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WEIRTON - Later today, Weirton city officials will find out how much money they'll have to borrow to pay for a major sewage system upgrade.
Utilities Director A.D. "Butch" Mastrantoni told council they'll be opening the bids for Phase II at 2 p.m. today at the sanitary board's office on Freedom Way.
"We had a very good response at the pre-bid conference, which was a requirement to bid," he said. "We're looking forward to a good bit of contractor participation."
City officials had estimated the work would cost in the neighborhood of $5.8 million to $5.9 million from start to finish, but until bids are opened they won't know for sure how accurate their projections were.
City Council on Monday heard the first reading of an ordinance authorizing up to $6.3 million in sewer revenue bonds. The proposal will have to pass two more readings.
Several council members, however, voiced concern that the bond ceiling specified in the ordinance was about a half-million dollars above the estimated cost. Council had signed off on a rate hike plan two years ago predicated on the $5.9 million estimated project cost, and members made it clear they don't want to have to revisit it so controlling costs is a priority.
"Our rates are set for a $5.9 million project," Ward 7 Councilman Terry Weigel said.
The city's bond consultant, however, said the $6.3 million bond ceiling was precautionary. In the event that bids come in above estimate, the city would be positioned to address it "without having to go back through the bid process again," a Steptoe & Johnson consultant said.
"There will not be any bonds issued" until council signs off on the amount, he reiterated. "Depending on what the bids come in at, you could raise or lower rates."
The first phase of the sewage overhaul, necessitated by discharges in violation of federal environmental standards, involved laying about 4,700 lineal feet of gravity sewer to route sanitary flow from some 1,000 structures along Pennsylvania Avenue and nearby neighborhoods up Old Main Street to the 5th Street Lift Station. Phase II is a new 16-inch main that will take the sanitary flow from the lift station all the way to the Freedom Way treatment plant about six miles away, where it will be treated and then released into the Ohio.
The discharges were undetected for years. Once the problem was discovered, however, city officials self-reported the problem, thereby avoiding stiff fines.
Council, meanwhile, took under advisement Human Rights Commission Chairman Bill Zanieski's concern that three members have tendered resignations, the terms of a number of others have expired and they've not had a business meeting in months.
"In recent months, maybe the better half of a year, we've not had a quorum," he said, "... (so) we're there just talking for 15 or 20 minutes."
Zanieski said that over the course of his six years as chairman "we've done one investigation and had one person come in three or four (times). That's it." He said messages left on the commission's voicemail typically are "hang-ups, expletives and people wanting directions."
"Probably the first legitimate complaint we've had in a long, long time" involved police and had to be referred to the state human rights commission, Zanieski said.
"I'm not pushing you to do away with the commission," he added. "(I'm just) putting the ball in your court as to what should be done."
Several council members, however, voiced reluctance to disband the commission, saying if nothing else it could present problems if an issue were to arise down the road.
"I'm hard-pressed to find somebody who wants to serve on committees, and like you said, there's nothing (for them) to do," Ward 2 Councilman Chuck Wright told Zanieski. "I don't see a need to have (meetings) if there's nothing for them to do, not that I don't want a mechanism in place" to address complaints.
"Maybe don't dismantle it," suggested City Manager Valerie Means. "Maybe (the commission) should just be on hiatus until there's a need."
After the meeting, Wright said the real issue seems to be "there's no complaints" for the commission to address.
"If nobody is going to complain, I can't see the purpose of having something in place that's not being utilized," he said. "But rather than do away with it completely, cut back on the number of meetings."
In other business, council passed resolutions:
Authorizing Weirton's 2014 per capita contribution to Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission and payment of their 2013-14 Municipal League dues.
Renewing the service contract for the city's accounting software.
Authorizing a training seminar for city firefighters. Squads throughout Brooke and Hancock counties as well as Paris, Pa., and Steubenville will be invited to participate.
For the purchase of two 2014 Ford utility vehicles and a 2014 interceptor sedan for the police department.
Placing liens against a property on Cove Road to recoup demolition costs
Council also heard the first reading of ordinances authorizing a 90-foot yellow line on the west side of Locust Street, a 4-foot yellow line on each side of a driveway at 512 Locust St. and a 4-foot yellow line on each side of the entrance to Lynn Court.
An ordinance requesting a handicapped parking space at 4122 Washington St. passed on an emergency basis.
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What are the benefits of training?
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Can also be used by beginners and the elderly
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To change the parameters of your workout and make it easier to read data like calories burned and miles covered, the buttons and text on the controls are 30% larger than other cardio equipment, and also have contrasting colors.To help you get onto the equipment with no trouble, this machine is only 20 cm off the ground which is lower than other treadmills.
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The Jog Now 500 MD version, certified by European Community law 93/42 dedicated to medical devices, is suitable for use in hospitals, out-patient clinics, sports centers and rehabilitation centers to support muscle therapy and rehabilitation.
Why train with Jog Now
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A platform can be considered safe and high quality if it ensures equilibrium between two movements: the phase in which the foot presses against the resting surface, and then when it rises upward. If a belt is too soft, the foot remains in contact with the belt longer and motions become more tiring and less natural.
The Jog Now belt is slightly less hard than the belt on Run Now, and consequently offers a more comfortable rest for the foot (especially for people who have never run before) yet it also delivers the right responsiveness for resuming movement.
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Several members of the Dakota Wesleyan University athletics department will be freezing – but for a very good reason – in February.
Tiger head football coach Ross Cimpl, wrestling coach Matt Sedivy and graduate assistant Kevin Kelly, track and field coach Pat Belling and sports information director Leah Rado are all taking part in the Special Olympics South Dakota's Polar Plunge.
Cimpl, and potentially some of the DWU football players, Sedivy, Kelly and Rado will all be plunging on Saturday, Feb. 8, and Belling is raising money to help support the plunge as the Tigers have an indoor track meet in Storm Lake, Iowa, that day. Sedivy and Kelly are on the DWU Wrestling plunge team, and for the first $100 raised, Sedivy will plunge into the water, and if another $100 or more is raised, Kelly will also plunge. In order to plunge, each participant needs to raise at least $100, all of which goes directly to the Special Olympics South Dakota.
After raising $100, participants are allowed to plunge into a tank of water at 2 p.m. on Feb. 8 in the Blarney's parking lot in Mitchell. Participants are encouraged to wear costumes or appropriate attire: Sedivy and Kelly will be plunging in DWU wrestling singlets.
