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Issues after beginning conversion from 2.2.5 to 3.0.1
I've got the fun task of converting our projects entire UI from 2.2.5 to 3.0.1. Well I didn't want to have the situation where you modify 100 ui's and eclipse crashes and you lose it all. So I began by converting one UI at a time and leaving the rest at 2.2.5 and seeing if I could run them in the same project without issue. Locally worked fine, tested dev mode and made sure the maven build succeeded.
After confirming that both modes work and the converted UI worked as expected I committed my changes to SVN then started the next UI.
Well I was about 8 UI's in when a co-worker updated to the recent changes. He was first having issues running maven builds getting an out of memory error and it failed on the same class from the gxt 3 blue theme. After upping his heap size we were able to get him passed that.
Then theirs dev mode. He can not run in dev mode at all. We see in the dev mode console :
Then as a result of that error the ui thread throws a null pointer exception.
The big question is why is this happening. I have now checked everything in besides personal settings like my properties file which only has my local db properties in it. He is completely up to date with me. So in comparing what he has vs. what I have we see absolutely no difference. Yet I'm able to run and he is not.
We now have 2 developers dead in the water and I mine as well be dead in the water because now I've stopped working to help fix their situation. We have been trying to find a fix for a full day now and I thought it would be good to get other ideas/suggestions.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
21 Mar 2013 4:35 PM #2
Can you post the full log?
Dev mode doesn't work, but can the user compile their app?
As you may be aware, it is very hard to debug a screenshot, especially one that doesn't actually contain the full stack trace. That said, I've most often seen this issue or issues like this where more than one copy of GWT is on the classpath, and they are different versions. Depending on how you are running the app, there can be several places in eclipse where this classpath might be improperly set up. Make sure everyone is using the same version of GWT, and that every GWT jar is the same version - an errant GWT 2.4.0 can break an otherwise properly set up GWT 2.5.1. Project classpath, run config classpath, WEB-INF/lib/ directory, etc all need to be checked.
Additionally, there are several cache directories that should be cleared like gwt-unitCache/. Make sure those are all removed so that there are no possible stale files.
As a last resort, check out the project and set it up again in eclipse. And consider sharing the project, or a sample project with the same issue, or opening a support ticket.
22 Mar 2013 4:11 AM #3
We were forced to revert back to before the conversion started. It was really strange, I could only run it successfully from my workspace(in which all of the conversions were made). When we checked out from SVN we could not run in devmode, we could build but it all of a sudden took a TON of memory. We had builds blowing up eclipse with the following memory settings: -vmargs -Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=64m.
We had to double everything in order for the builds to work. Another thing to note was even I can not check out a new workspace and run successfully. We did indeed have a second GWT instance get checked into the classpath after somoene upgraded the google eclipse plugin.
I went back into the branch we pulled the conversion stuff into and removed that second isntance and still get the same issue in new workspaces. I also made sure my good workspace vs. new workspaces were exactly the same as far as which files it had. Something in the configuration was causing it to blow up.
22 Mar 2013 4:18 AM #4
How do you clear gwt-unitCache? We cleared browser cache's, tried browsers we'd never used before, no luck. I would post the full log but that was as much as I had in dev mode console and the only error in the console was a Thread failing as a result of the errors from dev mode. I also don't currently have this version of the product checked out.
22 Mar 2013 8:14 AM #5
gwt-unitCache/ is a directory in your project that is generated by the compiler or dev mode to store some generated data so it doesn't need to be generated again.
I'm sorry to hear that you weren't able to resolve this, and without more information, I'm not sure I have any concrete advice for you. Based on the fact that it was a GWT class that failed to be generated ("deferred binding failed for com.google...UserAgentAsserter"), I still think this is more likely to be a gwt versioning issue.
If in changing things you manage to fix the first error but still have another, be sure to share that.


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EPA, Labor Nominees Confirmed
By 59-40 vote mostly along party lines, the Senate on Thursday afternoon confirmed Gina McCarthy as the next head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
That followed a 54-46 vote early in the day to confirm Thomas Perez as Labor secretary.
As The Associated Press notes, the Senate "has filled four top Obama administration posts this week. The progress followed a bipartisan deal on Tuesday that freed the nominations for votes and saw Democrats halt efforts to weaken the minority GOP's powers."
Also confirmed this week:
— Richard Cordray, to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
— Fred Hochberg, to continue leading the Export-Import Bank.
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Many physics papers now have dozens of authors per paper. Experimental physics may have multi-organizational and multi-country contributing staffs, but I'd guess that most of the names don't contribute a word or equation to a paper, yet they get individual authorship credit. My question is who determines the author list, does everybody listed have editing privilages, and perhaps most importantly, who decides on their listed order?
OK, this is for experimental high energy physics as I worked in the field for over 40 years.
There are groups in institutions, universities and research ones. There are many such in each country, and there are many countries. The group leaders in the group decide who signs a paper, mainly by the man hours put in the construction and running of the experiment and also considering contributions in analysis of present and other papers. The order is alphabetical per author within a group, per name of institution. There have been long discussions on changing the credit attribution, but I see that the same holds for LHC papers.
Why are there so many names? In my carreer I worked on one large ( previous had about 50 people) experiment( 350 people) from inception of the idea to taking data and analysis. It took 10 years to build the detector by hundreds of people, years that yielded very few publications from the full work put in, certainly over 8 hours a day. Credit was accumulating from analysis published/worked-on previous experiment papers. Then another 15 years of data analysis where there are also large numbers of working groups, made up from people from all groups, and many people working on the same subject with their own analysis. The final paper is decided by the working group, a joining of all individual analysis. The names are still the ones the individual institute group leader gives to the working group. The working group proposes a preprint to the collaboration editing board, and if the board approves of the paper it goes to the full collaboration meeting, passed by consensus. Every person who signs can comment and ask for changes. They usually do not, as there is trust that the working groups are doing their job well.
The system is completely open. Any group member can join in the analysis and comment.
It is typical for large collaborations in nuclear and particle physics to have considerable internal bureaucracy, including a Memorandum of Understanding or similar document that lays out the rules for membership in the collaboration, authorship on papers published as a collaboration, vetting rules for separate publications of papers on work done on the experiment, and so on.
As anna says the rules often put the choice into the hands of a institutional leader, but they also might require things like
and similar "make sure you're still interested" type qualifications.
The paper is usually drafted by committee (the members of which are selected at collaboration meetings, and they generaly want more not fewer volunteers), and are made available to the whole collaboration for comments a few times before they are submitted (and usually again when the reviewer comments come back).


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How to find the Number of divisors of a number 'n' that are also divisible by another number 'k' without looping through all the divisors of n? I tried the following:
Stored powers of all prime factors of n in an associative array A and did similarly for k, stored the powers of all primes factors in array B.
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CINCINNATI?- Deborah H. Lee, formerly of Richmond, received the Superior Civilian Service Award during a recent ceremony at the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division headquarters in Cincinnati.
The award was presented by Maj. Gen. John W. Peabody in recognition of Lee's contribution in preventing an estimated $110 billion in damages during the spring's flooding on the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
For the past five years Lee has served as chief of the Water Management Division of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Lee has been with the division for 10 years and has a total of 25 years in federal service with the Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Lee's responsibility during this year's flooding entailed operating the Ohio Valley reservoirs to reduce flood damage in the Ohio and lower Mississippi valleys. She also directs the Tennessee Valley reservoirs during times of flooding. Through strategic use of the reservoirs Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake - she was able to reduce flood stages by approximately 4 feet, which was critical in preventing overtopping of the Mississippi River levees. "I appreciated the recognition from my commander for the work my team and I performed during this record flood," Lee stated. "Certainly and hopefully, this record flood was a once in a lifetime experience."
Lee is a 1980 graduate of the former Jefferson Union High School and is the daughter of Wayne and Cinda Hollister of Toronto.


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He says something. She doesn't mind, she answers. They have no memories, no plans. Time builds itself painlessly around them. As landmarks, they have the very taste of this moment they live, and scribbling on the walls.
I rewatched one of my favorite films since school the other night – La jetée, a 28-minute French film from 1962. Director Chris Marker tells the story of time travel in post-nuclear Paris almost entirely through a series of still photos. (There's one scene with just a few seconds of motion.) In under 30 minutes, the plot unravels a Paris in ruins, with the survivors divided up into a hierarchy. One group is experimenting in time travel to the past and present to improve their situation; the others are lab rats. The protagonist proves a successful candidate for their experiments, but his past, present, and future collide in an eerie tragedy. In my very first film class, my professor showed us this movie to teach us the power of words and images, how they can stick with you for a lifetime, how you can tell a story without flashy gimmicks or superfluous material.
Whether it's the French version with subtitles or the English voice-over version, it is one of the most poetic things I've ever come across. While it most obviously inspired the Terry Gilliam movie 12 Monkeys, watching it recently made me think of how it must have inspired other recent films; Christopher Nolan's Inception came to mind the most. The sweeping string orchestra soundtrack, the imagery, and the distant but observant narration all come together to make romance out of dystopia and sci-fi. While it's been done since and also before the film came out, watching it always feels like watching something brand new and revolutionary. So many filmmakers and storytellers choose overkill to get their story across, but La jetée remains there in the film school archives, just waiting to be watched, just waiting to remind you how to tell a story and how to tell it well.


