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Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm opposed to the proposed expansion of the .jobs charter from what is currently allowed to what would be allowed. What is currently allowed is for Employ Media, the registrar, to help an employer such as Toyota funnel job seeker traffic to its career web site by registering and promoting Toyota.jobs. What Employ Media wants to do is expand that so that it may use secret criteria which may or may not change and may or many not be applied uniformly to create tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even a million new geographic, occupational field, and other such domains such as NewYork.jobs, engineer.jobs, and diversity.jobs. In essence, Employ Media would be given the right to create the sandbox and decide who gets to play in it, for how long, and at what price. Those who are friends may get to play for longer and at a lower cost. Those who aren't friends may be treated quite differently. And Employ Media may retain whichever domains it wishes for itself. In effect, Employ Media becomes both the registrar and the competitor.
One of the key complaints against the proposed expansion of the .jobs charter is that Employ Media would create perhaps a million new job boards. A White Paper on Dot Jobs just published by Direct Employers Association executive director Bill Warren — one of the key driving forces behind the proposed expansion — addresses this concern in what I can only describe as double speak:
[T]his is not a million job boards but rather one dynamic jobs platform, it will provide a single interface for posting jobs to niche, targeted locations. Automated job feeds and single postings will only be accepted from vetted employers and, when the .jobs TLD build‐out is complete, all jobs will automatically appear in the appropriate city, state, country, and occupational .jobs URLs. Job seekers will be able to enter a desired city, state, geographic region, country, or occupation plus .jobs (Atlanta.jobs, Georgia.jobs, etc.) in their browser for immediate access to relevant jobs.
So if I understand Bill properly, they're not creating a million job boards but one and that one job board will be accessible by perhaps a million different domain names such as NewYork.jobs, engineer.jobs, and diversity.jobs and each of those domain names will have different content which is targeted to its users so NewYork.jobs will contain only information about jobs in New York, engineer.jobs will contain information only about engineering jobs, and diversity.jobs will contain information only about jobs for diverse candidates. I'm sorry, but how is that not a million job boards? Oh, because underlying each of them is a common platform. In other words, one database and common software will drive all of them. Does anyone really think that 99 percent of the visitors to these sites will understand that? If there are a million domains with different content, that's a million job boards regardless of any double speak to the contrary.
Whether the underlying software is shared or unique to each board, they'll function to the individual users as separate boards. And if they function as separate boards, then they are separate boards. Ever hear the expression that if something walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it must be a duck? Well folks, Employ Media and Direct Employers Association can call it what they wish, but this is a duck.
I received an email earlier this afternoon from Ray Fassett of Employ Media to announce that they are now accepting proposals from organizations and people who wish to own a non-company name .jobs domain. The link to the Request for Proposal (RFP) form did not work for me so I replied back to Ray to tell him so and ask him to email the PDF to me. He replied back within minutes with a note saying the links on their web site worked for him and he included a link for me that worked.
The domains which Employ Media is now marketing include geographic names (i.e., NewYork.jobs), occupational field names (i.e., engineering.jobs), and dictionary words (i.e., diversity.jobs). One of the key objections that I've had to this entire process has been the lack of openness and transparency by Employ Media and the other driving forces behind this expansion of the dot jobs charter: Direct Employers Association and Society for Human Resource Management. I'm disappointed but not terribly surprised to read in the PDF application form that the RFP process will be anything but open and transparent. Keep in mind that if you buy a .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, or just about any other type of domain you just head over to GoDaddy, Network Solutions, or any of thousands of other registrar sites, pull out your credit card, and buy the domain name. Anyone can buy any domain name and the process is completely open, transparent, and honest. Compare that to the evaluation process that Employ Media just announced:
6.7.1 Employ Media reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to alter the schedule of proposal evaluation as it deems necessary or appropriate. Dates listed may be changed by posting on Employ Media's Website without notice to any Applicant or prospective Applicant.
6.7.2 Employ Media will assess Proposals by applicable criteria, including but not limited to the following criteria
(i): quantity of Domains of Interest;
(ii) community value, impact and investment;
(iii) enhancement of the .JOBS brand;
(iv) business plan, capability and sustainability;
(v) technical and financial capabilities;
(vi) general company (or team) information;
(vii) compliance with the .JOBS Charter;
(viii) compliance with any and all applicable policies, practices and business rules which govern .JOBS;
(ix) compliance with all applicable ICANN requirements;
(x) quality, innovation, choice and differentiation;
(xi) the nature and strength of the applicant and/or any named partners, including historical business practices and further including historical activities and actions as such have related to the .JOBS sTLD, Employ Media, SHRM, ICANN, the Community and this request for proposal process, including Employ Media/ICANN contractual amendments and Employ Media/SHRM Policy Development Process amendments;
(xii) the effect, if any, on the Society for Human Resource Management ("SHRM");
(xiii) the ability of the proposal to deliver as set forth, including business and technical capabilities of any relevant parties,
(xiv) willingness to work cooperatively with other applicants and third parties; and
(xv) compliance with the terms of this request for proposals. Individual criteria may be given varying weight depending upon the nature of any given Proposal.
In any given instance, one or more of the criteria listed above may be dispositive in terms of Employ Media's evaluation of a Proposal, but need not be so. Employ Media may, in its sole discretion, choose to ignore or decrease in importance, or increase in importance, one or more of the criteria listed above, and Employ Media may do so on a proposal-by-proposal basis.
You also must agree to negotiate with them, they can reject your application for any reason, they can for any reason pull the domain from you after you go live even if you've managed to build it into something valuable, you must indemnify them if they're sued for anything related to your domain, and they can do whatever they want with any information they collect from you including publish on the Internet the financial statements and business plan that they're requiring you to provide.
Okay, so let's say you can live with all of that and you still decide to proceed. What's the cost? Who knows? Your application will cost you $250 and that's non-refundable. They don't even have to consider it. They can just pocket your money and tell you to buzz off. But let's say they do cash your check (no credit cards!!) and give you the positive news that they are willing to temporarily lend to you one of the domains (remember they can pull it back whenever they want). How much will the domain cost? Who knows? You need to tell them how much you're willing to pay. Maybe that's where revenue share comes into play. If you have big plans and they are convinced that you can properly execute, it seems to me that they're going to be far more likely to approve your proposal if you promise to pay them even one percent of your revenues than if someone with a plan which is equally as good and is equally as likely to executive promises to pay them dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of dollars.
Wow. What chutzpah! (defined: Yiddish for unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity)
Dear Mr. Fassett,
Thank you again for your "courtesy call" yesterday in which you asked me to retract the portion of my comment at the Wall Street Journal web site and CollegeRecruiter.com Blog in which I wrote, "Ray Fassett of Employ Media has been asking job boards for revenue shares for the domains."
Although it was difficult for me to understand what the courtesy call was regarding as you seemed reluctant to directly state your concern and instead seemed to want me to identify for you what was of concern to you, I ended up understanding that you wanted me to retract that statement and if I didn't that Employ Media would take legal action against either CollegeRecruiter.com, me, or both. After ending our call, I considered the issue and essentially reminded myself that my primary concern wasn't about the revenue share and that I didn't want that to distract Employ Media, CollegeRecruiter.com, or any other entity from the crux of the matter. In addition, I had no written documentation to substantiate the revenue share statement. As a result of both factors, I retracted the statement both on the Wall Street Journal site as well as on CollegeRecruiter.com.
Two job boards later posted comments to CollegeRecruiter.com Blog indicating that they did have a revenue sharing discussion with you. One of the two comments unequivocally indicates that you raised the revenue share option. The other comment generally supports the first but does not directly indicate whether the option of a revenue share was raised first by you or the representative of the second job board.
I'm hoping that you will choose to participate in an open, honest, and transparent manner by posting a comment on CollegeRecruiter.com Blog regarding Employ Media's requests for a share of the revenue from job boards or other organizations who seek to own a dot jobs domain. I suspect that you've made no such requests of direct employers as that wouldn't be consistent with their model — they don't make money by hiring people. But given the statements of the two job board owners, I think that seeing your response would be helpful to the job board, staffing, association, newspaper, recruiter, and members of other communities who object to Employ Media's plans for dot jobs.
