.
BRICKS will be co-implemented at regional level by CILSS (lead the regional knowledge management activities), OSS (responsible for geospatial services and portfolio M&E), and IUCN (lead in the areas of biodiversity, networking strategies, and strategic communication). These agencies and their partners will provide on-demand technical assistance, advisory services, and a regional platform for cross-fertilization of what works, where, and under what enabling conditions.
"Sahelian countries face a complex set of development challenges. Flat economic growth, rising population, and rapid natural resource degradation are now increasingly affected by climate change," said Dr. Adoum, CILSS Executive Secretary. "Through projects such as BRICKS we aim to build capacities of African institutions, strengthen country project implementation and secure robust development gains that not only help reduce poverty but also build the resilience and coping capacities of poor communities living in ecologically fragile, harsh environments."
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The BRICKS project will leverage knowledge across a substantial, highly visible portfolio of sustainable landscape investments. It will help to include global environmental public goods management as a fundamental strategy for securing economic growth, equity, and livelihoods opportunities in an era of increasing climate variability. It will disseminate and promote evidence-based policymaking and investments. And it will serve as an interface with other partners as the African Union Commission, FAO, and UNCCD to ensure complementarities and synergies.
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Josh Weiss, a senior communications and sport management double major, already knew that networking was important. What he didn't know were the lengths one of his professors would go to get him "connected."
Weiss, who is in the public relations program at UT Martin, had the opportunity to cover a football game at Auburn University for The Pacer (student newspaper) in the fall of 2009. His professor made sure Weiss was introduced to a man at the game who worked for The Pacer a number of years ago. He now works for the Auburn Athletic Communications office.
"He gave me many useful tips and allowed me to ask questions," said Weiss of the Auburn contact. "It was great that my professor went out of his way to do such a thing. I am still in touch with that professional at Auburn, and he will be a great resource now that I am looking into graduate school.
Weiss, of Germantown, has served as an Office of Campus Recreation student supervisor. "This means that I was directly in charge of running the recreational activities on campus, including intramural sports." As part of his career goals, he wants to operate a community center for underprivileged children. "I know the skills that I learned about running such a facility are invaluable and will definitely benefit me in achieving these future plans."
Weiss is also currently taking advantage of another educational experience – studying at London Metropolitan University. He was the first UT Martin student selected for a new semester-long communications exchange program.
"I cannot describe how excited I am for the opportunity to do something that will be so life-changing," said Weiss. "This is what college is about, gaining insight and information about new situations and cultures. I know that I'll learn so much just by my daily interactions with the people there, and I'm just so thankful to both UT Martin and the communications department for asking me to be a representative."
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text: Robert S. Ross, Jr., 69, a former resident of Chestnut Hill, died of heart failure on September 30, 2013 at his home in Washington, DC. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on March 27, 1944, Robin was the son of Janet and Robert S. Ross. He received his early education at Episcopal Academy before graduating from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He majored in Art History at Princeton University where he was President of the Ivy Club and a starting halfback on the Varsity soccer team. Robin served in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard as a member of the historic First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry and received his law degree from Temple University. In June, 1966, immediately after college graduation, Robin married Louise Potter and he started his legal career in her native New York where their two children were born. During their 48 year marriage the Rosses resided in New York, Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, where they settled in 1988. In recent years, Robin and Louise shared their commitment to active working lives with a deep dedication to their family and growing grandchildren. In the summer of 1964, Robin worked in the Pennsylvania delegation at the Republican Convention in San Francisco and was bitten by a life-long "bug" for politics, which he pursued with great accomplishment. In 1979, he joined Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh's cabinet and in 1988 he was appointed Chief of Staff to Attorney General Thornburgh in the George H. W. Bush Administration. During the ensuing years, Robin's broad experience and sound judgment became the basis for a successful legal and government relations practice in Pennsylvania and the nation's capital. If family and politics were his life's true passions, long distance running was another sphere of significant achievement. Building on his natural physical talents and his determined personality, Robin embodied the dogged endurance athlete. His training was legendary and he completed over thirty marathons, including a dozen in Boston, the most prestigious of all road races. Each year Robin and Louise would also visit friends in Jackson, Wyoming to ski, hike and fish in the breathtaking scenery of the Teton Valley. Robin's defining personal characteristic was his profound loyalty – to Louise, his family, his friends, his country, his political allies and the many institutions with which he was associated during his lifetime, including a variety of his favorite sports teams. Robin was predeceased by his parents and is survived by Louise, his daughter Jennifer Ross McNulty of Washington DC, his son Robert S. Ross, III of Long Island, two brothers and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the Capital Clubhouse, Inc., 4603 Kenmore Drive NW, Washington DC 20007.


