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The Dylan tickets arrived in the mail a couple weeks before last Sunday's show at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. I'd spent a ridiculous amount of money to get the best seats.
Dylan is 72 and he's been a smoker forever and survived a weird heart ailment. So if you're a fan, you always have to wonder if the next Dylan show you see will be the last one.
And having seen him perform in hayfields, outdoor venues, and cavernous basketball arenas, I wanted just once to see him up close.
This week's writer is Victor Nuovo, Middlebury College professor emeritus of philosophy and a Middlebury selectman.
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MIDDLEBURY — For two months, dreams of success and glory have been forming among some of the top American Legion baseball teams across Vermont. Now, as the focus shifts toward Castleton and the state tournament this Thursday through Monday, it is time for these dreams to come to fruition.
For Addison County, earning a five wins in nine games played in seven days means the team can pencil themselves in as the top seed in the North Division of the state tournament.
You're probably familiar with Slow Food, the international movement whose aim is to promote local and culturally specific foods. Even if you're not familiar with Slow Food as an organization, you may be part of the movement; if you've had the traditional fried dough and maple cotton candy at Field Days, I think you're probably in.
I support the mission of Slow Food. I'm also a fan of a related idea: Slow Travel.
BRISTOL — During the week of July 15, Bristol police issued juvenile citations to two 13-year-old boys for using regulated drugs. The charges were the result of a report that Mount Abraham Union High School staff submitted to the Bristol Police Department after interrupting the boys using the regulated drugs on school property.
RINDGE, N.H. — Two recent Middlebury Union High School graduates and Tiger soccer standouts gave strong performances representing Vermont in the annual Lions Twin State Soccer Cup in Rindge, N.H., this past Saturday. The Vermont boys' team beat the New Hampshire all-stars, 5-2.
Connor Collins in particular shone as a central defender, playing all but five minutes of the game, earning some key stops and being honored with the "12th Player" award after the game.
This past week I was able to get out fishing on three consecutive days for the first time in this summer of rain. More importantly, I was able to get out fishing with my close friend David O'Hara.
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My favorite pie is cherry pie. I just love me some cherry pie. I have never liked pumpkin pie, so cherry pie is my top choice for Thanksgiving. These cherry pie bars are the bomb! It was just like biting into a cherry pie and served warm with a side of vanilla ice cream…. wow. I think I want some more now!
Rating: 5 stars Difficulty of Recipe: 2 stars
Things that I changed: Nothing
Things that I would do differently next time: It suggests baking them in a 15x10x1 pan or a 9×13. Next time I am going to bake them in a 15×10 pan so they aren't so thick and don't take so long to bake.
Will I make this again? Yes
Recipe Adapted From: Julies treats
- Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp almond extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 (21 ounce) cherry pie filling 2 if you like cherries (highly recommend)
- Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp almond extract
- 2 Tbs milk
- Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Beat in extracts.
- In a separate bowl combine flour and salt. Add to the creamed mixture. Mix until combined.
- Grease a 15x10x1 pan or 9x13, whichever one you decide to use. Spread 3 cups batter in a 15x10x1 (Also works with 9x13- baking time will at least be 35 minutes) Spread with pie filling. Drop remaining batter on top of pie filling.
- Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes or until toothpick comes clean. Cool on wire rack. Combine glaze ingredients and drizzle over the bars.


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What does "Frontier Period" mean? Well, in reality, it covers quite a lot... In fact, the Frontier Period covers so much area, we just HAD to make a separate area for it -- much like we are going to n
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Ideally, all this we have listed in this section should be in their respective time periods, F&I in the 1600-1800 Time/Area, Fur Traders/Trappers in 1800-1860, Native American Reenactors and Trekking in both. However, to us, it just seems logical to put "like-stuff" with like-stuff! Look for this area to really shine soon, book mark it and keep comin' back as it is only going to get better!!
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The term "Mountain Men" is used to describe trappers and explorers who roamed the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through the 1860s (with a peak population in the early 1840s). These men were instrumental in opening up the various Emigrant Trails (widened into wagon roads), which allowed Americans in the east to settle the new territories of the far west by organized wagon trains traveling over roads explored and in many cases, physically improved by the mountain men and the big fur companies, originally to serve the mule train based inland fur trade.
The information gathered by longhunters in the 1760s and 1770s would prove critical to the early settlement of Tennessee and Kentucky. Many longhunters were employed by land surveyors seeking to take advantage of the departure of the French from the Ohio Valley at the end of the Seven Years War. Some later helped guide settlers to Middle Tennessee and southeastern Kentucky. Today, there are many (especially in the East) who try to emulate these hunters. We will have more on this as we go along.
Historical reenactment of the dress and lifestyle of a mountain man, sometimes known as "buckskinning," allows people to recreate aspects of this historical period. Today's' Rocky Mountain Rendezvous and other reenacted events are both history-oriented and social occasions. Some modern men choose a lifestyle similar to that of historic mountain men -- they may live and roam in the mountains of the west or the swamps in the southern United States.
The stereotypical mountain man has been depicted as dressed in buckskin and a coonskin cap, sporting bushy facial hair and carrying a Hawken rifle and Bowie knife, commonly referred to as a "scalping knife." They have been romanticized as honorable men with their own chivalrous code, loners who would help those in need but who had found their home in the wild.
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Warde's Cinderella run ends in Class LL baseball tournament
BRISTOL -- The clock struck midnight on Cinderella in the Class LL baseball tournament.
With an FCIAC title in hand and a berth in the state baseball final in sight, No. 15 Warde had its stunning postseason run cut a step short on Tuesday. Third-seeded Southington authored a two-run rally to edge the Mustangs 6-5 in the LL semifinals at Muzzy Field.
The Mustangs, who won their first FCIAC championship as a No. 7 seed, ended the season at 18-9. They defeated two higher seeds -- No. 2 Staples in the second round and No. 10 Trumbull, the FCIAC runner-up, in the quarterfinals -- along their run through states.
"To say that I thought this group would be FCIAC champions, I think, would be a stretch," coach Mark Caron said. "But it just speaks to the character of these kids and how badly they wanted it."
Southington (18-3) will make its second straight trip to the LL final and the third in four years. It lost in the final to Amity last year and to Newington in 2011.
Trailing 4-3 in the fifth, the Blue Knights capitalized on reliever Nick Nardone's wildness. They loaded the bases with one out on walks, then tied it on Brett Shaw's single. Another walk to Drew Farkas -- the fourth of the inning and sixth of the day between two pitchers -- gave the Blue Knights a 5-4 lead.