Belling, Rado, Sedivy and Kelly all have pages set up on the Plunge's website for supporters to donate to the cause. Donate to Belling here: http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/PatrickBelling/2014-mitchell-polar-plunge
Sedivy and Kelly are signed up under DWU wrestling. Donate to the wrestling coaches' cause here: http://www.firstgiving.com/team/254789
Donate to Rado here: http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/LeahRado/2014-mitchell-polar-plunge
Cimpl and the football team do not have a page set up yet, so contact Cimpl at email@example.com to donate. Donations can also be sent to each individual at the DWU athletic office.
Special Olympics South Dakota provides year-round sports training and competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.


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Jeff Dye: Jeff Dye is a nationally touring comedian, actor, host, prankster, and Bigfoot Enthusiast. Raised in Seattle, this class clown started doing comedy at Giggles Comedy Club almost right out of high school and was first nationally recognized on NBC'S LAST COMIC STANDING and finished third after only three years into his comedy career. Since then he has had two of his own shows on MTV ( MONEY FROM STRANGERS and NUMBNUTS ), his own COMEDY CENTRAL PRESENTS , and numerous other TV roles like GIRLCODE and EXTREME MAKEOVER HOME EDITION . Jeff's passion is bringing Love and positivity to everyone he encounters through laughter and has been described as a charming troublemaker with a pocket full of love.
You can catch Jeff currently on NBC's new hit show I CAN DO THAT!
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Following the advise of an answer in Ask Ubuntu, I downloaded and ran a script with a URL starting by http://goo.gl/
Is it risky to use such file? could it be a virus or something else?
If yes, what should I do?
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I followed this answer, and did
wget -O amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run http://goo.gl/VGYWP
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I unfortunately found today that I have a malicious script on my website. It is chmodded 644, but I cannot delete it. Directories above it would permit me to delete it normally. The interface is cPanel.
I found out the name of the creator from the bottom of the source code behind it.
This script is very nasty, and is in every directory of my website. Fortunately, I have a clean backup and I plan on restoring that ASAP.
From the source, I have derived that it is used to "crack" ftp passwords, mysql databases, security in general, and it can (unfortunately) do a lot more than that too, including have direct access to every single file on my account. It targets certain scripts, namely phpbb, smf, and vbulliten, but I have none of these running on my website.
Is there a script to force-remove this virus/worm/whatever the heck it is without triggering it?
It appeared in all directories where the chmod was at least 755 for a fact, and a few where it was 644 somehow.
What do I do? Nobody has run it yet, it is simply sitting there in place. No access logs have any record of anybody doing anything with it (yet)
Whats the best path for me to take? I have been hearing that it is on the whole server, not just my account.
Also, sorry if this site is not the right place to ask it, I figured this was the best though because it directly relates. Any way to just blacklist the file name?


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I'm looking for a way to save articles for later, like with Instapaper or ReadItLater, but in a way they can easily be printed in batch (e.g. select the last dozen and hit print, and it would then archive them). I don't mind if it's one of those services with some third-party tool, or a completely different service.
Readability is a wonderful app that lets you save a page and present it now or later in a readable and printable format for mobile or desktop. You can also send articles directly to services like Kindle.
Readability is available for desktop via browser plug ins and will soon be released on iOS.
Answering my own question, one such service is http://joliprint.com/, but it's fairly basic, it just generates PDFs on demand and doesn't keep a queue or mobile app. (It also has some Instapaper integration, but basic.)


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Moons of the Solar System
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Neptune's main moon is one of the coldest places in our solar system. It's so cold on Triton that even nitrogen freezes and sits as ice on the surface.
Fun Fact: Triton orbits Neptune in the opposite direction of that planet's rotation. This is called a retrograde orbit. Triton is the only large moon in the solar system with a retrograde orbit around its planet, leading scientists to believe that Triton formed elsewhere and was captured by Neptune's gravity long ago. Photo source: NASA
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Ernest Smith
Whenever one asks members of the medical-advertising community about a legend of the business, the responses come across as canned and predictable. The individual in question was a "genius" who "practically invented this thing that we do" and "innovated practically every minute."
But when one asks former peers—including his ex-wife, a co-worker at Sudler & Hennessey for several years after they divorced—about Ernie Smith, their quick-hit impressions are very different.
Respondents toss around the expected plaudits—appropriate, given his creatively prolific 30-year tenure in the business—but they speak first about Smith as a person. They note his intellectual and creative generosity, applaud the eagerness and interest with which he mentored younger staffers, and recall how he treated the janitor the same as he treated marquee clients. In short, they remember a big shot who never acted like one.
"Ernie was one of the originals in this business," says Robin Davenport, creative director of Sudler and S&H division SentrixHealth, who worked under Smith as a junior copywriter. "There was nothing at all intimidating about him, except the degree of his talent." Adds Fay Barrows, a longtime Sudler employee and the mother of his three children: "He was a very natural and honest guy. There was no artifice."
Smith's disinclination to proclaim his creative bona fides, in fact, might be why the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame is only now getting around to enshrining him. "Lots of people who were big on talking about themselves and putting their names on doors have been recognized," says Louisa Holland, Sudler's co-CEO, the Americas, who first encountered Smith when she was a young account person. "That wasn't Ernie. He didn't blow his own horn."
Which isn't to say that Smith lacked reasons to do so. He won scores of Art Directors Club awards and Gold Medals, working with med-ad luminaries (Herb Lubalin) and pop-culture icons (Andy Warhol) alike. At every professional stop, he was the "ideas man," the rare individual who didn't traffic in what Holland refers to as "the borrowed metaphor. With so many people, it's like, 'Here's a picture of a butterfly—how can we make this make sense in the context of the product?' Ernie didn't go into art or photo books. Nothing was borrowed. It all came out of his head."
One such idea, the "Benadryl Fathead," is identified by med-ad pundits as one of the industry's transformative images. To depict the respiratory scourge that is nasal congestion, Smith dreamed up and created the image of a wheezing, comically overinflated face—a hugely complicated task in the days before Photoshop. "You looked at it and you knew exactly what the image was trying to say," Barrows notes. "He could always tell a story without words."
Smith was no less fascinating outside the office. He pursued his interests vigorously, especially jazz (the Smithsonian now hosts his collection of jazz films) and black dance (he contributed to the Dance Black America Festival and donated works to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture). Barrows recalls a short silent film he created with a friend, in which he played a German World War I fighter pilot and she was drafted into service as a Dietrich-like muse. "He was a renaissance man," she says.
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The 8 Least Impressive Guinness World Records
On May 22, 2007 Katsusuke Yanagisawa became the oldest person to summit Mt. Everest. This 71 year old former school teacher has since joined the ranks of Bear Grylls and Lance Armstrong as "People Whose Achievements Invalidate Your Pathetic Existence."
