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In yet another example of legislative leaders using their budget document to adopt legislation they can't pass on the floor, budget negotiators tonight have agreed to include a provision in the budget that paves the way for a ban on union dues for several state worker unions. The measure was offered by the House, and accepted by the Senate, with no explanation and no discussion. Update here.
The so-called "paycheck protection" bill has been on hold in the Senate all week as its sponsor, Sen. John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, failed to get enough votes to pass it. By last count, there were 24 votes against it in the 40-member Senate. But budget negotiators found a way to make sure that if it does pass it would take immediate affect by including a measure into the budget through their collective bargaining language and it was offered by the House, agreed to by the Senate, and there was no explanation or discussion.
Because the Legislature has the authority to resolve any impasse over wage concessions with unions, lawmakers want to use the governor's recent impasse with several unions to allow him to force the ban on unions using payroll deduction to collect union dues. The governor could take the union's ability to have dues check-off out of their contract, union members said, and they could lose that benefit.
State law now allows unions to use dues deduction for state workers but, union officials said, there has never been an impasse on a dues deduction issue. By attaching it to the budget conforming bill, legislators ordered the governor, and his negotiators, to vacate the union dues deduction provision in their contracts -- something the governor has tried to do during contract negotiations with several unions since he took office this year.
Legislators argue that unions have the legal right to make the deductions until legislators outlaw the payroll deduction provision, but some union members fear that by vacating the provision they will not be able to negotiate that as part of their collective bargaining -- effectively preventing them from dues deductions just as if the law had passed.
Because the change is not a change in law, it would not affect teachers, police and firefighters who are members of municipal unions.
Rep. Mike Horner, who's on budget committee, acknowledged the bill opens the door to eliminating payroll deduction for union dues but denied doing this as an end-run around the legislation. "We're doing this in case we pass paycheck protection. But we didn't put paycheck protection in a conforming bill," he said.
"They have to resort to behind-closed-door deals to accomplish what they can't get done in the open,'' said Mike Williams, president of the AFL-CIO, whose union is one of several at currently impasse with the state over wages and benefits agreements with state workers. "It's an abuse of the system.''
It is included in the House offer to the Senate tonight in the conforming bill related to collective bargaining.
Williams said that rarely does the state and labor organization come to agreement without coming to an impasse, so he predicts that if this provisions stays in law, the future strategy in all collective bargaining negotiations will be to force all negotiations to impasse and then have the legislature settle it and ban all union dues check offs.
He said that if lawmakers think they can divide the coalition of labor groups by targeting just state workers in this provision, they are wrong. "The coalition is are steadfast in focusing on a unified front,'' he said.
When Scott came into office the state was at impasse over wage concessions with several unions, including PBA (highway safety), nurses and AFSCME. Because state law allows legislators to resolve any impasse through their budget negotiations, this bill was filed. The state amended its offer to the unions to eliminate dues check off as a benefit. The union rejected it and now the Legislature, through its power to settle any impasse, proposes eliminating it for the next budget year.


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The star of NBC's "The Event" joined fellow early risers Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel at the Beverly Hilton hotel to announce the nominees for the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Despite the godawful West Coast hour.
Underwood stayed sharp while announcing contenders for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's new crop of Globe contenders, including Best Original Song nominee "There's a Place for Us" from "The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Trader" with "music and lyrics by my cousin, Carrie Underwood," he joked, following the laugh with "It could happen!"
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But even the upbeat Underwood admitted slight disappointed that one of his own series didn't get any Globe love. "I was surprised to not see anything from the 'In Treatment'. I thought we would see more from this season, but you never know what you're gonna get."
The actor has fond memories of his very first Golden Globe ceremony. "I absolutely do," he said. "I was nominated for 'LA Law' many, many moons ago and to me it was amazing, because I had done mostly television and being in that room with people that I respected, especially in the film and television industries, and the fact that it was so relaxed and laid back was great. That's why they call it, as you know, the best party in town!"
Underwood's favorite Globe moment? "I just remember there was somebody who was lost in the bathroom and had toilet paper on her foot when she came to get her Golden Globes – Christine Lahti! I was there that night."


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Here are my suggests on possible RC members. It would be good if each of the following posted if they would/would not like to be a member, and if anyone else had any other suggestions.
- Surgo: Obvious first one, with two major problems. Does Surgo have enough time, and if so, should he be RC member AND an admin?
- Jota: Well knowledged, reasonable, etc.
- Sulacu: A shoe-in, I think, due to monster knowledge
- Sam Kay: One of our few prolific 4e posters, and damn good at what he does.
- TK-Squared: While abrasive,he knows what he's talking about.
- TarkisFlux: A new member, but one that has a very good grasp on things, is calm, polite, and overall a good choice.
- Karrius: Nominated by Aarnott, but someone who is not trustworthy, reliable, polite, or at all useful. He'll take the job, but really, who wants to give it to that jackass?
- Leziad: Running out of ways to say the same thing.
- Ganteka: See above.
- DanielDraco: Fair, reasonable, is not composed of Styrofoam.