"Sometimes he struggles in his first inning and then gets a lot stronger," Caron said of Nardone, who replaced starter Hunter Hewitt to start the fifth. "I don't know if he was dealing with the mound. It looks like he was having some footing issues."
Warde nearly rallied in its final at-bat off Southington's Farkas, who retired 10 straight in relief entering the seventh. Giacomo Brancato tripled home a run with two outs, but Christian Sabella struck out to end it.
"He really gutted it out there," Southington coach Charles Lembo said of Farkas, a lefty sophomore. "This was probably the biggest situation he's ever been in in his life on the mound."
Farkas' day began much earlier than expected after starter Joe Rivera uncharacteristically struggled with his control. Despite entering with only 19 walks in his previous 54 innings, the right-hander issued seven walks over 2 2/3 frames on Tuesday.
Warde plated two runs on bases-loaded walks during a three-run third for a 4-1 lead.
"(Rivera) had trouble with his grip because he was sweating so much," Lembo said. "We couldn't find a towel until it was too late."
Control problems also cost the Blue Knights in the first inning, during which Warde scored without a hit. Tom Luckner came around to score on a wild pitch after drawing a leadoff walk.
The Mustangs' patient approach paid off, at least until Farkas came in.
"We wanted to watch him make his first pitches," said Warde's Dakota DeJardy, who drove in a run with a walk.
Southington sliced into the lead in the third, plating a run on Ryan DeAngelo's double off the right-field fence. DeAngelo also doubled home a run in the sixth to make it 6-4.
Warde nearly rallied, but it ran out of surprises.
"I thought we were going to come back," DeJardy said. "I thought we were going to do it again."
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Records: Warde 18-9; Southington 18-3. Batteries: W--Hunter Hewitt, Nick Nardone (5, L) and Anthony Miller; S--Joe Rivera, Drew Farkas (3, W) and Zach Susi.
Highlights: W--Giacomo Brancato tripled and singled in runs; Dakota DeJardy and Zach Weinstein each drew RBI walks. S--Ryan DeAngelo doubled twice and had two RBIs; Farkas and Brett Shaw each singled in a run.


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A letter in the July 21, 2009, Tomahawk Leader:
"I am running for state senate because of a lack of new ideas. All Tom Tiffany talks about is fiscal responsibility," Jim Holperin said in the Rhinelander Daily News last summer. Jim stated at least a half-dozen times during last fall's candidate debates, "None of us wants to raise taxes."
Fast forward to this year when Holperin threw his support behind the 2009-2011 state budget that Gov. Doyle signed into law on June 28. He stated in a recent press release, "We have balanced the state budget responsibly…leaving a modest year-end surplus."
The above quotes serve as a good context to review Jim Holperin's first six months in office as state senator.
Holperin's first major decision as state senator was to vote for the budget repair bill in February which increased taxes on families and employers by over $2 billion. So much for the campaign promise to not raise taxes. Hometown employers like Harley-Davidson and Wisconsin's paper mills are less competitive and more likely to shift jobs as a result.
The job-killing budget repair bill was just a warm-up for the main attraction, the recently passed state budget. Holperin voted for the following:
•Raising spending by $4 billion or nearly 7%.
•In-state tuition for illegal aliens. I do not think this needs any explaining, especially for those of you who have children or grandchildren trying to get into the UW System.
•Property taxes increasing by over $300 on the average home as a result of the state breaking its shared revenue promises to local communities. So much for protecting the middle class.
•Leaving a $2.2 billion deficit for the next budget. Saying this budget is balanced is a lie.
In Holperin's recent budget press release he challenged those of us who disagree with the budget to list budget cuts or changes we support. I accept his challenge.
1. Expand school choice in Milwaukee and other large school districts in southeastern Wisconsin including Racine and Kenosha. Choice schools in Milwaukee are saving taxpayers millions of dollars by educating children at half the price of the failed Milwaukee Public School system.
2. Suspend stewardship funding for the next budget cycle. Savings–nearly $100 million. The Stewardship program has protected some wonderful places in Wisconsin. However, we must get back to the basics in Wisconsin until prosperity returns. Do we choose to have the DNR buy more land or educate children? Do we choose to have the DNR buy more land or repair roads?
3. Don't raise the budget by nearly 7%! Are any of you getting 7% raises this year? Even with a budget increase of 2-3%, the savings would be in the billions.
4. Reform health care benefits for government employees. Democrat State Rep. Bob Ziegelbauer reformed how health insurance is delivered to Manitowoc County employees a few years ago. It was innovative and most importantly effective in reigning in health care costs AND providing top-notch insurance for county employees. The savings will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
So having accepted your challenge, Jim, what are your new ideas?
Tom Tiffany
Former Senate Candidate
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Newly Discovered Moon and Rings of Uranus
These composite images from several observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal a pair of newly discovered rings encircling the planet Uranus. The left composite image is made from Hubble data taken in 2003. The new dusty rings are extremely faint and required long exposures to capture their image. The background speckle pattern is noise in the image. The outermost ring (R/2003 U 1) is likely replenished by dust blasted off a newly discovered satellite called Mab, embedded in the ring and visible as a bright streak at the top of the outer ring. The new outermost ring is twice the radius of the previously known ring system around Uranus, as seen near image center. (The inner rings are much brighter, so no noise is visible in the background). Approximately halfway between the outermost ring and inner ring system is a second newly discovered ring (R/2003 U2). Only a faint segment of it appears at the 12:00 o'clock position. Because of the long exposures, the moons are smeared out and appear as arcs within the ring system.
In the image at right, taken two years later, the rings appear more oblique because Uranus has moved along its solar orbit. The planet Uranus itself is approaching spring equinox, when the Sun will be directly shining over the planet's equator in 2007. Cloud bands and storms are becoming more pronounced in the atmosphere. A bright storm appears at northern latitudes in the 2005 images. The images were taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, using a clear filter.


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Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
If you are in the London area, I highly recommend seeing this fabulous West End stage production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. It was such a gay old time. The costumes, the songs and the production values are so great for this musical adapatation of the cult classic film. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to leave the theatre in full drag! This show stars Jason Donovan, who recorded a song with Kylie Minogue called "Especially For You." The play trades in most of the Abba references made in the motion picture for Kylie ones. Maybe you've been to paradise, but have you ever been to me? You can't see this on Broadway, so you'll have to take a trip to London to check out the fabulousness of this show!


