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Nokia (or HMD Global if you prefer) have today announced a successor to the well received Nokia 7 Plus, the Nokia 7.1 (no Plus this time round). Revealed in London, the device hits UK stores on October 17th priced at £299, planting it firmly in the mid-range and while it does pack a whole host of mid-range specs, it has a number of somewhat unique features too.
Regular readers will know that I love a good bargain and love a good freebie even more! Your phone is a great tool for getting free or discounted stuff when you're out and about, so here's some of our favourite apps and how you can use them to save money!
We've had a few questions sent in to the support team around MoDaCo and GDPR, so this post is a quick reminder of key aspects of how we handle your data and how you can exercise your GDPR rights. We've kept it short and simple to make things easy to understand.
For Android users (or maybe it's just me), there's little that compares to the joy of getting a system update. By the same token, there's little that is as frustrating as the dreaded 'staged rollout', aka everyone else getting updates before you. If you are a OnePlus owner, Oxygen Updater is here to ease your pain!
The MoDaCo Classified Ads section is now open and allows you to buy and sell for free! Available at https://classifiedads.modaco.com, the section is open to all registered members and has some basic rules posted for everyone's benefit.
Are you having trouble logging into Samsung services on your non-Samsung device? You're not the only one. If you want to log into SmartThings for example (which we covered in this post), you may be presented with a screen telling you that your web browser is unsupported and you need to install the Samsung browser. Which is fine, except that doesn't work either. Thankfully, we have a fix for you!
Now and again after updating a device, I get the weird issue where some of the navigation buttons are missing, the notification shade won't pull down and various other bits of the phone are broken. It's really annoying and kinda hard to fix. What's happening behind the scenes is that the phone has become 'unprovisioned', which normally needs a hard reset to resolve. That's drastic, so I've created an app that will help.
Samsung's SmartThings Starter Kit, which normally retails for £199 is currently £125 on Amazon and best of all, it's actually rather good. In the starter kit you'll find the hub, a plug, a multi-sensor, a motion sensor and a presence sensor. So why is it a good buy?
Unihertz, purveyors of the small but actually rather cool 'Jelly Pro' Android phone are back with a new and improved model on Kickstarter. The Atom takes the core concept of the Jelly (it's tiny) and adds a much larger battery (fixing the core complaint of its predecessor) and a degree of ruggedness that makes it perfect for the outdoors pursuits where the Jelly was so useful.
It might not be generally recommended to start messing around in the developer settings on your device, but there is a little setting in there that can be used to slightly, but perceptibly, speed up general use of your device. The little known 'animation speeds' settings sit with the equally useful DPI settings.


