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Wisconsin folks are used to being told they live in "flyover territory."
Now it appears Wisconsin is tunnel under territory as well.
Charlene Staples, a Walworth County Board supervisor, is particularly concerned about what a Canadian company called Enbridge Energies wants to do beneath western Walworth County.
She's advanced a resolution to the county board asking that the state DNR provide the public with more information and allow for more public comment on Enbridge's plan to increase the flow of petrochemicals in its underground pipelines from 400,000 barrels a day to 1.2 million barrels.
It also calls on the state to closely examine all of the potential environmental impacts the increased flow might have on state's ecology.
Introduced on July 14, the resolution states, in part: "It is important to have more public hearings and opportunities for public comment as well as a full environmental statement regarding the proposed increase in flow."
The material to be transported is a product extracted from tar sand oil, called dilbit (diluted bitumen) which is reportedly more corrosive than traditional oil.
The state DNR has had one public hearing on the Enbridge proposal in Superior on May 5. More hearings were not required by state law.
"Since it is an existing pipeline, they had one hearing in Superior," Staples said. It drew very little public attention.
The resolution passed the land conservation committee in July. It will go to the county board in September.
Jefferson and Dane counties have already passed resolutions also calling for the state to increase public participation and slow down the permitting process to allow Enbridge to increase its pipeline's rate of flow.
Staples said she's concerned because Enbridge has a bad safety record in the U.S.
The company has had two significant pipeline breaks in Wisconsin, one in Rusk County and another in Clark County.
In 2010, another Enbridge pipeline, which runs through Michigan, ruptured sending 850,000 gallons of a thick, bitumen-based crude oil flowing from a wetlands area into the Kalamazoo River, which drains into Lake Michigan.
After spending nearly $800 million on cleanup, petroleum is still reportedly bubbling up in the wetlands where the spill originally occurred.
The National Transportation Safety Board investigated the spill.
And, according to U.S. News online, the company's emergency response to the pipeline rupture was less than sterling.
U.S. News quoted the investigation report as saying in part:
"This investigation identified a complete breakdown of safety at Enbridge. Their employees performed like Keystone Kops and failed to recognize their pipeline had ruptured and continued to pump crude into the environment. Despite multiple alarms and a loss of pressure in the pipeline, for more than 17 hours and through three shifts they failed to follow their own shutdown procedures,"according to Deborah A.P. Hersman, NTSB board chairwoman.
Those have not added to Staples' confidence in Enbridge's claims of being a safe company.
"As a county board member, I think part of my job is a concern for safety," Staples said.
Staples said she had no idea that the Enbridge pipeline ran through the county's District 5, which she represents.
She said she didn't know about the pipeline at all until she saw some information about it posted on Facebook.
"I have an Enbridge pipeline just a quarter mile from my house," said Staples, who lives in Darien.
"My concern is that people don't have enough information about the pipeline," Staples said.
She said she recalls receiving informational brochures from Enbridge, but didn't pay much attention.
"I still don't know what goes through their pipeline," Staples said. "We really have to pay attention to it. I'm very skeptical of the things the company is saying."
The company has a pumping station it refers to as its Delavan station, but that facility is actually in eastern Rock County, about 10 miles northwest of Delavan, according to a map provided to the county board by Enbridge. Staples shared the map with the Regional News.
Two pipelines go through Walworth County, cutting through Richmond, Delavan and Darien townships, Staples said.
The pipeline runs about a mile west of lakes Delavan and Geneva on its way to the Illinois-Wisconsin state line.
The line cuts through the major drinking water aquifer in the county, Staples said.
"And we all realize how water travels," said Staples, referring to the west to east flow of groundwater in Walworth County.
"We rely on tourism," said Staples. Tourism and agriculture are the two most important parts of Walworth County's economy.
If anything should happen that contaminates the water or land, either of those elements of the county's financial wellbeing could be irretrievably damaged, she said.
"It's a scary thing as far as I'm concerned," she said.
What Enbridge pumps through the pipelines is slated to be processed at U.S. refineries, but the final product may then be shipped overseas from New Orleans ports.
That means there may not be even a remote chance that any of the fuel made from the dilbit pumped under Wisconsin will ever be used by a Wisconsin consumer.
"There's risk and there's benefit," said Staples. "I don't see the risk outweighing the benefit."
Enbridge pipeline spills in Wisconsin
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel online archives, Enbridge has been involved in three notable oil spills in Wisconsin.
In January 2007 in Clark County, a pipeline cracked open and released about 50,000 gallons of crude oil until an operator could shut down the line from an operations center in Canada.
Then, about a month later, Enbridge construction crews in Rusk County struck the existing pipeline while preparing to extend a new pipeline beneath a roadway.
Oil filled a hole more than 20 feet deep before the flow was shut down, and some of it seeped into the water table.
In July 2012, a pipeline failed in Adams County, forcing the evacuation of two homes.
About 50,000 gallons of light crude oil spilled onto farmland from line 14, which carried about 300,000 barrels a day.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the spill, which came almost two years to the day of the Kalamazoo River spill in Michigan, (the largest inland oil spill ever,) caused U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass, ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee to comment that Enbridge "is fast becoming to the Midwest what BP was to the Gulf of Mexico, posing troubling risks to the environment."
However, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board noted there were improvements in how the company responded to the Adams County leak, as opposed to its almost nonresponse to the Kalamazoo leak two years earlier.
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2 Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3 Department of Community Health, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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BMC Infectious Diseases 2013, 13:67 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-13-67Published: 5 February 2013
In 1998, Malaysia experienced its first chikungunya virus (CHIKV) outbreak in the suburban areas followed by another two in 2006 (rural areas) and 2008 (urban areas), respectively. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of documented data regarding the magnitude of CHIKV exposure in the Malaysian population. The aim of this study was to determine the extent of chikungunya virus infection in healthy Malaysian adults residing in outbreak-free locations.
A cross sectional study of chikungunya (CHIK) seroprevalence was carried out in 2009 amongst The Malaysian Cohort participants living in four states (Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Pahang and Negeri Sembilan). A total of 945 participants were randomly identified for the study. Potential risk factors for CHIK infection were determined via questionnaires, and IgG antibodies against CHIK were detected by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Logistic regression identified risk factors associated with CHIK seropositivity, while geographical information system was used for visual and spatial analysis.
From the 945 serum samples tested, 5.9% was positive for CHIK IgG. Being male, Malay, rural occupancy and Negeri Sembilan residency were identified as univariate predictors for CHIK seropositivity, while multivariate analysis identified being male and rural occupancy as risk factors.
This study provided evidence that CHIK is slowly emerging in Malaysia. Although the current baseline seroprevalence is low in this country, increasing number of CHIK cases reported to the Malaysia Ministry of Health imply the possibility of CHIK virus becoming endemic in Malaysia.

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With that inspirational message from seminarian Christopher Ballard, the annual 'Men in Black' basketball game packed the St. Joseph's gymnasium Friday night in Camillus as parishioners from throughout the Syracuse area came out to watch local priests and seminarians go toe-to-toe with CYO basketball teams to raise awareness of the priesthood.
Father Joe O'Connor, director of Vocation Promotion for the Syracuse Diocese and coordinator of the game, said the event is a fun way to remind young men that the Catholic priesthood is a fun and healthy vocational option.
"It's my job to get young men to think about the priesthood," O'Connor said. A task often considered challenging, O'Connor said his perception is different: "I am creating a culture of vocational awareness and support," he explained.
The church is well aware of the dropping numbers - in it's most recent study, Georgetown's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate found in 2008 there were 40,580 thousand priests in America, down from 58,632 in 1965. But O'Connor said it's quality, not quantity, that counts.
"Although it's harder to have fewer (men interested in the priesthood), there is something exciting about it," he said, noting that those who do make the commitment to the seminary and Catholic church are more likely to stick with it.
And with events like the MIB game, both men eligible for the priesthood and their families are afforded a more in-depth look into the lives of priests.
Among the MIB stars was Baldwinsville's Chris Ballard, 25, currently studying at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. Ballard's grandmother, Arlene Luckette, was at the game along with extended family to cheer Ballard on. Luckette said her grandson announced at the age of 14 that he was being called to the priesthood, a decision he pursued directly after graduating Baker High School. Ballard will be fully ordained in June 2010 and begin service in the Syracuse Diocese.
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However, new research published in the March 14 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters shows that when fluids like water and silicon oil are confined to a nanometer-sized space, they behave more like ketchup or toothpaste. Then, if these confined liquids are shaken, they become fluidic and exhibit the same structural and mechanical properties as those in thicker layers.
The study the first to use an atomic force microscope to measure the viscosity of confined fluids revealed that these liquids can respond and modify their viscosity based on environmental changes.
Knowing this could be very important, said Elisa Riedo, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Physics. If a lubricant used in a piece of machinery becomes thick and gelatinous when squeezed between two solid surfaces, serious problems could occur. However, if the machine vibrated, the liquid could become fluidized.
With funding from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Riedo and graduate student Tai-De Li used atomic force microscopy (AFM) to measure the behavior of thin and thick layers of liquids while they were vibrated. A nanometer-size spherical silicon tip was used to approach a mica surface immersed in water or silicon oil, while small lateral oscillations were applied to the cantilever support.
Some researchers have measured the force it takes to squeeze out a fluid, but we took a different approach, explained Riedo. We are the first group to use AFM to study the viscosity of confined fluids from direct high-resolution lateral force measurements.
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Marketers need to ensure that they've created multiple opportunities for engagement with their brand.
A source of frustration for many agencies is that some of their clients just don't seem to understand the value of integrated marketing.
Too often clients will ask their agency to prioritize tactics, and once the prioritization is completed, they will say, "OK, I'd like to go with just the number one tactic."
I get it - marketing dollars are increasingly stretched; brand managers have to maximize the value of every single dollar. That said, it can be extremely short-sighted to only choose a single tool to perform a job that needs five tools to succeed.
Can you build a chair using just a hammer (plus wood and nails, of course)? Sure. But it will probably be a very unsteady and uncomfortable, not to mention ugly, chair. To make a chair that is truly functional that people actually want to sit on, you'd also probably need various power saws (circular saw, hand saw), clamps, measuring tape, sandpaper, paint, oh, and maybe some fabric, stuffing, and a staple gun to cover the seat.