- Ghostwheel: Asked to be included. :p
- Rithaniel: Prolific creator of stuffs.
Karrius 00:08, September 19, 2009 (UTC)
- Shit, I'm rather surprised I'm on this list. Must've made an impression already, though if I'm competing with people who are on the list because they're not composed of styrofoam I'm not sure how good that is. I wouldn't mind being on the RC (though I'm still a bit unclear about how it'll actually function in practice), but there are more senior people on this list that I'd step aside for. - TarkisFlux 00:21, September 19, 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry for spelling your name wrong. In addition for you making a good impression, I'm also a Denner (Dragon_Child, although I mostly lurk) and have seen you over there, plus I think you'd make a very good stand-in for Surgo. I'm pretty sure he doesn't want more work right now, and you'd bring in all the qualities that Surgo otherwise would have. Also, I was seriously running out of things to say when I got to DD, and I have a headcold. :P Karrius 00:32, September 19, 2009 (UTC)
- Just going to add the well-knowledged should be hyphenated (>_>), but I look forward to the initiation of this project and my involvement in it. -- Jota 01:01, September 19, 2009 (UTC)
- You spelled it wrong? Didn't even see that. Don't think I really care either, but thanks for fixing it Karrius/DC. I'm not sure I'd make a good stand in for Surgo, as I actually understand why people enjoy playing below rogue level and can't bring his vitriol to a critique, but we all have our weak points I guess... - TarkisFlux 01:32, September 19, 2009 (UTC)
- I don't see why it is a bad thing to understand why people want to play below rogue level. If anything that makes you a more objective rater. --Andrew Arnott (talk, email) 16:41, September 25, 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, Karrius called me a good stand in for Surgo though, and my attempting to be / being understanding instead of simply smacking them upside the virtual head does make me fail at that slightly. I didn't mean to suggest it was a bad thing, just that I won't be a Surgo replacement. Which came out weird in retrospect, but meh. - TarkisFlux 17:12, September 25, 2009 (UTC)
Accepting Nominations and other points of NoteEdit
Bah, edit conflict...hoped to get this in before other comments came in. Oh well, lots of typing = me being slow.
I accept my nomination. I love seeing above, honestly. I plan to stick mostly with my area of particular interests and gradually fan out as I get more comfortable with how this is all going to work. Its gonna take some testing of the waters to make sure we get this to operate fairly, accurately, quickly and effectively. Hey, at least we get to test it out. I'm still feeling a bit off as far as wiki editing goes. I've kinda lost my mojo.
Anyways, solid list, though, yeah, not sure if Eiji likes rating things or has any plans to want to be on the RC, would have to talk to the dude. Yeah, really, I'm honored here to be part of this group. Yeah, I look up to you guys. You take your mechanics seriously, and you devote a lot of your time to it. Gods, what a great hobby. Having talked to most of this group for some time now, I have great faith in their abilities. Hopefully, the D&D community comes to trust these opinions, and the opinions presented by the Ratings Committee come to represent something meaningful. I know a few of these blokes are abrasive. It is who they are and it doesn't negate their knowledge on the subject at hand... and I've gone crosseyed.
Anyways, the point of all this Ratings Committee business is to allow people to get some free material, share their material, and incorporate that material into a game with as little difficulty as possible. If we can do that, then job well done. Good luck everyone. Bring your comments. The more, the better. --Ganteka Future 01:16, September 19, 2009 (UTC)
- And since there's a whole section for it now, I'll accept the nomination down here. Let me restate though, if you get enough other senior people to push me out I totally don't care. - TarkisFlux 01:32, September 19, 2009 (UTC)
- I'll go on record to say that I pretty much whole-heartedly agree with this list (even though I haven't been active as of late very much at all, so sorry TarkisFlux I have no idea who you are). That being said, if no one else objects to your placement on the committee then who am I to disagree? Although I will say that I'm surprised Dragon Child was not on the list (again, I'm not particularly familiar with the happenings here yet so forgive me for possibly being unaware of extenuating circumstances. All in all, it's a solid list. - ThunderGod Cid 03:58, September 19, 2009 (UTC)
- See just how god-awfully out of touch I am? Not to mention the fact that I can't shake people's old names and shift to ones (it seems I'm really, really dense). - ThunderGod Cid 04:13, September 19, 2009 (UTC)
- No worries. I haven't been doing much of anything yet, and I can't even keep all the names straight myself. Karrius 04:21, September 19, 2009 (UTC)
- Anyway, now that I know DC (or perhaps I should start using Kerrius) is on here, there's no worries then. - ThunderGod Cid 04:25, September 19, 2009 (UTC)
- I accept my nomination. And to preemptively address the inevitable concern that I'm not active enough lately: this is going to change, now that I'm mostly back into the swing of school. I'll rate like a mofo. --DanielDraco 16:19, September 25, 2009 (UTC)
Number of Members Edit
Why not have 13 members instead of 9? That allows for more varied opinions, allows for people being away and for things to still be rated, etc? As long as everyone up there has a good sense of balance as far as the game's concerned, I don't think there's a pressing reason not to have that many members. --Ghostwheel 19:29, September 25, 2009 (UTC)
- BECAUSE THIRTEEN IS UNLUCKY. --DanielDraco 21:40, September 25, 2009 (UTC)
- We use logic here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
- Any other reasons? --Ghostwheel 22:14, September 25, 2009 (UTC)
- 13 is just too many for the number of favors needed for bronze/silver/gold. We'll go with 9 (which the RC was developed specifically for) unless it proves to be a problem. Or not. Guess we'll see. Surgo 00:04, September 26, 2009 (UTC)
Final RC Members Edit
If anyone has a problem with this, they probably shouldn't have been asking me to hurry up and finalize anything.
