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Poultry processing company to create 102 jobs in Harrisonburg
A new poultry processing company is expected to bring 102 jobs to Harrisonburg. Shenandoah Processing LLC, located at the site of a former poultry processing facility, will serve the market for organically raised and "all-natural" chicken.
During the three-year project, the company will invest more than $2.2 million in capital improvements and purchase $160 million of poultry from Virginia growers.
Shenandoah Processing is owned by Corwin Heatwole who also owns Shenandoah Valley Organics, a poultry growing operation. Shenandoah Processing will process poultry for Shenandoah Valley Organics as well as growers who want to have poultry prepared for retail sale. Shenandoah Processing expects to process 50,000 birds a day by its third year in operation.
Gov. Bob McDonnell approved a $50,000 matching grant from the Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund for the project.


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A web site is a major asset for your business. So, it makes sound business sense for it to be protected from hackers who don't have your business' best interests in mind.
Startup companies and small and medium-sized businesses depend on their websites to promote their brand, bring potential customers/clients into the sales funnel, keep a blog that allows for customer feedback and more. Simply put, a website is a major asset for your business. So, it makes sound business sense for it to be protected from hackers who don't have your business' best interests in mind. In fact, black hat hackers range from misguided people who think it is fun to disrupt your business all the way to cyber criminals who place malicious code on your website for financial gain.
When your website is compromised, potential and returning customers will shun it as their antimalware and "safe site" software warning them not to open your site on their browser.
This means your company is missing out on new customers and returning customers too. This, of course, is bad for business. But, there are steps you can take to keep your website safe from hacking.
Tips for Protecting Your Company Web Site from Security Risks
When a website is hacked, the hackers often change the code on the site. They do this in the hopes of getting financial information from site visitors, or, make your site run improperly. Here are some tips for defending your website from intruders.
Experts agree that the first step in maintaining a secure website is to keep it updated against security threats. Scan updates to ensure they don't have malicious code and install them when you get them. If there is a security patch available to keep your site secure it means that hackers know of the deficit in protection and will try using it as many sites are slow to update.
Tighten Access Control
The default for accessing websites is the user ID admin, and the password 1234. It is astounding how many people keep them after taking control of their website from a developer or a DIY site. Even when changed from the default, other equally poor choices are selected. An example of common and easily hacked user IDs are:
- Adm
- Test
- Info
- Guest
- Root
- User
If you are using any of these as your user ID change them!
Both the User ID and the password should be changed before the site is launched.
The best way to keep hackers at bay is to use "two-factor authentication" (2FA). 2FA adds another step to the log-in process. This requirement is in addition to your site password and can be a pin number, a biometric such as a fingerprint or something you have such as an ATM card, fob, or phone.
Regular Website Backups
Despite implementing stronger security protocols, it is possible that your site is a victim of hacking. The best defense is to back up your website frequently so that your recovery from malicious code, viruses, and even hardware failure can be done quickly.
Website security is of major importance to your company's well-being. For many small and medium-sized businesses, this is beyond their in-house ability. For them, an IT managed services provider can maintain security at an affordable monthly cost.
For more information contact Sydney Technology Solutions in Sydney . The number is (02) 8212 4722 or [email protected] us.

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Opening to Receive by Giving Thanks
A friend told me recently that she believes the best way to prepare one self for receiving good is to reflect on all the good you've received before. What a lovely idea. Here are some of my grateful moments from 2012. There are so many more I could just keep posting.
In the early part of the year I was lucky enough to spend time with friends drinking utterly incredible wines, a lot of them favorites from older vintages. In Malibu a friend and I got to open this 1996 Bea. It was in the midst of a 1995 Chinon, a 1975 Pepe (both remarkable wines), Selosse Brut (so brilliant), and others, but the Bea took my heart and never gave it back. His wines are brilliant aged. What a treasure.
Fall 2011 became my last semester teaching philosophy in Arizona. I resigned in October 2011, but the last day of my contract was January 6, 2012. I stepped into the new year, then, finishing my teaching obligations, turning towards a whole new path. As grateful as I am for my time there, I am also grateful to be done. The biggest blessing came in my classes that final term being among the best I ever facilitated. The two sections of Intro to Ethics both had excellent students that helped me learn the material at a deeper level. What a gift. In Sci-Fi and Society (the other class I taught that term) we were all required to show up dressed as ourselves in alternate universe and then to remain in character through the entire class. I arrived as a Sci-Fi Writer's Muse, a presence that helped inspire parts of the noble series Dr. Who.
Rachel, aka. Jr., asked for a hamster in 2011. I was resistant to the idea not wanting another live-thing to take care of. But Rachel was brilliant at helping Briland, her hamster, get comfortable so that he spent lots of time out of his cage playing, and eating treats beside both of us. He softened my heart in a way I didn't realize it could. Dear Briland spawned a whole comic series, became the mascot of the local veterinary hospital, and made me appreciate the importance of life, no matter how small, in a way I never imagined until I met him. He died in the middle of 2012. I still miss him everyday.
April 2012 included an 8 day tour of Colli Orientali del Friuli. The Rapuzzi family had our COF2012 group for lunch, sharing an incredible selection of their older wines. Thanks to them the world still has Schioppettino–Dina and Paolo Rapuzzi had a big hand in helping to preserve many of the varieties indigenous to Friuli and are credited with rediscovering and then saving Schioppettino.
A vineyard in Friuli
Serena and Cristian of Ronco del Gnemiz had us for a vertical tasting of their Schioppettino, explaining it was the first time they'd done so. They're best known for their white wines, but their Schioppettino is some of my favorite. I am so grateful for our time with them.
In June, I met Steven Morgan of Tribeca Grill during a visit to New York City. He toured me through the impressive cellars of the restaurant and then opened a Schioppettino for us to share while we talked. After conversation about education, comics, superheroes, wine, friendship, and travel, he suggested I reach out to Angela Osborne of A Tribute to Grace, saying he thought I'd like her and her wine. That very night I emailed her. A week later she had my friend Katherine and I over for dinner with Angela, her lovely husband Jason, and the first full vertical tasting of Grace they'd hosted. We stayed for hours. Steven was right. I loved her, and her wine.
At the end of June, after a decade away, I returned to the waters of Naknek, Alaska where I grew up commercial fishing with my family–the area of Bristol Bay hosts the largest wild salmon run in the world, and one of the most bio-diverse ecosystems in the world. As Rachel does every year, she spent her summer there visiting cousins, her Grammie and Bobba, and her Aunties and Uncles. This photo shows five cousins–Oliver, Mari, and Rachel on the shore, Ecola and Ceara, my Auntee's daughters in the water.
A couple of years ago I discovered a shellfish allergy by having a bad reaction to prawns. I didn't know what other seafood I was allergic to, however, and so dealt with it by avoiding shellfish entirely. The reaction was too uncomfortable to risk it. In July, I met with Stephane Vivier to taste his Pinot Noir wines. We had a lovely time visiting. I loved his rose' and Pinot, and thoroughly enjoyed our time. When he asked if we should have lunch and start with oysters I decided to risk it. My thought was–this entire experience is so lovely, if I do die by shellfish, I'd be quite sorry for Stephane, but such a happy time would be the perfect way to go. And if I don't, it couldn't be a better time to find out I can still eat oysters. It turns out I can still eat oysters. Vivier wine, then, restored one of my favorite foods to me. The experience has inspired me to go on since and test other shellfish too–it turns out I can eat crab (thank god!), and also scallops (thank god again!).
I count myself deeply lucky. I have gotten to spend my time with some of the people I admire most in wine. Here from left: me, holding Ryan and Megan Glaab's baby boy, Randall Grahm, George Vare, Abe Schoener
In July, I traveled to Willamette Valley, Oregon and was lucky enough to live for a month at the base of the oldest vines growing in the Willamette–Eyrie Vineyards South Block.
My sister traveled south to attend IPNC too and while there charmed Jacques Lardiere, the just-retired winemaker of Jadot. What a treat to meet him, and to concentrate hard enough to understand his talk on biodynamics.
With Melanie flying from Alaska to attend IPNC I did what I could to schedule time after for us to also meet two of her favorite winemakers. We were able to have time with Maggie Harrison, of Antica Terra, and also Jason Lett, of Eyrie. Melanie told me after those two are like rock stars for her. I agree.
Someone asked me to pick the single most important event I lived this last year. That sort of question is a kind of metaphysical quandry I find almost impossible to answer. That said, the most moving experience I had was meeting Fulgencio, a vineyard worker in Oregon and then to have him trust me enough to share part of his life story with me. The experience was overwhelming. Then, as if listening to him hadn't been moving enough, at the end he thanked me it, explaining it healed him to be able to share his story. To share in that kind of intimacy with someone, and to have it marked as life changing by both people… I can only explain the importance of such an experience by saying plainly it's why I believe any of us are here. Such connections, in my experience, are the meaning of human life.