I think my point is clear - can you undertake a marketing plan with just one tactic, for example, a website? Yes. Will it be as successful or effective if it was combined with other complementary tactics? Quite simply, no.
Most marketers know the "rule of seven" - the old adage that the average customer needs to see or hear your marketing message seven times before they take action. Now, whether it's seven or five or 10 is irrelevant. The fact is that the underlying tenet holds true: you can't expect the majority of consumers to take action the very first time they come into contact with your brand.
And while some consumers may respond to a direct mail piece, others respond to an email and yet others respond to a banner ad; each consumer is more likely to do one of these activities if they've already been previously exposed to your brand.
Particularly in the digital space, the individual tactics truly work together to support one another. Many studies have documented the positive impact that, for instance, display advertising can have on search performance.
The analysis we're doing on our brands' marketing programs has shown us for instance that:
Before doing this type of analysis, which leverages impression-level tagging to track visitors who were exposed to our ads, we could have easily written off display. When comparing this tactic "apples to apples" to something like search engine marketing, the cost per acquisition would seem ludicrous. But once we started quantifying the impact that display was having on our best performing tactics like SEM, we began to realize that search wouldn't be performing as well if it weren't for the display campaign. Display was capturing those prospects who were higher up in the funnel and beginning to seed our messages, prompting them to search and return to the site later on as motivated individuals. The right analytics infrastructure and attribution modeling has helped us better understand how our tactics are working together to drive customer acquisition and define the role that each tactic plays in the marketing funnel.
Our analysis has also proven that users who are receiving ongoing communication are much more likely to remain loyal to the brand. For example, patients who were part of an eCRM program were more likely to stay on a prescription therapy than those who were not.
The key takeaway for marketers is that you need to ensure that you've created multiple opportunities for engagement with your brand. You need to build a relationship with your audience. You can't always just take tactics at their face-value and their individual contribution - you have to look at the contribution to the success of other tactics, and how all of these tactics work together to drive success.
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"We were looking at the beer in there," Merryweather said. "And we talked about how sad it was that none of it was local. We saw that this could be a great niche." Turning that idea into reality wasn't seen as far-fetched by Merryweather, who also works as a commercial photographer. "I've been a beer lover and a wine lover for quite a while," Merryweather said. "Typically I'll pick wines when I'm out with others eating, we'll mix it up. I moved onto beer, and beer has been it for the past few years now." Merryweather and Seibold sealed the deal when they added a third partner, Daniel Mercer, and head brewer Chase Healey, who had several of his recipes to bring into the venture. Currently, 42 barrels are in production. Merryweather said his brewery joins Huber Brewery as the only two operating in Oklahoma City. "A lot of cities this size have several," Merryweather said. Merryweather said the micro- and production brewery's location, 1124 NW 51, next to the 51st Street Speakeasy club, allows for tastings at the club without the brewery having to open its own tasting facilities. "We looked at four different places before settling here," Merryweather said.


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"It can't happen that we want to develop our own Hollywood and yet bring in imports," Union President Mabutho Sithole told The Citizen newspaper.
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Features in 10.0 releases are listed on the What is MariaDB 10.0? page.
Plans for MariaDB 10.1 should be moved to the Plans for 10.1 page.
- MariaDB 10.0 Definite
- MariaDB 10.0 partly sponsored features
- MariaDB 10.0 High Probability
- MariaDB 10.0 Rolling
- Will skip for 10.0
- Uncategorized
The following is a list of features considered for 10.0 and 10.x
All features that has a designed developer who agrees to get the thing done in a given timeline will be considered as a 10.0 feature. Then we will also create a new kb page with the to-be-done features.
The items below that have a name after them are already allocated to a developer.
If you want to be part of developing any of these features, get an account and add your name after the feature you are interested in. You can also add new features to this list or to jira
We will port to MariaDB 10.0 and rewrite many (but not all) of the features from MySQL 5.6. 10.1 will have more of the 5.6 features and 10.2 should have the rest. The reason for this is to be able to release MariaDB 10.0 without having to wait until all MySQL 5.6 features are stable or rewritten.
Note that a lot of the main features in MySQL 5.6 are already present (and in optimized form) in MariaDB 5.5.
For a full list of what's already back ported/rewritten from MySQL 5.6 and what's left to do, look at the TODO file in the top directory of the MariaDB source tree. If you want to be part of developing MariaDB, this is a good place to start!
MariaDB 10.0 Definite
Features which will definitely be in MariaDB 10.0 should be moved to the What is MariaDB 10.0? page.
MariaDB 10.0 partly sponsored features
Features that are likely to be in 10.0 if we can get more sponsorships
- FB request: Better monitoring for replication (FB has patch; MP will add) (kristian) (for 5.5 or 10.0)
- Aria: Concurrent UPDATE & DELETE. MWL#235 (Have partial sponsor) (monty) - MDEV-23
- Aria: Segmented key cache for Aria (By Igor for 10.0 or 10.1) - MDEV-24
- Aria: Fast next-not-same handler call (monty) (Target 10.0) - MDEV-25
- From MySQL 5.6: Global transaction ID, so the slave state becomes recoverable, and facilitate automatic moving a slave to a new master across multi-level hierarchies. - MDEV-26
MariaDB 10.0 High Probability
Features which have a high probability of being in MariaDB 5.6
- Performance: More scalable query cache under higher concurrency (Sanja) (maybe) - MDEV-4454
- Allow stale data (Sanja) (maybe)
MariaDB 10.0 Rolling
Features which will be added when they are ready.
