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Hopeless Records is excited announce the release of We Are The In Crowds debut full length "Best Intentions" out October 4th! Produced by Kenneth Mount and Zachary Odom (All Time Low, Mayday Parade), the album was chosen as one of Alternative Press Magazine's most anticipated Fall 2011 releases.
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Lagan Valley Island is a conference and events centre located on a small Island in Lisburn City in Northern Ireland. The building was opened for business in March 2001 and was officially opened in November 2001 by Her Majesty the Queen.
Lagan Valley Island has many functions; It is headquarters of Lisburn City Council and the facility is also a unique mix of civic, business and arts facilities - home to Lisburn City Council headoffice, the Island Arts Centre, Council Chambers, a purpose built Conference Centre and Theatre, stunning wedding facilities and Lighters Restaurant.
The site on which Lagan Valley Island was built once played a significant role in Lisburns industrial past. Previously the site for the Island Mill Spinning Company, famous for the production on linen through it, production at the Mill came to an end in 1983. When this happened, Lisburn City Council (then Lisburn Borough Council) purchased the site and with funding assistance from the National Lottery to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, regeneration of this site began.


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The race for Tim Johnson's soon-to-be vacant senate seat just got a little bit more crowded.
Former Republican governor Mike Rounds had already announced his plans to run for that seat.
Now the first democrat to throw his hat in the ring has stepped forward.
KSFY News sat down with Rick Weiland to talk about his plans.
This will be Weiland's second attempt to make it to congress.
He ran against Stephanie Herseth Sandlin back in 2002 for a seat in the House.
And Weiland told us he wants to fight the special interest groups he believes have too much say in our federal government.
Ever since democratic senator Tim Johnson announced his retirement, speculation began on who might run to take his place. That speculation ends tonight.
"We're going to do everything I can, everything we can to make this a thoughtful race about things that we value here in South Dakota," Weiland said.
Rick Weiland wants to help fix the problems he sees with the federal government.
I've never seen our country, our form of government, so broken then I have in the last couple years," Weiland said.
Before entering the race, he made sure not to step on Johnson's toes, as in Johnson's son Brendan.
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Lionel Richie 's most recent album, Tuskegee, was his first #1 disc since 1986's Dancing on the Ceiling , and one of the top-selling albums of 2012. What will he do for an encore? Make not one, but two new albums.
Speaking to Channel News Asia , the veteran performer reveals that he's doing "two albums at the same time right now" -- but they're very different. "I'm working with the world's greatest deejays to re-create some of the music I've already done," he explains. "I'm finishing up my second big album. That's going to be my new material. It's about time to put out some new songs. I am writing them right now."
It has been a while since Lionel released any new material: 2009, to be specific. Tuskegee was made up of new versions of his classic hits, sung as duets with top country music stars. There's no word on a release date for either of these albums.
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A Missoula-based aviation company has lost a bid for a multimillion dollar contract with the U.S. Forest Service to deliver fire retardant to wildfires all over the country.
Neptune Aviation CEO Ron Hooper said they've requested a debriefing report from the U.S. Forest Service, to learn more about why their bid on the contract was not approved.
Then, Hooper said they'll file their protest with the Government Accountability Office, and ideally, the Forest Service will have to approve the contract.
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Hooper said they bid on the "next generation" contract with the Forest Service last November.
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Hooper said Neptune's offer included the use of two of their airtankers, which are converted, commercial jets that now deliver fire retardant to wildfire sites in a 3,000-gallon tank.
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National Interagency Fire Center Public Affairs Officer Jennifer Jones said the Forest Service chooses bids on contracts based on a technical evaluation, organizational experience and past performance along with pricing. Jones said the Forest Service did choose to renew Neptune's "legacy" contract to use seven of its aircraft for the next five years.
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Neptune company officials said they will have ten days to file their protest after they receive the debriefing report from the Forest Service.
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After reading this I need to be Committed.
Or, at least, Checked-Out.
Addendum (2011-09-06 07:35):
That's why I am a huge proponent of 'git'.
Perhaps I need to be Committed.
Or, at least, Checked-Out.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 08:16 • by Wagner (unregistered)
Oh my. After reading these horrible puns I feel the need to push a fork into you and pull it out repeatedly.
