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Professor Stuart Green Urges New Way of Thinking About What Should Count as Stealing in the 21st Century
Twentieth-century reformers of theft law aimed to transform a hodgepodge of seemingly arbitrary, overly technical, and loophole-ridden legal rules into a simpler, more homogenized law of theft. But in doing so, argues Professor Stuart P. Green in his new book 13 Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age (Harvard University Press, June 2012), reformers lost key moral distinctions concerning the ways in which theft is committed and the kinds of property stolen. More to the point, they also rendered theft law ill-equipped for an age in which the economy increasingly commodifies information and other intangibles and when the means of committing theft and fraud have become ever more sophisticated.
Professor Green, an award-winning author and scholar whose writing explores the intersection of moral philosophy and criminal law, lays out the compelling need for a thorough reconsideration – by other scholars, law reformers and, ultimately, policymakers – of theft law. For despite the fact that the crime claims more victims and causes greater economic injury than any other offense, "theft remains an enigma," writes Green, with "fundamentally unresolved questions about exactly what should count as stealing and exactly what types of things can be stolen."
Is it stealing when I piggyback my neighbor's wireless connection? Take paperclips home from work to use on non-work–related projects? Buy a lost prototype smartphone that had been found in a bar? Publish copies of confidential government documents on my website? Green uses real cases that center on such knotty questions to consider how their resolution depends on a new concept of theft law that better reflects 21st century social and legal norms.
Describing 13 Ways to Steal a Bicycle as "a tour de force," Professor Leo Katz of the University of Pennsylvania Law School says: "Theft law is strange and this book tries to explain that strangeness — why it matters so much just exactly how something is stolen, by robbery, larceny, fraud, or other means; why only certain things are considered capable of being stolen; why the theft of electricity, sexual services, or glory are so problematic. This is a work of first-class scholarship, in addition to being just plain fun to read."
The metaphorical title of the book is intended to communicate "the messy complexity that characterizes theft law's moral content," Green explains. The first chapter, a critique of 20th century Anglo-American theft law reform, concludes that while the effort got rid of legal arcana, it also adopted "an all-encompassing definition of property that indiscriminately included tangible personal property, real property, services, and intangibles," all subject to the same punishment.
In the second chapter, Green begins to build a model theory of theft law based on three elements: harmfulness, intent, and wrongdoing. Chapter three considers why theft is a crime and when it shouldn't be. Using the framework he has developed, Green explains why certain "borderline forms of theft and theft-related conduct" should be decriminalized or subject to lesser penalties than other, core theft offenses. Moving from more to less concrete forms of property, the final chapter considers whether and in what way theft law should apply to various forms of property.
"Especially as we focus increasingly on intangible property," writes Professor Robert Weisberg of Stanford Law School, "Green's book guides us to a fresh inquiry into what ways of taking things – and what things are taken – should lead to criminal condemnation. It will dominate discussions of theft in coming years." The book concludes with a brief "how-to" guide for writing a better theft statute based on eight principles.
Professor Green is the author of Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime, which received the Outstanding Publication Award from the National White-Collar Crime Center and has been translated into several languages. He is co-editor (with R.A. Duff) of both Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law and Defining Crimes: Essays on the Special Part of the Criminal Law. His scholarship has been published in numerous law journals and his opinion pieces in major newspapers, including most recently "When Stealing Isn't Stealing" in the New York Times (3/28/12). He is a member of the editorial boards of Criminal Law and Philosophy and the New Criminal Law Review and has served as a consultant to the Law Commission for England and Wales.
Professor Green received a B.A. in philosophy from Tufts University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.


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STEUBENVILLE - City Manager Cathy Davison said Thursday evening layoff notices will be issued next week to 12 city employees, and she will recommend two police department vacancies not be filled and the city not accept a possible renewal of the Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response Grant that will mean three firefighters will be laid off in March.
Davison also announced the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center will remain open this winter with three full-time parks and recreation employees replacing part-time recreation aides currently working at the center.
"We are planning on moving our three full-time parks and recreation department employees to staff the Martin Luther King Recreation Center during the winter months. That will mean the three part-time recreation aides at the MLK Center will be laid off in compliance with the AFSCME labor contract.
And, Davison indicated additional steps are set to begin as the city administration and City Council members face an end-of-the-year general fund budget deficit of $822,968.
The layoff notices to employees represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2015 will prompt the affected workers to consider six vacant jobs in the city table of organization, according to Davison.
AFSCME Local 2015 President Brian Young accused Davison of forcing senior employees to accept lower-paying jobs.
"The city administration is displacing people with 20 or more years of service. I am totally fed up. There is no reasoning for what is happening here. And there is no talking with her (Davison) anymore. Right now we have an assistant water operator with minimal experience manning the water filtration plant by himself because overtime is no longer allowed by the city manager," Young said following a union membership meeting Thursday night.