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For more than one reason.
Firstly, it's good for me, but secondly, it's great for the Coranto community, to find a way to get Coranto interacting with a system like phpBB...
Here's the skinny:
I've a site that requires a monthly scheduling system, that then gets displayed on a "calendar list". Because there are dozens of events each month, I worked up a php script that does the following:
- 1) it displays each day of the coming month, with options for TWO events per day.
2) Each option contains a series of fields (mostly pulldowns) allowing for each event to be populated.
3) Once submitted, all events are in an array, which is manipulated a few times, and the schedule does a few things:
- a) Posts a list of events in the phpBB3 forums
b) Creates a flatfile list of events for a separate page (flatfile so I could later go in and edit the contents with Coranto, if need be, but that didn't quite work out--separate story)
c) Sorts events into a set of three (or more) locations, and outputs them in CSV format--to be manually converted to XSL format for final review--a separate file for each location.
Now, I'm determined to change the way things are output there, to an actual calendar format. While there are many apps put there written for php, and many that interact with phpBB3 itself, this seems like an opportune time to utilize a calendar software I'm familiar with, smcCal, and Coranto.
My main stumbling block, though, is how to take my php array, and submit it as separate Coranto news items for use with the calendar?
OF COURSE, I could always just enter each event separately, but that is NOT an option. As I've mentioned, with dozens of events per month, that is extremely time consuming, and a step back for me.
Anyone with any ideas of where to begin?
I was considering taking a look at newsgen, to see how the random events were posted, but I'm really quite simple when it comes to perl...
In my search, I've come across serialize() for php, and this method of moving data back and forth:
Not sure if this is the right direction, but if it is, this could be a good breakthorough...thoughts?


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Carrie Fisher once sent a cow tongue to a producer accused of sexually assaulting her friend
This week a woman called into a radio station in Tucson, Arizona to tell a story about Carrie Fisher sticking up for her.
The woman, Heather Ross, told the 94.9's "Morning Mix" show that she once confided in Fisher about an Oscar winning producer, who she said was not Harvey Weinstein, who sexually assaulted her.
According to Ross, the producer forced himself on top of her during a meeting that she believed was planned to just discuss a project.
"When it happened, it happened so quickly that I was ashamed of myself," Ross said. "I thought I did something wrong. And I thought, 'Well, maybe by meeting up with him… I was asking for it.'"
Heather Ross said the iconic Star Wars actress was quite upset at this story and decided to take action.
Fisher sent the person accused of harassing Ross a special gift – a cow tongue.
"It was a cow tongue from Jerry's Famous Deli with a note that said, 'If you ever touch my darling Heather or any other woman again, the next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box.,'" Ross said on the show.
Ross explained that Carrie Fisher always had her back.
"That's just how she was," she said. "I miss her dearly. She stood up for people."


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SCons / GSoC2008 / LudwigHaehne
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Add Memory Introspection Facility
The goal of this work is to develop a facility that assists users and developers in reducing memory consumption of software builds. Its usage will be demonstrated by boiling down the memory footprint in real-life scenarios.
Contact Information
[[!table header="no" class="mointable" data=""" Name | Ludwig Hähne Email | wkx gmx li Place of Residence | Dresden, Germany Timezone | CEST +0200 """]]
SCons is a significant contender in the realm of software build systems. A major drawback in practice is SCons' large memory footprint in comparison to classic build tools like Make. As projects grow in size, the build system has to store an increasing amount of bookkeeping information. Empiric studies indicate that the memory demand grows in a linear fashion with the number of nodes in the dependency graph. In the case of SCons the memory footprint for a build of a large project might even exceed the amount of physical memory, resulting in bad build performance.
Memory profiling mechanisms are made available to identify how the memory is distributed among the different subsystems of SCons. The introspection facility will take advantage of asizeof which can easily be integrated into SCons and adapted to its specific requirements. Based on this information, different ways to reduce the overall memory demand are examined. Where possible, the API definition will be coordinated with other memory profiling efforts in the Python community.
I hope this contribution will add more transparency to SCons, help to identify and eliminate resource dissipators early in the development process. As memory introspection appears to be one of the blind spots in the Python API, other Python projects could also benefit from the introspection measures, as an exemplification of how to approach memory consumption problems. Furthermore, part of this work might be reused in a standardized Python memory profiling facility.
With a reduced memory footprint, it would be more feasible to build large software projects with SCons.
Detailed Description
I'd first like to illustrate the problem with a figure:
[[!img benchmark.png]
This is the result of a scalability test where I compared the applicability of Make and SCons for large projects using synthetically generated projects.
As can be seen the memory footprint scales almost linearly in all variants but recursive Make. As recursive Make has its own problems with regards to missing dependencies and runtime performance it should not be taken as a reference. However, the big margin between (non-recursive) Make and SCons indicate that there is actually room for improvement.
To achieve an effective reduction of memory consumption better inspection features are a precondition. There are a small number of tools available (most notably Heapy, PySizer, and asizeof) whose fitness for introspection need to be checked. Ideally, the chosen tool can be bundled with SCons and no additional utility needs to be installed on the user's system. The observable information need to be summarized into a clipped and precise presentation of the problem.
With this tool at hand it should be possible to identify the relevant parts for optimization attempts.
It is intended that the modifications I implement shall be transparent to SCons users. The only exception is to annotate existing debug output with size informations. This will allow to integrate my work into the mainline product without the risk to break backward compatibility. However, if a change leads to a significant reduction of memory consumption but has negative impacts on runtime performance an additional flag would make sense to let the user decide what is more important for the task at hand.
The instrumentation code is to be used as a debugging facility. Therefore compatibility issues should not arise because the code is only executed in debug mode. I will need to exploit features introduced in more recent versions of Python, so a fallback path for older supported versions will be made available.
The more invasive approaches which have an impact on resource consumption need to be thoroughly tested on various real-life test scenarios.
I plan to first prepare, integrate, and document the instrumentation code which will be used to measure the memory usage. Once in place, a suite of synthetic and real-life projects is assembled on which performance and memory tests are run. I will use the therewith gathered information to deduce candidates for optimization. After a change was made in order to reduce memory consumption the test-suite is rerun to quantify the effect and avoid regression problems. Furthermore, changes which trade runtime performance in for memory reduction can be detected this way.
The Python weak reference facility can be utilized to track an object's lifetime in an unintrusive way.