Yep, that's 10 members (not 9). That's because you aren't allowed to vote on your own stuff. I cut myself out of the running (no time), and Alec (have never seen her express any preference one way or the other for this sort of thing). I'm not sure if Aarnott wants to be in on it or not (or Alec for that matter), you guys can go ahead and respond if you want to be in on it. I'm not really married to the number 10 or anything. Surgo 00:10, September 26, 2009 (UTC)
New RC Overlord Edit
Since Surgo...
- is busy with life, grad school, and navigation (which I continue to throw at him),
- has recused himself from the RC,
- has basically signed off on what Karrius proposed with minor edits,
I propose that we press Karrius into service as the new RC overlord. This position comes with almost no additional power, but the additional responsibility of being the guy that we bug on RC issues instead of Surgo. If Surgo has an issue with the direction things go, he'll let us know, but we can probably stop asking him to make these decisions in general. - TarkisFlux 03:10, September 26, 2009 (UTC)


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Carisbrooke Castle Museum's extensive collections centre upon Isle of Wight history, military and maritime history, costume, social history, documents, photographs, prints, paintings and the history of the Castle. Some collections such as our 18th & 19th century watercolours and Charles I material are of national importance, and others are of international significance (nb the Professor John Milne photographs).
This Image Library was launched in April 2011 and presently holds only a tiny fraction of our images, providing a flavour of the scope of the collections. It will be added to on a regular basis over the coming months and year(s).
This project is supported by the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) funded by Defra and the EU, and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD): Europe investing in rural areas.


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Table Manners Reading Comprehension Worksheet
How to teach Reading Comprehension
This Table Manners Reading Comprehension Worksheet will help your students build their reading comprehension skills while reading about Thomas learning table manners.
Many of your students need to improve their table manners. It has been found that students build better reading skills when they read about topics that relate to them. This reading comprehension passage is high interest for your students!
First, students read the questions. Then, read the passage. As you read, underline or circle key words or phrases in the passage that are key details. After reading, use the passage to help you find the answers to aligned questions.
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Tenth Plague: The Death of the Firstborn. 1Then the LORD spoke to Moses: One more plague I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. After that he will let you depart. In fact, when he finally lets you go, he will drive you away. 2a Instruct the people that every man is to ask his neighbor, and every woman her neighbor, for silver and gold articles and for clothing. 3The LORD indeed made the Egyptians well-disposed toward the people; Moses himself was very highly regarded by Pharaoh's servants and the people in the land of Egypt.
4Moses then said, "Thus says the LORD: About midnight I will go forth through Egypt.b 5c Every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the slave-girl who is at the handmill,* as well as all the firstborn of the animals. 6Then there will be loud wailing throughout the land of Egypt, such as has never been, nor will ever be again. 7But among all the Israelites, among human beings and animals alike, not even a dog will growl, so that you may know that the LORD distinguishes between Egypt and Israel. 8All these servants of yours will then come down to me and bow down before me, saying: Leave, you and all your followers!d Then I will depart." With that he left Pharaoh's presence in hot anger.
9The LORD said to Moses: Pharaoh will not listen to you so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. 10Thus, although Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders in Pharaoh's presence, the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go from his land.
* [11:5] Handmill: two pieces of stone were used to grind grain. A smaller upper stone was moved back and forth over a larger stationary stone. This menial work was done by slaves and captives.
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(Phoenix, Ariz. – September 27, 2005) Terry Joseph Hommel was sentenced Monday to seven and a half years following his conviction of fraud and theft. Hommel, 31, of Gilbert, worked for Heliocol Arizona, Inc., a Phoenix-based company where he was accused of stealing more than $2 million over five years.