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A list of the 2018 haunted houses, haunted trails, haunted woods, haunted hay rides, and other fun Halloween activities around the Emerald Coast. It's that time of year again when people who like to be scared senseless can have their pick of scary adventures in our area. There are plenty of frightful venues in our area guaranteed to scare you as much (or as little) as you like. Most of them range between $7-$15 per person. 2018 Scary Halloween Activities More Dates & Times TBA Hallows Hill Haunted Hay Ride 2018 Dates and Times: October 13-14 7-10 pm October 20-21 7-10 pm October 27-28 7-10 pm October 31 7-10 pm November 3-4 7-10 pm Cost : $10 Place: Baker Nightmare on Old Spanish Trail Dates and Times: October 13-14 7-11 pm October 20-21 7-11 pm October 27-28 7-11 pm October 31 7-10 pm November 3-4 7-11 pm Cost : $15 Place: Baker Fun Halloween Activities Trick or Treat Street 2018 Trick or treat through the Village streets of Baytown Wharf while listening to frighteningly good live music. Enjoy crafts, balloon animals, and stilt-walking. End the night with […]
Florida's Emerald Coast is host to many fireworks displays and celebrations. Local and visitors alike love a great fireworks show and you have many choices throughout the year. Of course, the holidays such as New Year's Eve, Memorial Day, and Independence Day are known for great fireworks, there are many more opportunities that you don't want to miss. There are plenty of show during the Summer in the Destin and Fort Walton Beach area. Below you'll find all of the 2018 fireworks along the Emerald Coast Upcoming Fireworks Destin – Fort Walton Beach July 4, 2018 – Okaloosa Island Pier Fireworks – Fort Walton Beach, FL July 4, 2018 – Red, White, and Baytowne – Miramar Beach, FL July 4, 2018 – 4th of July Celebration – HarborWalk Village – Destin, FL July 4, 2018 – July 4th Fireworks at the Fort Walton Beach Landing – Fort Walton Beach, FL July 4, 2018 – Boggy Bayou Fireworks – Niceville/Valparaiso, FL July 5, 2018 – Let Freedom Ring Tribute – HarborWalk Village – Destin, FL July 10, 2018 – Boomin' Tuesday – Baytowne Wharf – Miramar Beach, FL July 11, 2018 – Okaloosa Island Pier Fireworks – Fort Walton Beach, FL July […]
You don't have to look far to find fun Destin Florida events or fun things to do around the Fort Walton Beach, FL area. There are always great festivals along the Emerald Coast to attend for family fun. Whether you are tourists or a local, our area festivals offer plenty of live music, tasty food, unique entertainment, interesting culture, and plenty of people enjoying our beautiful area. Destin, Fort Walton Beach, and Niceville are home to quite a few notable festivals each year, including the Destin Seafood Festival, Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival, and the Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival. Throughout the year, there are many unique and entertaining festivals around the Destin and Fort Walton Beach area. No matter what your interests, you'll most likely find a festival to your liking. Upcoming Festivals July 4, 2019 – See All Independence Day Festivals October 4-6, 2019 – Destin Seafood Festival – Destin, FL October 11-12, 2019 – Baytowne Beer Fest – Miramar Beach, FL October 12, 2019 – Dog Daze – Fort Walton Beach, FL October 18-20, 2019 – Mullet Festival – Niceville, FL October 24-26, 2019 – Harvest Wine & Food Festival – Miramar Beach, FL January 17-20, 2020 – 30A […]
The time of year to celebrate our Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain will soon be here. On July 4, fireworks celebrations will take place all along the Emerald Coast. Some of the celebrations take place before the 4th of July, so you can catch multiple fireworks shows! These displays are not just beautiful; they represent our freedom. They stand for all of the opportunities that we have as Americans. Below are several fireworks displays to celebrate Independence Day 2018. 2018 fireworks celebrations will be posted as they are announced along the Emerald Coast. July 4th Fireworks on the Emerald Coast Destin Smoke on the Coast – July 3, 2018 – 9:00 pm – Start your Independence Day early at Destin Commons with great BBQ, live music, street performers, and kids activities. This 8th annual event benefits local charities. There will be 168 area restaurants and BBQ teams competing in the BBQ competition fighting for the People's choice award of best BBQ on the Emerald Coast. BBQ tastings and live music starts at 5:00 pm and samples are $1 each. Fireworks are at 9:00 pm. Red, White, and Baytowne – July 4, 2018 – 9:15 pm – The fireworks show […]
Whether you are an avid runner or a novice, there are many races along the Emerald Coast in which to participate. Our local area races may be a 5K, 10K, half marathon, or marathon for you to choose depending on your fitness level. Your goal may be to break a previous personal best time or it may be simply to finish the race. Go for the gold in some or all of these upcoming runs. Nearly all of them are for charity, so you can feel proud that you are not only improving your health but also supporting a great cause! Check out these upcoming races in Fort Walton Beach and surrounding areas, including Destin, Crestview, Valparaiso, Miramar Beach, Navarre, and Niceville. Upcoming 2018 Races July 14, 2018 – Kiwani's 5K – Fort Walton Beach, FL August 11, 2018 – Josh Sprinkle Memorial 5K – Fort Walton Beach, FL August 25, 2018 – Election Run – Fort Walton Beach, FL September 2, 2018 – Alys Beach 5K & 1 Mile Fun Run – Rosemary Beach, FL September 22, 2018 – CMSAF Binnicker 9K & 5K – Shalimar, FL October 6, 2018 – Relay for Life 5K (Sons of Italy) – Fort Walton Beach, FL […]
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Compared to the Midwest, the South is a difficult environment for growing soybeans. Questions remain on how best to deal with seed and gain a stand in the Mid-South. A new, extensive, three-year research effort — sponsored by the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board (ASPB) — has begun to address the gaps in knowledge.
"Soybean seed quality varies from year to year," says Rick Cartwright, University of Arkansas plant pathologist. "It depends on the weather, when and where it was produced, how it was stored and other things. There are good and bad years with soybean seed. Sometimes, though, even what we think is good seed just doesn't come up."
This is not the fault of seed companies. "The companies do a great job — the best they can, no doubt. It's obviously in their best interest to maintain quality. And they strive for that."
Yet, there are sometimes "mysterious" stand failures — especially in the South. In Arkansas, growers now plant soybeans from March through mid-July. The seed supply, produced the previous year, must last for a long planting season and needs to maintain quality whether it's planted in March or July.
"That's a challenge in itself. Another thing the South is facing that isn't such a problem in the Midwest is our planting conditions are so diverse. In fact, you could argue that planting conditions in the South are actually hostile to soybean seed. That often leads to mixed results with stand establishment. Even though we use a lot of seed treatments, they don't always help.
"We're also now planting in no-till seedbeds and in rotation with several different crops — rice, corn, sorghum, cotton."
In a bid to save money due to increase expense of modern seed, farmers are also willing to cut seeding rates. For those in a non-ideal planting situation, doing so can cause problems in getting a stand.
Complicating the situation is seed quality can't be judged on one thing.
Germination — the process of seed taking in water and producing a seedling under optimum conditions — is checked in a lab test and the results, by law, must be printed on seed bags. For many years, farmers have relied on germination test data.
However, seed quality isn't solely defined by the germination test. There's also a very complex characteristic of seed called vigor. The vigor of seed includes a set of factors that still aren't fully understood. However, in the last few years, there has been a lot of progress in measuring it.
In most states, and companies, "there's a lot of emphasis on testing seed for vigor. There are all kinds of tests to determine the seed's properties — will it produce a normal seedling under certain conditions? Maybe conditions being checked are cold temperatures, accelerated aging under hot, humid conditions, membrane leakage tests, and so on.
"Put all those tests together and you'll have a better idea that the seed being tested has good potential for germination under optimum conditions but you'll also know that the seed has better potential to produce a normal seedling that'll survive under less than optimum conditions."
The Association of Official Seed Analysts and the International Seed Testing Association write the rules for the world's official seed testing. A few years ago, both adopted the accelerated aging test as a standard, reproducible vigor test of soybeans. Since then, many companies and states have used accelerated aging tests to supplement germination and other tests to further define seed quality.
"It's a good way to get information about your seed lot and where you might use it, or not. If the seed has low vigor you might not want to plant it. If there's moderate vigor, you might still use it under optimum conditions but avoid using it in certain tough planting situations. Seed testing high in both the standard germ test and the accelerated aging test would be the lots you could have the highest confidence in."
With that background, the ASPB asked researchers at the University of Arkansas to conduct a comprehensive project looking at soybean seed quality issues.
Over the years, much of the seed quality research has been done in the Midwest. "Certainly, that done in their fields might not correlate as well in the Mid-South. We need to validate some of this information under our conditions."
Also part of the effort is an education component. "We'll try to explain as much as we can about all this to our growers and the industry. That could include how farmers can find out particular data on seed they're interested in purchasing. And, once procured, how they can use that information most effectively.
"Also, we want to know where seed treatments, new seed-coating technologies and the like fit into this. Do they really help preserve seed quality in storage and the field? Which do the best job? Where is it most appropriate to use those?"
Currently, a small, seed-quality test lab is being established at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
"We'll also be working with the Arkansas Plant Board and other states' seed testing labs. At planting, beginning on April 28, we're asking Extension personnel in the field and grower organizations to help us collect planting seed being used in fields across the state. The sampling will continue through mid-July."
Those samples will be taken to the aforementioned labs for germ and accelerated aging tests. It's hoped that the 500 to 1,000 evaluated samples will provide a good initial dataset on soybean seed quality being used during the entire planting season in the state, and what factors may have contributed to that quality.
"And we're not just looking for stand failures. Knowing what seed came up perfectly for a great stand is just as important."
Another aspect of the research will be field tests. This year, an industry cooperator has provided seed from a variety that was determined to have varying quality — "some very good, some middling, some poorer.
"Using that seed, we'll work with Chuck Farr, a crop consultant in Crittenden County who has a strong interest in seed quality. The seed will be planted in some different conditions in his area."
Another planned location for field tests is near Waldenburg in Poinsett County. "There are some stand problems with soybeans on the silt loams around there. Having two different locales and soil types — but planted in the same seed — should provide some interesting data."
Tying the various aspects of the project together will be a "major chore," admits Cartwright. "But we've got a great group in the division focused on it. We've got a staff person already reassigned to work on lab testing. We also have a coordinator reassigned to work the education program.
"We'll use every opportunity to provide growers this information — field days, winter grower meetings, even a Web site."
The first year will largely be an establishment phase of the project. "But we expect to get a lot done. The successes or failures in the initial year will define the research and education efforts in years two and three. We'll push hard to see what we can get done this first year.
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(while putting Lilly to bed)
me: Do you know you're a good girl?
L: Yes.
M: Do you know I love you?
L: Yes.
M. Are you a princess?
L: No, I'm a pirate princess!!!
I went to hug her one night, and she smiled really big and said BOOOOBS!!!! and I was like "what?!" and she said "I like to hug 'em!"
Once, Brandon put Lilly to bed and later asked me if I had read her her chameleon book, about a chameleon who changes colors, and I said no, why. He said "Because she just told me she wants to be a different color."
Once, Brandon told Lilly she was so cute he could eat her up. She looked horrified and said "But then I'd be gone!!!"
March of 2008
We were talking about the Easter bunny and how he was going to bring her a basket of goodies and Lilly got this look on her face like she had just figured something out and said "He has a car!?"
April of 2008
Just before Lilly's 3rd birthday, she would tell people that she was "2 for now."
May of 2008
In may, we moved from Alabama to Utah, and we stopped to see some friends in Texas. We walked into a room to see Lilly and Brandon (the little boy who lives there, and who is Lilly's "boyfriend") laying in bed and watching a movie. I said "Are you guys friends?" and Lilly said "Yes, we're sleeping together."
March of 2009
When we drive to preschool, which takes 45 minutes, we would talk about everything, and sometimes the conversation would end up about Jesus. So, once I told Lilly that when Jesus came again in the Millennium, he would be our leader, and Lilly said "But when we're at preschool, Miss Wendi is the leader."
Likewise, once, on the way to preschool, Lilly asked me to sing a song I didn't know, and I said "I don't know everything Miss Wendi says." and Lilly said "She SAYS don't put your hands in your mouth, and don't play with your shoes because they're not toys!!"
July of 2009
Brandon (Lilly's little boyfriend from Texas) came to Utah with his family to visit, and he had a birthday here. We went to his party, and in the meantime, we heard Lilly and Brandon talking while they were holding hands. The conversation went like this:
L: Brandon, I love you.
B: I love you too, Lilly.
L: What do you want to be when you grow up?
B: A super-doctor-surgeon-dentist-astronaut-rock star-hero.
L: Okay. I think that will make enough to support our family.
August of 2009
Once, Lilly tried to interrupt a conversation that Brandon (her dad) and i were having. We told her not to interrupt, and she got really upset and started crying and said "I-AM-NOT-A-VOLCANO!!!!"
June of 2010
One Sunday, Lilly was eating a sky blue sucker, and she looked at me and said "mom! I think that sky must taste like cotton candy!"
July of 2010
One morning, Brandon woke up cranky, and Lilly brought him a rock, and said "Daddy, this rock has Lilly magic in it, and it will help you not be cranky. And if you're still cranky, let me know and I'll find you a bigger rock."
Me: No one is perfect.
Lilly: Brandon and Jesus are perfect.
Me: Brandon's not perfect either, Lilly.
Lilly: Really? I was pretty sure he is.
Lilly: "Mom, Zarah has a mommy and a daddy tooth."
Translation: Lilly's friend, Zarah, from school, lost two teeth and now has adult teeth in their place.
At Halloween: "Happy Samhain!" / "Happy Celtic New Year!" (At every door.)
Mom, are you going to put the laundry away sometimes this school year?
Any time Lilly sees something "old" or a scene from a past time in a movie: "Mom, is this 'back in the day'?"
(While reading a Book of Mormon comic book) Hey!!! They had Flip Flops back in the day?!!!"


