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The 5 Most Needlessly Complex Terror Plots in Film History
#2. Marine Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel from The Rock
In a nod to real events following the first Iraq War, Ed Harris is a Desert Storm vet who's been screwed over by the government for the last time, and sets out to get his just desserts with an operation he totally should have called "Just Desserts Storm."
The Plot:
And just like the real vets who tried to raise public awareness by staging protests and lobbying their representatives in Congress, Harris and his men ... steal missiles full of nerve gas, take all the tourists on Alcatraz hostage, and then threaten to kill every man woman and child in the city of San Francisco unless the US makes with some cash.
Fear not henchmen, Harris has thought this one through. As he explains to his men, "A couple of hundred years ago, a few guys called Washington, Jefferson and Adams were branded as traitors by the British, and now they're called patriots. In time so shall we."
For some reason, none of his men raise their hand here to point out that his plan involves killing a city full of innocent Americans. Or that this will probably be significantly less popular with Americans than the Revolutionary War. Or that you'd probably have a better chance of being called a patriot if you just waited for Ronald Reagan to die, jumped atop his coffin while Nancy was paying her final respects and turkey slapped her across the face.
Mr. Harris of course doesn't need to worry about long-term public perception since his plan unravels long before that. To begin with, it's all an elaborate bluff. Apparently his plan was to give the military a stern talking to, make a bunch of loud noise, get paid money, escape from Alcatraz and presumably ride a unicorn to Never Neverland.
If that second to last phase of the operation, escape from Alcatraz, sounds familiar its because they made an entire movie about the only people who ever did it successfully. The Rock implies Alcatraz is a good place to be when you're threatening the US military because it used to be the site of a military base, but as General Harris would know, the military gave up on using it as a base because it's a tiny shitty island in the middle of a bunch of cold shitty water. It's a great place to stick people you never want to see again, and an awful place to do absolutely anything else.
Why It Failed:
First of all, there are way too many things to keep track of: Invading black-ops teams, hostages, deadly tear gas, the wild card duo of Cage and Connery who are just hilariously mismatched enough to get the job done.
Adding insult to injury, all Harris had to do was wait a few years until the US government got involved in an unpopular sequel to Desert Storm, become an independent contractor and hold them hostage with ridiculous hourly rates.
#1. Colonel Stuart from Die Hard 2
It's Die Hard, so instead of having semi-altruistic motives like General Hummel, Stuart is chasing that elusive Die Hard villain dream: Stealing enough money to buy his very own tropical island so that he can live out the rest of his days in seclusion with a bunch of creepy henchmen.
The Plot:
Die Hard terrorists have utilized increasingly ambitious canvases with each film, from a single high rise in the first to Dulles Airport in the second, New York City in the third and the entire country in the fourth. We're focusing on Stuart because, while not the most ambitious, his plan is certainly the most convoluted. And because the fourth was basically about a wizard who casts spells in computer jibberish, so he doesn't count.
Stuart on the other hand plans to take an entire airport hostage through good old-fashioned clockwork precision. He and his crew walk around Dulles in lock-step with each other, passing guns back and forth in gift wrapped boxes, and constantly checking their synchronized watches. Unfortunately, these aren't great strategies for blending into a crowd, and John McClane's extensive background in Christmas terror plot reconnaissance tells him something's up.
Stuart then overrides all communication between the air traffic control tower and the planes (he probably had an early version of the iPhone) and turns the lights out on the runway by having one of his men chop through a bunch of cords with an ax. If you think these actions are carried out with precision that is anything other than clock-like, you either don't know shit about clocks or Stuart. Or similes.
Now he has the whole country by the balls. With no lights on the runways, Stuart's able to lie to the pilots about their altitude and crash some motherfucking planes! It's truly a diabolical, air-tight plan.
... that only works if there's a blizzard. If it's a clear night the pilots are probably going to see one of the other million lights on the ground that he didn't turn off like the terminal and the air traffic control tower and the parking lot.
But you can't blame Stuart for gambling his entire plan on the one-in-a-million chance that there's a blizzard in Virginia on the day it goes down. He was probably busy with all the other details, like keeping the blank machine gun clips separate from the live rounds so that none of the guys who are working for him shoot each other. You know, during the elaborate fake machine gun battle on snowmobiles. The one that is supposed to throw McClane off their scent. You know, McClane, the guy the trailer specifically says nobody was counting on.
"Man, this plan would have sucked if it had been 20 degrees warmer."
Why It Failed:
It actually went pretty well. Stuart is able to take over the airport, the Pentagon conveniently sends the special ops team headed up by his mentor, a freak blizzard hits the confederate state where his operation is taking place. Also, only one good guy realizes that a huge bonfire on the runway gives the pilots a landing light bright enough to shine through the blizzard, effectively taking away Stuarts only bargaining chip. And that good guy doesn't realize it until the end of the movie.
Of course by that point, Stuart's watched his mentor get shit out the back of a jet engine and is himself used as kindling for the landing light. But, y'know. A for effort.
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- Glue sandpaper onto the wood, and rub together for an interesting sound.
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Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown and the Governor's Subcabinet on Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), released the 2009 BRAC Progress Report today. The report highlights steps taken during 2009 to ensure Maryland remains ready for BRAC, which will create as many as 60,000 new jobs in regions across the state. The report also outlines the Subcabinet's broad course of action for 2010.
"Two years ago, we presented Governor O'Malley with the BRAC Action Plan. Since then, we have been running the plays in that book and Maryland is ready for BRAC," Lt. Governor Brown said. "Because of our strong partnerships with local government, federal government, the business community and the military, we are confident that BRAC will be successful. BRAC is jobs creation in Maryland and we will continue the necessary efforts to fully realize our BRAC potential."
"Lt. Governor Brown's leadership on BRAC has brought us to this point in the process, building on the role Maryland has traditionally played in protecting our national security. BRAC is an opportunity for our State to play an even larger role and an opportunity that will create new jobs," Governor Martin O'Malley said. "I am confident that Maryland will be ready for BRAC and we look forward to working with the General Assembly, our partners in local government and the private sector to ensure we stay focused on the mission."
The report released today cites significant progress in building a sustainable workforce to fill the jobs coming to Maryland and developing the infrastructure to serve a larger population and outlines that progress and recommends a course of action to guide the next stages of implementation for 2009. The report highlights a number of programs and activities, as well as legislative actions, to address the needs of incoming federal agencies and military commands, private sector employers, as well as employees and their families.
Lt. Governor Brown led efforts last year to pass several pieces of legislation to meet the BRAC challenges, including:
During 2009, the Subcabinet built on previous years' work to develop a sustainable workforce pipeline to fill many of the jobs coming to Maryland because of BRAC. Specifically, Lt. Governor Brown oversaw the coordinated efforts of several state agencies to implement programs and activities designed to meet the workforce demands articulated by the various installations and defense contractors most affected by BRAC. These programmatic efforts included:
Throughout the year, the Subcabinet continued efforts to improve outreach activities to the business community and provide business with assistance throughout the BRAC process. These efforts included:
As many as 24,000 new households will move to Maryland by 2015 because of BRAC, posing several infrastructure challenges, including water issues in northeast Maryland and transportation near each of the affected installations. During 2009, several state agencies partnered with local and federal government to keep the state on track for success even during a national economic recession. These coordinated efforts included:
Despite the national economic recession and budget reductions totaling more than $1 billion in the Fiscal Year 2010 budget, the O'Malley-Brown Administration is investing $885 million in capital and operating funds for projects outlined in the 2007 BRAC Action Plan, which guides the state's efforts to maintain BRAC readiness. Since taking office, the O'Malley-Brown administration has invested more than $2.7 billion in BRAC readiness.