- Heapy: A Memory Profiler and Debugger for Python
- PySizer - a memory profiler for Python
- Recipe: Size of Python objects by Jean Brouwers
As a first step, measures to introspect memory usage per object/type are implemented into SCons in order to give developers and users a more detailed picture of the problem. asizeof appears to be a solid foundation which can be adapted to our needs and even packaged with SCons. This mechanism enables SCons to collect memory information recursively about the various types of objects.
- Why asizeof? Neither Heapy nor PySizer are included in Python and both rely on C extension modules. A framework based on one of the two would require the user to manually install it alongside SCons. Moreover, Heapy does not seem to work on 64 bit platforms. In contrast to the before-mentioned candidates, asizeof is implemented in pure Python. This makes it possible to distribute it with SCons and is believed to be more portable. However, I intend to verify the output of asizeof with PySizer or Heapy.
Another interesting property which shall be monitored is the lifetime of different types of objects. SCons already has a scheme to log certain types of instances with instrumentation code in the constructors. The end of lifetime can be monitored by installing a callback with the help of the weak reference library. One can get a clue about allocation and deallocation patterns by evaluating the obtained information. A memory monitor facility, in the following referred to as heap monitor, is implemented to sample periodically the allocated memory of a set of tracked objects and its referents. These snapshots can be matched with the output of Valgrind/Massif to verify the validity of the data.
A second step is to identify and seal memory leaks. The Python garbage collector has debugging facilities of its own that detect and report reference cycles. The heap monitor is extended to trace back orphaned objects to objects tracked by the monitor. Heapy provides additional facilities which can be used to track leaked objects more easily. I will document the way external tools like Heapy or PySizer can be used most effectively to identify memory leaks.
To achieve a substantial reduction the above-mentioned measures will probably not suffice. An even more detailed view of certain classes will be made available. The developer states the type of classes for which detailed per instance information is needed. The monitor logs all referents of these instances.
With this information, more invasive approaches to cut down the memory footprint become possible. Based on the data gathered in the earlier experiments it will have to be discussed which approach is worth to be investigated further:
- Can we omit some references that keep objects alive unnecessarily or create reference cycles?
- If reference cycles can't be avoided, they can be broken by replacing one or more (strong) references with weak references.
- Does it make sense to compute derived values on the fly instead of storing it into the object?
- Can we share redundant information between multiple instances of the same class?
- If there's a large amount of redundancy, it may make sense to instate the Flyweight pattern.
- Is it possible to store rarely accessed data out-of-core?
- To monitor access patterns, class members of interest could be replaced by Python properties with accessor functions tracking the access times. An idea which could also help to improve runtime performance is to save the DAG (or parts thereof) to disk and stream it in at successive builds. This is an optional task and would only be dealt with if there is enough time left. Moreover, this would be a rather huge undertaking and would probably just result in a foundation work to be finished later.
Scope of Work
- [01] (./) Check-In tests for basic heap monitor usage (single instance, lifetime tracking, snapshot facility)
- [02] (./) Wiki page describing basic heap monitor functionality
- [03] (./) Check-In basic implementation with method stubs
- [04] (./) Check-In and integrate asizeof
- [05] (./) Check-In heap monitor (passes all tests)
- [06] (./) Check-In adapted debug output tests
- [07] (./) Check-In size-annotated debug output
- [10] (./) Check-In tests for advanced heap monitor usage (log emitter/analyzer, garbage tracker, background monitoring, detailed log)
- [11] (./) Wiki page describing advanced heap monitor functionality and external log analyzer API
- [12] (./) Check-In data serialization functions
- [13] (./) Check-In log analyzer
- [14] (./) Check-In reference cycle tracker
- [15] (./) Check-In background monitoring
- [16] (./) Check-In detailed per instance logger
- [17] (./) Passes all tests (#10)
- [20] (./) Demo application ready to illustrate log analyzer (outputs statistics as HTML, delivered as an external module)
- [30] (./) Wiki page(s) describing test scenarios and the results of different memory reduction strategies * Lazy initialization * Breaking Reference Cycles * Block-wise MD5 hashing * Classes with slots
- [31] (./) Check-In successful memory reduction tweaks (passing all tests) * [[!bug 2179]], [[!bug 2180]], [[!bug 2181]], [[!bug 2178]], [[!bug 2149]], [[!bug 2177]]
- [40] (./) Wiki page with low memory footprint SCons usage recommendations
- [50] (./) Review Tigris issues concerning MD5 signatures [[!bug 1459]], [[!bug 1646]], quantify and commit fix if applicable
- [51] (./) Review Memory savings with new style classes, quantify and commit fix if applicable
- [A] [!] Optional: Cache DAG on disk prototype (delivered as a patch)
- [B] [!] Optional: More elaborate data representation prototype (GUI, delivered as an external module) (./) Completed; (!) Work in progress; [!] Won't be implemented
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Community bonding period | Formalize requirements, assemble test suite for heap monitor
26.05. - 31.05. | #01, #02 Basic functionality tests and Wiki description
02.06. - 07.06. | #03, #04 Basic implementation, Integration of asizeof
09.06. - 14.06. | #05, #06, #07 Heap monitor passes tests, Annotate debug output
16.06. - 21.06. | #10, #11 Advanced functionality tests and Wiki description
23.06. - 28.06. | #12, #13 Data serialization and log analyzer
30.06. - 05.07. | #14, #15 Reference cycle tracker, background monitoring 07.07. - 12.07. | #16, #17 Per-Instance Logger, passes tests 14.07. - 19.07. | #20 Log analyzer demo 21.07. - 02.08. | #30, #31, #50, #51 Memory reduction attempts and documentation 04.08. - 09.08. | #A or #B Optional task 11.08. - 16.08. | #40 Document memory reduction recommendation, Review introspection API 18.08. - 31.08. | Final evaluation """]]
I will be available for the full time. However, I plan to take one week off for vacation.
I study computer science in the final year at the Technische Universität Dresden. My main fields of interest are software development toolchains, operating-, realtime-, and embedded systems.
I have been working as a software developer for the Fraunhofer society for three years. In the Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems I developed measurement and instrumentation control software and was responsible for the software infrastructure of the Linux measurement stations. Furthermore, I have been working on the open source project RosAsm for two years. During this time I developed the integrated debugger and submitted a number of patches. Due to RosAsm's very limited scope of application I moved on to different projects.