One of the lucky projects of 2012 turned out to be following RIbolla Gialla from Friuli all the way back to California, its unlikely North American home. I love this grape. Following its story has also introduced me to a wealth of incredible people–George Vare, Dan Petroski, Steve Matthiasson, Ryan Glaab, Abe Schoener, Matthew Rorick, Robbie Meyers, Nathan Roberts, Chris Bowland, and others. Here the Vare Vineyard is being harvested by a crew directed by Steve Matthiasson.
Somehow this year included a wealth of visits with icons of wine, including a number of people that truly helped make American wine what it is today. Among them is Paul Draper. In September, Paul took the time to share several hours with me talking through his history and views of wine, as well as tasting the current wines for Ridge. I often joke that my parents are such intimidating people I am rarely intimidated. Paul Draper stands as such an important presence in the history of California wine, I have to admit I was utterly intimidated to go meet with him. That said, he is known for being down to earth, and quite generous in his willingness to share information and insight with people.
And he has an adorable dog.
My final wine interview of 2012 was with two people I hold deep respect for. Carole Meredith is a genuine legend of science. Thanks to her we know the parent grapes of Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Gamay, and many others. She helped find the origin and originary plant of Zinfandel and Primitivo, thus also helping to boost the local economy of Croatia due to their increase in tourism since (I kid you not–Zinfandel originates from Croatia). Stephen Lagier, her husband, is equally brilliant with a history of having researched chemical changes in vines due to vineyard practices, then going on to a long career in winemaking. Together they now live on Mt Veeder where they grow and make their Lagier-Meredith wines.
Jr and I closed the year in Alaska. We were able to spend the Christmas holiday in Anchorage, where my parents, and the families of all three of their girls were together at Christmas for the first time since 2006. Christmas Eve we spent with our closest family friends, the Meyers. Here from left: me, my sister Paula, my sister Melanie, and Robyn Meyer–she grew up with us like a sister. Jr and I now spend the New Year holiday in Juneau with Melanie's family.
Lots of love to everyone! I am so grateful for all that 2012 brought (including all the stuff that felt like total bullshit–hardships hold sometimes the deepest blessings), and more grateful we can now turn in to 2013. May we all be blessed. Amen.
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The Bad Behavior Of Belle Cantrell
The Bad Behavior Of Belle Cantrell
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Belle Cantrell felt guilty about killing her husband and she hated that. Feeling guilty, that is. A lady shouldn't do something she's going to feel guilty about later was a rule Belle kept firmly in mind.
Welcome to the world of beautiful, irrepressible Belle Cantrell, years before she becomes grandmother to Sissy LeBlanc of Loraine Despres' bestselling The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc. It is 1920, prohibition is in full swing, women are clamoring for the vote -- and in the little town of Gentry, Louisiana, narrow-minded intolerance is on the rise. Sent to jail for swimming in an indecent bathing costume with a group of suffragists, Belle Cantrell knows her behavior broke the rules. But sometimes -- most of the time -- she has to twist the rules a little, because they all say the same thing: "Don't."
A sexy, sassy story of murder, adultery, romance, bigotry, and regular church attendance, with laugh-out-loud humor and a cast of zany, endearing characters you won't forget, The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell is a big comic love story . . . and much more.


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Back to the overviewInstall LineageOS on
Installing a custom recovery using
Install LineageOS on
Samsung Galaxy S5 (International 3G)
Warning: The provided instructions are for LineageOS 14.1. These will only work if you follow every section and step precisely.
Do not continue after something fails!
Do not continue after something fails!
Basic requirements
- Read through the instructions at least once before actually following them, so as to avoid any problems due to any missed steps!
- Make sure your computer has
. Setup instructions can be found here. - Enable USB debugging on your device.
- Make sure that your model is actually listed in the "Supported models" section here (exact match required!)
- Boot your device with the stock OS at least once and check every functionality.
Warning: Make sure that you can send and receive SMS and place and receive calls (also via WiFi and LTE, if available), otherwise it won't work on LineageOS either! Additionally, some devices require that VoLTE/VoWiFi be utilized once on stock to provision IMS.
- LineageOS is provided as-is with no warranty. While we attempt to verify everything works you are installing this at your own risk!
Preparing for installation
Samsung devices come with a unique boot mode called "Download mode", which is very similar to "Fastboot mode" on some devices with unlocked bootloaders. Heimdall is a cross-platform, open-source tool for interfacing with Download mode on Samsung devices. The preferred method of installing a custom recovery is through Download Mode – rooting the stock firmware is neither necessary nor required.
- Download and install the appropriate version of the Heimdall suite for your machine's OS
- Windows: Extract the Heimdall suite zip and take note of the new directory containing
. You can verify Heimdall is functioning by opening a Command Prompt or PowerShell in that directory and runningheimdall version
.- If you receive an error, install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable Package (x86) on your computer.
- Linux: Extract the Heimdall suite zip and take note of the new directory containing
. Now copyheimdall
into a directory in $PATH, a common one on most distros will be /usr/local/bin. For examplecp heimdall /usr/local/bin
. You can verify Heimdall is functioning by opening a Terminal and runningheimdall version
. - macOS: Mount the Heimdall suite DMG. Now drag
down into the/usr/local/bin
symlink provided in the DMG. You can verify Heimdall is functioning by opening a Terminal and runningheimdall version
Note: These Heimdall suite distributions were built by LineageOS Developers Nolen Johnson (npjohnson) and Jan Altensen (Stricted), as the Heimdall suite executables distributed on the official Heimdall website were outdated and the repo mostly abandoned. Modifications were made to make it build and function on modern OSes. - Windows: Extract the Heimdall suite zip and take note of the new directory containing
- Power off the device, and boot it into download mode:
- With the device powered off, hold Volume Down + Home + Power.
- Now, click the button that the on screen instructions correlate to "Continue", and insert the USB cable into the device.
- For Windows users only: install the necessary drivers. A more complete set of instructions can be found in the Zadig user guide.
- If nothing relevant appears, try uninstalling any Samsung related Windows software, like Samsung Windows drivers and/or Samsung Kies.
- Run
found in your extracted Heimdall directory.Note: For the interested, source and documentation for zadig.exe can be found here. - Choose Options » List all devices from the menu.
- Select device with USB ID 04E8 685D from the drop down menu.
- Click Replace Driver, then selecting Install Driver from the drop down list built into the button.
- If you are prompted with a warning that the installer is unable to verify the publisher of the driver, select Install this driver anyway. You may receive two more prompts about security. Select the options that accept the warnings and allow you to carry on.
- On your machine, open a Command Prompt or PowerShell (Windows) window, or Terminal (Linux or macOS) window, and type:
heimdall print-pit
- If the device reboots that indicates that Heimdall is installed and working properly. If it does not, please refollow these instructions to verify steps weren't missed, try a different USB cable, and a different USB port.
Installing a custom recovery using heimdall
- Download a custom recovery - you can download TWRP. Simply download the latest recovery file, named something like
and rename it torecovery.img
.Tip: Ensure you download the.img
file and not the.tar
versions.Important: Other recoveries may not work for installation or updates. We strongly recommend to use the one linked above! - Power off the device, and boot it into download mode:
- With the device powered off, hold Volume Down + Home + Power.
- Now, click the button that the on screen instructions correlate to "Continue", and insert the USB cable into the device.
- On your machine, open a Command Prompt or PowerShell (Windows) window, or Terminal (Linux or macOS) window, and type:
heimdall flash --RECOVERY recovery.img --no-reboot
Tip: The file may not be named identically to what stands in this command, so adjust accordingly. If the file is wrapped in a zip or tar file, extract the file first, because Heimdall is not going to do it for you. - A transfer bar will appear on the device showing the recovery image being flashed.
Note: The device will continue to display
Downloading... Do not turn off target!!
even after the process is complete. - Unplug the USB cable from your device.
- Manually reboot into recovery, this may require pulling the device's battery out and putting it back in, or if you have a non-removable battery, press the Volume Down + Power buttons for 8~10 seconds until the screen turns black & release the buttons immediately when it does, then boot to recovery:
- With the device powered off, hold Volume Up + Home + Power.
Note: Be sure to reboot into recovery immediately after installing the custom recovery. If you don't the stock ROM will overwrite the custom recovery with the stock recovery, and you'll need to flash it again.
Installing LineageOS from recovery
- Build a LineageOS installation package.
- If you are not in recovery, reboot into recovery:
- With the device powered off, hold Volume Up + Home + Power.
- Now tap Wipe.
- Now tap Format Data and continue with the formatting process. This will remove encryption and delete all files stored in the internal storage.
- Return to the previous menu and tap Advanced Wipe, then select the Cache and System partitions and then Swipe to Wipe.
- Sideload the LineageOS
package:- On the device, select "Advanced", "ADB Sideload", then swipe to begin sideload.