Clearly the two job board owners on one side of the discussion and you on the other can't all be correct regarding the issue of whether you requested a share of revenues from them should they wish to obtain a .jobs domain. You ended up being pretty clear with me yesterday in our call that no one from Employ Media, including you, had ever requested a revenue share from anyone in return for a .jobs domain. I'm hoping that you can explain your perspective on this issue to my readers and me.
Steven Rothberg
President and Founder
For employment and now small business writer Sarah Needleman penned an article for today's Wall Street Journal that does a pretty good job of summarizing the scandal launched by Employ Media, Direct Employers Association, and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) last year when they tried to expand who could use the top level domain .jobs and for what purpose. ICANN, the international governing body for domain names, created .jobs five years ago after SHRM promised to be the watch dog and ensure that only employers purchased and used the domains and only to promote their own jobs, so you'd have toyota.jobs to promote Toyota's jobs but you wouldn't have Monster.jobs to drive job seekers to Monster's job board.
As Sarah's article did a good job of pointing out, all of that may now be changing if Employ Media gets its way. ICANN approved the request to expand the charter, apparently paving the way for Employ Media to create tens and probably hundreds of thousands of new domains such as diversity.jobs, great.jobs, newyork.jobs and many, many, many more. What's the problem with that, you say? Isn't this just job boards whining about more competition? Well, for some job board owners that's all this is but they're missing the point as is anyone else who thinks that's the issue. The issue is the process this has followed has been fundamentally flawed and has lacked openness and transparency. If you want to buy just about any domain, you can go to a registrar like GoDaddy or Network Solutions, pull out your credit card, and buy it. You know that they won't keep the best ones for themselves or their friends and they won't ask you for a share of the revenues generated from the domain. If Employ Media gets its way, it will apparently keep the best domains for itself and its friends and it has already approached job board owners to request a share of revenues if Employ Media grants their request for their .jobs domain name.
Remember that ICANN approved the creation of .jobs to allow employers to drive traffic to their own career pages and SHRM was to act as the watch dog. Sarah's story unfortunately mischaracterized that when it stated that SHRM was supposed to ensure that the users of the dot jobs domains are in the "job-site realm." That's not correct. That would mean that job boards and perhaps also staffing companies, third party recruiters, etc. could purchase .jobs domains to drive candidates to their job sites. The dot jobs charter which was awarded by ICANN five years expressly forbids that and limits the use of the dot jobs top level domain only to employers. So Toyota can (and has) purchased toyota.jobs to drive job seekers to its own career section but Employ Media has been forbidden to sell domains such as CollegeRecruiter.jobs if we were to use that to drive candidates to our job board. In other words, you can promote your own openings with your own dot jobs, but not the openings of other organizations. So job boards have not been able to buy dot jobs domains.
What Employ Media is trying to do is continue to be the registrar by being the organization that decides who gets what domain and at what price
(Ray Fassett of Employ Media has been asking job boards for revenue shares for the domains) and also the owner of tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of job boards that it creates. Yes, there's now an RFP process, but no one outside of Employ Media seems to know the criteria that will be used to determine who gets what domain and at what price.
Follow-up note from 12:20pm — Ray Fassett just called and said he was making a "courtesy call" to tell me that if I didn't retract the revenue share statement that Employ Media would take legal action against me. I don't have written proof of that and whether Employ Media has or will ask for revenue shares or not isn't really the point. So, Ray, consider the statement retracted. I have no desire to get into a legal battle with you or anyone else at Employ Media. We can agree to disagree on the merits of what Employ Media wants to do with .jobs and not make our lawyers wealthier in the process.
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Welcome to the homepage for the Indiana State Department of Health Rural Health Clinic Certification Program. The Indiana State Department of Health monitors rural health clinics for quality for all citizens in need of these clinic services. The rural health clinics that are certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for reimbursement are the clinics found in a rural underserved area of the state and meet the criteria for a shortage area. The rural health clinics must employ a midwife or nurse practitioner or physician assistant 50% of the clinic's operational hours. The Indiana State Department of Health inspects rural health clinics on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Contact the Program
Indiana State Department of Health
Division of Acute Care
2 North Meridian Street, 4A
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 233-7474 (Acute Care Receptionist)
(317) 233-1325 (ISDH Main Switchboard)
Program Manager
Kelly Hemmelgarn
(317) 233-7541
(317) 233-7302 [Administrative Assistant]
Report a Complaint or Incident to the ISDH
Report a complaint regarding a health care facility
Individuals can call or email to make complaints about care provided at any licensed or certified Indiana health care providers or suppliers.
Report an incident regarding a health care facility
The Incident Report Form is for health care facilities to notify the Indiana State Department of Health of a reportable incident pursuant to the ISDH Reportable Unusual Occurrence Policy. The Incident Report Form is also for health care facility staff (nursing homes, intermediate care facilities, and hospice agencies) to report a reasonable suspicion of a crime against a resident pursuant to Federal regulations. This form is not to be used to file a complaint.
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Wednesday 19th May 6.30pm at Lee Quarry.
As part of our build up to the Singletrack Classic Weekender we are putting on a free guided ride around Lee Quarry with Ed Oxley. He's the guy with the beard who was part of Rowan Sorrell's team who built the new trails in the quarry. He also runs skills courses up there with his www.great-rock.co.uk skills training company and so he definitely knows his way around.
The ride will include all the new trails in the quarry as well as older sections. It will be a great chance to ask questions about the Weekender event, as well as getting an insight to the trail building process from someone who was up there in the snow with his shovel. All in all it will be so awesome that when you get back home, you'll probably want to sign yourself up to take part in one of the best events of the year!
Everyone is welcome no matter how fast or slow you are. In fact the ride will be like the Weekender itself. It's about riding bikes and having fun and there will probably be a beer at the end as well.
On Wednesday evenings, from 26th May there will be guided pre-rides of the proposed Weekender race courses for the cross country, downhill and trials sections. These rides will be for people who have bought their tickets to the Weekender and who want to get the insider information on the event.
Meet at the car parking area behind the Kingfisher Centre in Bacup, Lancashire to set off riding just after 6.30pm.
Getting There: – Easiest way of getting directions is to Google (or key in to your SatNav) the following:- Kingfisher Centre Futures Park, Bacup, OL13 0BB.
Singletrack Classic Weekender, Lee Quarry, Lancashire, July 3rd-4th 2010
- 3 different races
- 1 bike
- The ultimate "all rounder" event
A weekend of Trials, Dounhill and XC racing. One entry fee – all three events.
What makes this event different from any other on the calendar?
The idea of the event is a light hearted competition to find the best all round mountain biker and for riders to work out where they stand in a test of skills, speed and endurance. The aim of the Singletrack Classic Weekender is to have a fun weekend of bike riding, good natured racing and a lot of socialising…
The disciplines:
There will be three events in the Classic Weekender that will lead riders to an overall position. It's roughly based on old skool races, where one entry fee got you entry to three disciplines. The only difference being that in this event, all your performances count towards a final, overall position.
Classic Trials
Modern trials riders are fantastically skilled, riding impossible obstacles. However, this event is aimed at mere-mortals. There will be five simple, taped off, sections to ride, resembling 'normal' mountain bike obstacles (with a couple of 'modern' additions – things like 'a log to ride along' and 'some jumbly rocks'). Once 'on course' you have 15 seconds to ride each section. A foot down, crash or leaving the course is an instant 'kill'. A clean ride between the tapes is a 'clear'. For every 'kill', you will earn a time penalty for the following day's cross country race, added up after the five sections.
Classic Downhill
Downhillers, again, are fierce riders, capable of clearing huge gaps and big drops. The downhill race at the Classic Weekender will be for more mortal riders, and doable on any bike from a hardtail to a monster DH bike. Just remember that you'll have to race whichever bike you choose in the following day's XC. Smooth all-round riding will get you a better time than just being fearless. Once again, the penalties won't be too severe, and the penalty for not doing a discipline at all will be far stiffer. Even crashing or puncturing will get you a better score than not turning up.
Classic XC
The Sunday will host the cross country race. The start will be handicapped so that riders with perfect scores from the Saturday will start on time, followed a minute later by riders with a minute's penalty, and so on until the riders with the maximum penalty score bring up the rear. The race then goes on for four laps or so, with the winners of those races being crowned as the overall champion of the event, and the best overall mountain bikers in the land.
