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The IAAF Centenary weekend will be seeing some of the world's biggest stars of the present and past grace the celebrations. We put Kevin Young, the 1992 Olympic 400m hurdles champion and world record-holder, under the spotlight and asked him 10 quick-fire questions, a few serious, a few fun, on Friday (23).
Who is your favourite athlete of the past 100 years?
Kevin Young: Can I pick two? It was Edwin Moses and Herald Schmid. The battles they had in the 400m hurdles inspired me early in my career. But there are so many great 400m hurdlers like Britain's 1968 Olympic champion David Hemery.
What has been your favourite athletics moment of the past 100 years?
KY: I look at Edwin's 1976 400m hurdles win at the Olympic Games in Montreal on YouTube all the time. If I want to smile, I look at Allen Johnson's run in the 110m hurdles heats at the Athens Olympics in 2004. I'm sorry, I can't help it, he was running so fast but then it went wrong and he went under a hurdle. He was almost decapitated.
Do you look at your own races on YouTube?
KY: In fact, I even upload my own races, if they are not there. It's not being arrogant, I hope, I want to help youngsters understand the event. I also still look at other races by Edwin (Moses) and Harald (Schmidt).
Where do you see your event in 100 years' time?
KY: I'm not sure but hopefully no one will have run faster than 46.78.
Have you been back to Barcelona since your Olympic triumph?
KY: Only once before today, in 2006. I was at the Cannes Film Festival and we drove around the coast to visit the city again. It was nice to actually see the city properly, I never had the chance in 1992.
Why not, didn't you have plenty of time to go sightseeing in 1992?
KY: Before the competition, I was just focused on what I had to do and then the day afterwards, having just broken the world record, I just got on a coach which went to Monte Carlo for a meeting there.
But you must have got a couple of good souvenirs other than your gold medal?
KY: I think the best one is a flag of Barcelona football club. I like soccer and follow their fortunes.
We've already established that you are a film buff. How many times have you seen Chariots of Fire?
KY: Well, a 400m hurdler is an important character in it. I watched it a few times when it came out, it's quite inspirational, all that running on the beach. However, I've seen a lot more things in it the last one or two times I've watched it.
What is the one thing you would like to see changed in the sport?
KY: I think young people coming into the sport have to be a lot more aware of its history. I talk to so many people who don't know who Ed Moses is, who Andre Phillips is, who Danny Harris is, or even who Kevin Young is. I definitely knew who I was running against in my races.
As an Olympic champion, world champion and world record-holder, what still gives you a thrill in athletics?
KY: At heart, I'm still a track fan so coming to an occasion like this and getting the opportunity to meet people like Dick Fosbury and Harrison Dillard makes me just tremble in my boots.
Phil Minshull for the IAAF

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A Home Addition: What to Consider Before Starting to Build
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Adding on to your current home may be your best bet if you're short on space, but you don't want to move or can't find another house in the area with all the qualities you're seeking. It's also an attractive option if the house you have is lacking just one significant element (a family room, another bedroom, a larger kitchen, a separate apartment, etc.).
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June 27, 2016
What We Know (and Don't Know) About the Impact of Brexit
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The decision of the British public to leave the European Union is a historic one for many reasons, not least of which was the almost uniform belief that there was absolutely no way that the public would vote to dissolve a partnership that had been in existence since the UK became a member nation back in 1973. However, rightly or not, the people decided that it was time to leave.
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June 10, 2016
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We've found the perfect way for you to kick off summer this year. On June 11 and 12, Windermere is sponsoring the second annual Washington Waterfront Home Tour. More than 95 homes throughout Washington are available for visitors to tour by boat, bike, or car. Properties are priced from $189,000 to $10.4 million.
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What is the Case-Schiller Home Price Report and why does it Matter?
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The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices is a monthly report that analyzes housing data in major metropolitan areas across the U.S. Windermere's Chief Economist, Matthew Gardner explains what this report is and why we use it to assess the strength of the housing market.
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Windermere's Annual Community Service Day Is today!
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Today you may notice your local Windermere office is closed, or it may take a little bit longer for your Windermere agent to get back to you. But we promise it's for a very good reason: today is Windermere Community Service Day. Since 1984, our agents have taken one day a year off to dig into hands-on community service projects throughout the Western U.S.
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The Wii U version matches the look of the Xbox 360 game and thus gives it an edge visually over the PlayStation 3 release, but unfortunately it comes up well short in terms of performance - an aspect that is all-important to the playability of a COD title. The frame-rate variance is such that the PS3 game feels generally smoother, while the 360 release feels like an entirely different game in the more demanding levels. Bearing in mind the commonalities in hardware design between Wii U and Xbox 360, we can't help but feel somewhat disappointed that Black Ops 2 under-performs so noticeably.In addition to the obvious advantages of years of optimisation on the Xbox 360, it's also worth noting that the Wii U version has some unique advantages, such as off-screen play on the wireless GamePad, which can also function as a second discrete screen for two players on one console.
|hah, I've heard terrible things about the Arkham City port.
Reggie probably knew he would get a free run on CNN so took the time to spin as much BS as possible.
|It really doesn't matter if he's lying or wrong. He is the authority on the subject, and now he has cemented the fact that the Wii U is superior on national television.
Media is great like that. Just keep lying, most people can't tell what the truth is - but they are convinced that they can. Beautiful. See Campbell Newman.
|Looking forward to picking one of these up on 30th, been quite eager to get my hands on ZombiU and a few other launch titles. Must say this is the most I've ever been hyped for a console, never really cared much for 360 or PS3 on launch or even after.
|Heh, its the opposite for me, usually I get excited about new console launches, but this is probably the least excited I've ever been for a new console.
I wish they'd come out and just say what the specs were instead of being so cagey and vague about it all, doesn't inspire trust in the consumer. How long is it going to last anyway, if its struggling just to keep up with what the XBox 360 and PS3 can already do? Its going to be left in the dust when the new machines come out next year.
|this had to be the least hyped console release i've ever seen.
|Yeah, I haven't even seen any advertisements for it or anything, I mentioned it to my parents and they had no idea what it was, had never heard of it and didn't have a clue it was coming out. I find thats a good indicator for how well something is marketted and what level of penetration it has, if my parents have heard about it, then news of it has reached the 'average' person. But it wasn't like they had heard of it and just didn't know details, or didn't know it was coming out, they were completely oblivious to the fact it even existed.
|Yeah I was speaking to a few people at work about it and they looked at me like I was from another planet.
Nobody I know has a clue about it.
I'm pretty keen to pick one up purely because I have rose tinted glasses for the days of n64 and s***, so I'm probably gonna be let down either way :P
|As if buy a Nintendo product to play games other then Nintendo exclusives.......
I'm eager to get my hands on a Wii U, at the same time Its frustrating to see a company like Nintendo make such huge risks...
As if buy a Nintendo product to play games other then Nintendo exclusives.......I'm eager to get my hands on a Wii U, at the same time Its frustrating to see a company like Nintendo make such huge risks...
I'm guessing that's what innovation comes at, the risk of it not working as intended. Though really these negative outlooks have been around since the earlier console launches where people thought the Nintendo 64 was going to fail due to have thumbsticks. Heck the PlayStation 3 was a joke on launch yet has great looking games now.
All consoles need time to mature, as the cream of the crop only appears near the end of the cycle, with the likes of GTA V or Watch Dogs.
|I was in Adelaide on the weekend (for the distant worlds concert), Nintendo had a tent set up in Rundle mall, got to play both on the U and the 3DS XL. played Mario bros 2, was awesome fun.
ended up trading in my PS vita which I hardly ever play and picked up 3DS XL with Mario Bros 2 for $100 (with trade).
