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Reorganizing the Republican Party, One Conversation at a Time
Personally, I blame CCHD.Okay, that's an overstatement. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is not solely---or even primarily---responsible for the fact Pres. Obama won re-election, or that the Republican party is only just now waking up (it is to be hoped) to the fact that it doesn't know how to talk to people from different backgrounds. But CCHD has, in its own small way, played an important role.First, some disclosures and disclaimers:1 - In the past I worked for organizations that received CCHD grants; those grants helped pay my salary for a number of years.2 - As a consequence, I can testify that CCHD is about the most rigorously nonpartisan funder of change and community organizing imaginable. CCHD's strict adherence to its funding guidelines and restrictions on partisan activity---let alone its even-stricter restrictions on any activity that comes close to disagreeing with Church teaching---are legendary within community organizing circles.3 - I say "small way" because in a nation of 310 million people, any organization that has as its sole source of funding a once-a-year second collection in the churches of one denomination is necessarily going to have a limited impact.4 - Finally, I pray that my conservative brother and sister Catholics will not take anything here as "evidence" of CCHD's nefarious and subversive leftist corrupting influence on the Church and American society. I make that prayer because, in fact, there's no such evidence in what you're about to read. (Also, the views expressed are my own, not Commonweal's. Don't blame these guys for what I write.)With that necessary work out of the way, we proceed.One of the more notable aftershocks of Tuesday's election is the degree to which Republicans and conservatives were surprised by the results. Gov. Romney was "shellshocked" and apparently had been so confident of victory that he hadn't even written a concession speech. Karl Rove, a veteran of many political campaigns and a strategist who spent years working to broaden the Republican party's base, had an election-night meltdown on Fox News. Donald Trump tweeted calls for "revolution". (Doesn't he know what can happen to people like Donald Trump during a revolution?)
Conservative commentator Byron York wrote a terrific column capturing this sentiment from Republicans gathered for the Romney-Ryan election-night party:I am shocked, I am blown away, said Joe Sweeney, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I thought I had a pretty good pulse on this stuff. I thought there was a trend that was going on underground.We were so convinced that the people of this country had more common sense than that, said Nan Strauch, of Hilton Head, South Carolina. It was just a very big surprise. We felt so confident.It makes me wonder who my fellow citizens are, said Marianne Doherty of Boston. Ive got to be honest, I feel like Ive lost touch with what the identity of America is right now. I really do.I doubt theres a more profound insight into the nature of the political challenge Republicans and conservatives face in the wake of yesterdays election than Ms. Dohertys: I feel like Ive lost touch with what the identity of America is right now.The good news for Ms. Doherty---and for Republicans and conservatives across the country---is theres a proven way to get back in touch with the identity of America: a political, even a spiritual discipline that CCHD has seeded across every diocese in the U. S. over the past few decades: one-to-ones.One-to-ones are short (30-40 minutes), intentional conversations between people who are interested in being public leaders, and who are willing to take the time to get to know more about (and to be better known by) other leaders in their community. They are a foundational practice in hundreds of community organizations in poor, working-class and middle-class communities all across the country. And virtually all of those organizations have received funding at some point in their history from CCHD.To illustrate the power of "one-to-ones", here's a newly re-elected President Barack Obama thanking his campaign staff on Wednesday and speaking about his CCHD experience:"I try to picture myself when I was your age, and I first moved to Chicago at the age of 25 and I had this vague inkling about making a difference. I didnt really know how to do it. I didnt have a structure.I came to Chicago knowing that somehow I wanted to make sure that my life attached itself to helping kids get a great education, or helping people living in poverty to get decent jobs and be able to work and have dignity. To make sure that people didnt have to go to the emergency room to get health care.And I ended up being a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago. A group of churches were willing to hire me. I didnt know at all what I was doing. And the work that I did in those communities changed me much more than I changed the communities there.Because it taught me the hopes and aspirations and the grit and the resilience of ordinary people. And it taught me the fact that under the surface differences we all have common hopes and we all have common dreams. And it taught me something about how I handled disappointment and what it meant to work hard on a common endeavor. And I grew up; I became a man during that process."In the mid-1980s, an affiliate of the Gamaliel Foundation used a CCHD grant to hire Barack Obama. Obama's supervisors put him to work doing hundreds of one-to-ones a year with leaders in the community organization he worked for, with potential allies, with elected officials, with business leaders, with anyone who might help build the power of the organization he worked for and who might help advance its values and interests. They gave him a structure---practical as well as intellectual---within which he could develop and exercise his talents and his desire to do good. "One-to-ones" were a foundation stone of that structure.Multiply a young Barack Obama by hundreds of young, energetic, idealistic organizers a year. Take the 20-200 key leaders in the organization he worked for and multiply them by all the organizations affiliated with Gamaliel, IAF, PICO, DART, IVP and other similar networks and federations. Then add in all the other community organizing efforts in recent decades that owe their existence to a commitment to bringing people together around common values and interestsdespite their divisions by race, class, creed, geography, national origin, legal status, sexual orientation or political philosophy.Over the past 40 years, thats untold tens of millions of hours invested in the slow, patient, deliberate building of relationships, understanding and connection with and among community leaders and organizers. One essential product of those conversations is that people walk away with a better understanding of the other (and of themselves) in the context of this political commonwealth we call the United States of America. With that better understanding, they're able to act more powerfully and effectively on their values and in their interests when they enter the public arena.In electoral politics, most of that work has redounded to the benefit of the Democratic Party---as was visible to anyone who noticed the stark demographic differences between the crowds gathered in Boston and Chicago respectively, to be with their party's standard-bearer after the polls closed. That's true, not because CCHD and the organizations it funds are biased, leftist, Democratic Party fronts, or any of the other charges thrown at CCHD by its opponents over the years. That's true because the Democratic Party, consciously or not, has taken greater advantage in recent years of the relational culture CCHD-funded organizations have cultivated. Perhaps that's because Democrats needed it more.40 years ago, the Democratic Party had just torn itself apart---over civil rights, over equal rights, over the Vietnam War---and suffered a humiliating defeat in the presidential election as a consequence. Black and white, male and female, young and old, civilian and veteran---those who had been Democrats confronted the stark and bleak reality that they didn't really know each other anymore. Or, if they did know each other, they didn't like what they knew. Or, what used to be acceptable (politics is man's work) no longer was (women not only wanted a seat at the table, they wanted half the seats).It's taken 40 years for Democrats to rebuild themselves as a political party that can unite a crowd as diverse as the one that filled the McCormick Center to cheer Pres. Obama's victory speech, or pull together a campaign staff as diverse as the one Obama spoke to the next day. (And if there's a biblical resonance to that 40 years, then that too is partly because of the work---by nuns and priests, ministers and rabbis, imams and preachers, clergy and laity---CCHD has supported and helped make possible during those decades.)The good news for Republicans and conservatives is that "one-to-ones" know no political ideology. They are what some community organizers call "tools for public life". Just as a hammer works effectively regardless of the politics of the carpenter wielding it, "one-to-ones" are equally effective tools whether used by liberals, moderates or conservatives---as evidenced by the numerous conservatives playing leadership roles in CCHD-supported community organizations today.Republicans may have a lot of work to do to broaden the base---and the leadership--of their party. The good news (or at least, part of the good news) is that it's work that can be done. For proof of that fact, all Republicans have to do when Congress reconvenes is look across the aisle.
About the Author
Luke Hill is a writer and community organizer in Boston. He blogs at dotCommonweal and MassCommons.