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From The Beacon: October full of special programming
Programming librarians like to plan events or programs to coincide with specific holidays, days of honor, or weekly or monthlong celebrations.
The month of October provides those of us in the special collections and archives field with a number of possibilities. For example, "South Carolina On the Move" is the theme for S.C. Archives Month. Archaeologists are "Making Artifacts Talk" for S.C. Archaeology Month. Genealogists are seeking information about their family black sheep during Family History Month. And the Beaufort District Collection is participating in each of these efforts.
To observe "Archives Month," the Beaufort District Collection -- the "forever" special collections library and archives of the Beaufort County Library -- is offering an extra special behind-the-scenes tour. We are featuring our local holdings relating to transportation in keeping with the 2011 theme of "South Carolina on the Move."
Individual members of the general public older than 12 who are interested in learning more about local means of transportation through time (such as ferries, steamboats, railroads, etc.) and the operations and preservation activities of the Beaufort District Collection are welcomed to register. The tour is free, but registration is limited to 10 people a session. For details, call 843-255-6468.
This is the only time of the year we give these tours for individuals of our closed-stack area. In addition, the BDC Research Room display case will emphasize some of the transportation-related photographs, books, maps and postcards in our collection. Visit the Research Room from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday to see the displayed materials.
To find out more about SC Archives Month 2011 "On the Move" special events, tours, and exhibits around the state, go to http://scarchivesmonth.palmettohistory.org.
Beaufort County Council has declared October "Archaeology Month." The county has been studied long and well with hundreds of recognized digs within its boundaries over the past century. In concert with the goals of South Carolina Archaeology Month, the Beaufort County Planning Department and the Beaufort County Library have teamed yet again to stimulate public pride in our county's long archaeological heritage; increase public understanding of why archaeological research is important; educate the public about how to protect, preserve and study archaeological resources; and encourage legitimate archaeological activities within our state.
Ian Hill, the county's historic preservationist, and I are pleased to bring archaeologist and USC-Lancaster professor Chris Judge to Beaufort library at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 27. His lecture, "Making Artifacts Talk: Fifteen Years at the Johannes Kolb Site -- Archaeology and Education," is part of the BDC@ The Branches Local History series.
On your way to Judge's presentation, linger a few minutes at the archaeology-related materials and artifacts on display in the Beaufort library. Or check out some of the many archaeology-related books, videos and database resources the Beaufort County Library System provides.
Are you interested in researching your ancestors? Looking for the family's black sheep? Perhaps we can help. Our specialty, not surprisingly, is the old Beaufort District (Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton counties), South Carolina state records, and Federal records relating to the Southeast. We offer research consultation appointments during regular working hours to guide family historians to possible records with answers to your questions. Call me at 843-255-6446 to arrange a professional reference librarian consultation session.
And don't forget that the Ancestry Library Edition subscription database is available in all our branch libraries. Sign up to use our computers. You can read the district collection blog at www.beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com for alerts on upcoming genealogy-related workshops.
The Beaufort County Library System is proud to be the steward of some of our county's most historic papers; just another great treasure you can find at your local public library system. Check us out at www.beaufortcountylibrary.org and find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/beaufortcountylibrarysystem.
Grace Cordial is the Beaufort District Collection manager for the Beaufort County Library System.


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Annie Clark, who records under the name of St. Vincent, loves to role play.
At Metro in front of a capacity crowd Wednesday, the singer brought a theatrical flair to her performance with little more than some strategically placed lights, her voice and guitar, and an armada of foot pedals.
Backed by a three-piece band that replicated the lush soundscapes on her three albums, Clark orchestrated a series of scenes from an imaginary movie. The lighting was rarely neutral, either dropping her into a web of shadows or bathing her in a harsh white glow that made her seem a little terrifying – Diamanda Galas refashioned as a pixie.
The singer's precise diction and trilling voice, often climbing into an upper register that suggested a twisted Disney soundtrack, put an emphasis on the words -- and why not? She's a storyteller as much as a musician. Though the voice could be delicate, even girlish and fragile, pay closer attention to what she's singing and she comes off more like Snow White's sinister twin.
She teased out disturbing details amid the pretty sonic ice sculptures carved out by her keyboardists: "You're a boxer in the ring/With brass knuckles underneath"; "If I ever meet that dirty policeman who roughed you up/No, I don't know what"; "You're skin's so fair, it's not fair."
The latter line could be read as an admiring observation, a pang of jealousy, a veiled threat. Just about everything Clark does on stage has that queasy sense of ambiguity to it: sing-along choruses crashing into curtains of noise, lop-sided beats bouncing underneath stately keyboards.
That goes double for her guitar playing. She's a different kind of shredder, almost self-effacing in her virtuosity, preferring to make her guitar sound like anything but a guitar. At times she was hampered by a poor mix that muted her instrument. But when audible, it became a fearsome sound-effects machine, saturated with distortion or reverb, groaning or buckling beneath the weight of Clark's fingers. Not that it was all about effects; there were the lacerating solos in "Northern Lights," so full of wonderment even as they hinted at doom; the syncopated be-bopping fills in "Neutered Fruit"; the agile, spider-walking fingers on the fret board during "Year of the Tiger."
The songs never overstayed their welcome, sometimes to a fault. Each time Clark threatened to cut loose -- the curse followed by a savage guitar outburst in "Actor out of Work," the foreboding psychodrama of "Your Lips are Red" – she cut the moment short. She never approached the savagery of her cover of Big Black's "Kerosene," now a YouTube must-see after she performed it in New York last May.
She came closest to that uninhibited intensity on a cover of the Pop Group's 1979 single "She is Beyond Good and Evil." She pounced on the strings, let them recover, then dove in again. "My love was born on a ray of sound," she sang, allowing herself to get real, real gone for a change.
St. Vincent set list Wednesday at Metro:
1 Cruel
2 Cheerleader
3 Surgeon
4 Save Me From What I Want
5 Chloe in the Afternoon
6 Actor Out of Work
7 Dilettante
8 Just the Same But Brand New
9 Champagne Year
10 Neutered Fruit
11 Strange Mercy
12 She is Beyond Good and Evil (The Pop Group cover)
13 Northern Lights
14 Year of the Tiger
15 Marrow
16 The Party
17 Your Lips Are Red


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2011 All-WCC First Team
SENIOR (2011): Started 15 games on the season with a 3.26 ERA and a 4-7 record … led the team in innings pitched (105.0), complete games (2) and strikeouts (80) … in his first start of the season at South Carolina on Feb. 19, pitched 7.0 innings while striking out four and only allowing two runs … struck out seven in 7.1 innings vs. Albany to record his first win of the season on Feb. 26 … against San Jose State on Mar. 5, pitch 6.2 innings, allowing two runs on seven hits with a walk and a strikeout … collected eight strikeouts against one walk in 7.0 innings vs. UW-Milwaukee on Mar. 12 … threw a complete game eight-hitter vs. Brown while striking out a season-high 11 batters … threw 9.0 innings in a 13 inning win against Cal State Bakersfield and allowed only two runs on seven hits … started vs. LMU on Apr. 8 and went 6.1 innings while striking out one … pitched a complete game with nine strikeouts to get the win on Apr. 15 at Saint Mary's … got a no-decision on Apr. 21 at San Francisco when he pitched 7.1 innings and stuck out six … struck out six in 6.2 innings and allowed one earned run vs. Gonzaga on Apr. 29 … at Pepperdine on May 6, pitched 8.0 innings and struck out four in a no-decision … struck out six in 6.0 innings on may 11 at UC Davis … got a no-decision in 7.0 innings while striking out six vs. San Diego on May 20… struck out three in 7.0 innings at Portland on May 27.
RS JUNIOR (2010): Key part of the Santa Clara bullpen, called upon 17 times … fanned 21 batters in 24 innings and walked just eight … went 3-0 with a 6.00 ERA with nine scoreless outings … worked a season-high three innings twice, the first coming at San Diego (4/16) and again at Loyola Marymount (5/30) … struck out a season-high four in that outing against San Diego (4/16) … credited with the win over No. 18 Stanford (4/26) by pitching a scoreless inning out of the pen … won again at home against UC Davis (5/5) getting four outs without allowing a run in an 8-6 SCU victory … would improve to 3-0 on the final day of the year at Loyola Marymount (5/30).
RS SOPHOMORE (2009): Sunday starter opening weekend at N.C. State (Feb. 22) in Raleigh, taking the loss in three innings of six-hit ball ... would be used mostly in relief and three more times as a spot starter ... gave up 60 hits in 34 2/3 innings while striking out 27 ... went 1-4 on the year with a 8.31 ERA ... had a solid relief outing against Cal (Mar. 25), striking out four ... worked a season-high seven innings against Long Beach State (Mar. 31) ... earned his first collegiate win after 4 2/3 innings of long-relief in SCU's 13-9 victory over Stanford (May 6).
RS FRESHMAN AT TAFT COLLEGE (2008): Named to the 2008 All-Central Valley Conference (CVC) First Team ... posted a record of 5-9 spanning 101.1 IP, striking out 92 K while walking only 19 ... threw five complete games and owned an ERA of 4.44.
AT GONZAGA (2007): Utilized a redshirt season, did not play.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2006 graduate of Thom Collegiate High School in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada ... named Thom Collegiate's 'Male Athlete of the Year' ... Thom's 2003 'Rookie of the Year' as a prep freshman ... tabbed as team MVP for three consecutive seasons (2004-06) ... played for coaches Mick Panko and Colin Back ... part of Canada's bronze medal winning team at the 2006 World Junior Baseball Championships ... also an All-Star on Thom's basketball team and its MVP.
PERSONAL: Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada ... parents are Brian and Audrey Hall ... has one younger sister Kelsey ... enjoys ping-pong, poker, college basketball and country music ... majoring in Marketing.