At the end of the day I wouldn't expect anyone to buy the Wii U (or any Wii) for 'hard core' gaming. as fun as the Wii U is I probably wouldn't buy it..
but yeah seems silly that they would be claiming it to be as good or better than its rivals..
|Even though Reggie's comments are incorrect, I wouldn't be so quick to judge the Wii's performance for multiplatform titles. It's not like developers have had 6 years to develop for the console, more likely only 6 months to port it. Compare day 1 games such as Perfect Dark Zero on the Xbox 360 and you'll understand.
Compare day 1 games such as Perfect Dark Zero on the Xbox 360 and you'll understand.
It still ran better than it would have on the original XBox though, thats like the equivalent here. I'm sure people haven't completely got their heads around the intricacies of coding for the Wii-U yet, but the same game, at the same level of detail, is running worse than it does on 8 year old hardware, thats a bit more than just not getting the most out of the system. Plus I'd imagine the API would have a lot in common with the Wii so they would have been able to leverage that knowledge anyway, its not like starting from scratch.
Even if you're generous and say they'll be about to get another 25 - 30% out of it once they know all its ins and outs and have optimised the s*** out of stuff for it, that only brings it up to par with what the current generation of hardware can do, possibly a very small bit in front. Its still going to be left for dead in a years time. Which by itself isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is going to be a bad thing when you factor in that Nintendo's whole marketting push for it is that its a console that can compete on equal footing with the other consoles on the market, and that they're attempting to capture the 'hardcore' audience who currently do most of their gaming on 360 or PS3.
I'll probably still get one at some point, if people make good use of the screen in the gamepad and theres some cool first party or exclusive titles for it, but I can't imagine a reality where I would get the Wii-U version of a game that was available on other platforms. It'll be like third party titles on the Wii all over again, once the next generation of hardware comes out and companies realise they can't just straight port their games over to the Wii-U because it can't handle them, they'll just drop third party support for it.
|I have to admit, I find it all a bit confusing when we see these multiplatform titles with average performance on the Wii U, when that Zelda demo when it was unveiled looked amazing and was being rendered at 1080p. I understand that it was basically just an in-game cinematic, but it still looked pretty kick-arse, especially given the resolution.
Either way, I'll be picking up my pre-order on Friday and getting stuck into it. I'm pretty keen for ZombieU and Rayman Legends.
|It will definitely be interesting to see what Sony and Microsoft are going to be offering, considering Sony's recent junk status debacle and Microsoft leaning more towards Kinect integration. Look at what the Wii did with motion controlling and how everyone needed to have their own version so I could see Microsoft pushing their glass tech.
I understand the doom and gloom as its just a natural response to something new especially after 8 year old tech has been in the reigns, but really people are just jumping on the bandwagon at times. Hopefully we can see some really cool looking games utilising the Wii U tablet, hell I'll make my own if I have to. A Dungeon Master style game would be just amazing if done right.
Also Nintendo consoles have always been about the first party titles, its just a given. However it seems they want to also cater towards third party so they are offering that tech, however I'm not sure whether the developers are just getting use to things or it is old tech. I have an inkling it could be either or, will have to wait I guess.
The most interesting thing that will come out of this next-gen beginnings is how the other two will follow. I'm highly doubting these next consoles will be what people are claiming, with 4K graphics and 16GB RAM as it just would not be profitable, but I'd like to be proven wrong. Time will tell I guess.
|Yeah its going to be very interesting considering sony's financials. It seems like the tv division cuts didnt work and they might have to leave that market altogether to stay afloat after the much needed restructure.
|Yeah, I'm not expecting anything terribly impressive from the next console generation. While I'm sure they'll be more powerful than the Wii U, I highly doubt we'll see a jump on par with the Xbox > Xbox 360. Microsoft will play up the Kinect, and Sony will... I don't know, be Sony?
I reckon my current PC will probably still out-perform the next consoles, though I'd like to be proven wrong.
|Well I'd expect at least the 360 to fully support DX11 or DX12 or whatever the version is when it comes out, and Sony's next offering will no doubt offer up a proprietary, difficult to work with API that achieves the same thing, which means we'll see more games fully embracing those features instead them just being added into PC ports as a token gimmick or afterthought. I think that alone will dramatically bump up the overall quality of games, since the lowest common denominator that they're coded for, will no longer actually be low.
I understand the doom and gloom as its just a natural response to something new especially after 8 year old tech has been in the reigns
I would have expected the natural response to something new after 8 years to be excitement and buzz and hype. The fact that theres so much doom and gloom and complete lack of buzz and marketting is entirely the opposite of what I'd expect for a new console launch.
|I hate consoles but i did buy wii off ebay couple of years ago for $100. The only reason is that i love the party games (Beer and mario kart is always winner) and mario games brings back memories as originally owned NES and loved the SuperNES. If i want to play real games i just buy them for the PC.
I hate consoles but i did buy wii off ebay couple of years ago for $100. The only reason is that i love the party games (Beer and mario kart is always winner) and mario games brings back memories as originally owned NES and loved the SuperNES. If i want to play real games i just buy them for the PC.
Oh yeah you can totally get a positive return on investment. Even though it was only like maybe 4-5 times of drinks and wii, the $200 on that passing it around like 8 people playing 2-4 player games in brawl, cart or wii sports, it was well wroth the money.
It's just that it's not a console in the sense of sitting at home after a day at work and relaxing f or an hour or so on the couch alone.
Nor is it a media centre like the ps3 and xbox are.
Maybe the wii U can overcome that and make it a party game machine + cheap media centre, or maybe it can't. Time will quickly tell.


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From now on any parts for President Ulysses S. Grant should be played by Aidan Quinn. Make it law.
Quinn's portrayal as the former Union general in "Jonah Hex" makes you think that the 18th President, who died in 1885, has been brought back to life.
"It's uncanny," producer Andrew Lazar tells PopcornBiz.
"And (Quinn) is such an amazing actor, it just felt so natural."
Presidential doppelganger Quinn has just one regret for the part. He wishes he had time to grow his beard longer. "I grow a very full beard and his was longer when he was president," Quinn tells us. "But I didn't have enough time. I was needed rather shortly after I was told I had it."
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Graeme McDowell kept trying to convince himself and everyone else that his game was improving, even though he had gone two years without a trophy to prove it.
That's what made Sunday at Sherwood so sweet.
With a pair of superb short-game shots on the back nine, McDowell closed with a 4-under 68 to win the World Challenge by three shots over Keegan Bradley, allowing him to head home for a 10-week break with a shot of confidence.
"It's been too long. It's been a hell of a two years since I sat here as a winner," McDowell said. "We all put winning up on a pedestal as the ultimate goal. We like to say that it's all about the process and going through the motions and trying to get better. But let's be honest. We all measure ourselves by the win. I can say that now."
The three-shot margin made it look easier than it was.
Sherwood was playing longer than ever in a light rain, giving an advantage to a big hitter like Bradley, not to mention tournament host Tiger Woods. Even when McDowell built a four-shot lead through 11 holes, a careless three-putt bogey on the 13th brought Bradley within two shots with five holes to play.
McDowell responded with a 75-foot putt that he lagged to tap-in range, a key moment for someone coming off a three-putt bogey. From a precarious spot behind the 17th green, he had to land his chip in the rough and hope it would hop onto the fringe and not run to far by the hole. He pulled it off perfectly.
"It was an inch away from sticking in the fringe, and about 1-16th of an inch away from going in the hole," he said.