"There are going to be a lot of grievances filed because of this. We have not had a pay raise for the past four years and she was asking for us to take a 7 percent pay cut," Young said.
Chris Blackburn, president of the International Association of Firefighters Local 228, said today he will talk to the union attorney regarding possible legal action.
"We have a minimum manning clause in our contract that the city is now violating. We have seen four fire-related fatalities during the past year and we are now entering the fire season with heating fires and Christmas light accidents. The city administration and council are showing total disregard for our safety and the safety of our citizens," said Blackburn.
"We passed on a 3.5 percent pay raise and could not accept her request for an additional 7 percent pay cut. We continue to be slapped in the face. We are saving the city $100,000 a year. As a firefighter and a taxpayer living in Steubenville, I am outraged by these antics. If we get a major fire call we will not be allowed to call out off-duty firefighters. We will have to ask surrounding communities for mutual aid and hope they can respond," stated Blackburn.
"We are not the evil union. We have taken concessions to help the city. We are trying to protect the residents of Steubenville and we want to go home at the end of our shift. I know a number of union members plan to attend Tuesday night's regular council meeting and I urge all citizens to be at the meeting to express their concerns. The citizens of Steubenville need to question who is making these decisions. Our citizens should be outraged," he said.
Blackburn also said a cut in fire personnel may prompt the closing of the Pleasant Heights fire station.
"We anticipate the next decision to be announced will be the closing of that fire station, which will be a mistake. We are an older community with a number of older houses and buildings," he added.
Administration officials met Thursday with the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 1 Ohio Labor Council representatives and officials from the AFSCME Local 2015 before announcing the layoffs.
"Our union representatives told Cathy and the administration we were not accepting the 7 percent pay cut. And we continue to remain concerned about the safety of our police officers as they work very hard to protect the citizens of Steubenville," said FOP President Jim Marquis.
The personnel decisions announced Thursday night also will set the stage for contract negotiations set to begin in 2013.
The police union contract expires in May, while the firefighters' contract ends in December 2013, and the AFSCME union contract is set to expire in March 2014.
"I have continued to request cooperation from the (city) unions, but without any I have no choice but to make tough decisions while trying to maintain services for your residents and businesses," Davison said in a Thursday evening statement.
"There will be additional things to take effect in the final month of the year," she added in a telephone interview.
"We are considering looking at our natural gas costs through a partnership with Buckeye Energy. We announced a $10,000 incentive program Tuesday night to encourage eligible employees to consider retiring. And, we continue to discuss possible collaboration efforts with Jefferson County officials in order to provide services to our community," said Davison.
"It is never easy to make difficult decisions like these. Steubenville is not alone. Communities across the state are facing difficult decisions like this every day across Ohio and the country," she added.
Davison said several city employees have expressed interest in the $10,000 incentive plan that was introduced at the Tuesday City Council sunshine meeting, "but no one has signed up for the offer. The employees have until Thursday to officially register their interest."
Earlier this month Davison requested employees represented by the three city unions agree to changes in the city health care program as well as a 7 percent pay cut.
"We are asking union and non-union workers to share equally to resolve the deficit issue for the future of our city," Davison said last week.
"If we can't resolve our deficit issues by Dec. 31, the worse case scenario we will be facing will be major cuts. I know there are people questioning why this is happening after the voters approved our operating levy during the election earlier this month. If the levy had not passed we would be looking for ways to make up an additional $570,000," she stated.
Davison and the Recreation Board announced this month the Belleview Pool will not open in 2013.
The city manager also met with the city board of health this month to discuss more collaboration with the Jefferson County Board of Health.
Davison has cited the cuts in Local Government Funding from the state and rising utility costs as the main reasons for the deficit.
"We have been discussing all of our options and reviewing Cathy's recommendations and the council is in agreement with these decisions. It is unfortunate we have reached this point but we are legally required to resolve the projected budget deficit by Dec. 31," stated 6th Ward Councilman and Finance Committee Chairman David Lalich.

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Like many of you I am "the guy who takes care of backup" in the company. Luckily we are a software shop and most of the mission critical data are kept in a bunch of mercurial repositories. This makes it extremely easy for backup - all you need a script to update a remote copies and clone new repos.
There are things that aren't simply version controlled however - like a large parts of our server(s) configuration, email, web data etc. For that we use a combination of rsnapshot and plain rsync to a zfs snapshotted box. No matter what we use - the end result is a bunch of files on a filesystem.
Given the amount of data these can't simply be copied over the internet to our off-site backup store (which is simply a white box sitting at my home) I am toying with the idea of moving hard drives between the office and my home as an insurance against corruption to the on-site copies - whatever the cause will be.
Doing that is also very simple - for our rsnapshot backup all I need to do is to clone the MD devices which the filesystem resides on while for the backup on ZFS we can simple do a zfs send and recv on a new disk/zpool..