Weekender Ticket: £35.00.
Your one entry fee gets you entry to all of these events. They MUST be competed on the SAME BIKE.
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Dear STW,
I am confused by the following:-
"when you get back home, you'll probably want to sign yourself up to take part".
"Everyone is welcome"
All good so far, then:-
"These rides will be for people who have bought their tickets to the Weekender"
Is it a come and see how great it is then sign up if you like it!
If you've signed up come and have a look what's to come.
Confused of Bradford
The ride on the 19th is for anyone to come along on.
26th onwards are for people who have entered the weekender.
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Grimes to McConnell: 'Shoot with me'
Firing a twitter shot at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, senatorial candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes on Friday challenged the incumbent to join her on her shooting range while jabbing his service to the state.
Whenever he's not busy pandering to DC lobbyists, I welcome Sen. McConnell to come shoot with me at the range any day pic.twitter.com/p00Zm3fGks
— Alison L. Grimes (@AlisonForKY) November 8, 2013
Grimes, a Democrat, is mounting an aggressive campaign to unseat the 28-year Senate veteran. Although the Democratic primaries have not yet been decided, Grimes is widely considered to be the most likely candidate to square off against McConnell in next year's election.
In addition to criticizing McConnell, the tweet was an attempt to clarify Grimes' position on gun rights.
"As an NRA member, my strong support for the Second Amendment is unquestioned. I am proud of Kentucky's long-held gun ownership, sporting and hunting traditions," Grimes said in a statement. "It is unfortunate that Senator McConnell is desperate to mislead Kentucky voters about my strong support for the Second Amendment."
The McConnell campaign did not immediately responded to request for comment.


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The other Tigers
MU's wheelchair team makes basketball extraordinary
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The University of Missouri Tigers are on the court and the action is furious. Players race down the lane, dribbling as they go. They pass and shoot with lightning speed. Athletes crash into each other and spill to the hardwood, only to pop up and get back in the game.
This game is just as exciting as any basketball broadcast on television, but a few details set it apart. These Tigers do not defend Mizzou Arena, but rather occupy court 10 of the university's Student Recreation Complex. Instead of thousands of screaming fans, barely a hundred spectators turn out to watch.
One more thing — every player on the court is in a wheelchair.
While that distinction surely sets this sport apart from "able-bodied" basketball, it's a superficial difference in some ways, according to Coach Steve Paxton.
"It's a basketball team, plain and simple," says Paxton, who came to Columbia in 2004 specifically to form a wheelchair basketball program. "We just happen to play in wheelchairs."
A paraplegic who broke his neck in a car accident at age 16, Paxton does not intend to diminish the accomplishment of these athletes. It's just that he knows his team plays basketball in a way that transcends the fact that wheelchairs are involved.
People look at an athlete in a wheelchair, and the first thing they seem to think is 'Oh, that's nice,'" Paxton says, mimicking a condescending tone. "Come out and see a game, and you'll get a whole different concept of what's going on."
Indeed, the athleticism and level of intensity of an MU Tigers wheelchair basketball game is hard to appreciate until you've seen one. The chairs soon become irrelevant as spectators are left cheering for a forward pulling down a rebound or a guard sinking a three-pointer.
In many ways, the wheelchair Tigers are no different than any other athletic program. Although officially part of the university's recreation department, the team functions just like the high-profile sports. "We have scholarships, we have eligibility standards, we have recruiting guidelines," Paxton says.
Furthermore, the sport itself differs little from the able-bodied game. A standard court and regulation 10-foot-tall baskets are used, but to avoid a traveling call players must dribble every two pushes instead of every two steps.
Currently the sport is governed by the National Wheelchair Basketball Association, which represents 220 teams nationwide. The sport began after World War II as a means of providing recreation and physical fitness for injured soldiers. By 1977, the organization recognized college teams and the first collegiate championship was held. The sport has since expanded to include divisions for juniors and children.
"Wheelchair basketball allows people to focus on these individuals' abilities and not their disabilities," says Todd Hatfield, executive director of the association. "You focus on the talents that they have and not some of the issues that they face."
Every player on the 10-member MU squad has a disability that requires the use of a wheelchair. Five were born with spina bifida. One has cerebral palsy. Four suffered a spinal injury that caused paralysis. Each player is assigned a classification, based on their level of disability, with the least disabled receiving the most "points." To ensure that every player has a place in the game, league rules permit only so many points on the floor at any time.
Regardless of their classification, these athletes all play basketball only with their arms. They propel their $4,000 custom ball chairs with their arms, and they shoot using only upper body strength.
"You want to talk about fitness and conditioning? It's a whole different level with these kids," Paxton says. "I would say to any able-bodied person, just come out and sit in a wheelchair and try to shoot a free throw, and we'll see how that goes."
Paxton, a former wheelchair athlete, built his team from the ground up, with an initial squad of just five players in 2005. One of those original athletes is Tom Knaus, a former Smith-Cotton football player from Sedalia who broke his neck shortly after high school graduation.
Knaus assumed his athletic days were over until Paxton approached the then-college freshman and asked him to join the fledgling team.
"I was going to my car and the coach wheeled up to me and talked to me about it," recalls Knaus, now a junior. "I was glad that I could continue playing sports. I was glad I could still compete."
The desire to remain fit and active, to compete and to belong to a team are universal themes among the university's wheelchair athletes.
John Gilbert was an ordinary Missouri kid from Fairfax when a tumor on his spine left him paralyzed at age 9. Undaunted, Gilbert took up wheelchair basketball and played with an elite junior division team in Omaha, Neb.
"I have a very competitive nature," says Gilbert, an MU pre-med junior majoring in biology. "I want to win all the time, and I hate losing. This is one way that I can come out and win."
Since Paxton recruited him to come to the University of Missouri, Gilbert has proven his competitive drive, in spite of paralysis that places him in the most disabled wheelchair athlete classification. A two-time Mizzou MVP, he's been named an NWBA All-American three times. In 2007, he traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to help the U.S. men's team bring home the gold at the Parapan American Games.
Gilbert's talents and leadership as team captain have not yet translated into a winning record. Halfway through the 2007-2008 season, MU has won just a third of its games and faces a tough schedule, with matches against more experienced teams from Wisconsin, Illinois, Arizona and elsewhere.
"We're still young and we're still learning," Paxton says. "When we started this program, we had five players, two of whom had never played wheelchair basketball before. Now we have 10 on our roster. We're coming a long way."
Whatever its win-loss record, the team still manages to put on quite a show when they take to the floor of the Student Rcreation Complex's Brewer Field House. Like any basketball game, the thrill of watching these MU Tigers comes from how they play the game — and not how they move across the court.
"At any given moment, something spectacular can happen," Paxton says. "It can be a fantastic pass. It can be a great layup. It can be a three-point shot. It can be somebody taking a huge spill and then popping right back up and getting back in the play."
But even Paxton agrees that at least some of the excitement comes from watching the players overcome obstacles. "Part of it will be spectacular simply because they're playing in a ball chair," he says. "It makes the ordinary seem extraordinary."
The Tigers wheelchair basketball team's next home games are Feb. 1-2, when the team hosts an intercollegiate tournament at the MU Student Recreation Complex in Columbia. Another tournament is scheduled for March 1-2. For more information, log onto www.mizzourec.com. To contact the National Wheelchair Basketball Association, visit www.nwba.org, or write to NWBA, 6165 Lehman Drive, Suite 101, Colorado Springs, CO 80918.


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Happy New Year to everyone.
I've put a dual boot system on my PC - latest Ubuntu and M$Vista.
I've used Wine to try and run the NBPro.exe from the Vista installed version but I get a security message saying I can't run any 'exes' as they it doesn't have a security certificate. I've gone into the properties of the exe file and tried to check the box to make it ok to run but it does not stay 'checked'.
Do I have to re-install NBPro under Wine? which I presume will overwrite my Vista install as the default location is the same or is there another way to change the exe file properties so that I can make it run?


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PONTIAC -- A massive former General Motors site is about to rev up.
M1 Concourse, an ambitious project that's slated to include a test track, car storage, automotive-themed restaurant, event center, clubhouse and more, is holding a kickoff event May 22 on the 80-acre site that was last home to a General Motors Validation Center at Woodward Avenue and South Boulevard.
