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CB&I had said that combining the two companies would create "one of the most complete engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, maintenance, and associated services companies in the world". CB&I plans to operate Shaw as a business sector under the brand name CB&I Shaw.
has completed its acquisition of US-based engineering
company The Shaw Group, the companies said on Wednesday.
The deal was first announced in July 2012, and CB&I and Shaw
shareholders overwhelmingly approved the transaction in
December 2012.
We are extremely pleased that the transaction to
acquire Shaw is officially complete and we thank the
shareholders for their support, said Philip K. Asherman,
CEO of CB&I.
With the close of the transaction, CB&I is the most
complete energy infrastructure focused company in the world.
Through our now 50,000 talented employees, we have the
capabilities and the expertise to provide our clients with a
world of solutions, and a tremendous strategic advantage in
responding to the growing demand for energy infrastructure
around the globe.
Reports have valued the overall deal at approximately $3
CB&I had said that combining the two companies would
create one of the most complete engineering, procurement,
fabrication, construction, maintenance, and associated services
companies in the world.
CB&I plans to operate Shaw as a business sector under the
brand name CB&I Shaw, the company said, enabling the new
company to retain Shaws brand equity, particularly in the
power industry.
Headquarters functions at The Shaw Group's former
offices in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have shifted to The
Woodlands, Texas, where CB&I is based.
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Amid the staccato clatter of sewing machines, the wardrobe artists snipped, stitched, embellished and ironed garments fit for a king. And a soldier, and a gaggle of nobles, murderers and a gardener.
In the Colorado Shakespeare Festival costume shop housed in CU-Boulder's Theatre and Dance Department, are stacks of bins and drawers of fabric, thread, lace and the sorts of sartorial bits and bobs that go into making theatre costumes.
Days before the opening of Richard II, a group of students, alumni and professional tailors put finishing touches on costumes for The Colorado Shakespeare Festival productions.
Overseeing the creative process is Brenda King, costume shop manager, who has worked for the Shakespeare festival for five years.
"What we do is more couture than craft," said King. "We make each costume individually; the patterns are original and rarely reused."
While there is much laughter and good-natured joking among the 13 costume employees, it's evident they all take pride in the quality of their work.
When asked if they use fabric glue instead of sewing, comments peppered the room. "That's blasphemy." "Evil places do that and ruin costumes forevermore." "Our work is the real deal."
The process starts with a design. Muslin fabric is draped on a dressmaker's form, patterns are drawn and cut, and a mockup garment is sewn. Alterations, if needed, are made to the patterns, which are then cut out of fashion fabric and sewn. The garments need to be constructed to withstand the rigors of a performance.
"With theater costumes you have to go big," said Jon Kimbell, who earned his bachelor's degree in musical theatre in 2011 and who's back for his second season in the costume shop. "To play to the audience sitting in the last row of the theatre, everything we make has to be done with gusto."
Theatre costumes help support the story by establishing tone and style, time and place, and character information, such as social status, occupation and age. Costumes can distinguish between major and minor characters, suggest changes in character development and show relationships between characters. When the stage setting is minimal, as in Richard II and Macbeth, costumes become integral to telling the story.
All of the students working on the costumes are theatre majors and have been sewing for many years.
Alyssa Gallotte, a sophomore majoring in theatre, who learned to sew from her great-grandmother, was hand stitching metal embellishments onto a robe for one of the characters in Richard II.
"I love art and stories," Gallotte said, "so making costumes is a perfect fit for my passion. I got to build the costume for Titania, queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream. It had wings and was floaty and ethereal."
Costumers are asked to do many things to bring a garment to life, from making armor to constructing a donkey's head. One of the more unusual requests this season was devising a way for a character in Macbeth to give birth on stage. Under the dress was hidden a pregnant belly made of padding with a cavity containing a baby doll and a plastic storage bag of water.
Reba Todd, a junior majoring in theatre, sews costumes she wears when competing in figure skating competitions. She's also a dresser and helps get the actors into their costumes before a performance.
"I like working with costumes from different eras and sewing fabrics that I wouldn't get to use otherwise," said Todd, who was sewing Aumerle's leather outfit for Richard II. "I've never sewn leather before."
December Mathisen, a junior double majoring in theatre and studio arts, is the assistant designer this season and serves as the liaison between the costume designer and the costume department. She attends all the fittings and ensures the myriad details of a costume are not forgotten.
"I originally was an English and math major," Mathisen said. "Then I took a costume technologies class just for fun, fell in love with it and changed my major."