Does the Sneakernet approach make sense for us? It's also useful to quickly explain the whole idea to my fellow workmates. :)
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Models Not Oracles, Best's Review, September 2012Technology is a great asset, but it's still up to us to analyze and price risk correctly.
Great Policies to Avoid Very Bad Trouble, The Financial Manager, September 2012Media companies who send staff out in vehicles in pursuit of stories, or whose employees operate any vehicles for company
purposes, need to assess the risks their people face both in extraordinary and more "ordinary" circumstances.
Are Your Clients Still Insurable?, Best's Review, March 2012Recession survival tactics by some commercial insureds could jeopardize their ability to find coverage now.
Distracted Driving: What's Your Company's Policy?, Journal of the American Society of Safety Engineers, November 2011 Distracted driving is a problem that is receiving major attention across the country.
Burning Rubber, Best's Review, August 2011Even parked and with the motor off, your hot rod can fuel an inferno.
Keep Employees' Eyes on the Road, Best's Review, June 2011Distracted driving policies can help offset risks of both inattentive and preoccupied drivers.
Can You Hear Me Now?, Professional Safety, November 2010Noise induced hearing loss is 100% preventable. Workplace hearing conservation programs are a key defense, but gaps in these
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Monitor, Measure and Manage ERM, Best's Review, June 2009Improved IT systems can bolster enterprise risk management initiatives, according to Steve Pozzi.
Making the Best Of Bad Times, Best's Review, March 2009In an economic downturn, insurance carriers can help solve customers' problems so they're ready to compete in the next upturn,
according to Steven Pozzi.
Interactive Learning at Chubb's Loss Control University, Fire Protection Contractor, February 2009Hands-on training can help students better understand and retain fire protection concepts, according to Sam Lee.
Total Recall, The Journal of Commerce, September 22, 2008A comprehensive product-recall plan can help companies respond rapidly to critical product integrity issues, thereby ensuring
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It's looking to keep up with Apple and Samsung
Many people already carry a laptop, smartphone or tablet (or sometimes, all three), so what will the next must-have gadget be? Tech companies say wearable tech, and Microsoft doesn't plan on missing the boat.
Microsoft is reportedly looking into the development of a smart watch this year. While there are no solid details on the gadget at this time, The
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said Microsoft has contacted Asian suppliers about it and has requested a 1.5-inch display from component makers.
Microsoft will likely use its own hardware (much like the Surface tablet) and run the Windows 8 operating system on the smart watch.
There's no word on a release date yet, but Microsoft might want to get an early start since Apple and Samsung are already developing smart watches of their own. Both Apple and Samsung beat Microsoft when it comes to smartphone and tablet market share, so if the Windows creator wants any chance of competing in this new tech sector, it better beat the two big boys to the punch.
Rumors of an Apple smart watch started circulating earlier this year. Apple has reportedly been
with manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.
about the new device, and Hon Hai has been working on new technologies for wearable devices (such as more efficient displays and chips at that size).
Apple filed a patent for a "Bi-stable spring with flexible display" in 2011, which described a bi-stable spring that would be made out of thin steel and wrapped in fabric covering, then heat-sealed. The display would be located on one side of the bracelet (overlaid with an adhesive) and the logic board and battery would be placed on the other side. It also showed a universal fit, a plethora of onboard sensors, wireless charging, etc.
Apple's watch is expected to be
released later this year
As for Samsung, which is the king of Android-powered hardware products, a smart watch (which will likely run a version of Android) is
expected to be released as soon as this year
. No details have leaked about the product, but Samsung is looking to keep up with Apple.
While making it to the finish line first will benefit either Samsung or Apple, Samsung could also have the upper hand when it comes to pricing, since it makes its own chips and displays. Apple is notorious for having much higher-priced items.
Microsoft is hoping to be a major competitor too, though, since it was late to the tablet game. Microsoft just released its first tablet last October -- the Surface -- and the device has seen poor sales and harsh criticism of its Windows RT operating system (the version of Windows 8 for ARM-based tablets). To help the Surface with Windows 8 Pro (the full Windows 8 version), Microsoft is now marketing it as a PC while referring to the Surface with Windows RT as a tablet.
Just last week, it was reported that Microsoft plans to create a whole new batch of Surface tablets, which includes
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Microsoft had launched a smart watch a decade ago, but the gadget flopped.
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RE: what is the prupose
Because i wear different watches with different outfits.
Because I can't wear watches while working out(heavy lifting)
Because carrying 2 phones, a watch, a tablet, a laptop is too many accessories.
Because going through security(everyday) is a hassle with too much crap on your body.
Because the only time it will be very useful to me(3 mile run outside) the screen will not be bright enough against the sun light
Because you have to carry a phone for it to sync with it.