I've actually had the conversation about the difference between document management and source control before with co-workers. But I admit to not knowing what to use instead. Any suggestions?
is it just me or is any one else feel that they must be in the twilight zone because this was posted before 8:30?
Why the hell would you want to keep documentation out of the source control system?
What makes a latex/org/... file different from a c/py/.. file? In both cases you want to track and merge changes and see who did what when, and branch as ideas are tried or different "stable" versions are needed...
Dimension one look like bits to me. Surely they should be broken up into 8 bit blocks to become bytes?
The companies I've worked for so far, as well as the companies I will work for in the future, will always have to store vast amounts of binary data next to the code. And due to requirements it will always have to be in the same system.
But that's game industry for you, assets of one version might not be compatible with assets of a different version, as such the assets are linked to the code, and using multiple systems for that would make life a living nightmare!
A few years back I was tasked with merging version 12 into the by now completely different product which was forked off from version 9 (specifically, version 9.4) four years previously. Of course, the QA procedures had since been rewritten, and QA itself had been offshored, so relying on the same test schedule that had been used for version 9.4, 10, 11 and 12 (all versions) would have been inadequate, so 300 pages of QA instructions had to be regenerated from scratch.
There was so much to do and the deadlines were so tight it resulted in me working on the average of 70 hour weeks (all overtime unpaid) and being denied any decent leave for 18 months. Surprise was expressed at my exit interview that one of the reasons I was leaving was that I was tired.
The moral of the story: if you're going to make stupid management decisions, make sure that the engineer who said at the time that it was a stupid idea isn't going to be assigned the task of fixing it, or you may lose him.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 08:33 • by stubola (unregistered)
In the codebase I work with, there is a document written in MS Word HTML (don't ask me why; not my decision). While a simple change to a cell in a table looks easy when editing with Word, the underlying HTML seemed to change very drastically with that simple change. Making a patch in SVN with a change of that file ended up just being ridiculous because nobody wanted to go through the crapload of changes. We ended up moving to more of a Wiki system but that, I think, is a good reason why some docs should be left out of a source control system.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 08:35 • by QJo (unregistered)
Documentation is usually written in Word (or using a similarly ill-maintainable program) so in a source-control system usually need to be stored in binary form. In such a form it may not be as easy to establish what the differences are between versions.
If you're maintaining your documentation in e.g. TeX, then it may well be more appropriate to use a source-control system for the docs.
Another option is to use a wiki for the documentation.
Sounds remarkably similar to my experience with Visual Studio's designer tools. The only way to get readable diffs is to hand-edit the autogenerated code which you're not supposed to touch.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 08:45 • by The "Real" WTF (unregistered)
mm...is it SourceSafe (who uses source safe??)
or is it writing an educational article about source control in a website dedicated to bad practices?
i think we're long overdue an article about WTF practices.
taken from select implementations on this website through the years and put together into one incoherent collection of WTF practices.
also - how about a WTF rating:
you often here people say "i worked on a really crappy system"
or "you wouldn't believe how bad the code here is"
but these claims are often not backed up due to "copyright" or "theft of source code" or something.
well - i have a solution:
WTF rating - a comparable scale of WTFP (WTF points).
the ratio tries to capture the level of WTFness (bugs, crashes, user complaints, complexity and incomprehensibility) introduced by each WTF.
Points accumulate, reflecting the fact that the larger the system the more WTFs you will find, and the worse off it is.
1000 WTFP - Writing your own version of a bool (with that long missing 3rd option)
10 WTFP - giving a variable a meaningless name
20 WTFP - giving a variable an opposite name
50 WTFP - giving a variable an incomprehensible name (NotNonInvisible)
you can also give points to WTFP (WTF Practices)
300 - Hiring experts that take months to write their own name in code
500 - Hiring cheap outsourceres that build you a crappy system and then paying 3 times the price to have it fixed
6000 - using ACCESS as a database
Finally we can award WTFP (WTF Prizes) to the system with the highest WTFP and WTFP.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 08:58 • by The poop... of DOOM! (unregistered)
7000 WTFP for using VB
7000 WTFP for using PHP
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 09:03 • by Paratus (unregistered)
VB and PHP are certainly RWTFs, but there's no way that they're worse than using Access.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 09:07 • by The poop... of DOOM! (unregistered)
He said using Access as a database, so you can combine that.