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Fergus Cullen: "The Republican electoral strategy can't depend on getting 120 percent of middle-aged white men."
Bill Maher talks about the "bubble" within which many republicans live. In the "bubble" science doesn't count, 2+2 may not equal 4, voter I.D.s are to combat voter fraud, deficit spending only contributes to the debt when engaged in by democrats, there is such a thing as "illigitimate rape", tax cuts produce more revenue and on and on. Change will require the republicans to step out side the bubble.
I was thrilled (not quite the same as a thrill up my leg that Chris Matthews experienced) when I heard President Obama reminisce about his days as a community organizer to his campaign workers in Chicago. He seems to have fond memories of his relationship with the Catholic Church at that time. http://ncronline.org/print/news/people/chicago-priest-hired-barack-obama... bad some of our bishops, clergy and laity have been so rotten mean. I could go on and rant about how involve with the Republican Party our US. Church leadership is and how influential the KofC money under the leadership of their Supreme Knight has been in undermining our president, but I would rather indulge in my happy thoughts and not erase have the smile on my face be erased.
When it wasn't calling Obama a Muslim, the extreme right has been doing its best to paint Obama as a godless secular. Here's an interesting article from CNN Religion about the President's maturing faith. A big irony here is that the preachers he consults with most are evangelicals :-)http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/27/in-obamas-first-term-an-evolvin...
Over at First Things Peter Leithart in "The Right after Reaganism" sees the election as the end of Reaganism and tells the Republcans they must face the fact that they must give up some of Reagan's principles == because they were wrong.http://www.firstthings.com/
Luke, there can't be a great deal wrong with a party that won almost half the votes.Elections are for averting civil wars. All the important stuff happens in between.
Quite right, David S., Republicans are on the verge of a New Enduring Majority (NEM). Got the wind at their backs. Can't miss. Mustn't change a thing. Onward and upward! Wave of the future!"Honest, officer, I thought they had legalized it."
Thanks, all, for your comments. If you haven't already, I recommend reading the article Ann Olivier linked to above (11/9, 11:14 pm). @David Smith (11/10, 12:00 am) You may be right! On the other hand, the failure to win the presidency, the loss of seats in the Senate when Democrats had 23 seats to defend (v. 10 for Republicans), and the loss of a few seats as well as the overall popular vote in the House, all when unemployment has been around or above 8% for nearly four years is hardly a vote of confidence in the Republican party.I agree with your notion that (to put it in somewhat different terms) war is what happens when politics fails. That said, elections---and the acceptance of the results by the losers---are, I would suggest, important in and of themselves...if only for the reaffirmation that we are not about to go to war against each other.Part of the intra-party discussion for Republicans will be around your thesis that "there cant be a great deal wrong with a party that won almost half the votes". The question is, is it a "rising" or a "setting" sun? In other words, does winning 48% of the popular vote this year signify that the Republican Party is gaining in strength, numbers and power? Or does it signify that the party is looking ahead to a future in which it continues to slowly weaken as a political force?
I think we're undergoing major changes. New Orleans voted 80 percent for Obama. It's something like 63 percent black, but still that's a lot of "conservative" white folks votes. There were 7 Louisiana parishes (counties) that went for Obama, including Shreveport in the upper northern part of the state. It's in oil country and extremely conservative -- or used to be. True, Texas didn't move to the left, but lots of other Southern states did. (Texas never was exactly a Southern state to start with.) Yes, there are Latinos in the other states, but not like Florida and Texas or the Western states. And even in Florida a chunk of the Cuban Republicans went for Obama. As Nate says, watch for the trends. If the Dems. have any sense they'll start pressing hard now for a Democratic House in 2014.
At first I resented that you let "them' in on the secret of one-on-ones. But I relaxed when I thought how can 'they' never can have a one on one in a limo to the Hamptons or Scarsdale/Greenwich. Bishops might want to visit more coffee shops for one-on-ones and get rid of the designated driver too.But I still can't get over why places like West Virginia would go 66% for Romney .. what ever happened to the so called class warfare there? A coal mine owner there fired a few hundred miners because Obama won. Are there limos in West Virginia?
Thanks for explaining this background information regarding Barack Obama's experience as a community organizer in Chicago, Luke Hill. This is fascinating information.
"Thats true because the Democratic Party, consciously or not, has taken greater advantage in recent years of the relational culture CCHD-funded organizations have cultivated. Perhaps thats because Democrats needed it more."Another term for "relational culture" is social capital. I agree that the communities served by orgs that receive CCHD grants are in greater need of social capital, and of course not only for political reasons, although fair and effective political representation was, and still is, a need for those communities.When the Republicans were riding high for three decades starting in 1980, conservative activists' ability to create and then leverage social capital surely was one of the practical reasons for it. Luke, your thesis that Democats may have closed the "political social capital gap" is very interesting and deserving of a deeper dive.


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Andrew Martin reports on consumer products for The New York Times, where his previous assignments included coverage of consumer finance and the food and beverage industry. Before joining The Times in 2007, Mr. Martin worked at The Chicago Tribune for 14 years, covering food policy and agriculture in the Washington bureau and politics at Chicago's City Hall. He was part of a team of reporters that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism for a series on gridlock at O'Hare International Airport. In 2002-3, Mr. Martin was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University. He lives in New Jersey.
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Professor Gold earned an A.B. cum laude in biology from Harvard College and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and a supervising student in the clinical program. After law school he clerked for U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie, Eastern District of New York. In 1989 he joined the Environment & Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC. He held the position of senior attorney, Environmental Enforcement Section, before joining the law school in 2007. His major cases included trials or settlements relating to hazardous waste sites under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act as well as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; single and multiple-facility Clean Air Act cases; and appellate matters under several environmental statutes. During his tenure at the Department of Justice, he received numerous service awards from both the department and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Professor Gold has extensive experience in legal teaching and training as well as litigation. In addition to case updates, and litigation and mediation training presentations for the Department of Justice, the EPA, and professional organizations and conferences, he has appeared as a guest lecturer at Pace Law School and at a community seminar at Brooklyn Law School.
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"Toxic Torts" (with Green, M.D.) in Encyclopedia of Toxicology (Wexler, P., ed.), 3rd edition vol. 4, Elsevier Inc., Academic Press
"A Fitting Vision of Science for the Courtroom," Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy (3 Wake Forest J.L. & Pol'y 1, 2013)
"When Certainty Dissolves Into Probability: A Legal Vision of Toxic Causation for the Post-Genomic Era," Washington & Lee Law Review (70 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 237, 2013)
"Revisiting Relative Risk Rules: Garza, Blanchard, and the Ever Evolving Role of Epidemiologic Proof in Toxic Tort Cases" (PDF), BNA Product Safety & Liability Reporter, 40 PSLR 50, 1/9/12
"The 'Reshapement' of the False Negative Asymmetry in Toxic Tort Causation," William Mitchell Law Review (37 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 1507, 2011)
"The More We Know, the Less Intelligent We Are? — How Genomic Information Should, and Should Not, Change Toxic Tort Causation Doctrine" in the Harvard Environmental Law Review (34 Harv. Envtl.L. Rev. 369, 2010) (This article was listed in the January 2011 Defense Counsel Journal's "Reviewing the Law Reviews" article presenting "a selective bibliography of current law review literature thought to be of interest to civil defense counsel.")
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HEARNE (December 31, 2012)—Texas Rangers and investigators from the Department of Public Safety are looking into events that resulted in a Hearne police officer shooting a man to death early Sunday morning.