- Parameterized Views
- Percona patches (Monty & Sanja) (rolling feature)
Will skip for 10.0
Features which are not likely to be ready for MariaDB 10.0
- Community Request: prevent full scans from running at all above a certain table size;
- is existing
max-join-sizevariable sufficient or more granula control is needed?
- is existing
- Optimizer: Implement UNION ALL without usage of a temporary table (nice to have) (wait for sponsor)
- Federated: Generic query pushdown
- Federated: Apply it to federated
- Federated: Timour's old list of tasks (Timour)
- Table functions (Timour) (after 5.6)
- Refactoring: do_select refactoring to remove if's and make each code group (like end_select) smaller (small speedup and cleaner code)
Features which have not been categorized into the above categories.
OpenGIS compliance
- OpenGIS: prefill the spatial_ref_sys table. (Holyfoot) - MDEV-60
- OpenGIS: Add possible III-rd coordinate (Altitude). (Holyfoot)
- OpenGIS: Distance3D, related optimization.
- OpenGIS: Precise math coordinates instead of DOUBLE-s.
- optimize simple queries with Intersects(), Within, Distance()<X
- add Distance_sphere() and the related optimization.
Online operations
- Extension to bigger datatype (var)char(n) (n+x)
- Online extension of any NUMERIC datatype ; Like ALTER tinyint -> smallint
- Extend ENUM done need more visibility
- Alter comment (Monty)
- Online Add and drop index (Drop is easy to implement MyISAM/ARIA)
- Online OPTIMIZE
- Online ANALYSE
- Add ALTER ONLINE TABLE (Done by Monty: Syntax added in 5.3; When ONLINE is used, one gets an error if the ALTER TABLE can't be done online)
- Look at patch for online backport sent to maria-developers
- Date & time embedded timezone (Need sponsor)
- IPV6 native type
- Extended timestamp > 2038
- 1M tables Information schema (MP will investigate)
- 1M users requirements
- Roles - MDEV-4397
- mysql.* in any engine
- LOG tables in a log_schema schema
- User Ldap Authentification like Drizzle
- Make openssl hash functions available for user. (Bank will sponsor)
- Query logging and summary per query MWL#179
- Auditing for specific user (to general log)
- Flush and reload variables from my.cnf
- Transactional storage of slave state, rather than file-based master.info and relay-log.info . So the slave can recover consistently after a crash.
- Support in global transaction ID for master_pos_wait()
- Hooks around rotation of the binlog, so user can configure shell commands when a new log is started and when it is ended. The command must be run asynchroneously, and get the old and new log file name as arguments.
- Reduce fsyncs from 3 to 1 in group commit with binary log (MWL#164)
- Parallel applying of binary log in slave (MWL#169)
- Replication APIs, as per MWL#107 (Needs sponsor)
- Multi source (Slave can have multiple masters). MWL#201. There is a partial sponsorship for this already. (Monty and Kristian) - MDEV-253
Statistics and monitoring
- Strategic direction: Enterprise monitoring
- graphing and data aggregation tools, server monitoring, etc.
- customer has reported that Merlin is inadequate, should we enter into this market? (MonYog, MariaDB Corporation, Percona, Oli Sennhauser, Open Query etc is doing tools)
- QA request: better EXPLAIN (HIGH priority; MP; Spetrunia)
- required in order to debug performance issues in queries without knowing the query or the data;
- the customer will only provide EXPLAIN and SHOW output, we need to debug based on that; (need examples)
- Perhaps optimizer trace is what we need
- QA request: engine independent PERSISTENT TABLE STATISTICS (Igor) - MDEV-204
- required to ensure repeatable query execution for InnoDB;
- may allow various statistics to be reported by the server regardless of engine;
- able to simulate different sized tables
- U/C at Oracle: OPTIMIZER tracing
spetrunia: report actual estimates, and all decisions of the optimizer,
including why an index was *not* picked, etc.
- want to change for 5.7
- FB request: more options for controlling the slow query log MWL#181 (Holyfoot will check)
- sample one out of every N queries or transactions ; with N ~ 99 (Patch by FB; Will be changed to use AUDIT)
- idea: collect statistics per query text, or normalized query text and report;
- request by community: progress bar for SELECT;
- how to estimate the total running time of the query;
- Percona has support for this
- 5.3 has progress reporting for SHOW PROGRESS PROCESSLIST; SHOW QUERY PROGRESS; and LOAD DATA .