A PHP application calling an Access database would result in 13000 WTFP (and a developer who's been committed to a mental hospital)
Wait, what? The other universe's Alex is the Bizarro one??
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 09:11 • by QJo (unregistered)
10^4 WTFP for storing passwords and other sensitive info in plaintext in a database and only thinking you've encoded them
2 x 10^4 WTFP for consistently releasing untested code changes to Production so as to save time assuaging the rage of the customer who's fallen foul of the last swathe of untested code changes that were released to Production
10^5 WTFP for balancing the mission-critical servers on the cistern in the women's bathroom of the office next door and/or frying your breakfast on the chassis of a similarly-deployed servers in the office kitchen
10^6 WTFP for dismissing your most capable staff for daring to suggest that your arse-brained scheme may need some further refinement, nay, even a redesign, before rushing ahead with implementation
10^7 WTFP for turning up at an interview for your perfect job wearing brown shoes
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 09:15 • by QJo (unregistered)
... and of course 10^9 WTFP for confusion of "its" and "it's" in a comment in a program module
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 09:24 • by Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered)
Pff, I once overslept on an interview day, and as a result arrived unwashed, unshaved, with an unironed shirt and shoes that had been dusted off rather than polished, and 20 minutes late. I got the job and started the following Monday.
Maybe Graham's number WTFP for using SourceSafe for anything other than to demonstrate to management that you're using it.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 09:28 • by The poop... of DOOM! (unregistered)
500 WTFP for having the only developer on the project write the tests after development, then having him run the tests and calling that QA (not to mention being surprised there're still bugs in the thing, as it's been tested!)
Over 9000 WTFP for using MySQL in a project where a database is really required.
And .. I strongly disagree with putting php (5+) on the same level as ASP . I believe we can safely assume WTFP(ASP/vb)=10*WTFP(php).
But if we're into the language bashing (which imo is not serious WTF .. except asp/vb/foxpro/cobol/...) why not go for a good old religion war and state the following:
First: The revised "Distributed" diagram is not the only way to set up a DVCS. It's by far the easiest, but certainly not the only way. It's also worth mentioning that for a typical project, a local Git repository is actually going to require less space than a Subversion checkout, so storage isn't relevant.
But there's more to it than that. Adding individual shelves to Subversion was the best and worst thing our team did. Best, because it meant that people were no longer afraid to check in for days at a time, not wanting to break the build with their experimental stuff, which only prolonged that experimental stuff due to them not being able to use version control the whole time.
Before this, we were all working off trunk, which has the additional issue that anytime a developer checks something in, they potentially create a merge conflict with someone else's working copy when they do an 'svn up'.
Worst, because Subversion completely fell over when we tried to use it that way. Especially when we added the merge tracking feature, which does make merges less likely to require manual intervention, but also made them take roughly half an hour. At that point, we were afraid to branch more than we had to, because merging would be painful -- but then, it's usually a given that merging is painful.
Git changed all that. After migrating the project to Git, those half-hour merges took seconds. Plus, we get backup for free, and we can work offline easily.
This is a valid concern:
"With the ease of forking, the simplicity of merging, and allure of pulling, it only seems logical to branch by shelf and end up picking up Jenga pieces."
But the real win isn't that each developer has a shelf, it's that even a feature which will take me only a few hours to develop can get its own branch. I can start work on a new feature without worrying that it'll interfere with anything else -- an urgent bug request could come in, and I'll just switch back to my 'master' or 'shelf' (or even 'trunk') branch and work from that, or create a new branch from the latest release if it's urgent enough to rush out a patch.
There's nothing inherently 'distributed' about any of the above. If non-distributed systems made it easy for a developer to create a new branch on the server, work on it for an hour, and then merge it in seconds, that'd be great. But making merging efficient and easy is a problem every DVCS has had to solve, much more so than a traditional SCM with a central server.
But the distributed pieces matter, too. As mentioned before, developer checkouts are now a sort of backup of your version history. I think it also helps that I'm in the habit of committing as soon as I have anything, which makes it a lot easier to keep commits small and to the point. The nice thing about a DVCS here is that I can easily roll back and re-commit that last change before I push it to anywhere publicly visible -- git's "--amend" option, for example -- so if I catch a typo or something minor before I push, I avoid a lot of "fixed typo" commits. This is even more useful with open source -- I can completely edit my commit history, rearranging things until it looks much more logical than it was, before I submit them for review.