In the New Year, the BRAC Subcabinet will continue to identify resources and actions to ensure a smooth transition for the incoming Department of Defense agencies, contractors and residents while also protecting and improving Maryland's high quality of life. To build a stronger workforce pipeline, MHEC will launch a BRAC Internship Web site to connect college students with internship opportunities with defense contractors and continue to address higher education needs identified at the Northeastern Maryland Higher Education Summit. The Maryland Department of Transportation will lead efforts to advance SmartGrowth projects in BRAC-impacted communities and engage stakeholders and Maryland's Congressional leaders to explore all funding options available to support Maryland's transportation programs.
The BRAC Subcabinet was established by legislation that passed during the 2007 legislative session and is comprised of 10 cabinet secretaries. Lt. Governor Brown chairs the Subcabinet and leads the group's effort to coordinate Maryland's preparations for BRAC by working horizontally across state government and vertically through partnerships with local, county, state and federal government.
The full Progress Report can be viewed at http://www.brac.maryland.gov/documents/BRACProgressReport2009.pdf.
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I typed in my password in Microsoft password strength checker website. Could it now be possible for someone to recover that password from my computer?
From your computer - Not any more than usual, no.
However the owner of the website you used could very easily have a copy of your password!
You shouldn't ever use an online password checker, as you have no control over where your data has gone.
As Neal stated in this answer on a very similar question:
I assume you're referring to the Password Checker page on Microsoft.com.
I've reviewed the HTML for that page and the JavaScript code it runs - https://www.microsoft.com/global/security/RenderingAssets/passwdcheck.js - and can ensure you that your password never leaves your computer.
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Shirley Harms, 77, of Syracuse died at Community Memorial Hospital, Syracuse, on Nov. 24, 2012. She was born Dec. 13, 1934 to Winfred and Marie (Teten) Holscher . She married Dale E. Harms May 16, 1956 at Luther Memorial Lutheran Church in Syracuse.
She graduated from Syracuse High School in 1952.
She is survived by children Kyle Anderson and husband David of Syracuse and Kim Randall and husband Kevin of Bennet; seven grandchildren: Lindsey Klassen, Tyson and Molly Hermann, Shawn Hermann and fiancé Brittny Murphy, Adam Anderson, Adam and Stephanie Randall, Angela Randall, and Ashley and Jim Field; 13 great grandchildren; sister Phyllis Gaedke and Bill of Clovis, N.M.; sister-in-law Dolores Holscher of Lincoln; brother-in-law Jim Harms of Reno, Nev.; sister-in-law Delores Cloyed and Norman of Lincoln; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded by her husband Dale E. Harms, brother LaVern Holscher and sister Janice Lea Genthe.
She worked for OPPD for over 40 years.
She was a member of Christ Lutheran Church (Delaware) where she was active with the Ladies Group and American Legion Auxiliary Post #100 of Syracuse. She enjoyed singing and listening to music and spending time with her family and grandchildren.
Visitation is Tuesday, Nov. 27 from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. with family greeting friends from 5-7 p.m.
Funeral services are Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 10:30 a.m. at Christ Lutheran Church (Delaware) – rural Syracuse with Rev.Glatha Rathjen officiating.
Pallbearers are Jody Hermann, Larry Genthe, Ron Genthe, Kirk Holscher, Mike Jones and Mike Jackson.
Honorary pallbearers are Lindsey Klassen, Tyson Hermann, Shawn Hermann, Adam Anderson, Adam Randall, Angela Randall and Ashley Field.
Burial is at Park Hill Cemetery – Syracuse.
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With Election Day right around the corner Secretary of State, Alison Lundergan Grimes is expecting a record number of voters to cast ballots.
"We are predicting based on the numbers that were seeing enthusiasm across Kentucky and a turnout of approximately 62 to 64%,"says Secretary of State, Alison Lundergan Grimes.
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"The whole important thing for democracy is to have more people participate, the more that participate the stronger our democracy so why not have early voters,"Anna Sue Heller.
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Quantum Copenhagenists will tell you if there is a stop sign, it only manifests itself by the act of observation. When no one is looking, there is nothing there. This is like the cognitive process of a baby before learning object constancy. But if nothing is there, how does the stop sign know how to appear at the same spot when observed later? Why can't we look, see a red stop sign, look away, look again and see a green stop sign, look away, see the stop sign has moved, look away and look and find the stop sign has gone? Copenhagenists will tell you it is the mind of the observer which keeps track.
What about change blindness then? Huge changes in perception can be made without being noticed if the observer looks away for a while. The mind does not always keep track of such things. But if it doesn't consciously register, maybe such changes are going on all the time? How can we tell? Only when the location of the stop sign is registered in short term memory can we notice that it has changed. Might we as well claim we create reality according to our beliefs? When something is registered in short term memory, the mind keeps track and manifests according to its subjective beliefs. If it is not registered? Might the laws of physics only hold when we keep note, and be blatantly violated when we don't notice? Can we have glitches where we see a black cat cross our path from one side to another, and then see the same black cat cross again from the same initial direction without seeing it walk back, but only if we never registered the first crossing in our memory in the first place?


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Stillwater sisters,
This was a private #FABmoment, obviously. But I can't help but feel good about myself, and I know it shows ;)
P.S. Speaking of feeling good inside-out, Happy International Day of Yoga!
I'm not the most bendy woman on earth, but I do take 10-15 minutes a couple of times a week just to stretch the tightest areas out just because it loosens my perpetually uptight mind (picture a large bunch of strings tied up into a singular stopper knot). So yeah … you can see why it's such a huge personal moment for me to feel good about myself when I'm wearing them VS cheekies.
The yoga poses I do at every single practice: Pigeon, the Triangle, the Shoulder Stand, and the infamous split (not sure whether it's a yoga pose or not tho …). And if you're anywhere as uptight as me BUT still constantly striving to live well, I want you to meet the LEAF. It's the jewelry-slash-tracker device everyone's talking about. With it, you can monitor your sleep, log your period, analyze your breathing and track your activity. All at once, without having multiple apps on your phone just to track your health stats. And it's been sitting on my wish list for so long this year … but I haven't got the opportunity to get it yet TT___TT They actually ship worldwide, just that I'm too chicken to buy something that might not get pass the local customs, and we Indonesians know all too well about their notorious custom fees~
In the meantime I'm still a regular insomniac, averaging between a 35-40 day window in-between periods, and constantly shallow breathing until I catch myself in the act (see why I need yoga in my life?). But if you're the lucky one with a US address right now, I envy you. Bellabeat (the company behind this product) is offering a special rate all through this summer at 20% OFF + FREE shipping worldwide from now until August 11, 2016! You can snag every last piece of the LEAF rest assured that it will arrive at your home. Me? Purchase and *highly likely* no-show :(
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Let $(G,*)$ is a finite group, whose order is $n$. Also let $p|n$ and $p\in P$. Can you bring an example of such group which doesn't have an element of order $p$.
Let $(G,*)$ is a finite group, whose order is $n$. Also let $p|n$ and $p\in P$. Can you bring an example of such group which doesn't have an element of order $p$.