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The fireship was the guided missile of the age of sail. Packed with incendiary (and sometimes explosive) material, it was aimed at its highly inflammable wooden target by volunteers who bailed out at the last moment. Although it often missed its target, the panic it caused among the crews—who generally could not swim and had no method of safely abandoning ship—did the job. The most famous example of its use was the English attack off Gravelines in 1588 that led to the rout of the Spanish Armada and the adoption of the fireship as an integral part of the British fleet. The author explains how increasingly sophisticated "fireworks" were designed into specially built ships, and how doctrines were worked out for their deployment. In covering some of the most dramatic battles of the sailing era, this heavily illustrated book reveals the full impact of a much used but little understood weapon on naval history.


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Responding to a heated exchange from residents and a letter from city officials, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDME) has extended the public comment period regarding its proposed remediation plan for public well number eight. A nearly fifty-minute exchange between the city council, members of the community, representatives from Southern Plains Co-op and officials from KDHE at their regular meeting on Feb. 18, concluded with a request from the city to extend the comment period.
There was some opposition from community members for the "wait and see" plan proposed in KDHE's Corrective Action Decision (CAD), released for public viewing on Jan. 24.
"If the plan is to just wait and see if it doesn't work, why not just fix it now," asked former mayor John Janssen.
"The way it is written in the CAD, if we see nitrate concentrations above 10 MgL in Well #5 which is the closest to Well #8, then we would go to the contingency," replied KDHE representative Jessica Crossman.
KDHE is recommending long-term monitoring of the site for a projected 10 years at a cost of $30,000.
The alternative options are a "no action" response at a cost of $4,000, or on-site groundwater treatment with an estimated cost of $220,000.
Southern Plains Co-op, the current owner of the property formerly known as Farmer's Grain and Supply of Kiowa County, is responsible for costs associated with the clean up.
Treatment of the site would include injections of a "soybean based substrate that accelerates denitrification" and is the contingency should monitoring continue to find contamination. Testing and treatment would be during a projected five-year period.
Public Utilities Superintendent Mick Kendall was present at the meeting and confirmed that there has been no nitrate testing at the well since 2004.
"We haven't pumped that well since 2004 because when we do the nitrate levels start going up," said Kendall.
He also noted that the city has not filled the municipal swimming pool with water from Well #8 since 2004, which was incorrectly published in the CAD.
Councilman Matt Christenson asked if the recommended remediation plan was based on the city's new water treatment plan, scheduled to come on-line sometime in the coming months.
While Crossman said it was not, the CAD did include a mention of the plant, which would blend and treat water pumped from city wells, including Well #8.
Crossman said the inclusion of the water treatment plant in the CAD was informational only.
City officials asked KDHE to consider an extension of the public comment period so it could do further testing and nitrate measurement.
"[An extension would] allow time for the well to be brought back online and to gauge its impact on the nitrate plume," wrote City Administrator Ed Truelove in a letter to KDHE on Feb. 22. "An extension would also allow for testing of the nitrate levels in Well #8, and for increased public input after the results of the nitrate testing have been published."
Page 2 of 2 - KDHE announced on Tuesday that the comment period had been extended to Mat 1 to allow further input from residents and city officials on its proposed plan.
KDHE has published information on the well and its proposed plan at: www.kdheks.gov/remedial
An inspection by KDHE in 2002 found elevated nitrate levels in city Well #8 and traced it to fertilizer contamination by Farmer's Grain and Supply of Kiowa County, which was since purchased by Southern Plains Co-Op. In 2003 the Farmer's Grain and Supply entered into a consent agreement to clean the site. KDHE reported that the well was contaminated again following the May 2007 tornado. The CAD is the final step in remediation of the site.
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Entitlement Reform
Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara notes, "Instead of trying to address the entitlement crisis by raising taxes and cutting benefits, we need to think outside the box and advance fundamental, structural reforms that would transform the programs to rely primarily on modern capital and labor markets, with positive, pro-growth incentives. What is involved here is an extension of supply-side analysis to the incentives of essential social safety nets in evaluating how to structure those in order to maximize program effectiveness, economic growth, and national prosperity."
Ferrara is writing a series of Heartland Policy Briefs that do just that. The briefs will be collected here as they are written.
- December 13, 2012: #1 - A Winning Plan for Entitlement Reform
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Obama at the Pinnacle
Above all he needs faster growth for a successful second term.
President Obama takes his second oath of office this weekend at his highest point in the polls in two years. He is clearly feeling and showing his political dominance, while his opposition is divided and unpopular. The question—to turn Rahm Emanuel on his head—is whether he will let this lack of a crisis go to waste.
Four years ago, Mr. Obama inherited a sinking economy and he used that crisis and his Democratic supermajority to ram through the most liberal program in 40 years. The price was a polarized electorate, the loss of the House in 2010, and the slowest economic recovery in decades. Yet he was able to win re-election against a weak GOP candidate (who emerged from an even weaker GOP field) by again blaming the economy on his predecessor.
Today he faces no immediate crisis, which gives him a different opportunity. He has a chance to use divided government to put the economy on firmer footing while achieving rare bipartisan victories on longer-term problems such as debt, entitlements, immigration and education choice.
With ObamaCare secure for at least four years, he could focus on reforming a government that too few Americans trust, on growing the economy faster than 2%, and on raising the middle-class incomes that have declined throughout his Presidency. This is the audacity of our own hope.
But to court understatement, this does not seem to be Mr. Obama's plan. Since his victory he has shown even less inclination to compromise, and his rhetoric against his opponents has become even harsher. Consider this broadside from his gun-control remarks this week:
"There will be pundits and politicians and special interest lobbyists publicly warning of a tyrannical, all-out assault on liberty, not because that's true but because they want to gin up fear or higher ratings or revenue for themselves. And behind the scenes, they'll do everything they can to block any common-sense reform and make sure nothing changes whatsoever."
So anyone who disagrees with him isn't merely wrong but is morally corrupt and on the take. This tone increasingly defines his Presidency.
This is thrilling to his supporters on the left, who long for a Liberal Lancelot to destroy the barbarian Republicans. And perhaps that is the role that Mr. Obama wants to play. Certainly his appointments and priorities since November suggest a political strategy intended to demonize Republicans with the main goal of restoring Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.
The liberal writer Ron Brownstein explained this posture this week as a function of Mr. Obama's new and ascendant political coalition. Bill Clinton had to worry about losing conservative voters, especially whites in swing states. Mr. Obama built his re-election majority with minorities, young people, single women and affluent whites and college-education women who are culturally liberal. He can thus govern more aggressively from the left—and Mr. Brownstein predicts he will—because he has more coherent and durable support.
This may explain Mr. Obama's behavior, but it also comes with significant risks. For one thing, he is further polarizing the electorate in a way that will make it even harder for him to get Republican votes on immigration and guns. Maybe this will re-elect Ms. Pelosi in 2014, but instead it could jeopardize Democrats running in states carried by Mitt Romney. Mr. Obama's coalition doesn't dominate Alaska, Arkansas or Montana beyond Bozeman.
The bigger risk is economic. Mr. Obama has managed to skirt responsibility for anemic growth by claiming that it is the fault of George W. Bush and everyone before that. His solution is always more public spending without end. The political statute of limitations on this excuse will eventually run out.
But more substantively, what about the middle-class he claims to champion? In December, the number of unemployed was 12.2 million and the jobless rate was 7.8%, still higher than when he took office. The youth jobless rate was nearly 11%, while for blacks it was 14% and for Hispanics 9.6%.
Above all else, Mr. Obama needs faster economic growth. He needs 3%-4% growth to raise incomes and to provide the revenue to meet all the spending commitments of his first term. Continued growth of 2% will mean his legacy will be the largest number of jobless Americans for the longest period of time since the Great Depression.
The best way to abet such growth is to follow the Clinton path of working with Republicans to reduce spending and regulation and reform the tax code and entitlements. The alternative is at least two, and perhaps four, more years of bloody budget and debt-ceiling fights. The Federal Reserve may be able to keep the recovery afloat on a sea of money, but Mr. Obama shouldn't want to gamble his Presidency on it.
Such a bipartisan reform path also makes sense for Mr. Obama's own liberal priorities in the long run. As the nearby results of an election exit-poll question show, Americans who voted in 2012 are more skeptical of government than they were in 2008 or 2004. Four more years of federal dysfunction will only feed this cynicism. It will also make it harder to solve the coming entitlement spending wave that will narrow the policy options for other liberal priorities. With ObamaCare coming online, entitlements could swallow the fisc within a decade.
Second terms are often tormented by foreign crises, and that could also apply to Mr. Obama. He has assured the voters that he is ending foreign entanglements, but this retrenchment is also storing up trouble. The al Qaeda resurgence in North Africa shows that terrorism remains a threat (see nearby), while Iran sprints toward a bomb, and China asserts itself against our allies in the Western Pacific.
The history of the last century is that U.S. retreat and willy-nilly defense drawdowns invite foreign adventurism. So they will again, with the question being whether the world erupts in the next four years or awaits the next President.
Mr. Obama enters his second term still personally popular, and he has the media and Hollywood at his back. But the great Presidents do more than tactically outmaneuver their opposition in this or that budget deal. They enhance America's national stature, improve its material well-being, and address the problems that only Presidents can address. If Mr. Obama wastes his non-crisis years, he could find that it is a steep fall from the pinnacle.