Because it's not a large enough screen to read anything
Because I can just access my phone for email, music, videos, work stuff, etc... instead of squinting for a tiny watch screen
Because it's dumb to pay hundreds of dollars for redundant functions
This thing is like a smaller ipod touch on your wrist. Just make a squared ipod nano and sell a wrist band accessory with it.
RE: what is the prupose
"Because i wear different watches with different outfits."
The patents show Apple's as being a band like a slap-bracelet with a flexible display completely wrapping around your hand including sensors to tell where the band overlaps (where the displayed image will need to break/start or continue). If true, you can change the style as you see fit. Also, no one is forcing you to stop wearing other watches when you want to. I switch between a traditional watch, a Sony Ericsson MBW150 Music Edition, and an MBW-200 Executive watch. All have replaceable watch bands for whatever look I want. It dounds like you are just looking for things to hate/criticize.
"Because I can't wear watches while working out(heavy lifting)"
Then don't. No one is forcing you to wear a traditional watch while you work out/lift.
"Because carrying 2 phones, a watch, a tablet, a laptop is too many accessories."
Here's an idea: Don't carry any more than you want to. The watch helps you avoid handling a phone. Heck, it may help you manage both phones. Someone making a smart watch doesn't force you to carry a second phone, a tablet, a laptop, etc. and you choosing to carry all that doesn't mean it is any less useful to me or anyone else.
"Because going through security(everyday) is a hassle with too much crap on your body."
It's no more hassle than a traditional wristwatch.
"Because the only time it will be very useful to me(3 mile run outside) the screen will not be bright enough against the sun light"
That's an awfully stupid assumption. You have NO IDEA what display technology they will use. Casio uses the same segmented LCD display as any digital watch. My MBW150 and 200 have traditional watch faces. The tiny little monochrome OLED display is MORE visible in daylight than the segmented LCD screens on most watches. The Pebble uses an e-ink display that is BETTER in direct sunlight. I haven't used my full-color Live View enough to know how well it works in direct sunlight, but it's OLED too.
"Because you have to carry a phone for it to sync with it."
Are you seriously going there? My watch is still a watch when I turn off my phone or leave it at home. Other watches are never anything more.
The MBW150 Music Edition is my personal choice. The people who don't assume that it's just a watch actually assume that it's just a *really nice* watch. Yes, complete strangers who describe themselves as "enthusiasts" and "watch-guys" have stopped to admire and comment on my watch without ever realizing that it wasn't a traditional analog watch. I work at a gate that puts me in contact with a lot of strangers daily. My point it that it is a watch FIRST and continues functioning as one without being connected to a phone.
"Because it's not a large enough screen to read anything
Because I can just access my phone for email, music, videos, work stuff, etc... instead of squinting for a tiny watch screen
Because it's dumb to pay hundreds of dollars for redundant functions"
Sounds like you are confused about the purpose. You aren't going to browse the web on the damned thing: You are going to identify a caller and/or reject a call (same as Jabra BT8010 with caller ID). You are going to wonder what song is playing and see the artist (no different than looking at an MP3 player display). You are going to wonder what time it is and see the time/date (like a traditional watch). You are going to set a silent alarm and not wonder if you simply didn't feel the vibration in your pocket. Say what you will about redundant functions, but they have their place. Risking my phone to see the exact time 100 times a day (my work requires constant outdoor log entries) is out of the question. I don't see anyone saying that an tablet or a notebook PC is redundant because their phone has the time on it too! Next: You have no idea what prices or options will be available. It's an extremely varied market already. I paid $50 for my MBW150, $60 for the MBW200, and $25 for my Live View. Yes, the Live View is normally $50-$80 and the MBW150 was $450 in 2007, but economies of scale apply to these new products.
"This thing is like a smaller ipod touch on your wrist. Just make a squared ipod nano and sell a wrist band accessory with it."
I've actually been suggesting that they add Bluetooth and iOS connectivity with the obvious features all along... give people with your other product a reason to own it by adding complementary features. Otherwise, an iPhone or iPod Touch user has no reason to buy an iPod nano. The thing is, there is no reason for the watch to have any significant storage at all... unless it pools storage with the phone in your pocket.
"Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?... So why the f*** doesn't it do that?" -- Steve Jobs
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Leading Health Insurer Solves Software Integration Problems with Sun SOA Solution
By chhandomay on Aug 21, 2009
Blue Cross is a not-for profit company in eastern Canada that
provides health, dental, travel, life and disability plans to more
than 2,000,000 people. In 2007, Medavie Blue Cross knew its
20-year-old architecture was nearing the end of its life. The
existing architecture contained many legacy technologies, which
forced developers to create point-to-point interfaces to add new
services, a labor-intensive process which meant the company could not
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Blue Cross decided to
its IT environment to a service-oriented architecture supported by an
enterprise-service bus. Mediavie Blue Cross evaluated SOA and ESB
solutions from IBM, Oracle, and Sun, ultimately choosing the Sun
Solution which included Sun
GlassFish ESB Enterprise Edition, along with Sun
OpenSSO Enterprise to secure data. Built on open-source
technologies, GlassFish ESB was extremely cost effective and came
with support from Sun and the open-source community. The
standards-based development environment – Java
Platform EE5 – promoted flexibility, eliminated vendor lock-in
and accelerated developer productivity.