KBTX-TV reports Hearne Police Department detectives say they officers responded just after 2:30 a.m. Sunday to a shots fired call in the 800 block of South Riley Street.
Police say a caller reported that someone was shooting a gun from a white vehicle in the Columbus Village Apartments parking lot.
When officers arrived they found the car and a confrontation between police and someone inside the car resulted in shots being fired by police.
One person was hit by bullets and was killed, police say.
No officers were injured.
They also reported finding a firearm at the scene that does not belong to police.
Family members identified the victim as Tederalle Satchell, 28, whom they say was mentally challenged.
"Next thing I know my sister ran into my bedroom screaming that he had been shot and killed," said Yulanda Nelson, the shooting victim's aunt.
"You could tell something was missing. He wasn't a normal child...he was slower than most children," said Nelson.
Family members told KBTX reporters Satchell did not own a gun.
Investigators have not provided any additional information on the incident, citing the fact that it remains under investigation.
Friends and family gathered at the Columbus Village Apartments for a candlelight vigil Sunday night.


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The title tells you all, except that it's about sharing printers.
How do I connect to a shared printer on the network through CUPS or terminal?
The title tells you all, except that it's about sharing printers.
How do I connect to a shared printer on the network through CUPS or terminal?
This answer covers 4 sections:
What is CUPS
Apart from something to drink off CUPS in Linux is: Common Unix Printing System
CUPS is responsible in general for making you connect a printer to Ubuntu and not needing to install any drivers. You can say that CUPS is the one responsible for making almost all printers into a Out of the Box experience. No need for additional drivers, Printer CDs/DVDs or in most cases having to compile and do a lot of work to have it working instantly.
The following image is a GUI interface for cups. CUPS also has a web interface.
The other acronym that stands out as CUPS is HPLIP which is HP Linux Imaging and Printing. This one gives some enhancements over HP printers and all-in-one. If you are the 1% that has problems with detecting your HP printer with CUPS then try HPLIP. It covers that extra 1%. And it shows stuff like ink level and some other specific HP variables.
How to share a USB Printer with other computers
To SHARE A PRINTER in Ubuntu is really easy. Assuming you are using the default Ubuntu which comes with CUPS go to the Cog symbol in the top right part of the screen (Looks like a Gear). Click on it and select from the menu Printers (This is for 12.04 and below). If you are using 13.04 and Above you can click on System Settings since Printers will not be there. Then on the System Settings options click on Printers.
You can also open the Dash and type
Once inside the Printers Window follow the steps below to share it in a network:
Step 1
Go to the Settings Option in the Server Menu in the Main Menu above:
Step 2
Activate the first 2 options so that the CUPS server knows that you will be sharing a printer in the network and looking for shared printers. This will solve two problems, one problem is when clicking on the sharing option inside the printer's configuration window will message an error saying "Not Published. See Server Settings". Since the server is not configured for sharing, this is the reason why it is not published in the network and even if you have it marked as shared, it will not appear on the network. The other problem it will also solve is the problem of other network connected PCs not finding the printer.
Step 3
Right click the printer in the Printer icon you wish you share and select SHARED. Also remember to ENABLE it in the same context menu. In my case I have it disabled. You can not share a printer if you have it disabled (Obviously ^^).
Step 4
Go inside the Settings for that Printer and in the Policies verify that Shared is enabled. If you did the Step 2 correctly, this option will not mention any sort of problem.
So there you have it. You have just shared your printer, have given it access for other network PCs and they can also add it to their PC as a shared printer and print on it. Nice!.
How to Share a Wireless Printer in Ubuntu in a LAN with Windows XP
The answer is mainly part of a detecting problem Windows XP has with shared printers (With Windows 7 and newer the problem is not there. But if it appears this is the same solution). The solution is the following:
For an added bonus you can configure Samba to make it so it shows all printer publicly. To do this, simply open up the terminal and type
Then go to the part that talks about printers (which are [printers] and [print$]) and change them to what the image shows, specially the part about browseable saying yes.
After editing both sections save the file and close it. Then restart the samba service:
You should now have browseable shared printers for all Ubuntu and Windows computers on that lan network. This last part can also be seeing in Sharing Printer with CUPS
Note that Wireless or USB printers work out of the box when shared to other Ubuntu computers. There are some cases where you will need to look for specific drivers. For the following makers you can look in the links provided:
HP - Driver Package
EPSON - Driver Search & Download (Remember to Download the correct .DEB packages)
Others - Ubuntu Printer Section
How to connect to a Network Printer
Assuming you are using the default Ubuntu which comes with CUPS go to the Cog symbol in the top right part of the screen (Looks like a Gear). Click on it and select System Settings. Then click on Printers. Now click on the Add button to add the printer.
Note that since the printer is on the network (Not connected to you directly) the option for Network Printer will appear empty for a couple of seconds. The time depends on the network, how the router handles the queue and any other devices connected on the network. After a while the printer should appear under the Network Printer section and you will be able to select it. CUPS will take care of either installing the drivers if available or downloading one if not found on the system (Eg: Epson L555). In some cases for me it took 45 seconds, in others 5 seconds.
In this case, the computer that is sharing the printer should make sure that the printer configuration is correctly configured as mentioned above. If the Printer has wireless access, then make sure the printer is correctly connected to the router and that your PC is also correctly connected to the same wireless router. In the case you are connected via wired cable and the printer via wireless to the same router or same network, you need to also configure the router to make sure all wireless devices see wired ones.
How to configure the Printer section in Samba
Verify you have the printer connected and samba/cups installed (The
After that we start with the configuration of them. If you are on either the desktop or server version of Ubuntu you can quickly configure it with this terminal way (The GUI way is explained above):
Edit your samba main configuration which is located in
We want to change the following variables and remove the comment (# or ;) symbols in front of them if they have it. So for example:
Change the WORKGROUP to the one the network is using, so other devices on the same workgroup will be able to see the printer:
If you wish to allow guest to print then look for the
Now look for the
Now we go directly to ther samba printer section which would look something like this:
what we want to do is change browseable to yes and guest ok to yes
Should look like this after editing:
This is all. Now restart the samba service. you can do it in several ways:
Now go to your windows system or Linux system and look for the printer in the network or the server IP. It might take some time because of how the network is configured and devices connected to it, but this should be the basic to configure any printer on the network.
How to add, configure and administer Printers with CUPS
CUPS offers an excellent, web-based, configuration and administration system for all printers. If you have CUPS correctly installed, you can access this web system with the following link:
Which should show you the following site
CUPS is an acronym for Common Unix Printing System.
Here's a good blog post about it: http://www.debianadmin.com/setup-cups-common-unix-printing-system-server-and-client-in-debian.html
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What in the name of Thor could be making this Viking so blue? Eating haggis? Listening to those insufferable bagpipes? Traveling through Scotland with the world's worst poet? Searching for the infuriatingly inept witch who's cursed his face . . . and even more important parts?
For Rurik the Viking, life has not been worth living since he left Maire of the Moors. Oh, it's not that he misses her fiery red tresses or kissome lips. Nay, it's the embarrassing blue zigzag she put on his face after their one wild night of loving. For a fierce warrior who prides himself on his immense height, his expertise in bedsport, and his well-honed muscles, this blue streak is the last straw. In the end, he'll bring the witchling to heel, or die trying. Mayhap, he'll even beg her to wed . . . so long as she can promise he'll no longer be . . .