Named "one of the top Shakespeare Festivals in the U.S." by Time magazine, The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is in its 56th year. This summer's festival includes A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), and Richard II. To purchase tickets, visit www.coloradoshakes.org

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Child Safe in Birmingham City Centre
Birmingham is the first city to adopt the scheme across the entire city centre shopping area. The scheme is co-ordinated and funded by Birmingham City Centre Partnership, and is supported by Birmingham City Council, West Midlands Police, the Retail Crime Operation and the Safer City Centre Delivery Group.
What is a Child Safe Zone?
Child Safe Zones is a national scheme adopted by a number of major shopping centres throughout the UK.
The Child Safe Zone scheme is a safety initiative which:
- Enhances existing security policies
- Provides visitors with a standard, recognisable way to contact security teams and the Police
- Provides simple tools to re-unite lost children with their parents or guardians as soon as possible.
Birmingham City Centre Child Safe Zone
Parents and guardians will find it comforting to know that Birmingham City Centre is a Child Safe Zone and will be even more confident to visit here as a family, whether it be for shopping, to visit and attraction or see an event or show.
Retailers, Tourism Centres and Attractions across the City Centre have all joined forces to help promote the scheme, which has two key elements:-
Child Safe Helpline
By calling Birmingham Child Safe number 08702 116 999
Parents and guardians will be given 5 options. By selecting the option where they last saw their child, they will make contact with the security team closest to them:
- Bullring
- The Pallasades Shopping Centre
- Pavilions
- Markets
- For any other City Centre location eg New Street and Corporation Street
This number can be found on child friendly window stickers and posters throughout the City Centre
Child Safe Wristbands
Make sure your child carries your phone contact details at all times. Pick up a FREE Child Safe Zones wristband from one of the many outlets, write your telephone number in the back and the wristband can then be worn by your child whilst visiting the City Centre. FREE Child Safe Wristbands, leaflets and wallet cards are available from the following City Centre outlets:
- Bullring - Customer Service Desk, Middle West Mall
- Markets and Customer Services Desk
For further information on the Birmingham City Centre Child Safe Zone, please see below for a Child Safe leaflet.
You can also visit the Child Safe Zones website on www.childsafezones.co.uk
Contact / Feedback Form
If you have any comments on the City Centre Child Safe Zone or would like further information, please contact Birmingham City Centre Management on 0121 616 2381 or email email@example.com
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It has been five months since the last post here.
So, what happened? How did this once daily blog all of a sudden stop posting?
Honestly, and this is may be difficult to believe, but I just fell out of love with film.
I could feel it happening.
Last year, I would go out to movies every weekend as usual. But they were all forgotten by the time I got home.
I started going to the movies less.
I went from going to see two or three movies every weekend, to, this year, seeing three films the entire year.
The ironic thing is that I was losing interest just as this site was just starting to get more popular.
I used to have to fight to get DVD review copies and then, I was getting offers from most of the studios asking if I wanted them. I wound up having stacks of DVDs to review, and zero interest in watching them. It got to be like homework.
So, even DVDs, I have given up on.
I used to have a 5 at a time Netflix plan. Now, I've canceled my Netflix account, and not because of any price increases. If I watch DVDs, it is mainly TV on DVD sets.
Sarah Vowell has an essay in "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" about being a serious film fan, attending her local college screenings. As the years went by, she started to grow out of it. When I first read this piece, as much as I love Vowell, I couldn't understand how someone could outgrow film. Now, I understand it completely.
I haven't completely lost interest in the entertainment field. Instead, I've rediscovered live theatre. Beginning going to several local plays, I've moved on to on weekends, going to New York City and Broadway. I've seen more plays this summer than I have all my life. The immediacy of live theatre is far more rewarding than film. Not to mention that musicals have always been my favorite film genre, and they live on on Broadway.
But, I'm happy to say that I was there for what will probably be considered the prime of blogging, 2007-2009. These were the years that blogging was fun. Writers were reading others, linking back and forth.
Then, people began thinking "Hey, maybe I can make something from this". Corporate blogs expanded, blogs were created about how to make money while blogging, the fun started to leave. Many bloggers retired. And now, I guess I am joining the retirees.
Will this be the last post here? For the time being, most likely.
Thanks for reading.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
It has been five months since the last post here.
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$C_4 = \{e, a, a^2, a^3\}$
A normal subgroup of $C_4$ is $C_2 = \{e, a^2\}$
So I am wondering what the quotient group $G/N$ looks like in this case.