For what it's worth, I also don't agree that every merge needs to be manually reviewed. If you've got a decent test suite, run that. Manual code reviews are useful, but they should be done independently of merges.
I can't really say I'm surprised. What would be surprising is if Alex ever admitted that a hot, new, over-hyped technology actually improved anything. But I have to say, there really are better and worse source control systems, and the new breed of DVCS is a huge improvement over systems like SVN.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 09:45 • by David C. (unregistered)
Document control systems are usually optimized to deal with these problems. They generally understand the file formats involved (e.g. MS Office's various formats). While they may store each revision as a binary, they have features to take advantage of the file formats. For example, one system we use at work (sorry, I don't know who makes it - it might be an in-house system) has the following features:
* Stores metadata (document number, creator, revision, etc.) in MS Office document property fields.
* Automatically creates corporate-standard header/footer sections on all documents, making the metadata visible.
* Includes facilities for document approval, so managers can sign-off on released versions of a document, distinguishing it from works-in-progress.
* Automatic generation of PDFs from all supported document types (so people viewing files don't need to have the original app installed.)
These are things that are really useful (possibly even critical) for document storage, but would be mostly pointless when applied to source code.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 09:46 • by QJo (unregistered)
Any advance on Grahams's Number! Who's first up for suggesting a particular WTF is worth Aleph-Null WTFP?
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Re: Why the tools matter.
2011-09-06 09:59 • by David C. (unregistered)
The most important thing, IMO, about any VCS is its ability to make merges as painless as possible.
Many offer very little. They may generate diffs and point out conflicts, but they make you resolve even the most trivial of conflicts. When you've created a private branch/shelf and need to merge in others' changes without damaging your own edits, a good merge system is critical.
Unfortunately, most systems are very bad at this, and every free system I've used is included.
Without (hopefully) sounding like an advertisement, I've found that the commercial product, Perforce, is the only one that gets this right. The server tracks a file's entire revision history, through all of its permutations of branches (and there may be hundreds, for some key files belonging to large projects.) When you need to do a merge (which they call "integrate"), the system uses the version history to find the common ancestor between your file and the one you're merging in (even if this common ancestor is separated by dozens of intermediate branches.) It then does a 3-way diff on the files (yours, the one you're merging in, and the common ancestor), presenting all conflicts as all three versions of the conflicting lines. Sections where only one source (yours or the merged-in version) differ from the ancestor are automatically merged without any user intervention. (You can, of course, still review the merged changes and fix any mistakes, which still happen occasionally.)
With this system, you can actually merge any branch into any other branch, not just into direct parent/child branches. The server will track the operations and make the right thing happen, even if the branch/merge history starts looking like a tangled ball of rubber bands.
It's not a perfect system. You still sometimes have to manually merge files, but they manage to automate all of the easy situations, so you only have to manually merge the really nasty changes that no system is likely to be able to handle automatically.
(No, I don't work for Perforce, but my employer has used their product for many years and I'm very happy with it.)
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 10:00 • by Poo (unregistered)
Alfresco can be used for document management with versioning of documents.
Re: Why the tools matter.
2011-09-06 10:07 • by Poo (unregistered)
So, have you tried git?
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 10:08 • by me (unregistered)
...and that, as they say, is the real WTF...
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 10:22 • by QJo (unregistered)
No argument against that point of view from me.
I tend to like distributed system more...
Local copy of repo is most useful when either the main server is down or you don't have network. You can't commit or switch / create / merge (working) branches or even see the logs, then what good is a source control system if you can't use it.
Also I've always thought "commit" and "push" as "commit" and "inflict". One just stores data, the other inflicts other people with it. This extra step means usually I think twice before sending stuff to main server.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 10:31 • by Hello (unregistered)
You had a choice, a choice to quit immediately when faced with 30 hours overtime each week. But you didn't and then you complain afterwards. Perhaps now you have learned to stick up for yourself.
Thanks, Alex, for this back to basics SCM tutorial.
It's concise and very informative.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 10:53 • by QJo (unregistered)
Good call. You're dead right, I should have jumped ship way before I did. But (a) I hadn't realised at the time how heavy it was going to be, (b) it took some time to find somewhere to jump to.