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Meningitis cases linked to tainted steroid generate argument over drugs vs. surgery
|Chiropractor Dr. Alan K. Sokoloff treats Naomi Morgan who suffers from a slipped disk and has had two back surgeries in Glen Burnie, Maryland, on November 1, 2012. (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun/MCT)
Tired of being cut open only to have the pain return, Morgan, a 65-year-old nursing assistant, began looking for a less invasive and hopefully more effective way to treat her ailment, which she thinks started from lifting patients or moving furniture. She turned to a chiropractor, whom Morgan credits with helping her manage her back pain for the past 21 years with stretching, realignments and other treatments.
As the country continues to reel from a fungal meningitis outbreak - linked to a tainted steroid used to treat back pain - that has sickened more than 300 people in 19 states and killed at least 28, the medical industry is debating again with the way back pain is treated.
The outbreak revived old arguments about whether back pain sufferers have become too dependent on drugs and surgeries as quick cures - and whether these treatments even work in the long run.
Back pain is the second most common neurological ailment in the United States behind headaches, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. More than a quarter of adults experienced lower back pain in the last three months, according to a recent report by the National Center for Health Statistics.
"A lot of times primary care doctors, or even patients, get into certain patterns where, if it hurts, they go the extreme route first instead of trying something natural and more conservative," said Dr. Alan Sokoloff, a Glen Burnie, Md., chiropractor who treats Morgan.
The American Academy of Pain Medicine promotes a multi-disciplinary approach and agrees drugs should be used after other, less invasive methods are given a shot. But pain doctors also say that medications shouldn't be the scapegoat and that drugs can be the best treatment for some patients.
"Too often we look at problems in a dichotomous way," said Dr. Lynn Webster, a Salt Lake City anesthesiologist and president-elect of the pain medicine group. "There is not either or. There is a spectrum of back pain problems that range from minimal pain to those who are totally incapacitated and can't walk. They may all require different treatments."
Shots of the steroid preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate, which has been linked to the meningitis outbreak, has become a common way to treat the pain. Roughly 14,000 people may have received contaminated shots of the steroid, which came from the NewEngland Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass. The outbreak includes 31 deaths and 424 cases of illness in 19 states, including Maryland.
Pain doctors around the country have heard from patients afraid to get the steroid shots, Webster said. Many may switch to oral pain killers. While he said the fear is justified, the medical industry has to be careful of moving too far to the extreme, he said.
The chiropractic industry is using the outbreak to advocate for less invasive approaches to treating back pain, including yoga, acupuncture and, of course, chiropractic care.
The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress in California issued a position paper after the outbreak criticizing what it calls an overuse of drugs to treat back pain. The group said the use of drugs creates addicts and masks pain rather than treating underlying conditions.
"While living in a society where we expect to live pain-free, America may now be convinced that there needs to be a safer way to address back pain, with chiropractic care becoming a preferred option," the foundation's paper read.
In a phone interview, Dr. Gerard Clum, a foundation spokesman, said the use of drugs among doctors is inconsistent.
"There is a spectrum of behavior," Clum said. "There are some physicians that will hold surgery and epidural injections as the last resort and others who jump to it very quickly."
The type of doctor a patient sees may determine what treatment is recommended for back pain. If your primary care physician sends you to an orthopedic surgeon you may be more likely to end up in surgery, for example.
Surgeons say most of their patients with back pain don't end up on the operating table.
Patients with pain limited to the back can get physical therapy and use muscle relaxers such as Bengay, said Dr. Raj Rao, a spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Most patients just need patience and give pain time to go away.
Surgery is more common for patients who feel pain in the legs or buttocks as well as the back, Rao said. That is a sign of nerve compression. But even these patients can be treated without surgery, he said.
"Most well-trained surgeons will exhaust non-operative measures before turning to surgery," Rao said.
Some Baltimore-area chiropractors said they've noticed more referrals from primary care doctors since the meningitis outbreak.
They also are fielding more questions about the safety of steroid injections.
Chiropractor Adam Fidel, president of the Maryland Chiropractors Association, said he has had more patients want to try other options before moving to steroid injections or other invasive procedures.
"I think more people are more comfortable with going to a chiropractor than ever before," Fidel said. "And more primary care physicians are recommending them."
But even chiropractors said there is room for drugs in treating back pain.
Many chiropractors work with pain management doctors. White Marsh chiropractor Timothy Gober said people shouldn't write off drugs for treating back pain. The meningitis outbreak is an anomaly, he said. Gober said he believes in starting with conservative treatment options and using pain killers if needed.
Sometimes he'll send a patient to get a steroid injection so he can perform a realignment without discomfort for the patient.
"A lot of times doctors try to fit patients in a box," Gober said. "We try to see what is best for patients."
Morgan, the nursing assistant from Glen Burnie, said she still feels some aches and pains despite the treatments prescribed by her chiropractor. It's just something she has to deal with as she gets older.
But her condition is better than it once was, she said. And she is not opposed to other treatment options, such as cortisone shots, if her condition ever worsened.
But she's almost sure she'll never get surgery again.
"The only way I would ever have surgery again is if I wasn't able to move my legs, back or anything else," she said. "I'd have to be in pretty bad condition."
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There are about 8,000 parking spaces available in eight central car parks with good access to all the terminals, offering short- and long-term parking. The two perimeter car parks (lots B and C) have cheaper daily rates and the first two hours of parking are free; the LAX shuttle runs between these car parks and the terminals. Metered parking is available in the central terminal area and on the Arrivals level uncovered car parks. There is also an 'Economy Parking Lot' with more than 7,000 spaces, linked to the terminals via a free shuttle-bus service, and a 'Cell Phone Waiting Lot' for those collecting arriving passengers.
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About 40 companies serve the airport, with offices located off-site. These, which include all major car hire companies such Avis can be contacted via courtesy telephone links inside or near the baggage reclaim areas on the Arrivals level of all terminals. Free shuttles transport passengers to their chosen car company; the shuttles depart from designated areas on the Arrivals level islands in front of each terminal.


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HUNTSVILLE (October 12, 2012)—Walker County authorities say a 10-year-old boy shot and wounded his 15-year-old sister before fatally shooting himself Thursday night at the family's home outside of Huntsville.
Walker County Sheriff Clint McRae said Friday that the boy walked into his sister's room and fired several times in her direction before turning the gun on himself.
McRae says the children's mother was at home at the time.
She called 911 after hearing the shots and going to see what happened.
Deputies were sent at about 9:30 p.m. to the house at State Highway 30 and Duke Road, about 17 miles west of Huntsville.
The siblings were taken by helicopter to a Houston hospital about 70 miles to the south.
The boy was pronounced dead and his sister underwent surgery.
McRae says she was listed Friday in critical but stable condition.
He says the case remains under investigation.


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I have many iTunes U videos that take a lot of space on my disk. I don't really need them on my disk but I would like to keep their reference in my iTunes U library so I can re-download them when needed.
How can I do that?
Delete the videos. Then right-click on the course title and select Show all available items. This will restore the complete list of available episodes.
You can also do this by option-clicking on the disclosure arrow of the course. The arrow needs to be closed before option-clicking in order for this to work.