As Ragib said, Cauchy's Theorem assures that if $p$ is a prime divisor of the order of the finite group $G$, then there is an element $g\in G$ of order $p$, hence at least $p-1$ of them. One may note that the proof of Cauchy Theorem's relies on a counting elements argument, thus it is not constructive.
In the comments, the questioner extended his question to elements of power prime order. Sylow's Theorems say that if $p^k$ is the highest power of the prime $p$ dividing the order of $G$, then there exists a subgroup $P<G$ with $|P|=p^k$ (such subgroups are called $p$-sylows). One can then apply the theory of $p$-grous to conclude that $G$ has subgroups of order any power $p^\ell$ with $\ell\leq k$. Again, the proof is not constructive.
Now, in order to decide about the existence of elements of order $p^k$ is enough to consider just one $p$-sylow and decide whether it needs to be cyclic (because by the Sylow's Theorems again all $p$-sylows are conjugated inside $G$, hence isomorphic one to another).
To answer (in the negative) to the general question it is enough to observe that in the permutation group on $10$ elements, a $5$-sylow has $25$ elements and one such is the subgroup $$ P=\langle(1\ 2\ 3\ 4\ 5)\rangle\times\langle(6\ 7\ 8\ 9\ 10)\rangle $$ which is visibly non-cyclic.
Of course, one can come up with many more counterexamples, some of which much simpler than the one described above.
One will not be able to find an example, because Cauchy's Theorem ensures there certainly is such an element.
Proposition: A positive integer n > 1 is prime if and only if every finite group whose order is divisible by n contains an element of order n.
Proof: If n is prime, then Cauchy's theorem guarantees an element of order n in any group whose order is divisible by n. If n is not prime, then n must be divisible by at least two primes, so that n = dpq. We consider three cases: (1) p = q, (2) p divides q−1, and (3) p < q. In the first two cases we find a group of order exactly n with no element of order n, but in the third case we merely find a group whose order is divisible by n with no element of order n. (1) If n is divisible by the square of a prime p, then n = dp2 and the group Cd×Cp×Cp has order divisible by (and exactly equal to) n, but contains no elements of order n. (2) If n = dpq is divisible by a product of distinct primes p, q such that p divides q−1 but such that neither p nor q divides d, then the group Cd×(Cp⋉Cq) has order divisible by (and exactly equal to) n, but contains no element of order n. (3) More generally, if n = dpq where p < q are primes that do not divide d, then the group Cd×Sym(q) has order divisible by (but not equal to) n and has no element of order n.
In the third case, if d = 1 but p does not divide q−1, then every group of order (exactly equal to) n = dpq has an element of order n, so the larger group is necessary in case d = 1 at least (and so necessary for this simple proof that "ignores" d).
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14 Jan 2012 4:40 AM #1
Number of items in a List or Store?
I'm not sure if I missed it in the API documents, but is there any way I can retrieve the number of items in a list, or the number of items in the store associated with the list?
14 Jan 2012 6:45 AM #2
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Thanks! Working fine now though I'm wondering how did I even miss that
19 Jun 2012 5:07 AM #4
But it's only available for a Store and will retrieve the load operation's number of records.
8 Nov 2012 11:41 AM #5
I am not using a store. I fill the list from within the controller, by inserting elements, as the following:
myList.insert(0, {xtype: 'textfield', value: 'abc'});
I tried getCount() and I got the result 0:
console.log("Length of list is " + myList.getCount());
Clearly, getCount() does not work for my example. What would you recommend me to use instead ?
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October 3, 2013
Laserflex Inc., a metal fabrication company based in Columbus, Ohio, has announced plans to relocate its business in Duncan, S.C., to a new facility in Wellford, S.C. The move will include a $4 million expansion and the addition of 23,000 sq. ft. to house machining, painting, and laser tube cutting operations.
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That cold snap made me think about good soups again, and if we have another one before all hot weather, then we are prepared!
This soup can be made ahead up through step 3, with the fresh tomatoes, cilantro, cheeses and tortilla strips added on the night you are going to serve. Don't be afraid of the spiciness, the second spoonful will convert you to the universal, "YUM!"
Fiery Fiesta Soup
Chef Karel Anne Tieszen
Serving Size : 8
5 cups chicken broth
14 ounces vegetable broth -- canned
1 1/2 Tablespoons garlic
1 cup onion -- 1/2 inch dice
1/2 cup bell pepper -- 1/2 inch dice
1/2 cup celery -- 1/2 inch dice
15 ounces hominy, canned -- drained and rinsed
11 ounces tomato puree
11 ounces V-8® vegetable juice -- spicy
3 Tablespoons chili powder
1 Tablespoon cumin
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 jalapeno -- flowered, see directions
1 jalapeno -- seeded and chopped
1 Tablespoon masa harina
2 cups chicken -- skinned, cooked and diced
1 cup Monterey jack cheese -- shredded
1/2 cup cheddar cheese -- shredded
1 cup tomato -- seeded and diced
1/2 cup cilantro -- chopped
4 corn tortillas -- cut in 1/2 inch strips
2 Tablespoons oil
1 large lime -- cut in 8 wedges
1. In a large soup pot, combine the chicken broth and vegetable broth and bring to a boil.
2. Add garlic, onion, bell pepper, celery, hominy, tomato puree, tomato juice, dried spices, and chopped jalapeno to the soup. Float the flowered jalapeno in the soup pot. Bring to a simmer.
3. Remove about 1/2 cup of hot broth from the soup. Mix with the masa harina to make a thick, flowable mixture. Return masa blend to the soup and stir. Add diced chicken. Lower heat and simmer slowly while preparing the tortillas.
4. In a small frying pan, heat the oil. Gently fry the tortilla strips until light brown. Using tongs, remove the strips to paper towels to drain.
5. Remove the soup from the heat. Discard the floating jalapeno. Stir in the cheeses, fresh tomato, and cilantro.
6. Ladle into soup bowls, squeeze one lime wedge over each bowl. Top with a few tortillas and serve.
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1. a revolver that holds six cartriges
2. any revolver
Look out, he's got a six shooter.
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Don't hate on the little man 'cause he's packin' a six shooter!
by Otaku Guardian February 08, 2005
Grab your six-shooters, boys.
by Lily Kennedy December 15, 2006
a girl that u would only have sex with after six beers
that girls a six-shooter
by tom June 14, 2003
When hold your hand like a gun with your pointer and middle finger extended outward and then finger a vagina.
Hey Tommy, did you give her the ol' six shooter?
I like to start off with six shooting.
I like to start off with six shooting.
by Zdoggerdudemandogdude July 07, 2006
A six shooter is a guy that "shoots" sex, someone that is ready and willing to have sex at any time. Doesn't necessarily mean that they are promiscuous, but ultimately they love to have sex. It also means that he is "packing heat" in his pants. Large penis.
A Six Shooter is ready any time and anywhere and is always packing.
by straight up cowboy. July 26, 2011
An attachment to bongs that rotates six different bowls.
Dude, load the six shooter and spark it up!
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Pregnancy Fitness
In This Article:
Reasons not to work out while pregnantContraindications to Exercise
Medical problems that might restrict your exercise in pregnancy include heart or lung problems, infections, anemia, metabolic diseases, high blood pressure, bleeding, and problems with your cervix. If you have an eating disorder or trouble keeping weight on, your exercise should be limited. Problems with prior pregnancies or history of miscarriages might also impose restrictions on workout activity. Also, high levels of physical activity at work or home can limit exercise.
