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Gov. Susana Martinez signs $6B state budget
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez signs the state's $6 billion budget surrounded by students at Puesta del Sol elementary school in Rio Rancho, N.M., on Tuesday March 11, 2014. Gov. Martinez state budget eliminated pay raises for judges, district attorneys and appointed government workers. Martinez cut spending about $27 million with line-item vetoes, including $2.4 million that lawmakers had provided for 8 percent salary increases for judges and district attorneys and about 3 percent raises for workers in appointed government positions. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Susana Martinez signed a $6 billion state budget on Tuesday, but she eliminated pay raises for judges, district attorneys and appointed government workers.
Martinez cut spending about $27 million with line-item vetoes, including $2.4 million that lawmakers had provided for 8 percent salary increases for judges and district attorneys and about 3 percent raises for workers in appointed government positions.
The governor approved money that will provide an average of 3 percent salary increases for rank-and-file state employees — in classified jobs with civil service protections — as [auth] well as public school workers. Some state employees will receive larger increases, including state police, prison guards and social workers who handle child-abuse cases.
Entry-level teachers also will get larger pay raises because the measure provides money to boost their minimum salaries to $32,000 from $30,000 for a nine-month contract.
The governor vetoed a provision that would have required school districts to raise minimum salaries for other teachers by $2,000 — to $42,000 for a "level two" teacher and $52,000 for a "level three" teacher. However, school districts still have the option of giving the increases because the governor eliminated only the language mandating the raises. The money for the higher minimum salaries remains in the budget and will flow to schools as part of about $2.5 billion that is distributed through New Mexico's school-funding formula. Districts have flexibility to decide how to spend state aid they receive through the formula.
The governor said judges are among the highest-paid state employees and the proposed 8 percent increase was too much.
"I could have supported a 3 percent salary increase like all other employees," Martinez said. "But the way it was written, they gave me two choices — no increase or an 8 percent increase. And teachers were only getting a 3 percent increase. Teachers don't make anywhere near what a judge makes."
District judges earn $112,747 a year. A Supreme Court justice is paid $124,927, and the chief justice receives $126,927.
Administrative Office of the Courts Director Artie Pepin said the agency is reviewing the governor's veto, which left about $1 million in court operating budgets that lawmakers had included for 5 percent salary increases. Martinez vetoed a separate provision that establishes the yearly salary for judges and contained money for 3 percent raises. The governor's office contends that judges will receive no increase because of the veto of the salary language that reflected an 8 percent raise.
The budget, as signed by the governor, provides for a 4.3 percent or $252 million spending increase in the fiscal year starting in July. The Legislature had approved a nearly 5 percent increase.
The governor said she trimmed spending because the Democratic-controlled Legislature had spent nearly all available new revenue for next year and tapped into the state's cash reserves to pay for one-item projects and programs.
Money that is vetoed will help replenish cash balances. The governor estimated reserves would be equal to nearly 7.5 percent of spending at the end of the next fiscal year.
The governor vetoed $15 million for public schools because she said the money wasn't needed until 2016 when newly enacted changes in the school-funding formula take effect. The money was to help schools with students at risk of dropping out.
The governor also vetoed $4 million for a college endowment fund. Lawmakers didn't overhaul the fund as requested by Martinez to make colleges compete for the money and target it to recruiting professors in critical areas such as math and science.
Public schools account for the largest share of the budget — about $2.7 billion, or a 5.7 percent increase over current spending.
Associated Press writer Barry Massey reported from Santa Fe, N.M.
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- During the first four months, when it's safe to exercise on your back, lie down with your legs straight. Lift your head and try to touch your chin to your chest. Hold for three seconds and then relax. Do this five times twice a day. If you're doing it correctly, you'll feel your stomach muscles tighten when you lift your head.
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Been playing around with the Settings API and found that messages (for success or errors) are only displayed when a settings page is hooked into WordPress menu via add_options_page(). Anything else will not work e.g. add_dashboard_page(). Would like to know if this is true? Sample code I tried with is the answer containing the "RegisteredSettingsTest" class at Where to hook register_settings for Settings API when also want to update options outside of Settings API?
Thanks Chip (excellent Settings API tutorial) and t31os (great snippet of code for quick testing) for both your suggestions.
I did some further digging and found that the default messages can indeed be displayed if I hook into any menu but only if the function settings_errors() is called.
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Custom error messages can also be added by calling the add_settings_error() function for displaying success or failure message by specifying the
I use Settings API integration with my Theme,use
I suspect that it is a problem with your code rather than a Settings API limitation.
Can you post your actual code, so we can help you resolve any code-related issues?
You may need to output your admin notices explicitly. For example, here is what I use in my settings page markup function:
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About 1,100 injured when meteor exploded with power of an atomic bomb in Russia (+videos)
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky Friday and exploded with the force of 20 atomic bombs, injuring more than 1,000 people as it blasted out windows and spread panic in a city of 1 million.
While NASA estimated the meteor was only about the size of a bus and weighed an estimated 7,000 tons, the fireball it produced was dramatic. Video shot by startled residents of the city of Chelyabinsk showed its streaming contrails as it arced toward the horizon just after sunrise, looking like something from a world-ending science-fiction movie.
The largest recorded meteor strike in more than a century occurred hours before a 150-foot asteroid passed within about 17,000 miles (28,000 kilometers) of Earth. The European Space Agency said its experts had determined there was no connection between the asteroid and the Russian meteor — just cosmic coincidence.
The meteor above western Siberia entered the Earth's atmosphere about 9:20 a.m. local time (10:20 p.m. EST Thursday) at a hypersonic speed of at least 33,000 mph (54,000 kph) and shattered into pieces about 30-50 kilometers (18 to 32 miles) high, the Russian Academy of Sciences said. NASA estimated its speed at about 40,000 mph, said it exploded about 12 to 15 miles high, released 300 to 500 kilotons of energy and left a trail 300 miles long.
"There was panic. People had no idea what was happening," said Sergey Hametov of Chelyabinsk, about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow in the Ural Mountains.
"We saw a big burst of light, then went outside to see what it was and we heard a really loud, thundering sound," he told The Associated Press by telephone.
The shock wave blew in an estimated 100,000 square meters (more than 1 million square feet) of glass, according to city officials, who said 3,000 buildings in Chelyabinsk were damaged. At a zinc factory, part of the roof collapsed.
The Interior Ministry said about 1,100 people sought medical care after the shock wave and 48 were hospitalized. Most of the injuries were caused by flying glass, officials said.
Scientists estimated the meteor unleashed a force 20 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, although the space rock exploded at a much higher altitude. Amy Mainzer, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the atmosphere acted as a shield.
The shock wave may have shattered windows, but "the atmosphere absorbed the vast majority of that energy," she said.
Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Vladimir Purgin said many of the injured were cut as they flocked to windows to see what caused the intense flash of light, which momentarily was brighter than the sun.
There was no immediate word on any deaths or anyone struck by space fragments.
President Vladimir Putin summoned the nation's emergencies minister and ordered immediate repairs. "We need to think how to help the people and do it immediately," he said.
Some meteorite fragments fell in a reservoir outside the town of Chebarkul, the regional Interior Ministry office said. The crash left an eight-meter (26-foot) crater in the ice.
Lessons had just started at Chelyabinsk schools when the meteor exploded, and officials said 258 children were among those injured. Amateur video showed a teacher speaking to her class as a powerful shock wave hit the room.
Yekaterina Melikhova, a high school student whose nose was bloody and whose upper lip was covered with a bandage, said she was in her geography class when a bright light flashed outside.
"After the flash, nothing happened for about three minutes. Then we rushed outdoors. ... The door was made of glass, a shock wave made it hit us," she said.
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Grothendieck Existence, which I imagine is the less well known result among the two, states the following: Let $A$ be a noetherian ring that is complete w.r.t. a proper ideal $I$. Let $V$ be a proper $A$-scheme. Let $W$ be the inverse image of the locus of $I$ (as a subscheme of $V$). Let $\mathfrak{V}=(W,\mathcal{O}_{\mathfrak{V}})$ be the formal completion of $V$ along $W$. Then the functor $\mathcal{F} \mapsto \hat{\mathcal{F}}$ from the category of coherent $\mathcal{O} _ V$ -modules to the category of coherent $\mathcal{O}_{\mathfrak{V}}$-modules is an equivalence of categories.
This results leaves a Schlessinger taste in my mouth. It seems like we're showing a certain deformation is effective. Is this a consequence of Schlessinger's criterion? Does it go the other way around? Are they just completely unrelated and I'm just seeing patterns where there are none?