Bear in mind that when you have responsibilities and dependents that are absolutely your job to look after, you can not just walk up and leave a job without preparing the ground first. When you're a bit older maybe you'll learn this.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 11:06 • by The "Real" WTF (unregistered)
I think most languages are not inherently WTFP worthy.
except for perl.
it may be the only "real" language who's 99 bottles code is somewhat similar looking to brainf*ck
oh and why is my comment spam?? what did i do wrong?
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 11:24 • by ac (unregistered)
Bear in mind that doing a lot of work for free (e.g. 30 hours of overtime per week for 18 months > 2000 hours), your employers may already not think very highly of you. Sure, they'll think you're a hard working fellow and might recommend your new prospective employer makes references calls. However, they'll most likely laugh their asses off because you gave them so much work for free and soon forget that you ever existed. They most likely know very well that they're asking you to do 2 people's jobs for 1 salary. If you jump ship and drop all those "responsibilities and dependants" once you realize the task is totally unreasonable, it probably won't change what they think of you.
There's one thing I learned early on in my career, by looking at the people around me. Those who put in all that (unpaid) overtime for someone else leave a huge part of their life between four walls and get nothing but a nice reference call, if your new employer actually does call for references.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 11:24 • by trtrwtf (unregistered)
There is some documentation written in word, but it's hardly the industry standard. XML markup of various sorts (ie, docbook) is much more reasonable, since it can generate web and PDF and other forms. I believe all of the popular authoring systems are saved as flavors of XML.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 11:27 • by QJo (unregistered)
APL is arguably WTF-worthy.
"The third – and the least used – special type of Fork operation is called Shelf."
From the point of view of the master repository of a large project, aren't most developer repositories and branches in a distributed system?
My branch of a project on GitHub will never be used to make a build of the official library for instance, so aside from my PoV (and perhaps others working with me) my repo/branch is a shelf.
Well, it'll never be used _directly_ to make an official build at least - if I submit a patch from my code that is accepted or the people with access to the master repo/branch otherwise chose to pull in some of my changes then my branch has an indirect effect on the "real" build. but as that indirect effect is gated by the mast repo's owners I'd say they are still in control of that and my copy is still a shelf from their PoV (and the PoV of the public at large if they use the library) by the definition in this article.
That would make the shelf a very common type of fork, rather than the least used one.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 11:41 • by Zetetic (unregistered)
$ perl -ne 'chomp; print pack "B*", $_' <<END | ent -b
// Maybe I needing this
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 12:38 • by RRDY (unregistered)
I don't think you understood what QJo meant be 'responsibilities and dependents'. Not the JOB responsiblities. Spouse and kids more likely.
Exactly. Anyone who doesn't realize this is a n00b at life, or maybe a Forever Alone Guy.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 13:22 • by tomhanks (unregistered)
trwtf is writing documentation in the first place
am i right?
We've all done that early on in our careers. Once burned, twice shy. Once you learn to see it coming you can make for the exit long before you're exhausted (who wants to show up at a new job the first day - needing a vacation?)
It's the fools who keep doing it over and over that cause management to continue this practice of abusing and then discarding employees.
I am not to be using sorce control for porpuses of incriminations.
I rather suspect that Alex doesn't understand distributed source control systems like Git and Mercurial.
Once you figure out how it actually works and stop thinking in terms of svn and SourceSafe then you start to realise why it really is the best way to work.
That's not surprising because it really doesn't actually behave the same way as traditional source control.
Joel Spolsky said a while ago "To me, the fact that they make branching and merging easier just means that your coworkers are more likely to branch and merge, and you're more likely to be confused."
He later realised that he was totally wrong - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/03/17.html
Alex seems to be making a similar mistake here.
One of the really key things I've found with Git is that you never have to 'check-out' a file and two people working on the same file is rarely an issue.
For example:
I'm told "Fix bug A", my colleague is told "Fix bug B".
We both need to work on the same file to fix these bugs for whatever reason. (Maybe it's WTF code, maybe not)
With git, we can both go ahead and do our bugfixes on our local repos, then push the changes to each other once we're each happy that our stuff is good.
If I'm slower than her, when I sync with her to merge in her changes (or a central server) I magically get her fixes - unless we both edit the same method, it Just Works.