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A Leavenworth woman was arrested for aggravated battery after she allegedly pulled a knife on her boyfriend, a police spokesman said.
The boyfriend, who suffered a cut to his right hand, also was arrested for misdemeanor battery.
The incident was reported at 11:15 a.m. Thursday in the 800 block of Ottawa Street.
The 20-year-old boyfriend allegedly threw a beverage at the 21-year-old woman, according to Maj. Dan Nicodemus, deputy chief of the Leavenworth Police Department.
"The female armed herself with a knife and the male was cut with the knife during a struggle," Nicodemus said.
The boyfriend was treated at the scene by Leavenworth County EMS personnel before he was taken to jail. The woman also was taken to jail.
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I have a bit of sample code that is throwing this warning:
main.c: In function 'getline_':
main.c:30:32: warning: operation on 'c' may be undefined [-Wsequence-point]
In this particular exercise I was to avoid using the
|| and
&& operator, but this doesn't seem like it should produce undefined behavior. The compiler message is just a warning, but I wanted to know for knowings sake. Is this code actually going to produce undefined behavior?
24 int getline_( char s[], int limit)
25 {
26 int i, c;
27 i=0;
28 for( i=0; (i<limit-1) + ((c=getchar())!='\n') + (c!=EOF) == 3; i++){
29 s[i]=c;
30 }
31 if( c == '\n' ){
32 s[i]=c;
33 i++;
34 }
35 s[i]='\0';
36 return i;
37 }
It seems to work ok in my basic tests.
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I read several articles saying some of the command and control fleet for the US robotic attack planes may have been infected with a virus.
Does this command and control system communicate with the planes using the internet on a giant VPN of sorts? What systems are in place to prevent these robot planes from becoming controlled by someone else?
Please limit discussion to unclassified info to keep everyone out of trouble.


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I lived in China for a few months and picked up quite a bit of Mandarin. Now that I've moved back to the US, I have forgotten the Chinese I knew and spoke while there. Other than actually living where they speak Chinese, what is one of the most effective/efficient ways to learn Chinese (semi-quickly) and retain it? Software? Community classes? Watching/listening to Chinese media? Any suggestions of places to go to learn?
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In my experience, taking a class, and watching/listening to Chinese media truly helps. I have taken classes on Chinese, and Chinese media can test if you understand Chinese. Using media also helps you "exercise" your brain; much like taking a jog once in awhile.
In order to retain knowledge on the Chinese, you should practice saying the word, or at least use them once in awhile. It's easier to remember the words with constant/common usage.
I would not recommend software; one problem I see is that if you have a question, you can't ask your computer. With a teacher, on the other hand, you can ask them questions and they can explain. It's a great time saver.
I'm not sure about any places you should go to learn, unfortunately. It greatly depends on what your age is, where you live, and your schedule.
There are plenty of opportunities, but it depends on your personality and how willing you are to reach out.
I think that enrolling in a formal course of Chinese language study is the best. The reason is that it keeps you moving and keeps you motivated. It is fun studying with others too. I attended the local community classes and I met a lot of other motivated Chinese language learners.
As well as my formal course of study at Uni. I also take private one on one lessons from a teacher in P.R.China. I found that there is a great deal of price difference in schools so shop around. Many offer a free introductory lesson. The advantage of this is that you can decide the text and content of your lessons.
I have the same situation like you, just all the other way:
I am Chinese, used to work with people from US in 2008 a lot. Then my English was rather OK. But in 2009 I started a company so one day when I called a guy from US in English, I was shocked that I was speechless then.
Luckily in 2010 I successfully expanded my business to oversea countries and all the communication is in English. So again I gained up my skills.
Then due to some unexpected reasons my business did not go well in 2011-2012, and I do not have that much communication with those oversea partners. I feel my English is getting worse again.
Then I decide to communicate more to retain it: Playing with Facebook, Twitter, Quora and now Stack Exchange :)
I think daily/casual communication is the BEST way to retain it, otherwise you'll have to do it in a painful way.
Just my personal experience and advice. Not sure whether it works for Chinese but if you're interested, I suggest you start using websites like Weibo and Youku.
Good luck!
I try to learn Chinese words and characters in "bunches," based on similar "phonetics" (typically the right side or bottom of characters).
For instance, the word 马 ma (third tone), means "horse," is the "root" word.
Add the radical for "woman" to the left, and the changed word 妈 means "mother," and is pronounced ma (first tone). Change the radicals again, and you have a "family" of similar-sounding words that mean "dock," "agate," "to scold," etc. all with a common phonetic.
I've found it a lot easier to remember a "bunch" of similar words than the same number of unrelated words.
I think the simplest way is to listening Chinese news and try to say it by yourself.I am a native Chinese and I have learned English for a couple of months.I listen VOA everyday,through this way,I can also get the international news.I think I can achieve two aims at the same time. I think you need a Chinese friend too.
If you find a group of people interested in Learning chinese you can start a weekly study group. I currently do this with a group of 4 people and we invite students from a local university who are from china to teach us, and in term we give them some english expressions and help with their pronunciation. I do suggest you set yourselves a goal. We use the NPRC and our goal is to go chapter by chapter every week or two depending on complexity. We also blazed through the yongho books two chapters at a time. It really helps if you lack discipline like me.
I recommend Wechat for you, the most popular social platform in China, where you can chat with your Chinese friends, browse their daily life state etc.
I have the same experience with you, I worked in China for half a year and now I'm back to US. I have been learning Chinese with Hanbridge Mandarin for the past month or so, and I can already see a huge improvement in language ability. They offers the online teaching with the native teachers face to face using the virtual classroom, this is a great way to go immerse myself whenever possible and learn Chinese well when I'm not in China.


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I have implemented a monte carlo simulation for a plain vanilla European Option and I am trying to compare it to the analytical result obtained from the BS formula. Assuming my monte carlo pricer is correctly implemented, am I supposed to get the very same result with both methods (Monte Carlo and BS analytical formula)?
Fundamentally this is no different from other simulation-based estimation---see this little experiment in R:
We are calculating the mean of a $N(0,1)$ vector for sample sizes from $10^1$ to $10^6$. That is then repeated 200 times, and we are calculating the mean of the 200 draws at the different sample sizes.
We find that by and large, the mean gets closer to zero. But even at $10^6$, repeated 200 times, we are still pretty far from 'zero'. That is the way it goes with simulation, and it pays to get a feel for this.
So while you have perfect benchmark with your analytical Black-Scholes result, you will be hard-pressed to get the difference to vanish completely.
As long as your simulations are independents, you can calculate some confidence interval thank's to the Central Limit Theorem and see if this interval is encompassing the true BS price.


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The Barcelona star will be joined by 36 players for the charity event to be played at Soldier Field this summer.Lionel Messi and 36 of the world's top players are set to play in a charity game at Chicago's Soldier Field this July.
The "Messi and Friends vs. the World 2013" exhibition will benefit the children's charity spearheaded by Argentine superstar, Lionel Messi. The event is sponsored by Hyatt Hotels.
In addition to Messi, other stars participating in the friendly include Jose Manuel Pinto, Cesc Fabregas, Alex Song, Emiliano Insua, Mario Yepes, Ricky Alvarez, Pablo Aimar, Martin Demichelis, Diego Lugano, Walter Gargano, Alvaro Gonzalez, Dani Osvaldo, David Trezeguet, Giovani dos Santos, Jonathan dos Santos, Thierry Henry and Marco Fabian.
"The Messi and Friends friendly, much like the NFL Pro Bowl or the MLB All-Star Game, will provide fans with an incredible opportunity to witness the world's greatest athletes from the world of soccer together on the field of competition before the FIFA World Cup in Brazil in 2014," said Sergio Codino, vice president of Numero 5, LLC, the match's organizer.