He made one last birdie he didn't need, extending his dominance at Sherwood. It was the 10th time in 12 rounds at Sherwood that McDowell has shot in the 60s, and he now has two wins and a runner-up finish in his three trips to the World Challenge.
"This really caps off my season," McDowell said. "We try not to put winning on a pedestal, but this one feels very sweet because it's been a grind all year."
McDowell won for the first time since he beat Woods in a playoff at Sherwood to close out a dream season in 2010 that included his first major at the U.S. Open and the winning point for Europe at the Ryder Cup.
This win followed a year of frustration. He played in the final group of the U.S. Open and British Open but came up short, and he lost some enthusiasm going into tournaments late in the year. He talked all week about a 10-week break, some of it in Northern Ireland and the rest in Orlando, Fla., where he just built a new house and he's opening a tavern outside the gates of Lake Nona.
Bradley, who was within one shot after a birdie on the fifth hole, closed with a 69. Bo Van Pelt had a 70 to finish third. Woods, the tournament host and five-time champion, was never in the picture. He didn't make birdie until the 13th hole and shot 71 to tie for fourth.
"Graeme really likes this place," Bradley said. "Just when I thought maybe I'd have a good chance, he'd hole a putt or hit a chip like he did on 17. He's a champion. I don't expect anything less out of him."
McDowell finished on 17-under 271 and earned $1 million against the 18-man field.
A light rain fell for much of the round, as it has all week, making Sherwood play so long that McDowell had to hit a 5-wood into the par-4 fourth hole, and a 4-iron for his third shot in the par-5 fifth. His only bogey over the final 47 holes of the tournament came on the 13th hole.
"Certainly I will draw some confidence from this one," McDowell said. "The game hasn't given me a huge amount this year."
Woods needed a fast start and was stuck in neutral. He failed to birdie the par 5s on the front nine and dropped a shot on the seventh hole when his flop shot below the green came out heavy. He didn't make his first birdie until the par-5 13th.
"I struggled with my game a little bit this week," said Woods, playing for the first time in five weeks. "I just managed myself well to get around in these conditions."
Van Pelt opened with two birdies and tried to hang around in contention on the back nine.
But this was a duel from the start.
McDowell started with a two-shot lead and kept his distance until Bradley holed an 18-foot birdie putt on the fifth. Bradley made back-to-back bogeys at the turn to fall three shots behind, and McDowell stretched his lead to four shots by starting the back nine with two quick birdies.
The par-5 13th then set the stage for a nervous final hour.
McDowell laid up, hit a poor wedge and then three-putted for bogey, ending his streak of 41 consecutive holes at Sherwood at par or better. Bradley made a 6-foot birdie putt for a two-shot swing, and the game was on.
The most important stroke might have been a putt he didn't make. From left of the 14th fairway, he had no choice but to punch it under a tree and run it up to right side of the green. From some 75 feet away, he used his putter to lag it up to inside a foot for a safe par to keep his two-shot lead.
"That lag putt was huge," he said. "If I go three-putting there, the question marks start coming. Great two-putt."
He made a 10-footer on the 16th to match Bradley's tap-in birdie, and then he effectively closed out the former PGA champion with the deft chip from behind the 17th green.
He typically calls his home clubs — Rathmore in Northern Ireland and Lake Nona in Orlando — and open the bar for free drinks when he wins. He expects that to be case at his new tavern called Nona Blue.
"Thankfully, it's not open yet," McDowell said. "So I'll save a few quid this time around."


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Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist and author. She currently serves as Special Correspondent for ABC News, contributing to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, This Week and primetime news specials. Starting in Fall 2012, she will host Katie, a daytime talk show on ABC. She has anchored the CBS Evening News, reported for 60 Minutes, and hosted Today. She was the first solo female anchor of a weekday evening news program on one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks. Couric's first book, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary was a New York Times best-seller.
Couric was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Elinor Tullie (née Hene), a homemaker and part-time writer, and the late John Martin Couric Jr., a public relations executive and news editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the United Press in Washington, D.C. Her mother was Jewish, but Couric was raised Episcopalian. Couric's maternal grandparents, Bert Hene and Clara L. Froshin, were the children of Jewish immigrants from Germany. In a report for Today, she traced her paternal ancestry back to a French orphan who immigrated to the U.S. in the nineteenth century and became a broker in the cotton business.
Couric attended Arlington Public Schools: Jamestown Elementary, Williamsburg Middle School, and Yorktown High School and was a cheerleader. As a high school student, she was an intern at Washington, D.C. all-news radio station WAVA. She enrolled at her father's alma mater, the University of Virginia, in 1975 and was a Delta Delta Delta sorority sister. Couric served in several positions at UVA's award-winning daily newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. During her third year at UVA, Couric was chosen to live as Head Resident of The Lawn, the heart of Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village. She graduated in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in English with a focus on American Studies.


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Default: 60
Cache expiration (in seconds) for show_placeholder and page_url template tags.
This settings was previously called CMS_CONTENT_CACHE_DURATION
The django CMS has a lot of settings you can use to customize your installation so that it is exactly as you'd like it to be.
Default: () (Not a valid setting!)
A list of templates you can select for a page.
('base.html', gettext('default')),
('2col.html', gettext('2 Column')),
('3col.html', gettext('3 Column')),
('extra.html', gettext('Some extra fancy template')),
All templates defined in CMS_TEMPLATES must contain at least the js and css sekizai namespaces, for more information, see Static files handling with sekizai.
django CMS internally relies on a number of templates to function correctly. These exist beneath cms within the templates directory. As such, it is highly recommended you avoid using the same directory name for your own project templates.
Default: True
Optional Enables the inheritance of templates from parent pages.
If this is enabled, pages have the additional template option to inherit their template from the nearest ancestor. New pages default to this setting if the new page is not a root page.
Default: {} Optional
Used to configure placeholders. If not given, all plugins are available in all placeholders.
'content': {
'plugins': ['TextPlugin', 'PicturePlugin'],
'text_only_plugins': ['LinkPlugin']
'extra_context': {"width":640},
'right-column': {
"plugins": ['TeaserPlugin', 'LinkPlugin'],
"extra_context": {"width":280},
'name':gettext("Right Column"),
'limits': {
'global': 2,
'TeaserPlugin': 1,
'LinkPlugin': 1,
'base.html content': {
"plugins": ['TextPlugin', 'PicturePlugin', 'TeaserPlugin']
You can combine template names and placeholder names to granularly define plugins, as shown above with ''base.html content''.
A list of plugins that can be added to this placeholder. If not supplied, all plugins can be selected.
A list of additional plugins available only in the TextPlugin, these plugins can't be added directly to this placeholder.
Extra context that plugins in this placeholder receive.
The name displayed in the Django admin. With the gettext stub, the name can be internationalized.
Limit the number of plugins that can be placed inside this placeholder. Dictionary keys are plugin names and the values are their respective limits. Special case: "global" - Limit the absolute number of plugins in this placeholder regardless of type (takes precedence over the type-specific limits).
Default: []
A list of plugin context processors. Plugin context processors are callables that modify all plugins' context before rendering. See Custom Plugins for more information.
Default: []
A list of plugin processors. Plugin processors are callables that modify all plugin's output after rendering. See Custom Plugins for more information.
Default: ()
A list of import paths for cms.app_base.CMSApp subclasses.
Defaults to an empty list which means CMS applications are auto-discovered in all INSTALLED_APPS by trying to import their cms_app module.
If this setting is set, the auto-discovery is disabled.
Default: True
If set to False, frontend editing is not available for models using cms.models.fields.PlaceholderField.