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text: Major Change in IIHS Crash Tests. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety - March 30, 2006 ARLINGTON, VA — Frontal offset crash tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety since 1995 have prompted huge improvements in how vehicles protect people in frontal crashes. Now this consumer information program is undergoing a major change. The Institute evaluates the crashworthiness of passenger vehicles based on 40 mph frontal offset tests in which the driver side of the front of a vehicle strikes a deformable barrier. Institute researchers evaluate the crash test performance of each vehicle and assign comparative ratings of good, acceptable, marginal, or poor. More than 200 car, SUV, and pickup truck designs have been rated. When the Institute began evaluating frontal crashworthiness by vehicle group, beginning in the mid-1990s, about half of the 80 vehicles that were tested earned marginal or poor ratings. More were rated poor than good. Then manufacturers responded by changing the designs of their vehicles to improve frontal crashworthiness. The result has been a turnaround in the frontal ratings. Eighty-eight of the 106 current passenger vehicle designs the Institute has evaluated earn good ratings. None is poor, and only 2 of the 106 current designs are rated marginal. "This program has been a huge success," says Institute president Adrian Lund, "and because of this success frontal offset tests no longer are providing consumers with much useful information to differentiate among vehicles' frontal crashworthiness. We've reached the point where we can declare victory and move on." Details of test verification: Moving on doesn't mean abandoning frontal offset crash protection. Instead the Institute is initiating a new approach involving evaluations based on manufacturers' own frontal tests of vehicles meeting requirements established by the Institute. The manufacturers are providing detailed information from their offset tests, including video, and the Institute is assessing this information, assigning ratings, and conducting audit tests to verify manufacturers' results. Only redesigned vehicles with immediate predecessors that earned the top rating of good in previous Institute tests are eligible for verification. Substantially redesigned vehicles with significant changes in size, weight, or body style aren't eligible. The Institute will continue testing these vehicles. "The verification approach assures that automakers still pay attention to offset crash protection as they redesign their older models and introduce new ones. This approach is possible because of the manufacturers' actions during the past decade. They have incorporated offset crash test performance plus government-required and other consumer information crash testing into their guidelines. They routinely conduct their own offset tests during the design process," Lund points out. Recognizing this effort, the verification approach goes a step beyond an Institute policy in place since the beginning of the frontal test program. Manufacturers always have been asked to confirm whether the Institute's ratings could be carried over from one model year to the next. Based on this information, the Institute has been carrying over ratings for vehicles with no significant design changes. "The manufacturers will assume a bigger role now that our frontal test is a de facto industry standard. This is how it should work. When most every vehicle passes the test, it's time to simply keep an eye out to make sure manufacturers continue the good work," Lund says. "In the meantime we'll keep the pressure on the manufacturers to improve crashworthiness in side impacts and to design seat/head restraints to reduce the risk of whiplash in rear crashes. We'll also look at other areas where crashworthiness improvements still can be made." Nine vehicles for verification: The vehicles selected for the first round of test verification are all new or redesigned models for the 2006 or 2007 model year. These include a midsize moderately priced car (Toyota Camry), three large family cars (Buick Lucerne, Hyundai Azera, and Chevrolet Impala), one small SUV (Toyota RAV4), three midsize SUVs (Honda Pilot, Ford Explorer, and Mercedes M class), and a large pickup truck (Dodge Ram 1500). The manufacturers supplied information on basic vehicle and test parameters, measurements of intrusion into the occupant compartment, injury data recorded on a dummy representing an average-size man in the driver seat, and video of the tests. Institute engineers reviewed this information and rated the vehicles based on the same evaluation parameters that always have been used. Eight of the nine vehicles earn good frontal crashworthiness ratings. The Impala is acceptable. A major benefit of this program is that the Institute can provide these and subsequent frontal ratings to consumers earlier in the model year. Audits keep manufacturers on the up and up: To ensure manufacturers' good faith participation in the new evaluation procedures, the Institute is conducting audit tests. Institute engineers selected the Buick Lucerne for the first audit, and the results of this test confirm the data supplied by the manufacturer from its own test. The Lucerne's structure held up with little safety cage deformation in the test. Most injury measures recorded on the driver dummy were low. The car is rated good. "This level of performance is the norm now," Lund notes. How vehicles have been improved: The Institute's test primarily assesses how well a vehicle's front-end crush zone absorbs energy during a crash and, in turn, how well the occupant compartment, or safety cage, holds together. If the compartment remains largely intact, then the restraint systems can control the motion of the crash test dummy and help keep injury measures low. But if there's significant deformation of the safety cage and intrusion into the compartment, then the restraint systems are less likely to keep the measures low. Newer vehicles have much stronger occupant compartments, in large part because of the steps automakers have taken in the past decade to earn good ratings in the Institute's frontal tests. An example of this improvement is the Mitsubishi Galant. When the Institute tested a 1995 model, the occupant compartment virtually collapsed. The dummy's movement wasn't well controlled, in part because the safety cage crumpled. The dummy moved around the left side of the inflating airbag, and its left shoulder hit the sharp edge of the buckling window frame. Its left knee pushed through the instrument panel and hit the steering column's attachment hardware, gashing the dummy's vinyl "skin" at the knee. The dummies in tests of many other vehicles in the mid-1990s didn't fare much better than in the Galant. But this car has been improved since then, and so have other vehicles. The 1999 Galant's performance