In 2008, IT personnel designed a long-term architectural plan to deploy the ESB in 2009, to implement the enterprise-wide SOA by 2011, and to replace all legacy technologies by 2012. IT employees attended training sessions hosted by Sun Educational Services as developers began working on a pilot project in March 2008 to integrate claims-processing systems. In May 2009, the pilot project entered its final testing phase and is expected to go into production this summer.
Deploying GlassFish ESB and OpenSSO has given Medavie Blue Cross the secure and agile infrastructure it needs to rapidly integrate its technologies in a noninvasive way, regardless of components' age, vendor, or platform.
Darren Swansbur, Enterprise Architect at Medavie Blue Cross said "GlassFish ESB supports a large number of Web-services standards right out of the box. And because you can use Metro Web Services, GlassFish ESB provides a standards-based way of developing services so I can incorporate code from other vendors with a minimal amount of work."
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PS Vita Slim arrives in UK on February 7th, will replace original modelWritten by: / / 6 Comments
When the PS Vita 2000 was released in Japan last October many of us wondered when it would make its way to the West. Now Sony has answered this question by announcing that the 'PS Vita Slim' will be released in the UK on February 7th for a recommended retail price of £180.
Unlike the Japanese model which came in six different colour variations, the PS Vita Slim will initially only be available in black in the UK. The new model will replace the original PS Vita as stock is exhausted.
The PS Vita Slim comes with WiFi, 1GB of internal memory and a LCD screen which reportedly gives the system around an hour of extra battery life compared to the original model. It is also 20 percent thinner and 15 percent lighter than the launch PS Vita.
Do you think the PS Vita Slim will improve sales of the struggling handheld despite it only being available in black and selling for a bit more than the original model? Let us know in the comments.
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Children's Miracle Network
WEIRTON - Rite Aid Pharmacy will hold a hot dog sale and face painting from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday to raise money for the Children's Miracle Network.
A hot dog, chips and soda will be $2, and face painting is $1.
The store is located at 1360 Cove Road.
Country Friends to hold dance
COLLIERS - Country Friends will host Art Beal and The Country Tradition Saturday at the Memorial Hall located at 402 Old Police Lodge Road.
The doors open at 6 p.m., and the dance begins at 7 p.m.
Country Friends hosts covered-dish dinners and open mic nights every Monday and Friday. The doors open at 4 p.m., the meal begins at 5 p.m., and open mic begins at 6 p.m.
All proceeds go to charity.
For information, call (304) 527-4253 or (304) 479-1270 or visit the website at www.countryfriendsfoundation.com.
Class of 2015 holding dinner
WEIRTON - The Madonna High School Class of 2015 will hold a spaghetti dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the high school cafeteria.
The cost is $7 for adults, $5 for children and family take-out for $25. Eat-in and take-out will be available.
The meal includes pasta, meatballs, salad, bread, dessert and a drink and is provided by the Williams Country Club.
Library to show comedy
WELLSBURG - The Brooke County Public Library will be showing the PG-rated film "Parental Guidance," starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler, at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
Call (304) 737-1551 to reserve a seat and popcorn for the free screening.
Scouts offer various activities
WEIRTON - Cub Scout Pack 334 and Boy Scout Troop 334 welcomes area boys and their families to learn more about their activities at 6 p.m. Wednesday behind Cove Presbyterian Church, 3404 Main St.
Those interested also may call Melody Golden for Cub Scout information at (304) 224-1813 or Keith Huntzinger for Boy Scout information at (304) 670-8667.
Cub Scouts is open to children in grades 1-5 and Boy Scouts is open to boys in grade 6 to 17 years of age.
Active for more than 20 years, the groups currently have more than 60 members. Their emphasis is on outdoor recreation, leadership, spiritual and patriotic values and fun.
Recent activities have included a day and sleepover camps, a Pirates' game, family campout and soccer game, fishing, Pinewood Derby and night at the races.
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WEIRTON - Cup of Life Ministries and Tina Schoolcraft will hold a Mother's Day dinner from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. May 3 at the Marland Heights Community Church's pavilion located at 3900 Bright Way.
The event will include food, games and music, and mothers are encouraged to bring their children and husbands. The event is free.
Children's knitting group to meet
WELLSBURG - The Brooke County Library's Kid's Knitting Group will meet May 2 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Children in third grade and up can learn to knit from instructor Nora Bell. Bring yarn and needles or loom.