The goal is to have the first phase of the M1 Concourse development open by summer 2014.
Brad Oleshansky, founder and CEO of the complex, said he's always been a car enthusiast.
"I grew up around Woodward Avenue," said Oleshansky, 42, of Birmingham.
"I had the idea of creating a destination for car fanatics. I did research of similar projects around the world and took the best components of each product."
Plans for the M1 Concourse include more than 325 car "condominiums," including climate control and plumbing, as well as a 7,000 square-foot member clubhouse, 40,000 square-foot event center, automotive retail, an exhibition space and office.
The site is to include a one-mile warm up track with a one-third of a mile straightaway, hairpin turns and a skid pad.
Pontiac Mayor Leon Jukowski said the site could become a center of Woodward Dream Cruise activity, and means both monetary investment and jobs for Pontiac.
"It's a huge investment in Pontiac in a site that is very difficult to develop," Jukowski said.
"As you're coming up Woodward after St. Joseph Mercy Oakland hospital, that's really sort of the gateway into Pontiac. It's great that it's going to be rehabbed and something nice is going to go there."
The General Motors Validation facility, last open in 2006, was torn down in 2008.
The site, bounded by Woodward, South Boulevard, Franklin Road and Rapid Street, was once home to the Pontiac West assembly plant.
Part of the site was originally occupied by the Wilson Foundry, one of the first local companies to hire blacks. Pontiac's largest black neighborhoods sprang up within walking distance of the foundry.
Oleshansky -- who has worked as an entertainment attorney in Los Angeles and formerly owned the Big Communications marketing company in Ferndale -- has acquired the land from the RACER Trust, which markets properties that General Motors shed in its bankruptcy.
"It's an auto project on an auto site in an auto city," he said.
The complex, he said, will be on Woodward "in the middle of all the action."
Oleshansky called the project the "ultimate car enthusiast destination where like-minded individuals" can gather to be with their cars.
"And the public can hang out there at the restaurant. Private owners can also use the warmup track and the public will have access at times," he said.
People can use the track for driving classes or aftermarket manufacturers could test products at the track.
"It will have all kinds of different uses," he said.
The goal is to have the initial phase of the complex open next summer, he said.
Emergency Manager Lou Schimmel said the M1 Concourse represents a $40 to $60 million dollar investment in the city.
"It really came together quickly, and it's absolutely a tremendous project for the city," Schimmel said.
Many area classic car owners have been invited to the May 22 kickoff.
West Bloomfield resident Dave Shipley, who owns a 1959 Corvette, stores his vehicle on his own property.
"I fixed up a garage and have TV and heat in there," he said.
"A lot of (car owners) fix up their homes to have areas for their cars. Some who have 10 or more cars put them in pole barns, and add all the amenities like neon signs."
Shipley said, for him, transferring to the M1 Concourse would hinge on the cost.
A member of Michigan Widetrackers, a Pontiac, Oakland and GMC classic car club, Jim Larson of Waterford stores his classic 1963 Pontiac Grand Prix at a friend's garage.
Larson said the 106 Widetrackers have been invited to the groundbreaking.
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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Locust luxury: Renovated craftsman offers seclusion, style
Address: 1012 Locust Avenue
Neighborhood: Locust Grove
Asking: $920,000
Assessment: $542,200
Year Built: 1932
Size: 2,930 sq. ft., 553 unfin.
Land: 0.68 acres
Agent: Loring Woodriff, Loring Woodriff Real Estate Associates, 434-466-2992
Curb Appeal: 9 out of 10
Walnut-stained floors set off white trim and walls painted in chic shades of grey. Plantation shutters in most rooms maintain a luxe feel of the space while providing privacy. Outside, mature plantings and a partial fence at the front of the property create a feeling of seclusion– even though it's located just past the intersection with Calhoun Avenue.
Although extensively renovated, this 1932 craftsman-style house offers elegant city living in a location made quiet by architectural features that have been maintained or enhanced. , has had quite a facelift. Jbuyers will find an elegant city home in a quiet locationarchitectural features that have been maintained or enhanced.
On the ground level, however, it's got those compartmentalized rooms familiar in older houses: a living room, a dining room, and– in back– a sunroom which could serve as a cozy lounge or possible office space.
A wide galley kitchen with white cabinets contrasting with a ceramic tile floor, while stainless appliances, low-luster dark granite, and a black apron-front sink create a modern feel. It's wide enough for a breakfast nook or bistro table, and glass-front cabinets keep the space open. A mudroom off the kitchen with cabinets for storage opens to the outside. A second set of French doors on the opposite side of the kitchen lead to a long, angled deck.
On the second floor, the large master suite offers a bathroom with light aqua tile and the only tub in the house. Two additional bedrooms share a bath between with a modern glassed-in standup shower. If a not having an additional bathtub is a deal breaker, there's certainly enough room to add one, but it would be a shame to lose the roomy walk-in shower. Family members who share the bathroom will vie for a spot at the oversized salvaged sink, although there's lots of room in which to loll about while waiting to primp for a hoedown in the back yard.
There, the deck– complete with pergola and built-in seating– juts into the long level yard for plenty of room for entertaining. Other details in the fenced yard lend a sense of drama— from lush professional landscaping to several sizeable sculptures, which may convey. A bocce court and fire pit make the yard a perfect space for summer entertaining.
A guesthouse sits at the end of the driveway where a garage might have been. The space has an open concept with living room and kitchen and a sunroom with plantation blinds. With a sleeping loft above and a bedroom, it's a comfortable place for extra family, guests, or tenants. Smart storage hides in corners, plus a stacked washer/dryer is concealed by closet doors in the bedroom.
Although there are four bedrooms and a goodly amount of square footage in the listing, buyers should keep in mind that it includes the guest cottage.
It would be remiss not to mention the disparity between the asking price and assessment. Assessments may be more in line with market value for houses that have turned over recently. Because this house last changed hands in 2000, the assessment will no doubt rise after the sale. Rather than comparing the two numbers, buyers interested in value should think about price per square foot and the condition of this house as well as comps and recent sales.
The Locust neighborhood is a big draw for shoppers looking for a stately home in the city. For the high price tag, buyers here get a stylishly renovated private home with many luxury touches inside and out.
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See Template talk:Sisterlinks -- Mdd (talk) 12:27, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
This template is tested in the article Art, see here and it seems to work. -- Mdd (talk) 12:34, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
- See also Wikiquote:Village pump#Template:Sister project links -- Mdd (talk) 23:56, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Second test in categories[edit]
As a (second test) the template is added in the Category:Art, and here (just for fun). Both seem to work. I guess we could just be bold and start using this template (in a day or so). -- Mdd (talk) 23:39, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
- I just noticed in the Category:Art, that the template does need it parameters (see here) to link to sister categories. -- Mdd (talk) 23:54, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
- I also noticed the template has an other appearance here on Wikiquote as on Wikipedia, see for example here at category:plants. Now this can be (temporary) resolved by adding a {{clear}} tag, see for example here -- Mdd (talk) 02:17, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
I just now noticed there is a similar Template:Similarlinks present in about 69 articles. -- Mdd (talk) 01:03, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
- Today I noticed both templates have the same source, the Template:Sister project links in 2007 and in 2013. This means we have a duplicate here, and one is redundant. It seems smart (in time) to remove one. -- Mdd (talk) 23:41, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
This appears to work well enough, and can be useful for bundling sister project links if there are more than two or three appropriate ones. However, I am a little concerned about the potential for introducing excessive links that are not particularly germane.
The template has an "opt-out" to suppress unwanted links, but I would prefer to see an "opt-in" where the contributor has determined the link is relevant. I think that a significant proportion of the links introduced in pages where the template has been used (none of which actually uses the opt-out feature) are not particularly relevant or useful additions to those pages. I can envision careless use of this template resulting in large quantities of links having no relevance whatsoever. (The similar template
{{Similarlinks}} does not even have an opt-out for omitting links that are known not to be useful.)
Also, I am not a big fan of linking to search results pages. (See WP:LINKSTOAVOID #9, to be considered in the context of WP:ELMAYBE #5.) I think there is a world of difference between saying "there is a page about this here", and saying "you can search for something about it there". (Maybe that's just because I already know how to use a search engine.)