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Sandra Hill is a graduate of Penn State and worked for more than ten years as a features writer and education editor for publications in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Writing about serious issues taught her the merits of seeking the lighter side of even the darkest stories.


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What is the largest dimensional linear space of singular planar cubics? Is this known?
Think of the space of planar cubics as a PP^9 (parametrized by the coefficients). The discriminant \Delta is then a degree 12 polynomial on PP^9 whose vanishing parametrizes singular cubic curves. What is the dimension of the largest linear space inside the vanishing of \Delta? I attempted doing this on a computer, but the computations were too large to terminate.


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With the release of WordPress 3.1, I'm about to update my own WP installation. I've had a thought about the different ways one can do the update: by hand (ugh), via Subversion checkout on the server, and using the built-in updater.
To this point I've used the SVN route, not sure why, possibly that was from before WP added the auto-update feature. It's a minor hassle though, as I have to log in to the server and run
svn up to get the new release - admittedly that's not a big deal, but it's an extra step over logging into WP to apply the update.
I would imagine that the WP folks have worked hard on the auto update feature and kept it as smooth as possible. With that in mind, should I just not bother with an SVN checkout to run my site, and just use the updater? Or is there any reason why I should keep using the SVN method?


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Ken Burns Wins Ruling Over City
A federal court judge on Tuesday denied an attempt by New York City's attorneys to subpoena notes and unused footage from Ken Burns's film, "The Central Park Five." The effort was part of the city's decade-long defense against a lawsuit brought by the five men who were wrongfully convicted in the infamous 1989 Central Park jogger rape case.
Judge Ronald Ellis ruled that Mr. Burns's company, Florentine Films, "has established entitlement to the reporter's privilege," and that the city failed to show that the information it sought "is unavailable from alternative sources." For those reasons, he denied the city's attempt to enforce its subpoena seeking all notes and outtake footage, including video and audio interviews the documentarians conducted with lawyers, trial experts and witnesses of the April 23, 1989 attack on then 28-year-old investment banker Trisha Meili.
In 2002, the convictions of the five men, all of whom were between the ages of 14 and 17 when they were arrested, were overturned when a DNA match was made to an inmate who confessed to the attack on the jogger. The following year, the men sued the city civilly for $50 million each, alleging civil-rights violations. That litigation is still pending.
In 2012, after Mr. Burns, his daughter, Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon released "The Central Park Five," city lawyers served the documentarians with one subpoena in September and another amended one in October stating, among other claims, that the unseen interviews the filmmakers conducted are relevant to pending claims of damages the men have asserted against the city. The city claimed the filmmakers had a "longstanding sympathetic relationship" with the men and had not acted not as independent reporters but as advocates.
In his ruling Judge Ellis wrote that the city's "argument against Florentine's showing of independence is baseless."
In a statement, Mr. Burns said the filmmakers are "mindful that this ruling goes far beyond our current situation; this adds a layer of important protection to journalists and filmmakers everywhere."
Celeste Koeleveld, a senior attorney for the city, said in a statement: "We are disappointed and reviewing our options. While journalistic privilege under the law is very important, we firmly believe it did not apply here. This film is a one-sided advocacy piece that depicts the plaintiffs' version of events as undisputed fact. It is our view that we should be able to view the complete interviews, not just those portions that the filmmakers chose to include."


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A used book sale is being held this weekend to benefit the Warren County Library.
More than 35,000 books are in stock and ready to be sold.
Proceeds go to the library's winter and summer reading programs.
The Friends of the Library President says they need to raise more money this year, because the program is continually getting bigger.
"Every year the library's outreach has increased, the circulation has increased, the activities have increased. And so, every day we are meeting the needs of the children primarily, but adults also," Sharon Crawford says of the importance of the book sale.
The book sale will continue through the weekend.
And on Sunday, prices will be dropped from 50 cents per book, to a dollar for a bag of books.


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The AC Milan president has defended his remark that the 45-year-old does not "understand anything", claiming it was made in good humourAC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi has claimed that he was joking when he claimed that coach Massimiliano Allegri did not "understand anything".
The Rossoneri chief appeared to cast doubt over the future of the trainer, but has now insisted that the comment he made was purely jocular.
"I was just joking with someone who was sitting next to me," the former prime minister told Uno Mattina.
"He was saying a phrase in Veneto after the mention of anybody's name, then Allegri's name popped up and I repeated that saying too.
"Then the newspapers did what they usually do …"
Meanwhile, Allegri has refused to comment on the remark, insisting that he was only focused on team issues.
"I never comment on the president's words, I never have done and I want to talk about the game," the 45-year-old told reporters.


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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Kloke, Jul 11, 2008.
Who is your favorite superhero and why do you like he or she?
I cannot decide who is my favorite at the moment, but one of the superheroes I respect the most is Batman.
*He lives in Gotham (NYC)
*He isn't born with any supernatural powers.
*He is rich, but cares about the poor.
*Is learned in martial arts and other forms of combat.
*Has a menacing quality about him.
*Has a tormenting childhood.
*Will never let a woman break his heart.
And because he isn't afraid to wear black, unlike all the other cliche colorful / star-spangled-banner-underpants heroes (Captain America, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, etc).
Isn't Gotham City "really" Chicago? I though Metropolis "was" New York. Other than that, I fully second that answer. The Batman rocks. Can't wait for The Dark Knight.
I think the reason I like Batman is that he isn't an aspirational figure, like so many of the luridly-coloured musclebound Heroes. I mean, would you want to be him? The poor guy's tortured, driven, fanatical. It makes him much more interesting than his colleagues.
[pedant] NB: The Batman doesn't wear black - he wears blue and grey, with a little yellow. [/pedant]
Definitely another thumbs up for Batman. I like the superheroes that kick ass without being aliens/mutants. I also like Batman because he's a conflicted figure -- he's very nearly a criminal in his own right.
My second would be Ironman.
Batman. He's the most realistic superhero, because he has no powers. He relies on his wealth, gadgets, strength in martial arts. He cares for all of Gotham, not just one woman. He's dark, and very nearly could be a villian himself. He has a bad past.
Aye. Batman is the best.
I like Iron Man! I've only seen the film, but it was brilliant and I just loved the attitude!
Actually, it's the other way 'round. Chicago, the city considered the most modern and futuristic of American cities for years, was the original model for Metropolis, the natural city for a Kansas farmboy to head for (though the Reeve Superman movie clearly made it look like NYC). NYC, the older, more run-down and dark, home of muggers in alleys preying on the rich Long Island visitors, was the model for Gotham City.
Look at the architecture: The 19th century styles, often referred to as "Gothic," are more common to NYC than Chicago, which has a distinct 20th century style.
(Don't you love uber-analyzing superhero stuff?)
Batman and Superman
I agree Batman is cool because he is just a normal man with no special powers. I like the fact that he is so committed to the greater good and is prepared to make the choices that other people can't make even if it means loosing what he loves the most. His costume is the best because it is classier, less colourful and not so attention seeking (check out my package in these pants!). His character faces this constant struggle between good and evil, he's mentally unstable and traumatized by his past. This creates an on going internal battle, if he switched could do serious damage and that is why it is so readable/watchable.
On the other hand I like Superman for the opposite reasons. He has the powers that would enable him to rule the world but he chooses not to use them in that way. What is also interesting is that his guise on earth as 'Clark Kent' represents his vision of humanity, cowardly and weak yet he fights to help regardless. Plus as a child I loved Super Girl… but I think that was just because I wanted to be her.