represented a big improvement. There was much less deformation of the safety cage. The rating of the structure improved to acceptable, and injury measures weren't as high as in the 1995 test. Even more improvement is apparent in the redesigned 2004 Galant. "The new model shows what Mitsubishi and other manufacturers have done to improve frontal crashworthiness," Lund says. "From the leading edge of the 2004's front door backward, virtually no deformation occurred in the test. The driver's survival space held up very well, leaving room for the airbags and belts to do their jobs." Some cars have been good performers from the beginning of the Institute's program. Three successive designs of the Ford Taurus earned the highest rating in the frontal test. But the rating for the recently tested Ford Fusion isn't good. The structure of this car, a brand new design, held up well, but the frontal evaluation is acceptable because of high forces on the dummy's right leg. "We think this will be rare," Lund says. "Automakers have figured out how to design cars to protect people in frontal crashes, and they're not likely to backslide." Crash tests versus real-world crashes: Research shows that drivers of vehicles that earn good ratings in frontal offset crash tests have significantly lower risk of fatal injuries in real-world frontal crashes, compared with drivers of vehicles with poor ratings. An Institute study examined 14 years of federal records on crash deaths and identified vehicles that had been rated in the Institute's offset test. Then the researchers related the ratings to fatality risk in real-world crashes. Controlling for differences in vehicle weight, driver age and gender, and other factors, the researchers found that drivers of vehicles with good ratings were about 46 percent less likely to die in frontal crashes than drivers of the poor-rated vehicles they crashed into. Drivers of vehicles rated acceptable or marginal were about 33 percent less likely to die than the motorists in the poor-rated vehicles. "To ensure that real-world risks continue to diminish, we've got to preserve the vehicle design improvements that have been made in response to our frontal crash test program. This is what test verification is all about. It's about making sure manufacturers continue to design cars that will protect their occupants in serious frontal crashes," Lund concludes.


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Economic Development in the New York State Budget
June 14, 2017Reporting is limited and differs by program. With $4.0 billion in annual state spending and tax expenditures, a significant investment is being made without enough information to evaluate its success.
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May 26, 2016An interactive map that indicates the burden of the local share of Medicaid costs falls hardest on the poorest counties. Rescinding the State's assumption of growth for New York City will further exacerbate this inequity. New York City currently has the highest Medicaid burden per capita at $597, compared to the average local share throughout the rest of the State of only $190 per capita.
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Brad Paisley may have posted a photo of himself stark naked from his diaper days on Twitter recently, but baring it all as an adult is something the country hunk will never do.
During an interview on Broadway's Electric Barnyard radio show recently, when asked if he would ever do Playgirl like Keith Urban, who posed in 2001, Brad say he has been asked, but declined.
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"I've actually turned that down," the singer said. "They've asked a few times. They can forget it."
While Brad may be cute, he said they didn't come to him for his looks.
"They ask every male country singer, trust me," he said.
One reason why Brad won't be baring it all — or posing with just a strategically placed guitar — is because he wants to be someone his younger fans can count on.
"That's just not what I'm about," he said. "You know another thing? I've got a lot of fans that are teenage girls here and there and I don't want them buying that magazine. I'm not going to promote that magazine."
In fact, Playgirl recently stopped publishing and now produces content online only, but Brad still won't be joining the fold.
"Some things are better left to the imagination and that's one of them," he added.


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Another reason to use peep
Peep is a library from Erik Rose that wraps around pip and checks the hash of the library before it installs. The main reason to use peep is to ensure that the dependencies you install have not been tampered with - a good security measure to have.
Today we had another example of how this can be useful. There are two projects that pull Python packages off a server, zamboni and solitude. One uses peep and the other doesn't.
A wheel was made of one of the packages on our internal index. That's a good thing to do and speeds all our builds up. But how the two projects reacted is interesting.
Not using peep
Zamboni docker containers continued to be built. However whenever you started up the project and accessed the container, you got an error about importing
_mysql. The unit tests still passed because those are run in Travis CI which does not use the docker container.
That meant although the container was building, it was broken and people who tried to run it got an error. Fortunately since the container used supervisor as its entry point, it was easy enough to hop in, use
ldd and see where the problems were.
Using peep
Solitude docker containers stopped being built. The hash of the library in question failed since it didn't match what was expected. The hash of the wheel was different from the hash for the tarball.
Since the container was failing to build, people who pulled the container got the old outdated, but still working container.
Although I spotted the problem quickly in zamboni, it was nice to look at solitude and confirm the nature of the problem because the docker hub log clearly showed where the problem was.


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Missionary Assessment Center
Converge's Missionary Assessment Center helps you discern your spiritual, psychological and cultural fit for long-term ministry success.
Discern your fit for long-term missionary success
One of the most important steps in starting your journey as a Converge missionary is attending the Missionary Assessment Center (MAC). Our goal is to help you be ready to serve God in whatever capacity he has for you. Whether you're unsure of the call God has placed in your life, or uncertain of the location where he wants to send you, our assessment process helps you discern your spiritual, psychological and cultural fit. You'll learn the areas you need to grow in and be equipped with tools you will take to the field.
What is a MAC?