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Also consider whether you might be moving at some point in the future. Do you want the hassle of trying to find a place that allows dogs? Are you willing to compromise in order to find a place that meets both your needs and your dog's? Remember, it's important to think long-term, since many dogs can live for at least a decade.
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California Cascades > Cinder Cone > Climber's Log
Cinder Cone Climber's Log
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|Larry Laverty
|Standard Route
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2013
|Made the trip early enough to have the top to meself for a long while. Then one by one, two by two, others came,and I realized what a popular destination this place is. Glorious views of Mother Nature's handy work.
|Posted Sep 4, 2013 1:16 pm
|To view Solar Eclipse
Date Climbed: May 20, 2012
|Summited at the end of a short backpack through the area (Rainbow, Twin, Swan, Horseshoe, and Snag Lakes). We stayed for ~ 3 hours on this interesting summit to view the solar eclipse (Peak 6:30 PM)
|Posted May 21, 2012 11:06 am
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2011
|My "Moon" guidebook (which I think is usually pretty accurate on the scenery rating) has this down as an 8/10, but its better than that.
|Posted Jan 4, 2012 7:55 pm
|fun slog
Date Climbed: Aug 14, 1991
|Hiked up Cinder Cone with my Scout Troop (232) back when I was in my early teens. Fun hike; I remember two steps forward, one step back.
|Posted Jul 19, 2011 12:11 pm
|I did it myself!
Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2011
|Well, almost... It was too hot. My father had to carry me for two short stretches. Amazingly, my new freind Heidi, who is only two and a half, did walk the whole way to the top!
Walking down into the crater was fun. I liked playing with big rocks, which seemed heavy but were not heavy at all.
|Posted Jul 5, 2011 1:03 pm
|Linda Breton
|Unique hike
Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2010
|Fantastic views and powerful winds. The cinder material of the trail makes for a quick descent.
|Posted Jun 7, 2011 4:41 pm
|surreal landscape
|The painted dunes were most impressive
|Posted Jan 27, 2011 11:53 pm
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2009
|length 5.3 mi, elapsed time 2h 48m
|Posted Aug 10, 2010 8:48 pm
|David Naylor
|Incredible location.
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2008
|Slow going up the trail due to cinder rocks....incredible views of this volcanic wonderland! Photos: http://www.meetup.com/SuperFab/photos/400946/
|Posted Jul 27, 2010 2:01 am
|Great geology
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2002
|Drove around to the cinder cone the day after Lassen Peak. Great views of Lassen, Painted Dunes, Lava Beds... makes me wish I was a geologist...
|Posted May 9, 2010 3:07 am
|Rinat Shagisultanov
|Hiked with sons
|Hiied up after an overnight backpacking with 5 y/o and 13 y/o sons. The younger one made it to the top in his own. Strange and beautiful place. Running down on the cinder path is funny.
|Posted Dec 15, 2009 10:53 pm
|Learning curve
Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2007
|This mountain was great for teaching me about the effects of elevation and the result of climbing in the afternoon. The deep gravely substance that makes up Cinder Cone made it very hard to climb. This combined with hot afternoon temps made my ascent less than enjoyable; however, when I reached the top the feeling of success far outweighed any hardship. This is a beautiful day hike that is a must do for anyone visiting Lassen. Might I suggest a 2-3 day backback trip in from Summit Lake ranger station.
|Posted Feb 23, 2009 5:00 pm
|Wonderful Loop
Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2000
|We summited Cinder Cone during a wonderful hike around Snag Lake and Butte Lake. Traversed the Painted Dunes as well. Strange, impressive landscape.
|Posted Jan 29, 2009 11:46 am
|Cinder Cone Trail
Date Climbed: Sep 22, 2008
|The first day of fall. What a view. Not a soul around. Wonderful!
|Posted Sep 24, 2008 11:37 am
|Great hike!
Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2008
|34 sixth-graders, 1 teacher, and 8 chaperones from John Morse Waldorf Methods School in Sacramento, climbed to the top on a gorgeous day. Many explored the inner crater as well. What a stunning view.
|Posted Sep 13, 2008 4:33 pm
|Little Mountain Goat
|Age five and six
|i first climbed it when I was five, my dad carried me some on his shoulders. We descended the back trail through the lava beds.
I climbed it again when i was six. this time, my dad didn't carry me. we also visited the crater, which was just like climbing the mountain again when coming out. descended back side again.
|Posted Jun 13, 2008 11:07 am
|Trail, Good View From Top
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2004
|Hiked up trail with family. Excellent view of painted dunes and Mt Lassen. Cool wild flowers.
|Posted Dec 1, 2007 6:18 pm
|from trail
|The views are great and this is pretty easily climbed. Did this and Prospect Peak (has no one put up a page for that?) in one half-day.
|Posted Jul 9, 2007 9:35 pm
|First Camping Trip
Date Climbed: Oct 10, 1984
|I did this when I was about 8 on the first family camping trip in the custom VW camper my dad still has almost 25 years later. I remeber my first experience of pain from hiking being the soreness in my calves the next day after the struggle up the loose cinders. From what I read from the others postings, I'll be sure to revisit.
|Posted Jun 30, 2007 5:14 pm
|great area!
|Hiked up this during one of my early tours de Lassen, with Rachel, whilst doing a Snag Lake-Butte Lake loop. Amazing area- with the overcast skies & ominous weather, I felt like I was in prehistoric times like portrayed on TV, with volcanoes blowing up everywhere, & dinosaurs stomping around between them under black skies.
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I am going to be getting a free Sigma 8mm f4.0 lens. I already have the f3.5 version. Will I be able to simply remove the ring clamp from the 3.5 and put it on the 4.0? Is the NPP point in the same place or will I need to go through the calibration exercises? My 3.5 needs repair and I want to use the 4.0 while I wait.


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When a shuttle is in orbit, it is essentially rotating around the "centre" of the Earth at a great speed. So why does there seem to be no centrifugal force sticking them to the 'ceiling' of the shuttle?
Is it because the shuttle is not actually being rotated around a point but rather continuously falling or something else?


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This way you can create different allow lists for INBOUND, OUTBOUND and FORWARD traffic.Code:ALLOW_IN="$CONF_DIR/allow-in.p2p" ALLOW_OUT="$CONF_DIR/allow-out.p2p" ALLOW_FW="$CONF_DIR/allow-fw.p2p"
BTW, the local network whitelisting feature is still experimental, so again, using the alow lists is the best way.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the iptables rules created by the allow lists are related only to traffic marked by moblock, which means that if you want to confine traffic on local ranges to the local network, all you have to do is create iptables that allow local traffic but block external access to those ranges. This can be done manually inserting iptables rules, using a firewall manager like Firestarter or using moblock's custom scripts. This gives a lot of flexibility to control your traffic, as along as you understand how iptables works.


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Nowadays, with more and more governmental censorship (and with it getting worse by the day, just look at Slashdot's privacy section) and reports of hacking into major servers becoming almost a daily occurrence, we all want the maximum security and privacy possible online. Thankfully, some great free software projects have risen to the challenge! Here are some simple steps to keep your "stuff" safe:
The first thing you'll want to get is Gpg4win. Gpg4win's excellent installer will automatically download and install all the components you need to generate public and private keys, sign and encrypt documents, emails and files; decrypt and verify your documents, files, emails and more!
Gpg4win includes GnuPG (a free software re-make of PGP's (Pretty Good Privacy's) personal encryption suite), the WinPT GUI for GPG, the GPA key manager, GPGol to integrate with MS Outlook 2003, the GPGee shell extension and the Sylpheed-Claws lightweight email client.
You can get Gnu4win directly from here. Just run the graphical install (accepting defaults is fine) and in about 5min, you'll have an complete personal encryption suite.
Once installed, find the shortcut to "WinPT" and open the program (the location of the shortcut depends on what you checked in the installer, mine's in the quick launch bar). A new key icon will appear in the system tray, double click it to open WinPT's key manager.
If you haven't made a private key for yourself yet, you'll need to click "Key → New → Normal" and follow the steps to create an encryption key. Remember to make a hard to guess passphrase, WinPT will give you tips on doing this. If you have installed GnuPG before your previous keys will import automatically.
To get your "public" key to give to other people so they can send you secure email and files, right click your key and select "copy key to clipboard". You can also add keys others have given you by coping their key to the clipboard and selecting "Edit -> Paste" from the key manager. Remember to never give out your private key, only your public key!
Now, to encrypt a file, just right click on the file in windows explorer and highlight "GPGee". Select "Symmetric" encryption to encrypt a file to yourself, or PK encryption to encrypt to multiple people (such as before emailing a file to someone, or if you want multiple people to be able to access a file).
If selecting PK encryption, select the people you want to have access to the file, click "OK" and enter your passphrase if asked. For symmetric encryption, just enter your passphrase if asked. Either way you'll get a new file ending in
.gpg ready to be emailed or stored. If you want to keep the file securely on your hard drive, remember to delete the original, unencrypted version using "Shift + Delete" so as not to leave a copy in the recycle bin.
Like all free software projects, Gpg4win and all the projects its graphical installer configures are created by donations of time and funds. If you find yourself using a free software alternative to an expensive program, consider giving ten, twenty, thirty, etc., percent of what you would have paid for the proprietary product to the project to ensure that project continues to provide great software to the free software community.
Now you can be private once again.
Access control / privacy
"Great minds think alike" --Anonymous/Cliche
"Fools seldom differ." --Newfoundland reply to same.
No kidding: not 5 hours ago I was pondering precisely this subject. No, really.
What I imagined was this: rather than password control (which leaves nekkid docs subject to creepy-slimey-crawly bots), use something (PGP comes to mind) so that instead of UserName and PWD we access the doc with UserName (papertrail, yes?) and heh ... public key.
I think the rest unfolds rather naturally.
p.s. Pieter's essay got me to this site via google ... nice to be here. *tip o' the hat*
When you look to see how the system works
Likely you will find that it does not.
people you want to have access to the file
Remember to make a hard to guess passphrase, WinPT will give you tips on doing this. If you have installed GnuPG before your previous keys will import automatically.


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I'm having a problem to automatically add alert. I have a list "ListA" where I add new records. This records have address email field. I try to create workflow which use this address email to send alerts. Without any positive results.
ListA - users
ListB - some records
ListC - other records
I want to user from ListA will be inform when something on ListB or ListC will be added, changed.
I this possible using only workflow?
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We currently do not observe the property aspects of the yovel year because, as I understand it, it's not practical until the ingathering of the exiles. (We don't own all the affected land now so we're not free to redistribute it.) Do we completely ignore it, or are there restrictions related to Levi'im and their historical cities that still apply? We know what at lesat some of their cities are and we know who at least some Levi'im are today. If I buy a house from a Levi in one of those cities today, is my purchase cancelled sometime within the next 49 years?
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It's actually not so much because of practicality, but because the prerequisites for Yovel are that all Jews are living in the land of Israel, and each tribe in their designated territory. (So even if all of the land were under Jewish control, there's still the fact that almost no one knows what tribe they're from. See the discussion in the comments here.)
The rules about the reversion of fields, houses, etc., are dependent on Yovel, so they don't apply nowadays, even as in your scenario where we know that the seller is a Levi and the city is one of their cities.