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The Olympic torch will arrive in Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics after a 123-day relay across Russia, and the team that planned the torch relay is led by a CU-Boulder alumnus with a particular passion and worldwide renown for this work.
Steven McCarthy, chairman and CEO of Louisville-based Além International Management, has worked in the event-management, hospitality and economic-development industry for more than three decades.
McCarthy graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a degree in international affairs and has been involved with every Olympic Games and torch relay since 1996.
For the Sochi torch relay, Além has sought to "bring the Olympic spirit to communities across the vast expanse of Russia," his company's website states.
Além has helped to develop the scope and budget of the relay, to plan and execute the project across Russia. The relay's national partner, Ingosstrakh Insurance, hired Além to create, plan and execute the company's sponsorship of the relay.
"You can change the way the rest of the world sees your country and culture in a single captured image of the Olympic flame passing through your streets," McCarthy told the Coloradan alumni magazine last year.
"We'll show you Russia; its resilience, romance, progress, initiative and entrepreneurship," he added.


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TORONTO - Impending layoffs at the city's biggest employer were discussed during Monday's City Council meeting.
Mayor John Geddis told council the expected layoffs of 77 workers at TIMET this week would impact the city's budget for 2013 because less income tax would be coming into city coffers.
"There's a major layoff coming at our largest employer," said Geddis, adding the number of employees is a substantial percentage of the plant's employees. "It's going to be tough. That could be $80,000 of our (annual income tax revenue) gone. We're going to have to be cautiously optimistic about the future. Hopefully, this will be a short-term layoff."
The layoffs have been attributed to a slowdown in business, according Greg Herrick, president of the United Steel Workers Local 5644/5644-01. Herrick also previously said there was no time frame for when the workers might be called back to work.
Geddis said he'd been discussing the situation with city Auditor Joe Motto. The mayor also said the city has lost several sources of revenue over the years and he was hoping the expected gas and oil drilling boom could make up the difference in the future.
"We're going to have to tighten our belts here and there," said Geddis. "It's always a blow when you have layoffs like that."
In other business:
- The mayor announced the citywide cleanup is scheduled May 6-10.
"We'll also have the tire collection again this year," said the mayor. "Last year we collected about 1,000 tires. That's a lot for a city this size."
- Mike Mehalik from the Jefferson County Board of Developmental Disabilities thanked the mayor and council for their proclamation naming March as Disabilities Awareness Month. Mehalik said 20 Toronto residents are being served by the agency.
- Councilman at large J.R. Dickinson said his wife, Jenny,'s fundraiser Saturday at the Toronto Eagles Club for the Trinity Foundation's Trinity Emergency Assistance Relief Fund was a success, with more than $5,400 raised for the foundation.
- Geddis said five structures in Toronto out of 12 houses countywide will be demolished using state grant funds for elimination of slum and blight. He added bid openings for demolition will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Jefferson County Regional Planning Commission, Suite 612, 500 Market St.
- It was announced there will be a public hearing on the city's 2013 city budget beginning at 6:30 p.m. on March 11.