Adding links to appropriate sister project pages is a good thing but, when considering relevance and usefulness, sometimes less is more. ~ Ningauble (talk) 19:38, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
- I do share Ningauble concern for potentially introducing excessive linkage. And for that, I think, the use of this template should even be limited to situations where there are at least three or four appropriate ones. I guess this leaves us with the question, when to consider a link appropriate?
- Here I question Ningauble's saying: the links introduced in pages where the template has been used'... are not particularly relevant or useful additions to those pages. We are talking about five pages:
- Art : The template replaced six separate templates, see previous state
- Category:Art : Similar, see previous state
- Software engineering : 5 of the 7 links are to actual pages on the sister projects
- Photography : also 5 of the 7 links to actual pages on the sister projects
- Electrical engineering : about 4 to 5 of the links to actual pages on the sister projects
- Even the search results of Wikinews and Wikisource often give some remarkable links. How can this not be particularly relevant or useful?
- As to the "opt-in"/"opt-out" options. It is not within my ability to rewrite this template as "opt-out" version. To keep it simple, we should just follow the updates of the English Wikipedia. However, it is within our ability to agree upon excluding certain links, as described here in the documentation. -- Mdd (talk) 23:35, 20 February 2013 (UTC)/ 00:50, 21 February 2013 (UTC) / 22:49, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
- The issue you mentioned above is important, I think. Taking the pages that you listed as examples, and even assuming that all the "Sister project links" are relevant and constitute "useful additions" to the articles, one still notes that Wikinews has no pages for "Art", "Software engineering", "Photography" nor "Electrical engineering", and that the latter three also don't have a page at Wikisource (as you know). I think this could be a problem. Ideally, pages that don't exist shouldn't appear in the list, right? ~ Daniel Tomé (talk) 00:09, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
- After looking into this some more, there seems to be a lot more to it. For example
- An "Opt-out" version can be "manually" be realized like this
- Wikidata, Wikispecies and Wikivoyage are already being "opted-out" (and on Wikipedia this is going to change for Wikivoyage) see also this discussion on Wikipedia.
- Also Wikiquote offers inline sisterlinks, see for example in use here, and the documentation Template:Wikispecies-inline
- Other sister projects use different methods to link to sisterprojects, for example
- In general it seems in sister projects to be the standard to link to sister-projects if they are available. -- Mdd (talk) 19:16, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Opt-in vs Opt-out[edit]
While I like the new Wikipedia sister template, I share the concern regarding Opt-out, but also object to the search function usage in it.
I'm redeveloping the template on nl.wikiquote, maintaining the look-and-feel (which I find very attractive), but changing the functionality:
- a sister will only be displayed if it has a parameter {{Sister projects}} without parameters would just show the heading
- a sister parameter can either be "ja" (= "yes") which will then use the page name, or can be a different name. E.g. {{Sister projects|w=ja}} would try to give a link to a Wikipedia page with the same name as the one the template is place on, while {{Sister projects|w=Lord Byron}} would link to the Lord Byron page independent of the page name
I'm probably going to need a few more days to finish up, at which time I'll be happy to share it here, and even translate it back to English. W\|/haledad (Talk to me) 01:22, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- OK, I think I finished earlier than I expected. Have a look here: [1]. The way it is set up, if a parameter (w, s, commons, etc) is NOT set, the line will not appear. If the parameter is "ja" (= "yes") the line is shown, using the page name, if the parameter is set with something else, it links to that something else at that sister project. Ping my talk page if you have any questions or comments or wanted a translated version to use here. W\|/haledad (Talk to me) 18:27, 1 March 2013 (UTC)


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A pair of University of Colorado graduates have started marketing themselves as the "Hangover Helpers." For a fee, the duo will report to your house after a party and clean up, bringing with them breakfast burritos and Gatorade. Fuck. Yes.
As someone who hosted some pretty apocalyptically messy parties in college, I can't believe I didn't think of this.
The Hangover Helpers work in Boulder, home of their alma mater, and will charge $15 per roommate for their services, which is so cheap that it makes me want to cry joyful tears of vodka. I'd pay $15 for someone to bring me a breakfast burrito and Gatorade on a normal day; they wouldn't even have to clean up my house if they didn't want to. Just hand over the food, fellas.
The HH expect an imminent uptick in business, as spring is prime party season at the University of Colorado.
"Who Ya Gonna Call After Party? Hangover Helpers" [CBS]
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47 Ronin Trailer Is Packed Full of Samurai Goodness – And Keanu Reeves
It's been a while since Keanu Reeves has been in a straight up action movie, and we are glad to see he has gone back to his roots.The trailer for 47 Ronin paints the picture of an epic tale full of Samurais, magic, and of course Keanu Reeves.
Many comments on the trailer are comparing it to The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise. Are the comparisons justified or are people simply making assumptions?


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The Church: Founded on Friendship
Aug. 26 issue column
The modern world, in its crazy rush to eroticize everything, has been profoundly destructive of the sort of love called "friendship."
Eros, of course, has a real place in human relationships. It has rightly been the subject of song and story for as long as there have been people. Indeed, Genesis honors eros by pointing out the sacredness of the command to "be fruitful and multiply." God is tickled pink when man and woman fall in love and get married. That's why he invented marriage: so that the union and fruitfulness of sex would find expression in man and woman with their children, made in the image and likeness of a Trinitarian God.
In fact, the whole thing is so sacred that Jesus and the apostles raised the whole business to a sacrament — one of the Big Seven — and insisted that divine grace itself is mediated to the Church and her members through this awesome sacrament.
But, interestingly, the Church zigged where large swaths of the pagan world zagged. For though the Church has always, in the sacrament of marriage, acknowledged that sexual relations are sacramental, she never made the blunder of paganism, which worshipped the creature instead of the Creator; and, most especially, she never attempted to worship sex. Sexual relations were sanely kept in the privacy of the bedroom.
Its central sacramental rite — the Eucharist — centered on the satisfaction of another bodily appetite, hunger, rather than sexual desires, as the dominant image of our relationship with God. It worshipped a God who is indeed a Bridegroom to his Bride, the Church, but who is emphatically chaste and celibate, as is his Mother.
And it sent a band of friends, not lovers, out into the world to proclaim the Gospel and found the Church. As Jesus told his apostles on the night he was betrayed: "No longer do I call you servants; for the servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you" (John 15:15).
Those friends were united by one thing only: the love of Jesus. Not their love for him (which was flickering and often weak), but his love for them.
They did not, he reminded them, choose him. He chose them.
And he sent them out, as friends, to announce the Gospel to the world. They were an unlikely band, and there is no earthly reason to think they would have even liked each other had not Jesus made them friends. A tax collector like Matthew and a collaborator-loathing guerilla warrior for Judean independence like Simon the Zealot had plenty of reason to despise each other. Peter's impulsive faith and Thomas' pessimism would seem to have nothing in common. Similarly, John and James, with their bellicose calls for divine wrath against Samaritans and their hubris at seeking first place among the disciples at the right and left hand of Jesus in his Kingdom, would not appear to endear them to the others — particularly since the others likewise bickered about who was greatest.
And yet, in the end, this band of men were forged into a bond of friendship that endured danger and cruel persecution and death — all without devolving into the sort of infighting we see among frauds when the chips are down.
Why? They weren't frauds, but real friends in the risen Christ. For Christ creates friendship wherever he goes. Of which, more next time.
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The past few weeks we've heard a lot of horror stories about the ordeal of the people who were affected by Typhoon Yolanda or Typhoon Haiyan. It seems that regardless of social or economic status, no one was spared in the affected areas. In fact, the mayor of Tacloban, Leyte himself was greatly affected and had to wear a looted shorts so that he can just wear something 'decent'.
But amidst these terrible, horrific, sad stories, there are other people who have miraculous experience that helps strengthen their faith. Whether Catholic, Buddhist, etc. there are a lot of those stories.
One of those stories is about a 6-year-old Filipino – Chinese boy. HT's father is a Kuan Kong (also spelled as Guan Gong or Kwan Kong) devotee who will always tell his son that whenever he feels afraid he should simply call on Kuan Kong and Kuan Kong will come and be with him and protect him from all dangers. Little did they know that this would be put to a test.