- FB request: limit total temptable size on the server (MP) MWL#183
- FB patch: Admission Control (MP) (seriously considered to be done) (wlad)
- limit number of concurrently running queries per user;
- if all user queries are blocked, allow a few more queries to join;
- Integration with log watching tools
- alter log formats to make them compatible with tools;
- include logwatch mysql-specific config file in packages/distributions;
a counter for the total number of bytes read by I/O thread that does not rotate on log rotation; "seconds behind real master" to report the actual time the slave I/O thread is behind (MP will look into this)
- FB patch: report the time spent in individual phases of query processing (MP)
- Put cost related constants into variables (will be done) (timour)
- Automatic tuning of cost constants for specific setup (SSD / TAPE)
- Make optimizer switch more user friendly (Sanja and Spetrunia) (will be done)
- Cost model cleanup (Don't assume things are B-trees) (timour)
- Consistent cost interface trough handler methods
- Persistent data statistics (Igor)
- Grace HASH join (Need sponsor)
- Sort merge join (Need sponsor)
- Better item_equal (Igor & Monty)
- missing item_equal for ORDER BY and GROUP BY
- Less fetches of data pages.
- can use whenever you have many-to-many relationships between two tables
- use to try to minimize data access
- it's like INDEX INTERSECTION
- Performance: Better multi CPU performance above 16 cores (Work with Intel)
- Performance: Predictive parser to replace yacc based ; 5 % speedup for simpler queries
- Performance: Faster WHERE (a,b) in ((1,2),(2,3)...huge list...) (customer request)
- Performance: Faster VIEW (Not open frm & parse query for every access); Speed up simple view handling 2x
- MIN/MAX indexes
- Index withing key pages to speed up lookup on compressed key pages.
User friendly features
- Better/safer upgrade (?)
- Better option files in distributions.
- UNIQUE CONSTRAINT for BLOB (MWL#139) (medium)
Other things
- Enhance RQG to test for query correctness and performance on production workloads during upgrade (MWL#178) (prototype done, need to get outside users to verify the code)
- Present in MySQL 5.5: Performance Schema
- what do we want to do with it, embrace it, extend it?
- or it is better to have more SHOW commands and INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables?
- are going to use Facebook's user stats/index stats patch or create a PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA-based solution? (MP + Percona)
Plugins by Sergei
- Plugins by Sergei: query rewrite (MWL#144)
- Plugins by Sergei: full-text search engine plugin (MWL#143)
- Plugins by Sergei: Plugin Loader (MWL#162)
- Plugins by Sergei: smaller, nice to have, tasks:


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management looks at more than what a fan looks at. like shooting %, plus/minus. so when you take all this into account. Phill Kessel isn't work all that money he was looking for.
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Mike Milbury is married to sinden's daughter,
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I agree also. his voice is Boston Bruins hockey
Posted 08/17/2009 11:53:04 EDT
didn't the government say there isn't aliens on earth. he is not human.
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that guy must only see numbers, kessel is soft. wont hit and cant take a hit. wont back check until spoken to by the coach. Ryder is mean and nasty. that is why boston got him. same with Begin. kessel more »
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Budgeted at $38M, Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys, which highlights the performances of Tony winner John Lloyd Young as Valli and "Boardwalk Empire's" Vincent Piazza as DeVito, opened in the United States in nearly 3,000 theaters over the weekend of June 20, 2014, which took in a disappointing $13.5M. According to a previous report on BroadwayWorld, the film's storytelling is skewed toward a much older cinema-going demographic. Warner Bros. also faced criticism over its decision to debut the film during the summer months.
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Defense of Marriage Act: United States v. Windsor - In a 5–4 ruling, the court decided that a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the law that restricts federal recognition of same-sex marriage, was unconstitutional because it violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
This ruling affects same-sex couples who are legally married in a state that recognizes same-sex marriage who will now receive equal treatment under federal law with regard to the benefits of marriage such as health insurance, taxes, immigration sponsorship, student loans, and Social Security.
The federal government has already announced several changes to federal policies, such as access to health insurance. The fight for marriage equality now moves to the 37 states that do not currently allow marriage equality.
Proposition 8: Hollingsworth v. Perry – In another narrow 5–4 ruling, the justices found that the petitioners who were seeking to uphold the California ban on same-sex marriage did not have standing; therefore same-sex marriages can resume. This affects same-sex couples seeking to marry in California now that it is legal again and may help to open the door for marriage equality in other states.
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Jim Balsillie says there's a major policy gap when it comes to nurturing Canada's budding high-tech firms, and he has a plan to fix it. Continue reading
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|It's not all fun and games on the set of a network soap opera.