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Seat Filler: Best NYC Theater of 2012
10. Wild With Happy
Big Gay Sketch Show alum Colman Domingo shone as both playwright and star of this very funny and fanciful semiautobiographical story of loss. Domingo was a hoot as prickly, guilt-ridden Gil, a struggling gay actor who, while coping with the death of his mother, winds up on an ultimately sentimental road trip to Disney World with his flirty funeral director, his outrageously animated aunt Glo, and a scene-stealing Maurice McRae as his flamboyant best friend.
Public Theater, closed.
9. End of the Rainbow
Tracie Bennett was an unbridled force, a tornado of tragedy, as she eerily, exhilaratingly inhabited Judy Garland in Peter Quilter's lean but powerful bio-drama about the performer's drug-addled decline during her 1968 London comeback concerts. Accompanied by her enabling young fiancé, Garland was also bolstered by a sobering Michael Cumpsty as her pianist and confidant, a gentle Scot symbolizing all gay men who love their Judy tortured.
Belasco Theatre, closed.
8. The Lyons
A patriarch's death propelled this swift, satisfying dysfunctional family comedy about human disconnection by gay playwright Nicky Silver. With priceless reactions and line readings, Linda Lavin milked every possible laugh from Rita, the unappreciated mother of two emotionally damaged grown children. Michael Esper, who memorably played a gay escort in iHo, was a standout as Rita's awkward gay son, a bitter loner obsessed with his hunky gay neighbor (Gregory Wooddell).
Cort Theatre, closed.
7. February House
Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley's hauntingly sublime chamber musical starred out singer-songwriter Julian Fleisher as flamboyant editor George Davis, who created a bohemian Brooklyn commune in 1940 for colorful luminaries such as W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Chester Kallman, Carson McCullers, Erika Mann, Peter Pears, and Gypsy Rose Lee — most gay or bisexual behind closed doors, all seeking inspiration at the dawn of war.
Public Theater, closed.
6. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Out playwright Christopher Durang relocates Chekhovian themes of discontent and longing to Pennsylvania in his winsomely quirky comedy starring David Hyde Pierce, Sigourney Weaver, and Kristine Nielsen as squabbling siblings. Gifted with a show-stopping monologue about his nostalgic resistance to change, Pierce's Vanya, a gay aspiring playwright, is especially entranced by Billy Magnussen as his sister's exhibitionist boy toy.
Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, through January 13.
5. Bring It On: The Musical
Boosted by Andy Blankenbuehler's breathtaking choreography, this gleefully insipid musical — inspired by the 2000 flick about rival cheer squads — boasts a zingy original libretto by out Avenue Q book writer Jeff Whitty. The creative team also includes Next to Normal and In the Heights composers, but thank Whitty for La Cienega, the urban school's matter-of-factly transgender hip-hop crew member played by out actor Gregory Haney.
St. James Theatre, through December 30.
4. The Whale
Young Frankenstein's Shuler Hensley gave the most transformative, indelible performance of the year as a 600-pound gay man in out playwright Samuel D. Hunter's immensely moving drama, which couldn't be sunk by heavy-handed allusions to Moby-Dick and the biblical Jonah. Watching him struggle to tie up loose ends in his last days, we learn that Charlie's obesity stems from the loss of a conflicted Mormon boyfriend who starved himself to death.
Playwrights Horizons, closed.
3. Now. Here. This.
The whole [title of show] gang — including gay director-choreographer Michael Beresse and gay cowriter-stars Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen — reunited for this endearingly goofy and soul-baring musical. With the clever framing device of a visit to the Museum of Natural History, the witty quartet tackled the Mysteries of the Universe while sharing very personal anecdotes about everything from dazzle-camouflaging high school gayness to discovering Tootsie. Navel-gazing was never so delightful.
Vineyard Theatre, closed.
2. Cock
Cory Michael Smith's irresistably spineless John was torn between two competitive lovers, Jason Butler Harner and Amanda Quaid as M and F, in Mike Bartlett's Olivier Award-winning comedy, which raised but appropriately failed to answer questions about bisexuality: Isn't who more important than what? James Macdonald urgently staged the verbal combat in the round, which invested the rapt audience like an exhilaratingly tense sporting event.
The Duke, closed.
1. Bare
Set in a co-ed Catholic boarding school, Jon Hartmere and Damon Intrabartolo's 2000 coming-of-age pop-rock musical has been blessedly retooled for the "It Gets Better" era with the phenomenal Jason Hite and Taylor Trensch as star-crossed secret lovers. It's tempting to dismiss as dated and cliché, but Stafford Arima's earnest revival is also as electric and endearing as first love itself — thanks in part to scene-stealer Missi Pyle as a spirited nun and emo-choreography by SYTYCD fave Travis Wall.
New World Stages, open-ended.
Patti Issues
Ben Rimalower is turning lemons and spilt T into a delicious Arnold Palmer with his insidery tribute to idol and colleague Patti LuPone. Marking the out NYC director's debut as playwright and performer, the captivating solo piece draws parallels between his connection to the diva and his strained relationship with his dad, who came out as gay when he was a child. It's not exactly I Am My Own Wife, but it's smart, poignant, and dishy as hell.
The Duplex, through February 28.
Jurassic Park got a silly yet surprisingly respectful transgender twist in this massively entertaining rock musical spoof, which was a 2010 FringeNYC favorite. Narrated by a white actor playing Morgan Freeman, a pack of naïve female dinosaurs — Lysistrata Jones alums Alex Wyse and Lindsay Nicole Chambers were comic standouts — went into a tailspin when a DNA mutation makes a T. rex (Claire Neumann) sprout male genitalia.
SoHo Playhouse, closed.
The characters sure looked like the Three's Company gang in out playwright David Adjmi's terrifically twisted premiere, but it cleverly played like a Chekhovian drama about post-Vietnam anxiety with existential echoes of Sartre. Making a memorable nude entrance, As the World Turns alum Jake Silbermann starred as closeted new roomie Brad, who coped with a grotesquely homophobic landlord while crushing on his sleazy neighbor (Eddie Cahill).
Rattlestick Theater, closed.
Thankfully, writer-performer Steven Strafford lived to tell the grotesquely vaudevillian tale of his three years spent as a sex-crazed crystal meth addict in Chicago. Scraping the black humor from rock bottom with brutal honesty, Strafford elevated familiar druggie anecdotes with musical direction by The Rosie O'Donnell Show's John McDaniel, a love for '80s sitcoms, game show interludes, and sharp one-liners like "Tuesday plus meth equals Friday."
The Playroom Theater, closed.
Helmed with a keen eye for familial detail by gay director Joe Brancato, out playwright Joel Drake Johnson's tense, heartrending drama starred Deborah Hedwall and Jolie Curtsinger as the mother and sister of a wayward gay man who has committed suicide after a series of bias crimes. "He would flirt with the wrong people," said the police officer in the small town where the estranged women have traveled to find some answers.
59E59 Theatres, closed.
Also see our top 10 LGBT-inclusive theater picks for 2009, 2010, and 2011.