Call (304) 737-1551 to register for the free program.
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NEW CUMBERLAND - The Hancock county Health Department has announced, effective May 1, the prices for adult private stock vaccines will change.
The cost for Hepatitis A vaccine will be $45; Hepatitis B, $55; Measles, Mumps and Rubella, $70; TDAP, $25; Influenza, $25; Pneumonia, $25; Zostavax for shingles, $25; and PPD skin test, $20.
Vaccines remain free of charge to children newborn through 18 years old.
Vaccines are given from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays.
For information, call the health department at (304) 564-3343.
Friendship Day
NEW CUMBERLAND - Church Women United will hold May Friendship Day at 10 a.m. May 3 at the Oakland Presbyterian Church located on Wylie Ridge Road.
The event will start with a breakfast at 10 a.m. and the celebration service begins at 11 a.m. The theme is "Swinging Wide the Doors of Hospitality" to encourage those attending to be open to newcomers, those of different races and ethnic groups and those with physical, mental and emotional handicaps. The group is encouraging others to grow in friendships and to look for ways to minister to one and other and for opportunities to open wide the doors to God's people, no matter who they are and where they are meet in the faith journey. Karen Tate is the local unit president, and Helen Tate is the celebration coordinator.
People of all faiths are invited to attend the service. The church is handicap accessible.
Classes to meet
at Undo's
WEIRTON - The Weir High School Classes of 1957-60 will meet at 1 p.m. May 3 at Undo's.
Classmates are invited to attend.
For information, call Ed Kirk, Class of 1957, at (304) 748-7060; Regina Truax, Class of 1958, at (304) 723-0419; Karen Tate, Class of 1959, at (304) 564-5234; or Paula Brown, Class of 1960, at (304) 748-0783.


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STEUBENVILLE - The TRiO Student Support Services program at Eastern Gateway Community College received perfect scores for the 2011-12 reporting year.
The U.S. Department of Education awarded prior experience points on the basis of serving the approved number of students and meeting or exceeding the project's approved objectives. Eastern Gateway's program serves 160 eligible students at the Jefferson County campus in Steubenville and the Valley Center in Youngstown.
The program objectives include:
- Persistence - The percentage of all participants who enroll at the institution in the fall term of the next academic year, graduate or transfer to a four-year institution.
- Good academic standing - The percentage of participants who met the performance level required to stay in good academic standing.
- Associate degree or certificate attainment and transfer - The percentage of new participants who graduate with an associate degree or certificated within four reporting years. Another set of points is given for the percentage of graduates who transfer to a four-year school within four reporting years.
"We are excited to receive this excellent review because that means we are helping our students to succeed," said Dorothy Collins, director of TRiO programs and academic advising. "We celebrate our students' achievements and are pleased that the efforts of this program have made some of their achievements possible."
TRiO Student Support Services program, funded by a U.S. Department of Education grant, provides opportunities for academic development, assists students with basic college requirements and serves to motivate students toward the successful completion of their postsecondary education, according to officials. The program's goal is to increase the college retention and graduation rates of its participants and facilitate the process of transition from one level of higher education to the next.
From enrollment until graduation, TRiO students may receive assistance in the following areas: Academic advising, individual academic plan for success, monitoring of academic progress, academic success workshops/seminars, computer literacy instruction, academic intervention, tutoring, major academic planning, transfer information and assistance, including college visits.


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What benefits are gained from using the command line for software development over using an alternative GUI? Is the command line faster for certain tasks? Are certain tools only available via the command line?
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Advantages of the command line over GUI applications include:
However, command line applications have these disadvantages compared to GUI applications:
I assume you mean using a command-line compiler instead of an IDE. Leave a comment if not and I'll delete my answer.
Learning. Learning how units of code are compiled, linked, or mapped together in your language. Typically you must explicitly tell the compiler which files to compile and link. So you gain a better understanding how it works. An IDE will do magic to make your life easier but will keep you ignorant.
You then take it a step further and learn to create your own make-file. This is a valuable skill. Your make-file makes the build cycle approach the convenience of "IDE magic" while still retaining full understanding and learning.
In addition your build process is easy to put in source control. And it's easy to port your build process to work with a variety of compilers. Sometimes it's just a matter of changing 1 line in the make-file for the compiler name.
You develop skills that allow you to work many platforms. Text editors and command line compilers are very similar from all vendors and on all platforms. These basic tools give you a pass to develop on any system, any time, any where 24/7. If you've been living in Visual Studio all your life, it's going to be a much harder transition to work outside of it.
If you go down this path you may want to bother to learn an advanced text editor like VIM. It complements the ability to work on any platform since it's supported almost everywhere. It has a huge learning curve but the pay off is the ability to edit text effortlessly at high speed without moving your hands to the mouse.