This is the stuff of a worthwhile world record, a moment highlighting the richness of human potential. Of course, as any quick study of the Maury studio audience will attest, that potential is rarely exercised by the masses. And the folks who put out the Guinness Book of Records (GBR) have a lot of blank pages to fill ...
#8. Greatest Distance Thrown in a Car Accident
As Newton once postulated, a body will remain at rest, or continue to move at a constant velocity, unless an external net force acts upon it. That law should now be renamed Matthew McKnight's law, as no one has demonstrated it as spectacularly as he did the day he was standing around and a car hit him going 70 mph, flinging McKnight a distance equal to more than a third of a football field.
McKnight was struck when he pulled over to help accident victims on Interstate 376 on October 26, 2001. His kindness was repaid with an involuntary flight of 118 feet as well as a broken shoulder, pelvis, leg and tailbone. Luckily he was quickly surrounded by a crack medical staff who, seeing how far the man had been flung, knew that Guiness must be contacted STAT.
From then on, no matter what else McKnight may have accomplished in his life, he would forever hold the record for Greatest Distance Thrown In a Car Accident. Congrats, Matthew!
It was actually McKnight's emergency room physician, Dr. Eric Brader, that submitted paperwork for the record, because nothing in the Hippocratic Oath specifically bars you from "just being kind of a dick".
#7. Longest Ear Hair
This next honoree was actually the inspiration for John Mayer's seminal hit (double entendre intended) "Your Body Is A Wonderland". Of course, it was a much earlier iteration of the song, back when the working title was "Your Body Is A Monument To All That is Vile And Unholy".
Radhakant Bajpai of Naya Ganj, Uttar Pradesh, India, was "blessed" with extraordinarily long hair sprouting from the center of his outer ears. The record actually specifies the hair originates from the "middle of the pinna", meaning that GBR has had to maintain separate records for the longest hairs from multiple regions of the ear. Radhakant's ear hair/tendrils measure an incredible 13.2 cm (about 5.25 inches) at its longest point, though it is slightly shorter when pulled back into pigtails.
"Making it to Guinness World Records is indeed a special occasion for me and my family," said Radhakant. "God has been very kind to me." It's not clear exactly how God compensated Radhakant for the grotesquely long ear hair though most experts postulate that it would take at least three extra inches of penis to consider the deal even.
Or, maybe we're misreading the man's comments and he really is proud of his ear hair; perhaps in his culture it is a trait to be treasured and the hair represents the gentle, fluffy kitten that lives inside a man's skull. Regardless of why he's thankful, he should probably be thanking the shameless Guinness editors, or perhaps all of the people who failed to set any sort of impressive record that year, but probably not God.
#6. Largest Collection of Traffic Cones
Not all collections are equal. For some, completing a collection involves scouring the planet for rarities that all would envy. For others, it involves yanking mundane bits of municipal property off the road and appropriating it for their own uses. Guess which one David Morgan opted for when he assembled his collection of traffic cones?
David has a collection of 137 different, presumably stolen, traffic cones. Based on the picture, this includes "The orange conical one", the "off-orange conical one" and the rare "yellow pointy one that someone drew a penis on the side of."
David owns approximately two thirds of all the types of traffic cones ever made, which is more impressive when you realize that means someone out there is actually a traffic cone historian and can thus validate the scope of his collection. We'll take their word for it.
#5. Greatest Distance Moonwalked in One Hour
The people of the Balkan states are best known for their indomitable spirit and their adoption of pop culture trends 20 years after they've expired in America. The sum of these two qualities coalesced on September 10, 2006 when Krunoslav Budiselic set the world record for the greatest distance moonwalked in one hour.
Krunoslav managed to cover 5.255 km (3.265 miles) moonwalking at the Athletic Stadium Mladost, in Zagreb, Croatia on that fateful day. Witnesses to the event described it as both "plodding" and "impressively fruity" according to our translation. As news of Krunoslav's triumph spread across the land, the people celebrated his victory by overthrowing the local government in a bloody coup.
The excitement from this accomplishment even managed to trump the buzz surrounding The Removal Of The World's Largest Appendix (measuring at 26 cm/10.24 in), occurring in Zagreb just a month prior.
Zagreb is now petitioning to the U.N. to be formally recognized as the "WTF Capital Of The World".


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Talking with Chatfe at the recent BizSpark camp for Windows Azure in New York
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On Climate Change, Some Arguments Shift
Climate change is back on the agenda in Washington after President Barack Obama's call to action in his second inaugural address. And while polls suggest that public belief that manmade causes are behind warmer temperatures isn't yet back to the levels seen in the middle of the last decade, concern about climate change is recovering from the economic collapse of 2008-09, which buried the issue under economic worries.
Seniors Cooler to Global Warming
Among the significant divides in public attitudes is age. In an October poll by the Pew Research Center, younger respondents showed the highest agreement with the view that warming is manmade and that it is a "very serious" problem. Only 28% of respondents 65 and over thought there was solid evidence the earth was warming because of human activity, versus 42% overall.
For climate-change campaigners and politicians in Washington, those demographics could be significant. As more young people—even those who are conservative on other issues—side with those who believe in manmade global warming, it could be easier to find the votes for aggressive action on the climate in Congress, although immediate moves appear unlikely.
Ben Lowe, one of the founders of an activist network called Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, shows how the issue influences a traditional bastion of Republican support.
Mr. Lowe, 28 years old, came from a long line of Republicans. But rising temperatures have been especially hard to avoid for him and his peers. "No one under 28 has experienced a cooler-than-average month," he said. "Global warming is all we've ever known."
Wisconsin native Kelsie Wendelberger knocked on doors to help Republican Gov. Scott Walker in his recall fight, and she said she considers herself conservative. "But it's prudent to manage climate risk," said the 20-year old sophomore at Wheaton College, a Christian school in Illinois.
She said that from a cost-benefit standpoint, it pays to address climate change. "Look at the numbers," she said. "It would have been better not to have to spend so much on recovery" after superstorm Sandy and other recent events.
For opponents of sweeping action to fight climate change, generational attitudes matter less than dollars and cents. Just as public concern about climate change bottomed out during the recession, Republican lawmakers warn that any steps by Washington to curb greenhouse-gas emissions—blamed by many scientists for contributing to climate change—or to add regulations on fossil fuels such as coal could harm the recovery.
"It is difficult to understand the everyday cost of these regulations and the climate agenda until you have to pay electric bills, purchase groceries, put gas in your car," said Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.). "Influencing young people is easily accomplished in the academic setting, but many people change their views as they become directly affected by the real-world impacts of these regulations."
What is more, the age divide isn't enough to change the dynamics in Congress, where lawmakers are well-aware that older voters turn out more frequently and broad action to address global warming isn't on the immediate agenda.