Like most people from the affected areas, they were told that there is a strong typhoon coming their way, that this could be the strongest typhoon of the year. But because Philippines are a typhoon country, we thought we know how to prepare for a super typhoon, because this is not the first time that we had a super typhoon. Now we know that Typhoon Yolanda with international name Typhoon Haiyan, is more than just a super typhoon. In fact, it is now officially considered as the strongest typhoon ever to hit earth on recorded world history! It is that bad!
So like other families in Tacloban, Leyte, HT's family tried their best to prepare for the Typhoon Yolanda and while their house was strong enough to withstand the rains and the winds, they, like most people were not aware of storm surges.
They were prepared but when storm surges started to come in, their house that never experienced being flooded was suddenly with knee-deep water. The knee deep water soon started to rise, and while HT, his dad, his mom, and 2 other older brothers with the helpers are on the second floor, it became obvious that being on the second floor will not save them. The sturdiness of their house now seems to work against them, because they were trying to break their ceiling so that they can have room to breath or go out by the roof if necessary. At this time, HT's father with a helper was on a 'folding step or ladder' trying to break off the ceiling. HT, his 2 older brothers were with his mom in the same room, and another helper is assisting the mom who because of the strong current is having some difficulty holding the children.
HT's father was still trying to break the ceiling when all of a sudden a strong current came in, through the windows, the current hit the stepladder and they were wash away by the water. Her husband that she accidentally let go of HT also hit HT's mom. HT was brought by the strong current and was taken out of the master's bedroom. There was a temporary panic and except for HT everybody was accounted for in the room. HT's dad decided to look for HT while the two helpers continue to try breaking the ceiling.
According to HT's dad it was an intense moment, his youngest son was so small that part of him believes that he can easily hit a wall and die. He first looked for him towards the stairs and was afraid that the current might have sunk him back to the first floor. If that's the case he knew he has lost HT!
He was about to dive in to the water going to the first floor when 'instinct' told him to check the old bedroom of his parents which is now used as a guest room. He went inside and saw HT unconscious with half of his body on a table and the other half in the water. He immediately approach HT fearing the worst but as soon as he held HT, HT woke up. He also realized that part of the ceiling of the guest room has given in to the rain and wind, and realized that it was their way out. With HT he went back to get his wife, 2 other children, and helpers. To make the long story short, they were able to escape and stayed on their roof. That was not the end of their ordeal but it soon became apparent that they were going to be saved.
So what happened to HT? Nobody really knows for sure. My cousin told me this story. HT's father is his friend. I don't know how much of the story is still accurate because we all know that stories can muddled every time we tell them. But according to my cousin, when they were still in the master's bedroom, knowing that they were in danger, HT decided to heed his father's constant advice and that is to call on Kuan Kong. So that's what he did, he kept on calling Kuan Kong. HT doesn't remember anything about the surge of current and being washed away by the water. But he said that he saw Kuan Kong's face before he lost consciousness.
Is it possible that Kuan Kong was the one who saved HT?
Personally speaking, although admittedly I may be biased, my initial reaction about this 'tremendous' type of testimonials is to be skeptic about it. However, this came from a 6 – year –old boy, and given the circumstances surrounding the story, it is unlikely that a 6 – year – old boy can come with a story such as this.
On the other hand, I shouldn't be surprised anymore because I've always believed that Kuan Kong is one of the most powerful Bodhisattva in Buddhism and a very powerful deity in Taoism. In fact, some groups believe that he is now the new Jade Emperor. It is also because of my personal devotion to Kuan Kong that I made sure that his image is included in the WISH FULFILLING AND BUDDHA'S BLESSING MANTRA PENDANT that I design initially for myself and for my family but has since then been requested by a lot of my readers.
So I guess, what I'm trying to say, whether Kuan Kong was a product of a child's imagination, who is to say that there was no miracle that happened that day?
Kuan Kong is also called Guan Yu, Kuan Yu, Kuan Ti, Guan Ti, Kwan Ti.


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Jol: Fulham deserved a point at Newcastle
Fulham manager Martin Jol lamented his side's inability to snatch a point after losing 1-0 at Newcastle United on Saturday.
Hatem Ben Arfa struck in the 86th minute to snatch three points for Newcastle in an otherwise tense afternoon at St James' Park.
The match replicated the same fixture from last season, which saw Papiss Cisse score a fortunate 90th-minute goal to smuggle the points away for Alan Pardew's side.
Jol insisted his side had dominated the game, but was left frustrated as they failed to convert their pressure into goals.
He said: "I don't think it was tough. I thought we could have done a lot of damage today to get the points on the board.
"In midfield we played it in a little bit of a different style, but I think the only thing we can be critical of is I don't think we had the cutting edge.
"We had three or four situations where we could have punished them. It was almost too easy.
"In the second half we looked a bit tired and they put their pressure on and started to put all their defenders behind the ball.
"Of course, last year was the same when they scored one goal and they were over the moon and they thought they played great - but they didn't. We should have had at least a point today."
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TWO men have appeared in Oxford Crown Court and admitted ram-raiding a convenience store in Witney.
Solomon Biddle and Nicholas Parker pleaded guilty yesterday to carrying out a burglary at the Londis shop, in Hailey Road, on October 29 last year.
Biddle, of Langstone Road, Havant, in Hampshire, also admitted aggravated vehicle taking in connection with a Ford Transit van between October 23 and 29.
The 28-year-old further pleaded guilty to the theft of number plates between October 27 and 29, and driving while disqualified and dangerous driving on October 29.
Together with another man, the pair reversed a Transit van into the Londis shop and made off with tobacco, alcohol and toiletries.
The van also collided with a police car as the raiders tried to make their getaway.
Biddle and Parker, 24, of Hampshire Street, Portsmouth, were remanded in custody and will be sentenced on Tuesday, March 11.


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Mechanically, this page is just like our typical "smoke test" page ... so I've left the instructions below the same as always ... but, what we are asking for here is final documenation that we are ready to release WTP 3.2.4. It is not a time for "new bug testing", but a good time to verify and confirm our final build is as you expect it to be.
Committers and Project Leads, please complete by Friday, 5/13, noon Eastern (at the latest, or let us know if that is not possible).
We will officially "release" this build on 5/20, assuming no blocking problems are found during our "quiet week".
Use a red X (fail) icon () to signify that the build should not be promoted, that a respin is required. In that case, please provide bug number and be sure those that need to fix something are aware of it, and can arrange for a respin. Once the issue has been fixed, and confirmed, change the red X to a green check mark with the build Id where is was verified, so those doing the promotion know its ready to go.
If a smoke test does not pass but the build can still be promoted, use a green check mark (ok) icon () but then document in the comments bug numbers, how the smoke test fails, workarounds, or cautions about the build.
If a build can be promoted and no issues were found, simple use the green check mark and include the initials or names of who performed the test.
Remember the significant column for promoting a build is the left-most project column. If some component within a project has not (or can not) be tested, the Project Lead should either make sure someone does the test, or make a judgment call on if the build (from their project's point of view) can be promoted or not. If the smoke test could not be performed, a note should be made in the comments section that it wasn't performed, why, and why that should prevent promotion.
Keep in mind the threshold for promoting a build gets higher as we near a milestone or near a release.
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text: Scaling up corporate and social investments could improve education in the developing world, according to this policy paper by the Center for Universal Education at Brookings. The paper looks at what works and what is not working in corporate efforts in developing countries and proposes five effective strategies for the business community to achieve the greatest impact in global education. Read the policy paper.


text: grandinq 33 Posted August 3, 2013 I saw Yes lat night. Steve Howe sounded great with his DT50. He kept it simple; sounded like he was using the first two topologies. Of course, he is also a fantastic player, and could make just about anything sound good. He also used an older Variax for a lot his acoustic parts, including the 12 string on And You And I. That sounded quite good as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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BIC and Terracycle are launching the first program for collecting and recycling writing instruments in France - This civic gesture also allows money to be raised for non-profits or schools??
BIC, the world leader in ballpoint pens, is associating itself with TerraCycle, a pioneering upcycling and recycling company, to organize the voluntary collection of writing instruments in the very places where they are used (schools, companies, universities…) in order that they be recycled. ? ? ?