OK, I can follow you there. Obviously this is my mistake, but for some reason I have an image of Chicago as being the more Gothamy town, which somehow fits the down-and-dirty Batman. I suspect this is because of a combination of (a) watching Due South, often set in crumbling Chicago underclass neighourhoods, and (b) my brief flirtation with watching American Football, during which the Chicago Bears had a sort of rough, blue-collar image. Also the fact that Clark Kent goes to work at a leading newspaper always inclined me to think of the New York Times. I have no valid reason for this.
I rarely do anything else! I loved American comics as a kid, then drifted away from them until the modern classics started coming out and generating hype over here; Watchmen, Sandman, and of course The Dark Knight Returns, where it all stems from. That one in particular totally rekindled my fascination with The Batman, which has been fed and reinforced by the recent exceptional movies (note my new avatar). And the rise of internet geekdom has fulled it too, with a million theories and questions flying around - I remember being bowled over by the one about Robin's costume, and it spurring me on to new heights (depths?) of nerdiness. My girlfriend thinks it's great that I spend so much time on this stuff.
Oh wait - no, she doesn't.
Let me just say that Batman would kick Superman's butt any day.
DC sucks! (just kidding... only said that because I see so many batman/superman references here.)
Back to why Marvel kicks butt...
Wolverine is the bestestest super hero out there (12 year old talk as I've reverted to when I would buy every Wolverine comic my hands could reach).
Think about it, he can't fly, or have super strength... he can't shoot lasers out of his eyes, or shapeshift or telepathicly blow your head up...
Instead he's got... super healing powers! and the fact that he got his adamantium skeleton because he was a ginuea pig in some government experement means he kicks balls in... all over the place... men staggering breathless to the ground as wolverine snickers over their newly transformed eunic bodies.
I have always been a little partial to Marvel myself too. Spider-man's been my favorite superhero since I was little. I always just wished I had his powers like climbing up walls and having a spider-sense. So cool (and yes I revert to my five year old self when I talk about it too)
Spider-Man every time. he just appeals to people because he's an ordinary person underneath the mask (Bruce Wayne is a billionaire and yet Peter Parker is a photographer and dmore popular). GO SPIDEY!!!
I second the recommendation/experience.
Spot on. I just rewatched The Dark Knight two days ago. Incredible movie.
Ironman, Love the thought of battle armor.
Marvel totally over use Wolverine.... he in two different team (Avengers and X-Men) as well as having about 5 different solo titles.
Not to be patriotic, but I quite like Captain Britain. My all time favourite Superhero is Beast – Hank McCoy, not really due to his abilities, but more to how the character is written.
He also leads X-Force atm
The new Captain Britain is really good, some strong storylines so far but my current favourite is Immortal Iron Fist. It's Marvel's best 'new' series in a long time.
The Batman sucks. He's the most 'realistic' superhero if you ignore all the other unpowered superheroes. You know the ones who aren't multi-bajillionares, AND have black belts in a dozen martial arts AND are Olympic level athlete, AND have PhDs in Chemistry, Psychology, Biology, Forensics, and Criminal Law, AND have the single greatest information network in the world, AND have every conceivable object in their magic belt of plot.
James Bond is more realistic than Batman, and no one pretends that James Bond is anything other than blatant wish fulfillment.
As I character I find Batman horribly shallow. Because he's DC's cash cow, he can't kill anyone, so we get lots of BS about how he never goes 'too far' and has a 'code' he follows. At the same time, we see him break someone's spine, break their bones, toss them into windows and then let them bleed out while he interrogates them, electrocutes people, etc. If this were reality, some of these people would die, but DC's plot angels make it so Batman never kills. Everyone magically makes it to a hospital in time where they get just the help they need (though we're told that in Gotham, Emergency Rooms are crowded and people sometimes have to wait for hours for care, this never happens to someone he's almost beaten to death.)
Contrast this to Wonder Woman, who will kill to defend herself or save lives but doesn't cause more harm than necessary to stop an opponent, or Daredevil, who doesn't kill on purpose, but has accidently killed people in fights.
Oh, and Batman's personality. Yeah, he's dark and broody. Sort like that one vampire guy from Twilight.
I love you Hippokrene
If Batman was any kind of true Batman, he'd hang upside from the roof of his bat cave and his bat mobile would be covered in guano. But no, he sleeps in a four poster and has a butler wake him up with breakfast.
So he lost his parents when he was young. Boohoo. They left him a trust fund and what does he spend it on? A gimp suit with a cape. And what's with this crap about putting a "bat-" prefix on everything? The bat-cave, the bat-mobile, the bat-cycle, the bat-phone.
We get it already! What's next? Alfred, fetch the Bat-underpants and my lucky Bat-socks?
Give me Spiderman, every damn day of the week. And if he's busy, give me a Silver Surfer.
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It is somehow a general principle that the (infinitesimal) local behavior of a representable moduli functor $X$ at some point $x$ is closely related to the deformation problem of the structure parameterized by $x$: the deformation functor should be pro-represented by the formal completion of $X$ at $x$ ($X$ representable as assumed). In particular, if $x$ is a smooth geometric point, then the associated deformation functor is pro-represented by a ring formal power series of $d$ variables, $d=\dim_xX$.
What does one find when linking this principle with the Serre-Tate theorem? The theorem affirms that the deformation functor of an ordinary abelian variety of dimension $g$ over an algebraically closed field of char.$p$ is pro-represented by a formal torus of dimension $g^2$. does this functor corresponds to the formal completion of some muduli functor of abelian scheme? One cannot expect the Siegel moduli (with level structures) of genus $g>1$ to work as the latter is of rel.dimension $g(g+1)/2$. Does the dimension jump to $g^2$ because one is looking "purely locally" through the $p$-divisible group forgetting the polarization?
On the other hand, let $\mathcal{M}$ be the moduli functor of principally polarized $g$-dimensional abelian scheme with $\Gamma_0(p)$ level structure, $p$ being a rational prime (say large enough). It admits a coarse moduli scheme $M$, and according to a theorem of Chai and Norman ("Bad reduction of Siegel moduli scheme of genus two ...") the formal completion of $M$ at a geometric point $x$ corresponding to an ordinary abelian variety of char.$p$ is a formal torus of dimension $g(g+1)/2$, which agrees with the principle mentioned in the beginning.


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Do both countries have a particluar hot spot that existed in the past, and if so, does it still exist now? Have their wars historically been bloody or transient, and are they now considered "friends"?
Rather than saying they had X number of wars, it would probably be more accurate to say that the two countries had a continuous ongoing conflict from 1895 until 1947, with occassional brief breaks for recuperation and retooling. In fact, the territorial disputes didn't even really end there, but the fighting did due to the Cold War.
Since then I think just about all the disputes have been resolved, save for the status of four small islands near Sakhalin.
Russia and Japan had one war, and several smaller scale conflicts, in the 50 years between 1895-1945. They are NOT natural enemies.
Their emnity arose out of the power vacuum created by the collapse of China in the lat 19th, early 20th century. This caused them to both covet Manchuria, for two different reasons.
Russia wanted a warm water port on the Pacific. Port Arthur (in Manchuria, leased from China) served the purpose. Vladivostok (ice-bound for four months of the year), did not. Japan wanted the Manchurian INLAND for its natural resources and living space. That was the cause of the 1904-05 war.
China has since "woken up" and re-asserted her claim to Manchuria, thereby removing the main source of emnity between Russia and Japan.