The Wymeditor from cms.plugins.text plugin can take the same configuration as vanilla Wymeditor. Therefore you will need to learn how to configure that. The best thing to do is to head over to the Wymeditor examples page in order to understand how Wymeditor works.
The cms.plugins.text plugin exposes several variables named WYM_* that correspond to the wym configuration. The simplest way to get started with this is to go to cms/plugins/text/settings.py and copy over the WYM_* variables and you will realize they match one to one to Wymeditor's.
Currently the following variables are available:
Default: True
By default django CMS hides menu items that are not yet translated into the current language. With this setting set to False they will show up anyway.
Default: Value of LANGUAGES
Defines the languages available in django CMS.
('fr', gettext('French')),
('de', gettext('German')),
('en', gettext('English')),
Make sure you only define languages which are also in LANGUAGES.
Default: True
This will redirect the browser to the same page in another language if the page is not available in the current language.
Default: {}
Language fallback ordering for each language.
'de': ['en', 'fr'],
'en': ['de'],
Default: {}
If you have more than one site and CMS_LANGUAGES differs between the sites, you may want to fill this out so that when you switch between sites in the admin you only get the languages available to that particular site.
Default: Value of CMS_LANGUAGES
A list of languages django CMS uses in the frontend. For example, if you decide you want to add a new language to your page but don't want to show it to the world yet.
CMS_FRONTEND_LANGUAGES = ("de", "en", "pt-BR")
default: cms/
The path from MEDIA_ROOT to the media files located in cms/media/
Default: MEDIA_ROOT + CMS_MEDIA_PATH
The path to the media root of the cms media files.
default: MEDIA_URL + CMS_MEDIA_PATH
The location of the media files that are located in cms/media/cms/
Default: 'cms_page_media/'
By default, django CMS creates a folder called cms_page_media in your static files folder where all uploaded media files are stored. The media files are stored in subfolders numbered with the id of the page.
You should take care that the directory to which it points is writable by the user under which Django will be running.
Default: True
This adds a new field "url overwrite" to the "advanced settings" tab of your page. With this field you can overwrite the whole relative url of the page.
Default: False
This adds a new "redirect" field to the "advanced settings" tab of the page.
You can set a url here to which visitors will be redirected when the page is accessed.
Note: Don't use this too much. django.contrib.redirects is much more flexible, handy, and is designed exactly for this purpose.
Deprecated since version 2.4.
Default: False
If this is enabled the slugs are not nested in the urls.
So a page with a "world" slug will have a "/world" url, even it is a child of the "hello" page. If disabled the page would have the url: "/hello/world/"
Default: False
This adds a new "softroot" field to the "advanced settings" tab of the page. If a page is marked as softroot the menu will only display items until it finds the softroot.
If you have a huge site you can easily partition the menu with this.
Default: False
If this is enabled you get 3 new models in Admin:
In the edit-view of the pages you can now assign users to pages and grant them permissions. In the global permissions you can set the permissions for users globally.
If a user has the right to create new users he can now do so in the "Users - page". But he will only see the users he created. The users he created can also only inherit the rights he has. So if he only has been granted the right to edit a certain page all users he creates can, in turn, only edit this page. Naturally he can limit the rights of the users he creates even further, allowing them to see only a subset of the pages to which he is allowed access.
Default: all
Decides if pages without any view restrictions are public by default or staff only. Possible values are all and staff.
Default: False
If set to True, gives you a new "moderation" column in the tree view.
You can select to moderate pages or whole trees. If a page is under moderation you will receive an email if somebody changes a page and you will be asked to approve the changes. Only after you approve the changes will they be updated on the "live" site. If you make changes to a page you moderate yourself, you will need to approve it anyway. This allows you to change a lot of pages for a new version of the site, for example, and go live with all the changes at the same time.
When switching this value to True on an existing site, you have to run the cms moderator on command to make the required database changes.
Default: False for both
This adds two new DateTimeField fields in the "advanced settings" tab of the page. With this option you can limit the time a page is published.
Default: False
This adds a new "SEO Fields" fieldset to the page admin. You can set the Page Title, Meta Keywords and Meta Description in there.
To access these fields in the template use:
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<title>{% page_attribute page_title %}</title>
<meta name="description" content="{% page_attribute meta_description %}"/>
<meta name="keywords" content="{% page_attribute meta_keywords %}"/>
This dictionary carries the various cache duration settings.
Default: 60
Cache expiration (in seconds) for show_placeholder and page_url template tags.
This settings was previously called CMS_CONTENT_CACHE_DURATION
Default: 3600
Cache expiration (in seconds) for view and other permissions.
Default: cms-
The CMS will prepend the value associated with this key to every cache access (set and get). This is useful when you have several django CMS installations, and you don't want them to share cache objects.
CMS_CACHE_PREFIX = 'mysite-live'
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We are wrapping up our 6th season of What's In My Bag? and we wanted to take a look back at the year that was 2013. It's been a fantastic year for us (we won a Webby Award!!) and this season featured a number of outstanding WIMB firsts.
Lots of love and countless hours of editing goes into making each video happen. They're a bit like our children, so picking our favorites is a daunting task. We tried to make a list of our Top 5 episodes, but that seemed impossible. Then we attempted a Top 10 list, but we couldn't narrow it down. So we settled on our 13 favorite episodes of 2013.
These are the episodes that surprised, excited and engaged us the most. These are the episodes that make us laugh upon repeat viewings. These are the episodes that we send to our friends to make them jealous about the work we do. These are the best "What's in My Bag?" episodes of 2013. Enjoy!
#13. Clairy Browne
The Australian soul singer may not be super well-known in the States yet, but she thoroughly charmed and entertained us. She talks about albums by strong women including PJ Harvey and Queen Latifah, deconstructing Frank Ocean songs, and shares some of her famously misheard lyrics. And then there's her fashion...


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Distinguished Mr Secretary General!
Ladies and Gentlemen!
Republic of Belarus became an integral part of the global antiterrorist coalition. Our country has ratified all twelve universal antiterrorist conventions. Supporting the NATO antiterrorist operation in Afghanistan, Belarus provides its territory for the ISAF cargo and personnel transit to Afghanistan.
Belarus considers the development of full-fledged and mutually beneficial cooperation with NATO to be an important part of ensuring both national and Euro-Atlantic security. In this sphere we find it necessary to use all cooperation forms and mechanisms available.
The meetings of the NATO Politico-Military Steering Committee and the Political Committee in the "26 + Belarus" format took place in November 2005. At these meetings a number of issues of bilateral cooperation was reviewed, and the Assessment Document on the participation of the Republic of Belarus in the PfP Planning and Review Process was approved. The achievement of the partnership goals selected within PARP will ensure the operational interoperability of the designated units of the Belarus Armed Forces with the Alliance forces in order to take part in the multinational search-and-rescue, humanitarian and peace-support operations.
The Individual Partnership Programs of Belarus and NATO has been consecutively implemented. In 2005 the number of activities within the framework of national IPP tripled as compared to 1997. Belarus has finalized draft IPP for 2006 – 2007.
Anti-personnel mines stockpile destruction has become yet another important area of the Belarus-NATO cooperation. On November 14, 2005, the Republic of Belarus and NAMSA signed the Implementation Agreement providing for TNT APM stockpiles elimination on the territory of Belarus.
Mr. Secretary General,
I would like to touch upon the issue that was brought up during the latest EAPC Council meetings – Partnership values. We strongly believe that the state's adherence to the shared values in the security sphere is measured by its practical steps towards joining international legal documents in question and their implementation rather than by the amount of declarations in their support. Any attempts to politicize practical cooperation, including a military one, in such a sensitive sphere as international security and arms control would be counterproductive.