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University of New Mexico Football Player Arrested for Wearing Baggy Pants on Plane
University of New Mexico football player Deshon Marman's trip to San Francisco was already sad enough before police got involved.
Marman, who was in the city to attend the funeral of a high school friend, was arrested at San Francisco International Airport Wednesday after he refused to pull up his saggy pants while on a plane heading to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A US Airways employee noticed the 20-year-old Marman's pants "were below his buttocks but above the knees, and that much of his boxer shorts were exposed."
A police spokesman said Marman would not pull up his pants when asked before getting on the plane and that it took 15-20 minutes for him to depart the plane. Once he finally stepped off, he was arrested for trespassing.
An airline spokeswoman said the company has a dress code for passengers that prohibits "indecent exposure or inappropriate" attire.
Marman was being held on $11,000 bail.


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Every once in a while, the normal assumptions and labeling of politicians gets shook up when one of them steps out of their assigned box and suggests a breakthrough from the politics as usual. Last week, Dick Armey wrote an eye-opening editorial on Newsmax chiding the Obama administration for not really cutting defense, but instead, just planning to cut the increase.
Armey is a former Republican member of Congress and now the chair of FreedomWorks, the largest Tea Party "freedom" organization known for its grassroots organizing of the right. Armey correctly pointed out that Obama is slowing the increase in Department of Defense (DoD) spending, even though his Republican counterparts, including Bill Kristol, are claiming that Obama is severely cutting defense and decimating the DoD and US military readiness. He goes even farther than generally chiding his Republican members of Congress and questions their motivations for the cuts. From his editorial:
President Obama is not cutting a single dime out of the military budget. He is actually substantially increasing military spending over the next several years. Washington has once again cleverly disguised a spending increase as a "cut."
This is how it all works: the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has a baseline that predicts what will happen over the next decade given current projections of taxation and spending. It shows that military spending will dramatically increase over the next ten years.
President Obama's $480 billion in military spending "cuts" are only from the bloated CBO baseline. This means that he is merely reducing projected military spending, as opposed to cutting current spending….
… Some Republican lawmakers such as Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (Calif.) called the nonexistent cuts "dangerous and irresponsible."
How much of an increase in military spending will satisfy them? It's interesting to note that Rep. McKeon's top campaign contributors include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing Co., and General Dynamics. These defense contractors lobby for more military spending that would add to their company's bottom line.
It is amazing and surprising that Armey would go as far as hitting the motivations of Representative McKeon, who is the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and question McKeon's loyalty to the defense contractor's political contributions.
He goes even further and talks about what I have been saying for decades, that the military uses the troops to justify their overspending and waste. "Unlike most other government departments, the DoD enjoys a protected status that shields it from serious scrutiny. An unfortunate stigma still exists that those who propose reasonable military spending cuts do not support the troops. But that is far from the truth."
By lifting the stigma for questioning the amount of the defense budget, Armey goes on to say that the Pentagon budget "is filled with corporate welfare for the defense industries," and says that pork barrel spending is a big problem. He says that overdone defense spending that raises the deficit is a national security problem in itself.
One has to wonder if he has had a Vulcan mind meld with the likes of Dennis Kuchinich and others on the left. He is certainly not going to be asked to many Pentagon Christmas parties next year.
If Armey is willing to join forces to truly cut the DoD budget with like-minded people regardless of political identity, real progress can be made. This is a moment where, perhaps, the stars will align to get some sanity in the defense budget, which Armey points out is "nearly half of all the military spending on earth."
These types of coalitions have temporarily worked in the past. During the Reagan administration, when funding for the military seem to have no bounds, then-Representative Boxer (D-California) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) worked with me to expose DoD overpriced spare parts, which illustrated overspending in general. The public was so angry with $7,622 coffee brewers and $600 toilet seats that there was an uprising to do something about the burgeoning budget. Boxer and Grassley put in a bill for a defense budget freeze and, to the astonishment of the Washington insiders, it passed. Walter Mondale, the Democrat who was running for president, was only willing to suggest a 2 percent increase in defense – the same cut in the increase. The budget freeze only lasted a year, but it was a remarkable achievement during that time period, akin to a DoD budget freeze under George W. Bush.
I remember that Senator Grassley also spoke boldly, as a freshman senator swept in with the Reagan Revolution. He use to anger his fellow Republicans by looking at DoD waste and fraud. He would answer them by saying, "We were elected to sweep the welfare queens out of the Federal government and I am trying to sweep the welfare queens out of the Pentagon." He still looks at DoD waste issues, but now toes the Republican line much more closely as the years have gone by.
So how is this a solution to make government work better? The DoD has had a stranglehold on the federal budget through many administrations, Democratic and Republican, due to fear of looking "soft on defense" if you truly cut the budget. Only joining forces with political factions that you may not always agree with may be the only way to demystify the DoD hiding behind the troops and expose their dangerous spending follies to the public. Dick Armey has taken a first step in that direction and people of good will on the left and right should take him up on his call to not exempt the DoD from cuts and much needed reform. As Armey has boldly said," Military spending should not be a sacred cow. We cannot afford to completely avoid certain parts of the budget."
Who in the Democratic and Republican party will pick up the phone and join forces with him on this very specific fight? This is how you can start to make government really work.


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I would like to do my own rant about the mail service in Canada. Specifically the volume of email that gets sent to me . Today I came home to find 38 unread emails. 38! Those are just the ones that made it past my Spam and Bulk filters – that my wife hadn't read already. I've had enough. So here goes …
Dear J. Crew, stop sending me three emails at 5 a.m. and then again at 7:30 a.m. That is not the one ankle boot I need this year.
Dear Apple Store, stop making your email come up a different colour than all the rest. It freaks me out that only you can do that.
Dear eBay, I've NEVER purchased anything from you ever. How did you even get my email?
Dear FaceBook, stop changing your settings every 3 hours – I'm again getting notifications from people I unfriended a year ago [sorry Mom]
And hey Starbucks … if one more 50% off my favourite latte coupon gets sent my way today and I'm sending 50% of my next latte across your cafe floor.
Thank you for listening.
PS – my apologies to those who expected something about wine in this edition of my wine blog
PSS – brother in Spain, you're welcome for not saying anything about wine in this edition of my wine blog
PSS – my wife wouldn't let me say anything bad to the people at Pinterest