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Spend an afternoon with local bird photographer Bob Walker and consider a variety of methods for photographing hummingbirds, from 3-5 p.m. Sept. 8.
Hummingbirds are colorful summer visitors that can be both challenging and rewarding photographic subjects. Because these little birds are adaptable, relatively fearless and easily attracted to nectar feeders, it's possible to get nice photographs of them by temporarily turning a part of your backyard into an outdoor photo studio.
This workshop will start with a setup session showing how to prepare an outdoor studio, and will conclude with a field session in which participants can take some photos, either with their own cameras or using one that Walker will provide. Depending on the number of registrants, additional field sessions may be scheduled so that everyone who wants to take photos will get a chance to do so.
Equipment available for use at the workshop will include a camera, tripod, hummingbird feeder and camera flashes that are used for flash setups. Participants need only bring their own camera and/or CF or SDHC flash cards. Participant cameras should be able to have the shutter speed, aperture and ISO value set manually. It's also best if the camera can focus manually and the lens should have a zoom lens with a telephoto setting equivalent to 200mm or more (6x or greater).
Walker is a 35-year resident of White Rock and is an enthusiast of the outdoors and of photography. His photography interests have concentrated mostly on sports and nature photography and he's been interested in learning more about hummingbird photography for the last three summers. The class will take place in Walker's White Rock yard and directions will be available with registration.
The class is $20 or $16 for members and participants can register at PajaritoEEC.org, by calling 662-0460 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. There are eight spaces available in the class and registration must be made by Sept.1.
Another bird-related event will be at 7 p.m. Sept. 6, when Dave Yeamans will give an updated talk at PEEC about bird banding. The talk is free and open to the public.
Bird banding starts with getting a permit to conduct a study on birds of a particular type in a defined area. Yeamans' talk will focus on passerines (perching birds in the areas around upper Alamo Canyon in Bandelier National Monument and the Valles Caldera ranch headquarters). During bird migration season, researchers set up approximately 20 nets, measuring 20 meters long and 3 meters high, and then patrol the nets every half hour for captured birds.
The birds are brought to the banding station where the researchers record 20 measures of size, age, sex and condition. Then, they clamp a numbered band around the bird's leg and release it. The data is later entered into a database for analysis that can help determine the health and distribution of the various species. Birds that are too big or too small for banding are released after a brief inspection, with opportunities for photographing them.
Yeamans' talk will tell the story of local bird banding in photos and stories and movies.
Yeamans is a longtime bird watcher and has lately become an advocate for birding on the Pajarito Plateau. He has led many birding trips in the Los Alamos area and farther afield. He now helps band birds in Bandelier National Monument and in the Valles Caldera. He is also an active member of the PEECBirders Yahoo group, where he helps answer bird identification questions and leads informal, early-morning bird walks.
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Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose books include "Late Edition: A Love Story" and "When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams."
(CNN) -- We are now able to project a winner in the 2012 presidential race:
Brooks & Dunn.
If that wasn't clear enough already, it became abundantly so at the end of Newt Gingrich's victory speech in South Carolina last weekend.
As Gingrich left the stage, his campaign staff played a song through the speaker system.
The song was "Only in America," by the country duo Brooks & Dunn.
Of course. That song has become a bipartisan standard in recent presidential campaigns. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney used it at their rallies; Barack Obama used it at his rallies; John McCain used it at his rallies; and now Gingrich is using it. Mitt Romney, too.