We strongly believe that such issues as conflict prevention and conflict management, fighting terrorism, illegal migration, and drug trafficking, strengthening of the WMD non-proliferation regimes should remain fundamental in the day-to-day work of the EAPC, i. e. in our joint work.
Concluding my remarks, I would like to say that our annual final Ministerial EAPC session would be more substantive if we maintain its traditional format.
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(Gallatin County, Mont) It started Tuesday about 12:30 when a 23 year old Bozeman woman injured her leg while skiing at Bridger Bowl. The Ski area is closed for the season but is still used by many local skiers who are ambitious enough to hike the mountain to get a few more turns in for the season. She had just started down and on the first turn caught a ski in the heavy snow flipping her over the front and injuring her leg. Members of Sheriff's Search and Rescue who are also employees of Bridger Bowl were on site doing maintenance and were notified of the injury. They extricated her from the top by skis and rescue toboggan. They were assisted at the base by SAR members responding from the valley, Bridger Canyon FD and AMR ambulance.
At about the same time a report of a kayak upside down pinned against a rock in the Gallatin River near mile post 63 was received. Some SAR units were diverted from the Bridger call to go that way. Sheriff's Deputies and Highway Patrol units were able to locate people on the shore who claimed the kayak was theirs and determine that no one was still in the water.
On the south end of the county at approximately 3:54 pm Sheriff's Search and Rescue in West Yellowstone responded to the report of an overdue hiker in the Beaver Creek drainage which is approximately 21 miles northwest of West Yellowstone. Yellowstone National Park Rangers, and a helicopter from Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center stationed at the West Yellowstone Airport were enlisted to assist. Information provided to the investigating Deputy led search teams to a last known location logged by the missing hiker with a GPS the previous afternoon. While search teams moved through the area by snowmobile, the Air Idaho Rescue Helicopter was able to locate and transport the hiker to West Yellowstone Airport where he was checked out by EMS personnel. The hiker was dehydrated, and tired but otherwise uninjured after spending the night exposed to the elements.
Sheriff Gootkin would like to remind backcountry users to take the proper safety equipment including first aid kits, proper clothing and survival gear with them when enjoying Montana's great outdoors. Even if you are headed out for just a few hours, an injury, severe weather or a wrong turn could become life threatening. A relatively simple trip can easily turn into something much more without the proper equipment and the knowledge of how to use it. #####


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Is a Vanity in the Hand….
Worth two in the bush, or in this case, several in Murphys, Ca. That is the question I'm grappling with.
It's a bit convoluted, so please pay attention. There is an antique marble vanity top with sink here in town that I could buy right now. There are 2 issues with it, one minor and one major. The minor issue, or so I've been told it's minor, is some rust stains. They aren't too bad, but bad enough that I would need to get them off or it would drive me nuts. I've been told I can use a poultice of Cream of Tar Tar and Hydrogen Peroxide to leech the stains out of the marble. A good friend told me about this, so I'll assume it's true. This is what makes the stains the minor issue.
Still, the stains are a big minor issue, if there is such a thing.
The second issue – the major issue - is the faucet. It doesn't come with one, but that's not the issue. This vanity was set up for a mixer faucet as opposed to a separate hot and cold faucet. Normally you would think that was a plus, but in this case it presents a few problems. First, there is a serious lack of Victorian mixer faucets to chose from. In fact, I really only found one. It is at Van Dykes Restorers and the quality is poor. The other problem with this particular faucet is that it does not come in shiny nickel, only in shiny brass and oil rubbed bronze.
You wouldn't think the issue of the faucet not coming in shiny nickel was a big issue, but it is. I used to say I don't want to live in a museum when secretly it's what I've desired along. I've always liked the unusual and slightly out of style. It is not uncommon in my life for me to take things to their extreme. Or at least close enough to the edge that it's obvious I went a little too far. In the upstairs bathroom I went with chrome on the faucets and it's bugged me ever since. The faucets are the only metal things in the room that are not nickel plated and they stick out like a sore thumb. I'm not going to make that mistake again.
I went ahead and bought the faucet from Van Dykes anyway and it came yesterday. The main reason to buy it was to see it in real life, but also to see if it would fit the single hole already drilled in the vanity. It does not. So now I'm faced with needing to drill out the hole. I actually have experience in this so it's not as daunting as it might have seemed a few months ago. Still, it is one more issue. It is one more thing to worry about, and one more thing that could potentially go wrong.
I bought the faucet in oil rubbed bronze for the primary reason that I know I would never install an oil rubbed bronze faucet in the bathroom. I'm forcing my own hand to either not use it or get it nickel plated. So I started calling around to platers yesterday to see about getting it nickel plated. So far I've gotten one bid of $85 and I would have to ship it to them, so really it's $100. Twice on the phone I had to correct the guy that I wanted nickel plating and not chrome. Visions StoccoHouse type plating problems started going through my head. The more I think about this the less I like it. It's just more hassle of what will already be a big project.
The other option is to select from one of the marble vanities at DEA Bath. There are a few 2 hole vanities to chose from, and I have a tentative agreement with DEA Bath to take some of my unwanted vintage toilets and sinks in exchange for store credit. In effect, I would be trading toilets for a marble vanity. The issue here is, I have to drive to Murphys, CA, which is about 6 hours, one way. It's not the end of the world and the drive would do me good.
The other issue is, I would have to pick out the vanity in one day. I usually like to mull these things over, write about it on the blog, change my mind a few times, and then pick something out. This will be a blurry-eyed, over-night, Cannon Ball run to Murphys, CA. ending with me making a crucial decision through a caffeine induced haze. Not ideal conditions.
Then, of course, there is the old "bird in the hand" thing. The vanity that is here in town, is here in town. If I say no to it, and it gets sold, that's pretty much it. I need to make a decision on the vanity before I start the rough-in on the plumbing. What happens if I get to Murphys, CA and there's nothing I like. So the question is, do I buy something that I don't really like just because I can (the vanity here in town), or do I take a chance at what's behind Door Number 2?
I've told the shop here in town that is holding the vanity that I would give them a yes or no within 2 weeks. If someone else is interested in it before 2 weeks is up, they will contact me and I will give them a yes or no immediately.
At this point, I'm leaning towards What's Behind Door Number 2.


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There is no country in the world that is not experiencing first-hand the drastic effects of climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, and are now more than 50 percent higher than their 1990 level. Further, global warming is causing long-lasting changes to our climate system, which threatens irreversible consequences if we do not take action now.
The annual average losses from earthquakes, tsunamis, tropical cyclones and flooding amount to hundreds of billions of dollars, requiring an investment of US$6 billion annually in disaster risk management alone. The goal aims to mobilize $100 billion annually by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries and help mitigate climate-related disasters.
Helping more vulnerable regions, such as land locked countries and island states, adapt to climate change must go hand in hand with efforts to integrate disaster risk measures into national strategies. It is still possible, with the political will and a wide array of technological measures, to limit the increase in global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This requires urgent collective action.
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El Nino happens every 3-7 years. How can Africa be better prepared?
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To help coastal communities in Gambia, UNDP and the GEF partnered with Gambia's National Environment Agency and communities on a coastal resilience project to develop alternative livelihoods. MORE >
Global Climate Finance - Will Africa Benefit After Paris?