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February was a month for big news, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich making an historic visit to Steubenville and hundreds turning out on a chilly, winter morning to view the explosive demolition of the Fort Steuben Bridge.
Kasich presented his State of the State address on Feb. 7 in Steubenville, the first time in history the event was moved outside the Statehouse in Columbus.
Kasich said he moved the venue to Steubenville to show he's interested in being involved with residents in all parts of the state. Steubenville High School was chosen for the site because Wells Academy, the primary school on its first floor, earned the state's top scores in state testing proficiency in math and reading for the 2010-11 school year.
State and local lawmakers as well as community residents filled the school's auditorium for a 90-minute speech in which Kasich called for reforms in education and work force training and acknowledged the future of the shale drilling industry.
The governor mentioned public speculation of a local cracker plant for the oil and gas industry but focused his comments on MarkWest and its plans to develop new processing plants in Harrison and Monroe counties.
With Kasich came many state legislators and officials, who visited Easter Gateway Community College, the Jefferson County 911 Center and Department of Job and Family Services, American Legion Post 33 and Bantam Ridge Elementary School in Wintersville, among other sites, to discuss issues and hear concerns.
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Later that month, hundreds of area residents gathered atop the hill near Buckeye Street in Steubenville, at Freedom Way in Weirton and even along U.S. Route 22 to view the demolition of the Fort Steuben Bridge on Feb. 21.
Many used video or digital cameras or a cellular phone to shoot photos as at about 7:15 a.m., the bridge's towers and cables and trusses fell with a series of explosive blasts, each detonated only milliseconds apart by Controlled Demolition Inc. of Pheonix, Md.
As a precaution, the Veterans Memorial Bridge, state Route 7 and the Ohio River were closed to traffic within a 1,000-foot radius of the span.
Pieces of the bridge, some weighing as much as 120,000 pounds, were lifted from the Ohio River by crane and loaded onto barges, as crews worked to meet the Coast Guard's requirement that everything be removed within 24 hours following the demolition.
Prior to the blast, crews with the Joseph B. Fay Co. of Russellton, Pa., contractor for the $2.3 million project, removed the span's 1,225-foot deck in 10-foot sections.
Officials with the Ohio Department of Transportation said before the blast small explosive charges were set off in the river to deter fish from entering the area.
A section of the Ohio River tower was left because city officials plan to convert it into an observation deck, with a pedestrian bridge leading to it from the Steubenville Marina.
ODOT called for the bridge to be closed in 2009, citing deteriorating conditions, costs to rehabilitate and maintain it and decreased use since its weight limit was lowered to prohibit heavy trucks. The move resulted in the bridge's traffic flow dropping from about 20,000 vehicles per day to 6,000 vehicles per day, officials said.
Wasseem Khalifa, district bridge engineer for ODOT, said cracks were found in the deck during a routine inspection and they indicated the span's joints had begun to fail.
The span opened in 1928 as a private toll bridge and was the first Ohio River suspension bridge to have a concrete floor. A free facility since the 1950s, when the state of Ohio became its permanent owner, it underwent several rehabilitations.
In other news in February:
The construction of three new, voter-approved high school stadiums in the Tri-State Area was proceeding smoothly, as Weir, Oak Glen and Toronto high schools prepared for football seasons at new homes.
All three former stadiums had been demolished, and construction began in January for the Weir and Oak Glen stadiums. Toronto solicited for bids to replace its stadium in February.
Built in the 1930s, the Toronto stadium was renovated through $700,000 raised through a bond measure approved by voters in November 2010 that also included construction of a new district building. Changes included new home-side bleachers, entrance facade, restrooms, pressbox and fencing as well as handicapped-accessible accommodations. It has retained the name Clarke Hinkle Field, for the football hall-of-famer who hailed from Toronto.
Plans for the Weir and Oak Glen fields included artificial turf, seating for more than 3,000, restrooms, game locker rooms, concession stands, a press box, scoreboard, sound system, upgraded lighting, repair and resurfacing of an eight-lane track, fencing, additional parking and handicap-accessible accommodations.
The stadiums were made possible through a $37 million bond levy and $19 million from the state School Building Authority that supported other projects in the school district.
All three stadiums are now complete.
Steubenville Police Capt. Paul Harbert resigned after an internal affairs investigation began in February after he allegedly fired shots from an assault weapon into his personal vehicle in the basement garage of his house in the city's West End.
City Law Director S. Gary Repella said city officers on Jan. 31 responded to Harbert's residence. He was transported to Trinity Medical Center West for a mental and physical problems. Repella said officers found evidence of several rounds of ammunition fired into Harbert's vehicle in the garage.
No charges were filed against Harbert.
Work began Feb. 14 on the $2.3 million Pottery Addition sewer project as county, state and local officials held a groundbreaking ceremony.
The county was under an Ohio Environmental Protection Agency mandate to install the sewers because of a faulty community septic system that was allowing raw sewage to be dumped into the Ohio River.
The county received $600,000 in Community Development Block Grant funding obtained through the Jefferson County Regional Planning Commission, $150,000 from the Ohio Public Works Commission, a $817,736 no-interest loan from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and $817,736 grant from the OEPA.
"This is a great day for Jefferson County and Pottery Addition," said Jefferson County Commissioner Thomas Graham.
Graham noted the EPA was forcing the county to do the project but also provided the bulk of the financing.
The county has reached an agreement with Steubenville to treat the sewage.
With the original Starpointe Business Park near Florence, Pa., nearing capacity, site preparation began in February for Phase II, which will add about 100 usable acres to its development base.
Officials with the Pittsburgh-based real estate company serving as lead developer and broker said Phase II envisions larger parcels of 10-40 acres, though they have the flexibility to subdivide it into smaller spaces if a prospect needs less.
Crews had to move more than 3 million cubic feet of dirt for the project and also install utilities and infrastructure.
Mountain State Carbon found the answer to its backup water supply woes by partnering with the city of Follansbee to buy and install a higher-efficiency pump and filter.
Water, essential to Mountain State's safe operation, is needed to generate the steam to charge the plant's coke oven, evacuate the oven chamber and run its turbines. A water line piggybacked on a railroad bridge between Steubenville and the plant was problematic in cold weather and would have required several hundred thousand dollars in repairs for continued use.
The new pump and filter eliminates the need to truck supplemental water in when turbidity made river water unsuitable for use, making it both a cost-effective and timely solution to the plant's water issues. The upgrade cost Mountain State about $24,000, while the city made about $42,000 in related improvements.
Eastern Gateway Community College eclipsed its historic enrollment records again, with new enrollments pushing the school to an all-time high student count of 2,519 for the spring semester. A 40 percent increase in new students fed the large increase, with Jefferson County recording 25 percent more new students. The 40 percent included large increases in new students for Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties at 118 percent, 70 percent and 38 percent, respectively.
Efforts to secure funding for a wider, longer runway at the Jefferson County Airpark continue, with local elected officials saying they'd had "very positive conversations" with the Ohio Department of Transportation about the need for funding.
Traffic in and out of the airpark has steadily increased as oil and gas drilling in the Marcellus and Utica shale has gained momentum in Jefferson and surrounding counties. While numbers have substantially increased, the runway is 600 feet short of the 5,000 feet needed to safely land jets, meet insurance requirements and earn Jefferson County the coveted "regional" airpark designation.
The airport authority hoped to leverage the shale drilling boom to get government funding for the upgrades.
Concerned that too much federal intervention could choke Ohio's fledgling shale oil and gas drilling industry, U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Marietta, and two other conservative members of the House Subcommittee on energy and Mineral Resources were in Steubenville Feb. 27 for a field hearing on hydrofracking.
The hearing featured a cross-section of opinions, pro and con, from 11 Ohioans, including Progress Alliance Executive Director Ed Looman, while a handful of protesters used catcalls and chants to register their dissatisfaction with the process before being escorted from Eastern Gateway Community College's lecture hall.
Steubenville Council agreed at a special meeting on Feb. 9 to sell to Chesapeake Energy up to 700,000 gallons of treated wastewater, raw river water or treated potable water a day for fracking operations over a five-year period.
Chesapeake needs the water for its shale drilling operation near state Route 152 north of Richmond.
City Manager Cathy Davison said the company will pay $5 for every thousand gallons.
Steubenville Fire Chief Terri English, the first woman in the city's fire department and one of only a few female chiefs in Ohio, retired on Feb. 20.
"I had to prove to some of the guys that I could do the job when I was hired. And I had to prove I could keep them safe if we were all out on a call. I don't remember being nervous. I was excited when I started, but I also wanted to make sure I did everything right. There was a lot to learn," said English.
After becoming chief in 2001, English obtained about $1.3 million in grants for equipment for the department.