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This will be a two part series of posts on writing plugins for Opa. One of Opa's greatest features is you write everything in the functional, staticly typed Opa language. This even includes the frontend code you'd usually do in Javascript. This means your code is less error-prone which significantly reduces the amount of time spent on debugging code.
But how do you use Javascript library X within your Opa code?
While you can include Javascript code in a resource, like we do here for Google Analytics:
do Resource.register_external_js("/resources/js/google_analytics.js")
This isn't what we want to do if we want to call external Javascript functions from Opa code. For this we create an Opa plugin. In this post I'll be showing how I built the Opa client side bindings for the PubNub Javascript API, fork it on github and see all the other language bindings. PubNub is a cloud hosted real-time publish and subscribe interface for all types of applications.
Opa allows binding to external functions through its Binding System Library (BSL). In order to use this to create a plugin for some external Javascript, we create a file pubnub.js that we will compile to a plugin using opa-plugin-builder. Below is an example of one of the external functions that needs to be defined to use PubNub's publish.
##register publish : string, string -> void ##args(c, m) { PUBNUB.publish({ channel : c, message : m }); return js_void; }
The first line registers the function publish and specifies its arguments to be two strings and its return value to be void. The next line names the arguments. You can think of ##args like Javascript's function keyword. In the function, we can use the PUBNUB library just like we would normally. Here we pass to publish the channel and the message to be published. Note that the message can be any Javascript object, even though its a string to the plugin. We simply must serialize the JSON before passing to publish, which we'll see shortly.
Now after defining external functions for all PubNub api calls in the pubnub.js file we can compile it:
$ opa-plugin-builder src/plugin/pubnub.js -o pubnub
This creates the plugin pubnub.opp.
To make using the plugin easier, we create a package in pubnub.opa that will contain a module PubNub. Below is the contents of pubnub.opa for the publish function that will show how to register the external functions and create a module named PubNub around them.
package pubnub pubnub_publish = %%pubnub.publish%% @client publish_client = pubnub_publish PubNub = {{ publish(channel: string, j : RPC.Json.json) = publish_client(channel, Json.to_string(j)) }} do Resource.register_external_js("http://cdn.pubnub.com/pubnub-3.1.min.js")
The first thing to notice is setting the pubnub_publish variable. The %% syntax is specifying that pubnub.publish is the key of an external primitive. pubnub is the name of the plugin (pubnub.opp) and publish is the function we registered in the plugin.
After this we create another variable publish_client that specifies that that this function (variables can contain functions) is to be run on the client side. Lastly, we define a module PubNub and a publish function inside the module to be used by our Opa programs.
At the end we make sure that the needed PubNub Javascript file is includes in all resources by registering it and giving the URL to the PubNub CDN.
Now we can compile it all together with the opa-plugin-builder command from above and use the plugin.
import pubnub broadcast(author, msg) = username : RPC.Json.json = {String = author} message : RPC.Json.json = {String = msg} record_json : RPC.Json.json = {Record = [("username", username), ("message", message)]} do PubNub.publish("chat", record_json) Dom.clear_value(#entry)
The broadcast function is part of pubnub_chat.opa. broadcast takes 2 arguments, the username of the user sending the message and the message itself. We then construct three variables of Opa's json type, username, message and record_json. username and message are simply Json strings and they are then combined into a Json Record type that is a list of string/Json pairs. Since our PubNub.publish function converts the Opa Json to a string before sending to the Javascript binding we can simply pass the Opa Json variable record_json.
Lastly, lets take a quick look at the subscribe function. Defining it in pubnub.js look like:
##register subscribe : string, (string -> void) -> void
Since it takes a callback function you'll notice that the second argument's type looks different from in publish. (string -> void) is defining that the function takes a variable that is a function which takes a single argument of type string and has a void return type.
Now in pubnub.opa we have a subscribe function that is hardly different from the publish function we described above.
subscribe(channel: string, callback) = subscribe_client(channel, callback)
But how do we define a function we can pass to subscribe? That is the great thing, it can be any Opa function!
PubNub.subscribe("chat", (x -> user_update(x)))
Above we are subscribing to the channel chat and passing an anonymous function that takes a single argument and sends it to the function user_update.
user_update(x) = match Json.deserialize(x) with | {some={Record = [("username", username), ("message", message)]}} -> line =

{Json.to_string(username)}:</>
{Json.to_string(message)}</> </> do Dom.transform([#conversation +<- line ]) Dom.scroll_to_bottom(#conversation) | _ -> void
Now every time a message is posted to the chat channel, our callback, the anonymous function, will be run and call the function user_update which we see deserializes the Json string to get an Opa Json Record. The rest is basic Opa DOM manipulation to add the new message to the messages in the conversation element.
In my next post on Opa and PubNub, I'll be describing an Opa server side API for PubNub.


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Pitt has earned the right to play in its 13th game of the season and is headed to the BBVA Compass Bowl. The Panthers will take on SEC foe Ole Miss on Jan. 5, 2013 in Birmingham, Ala., at Legion Field in what could play out to be one of the most competitive matchups in the bowl lineup.
The contest with Ole Miss pits two of the most storied programs in the nation, as well as two teams that have shown significant improvement during the year. Ole Miss defeated Egg Bowl rival Mississippi State, ranked 24th at the time, to close out the regular season, while the Panthers won four of its last six games in 2012.
The game will be a national broadcast on ESPN on Jan. 5 at 1 p.m. ET. Fans interested in purchasing tickets can visit the Panthers Ticket Office website, or call 1-800-643-PITT (7488). Pitt student tickets to the BBVA Compass Bowl are free with a valid Pitt Student ID (limit of one free ticket per Pitt student). Students will be charged $15 if they do not pick up their ticket on gameday.
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text: On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Matt Osborne wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > It is lovely to recycle old boxen for learning/demo purposes, but it is > > also important to be aware of a couple of gotcha's. One is that it gets > > harder and harder to run modern kernels on really old boxes, as they > ...... > > maintenance is our LARGEST expense by far in our bleeding-edge efficient > > admin environment). We'll probably retire them all in the next 6-12 > > months. > > > > rgb > > > > -- > > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ > > Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 > > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > > Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu > > > > Thanks for the details, really informative. Do you know of any easy way to > measure or determine the power drawn by a system besides calculating each > component's? Also, I notice that you and Mark Hahn are from the Physics a) Buy an inline power meter. Not terribly cheap for good ones (a few $100). b) Measure line voltage and line current (you'll need the full waveform, so use a scope) and do some integration ;-). c) Install nodes on a circuit (with circuit breaker) until it pops. Use nominal values of voltage and circuit breaker current to guestimate power (real power will be about 0.6 the VA for non PFC supplies). > area. Is there a particular set of problems within Physics that you use > for your Beowulf or a website that might have some info? I really enjoy > working with the Physics dept. here so I thought I would ask. Oh, I have a problem that is like the SETI at home or RC5 in that more CPU equals happier me. If you want to contribute by running jobs for me for the next umpty-months, I'll wrap it to make this possible. It's pretty boring running though -- no fancy graphics or the like, just lots of good, solid work. rgb > > Regards, > Matt Osborne > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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text: Texas Drought Takes Toll on Cattle—and Ranchers June 7, 2013 02:31 AM Tweet Despite the crippling drought, JA Ranch has managed to keep its cows. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Tyne Morgan US Farm Report Host Email Read part one of this special "AgDay" report: Surviving the Texas Drought The nation's second-largest canyon, once carved by running water, is now all but void of that life-sustaining resource. For the ranchers here, recovery seems beyond the scenic horizon. "When we start getting a healing of the grass, we're going to have to rebuild some root systems," says Jay O'Brien, managing partner at JA Ranch. This land is home to the oldest privately owned ranch in the Texas Panhandle, once covering more than a million acres. JA Ranch's history is what they hope will help secure their future, despite the hard-hitting drought. "This ranch has been in the same family since 1876," he says. "Certainly, if we do anything to keep it from staying in the same family for another 100 years, then we're doing a poor job." Many local ranchers have been forced to cull their herd, just waiting for the drought to pass. The latest USDA Crop Progress report shows 40% of the state's pasture and range in poor to very poor condition. In the Panhandle, the conditions are even worse than the state-wide numbers show. Despite the crippling drought, JA Ranch has managed to keep its cows. "I think a lot of people look at the short term, so they're not protected for the long term," O'Brien says. O'Brie says rebuilding the native grasses, and not overgrazing, is key in helping this ranch continue to survive. "We will not seed; this is native grass, and it's not economical to seed," he says. "We will just have to baby this ranch by running fewer numbers for some time to let the grass heal itself." O'Brien says the heat is also an issue, attracting new pests that are demolishing this range. "There's a grass termite that's come into this area, and we can see areas where it's been denuded of grass," he explains. "It's going to take a while for that grass to come back and for us to get our turf." The persisting drought is changing more than just the physical landscape on this farm. "Normally we use about half of our country for yearlings and half for cows, and we do that as a safety valve," he says. "In 2011, we destocked all of our yearlings, and so we've spread the cows over the whole ranch. We've been able to maintain our cow herd." He says it's taking it's toll on the cows. On average, calves are weighing 100 to 150 lbs. less than normal, and calving season is a month late. "Now, if this drought continues another year, we'll have to sell some cows," he says, "and we'll just destock in order to maintain the ranch because preserving the asset is part of our mission statement." O'Brien says that's a last resort, as liquidating could hurt the ranch's bottom line for decades to come, because restocking will be so costly. "If we had a good general rain, I think cows would jump up $1,000 per head," he says. "We saw a little bit last spring when we had a hint we were going to come out of it, and cows immediately jumped up then. " O'Brien says they've tightened their belt and will continue to do what it takes to see this ranch through, for the tough times just make you better prepared for the good times. Read more drought coverage. Watch more "AgDay." Back to news