The last few months I have been working on a student research project for the operating systems department of my university. The goal is to examine if it is feasible to replace an existing GNU Make based build system with SCons. I learnt a lot about SCons internals and general build system concepts along the way. The empiric results revealed the huge gap between Make and SCons with regards to memory consumption. As SCons performed well in other tests and I took a great fancy toward SCons, I felt tempted to do something about the memory consumption problem. I would very much like to apply my previous experience to your project's continued success.


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How Radio Advertising Works:
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How to Buy Radio:
The great Prussian war philosopher Karl von Klausewitz wrote in 1832 to keep the forces concentrated in an overpowering mass. This principle of concentration is a good guide to buying radio effectively. Repetition establishes retention in the mind of the listener. In Greater Lafayette, buy one or two primary stations, and as many others as you can afford, without spreading your "forces" too thin. If you can afford to buy 60 commercials to promote a sales event, concentrate 30 commercials on two stations...over three days and be an important, dominant presence in the marketplace. You can also build frequency with consistency over a period of time, by buying sponsorships for 13, 26, or 52 weeks.
How to Create a Radio Message:
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Why Ads Fail:
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Intrusive - the ability to deliver an advertising message even when the user isn't holding it or looking at it.
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Jury Selection Starts For Eatontown Man Accused Of Throwing His Daughter Off A Bridge
Jury selection for the murder trial of Arthur Morgan III, 29 of Eatontown, started yesterday in Judge Anthony Mellaci's courtroom in Freehold. Jury selection is expected to continue throughout this week. Opening statements in Morgan's trail could start as early as Tuesday, March 11, according to a statement by Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni.
Morgan is accused of murdering his 2-year old daughter, Tierra Morgan-Glover, on November 21, 2011, by tossing her off an overpass on Schoolhouse Road in the Shark River Park section of Wall Township. Tierra's mother filed a missing persons report after Morgan failed to return his daughter to her mother's custody as agreed after a visitation scheduled for a few hours. The toddler's body was discovered by passers-by on November 22, 2011.
Morgan fled the area and was apprehended in San Diego, CA on November 29, 2011. He has been held on $10 million bail in the Monmouth County Correctional Institution since his extradition.


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Career Guides >> Browse Articles >> Government Job Search
Best Employers for Workers Over 50
2008 AARP Edition
Did you know that by 2016, one-third (33.5 percent) of the total US workforce will be age 50 or older? In the government sector, this statistic is actually even higher; in fact, 44 percent of the current Government workforce will be eligible for retirement within the next five years.
The AARP's 'Best Employers for Workers Over 50' is an annual program that recognizes companies and organizations whose practices and policies specifically address issues which affect our aging labor force. Through taking the specific needs of aging employees into consideration, these companies are effectively ensuring that some of our most essential industries will remain productive and secure in upcoming decades.
It is worth noting that the National Institute of Health ranked eleventh in the 2008 listing. Quoting from the AARP site: "The Institutes have made enhancements to benefits following employee requests, including: adding high-deductible insurance plans and strengthening support for tele-work and flexible-work schedules—applying directly to NIH's mature employees."
Best Employers for Workers Over 50
4. The YMCA of Greater Rochester
6. Securian
7. First Horizon National Corporation
9. Bon Secours Richmond Health System
10. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association


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"Attention: Your doctor(s) will not be in your plan's network starting Jan. 1, 2014."
So reads the opening statement of a Sept. 24 notice received by a Florida woman who for many years had her health care needs attended to by Jack Matheny, M.D., a solo family physician in Palatka, Fla.
Matheny is one of potentially thousands of physicians in multiple specialties and multiple states, including Ohio, Rhode Island, Florida and Connecticut, who have been caught up in UnitedHealthcare's (UHC's) efforts to downsize its Medicare Advantage physician networks.
According to Matheny, the rural health clinic he opened in 1989 serves very poor Floridians. He estimated that about 60 of his elderly patients -- many in their 80s and 90s -- had received notices directing them to choose a new physician.
Patient reactions have ranged from shock to defiance, said Matheny. "Some have said, 'I'll go ahead and switch, but I'll keep you as my doctor,' even though I know they can't afford to do that."
The Florida AFP addressed the issue in its Oct. 23 newsletter to family physicians. "While there is little that can be done to fight the arbitrary cancellations, physicians can advise their patients to switch to a plan where their physician is participating," said the article.
Story Highlights
- Less than two months ago, UnitedHealthcare (UHC) began sending out termination notices to a number of physicians in its Medicare Advantage plan networks in multiple states.
- Physicians and their patients were blindsided by the notices, and patients have had to make last-minute choices when selecting their Medicare physicians for 2014.
- At least one state attorney general is investigating, and member organizations such as the AAFP have chided UHC for sending out the notices just as patients were due to complete their 2014 Medicare enrollment.
Matheny took that advice to heart. "When patients come in with the (UHC) letter saying, 'I'm not on that plan anymore,' I hand them a letter advising them that there may be a similar health plan through Blue Cross that would allow them to continue to see me as their doctor," he said.
AAFP Points Out Poor Timing
According to UHC Vice President of Communications Terence O'Hara, UHC is trimming its Medicare Advantage physician network "to encourage higher quality health coverage that people can afford." He said the changes were necessary "to meet rising quality standards, slow the increase in health costs and sustain our plans in an era of Medicare Advantage funding cuts."
About $200 billion in funding was cut from Medicare Advantage as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
"By the end of 2014, our Medicare Advantage network of participating physicians and specialists nationally will be between 85 percent and 90 percent of its current size," said O'Hara. He couldn't specify the percentage of cuts made in particular specialties, however. "We evaluate the issues individually, and in some circumstances, additional review of local markets and individual provider concerns has led us to reverse a decision to terminate a provider," he said.
Keeping in mind that Medicare's open enrollment period runs from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7, AAFP President-elect Robert Wergin, M.D., of Milford, Neb., chided UHC for its poor timing in a Nov. 7 AAFP Leader Voices Blog post.
"Regardless of whether UHC's business decision was good for the insurer, it was poorly timed, catching physicians and patients off guard during a critical time of year," wrote Wergin. The blog appeared just one week after top UHC executives met with AAFP leaders and staff members at Academy headquarters in Leawood, Kan., for what has become an annual face-to-face visit designed to discuss member concerns.
Legal Issues Prevail
Florida chapter EVP Jay Millson said he had communicated with a handful of members, all of whom were in private practice. "I suspect it has impacted a significant number of those physicians, but we also have a high penetration of employed physicians who have had their hands tied due to contracts with a hospital or health systems," he said.