Politicians have long utilized campaign songs, but it is unusual for Republicans and Democrats to share the same song. After Bill Clinton used Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)" in his 1992 campaign, it would have been inconceivable for a Republican opponent to use it at GOP rallies that year, or for Republicans four years later to use it. It would have reminded potential voters of the other guy.
But "Only in America" has managed to transcend party lines; its lyrics, about the U.S. ideal of opportunity for all, seem to speak to a deeply held national belief, even a yearning, and the insistent opening guitar chords rivet an audience. "Only in America," Ronnie Dunn's voice sings, "Dreaming in red, white and blue; Only in America, Where we dream as big as we want to. ..."
When Obama, late in the summer of 2008, finished his speech accepting his party's nomination for president in that packed Invesco Field football stadium in Denver, there was the Brooks & Dunn song booming out of the speakers, becoming the soundtrack of the historic moment. That four years earlier the song had been playing at Bush/Cheney events didn't seem to matter. "We all get a chance, Everybody gets to dance. ..."
Brooks & Dunn, after a 20-year career of platinum albums and No. 1 hits, have broken up and no longer perform together. But last week I was able to get in touch with both Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, and in separate conversations we talked about what having their song become the go-to anthem for presidential candidates means.
"The song was never intended to be partisan, and it isn't," said Dunn. He was in rehearsals for a solo tour in support of his new single, "Let the Cowboy Rock," and even though the Brooks & Dunn duo is no more, he said he often thinks about the political life that song of theirs has taken on.
"It's about the opportunity, in America, to try to attain anything you want," he said. When, in 2008, the song began to be heard at rallies for both sides (neither candidate had asked for their permission), he and Brooks made the decision not to say anything publicly about their private political preferences: "We kind of laid low. We did that on purpose."
Which made all kinds of sense. Some singers and bands, when their songs are played by candidates they don't favor, loudly demand that the candidate stop immediately. Dunn and his partner instinctively realized that if both parties had adopted "Only in America," they should just sit back and let their work be constantly heard by citizens of every political persuasion. When good fortune unexpectedly comes raining down on you, the last thing you want to do is reach for an umbrella.
"I'm moved by the whole thing," Dunn said. "Of all the voices in America, to have my voice be the one that sings those words . . . ."
Kix Brooks, who is completing his own solo album and also hosts the syndicated radio show "American Country Countdown," told me, "The song was never Republican or Democrat. I think that politicians of both parties get that."
Brooks wrote the song, in collaboration with Nashville songwriters Don Cook and Ronnie Rogers, as simply "an appreciation of our freedoms in America." When Brooks & Dunn were filling arenas and stadiums night after night, there would come a moment, midway through "Only in America," when local members of the military invited by the band -- usually four or five of them, from the different branches, always in uniform -- would march in crisp formation onto the stage, and would face the audience, then salute.
The audiences would stand and cheer, some people with tears flowing. It might be the one and only time in the lives of the young men and women from the Army, the Marines, the Navy and the Air Force when they would have a moment like this: when they would be onstage in front of tens of thousand of people, and be applauded with gratitude for the sacrifice they were making. "After the song," Brooks said, "the soldiers would leave the stage, and I would look at them, and they would just be glowing."
Campaign songs have always been a tradition with presidential candidates -- "Marching with McKinley" for William McKinley, "He's All Right" for Benjamin Harrison, "Get On a Raft with Taft" for William Howard Taft, "Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge" for Calvin Coolidge -- but only in recent years have songs that are already big hits, and that were not written for a candidate, been made a regular part of campaign playlists.
With the Brooks & Dunn song, neither political party seems to want to be the one not to play it. It has, without any push from the men who sang it, managed to become a part of the presidential process.
"If the candidates want our song to come out of their speakers, it's fine with me," said Brooks, who was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, during Dwight D. Eisenhower's first term.
"I just feel lucky. I never got tired of singing it" said Dunn, who was born in Coleman, Texas, also while Eisenhower was in the White House.
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LEO BURROUGHS, Appellee, v. GEORGE E. THOMAS, M.D., SHAWNEE COUNTY CORONER, Appellant.
