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Royals Claim Catcher George Kottaras On Outright Waivers From Oakland
Posted: 3:23 PM Jan 25, 2013
Reporter: Royals, posted by Kinch O'Kelley
KANSAS CITY, MO (January 25, 2013) – The Kansas City Royals today have claimed catcher George Kottaras on Outright Waivers from the Oakland Athletics. To create room on the 40-man roster, the club designated infielder Tony Abreu for assignment.
The 29-year-old Kottaras (kuh-tar-us) has played for the Red Sox (2008-09), Brewers (2010-12) and Athletics (2012), batting .220 with 24 home runs and 84 RBI in 249 Major League contests. The left-handed hitter posted a .351 on-base percentage while drawing a career-high 37 walks in 85 games for Milwaukee and Oakland in 2012 while helping the A's win the American League West after being acquired on July 29. He blasted six home runs for Oakland in just 27 games and then appeared in four games during the A's Divisional Series vs. Detroit. Born in Scarbourough, Ontario, Canada, Kottaras now resides in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Abreu, 28, hit .257 in 22 games for the Royals in 2012 after spending a majority of the campaign at Triple-A Omaha.
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I'm in the city of Stormwind in the Mage Quarter where I talked to the Master Fire Eater. The 2nd quest in his training is for you to light torches, throw them up in the air, and catch them four times in a row. However, I can't figure out how to do it. What I can figure out is that standing near the big bond fire is sufficient to light the torch, and to throw them I only need to click on the button that appears next to the objective on the right. However, after that I am at a loss what to do. How does the mechanics of the torch catching work? How do I know if I caught the torch? Is there a counter to tell you how many in a row you've caught?
You must juggle with the torch. When you throw it, try to follow it and to stand where you expect it to land. If you are close enough to the land point, you will "catch" it, and it will bounce instead. If you weren't close enough, it will burn you for some of your HPs. Movement abilities such as Sprint or Blink may help.
Make it bounce four times in a row, and you win.
Click the quest button while standing near the bonfire to throw the torch. You should see the torch move away in an arc, and the shadow of the torch on the ground. If you don't see this, try throwing from the other side of the fire. The torch always heads in the same direction when thrown from the bonfire (over to a "catching area").
To catch the torch, position yourself under where the torch will land. If successful, the torch will throw itself in another direction. If unsuccessful, the torch will detonate - you must start over.
This quest is available in many capital cities. If you're having trouble where you are, try a different city. I recommend Ironforge for Alliance and Silvermoon for Horde (flat catching area with little in the sky to block your camera).
Catching tips:
"Strafing and mouseturn" in depth:
Hold right mouse button down on the screen to start mouse looking. You can drag the mouse left or right to turn your character. During torch catching, you should hold down the mouse button the whole time!
While doing this, you can strafe to get anywhere you need to go. For example, if the torch thrown forward and left relative to your facing, just move the mouse right to put the torch on your left while you are strafing left. You should be in motion the whole time!

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In C and C++ what do the following declarations do?
const int * i;
int * const i;
const volatile int ip;
const int *i;
Are any of the above declarations wrong?
If not what is the meaning and differences between them?
What are the useful uses of above declarations (I mean in which situation we have to use them in C/C++/embedded C)?


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Agriculture & Food
Nothing is more basic to human well-being than having enough nutritious food to eat. Yet one in every eight people in the world — 842 million — are trapped in a cycle of hunger and poverty.
The reality is that most of the world doesn't have the benefit of picking up food from the corner store — they grow it themselves. Hunger is a crisis when disaster ruins the harvest. It is a cycle when families cannot grow or buy enough to lead healthy, productive lives, and when the effects of malnutrition are passed on to the next generation.
When food shortages occur due to drought and conflict, Mercy Corps helps prevent hunger and treat malnutrition in the most vulnerable — children, pregnant women, the elderly and the displaced. We distribute vouchers, cash or emergency rations, working with local suppliers to speed delivery, save money and boost local economies.
In addition to emergency responses, we focus on long-term solutions that build future food security.
Mercy Corps helps farmers manage their land, increase their harvests and diversify crops to produce a larger, more nutritious, and stable food supply. By teaching nutrition and hygiene, we ensure families can utilize their resources to boost their health. And we connect farmers with new markets and introduce more efficient methods of tending productive livestock and processing and storing crops to increase incomes for years to come.
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Nepal: Where the river brings life, it can also bring death
Krishna Bahadur Giri is standing thigh-deep in the swollen Mohana River, studying the best place to cross. The road we were going to use is washed out; Plan B is to turn our Jeep into an amphibious vehicle.
Nepal: Janaki Bhatta in Samaijee village, Nepal
With support from a Mercy Corps program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Food Crisis Response, Janaki is working hard to make her farm more productive.
Nepal: To combat hunger, Janaki learns new ways to grow, store and sell
I'm pretty sure Bill Gates hasn't met Janaki Bhatta. But I'm just as sure he'd see in her a kindred spirit — a feisty entrepreneur who's taking some smart steps to increase her yields of aloo (potato) and audha (ginger) — and the income she earns from them.
India: Shubina, the bee-keeper of Kashmir
The upper Kashmir Valley, lined by the foothills of the Himalayas, is an idyllic spot for raising honeybees. Saffron and mustard flowers, apple blossoms and acacia blanket the valley.
Nepal: Khadga Ramtel in Katwalguan village
Mercy Corps' Khadga Ramtel, a monitoring and evaluation officer for our agricultural and infrastructure work, talks with women in the village of Katwalguan.
Nepal: When your man goes to India
The Nepali women we've been talking to don't complain. Or not like I imagine most of us would if we were faced with the hardships they endure — on their own — every day. They live a long way from any services or resources.
Nepal: A grueling life on top of the world
Yes, Nepal is so, so beautiful.
Japan: A small and opportune oasis
Right now, the city of Rikuzentakata, Japan is a food desert — a place where it's nearly impossible to find and buy fresh, nutritious food. Grocery stores and other shops were washed away by the tsunami. The closest markets are at least a half-hour away by car.
Kyrgyzstan: Vegetables out of thin air
Sary-Mogol is a very remote village in the Chon-Alai region of southern Kyrgyzstan, located at 3,000 meters above sea level.
Libya: Mercy Corps and Taiwan ICDF provide food assistance in Libya
It's been almost four months since the unrest in Libya began. Prompted by civilian demonstrations fueled by over 40 years of Gaddafi's tyrannical rule and looking to bring forth a new regime, the peaceful protests escalated into violence as Gaddafi's forces quickly tried to squelch the uprising.


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Country Cottages Wales
Just show me country cottages in Wales
What more could you wish for than a country cottage in Wales; where the views are beautiful and the peace and quiet invigorating. Where snow-capped mountains rise to the horizon and eagles soar in the endless blue. Where folk are friendly and pubs are cosy. Where all of your worries seem to melt away.
We've lots of country cottages to rent in Wales that are ideal for romantic short breaks or longer family retreats. With a self-catering country cottage in Wales, you're free to enjoy the delights of the Welsh countryside at your own pace. We feature country cottages in many of Wales' most beloved beauty spots, including Snowdonia, the Brecon Beacons and the Valleys- you just have the daunting task of choosing your favourite!
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Interested? We thought as much! Treat yourself and the other half to a country cottage in Wales, and get set for a holiday brimming with country walks, great food and naps beside the fire! We also feature pet friendly country cottages in Wales, for when you simply can't leave 'Fido' at home.
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I would like to calculate x number of points around a circle using the circle's radius/diameter.
For example, if I wanted 24 equidistant points around a circle with radius 30, how could I go about that?
The circle's origin is (0, 0), radius 30 and I need to calculate 24 (X, Y) equidistant points around it.
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I was reading the following article: http://www.canon.com/news/2010/mar16e.html
It seems Canon is the first company to spring for ICANN's new policy, allowing corporations and businesses to purchase their own TLD (Top Level Domain).
I began to think... wouldn't this be the perfect thing for the StackExchange network? Especially considering this blog post from the StackOverflow blog. That way, we can have:
- apple.se instead of apple.stackexchange.com
- webapps.se instead of webapps.stackexchange.com
- ...
This won't be cheap, the fees quoted on this page are $185,000 US - but, I think it would be a worthy investment as more and more sites are launched.
Edit: I forgot that Sweden owns the TLD
.se. My idea still stands... perhaps
.exchange or something.