BTW, I am not against IDEs.
GUIs have the advantage of being able to use advanced visualisations. This can be extremely useful to make complex data meaningful.
Command lines, on the other hand, are often more powerful (e.g. fully scriptable) and also usually faster. The other answers have expanded on that – here I'd just like to mention that GUIs don't offer an advantage for some tasks:
In development, many tasks don't actually need any visualisation that cannot be done using a command line / text interface. Take compiling: good text editors (Vim, Emacs) readily support error message parsing and will jump directly to the error in the code. Graphical IDEs don't offer more. Simply put, for such tasks there is no need for a graphical interface, and you'd lose the flexibility and efficiency of a command line interface.
On the other hand, an interactive visualisation can be very useful if you're dealing with a complex data interaction. Version control software which can display branch graphs often beat text interfaces here. For instance, this is a snapshot from one of my repositories:
This is much more convenient than the text interface, even though this isn't even a particularly powerful visualisation. But once again, note that actually manipulating the repository is faster using the command line (at least for me). I use the GUI just to display the branches.
Also note how Github has recently added a command line interface in recognition of the fact that many tasks can be accomplished faster by typing in a command than by clicking through a web page.


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There have been some complaints of the poor quality Blu-ray transfer with these. Has anyone on Woot! experienced similar results with this set?
But where do I get 1-10???!!!
So basically it's $10 for Ocean's 11 on Blu-ray with two coasters? Got it.
Picked one up. Thanks
It's back to $26.12 once you add to cart, bummer...
Yes, I tried multiple times and it is $26.12 now. Don't you just love Amazon :(
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While on the page make sure to click the "widescreen edition" then add to cart. I just picked it up w/prime for $10 delivered.
Back to $26. Bummer.
Thanks mharris, it worked!!
Oh the irony, I am also a M. Harris... thanks!!!!!!!!
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STEUBENVILLE - Urban Mission Ministries of Steubenville is spreading the word about spreading goodness.
And it's all about encouraging others to "spread goodness" throughout the community through random acts of kindness.
The "Campaign for Good - Spreading Goodness" kicks off March 1 and runs through the end of April, according to the Rev. Ashley Steele, executive director of the mission located at 301 N. Fifth St.
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CAMPAIGN TO KICK OFF — Urban Mission Ministries of Steubenville is preparing to kick off its "Campaign for Good — Spreading Goodness" that will run March 1 through the end of April, according to the Rev. Ashley Steele, the mission's executive director. Spreading the goodness by sending a goodie box with jelly, bread and a note of encouragement and appreciation is one of four ways to participate.
-- Janice R. Kiaski
It has four elements to it with an opportunity to partner "for good;" to spread the goodness with a "goodie box;" to join in a foot-washing on Maundy Thursday; or to host a "for good" fundraiser.
Campaigns are nothing new to the mission that in 2012 served 20,000 hot meals, distributed more than 1.4 million pounds of food and provided Christmas to more than 1,000 children and teens.
"Every spring we usually do some type of campaign, whether it's an awareness campaign or a fundraising campaign," Steele said, explaining that the Feinstein Foundation campaign, for instance, has been an annual tradition that proportionately matches money raised for the mission's hunger ministry in March and April as it will again this year.
But the "Campaign for Good - Spreading Goodness," she said, runs parallel to the mission's theme for 2013 - with the emphasis on servanthood.
"Our focus this year as a staff and as volunteers is all about service - service to people that we provide services to, to the community, just really being servants," she said of the brainstorming thought process behind the new campaign that will begin March 1 and continue through the mission's volunteer recognition banquet on April 26.
"There's always a campaign for something so we thought that's something that we can use, and with our faith as a foundation, what we're trying to do is spread goodness," she said of the mission's purpose from day to day.
The bread and jelly part of the campaign are symbolic of the basic food staples the mission provides through its distribution program.
The "spreading goodness" theme has been in the mission staff's mindset since the end of 2012, according to Steele.
"Riding home one day I just realized that sometimes we just need to hear a good word or two. We certainly know that there's good news out there, and it comes through the Bible, of course, through the gospel message, but also the good taking place in our community," she said.
"We really have already started kind of a Facebook campaign to start it off, and we're building upon that, and any time I am going to speak at a church, I give them a little heads up about it so we're spreading it to churches, businesses and organizations," she said of promoting the campaign.
"So we're just kind of starting on the ground level some places and seeing where it goes," she said.
That being said, Steele describes the campaign that will have public reminders with quotes of inspiration as one that can involve everyone - individuals, churches, businesses and organizations.
Steele elaborated on the four ways to spread goodness.
"You can always become a partner with the mission, and you can do that any time of the year, but the designation this time is to be a partner for good, and you can do that by contributing a certain amount each month," Steele said.