Reasons Not to Work Out in Pregnancy, as Determined by Your Doctor
- Medical problemshigh blood pressure, breathing problems, thin bones
- Problems with previous pregnanciesmore than three miscarriages, pre-eclampsia, pre-term labor
- High-risk pregnancyincompetent cervix, medical complications, high blood pressure, multiples
- High level of physical activity at work or home
Warning Signs to Stop Exercising
- Vaginal fluid leakage or bleeding
- Unusual swelling of arms or legs
- Headaches, dizziness, light-headedness
- Stomach pain, nausea, vomiting
- Back or pelvic pain
- Contractions
- Heart palpitations
- Being unable to catch your breath
- Pregnancy is not the time to try to take on a new program, improve your fitness level, or increase your exercise program. Your goal should be to maintain a healthy level of fitness at moderate levels of intensity. After you give birth, this will translate into healthy fitness at higher levels of intensity.
- You should discuss your exercise program with your doctor and be aware of any special risks or precautions.
- Remember you need more calories, vitamins, and fluids.
- Do not allow yourself to overheat.
- Breathable athletic wear with a supportive bra should be worn. Shoes might have to be bigger than when not pregnant to accommodate for swelling.
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Here's the context: Statement: Attrition among the X workforce is high.
Now I want to specify this at an individual's context. As in: "The X worker is __" What is the correct term here? The X worker is highly mobile?
This is for a presentation slide and I'm striving for brevity. Attrition here means that workers change jobs often, not that they migrate.


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I'm now using msysgit because of the GUI tools, which use Putty's Pageant and PLink utilities, but I use Cygwin as a general SSH terminal. I had been using ssh-agent on Cygwin, but that means I have to enter my SSH key passphrases for both SSH key managers. Is it possible to configure all my Unix-port tools (msys, git, cygwin, Ruby Net:SSH, etc.) to use PLink/Pageant instead of ssh-agent? It seems that's the kind of thing PLink was made for, but I can't find documentation on how.
I also wrote a proxy between openssh and pageant, which I call ssh-pageant. It looks like pretty much the same approach as charade, but I hadn't heard of it. Well in case you have trouble, I thought I'd throw out ssh-pageant to try instead.
I came across charade a while ago, which replaces ssh-agent and proxies to Pageant. At the time I couldn't quite get it working, and haven't had the chance to play with it since, but it might be worth a try. If you have any luck please post back and let me know, it's been on my list of things to do for ages!
You are looking to integrate ssh-agent and pageant so that you have only one keystore. One way you can do this is use PuTTY as your terminal, keep your keys in pageant, enable agent forwarding, run Cygwin sshd and ssh to localhost. This will give you an environment where keys are served by pageant over the ssh connection with PuTTY -- no need to run ssh-agent.
It should be possible to do the same with Plink. Just use the -A option, and use the resulting SSH_AUTH_SOCK setting in your interactive Cygwin sessions. Disclaimer: I have not tried this.
Edit: I have now tried this; it works just fine. I created a shortcut to PLINK:
Then, in a Cygwin terminal (I use PuTTYcyg of course):
Seems to work great, but still requires a local sshd.
What would be really great is to have an openssh-compatible agent which communicates directly to the pageant keystore, but this won't happen unless someone writes such a beast. I looked into it many moons ago, and it seemed more trouble than it was worth given that this work-around is easy enough.
Could you go the other way and use puttycyg?
That way you have putty as your cygwin terminal.
i would suggest the same thing (use putty) but just use putty as it intergrates better with pagent and plink, i use it along with msysgit but use the git bash provided by msysgit and it would fine, its a little tedious switching between consoles but the seperation can be good as well
Another way to do it.
Add this line at the very top of .bash_profile
Then add your keys at the bottom of .bashrc


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From the critically acclaimed author of Real Life & Liars and Things We Didn't Say comes a timely and provocative novel that asks: What happens when the things we own become more important than the people we love?
Trish isn't perfect. She's divorced and raising two kidsso of course her house isn't pristine. But she's got all the important things right and she's convinced herself that she has it all under control. That is, until the day her youngest son gets hurt and Child Protective Services comes calling. It's at that moment when Trish is forced to consider the one thing she's always hoped wasn't true: that she's living out her mother's life as a compulsive hoarder.
The last person Trish ever wanted to turn to for help is her sister, Marymeticulous, perfect Mary, whose house is always spotless . . . and who moved away from their mother to live somewhere else, just like Trish's oldest child has. But now, working together to get Trish's disaster of a home into livable shape, two very different sisters are about to uncover more than just piles of junk, as years of secrets, resentments, obsessions, and pain are finally brought into the light.
"This story of two sisters...is as unflinching as it is compassionate. I was pulled in from the first page, as Trish and Mary reckon with the devastations of loss and the bonds of family, and as they make their hard, brave, often funny journeys toward hope and wholeness."
-Marisa de los Santos, New York Times bestselling author of Falling Together
"An involving portrayal of the obstacles confronting today's families."
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"...this delectable read is both irresistible and fulfilling...hope-filled, honest and remarkably raw tour-de-force. Things We Didn't Say is a beautiful account of modern family that resonates, restores and charms."
"Backed by Riggle's trademark unflinching honesty and imbued with heart and hope, The Life You've Imagined is a terrific novel about love and loss, letting go and holding on. A book to share with family and friends—I loved it."
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Starting Friday, December 7th at 9:00am, Barnes & Noble will contribute a percentage of every sale made with a Bookfair voucher to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Vouchers, which must be submitted with every sale, are available in hard copy at the United Way of Southern Kentucky office (1110 College Street, Bowling Green) and will be available onsite at Barnes & Noble during the event. Those interested can also shop online in support of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library at www.bn.com/bookfairs from 12/7/12 - 12/14/12 (must include the Bookfair voucher ID (10878494) on the payment page during checkout).
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Plenty of gray hairs and 1960s-'70s musical nostalgia, on stage and off, at the South Shore Music Circus Saturday night, but also a couple hours of warm feelings and topnotch musicianship, as "The Turtles, with Flo & Eddie" and their latest version of the annual Happy Together Tour hit Cohasset before a crowd of about 2000 giddy fans.
No less than four acts preceded the headliners, all backed by a crack four-piece band of (slightly) younger musical pros, including bandleader Godfrey Townsend on guitar, drummer/vocalist Steve Murphy, bassist John Montana, and keyboardist Manny Focarazo. The lineup; Gary Lewis of the Playboys, Mitch Ryder of the Detroit Wheels, Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad, and Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night each did approximately 20-minute sets, which translated to about four songs on average. The Turtles' headlining set was a bit longer, and featured one final jam-out, where each previous performer returned for a brief reprise of their best-known hit.
The Turtles, whose meteoric shot across the pop charts lasted from 1965-70, have been doing these Happy Together tours, featuring a changing cast of characters, since 1984, or shortly after Turtles frontmen Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman regained legal rights to the band name. After the original Turtles dissolved in 1970 amid record label hassles--including demanding that Volman and Kaylan fire their bandmates and record and tour with hired hands--the two principals joined Frank Zappa's band, under the pseudonyms Flo & Eddie. Eventually they began releasing music under that name, while still maintaining the connection with Zappa's group.
As Kaylan noted Saturday, the first version of the Happy Together tour played just 16 dates, while this year's edition is performing at 56 different venues. It's a fast-paced evening, heavy on the hits, with gracious and charming music veterans seemingly just as eager to reunite with their fans as the audience is to see and hear them all these years later.