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For business travelers there is a business center available as well as 25,000 square feet (2322.57 square meters) of meeting space can be booked, which includes a ballroom. Luggage storage for guest convenience. Catering and presentation equipment are also available. WiFi access is complimentary. Valet parking is available in the hotel's garage (surcharge), and self parking is complimentary.
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Death Penalty - 11-13-2007, 05:13 PM
I'm on a role this week when it comes to creating threads xD
I was reading an article about the lethal injection method and the possibility of it being revised and wondered what you all thought. Do you support it completely, wish to ban it, or want more restrictions on it? If you support it, what methods do you approve of? What sort of restrictions should be added?
Personally, I feel the death penalty is an easy way out for the prisoner who will never have to face the consequences of his actions. There have been plenty of people, who were put to death, that later on were proven to be innocent by DNA evidence. However, some people absolutely need to be put to death to protect the public. These people would have to be serious threats such as serial murderers or rapists though.
The only problem is the fact that we don't have a reasonably humane way to put these people to death. Lethal injections do not work for everyone and has been proven to paralyze a person occassionally, but they still have to suffer the agony of dying. The other authorized choices aren't that great either. Firing squads, hanging, gas chambers, and electrocution have been proven to be even worse than lethal injections.
Looking at it in a non-emotional way, it costs more money to put someone to death than it does to incarcerate them for life. Also, it has been proven to be related to crime rates. In months where there are more executions, there tends to be higher crime rates. Finally, there is no set guideline from state to state. A person in New York who commits a crime is not eligible while in another state they are. It just appears to me that the federal government should at least create guidelines for the death penalty and required circumstances if the prosecutor wants to pursue it. Overall, the bad points seem to overly outweigh the goods of the death penalty.
For more information and statistics: Death Penalty Information Center
Method Descriptions: Descriptions of Execution Methods
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The 6 Most Terrifying Theme Park Rides Ever Built
#3. SCAD Tower
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A ride near Dallas, TX, is so terrifying that it's literally being used to learn more about the nature of fear. It wasn't made by scientists, mind you -- they just found it and went, "Holy shit, let's do some experiments here before they shut it down."
"Quickly, now!"
The attraction is located at the Zero Gravity Thrill Park, which we're pretty sure might be the sketchiest-looking amusement park ever. At first glance it appears to be little more than a series of puzzling metal structures, but as you get closer, you learn that each of those structures has a clear purpose: scaring the shit out of you.
R0409, Trip Advisor
Instead of Mickey and Goofy, they have Deliverance-style hillbillies roaming the place.
The park's main attraction is the Suspended Catch Air Device (SCAD), an unnecessarily complicated name for what's basically four pillars and a net.
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"Don't worry, rope burn will really complement your whiplash!"
The SCAD works just like the Superman Drop or the Tower of Terror in that it takes you up high and then lets you drop, with the small difference that in this case, you're not actually attached to anything during the drop. Basically, the whole "mechanism" consists of a person who takes you to the top and then lets you fall off.
This ride is so intensely disturbing that it has actually been used by medical professor David Eagleman to test how the brain's perception of time changes during near-death experiences. Eagleman says he previously tried different rides for his experiments but none of them worked quite as well as the SCAD, because apparently as far as your brain is concerned there's not a whole lot of difference between "110 feet of freefall" and "110 feet of freefall with a net underneath."
At this point, you're too busy thinking "AHHHHHHHH" to remember what a net is.
To their credit, though, it looks like the Zero Gravity SCAD is the one with the cleanest track record in the whole country, due to the fact that it hasn't actually broken anyone's bones (unlike the one in Orlando or the one in Wisconsin).
#2. The Terrible Trio
The 1920s was a great time for roller coasters, but not so much for the people riding them. Apparently "not killing people" wasn't as much of a priority back then as "mentally scarring them for life." A prime example of this comes in the "Terrible Trio" of coasters designed by amusement tycoon Harry G. Traver.
He was in the business of amusing himself by watching people shriek.
The trio consisted of the Cyclone in Ontario, Canada, Lightning in Revere Beach, Mass. and another Cyclone in Fort Lee, NJ. Traver specifically designed these coasters to be as unsafe as possible while not breaking any existing regulations, resulting in monstrously twisted knots of metal and wood that stood like giant monuments to an unloving god. Two of the three caused at least one death within their first two days of operation.
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What could possibly be unsafe about this?
One of those two deaths was on the Cyclone, which literally tore itself apart on a regular basis from how vicious it was, meaning that it couldn't operate on a normal schedule -- it's opening hours were "whenever we've patched it together enough to work." Once it did manage to hold together, the G-forces it generated were so vast that passengers frequently passed out while riding it. A nurse was kept on the Cyclone's station at all times: in all likelihood, this was as much a publicity stunt as it was an insurance necessity.
Today, this thing would need its own ER.
But if the Cyclone resembled a hospital, the Revere Beach Lightning was a shady back-alley clinic. Its violent side-to-side motions were so intense that the phrase "take her on the Lightning" actually became slang for "abortion" around the Boston area.
The ride was so violent it aborted your unborn children even if you had a penis.
Finally, the New Jersey Cyclone didn't live up to the high standards of its baby-killing, self-mutilating brothers -- but only because it was demolished by a wise park proprietor before it could do any harm (it was then replaced by an unrelated coaster of the same name, probably in an attempt to exorcise the terrain).
"The sound of breaking bones is the only thing that gets me hard." - Harry Traver [Citation Needed].
However, even roller coasters that ripped themselves apart at the seams, performed spontaneous abortions and necessitated their own hospitals wouldn't be quite deadly enough to be at ...
#1. Action Park
Action Park is one of the most infamous ideas ever to come out of New Jersey, and that's counting those currently being broadcast on MTV and VH1. It's hard to believe that it really existed, and yet the evidence is undeniable. More specifically, we're talking about the death toll of six people and the hundreds of serious injuries it caused between 1978 and 1996.
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The park seemed to have put so little effort into making the attractions safe that even the operators (mostly leering teenagers) were afraid to go near them. Take, for example, the infamous Cannonball Loop, a massive water slide which sent riders out of an insanely long drop straight into a loop nearly 15 feet in diameter.
If you're having troubles grasping the scale of this thing: that girl on the front could stand inside the tube.
The amount of force built up by such a loop was easily enough to break bones, as evidenced by the bones it broke, and also the time when a crash test dummy was put through the slide and came out in three pieces. As a reminder, crash test dummies are specifically made to be difficult to break. The Cannonball Loop was actually in operation for very short periods before the constant injuries forced the owners to close it down, but it remained near the entrance as a reminder of the insanity of Action Park.
As if the news articles weren't enough.
The park had no shortage of dangerous attractions, though: like the Alpine Slide, a zigzagging cement ditch snaking down the side of a mountain. Riders could control the speed of their flimsily constructed sleds without any sort of supervision, which was made even more dangerous by the fact that the ditch lacked any sort of railings or paddings of any kind. Also, there was no such thing as a seat belt. Rider speed and the general disinterest of the operators made it the ideal roaming ground for packs of bullies.
It was like Mad Max in there.
Cutting out seat belts and technicians from the budget probably made this one of the cheapest rides ever, but what they saved in precautions they lost in lawsuits: the Alpine Slide alone reported more than 40 injuries and one death during just two years of rides. The tracks were eventually torn down by later owners, at which point they probably found dozens more bodies buried underneath.
This kid never made it out of the park.
And finally there's the Tidal Wave Pool with its three-feet-tall artificial waves, which required 12 active lifeguards on duty at all times ... and still accounted for half the deaths in the park. Had Action Park continued to exist, we're pretty sure the entire population of New Jersey would have been depleted by now. We'll let you decide if that's a good thing or not.
For more attractions that confuse and frighten us, check out The 9 Most Baffling Theme Parks From Around the World and The 7 Most Horrifying Museums on Earth.