The Florida Medical Association recently notified members of the Florida congressional delegation about UHC's actions. "Although these terminations are occurring throughout the country, they are particularly troubling in Florida because of our large population of elderly residents who rely on Medicare Advantage plans for their medical care," said the letter.
"Federal law provides that Medicare Advantage programs 'maintain and monitor a network of appropriate providers … that is sufficient to provide adequate access to covered services to meet the needs of the population served,'" said the letter. "The actions being taken by United appear to be in conflict with these federal requirements."
The association requested that Florida's congressional delegation ask CMS "to initiate an investigation on the impact UHC's decision will have on Florida's Medicare recipients" to ensure that patients would continue to have access to an adequate pool of physicians from which to choose and that those physicians would have the appropriate expertise to treat patients' health care concerns.
In Connecticut, Attorney General George Jepsen called on federal regulators to examine UHC's decision to terminate a large number of physicians from the state's Medicare Advantage network. In a Nov. 6 letter to an HHS regional director in Boston(www.ct.gov), Jepsen said he was concerned about UHC's lack of responsiveness to earlier questions about the scope of terminations and its impact on patients.
"We are deeply troubled by United insisting that its remaining provider network will be adequate despite simultaneously claiming not to know the number of patients affected," said Jepsen. He asked federal regulators to "aggressively scrutinize" United's network to ensure its adequacy and to extend the Medicare Advantage open enrollment period for affected patients to give them more time to make decisions about their care.
Physicians, Patients Deal With Consequences
Ross Winakor, M.D., of Storrs Mansfield, Conn., the immediate past president of the Connecticut AFP, said many issues were at play, including a lack of transparency and no clear criteria as to why physicians were dropped. He said the termination notices affected practices of all sizes in all parts of his state.
Winakor estimated that the state had about 500 family physicians. "I've heard a significant number of stories from members, and my guess is that about 25 to 30 percent of Connecticut's family physicians are affected by this," he said.
UHC's network changes affect a very small percentage of patients in Winakor's four-physician practice. "But even if you only have five patients affected, it's enough to frustrate those five patients," said Winakor. "These patients (getting notices) are 65-plus, and some are physically and cognitively challenged and having to make big decisions very quickly."
The elderly, in particular, often are very distressed with the prospect of changing doctors, said Wergin. "Relationships are important and affect outcomes. Perhaps UHC should survey their employees' and leadership's parents and see how their satisfaction would be with changing doctors after knowing them for some time."
Rhode Island AFP President Roanne Osborne-Gaskin, M.D., M.B.A., of Warwick, said family physicians dropped in her state "were told they weren't being dropped because of any disciplinary issue -- they were in good standing. But there was no other explanation given."
Osborne-Gaskin noted the irony of UHC advertising its Medicare Advantage product in TV ads right up to a month before termination notices began to go out, all the while claiming that patients would be able to keep their physicians.
Ohio AFP President Jon Seager, M.D., of Hartville, said it wasn't the first time -- and it wouldn't be the last -- that physicians and their patients would be affected by insurance company decisions.
"This is what happens when big companies make small decisions; it's an asymmetric relationship. An insurance company can mold and modify its provider panel, and it feels to them to be insignificant because the company has enough docs to cover the lives under that plan. But it has real impacts for the people who want to continue to see their physicians," said Seager.
He recalled a similar situation that occurred with another carrier just a couple of years ago where patients were forced to change their primary care physicians. "For a year or two, patients tried to use a different system and different providers, but for whatever reason, that relationship isn't there."
Now, the practice is getting calls from those patients asking to come back.
"People are upset that they had to leave, and now they're upset that they can't come back," said Seager. "We struggle with it. I want to say 'Yes, I miss you. I'm sorry you haven't had an appropriate primary care experience elsewhere.'
"It's our nature to try and make it right. The problem is we can't fix that now. With burgeoning patient panels, we're working hard to keep up with what patient-centered care demands and patients deserve," said Seager.
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No Voice Unheard is an independent publisher of beautiful and creative books that are cutting edge in their content and presentation, giving voice to those who are ignored or disregarded by society, and illuminating important social issues often ignored by profit-driven publishers. In the tradition of great books like Silent Spring, Animal Liberation, Diet for a New America and others, we believe in the power of books to create social change.
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The Santa Fe University of Art & Design (SFUAD) Contemporary Music Department will present contributing faculty member Gerry Carthy in concert on St. Patrick's Day on the SFUAD campus. Carthy will perform traditional Celtic music assisted by SFUAD's Celtic Ensemble, which he directs as an instructor at the school. Carthy, born in County Mayo on the West Coast of Ireland, plays a variety of instruments including banjo, guitar, tenor guitar, tin whistle, saxophone, fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki and contributes vocals. Inspired by the folk revival of Irish music in the 1960s and 1970s, he spent 10 years playing music in sessions around Galway. Carthy is also one of the founding members of the traditional Irish session at the Crane Bar, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary—the longest running session in Galway. Tickets to the event are free for SFUAD staff and students and $10 for the general public. SFUAD is located on St. Michael's Drive in Santa Fe on what was formerly the campus of the College of Santa Fe. Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe • Sun Mar 17 • 3 pm • $10 • View on Alibi calendar
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The Harwood Arts Center, located at the corner of 7th and Mountain, is one of the city's premier venues for showcasing contemporary art by both emerging and established artists. Each year, the Harwood offers opportunities for artists to develop and share work with each other and the community at large, and the Center offers a broad range of events and education programming to foster its ongoing mission. The Harwood Center recently announced that it is now accepting applications for a number of different opportunities for artists and the merely art-interested. Among these are proposals for exhibitions in the Harwood Galleries between now and throughout 2014 (due March 15) as well as applications for an Emerging Artist Program in June 2013 (also due March). In the summer of 2013, the Harwood will again be hosting Art Camp for children and teens. Also for teen artists, a spring Teen Art Mentorship Program begins tomorrow. The Center also is hosting a teen art project which offers paid apprenticeships for teens at the Mayor's Art Institute. Applications are due March 22nd. Visit the Harwood's website at harwoodartcenter.org for more information on all education programming. Harwood Art Center • Wed Feb 13 • 4:30 pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! • View on Alibi calendar
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The Clocks Ticks on a Diné Funeral
Local artist raises funds to help family of recently deceased young man
Last Saturday, Kyle Shane Taliman was found dead in Gallup, NM. The 23-year-old Diné was found outdoors and is believed to have died of exposure. Talimam is survived by mother Lauri and his sister Cheyenne Tilman, both of Virginia. Gallup is a long way to fly from Virginia on short notice, but the news of this young man's death traveled quickly and soon artist Monty Singer stepped up to help. Singer, an award-winning artist who has shown in Indian Market and the Heard Show and whose work can be found in museums and private collections, offered to donate one of his paintings to be raffled off to help the Talimans go to Gallup to bury their family member.