1. K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 45-217(f)(1) defines a public record as "any recorded information, regardless of form or characteristics." Under this definition, public records are not restricted to written information.
2. K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 45-221(a)(3) provides that an agency is not required to disclose "[m]edical, psychiatric, psychological or alcoholism or drug dependency treatment records which pertain to identifiable patients."
3. Coroner's records are not considered medical records under the Kansas Open Records Act; therefore, autopsy records are not exempted from public disclosure.
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Appeal from Shawnee District Court; CHARLES E. ANDREWS, JR., judge. Opinion filed April 11, 1997. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
Laura M. Graham, assistant county counselor, and Sandra L. Jacquot, county counselor, for appellant.
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Before MARQUARDT, P.J., GREEN, J., and CAROL J. BACON, District Judge, assigned.
BACON, J.: Dr. George E. Thomas, Shawnee County Coroner, appeals from the district court's decision that his records were public records subject to public disclosure under the Kansas Open Records Act (KORA), K.S.A. 45-215 et seq.
Leo Burroughs is the surviving spouse of Launcelot Burroughs, who died February 2, 1995. As coroner, Dr. Thomas conducted an investigation and performed an autopsy to determine the cause of Launcelot's death. Dr. Thomas then filed a report of his findings with the clerk of the district court.
After obtaining a copy of Dr. Thomas' report, Leo sought disclosure of all the coroner's investigative records. On behalf of Dr. Thomas, the Shawnee County Counselor's office refused the request, citing K.S.A. 45-221(a)(3), which provides that medical records are exempt from public disclosure under the KORA. However, Leo was informed that if the county received a subpoena, the records would be provided.
Leo then filed suit against Dr. Thomas, seeking to obtain the requested records. In its memorandum and decision, the district court found that Dr. Thomas' investigative records were public records subject to disclosure under the KORA and that no statutory exemptions applied. However, the district court also entered a protective order, allowing only Leo access to the records.
Dr. Thomas claims that the trial court erred, arguing that: (1) some of the records at issue do not meet the definition of "records" in the KORA; (2) if his records did fall under the KORA, three statutory exemptions applied; (3) the KORA and the included exemptions must be read in conjunction with the statutes governing the duties of district coroners; and (4) public policy mandates that a coroner's report be exempt from public disclosure.
Dr. Thomas agrees that the district coroner is subject to the provisions of the KORA pursuant to K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 45-217(e)(1) and that coroners' reports are public records. The sole issue is whether the coroner's underlying investigative materials are public records subject to public disclosure.
This case involves interpretation of the KORA and the statutes governing district coroners; therefore, this court's standard of review is plenary. Foulk v. Colonial Terrace, 20 Kan. App. 2d 277, Syl. ¶ 1, 887 P.2d 140 (1994), rev. denied 257 Kan. 1091 (1995).
Dr. Thomas argues that not all of his records are public records as defined under the KORA. Dr. Thomas asserts that the items the district court ordered to be publicly disclosed included not only his report, but also some of Launcelot's medical records, a variety of internal notes, a weight sheet, diagrams, and photographs. It is the disclosure of these items to which Dr. Thomas objects.
A public record is "any recorded information, regardless of form or characteristics." (Emphasis added.) K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 45-217(f)(1). Under this definition, public records are not restricted to just written information. Diagrams and photographs would clearly constitute records and other items would be considered on an individual basis.
K.S.A. 45-216(a) provides: "It is declared to be the public policy of the state that public records shall be open for inspection by any person unless otherwise provided by this act, and this act shall be liberally construed and applied to promote such policy."
Dr. Thomas argues that even if his investigative records are public records, they fall into three of the exempted classes of records: medical records, notes and research data, and records of a personal nature. K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 45-221(a)(3) provides that an agency is not required to disclose "[m]edical, psychiatric, psychological or alcoholism or drug dependency treatment records which pertain to identifiable patients." Dr. Thomas argues that because district coroners must be licensed to practice medicine and surgery, their procedures are medical. Therefore, all records compiled in conjunction with such procedures are medical records. However, the Kansas statutes governing the duties of district coroners indicate that the legislature did not intend for these records to be considered medical records under the KORA. See K.S.A. 22a-232; K.S.A. 22a-233. Dr. Thomas' argument is not persuasive.