- Much of the time it's fine as long as we haven't both edited the same exact line.
With VSS, if she gets to the repository before me then I can't do anything. In other ones, it's extremely easy for either of us to accidentally wipe out the other's work.
(Sync A, Sync B, Commit A, Commit B - A's commit just vanished!)
That's really annoying.
Distributed source control means that every single developer automatically has their own 'shelf' to work with, and that merging the shelves to make 'trunk' is usually quite easy.
As mentioned earlier, this also means devs are more likely to keep 'commits' down to very small, focused changes - which are much easier to deal with later on.
-Plus you can all keep working - including rollbacks, 'forks' and 'labelling' - when the network (or server) is down and know that it's not going to be painful to put it all together when the sysadmins get it fixed.
Re: Source Control Done Right
2011-09-06 14:35 • by annie the moose (unregistered)
You're doing it wrong!
It's so easy.
VSS may be that much of a WTF, but that doesn't mean that every non-distributed source control system is. In this specific situation, even CVS will refuse to commit B's changes until B updates/syncs again.
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There's the story of a woman with five kids who was asked if she had to do it all over again would she have five children?
"Yes," she said, "just not these five."
That's the way I feel about the immigration "reform" bill introduced by the Senate's bipartisan "Gang of 8." I'm all for an immigration bill, just not this immigration bill — at least in its present form.
One of the "gang" members, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL.), indicated the bill has problems that need fixing when he said in a recent interview: "Let's try to fix it. Let's try to change it, but to just say let's defeat the whole thing; I don't think that's a productive approach either. I think this is a starting point that obviously we can and should improve."
There is much to improve, maybe too much. The Daily Caller read through all 844 pages of the pending bill and found it contains "roughly 400 exemptions, exceptions, waivers, determinations and grants of discretion." In fact, the Caller found, "The document mentions 'discretion' or 'discretionary' 41 times … 'judge' or 'judges' 73 times … determines is used 84 times." This bill has more holes in it than a Texas border fence.
Responding to a report by Ronald Mortensen, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, which analyzed the Senate proposal, the center's executive director, Mark Krikorian, offered, "Illegal aliens will be rewarded for breaking laws for which American citizens are routinely punished." He cites as one example the use of a fraudulent Social Security card, which, he says, would cause an American citizen to face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, but, he says, "…under this bill the illegal alien would face a $1,000 penalty covering all his many offenses, a penalty which in many cases will be waived." According to Krikorian, the individual would then be "issued a new Social Security number without any past bad credit or arrest records." What's with all the preferential treatment?
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL.), a member of the Gang of 8, said in a statement to Breitbart News, "The Gang of 8 made a promise that illegal immigrants will not be able to access public benefits. We already know that, once granted green cards and ultimately citizenship, illegal immigrants will be able to access all public benefit programs at a great cost to taxpayers. We have, however, identified a number of loopholes that would allow illegal immigrants to draw public benefits even sooner than advertised." Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AR.) disagrees. So let's close up the loopholes and debate it on the Senate floor.
Additional public benefits for illegal immigrants should not be seen as far-fetched, given a Boston Herald report about the family of the accused Boston Marathon bombers, whose residency may have been legal, but whose behavior was not: "The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012." These were able-bodied people. Why did they receive benefits? What loophole did the Tsarnaev family slip through?
Attorney General Eric Holder has taken the issue of breaking the law to new depths. In an April 24 speech to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Holder said that creating a "pathway to earned citizenship" is a "civil right." If that's so, why deny anyone from coming to America, even from nations that breed terrorists?
As it stands, the bill is unlikely to pass. That's why Sen. Rubio is right about the need to fix it. If he were to introduce an amendment to ban an illegal from voting for 10 years, we might see Democratic support for the measure quickly fade. The Democratic Party appears interested in "importing" new Democratic voters. Illegal immigrants know this, which leads many of them to believe that even if they break the law to get here, they have a "right" to become American citizens. I don't think so, do you?
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Hi Franxoois,
The short answer would be yes you can, but you shouldn't.
I asked the same question a while back and someone with alot more experience in electronics gave me a good explanation of the reason why I shouldn't do it that way.
Instead I connected my +12V power source with one plug to the arduino and another to the led strip. Just don't forget that the circuit must share ground, otherwise it just won't work.