Personally, I'd like to hear more of the Turtles, as their unique blend of poppy folk-rock and good-natured weirdness is guaranteed to provoke smiles on the most cynical music fan. The Turtles came charging down the ramp to the stage, with Volman in a bright, sparkly green jacket, his bushy hair bouncing as he cavorted around the stage, while Kaylan made a more dignified entry in his black pork-pie hat, and a white sportcoat decorated with little black palm trees. That exuberant entrance led easily into the buoyant "She'd Rather Be With Me," a nugget from their first year as rock stars, '65.
The sweet crooning melody of "You Baby," also from '65, was another keepsake moment, and it was obvious Kaylan still has terrific vocal ability. Volman seemed to confine himself to harmonies, and some points all four of the backing musicians were also adding to the delectable vocal harmonies. How many fans recalled that the Turtles' first hit was a remake of a Bob Dylan tune? "It Ain't Me Babe" was every bit the neatly re-done gem it was way back then, folk-rock imbued with Beach Boys-style vocals, which was a natural effect given that the Turtles were basically California teenagers at the time. 1968's "Elenore" was a more conventional pop ballad, although still irresistibly bouncy, and then of course the mass singalong/love-in that is the song "Happy Together" was the climactic moment, leading to that big finale of mini-encores by everyone else.
Earlier Chuck Negron had proven to be a fine vocalist on his own--Three Dog Night featured three lead singers, including Cory Dells and Danny Hutton. Three Dog Night dominated the charts, to the tune of 12 gold albums, from 1968-76, when they broke up, before reuniting in '81. (Negron left the band in 1985, struggling with substance abuse, while the others have continued performing, off and on, to the present day, when Hutton and Dells still front a version of Three Dog Night.)
Negron, looking spiffy in his black sportcoat over a salmon-colored shirt, with aviator shades and a head of luxuriant brown hair, opened with a vibrant take on "Mama Told Me Not to Come." Three Dog Night used a wide variety of songwriters, and that song was from Randy Newman, while the rapidly rock-paced "Eli's Coming" from 1969 was a Laura Nyro tune. At the end of that showstopper, Negron admitted that he'd never realized he'd still be singing that song "in my mid-fifties.." As the crowd gave out a collective chuckle, Negron admitted he is the oldest trouper on this tour, at 72. "I figure I'll have one or two more kids and then take it easy.." he said.
Comedy aside, Negron did a fabulous job on Harry Nilsson's "One (Is the Loneliest Number)," and then finished his set with 1971's Record of the Year, which was one of his lead vocals back in the day, on "Joy to the World," the Hoyt Axton tune perhaps best known for its opening line "Jeremiah was a bullfrog.."
Just before intermission, Grand Funk Railroad's former lead singer and guitarist Mark Farner electrified the crowd with his own dynamic set. (Original bassist Mel Schacher and drummer Don Brewer still perform with the Grand Funk RR name.) Farner, 65, appeared to be in the best shape of all the acts, in his tight tee-short and jeans, with his waist-length hair flowing as he roamed the circular stage playing his wireless guitar.
Farner hit the stage running at high speed with Grand Funk's rocked-up take on the old Little Eva hit, "The Loco-motion," and then led a pulverizing romp through "We're An American Band." The only quibble we'd have is that neither Farner's nor Townsend's guitar lines were very high in the mix, and Grand Funk was, after all, essentially a guitar band. Band drummer Murphy sang the lead on "Some Kind of Wonderful," Grand Funk's 1975 hit, and earned a loud ovation. Farner's crowning moment was a long and soulful take on "I'm Your Captain," where his passionate vocal and special guitar effects elevated that 1970 chestnut to new heights.
Mitch Ryder looked the most like today's rockers, in his black jeans, black tee, and black cap, but his raw-but-righteous vocals are still galvanizing at 69. With material like "C.C. Ryder" and his iconic garage-rocker "Devil With a Blue Dress," the Detroit legend was still a gritty whirlwind.
Gary Lewis, the son of comic Jerry Lewis, had a string of hits in the mid-1960s, none bigger than 1965's "This Diamond Ring"--which was penned by rock Zelig/now Berklee professor Al Kooper. Lewis sounded in vintage form on "This Diamond Ring" in his multi-colored/not-quite psychedelic sportshirt, and especially appreciative of the audience reaction. Lewis' music career never quite recovered after he was drafted and spent 1967-68 in the Army, serving in South Korea among other places. But just two years ago, Lewis, 69, released a new album, "The Promise."


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Hyperion's project scope included the design and delivery of the OTS system for the dual feed cracker unit (DFCU) and associated units (AU) with the Honeywell Experion Control system. The OTS solution includes a hybrid system for the DCS using emulated controllers and real operator trainee stations.
Simulation solutions provider Hyperion delivered Linde an
operator training simulator (OTS) for a new ethylene
plant in Dahej, India, the company announced on
The Linde Group built the turnkey plant for Indias ONGC Petro-additions
Ltd. (OPaL), together with consortium partner Samsung
Engineering of Korea.
The OPaL Dahej plant will be Indias largest ethylene plant,
and the center of a larger petrochemical complex.
Hyperion and OPaL representatives will participate and
jointly present the successful delivery of the Dahej ethylene
plant OTS system, at the annual International Refining and Petrochemical Conference (IRPC), which will be held on 9-11 July
2013, in New Delhi.
Hyperions project scope included the design
and delivery of the OTS system for the dual feed cracker unit
(DFCU) and associated units (AU) with the Honeywell
Experion Control system.
The OTS solution includes a hybrid system for the DCS using
emulated controllers and real operator trainee stations. The
operator training environment is fully replicated
using graphics taken from the actual plant DCS configuration,
according to the company.
In this case, Hyperion developed a high-fidelity
plant-specific simulator specifically for the Dahej
ethylene plant. The process model simulation was developed
using DYNSIM dynamic simulation software.
This was a large scale project with many challenges due
to its magnitude and complexity," said Dr. Karsten
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engineering division. "With Hyperions experienced team
and their hard work, a world-class simulator has been
The OTS allows operators to experience many operating
situations in a brief period of training time, before the plant
is commissioned. The simulator system represents the best
method for conducting supervised training exercises and helps
to reduce operational errors.
The use of the OTS is expected to result in maximization of
plant availability, increase of plant productivity and
improvement of product quality, according to Hyperion
The OTS system has been thoroughly tested by both Linde and
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Building high fidelity simulators for ethylene
manufacturing is an area where our company has extensive
experience and engineering domain expertise; we were delighted
to work with The Linde Group and deliver this prestigious
project, which will help ensure effective operation of the OPaL
Dahej ethylene complex," said Dean R.
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value can be obtained from customers investments in
simulation technologies. OPaL now has a valuable tool that can
be used to help understand and improve the operation of their
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I am interested in camera recommendations with a fast shutter and which are able to focus well in low light. The camera will be used for indoor concert photography where no flash is allowed.
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As usually in life, the best things are not cheap.
Given only the criteria of fast shutter and good focusing in low light, I suspect Nikon D3s is still unbeaten. It also has a quiet shutter mode, should you visit concerts with silent audience.
A Nikon AF-S 70-200 ED VR II 2.8 lens would be a good match for low-light concert photography. The big aperture helps your camera to focus in the low light, and zoom gives you more freedom of composition. It has weather sealing (just like the camera) in case you would ever visit an outdoor concert with sudden rain.