Dr. Thomas argues that because he is a licensed physician, any record he generates is a medical record pursuant to K.S.A. 45-221(a)(3). However, the Kansas statutes governing a coroner's duties indicate otherwise. See K.S.A. 22a-232; K.S.A. 22a-233. In particular, K.S.A. 22a-233(c) states: "A full record and report of the facts developed by the autopsy and findings of the pathologist performing such autopsy shall be promptly made and filed with the coroner and with the clerk of the district court of the county in which decedent died." (Emphasis added.) The records referenced in these statutes are clearly public records. The legislature has made no attempt to define autopsy records as medical records, which would exempt them from public disclosure.
The second statutory exemption upon which Dr. Thomas relies is K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 45-221(a)(20), which provides that an agency is not required to disclose
|"[n]otes, preliminary drafts, research data in the process of analysis, unfunded grant proposals, memoranda, recommendations or other records in which opinions are expressed or policies or actions are proposed, except that this exemption shall not apply when such records are publicly cited or identified in an open meeting or in an agenda of an open meeting."
Dr. Thomas argues that his records fall under this exemption because they include information that he gathered while investigating the cause of Launcelot's death. Dr. Thomas then prepared his final report from that information.
The Kansas Attorney General has issued an opinion indicating that once a report is final and becomes a public record, preliminary working papers may no longer be withheld from disclosure under K.S.A. 45-221(a)(20). Att'y Gen. Op. No. 91-138. Contrary to Dr. Thomas' argument, no exemption exists for work papers once a report becomes a public record.
The last statutory exemption upon which Dr. Thomas relies is K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 45-221(a)(30), which provides that an agency is not required to disclose "[p]ublic records containing information of a personal nature where the public disclosure thereof would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." The Kansas survival of actions statute, K.S.A. 60-1801, does not provide for survival of a cause of action for invasion of privacy, which generally may only be claimed by the person whose privacy was invaded. This exemption does not apply here.
Dr. Thomas argues that public policy mandates that a coroner's report be exempt from public disclosure. In determining which public records are exempt from public disclosure, the legislature has chosen not to include a coroner's report. Courts may only apply and enforce legislation. See Kansas Human Rights Comm'n v. Topeka Golf Ass'n, 18 Kan. App. 2d 581, 593, 856 P.2d 515 (1993), aff'd 254 Kan. 767, 869 P.2d 631 (1994). These public policy arguments are better made to the legislature.
Although the district court found that Dr. Thomas' records did not fall under any of the exemption statutes, it still entered a protective order, allowing disclosure only to Leo without leave of the court. K.S.A. 45-218(a) states in part: "All public records shall be open for inspection by any person, except as provided by this act." The district court did not have the authority to close public records which were not statutorily exempt from public disclosure.
The final issue involves all of the medical records that were developed throughout Launcelot's lifetime. The district court's order made all of Dr. Thomas' records subject to disclosure, including these medical records. K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 45-221(a)(2) exempts from public disclosure "[r]ecords which are privileged under the rules of evidence, unless the holder of the privilege consents to the disclosure."
K.S.A. 60-427 establishes an evidentiary privilege against revealing confidential physician-patient communications. K.S.A. 60-427(a)(4) defines communication as "information transmitted between physician and patient, including information obtained by an examination of the patient." The medical records that were compiled prior to Launcelot's death fall under the definition of confidential physician-patient communications. Leo is now the holder of this privilege as "the personal representative of a deceased patient." K.S.A. 60-427(a)(3).
Because Leo is the holder of the privilege and he gave his consent to disclose the records, the disclosure to him was proper. However, the district court's broad holding that all of Dr. Thomas' records were subject to public disclosure was in error.
We affirm that part of the district court's decision which found that the coroner's records were public records. We reverse that part of the district court's decision which allowed the medical records that were compiled prior to Launcelot's death to be disclosed to the public. We also reverse the district court's protective order.