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Where can i find really large databases .sql files with 100's MB or a few GB text, 10.000.000 plus rows of text so I can test my sphinx search engine indexing
If you really want to spend that kind of time downloading, here's a link to the Wikipedia dumps - "WARNING: 6.07 GB compressed, approximately 27 GB uncompressed as of 2010-09-20" (and you'll still have only 3,428,557 articles)
Here's a quick PHP script that'll make one for you (just create an empty DB, temporarily grant the
Note: You'll probably need to change your PHP environment configuration or tweak the number of entries to run this script...
In addition to danlefree's excellent answer, you can find all text on the Stack Overflow network here. If you are using an MSSQL server this dataset might be easier to import (since Stack Overflow uses MSSQL).
I often use GenerateData.com, which has lots of data types you can use and can generate SQL code as well as CSV etc. Don't know how well (or if) it would handle millions of rows, though.


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Wow! We have received artwork for the 2015 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic Art Contest, and it looks terrific!
Thank you for your support of the 19th Annual Goodyear Cotton Bowl Art Contest. This year, we received more than 2,500 pieces of artwork from young artists throughout the DFW area.
Students may enter as an individual or with a school submitting at least 50 entries total. Everything you need to get excited and to stimulate your creativity is explained here. Please click on the art card link below to download and print your art card and entry information.
The entries submitted made the judging more difficult than ever before. The quality of the entries is remarkable! Last week, after careful deliberation and consideration, the judges reached a final decision. We have notified the teachers of the winning students so that we may set up a day and time to present their awards to them. We will also be distributing a Goodyear Cotton Bowl Certificate of Recognition to the students that made it to the final ten entries for each category. All the schools will be notified of the winners by email no later than December 11th. Winners will also be posted here in a few weeks, so check back to see who won.
This is one contest where every child that participates is a winner! Besides the awarding of some great prizes to the winners, we have devised a way to showcase each student?s ability. You will find the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners? artwork proudly displayed at their schools and at AT&T Stadium in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Offices. Other pieces are laminated and used as placemats for our premier luncheon event during Cotton Bowl week. What a great way to welcome our visitors and show off our area?s greatest resource ? it?s youth!
Thanks again to all those who participated this year! Keep up the good work!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Amy Scott at 817.892.2695 or email@example.com.


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A Breath of Fresh Air For Pets in Okeechobee County
The Wag'N O2 Fur Life Program allows first responders across the country access to critical equipment that can save a pet's life. Pet Oxygen Masks are necessary to resuscitate animals suffering from smoke inhalation. Unfortunately, most municipalities across the country don't allow their first responders to purchase equipment for non-human life support.
The Okeechobee County Fire Rescue in Okeechobee, Florida, was lucky and so are the residents and pets of Okeechobee now. An anonymous donor sponsored the department through the Wag'N O2 Fur Life Program, in memory of Bill Hays and Jerry Curry.
Undersheriff Stephen stated, "Once again our community's generosity amazes me and makes me proud to be from Okeechobee. A wonderful contribution for a recognized need."
Since its inception, the O2 Fur Life Program has provided more than 5,400 pet oxygen mask kits to Fire, EMS & Police Department across the United States and Canada. The organization also provided training materials to help with the seamless deployment of this new pet life saving equipment.
"We're quickly finding out just how great of a need this is," explains Ines de Pablo, President and Founder. "Dryer fires, furnace fires, pets knocking candles over with their tails, you name it, fires are started because of it. We were shocked to find that most fire departments aren't equipped to save your pet's life in an emergency. These pet oxygen masks can be used on dogs, cats, ferrets, birds, hamsters, alpacas, wolves and many more species and are reusable."
Pet oxygen masks can be purchased directly by first responder in the U.S. and Canada. Rescue units that are not budgeted to acquire the kits and/or have difficulty finding community support can apply for assistance to acquire pet oxygen mask kits through the Wag'N O2 Fellowship Program. The Wag'N Fellowship Program uses donated monies to distribute pet oxygen masks nationally to organizations in need. Wag'N is also committed to helping communities raise enough money to sponsor local departments.
Included in each Wag'N O2 Fur Life Pet Oxygen Mask Kit are a set of three pet oxygen masks and corresponding oxygen tubes(22mm), laminated instructions to remind first responders of necessary resuscitation steps, a kennel lead, two "Pet Oxygen Masks On Board" decals for display at the station and on emergency vehicles, one instructional DVD, two Animal Incident report (AIR) Forms, as well as two electronic files used to train emergency personnel – all wrapped up in a handy Wag'N O2 Fur Life carry bag that can also be used to contain small animals.
De Pablo explains, "We're making great strides, but we've still got a lot of work to do. Our goal is to make every community across the country aware of the solutions that will help save the lives of pets and serving law enforcement K9s."