While the sensor of Pentax K-5 is also praised for its low-light performance, auto-focus has been Achilles heel for Pentax and while vastly improved on K-5, it still lags behind the big two. Also slowness of supersonic AF motors on their premium tele lenses is not encouraging.
Given a budget of around $1000 for the camera body, as you mentioned in a comment to one of the other answers, the answer is:
Any camera body you can buy for around $1000.
Seriously; in this price bracket, they're all competitive. There are some variations in focus speed in low light, but that mostly comes down to a tradeoff of accuracy vs. speed — and even then, for around the same price, the differences are going to be pretty small.
By "fast shutter", I assume you mean responsive shutter. Unlike with point and shoot cameras, that's really not much of an issue even on entry level DSLRs, and going up a step or two means it's really a non-issue. Cameras in the $1000 price range will have very fast shutters in another sense too, by the way — able to be as quick as ¹⁄₈₀₀₀th of a second is typical. If your concerts are outdoors and very brightly lit, that might be of interest. :)
So then, the important thing will be the lens, and the recommendation there will be very dependent on exactly what kind of concert and on your level of access. It'd be helpful if you could elaborate. But in most cases, there will be reasonable options for any brand and camera body.
So, you should look at a few $1000-range camera body reviews online. I prefer the subjective reviews to the technical, since the technical ones tend to exaggerate differences, because that's what drives people to those review sites. Find people talking about the feel of the camera, and see if that fits what you're looking for. Talk to your friends, too, if they're into photography. And then buy whatever you find yourself most drawn to. You really won't go wrong.
I routinely shoot low-light no-flash with my Nikon D7000 and 50mm 1.8. If you have a good raw processor (DxO Optics Pro in my case), the 7K set at 12,800 is quite usable for print. With good post-processing, even a zoom with F 5.6 would work.
Do you want a DSLR or something smaller? I would choose something with CMOS Exmor chip, which have very good low light photos. For example Pentax K-r (or older K-x) with some good lens. When it should be compact, then could be something like Samsung EX-1, Nikon P300, maybe Olympus Pen or the new Fuji X100. Or something between these categories - mirror-less "DSLRs" like Sony NEX or Samsung NX series. It depends on how much money do you have and what you expect. :-)
Probably Fujis X-M1 and other X-Trans sensor Fuji cameras. They have impressive low-light performance (not the autofocus, but the image result), even better then DSLR and even Full frame sometimes - check out image comparison on dpreview for high-iso. Colors are nice as well. But they force you to use JPEG at high iso, and I think you might have to do manual focus in low light. Fujis are also, in general, durable cameras (when compared to other cameras in the same class).
There are also micro four thirds camera (Olympus or Panasonic, or Blackmagic if you're into video), their sensors are less impressive when it comes to high-iso, but you can mount the great Olympus 75mm 1.8 lens (150mm in 35mm equiv) on them - preferably on an Olympus OM-D body because you would then have image stabilization (in-body). This lens alone is a good reason to look into that system.


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Class activities and discussion are designed to help women identify their risks and evaluate their strengths, and to explore their options for dealing with the threat of sexual violence. Class activities focus on practicing verbal and physical strategies. Discussion topics focus on sexual and domestic violence.
WomenStrength emphasizes that each threat must be assessed quickly. Research on women's experiences indicates that the likelihood of escaping a sexual assault increases with the number of escape strategies employed. Women who choose to fight are encouraged to use the element of surprise to their advantage. Because physical self-defense will be most effective if vulnerable areas of the body are targeted, some of the skills taught include multiple strikes to those areas, as well as escapes from choke holds, body grabs, and wrist grasps, and defense techniques from the ground.
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- The names of others you are registering for. Please note: Because space in class is limited, you may register for yourself and only one or two others.
- Someone will contact you to confirm your registration.
One Class = 3 Sessions
WomenStrength classes are taught in a sequence of three sessions. Because each session builds on the previous one, it is essential that you attend all three sessions in order.
If you realize that you have a conflict with a session and will be unable to attend, please call us as soon as possible before the first session and we will move someone from the waiting list into your space. Notifying us of your cancellation as soon as you are aware of it will give women on the waiting list time to make arrangements for child care and other needs.
WomenStrength classes are free of charge to the participants. We do strongly encourage donations! Donations are used to support our volunteer staff. Every little bit helps! Donations can be made online, or by check (instructions here).
What to wear and bring to class:
For approximately six of your nine hours in class, you will be practicing physical and verbal defense skills. We ask you to wear and bring the following:
- Comfortable clothes that you can move easily in. Dressing in layers is good if it's extra warm or extra cold outside.
- Sneakers or soft-soled athletic shoes.
- As little jewelry as possible.
- A water bottle if you need more than the occasional drink from the water fountain.
- Throat drops, if you would like, because we do a lot of yelling
- Please do not wear perfume or scented products to class. Many students are allergic to it.
Please arrive 10 minutes early for sign-in, so that we can start class on time.
If city-stopping weather, such as a windstorm or ice storm, affects travel on the day of your class, please call 503-823-0260 to learn if your class will occur. If the public schools close because of the weather, we will probably cancel that day's session, and extend your class into the next week to make up the missed session.
Waiting Lists
We register for classes one month at a time, and once a class is full, we begin a waiting list for it. If you are on a waiting list, it is for the current month only. As we receive cancellations, we call those at the top of the waiting list for that class.
Most cancellations are received in two time frames: 1) within a few days after a student has registered, and 2) within a day or two of the first session of class. If you are on a waiting list, please only go to class if you have received a call from us notifying you of an available space. If a space does not open up for you, we hope that you will request a schedule of upcoming classes and will register for another location in the near future.
What to expect at your class
The class you attend could be as small as 15 students, or as large as 40 students. The size of class is determined by the space available in our room and the number of instructors available to teach. Regardless of class size, you will practice physical and verbal skills in a small group with an instructor, and will sit with the entire class for information segments.
All of your instructors will be women who volunteer their time to teach these classes, and many are former students who felt inspired by their instructors to pursue this large commitment of time and energy. Your instructors will have information about the application process and volunteering.
Your instructors will encourage you to challenge yourself, as well as take care of yourself physically and emotionally while in class. Survivors of violence may have memories surface. If you are a survivor, you may feel many conflicting emotions. Self-defense classes can help renew confidence and facilitate healing. They can also be overwhelming. Some of the things that can influence your experience in self-defense training are how recently you have experienced violence, other recovery work you have done, the support you have available, the trust you feel in your instructors, and the structure of your class. Please don't hesitate to ask us questions or tell us what you need. To confirm: All of our instructors are female.
If you are a parent or caregiver, please note that we do not provide child care and do not allow children who are not registered for class in the classroom. Our class is designed for teenage and adult women, and the material taught is for that level of understanding and experience.
If you have a disability or medical condition that affects your involvement in physical activities, please tell us at the time you register so that we can best prepare for your participation in our classes. One-on-one instruction is available for those who would benefit from it. If you need a sign language interpreter, please also inform us at the time you register. If you have hearing loss, it is easiest to reach us through a relay service, but if you prefer a TTY, the Police Bureau's TTY number is 503-823-4736.
Thanks again to all of the facilities which host our classes and to the volunteers who teach them!


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State's income tax withholding revenue takes troubling dip
The personal income tax is Connecticut's biggest single source of revenue, so its trends are carefully watched, and despite assumptions that withholding taxes will grow strongly in the next two years, the current economic data are troubling.
Working people paid an estimated $5.2 billion in withholding taxes in the fiscal year that ended June 30.