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Utilising ASM with an ACFS volume
By AndyBaker on Feb 07, 2013
As part of a recent data migration project it was decided to test out and an Oracle 'ACFS' disc volume as an alternative to existing Oracle 'OCFS' volumes for external table dumps for the ETL migration processing. The attached paper covers the steps in the 'ACFS' process to set up and also links to some other resources on 'ACFS'.
It is hoped to show how easy this technology is to implement as well as making further use of existing Oracle ASM disk already used for Oracle RAC clusters greater than version 11.1. Care needs to be taken with prerequisites and kernel versions before deciding to implement, please see metalink note: ACFS Supported On OS Platforms. [ID 1369107.1]
Download The Full PDF here: ACFS_TestCase.pdf


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Once Upon a Time in the Kingdom of Serv
By RickRamsey-Oracle on Jan 18, 2013
If you're the type of person who has no time to read fairy tales, scroll to the very bottom for a link to the article.
Once upon a time there was a very happy Kingdom called Serv. It was ruled by inventors called engineers. Most of the engineers were clever, kind, and handsome. They had beautiful wives who cooked them tasty and nutritious meals.
A few of the engineers, however, had wives with big, hairy, purple moles, who sat around all day watching reruns of Bridezilla while chomping loudly on pork rinds. They never served their engineer husbands any meals and instead, screamed at them to get them another bag of pork rinds. And they hated sysadmins.
Sysadmins were the workers of the Kingdom. They were very playful, and they had big strong hands. They spent their days tossing servers back and forth to each other, or playing hacky sack.
The Kingdom was a happy place because the clever, kind, and handsome engineers had long ago invented a wonderful contraption called, as you would expect, a "server." Servers were loved throughout the Serv kingdom and all the surrounding kingdoms. They came in shiny metal boxes and had blinking lights. Best of all, they had straight edges so that sysadmins could toss them back and forth to each other. Sysadmins loved tossing servers back and forth to each other, and at lunch time it was not uncommon for several servers to be in the air at once. But when a sysadmin dropped a server, it usually broke. And when a server broke, it was called a "failure." And a failure always woke up The Boss.
The Boss was a hairy ugly giant with one eye. He did only two things. He slept. And he fired sysadmins for waking him up. Naturally, everybody preferred to keep the boss asleep. Especially sysadmins.
Polite people in the Kingdom never mentioned the word "failure" at dinner parties, not even in a whisper, lest they unwittingly awaken The Boss. But everybody knew that if sysadmins began to appear on their sofas in the middle of the night, somewhere in the Kingdom a failure had occurred.
The wives of the clever, kind, and handsome engineers begged their husbands to do something about the plight of the playful sysadmins. And so the clever, kind, and handsome engineers invented the cluster. A cluster was an enchanted cable that connected groups of servers in a magical way. When one server was dropped by a sysadmin, the cable moved that server's applications to another server so fast that nobody had time to even think of saying "failure," much less say it loud enough to wake The Boss. When the dropped server was fixed, the enchanted cable moved that server's applications back.
And so the Kingdom was full of happy sysadmins tossing servers back and forth during lunch, and sleeping in their very own beds at night.
This turn of events, of course, made the pork rind and Bridezilla wives jealous. During the commercials they screeched at their browbeaten husbands until they invented a curse to get the sysadmins fired again and back on the sofas of the beautiful wives who cooked their engineer husbands tasty and nutritious food.
It was an unspeakable curse, and polite people at dinner parties didn't dare to even whisper its name. When this curse was unleashed upon the Kingdom, all the beautiful metal servers disappeared. Except one. And inside that one server were trapped the spirits of all the other servers. The sysadmins stood around staring at it, wondering of what use their big strong hands were when the servers no longer had bodies.
One by one the sysadmins grew sad and left, and in no time at all, almost all the clever, kind, and handsome engineers had sysadmins sleeping on their sofas again.
The Kingdom was not a happy place.
Until one day, it occurred to the cleverest, kindest, and most handsome of the clever, kind, and handsome engineers to put a spell on the enchanted cable so that it could do the same thing for the spirit servers that it once did for the physical servers.
It was a wonderful invention, and the sysadmins jumped off their sofas to learn how to use it. And to keep the pork rind-chomping, Bridezilla-watching wives of the browbeaten engineers guessing, the enchanted cable could be used in two different ways:
Two Ways to Create a Cluster from Logical Domains
- Configure logical domains within Oracle Solaris Cluster
- Configure Oracle Solaris Cluster within Oracle VM Server for SPARC
The first approach is fairly obvious. You can put one or more applications inside each domain and create a cluster from all the domains. When a particular domain goes down, the applications running inside it get moved to a working domain. The domains are controlled individually through Oracle VM Server for SPARC, and the cluster is controlled by Oracle Solaris Cluster.
The second approach is more involved, but it provides significant benefits. It consists of setting up Oracle Solaris Cluster inside the control domain of Oracle VM Server for SPARC. When deployed this way, Oracle Solaris cluster can manage guest domains as "black boxes," which allows a site to isolate the administration of guest domains from each other. With this approach, from within Oracle Solaris Cluster you can:
- Create guest domains
- Live- and warm-migrate the guest domains
- And manage individual applications like you can with the first approach
The second approach is well documented. In fact, Venkat Chennuru, a sysadmin with big strong hands who was elevated to the rank of clever, kind, and handsome engineer, took the trouble to write it down for us. You can find his article on OTN:
How to Configure a Failover Guest Domain in an Oracle Solaris Cluster
Read it, learn how to do it. Because as you know, evil never rests.
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Source: Space Politics
quote: I'm sorry but the preconceived attitude of it can't be done should not enter the equation.
quote: If the moon is such a bad idea, then why is an asteroid, or Mars any better?
quote: We've been launching people into space for a while now.
quote: Private companies will soon be offering rides
quote: companies are looking at privatizing the moon and asteroids for mining purposes
quote: Yeah it will be expensive, but the benefits outweigh the risks.
quote: We throw trillions away on lots of other stuff.
quote: Id rather they throw it at the moon.
quote: The fact that private companies are doing it at all is pretty awesome.
quote: As far as the lunar/asteroid mining goes, you may think its a Ponzi, but it has enough weight that pop-sci has addressed it in a few articles.
quote: You seem to be focused on just the launch.
quote: What about SpaceX? They've broken into the monopoly the ULA had on USAF contracts because they are cheaper.
quote: They are attemping to address the reusability aspect.
quote: I'd argue that private industry and competition will drive down prices, and lead to the innovation you desire because they have to answer to their investors.
quote: The government has no inkling of give a fuq about the amount of money they throw at the monopolies they are in bed with.


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When I start the Ubuntu software centre, it says I cannot do anything until the package catalog is repaired. However, repairing fails.
I ran
sudo apt-get -f install and found the problem to be:
mysql-server-5.5 depends on mysql-server-core-5.5 (= 5.5.24-0ubuntu0.12.04.1); however:
Version of mysql-server-core-5.5 on system is 5.5.28-0ubuntu0.12.04.2.
So, the question is, how do I install that version and resolve the dependency problem?


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Google lists
Not Found Errors in Webmaster Tools as Ranked by
Priority, but what is
Priority based on?
Google lists
This was covered in a Webmaster Central blog post a few months ago.
It is, of course, based on "a multitude of factors" but the overall idea is that the errors are in rough order of what's most important and also likelihood you can actually do something about the problem. Scan down to the "Take action!" header there for some more detail.


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Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetic Foot Infections
Foot infections are a common and serious problem in persons with diabetes. Diabetic foot infections (DFIs) typically begin in a wound, most often a neuropathic ulceration. While all wounds are colonized with microorganisms, the presence of infection is defined by ≥2 classic findings of inflammation or purulence. Infections are then classified into mild (superficial and limited in size and depth), moderate (deeper or more extensive), or severe (accompanied by systemic signs or metabolic perturbations). This classification system, along with a vascular assessment, helps determine which patients should be hospitalized, which may require special imaging procedures or surgical interventions, and which will require amputation. Read full text guideline
Dr Lipsky,
could you provide some clarification on empiric antiobiotic choice?
In table 8,
under moderate or severe DFIs, we have the following probable pathogens
Streptococcus spp; Enterobacteriaceae; obligate anaerobes
So far,
everything clear; these are the pts with no risk for MRSA or Pseudomonas; treat
them with "usual" antibiotics
treat with linezolid, daptomycin, or vancomycin
Pseudomonas - piperacillin-tazobactam
4) MRSA, Enterobacteriacae,
Pseudomonas, and obligate anaerobes; suggested antibiotics: vancomycin,
ceftazidime, cefepime, piperacillin-tazobactam, aztreonam, or a carbapenem.
Now I have
trouble – what clinical scenario is it? Did you mean patients with risk factors
for both MRSA and Pseudomonas, and hence the need for very broad-spectrum
antibiotics? If so, then we should probably use vancomycin (linezolid,
daptomycin) AND one of the remaining (or, maybe more specifically, vancomycin
plus piperacillin-tazobactam, because the latter is preferred for Pseudomonas).
Why this list is longer, if required spectrum is broader?
Thank you.
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Gunners Don't Cut Down Nets
If your college basketball team lives by the three, there's a good chance they are going to die by it, too. Fans of the Florida Gators might find that out the hard way this weekend.
No champion in the last decade of the NCAA men's basketball tournament relied heavily on the three-point field goal to win games. Only three of the past 10 title winners scored more than 27.5% of their total points on long-range jumpers, which was this season's national average. Not one finished among the top 100 three-happy teams in its respective season and most ranked in the lower third nationally, according to kenpom.com.
Of the remaining 16 schools in this year's field, six sit near the bottom of D-1 programs in measures of three-point dependence, including two remaining one seeds. Kansas and Louisville Cardinals pile up points in transition or near the rim. Likewise, Marquette, Michigan State, Syracuse, and Oregon fit the offensive profile of recent champions.
It's a different story in Gainesville. Although the Gators are an excellent shooting team, they take a ton of jumpers from distance (41% of the team's shots). Billy Donovan's crew has scored 35% of its total points on triples, the 29th highest in America. The Florida faithful must hope that gunners Mike Rosario and Erik Murphy (pictured) don't go cold at the wrong time. And if they do, it's not like Donovan would urge them to pass up threes; during his senior year at Providence, "Billy the Kidd" chucked 237 of them.