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Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade comes off another strong season in which it confirmed its status as the team to beat in all of its domestic competitions and was competitive in the 7DAYS EuroCup. Zvezda put together a deep team led by Joe Ragland, Billy Baron, Stratos Perperoglou and Maik Zirbes. Zvezda enjoyed a good start to the EuroCup season and won four of its first five regular-season games to reach the Top 16 without any problems. It finished this stage with big wins against Germani Brescia Leonessa and Galatasaray Istanbul to rank third overall with a 6-4 record. Zvezda started the Top 16 with an 83-71 home win over Limoges CSP behind 13 points from Baron, but four consecutive losses - two of them against eventual champion Valencia Basket - prevented the team from reaching the playoffs. Zvezda went on to win the Adriatic League after finishing the regular season with a 21-1 record and downing Partizan NIS Belgrade and Buducnost VOLI Podgorica to recapture the title. As expected, Partizan was its main opponent in Serbian competitions. Partizan prevailed in the Serbian Radivoj Korac Cup final, 76-74, but Zvezda had the final word, winning the Serbian League title for the fifth consecutive season. Zvezda returns to the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague this season eager for more big challenges.
Crvena Zvezda, which translates as Red Star, was among the most-crowned teams in the former Yugoslavia. The club was founded in 1945 and already a year later started its domination by winning the first of its 10 straight titles. Zvezda continued winning trophies in bunches in the early 1970s when it claimed a national championship, three domestic cups and the 1974 Saporta Cup – its lone European trophy to date – all in a span of five years. The next two decades were not as fruitful. Zvezda had to wait until 1993 to win another Yugoslav crown, but it repeated the success twice more in the 1990s. Over the years Zvezda had the privilege of being guided by some of Europe's coaching greats – including Aleksandar Nikolic, Ranko Zeravica and Svetislav Pesic, and developed some of Europe's finest talents, such as Zoran Slavnic, Dejan Tomasevic, Igor Rakocevic, Nemanja Bjelica and Predrag Stojakovic. A return to winning at the continental level came in 2006 and 2007 when Milan Gurovic led Zvezda to the ULEB Cup quarterfinals, where it lost against eventual champions Dynamo Moscow and Real Madrid. In 2013, Zvezda won its first of three consecutive Serbian Cups and it made its Turkish Airlines EuroLeague debut the next season. Even though a 4-6 regular season record was not enough to advance from a tough group with eventual champion Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv, Zvezda continued its journey in the EuroCup and reached the semifinals, where it lost a two-game series against UNICS Kazan. The club returned to compete against Europe's elite and lived through some of the proudest moments in its 70-year old history. Led by big man Boban Marjanovic, in 2014-15 Zvezda reached the EuroLeague Top 16 for the first time and won its first triple-crown, lifting trophies in all three other competitions it entered that season – the Adriatic League, Serbian League and Serbian Cup. The following season, Zvezda went a step further in the EuroLeague, reaching the playoffs, and putting up a great fight despite being ousted in three games by eventual champion CSKA Moscow. Zvezda went on to win both the Adriatic League and its second straight Serbian League title. In the 2016-17 season, Zvezda came just short of another EuroLeague playoff appearance, losing a do-or-die Round 30 game against Darussafaka Istanbul, but won another domestic triple crown. Zvezda has continued winning Serbian League titles - five in a row, and counting - but had an 11-19 record in the 2017-18 EuroLeague and did not get out of the EuroCup Top 16 last season. Zvezda has all it takes - management, fans, tradition and competitiveness - to be a tough opponent for everyone in all competitions this year.


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By all accounts, considering it was his first-ever 450 race in Monster Energy Supercross, Justin Barcia had a good Anaheim 1. He won a heat race, and ran third for most of the main event before a quick tumble sent him back. And yet, most in his camp said he had much more than he showed at the opener, as nerves slowed him a bit at Anaheim.
At round two in Phoenix, nothing slowed him at all.
You knew Barcia would be a contender once he topped the first 450 practice session, since he usually only does so-so in practice and then gets faster once the races begin. Indeed he did, winning his heat race by a big margin, and then grabbing the Nuclear Cowboys holeshot in the main event and and checking out immediately. There were really no challengers for the Muscle Milk Honda rider, who led every lap at Chase Field to take his first-ever 450 victory (and in just his second try). Make that two different winners this year (last week's winner was Davi Millsaps), with neither coming from the much-hyped foursome of previous supercross champions.
Behind Barcia, a battle raged. Defending two-time champion Ryan Villopoto (Monster Energy Kawasaki) spun out and crashed while running fourth on the second lap, leaving last week's winner Millsaps (Rockstar Energy Racing) and Chad Reed (TwoTwo Motorsports Honda) to battle for second and third. Eventually Barcia's Muscle Milk Honda teammate Trey Canard arrived on the scene to make a three-rider battle, and Villopoto recovered to join the fight, too. The four of them raced hard but smart, as they were in no position to make a run at the fleeing Barcia.
Barcia and Millsaps led off the start, but Barcia was on the gas and started opening up a lead quickly.
Millsaps and Reed battled for second early.
Villopoto fell, and eventually Canard passed Reed and Millsaps to get to second. Then he fell on the last lap, and Villopoto took second.
The racing is awesome and close early in the season, and we love having photos like this to run.
About the only spot that wasn't hotly contested was this one: Barcia won big.
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At one point Villopoto caught Canard for fourth, but then Canard sliced inside of Reed to take third. Villopoto then passed Reed, too. Then Canard got Millsaps for second, and eventually Villopoto followed suit. On the last lap, Canard held a slight advantage over Villopoto, as the two had exchanged different fast laps. But then Canard bobbled in a rhythm lane and crashed with a half lap to go—costing him three spots with Villopoto, Millsaps and Reed getting around him. This also allowed Millsaps to re-wrestle the points lead back from Canard, and made the final top three read Barcia, Villopoto and Millsaps. Reed was fourth and Canard fifth.
Jake Weimer (Monster Energy Kawasaki), James Stewart (Yoshimura Suzuki), Ryan Dungey (Red Bull KTM) Andrew Short (Chaparral Honda) and Josh Grant (JGR Toyota Yamaha) rounded out the top ten.
Expected title contenders Stewart and Dungey didn't have their best days. Stewart was still dealing with a knee injury suffered last week, but he was fastest in qualifying and won his heat race. It was very cold all day and night in Phoenix, and Stewart admitted to us after the race that the cold had an effect on him. Dungey crashed on the first lap of his heat race and missed the qualifying cut, sending him to the LCQ where he got another bad start and finished second to Jimmy Albertson. A bad start in the main set Dungey back again, and he was able to claw from about 16th to eighth.
In the 250 SX class, there's less drama, as GEICO Honda's Eli Tomac is proving to be a level above the competition so far. The defending West Region SX Champion didn't get a great start in the main, but was able to work his way forward to his second-straight win.
Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki's Martin Davalos started the night with a huge, huge crash in his heat race, but bounced back to win the LCQ and then grab the early lead in the main event despite the terrible gate pick. But Tomac was on the move, starting about top five and then working up to second. He then carved into Davalos' lead, took it and checked out. Red Bull KTM's Ken Roczen then managed to catch Davalos with two laps to go, and they collided at one point, and then on the final lap Roczen was able to make the move and steal second. Davalos, banged up from his big crash earlier, held on for third. Cole Seely (Lucas Oil Troy Lee Honda) and his rookie teammate Jessy Nelson rounded out the top five.
Tomac (1) got buried off the start but that inside gate selection helped him slice into the top five.
Tomac eventually caught and passed race leader Davalos, and it was over from there.
Roczen started even worse than Tomac but came through for second.
Davalos had a long night--big heat race crash and an LCQ win. But he managed to dig out a podium finish.
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After drawing 50,000 fans in Phoenix, Monster Energy Supercross next heads to Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, again next weekend for round three.