The Missionary Assessment Center (MAC) is designed to help you explore and refine God's calling on your life. Over a three-day period, you will be evaluated by professional assessors in 16 different areas. Qualified missionary veterans and a professional Christian psychologist will administer one-on-one interviews and lead sessions to help expose you to missionary life. You will take personality profile surveys, learn what your ministry style is and take an emotional health screening. Intercultural inventories are also given during the assessment.
Who should attend?
If you sense God is calling you to become a missionary, then the MAC is a great way to have the calling confirmed.
Why be assessed?
The input and recommendations received from the professional assessors can be invaluable in the pursuit of becoming a missionary. Participating in a MAC can help you discover your strengths, areas of growth, uniqueness and gifting to assist in developing a healthy approach to missionary life and ministry. The heart of Converge is not just to send out healthy missionaries but to care for them as well. The MAC allows us to come alongside the local church in creating relationships with all of our missionaries.
- Clarify God's call to missions
- Discover your aptitude to cross-cultural life and ministry
- Discover your personality profile and ministry style
- Receive evaluation from seasoned assessors
Registering and paying for the MAC
The cost of the MAC is $400 per person. The cost includes your hotel stay, all meals, transportation to and from the hotel and Converge office, plus classroom materials.
Payment is due immediately in conjunction with registering for the MAC (registration instructions are given to you after you have been officially invited to the MAC). For registration and payment questions, please email Catherine Bordes.
After comparing different organizations, we made the decision to join Converge based on the leadership. I've never been around a group of more grace-filled yet driven leaders. Joining Converge was one of the best decisions we've made.
JJ Alderman, Missionary, Africa


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I'd been looking for a way to convert my notes to webpages. Typically I wrote my notes in
.txt form and then went through them and added links, formatting… when I was ready to blog them. Recently, I had asked StackOverflow if I could convert MediaWiki format to HTML. I'm an Administrator for the Arch Wiki so I'm very familiar writing this format. This is when I learned about
pandoc. Pandoc's author describes pandoc as, "If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife…".
I planned to write my notes in mediawiki format and then convert to HTML, however I'd been using StackOverflow lately and started to learn Markdown Prose and really like it. Markdown's is designed to be easy to write and read: "Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)". Markdown is so easy to write that it makes sense that sites like StackOverflow and GitHub are using it.
Pandoc has extended markdown to use code blocks
```, tables, and a few other things and converting is very basic:
pandoc file.md -o file.htm
I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love :), as it will save me a good bit of time in editing/creating Documentation. Tomorrow, I'll post a bash script to clean up the HTML to be able to put it in a WordPress Blog.


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From NBC's Mark Murray
As the Senate sprints to pass a health-care bill by Christmas, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that those believing President Obama's health-reform plan is a good idea has sunk to its lowest level.
Just 32 percent say it's a good idea, versus 47 percent who say it's a bad idea.
In addition, for the first time in the survey, a plurality prefers the status quo to reform. By a 44-41 percent margin, respondents say it would be better to keep the current system than to pass Obama's health plan.
By comparison, in September's and October's NBC/Journal polls, the American public preferred changing the system to the status quo, 45 to 39 percent.
The poll was conducted Dec. 11-14, and has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.
The full survey will be released tonight at 6:30 pm ET on NBC Nightly News and MSNBC.com.


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Richard Childress defends grandsons, furious with Kevin Harvick
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Richard Childress fiercely defended his two grandsons Sunday morning, a day after Childress driver Kevin Harvick called Ty Dillon "a punk-ass kid" after they wrecked at Martinsville Speedway.
Harvick's job might be safe but the relationship with Childress, the owner of Richard Childress Racing, soured after he called Childress' grandsons Austin and Ty Dillon spoiled "punks" and "rich kids" following Saturday's race.
"What happened on the track was one thing," Childress said, "but the comments afterwards is where I'm really upset. … I'll never apologize for giving my grandsons an opportunity, just like the France family, the Earnhardt family, the Wood brothers. You go down the list of the people that have been given opportunities.
MORE: Harvick calls Dillon 'punk-ass kid' | Harvick apology
"All of them didn't make it. You've got to go out and earn what you've got, the opportunity in life to succeed. And these boys earned it."
Harvick, driving a truck for NTS Motorsports, wrecked Ty Dillon under caution and stopped in Dillon's pit stall after the wreck with about 12 laps remaining in the truck race.
"That's exactly the reason I'm leaving RCR is because you've got those punk-ass kids coming up," Harvick told Sporting News.
On national television, Harvick said: "They've got no respect for what they do in this sport and they've had everything fed to them with a spoon. … It's a shame you've got to get taken out by some rich kid like that."
Harvick, who has been with Childress his entire Cup career since replacing Dale Earnhardt after Earnhardt's death in 2001, apologized for the comments Sunday.
Childress, though, was still upset Sunday morning. Childress said 95 percent of drivers have had help getting into the sport from their family.
Ty Dillon dropped from second to third in the truck standings after the wreck. Ty Dillon will move to the Nationwide Series next season and Austin, who is leading the Nationwide Series standings, is expected to move to Cup but no sponsor has been announced.