Sponsored by BIC, this program enables all writing instruments, regardless of whether or not they are BIC? branded, to be recycled into new useful products such as pen holders, wastepaper baskets and watering cans.
In return for this civic gesture, 2 Euro cents per writing instrument collected will be donated to a charity or not for profit chosen by the organization responsible for the collection or, in the case of schools, the money will be donated directly to the school in order to finance a future educational project. ?
Getting involved with the BIC? and TerraCycle? collection and recycling program is simple: a volunteer from each school, university, or company that is interested in launching a campaign should register for free on the website: www.terracycle.fr from which the volunteer will be able to download material for the launch (posters, flyers, prepaid shipping labels…). Then the collection of used writing instruments can begin! The collection is then sent for free to TerraCycle's warehouse in near Lille, France where the writing instruments are processed to be made into new products. ?
Talking about the partnership, Marie Saglio, General Manager of BIC France stated: "Our writing instruments are known across the world for using a minimum amount of material while still offering high quality with a long writing length (the BIC? Cristal? ballpoint pen weighs only 5.8 grams and writes for at least 2 km). 13 of our core products received the French Official ecolabel NF Environnement, which guarantee responsible consumption. But BIC will not settle for this. As worldwide leader in the ballpoint pen market, it is our responsibility to offer innovative solutions in terms of sorting waste and solutions for our products' end of life. Today, used writing instruments are not collected by any dedicated recycling waste stream. Thanks to the BIC-TERRACYCLE program, they will now have a second life." ?
"TerraCycle is extremely excited by the opportunity to expand our upcycling programmes in Europe," said TerraCycle's European General Manager, Chris Baker. "With the help and support of BIC we can change the way consumers perceive waste and I believe the progressive mindset of consumers in France will ensure our program is well-received and very successful."


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Assembled Texts by Harm van den Dorpel
If rationality and consistent thought are the preferred
distinguishing marks of man, then even if it is admitted that man, as a whole,
also has passions, the supremacy of rational thought over them may well seem an
unquestionable idea. This is all the more so, since it is quite obvious that
gaining some such control is a basic condition of growing up, and even, at the
extreme, of sanity. But to move from that into making such control into the
ideal, rules out a priori most forms of spontaneity. And this seems to be
I would suggest to find your deepest impulse, and follow that. The notion that there is something that is one's deepest impulse, that there is a discovery to be made here, rather than a decision; and the notion that one trusts what is so discovered, although unclear where it will lead—these, rather, are the point. The combination—discovery, trust, and risk—are central to my sort of outlook, as of course they are to the state of being in love.
Although this is not print, I write in a manner that facilitates transmission in other forms such as print, spoken word, and via a screen reader. So terms such as "this article" are preferable to "this website," and I avoid terms like "click here," which makes no sense when using a screen reader, for instance. In determining what language is most suitable, it is helpful to imagine I'm writing the content for print. So my work is no longer a finished corpus, some content enclosed in an object or its margins, but a differential network, a fabric of traces referring endlessly to something other than itself, to other differential traces. The content in these traces is a glimpse of something, an encounter ...
Two Poems by Cathy Park Hong
Engines within the Throne
We once worked as clerks
scanning moth-balled pages
into the cloud, all memories
outsourced except the fuzzy
childhood bits when
I was an undersized girl with a tic,
they numbed me with botox.
I was a skinsuit
of dumb expression, just fingerprints
over my shamed
all I wanted was snow
to snuff the sun blades to shadow spokes,
muffle the drum of freeways, erase
the old realism
but this smart snow erases
nothing, seeps everywhere,
the search engine is inside us,
the world is our display
and now every industry
has dumped cubicles, desktops,
fax machines into developing
worlds where they stack
them as walls against
what disputed territory
we asked the old spy who drank
with Russians to gather information
the old-fashioned way,
now we have snow sensors,
so you can go spelunking
in anyone's minds,
let me borrow your child
thoughts, it's benign surveillance,
I can burrow inside, find a cave
pool with rock colored flounder,
and find you, half-transparent
with depression.
A Wreath of Hummingbirds
I suffer a different kind of loneliness.
From the antique ringtones of singing
wrens, crying babies, and ballad medleys,
my ears have turned
to brass.
They resurrect a thousand extinct birds,
Emus, dodos, and shelducks, though some,
like the cerulean glaucous macaw,
could not survive the snow. How heavily
they roost on trees in raw twilight.
I will not admire those birds,
not when my dull head throbs, I am plagued
by sorrow, a green hummingbird eats me alive
with its stinging needle beak.
Then I meet you. Our courtship is fierce
in a prudish city that scorns our love,
as if the ancient laws of miscegenation
are still in place. I am afraid
I will infect you
after a virus clogs the gift economy:
booming ...
Robot Literature by Angelo Plessas
Angelo Plessas, from Untitled Portrait Gallery, 2009
Double Faced
For those who Know Best their mirror,
a Conspiracy revolves around.
Silence from behind devours a relic from the past.
Life is usually attached to lengths of magnetic fields.
You might be Emerging as something else.
I might Switch Back. All I wish is that when I start up,
my life will be OkaY
Around us
Keep, Art was Stolen By a Masked man in thong.
I thank Obama because he\'s black,
he said We love Colors.
You are feeling suicidal now please stop.
Apocalyptic, I contemplate the Universe around us.
elated quilt
elated quilt establishes despairingly
victorious coma becomes elatedly
thoughtful income clips deprecatively
beautiful sidewalk checks long-windedly
combative pie cracks giddily
crowded haircut buzzes dazzlingly
quaint answer enhances garishly
DALI, materialized in a apartment. Many persons in a single body. It was the
sixth game of attention. Behaving scarcely angered, DALI punched a ninja star,
but this certainly didn't encourage DALI deciding what to do in smart way. Out of
nowhere, DALI hoped that DALI's marginal fidelity is to be perpetually positive,
because hatred is born out of fear. Unconsciously DALI emailed GALA, DALI's
neighbor/accomplice 'Free yourself from common sense', said DALI. DALI must
have seen GALA for 20 hours in Tahrir square during the Revolution some of
them were modest diabolical and empirical inspirations. GALA was a nobody.
Many persons outside a single body. Between the line of black and white. GALA
was outgoing more or less... pestering. DALI called GALA 'Somebody has to
listen to me' he said. 'These are the symptoms of the liberal-democratic affluent
society', said DALI.
GALA hypnotized by lazy DALI. 'Why and for whom does philosophy work today
?' , said GALA. GALA ...
Two Poems by Christine Kelly
Christine Kelly, Apple 1 is an apple. Apple 2 is the idea of an apple, 2011
One or More Occasions
If the diviner,
when he wakes up to the sound
of his own trumpet,
or presents the
in moonlight, the wrong kind of bottle
we belong in the monosyllabic new
the diviner won't embarrass
on fear of exits (this and an absence of such
fear are both aphrodisiacs)
stone cold absence
then the diviner becomes crooked
a bendy-neck swan totem stands in for
a subjective everything
feature: handle
feature: permanent hat
and guess what
this is a timeslot
a clutter among others
at which we marvel occasionally
into clean and empty
sing about the full
about means around
or in proximity to
timespace designations. Hey,
take it like a spittoon.
into the bloated order of cause and effect—
cranial piping is how I arrived
at permanent hat, actually
resembling a column of smoke
coming out of the diviner's hat
I Baroque It
"DOES sport imply sanctity?" was a sporting question, which through no extension
other than the yawny, tragic phonetiks surrounding someone's (I bet) snowmobile accident…
…less likely than a skiing accident,
more likely than a competitive taffy pull filling the interior of a milk hood shared by two school chums
with vacuum trident
Early incidence of dual ownership can create loquaciousness so drippy that it requires a dish.
-----towel towels-----
Shan't discuss human sexual attraction in this one, but know, just know, know what you know,
when you hear those angels trumpeting: oxygen. 100% oxygen hands slip in from behind.
$527 Cobra Quiz [win again and again]
Cobra the yogic asana.
Cobra the health insurance for poor sods.
Cobra ...