The painting up for raffle is the award-winning pastel "Tent Rocks," winner of the People's Choice award a the 2011 Pastel Society of New Mexico's National Show. A richly conceived and executed painting of the revered national park near Santa Fe, "Tent Rocks" shows astounding artistry and craftsmanship by Singer, who is as well known for his landscapes and figurative work as he is for his satirical oil paintings that once delighted audiences at Indian Market and other venues.
Raffles tickets are $10 a piece and are limited to 300, giving a buyer a 1 in 300 chance of winning the painting, which measures a staggering 40x40 inches.
"It's crucial that we get the word out about the fund-raiser," said Singer. "According to Diné tradition, the burial needs to take place by Saturday, which means we need to sell tickets as fast as we can."
More information on the raffle can be found at the Kyle Shane Taliman Memorial Fund Facebook page.
Update: As of this afternoon, Lauri and Cheyenne have received enough funds to board a plane headed for Albuquerque and will arrive late tonight. Per the most recent count, 126 raffle tickets have been sold, leaving 174 left. All future donations from this point will go toward additional expenses and some will be set aside to help take care of shipping costs of the painting.
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Effexion: The Many Facets of Love opening reception
Join Albuquerque's Best of Burque Best Arts Event purveyors the Guerrilla Photo Group as they team up with Albuquerque's Best Gay Nightclub, Effex, to bring you a Valentine's Day photography show for the entire month of February. Featuring the work of over a dozen photographic teams consisting of a photographer, at least one model, makeup artists and lighting assistants, GPG's oeuvre showcases the work of studio shooters working on high concept shots. "This is a multi-artist photographic exposition of the many facets of love," said Rip Williams, founder of the Guerrilla Photo Group. Photos will be hung upstairs in the old hallway adjacent to the old lounge, and will feature both black and white and color photos that fit the theme. The show opens tomorrow and will run thru the 28th. Get more information at guerrillaphotogroup.com. Effex Nightclub • Sat Feb 2 • 8-11 pm • FREE • 21+ • View on Alibi calendar
TONIGHT: Our Free 20th Birthday Dance Party
Today is our birthday proper, and we'll celebrate our 20th anniversary with a free party at Effex Nightclub (Fifth Street and Central).
The Alibi teamed up with local event promoters Foundation Industries, so the DJ line-up includes Digital Fusion (Mike Lowinske v. Jennifer Chafey), Amy Lopez, Joe Savage, The Rev (Timm Reynolds), Tempo (Erik Runion) and Dave Decibel.
Plus, there's free food from Buffet King and a great big birthday cake from Cake Fetish. So come down to Effex and show Albuquerque's weekly newspaper your support.


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The Dodgers will put the finishing touches on their bullpen by signing former Cleveland Indians right-hander Chris Perez and an old friend, Jamey Wright, according to multiple reports Monday.
Financial terms have not been reported for the contracts, which would not become official until each pitcher passes a physical.
Perez started the 2013 season 17-for-19 in save opportunities with a 2.52 earned-run average through his first 35 2/3 innings. Then in an Aug. 5 game against the Detroit Tigers, Perez allowed four earned runs without recording an out. He would go on to allow 16 earned runs over his final 18 1/3 innings as an Indian.
The right-hander finished the season with a 4.33 ERA and five blown saves in 30 opportunities.
Wright, who turns 39 on Tuesday, went 2-2 with a 3.09 ERA last season with the Tampa Bay Rays. He was not re-signed by the Dodgers after going 5-3 with a 3.72 ERA in 66 appearances in 2012.
The Dodgers already committed $18.5 million next season to two set-up men in 2014 — Brian Wilson and Brandon League, both former closers themselves. Between Wilson, League and Perez, the Dodgers have 377 career saves sitting in the bullpen before giving the ball to ninth-inning man Kenley Jansen.
That gives the Dodgers the most experienced, and arguably the deepest, bullpen in the majors. Left-handers J.P. Howell, Paco Rodriguez and Onelki Garcia, and right-handers Jose Dominguez and Chris Withrow, all figure to compete for innings in spring training.
Perez also has a connection to Los Angeles. In September, he pleaded no contest in Ohio to a misdemeanor drug abuse charge and was found guilty of receiving a small package of marijuana mailed to his home — reportedly from Los Angeles — on June 4.
In September 2012, Perez stirred the pot by criticizing the Indians' ownership regime for its frugality. He should be happy with his new bosses. The Dodgers have committed roughly $200 million to 19 players for next season, including the recently agreed-to contracts for third baseman Juan Uribe and Howell. Last year, the team reportedly spent $237 million on payroll.
Of that, less than 10 percent — somewhere in the $13 to $15 million range — went to full-time relievers. That percentage could increase significantly in 2014.
The additions of Perez and Wright would give the Dodgers the maximum 40 players on their major-league roster.


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The Cowboys will come to town next week fresh off a 34-7 win over the Rams.
DeMarco Murray piled up a franchise-best 253 yards on the ground. The rookie running back wasted no time taking advantage of the holes in the Rams' run defense, scoring on a 91-yard run on the Cowboys' first drive of the game. An Eagles run defense that had struggled before the Redskins game will face another test on the ground in Week 8.
The only other NFC East team in action was the Redskins, who dropped their second straight, falling to the Panthers, 33-20.
Cam Newton and Steve Smith did most of the damage for Carolina. Newton completed 18 of 23 passes for 256 yards and a touchdown (127.5 QB rating). Smith had seven catches for 143 yards.
John Beck, taking over the starting job from Rex Grossman, completed 22 of 37 passes for 279 yards, a touchdown and an interception. Beck also lost a fumble. Here's what the NFC East looks like, with each team having played six games:
As you can see, the four teams are separated by two games. Next week's matchup is going to be a big one. Who's ready for Dallas week?