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Is it possible to sequence rRNA directly, that is, using the ribosome rather than the DNA from the nucleus? For example, this paper, Complete nucleotide sequence of a 16s rRNA gene from E. coli, suggests that it uses DNA to find the sequence. Would it be possible to isolate the rRNA and derive the sequence from that?
As far as I know it'spossible to reverse transcribe a rRNA gene, you may not get the best yields though. The secondary / tertiary structures will be a problem, however, there are reverse transcriptase's commercially available that can handle secondary structure: Thermo-X™ Reverse Transcriptase from Invitrogen or Sensiscript™ from Qiagen.


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A group of black Union soldiers from the Civil War will be remembered at a ceremony in central Kentucky.
The Kentucky Historical Society will dedicate a historical marker on Monday in Danville for the first U.S. Colored Troops at Camp Nelson.
In May 1864, nearly 250 black men — most of them slaves — marched from Boyle County to Camp Nelson in Jessamine County to enlist. On the way, some Danville citizens threw stones and shot pistols at the recruits.
When they reached camp, they were initially refused acceptance because no policy allowed for the recruitment of slaves. Eventually, the recruits were accepted into the Army, causing a Union policy change that allowed able-bodied black men to enlist.
More than 5,000 black soldiers were eventually recruited at Camp Nelson.


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Anderson Cooper, host of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360�" a daily news program, will be the Schiffman Lecture Series speaker on March 6, 2006.
Cooper joined CNN in 2001. He has anchored major breaking news stories for CNN, including the network's overnight coverage of the war in Iraq, live coverage of the Washington D.C.-area sniper story and the Space Shuttle Columbia explosion. In 2004, Cooper moderated CNN's Democratic presidential candidates' forum jointly sponsored with Rock the Vote. He also served as the network's weekend anchor and as a correspondent in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Prior to joining CNN, Cooper was an ABC News correspondent, providing reports for "World News Tonight," "20/20" and "20/20 Downtown." He anchored ABC's live, interactive overnight news program "World News Now."
Before his stint with ABC, Cooper served as a reporter and producer for Channel One News. He was chief international correspondent, reporting and producing stories from Bosnia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa and Vietnam.
Cooper's honors include an Emmy Award, Chicago International Film Festival Silver Plaque, a Bronze Telly, a Bronze Award from the National Education Film and Video Festival, and a GLAAD Award.
Cooper graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in political science. He studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi.
The Schiffman Lecture Series was made possible through a $1.5 million gift from John Schiffman, a member of the Columbia College Board of Trustees.


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Citywide Teen Programs assists teens in navigating traditional systems to get what they need to meet their individual and community goals. We actively instigate teens to empower themselves by participating in civic dialogue, community activities, self-exploration and development.


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I was told Hashem created us with free will; so we can make a choice to do good or evil, right? Well, Hashem knows what we are going to do in 10 minutes. So do we really have free will? Hashem can see the future!
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I would like to offer a different approach. I don't believe God's knowing what we will do in the future contradicts free will. The first step is to define free-will. I would like to offer a suggestion that free-will is when one is the cause of their own good or evil. The main emphasis is that mankind is the cause. Now, let me offer the following example to resolve the issue. Let us say that Person A, Mark, is watching a fire start at the bottom of a house. If you ask "Mark", do you know that the house will burn down? He would respond of course. Now, just because "Mark" has knowledge that the House will burn down, does that make him the cause of the house burning down? Of course not. Knowledge does not equal causation. Similarly, as we established before, Free-will is where Man is the cause of his own good or evil. Just because God knows what man will do, does not make him the cause. Man is the cause. So, really the question just drops away. I hope this helps.
because hashem exists above time, its not the future to him. he can know it and it wont effect our free will.
It is interesting to note that the question may have a formulation in the Tanach itself. In the book of Iyov, Iyov asks God:
The Malbim (19th century) explains this verse as saying, since God is omniscient and already knows the future, man can't be held responsible for his sins.
(The Malbim himself doesn't seem to find this question particularly troubling since he manages to resolve it with only a few words: "והאל יתברך הוא למעלה מן הזמן," God is above time.)
I see that the issue of the Rambam was raised above, but I can not fit the comment above, so here it is. The question the Rambam is asking (in Teshuvah 5:5), I believe, is how to reconcile Hashems knowledge with the premise that Hashem knows what man will do. What the Rambam is trying to clarify is how Hashem knows what man will do. If the way Hashem knows is the same way a watchmaker knows how a clock works, which is that he knows all the causes that went into making the watch, therefore he can predict the results by tracing the chain of causality. Similarly one might suggest that the way Hashem knows what we will do is because he created the world and knows all the causes that went into the creation. So, if he knows all the causes he can trace the chain of causation from the beginning of time and know exactly what will happen in the future. However, if this is the way Hashem knows, then this would preclude Free Choice. Because, Free choice is where man is the cause of his own actions, their is no other cause. Meaning that man is operating outside the chain of causality and is the prime mover of the decision. Therefore if the way Hashem knew what man will do, is via this chain of causality, Hashem would not be able to know what man will do if Man has free choice. So the Rambam is setting up a contradiction between the way Hashem knows things and the premise that man has free will. I believe the Rambam answers the problem by saying that the way Hashem knows things is not through knowing the chain of causality (as a human creator of something might know) but rather the way Hashem knows things is through a different way that does not contradict free will. This third way of knowing is something we can not fully grasp. Hence, the contradiction is removed.
Yes,The Rambam says it is Beyond the Scope of human understanding.
If you want a philosophically rigorous analysis of this issue, I recommend the following article: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/
Moses asks Gd to send in the hands of who you send, (Ex. 4:13). One of Rashi's explanations is that Moses was arguing that he wasn't going to fully accomplish his task, and that Gd should choose someone who actually would. He hasn't even sinned yet! But in devarim, we see Moses praying to enter the land until Gd tells him to stop, (Deut. 3:23-26). Didn't he already know that his prayers were in vain?
Also see Kings II 21:10-15 and 22:15-20. Gd has decided to destroy the temple. His anger will not be extinguished, (22:17). Even Josiah will only merit to delay the destruction, per Hulda's words. Yet Jeremiah, (Jer. 4:1-2), still calls for repentance and promises aversion of exile.
Taking these at simple face value, (pshat), one can draw 2 conclusions. The first is that the future is predetermined, and there is nothing we can do to change it. The second is that we still have free choice, even to change that future!
If I may, I'd like to offer a parable. When an author writes a book, he knows how it will end. He creates heroes and villains, who meet with various ends. The author has it all planned out, but as the pages turn, the plot transpires on a different plane, where there are possibilities and varied outcomes, and suspense and uncertainty. From the author's point of view, there really isn't any free choice. Things aren't fair. The villain didn't get to choose bad over good. He was created to be bad. But from the book's perspective, within the story, the villain makes decisions, evil ones that lead to his ignominious end.
Gd is the Author. We are the characters. The difference between our story and a novel is that in our story, the Author will occasionally tell us what happens in the next chapter, and what will absolutely happen.
The danger of knowing the next chapter is the reason that Jacob was unable to reveal the 'end' to his children. If we knew what happened in the end, we would just sit and wait for it, and consequently we wouldn't bring it about. If someone spoils the ending of a book, why read it? Perhaps that is why prophecy is so esoteric. Take the admonition in Deuteronomy. In hindsight, Gd flat out told us how then next 3000+ years were going to pan out. But He did it in a foggy 'either or-ish' format, because if we knew what we were in for, we would have just laid down in the desert to wait for death.
The greatness of prophets like Moses and Jeremiah, or kings like Josiah is that they have the ending of the story spoiled, the accept it as being a part of the plan, and play their role in their respective chapters. Essentially, they take on the role of actors, emulating Gd who, in the context of our story, is playing along. Moses stopped praying because it was time for him to make his exit. His act was over. Jeremiah and Josiah didn't just give up because they knew it was their job to speak and rule to a people who needed to repent and stay on a straight path, even though they never would.
So whether or not we have free choice really depends on how you look at it. Insofar as we exist, we absolutely do. Outside of reality, where Gd so-to-speak resides, we do not, but we also do not exist on that plane.
Edit: I have subsequently heard from my Rabbi that Mordechai antagonized Haman intending for Haman to try to wipe out the Jews, because he knew that they would be saved, and that they needed to repent. He also told me that he has seen in the Baalei Tosafos on Pirkei Avot that one of the things passed down from Sinai was knowledge historical events.
Yes, we do. IMHO, this is the only Divine attribute we have been granted in absolute terms. As long as we are aware of the consequences through the law of cause and effect, we can do almost anything we feel like to. (Gen. 4:7) And HaShem respects our freewill, although He advises us what to choose that it be well with us. (Deut. 30:15,16)
The fact is that even through psychology we can predict human behavior. If someone gets abused when he is little, we know pretty much the feeling that he will have to live through for the rest of his life! Now, why do we even try then, since it has already been decided? If I tell a child not to eat too much candy because she will get sick, she won't really believe me until she eats too much candy and gets sick on her own! So G-d can keep telling us, when we get to the end of death, not to do this and that; but somehow I feel as if we are going to try it. Just look at Adam and Eve!
According to this, life is just a trial. We have the ability to use any trick that's up our sleeves — which I think we have outdid ourselves in already; I think G-d is even shocked at how low we went! But it is nevertheless evident that these tricks don't work. Now we know that we have no business to be on the moon (because we have found nothing that important except for a rock); now we know that a nuclear bomb is never a good idea, not even a gun! Now we know, the land belongs to G-d, thus to all! We think that heaven is a place we go when we die, but this is wrong: No one individual gets to go to heaven; its either we all go or none of us will.
And those who died, even if they are in the clouds, cannot possibly be happy watching us suffer, so they are looking at us, in what is supposed to be heaven, and it seems a lot more like hell because they can look but they cannot do anything. They know the truth but cannot say it; we are torturing them! They are waiting on us so we all can go to heaven together here on this earth!