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I've been rude to a friend of mine (Simon Phipps) on Twitter. On the one hand, why should I be rude to a friend of mine? On the other hand, if I don't call him out for quoting stupid things (as if he agrees with them), then how much of a friend do I consider him? If I'm not willing to be harsh with him, then I can't value his friendship much. If I'm not able to be harsh with him, then he doesn't value my friendship much.
In particular, I feel very strongly that the wealthy should be responsible for the poor. "Responsible" means several things. First, it means only lending aid appropriately. "Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you have fed him for a lifetime." It also means charity should only be for the deserving. "Give an ailing man a crutch and you have gotten him back on his feet. Give a healthy man a crutch and you have taken away his ability to walk."
Responsible also means not using the power of wealth against him. This is a tough one. It's very easy to look at someone who is not as wealthy as you, and decide how they need to be helped. Everyone who has more than someone else can fall into this trap. Certainly my country does it all the time, sending food aid to countries that can't use that food, or to countries where their competitive advantage is that food.
And responsible means consistently advocating for free markets (not using the power of wealth) and private property. When my friends harm that cause, I get very upset. I can understand my enemies, and the people that hate me advocating for coercion. But my friends? That cuts me to the quick.


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Fans hit out at Hull name change plans
The fans group opposed to a name change for Hull City has accused club owner Assem Allam of bringing forward his plans and not consulting supporters.
The Barclays Premier League club revealed on Wednesday that they had applied to the Football Association to change the playing name to Hull Tigers from next season.
But the City Till We Die group has once again stressed its opposition to Allam's plans.
In a statement released to Press Association Sport, the group said: "The City Till We Die campaign group is disappointed to learn that Hull City AFC has formally written to the Football Association requesting to change the name of our club to Hull Tigers, as of the 2014-2015 season.
"When City Till We Die met with Hull City AFC owner Dr Assem Allam on 1 November, he assured us that any name change would not occur for two to three years, and that it would not go ahead without supporter consultation, or without the benefits being proven by research. No such research or consultation has taken place.
"Commentators on the sport and experts in marketing alike have reacted to Dr Allam's name-change plans with widespread derision, while his intemperate remarks about Hull City supporters have been roundly condemned.
"Single-mindedness is not the only way to win respect; listening to the counsel of others and being prepared to concede that you may have made a mistake can also be a sign of strength. Sadly, the events of recent weeks suggest that our owner may not appreciate this.
"This matter is now in the hands of the only people who have the right to make such a decision: the football authorities."
The campaign group revealed it had supplied the FA with a timeline dossier on Allam's proposals and also met with representatives of the Premier League to voice concerns.
The statement added: "The FA is an organisation with a rich and proud history; this year, it is celebrating its 150th anniversary. This Saturday, as part of those celebrations, numerous FA dignitaries will be at the KC Stadium to honour Hull-born Ebenezer Cobb Morley, one of the founding fathers of Association Football.
"We remain confident that, with the eyes of the whole footballing world upon them, the FA will make the right decision, and act to protect not only the heritage and traditions of Hull City AFC, but also those of other clubs whose identities may come under threat in the future.
"This issue matters for all football supporters, not just the people of Hull, and the decision the FA makes will set a very important precedent.
"We urge Hull City AFC supporters who wish to keep our historic name to continue the peaceful and dignified campaigning which has brought us messages of support from all around the world, to make their voices heard by the FA both this Saturday and over the coming weeks, and to sign our petition at citytillwedie.com/petition."
Confirming the move to change the name, a Hull spokesman told Press Association Sport on Wednesday: ''We have sent a letter to the Football Association this week asking for them to consider our request to change the club's playing name from next season.''
Allam has already changed the company name to Hull City Tigers but he needs the permission of the FA Council to change the club's playing name.
Allam has offered to refund any of the club's season-ticket holders who are unhappy and has previously said he considers a Tigers brand to be more marketable, and the word ''City'' to be ''lousy'' and ''common''.
The 74-year-old Egypt-born businessman, who moved to Hull in 1968, also caused controversy earlier this month by saying of the critics: ''They can die as soon as they want, as long as they leave the club for the majority who just want to watch good football.''
Hull manager Steve Bruce believes Allam should be granted his wish.
He said last month: ''I can understand [the unhappiness] because in our country especially we are really big traditionalists and a lot of people have supported the club since the year dot, where it has been Hull City AFC.
''But the owner has come in and he's in a different culture and for the money he has put into the club if he thinks Hull Tigers is his way forward then we have to respect it.
''If he asks us to play in pink and white stripes on Saturday we have to do it because without him there wouldn't be either a Hull City or a Hull Tigers."


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August 16, 2011
"Spending on the global fight against AIDS fell significantly in 2010 for the first time since the U.S. and other governments began making major donations," according to an annual funding analysis released Monday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS, the Wall Street Journal reports. "All told, governments donated about $6.9 billion in 2010, down 9.7 percent from about $7.6 billion in the prior year, the report said," the newspaper writes (McKay, 8/16).
According to the report, of the 15 governments surveyed, seven -- Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United States -- reported a decrease in funding as measured in their own currency, according to a KFF/UNAIDS press release. "The decrease was due to a combination of three main factors: actual reductions in development assistance, currency exchange fluctuations, and a slowdown in the pace of U.S. disbursements, which was not a budget cut," according to the release (8/15).
"It is unclear whether last year's drop signals a trend of big cuts. But it comes as scientists face a painful reality: AIDS budgets are flagging just as new methods to prevent HIV infection have been identified, handing public-health leaders their first real chance to curb the decades-old epidemic -- if they can secure the funds needed to implement the measures," the Wall Street Journal writes (8/16). "UNAIDS estimates that an investment of at least $22 billion will be needed by 2015" to reach universal access goals towards HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, according to the press release (8/15).
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Katy Perry has been named Billboard's Woman of the Year.
The 'Teenage Dream' singer feels ''honoured'' to have been granted the coveted award and is proud to be regarded as a strong, independent woman as well as recognised for her musical talent.
She told Billboard magazine: ''When I heard, I was very honoured. I was also a bit surprised because I thought my year was over! Especially with ending the tour last year, but it's nice to see that it's been extended. It does feel like this record has never ended!
''It's nice, I really appreciate it. I like to be viewed as a strong woman and I think that's what Billboard is basically saying.''
The sexy pop star has had a mammoth year, completing a 12-month, 124-date tour in 2011 as well as releasing her first 3D fly-on-the-wall concert movie 'Katy Perry: Part Of Me'.
She has also overcome heartbreak after divorcing comedian Russell Brand in January and turned successful entrepreneur. She will be releasing her third fragrance in 2013. Katy has recently been spotted house-hunting for a love nest with her boyfriend John Mayer in Los Angeles.