- On the host machine, sideload the package using:
adb -d sideload filename.zip
.Tip: Normally, adb will reportTotal xfer: 1.00x
, but in some cases, even if the process succeeds the output will stop at 47% and reportadb: failed to read command: Success
. In some cases it will reportadb: failed to read command: No error
oradb: failed to read command: Undefined error: 0
which is also fine.
Installing Add-Ons
Note: If you don't want to install any add-on (such as Google Apps), you can skip this whole section!
If you want to install Google Apps add-on package (use the
architecture), you can download it from here.
This add-on needs to be installed before booting into LineageOS for the first time!- Repeat the sideload steps above for all desired packages in sequence.
All set!
Once you have installed everything successfully, you can now reboot your device into the OS for the first time!
- Run
adb -d reboot
The first boot usually takes no longer than 15 minutes, depending on the device.
If it takes longer, you may have missed a step, otherwise feel free to get assistance.
Warning: Depending on which recovery you use, you may be prompted to install additional apps and services.
We strongly advise you to opt out of installing these, as they may cause your device to bootloop,
as well as attempt to access or corrupt your data.
Get assistance
After you've double checked that you followed the steps precisely, didn't skip any and still have questions or got stuck, feel free to ask on our subreddit or in #LineageOS on Libera.Chat.


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Capitol rioters' social media posts influencing sentencings
Much of the most damning evidence has come from rioters' own words and videos.
For many rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, self-incriminating messages, photos and videos that they broadcast on social media before, during and after the insurrection are influencing even their criminal sentences.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Amy Jackson read aloud some of Russell Peterson's posts about the riot before she sentenced the Pennsylvania man to 30 days imprisonment. "Overall I had fun lol," Peterson posted on Facebook.
The judge told Peterson that his posts made it "extraordinarily difficult" for her to show him leniency.
"The 'lol' particularly stuck in my craw because, as I hope you've come to understand, nothing about January 6th was funny," Jackson added. "No one locked in a room, cowering under a table for hours, was laughing."
Among the biggest takeaways so far from the Justice Department's prosecution of the insurrection is how large a role social media has played, with much of the most damning evidence coming from rioters' own words and videos.
FBI agents have identified scores of rioters from public posts and records subpoenaed from social media platforms. Prosecutors use the posts to build cases. Judge now are citing defendants' words and images as factors weighing in favor of tougher sentences.
As of Friday, more than 50 people have been sentenced for federal crimes related to the insurrection. In at least 28 of those cases, prosecutors factored a defendant's social media posts into their requests for stricter sentences, according to an Associated Press review of court records.
Many rioters used social media to celebrate the violence or spew hateful rhetoric. Others used it to spread misinformation, promote baseless conspiracy theories or play down their actions. Prosecutors also have accused a few defendants of trying to destroy evidence by deleting posts.
Approximately 700 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the riot. About 150 of them have pleaded guilty. More than 20 defendants have been sentenced to jail or prison terms or to time already served behind bars. Over a dozen others received home confinement sentences.
Rioters' statements, in person or on social media, aren't the only consideration for prosecutors or judges. Justice Department sentencing memos say defendants also should be judged by whether they engaged in any violence or damaged property, whether they destroyed evidence, how long they spent inside the Capitol, where they went inside the building and whether they have shown sincere remorse.
Prosecutors recommended probation for Indiana hair salon owner Dona Sue Bissey, but Judge Tanya Chutkan sentenced her to two weeks in jail for her participation in the riot. The judge noted that Bisssey posted a screenshot of a Twitter post that read, "This is the First time the U.S. Capitol had been breached since it was attacked by the British in 1814."
"When Ms. Bissey got home, she was not struck with remorse or regret for what she had done," Chutkan said. "She is celebrating and bragging about her participation in what amounted to an attempted overthrow of the government."
FBI agents obtained a search warrant for Andrew Ryan Bennett's Facebook account after getting a tip that the Maryland man live-streamed video from inside the Capitol. Two days before the riot, Bennett posted a Facebook message that said, "You better be ready chaos is coming and I will be in DC on 1/6/2021 fighting for my freedom!."
Judge James Boasberg singled out that post as an "aggravating" factor weighing in favor of house arrest instead of a fully probationary sentence.
"The cornerstone of our democratic republic is the peaceful transfer of power after elections," the judge told Bennett. "What you and others did on January 6th was nothing less than an attempt to undermine that system of government."
Senior Judge Reggie Walton noted that Lori Ann Vinson publicly expressed pride in her actions at the Capitol during television news interviews and on Facebook.
"I understand that sometimes emotions get in the way and people do and say stupid things, because it was ridiculous what was said. But does that justify me giving a prison sentence or a jail sentence? That's a hard question for me to ask," Walton said.
In the case of Felipe Marquez, the judge found social media posts belied serious mental health issues that needed treatment rather than incarceration. Marquez recorded cellphone videos of himself with other rioters inside the office of Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. Back at home in Florida, Marquez posted a YouTube video in which he rapped about his riot experience to the tune of Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me." with lyrics that included, "We even fist-bumped police," and "We were taking selfies."
In the video, Marquez wore a T-shirt that said, "Property of FBI."
Prosecutors had recommended a four-month jail sentence, but U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras sentenced him instead to three months of home confinement with mental-health treatment, followed by probation. "I do think you have some serious issues you need to address. That played a large role in my sentencing decision," he said.
Prosecutors asked for a one-month jail sentence for Vinson, but the judge sentenced the Kentucky nurse to five years of probation and ordered her to pay a $5,000 fine and perform 120 hours of community service.
Judge Jackson gave Andrew Wrigley a history lesson before she sentenced the Pennsylvania man to 18 months of probation. Wrigley posted a photo on social media of him holding a 1776 flag during the riot. The judge said the gesture didn't honor the nation's founders.
"The point of 1776 was to let the people decide who would rule them. But the point of the attack on the Capitol was to stop that from happening," Jackson said. "The point of the attack on the Capitol was to subvert democracy, to substitute the will of the people with the will of the mob."
Videos captured New Jersey gym owner Scott Fairlamb punching a police officer outside the Capitol. His Facebook and Instagram posts showed he was prepared to commit violence in Washington, D.C., and had no remorse for his actions, prosecutors said.
Senior Judge Royce Lamberth said other rioters in Fairlamb's position would be "well advised" to join him in pleading guilty.
"You couldn't have beat this if you went to trial on the evidence that I saw," Lamberth said before sentencing Fairlamb to 41 months in prison.
But it worked to the advantage of one. Virginia charter boat captain Jacob Hiles likely avoided a stricter sentence by posting videos and photos of him and his cousin at the Capitol. A day after the riot, Hiles received a private Facebook message from a Capitol police officer who said he agreed with Hiles' "political stance" and encouraged him to delete his incriminating posts, according to prosecutors.
The officer, Michael Angelo Riley, deleted his communications with Hiles, but investigators recovered the messages from Hiles' Facebook account, prosecutors said. Riley was indicted in October on obstruction charges.
On Monday, Jackson sentenced Hiles to two years of probation. Prosecutors said the case against Riley may have been impossible without Hiles' cooperation.
Associated Press writer Lindsay Whitehurst in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.
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This is not a question as much as it is a discussion. I am curious to know what are the different techniques to tune the guitar (using standard tuning) given you know that one string is in tune. I usually tune the 1st string and then go on comparing E on B, B on G, G on D, D on A, A on E, and finally E with E,
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which is, maybe, the most common way.
But I've seen different guitarists use different methods. Are there any? Main aim here is to find out which is the quickest way to tune the guitar accurately once a single string is in tune.
EDIT: I do have a chromatic tuner, but this discussion is about tuning by ear.


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Important Concepts In Qt Quick - The Visual Canvas
The visual canvas provided by the Qt Quick is a two dimensional canvas with z-ordering.
Coordinate System
The top-left pixel in the Qt Quick coordinate system is the [0, 0] pixel. The coordinate system of a child item is relative to its visual parent item. See the documentation on the Coordinate System for in-depth information about the coordinate system utilized by Qt Quick.
Visual Parent
There are two separate kinds of parenting in a QML application which uses Qt Quick. The first kind is the ownership-parent (also known as the QObject parent) which determines object lifetime semantics. The second kind is the visual parent which determines where on the canvas an item is drawn, and also certain properties (for example, opacity applies to visual children).
In almost all cases, the visual parent is identical to the ownership-parent. See the documentation about the Visual Parent for more in-depth information on the topic.
Scene Graph
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A naked man driving a station wagon in Waukesha, Wisconsin was arrested after leading police on a chase.
Police said a resident reported a "suspicious person" near Carroll University just before midnight Wednesday. When an officer approached the 29-year-old man, he took off in the silver Volvo station wagon.
Officers pursued the vehicle but eventually lost him as they approached Waukesha's downtown.
Police caught up with the man later at an intersection where he had crashed after losing both front tires.
MORE: Watch the pursuit through Waukesha from rooftop camera
Officers followed on foot as the naked man jumped into the Fox River. After firefighters arrived on the scene with a rescue boat, they were eventually able to convince him to get out of the river, but the man was uncooperative.