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President's Farewell Address
Murray Stein
Goldiwil, Switzerland
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Analytische Psychologie
(Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts, Honorary Member)
It is an honor to be allotted time at this Congress to express some personal thoughts. I want to underscore that these ruminations are strictly my own, though they also include what I have pasted together from many individual conversations. I ask you to keep this in mind. I take full responsibility for them. Perhaps they will irritate you; or they may provoke you to make your own reflections on where the IAAP is today in its corporate life and where it is going.
As president of the IAAP for the past three years, I have been standing on the shoulders of the ten former presidents: Luigi Zoja, Verena Kast, Tom Kirsch, Hans Dieckmann, Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig, Gerhard Adler, Joseph Wheelwright, Franz Riklin, Robert Moody, and C.A. Meier. The view has been extraordinary. One can see far with such good elevation and hindsight. I name them to evoke the dimension of our institutional history. I am grateful for these ancestral spirits. The reminder of their leadership strengthened me while serving as president. The advice and good words of those who are still living have been most useful. I must thank particularly my immediate processors, Luigi Zoja, Verena Kast, and Tom Kirsch for their help on several critical occasions during these years. I have also spoken with Hans Dieckmann and Adolph Guggenbuhl-Craig and received their helpful views. All I count as good friends.
In 2005, the IAAP will be fifty years old. This is not a long history by institutional standards, but it is not insignificant either. The IAAP was founded on Jung's 80th birthday, July 26, 1955, and offered to him as a present. The Minutes of the IAAP's Founding Meeting read that Dr. C.A. Meier said: "The founding of a Society of Jungian Analysts would be the most appreciated gift for Professor Jung on the occasion of his birthday." And so it was. Professor Jung accepted the title of Honorary President and was listed as such on the IAAP stationary until his death.
In the half-century that has passed since then, numerous analysts have served in IAAP offices and on Executive Committees, on Program and Organizing Committees for the Congresses, and in key posts such as those of Newsletter editor, Webmaster, and Delegate. As a result of their labors and generous contributions and the cooperation of all the members, the IAAP today is a thriving, vibrant, and dynamic body. It has reached a considerable level of maturity and (if we may use the term in relation to associations such as this one) individuation.
As one approaches fifty, it is good to pause for a time and consider where one has come from, where one is presently, and where one may be headed. It seems a good time to reflect on midlife issues and on the important, even necessary, transformation of attitude and personality that can take place as one passes through this phase of life. Let's venture a thought experiment. Consider the IAAP "in midlife".
Taking a brief look around the world today that we as analytical psychologists live and work in, what is most apparent? Luigi Zoja delivered his presidential address three years ago in Cambridge, England, only a couple of weeks before September 11, 2001, now referred to simply as "9/11". In his prescient address, he questioned the then widely held assumption that the twenty-first century would be one of increasing unity among peoples of the world, an Age of Aquarius in the popular sense. While Europe could be seen as uniting, and globalization as forcing a kind of monoculture on the world's human diversity, he noted that as much energy is going into division as into unification. Since "9/11" this has become radically more evident, and this IAAP Congress has been dedicated to the "edges of experience" where differences can easily turn into splits and the unknown "other" instantly become the enemy.
After "9/11", the world looks a good bit different than before, with totalitarian ("unification"?) tendencies threatening to take over even in "the land of the free and the home of the brave", namely in America, which has always prided itself on honoring the value of political, religious, economic, and other types of freedom. What we experience today in many parts of the world is not exactly a friendly climate for psychotherapy of any type, never mind a kind of analysis like ours that emphasizes the priority of the individual over the collective. This is a type of unification that engenders division and polarization by insisting on uniformity and demanding conformity to group norms. It constellates the opposite, the need for individuality and free expression.
If society at large enters another "dark age", as some of our colleagues have predicted, will this not threaten the very essence and existence of Jungian psychology? We can notice trends in a totalitarian direction, which have had extremely destructive effects on our collective life, even within our own member groups and training institutes. More than we realize, we are a part of the Zeitgeist, and our forms of governance and our attitudes are subtly shaped by the collective, by its fears and anxieties and importantly by its "defenses of the self". I have heard from more than a few fellow analysts a deeply felt questioning about the value of Analytical Psychology for shaping and influencing the professional structures we are evolving at this time. The troubling question is: Are we analysts any better at managing power and politics than the less psychologically minded and trained members of other organizations? The evidence is not in our favor. This is sobering. What can we offer the world if we cannot even manage our own comparatively small institutional affairs?
It may be in fact the case that the enemy of individuation has crept into our own collective psyche, and at fifty we must confront a powerful inner figure bent on our destruction. In many IAAP member Groups, it seems, Eros has vanished and a will to power has taken charge. When people lose their vision, Eros flees and Power fills the vacuum. Luigi Zoja concluded his address in Cambridge with this sentence: "Jungian psychology is the main instrument we have acquired for the understanding of the tragic human tendency to division. It should not be allowed to become a factor of division itself" (p. 760). Has it not already done so? The very tools we obtain in training for promoting individuation in our clinical practices are often turned into weapons against our professional rivals and competitors in institutional politics. Individuation has gotten confused with individualism and its profound sense of entitlement and narcissistic thrusts of self-assertion at the expense of the whole.
Is true individuation becoming intolerable? The freedom to explore, to grow, to discover new answers to old questions comes at the high cost of building containers out of earned trust that can withstand great pressures from many directions. Perhaps the price is too high, and as a result groups fragment. Is it possible to tolerate different opinions about governance without demonizing the people who hold them? Are we able to negotiate such differences and find solutions that satisfy no one fully but work for the good of the whole? We do not have a good record. As we grow older, habits become rigid attitudes, and fears mount as the methods that previously worked so well do not function any more. The archetype of renewal fades into oblivion and becomes a dream forgotten. The new young look tragically inferior to their elders, and the future looms as a gloomy prospect in dire need of a parent's wise direction. Shadows hang heavy in the air and float everywhere, scaring even the bold youth and the courageous pioneer. The anxious need for ego control has trumped faith in the Self, and this steers us directly into splitting and fragmentation.
Let me offer a brief "case history" of the IAAP. The Association was conceived and carried in the psychic womb of Jung's closest students and colleagues and presented to him as an infant at his 80th birthday party. Jung is the grandfather, therefore, and not the father of the IAAP. The IAAP is a direct descendent of the first generation of the Jungian family, a child of their creative imagination.
At the time of its origin, the IAAP consisted of a group of twenty- three charter members, some of whom represented organized analytical societies like the SAP (London), the Medical Society of Analytical Psychology in New York, the San Francisco and Los Angeles groups, and the Association of Graduates of the Jung Institute in Zurich. Others came from countries where there were as yet no organized groups, only a scattered number of Individual Members (in Germany, Holland, Italy, France, and Israel).