It could be, for example, a recurring donation of $25, $50, $75 or $100 - "whatever people think they can do in terms of their budget, but that's a way they can know that they're making a difference each and every month whether it's providing a bag of food for a family for a couple weeks or if it's providing a week's worth of meals downstairs (in Unity Kitchen) for a family, but they can join with us," Steele said.
This offers a couple of options, according to Steele, both of which involve specially made "goodie boxes" bearing a "Spreading Goodness" campaign label and containing a jar of jelly, a loaf of freshly baked bread and a note of encouragement to someone doing good in the community.
For a gift of $20 or more, mission staff will deliver a box to a community servant in a category of the giver's choosing such as local military personnel or veterans; a teacher or administrator; a mail carrier; a firefighter or police officer; a hospital or nursing home patient; a waiter or waitress; a cashier; a custodian; a pastor or clergy member; an elected official; or a complete stranger.
The delivery will be made at random in this case but the giver also has the option to present a goodie box to a specific recipient if so desired.
Either way, Steele said, the goodie box is intended to be an acknowledgment that "somebody's thinking of you, that sort of thing."
And the recipient then has the option "to spread goodness to somebody else," according to Steele.
"There's the option to keep it going - like paying it forward," she said.
"We have already gotten some requests in to send goodie boxes," Steele said.
The public is invited to join staff and volunteers on Maundy Thursday, March 28, at the mission from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to participate in foot washing and/or collect toiletry items such as soap and wash towels.
"On Maunday Thursday, the Thursday before Easter, a lot of churches participate in some type of foot-washing anyway that day, but we've never done an event like that here," Steele said.
"We thought we could build upon the idea, not only wash the feet of people, and we would make sure they know it's from the Bible and something that Jesus did, but we think it also shows that we want to serve the people and even in ways that people aren't used to these days, but we think that with this we can also build upon that and provide some food that day for people so make it into an event," Steele said.
The mission will be collecting personal care items such as shampoo and soap to pass out that day.
"If people want to come and participate and have their feet washed, they can wash the feet of others, they can help provide food, they can help collect and pass out these personal care items, whatever it might be," Steele said.
"We don't just want to wash feet, we also want to have something for people to take when they leave, and we're talking about just handing out 'Our Daily Bread' (devotionals) just make it something nice for people to have," she said.
"We're just going to try it out, and people may think it's weird, but I think sometimes it's nice to provide a counter-cultural example sometimes, and that's a way to show that we hopefully have a heart for service for the people who come here in our community," Steele said.
Steele said the mission frequently fields inquiries from churches, businesses and individuals interested in assisting the mission in some way, including doing something to raise money.
Throughout March and April, groups, churches, businesses and individuals could host an event or fundraiser "for good" with all donations collected used toward a program of choice at the mission, according to Steele.
"They could use this as a kind of a starting point and do like a 'Bowl for Good' or maybe something they already do and put our title on it or plan a new event," she said. "I think we'll build upon that as the years go on but for now we just wanted to leave it as an option if people want to do a canned goods collection, they can do a canned food drive for good."
Information on participating in any of the four areas can be obtained by contacting the mission by phone at (740) 282-8010 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The campaign's beginning during the Lenten season gives cause for reflection, according to Steele.
"We are in Lent now, and this is just an opportunity for people to maybe give generously during this time - as you give up something, then maybe you can give something as well," she said.
"Not everybody we reach out to probably focuses in on Lent and sees it as an important time, but I think it can be for a lot of people, that's a spiritual discipline for them, and so we're kind of playing off that as well," Steele said.
"We hope to build upon it each year and certainly fine-tune it," Steele said of the campaign.
"I guess here at the mission we just want to do our part in spreading some good in our area, and we've been blessed tremendously throughout the years from people being generous to us," she said.
"This is a way that we can hopefully pass that on and partner up with people who also have that desire to do some good."
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A greener earth John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, acquired fame in the early 19th century by planting apple trees in several Eastern and Midwestern states where none existed before. The late Ray Bradbury exhumed this charming character for an installment of his novel "The Martian Chronicles," in which a man named Benjamin Driscoll plants trees all over Mars; quite suddenly, his plantings spring up in full bloom and pour scarce oxygen into the thin Martian atmosphere. But it is no fantasy that Johnny Appleseeds and Benjamin Driscolls are hard at work today, greening our own earth. "Satellites are now confirming that the amount of green vegetation on the planet has been increasing for three decades," Matt Ridley wrote in The Wall Street Journal on Jan. 4. And who gets the credit? "The inescapable if unfashionable conclusion is that the human use of fossil fuels has been causing the greening of the planet in three separate ways: first, by displacing firewood as a fuel; second, by warming the climate; and third, by raising carbon dioxide levels, which raise plant growth rates," Mr. Ridley writes. And the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calls carbon dioxide a pollutant.
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