"He lunged at officers, forcing them to utilize less lethal munitions, including a Taser in order to impede his assault and safely stabilize him," police said in a news release. This stabilization was necessary in order to get him under control and provide immediate medical treatment."
The man was on probation, police say. He faces potential charges of operating under the influence, eluding, resisting, prowling, lewd and lascivious behavior, and other traffic citations.


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United Nations and European Union sanctions targeting Iran's military and missile programs remain in place until 2020 and 2023, respectively. The sanctions target firms and individuals involved in these programs, including entities connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC). Over 200 entities are listed by the EU and subject to financial restrictions and travel prohibitions (in the case of individuals). A smaller number – less than 100 – remain designated by the United Nations.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The only man ever convicted in a U.S. court for a role in the Sept. 11 attacks now says he is renouncing terrorism, al-Qaida and ISIS.
Zacarias Moussaoui is serving a life sentence at a federal prison in Colorado after narrowly escaping the death penalty at his 2006 trial.
He was sometimes referred to as the missing 20th hijacker, and while he was clearly a member of al-Qaida there is scant evidence to suggest he was slated to hijack a plane on Sept. 11, 2001. Instead, prosecutors pinned responsibility on Moussaoui because they said he could have prevented the attacks if he had not lied to the FBI about his knowledge of al-Qaida and its efforts to attack the U.S. when he was arrested in August 2001.
In a handwritten court motion Moussaoui filed with the federal court in Alexandria last month, Moussaoui wrote, "I denounce, repudiate Usama bin Laden as a useful idiot of the CIA/Saudi. I also proclaim unequivocally my opposition to any terrorist action, attack, propaganda against the U.S."
He also said he wants "to warn young Muslim against the deception and the manipulation of these fake Jihadis."
His remarks are a far cry from his 2006 trial, when he taunted victims and flashed a victory sign after a jury opted to send him to prison for life rather than execute him. At his final sentencing hearing, he told the judge "God save Osama bin Laden you will never get him."
Bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces on a compound in Pakistan in 2011.
Moussaoui made his renunciation in a petition seeking relaxation of the special administrative measures under which he serves his sentence. In particular, he says he wants either Rudy Giuliani or Alan Dershowitz to represent him as a lawyer, so he can testify in a civil trial filed by victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. Prison documents filed with his motion indicate he received a response of some kind to a letter he wrote to the American Civil Liberties Union but was not allowed to see it because it was marked as privileged legal communication, and he is only allowed to receive the mail if the prison can can open and read it.
Moussaoui has a long history of writing letters to the court — indeed he served as his own lawyer for several years leading up to his trial and regularly wrote legal motions referring to himself as "Slave of Allah," a name he continues to use.
He has written numerous letters seeking to testify at the 9/11 civil trial, and at the military trials of al-Qaida members including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. But those requests have not included the explicit renunciation of terrorism that he includes in his most recent letter. As recently as 2018, he continued to refer to himself as a "natural born terrorist" in court papers. In another handwritten motion that year, he concluded his motion with "God Curse Ugly Satan of Abomination" in huge letters.
Katherine Donahue, an anthropology professor at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, who wrote a book about Moussaoui called "Slave of Allah" after attending his 2006 trial, said she was unaware of any other instance in which Moussaoui had renounced terrorism or bin Laden. She said she expects he is being truthful, even though he admitted at his trial that he lied to the FBI after his arrest.
"He's been there 14 years. It's a long time to think about what you've done," she said. "I don't see him lying. … There were so many ways he could have helped himself before by lying" but he didn't.
Terry Strada, whose husband died in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center and is one of the plaintiffs suing Saudi Arabia for its alleged complicity in the attacks, was more skeptical.
"I don't trust him, that he's reformed himself in prison," she said. "I wouldn't trust him around anybody's youth."
Lawyers representing the 9/11 plaintiffs did not return calls and emails seeking comment, nor did Giuliani or Dershowitz.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who presided over Moussaoui's trial and was regularly subjected to Moussaoui's insults in court papers, denied his request and said any grievance he has about the treatment he's receiving in prison should be filed in Colorado where he resides.
"Raising these issues with this Court is an act of futility," Brinkema wrote.
Moussaoui has appealed her denial to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia.
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Two days after Israel submitted its response to the Goldstone report that accused the IDF of possible crimes against humanity during last year's Operation Cast Lead, prominent lawyer and political commentator Professor Alan Dershowitz said that the jurist, someone he once considered a friend, was "a traitor to the Jewish people."Immediately after his comments was broadcast, former Meretz head Shulamit Aloni slammed Dershowitz's remarks, saying he "certainly does not represent the entire Jewish community."
Speaking to Army Radio, Dershowitz said the "Goldstone report is a defamation written by an evil, evil man."
He said the jurist "allowed himself to be used to give a hechsher, a certification of purity, to defamation," and that Goldstone is a "man who uses his language and words against the Jewish people."
Elaborating, the professor said that it would be as if the writers of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion "had asked a prominent Jew to read the report and sign it" to give it approval.
"I regarded him as a friend, but I now regard him as an absolute traitor," he said. (JPost)
She called him "an abnormal patriot to the IDF who is always extreme," and said his remarks about Goldstone were "shameful." "It's simply hatred and lashon hara," she went on. "Anyway, I know how he relates to the left-wing, so he's unimportant in my eyes." Aloni said that while she understood [Israel?] 's need to retaliate for attacks from [Bloodthirsty Hamas terrorists?], it "doesn't justify" the army's "use of phosphorus and its bombing of schools" in the territory, which she said were "against international law."
If anything, Shulamit Aloni, "certainly does not represent the entire Jewish community," and she is the lunatic left wing fringe of Israeli society.
She should simply just join up with another blogger, "Not My Tribe" who casts Sederot residents as "settlers" who are "occupied" Sderot combatants or simply human shields of the IDF.
The sooner Israel's radical left admits they are simply "not part of the tribe" -- the clearer everything will be for all of us. If there is absolutely no common denominator with Shulamit Aloni and her followers -- then why not do us all a favor and go somewhere else.
It must drive Aloni mad that her grandchildren are religious, chareidi Jews.
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Title: Reward of Three
Author: Kelly Jamieson
Release Date: July 8th, 2014
About Reward Of Three (Rule of Three #3):
When the pregnancy test turns positive, Kassidy, Dag and Chris are thrilled they're going to be parents at last. Their polyamorous relationship has blossomed, and there's more than enough love to go around for their long-awaited little "Belly Bean".
Then reality sets in. Dag grew up without a father. Does that mean he's too damaged to be a good role model? Kassidy is at a critical point in her career, working long hours on a high-profile project. And Chris gets a disappointing—but not exactly unexpected—reaction when he contacts his parents with the news.
As worry nibbles at the edges of their happiness, fate is poised to tear it to shreds, leaving a loving foundation three years in the making cracking under the weight of grief and guilt. And the trio in the fight of their lives to repair their unconventional bonds.
Warning: Our sexy threesome is back for their happy ending. Keep extra tissues on hand for tears, a fan on standby for hot sex, and a post-it note to remind you to take a deep breath. It's time to find out if the juice is really worth the squeeze.
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"What should we name her?" she asked.
Chris and Dag both laughed. "Her?" they said.
She grinned. "It could be a girl."
"You want a girl, babe?" Dag laid his palm on her stomach.
"I'm supposed to say I just want a healthy baby, but I kind of do want a little girl."
"A little girl would be awesome."
"But I really do just want a healthy baby," she added. "Boys can be fun too, and since he'll have two dads, I won't have to worry that I don't know how to entertain him."
"We'll take him to strip clubs," Dag said. "And teach him how to shoot tequila."
Kassidy giggled and gave him a little punch. "Right."
"Hey," he said. "Those are important things in a man's life. Along with hookers, fast cars and guns."
Kassidy stared at him in horror. "Hookers?" Her forehead tightened. "You've never gone to a hooker, have you?"
"Fuck no. I'm kidding, babe. About the guns too. Fast cars, maybe not."
"Oh. For a minute there I was having second thoughts about this."
Dag nuzzled her neck and Chris laughed. "You know he's full of shit."
"November." Dag sighed. "That's not far."
"About nine months," Kassidy said, trying not to smile, and earned herself a tickle.
"Can we have sex?" Chris asked.
"Right this minute?"
His lips twitched. "I meant for the next nine months."
"Christ," Dag said. "Please say yes."
"God yes," Kassidy said. "But even if we couldn't, you two still could with each other. Major benefit of a poly relationship. However, I've already Googled it and learned all about sex while pregnant. Apparently there's increased blood flow to your pelvic area during pregnancy, which can make your genitals swell and heighten sexual sensation."
Dag blanched. "My genitals are gonna swell?"
Kassidy giggled. "I certainly hope so. But no more than usual. Come on, follow along here. My genitals may swell."