450SX Class Results
1. Justin Barcia, Ochlocknee, Ga., Honda
2. Ryan Villopoto, Poulsbo, Wash., Kawasaki
3. Davi Millsaps, Murrieta, Calif., Suzuki
4. Chad Reed, Australia, Honda
5. Trey Canard, Shawnee, Okla., Honda
6. Jake Weimer, Rupert, Idaho, Kawasaki
7. James Stewart, Haines City, Fla., Suzuki
8. Ryan Dungey, Belle Plaine, Minn., KTM
9. Andrew Short, Smithville, Texas, Honda
10. Josh Grant, Riverside, Calif., Yamaha
450SX Class Points
1. Davi Millsaps, Murrieta, Calif., Suzuki – 45
2. Justin Barcia, Ochlocknee, Ga., Honda – 39
3. Trey Canard, Shawnee, Okla., Honda – 38
4. Chad Reed, Australia, Honda – 36
5. Ryan Dungey, Belle Plaine, Minn., KTM – 33
6. Jake Weimer, Rupert, Idaho, Kawasaki – 31
7. Ryan Villopoto, Poulsbo, Wash., Kawasaki – 27
8. Andrew Short, Smithville, Texas, Honda – 27
9. James Stewart, Haines City, Fla., Suzuki – 27
10. Josh Grant, Riverside, Calif., Yamaha – 21
Western Regional 250SX Class Results
1. Eli Tomac, Cortez, Colo., Honda
2. Ken Roczen, Germany, KTM
3. Martin Davalos, Ecuador, Kawasaki
4. Cole Seely, Newbury Park, Calif., Honda
5. Jessy Nelson, Paso Robles, Calif., Honda
6. Zach Osborne, Chesterfield, S.C., Honda
7. Ryan Sipes, Ekron, Ky., Suzuki
8. Kyle Cunningham, Aledo, Texas, Yamaha
9. Joey Savatgy, Thomasville, Ga., KTM
10. Christian Craig, Wildomar, Calif., Honda
Western Regional 250SX Class Points
1. Eli Tomac, Cortez, Colo., Honda – 50
2. Ken Roczen, Germany, KTM – 44
3. Cole Seely, Newbury Park, Calif., Honda – 38
4. Ryan Sipes, Ekron, Ky., Suzuki – 29
5. Zach Osborne, Chesterfield, S.C., Honda – 29
6. Kyle Cunningham, Aledo, Texas, Yamaha – 23
7. Tyla Rattray, South Africa, Kawasaki – 22
8. Max Anstie, England, Suzuki – 22
9. Martin Davalos, Ecuador, Kawasaki – 21
10. Joey Savatgy, Thomasville, Ga., KTM – 20


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October 12, 2018
ALIAGA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on Friday convicted an American pastor on terror charges but released him from house arrest and allowed him to leave the country, a move that's likely to ease tensions between Turkey and the United States.
The court near the western city of Izmir sentenced Andrew Brunson to 3 years, 1 month and 15 days in prison for allegedly helping terror groups. But since the evangelical pastor had already spent nearly two years in detention, Turkish law allowed him to remain free with time served.
The earlier charge of espionage against him was dropped. Brunson, a native of North Carolina whose detention had sparked a diplomatic dispute between the two NATO allies, had rejected the espionage and terror-related charges and strongly maintained his innocence.
The 50-year-old native of North Carolina had faced up to 35 years in jail if convicted of all the charges. With tears in his eyes, he hugged his wife Norine Lyn as he awaited the decision Friday. Lawyer Ismail Cem Halavurt said Brunson was expected to leave Turkey for the U.S., but it was not clear when. His lawyer said the electronic ankle bracelet for monitoring was removed. Brunson was seen going back to his home in Izmir from the court.
President Donald J. Trump tweeted he was praying for Brunson and announced his release, saying "WILL BE HOME SOON!" Washington had repeatedly called for Brunson's release and in August had slapped sanctions on Turkey.
But a top Turkish official criticized Trump's tweet and American pressures for the pastor's release. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's communications director Fahrettin Altun repeated the president's message that Turkey would not bow to threats of sanctions and said the court's ruling proved the judiciary's independence.
Brunson, who has lived in Turkey for more than two decades, was one of thousands caught up in a widespread government crackdown that followed a failed coup against the Turkish government in July 2016.
He was accused of committing crimes on behalf of terror groups and of alleged links to outlawed Kurdish militants and a network led by a U.S.-based Turkish cleric who is accused of orchestrating the coup attempt.
"I am an innocent man. I love Jesus. I love Turkey," Brunson told the court Friday, speaking in Turkish. Earlier, the court called two witnesses following tips from witness Levent Kalkan, who at a previous hearing had accused Brunson of aiding terror groups. The new witnesses did not confirm Kalkan's accusations. Another witness for the prosecution said she did not know Brunson.
The pastor, who is originally from Black Mountain, North Carolina, led a small congregation in the Izmir Resurrection Church. He was imprisoned for nearly two years – detained in October 2016 and formally arrested in December that year – before being placed under house arrest on July 25 for health reasons.
Tony Perkins, the commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, said he welcomed the court's decision Friday along with "the millions of Americans who have been praying for Pastor Brunson's release."
Washington imposed sanctions on two Turkish officials and doubled tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum imports in August. Those moves, coupled with concerns over the government's economic management, helped trigger a Turkish currency crisis.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had resisted U.S. demands for Brunson's release, insisting that Turkish courts are independent. But he had previously suggested a possible swap of Brunson for the Pennsylvania resident Fethullah Gulen – the cleric that Erdogan has accused of being behind the coup attempt.
Gulen has denied the claim. Turkey has demanded his extradition but so far U.S. officials say Turkey has not provided sufficient reason for U.S. officials to extradite the cleric, a former ally of Erdogan who had a falling out with the powerful leader.
Brunson's trial came as another major diplomatic case is developing in Turkey involving Saudi writer and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week. Turkish officials claim the writer may have been killed inside the Saudi diplomatic mission and Turkish newspapers have released pictures of alleged Saudi agents flown in to allegedly handle the killing. Saudi officials reject the claim as "baseless."
Associated Press journalists Mehmet Guzel contributed from Aliaga and Suzan Fraser from Ankara, Turkey.


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City releases parking information for Obama's visit to Madison
President to hold rally on Bascom Hill Thursday
MADISON, Wis. — The city of Madison said it will provide special event parking at several parking garages to accommodate visitors for President Barack Obama's visit to Madison and rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday.
The city will provide special event parking at the State Street Campus (both Lake Street and Frances Street garages), State Street Capitol and Overture Center garages.
The special event rate of $5 must be paid upon entry and is payable with cash only.
Special event parking will begin at 9 a.m. at the State Street Campus garage (both Lake Street and Frances Street garages), and at 10 a.m. at the State Street Capitol and Overture Center garages.
People can visit bit.ly/cityparking to determine real-time availability for city-operated parking.
City of Madison officials said they encourage attendees from the campus and Madison community to walk, bike or use public transportation, as there is limited space available in city of Madison parking garages.
For public transportation route planning, people can visit Madison Metro's link at trip.cityofmadison.com/ to create their own route.
Meanwhile, UW-Madison officials are releasing more details about Obama's visit to campus Thursday.
Entry to Bascom Hill, where the event will be held, begins at noon.
The event is free to attend but registration is required.
The line to enter the event will form on the sidewalk on Observatory Drive to the west of Bascom Hall. Observatory Drive will be closed to traffic from Babcock Drive to Park Street.
Numerous streets on campus will be closed during the event.