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I can understand that a zoom below f/2.8 would be difficult and costly, but it seems like something pros would kill for. Surely it can't be more expensive (if its possible) than some of the $10k+ lenses and they exist to sell in limited quantities. Is it just near impossible or is there another reason we don't see zoom lenses below f/2.8?
Angenieux (for one) makes some f/2 zooms. They're used primarily for movie making. The Optimo 17-80, for example, is an f/2 (T2.2) lens, covering, obviously enough, the 17-80mm range.
As for why these aren't common, consider that this particular lens weighs 11 pounds and costs about $50,000US.
Going even more extreme would be the Optimo 24-290, which is f/2.5 (T2.8), and constant aperture across that entire range. It weighs 24 pounds, and though I don't know a price on this one, I think: "more than most houses I've lived in" would be a safe guess.
Yes, you undoubtedly could build an f/2 zoom that was smaller, lighter, and less expensive, especially if you restricted it to APS-C. Nonetheless, this may give some idea of the direction really fast zooms would go. Yes, they can be considerably more than expensive than $10K, and they can be unreasonably large and heavy as well.
Edit: As for why this is from an optical viewpoint, it largely comes down to correcting aberrations. Just for example, for any particular design spherical aberration grows approximately quadratically with aperture.
Along with that, you run into size and weight problems: to get one stop faster, you multiply the diameter by ~1.4. That doubles the area, which multiplies the volume of each element by 2.8. With each element weighing about three times as much, the mechanical parts to mount those elements end up bigger and heavier as well.
So, let's consider one of the most popular fast zoom categories: the 70-200 f/2.8. Most current ones way about 3 pounds. Based on simple geometry, scaling up to f/2 should increase the weight to about 9 pounds. At 3 pounds, you're right at the border between hand holding and really wishing for a monopod. At 9 pounds, most people pretty nearly need a tripod for any more than one or two shots at a time.
Along with that, 9 pound lenses just don't sell in large quantities. Reasonably dedicated photographers buy a lot of 3 pound lenses (including the aforementioned 70-200/2.8). When you get to the 5-6 pound lenses like a 300/2.8, the quantity has already dropped a lot -- only a few of the most dedicated will even consider them. Going up a step from there (e.g., to a 400/2.8) the number drops precipitously.
Let me try to put that drop into perspective. When I go to one of my kids' sporting events, chances are pretty good at least three or four of the parents will have a 70-200/2.8, or something around the same size/weight (and at a larger event, I might easily see a dozen).
For 300/2.8, that drops a lot. On any given weekend at my local photo-friendly wildlife refuge, I might or might not see one. During mating season (for example) seeing two or three wouldn't be all that unusual.
In twenty years of shooting, I could probably just about count on my fingers the total number of times I've seen people out shooting a 400/2.8, 500/4, 600/4, etc.
Based just on size and weight, a 70-200 f/2 would be pretty much in that last category -- so rare it would hardly be used even if somebody put it in their catalog.
Olympus makes f2 zooms.
I disagree with another poster who said this was like f4 because of the smaller sensor size.
Sure, the size of the sensor has an impact on ultimate image quality, particularly with depth-of-field effects, but you still get to shoot an f2 in lighting that would be impossible with an f4.
I don't see any postings sneering at the cited cine f2 lenses, although they surely have a smaller "sensor" than 35mm full-frame, as well!