The IAAP was like the child brought into the world in order to keep two people married. The tensions between Zurich and London were great. The idea was to hold Congresses that could offer a forum for exchange of views and perhaps better understanding. The first elected president, Raymond Moody, is quoted in the Minutes as declaring that "One of his chief aims would be to continue to improve relationship between London and Zurich. With that many other things would be improved." Childhood was a turbulent affair for the IAAP, filled with the noise of arguing parents in continual conflict. Severe ideological tensions and polarizations flared regularly between "Zurich" and "London," the two symbolic centers of teaching and training at the time. If Zurich was father (Jung), London was mother (Klein). (Michael Fordham actually told me once in a joking way that his real desire had been to be Jung's favorite daughter!) At times it seemed as though this was an inter-faith marriage; certainly the spouses came from very different cultural and spiritual backgrounds and held widely differing views on psychological theory and practice. The loud voices of these passionately differing spouses filled the air in Congresses and journals in the early years. Sometimes the difference between them was depicted as "symbolic vs. clinical," sometimes as "classical vs. developmental." At any rate, two quite different ways of thinking and working emerged, and their proponents competed strenuously and urgently for dominance. The IAAP Congresses were the battleground where the two sides clashed; it was a child around whom they fought. By all accounts, these were exciting times, and Congresses were well attended!
The IAAP did survive the raging arguments of the early years and indeed seemed to thrive and receive strength from this internal debate. A plastic and resilient identity was forged that could contain the warring opposites. A distinctive history, a clear ancestral heritage, and a powerful dynamic thrust into the future were positive outcomes of those formative years. One discovered that the IAAP could contain a great deal of diversity without falling into confusion and vagueness, or splitting apart, or becoming psychically paralyzed. By the time the
IAAP reached young adulthood, the inner warring parents had become mostly just "differences of emphasis" in background and heritage. (Continental philosophy on the one side – with its Kantian epistemology, its Hegelian dialectic, and its phenomenological hermeneutic – had married British empiricism and down-to-earth practicality on the other). The IAAP fashioned itself as a young adult who could live well enough with this dual ancestry. Of course, each side of this parentage also had its own historical complexities, and these fed as well into the IAAP bloodstream. All of this made eventually for a rich degree of cultural diversity and opened the collective psyche for even more variety and novelties to come.
By 1980, the IAAP was twenty-five years old and in pretty good shape, with burgeoning training institutes producing greater and greater numbers of promising new analysts, societies busily forming professional journals, and analysts publishing tons of books and articles. Jungian conferences began to spring up everywhere and were often packed with spellbound audiences. Plans and images for growth in the mental health professions in an increasing number of countries showed great promise of future success. Now came the major challenge of professional persona development. The IAAP member groups had to face their communities and adapt to their cultures. This required taking in some "foreign" elements and methodologies and turning them into a form that could be integrated into Jungian attitudes, methods, ways of thinking and formulating without sacrificing the fundamental connection to one's own history and ground. The 1980s and 1990s were a period of accommodation, assimilation, and adaptation. Notably, in the papers and books from this period one finds an increasing and ever broader representation of modern psychoanalytic and other perspectives in the Jungian literature and often a rather shy reticence to put forward the original words and vision of Analytical Psychology. This amounted to a new evolution in the Zurich-London polarity. The walls of opposition broke down and a new synthesis took shape in what had formerly been a rather tensely positioned field of "opposites." Into this mix entered also James Hillman and archetypal psychology with postmodernism, deconstructionism, and phenomenological reductions trailing not far behind. Some members of the IAAP family, finding these developments unacceptable, decisively rejected this emerging amalgam and opted for a return to the original and undiluted vision of Jung and his closest disciples.
At the same time, the ancestor figures were dying one by one. The '80s and '90s saw the passage of Analytical Psychology from the first generation of analysts and teachers, who had known Jung personally and had trained in Zurich in the tight original circle around him, to a second generation of analysts who had not known "the Mahatma" (as Jo Wheelwright called him) and only had heard about him by way of anecdote and story.
The death of parents is liberating but also potentially destabilizing. One confronts the question of what to do with this novelty of liberation from the formerly watchful and dominating eye of parents and grandparents. One is free to consider new options that had been ruled out of court heretofore. Often the presence of living parents prevents a divorce and family fragmentation. Their passing, at first grieved, is later celebrated as previously suppressed energies rise to the surface and come into play. There is a danger of throwing off the traces and becoming unbound to custom and history. It is a fateful time of choice and individuation.
Without Prof. Jung, Dr. Meier, Dr. von Franz, Gerhard Adler, Jo Wheelwright, James Kirsch, Esther Harding, Erich Neumann, Michael Fordham, Elie Humbert – one could name the whole generation of originative figures – in the foreground, the IAAP was now entrusted in a totally new way with the heritage and future of Analytical Psychology. Whereas the IAAP was a mere child and a minor player in the field of Analytical Psychology in its early years, in comparison to the great ancestral figures of the first generation and such august institutions as the Psychological Club and the C.G. Jung Institüt-Zurich, it now has become the primary adult bearer of the genetic line, whose responsibility it is to hand the heritage on to the next generations, hopefully with added value. This is now the burden borne by the IAAP. It is the most responsible and powerful adult in the worldwide Jungian family today.
In midlife, however, much that was certain earlier is called into question. The dreams and enthusiasms of youth wane and fade. One cannot idealize the past as one once did, nor imagine such a glorious future. A midlifer is realistic about life's prospects. On the one hand, there is grief for a past that has been lost – the loved ones, the dreams, the alluring anima who by now has turned into the too-well-known wife and mother, the shining animus hero who is now recognized as flawed and fallible and larded with major deficits. On the other hand, there are troubling doubts about the recurring dreams that beckon one to a new future. Midlife is an age of realism, but also one of increasing skepticism, irony, and sometimes even cynicism. The persona that had been constructed at great cost now rings hollow; the anima, though cute, is not convincing; the animus is too green to do the job; the shadow is filling the basement with water that threatens the foundations; and the Self is invisible, silent, a questionable "hypothesis." In short, one is cut off from the archetypal energies of the collective unconscious.
Crowding into this unpleasant scene, moreover, there is the specter of death. Will our profession survive? We are being squeezed into a position of seeming antique irrelevance by the psychopharmacological industry and by the legions of convinced and articulate practitioners of short-term cognitive therapy. This is "the new generation" that promises to destroy the old and bury us in the back pages of a dusty old history tome. And beyond that, the grim forces of giant government agencies and insurance companies who control the money supply are starving us. Maybe we would do better to take early retirement and at the age of fifty look for a quiet old age in a pensioner's retreat. Such are the thoughts that worry us in the early hours when sleep fails to protect.