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The United Reformed Church is a denomination in Britain that was formed out of a merger of the Congregationalist and Presbyterian denominations in 1972. What doctrinal compromises had to be made for the merger to succeed? In other words, what are/were the differences between Presbyterianism and Congregationalism, which beliefs and doctrines were carried forward into the URC and which had to be dropped?
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The "Basis of Union" can be found here: http://www.urc.org.uk/what_we_do/the_manual/the_basis_of_union
For me, understanding any denomination usually hinges on two issues - salvation and governance. In my head, most any other distinctive could be chalked up to a peculiar practice or worship style, with its own concomitant theology. The comparatives are usually in salvation or governance.
So, from the beginning it should be said that Presbyterians descend from a Calvinist tradition (in Scotland), whereas Congregationalists and Puritans descend from a decided mixture of Calvinistic and Arminian traditions. In practice, I would assume that any already-in-the-minority free will positions that some Conrgegationalists held would have been further de-emphasized, but I couldn't find anything in the URC statement of belief to corroborate this.
In terms of church governance, Congregationalists stress the complete autonomy of the local church, although in practice many (like the Baptists) will come together in association in order to maximize their effectiveness. Presbyterians are very close to this - individual churches hire their own pastors, for example, but the power of the association and synod is a little greater. (Its nothing like say, a Catholic church, but there is some governance!) In practice, then, governance would have been a fairly easy compromise.


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I have an animation of traffic. I have 20 cars in road network, each car have a starting node and end node. Each car know how much distance does it need to travel in order to reach the end node. I move cars each 20 ms for 10 px. To move all cars from their start node to end node I need 60 iterations. That is 60*20ms = 1200ms.
Now I want to convert this time, or use data that I have, to a real time where car move 50km/h. How can I do that? Any idea?


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6 Sci-Fi Movie Conventions (That Need to Die)
#3. One Planet, One Culture... Except Earth
Our intrepid space explorers make contact with a new planet named Generisis III (cool planets always have numbers) and make contact with the sentient species, the Latexx Foreheadians. Assuming peaceful contact is made, the heroes will be spending a lot of time learning about the Foreheadian culture, language, religion, and all other aspects of Foreheadian life.
But wait a minute. Earth has hundreds of languages, cultures and religions. There's not even a single culture which has "dominance," and the most common trade language (English) is barely spoken by half the planet. So why in sci-fi do we still have races who are "warlike" or "profiteers" that live on a "desert planet" or an "ice planet." Apparently all civilizations eventually just consolidate everything to avoid confusion?
Babylon 5 did an entire episode on showcasing how each race has only ONE religion (to their credit, they say "dominant"), then the following scene is tacked onto the end, drawing full attention to the fact that Earth, unlike the rest of the galaxy, has religions and cultures shotgunned all over the landscape.
Why They Should Stop:
This is a lazy leftover from other genres of writing. Planets in science fiction tend to serve the same purpose that kingdoms, nations or towns do in other fiction. Writers keep it that way because it's easier to write about a new planet if you treat it as if it only consists of five square miles and 50 people.
Even Star Trek, which is supposed to be all about enlightened understanding of these new cultures, still flies their ship from one two-dimensional, monolithic planet to another. If they find some planet with multiple races, it's always to teach some basic lesson about racism, and always for the purposes of that one specific episode.
Once again the genre that's supposed to be expanding our horizons, manages to make the universe seem like a very simple, boring place.
#2. Space is an Ocean... a 2D Ocean
Captain's log, stardate who cares: After laying a new course to Madeupia IV, we hit an ion storm, damaging the port side bulkhead. Waiting on the other side were a band of pirates whose ships circled around us and began firing. After a fierce battle we found ourselves adrift. Unless we contact a rescue ship soon, the sailors may get space scurvy.
From the first moment we started writing about spaceships, space has been treated as perfectly analogous to an ocean. Everyone uses nautical terms. Ships that lose power stop moving and are "adrift." And even stranger, the ships move in two dimensions.
In this clip, watch Jango Fett release "depth charges" that first float out behind him, then unleash a flat, Frisbee-shaped disc of destruction that Obi-Wan barely evades. After all, where else would he go? It's only outer freaking space.
Why They Should Stop:
As with the above, this is another leftover from genres that pre-date sci-fi, basically borrowing conventions from pirate movies (the writers would call it an "homage," we suppose). But the comparison only goes so far. There's not a whole lot of good nautical words to describe things that are "above" and "below" you without implying a universal "up" or "down," which space obviously doesn't have. So it goes from charming homage to something that doesn't make any damned sense within that universe.
Even in Star Trek II, when Spock points out that Khan's thinking is "two dimensional," the enterprise still has to "surface" to fire at Khan's ship instead of just shooting from underneath it.
Are they worried we'll get confused if spaceships fought using all of the cool techniques free 3D movement would afford them? Give it a try, guys. When blockades are literally a "ring" around something and nobody in the movie thinks to just move "up" and around the ring, it's hard to keep thinking of the heroes as the best and brightest.
Which brings us to...
#1. Infantry? Really?
Exciting music swells as we see our heroes gearing up for a battle. Spaceships then plummet from orbit, dropping platoons of laser armed infantry onto the battlefield. What ensues next is an epic battle, with a storm of laser fire between ranks of foot soldiers. Some battles may involve futuristic tanks or planes, others seem like a high-tech version of Braveheart.
As you can see, these highly advanced armies still move in block formations of infantry, using tactics that were considered primitive by Robert E. Lee.
Why It Needs to Stop:
Sci-fi film makers love to make their battle scenes in the style of classic war films (George Lucas modeled his X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter battles around old World War I dogfighting movies). But isn't sci-fi supposed to give us something different?
This isn't nitpicking here; it stretches credulity when the typical audience member can think of better ways to fight battles than what's going on up on the screen. Who can watch the good guys in Starship Troopers standing 10 feet away from the bugs, shooting at them ineffectually with rifles and not think of how the current U.S. Air Force would have just bombed the bugs out of existence in one afternoon?
It becomes clear that the U.S. Army, or even the French Army, could beat this highly advanced sci-fi team over their lunch break.
Yes, we realize that even today's plane vs. plane dogfights take place with the aircraft miles apart, and doing it realistically on film wouldn't be all that much fun to watch. But that's the point; your sci-fi battle shouldn't be recycling either classic war movies or modern war footage. You should be giving us something new.
Isn't that what it's all supposed to be about? It's sci-fi, guys. Stop recycling The Longest Day and give us something that will blow our minds.
Before the entirety of geekdom gets its panties in a wad, here's a peace offering: 5 Deadly Sci-Fi Gadgets You Can Build At Home. Or find out about how the military is tapping its inner nerd, in 5 Famous Sci-Fi Weapons That They're Actually Building.
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DOVER - Friday night at Dover's Crater Stadium, Steubenville Big Red left Indian Valley feeling "Blue".
Led by sophomore running back Johnnie Blue, Big Red topped the Braves 17-14 to claim the Division IV, Region 13 championship and a trip to face Youngstown Cardinal Mooney in the state semifinals in Week 14.
"The thing that I was most pleased with besides that we played with a passion was that kids on the sideline that were injured and should have been starting that were into the game," said Big Red head coach Reno Saccoccia. "They were into the game, and everyone helped in the way they could help tonight."
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CHAMPS — Steubenville Big Red holds its regional championship trophy.
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SIX — Quarterback Mandela Lawrence-Burke scores the first touchdown of the game.
Trailing 14-10 with 3:06 remaining in the third quarter, Big Red went on a seven play, 78-yard drive, culminating with a seven-yard Blue touchdown run. John Paul Duff put home the extra point for the 17-14 lead with 14 seconds remaining in the third quarter. Blue had runs of 24, 12, and six yards on the drive as well.
"The offense did a great job today," said Saccoccia. "At times I think they were playing us real wide and our quarterback (Mandela Lawrence-Burke) did a great job of picking his plays."
Blue made his presence felt on the defensive side on the ensuing drive. The Braves faced third and 15 from the Big Red 47 when Blue came through with a sac of Indian Valley quarterback Brady Byers for an 11-yard loss to force a punt.
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Big Red 17, Indian Valley 14
Indian Valley 0 14 0 0 - 14
Big Red 7 3 7 0 - 17
BR: Lawrence-Burke 5 run (Duff kick)
IV: Davis 2 run (Cool kick)
BR: Duff 33 field goal
IV: Davis 1 run (Cool kick)
BR: Blue 7 run (Duff kick)
RUSHING: Indian Valley 37-117-2 (Davis 14-48-2, Byers 13-40, Ryan 10-29); Big Red 40-236-2 (Blue 21-178-1, Lawrence-Burke 18-49-1, Brown 1-9).
PASSING: Indian Valley 6-9-58-0-0 (Byers 5-8-53, Ryan 1-1-5); Big Red 6-15-52-0-0 (All by Lawrence-Burke).
RECEIVING: Indian Valley (Ryan 4-52, Byers 1-5, Davis 1-1); Big Red (Herrington 2-28, Petrides 2-15, Ferguson 1-5, Pierro 1-4).
FIIRST DOWNS: Indian Valley 9; Big Red 14.
PENALTIES-YARDS: Indian Valley 4-25; Big Red 5-60.
FUMBLES-LOST: Indian Valley 2-1; Big Red 1-0.
Big Red looked to be on its way to closing things out on the following possession, driving to the Braves' 34 on seven plays. Unfortunately a holding penalty paired with a personal foul call sent the ball all the way back to the Big Red 42 and forced a punt three plays later.
"I thought we moved the ball well the whole game," said Saccoccia. "It was our best offensive output the whole playoffs, but we almost killed ourselves with that 25-yard penalty. We lead the country in 25-yard penalties."
The Big Red defense was up to the task though, and, with Indian Valley facing fourth and eight, Blue hit Byers for his second sack, this time causing a fumble that was recovered by Arin Goldsmith.
Two Lawrence-Burke kneels later Big Red was hoisting the regional title.
"I know there's a guy named Lazarus, but I think we beat him," said Saccoccia of his team's unlikely voyage to becoming regional champs. "After week nine they were throwing on the last shovel and I think it broke. I think the only reason we're still around is the shovel broke."
Big Red opened the game with a 15-play, 67-yard, five minute drive that saw Lawrence-Burke go in from five yards out.
With the game tied, kicker John Paul Duff put Big Red up 10-7 with a 33-yard field goal in the second quarter.
"I should be hung by the highest tree for not using him more, but I'm just not a kicking guy I guess," said Saccoccia. "He's a clutch player."
The Big Red defense gave up a pair of touchdowns in the second quarter to Indian Valley running back Jake Davis, but the Eastern District offensive player of the year was held to just 48 yard on the ground along with one yard receiving. The Brave managed just 175 yards of total offense on the evening.
"I don't know anything about stats," said Saccoccia. "I was always told stats are for losers. All I know is the first half we didn't tackle well. The second half we shut them out."
Blue led the Big Red offensive charge with 21 carries for 178 yards and the game-winning score. Big Red ended the game with 288 yards of offense.
"I just want to thank our fans," said Saccoccia. "They've stuck with us and it's going to be a great weekend."