"Christ," Chris said.
"However, some women report they can't orgasm as easily."
"We'll just have to try harder," Dag vowed.
"Thank you," she said demurely. "I appreciate that. Apparently, many couples find they feel more pleasure from foreplay, oral sex or masturbation than intercourse. So lots of foreplay would be good."
The two guys gave each other evil grins.
"Assuming I don't have morning sickness," she continued. "Because barfing during sex is not, well, sexy."
"But it's supposedly important to keep some level of intimacy going throughout pregnancy, to keep the relationship healthy but also to prevent sexual problems after the baby is born."
Chris frowned. "Why would we have sexual problems after the baby is born?"
"Possibly because after I give birth I will not want you to touch me ever again."
Both guys' jaws dropped.
"Kidding! Sort of. Seriously, it might take a while after the baby's born before I'm ready to have sex again—with one man, never mind two! You two could get antsy. But then again, you have each other, which takes some pressure off me." She beamed at them. "This is going to work out great. Not only that—three of us to take turns with diapers and middle of the night feedings."
"Diapers. Ugh." The corners of Dag's mouth turned down.
"You'll be changing your fair share," Kassidy said with a little smack to his shoulder. "Don't even think otherwise."
He groaned, but she caught the soft look in his eyes.
"I'm scared too," she whispered. "This is a big deal, you guys."
"Babe." Dag curled his hand around the back of her neck. "You're amazing. You're gonna be a great mom. The best. Love you so much."
"I love you too, Kass." Chris nuzzled her ear. "He's right. And we're right here with you all the way."
"Th-thanks." She swallowed. She didn't feel much different. Her breasts were a little tender, like around the time of her period. Luckily she didn't feel sick at all. She hoped that continued.
"Speaking of sex…" Dag rose and pulled her by one hand to stand. "Let's go celebrate."
The Rule Of Three series by Kelly Jamieson
About Kelly Jamieson:
Kelly Jamieson writes romances with heat that's sweet. Her writing has been described as "emotionally complex", "sweet and satisfying" and "blisteringly sexy". If she can stop herself from reading or writing, she loves to cook. She has shelves of cookbooks that she reads at length. She also enjoys gardening in the summer, and in the winter she likes to read gardening magazines and seed catalogues (there might be a theme here...) She also loves shopping, especially for clothes and shoes. But her family takes precedence over everything else (yes, even writing). She has two teenage children who are the best kids in the world, not that she's biased, and a wonderful husband who does loads of laundry while she plays on the computer writing stories.


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Why Are Millenials So Against Baby Boomers?
PolicyMic is a blog dedicated to young people — millenials, a term I heard for the first time just a few months ago. I resorted to Wikipedia, which is pretty much an invention of millennials to find a profile for this group.
Wikimedia states, "There is no precise dates for when the Millennial Generation starts and ends, and commentators have used birth dates ranging somewhere from the 1970s ... or late as [the] 2000s."
"Characteristics of the generation vary ... However, it is generally marked by an increased use and familiarity with communication, media, and digital technologies. In most parts of the world its upbringing was marked by an increase in a neoliberal approach to politics and economics."
So, there you have it. Millennials are young, unproven for the most part, cellphone and Facebook experts, who have new and liberal perspectives about politics and economics. In defense of millennials, they really have not been around long enough to change the world, with the exception of Mark Zuckerberg. No doubt, there are some real dynamos and intellects in the group. I know; I debate with them regularly on line.
What has been raking on me for several months is that essays and comments on PolicyMic have become more emboldened, and that millennials often express an unhealthy perception of baby boomers. Disclosure: I am a baby boomer having been born a few years after the end of World War II. I say unhealthy because the phrase "the mess caused by baby boomers" is often bandied about.
Granted some baby boomers like George W. Bush and his cronies really screwed up America over the past decade. And, I should mention the issues arising from the housing meltdown that are also attributable to baby boomers. And, many baby boomers looked the other way as our environment was being poisoned. And baby boomers are in the middle of the income inequality brouhaha. Well, baby boomers are pretty much responsible for everything that is bad in our society today. They are also responsible for everything that is good. I will resist the urge to list the advances over the past 40 or 50 years.
Millennials strut around with an arrogance that could eventually bite them in their young asses, when they are held accountable for the bad and the good in a few decades. You think you can do better, right? Well, I think you can do better too, but you have to prove it. Spouting off, complaining, demeaning, pointing fingers and the like will not make your generation a great one. OWS was a step backwards in my opinion.
No, problem solving, making peace, compromising, tolerance (not just about social differences, but about life styles as well) and working hard will enable you to move our society forward. The areas that need focus include: government (which is not working well at this time), business (do not abandon capitalism, it is the fundamental building block of a great economy), income inequality (do not drag high achievers down, drag low achievers up), religion (protect it, but keep it out of government), morals (cheating, in school, in business, on tax forms, on health care forms, must end), etc.
To get the job done, you should not discount the wisdom of the generation that preceded you. Learn from them; do not make the same mistakes they did. And most important, be humble, make your bones and do not assume you know everything before you have done anything. A fine wine takes years to mature.
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Dr. Weeks' Comment: We lose weight in our sleep – provided we do not feel stressed when sleeping which leads to elevated night time cortisol (stress hormone) levels.
Lack of Sleep Is Linked to Obesity, New Evidence Shows
ScienceDaily (Apr. 17, 2012) "" Can lack of sleep make you fat? A new paper which reviews the evidence from sleep restriction studies reveals that inadequate sleep is linked to obesity. The research, published in a special issue of the The American Journal of Human Biology, explores how lack of sleep can impact appetite regulation, impair glucose metabolism and increase blood pressure.
"Obesity develops when energy intake is greater than expenditure. Diet and physical activity play an important part in this, but an additional factor may be inadequate sleep," said Dr Kristen Knutson, from the University of Chicago. "A review of the evidence shows how short or poor quality sleep is linked to increased risk of obesity by de-regulating appetite, leading to increased energy consumption."
Dr Knutson accumulated evidence from experimental and observational studies of sleep. Observational studies revealed cross-sectional associations between getting fewer than six hours sleep and increased body mass index (BMI) or obesity.
The studies revealed how signals from the brain which control appetite regulation are impacted by experimental sleep restriction. Inadequate sleep impacts secretion of the signal hormones ghrelin, which increases appetite, and leptin, which indicates when the body is satiated. This can lead to increased food intake without the compensating energy expenditure.
"In the United States 18% of adults are estimated to get less than 6 hours of sleep, which equates to 53 million short sleepers who may be at risk of associated obesity," said Knutson. "Poor sleeping patterns are not random and it is important to consider the social, cultural and environmental factors which can cause inadequate sleep so at-risk groups can be identified."
The evidence suggests the association between inadequate sleep and higher BMI is stronger in children and adolescents. It also shows that sleep deficiency in lower socioeconomic groups may result in greater associated obesity risks.
The majority of the studies Dr Knutson examined came from Western countries, which highlights the need for more research to understand sleep's role in disease risk. However other research papers in the special issue focus on obesity in the United Arab Emirates, Samoa, and Brazil.
"These findings show that sleeping poorly can increase a person's risk of developing obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease," concluded Knutson. "Future research should determine whether efforts to improve sleep can also help prevent the development of these diseases or improve the lives of patients with these conditions."
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- Kristen L. Knutson. Does inadequate sleep play a role in vulnerability to obesity? American Journal of Human Biology, 2012; 24 (3): 361 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22219


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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: In our exclusive leaked audio, climate denial kingpin billionaire David Koch calls NJ's Chris Christie "my kind of guy" and reveals they met privately before the Governor pulled out of a major greenhouse gas initiative; Wednesday's GOP debate goes from science to fiction; Gov. Perry's TX is now the hottest state ever on record! PLUS: The planet is still not listening to Republicans ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Skeptical Science Wins Award for Demolishing Denier Myths; Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers; Bankrupt Solar Company Solyndra Raided by F.B.I.; Solar PV systems to double on Americans homes by 2016; BP removes tar balls in Alabama; Nobel Winners Call On Obama to Reject Keystone XL Pipeline; Attack of the Monsanto Superinsects; Policing Your Power-Hungry Appliances; Is Obama's reluctance to mention climate change motivated by a false assumption about public opinion?... PLUS: Climate Change: An Issue This Critical Demands at Least 45 Seconds of Real, Concentrated Panic Each Week ...
- Lou Dobbs Lies About Climate Science:
- Lou Dobbs Calls Human-Caused Global Warming A "Largely Democratic Belief" (Media Matters.org)
- Politifact: Do scientists disagree about global warming? [No.] (Politifact)
- Extreme Weather in 2011 Is Extremely Extreme:
- Texas sets record for hottest summer in US: Oklahoma Dust Bowl days fall to third-highest; South's drought grows more dire (MSNBC):
Texas just finished the hottest June through August on record for any state in the U.S., weather officials said Thursday.