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I run ubuntu 12.04 host system (64bit) and several VM's (both windows and ubuntu 32bit systems)
My problem is with the meta key (windows key)... If I am focused in an Ubuntu 12.04 remote VM and I press the meta key, the ubuntu launcher menu will pop up in the host VM and not the remote. The only way I have found to open the launcher in the remote is click in teh top left corner of the remote VM window.
Is there a way to make the windows key work in the remote VM only when the remote VM window is active? Or at the very least, a way to remap the activate viewport and desktop switching to a different key in th vm.


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NORTH SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- A shooting at a Seattle cafe and an apparent carjacking left four people dead and two wounded Wednesday while police investigated whether the slayings were connected.
Three of the four were shot in a coffeehouse in the city's University District about 11am (1:00 this afternoon, Kansas time) and a woman died in the carjacking near downtown about half an hour later, police said. Two of the cafe victims were dead at the scene, while another died at a nearby hospital and two more were in critical condition, they said.
Investigators were looking for any connections between the two incidents, which happened about four miles apart, police spokesmen said.
"We're definitely in a dynamic situation right now," Deputy Police Chief Nick Metz told reporters. Investigators did not know whether the gunman knew any of the victims, he said.
Investigators released security camera images of the man they believe carried out the cafe shootings Wednesday afternoon. He appears to be about 30, with dark hair and a beard, and was wearing a light blue jacket and a dark shirt.
Witnesses to the second shooting told police a woman and man were arguing in a parking lot when the man pulled out a pistol and shot the woman in the head. He took off in a black Mercedes sport-utility vehicle, which was found around noon in a neighborhood a few miles southwest of downtown, police said.
Heavily armed police were using dogs to search the neighborhood around the cafe early Wednesday afternoon, neighbors said.
"The streets are blocked off, and there's tons of cops," said Joe Backus, the manager of a musical instrument shop next to Café Racer, where the shootings took place. Police told employees and customers to stay inside while the search was going on, he said.
Nearby resident Evan Hill said he could hear the gunfire from his living room.
"I counted four or five shots and somebody shouting, and I ran out to my balcony and called 911," Hill told CNN affiliate KOMO.
Hill called the cafe a "very mellow" venue that hosts artwork and musical performances.
"It makes you kind of angry that it would happen in a place like that," he said.


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9mm is 0.354 inch
I went to a few shops yesterday when i placed my order for my XDM9. I noticed that there were no mops and brushes in any shops for 9mm. Would it be ok to buy .38 and .357 cleaning accessories for a 9mm?
9mm is 0.354 inch
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Terry Anderson
Sat, 04/13/2013
As part of the Montana Ethic Project, PERC senior fellow Terry Anderson explains how free market environmentalism can help Montanans go into the future as the Treasure State and Big Sky Country all at one time.
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In a new video from ReasonTV, Reed Watson explains how government created an artificial shortage of our most essential resource.
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On MSNBC's Sports Matters, Terry Anderson discusses hunting as a tool for conservation.
Reed Watson
Wed, 04/22/2015
Using the LWCF to acquire land—without first addressing the billions of dollars in deferred maintenance on the existing federal land—will threaten the ecological health, public accessibility and economic productivity of these precious lands.
Terry Anderson, Donald Leal
Mon, 03/02/2015
On Monday, March 2nd, we celebrated Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation with a book launch at the Hoover Institution in Washington. Featured panelists were IJ's Chip Mellor, the Nature Conservancy's Kameran Onley, and the Wall Street Journal's Kim Strassel.
Terry Anderson
Sat, 02/28/2015
PERC's Terry Anderson spoke on the topic "If Hayek and Coase Were Environmentalists: Linking Economics and Ecology" at "The Ends of Capitalism," a conference hosted by the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU School of Law on February 26, 2015.
Holly Fretwell
Mon, 02/02/2015
Rancher and enviropreneur Jeff Lazslo forged partnerships with public and private funders to restore a huge wetland that now flourishes with fish, wildlife, and plants.
Terry Anderson
Fri, 10/10/2014
Long before the EPA was a glint in anyone's eye, property rights were dealing with pollution issues. Watch as PERC's Terry Anderson discusses free market solutions to pollution and other environmental conflicts with John Stossel on Fox Business Network.
Jonathan Adler
Thu, 10/09/2014
We make the mistake sometimes of assuming that the way you clean the environment is just adding another regulation. Watch as PERC senior fellow Jonathan Adler discusses the confusion about pollution and why he is unhappy with the EPA's new rules with John Stossel on Fox Business Network.
Roger Meiners
Tue, 07/29/2014
In a new video, Roger Meiners shows why the common law may be the best remedy to resolve environmental conflicts – without bureaucratic trash to stink things up.


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Cited: Roberta Hill, 61, 1332 Oregon Ave., red light; Travis Vojvodich, no age listed, 460 Gumps Lane, Wintersville, failure to control; John J. Scardina, 38, Wintersville, driving with suspended license and red light; and Petera N. Robinson, 41, 320 Terrace Ave., failure to yield.
Theft: Jewelry and clothing taken from apartment in the 200 block of North Fourth Street, Monday.
Vandalism: Two tires flattened on vehicle in the 1300 block of Maryland Avenue, Monday.
Assault: Two people assaulted at apartment around 4:30 p.m. Monday in the Market Street Apartments. Both were taken to Trinity Medical Center West for treatment.
Arrested: Bryan DiFilippo, 19, 2503 Cherry Ave., domestic violence, Monday.
Jefferson County
Break-in: House on state Route 152, Dillonvale, broken into through back door and two TVs taken, Monday.
Brooke County sheriff
Arrested: Jonathon A. Barnhart, 26, Apartment C, 935 Yankee St., Wellsburg, bench warrant, Jan. 15.
Arrested: Dorothea M. Snyder, 28, Apartment 8, 490 Burgoyne Ave., Follansbee, domestic battery, Sunday.
Arrested: Ashley M. Johnson, 23, Wellsburg, possession of heroin, Friday.
Arrested: Justin M. Grove, 24, 940 Clifton St., Follansbee, violation of protective order, Friday.
Theft: A pistol was taken from a home on Pennsylvania Avenue in Colliers between Jan. 1 and Saturday. There was no sign of forced entry.
Arrested: Kimberly Anne Engle, 29, of Hookstown, Pa., bringing stolen property into the state, Wednesday.
Arrested: Robert Mitchel Miller, 23, 105 Cooper Street, Weirton, driving while suspended for driving under the influence, Wednesday.
Arrested: Robert Matthew Morgan, 24, of Bulger, Pa., two counts of destruction of property, Thursday.
Arrested: Ashley Michele Johnson, 23, Wellsburg, driving under the influence and left of center, Friday.
Arrested: Roy Lee Groppe, 39, 1104 Main St., Follansbee, domestic assault and obstructing an officer, Sunday.