The withholding receipts represent 60 percent of the $8.7 billion in income taxes that the state government collected, according to initial estimates.
The other 40 percent came from taxpayers who make estimated payments every quarter because it is difficult to determine their tax liability before the end of the year.
State tax officials are preliminarily reporting that withholding taxes for the 2013 fiscal year dropped 1.3 percent, while estimated and final payments shot up 15 percent.
More concrete figures should be available later this month. The state Department of Revenue Services was still collecting 2013 taxes received through July.
If budget assumptions hold true, the withholding portion of the income tax will outpace the growth in final and estimated payments over the next two years.
Withholding taxes are now budgeted to increase to $5.5 billion for the month-old 2014 fiscal year and $5.8 billion for the 2015 fiscal year. This represents increases of slightly more than 5 percent a year.
Meanwhile, receipts from quarterly returns are expected to dip slightly to $3.3 billion this year and then rise to $3.6 billion. This nets out to an increase of 4.5 percent over two years.
While working people are expected to pay more withholding taxes, the employment and pay picture is not looking overly bright.
Unemployment continues to hover stubbornly near 8 percent. The state workforce is 1.6 million people.
In the last three years, the state has recovered just 56 percent of the 114,000 private sector jobs that were lost in the worst recession since the Great Depression. The economy has been creating an average of nearly 1,470 jobs per month since the recession officially ended in February 2010.
NOT ALL JOBS ARE EQUAL REVENUE PRODUCERS. Annual wages vary greatly among industries. The highest are found in finance and insurance. However, the sector has been shedding jobs. The leisure and hospitality industry pays the least, but this is the second-fasting-growing sector in terms of employment.
The state comptroller's office, in its monthly budget report for August, cited preliminary estimates that personal income declined 1.7 percent in the first quarter of 2013. The state ranked 44th in terms of income growth for the first quarter. It trailed all New England states.
However, average hourly earnings are up slightly, according to the state Department of Labor. In June, workers in the private sector made nearly $956 a week, up 1.8 percent from the previous June.
The last two years saw significant increases in receipts from quarterly income tax returns because of uncertainty over taxes and deficit reduction on the federal level.
State officials are attributing last year's 15 percent increase to the partial expiration of the Bush-era tax rates at the end of December.
The White House and Congress reached a deal that raised the increased rates for individuals earning more than $400,000 a year and married couples earning more than $450,000 a year. It also raised the top marginal rate on capital gains, and the estate and gift tax.
IN CONNECTICUT, MANY WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS realized capital gains and made significant gifts before the new federal rates took effect Jan. 1. The state saw drastic increases in tax receipts as a result.
At last count, the inheritance and estate tax raised $273.3 million more than anticipated. The tax was budgeted to raise $166.2 million. The state collected $439.5 million through June 30, according to the latest estimates.
Income taxes raised $164.7 million more than budgeted last year.
The tax was originally expected to raise more than $8.5 billion. In May, the legislature and the administration revised the estimated receipts upward to $8.6 billion.
The governor's budget office is now estimating the state collected more than $8.7 billion in income taxes. The state comptroller's office concurred with the new projection.
The Department of Revenue Services reported the state had collected nearly $8.2 billion in income taxes through June 30. However, this is just an initial estimate. This number will increase when the department credits the taxes that were collected through July.
The two-year, $37.6 billion budget that took effect July 1 anticipates the state will collect $8.8 billion in income taxes this year and $9.4 billion next year.
IF THE ALL-IMPORTANT INCOME TAX UNDERPERFORMS, the legislature and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will have budget troubles on their hands again.
The governor and lawmakers had to close a $379.2 million shortfall that opened up in last year's budget barely halfway through the fiscal year.
Malloy cut $135.4 million using his limited authority to unilaterally reduce state spending in budget emergencies in late November. The legislature approved another $243.8 million in cuts, savings and other budget changes in December.
Budget management and the one-time revenue windfalls helped to turn around the state's financial outlook. The state ended up posting an estimated year-end surplus of $359.6 million, according to the administration and comptroller's office.
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Now it's time. Repeal the state income tax. Connecticut is already in the economic cesspool.
Let the few working people keep that money we used to enjoy before 1994. "
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KITTY wrote on Aug 9, 2013 10:46 AM:
@AL........As far as deficit reduction you are correct part is the sequester the other part is increased revenue from an increase in employment and the expiration of the bush tax cuts......they were intended to be temporary....... "
KITTY wrote on Aug 9, 2013 10:55 AM:
the publican tea partiers wanted only spending cuts......... "
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al.cap wrote on Aug 9, 2013 11:04 AM:
gettuing credit where none is due. he's been getting by like that for 5 years. "
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Individual Income Tax Due in 2008,
Bush Law versus Clinton Law
For taxpayers who take the standard deduction and have no children
Taxpayer Tax That Would Have Been Owed under Clinton-Era Tax Law Tax Owed under Current Law, with Bush Tax Cuts
Single, income of 30,000 $3,157.50 $2,756.25
Single, income of 50,000 $7,262.50 $6,606.25
Married, income of $50,000 $5,085.00 $4,012.50
Married, income of $60,000 $6,585.00 $5,512.50
Single, income of $75,000 $14,262.50 $12,856.25
Married, income of $75,000 $9,426.50 $7,762.50
Single, income of $125,000* $29,378.50 $26,472.25
Married, income of $125,000* $23,426.50 $19,462.50
*This chart does not take into account the Alternative Minimum Tax "
KITTY wrote on Aug 11, 2013 11:25 AM:
Summary of provisions[edit source]
The Office of Tax Analysis of the United States Department of the Treasury summarized the tax changes as follows:[2]
repealed scheduled increases in accelerated depreciation deductions
tightened safe harbor leasing rules
required taxpayers to reduce basis by 50% of investment tax credit
instituted 10% withholding on dividends and interest paid to individuals
tightened completed contract accounting rules
increased FUTA wage base and tax rate "
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al.cap wrote on Aug 11, 2013 8:01 PM:
aditionally, reality rarely follows projection, as evidenced in this state, and this article. "
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al.cap wrote on Aug 13, 2013 5:07 AM:
just like those who you parrot, you cherry-pick fact and figures to support your position, never acknowledging the entire picture. then you get pissy when someone calls you on it. "
KITTY wrote on Aug 13, 2013 11:35 AM:
al.cap wrote on Aug 13, 2013 4:40 PM:
if it was that easy, then why didn't the vacationer-in-chief simply raise taxes when your party controlled both houses of congress? "
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al.cap wrote on Aug 14, 2013 5:32 AM:
one line item from some analysis doesn't show the complete picture. your last post proves that you understand the concept. this is why no one takes you seriously. misdirection. obfuscation. half-truths. falsehoods. the way of the left. "
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KITTY wrote on Aug 14, 2013 7:18 PM:
@low.....your name says it all .....you certainly are low information like many others in this forum.......... "
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there's a difference between trusting someone because they've earned it and trusting someone because they claim to be trustworthy. "
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al.cap wrote on Aug 21, 2013 5:33 AM:
someone who goes to school into his thirties, and then runs for office, with no real world experience, is not a person to vote for. i don't give a whit about how educated they are.
most of the problems in the country can be traced to the priorities and behaviors you advocate here. "
conservative1 wrote on Aug 21, 2013 10:14 AM:
The rest of you are stupid and uneducated.
Kitty why aren't you a CPA? or Actuary? Anyone can get an accounting degree.