...The records were announced as raging wildfires and scorching heat continued across the South over the past week, adding to the human, economic and agricultural toll of a historic drought that climatologists said was only growing more dire. - Flooding leads to evacuations of 100,000 in PA (AP)
- 3 dead as remnants of Lee trigger historic flooding across Northeast (CNN)
- Hershey, Pa., zoo euthanizes drowning bison (USA Today)
- Texas Pleads for Help as Fires Sear State (Los Angeles Times)
- A Hidden Factor Behind Losses in Texas Fires (NYT Dot Earth)
- Six of the 10 largest wildfires in Texas history occurred in 2011
- Texas has been fighting wildfires for 295 days, since 11/15/2010
- VIDEO: This is how fast wildfire spreads (YouTube)
- U.S. Gulf Crudes Fluctuate as Tropical Storm Whips Mexican Rigs (Bloomberg)
- Economic Impact Of Texas Drought Could Be Greater Than Cost From Irene (Think Progress Green):
[T]he cost of the Texas drought, which climate change pushed to extremes, may be greater economic disaster. Earlier this month, Texas Agrilife Extension Service estimated losses to be at $5.2 billion - already greater than the $4.1 billion of losses from the 2006 drought. "This drought is just strangling our agricultural economy," professor Travis Miller, of Texas A&M University's Department of Soil and Crop Sciences. Losses, told TIME Magazine. - Atmospheric Forces Conspire to Make 2011 a Wild Year (Live Science)
- Politifact: Do scientists disagree about global warming? [No.] (Politifact)
- Conservative, white men most likely to be climate change sceptics, study shows (Guardian UK):
The demographic was more than twice as likely than other adults to say the media exaggerated seriousness of climate change. - EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Audio Tapes From the Koch Brothers' Secret Seminar Show Chris Christie Withdrew from Greenhouse Gas Agreement AFTER Meeting with David Koch:
- 'Inside the Koch Brothers 2011 Summer Seminar': Part 2 of My 2-Part Exclusive at MOTHER JONES (The BRAD BLOG)
David Koch, introducing Christie: Five months ago we met in my New York City office and spoke — just the two of us — for about two hours on his objectives and successes in correcting many of the most serious problems of the New Jersey state government. At the end of our conversation, I said to myself, "I'm really impressed and inspired by this man. He is my kind of guy."
Another example of Governor Christie's commitment to the free enterprise system is that only a few weeks ago he announced that New Jersey would be withdrawing from the [Regional] Greenhouse Gas Initiative which is a [cheers and applause], which would have raised energy costs, reduced economic growth and led to very little, if any, benefit for the environment. [A 'boo' is heard.] - Part 2 of Our Koch Exclusive Brings Political Firestorms to Chris Christie's New Jersey (The BRAD BLOG)
- NJ Sen. Diane Allen blames Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative for Ocean Spray's pending departure from Bordentown facility: FALSE (Politifact) [emphasis added]:
Across the 10-state region within the RGGI, the emissions cap accounted for between 0.24 and 0.61 percent of average residential electricity bills in 2010, according to a fact sheet prepared by RGGI. That impact represents 46 extra cents per month for a typical household's electricity usage, according to the RGGI. - Gov. Christie quit RGGI pact after secret meetings with oil billionaires (Press of Atlantic City)
- Christie Stunner: NJ Gov Met With Pollutocrat Koch Before Pulling Out of Successful Carbon Pollution Reduction Program (Climate Progress)
- FULL VIDEO: Republican, GOP Reagan Library Debate September 7, 2011 (LeftCoastRebel)
- Huntsman Warns That GOP Can't Win the White House by Denying Climate Science (NY Times)
- Perry Over His Head On Climate Change (Howard Fineman, Huffington Post Green) [emphasis added]:
"Galileo was outnumbered for a spell!" he declared. He got the analogy exactly wrong. Galileo was the scientist; the church and its allies, who knew nothing about the scientific method, were lined up against him. He never answered the question about which scientists he had consulted. He suddenly looked like the guy Karl Rove says he is, "a guy who only cares about soundbites." - Rick Perry: The EPA 'Won't Know What Hit 'Em' (Climate Progress)
- Rick Perry says more and more scientists are questioning global warming: FALSE (Politifact)
- For EPA regulations, benefits consistently exceed costs (Climate Progress)
- Obama Can't Catch A Break On Oil (Grist):
"The figure reflects a huge surge in U.S. oil drilling, up nearly 60 percent in the past year and the highest total since at least 1987, when oil services company Baker Hughes Inc. began keeping track," notes the WSJ. - Obama pushes nuclear energy to boost climate bill (AP)
- Bad science, the echo chamber, and peer review. How the climate skeptics thrive (LA Times)
- Analysis: A Debate Arises on Job Creation and Environment (NY Times)
- Conservative Media Declare That Solar Power "Doesn't Work" (Media Matters.org)
- In The Future, The Only Jobs Left Will Be Green (Climate Progress)
- Surprising Areas See Growth In Green Jobs (NPR):
When you think about Green Energy and its jobs, Albany, N.Y., probably wouldn't be the first city that pops into your head. But according to a report, the upstate New York region has the highest concentration of green jobs in the country. Another surprising area in the top 10: Cleveland and northeast Ohio. - 2.7 million jobs across the clean economy outnumber fossil fuel jobs (Brookings Institute)
- For every million dollars spent, 16.7 green jobs are created vs. 5.3 jobs in fossil fuels (UMass Political Economy Institute) [pdf]
- What The Media Won't — Or Can't — Tell You About The Jobs Crisis (Talking Points Memo)
- Oil Industry Report Outlines How to Create Temporary Jobs While Permanently Destroying the Climate (Climate Progress)
- Key Source Disputes Misleading NY Times Green Jobs Story: 'It's Like the Facts Were Misstated … to Put Forward an Agenda' (Climate Progress)
- Arctic Death Spiral Continues: Sea Ice Volume Hits Record Low for Second Straight Year (Climate Progress)
- Total Arctic sea ice at record low in 2010: study (Reuters):
The minimum summertime volume of Arctic sea ice fell to a record low last year, researchers said in a study to be published shortly, suggesting that thinning of the ice had outweighed a recovery in area.The study estimated last year broke the previous, 2007 record for the minimum volume of ice, which is calculated from a combination of sea ice area and thickness.
- Experts drill Arctic ice to fathom speed of melt (Reuters)
- Scientists to track acidification in Arctic Ocean (Reuters)
'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (Stuff we didn't have time for in today's audio report)...
- Skeptical Science Wins Award for Demolishing Denier Myths (Climate Progress):
John Cook, founder of the blog Skeptical Science, has won the New South Wales Government Eureka Prize for Advancement of Climate Change Knowledge. It is "awarded to an Australian individual, group or organisation for communication that motivates action to reduce the impacts of climate change."I know what you're thinking — there's an English-speaking government that awards prizes for advancing climate change knowledge — let's move there! But there's no need to move — the American government's lack of climate knowledge means we'll have Australia's climate soon enough!
- Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers (NY Times):
Though the electricity figure may seem large, the company asserts that the world is using less energy as a result of the billions of operations carried out in Google data centers. Google says people should consider things like the amount of gasoline saved when someone conducts a Google search rather than, say, driving to the library. "They look big in the small context," Urs Hoelzle, Google's senior vice president of technical infrastructure, said in an interview. - Bankrupt Solar Company Solyndra Raided by F.B.I. (NY Times):
The search was part of an investigation into $527 million worth of loans the company received from the Treasury Department that were guaranteed by the Department of Energy under a highly touted federal stimulus program."The F.B.I. is here. We don't know the specifics," said David Miller, a Solyndra spokesman. "It is in connection with the loan guarantee, but other than that we don't know."
- Solar Comes of Age: SolarCity to Double PV Systems on Americans Homes by 2016 (Climate Progress)
- BP removes tar balls in Alabama (AP):
BP workers used fishing nets to scoop tar balls off Alabama's Gulf Coast beaches yesterday after the sands were fouled by gooey, dark gobs churned up by heavy surf from tropical system Lee. - Interior Employee Set Off Inquiry on Polar Scientist, Official Says (NYT Green)
- Nobel Winners Call On Obama to Reject Keystone XL Pipeline (Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones)
- Attack of the Monsanto Superinsects (Mother Jones)
- Policing Your Power-Hungry Appliances (NY Times)
- Polling Expert: Is Obama's Reluctance to Mention Climate Change Motivated by a False Assumption About Public Opinion? (Climate Progress)
- The Onion on Climate Change: An Issue This Critical Demands at Least 45 Seconds of Real, Concentrated Panic Each Week (The Onion):
Indeed, if there was ever a time when a desperate call to take action against global warming should race through our heads as we lie in bed and stare at the ceiling, that time is now.Many well-intentioned people will take 20 seconds out of their week to consider the consequences of the lifestyle they've chosen, perhaps contemplating how their reliance on fossil fuels has contributed to the rapid melting of the Arctic ice cap. But if progress is what we truly want, 20 seconds is simply not enough. Not by a long shot. An issue this critical demands at least 45 seconds to a solid minute of real, concentrated panic.