Affirmed in part and reversed in part.


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Best 11 wedding trends of 2011
As we begin 2012 here's a quick look back at the best 11 wedding trends of 2011. A little classic, a little chic, some pretty and whole lot of fun!
1. BRAID IT! Oh yes hair braids are everywhere. And is it any wonder they are so pretty. Love this waterfall braid.
2. VERY VINTAGE- Vintage is in as are vintage engagment bands like this little lovely.
3. All hail the Pale! - Pale bridesmaid dresses made a huge impact on 2011. A suble beautiful.
4. MIX IT UP- Your bridesmaid dresses that is. Mix n match and your bridesmaids will love you forever.
5. DON"T MAKE ME BLUSH- Blush and other pale colored wedding dresses were seen on runways everywhere. Can you say Reese Witherspoon?
6. HI LOW HI LOW ITS OFF TO WORK I GO- Sing this tune and show off your dancing shoes in hi low hemlines.
7. TAKE A BOW- Yes bows of all shapes and sizes were visible on dresses, belts, shoes, hats, hair accessories, wedding decor and of course on grooms as bowties.
8. AND - This fun little ampersand symbol is just everywhere and it is a must have photo.
9. MAKE IT POP- Adorable little pops were all the rage, cake pops, pie pops, the more the better.
10. KICK IT- Whether you are the bride or the bridesmaids, grab your rainboots, cowboy boots, or just any boots and join this trend.
11. HELLO JELLO- Who knew but jello shots dress up nicely too. They make a fun icebreaker at the cocktail party, or as a wedding favor.
sources: 1. Braid it , 2. Very Vintage, 3. All Hail the Pale, 4. Mix it up, 5. Don't make me blush, 6. Hi low hi low, 7. Take a Bow, 8. And, 9. Make it pop, 10. Kick it, 11. Hello jello
So fun! Let me know if I missed any. And which do you think have staying power....


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|What can floating debris teach researchers about the world's oceans? In May of 1990, a Pacific storm knocked five containers filled with thousands of sneakers off a cargo vessel. Almost a year later, the shoes began washing up along the West coast of North America -- and observations of the locations of those shoes helped flesh out detailed maps of ocean currents. We'll talk with the author of a new book about the data to be learned from observing shoes, rubber ducks, and other wayward flotsam.


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By Claudia Assis
(Story updated to include company comment.)
Is there more to fuel-cell maker Plug Power Inc.'s nothing-short-of-astonishing recent ride, or merely a cameo appearance in a future remake of "The Wolf of Wall Street"?
As recently as October, Plug Power /quotes/zigman/5142101/delayed /quotes/nls/plug PLUG was looking at the very real possibility of being de-listed from Nasdaq for failing to keep a minimum closing bid price of $1 a share over 10 days. The company, based in Latham, N.Y., mainly provides fuel-cell products for warehouse forklifts and other equipment.
Earlier this week, news that FedEx Corp. /quotes/zigman/254280/delayed /quotes/nls/fdx FDX had chosen Plug's 10-kilowatt fuel cells to use in a few of its electric trucks (via a U.S. Department of Energy award first announced back in December) pushed shares of Plug more than 40% higher.
Plug Power's range extenders will enable the delivery trucks, built by Smith Electric Vehicles, to double the traveling range of their lithium-ion batteries.
Shares were giving back some of those heady gains on Thursday, but seem to have weathered the worst of the selloff.
The stock was recently down 18% to $3.70, a small recovery from dips below $3.50 in early trading and losses of more than 20%.
Back in early December, however, shares traded around 80 cents. It started to climb when the company last month said it hopes to turn a profit this year. In the past three months, shares rose 533%, and 510% in the past 12 months.
(Update: in an e-mail to MarketWatch later Thursday, Plug Power's Marketing Director Teal Vivacqua said the company "remains very focused on our business at this time, specifically on customer order, execution and expansion." Plug Power will be holding a business update conference call this month, where it will expand on its future plans in more detail, he added. Details about the call will be posted to the company's website.)