It is noteworthy that although there were two "border incidents" before World War II, Russia and Japan had, and observed a non-aggression pact for most of the war (until Germany was defeated). Essentially, they both had "other fish to fry."


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This year's first Agricultural Lenders Conference is scheduled for Oct. 8 at the Southwest Research Extension Center in Garden City. The meeting will be repeated the following day at the International Grains Program Conference Center in Manhattan.
Topics will include grain market prospects, land values, crop insurance and the outlook for the cattle market.
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My 2-cents below. I've worked as a concept artist for a year and an environment 2D/3D artist for 2 years.
-You get to make art for a living. Not many people do. You won't get to make exactly what you want all the time - in fact, you almost never get to do exactly what you want, but you are getting steady and reasonably nice paychecks doing art. (It's awesome.)
-You will be working with many nerds who share your interest. Coming from a completely different career where I have nothing to say to my hip, trendy coworkers, I can tell you that's a HUGE bonus.
-It's a relatively small industry and you'll quickly get to know a lot of people from all over the place. As long as you don't burn your bridges, this is great when you are looking to move around in the industry.
-you will more likely than not be required to work spurts of overtime, aka "crunch time". Some companies pay you for it, others don't. You will not have as much time for your family as if you were in a regular 9-5 job. Plus, if you are a dutiful artist, you'll want to get some art done on top of this, which leaves you not very much time at all. Time management is a crucial skill.
-you will never look at games the same way again after working for a short while. This may not be bad depending on the person, but personally for me a lot of the make-believe magic is gone - I look at games and see exactly where the boundries are, where I can or cannot go, can or cannot do. I still play games and have fun but some of the illusions are not there anymore.
-competition is fierce. You need to give it all you've got, be completely open to critiques from online or in person (and lick your wounds in a corner instead of biting the hands that feed you.) You need to actively seek out networking without being really annoying or creepy. Showing people your work and asking for feedback will be a good way. Filtering through and acting upon these feedback will be equally important.
If you are motivated enough, you do not need to go to expensive schools. Get your portfolio together, use all the online resources out there, and visit game developer conventions and local sketch groups. It's not an easy path and you'll have to do all of your networking yourself, but you won't have to worry about expensive student loans later. If you can't stay structured without school (like many other artists) however, go to school, work your butt off, and focus intensely on your portfolio. It's worth it - once you find a job you love, you won't have to join the masses who spend their days counting towards retirement.
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There is a place for each individual in the world, but you must seek and find where your place is and where you fit in. If you are afraid to take the responsibility of bringing in the new, do not try to stop those souls who are willing to do it. Realise that those souls who have been trained and inspired to undertake this task will do so, for it is their work. Find your rightful place in the whole vast plan, and if you are not in the front line do not let it disturb you. Remember, all sorts of people are needed to make up the whole. Simply accept your specific work and do what you know you have to do wholeheartedly, and allow those souls who have been placed in the position of leadership and responsibility to go ahead. Give them your full backing and complete loyalty; they need it and appreciate it. Lift up your heart in deep love praise and gratitude for them, and always give of your very best.
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I've starting roasting green coffee beans in a frying-pan at home and in a tin foil tray, when having an outside bbq.
What would be a good way to make a Vietnamese style butter-roast? Should I just fry the beans in butter, until they are brown?
I have been roasting coffee for a few years and have never heard of this. It wasn't so easy to find on Google. From An Overview of Vietnamese Coffee:
I also googled pan roasting techniques. Apparently you should be able to achieve a roasting time of 15-20 minutes. So you are spending several minutes at 200C. With such a small amount of butter and sugar, I wonder when you add the extra ingredients to the pan so as to not burn the coating.
If just using the oil to help the beans turn, then I imagine adding the oil from the start will work.
I might have to try this myself.
Just frying them in butter won't work. The temperature needed to roast the bean is much higher than the milk solids can handle. If I were you, I'd begin by clarifying the butter to get rid of the milk solids, then use the clarified butter with the same method you are using now.
I've added about one tablespoon of butter on the beans while turning them constantly in the frying pan at about a crack and a half.... When finished it leaves a high gloss on a medium roast. The flavor is wonderful and it seems to make for an even smoother more rich flavor.


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The idea of doing a "resto-mod" — the term for restoration and modification — and creating a unique motorcycle that could be used as a promotional prop for Doc's Motorcycle Parts in Waterbury goes back even further.
"We bought it about three years ago. Someone was just selling their bike. We did it on our time. Customers come first," said D'Occhio, who is vice president of the business his father started. "We turned it into a custom, old-school chopper. You wouldn't think it's a Harley. You'd think it was a custom-built bike. We did a lot of customization on it."
D'Occhio designed the bike and then tapped outsiders for their expert skills. "A lot of people put a lot of work into this," he said. Bobby Fernandez fabricated parts, including brackets for the front brake caliper and the rear fender mount. Alan Pastrana of Pastrana Unlimited in Plainville did the paint. Doc's techs Mark DiPietro, Rich Kroos and Justin Bradford supplied the elbow grease.
"We incorporated a '96 Buell Lightning front end on it, with inverted forks. We put on a 240 rear tire kit. We did away with all the original Harley fenders and gas tank. We put on a Roland Sands fender and tank kits," D'Occhio said.
An ape-hanger handlebar, a Vance & Hines two-into-one exhaust pipe and side plates that proclaim "Doc's" and "1969," the year the business started, completed the look. The total investment was $20,000.
"We want to showcase it at shows and in our showroom. And, obviously, ride it," said D'Occhio. "This was kind of over the top. If you want to go over the top, that's a pretty good price."
The hope is to build awareness of the fact that besides selling motorcycle parts and apparel and servicing motorcycles, Doc's can do "resto-mods" and customs. "You don't have to go out there and spend $40,000 to build some custom chopper when you can take that bike you have now and modify it," said D'Occhio, estimating that the business currently does two full customs per year and two to three makeovers.
D'Occhio said resto-mods are "fun jobs to do" because of the customer involvement. The bikes' owners often come up with the ideas and Doc's handles the execution. "It's very satisfying. It's a job where everybody feels we accomplished a lot," he said.
The new recently- completed company bike is now on display at Doc's.
A bit of a shakeup involving Connecticut dealers as Midtown Kawasaki in Rocky Hill sells out to New England Cycle Center, giving the Hartford dealer the Kawasaki line.
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Jim Schiavo at Adams of Oakville anticipated it and said it may be beneficial. "I think that they'll be able to spend more time concentrating on the motorcycle part, which is a good thing," he said. "I'd like to see some new models. They make a good bike."
New England Cycle Center's Marquardt said, "The last few years have been a struggle for Suzuki and their dropping the car line is no big surprise. While I'm not happy to see the bankruptcy, they have said 'business as usual' and I have seen no change in our interaction."
American Suzuki Motor Corp. is the sole distributor of products make by Japan's Suzuki Motor Co. It listed debts and liabilities from between $100 million and $500 million in its bankruptcy filing, but said it has sufficient cash to operate during restructuring.
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Fighting for the lord......
- 10:11 a.m. July 2, 2013
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Just when I thought I had seen/heard everything. Way to welcome the member back to the fold Mr. Dodge.
- 10:21 a.m. July 2, 2013
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Need a chorus of Love at Home.
Really sad as it was over a seat on a bench? I know I get worked up for dumb things sometimes that when I look back think that was really stupid. Why did I do or feel that way. But would not go to this extreme. And it does take 2. The victim could have walked away the first time. Or called the police when confronted again. Sounds like other options could have been taken.