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Fabric Store Shopping Tips
Part of the Window Treatments and Slipcovers For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Shopping for fabric can be a bewildering experience if you're not prepared. Whether you're sewing window treatments, slipcovers, or bedding, a fabric store can help you devise your decorating plan. Be sure to browse the store first to gain a sense of the quality and variety of the goods. When you're ready to buy, use these shopping tips for purchasing the right fabric for the right price:
Some discount stores or wholesale fabric retailers "do better" on the price if you're buying in bulk. If you're buying a lot of fabric for a project, first ask for the price per yard. After the sales clerk tells you, ask again, saying, "What if I buy 10 yards?" You almost always get a better price!
When buying more than a yard or two of fabric, ask the vendor to unroll the whole bolt so you can check for fabric flaws. If you're paying a special "by the bolt" price, roll out and measure the entire bolt to be sure that the bolt really has enough on it for your projects; bolt bulk can be deceiving.
Test your fabric's quality. Pull a bit of the fabric at the end where it was previously cut to see if it unravels easily. If it does, don't buy it!
Create a "color notebook" with your room components and bring it with you to the store. Add swatches of fabrics and trims that exist in the room, some paint swatches from your walls, a picture of the furniture you plan to treat, and a photo of the room you're decorating. Record your furniture's and window's dimensions in the book. This notebook lets you visualize everything, and you can quickly refer to it with salespeople.
Consult the bolt or cylinder tag for all the information you need to know about the fabric you're considering. This tag includes the price per yard, fiber content, care instructions, fabric width, and the company name that made the fabric.
If you're unsure of a fabric's color, texture, or design suitability, ask the vendor to cut you a swatch to take home, so you can test it "on-site." Staple each swatch to a page of your color notebook and add the business card of the store where you bought it, along with the price per yard, so you know how much it is and where to buy it for future reference.
Always keep a measuring tape with you so you can double-check width. Some fabric may be missing its bolt tag, and bolt tags have been known to lie.
Don't be afraid to ask questions and spend as much time as you need to make the right choice for your project. Fabric shopping is meant to be enjoyable, so look at, touch, and even smell the fabrics, and, of course, have fun!


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This has been one of my biggest flaw since my childhood. I usually keep worrying about small issues, which brings me into lots of tension, but actually nothing happens. I keep on worrying about what is going to happen and all. It's future what I see forgetting all about present. But if you see happens nothing but when even small issues occur I would start thinking and thinking. Even at home. And if I get tensed, it feels as if the whole world is an enemy to me. The issue is I don't live in the present, but I keep on worrying about future. It feels as if I am in some race and I am just running and running. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Let me share my story. I also had a very high level of anxiety and thought a lot about things in the future. With that, I could not do a good job when I had to give demos to the customer. I went to see a psychologist, he prescribed medicine for me and he suggested that the medicine is just a helper. The only way to actually get away from the symptom is to practice, inspect and adapt. And it works, I stopped taking those medecine after for 4 weeks. Meanwhile, I tell myself that if anything is out of my control I don't worry about it. I spend times with my family so that I'm busy and don't have any time to worry about things. Reading is a really good activity that helps. Remember, medicine only helps to make you feel confident that you will be better. After I saw some good signs I could stop taking the medicine. :)
The clear steps I did are:
I think you will be fine because you know yourself. Just aim and go for it. You might fail sometimes but you will finally find yourself helping other people out in the future.
I hope my story helps.
Talking about worrying about the future, I recall a day in my high school 15 years ago. I forgot my homework and I know that I'm going to be punished for it. I kept worrying all day long. I can barely eat my lunch. I cannot focus on studying in any subject. It was a very long day. I pictured myself being beaten on my ass by a long stick again and again. I was so afraid. And by the end of the day, I was beaten on my ass by a long stick (just as I have pictured again and again but more vivid and more painful). After I was hit, the first thing I felt was a relief. The mind torturing I have done to myself all day long was finally over. I realized that it is a waste of time and energy to be thinking of an inevitable event. I was going to be punished by the teacher anyway, no need to punished myself more with self-mind-torturing.
After that day, when there is anything in the future worries me, I would think if there is anything I can do about it. If so, I would just note that action in my phone. If not, I would just ignore it. Let it comes and I would deal with the consequences.
I hope that what I have shared is useful to you. It might not suite you best. But I hope it worth you time reading it. Good luck! :)
Re-focus. If you catch yourself falling into an old pattern, try something different. It's the catching that can be tricky (at least for me)–when you're used to something it can be upon you before you realize it.
I've found Pema Chödrön's advice about getting "hooked" valuable regarding things like this:
I've also done "silly" things when I do realize it, even if it's well in to the behavior, for example, jumping on one leg while spinning in circles squawking like a chicken. A bit extreme, perhaps, but it turns catching negative behavior into both something of a game, and lightens the mood around it.
Obsessing about being obsessed is just transference and no more useful: notice your feeings. Acknowledge them–they exist, they happened: observe them. Then move on.
imho, the best thing would be to go to a good shrink; fixing problems like this would make your life much happier
but, if you still want to tackle it yourself - here is a simple NLP trick which might be useful
every behavior (no matter how strange it looks) does have a very real and rational (from a certain point of view) reason; perhaps there is a reason for what you are doing? Many of such "reasons" are created at age of 5 or even before
try to identify when did you start to have that problem
lets say you were 8 years old
next, get the picture of yourself at that age and ask that boy - what possible benefits could he have by worrying on small small issues? Be patient, at some point you will get an answer (for example, the boy's father hated happy faces and the easiest way to live in that house for that boy was to always look worried and sad.
Now move yourself (as you are at your present age) into that picture and help that boy to deal with that problem without worrying on small small issues. If you succeed - the problem is solved.
You have the first step down- you've realized what you're doing isn't right, and you want to fix it. The best thing you can do is catch yourself in the act of worrying about the future, and sidetrack yourself. Think about what you're physically doing at the moment, and just slow your thoughts down, and try to be more rational in your timeline. As you said, it feels as if you're just running and running. Just try to slow yourself down. However, if you can not bring yourself to do that, and this is really affecting you to the point of attacks, consider a psychologist.
It may be that you suffer from GAD. It's common; for instance 2 % of Europeans do. The good news is that it can be successfully treated with Cognitive behavioral therapy. There are lots of self-help books.
Also, you might want to check out so-called Mindfulness meditation. It's an easy training technique that helps you stay focused, ignoring worries about the future.


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NOTEWORTHY: Three Eastern Gateway Community College employees made presentations at the Ohio Association of Community Colleges' Student Success Summit.
Dr. Robin Snider-Flohr, dean of health and public services, and Dawn Cable, adjunct instructor in developmental education, led two sessions on classroom interventions. They explained the implementation of cooperative learning in several of the college's courses with the goal of improving grades, passage rates and attendance.
Dr. Dorothy Collins, director of TRIO student support services and advising, spoke about first-year experiences and reviewed the college's CSS106 Succeeding in College course that is required for all first-time students.
SEMINAR: The Ridgefield Group is offering a luncheon seminar, "Frauds, Phishing and Phonies: Protecting Your Business," on from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Jan. 11 at the Serbian American Cultural Center in Weirton.
Sponsored by the Jefferson County and Weirton Area chambers of commerce, the seminar is designed to give attendees practical knowledge on what they can and should do to protect their business from fraudulent transactions, phishing scams and phony business proposals.
The cost is $20, which includes lunch as well as the seminar.
Reservations are due no later than Jan. 2 and may be made by calling (740) 282-6266 or by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
CHILD ID: Parents are invited to take advantage of Western & Southern Life's free Child ID Card program.
By filling out a form, parents can receive an ID card for their child. Information gathered on the form is the child's date of birth, race, height, weight, eye and hair color, blood type, medical conditions and allergies, and the names of their parents or guardian. Each child's photograph also will be on the card.
For information, contact Western & Southern Life's Melvin Williams at (740) 457-5022, by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or by stopping in at his office, located at 864 Frank Layman Blvd., Suite A, Wintersville.
COVERAGE: AT&T has activated new mobile broadband cell sites that enhance coverage for area residents and businesses in Pleasant Valley, east of Weirton, and north to New Manchester.
The new cell sites are one part of AT&T's ongoing efforts to deliver the nation's most advanced mobile broadband experience for customers by driving investment and innovation. The mobile broadband sites will allow customers to surf the Web, download songs, movies and files faster, and enjoy the latest interactive mobile applications.
"Whether you are sharing photos with friends, searching online for holiday festivities in the city or connecting with family using social networks, we want you to have an exceptional experience," said Larry Evans, vice president and general manager, AT&T Ohio and northern West Virginia. "Smartphone, tablets and laptops are continuing to drive unprecedented demand for wireless access everywhere. We're investing in a combination of technologies right here in New Manchester and Pleasant Valley to meet these needs."


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For the past several months, 12-year-old Talia has been on a mission to raise awareness about the importance of organ donation and to inspire others to sign up to be organ donors.
While her endeavor will continue – which means you can sign up to be a donor any time – her weekly column is going on hiatus. We look forward to her return. We also appreciate how so many people in this community have embraced her efforts.
–Angie Fenton, Managing Editor


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I am presently trying to call the fields of a custom widget using get_option and loop through the array created from the get_option() call. The issue is that it is outputting a blank one at the end, resulting in one extra than what I have enabled. Here is the code I have at the moment:
$the_team = get_option('widget_jcMeetTeam');
$the_id = 1; //used for an ID increment for the jquery this will be used for
print_r ($the_team);
if (count($the_team) > 1) {
foreach ($the_team as $team_member) {
echo '

Occupation: '.$team_member['jc_occupation'].'