Permit me to change the tone, however, and confess that I remain an optimist, and I think of this as a midlife crisis, not as an old age dying process. Maybe not many will agree with me, but let me make my case.
The ground metaphor for this talk's theme – the IAAP in midlife – came to me in St. Petersburg, Russia. The penny dropped as I was walking across the Admiralty Bridge and observing this beautiful city's renewal and ongoing transformation after those grim Soviet times. The Winter Palace, now the Hermitage Museum, sat regally on the banks across the river, gleaming in the sunlight. I had just finished examining the Russian students on the "Route" to Individual Membership in the IAAP, five of whom are now newly minted members. During the days of these examinations (administered with Angela Connolly, and the assistance of Jan Wiener and Catherine Crowther), I had again caught a glimpse of the exciting future for Analytical Psychology in Russia. There is a strong potential future for the IAAP in this rich and diverse culture. Here one senses the excitement of pioneer work. The enthusiasm for Jung's thought and for the later developments in Analytical Psychology, theoretical and clinical, is infectious. The accomplishments of the Russian students are truly inspiring as well. Working steadily despite the great obstacles all around – language and translation difficulties, lack of teachers continuously on site, geographical and financial limitations of the most severe degree – a group of them has managed in ten years to rise to a level of clinical and theoretical competence that matches that of candidates in many of the privileged first world training centers. To be a part of this gives the IAAP's aging heart a lift. One walks with a bit more bounce in the step.
Russia is but one country, moreover, where Analytical Psychology is taking hold as a profession for the first time in history. I have witnessed the same development in other Eastern European countries (Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Estonia, Georgia), in Latin America (Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico), in Asia (Singapore, China, India), and in Africa (South Africa, Tunisia). The IAAP is on the verge of a tremendous leap into a global dimension, with incalculable consequences ahead. The frontiers are laid out before us.
Accompanying this, it should be indicated that one of the most remarkable developments during my presidency has been the notable and sad decline of the only Jungian international training institute (Zurich) and the dramatic rise of the Individual Member "Router" program in the IAAP. Previously, at any given time there might have been a half dozen or so people preparing themselves in some part of the world or another to apply for Individual Membership in the IAAP. Since the early 1990s there has been a gradual increase in their number, and as a consequence the Executive Committee has created a structure, with interviews, exams, and advisory relationships with these "Routers," to insure clinical and intellectual quality. In the last three years, the number of Routers has grown to more than a hundred, many of them coming out of the Developing Groups that the IAAP began recognizing in 1998. While a centrally located international training Institute, once so vital for training analysts, is less a necessity today because the IAAP has recognized so many Groups around the world where training can take place locally, collaterally the IAAP is itself elaborating an international training program in areas of the world where training is not otherwise possible and where people do not have the financial means to travel to a centrally located international training institute. Again, the ball has been handed off to the IAAP, and it now has a new and vital mission with vast potential and opportunity.
Midlife is full of paradox. Stagnation appears to dominate the picture at one moment, because decline is evident and anxiety and doubt take hold in a profound way. At the same time, new opportunities emerge, and since the habits of the past can now be discarded as an excessive burden, there is room for new energy to enter the picture from unforeseen sources.
Let me share another surprising new development that has come about in these past three years. Jung left the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), of which he was perhaps the most important progenitor since he was then considered to be Freud's "son-in-law" (married to Freud's daughter, psychoanalysis) and heir apparent, in 1914. He then fathered Analytical Psychology as a "new family" in Zurich. The IAAP is the creation of his second family and therefore a kind of half-cousin of the IPA. The relations between these two related families have been chilly, to say the least. At official levels, there has been no communication whatsoever. To my knowledge, there has not been a single Jungian speaker at an IPA Congress since the break in 1914, certainly not in an official IAAP capacity. The two families of Grandfather Jung have been estranged in the extreme. Then, in 2004, exactly ninety years after Jung's departure from the IPA, at the invitation of Alain Gibbeault, General Secretary of the IPA, Christian Gaillard and I spoke on a panel at the IPA's 43rd Congress in New Orleans. We attended officially as Jungians, as IAAP officers, and as representatives of the perspective of Analytical Psychology. The theme of the IPA Congress, incidentally, was "Working at the Frontiers," a close relative to the theme of the IAAP's 16th Congress, "Edges of Experience." There was no conscious collaboration on this matter of themes, of course, but we do live in the same world and share important genetic features, believe it or not!
We are discovering that IAAP and IPA members share more things in common that we had previously realized, and increasingly more reasons exist to hold us together than to separate us. Convergence is in the air at the intellectual and now also at the institutional level. Acknowledging our shared history and points of origin may draw us into closer proximity and better relations. With the first generations now gone on both sides and their influence and painful memories fading, it is possible to put aside the traumas of the past and to contemplate a new future of friendly relations and cooperation. The IAAP has, as you must realize, reciprocated in this Congress with a panel jointly filled by IAAP and IPA members, and further projects of collaboration are in the works.
Another important development in these last three years has been the birth of a new child of the IAAP, the International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS). This association was founded as the result of an initiative taken by the previous Executive Committee to sponsor an "Academic conference" at Essex University in 2002. Out of this gathering of IAAP members and other Jungian academics from around the world arose the impulse to form an association of Jungian academics, to include anyone who is engaged in the work of teaching Jungian thought at the university undergraduate and graduate levels. Again, the potential for this association and for what it is planning is enormous. The mission of these Jungian academics is critically important for our common future. To reach students in colleges and universities and to present Jungian ideas and perspectives in a serious academic way, to conduct research in this area as well, amounts to an exciting and vital mission. Students are eager to have these perspectives included in their curricula. This gives Jungians an opportunity to cultivate genuine interest in Analytical Psychology at an early stage of professional development. The seeds of the future are sprouting in the schools and universities, and we need to be a part of their formation and attunement to the world that is coming into being.
One final point. An important aspect of later midlife – which involves a process of re-integration that includes previously repressed or neglected aspects of the psyche and the elaboration of a new identity based upon the incorporation of these factors in conscious identity – is reaching back once again to the past and reclaiming it in a fresh and deeper way. In this last year or so, three major works have appeared that can assist with this enterprise: Dierdre Bair's biography of Jung, Sonu Shamdasani's book, Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science, and Elizabeth Marton's film, "Ich hiess Sabina Spielrein." Each important work in its own way contributes to our understanding of history and makes possible a new appropriation of the past.