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Applying the DRY software priniciple to Kyverno's Policy-as-Code for Kubernetes and cloud native environments!
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Guest Contributors: Benoit Schipper (HCS), Marcel Booms (HCS) OpenShift's Built-In Security Features OpenShift is renowned for its robust out-of-the-box security features, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), built-in network policies, and default admission controllers. These features collectively establish a secure default state for OpenShift clusters. However,…
Kyverno, an open source CNCF policy engine created by Nirmata, has seen rapid adoption as it helps enterprises ensure the security, compliance, and governance of their Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native infrastructure and applications. However, using open-source Kyverno in mission-critical environments poses several challenges that…
Radhesh is Managing Partner of Arka Venture Labs. Arka Venture Labs is an Accelerator fund which assists Indian B2B Startups to foray into US by providing a combination of Funding, Mentoring and access to Silicon Valley Ecosystem. Arka Venture Labs was formed in August 2018 and has made 9 investments so far. Prior to starting Arka, Radhesh was Venture Advisor to Blume Ventures, focusing on early stage B2B Startups investments. Before this he was leading the Global Entrepreneur Program, for IBM India and South Asia. He exhibited strong leadership in steering the Startup initiative of IBM from scratch to one of the companies to be reckoned by the Startup ecosystem in India and generating strong revenues for IBM India Cloud business. He has helped many B2B startups scale in their journey by mentoring them, facilitating access to funds and customers.
He has core competency in evaluating startups leveraging technology and advising them on areas of improvement from business and technology standpoint. He conceptualized IBM India`s Startup challenge called IBM India Smartcamp and successfully executed the same. Radhesh has personally curated the startups for the finals, many of whom got funding either for the first time or for their subsequent rounds.He also worked with large enterprises in assisting them in identifying the next generation innovations through joint hackathons and startup challenges.
Prior to this role at IBM he was working as a Software Architect where he was designing Software solutions for Enterprise Clients, ISVs and System Integrators. He created many First of its kind solutions and led several key Sales wins for IBM. Radhesh has strong skills in building strategic relationships with Partner organizations.
Anubhav is VP of Business Development and Customer Success. He has 20+ years of experience in building and growing businesses across service provider, enterprise and commercial sectors. He has led functions in business development, product management, marketing, delivery and operations through his career, and most recently served as GM for the $250M Web-scale Services business at Cisco.
Anubhav is passionate about building new solutions and teams, and growing new market segments. At Cisco, he grew business 30-40% annually for many years while also building new offers, a world class team and a global delivery model.
Throughout his career, Anubhav has straddled technical, operational and business domains to bring new solutions around real-time analytics, operational assessments and network lifecycle management. Most recently, he was involved in bringing in new offers around recently launched Business Critical Services, a $2.5B business for Cisco. Before leaving Cisco, Anubhav signed off with a $350M multi-year deal built entirely around new solutions and engagement model with an innovative commercial structure.
Anubhav brings to Nirmata's product development and organization an extensive experience developing both custom and standard subscription services, which was significantly formed by his time spent building analytics solutions at Cisco. This perspective on building bleeding edge solutions is evident in his business outlook, which recognizes that best solutions are built with the customers, by listening to them and partnering in risk taking when breaking new ground.
Anubhav holds bachelor's degrees in both physics and electronics and telecommunications from Mumbai University and an MBA from San Jose State University.
Ritesh Patel is co-founder of Nirmata and has 20+ years experience building and delivering enterprise software solutions and has led highly successful software and business development teams. Ritesh began his career in engineering for high tech firms, and has since migrated to the business side of the operation. In his founding of Nirmata, Ritesh sought to bring his broad spectrum of experience to a single previously unaddressed industry problem through the creation of a new business. To Nirmata's leadership, Ritesh brings a rare skill set incorporating experience with the entire chain of software development activities. This background has contributed to Nirmata's commitment to empowering all employees to do the hard work required to deliver tools that solve tough problems.
Prior to Nirmata, Ritesh led business development at Brocade, where he was responsible for defining the firm's cloud strategy, and oversaw developments that advanced the entire cloud "as-a-service" market. Through cloud and security-related initiatives, Ritesh and his team at Brocade were able to package Brocade's plethora of IT infrastructure products into enterprise-ready solutions including OpenStack and CloudStack that pioneered widespread cloud computing implementation. In addition to these technical achievements, Ritesh succeeded in creating an extensive partner ecosystem to efficiently match these solutions with urgent customer needs.
Ritesh has also held key technical positions at Trapeze Networks (where he created industry award-winning products), Nortel, and Motorola. Ritesh holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and a master's degree in computer engineering from Michigan State University.
Damien Toledo is Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering, overseeing research and development, operations, maintenance, and delivery of Nirmata products. Damien brings over 20 years experience leading global engineering teams and delivering Enterprise grade solutions.
Since 1998 when he arrived in Silicon Valley from France to pursue the possibilities of US startup culture, Damien has held a number of engineering positions at high tech firms, each of which playing a role in the concept development for Nirmata. Building on lessons learned in management transformation at Jetstream Communications in the early 2000s, Damien built the Meru Networks Network Management team and Network Management solution from the ground up as one of the firm's original members. Meru Networks went public in 2010 (NASDAQ:MERU).
Subsequent to his work at Meru, Damien led the transformation of the engineering team at Netscout to build an agile organization. At Netscout, he championed the adoption of Continuous Integration best practices across a team of 200+ engineers and 7 development sites, which resulted in reducing the software release cycles by 300%. While at Netscout and together with Nirmata co-founder Jim Bugwadia, Damien oversaw the adoption of microservices while searching for solutions to operating quickly in the cloud, and developed the foundations for what would become Nirmata.
Damien holds a master's degree in computer science from University of Technology of Compiègne.
Jim Bugwadia has 20+ years experience building and leading effective teams and has created software that powers communications systems around the world.
Jim was among the original architects and business leaders within Cisco's cloud automation practice, where he helped grow revenues to over $250M. During Jim's tenure, IDC recognized the practice as #1 in global cloud services.
Prior to his work at Cisco, Jim led engineering teams at startups including Pano Logic, a desktop virtualization startup recognized for its innovative design by Wired magazine; Trapeze Networks, a wireless pioneer; and Jetstream Communications, a telecom equipment manufacturer. Jim started his career developing C++ software at Motorola for cellular network infrastructure where his team launched the world's first cellular telephony that used code division multiplexing to optimize radio frequency usage.
Jim's passion is to simplify the use of complex systems by providing well designed products that drive mass adoption of new technologies. As software has become mission critical to all businesses, Jim and his co-founders started Nirmata to help enterprises automate the delivery and management of applications. Jim currently develops software in Java, Golang, and Javascript, and is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator who actively participates in Nirmata's full product lifecycle.
Over the course of his career, Jim has logged over $1.3B in revenue, 6 patent filings, 8 major product launches, and 29 years experience coding.
Jim holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Chicago State University and a master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.


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Philadelphia, the poorest big city in the country, just enacted the most sweeping bill yet to give low-wage workers some control over their schedules.
The city's new law, which passed the city council on Thursday, will require businesses with more than 250 employees and more than 30 locations worldwide to provide employees their schedules at least 10 days in advance. If any changes are made to their schedules after that, employers will owe employees more money. Employers will also be required to offer more hours as they become available to existing employees who want them rather than hiring new people, and they'll be banned from retaliating against those who either request or decline more hours.
The law is poised to have a huge impact: A recent survey conducted by UC Berkeley found that among food and retail sector workers in Philadelphia, 62 percent receive their schedules less than two weeks ahead of time and two-thirds work irregular or variable schedules. Almost half usually work 30 hours or less each week even though less than 15 percent have a second job to supplement their incomes.
"It seems that employers are being less and less cognizant of their workers' needs and home lives," noted Nadia Hewka, an employment lawyer with Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, which advocated for the bill. "This would just put a little bit of balance back into that equation."
The effort to help workers control their schedules started around a year ago, when advocates convened to discuss how Philadelphia could take action on its own to improve living standards for its residents. "Philadelphia is a very high-poverty city," Hewka noted. More than a quarter of the city's population lives below the poverty line. So advocates were interested in "anything that we can do to raise the bottom just a little bit." But thanks to a state preemption law, the city can't raise the minimum wage—that power is reserved for the state government. So the city council has turned to a number of other measures that can make life for working people easier: paid sick leave, an anti-wage theft ordinance, a salary history ban, ban the box legislation and now a fair scheduling law.
"What I know is that I can't be paralyzed just because the state has limited our capacity to be able to directly raise the minimum wage," said Helen Gym, the first-term councilmember who introduced the fair workweek bill. "We have to talk about other things that impact people's lives and could also improve them."