Favorite Wine: '.$team_member['jc_favwine'].'

About: '.$team_member['jc_about'].'

 ';
++$the_id; //increment for next panel ID
I am presently trying to figure out how to get the loop to stop before the last blank one gets displayed, giving an accurate listing of active widget instances.


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STEUBENVILLE - Franciscan University of Steubenville will honor nine long-time faculty and staff for their service to the university and the community at the 63rd-annual Founders' Association Dinner on Dec. 8, in the J. C. Williams Center.
In addition, eight local students will receive scholarships at the event.
All of the honorees "were here through some of our tougher times and stayed on to become the backbone of the university we know today," said the Rev. Richard Davis, TOR, vice president of community relations. "This is our small way of saying 'thank you' to each of them."
The staff and faculty to be honored "believed in Father Mike (Scanlan, TOR, president 1974 to 2000), and supported the mission of the school at tremendous sacrifice to their families during the years of financial hardship when the College of Steubenville was transforming itself into a nationally known university," said Davis.
Most of the honorees have retired, but some continue to teach part time.
Honorees include professor John Herrmann, physics; the late professor Ray Petrilla, biology; professor Ed Bessler, biology; professor James Slater, chemistry; Virginia Zoric, assistant dean of faculty; professor Joseph Zoric, economics; Irene Pizzoferrato, secretary to the dean of faculty; professor Norman Rokke, chemistry and computer science; and professor Earl Spinnenweber, philosophy.
Several local students also will receive scholarships at the dinner.
The University Founders' Scholarship will be given to Jarett Kuhns of Bellaire, Amanda Carmine of Steubenville and William Shanahan of Steubenville.
The Rose M. DeFede Women's Guild Scholarship will be given to Tiffany Ribar of Steubenville, Rachael Oiler of Weirton, Cheryl Myers of Dresden, Maureen Kazmierczyk of Conway, Pa., and Mycaela Stewart of Mingo Junction.
The Founders' Association Dinner was established in 1949 by the Rev. Daniel Egan, TOR, first president of the College of Steubenville, to draw the college and civic communities together.
The Founders' Award was established in 1978 to honor men, women and organizations for their contributions to Franciscan University of Steubenville and the local community.
Dinner tickets are $50 each and are available by calling Franciscan University of Steubenville's Community Relations Office at (740) 283-6406 by Nov. 30.
Supporters who cannot attend and want to make a scholarship donation, can send a check payable to the Founders' Association, Community Relations, 1235 University Blvd., Steubenville, OH 43952.


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Recently empathy has switched it's behavior for open links.
At some point it was that links pasted in the IM window where open with whatever program was associated to the mime type of the link's content type, so, for example if the link was pointing to a image it was open in eog, if the link was a webpage it was open in gedit (my default setting).
Now it opens everything in chrome even though it's not my default browser, I've checked everywhere and chrome is not set as default.
I'm thinking that it's a bug but wanted to ask before going to launchpad. It's happening the same to you?
Is there a way to force empathy to open everything in firefox as a workaround?


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Suppose a current flows in a straight cylindrical wire so that an electric field $\textbf{E}$ is maintained in the wire. Will there be an electric field just outside the wire..?
From your setup, it sounds like you have an E field directed along the wire that is driving the current (i.e. the wire has some finite conductivity). If that is the case, then just outside the wire there must also be an E field, because of Faraday's Law. The curl of E must be finite, and if you had a discontinuity of the tangential E field at the surface of the wire then the curl would be infinite.
The voltage difference in a steady state current is independent of path, and deforming the path out of the wire, you can see that the electric field must be continuous. The electric field not only extends outside the wire, in conjunction with the magnetic field surrounding the wire, it is carrying the bulk of the momentum of the current.
When a steady current is flowing through the wire, the overall wire is charge neutral. In the presence of an external electric field $\textbf{E}$ the electrons are simply moving from one end of the wire to the other. The electron density at end of the wire from which the electrons are leaving gets replenished by (say) the battery. An equal flux of electrons is obviously coming out of the other end of the wire and going into the battery. In each region of the wire the free (or conducting) electron density matches that of the positive ion cores. As a result, the wire is charge neutral. Therefore there should not be any electric field outside the wire (Gauss's law).
Also, because you said that "$\textbf{E}$ is maintained," the magnetic field produced by the wire (Biot-Savart law) will be time independent. Therefore any electric field outside the wire, due to induction, will also not be possible (Lenz's law).


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Dare to be Different...
Boringdon Hall Hotel is a seductive manor house hotel in Devon where luxury and style come together with the drama of Elizabethan architecture. Imposing stone towers, secret archways and curious arrow slits hint at the hotel's rich history. The delectable fine dining restaurant, lavish four-poster suites and idyllic location on the edge of Dartmoor, will make your heart flutter and your mouth water.
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Visually stunning and seamlessly presented, Boringdon Hall is the most exquisite of all South Devon wedding venues. Glittering affairs can be celebrated in style whilst getting down to business is a pleasure at this Plymouth conference venue.


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In terms of "coolest ways to die," it's hard to beat "sucked into a black hole." The question's just: what would that entail, exactly? No one has first-hand experience. Would you spend weeks floating past its event horizon, before eventually being ripped apart? Or would you—as string theorist Joseph Polchinski recently proposed—soar into a "seething maelstrom of particles... hit a wall of fire and be burned to a crisp in an instant"?
As it turns out, the answer to that question could change the way we understand the physical universe.
In this month's Nature, Zeeya Merali writes about the coolest current debate in physics. Until recently, most physicists agreed that black hole death involved being ripped apart (and then crushed)—a process they called, charmingly, "spaghettification." But calculations by string theorist Joseph Polchinski seem to indicate that you'd actually get burned alive in a wall of fire at the black hole's event horizon.
Here's how Merali describes the two methods on an accompanying podcast:
Wall of Fire
So: obviously this is an important debate for stoned college kids. But why is it important to physicists? As it turns out, the "Wall of Fire" model precludes Einsteinian relativity—but "fixing" it breaks our current understanding of quantum physics. Physicists are still debating the models: "To completely understand the firewall paradox, we may need to flesh out that dictionary," Harvard's Juan Maldacena told Merali, "but we won't need to throw it out." Another way of resolving all of this: toss someone in a black hole and see what happens.
[Nature, NASA illustration via AP]


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I have a 4 way splitter which has DC pass written on arrows that point in different directions . Does this mean that the splitter isn't a just a passive splitter and it needs power?
A splitter takes RF power from an input and divides it up between multiple outputs. The splitters are designed to operate at a certain range of frequencies. For cable TV, this might be from 5 MHz to 900 MHz. The important thing to note here is the lower bound, 5 MHz. This splitter would block signals that are below 5 MHz. DC, or Direct Current, is low frequency power (perhaps less than 5 kHz). This low frequency component of the signal can easily be blocked by using a capacitor is series with the port.
Because your splitter says DC pass, it "passes" DC voltages/currents from its input to its output. This does not mean that the splitter is active. The splitter likely can operate without any power (it can be passive). The DC power, if passed, can be used to power circuitry such as amplifiers that are connected to the cable.
This means that the splitter will allow DC power to pass through from the receiver to the source. This is typically required for satelite TV where the polarity is used to switch the LNB (Low Noise Block) between different bands (if I recall correctly, usually even/odd stations require reversing the polarity).