What do these studies tell us? First, that Jung was very human and, while a genius, also a social being with many complexities and flaws. This does not come as news to any of us, but the detailing of Jung's personal life has surprised and illuminated everyone I have talked to who has read this new biography and seen the film. Shamdasani's book speaks of Analytical Psychology as an intellectual discipline and of its roots in cultural and scientific history. We are the product of centuries and the focused point of a long tradition of thought. Shamdasani has detailed this history in a rich and instructive fashion. The biography and film also tell us of the origins of Analytical Psychology in psychoanalysis and in Freud's long shadow. This feature can be overlooked in our concerns about Freudocentrism and our need to separate and be individual. We belong to a broad stream of professional, clinical, and intellectual endeavor that courses through the past hundred years. Jung does not stand alone. All three works illuminate our history and expose our roots. Analytical Psychology grows out of the mind of a single Genius – Jung. Jung's views are formed by a long cultural tradition and by professional interests and concerns – psychology and psychotherapy. And our professional roots are also profoundly located in the history of psychoanalysis.
These works root us in time and space. We are not only of today and of yesterday, or of the New Age or the Aquarian Age. We come from a time and place that antedates those and indeed goes back for thousands of years of cultural history and development, as Jung so often affirmed – to Gnosticism, alchemy, and the whole wisdom tradition. Our taproots reach very far down indeed. And we need to incorporate this historical perspective into our identity as we go forward.
If we recognize that we descend from a person (i.e., Jung) and from a modern cultural and professional movement (i.e., psychotherapy and psychoanalysis) and from a long spiritual tradition (i.e., wisdom philosophy), this makes a difference. This perspective offers guiding reference points as we make our way into, through, and out of the condition that I am calling midlife liminality. It is important to recall our ancestral spirits and to assemble them in our conscious awareness from time to time, especially when chaos threatens to engulf us.
Most of us here in this Congress have passed through midlife and have found that life goes on beyond those turbulent years. In fact, many of us would say that life gets better, not worse, after midlife. We do not lose as much as we gain. A time period stretches out before us that calls for wholeness and for sounding the depths of the psyche, for realizing the great complexity and richness of the Self. In institutional terms, it means fostering more depth and even greater tolerance for diversity and difference. One also feels more strongly a hunger for the spiritual and the cosmic, a desire for the transcendent and for the feeling of meaning in our day-to-day efforts. We do not any longer need to prove ourselves in ego terms, but we also cannot rest on the laurels of past victories and achievements. This is a time for broadening and deepening, for inner dialogue and reflection, for avoiding splitting and acting out. We are ripening. We must now reach for the Self.
On the extraverted side, we see that the world is full of people who are hungry for what we have to offer. We should make it our business to feed them. We know that fifty years of age is not so old. We are still strong and vital. (After all, our older cousin, the IPA, is in its 90s and not doing so badly either.) So, as I hand the baton of the presidency on to Christian Gaillard, my encouraging words of advice to him and to the next Executive Committee are: "Let's roll!"


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Edward D. Turner Jr.
Active in the Hartford community
Edward D. Turner Jr.
Born July 8, 1959, in Hartford, he was the son of the late Edward D. Turner Sr. and Margaret Connor Turner. He is also survived by his sister, Beverly Turner Nash of Yonkers, N.Y.; a nephew, Spencer A. Nash of Yonkers, N.Y.; and a host of cousins, relatives and friends.
Edward resided in Hartford, except for a ten-year span living in Boston after graduating from Northeastern University with a bachelor's degree in business administration. He attended the Renbrook School in West Hartford, and the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor. He worked at Sovereign Bank, Wang Laboratories and the Connecticut Department of Labor.
Edward was full of life, compassionate and committed to social justice. He was very active in the Hartford community through his membership in Center Church, the First Church of Christ in Hartford. He served on the public education advocacy team of the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ, and as a board member of Hands on Hartford. For the Hartford Association of the Connecticut Conference of the UCC, he served on the Committee of Church and Ministry, as moderator and represented the organization at two National Synods.
Edward was a member of the Esquire Club of Hartford, a fraternal organization founded in 1939 by 12 young African Americans, including his father and uncle, Norman A. Turner. He served as its treasurer until the time of his death.
Edward loved the arts; he was a longtime TheaterWorks and Hartford Stage season ticket holder. And, he loved jazz. A member of the Hartford Jazz Society, he was a fervent concertgoer on the local jazz scene as well as at jazz festivals in Montreal and Newport, R.I. To the end, Edward saw the sunlight through the trees. He asked that those attending his services "wear bright July colors" in celebration of his life.
A home-going celebration will be held 7 p.m. Friday, June 20, at Center Church, The First Church of Christ in Hartford, 675 Main St., Hartford. His family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. at the church followed by a "time of sharing" from 6 to 7 p.m. prior to the service. Free parking is available at the Gold Building garage on Pearl Street near Main from 5 to 10 p.m. (bring your ticket for validation).
Donations, in lieu of flowers, may be made to Hands on Hartford (handsonhartford.org). For online expressions of sympathy, please visit www.carmonfuneralhome.com.
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23 Aug 2013 3:06 AM #1
Change header appearance of TreeGrid
Is there such a way to change header appearance of TreeGrid?
It is inconvinient that GridView has no constructor to change column appearance.
23 Aug 2013 3:20 PM #2
This is slightly easier to do in the latest support version, but you can override the initColumnHeader method to change the appearance if just changing one instance. If changing all of them, remember that you can write a replace-with rule.
This is something that we are working in 3.1 as part of the general effort to improve the appearance usage.
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I want to fetch 'birthdays' of users, and their friends on my website, from their facebook profiles (with their facebook credentials supplied).
Is their a feature in Facebook API/Connect that I can use to fetch these details from facebook as possible on Native Facebook Apps using Facebook API.
I want to store this data in my DB, and users will be asked for their facebook credentials and consent before this is done.


text: The central core of the curriculum is based in the life and basic sciences. The core courses in Applied Health Science are directed at studying and understanding the applied sciences related to human health and the benefits of human movement. Furthermore, besides having a view towards normal, healthy function, abnormal/pathological and high performance levels of function are also studied. Epidemiological studies have established that there are at least 17 unhealthy conditions that lead to chronic diseases (e.g., obesity is considered the second leading cause of preventable death in the USA with approximately 65% of adults classified as overweight or obese, type-2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions with a 10-fold increase in adolescents). Because these conditions are associated with inactivity and/or nutritional deficiencies, the core courses are presenting proactive instead of reactive approaches to the primary prevention of modern diseases. In addition, 90% of the United States adult population will experience some type of pathological back problems during their lifetime. Certain courses within the department will examine the mechanics of pathologies such as these as well as both normal and super-normal human motion.