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This Day in Labor History: May 4, 1886Comments
On March 4, 1886, during a protest march against police brutality in Chicago's Haymarket Square, a bomb went off in the middle of a group of policemen, killing 7 officers. The aftermath of the Haymarket bombing showed the fear American capitalists had of working-class ideologies, the lack of civil liberties during the Gilded Age, and the tenuousness of labor organizations during these years of class formation.
The mid-1880s saw the native-born working class struggling to understand the new labor system of the Gilded Age. With the promises of mutually respectful employer-employee relations at the center of early Republican free labor ideology shown to be a farce and workers living increasing desperate lives in dirty and dangerous factories and condemned to poverty, the American working-class sought to even the playing field between employer and employee. The Knights of Labor promised the eight-hour day; in a period when labor looked for a single panacea to solve all problems rather than a deep class analysis of labor-employer relations, the working-class jumped to the idea. The Knights, led by Terence Powderly, grew rapidly in the mid-1880s, even though Powderly didn't really envision the organization as a radical challenge to capitalism. Still, "Eight Hours for Work, Eight Hours for Sleep, Eight Hours for What You Will" became the slogan for a million or more Americans. But Powderly's control over the organization was tenuous and with the Knights defined as open to all workers, it meant that anarchists and other radicals could easily join and then try to convert workers to their cause.
The center of 8-hour organizing was in Chicago, where small numbers of radicals began organizing workers to demand the 8-hour day and threaten a general strike if denied. On May 1, 1886, between 300,000 and 500,000 workers walked off their job around the nation. Probably 80,000 of those workers were in Chicago. The police responded with sadly predictable violence. On May 3, police murdered 6 strikers at the McCormick Harvesting Machine plant. The McCormick workers had been battling with their employer for a year, who had hired Pinkertons to beat them. They combined their already existing struggle with the 8-hour day to become some of the most respected working-class militants in the city. Responding to the murders, labor called a march to protest police violence the next day at Haymarket Square, which somewhere between 1000-3000 people attended.
Poster announcing the Haymarket rally
When the police moved in on the marchers, someone threw a bomb. The police responded by firing into the marchers, killing a disputed number (probably between 4 and 8) before cease-firing, fearful they would shoot each other in the darkness and confusion. Maybe 50 people on both sides were wounded. Unsure who actually threw the bomb, authorities just rounded up all the leading anarchists they could find and tried them for the murder. Despite the lack of evidence, 7 were sentenced to death and another to 15 years in prison. Of the 8, only 2 had even been at the Haymarket event and neither of the two were even suspected of throwing the bomb. But in the nation's first Red Scare (even if we usually associated that term with post-World War I repression), thoughts mattered more than actions; leading 8-hour day actions meant you might as well be a bomb-throwing anarchist.
Famed image of the Haymarket bombing from Harper's
Among the convicted was Albert Richard Parsons. Born in Alabama, Parsons grew up in frontier Texas in the 1850s. Although he volunteered for the Confederacy as a young man, he became a southern white Republican in the years after the war. Parsons repudiated his Confederate past and supported not only the principles of Reconstruction but voting rights for African-Americans. He then married a part-black, part-Mexican woman named Lucy Gonzalez. Gonzalez (later Lucy Parsons) had a long and amazing career of her own, including being at the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905, fighting with Emma Goldman over the role sex should play in anarchist politics (she thought class was more important), leading the defense of the Scottsboro Boys, and inspiring the young Studs Terkel in the 1930s and early 1940s. Anyway, Parsons and Gonzalez were forced out of Texas due to intolerance to both their political beliefs and their interracial marriage. They moved to Chicago where they both wrapped themselves in the political malestrom of the time. Parsons became a socialist newspaper editor, attended the first convention of the National Labor Union in 1876, and in 1880, withdrew from electoral politics to immerse himself in anarchism. He became obsessed with the 8-hour day and in 1884 began an anarchist newspaper in support of the idea.
Parsons was not even at the Haymarket protest. But as a leading anarchist, one in an interracial marriage for that matter, he was suspect and hated by the forces of order. He was convicted of murder and hanged, with 3 others, on November 11, 1887.
The Haymarket Martyrs
The aftermath of Haymarket completely destroyed the Knights of Labor and the 8-hour movement. Powderly repudiated the violence but was also totally unprepared for every part of the situation, from the size of the Knights to the official repression of labor radicalism. The Knights crumbled soon after and though workers still dreamed of the 8-hour day, it would take another half-century and countless dead workers to see it become a reality.
This series has also covered such other highlights of denying civil rights to the working-class as the Centralia Massacre of 1919 and the Bisbee Deportation of 1917.