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New Research Focuses on the Power of Physical Contact, via NY Times: "In recent years some researchers have begun to focus on a different, often more subtle kind of wordless communication: physical contact. Momentary touches, they say — whether an exuberant high five, a warm hand on the shoulder, or a creepy touch to the arm — can communicate an even wider range of emotion than gestures or expressions, and sometimes do so more quickly and accurately than words.
The evidence that such messages can lead to clear, almost immediate changes in how people think and behave is accumulating fast. Students who received a supportive touch on the back or arm from a teacher were nearly twice as likely to volunteer in class as those who did not, studies have found. A sympathetic touch from a doctor leaves people with the impression that the visit lasted twice as long, compared with estimates from people who were untouched. Research by Tiffany Field of the Touch Research Institute in Miami has found that a massage from a loved one can not only ease pain but also soothe depression and strengthen a relationship."
A common parenting tendency to attempt to modify children's behavior primarily with our voices, followed up by physical intervention when this fails. Touch is rarely proactive, and is often negative.
Earlier today, my 14 month-old Cezar had climbed onto the table and was putting my necklace into a cup of cold tea. Preoccupied myself, I called out to him to please stop, worried he would spill on the plethora of electronics in the vicinity. He paused and looked at me, undoubtedly made curious by my stern and animated reaction. I called out to him again. Not breaking eye contact, he slowly lowered the necklace back into the tea. Sheepish about my own lazy and incredibly futile method, I went and retrieved the cup. He of course protested and became even more upset when I took him off the table.
I know I am not alone in practicing this sort of ineffective pattern of communication; in fact, I received a question last week from a woman who was at her wits end with her toddler, whom she said "doesn't listen to anything I say! In fact, she seems to deliberately do the opposite just to get a reaction!"
I find it interesting that we treat verbal cues as though they are imbued with magical properties that should change the behavior of children as though the utterances were literally spells or incantations. Why do we assume that spoken language is or should be the most effective way of prompting kids? One thing I've noticed is that many of us seem wary of using physical guidance or instruction until all attempts at verbal persuasion have been exhausted and frustration has set in. This sets up the subsequent physical interaction to be negative since it comes in the form of intervention, rather than proactivity.
Back to my Cezar. In that typical situation, it would have been more effective for me to have gone over to him the instant I took notice, and provided assistance on what he was trying to do. If he was curious about the liquid in the cup, I might have brough over a spoon and guiding his hand with it to show him how to stir slowly without spilling. If it was too hot, I could have showed him how to put his hand near the surface to test for heat. I could have also done a separate demonstration on how to put the necklace on himself carefully, and away from the tea. The rule of thumb here is that they are curious, and there is almost always a way to address that curiosity safely; it just requires some hands-on assistance, rather than shouting crude commands. Physical interaction should be supportive and proactive, and the verbal cues should be supplementary and explanatory. This method is also most likely to be safe long-term since the lessons learned from exploration are more effective than ones learned from directives or intimidation.
Here are some tips I'm using to help me become better at non-verbal communication:
- Move closer. Don't let your voice be the first thing on the scene.
- Instead of "shhh-ing" a crying child or asking "are you okay?" Simply use touch and your physical presence to send a message of security and comfort. Often there is no need to say anything anyways.
- In any situation where you might say "Stop that!" or "Put that down!" consider how you can use a positive non-verbal approach to solve the problem. It might be initiating an activity together, or giving a hand with something, or simply exploring the breakable object with them until their curiosity is satisfied.
Language is wonderful, and I strive to provide full commentary and explanations along side hands-on learning. However, the need for touch and positive physical interaction is primary to human wellbeing, and is an oft-neglected component of childhood socialization. Rather than outsource comfort and stimulation to external objects, we need to rediscover the real source of those physical needs.
Do you have any tips on how to use more non-verbal communication? Share them in a comment!


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[Washington, DC] – The Ministry of Interior has announced that Turki Nasser Mishaal Aldandany died today in the northern province of Al-Jouf as Saudi security forces closed in on him. Aldandany was the number one figure on the wanted list released by Saudi authorities following the discovery of a large arms cache on May 6. He was one of the top Al-Qaeda operatives in Saudi Arabia and one of the masterminds of the May 12 Riyadh bombings.
A national manhunt for Aldandany had been underway and at 5:00 am this morning security forces surrounded the house where he was hiding along with four other wanted individuals (two Saudi nationals and two Kuwaiti nationals). Security forces evacuated the surrounding area and used loudspeakers to call for the surrender of the suspects. One of the Saudi suspects did, and he is now in custody.
The others immediately began firing machine guns and lobbing grenades at security officers. In the ensuing gun battle, Aldandany and three others were killed. Authorities later also arrested three accomplices (two Saudi nationals and one Syrian national) who had been trying to smuggle the terrorists out of the country.
Today's events follow other major happenings including Tuesday's arrest of Zafer bin Abdulrahman Al-Shehri, the arrest last week of top Al-Qaeda operative Ali Abdulrahman Said Alfagsi Al-Ghamdi (also know as Abu Bakr), and the death on May 31 of Yousif Salih Fahad Al-Ayeeri (also known as "Swift Sword"), a major Al-Qaeda operational planner and fundraiser who was killed while fleeing from Saudi security forces.
Prior to today's events, Saudi Arabia had arrested 125 terrorist suspects since May 12. This is in addition to the more than 300 arrested since September 11, 2001.
According to Ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan: "Saudi Arabia is determined to crush the terrorists and is doing everything to ensure the safety and security of its citizens and residents."


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Everything You Need to Have Seen From Last Night's Emmys
Did you watch the Emmys last night? No? Good for you! They were kind of boring. And weird. Breaking Bad cleaned up for its final season and most of the shows you wanted to win (Game of Thrones, Orange is the New Black, True Detective) were shut out. Here's everything you missed:


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I am using 12.04.1 x86_64 on my system. This is fresh clean install. Every time I check for updates using "Updates Available" menu-item I get the partial upgrade option.
What does this mean? Just want to confirm on what version would my system be upgraded to. I haven't heard anything like 12.04.2 so I am assuming it would be 12.10 beta release.
I have checked the settings that notify me the type of updates release; it's set to LTS releases.
Is anybody else facing the issue?
Please have a look at the screen shot:-


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Olive's Ocean (Hardcover)
"Olive Barstow was dead. She'd been hit by a car on Monroe Street while riding her bicycle weeks ago. That was about all Martha knew."
Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends. But they weren't -- and now all that is left are eerie connections between two girls who were in the same grade at school and who both kept the same secret without knowing it.
Now Martha can't stop thinking about Olive. A family summer on Cape Cod should help banish those thoughts; instead, they seep in everywhere.
And this year Martha's routine at her beloved grandmother's beachside house is complicated by the Manning boys. Jimmy, Tate, Todd, Luke, and Leo. But especially Jimmy. What if, what if, what if, what if? The world can change in a minute.
About the Author
Kevin Henkes is the author of Junonia, Sun & Spoon, Bird Lake Moon, and the Newbery Honor Books The Year of Billy Miller and Olive's Ocean. He also writes and illustrates picture books, and among his many titles are the national bestsellers Little White Rabbit, My Garden, Old Bear, A Good Day, and Kitten's First Full Moon, for which he was awarded the Caldecott Medal. Mr. Henkes is also the creator of a series of books starring mouse characters, including the Penny books for beginning readers, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Chrysanthemum, and Owen, for which he was awarded a Caldecott Honor.
Kevin Henkes lives with his family in Madison, Wisconsin.
Praise For…
"The ever versatile Kevin Henkes dazzles with this spare yet profoundly touching coming-of-age novel."
-Family Fun Magazine
"An eloquent journey into adolescence."
-Florida Times-Union
"Few girls will fail to recognize themselves in Martha."
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Martha Boyle is one of the memorable 12–year–old girls of fiction, smart, confused, compassionate."
-KLIATT (starred review)
"With his usual sensitivity and insight, Henkes explores key issues of adolescence."
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WHEELING - Wheeling City Solicitor Rosemary Humway-Warmuth is appealing to the West Virginia Supreme Court, asserting that Circuit Judge James Mazzone made numerous errors in his decision to restore Matthew Kotson to his previous status with the Wheeling Police Department.
Mazzone in October overturned City Manager Robert Herron's decision to fire Kotson, as well as the Wheeling Police Civil Service Commission's subsequent ruling to uphold that decision.
The judge ordered Kotson placed back on unpaid administrative leave with the department and a pre-termination hearing convened to decide the former police officer's fate.
Humway-Warmuth appealed to the state's high court last month and contended Mazzone committed nine errors while coming to his ruling. Among the alleged errors were the judge's unclear wording of state law, his interpretation and application of case law and his ruling that Kotson's due process rights were violated.
The appeal application also states that Mazzone wrongly "substituted (his) judgment for that of the decision makers in this matter," referring to Herron and the Police Civil Service Commission.
Humway-Warmuth essentially asserts that every major decision Mazzone offered in his October ruling was made in error, and she is also requesting a stay of his judgment pending argument before the Supreme Court.
That includes waiting to convene the pre-termination hearing, which is held before a board comprised of three police officers who will hear evidence in the case and decide whether to fire Kotson.
The city will choose one member of the board, while the police department will choose another. Those officers will choose the third member from among the department's patrolmen -- Kotson's most recent rank.
West Virginia State Police arrested Kotson on Dec. 1, 2011, for allegedly committing multiple sex crimes against four women over several years while employed as a police officer. Herron fired Kotson the next day, citing exigent circumstances.
Humway-Warmuth has continued to point to exigent circumstances as justification for Kotson's firing without a pre-termination hearing, more than a year later and after Mazzone said the claim was "without merit."
In addition to the criminal charges against Kotson, the city listed a domestic violence protective order that was filed against the former officer as a factor contributing to the exigent circumstances.
That order has since been dissolved.
Additionally, two of the counts of sex crimes against Kotson subsequently were dismissed, while a jury found him innocent of a third count. Trials on the remaining counts are scheduled for March 25 and April 1.