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I have a traditional 3 saddle telecaster bridge. With two strings on each saddle my intonation is always a slight compromise. This is OK on the first four strings, but the bass strings are noticeably off. Other than replacing the saddle, are there any specific techniques I can use to reduce the problem?
With traditional, barrel-style, Telecaster saddles the answer is: you can't. It's not possible and living with that imperfection is part of the Telecaster's ancient allure and charm. It's a grizzled old plank that barely stays in tune and you like to beat on to make beautiful music.
If it's really driving you nuts you can buy compensated saddles for Telecasters that do a pretty good job of overcoming the intonation imperfections in the 3-saddle design while staying really close to the original implementation of the saddles. I like the Intone Saddles from Glendale. Well priced, retrofit to any 3-saddle, ash-tray type Tele bridge and they're available in a variety of materials (brass, aluminium, steel, etc.) and you can even mix and match materials within a set to tune the tone to your liking. They'll let you intonate much more accurately without ruining the look or the sound of your Telecaster.
You can also split the difference, set it up so that the E string is a little flat and the A string is a little sharp.
on mine the problem was between top E and B ,I solved it by filing the saddle so that the B sounded from about 1mm longer than the E .
Techniques in the face of compromised intonation on the two bass strings:
intonation on the tele.this is my CURE,take a pair of pliers and grip the stem of the middle saddle and bend it to the RIGHT trial and error will get the 4th and 3rd strings to the correct intonation.(bend towards the high E)
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I tried not to abuse this, but I'm sure it must happen. How can you counteract this in In Nomine and other games with a similar mechanic?


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STEUBENVILLE - For 5 1/2 innings Steubenville and Edison engaged in the type of battle people expect when the Jefferson County rivals hook up.
It took Big Red less than half an inning to turn that tight 2-1 affair into an 11-1 six-inning victory Tuesday at Vaccaro Field.
"We got back on track," said Big Red head coach Fred Heatherington. "We were ready to play at the beginning of the game. We had a good performance from Anthony (Zorne).
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"He threw strikes and kept them off balance. The defense made plays, but hopefully we got back on track."
Zorne, a freshman, was strong for Big Red, striking out seven over six innings, and surrendering just one run in the top half of the fourth.
After Kai McClurg the sixth off with a double to lead off the sixth, Lucas Herrington followed up with a singled. An error throwing the ball in from the outfield allowed McClurg to score and put Herrington on second. Pinch-hitter Cody Saltsman then laced a single that plated Herrington and Big Red was off and running.
"Cody Saltsman came in for us in the bottom of the sixth and got a big hit to get the inning going," said Heatherington. "That's what we needed, that spark off the bench."
In all Big Red had eight different players score in the final frame, including McClurg who scored the inning's first and game's last runs on errors.
The Wildcats didn't help their own cause in the sixth as Big Red received five bases on ball and Edison committed four errors in the inning.
"The bottom line is all those errors were self-inflicted," said Edison head coach Mike Collopy. "They put the ball in play, which is what they're supposed to do, and we didn't make any plays behind our pitchers so that's what happens."
Matt Petrella led Big Red with three base hits, including a 2-run single in the sixth. John Linn also had two RBIs, driving in the game's first two runs on a triple in the second frame.
Nolan Marcus knocked in the Wildcats' lone run, pushing across Josh Pasek, who reached on a single, with a fourth inning groundout.
With the OVAC tournament looming, Steubenville (9-6) attempts to keep momentum going with a game at John Marshall today.
"We're fighting right now," said Heatherington. "Our backs are against the wall. We were 8-6 coming into the game. We just have to get to the field and get ready to play.
"If we come ready to play we have a good chance to win, and that's all we ask for."
Edison (11-3) hopes to bounce back today when it welcomes Union Local.
"This was one game, we're not worried about OVACs, we've got a game (today) we need to be ready to play," said Collopy. "If we're not ready to play for every pitch of seven innings anything can happen in baseball just like what happened today."
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How do I edit an invalid visudo file?
Here is what happens:
$ sudo visudo
>>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 28 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 28
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
On a modern Ubuntu system (and many other GNU/Linux distributions), fixing a corrupted
To do this via SSH, log in to the machine and run the command
Assuming you (or some other user) are authorized to run programs as
If you need to edit one of the configuration files in
If you have a related situation where you have to perform additional system administration commands as root to fix the problem (also uncommon in this circumstance, but common in others), you can start an interactive root shell with
(If there is more than one user account on the system authorized to run programs as
If that doesn't work--for example, if there are no users authorized to run programs as root via PolicyKit--then boot from an Ubuntu live CD (like the CD you probably used to install Ubuntu) and mount the filesystem for the installed system. You can do this by running
sudo parted -l to view your partitions--there is probably just one ext4 partition, and that's the root filesystem.
Suppose the installed Ubuntu system's root filesystem is on /dev/sda1. Then you could mount it with
(which will prevent you from saving a sudoers file with incorrect syntax).
Always use
Type in:
Then change last line
It should solve your problem.
There is nothing wrong #include sudoer.d removing #include sudoer.d won't make any difference.
But please make sure you don't have any syntax errors. I had same issue but and spent hours to fix and just figured out they are syntax errors. Refer to manual and make them right.
For example Say your username is : dolly I used following which is wrong
correct syntax is
hope this helps
if anyone else like me didn't have pkexec installed, or was not able to run vi, visudo, nano or any other editor to change sudoers file you can be sure with this process.. I was saved with this:
fix that mistake and be happy :)
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run recovery mode then type this
chown -R root:root /etc/sudoers.d chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx /etc/sudoers.d/ chmod u=r,g=r,o= /etc/sudoers.d/*
only the group and user root should have read privelege
If u messed up your sudoers file.You'll need to:
source :- http://mario.net.au/content/recover-etcsudoers-ubuntu-1204
You can edit your boot entry while in grub as well.
Simply reboot your pc, and wait for grub to show. Then press "e" on the "Ubuntu" entry to edit it.
Look for a line with "linux = " or "kernel = " and simply add an "single" to the end of that line.
Then press F10 to boot this temporarily modified boot entry. This will give you a shell (without GUI) with root rights and you can edit the sudoers file with s.th. like nano /etc/sudoers back to its previous state.
Then reboot and its done.
I found the bug. It is in the last two lines of the default
You can also login as root on a
then revert your mistakes
check permissions of root system /. it must be owned by root und use 755, than find command of sudo will find the config.
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