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Trouble migrating Envers 3.6 application from JBoss 4.x to 7.1Douglas Fisher Apr 10, 2012 4:11 PM
We have a WAR that includes Hibernate 3.6.0 JARs. When we deploy it to JBoss 7.1, the application stops writing records to our Envers-configured audit tables, including the hub Revision table. We extend Envers AuditEventListener in order to write extra details to our Revision records. It works, meaning it fires, for example onPostUpdate(). In onPostUpdate(), et al., we use AuditReaderFactory to get an AuditReader and getCurrentRevision() and write extra data to it. Normally we use the argument persist=false when we do this, and let it persist later. (As a matter of present experimentation, I have used persist=true, and it does persist to the Revision table, but ....) While the AuditEventListener does get notified of the changed Entity, and while all the participants to this point (i.e. Envers, Hibernate) seem to recognize that the Entity is dirty/changed, the [Enitity name]_AUDIT table is never written to. And unless I force the write of the Revision record (with persist=true) it is never written either. So ... I am guessing that the order of events is something like this:
1. The Envers listener is notified that Entity X has changed.
2. We retrieve and enhance our currentRevision.
3. Changes to Entity X are persisted.
4. Envers, notified that the Session is closing out and it's time to commit, re-obtains a/the currentRevision.
5. At this point it finds NO changed entities in the Session, so it doesn't bother to persist currentRevision.
To be clear, #4 and #5 are hypothetical. I don't know yet that they describe what is actually happening. My hypothesis based on the behavior and my reading of Envers documentation is that somehow, between #3 and #4, the Envers state evaluation switches from hasChanges=true to hasChanges=false.
We've tried excluding any implicit imports of 4.x Hibernate classes using <jboss-deployment-structure/>, and while at first we thought this was a good lead, we don't believ now that it is the problem. Presently we are leaning towards guessing that there is different transactional behavior in the JBoss 7 transaction manager, such that it causes different commit behavior at our Service boundary (configured with Spring AOP tx:, not EJB).
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Jim Cullen joined a large pool of camera operators at the BBC in 2000; he estimates it was the biggest in the country, numbering about 40 on staff contracts. Nine years later, he and most of his colleagues lost their jobs in a restructuring and he went freelance.
One of his jobs as a freelancer was to work with BBC Sport on the World Cup coverage in 2010, which, he tells Ariel, 'wasn't bad at all'. He also continues to work regularly on EastEnders and has the flexibility to take jobs with shows such as Coronation Street as well.
But one of the biggest downsides of being freelance, adds Cullen, is its unpredictability. 'You have a month when maybe you earn extremely well, better than you could have hoped in three months of working at the BBC, but then there might be a month when you only pick up a day or two. That can be quite stressful.'
Like other people who have been made redundant, he believes losing his full-time staff job 'closed some doors but opened others'.
The latest door to open is the chance to work on a feature film as a director of photography. It's not the kind of opportunity he would have been able to balance with a demanding 40-hour-a-week job. Coincidentally, the film is being made with one of Cullen's old BBC contacts, former Egghead CJ de Mooi, who has a starring role.
Whatever God Sends:
The Renata Road is a psychological thriller which raised about £10,000 from a kickstarter campaign and had very little additional budget. Cullen volunteered all his time to get the film shot in three weeks; there's also an additional week's work in April.
'The producer told me what the hours were likely to be and I kind of thought, I will be working every hour that god sends.' Which is precisely what happened.
There was even an overnighter that overlapped with the DoP's birthday in February. But if Cullen had to suffer for his art, the cameraman believes it was worth it for the invaluable experience.
'It was thoroughly satisfying,' he judges. 'I've developed a kind of love for drama camera work through EastEnders and the people I met there.
'This was my chance to light the scenes as well. I love it - it was really rewarding and creative. It takes that ability to be creative further than anything I have worked on before.'
Cullen admits he's lost money on the film - shot in St Annes, Lancashire - and not just because he gave up his time, which he estimates would have cost about £10,000 on his freelance rate.
The ex-BBC camera operator also bought a cinema camera, accessories and a £3000 Mac computer to process the images, a total of about £10,000 all in. He reckons this makes him one of the largest funders of the film.
'The amount I gave to the film was massive, but it's an investment,' says the 37-year-old, who will get a credit on the film as a cinematographer.
He would do it all again and hopes he will. It wouldn't hurt, of course, if he got paid next time.
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Combining clouds
Android App of the Week When Microsoft recently offered users 25GB of free SkyDrive storage it highlighted the lack of a good Android app to take advantage of it. Enter FolderSync, which lets you synchronise your Android folders with SkyDrive and just about every other cloud storage supplier.
FolderSync supports most of the popular commercial cloud wallahs, including Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, Ubuntu One, Box, Amazon S3 and Google Drive. It also works with FTP, Samba/Windows share and WebDAV remote storage for the DIY enthusiast. It also supports multiple accounts of the same type.
Major sync'n'store services are supported - just sign in to your accounts
Set up is straightforward. Once you've signed into your cloud accounts, you simply set up folder pairings using the app. The built-in file manager lets you create and manage folders on your phone and in the cloud and then simply links them together.
Once paired you can tinker with a whole raft of settings, including when folders sync, whether or not to sync subfolders, and which folder - remote or local - should take priority or make syncing a fully two-way affair.
Manage your files and assign sync schedules
The app works over both Wi-Fi and 3G though by default the latter is disabled to preserve your cellular data. The connection type can be changed for different folder pairings so you can sync small stuff over 3G but leave the heavy lifting to your Wi-Fi connection.
The only real restrictions are those placed by the cloud provider. For instance, you can't set SkyDrive folders to sync upstream automatically because apparently Microsoft's API won't let FolderSync do that.
Pair folders for synchronisation and choose the default account
For users of pre-Ice Cream Sandwich handsets there is a rescan media checkbox that ensures your device will always look for new media once a sync cycle has been completed.
Some will rightly say this app is a bit of overkill - do you really need to sync content between half a dozen remote servers and your mobile phone or tablet? - and the recent ICS-like redesign has made it a bit confusing for newcomers to navigate around.
Settings, basic and advanced
If you want to try FolderSync there is a free but limited adv-supported Lite version but the full, ad-free banana will only set you back £1.95 which is good value for something so potentially useful and, in my experience, reliable. ®
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When Samantha Jones returned to New York City for Charlotte's baby shower in "Sex and The City's" first big screen installment, she made an impression with two pooches – one of the four legged variety and the other on her stomach.
In the actress' latest movie, "Meet Monica Velour," however, it is the latter kind of pooch that is making headlines, as Kim had to pork up to play an aging ex-porn star, who a young fan goes searching for.
"[The director] was very adamant about me gaining a lot of weight. He wanted me to gain like 35 pounds!" Kim told NYMag.com.
The actress said she didn't gain 35, but she did manage to slap on double digits.
"Really, just for health reasons I couldn't do that. I also didn't have enough time to do it safely with a doctor's care. But what I did was I put on 15 pounds, and that was comfortable. I could do that," she said.
While Samantha's catchphrase for her extra pounds in "SATC" was "I eat so I don't cheat," a reference to her attempt at not straying from Smith, Kim stuck to a different sort of weight-gaining plan for her new role.
"I just didn't exercise at all," she told the mag's Web site of playing Monica.
On May 27, "SATC" fans will get to see Kim as the fabulous, and single, Samantha, but "Meet Monica Velour" is full of shots that make the actress look as downtrodden as possible.
"Most of the time as an actress, you want to look desirable, you want to be pretty, you want to be sexy, you want to be lit properly — whereas here there were days when I didn't even have any makeup on," she explained. "There were days when they actually changed the light to make me look harder and more overweight."
In related "Sex and The City 2" news, Liza Minelli has opened up about her cameo – as wedding performer at the nuptials of Anthony and Stanford.
"Swell. Yeah, it was," Liza recently told Access Hollywood of her guest spot. "Ron Lewis choreographed it. Wait 'til you see it.
"It's dynamite," Liza added. "All the girls came in to watch it being filmed."
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State Route 156 West Corridor Project
Improve safety and operations
Improve local road access to State Route 156
Improve interregional traffic flow along State Route 156
Relieve existing congestion and provide capacity for future increases in traffic volume
Preferred Alternative Description
The Preferred Alternative proposes to convert the existing 2-lane conventional highway to a 4-lane freeway from Castroville to the 101/156 interchange on US 101. The existing 101/156 interchange would be replaced by a more extensive interchange that would handle local traffic and interregional travel. A new interchange would be constructed at the intersection of Castroville Boulevard and Route 156. Also, the existing 156 lanes would be converted to a frontage road that would serve the local community.
Final Environmental Impact Report
- Route 156 Final Environmental Impact Report (Jan 2013)
- Route 156 Final Environmental Impact Report - Response to Comments
Industry Workshop - December 17, 2013
- Industry Invitation
- Project Fact Sheet
- Schematic Mapping
- Final Overview Powerpoint
- Industry Contacts
- Tolling Traffic and Revenue Study
Visual Impact Displays
- Looking eastbound from Highway 156
.5 mile east of Castroville Blvd
- Looking eastbound from Highway 156
.8 mile east of Oak Hills Road
- Looking south from Prunedale North Rd
near the existing park and ride lot
- Looking northbound from Highway 101
.2 mile south of Berta Canyon Road
- Looking east across Highway 101
from Vierra Canyon Road
- Looking north from Highway 101
.1 mile south of Messick Road
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25 Highest Annual Salaries in Government
Searching for a high paying government job? Make sure you're looking in the right places.
Kyle Stone | Associate Editor, GovCentral (Source: OPM)
25 Highest Salaries
- Astronomer
- Attorney
- Financial Manager
- General Engineer
- Economist
- Computer Scientist
- Chemist
- Investigator
- Microbiologist
- Architect
- Statistician
- Librarian
- Accountant
- Chaplain
- Ecologist
- HR Manager
- Health Safety Specialist
- Air Traffic Controller
- Budget Analyst
- Correctional Officer
- Nurse
- Technical Engineer1
- Border Patrol Agent
- Medical Technician
- Customs Inspector
21) Nurse – $65,345
Departments with High Demand:
• Department of Veterans Affairs
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of the Army
Projected Growth: 23%
Employees Needed: 587,000
Education Level: The three major educational paths to registered nursing are a bachelor's degree, an associate degree, and a diploma from an approved nursing program.
Internship Opportunities:
The Department of Labor offers a OSHA Graduate Nurse Internship Program.
22) Technical Engineer – $63,951
Departments with High Demand:
• Department of the Army
• Department of Homeland Security
• Department of Transportation
Projected Growth: 7%
Employees Needed: 34,000
Education Level: Although it may be possible to qualify for certain engineering technician jobs without formal training, most employers prefer to hire someone with at least a 2-year associate degree in engineering technology.
Internship Opportunities:
The City of Cincinnati offers a Senior Engineer/Engineer Intern position.
23) Border Patrol Agent – $63,550
Departments with High Demand:
• Department of Homeland Security
Projected Growth: 9%
Employees Needed: 8,500
Education Level: Many agencies pay all or part of the tuition for officers to work toward degrees in criminal justice, police science, administration of justice, or public administration and pay higher salaries to those who earn such a degree.
Internship Opportunities:
The Federal Career Intern Program offers a FAQ on Border Patrol Agent positions.
24) Medical Technician- $59,840
Departments with High Demand:
• Department of Veterans Affairs
• Department of the Army
• Department of the Air Force
Projected Growth: 12%
Employees Needed: 33,000
Education Level: Most medical technicians need an associate degree or a certificate in applied science or science-related technology
Internship Opportunities:
The Central Intelligence Agency offers a Medical Internship Program.
25) Customs Inspector – $59,248
Departments with High Demand:
• Department of Homeland Security
Projected Growth: 7%
Employees Needed: 1,100
Education Level: Applicants with college training in homeland security or military police experience will have the best opportunities.
Internship Opportunities:
The U.S. Customs Service offers a National Intern Program.
Source: Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics


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Infectious Diseases
Following is a digest of pharmacogenomics journal articles pertaining to infectious diseases. The SNP•its editorial team selects articles for inclusion based on clinical relevance and scientific validity. Journal articles that are most readily applicable and relevant to practicing clinicians are selected for a SNP•its Study Summary, which discusses findings and clinical implications of a pharmacogenomics study in the context of the larger evidence base.