+--- LED Strip ----+
Power -----| |----- Ground
+--- Arduino ------+
Also I think you might have it backwards a bit. A 12V / 1.2 A dc power source does not shoot out 1.2 Amps it's probably the maximum rating for the power source.
Don't take my word for this as my knowledge of electronics is quite limited.
Good luck!


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Rural US hospitals are in a world of pain
They provide care for a fifth of America's population, but their numbers are dwindling, due mostly to funding issues.
On Friday, after 42 years in service, Charlton Memorial Hospital in Folkston, Ga., will suspend most of its operations. The 25-bed nonprofit says that while it will continue to have a family practice clinic on the premises, the rest of its services -- including its 24-hour emergency room -- will be shuttered.
Charlton Memorial is the third rural hospital in Georgia to close this year, and part of a trend affecting many small community hospitals across the country. Jimmy Lewis, CEO of HomeTown Health, an organization of rural hospitals in Georgia, told George Health News the closure of Charlton Memorial will force local residents, many of whom are elderly and living below the poverty line, to travel long distances for health care.
Lewis also cited problems with Charlton Memorial that are common to many rural hospitals, including cash shortages, lower state payments, claims disputes with insurers and cuts to indigent care funds ahead of the federal Affordable Care Act.
According to the National Rural Health Association, while 20% of the U.S. population lives outside of America's cities and suburbs, only about 9% to 10% of doctors practice in rural areas. And in many cases, rural hospitals are often major employers in their communities, representing a large portion of the local economy.
Congress created the critical access program in 1997 after hundreds of rural hospitals across the country closed to make sure Americans living in remote areas could still access health care.
But that program has come under criticism for becoming, in the words of Kaiser Health News, "bloated and unwieldy." A report released earlier this month by the Department of Health and Human Service's Office of the Inspector General looked at the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) certification program, meant to ensure rural communities have access to hospital services. Medicare reimburses CAH at 101% of their "reasonable" costs -- rather than by payment system rates or fee schedules.
The study found that nearly two-thirds of CAHs would not meet the location requirements if required to re-enroll -- mostly because most of those facilities were too close together.
If the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "had de-certified CAHs that were 15 or fewer miles from their nearest hospitals in 2011, Medicare and beneficiaries would have saved $449 million," the study said.
But supporters of rural hospitals say the government just doesn't get it.
"We are alarmed by the message this is sending to rural America," Brock Slabach, senior vice president of the National Rural Health Association, told Kaiser Health News. "Using Missouri as an example, roughly 70% of the rural critical access hospitals in that state alone would lose their designation, and face possible closure. Does that sound rational to anyone living outside of Washington, D.C.?"
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"Using Missouri as an example, roughly 70% of the rural critical access hospitals in that state alone would lose their designation, and face possible closure. Does that sound rational to anyone living outside of Washington, D.C.?"
Yes, I live in Missouri and I think a 15 mile minimum for CAH funding is perfectly rational, in fact, given rural population densities it is still too low.
This especially in light of the rural-conservative dominated Missouri state government which turns away federal funding in refusing to participate in the ACA and slashing hundreds of thousands from Medicaid, these in favor of tax breaks for corporations and a drive to cut its already non-progressive income taxes.
There is a movement towards Swiss style farming by having everyone live in a "city hub" and go to their farms or businesses however far away to work. The movement wants everyone to live in city hubs and leave the rest of the areas to nature.
There was also a movement back in the 70s that wanted all lands between the west coast - Rockies and the Mississippi to be a National Park. Which would remove all settlements to hubs. This way the buffalo would once again be free to roam as they had 150 years or more ago. Rural areas will be the last place you will see Hospitals in the future. The trend is control the people by bundling them in their respective "Hubs".
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Amazingly the article doesn't even mention the OVERWHELMING reason rural (and urban) hospitals are forced to close their doors...........the 16 million illegal immigrants and the 22 million uninsured Americans that the federal government forces the hospitals to treat. This is the real reason and everything else I see commented about is either secondary or bogus.
Yes I am a retired MD. I've preached to congress many times about their "gracious and misguided" laws and regulations.
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Considering the current Boxster S features a 3.4 liter flat-six engine with 315 HP, it would be cool to see around 350 HP shooting out of a Turbo model.


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