"These aren't spoiled rich kids," Childress said. "These are hard working young men that believe in what they're doing. They knew they've got to go out and prove themselves.
"They've got to race up front to keep a job. They knew that when I put them in the first Bandolero car. It's just not fair for someone to make a statement like that."
Childress, who talked with Harvick on Sunday morning, said he is committed to Harvick and the team sponsors for the final four races of the season.
"We're going to give him everything humanly possible to win that championship," Childress said. "I'm committed to him for four more races, just like I committed to him the day that he said he was leaving. I shook his hand and committed I'd give him 100 percent, and I'm going to do it.
"But I'm not going to be backed into a corner."


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Spokes Etc. Gravel Ride
December 6 @ 8:30 am - 10:30 am
|Recurring Event (See all)
An event every week that begins at 8:30 am on Sunday, repeating indefinitely
Weekly gravel rides through Leesburg, two routes – one for 37 miles (2,100+ feet of climbing) and one for 27 miles (about 1,500+ feet of climbing). These rides will average 14-15mph for a 37 mile loop, and 12-13mph for a 27 mile loop. A bike with a minimum of 33mm width and some sort of knobby tires is highly recommended.
Helmets are required. No drop ride, but a good base level of fitness is required.
When & Where: Sunday at 8:30 am from in front of Spokes Etc.
Please call the 703-858-5001 with any questions.
Rides generally will get cancelled when inclement weather is occurring. Give the store a call the day before if inclement weather is in the forecast.


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* Elan to acquire newly approved Breo as part of deal
* Company says further deals in pipeline
* A fifth of royalties to be paid to shareholders
* CEO says shareholders do not view takeover bid as credible
By Padraic Halpin
DUBLIN, May 13 (Reuters) - Irish drugmaker Elan Corporation has agreed a $1 billion royalties deal that could soothe concerns about its potentially risky acquisition strategy and fend off a takeover bid from Royalty Pharma.
Elan, battling to keep its independence after rejecting Royalty's $5.7 billion bid last month, is buying 21 percent of the royalties that U.S. company Theravance receives from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for its respiratory drugs.
The Irish company is seeking to diversify from its neurological focus after selling its 50 percent interest in multiple sclerosis treatment Tysabri to U.S. partner Biogen Idec in February for $3.25 billion plus royalty rights.
Royalty Pharma wants to add those rights, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, to its stable of royalty streams and has tried to unnerve Elan shareholders by questioning the company's lack of experience in pulling off big deals.
Elan Chief Executive Kelly Martin denied that Monday's deal was designed to frustrate Royalty's bid, but some analysts said the deal may allay fears among investors that Elan would make high-risk investments in drugs with significant costs attached.
"This (Theravance deal) was not done because of Royalty whatsoever," Martin told Reuters. "Royalty - to myself, to the board, to pretty much every shareholder that we can talk to, frankly - is utterly irrelevant.
"I can say unequivocally that I haven't spoken to one shareholder who thinks Royalty Pharma's offer is either credible or of any substance whatsoever."
Elan said that it has more deals in the pipeline and that it would give its shareholders a fifth of all royalties from the Theravance deal, matching the 20 percent dividend they are already set to receive through the royalty stream Elan maintains in Tysabri.
The shareholders, who have also been rewarded through Elan's $1 billion share buyback, have until May 31 to make up their minds on Royalty Pharma's $11.25-a-share bid. Royalty needs 90 percent of Elan shareholders to accept the bid.
Elan's shares closed at $11.78 in New York on Friday.
Monday's deal, part of which will be financed by an imminent bond issue, hands Elan a chunk of Theravance's interest in four drugs in late-stage development.
Among them is Breo, a new treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday.
Anoro, a potentially more profitable COPD drug that Theravance is developing with GSK, is also part of the deal.
The U.S. regulatory approval of Breo, which will compete with GSK's $8 billion-a-year blockbuster Advair, will make Monday's deal earnings accretive from next year, Elan said.
Breo, which will branded Relvar outside the United States if it gains wider approval, is expected by analysts to generate annual sales of $559 million by 2015, Thomson Reuters data show. Anoro is expected to generate peak annual sales of nearly $1.4 billion.
Analysts were divided on the merits of the deal for Elan. UBS said that $1 billion seemed pricey, while Deutsche Bank said that it was difficult to see significant shareholder value being generated.
Berenberg Bank said that, as a pure royalty acquisition, the agreement put Elan on a more solid financial footing. Jefferies, meanwhile, said the stake in long-duration drug assets made it an impressive deal.


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You may not have grains in your garden like I talked about in my last post, and you may not be ready to build a solar food dryer that I talked about in the post before that. Solar cooking, however, should be possible for almost everyone, unless you really do live with a cloud cover every day. I have been playing around with solar cooking for several years, learning a bit each year. Now I'm ready for more commitment.