"Two Days Diary" by Lisa Oppenheim
Alexandra Gorczynski, Bathroom in the Dark, 2011
March 23rd, 2011
Early mornings were never my thing. I mean, it's not that artists are lazy. Or out drinking late most nights. Or not out last night, a Tuesday. Hungover. I go out with the dog. It's still basically dark. A kind of dark blue fog, super cold and grey. A couple are out early, two middle aged men bundled up and both smoking with thick leather gloves. They are sitting on a bench in front of the takeout place on the corner. It's way too cold to be sitting outside. I hear one say to the other as I pass them, "do you want the thing or the other thing." And I think, this is true partnership, to have thoughts coalesce around the same object. Not a shared thought, but a coming together. The muffin or the bagel. Privileging someone else's desires for a subjectless thing. Generosity. Just as likely the better looking half of an egg and cheese sandwich. I go in the store and order one for myself. Salt and grease.
Today in 1923 Tennessee became the first state to outlaw the teaching of evolution. Today in 1933 the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, granting Hitler total power. Fittingly, today is miserable. Still basically dark, hail. The never ending domino fall of winter storms.
March 29th, 2011
I live in America's most bug infested city. There are bug infested mattresses all around my neighborhood this evening. It's trash night and everyone has put the big stuff on the curb. Not just bug-ridden mattresses, also rugs, rotting Ikea cushions from a few seasons back, clothes of all kinds. I drop off my sheets at the laundry across the street and six o ...


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AOL + Huffington Post Won't Go to 11. But It Does Make Sense.
There are lots of Web M&As that don't make much sense. But after you get past the "OMG!!!!!" novelty of AOL's $315 million Huffington Post buy, this one has a straightforward logic to it: Old, big, slow company buys new, small fast company, hopes some of the zippy mojo rubs off.
Steve Case is right to point out that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's "one plus one equals eleven" logic didn't pan out during the first boom, when Case was running AOL and engineered the disastrous Time Warner deal.
But here, at least, both companies are trying to do the same thing: Make a lot of Web stuff at a low price, and sell ads against it.
So maybe AOL + HuffPo won't equal 11. And maybe 10x Huffington Post's reported 2010 revenue is a very pre-Lehman multiple. But the broad strokes here make sense to me:
AOL is pushing its workers very hard to make more content it can sell. HuffPo is a content-making machine:
Huffington Post still has the reputation as a left-leaning political site written by Arianna Huffington's celebrity pals. In reality, it is most concerned with attracting eyeballs anyway it can. Sometimes it's with well-regarded investigative journalism, and much more often it's via very aggressive, very clever aggregation. And sometimes it's by simply paying very, very close attention to what Google wants, which leads to stories like "What Time Does The Super Bowl Start?"
However they've done it, it's worked–much more efficiently than AOL, which is headed in that direction as well. AOL reaches about 112 million people in the U.S. every month with a staff of 5,000. The Huffington Post, which employed about 200 people prior to the deal, gets to about 26 million.*
AOL can start selling this stuff immediately:
HuffPo reportedly generated around $30 million in revenue last year, but that was done using a relatively small staff that sales chief Greg Coleman had just started building. AOL's much bigger sales group, which has just about finished its lengthy reorg, should be able to boost that performance immediately.
AOL can afford it:
Tim Armstrong's company ended 2010 with $725 million in cash, much of which it generated by selling off old assets. This seems like a relatively easy check to write and one that shouldn't involve a lot of overlapping staff–AOL figures it will save $20 million annually in cost overlaps, but that it will spend about $20 million this year on restructuring charges. HuffPo is about four percent of AOL's size, and several of its top executives are already stepping aside. (This is the second time in two years that sales boss Greg Coleman has been moved out of a job by Tim Armstrong.) The biggest risk here will be in the way that Huffington, who is now editor in chief for all of AOL's edit staff, gets along with her new employees. On the other hand, morale is low enough at many AOL sites that it will be hard to make things worse.
AOL Gets a Really Big Brand:
There's some downside risk to attaching Arianna Huffington's name to a big, mainstream media brand, as her politics and/or persona might scare off some readers and/or advertisers. But two years after Armstrong arrived from Google, AOL still doesn't have a definable identity, other than "the Web site your parents might still pay for even though there's no reason to do so." Being known as "the guys who own Huffington Post" is infinitely better than that.
HuffPo's "pro" list is much shorter, but only because there's not much to think about for them: Huffington, co-founder Kenneth Lerer and their backers get a nice return on the five years and $37 million they put into the company. And those who stay on get to leverage the benefits of a much larger acquirer–access to more eyballs and more advertisers. Easy enough to understand.
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*(Something about these numbers, culled from AOL's and Huffington Post's own releases, doesn't add up, as AOL now says the combined company will have 117 million uniques. But it's close enough for now.)


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Battle of the Blog Designs: The Guest of a Guest vs. Gawker Design War
Today's Page Six had an especially glorious item, pitting the designs of two gossip blog networks against each other, with chatter that someone's totally biting our shit off: the socialite chronicling Guest of a Guest, and Gawker Media. That's us.
Whenever I get to bust out the #SelfReferential tag, the sun is shining down especially bright on God's Bloggy Children, and today is no exception.
See, we kind of look like one thing, and Guest of Guest kind of looked like another thing. And then one day, someone who works for us noted that this one thing (Guest of a Guest's design) looks like the other (our design) a little too much. And we're going to leave it up to you, the people, to decide if it does!
The timeline goes like this:
On Thursday, someone who works here pointed out some similarities between the two websites. Then, the guy who pays me pointed it out. Like this!
As they say in the "rap game," SHOTS FIRED. Take a look:
Cameron Winklevoss—in short, a shiny Ivy League-educated Olympic rower with an entrepreneurial streak, stellar last name, and twin brother—did in fact claim to invent Facebook, and you can read about that stuff here. Whatever, because later that evening:
BANG. More shots. The link was to a Tumblr account presumably opened up by design people Hard Candy Shell, with one post on it:
And here I'd compare this to Biggie and Tupac except, well, they were both thugged out rappers whose art will stand the test of time, and, uh, this is about two blog networks. Ha. So, anyway, on Friday, a Guest of a Guest Tumblr post asks the world if my boss is going "batshit." And Guest of a Guest's Rachelle Hruska fired back with her own allegation of noting that our company's recent blog acquisition, CityFile, looks like Guest of a Guest. Take a look, decide for yourself:
Rachelle also noted that her redesign party was four months ago. For the record, that Tips box you see at the top of the screen launched for us back in October about a month and two days before Hruska's redesign party. Whatever. Now, if you have yet to open your motion sickness bags, we'll come back around to today's Page Six item, hysterically titled BLOG FIGHT, in which this goes down:
"It's a bit silly," said one blogger. Asked to comment, Denton told us, "Cameron Winklevoss claimed he invented Facebook," and noted that Winklevoss settled a lawsuit against [Facebook founder] Mark Zuckerberg "for millions of dollars. So it's surprising he has neither the cre ativity nor the funds to come up with his own Web design." Said Hruska: "Who is Nick Denton?"
Me-yow, sister. I reached out to Rachelle Hruska and Cameron Winklevoss for quote because I know I'd get a screamy email if I didn't, and Rachelle returned to me with this:
"You know what they say, punch a bully in the eye and watch him cry. This has nothing to do with our site (which has been in steady state for months), rather Denton's bruised ego after we described his "acquisition" of cityfile a lackquisition and pointed to how New York media sheepishly lapped it up.
Since then Denton has been squealing like a stuck pig on twitter and working to plant a piece in page six. Who would have thought the custodian of negativity's cesspool and king of ad hominem attacks would take such offense to tempered skepticism? The fact that Page Six ran with this is confirmation of our original thesis and that Stockholm Syndrome is rampant in New York Media.
Hopefully Los Angeles Media puts up slightly more resistance when Denton comes looking for their lunch money. We launch our LA site tomorrow."
Haha, is "lackquisition" a real word? I don't care. Also, nice plug. Whee! I'd reach out to Gawker Media Overlord Nick Denton for comment but honestly he's probably annoyed that I spent any time on this at all. Also, if in fact he actually cares about this, the publicity that was a byproduct of this post for Guest of a Guest is pretty undeniable! Finally, if he has anything to say, he'll probably drop in the comments, or write me a terrifying email. So I'm leaving it up to you, the people! One more look-see:
And you decide!


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