Dodge may get some time in jail but worse is he has to go back and confront all in the members at Church. Would be interesting to hear the rest of the story in a few weeks. But guessing we will not and probably not any of our business but I would be curious.
So will Dodge sit in his regular seat next week? Hummmmmm. Guessing no one else will even try.
- 10:24 a.m. July 2, 2013
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What can you say but WOW. I thought I had heard and seen it all, but this takes the cake. Way to be an example of the Lord Mr. Dodge and welcoming a guest into your Sacrament meeting. Not sure the guest acted any better.
- 10:29 a.m. July 2, 2013
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All this over a seat. Sadly I have heard of cases where people act like that is their bench, although I have never seen a fight result from it. Watch now we will have a letter from the First Presidency reminding members they do not own a seat at church and to be Christ like and let people sit where they want too. Good grief they people were visiting would it have hurt you to sit somewhere else for one Sunday Mr. Dodge?
- 10:32 a.m. July 2, 2013
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Jazzledazzle, they were there for a baby blessing; not to return "to the
fold". Would that have made a difference?
As far as seat saving goes, there's a fine line between doing somebody a solid and being a real jerk. People who arrive on time, whether it's to church or a movie, shouldn't be told repeatedly "taken" "taken" "taken" like some bad scene from Forrest Gump.
Of course if it were me, I would have used it as a good excuse to sit in the foyer and slip out early.
- 10:37 a.m. July 2, 2013
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Of course if it were me, I would have used it as a good excuse to sit in the foyer and slip out early. Like.
- 10:59 a.m. July 2, 2013
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Someone wasn't paying attention at church. ;)
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Imagination, attitude and perseverance. I can only what life would be like living around people like that. Which attitude needed to be adjusted? both, probably. I always Loved that car-tune, Chip and Dale. After you, no after you no I insist you first ect. Caricatures like these guys keeps life interesting.
- 11:15 a.m. July 2, 2013
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Let us oft speak kind words to each other
At home or where'er we may be;
....like get the heck off my bench.
- 11:17 a.m. July 2, 2013
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A fight in a Mormon chapel because there aren't enough seats to accommodate everyone…this could only happen in Utah. -___-
- 11:19 a.m. July 2, 2013
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I remember a short fist fight that broke out between two elderly ordinance
workers, in front of the veil, after a session was over. This occurred
approximately 35 years ago. We never figured-out what the issue was about. The
two men were immediately released from their callings, by the temple president,
It can get ugly, even in the house of The Lord.
- 11:28 a.m. July 2, 2013
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Well, you see, it's the "principle" of saving seats.... Funny if
it weren't so sad. Need to hum a little of "School thy
Feelings"... do we?
I feel compassion and sadness for the bishop and other members who have to live with this event and find a way to deal with not only the event but the notoriety.
I thought fights were saved for basketball games.
- 11:32 a.m. July 2, 2013
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Wrong "antodav". I raised my family in So. Calif. and it was common
place to not be able to
find a place to sit. In our area though saving seats were a NO NO and should be here as well.
If the rest of the gang can't get there in time, oh well. Empty seat means it's available.
There seems to be some Christ like attitude adjustments needed.
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I thought fights were limited to the stake basketball game's.
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Ridiculous that this escalated to this degree but the truth is the rude bahvior
bagan with the people trying to save all the pews.
I go early to church every week and while I don't sit in the exact same pew every time I sit in more or less the same section of seats. My family usually comes later than I do and then sits with me. But I never try to take up multiple rows of seats for people that are not there yet. My take on it is that if people want a certain block of seats then they need to get there early and actually sit in them. Having one family memeber show up and sit in one row while throwing his sciptures down in another row, his suit coat in another row, a diaper bag in another and then heading out to talk in the hall is incredibly rude.
My guess is this family had one guy trying to save a bunch of rows while the rest of the familt leisurely strolled in 1 minute before the meeting began. Meanwhile others that came early were denied seats.
There's plenty of blame all around this situation.
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If such a letter is sent from the 1st presidency let's hope it also tells people that going in the chapel and throwing your diaper bag in a pew when you arrive for your relief society presidency meeting, then having your family all stroll in 3 minutes before, or in many case 3 minute after, the meeting starts to take the bench is out of order as well. If you are going to come and sit in a pew then that is your pew. If you are just throwing your stuff in it to keep the people that actually show up on time out of it so your family can get it even if they are late is far more rude imo.
I see it every single week.
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How sad. Why does this incident not surprise us? Because we are becoming a society of hot-heads who are void of maturity and character. Road Rage is another indication of how short the fuse really is on some folks. Quite often these are the school bullies who never grew up. It won't be long until we will not be able to make eye contact with anybody we don't know. Shame on them.
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Looks like "church ball" spilled over into the chapel.
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@ Moniker Lewinsky
The article says that the member that sat in the seat was less active. So that is why I said "welcome back to the fold."
Point being, it is not a good impression to fight with anyone over a seat, and if a less active member comes to church and has that experience, they are likely not coming back...
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Simple basic recipe for the first time. Add more seasonings to taste. I added lemon pepper & more mustard. Also, didn't have parsley, so added celery leaves & another celery stalk. My daughter loved them...my family of three both had two, since I used the smaller cans...2 (5.5 oz) which made 6 patties instead of 8. We all agreed that we should have these more often!
Due to my own lack of planning I was forced to make a some changes and it still turned out great. I ended up using Arctic Char instead of salmon. I poached it in salt water with lemon. No fresh breadcrumbs so I added about a 1/4 cup water to the ones I had and it was too hot to turn on the oven so I cooked them in a non-stick pan with a little canola oil. The cakes held together well and were great with the dill sauce-its a necessity.
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11 Sep 2012 10:33 AM #1
Planned Areas for Performance Improvements in 4.next
Hi All -
Just a quick summary for folks about further performance optimizations that are underway for the next major release (currently called "4.2").
We are looking at these main areas:
Optimize component life-cycle
Promising early results so far here esp related to setUI.
Track/eliminate unnecessary measurements in layouts
A reworked autocontainer layout gets back to not needing any child item sizes via some tricky CSS/DOM but the "layout rules" don't allow us to take full advantage of that ... yet
Optimized panel/dock layout
Pretty much the work-horse of the framework, so gains here are felt by all.
Deferred Layouts
This could also be called "idle-time layout" or "auto-batching". This item would have to be opt-in, but would ensure that operations that would today trigger multiple layouts are automatically gathered into a single layout scheduled just before returning control to the browser. This item may not be totally achievable, but would obviously help tremendously vs the current explicit approach using suspend/resumeLayouts because lots of (large) apps have a hard time taking advantage of these calls.
Class System Optimization
This will be addressed with a newly redone bit of tooling about to enter beta, but the advanced features planned for the tooling will not be fully realized in the 4.2 release.
There are some other areas we are looking at, but I wanted to let everyone know that we are really not done on the performance area.Don Griffin
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14 Jan 2013 4:22 AM #2
Hi Don,
First of all, thank you for the excellent framework!
And a small question. Is there anything special in the plans to improve performance in IE? Or just improving performance on a whole which should affect IE as well?Object.NET
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31 Jan 2013 7:59 AM #3
Performance for remote grid compare to 3.4.x
Please see following about [4.2.0 beta 2] a very simple small remoter grid performance compare to 3.4.x. I hope extjs 4.2.x release would at least pay an attention to improve the performance of simple grid.