Plug lost 19 cents a share on revenue of $4.6 million in the third quarter, narrower than the 27 cents a share loss on revenue of $4.8 million in the year-ago period.
Analysts expect full-year 2013 losses around 57 cents a share, and a loss of around seven cents a share for the fourth quarter.
The cash situation remained tight, but improved, with $11 million on hand in the third quarter versus $7 million in the previous quarter.
Analysts at Roth Capital were optimistic at the end of last year about Plug's potential for supplying fuel-cell power to transport refrigeration units — those noisy units used to deliver cooled goods usually run on diesel.
Plug's fuel cells could be sold to existing customers who already have hydrogen infrastructure on-site, the analysts said in a note.
"Management loosely indicated that commercial sales may come as early as 2015," they added.
Last week, Plug said it met its order target for the fourth quarter of 2013, with orders totaling $32 million.
–Claudia Assis
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TsunamiTL needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 92 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
We are looking for a clean, fresh, modern print/web logo design for our Internet marketing company, Maverick Internet Ventures.
"Maverick Internet Ventures" or "Maverick" or "MIV"
We develop, operate, and market many online businesses in many different verticals, so our logo needs to be versatile. The new logo (this contest) and eventual site redesign (future contest) need to have their conceptual roots in our company philosophy: Contrary to the conventional approach of "there are no wrong answers," we believe that there are many, many wrong answers, and the path to the "right answer" is often strewn with all the wrong ones. We diligently aim to create an intellectually open environment where ideas flow and innovation is built on honest, respectful debate, followed by testing, testing, testing.
Our official name is "Maverick Internet Ventures," but your design need not necessarily include the complete name. We are open to simply using "Maverick" or "MIV." Additionally, we haven't chosen a color palette we'd like to stick with, but we're fans of "Chrome" (by xxxfanta2), "Moonwalk" and "Diesel" (by matthepworth) on Kuler (http://kuler.adobe.com). We're also fans of grey/silver/ blue gradients. Don't let these comments hinder your creativity though! We're open to trying new things.
Please make sure your designs are flippable - so they work with both a dark and light background. All art needs to be in vector format like that produced by Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator.
- Modern, clean design.
- Something that speaks to our company's philosophy.
- Easily scalable.
- Deliverables in multiple formats including vector format.
- Easily re-colorable in black and white.
- Flippable as per background color changes.
- Overly ornate artwork.
- Web 2.0 (or 3.0!) uber-reflections (we are not anti-reflection, just anti everything looking like it has been polished within an inch of it's life).
- Too Many Colors.
- Hard-to-read Fonts.
- Cheesy Stock Photography.
- Light bulbs.
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Online Criminals Move On To Corporate Espionage
from the plain-old-phishing-doesn't-pay deptOne of these days, someone will do a fascinating study or book on the evolving nature of online crime. It's a constantly changing phenomenon that would be quite interesting to study. A few years ago, we noted that the ease with which script kiddies could jump into the phishing and online extortion market meant that margins were getting squeezed for older online organized crime groups who had focused on such practices in the past. Apparently, the big money now has moved away from standard phishing and into corporate espionage. Organized crime groups are figuring out ways to hack into company networks, suck up as much data as possible, and then sell it off to the highest bidder -- whether it's competing firms or foreign governments.
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Sept. 14, 2013
OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. – Proving that their impressive first rounds of collegiate golf were not flukes, the three Seminole freshmen continued to lead the team after the second round of the Fighting Illini Invitational. The team is in ninth place after a 15-over 295 second round at the prestigious Olympia Fields Country Club North Course.
"I thought the guys competed well today," head coach Trey Jones said. "While the weather was perfect today, it was still difficult to get the ball close to the pins. We are playing the same tees and hole locations that were used in the 2003 US Open. That tells you that the course is set up to make you execute to make pars."
Freshmen Jack Maguire got into a sticky situation early with a double bogey on the fourth hole. The St. Petersburg, Fla., native stepped up to the plate and made a birdie on the next hole. He finished the day with a 3-over 73 and is currently tied for sixth place with a 2-over 142, five strokes out of first place.