Give me Joe Six Pack EVERYTIME. "
KITTY wrote on Aug 21, 2013 11:29 AM:
al.cap wrote on Aug 21, 2013 12:38 PM:
for the last time, education and intelligence are two vastly different things. confusing them is dangerous, and leads the weak-minded to infer an educated person is somehow superior. ridiculous.
we can get some insight into the thought process of our resident know-it-all by examining her recent posts. and what liberal elitism do we find? hmm. joe six pack is inferior to the ivy leaguer, and therefore, must not endeavor to rise above his station. he must bow to the will of his superiors, as they know what's best for him. this is how we end up with the entrenched ruling class we have today. they all think that they're superior, entitled, and deserving of the blind loyalty she gives them, regardless of whether they've earned it or not. "
GAS wrote on Aug 21, 2013 5:16 PM:
Al@ agree with you! "
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conservative1 wrote on Aug 22, 2013 10:27 AM:
I wasn't saying you claimed to be anything more than a corporate accountant. I was saying for someone who puts so much importance on what school you went to and what degrees you have and titles. All you "were" was a staff accountant. Barely more qualified than Turbo Timmy.
Kitty would rather have an admitted drug user, with ZERO governing experience, who hangs out with domestic terrorists, radicals, admitted communists, who looks up to a racist radical preacher be the leader of the free world because he went to the "right" university. Or maybe as I suspect, because he is black like her. "
al.cap wrote on Aug 22, 2013 12:05 PM:
KITTY wrote on Aug 22, 2013 6:07 PM:
LINDA.....yeah real easy Linda.....you have to score at the 98th percentile or higher.....where do you people come from......amazing....
CON......You have no idea what type of accountant I am...... "
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al.cap wrote on Aug 23, 2013 5:25 AM:
are you sure you want to stick to the statement you made about the iq test? because not all people with high-level iq's choose to become doctors. and some turn down the invitation to join mensa. "
conservative1 wrote on Aug 23, 2013 8:41 AM:
Personally I've gotten some of the best business advice from my father ( who quit HS to fight in WWII) and a friend who graduated from lowly Central and is a self made multi millionaire. People you'd look down your nose at with your accounting degree. pffft "
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KITTY wrote on Aug 23, 2013 1:40 PM:
@CON....I have given plenty to society ...wonderful children who are good people and give back to society like I do.....they mentor youth as I do.....you know nothing about my education and degrees and what schools I've attended....... "
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conservative1 wrote on Aug 23, 2013 3:00 PM:
Mentoring?? oh great. you mean there will be more like you? there's a lot of mentoring going on in "Roxbury" "
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@bs- if you're paying attention, once she uses that stupid 'over your head' line, i'm out. "
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I've installed Google Analytics in our company's web applications. The problem is the application use legacy code (frames), so the stats we receive aren't very accurate.
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The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is only 27 words long, but its meaning has been debated for more than 200 years. It states, "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Constitutional scholars have their own beliefs about what exactly the amendment says.
Richard Rosen (pictured below) is a law professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, who was admitted to practice in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. "It's unclear exactly what the framers meant here," Rosen said. "I'm not sure that anyone has a definitive answer. If I received this from a student in a paper I'd certainly strike it out and ask them, 'What the heck do you mean by this?'"
In order to understand the Second Amendment it helps to break it down by looking at the individual words and each clause separately. The first few words read, "A well-regulated militia."
What does that mean?
"The term militia is a state-based military force composed of civilians who are mobilized in a time of national emergency, either for the defense of the state or the national government. And that's what the founders thought of. The minutemen would be a good example of the militia," Rosen said.
However, not everyone views the term "militia" the same. McMurry University Political Science Professor Dr. Paul Fabrizio (pictured below) has studied the U.S. Constitution extensively. He said there is still some debate about it. "You go back to the framers of the Constitution, the militia was able-bodied, male property owners that were white. And then there's this idea that came out of that that we're talking about members of the National Guard."
"So today, when we're talking about the militia, are we talking about the National Guard? Or are we talking about all able-bodied white men who have property? The court really hasn't come down and said, 'This is what it is,'" Fabrizio said.
Here's where the Second Amendment gets even murkier: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms."
What do most constitutional scholars think that means? "The majority of the Supreme Court has held that it protects an individual's right apart from the militia to possess arms, to keep arms at least in the home for the purpose of self defense," Rosen said.
"The right to gun ownership people love the second part of it where it talks about the right of the people to keep and bear arms. To them that means you can't take away my right to own guns, and not only guns, but ammunition, and not only that, but any type of gun that I choose to own. So they take it literally," Fabrizio said.
Finally, the last four words of the amendment: "shall not be infringed."
What does "infringed" mean? Rosen said the Supreme Court thinks infringed means "you cannot prohibit people from possessing weapons, firearms, for certain purposes, and only certain types of firearms for certain purposes. Others would argue that the term infringed means the states' ability to regulate a militia may not be impeded, may not be infringed upon."
The best way to try and understand the Second Amendment is to look at how the nation's highest court, the U.S. Supreme Court, has ruled in cases involving guns. It wasn't really until the last decade or so that the Supreme Court began handing down some important, defining decisions on the Second Amendment.
The two blockbusters were a 2010 decision on a case involving "McDonald v. the City of Chicago" and a 2008 ruling now called the "District of Columbia v. Heller."
"There at issue was a District of Columbia law that essentially prohibited the possession of handguns in the home, even for self-defense," Rosen said.
The Heller decision held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for lawful purposes. However, Heller did not address the question of whether the Second Amendment extends beyond federal enclaves to the states. McDonald v. Chicago did.
"The city of Chicago essentially had the same type of gun regulation that the District of Columbia did. The city essentially prevented the possession of handguns," Rosen said.
McDonald determined that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms" applies to the states. "There have been state gun control regulations since the founding of our nation. So, state regulation of firearms is not something new. It's something that's existed since we became a nation," Rosen said.
That's pretty much how the Second Amendment is viewed today. Of course, future court decisions may change that.
"It really comes down to a simple question: 'Are there absolute rights in the Constitution?' When the constitution says that you have, for example, freedom of speech, is that an absolute right? Can I say anything I want to? And the answer is no, there's limits on that. And so the Second Amendment is really about limits. Is in fact this right to keep and bear arms totally free, totally absolute? Or in fact is there limits on it? I think that both sides agree that there should be some reasonable limits. No one wants five-year-olds running around with guns," Fabrizio said.
Rosen added, "The Second Amendment gives people the right to possess things that can actually kill. No other amendment is like that."
Click here to view a slideshow about the history of the Second Amendment.


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Wouldn't this present on the page before the form declaration whatever the user types in the test box?
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I am trying to write a function that I will put on all my machines in order to make it easy to send files at a fixed place on my network.
Here is my script so far. Some folder may have duplicates names on my machines, so I'm adding a uuid at the end of the folder name.
function putOnSG3() {
if [[ -d $1 ]]; then scp -rv "$1" shiny:/Volumes/Seagate3To/"$1.$uuid";
else echo $1 " is not a directory. Not copying.";
I'm invoking it like this:
$ putOnSG testFo\[l\}der
Here is the problem:
zsh:1: bad pattern: /Volumes/Seagate3To/testFo[l}der.d84abc26-501b-4f89-a636-518b4059a770
How can I manage these nasty filenames ?
Target filesystem is case sensitive hfsplus, source filesystems are various extfs from Linux machines and NTFS.