Some other notes from today's games:
* Things have gone from bad to worse for Kevin Kolb and the Arizona Cardinals. They went down, 32-20, today to the Steelers and are now 1-5, having lost five games in a row. I'll admit I had the Red Zone Channel on and was not focused solely on this game, but it didn't seem like Kolb played as well as the numbers (18-for-34 for 272 yards, two touchdowns and one interception) indicate. Having said that, the Cardinals have issues on the other side of the ball too as Ben Roethlisberger torched them for 361 yards and three touchdowns. Considering that the 49ers are 5-1, the Cardinals' season appears all but over.
* Aaron Rodgers is playing on a different level than the league's other 31 starting quarterbacks. He completed his first 13 passes against the Vikings and finished 24-for-30 for 335 yards and three touchdowns (QB rating of 146.5). The Packers are 7-0, and Rodgers has 20 touchdowns against three interceptions on the season. On the other side of the field, rookie Christian Ponder looked OK early, but ended up completing just 13 of 32 passes for 219 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions.
* Plaxico Burress hadn't scored since the opener before today, but he found the end zone three times as the Jets came back from a 21-10 halftime deficit, scoring 17 unanswered points for a 27-21 victory. Strange moment at the end of the game. San Diego was facing a 4th-and-3 from its own 49, and for some reason, Philip Rivers threw the ball away, ending the game.
* There was a lot of bad football today. In an absolute thriller, the Browns beat the Seahawks, 6-3. In Miami, the Tim Tebow-led Broncos trailed the Dolphins, 15-0, with 5:23 left, but they came back for an 18-15 overtime victory.
* The Lions started off the season 5-0, but dropped their second straight, losing to the Falcons, 23-16. And in London, the Bears held off a Bucs comeback, coming away with a 24-18 victory and improving to 4-3 on the season.
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Arsenal's hopes of signing Swansea City defender Ashley Williams are fading, after the south Wales side refused to lower their £10million valuation of the player, reports The Times.
The 28-year-old has been heavily linked with a move to north London this summer, but could now find himself priced out of a transfer with little room for negotiation.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has a reputation for being particularly frugal in the transfer market, and won't pay over the odds for any potential Emirates Stadium recruit.
Williams's loss might prove to be Thomas Vermaelen's gain, with the Arsenal captain set to be handed a lifeline with regards to his own future at the club.
Instead of looking at an alternative defensive target, Wenger will rely on his current crop of centre-backs - Per Mertesacker, Laurent Koscielny and Vermaelen next season.
The Belgium international lost his place in the Arsenal first-team after a downturn in form last season, but now it looks as though he'll be back in contention for a starting berth by the start of the 2013/14 campaign.


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A Democratic member of the committee questioning IRS officials on the agency's targeting of conservative groups on Friday criticized his Republican colleagues for being too partisan during the hearing.
"Right now, unfortunately, what you are seeing is a breakdown in the process," Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) said on MSNBC after he stepped out of the hearing room for a TV interview. "It's about partisanship once again and trying to somehow link this to the White House. It's the same old, same old, exactly what people are really angry about what is happening in Washington today."
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Crowley, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, appeared on MSNBC while the hearing was ongoing. He said he planned on praising the committee's chairman, Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) for pursuing the hearing in a bipartisan way, until he heard Camp's opening statement.
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"His opening statement made me change my questioning because clearly it was a very partisan statement that he led with," Crowley said.
The New York lawmaker also accused Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) of "badgering" former acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. The White House forced Miller out of his job earlier this week.


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Backpage.com sues over Wash. sex-trafficking law
SEATTLE – The website Backpage.com sued the state of Washington on Monday, saying a new law that would require classified advertising companies to verify the ages of people in sex-related advertisements is invalid, even if it has a laudable goal.
Gov. Chris Gregoire signed the bill into law this year in an effort to cut down on child sex trafficking. It allows for the criminal prosecution of classified advertising company representatives who publish or cause publication of sex-related ads peddling children. Proof of a good-faith attempt to verify the age of the advertised person is considered a defense under the law.
Backpage operates a robust online clearinghouse for escorts, and it's a primary target of the law, which is due to take effect Thursday. The company, which is owned by Village Voice Media, has come under scrutiny from authorities for allegations that it's used to promote child prostitution.
The company sued in U.S. District Court in Seattle to block the law from being enforced pending a judge's decision on whether it should be struck down. The law is written so expansively that it would apply not just to classified advertising companies, but to dating sites, blogs, chat rooms and social networking sites, the company argues.
"This means that every service provider — no matter where headquartered or operated — must review each and every piece of third-party content posted on or through its service to determine whether it is an 'implicit' ad for a commercial sex act in Washington, and whether it includes a depiction of a person, and, if so, must obtain and maintain a record of the person's ID," the complaint says. "These obligations would bring the practice of hosting third-party content to a grinding halt."
Backpage argues that the law is trumped by the federal Communications Decency Act, which says online service providers are not responsible for the content of ads placed by third parties. Backpage also says Washington's law is unconstitutionally vague, infringes on First Amendment rights and attempts to regulate activity outside of Washington state.
"Backpage executives claim to be allies in the fight against human trafficking. Yet today they filed a lawsuit to kill a law written to reduce the number of minors posted for sale online," Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna said in a statement. "On behalf of the people of Washington state, and on behalf of human trafficking victims everywhere, we will forcefully defend this groundbreaking law."
The company has been under heavy pressure to change the way it operates. Last month, the mayors of nearly 50 cities across the U.S. — including New York, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Philadelphia and Austin, Texas — signed a letter urging Village Voice Media to require identification for people posting escort ads on Backpage.com.
"There is an urgent need to act quickly, as cities continue to find advertisements on your site that reflect underage sex trafficking," the letter said. "We are making every effort to stop the ongoing trafficking of underage individuals, but these efforts are made more difficult by the inadequate safeguards of your website, Backpage.com, to prevent underage sex trafficking."
Other states are following Washington's lead: A similar law soon to take effect in Tennessee, and lawmakers in New York and New Jersey are considering similar bills, according to the federal complaint filed by Backpage.com.
Company lawyer Liz McDougall said that Backpage is "an online industry leader in working cooperatively with law enforcement to identify, arrest and prosecute human traffickers," and that Washington's law would force criminal conduct back underground, where it's harder to track.
"The trafficking of children for sex is an abomination," she said in a written statement. "I believe aggressive improvements in technology and close collaboration between the online service community, law enforcement and (nongovernmental organizations) is the best approach to fighting human trafficking."
Village Voice Media owns 13 alternative weekly newspapers around the country, including Seattle Weekly, which already requires ID from those depicted in sex-related ads in its pages.