Freshman Josh Lee of Orange Park, Fla., continued to play well with a 3-over 73. He now has a 6-over 146 after two rounds and is tied for 20th. Redshirt freshman Cristobal Del Solar of Viña del Mar, Chili started the morning rough with three bogeys in the first four holes, but came back on the back nine to finish the day with a 5-over 75. He enters tomorrow tied for 30th 9-over 149.
"Our three freshmen Cristobal, Josh and Jack are learning a great deal this week," continued Jones. "Each of them has the potential to be great players for us this year. Tomorrow's weather is 80% chance of rain with 10 mph wind. We will need the sophomores to step up and play to their ability."
Sophomores Hank Lebioda (Winter Springs, Fla.) and Collin Engelhardt (Orlando, Fla.) both made a combined nine stroke improvement. After going 5-over on the last three holes yesterday, he shot even on the same holes today to finish with a 4-over 74 to move up seven positions to tied for 57th with a 13-over 153. Engelhardt made a four stroke improvement by not making a double bogey after making two Friday. After a birdie on the 11th hole, he finished the day with a 6-over 76.
No. 1 Alabama remains in first place with a 21 stroke lead over second place No. 3 Texas. While the Seminoles are tied for ninth place, they are only nine strokes out of third place and look to move up the leaderboard tomorrow.
The team tees off Sunday at 7:30 a.m. with Augusta and Texas Tech. Live stats can be viewed at: http://www.golfstatresults.com/public/index.cfm?tournament_id=4499.
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I feel that it is the responsibility of the poster to use google translate to translate their message to English if they want to post in the English part of the forum. I wouldn't head off to the Italian forum and post a message in English. Other people shouldn't come in here posting in other languages.
To broaden the discussion a little, what should we do when the poster posts the same question in English in the English-speaking section, and in their native language in the International section?Do we consider this cross-posting?
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Anthrax Guitarist Fights Viral Infection and Drummer Exits Tour To Be With Ailing Mom
Earlier today, we reported that Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian missed last night's show in Kansas City, Mo., due to an unspecified illness. Now, the band has released a statement explaining that Ian is battling a severe viral infection that caused him to be hospitalized in Los Angeles. In addition, the band also has announced that drummer Charlie Benante has left the tour to be at the bedside of his terminally ill mother in New York.
Ian, who had to receive intravenous fluids and was ordered by doctors not to fly, will also miss tonight's show in Indianapolis, Ind., but is expected to return to the band's lineup for their Fort Wayne, Ind., show on Saturday (Jan. 28.) As they did last night, guitarists from current tour mates Testament and Death Angel will perform in his place. Starting tonight, Testament drummer Gene Hoglan will fill in for Benante. The U.S. trek is scheduled through a Feb. 8 show in New York City.
"We didn't want to cancel any of the concerts, we didn't want to let anyone down," says Anthrax guitarist Rob Caggiano, "so we decided to figure out a way to keep the show on the road. We're so grateful to the guys in Testament and Death Angel for stepping up."
We wish Scott Ian a speedy recovery and offer our best wishes to Charlie Benante.


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Okay, first suprise, All C's, yeah yeah, dont want to hear about it, anyway, i went in yesterday with toys my father had purchased for me, not knowing i had them all, i took them in, and went up to the deak woman, explained our situation, and we had all the price tags on the toys still. she said i could exchange (for full price!) so i exchanged a K-3PO, and a Duro for a Shmi and an EU Obi Wan! The Bespin Guard towards the purchase of a Darth Vader with removible helmit! i only spent 20.00 for the remainder of the Vader. It might have been the fact that I did come in alot and usually bought soimething, or they are being nice and not slimey! the second suprise in Target, in aurora had the Shmi and the EU obi, as well as the Ketwol wave, and the legecy assortment, and B-Wings!!!! if you still need em, go, i mean NOW!
Good luck
Also, All C's had a hochunk of Luke X-Wing Wave! if you cant wait for those.
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Also, All C's had a hochunk of Luke X-Wing Wave! if you cant wait for those.