|In 2006, men accounted for 21 percent of the estimated 6 million soap opera viewers. Turns out, some of those chaps were jocks who, given accommodating daytime schedules, aren't immune to the trappings of today's metrosexual male culture. "Believe it or not, we mostly reach out because word gets back to us that these guys are fans," explains "General Hospital" casting director Mark Teschner. "For them, it's a thrill." Like Brewers outfielder Bill Hall, who'd sneak away at lunch hour in high school with a girlfriend to catch "Days of Our Lives," Montreal Canadiens defenseman Sheldon Souray admits that his afternoon naps are preceded by daily doses of "Days." "Like anyone else, athletes get addicted to the drama, and before we know it, we're all closet soap junkies," says Souray, who was so soap-smitten that he married Angelica Bridges, a Days regular ('04). "I knew she was on 'Baywatch,' but when she mentioned she was on 'Days,' I was like 'Wow, you had me at hello.' " Other jocks who've been bitten by the soaps bug: All My Children: Danny Sullivan (Champ car, 1987); Summer Sanders (swimming, 1992); Boomer Esiason (NFL, 1996); Bill Guerin, Rob Niedermayer and Kevin Weekes (NHL, 2001); Allan Houston (NBA, 2005); Al Leiter (MLB, 2005); Tiki Barber (NFL, 2005). As the World Turns: D.J. Lockhart-Johnson (NFL, 2004). The Bold and the Beautiful: Mike Piazza (MLB, 1994). Days of Our Lives: Casey Mears (NASCAR, 2004). General Hospital: Johnny Berardino and Yogi Berra (MLB, 1963); Jim Kelly (NFL, 1992), Sinorice Moss (NFL, 2006). Guiding Light: Mark Schlereth (NFL, 2007); John Riggins (NFL, 2003); Carl Edwards (NASCAR, 2005). One Life to Live: Scott Gomez, Jeremy Roenick, Sheldon Souray, Chris Therien and Kevin Weekes (NHL, 2001); Jeanette Lee (billiards, 2003). Passions: Robert Horry (NBA, 1999). The Young and the Restless: Wayne Gretzky (NHL, 1981, '83); David Justice (MLB, 1992); Muhammad Ali (boxing, 1999); Tara Lipinski (figure skating, 1999); Brian Jordan (MLB, 2000); Robert Griffith (NFL, 2001); Charles Woodson (NFL, 2004); Luke Walton (NBA, 2006); Tony Dorsett (NFL). -- Sam Alipour
|Brewers outfielder Bill Hall takes his turn in the makeup room as he gets ready to shoot an episode of "The Young and the Restless."
|J.J. Hardy gets to "hit on a big soap actress" during
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First Solar Slides on Financing Delay, Downgrade: Chicago Mover
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- First Solar Inc., the biggest maker of thin-film solar panels, fell the most in almost two months after permitting issues delayed a U.S. loan guarantee for a power plant in California and an analyst at Collins Stewart LLC downgraded the shares.
First Solar dropped 10 percent to $43.91 at the close in New York, the most since Dec. 14. The shares have declined 72 percent in the past year.
First Solar sold the 230-megawatt Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One plant to Exelon Corp. for $75 million in September. The Tempe, Arizona-based solar company will have to buy it back if the project cannot win final construction permits and qualify for a $646 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee, First Solar said yesterday in a regulatory filing.
"First Solar will not be able to recognize revenues from AVSR construction unless a sale is completed and funded," Dan Ries, an analyst at Collins Stewart, said today in a note to clients. He reduced his rating to "neutral" from "buy."
If required to repurchase Antelope Valley, First Solar will probably be able to sell it to another buyer and the transaction may reduce its first-quarter profit to break-even, Ries said.
When Exelon purchased the project, the deal was contingent upon First Solar receiving the government-backed funding "within approximately four months," according to the filing. The companies have agreed to extend that deadline to Feb. 24.
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A Loving Relationship Starts With Yourself!
A Loving Relationship Starts With Yourself!
A Loving Relationship Starts With Yourself!
Marie fell in love with Steve the first night they met. June was right, he was perfect for her-handsome, a good listener and in a similar line of work. Soon she was madly in love to the point of going over the top in every way to enjoy their love affair. Sleep didn't matter. Food didn't matter. Her job didn't matter. Only Steve mattered. The love making was unbelievable, and so was the connection. The magic would go on forever....
Except that three months later they had broken up. The magic had disappeared and a temper in Steve that Marie wasn't about to put up with, had appeared. And worse than even the break-up, Marie now had to deal with a chronic sinus infections from neglecting herself and a warning at work for coming in late once too often. Her life was a mess. It was time to start a loving relationship with herself!
Lots of women think that a loving relationship starts by falling in love with someone. Yes, for sure that is the road to sexual arousal, a high even better than climbing Mount Everest, and if you are lucky, a permanent relationship. But it is not the road to the safest and most permanent way to make sure you will always have loving relationships.
That road, often unpaved and unmarked and at times filled with stones to easily trip on, is the road to self-love. I don't mean narcissistic love that involves a constant focus on yourself. I mean something else, a recognition that you are your own best friend. When no one else in the world may understand your feelings or thoughts, you at least understand how they came about. Maybe you can't solve a dilemma that you are in, but for sure, you may be your strongest advocate to find a solution.
I have heard more personal stories than most people, as a therapist, and one thing I have heard over and over again is how the husband or child, or boss, or teacher, or mother who was 'there' for the woman telling me her story to me, had not been there for her at a crucial moment, maybe had even hurt her unintentionally or on purpose, when she most needed support.
I often talk about the client who told me how for 20 years, until she finally left him, her husband would greet any good idea or plan that she brought to his attention, with: "That and 5 cents will get you a cup of coffee". Killing our mental spirit and energy can be as cruel as any form of abuse!
So the bottom line is finding the ways to develop a loving relationship with ourselves. Here is what I suggest:
Never let your personal gas tank go down to empty. Let's meet a couple of women who now have loving relationships with themselves.
Julia was a wonderful mom, daughter, wife, friend and employee. In fact, she was so caring for others that she stopped recognizing the signals from her mind and body that should have told her she was near empty.
She ignored the weight gain that crept up each year since the birth of her second baby. She ignored the headaches that she often had. She ignored her fatigue, pushing through it with another cup of coffee or a cupcake, or both so she could say 'yes' to her kids, her mom, her husband, her boss, and of course her friends. In fact, it wasn't until her doctor informed her that she now had Type 2 Diabetes that any bells or whistles went off.