The former community organizer came into the council looking for something that could "really grapple with this incredibly vast and intractable situation around deep and entrenched poverty in our city." As she spoke with low-wage workers and those who work with them—teachers, lawyers, anti-poverty advocates—everyone brought up how unstable schedules were disrupting people's lives. "This was a major, major issue," she said.
"As a municipality, we have to do something," she added. "We have the authority and the responsibility to act here as one of the largest cities in the country." Her colleagues apparently agreed: "It has been one of the most popular bills to move through our council in a while," she said.
While other places, such as Oregon, New York City, San Francisco and Seattle, have similar scheduling legislation, Philadelphia's goes further by covering workers in all industries, not just those in retail. "Of all the bills that exist around the country, ours will be the most far-reaching," Gym noted. Hewka credits the involvement of UNITE HERE Philly, which represents hotel and restaurant workers and advocated for the bill.
Hewka sees the new law as an anti-poverty measure. It's difficult "when you don't know how many hours you're working and how much you'll be earning by the end of the week or the end of the month to make the bills you need to make," she said. Someone's income isn't just determined by her wage, but by how many hours she works. A more predictable set of hours, and the ability to get more as they become available, can make a big difference.
And there are other benefits to a steady schedule. Hewka noted that many people feel that if minimum wage workers don't like their pay they should get better jobs. "How are you supposed to improve your lot in life and go to school if your class schedules are set and your work schedule always changes?" Hewka noted. It's also nearly impossible to hold down a second job to make ends meet if the first one is constantly shifting.
The bind is particularly tight for parents. "When [workers] are not allowed to have a say in their schedules," Hewka said, "it impacts their entire family." One big hurdle is finding childcare to fit a work schedule when that work schedule is constantly shifting.
On top of that, parents have to get their children to school, doctors' offices, after-school activities and other appointments. Poor families are also often navigating the demands of welfare offices or child services, Hewka pointed out, all of which typically require daytime appointments. "All of these systems assume that you're available to do these tasks," she said. She has even had clients fail to show up to meetings in her office because they had to be at work instead.
"Jobs don't recognize [workers'] humanity, let alone these kinds of demands on their lives," she added. "You're spinning plates up in the air with all of these things in your life. A work schedule changing can really cause everything to come crashing down."
Gym hopes not just to improve Philadelphians' working lives, but to make a bigger impact. "We're trying to change the way in which we talk about poverty and the nature of work these days," she said. "Not only did we set a standard for what happens around the state, but we sent a message across the nation that we need to see an economic justice agenda."
This article was originally published at In These Times on December 6, 2018. Reprinted with permission.
About the Author: Bryce Covert, a contributing op-ed writer at the New York Times, has written for The New Republic, The Nation, the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, New York Magazine and Slate, and has appeared on ABC, CBS, MSNBC and NPR. She won a 2016 Exceptional Merit in Media Award from the National Women's Political Caucus.


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Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4
This document describes how to efficiently serve an
arbitrary number of virtual hosts with the Apache HTTP Server. A
separate document discusses using
to create dynamic mass virtual hosts.
The techniques described here are of interest if your
contains many
sections that are
substantially the same, for example:
<VirtualHost 188.8.131.52> ServerName customer-1.example.com DocumentRoot "/www/hosts/customer-1.example.com/docs" ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/www/hosts/customer-1.example.com/cgi-bin" </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 22.214.171.124> ServerName customer-2.example.com DocumentRoot "/www/hosts/customer-2.example.com/docs" ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/www/hosts/customer-2.example.com/cgi-bin" </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 22.214.171.124> ServerName customer-N.example.com DocumentRoot "/www/hosts/customer-N.example.com/docs" ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/www/hosts/customer-N.example.com/cgi-bin" </VirtualHost>
We wish to replace these multiple
blocks with a mechanism
that works them out dynamically. This has a number of
The main disadvantage is that you cannot have a different log file for each virtual host; however, if you have many virtual hosts, doing this can be a bad idea anyway, because of the number of file descriptors needed. It is better to log to a pipe or a fifo, and arrange for the process at the other end to split up the log files into one per virtual host. One example of such a process can be found in the split-logfile utility.
A virtual host is defined by two pieces of information: its
IP address, and the contents of the Host:
in the HTTP request. The dynamic mass virtual hosting technique
used here is based on automatically inserting this information into the
pathname of the file that is used to satisfy the request. This
can be most easily done by using mod_vhost_alias
with Apache httpd. Alternatively,
mod_rewrite can
be used.
Both of these modules are disabled by default; you must enable one of them when configuring and building Apache httpd if you want to use this technique.
A couple of things need to be determined from the request in
order to make the dynamic
virtual host look like a normal one. The most important is the
server name, which is used by the server to generate
self-referential URLs etc. It is configured with the
directive, and it is available to CGIs
via the SERVER_NAME
environment variable. The
actual value used at run time is controlled by the UseCanonicalName
setting. With UseCanonicalName Off
, the server name
is taken from the contents of the Host:
header in the
request. With UseCanonicalName DNS
, it is taken from a
reverse DNS lookup of the virtual host's IP address. The former
setting is used for name-based dynamic virtual hosting, and the
latter is used for IP-based hosting. If httpd cannot work out
the server name because there is no Host:
or the DNS lookup fails, then the value configured with
is used instead.
The other thing to determine is the document root (configured
with DocumentRoot
and available to CGI scripts via the
environment variable). In a normal
configuration, this is used by the core module when
mapping URIs to filenames, but when the server is configured to
do dynamic virtual hosting, that job must be taken over by another
module (either mod_vhost_alias
), which has a different way of doing
the mapping. Neither of these modules is responsible for
setting the DOCUMENT_ROOT
environment variable so
if any CGIs or SSI documents make use of it, they will get a
misleading value.
This extract from apache2.conf
implements the
virtual host arrangement outlined in the Motivation section above
using mod_vhost_alias
# get the server name from the Host: header UseCanonicalName Off # this log format can be split per-virtual-host based on the first field # using the split-logfile utility. LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon CustomLog "logs/access_log" vcommon # include the server name in the filenames used to satisfy requests VirtualDocumentRoot "/www/hosts/%0/docs" VirtualScriptAlias "/www/hosts/%0/cgi-bin"
This configuration can be changed into an IP-based virtual
hosting solution by just turning UseCanonicalName
into UseCanonicalName DNS
. The server
name that is inserted into the filename is then derived from
the IP address of the virtual host. The variable %0
references the requested servername, as indicated in the
See the mod_vhost_alias
documentation for more usage
This is an adjustment of the above system, tailored for an
ISP's web hosting server. Using %2
we can select substrings of the server name to
use in the filename so that, for example, the documents for
are found in
. It uses a single cgi-bin
directory instead of one per virtual host.
UseCanonicalName Off LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon CustomLog logs/access_log vcommon # include part of the server name in the filenames VirtualDocumentRoot "/home/%2/www" # single cgi-bin directory ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/www/std-cgi/"
There are examples of more complicated
settings in the
With more complicated setups, you can use httpd's normal
directives to control the
scope of the various virtual hosting configurations. For
example, you could have one IP address for general customers' homepages,
and another for commercial customers, with the following setup.
This can be combined with conventional
configuration sections, as shown
UseCanonicalName Off LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon <Directory "/www/commercial"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All </Directory> <Directory "/www/homepages"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <VirtualHost 188.8.131.52> ServerName www.commercial.example.com CustomLog "logs/access_log.commercial" vcommon VirtualDocumentRoot "/www/commercial/%0/docs" VirtualScriptAlias "/www/commercial/%0/cgi-bin" </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 126.96.36.199> ServerName www.homepages.example.com CustomLog "logs/access_log.homepages" vcommon VirtualDocumentRoot "/www/homepages/%0/docs" ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/www/std-cgi/" </VirtualHost>
If the first VirtualHost block does not include a
directive, the reverse
DNS of the relevant IP will be used instead.
If this is not the server name you
wish to use, a bogus entry (eg. ServerName
) can be added to get around this
The configuration changes suggested to turn the first example into an IP-based virtual hosting setup result in a rather inefficient setup. A new DNS lookup is required for every request. To avoid this overhead, the filesystem can be arranged to correspond to the IP addresses, instead of to the host names, thereby negating the need for a DNS lookup. Logging will also have to be adjusted to fit this system.
# get the server name from the reverse DNS of the IP address UseCanonicalName DNS # include the IP address in the logs so they may be split LogFormat "%A %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon CustomLog "logs/access_log" vcommon # include the IP address in the filenames VirtualDocumentRootIP "/www/hosts/%0/docs" VirtualScriptAliasIP "/www/hosts/%0/cgi-bin"
Mass virtual hosting may also be accomplished using
, either using simple RewriteRule
directives, or using more
complicated techniques such as storing the vhost definitions externally
and accessing them via RewriteMap
. These techniques are
discussed in the rewrite


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