13 Feb 2013 2:20 PM #4
Are some of these already in 4.2 beta or not? I am interested in the Optimized Component Life Cycle and Optimized Panel layout.
11 Mar 2013 7:27 AM #5
Current state of play in terms of performance gain over the last 6 months
Tested under a very complex test app… using majority of EXTJS Features.
Average Test app load times - VS - Build - VS - Browsers
Build : 18.104.22.1681 (Sept 2012)
I.E. 8 : 8.328 Seconds
Chrome : 1.438 Seconds
Build : 18.104.22.168 (Nov 2012)
I.E. 8 : 7.651 Seconds
Chrome : 1.370 Seconds
Build : 184.108.40.2069 (RC) – (Mar 2013)
I.E. 8 : 6.577 Seconds
Chrome : 1.277 Seconds
Conclusion: Each version has improved Framework performance.
Overall Performance increase from 126.96.36.1991 to 18.104.22.1689 (RC)
I.E. 8 : 26.623 % Increase
Chrome : 12.608 % Increase
Well done guys. The framework is performing much better and looking through my raw timing figures, memory leaks seem to be handled now.
I.E. 8 Is still a way off Chrome's performance under the 4.x framework however... compared to 3.x
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Hi Sencha. I'm wondering when the 4.2 can be released?
12 Mar 2013 5:39 AM #8
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13 Mar 2013 12:41 AM #10
Thanks so much for sharing your findings. That is great news to hear that you are seeing the gains in your application - you made my month!
A general update on the categories for performance improvements from above.
1. Optimize component life-cycle
Quite a lot was done here, especially for framed components (such as buttons, windows and some panels). More opportunities remain so stay tuned.
2. Track/eliminate unnecessary measurements in layouts
The first optimization here showed some very promising improvements for the 2nd+ layout - on the order of 30% faster by not recalculating unchanged components. Sadly this had to be reverted when we found some complex situations where the optimizations caused layout failures. We will see if we can't find a way to tame those regressions because this really helps app responsiveness once the framework is loaded.
3. Optimized panel/dock layout
Got a good way in to this but had to defer in favor of Grid performance work. I hope we can revive and finish this since it really helped simplify the dock layout logic... though its performance impact is not yet clear.
4. Deferred Layouts
Still investigating, but this may not be possible due to the number of side-effects on user apps.
5. Class System Optimization
The first significant piece of this showed up in Sencha Cmd v3's compiler. It shaved about 30% off the time it takes the browser to load the framework code (or about 200 ms on a slow XP laptop). We hope to roll some of this back to the framework proper to help apps that don't use the optimizing compiler in Cmd, but this is enabled by default in ext-all.js in shipping framework builds.
Though not planned at the time I posted above, the Neptune theme work allowed us to revisit several internals of our SASS and as we passed over it we made several changes that have helped performance but were primarily targeting multi-theme support:
Don Griffin
- Removed CSS reset, scoped reset and "styled html". These were quite expensive rules that turned out to be not very needed by the framework. (Thanks go to Opera's CSS profiler)
- Moved all framing calculations to SASS, so no more JavaScript to finalize frame size or background image position for sprites.
- Quit using button elements for Button component (uses Aria role instead). This allowed the component layout for buttons to be radically simpler ... turns out IE has opinions on button el styling Also somewhat surprisingly, depending on the app, buttons can become the most expensive piece of the layout so this is likely to be very noticable.
- This also helped tab panels since Tab extends Button. This really helped achieve this little trick as well http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-2/#!...side-tabs.html
- Simplified managed dockedItem border logic ... though this only helps complex dock layout arrangements, it turns out people have those in their apps
- Cmd now allows you to build only the SASS you need in to your apps so that can help reduce the CSS size and improve performance a bit... unless you are using most to all of the framework of course
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I can't believe I'm actually asking this, but what are some good, cheap tablets that can run Ubuntu? I'm considering getting a tablet, but I don't really want an expensive one like an iPad. And I love Ubuntu. So what tablets are out there that are cheap, but can also run Ubuntu 12.04 without much lag if it's installed after purchase? Personal anecdotes would be appreciated! Note: I'm not asking you to help me shop, just to formulate a list of tablets (+personal preference) that can use Ubuntu.
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What you will need
Ubuntu Nexus 7 Desktop Installer
A simple graphical installer has been provided, and is available in a PPA.
Usage instructions for the installer are provided in this link.
I am now using Ubuntu 12.04 on my Samsung Slate 7 tablet. This is quite expensive, but it's because it's a notebook. i5 quad core, 4GB ram etc. The result is super-nice. Luckily, I had chances to install Linux on quite many tablets since 2003. Until now, Slate7 + Ubuntu 12.04 is the best.
SmartQ T20 can dualboot Ubuntu 12.04 and Android 4.0.4. Hardware acceleration is not working but it is still useable.
Tablets so far do not come with Ubuntu natively installed on them. However, there are many out there that have workarounds.
For instance, my tablet is the discontinued HP Touchpad. Using moboot, I have Ubuntu 11.10 booting natively. Though there are some glitches when you go this route since the tablet was never designed to run a full featured Operating System (for instance, Ubuntu on the HP Touchpad has wireless driver issues if you are connecting to a secured wireless router. Open networks are fine, just not secured).
If you find a tablet you like search on Google for "tablet name" Ubuntu install and see if anything comes up. Another good website to keep on the lookout for "hacks" is the XDA developers forum.
I think this might be a solution for you: http://pengpod.com/products/ It's set to release in January
If you want a good tablet today, which "can also run Ubuntu 12.04 without much lag", you're pretty much looking at x86 tablets (Intel Atom-based, mostly) that come bundled with Windows 7. I doubt you'll get one of those cheaper than the baseline iPad (USD 500).
Writing this on a 3.5yr old Asus T91MT x86 multi-touch tablet/netbook convertible. Dual-boot 12.10 with win7. All is sweet. Bought it lightly used 3yrs ago $233.
Oh, and run Android apps with Bluestacks in win7.
Clever gadget. Can still find 'em. Why Asus never promoted this thing I cant imagine.
I'm pretty sure the yet-to-be-released KDE Vivaldi tablet will be able to run Ubuntu.
I guess you could get a tablet running Windows 7/8 and run Wubi. enter link description here
You could get the nexus 7 and get the installer, it is very cheap and the process is simple.
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A Leavenworth woman has been sentenced to a year of probation for an attempted obstruction charge for reportedly allowing an escaped inmate stay at her apartment, court records show.
Amber D. Hall, 23, was sentenced Wednesday in Leavenworth County District Court for a charge of attempted obstruction of apprehension or prosecution. She pleaded no contest to the charge in January.
The charge is connected to Raheem K. Armstead, who escaped from custody at the Leavenworth County Jail Dec. 29. He was apprehended Dec. 31.
According to prosecution officials, Armstead had been found hiding in a closet in an apartment in the 700 block of North 13th Street. The apartment was the residence of Hall and a co-defendant, Joshua A. Showalter.
Hall received a suspended six-month prison sentence Wednesday and was placed on probation for 12 months, according to court records.
Armstead pleaded guilty in January to aggravated escape from custody. Sentencing in his case had been set for Feb. 22 but has been continued until March 22.
Showalter pleaded no contest in February to an obstruction charge. His sentencing is scheduled for March 22.
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Let $a_i$ be a list of $m$ uniformly distributed integers not greater than some $n$: $a_i \in \mathbb{N} \land a_i \leq n$ for $i={1..m}$.
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The question is how to calculate expected value of $x$?