Fortunately, Julia no longer has an empty gas tank. She takes Yoga twice a week, she tests her blood sugar twice a day and regulates her diet and she has learned to say NO on occasion. She listens to her mind and body and has become her own best friend.
Donna, a good job secured and finally ready to be independent, was determined to get somewhere in life. The thought of moving back home with her mom was totally unacceptable. She grabbed the first apartment that came along, never really checking out her roommates. As she began to realize that not only didn't she like them, but they were messy and loud, rather than figuring out how to handle the situation, she took to her room and began to isolate after work. Instead of either finding a way to live elsewhere (maybe even back home if that was the best possible solution for the moment) or finding ways to busy herself after work so that she only slept in the apartment, she hid from herself and from life. She became more and more withdrawn.
Luckily, a good friend, Claire, spoke up and confronted Donna that she never heard from her and what was going on? Donna crying shared what was going on with Claire, Claire suggested Donna see the social worker that Claire had seen for a problem. Donna agreed.
Short-term counseling worked for Donna. She learned cognitive skills that allowed her to solve her living problem and practiced new social skills that began to replace a tendency to withdraw, which can often led to depression in women.
She too, no longer has an empty gas tank inside of her. She is energized in her new apartment with one roommate she really likes and she is also going out at night. Tango classes, a cooking course, learning Spanish, and a choir in her church fill her week.
So, whatever decisions you make about love, make sure the top priority is a love affair with yourself!
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Clarke MIG151EN Turbo 'No-Gas' MIG Welder
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The MIG 151EN is a powerful 150 Amp dual purpose welder that offers the advantages of standard MIG welding but without the need for gas bottles. It can easily be converted to use conventional shielding gases but is supplied with a special flux-coated wire that produces it's own gas shroud as it burns. This feature simplifys its use and makes it ideal for outside working since there is less chance of any breeze blowing away the shrouding effect of the gas. Particularly suited to automotive and light agricultural use.
- Power settings from 30 - 150Amps. Welds mild steel up to 5mm. Also accepts aluminium & stainless steel wire.
- Turbo fan cooling for improved duty cycle
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- Fully variable electronic wire speed control
- Thermal overload protection with auto reset. Unit operates from 230V, 1ph power supply (30 Amps minimum)
- Everything needed to start 'NO GAS' welding is included - flux coated mild steel wire, professional style torch assembly, earth clamps & face shield
- Easily converts to 'GAS' MIG welding with optional accessories. Full instructions supplied.
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7.1 SP1 image deploy fails at end
I imported images from our 6.9 server to a new 7.1 SP1 server. The x86 images deploy just fine. The x64 images fail at the very end after copying the image to the computer.
Looking at the ClientImageDeploy.log file, it looks like everything is ok until after the image is actually pushed and then the rest of the log looks like the stuff I pasted below. Any ideas? Thanks.
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Hi, after checking several things
Checked image file integrity and found that this was corrupt.
Recaptured image and this time before the deployment, run integrity check :)
To run the integrity check from Windows (Symantec Ghost 8.x and later)
1.Run Ghost32.exe. By default this is Located at:
"c:\program files\altiris\altiris agents\agents\deployment\task handler\ghost\Ghost32.exe"
"C:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost\Ghost32.exe"
2.Choose Local > Check > Image File.
3.Browse to the image file and click Open.
4.Choose Yes to proceed with the integrity check
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Positive Hawaii TV Report on Shooting Sports
The Star Advertiser ran an online "SMALL TALK" video from reporter Diane Ako (aka Deadline Di) and videojournalist Tracy Arakaki (aka Triggerfinger Tracy), December 31, 2013, featuring range action at Koko Head and interviews of colorful cowpersons from the Single Action Shootists of Hawaii (SASH), Oahu's Cowboy Action shooting club.
Our great supporter at the Hawaii State Legislature, Representative Ken Ito, featured in the video, recommends:
Here is the url for the video. Please have the members respond and send positive comments so that Diane Ako can cover this more.http://smalltalk.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/12/31/modern-cowboys/
Thanks!Ken Ito
There is a response form at the bottom of the page the URL leads you to. Please respond!
Max Cooper,
HRA Legislative Liaison
Koko Head Shooting Complex, Partial Opening
Koko Head Shooting Complex action bays, skeet, and trap will be open this weekend(1/25/14), per Rangemaster Mike Muramoto. The Rifle Range may or may not be open, with restrictions as to distance and firing positions, pending completion of the work there.
Max Cooper
Koko Head Complex Still Closed
The entire Koko Head Shooting Complex remains closed for remediation work. Not withstanding a KITV News report, the opening is planned Wednesday for noon, Jan 29, 2014, per Rangemaster Mike Muramoto.
The work is progressing nicely. As of 1:30 pm this afternoon, it appears that the Rifle Range eyebrow is framed and 1/3 roofed, the large sandpiles have been distributed from the 50 yard target line to the backstop, and there are large piles of clean dirt at the 100 yard target line ready to resurface the backstop.