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2 pounds of chopped meat (can use all chuck or a mixture of chuck and pork)
3 large or 4 medium eggs
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
3 TBS of chopped fresh parsley (can use more than this if you like)
2 TBS grated Romano cheese
1 tsp. garlic powder
3/4 cups of Italian style breadcrumbs mixed with enough water to be the consistency of wet sand
Mix eggs and remaining ingredients, then add meat next to last and finally add the breadcrumbs last.
Form flattened meatballs.
Heat oil in frypan.
Brown on both sides and cook through.
Drain on paper towels before serving.
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LORENA (October 25, 2012)--Lorena police released surveillance photographs Thursday of two men they believe broke into a local supermarket early Tuesday morning.
Lorena police Chief Tom Dickson said investigators hope someone will recognize one or both of the men.
Anyone with information about the men is asked to call Lorena police at (254) 857-9614.
Police were sent just before 1 a.m. Tuesday to the Brookshire Brothers grocery store, just off Interstate 35 in Lorena where a building alarm had been activated.
The front door of the building was open when police arrived and as an officer made his way into the store, two men ran out.
The officer ordered the men to stop and one of them came toward the officer armed with a crowbar.
The officer pulled his firearm and shot at the man, but didn't hit him.
The man dropped the crowbar and ran around the building where he disappeared.
The other man ran in an opposite direction and also disappeared.
Police were looking for two men, one or both of them possibly armed; one said to be 6-foot-1, wearing maroon pants; the other 6-foot-2, wearing black pants.
Police say both men were wearing black hoods and had on gloves, either white or grey, and both men were wearing black-and-white shoes.
A store employee who asked not to be identified told News 10 the burglars got into the front of the building and broke into an office but were unsuccessful in breaking into the store's safe.
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When my phone starts up there are several application/services running in the background that I would rather not. And when I press the Home button while using an app, that app usually goes into the background without exiting. How can I stop these apps from running?
First Things First
You may have some misconceptions about how Android works and what's really happening when a service is running or an app is in the background. See also: Do I really need to install a task manager?
Most apps (e.g., ones you launch manually) have their current Activity put into the background when you switch to another app or the homescreen. Activities consume some memory, so that you can go back to the app and pick up where you left off. Activities are usually not able to run computations in the background, so no CPU or battery is used for them. If battery life or CPU performance is your concern, you don't need to worry about these apps! You don't need to worry about memory, either; Android will automatically kill the app and free the memory if the system is running low.
If the app in background is running a service, that may be a different story. Well-designed services spend most of their time sleeping, waking up for the occasional check (new social media notifications, for example). However, poorly designed services may run more often or perform syncing operations that you don't want, affecting battery life and your data usage. If you've got a rogue service you may want to try one of the solutions below.
If you're sure you want to make this app stop at all costs, you can try these methods.
When an app does something you don't like, whether running in the background on startup or something else, your first option is to uninstall it. Problem solved! You can remove system apps if you have root, most easily with Titanium Backup, but be careful to remove only carrier bloatware and not critical system apps.
However, if you want to be able to use that app then this is not an option: keep reading.
Ping the Developer
Some of the greatest daemons that come with Android are services that run in background for no reason or when a simple interval check with Android's AlarmManager would be sufficient. We need to kill them all with fire, and not by ignoring them. Everything that does not involve a fix by the developer is just a hack that will result in other negative side effects. If you contact the developer with your problem, they can fix the app and you can go on using it normally. That's a win for everyone involved.
Manually Killing Apps
First, note that many apps will close completely if you Back out of them rather than using the Home button.
If you are running Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean, you can go into Settings, hit Applications, and manually shut down the app by tabbing over to the running apps. Alternatively you can hit the Recent Applications button and swipe them off the screen to close them. In older versions of Android there may be a built-in Task Manager added by the manufacturer to accomplish the same thing, or you can download a task manager app to do so. For services, look at
WARNING: Do not use automatic task killers! Automatic task killers run in the background (exactly what you don't want) and kill apps whenever they start. Most of the time this makes things worse, because apps often consume more resources when they're starting up compared to when they're sitting idle. Services that run automatically and are restarted by the system will be killed over and over, wasting your battery. Similarly, apps that receive system events known as Intents (such as network coverage and connectivity changes) will be killed every time they start up to receive an event. Nothing good can come of it.
A possible exception is automatic tasks that execute only when you, the user, perform a specific action. In essence, they're just making manual task management easier for you. An app like Tasker or Llama can be used to end activities when you switch apps, for example, ensuring they don't stay around in the background. Instructions for Llama:
Editing Autostarts and Intents
As mentioned above, some applications may start when they receive Intents (system events). By using an app like Permissions Denied you can alter which permissions apps can request, which in turn limits which events they can receive. Or you can use an app like Autostarts to edit specifically which Intents will be sent to which apps. For both solutions, you'll need root access.
Other options:
(Autostarts is free/open-source software, also available from f-droid.)
WARNING: This can cause apps to stop working or inhibit wanted functionality. Proceed with caution, especially with critical system apps.
Freezing Apps
You can use an app like Titanium Backup or App Quarantine to complete freeze apps so that they can't run at all. If you want to use them you have to un-freeze them first.
WARNING: Do not do this with critical system apps! Your device may fail to boot.
Put Apps into Hibernation
Greenify (require Android 4.0+ and ROOT privilege) use a different approach called "Hibernation", from traditional "Freezing".
You can safely hibernate any non-system app you do not want it to run stealthily (via persistent services, broadcast receivers, alarms and so on), effectively equivalent to "freezing", while still keep all its entrances (launcher icon, sharing target, etc) and fully functional when you explictly run it, without the need to un-freeze it first.
WARNING: Do not hibernatize alarm clock apps, instant messaging apps, and other apps whose basic functionality relies on background mechanism (timer, system events, "push", etc) to work.
The Bottom Line
Android is designed to take care of app management for you. In all but the most extreme cases you shouldn't need to worry about it. When there is a problem, we advise you to go for the simplest solution — uninstalling. All other solutions are hacks around what Android is designed to do. Maybe one day Android will have official support for managing services but, until then, be careful.
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- 1 cup black or brown mustard seeds
- 1/2 cup almonds, chopped
- 1/2 cup pine nuts, chopped
- 1 cup cold water
- 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
- 2-3 teaspoons salt
Grind the whole mustard seeds for a few seconds in a spice or coffee grinder, or by hand with a mortar and pestle. You want them mostly whole. Add the chopped nuts and grind into a paste.
Move everything to a bowl and add the salt and cold water. Mix well and let stand for 10 minutes.
Pour in the vinegar and stir well. When the vinegar is incorporated, pour into a glass jar and store in the fridge. Wait at least 24 hours before using. Mustard made this way will last several months in the fridge.