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California urged to assess energy reform
California officials need to add up the costs of all the state's clean-energy policies before adopting any more, according to a report issued Monday by a government oversight agency.
The state has adopted a series of far-reaching energy reforms - boosting the use of renewable power and reining in greenhouse gases - without considering how each policy affects the others, the Little Hoover Commission argues in the report.
Even worse, state officials have no clear idea how much all of those reforms, taken together, will cost.
Californians could soon face a "rate impact bomb" of exploding electricity prices as a result, the report found. The governor and the Legislature should refrain from adopting any big new energy initiatives until those costs are better understood, according to the report.
"Blazing the trail on energy policies creates a significant burden to succeed," the report reads. "Should energy costs unexpectedly escalate or energy becomes unreliable, California will jeopardize not only its own environmental stewardship goals, it will put the state's economy at risk and jeopardize support for renewable energy in other states and other countries as well."
The report also calls for consolidating all state energy policy in one department.
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Currently a patchwork of agencies - primarily the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission - splits oversight of energy issues. Such a "balkanized" approach makes it hard for the state to meet all of its energy goals, the report argues. The idea of consolidation has been floated before, with then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pushing it in 2005. But it has never gained traction.
More than any other state, California is trying to transform its system for generating and delivering energy. State law requires that utility companies derive 33 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2020. Power plants on the coast are being forced to cut the amount of water they use for cooling. The state's new cap-and-trade system will slowly lower the amount of greenhouse gases that power plants and industrial facilities can produce.
But the state has not adequately explored how these policies interact, according to the report. For example, the electricity output of wind farms and solar power plants varies hour-by-hour, requiring utilities to rely on fossil-fuel power plants for backup. Construction of more fossil fuel plants, triggered by the rising use of renewable power, could complicate the state's efforts to curb greenhouse gases, the report says.
The report's authors call on Gov. Jerry Brown to issue an executive order to the Energy Commission and the Public Utilities Commission, launching a study of the state's energy policies and regulatory structure. In specific, the study should assess how the various policies will affect electricity rates for consumers.
A spokesman for the governor said Brown would review the Little Hoover Commission report but did not offer any comments on its contents. Created by the Legislature in 1962, the commission looks for ways to improve California's government.
David R. Baker is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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text: Kenny Chesney will perform Friday (Oct. 12) during Sammy Hagar's 65th birthday celebration in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Only 500 tickets, priced at $55, are available for the show at Hagar's Cabo Wabo Cantina. Chesney first performed at Hagar's birthday bash in 2004 when they performed for almost four hours. This year's event will also feature celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse along with Michael Anthony (Van Halen), Joe Satriani (Chickenfoot), Matt Sorum (Velvet Revolver and Guns N' Roses) and Denny Carmassi (Montrose). Chesney completed his Brothers of the Sun stadium tour with Tim McGraw in August.


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'You're looking at the premium package, right?' Companies today are increasingly tying people's real-life identities to their online browsing habits.
Georgia resident Andy Morar is in the market for a BMW. So recently he sent a note to a showroom near Atlanta, using a form on the dealer's website to provide his name and contact information.
His note went to the dealership—but it also went, without his knowledge, to a company that tracks car shoppers online. In a flash, an analysis of the auto websites Mr. Morar had anonymously visited could be paired with his real name and studied by his local car dealer....
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Five people have been charged over a huge brawl at a hotel in Parramatta that left a police officer injured, while another officer was allegedly elbowed in the face as she tried to arrest a woman at a Bondi Junction pub, police say.
The incidents come after NSW Police conducted a blitz on alcohol-related violence, with 548 people arrested across the state on Friday and Saturday nights.
Police went to a hotel on George Street, Parramatta, to conduct routine patrols and eject drunk patrons about 10pm on Sunday, when a large brawl broke out in the beer garden and spilled out onto the street.
Officers had to call for back up from two other police stations, as other fights broke out.
A female constable was allegedly hit on the head during the brawl and was taken to Westmead Hospital for observation and another officer suffered a wrist injury, but did not need treatment, police said.
Five people were arrested and taken to Parramatta police station, where they were all charged.
A 20-year-old Auburn man, a 24-year-old Bass Hill man and a 24-year-old Padstow man were charged with a range of offences, while two women, aged 24 and 21, were charged with affray.
All were granted bail and will appear in Parramatta Local Court on January 30.
A 50-year-old woman has been charged after allegedly assaulting police officers who tried to arrest her at a hotel on Oxford Street, Bondi Junction, at 6pm on Sunday.
Police were called to the hotel after staff reported the woman, who was allegedly banned from the hotel, became aggressive when she refused to leave, police said.
Police said the woman allegedly elbowed a female officer in the face, and punched, kicked and bit a male constable.
She was charged with two counts of assault police causing actual bodily harm, resist arrest, and fail to quit licensed premises.
She was granted bail to appear before Waverley Local Court on Tuesday.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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With the conventions over and the debates approaching it is time to start tracking the vote of U.S. Catholics a bit more closely on the blog. The figure below aggregates the preferences of registered voters who self-identify as Catholic in national polls through last week (we'll comment on battleground state polls when preferences of Catholics are available and if you're looking for national data from previous elections you'll find it here).
The vote of Catholics remains quite evenly split 47% for President Obama and 45% for Gov. Romney (most of the differences between the candidates have been within margins of sampling error for the sub-group). Once in March and again in July, President Obama had a lead of 9 percentage points. Gov. Romney's biggest lead was 5 percentage points in April. He also opened a 4 percentage point lead during and after the Republican Party Convention that has now disappeared. Gov. Romney has never polled lower than 42% among Catholics and President Obama's support has never measured lower than 44% among this group.
Since January, President Obama has averaged 47% support among registered Catholics and Gov. Romney has averaged 46%. Rarely has either candidate measured at or above 50%. A small percentage of registered Catholics remain undecided. These are the potential voters who will likely sway the "Catholic vote" one way or the other. As it is often noted, the preferences of Catholics are often correlated with the overall popular vote (not too much of a surprise as one in four voters are Catholic).
Among other religious groups, Gov. Romney holds a lead of 51% to 40% over President Obama among Protestants (on average, 52% to 40% since January). Nones (i.e., those without a religious affiliation) prefer President Obama 63% to 27% for Gov. Romney (on average, 67% to 24% since January).
New Data Update 9/19: Since originally posting this the Democratic Party Convention bounce has entered Gallup's data aggregations (...the trend also includes additional polls conducted by Pew that are now reported). As of the most recent update, the President has pushed a 2 percentage point lead among Catholic registered voters noted above to 10 percentage points (i.e., the average of Gallup and Pew's most recent survey estimates). If the election were today, it would no longer be "too close to call" as that kind of a margin is beyond sampling error. But I don't expect President Obama to maintain this wide of a margin in the next weekly updates. This is more likely due to the appearance of the bounce in Gallup's lagged data trend than the effect of recent events overseas or from Gov. Romney's remarks about the "47 percent." If the Catholic electorate mirrors the national electorate the race for the Catholic vote will tighten again. Polling was just not made for the 24-hour cable news cycle. It is always a bit behind events. The updated figure is below:
The next, more current, update (through Sept. 23) for the Catholic vote has been posted here.
Nineteen Sixty-four is a research blog for the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University edited by Mark M. Gray. CARA is a non-profit research center that conducts social scientific studies about the Catholic Church. Founded in 1964, CARA has three major dimensions to its mission: to increase the Catholic Church's self understanding; to serve the applied research needs of Church decision-makers; and to advance scholarly research on religion, particularly Catholicism. Follow CARA on Twitter at: caracatholic.
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