Mahalo to Mayor Caldwell, Parks Director Toni Robinson, Rangemaster Mike Muramoto, and all the County employees who are working so expeditiously to re-open the ranges.
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July 31, 2009 Host Michel Martin and digital media producer Lee Hill talk about stories that had the Tell Me More listeners talking this week. A Vermont woman, who is white, tells of her frustration when it comes to conversations about race, and one man says news organizations, like NPR, sometimes use online censorship to clamp down on free speech. Plus, a blogger thinks a recent segment about a horror film suggests that Tell Me More — and the guests for that discussion — need thicker skin.
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July 31, 2009 Two summer movies — The Proposal and The Ugly Truth — perpetuate misogynist stereotypes of rabid career women in need of a man. What does it mean that they were created by women?
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July 30, 2009 An immigrant marries for the sake of citizenship in the latest from the Brothers Dardenne. But when her husband is threatened by his demons — and her own deal with the devil — she faces an agonizing decision.
July 30, 2009 In its best moments, Flame and Citron captures the chaos of a mad scramble to survive. It also aspires to be a national epic — but it's better as a rougher, more universal tale of two men fighting for a deeply personal cause.
July 30, 2009 The Talk of the Nation summer movie festival continues. Movie buff Murray Horwitz talks about your picks for the best cinematic adaptations of beloved children's books. His favorite is The Wizard of Oz — what's yours?
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July 30, 2009 Louie Psihoyos' new film graphically — and movingly — documents the sale and slaughter of dolphins captured by Japanese fishermen. David Edelstein says the movie could be a game-changer for the industry.
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July 30, 2009 Director Louie Psihoyos talks about his new documentary film The Cove, an expose of dolphin abuse in Japan. Former Flipper trainer Ric O'Barry joins the conversation.
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July 29, 2009 Like some soldiers, the actor doesn't like to talk a lot. But he tells NPR's Madeleine Brand plenty — about acting, about preparing for his role, and about the toll of making even a fictional war.
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July 27, 2009 Writer and director Armando Iannucci's new film In the Loop involves an unnamed country in the Middle East, whisperings of military involvement, epically foul tirades and razor sharp political satire.
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Ubuntu GNOME Changelog
New in version 13.04 Beta 2April 5th, 2013
- In coordination with the Ubuntu Desktop Team, we have decided to stick with GNOME 3.6 for Ubuntu 13.04.
- The GNOME3 PPA offers an early look at GNOME 3.8 for Ubuntu. Please note that you need to do a dist-upgrade instead of a regular upgrade or else GDM or GNOME Shell won't run after upgrading. In case of problems, please make yourself familiar with ppa-purge before using the GNOME3 PPAs.
- There are some additional GNOME 3.8 apps in the GNOME3 Staging PPA but these apps have known bugs, some of which are serious or critical bugs.
- Default apps have changed since Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10:
- Firefox instead of GNOME Web (Epiphany)
- Ubuntu Software Center and Update Manager instead of GNOME Software (gnome-packagekit)
- LibreOffice instead of Abiword and Gnumeric
- The other apps are still available for install; they just aren't included in the default install.


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Backup exec account seems to connect to every computer daily
This week we suddenly had problems with security logs filling up. While looking into the issue we noticed that the backup exec domain account seems to connect to every computer in the company at least once daily, sometimes two or three times daily. The event IDs are 538/540/576 which match logon/logoff and privilege use. When they show up they'll be in big batches, somewhere between 10 to 50 entries together, displaying repeated logon/logoff over the course of, say 5-10 minutes.
We're not just talking servers here, but desktops, laptops, everything we've got. We only actually use BKexec on servers, and then only on some of them. It isn't used on desktops or laptops at all.
Is this kind of behavior normal? I know there's some network discovery capability built in to the application, but to talk to every computer every day, and to have what appears to be 10 to 50 connections over the course of several minutes doesn't seem right. Could we have something misconfigured?


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PERKINS — A man charged with child abuse in Payne County paddled his 9-year-old so hard that he left bruises from the child's knees to his lower back, according to a probable cause affidavit from Perkins police.
Perkins man charged with child abuse after boy shows up at school with bruises
Gannon Wade Mendez, 42, turned himself in at the Payne County jail Tuesday. He is charged with felony child abuse. The boy told police he was paddled because his parents are Oklahoma State University fans and he told children at school he likes the University of Oklahoma.
"We dispute the facts that are contained in the information," said Cheryl Ramsey, Mendez's attorney. "We are not going to try the case in the press. We will try the case in court."
The boy's third-grade teacher told police the boy got in trouble at school Jan. 29 for teasing another boy whose father is an OSU coach. Gannon and Angie Mendez were informed of the situation that day.
Their son missed the next day of school and showed up Jan. 31 with bruises covering his back side, according to the affidavit. A teacher saw the bruises, and authorities were brought in to investigate.
The boy told police he has been in trouble with his parents before for liking OU over OSU and said his parents made him get rid of his OU clothes.
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Review: Deaver keeps readers guessing in 'XO'
This book cover image released by Simon and Schuster shows "XO," by Jeffrey Deaver. (AP Photo/Simon and Schuster)
"XO" (Simon & Schuster), by Jeffery Deaver
A young country singer fights off a stalker in "XO," the latest thriller from Jeffery Deaver.
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