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News Of iphone 5
Apple will be released the fifth-generation iPhone at the end of late to early August 7. It is reported that the design of iPhone5 is similar as the iPhone4. Iphone5 has 800 million pixel camera configuration, which will not use SIM card.
I hear this news from others, but I am not sure whether it is true. Anyone know news of iphone5?
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Good sites to check for Mac info are MacRumors, TUAW, and Gizmodo. MacRumors had an article on iPhone4S and iPhone5 rumors.
@apfrehm: Thanks for your reply, will check
iphone5 most likely be equipped with a 800W camera,at the same time with a larger screen,may be 4 inches, the resolution still remains at the retina level 960 * 640 pixel.


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DETROIT (AP) — Cliff Avril refused to lash out at the Detroit Lions after both sides ended negotiations on a multiyear contract.
"I'm not mad," Avril said in an interview with The Associated Press about 40 minutes before Monday's 4 p.m. EDT deadline to get a long-term deal done. "Business is business. You can't take it personal."
Avril will stay in Detroit as a franchise-tagged defensive end for at least one more season with a $10.6 million contract.
"While we are disappointed that we could not execute a long-term deal, we do look forward to having Cliff with us this season under the terms of the franchise tender," Lions president Tom Lewand said in a statement released by the team.
Lewand said the team had "extensive discussions" with Avril and his representative.
Avril wasn't encouraged by the tone of negotiations Sunday night and Monday morning.
"There was a stretch of talks, but I knew in my head it wasn't going to happen," Avril told the AP.
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What is the best way to verify that a machine has ArcInfo Workstation installed? A code sample in VBA, VB or C# would be great!
If you don't have access to poke around in the registry (happens to me often) a poor-mans method would be to look for the system environment variable ARCHOME. If that's there, check under that for the existence of the executable file ARCHOME\bin\arc.exe (or, on Unix, $ARCHOME\bin\arc.exe).
Because the default "Program Files" folder contains spaces, you are more likely to find ARCHOME at somewhere like : "C:\arcgis\arcexe10x".
ARCHOME is required to be set for ArcInfo Workstation to operate correctly, and it will be removed from the environment on uninstall.
They say it's acceptable to answer your own question, so here goes.
Workstation should install a key in Windows's registry. So just search the registry to see if it exists.
Here is an example in VB.NET:
Here's a VBS fragment I used for uninstalling Google Earth via a startup script. You can use these WMI objects to poll machines for the ArcInfo Workstation installation, assuming it's registered in the product catalogue.
Documentation for the Win32_Product class.


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I have watched 10,000BC and have understood the story. But I am curious as to whether the Persian-like Pyramid-building civilization has any link to a real civilization that have existed during those times?
And can they be really that advanced as to have the technology to create those large buildings when at the same time, the main character's tribe is living in the wild?


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The Transcendent Love of God
In John 17 we are invited to listen in as Jesus talks intimately with His Father. That prayer is often called the "High Priestly Prayer" of Christ. Thinking as I do that we read the Bible far too quickly, it …Read More
Divine Architect
The term economic Trinity has nothing to do with money. It has everything to do with love. God is love, and the plurality of the Godhead is an expression of love. Love requires multiplicity; that is, love requires an object …Read More
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In Reformed circles, we hear much about the covenants. We are a people who place our trust in God's covenant faithfulness. We hear about the covenant of grace and the covenant of works, but we hear very little about the …Read More


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The U.S. and the world: How other countries approach gun control
On a warm winter day, class is in session in Redding, Calif. A small group of Americans set their sights on earning a concealed weapons permit.
It's a class that would never happen in a place like England, where carrying a concealed weapon is illegal.
The United States has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world. According to a Gallup poll, 30 percent of Americans own a gun. This adds up to an estimated 88 guns for every 100 Americans.
The right to own a gun is in the Second Amendment, something that sets the United States apart from most other industrialized countries.
Assistant Political Science Professor Cherry McCabe lectures about gun rights as part of constitutional law studies at Simpson University. She said the U.S. has a strong tradition of individual liberty and that the U.S. constitution was drafted to limit the federal government's powers on many issues, including gun laws.
"In other countries, many of their gun control restrictions reflect an entirely different ideology," said McCabe. "If you want to buy a gun as a citizen in Germany, France or Spain, you have to prove affirmatively why you need a gun."
The United States
Within the United States, gun laws in each individual state vary widely. The least restrictive laws are in areas like the South and Midwest. The strictest laws are in the Northeast and California.
Generally all 50 states follow a basic set of federal gun laws. You must fill out federal form 4473 and pass a background check to buy firearms from federally-licensed dealers.
Background checks are not required for private transactions, such as for sales at gun shows.
There are no current federal laws banning assault weapons, handguns or large capacity magazines.
"It's easier to compare California gun laws with Great Britain or Canada than to compare the U.S. in general," said McCabe. "California has laws that are fairly restrictive. In Idaho, Wyoming and Texas, they're not."
According to GunPolicy.org, American federal gun laws are permissive. The other industrialized nations we studied were described as restrictive.
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, a school shooting in 1996 killed 16 children in Scotland who were between five and six years old. It prompted some of the toughest anti-gun legislation in the world.
The U.K. passed a ban on the private ownership of all handguns in England, Scotland and Wales. Even most police officers don't carry guns.
To buy a shotgun or rifle, you must prove why you need it, such as for hunting. You must also pass background checks and provide character references before receiving a gun permit.
In Australia, stricter gun laws were passed after the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996 left 35 people dead at a former prison and tourist site.
Gun owners were forced to surrender certain firearms to be destroyed by the government. Automatic and semi-automatic assault rifles are prohibited in most cases.
Handguns are strictly regulated, and there are limits on how much ammunition can be purchased.
Rich Howell has been in the gun business in the U.S. for 30 years and he said he watches closely what's happening in other countries.
"The U.K. doesn't have a 2nd Amendment," said Howell. Australia doesn't have a second amendment. They saw gun confiscation and had to turn in their firearms."
In Canada, possession of semi-automatic assault weapons is prohibited with narrow exemptions. Applicants for a firearm license must pass background checks which consider criminal, mental, addiction and domestic violence records.
The minimum waiting period is 28 days on the first application and you must have two people vouch for you.
Germany tightened gun laws after a school shooting left 18 people dead in 2002.
Possession of handguns and semi-automatic assault rifles are allowed only with special authorization. People wanting to buy a hunting rifle must undergo background checks that can last up to a year.
U.S. laws reflect Americans' unique attitudes about guns. They are part of the country's constitution, and part of its culture.
"You get your kid's first rifle and go hunting together," said Howell. "It's a totally different culture – a culture that's lasted 200 years."
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