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January 31, 2012
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For a custom installation, I need to add a few rpms from the SDK dvd that comes with the main SLES dvd, onto the main SLES installation dvd. This is because my superiors want 1 single dvd to install SLES from, without the need of extra dvds or ftp-repositories.
As such, I've been trying to accomplish just that.
What I've done is
- extracted the files from the dvds for both the main installation and the SDK
- copied the 3 rpms in question from the SDK to the main installation (/suse/x86_64/)
- added the rpms to packages.*.gz (/suse/setup/descr/packages.*.gz)
- re-calculated the SHA1 sum for the packages.*.gz and entered them in content (/content)
After this, I recreated an ISO image from this modified image.
However, when testing the ISO on a virtual machine, the installation gave me an error saying:
cd:/ Invalid signature Installation aborted.
In order to fix this, I added
insecure=1 to isolinux.cfg (/boot/x86_64/loader/isolinux.cfg).
This worked, but now I get another error, see the screenshot below.
Any suggestions on how to solve this? I've seen people mention adding a custom gpg-key to the initrd, but that is generally for an add-on product. I'm unsure of what to do next with this. :/
I've added the following to my autoyast xml file:
<post-scripts config:type="list">
rpm -i extra/*.rpm > /tmp/extra.log
As such, I've added my extra rpm's in a folder called
extra in my ISO. However, now the installation just fails:
As per Nils' suggestion, I've added the rpm's to a separate folder on the ISO and install them via the post-script section in an AutoYast profile. The issue I reported with the script above was the result of the
<script><source>...</source></script> elements missing around the
CDATA. Adding the part below fixed my problems.
<post-scripts config:type="list">
mount /dev/dvd /mnt;
cd /mnt/extra;
rpm -i <rpms>;
umount /mnt;


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U.S., South Korea Offer North Talks, and a Warning
SEOUL—The U.S. and South Korea offered to return to negotiations with North Korea in a bid to reduce tensions that American officials said run the risk of a direct military conflict.
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Senior South Korean officials, who met with Secretary of State John Kerry in Seoul on Friday, said their government also was willing to resume humanitarian assistance to the North following weeks of escalating threats by North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun to attack American and allied targets in North Asia and the Pacific.
South Korean officials said the aid shipments could form a pillar of recently elected President Park Geun-hye's "trust" policy toward Pyongyang. Ms. Park seeks to reverse some of the hard-line tactics pursued by her predecessor, Lee Myung-bak.
However, Mr. Kerry during his visit also delivered a renewed warning, saying North Korea would be making a "huge mistake" by conducting new weapons tests, as it appears prepared to do. "We're going to continue to stand our ground," he told a business group in a speech in Seoul Friday, saying the U.S. doesn't bluff on security matters.
Mr. Kerry, who travels next to China, also said Beijing should "put some teeth" into its policy of a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.
Nonetheless, the aim of Mr. Kerry's trip to South Korea was to reduce tensions, and South Korea indicated it was willing to try. "The window for dialogue is always open," South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said Friday following his meeting with Mr. Kerry. "We are always ready to provide humanitarian aid, in principle."
Mr. Kerry was visiting South Korea as part of a three-nation North Asia tour focused on defusing a standoff with North Korea. Pyongyang didn't respond Friday to the overture for talks.
The recent crisis began with Pyongyang's testing of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles starting late last year. The Obama administration responded by initiating new economic sanctions against North Korea and overseeing stepped-up military exercises with South Korea beginning last month.
U.S. and South Korean officials are concerned Mr. Kim is preparing to launch a midrange Musudan missile while Mr. Kerry is in the region. The top American diplomat visits China on Saturday and Japan on Sunday.
The Obama administration has been divided over the utility of diplomacy with North Korea since taking office in 2009.
President Barack Obama has pledged to engage with some of Washington's staunchest enemies, including Iran, in a bid promote stability and contain the spread of nuclear weapons. But the White House believes it has been rebuffed in its earlier diplomatic overtures toward the North.
Just weeks after Mr. Obama took office, North Korea conducted its second nuclear weapons test. Last year, Mr. Kim scrapped an agreement with Washington that allowed for the provision of food assistance by launching a long-range rocket in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Mr. Kerry said in Seoul that the U.S. wouldn't attempt to block any efforts by Ms. Park to resume a dialogue with Mr. Kim. And the U.S. secretary of state said Washington would consider resuming its own diplomatic channel should Pyongyang display a willingness to begin dismantling its nuclear-weapons program.
Mr. Kerry noted that Mr. Obama recently called off some additional U.S.-South Korean military exercises in an effort to lower tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.
"We would never stand in the way…of a sovereign country to decide to talk bilaterally," Mr. Kerry said. "We also said that we'd engage in bilateral talks in the right circumstances."
The former U.S. senator, however, expressed skepticism that the North could be trusted in negotiations. He said the U.S. was unlikely to resume its own humanitarian assistance to the North because of Kim Jong Eun's backing out of last year's aid agreement.
"We've been down that path before, and we've disappointed by the breach of those agreements," Mr. Kerry said.
Further Reading
- Regional Threat Aids Abe's Bid to Boost Japanese Forces
- Pyongyang's Moves Spark Questions
- G-8 Nations Warn North Korea on Tests
- U.S. Says North Korea May Have Nuclear Missile
- South Korea Unfazed by North's Rhetoric
- Seoul Seeks Talks
- Blog: North Korean Missiles: An Inventory
- Why the Bomb News Sounds Familiar
- Officials Play Down Nuclear Assessment
Rising Tensions on the Korean Peninsula
Threats by North Korea against its southern neighbor have escalated, deteriorating fragile relations between Pyongyang and Seoul. The threats are an annual occurrence during U.S. military exercises in South Korea but have been particularly vociferous this year.
Mr. Kerry and Mr. Yun also discussed the potentially thorny issue of a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement that Washington and Seoul are seeking to conclude before Ms. Park visits the White House last week.
The agreement allows for the U.S. to share American-origin nuclear fuel and technology with South Korea. But Seoul's negotiators are seeking to gain U.S. approval to allow South Korea to begin producing its own nuclear fuel, through both the enrichment of uranium and the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel. U.S. officials are wary of agreeing to such terms, as such technologies could also give Seoul the ability to develop weapons-grade nuclear fuel.
Both diplomats said they were optimistic that a compromise agreement could be reached. But neither official would outline the likely terms for the deal.
Mr. Kerry will travel to Beijing on Saturday. He said he would press Chinese officials to more aggressively seek to stop Kim Jong Eun from threatening the South and advancing North Korea's nuclear program. Beijing is by far North Korea's largest trade partner and its only remaining strategic ally in Asia.
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A nationwide shortage of immunizations is making an impact here in south central Kentucky. The Barren River Health Department has now been forced to prioritize who receives the vaccinations.
Vaccines that are scarce include Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, and Pneumococcal. Health Officials say infants and children are primarily being affected by the shortage. The Health Department sent out letters to all schools in their district explaining the situation.
The shortage started once two vaccine manufacturers quit producing immunizations. The Health Department expects the shortage by over by the end of the summer.
For more information log on to www.cdc.gov