text: Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Beyond the Baseline It's tournament versus ATP board in Indian Wells prize money dispute by Courtney Nguyen Twitter Email Posted: Fri Feb. 8, 2013 Roger Federer won the BNP Paribas Open and a $1 million check last year. (John Cordes/Icon SMI)Raymond Moore, CEO of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, is not optimistic the ATP Tour will reverse its decision to decline the tournament's offer of an $1.6 increase in prize money (split between the men and women) this year because other tournament representatives do not want the BNP Paribas Open to outpace them."We thought it was a slam dunk. The players approved it unanimously and the distribution formula we offered," Moore said during a Q&A session on MyDesert.com.The ATP player representatives did approve the increase, as did the WTA Board of Directors, but the three tournament representatives on the ATP Board of Directors -- Mark Webster, Gavin Forbes and Charles Smith --- did not. Moore suspected it's because they don't want to give the players any more leverage to ask for prize money increases at other tournaments."There's an inherent conflict of interest with the tournament reps," Moore said. "Why would the tournament reps want to block it? They want to put the muzzle or the bridle on Indian Wells or the BNP Paribas Open, so we don't outdistance our fellow tournaments throughout the world. I can't think of another reason why they would block it."All we're trying to do is make our tennis tournament the very best in the world. My opinion is that the tournament representatives on the ATP Tour want to hold us back a little bit. They're afraid of the Larry Ellison element [Ellison has owned the tournament since 2010]. What are these guys down in Indian Wells really going to do? Hopefully I eat my words next week, and it'll cost us $1.6 million more."Aside from the overall prize money issue, the ATP board also takes issue with the tournament's decision to split the prize money between singles and doubles 82-18 as opposed to 80-20. Moore said the tournament's model simply reflects the current market. Under an 80-20 split, the doubles winners on the ATP side would make $250,000 as a team, which is more than what a singles semifinalist would make."We love doubles," he said. "We want to present it. We just don't think the increases justify it." Raymond Moore said the BNP Paribas Open will decrease its prize money if the ATP board doesn't allow a $1.6 million increase. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)"Are you going to tell me that winners of the doubles should get more than semifinalists in singles," Moore told Tennis.com. "Frankly we don't agree and that's why we can abide by your prize money breakdown."As reported by Tennis.com, if the ATP board refuses to reverse course, Moore said the tournament will revert its prize money to 2011 levels of $4.5 million overall with the mandated nine percent increase for each of the last two years. The result is a $240,000 pay cut for the winners with significant decreases across the board in all rounds."We have a proposal and they can either accept it or reject it. We are going to go with whatever the tour rules and be good citizen, which doesn't mean we have to like it. If they vote against it we are going to the minimum requirement, and the players are going to lose big time. Instead of offering $1 million to our singles winners, it will be $760,000, and instead of $11,000 to first-round losers, we are going to give $8,000. I think the players are going to go ballistic and they should."The move would mean the 2013 champions would actually make significantly less than last year. The way Moore is teeing it up, the blame would rest entirely on the ATP's tournament representatives. It's a bizarre dispute, especially during a time when the men have been clamoring for increased prize money for over a year. The BNP Paribas Open actually has the financial backing and fan support to give the players what they want, and it's the tournament's competition, i.e., other tournaments, blocking them."The driver for this is Mark Webster because the European tournaments don't want to us progressing beyond what they can do. It's totally anti-competitive. Everything he tells me is shallow and has no merit. There is division between players and tournament representatives on the board. The players keep asking for more and more and Webster said to me: 'We are in the middle of prize money discussions about increases and we're holding firm not to increase and then you do it. We have to keep the players in tow. It's like land grab, give them your finger and they ask for the arm.'"It's an us and them, the tournament representatives against the players. They don't want to go above what's minimally mandated."The BNP Paribas Open has made no secret of its desire to become a world-class event, and since its backing by Ellison the tournament has continued to grow in leaps and bounds. It was the first joint event to offer $1 million in prize money to each of the winners in 2012, and last year the tournament drew 370,408 fans over 12 days, making it the most attended joint ATP/WTA tournament in the world. With further site renovations in the works, which include a new stadium and more capacity, Moore hopes the tournament will break the 400,000 mark, though the site has the capacity for 500,000, which means there could be a day in the future when the tournament actually outdraws Wimbledon and the French Open. More Beyond the Baseline


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I know many (all?) usb attached drives do not honor (receive?) the spin down command. There has been a lot of discussions about this on the net. Some say it is the usb interface, in our case, the one in the Plug, that has the deficiency, although the interface in most notebook drives that come in usb cases seem to have a similar problem with the spin down. So both the drive, and plug interfaces have to work. [However, we know almost all notebooks can spin down their drives under idle conditions, but they use ide interface.]
Does anybody know if our ShPg's usb is capable of spin down? I have tried one drive I have, and gets the error msg with the command. But most likely my usb drive does not respond to the command.
BTW, there has been a work around in some [rare] drives, where a timer can be configured so that it will shut down after the elapsed time of activity. I do know that even for those drives, configuring that timer cannot be done through many usb interfaces.
Has any body here succeeded with spin down? Is there any expert here who knows the real scoop about our ShPg usb interface.
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command. It has lots of options to control drives, like auto-spin-down after a certain period of the drive being idle. I pulled this command down to my Plug ("apt-get install hdparm") and played with it a bit. For some drives, I seemed to be able to control the Advanced Power Management features, and on other drives it wouldn't work. I suspect if you can do an "hdparm -I /dev/sda" on your drive (and get useful information back), you won't have problems controlling its spin-down characteristics. However, depending on the drive, YMMV.
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Yes, it was hdparm that I had always used. So if you have first hand data that you succeeded in spinning down a usb disk, that is very encouraging, and first time I heard that in 8+ years looking at this on and off. So that means our ShPg's usb interface IS good for that.
Now the critical question: what is the exact brand model of the usb case and drive? I have about 10 usb drives and cases, but since my previous linux (the Slug) had a bad usb interface I do not know if any of the drive is good for this particular function. They are all in various other current use, I only tried one with ShPg, which returned error on many hdparm commands; but many other hdparm commands (non related to control and settings of this) do work fine. BTW, I was thinking of making another thread on use of hdparm for other very useful purposes, which I shall do soon.
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Hmmm....it's just occurred to me that I have an external Maxtor 160GB disk. It's used as a very-high-latency, but high-bandwidth way to move large amounts of file data from an attached digital PVR to another system, so it's not left attached normally.
But, when it is plugged in and hasn't been accessed for a while (10-15 mins?) the power light start to pulse, and any attempt to access it take a few seconds to get a response. That seems to show the symptoms of having spun down. But it doesn't appear to be related to the system - rather it seems to be a function of the drive itself?
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Yes, Maxtor, is one brand (the only one I know of) which has a built in spin down feaure; even that needs to be enabled thru the interface. A method is to use an ide to get that done, and the configuration can be set to stick over power cycle. Since I have been studying this area for a while, my view is that there has been no definite answers to any of the questions I asked; I believe the answers to most of them could be yes or no with equal chance. At this point I am looking for first hand experience; hearsay is less useful --- internet is full of it
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My experience has been mainly with Toshiba 250GB pocket drives. These are 2.5" drives which come in a factory-sealed USB case; drive power comes from USB. I have several of these drives that I've purchased over the years. About 6 months ago, I bought one and when I plugged it in I couldn't tell that it was spinning by feel. It was that well balanced. Bought another one, same thing. These new drives respond to an "hdparm -I" command. My older ones just return an error, even though from the case they look identical. These new drives accept the APM commands. Haven't tried to reconfigure the old ones, which I strictly use for backups.
My guess is that the standard is out there and the newer drives -- usb or not -- will increasingly recognize it, whereas older drives will probably not.
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I really like the following abilities of Google Calendar:
- Exchange access
- Web interface
- Calendar sharing with others
- iCAL import and export
- Ability to work with email addresses on own domain
I've recently come to terms with moving my calendar online (i.e. away from Microsoft Outlook 2007 in my desktop), but moving it to the US is a step too far for me, for data protection reasons.
Is there any way to have the benefits listed above, but to guarantee to keep my data inside Europe, please?
(I've previously searched for things like 'European alternatives to "google calendar"', and I've considered Google Calendar, Windows Live Hotmail Calendar and Yahoo Calendar. And I don't mind paying up to a few tens of GB pounds a year, to have this capability)
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Rutgers Law Review to Host Symposium on the Legal and Economic Issues of Same-Sex Unions
Panels to present research on impacts, debate Lewis v. Harris decision
November 01, 2006 –The Rutgers Law Review at Rutgers School of Law–Newark will address the topic "Same Sex Couples and 'The Exclusive Commitment': Untangling the Issues and Consequences" at its 2006 symposium, to be held at the law school on Friday, November 10. Taking place just two weeks after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in Lewis v. Harris that legislators must extend the rights and protections of marriage to same-sex couples, the symposium will present two panels: one in the morning on the results of research by academic panelists on various legal and economic impacts of same-sex union recognition and a second panel in the afternoon that will debate the arguments in the Lewis v. Harris decision.
|Jason McCann '07, editor-in-chief, Rutgers Law Review
|Process and Consequences of Same-Sex Unions
Professor Suzanne Kim, Rutgers School of Law–Newark, facilitator
Dr. Saby Ghoshray, WorldCompliance Company, Houston, TX
Professor Sally Goldfarb, Rutgers School of Law–Camden
Debra E. Guston, Esq., Guston & Guston LLP, Glen Rock, NJ
Professor Marc Poirier, Seton Hall University School of Law
Professor Diana Sclar, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
|With comments by the Rev. Marc Lewis, plaintiff in Lewis v. Harris
|Debating the Arguments – NJ's Lewis v. Harris Decision
Ronald Chen, NJ Public Advocate, moderator
Professor Laura Appleman, Willamette Law School
David S. Buckel, Marriage Project Director, Lambda Legal
Professor George Dent, Case Western Reserve School of Law
William Duncan, Marriage Law Foundation
Professor Amy Wax, University of Pennsylvania Law School


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Fact of the matter is, when it comes to achieving fuel efficiency the market is divided into two camps. The European carmakers – especially German ones – focus more on improved fuel efficiency with diesel engines, whereas the North American and Asian markets feel that hybrids are the answer. Whichever it is, European carmakers decided to take part in the growing hybrid market lately by offering hybrid alternatives to their sedans.