There are plenty of designs for solar cookers to choose from. All you need is some cardboard and aluminum foil and you're almost there. Well, it's not quite that easy. I thought about it a long time before I took any action. My life was already overflowing with projects and each project takes time and attention. Learning to cook with the sun is no exception. I finally bought a CooKit from Bountiful Gardens. It is cardboard with foil covering one side. You put your container of food in the plastic bag that comes with it, but you can use any oven cooking bag. I never liked using the plastic bag and this year came up with a terrific solution. I am using the top to a glass cake saver. It works great!
Because I didn't like to fold and unfold the CooKit and I didn't like the plastic bag, I made a solar box oven from two boxes with newspaper insulation in between. That was a project I started one day with my grandson, thinking it would be something fun to do for the morning. He quickly lost interest and I worked on making that thing ALL day. I never had as much success with it as I thought I would. The slightest breeze would bring down the lid that was held up by a rod cut from a clothes hanger. I would frequently lose that rod and have to make another one. But it worked well enough for me to know that if I made some refinements, such as adding more reflectors and securing that rod, things could be better. In the end, though, I would still have a cardboard box that needed to be brought in each day since we have such heavy dew at night. To really make solar cooking a part of my life, I needed a weatherproof solar oven that I could leave outside all the time.
I learned a lot from these two solar cookers.
- Most importantly I learned that, although they can be left unattended for long periods of time, they work best if you can adjust their position at least every hour to follow the sun.
- If it is windy, the flap on the box oven might close or the CooKit might be repositioned.
- Clouds might move in and cool things quickly.
- The best time to cook means that dinner is ready before we're ready to eat it.
Last summer I had the opportunity to borrow a Global Sun Oven for a couple of months. It worked well, although I would have liked it to be bigger. Since I had borrowed it, I brought it up to the porch each night to protect the finish. It worked so well, I bought one when I visited Lehman's Hardware in May. I believe I have used that more in the past seven weeks than all my solar cooking efforts in the past several years. I fold the reflectors in when I'm not using it, but if I'm using it day-to-day, I leave it outside. If the weather is threatening or I know it won't be used the next day, I'll bring it onto the porch. I still would like to build a larger solar oven on its own swivel, so just a tap will turn it with the sun, but I knew I didn't have time to do that this summer.
I have cooked quiche, brownies, rice, potatoes, polenta, meatloaf, and melted cheese sandwiches. I hardcook eggs, brew tea, and make applesauce from dried apples. The tomato sauce on my recipe page cooks up well in a solar oven. One thing that may make some people hesitant to get started is the lack of proper cooking vessels. I find I cook a lot in wide-mouth quart canning jars or glass casserole dishes that I already have. Early in my solar cooking experience I bought a black enamel pot with a lid and a small black enamel roasting pan. I like the jars or casserole dishes because I can see what's happening. I've discovered that the lids on casserole dishes will fit pie plates. When I cooked the quiche, I used a deep dish glass pie plate with a casserole lid on it. I solved the problem of food being done before we we're ready to eat by putting the dishes in a hotbox once the solar cooker starts to cool, usually around 4pm. We happen to have an insulated "Fresh Eggs" box on our porch. I made it to fit a styrofoam cooler years ago when I sold eggs. I would leave them in there for my customers to pick up. I have newspaper and a towel to further insulate the hot dishes. Our meal stays hot until we're ready for it. You could use any large picnic cooler for the same purpose. The most wonderful thing is that the kitchen stays cool on these hot summer days.
Before you make a major purchase of a solar oven, do some internet research, read some books, and make a solar cooker. Just do it. A good place to go for information is Solar Cookers International. Every new skill you learn is something to build on. It is the learning that's important and the learning comes from the doing. By cooking with the sun you can save fossil fuel, keep your house cooler, and become more attuned to the natural world around you. I'm really enjoying my new Sun Oven, but now that I'm using the cake saver with the Cookit instead of a plastic bag, I'll continue to use that, also. I gave my box oven to a friend. You can make a solar cooker from a car window reflector and a bucket, or so I'm told. There are adventures to be had, so what are you waiting for?


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Hosts Ghana get off to a Flying Start in the African Nations
The African Cup of Nations began this month, with 16 teams battling it out in a 3 week soccer extravaganza. The eyes of the continent turned to Ghana - the host nation, and they did not disappoint with a 2-1 opening match victory over Guinea last Sunday.
Volunteers and staff made their way to the opening ceremony in Accra and in true Ghanaian style it was a colorful affair with dancing, singing and plenty of face paint.
Alongside Ghana three other Projects Abroad destinations, Senegal, Morocco, and South Africa all qualified for the competition, we hope they all do well.
This is a particularly exciting time for our soccer volunteers in Ghana. The presence of the tournament gives young keen Ghanaian's an insight into the professional game, as well as giving them an incentive to succeed in the game they love.
To make the most of the passion for soccer this tournament looks set to engender among the Ghanaian people, Projects Abroad have decided to throw their own mini-tournament after the competition's climax. It will be run for junior teams between the ages of 11 and 14, and selected players will get a chance to join the soccer exchange program we run with our Moldovan club side Eikomena, who feature as "Team of the Month" in January's edition of the British soccer magazine "4-4-2"!