Ie. where $G = C_4$ and $N = C_2$.
The right (or left) cosets of $N$ are
$Ne = \{e, a^2\}$ and
$Na = \{a, a^3\}$
$G/N$ is the group formed by these cosets so I have it as = $\{ \{e, a^2\}, \{a, a^3\} \}$
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In Ubuntu 10.10, when I insert a CD or DVD into my optical drive, the system mounts the CD in a folder called /media/XYZ where XYZ is the disk's label. This has cause problems with Wine, as in order for an application to verify that an application's CD is present, Wine uses a symlinks to point to a mounted CD's folder. In this case, that folder must be /media/XYZ, but when using a different application, the folder would be different. I would like to know if there is a way to create a symlink that will always point to the mounted folder from a given /dev/cdrom* device, or how to force the system to always mount CDs to the same address (i.e. /media/cdrom).
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text: Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Counter Punch After injury, Foreman eases back into boxing with win by Zac Ellis Add Favorite Favorite Added Twitter Email Posted: Thu Jan. 24, 2013 Yuri Foreman returned with a victory after 22 months away from boxing. (Getty Images)NEW YORK -- A few hundred fans turned out for Yuri Foreman's comeback fight Wednesday at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in Times Square, a six-round, unanimous-decision win over someone named Brandon Baue that amounted to little more than a workout for a former champion easing back into boxing after 22 months away.The turnout was a far cry from the more than 20,000 that flocked to Yankee Stadium the last time Foreman fought in New York in June 2010. That night, Foreman -- then undefeated and the WBA junior welterweight champion -- lost his title to Miguel Cotto after suffering a knee injury that would require major reconstructive surgery.A native of Belarus who relocated to Park Slope several years ago, Foreman brought a lot to that promotion. He was an undefeated titleholder with a fascinating second life -- he's an Orthodox rabbi-in-training -- who was said to be the first Jewish world champion since the 1930s. Foreman's unique backstory helped make the Yankee Stadium fight HBO's highest-rated non-pay-per-view event of 2010.Yet a hasty return from ACL surgery contributed to a demoralizing sixth-round stoppage loss to Pawel Wolak in March 2011. (That a heavy-handed swarmer like Wolak was chosen for Foreman's first opponent after a major knee procedure speaks to matchmaking that can only be described as negligent.) Foreman then retired -- or at least thought awfully hard about it. Either way, he'd been out of the ring for nearly two years until Wednesday's fight.Foreman entered the ring in black trunks with gold lettering -- and, notably, no knee brace. By his side was Joe Grier, the longtime trainer with whom he'd split and since reunited. Elusive as always, he pawed his way through the first three rounds against a limited opponent, picking up the pace marginally in the later rounds, occasionally putting combinations of punches together. Baue landed shots but never came close to winning a round."More nervous than usual," Foreman said of his return. "I was just happy to shed some of the rust and get some rounds in."All three judges scored it 60-54, lifting Foreman's pro ledger to 29 wins in 31 fights. Afterward, Foreman discussed his recent signing with Lou DiBella, who promoted Wednesday's show. When current 154-pound titleholders Austin Trout and Canelo Alvarez were brought up, Foreman seemed enthused about the prospect of facing them within the next two years.Yet Wednesday's first step served only one practical purpose -- eradicating the specter of injury -- and to that end it was a success."The knee is out of my head," he said.--Bryan Armen Graham More Counter Punch


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What's on the Menu? Immigration Bills Pending in the House of Representatives in 2014
During the first session of the 113th Congress, more than half-a-dozen immigration bills were introduced in the House of Representatives, but no major immigration-related legislation had made it to the House floor by the end of 2013. The following discussion outlines some of the significant immigration bills introduced in 2013 and 2014 and provides analysis of their key points.
Overview of Significant Immigration Bills in the House of Representatives
Four bills voted out of the Judiciary Committee along party lines:
H.R. 2278: the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act (SAFE Act)
Introduced by Judiciary Chairman Goodlatte (R-VA), Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Gowdy (R-SC). Passed Committee with vote of 20 to 15 on June 18, 2013.
Interior enforcement bill that expands enforcement at state and local levels, criminalizes unlawful presence and imposes jail time, and significantly increases mandatory detention of immigrants. CBO estimate of implementation cost: $22.9 billion for 2014-2018 period.
H.R. 2131, the Supplying Knowledge-based Immigrants and Lifting Levels of STEM Visas Act (SKILLS Visa Act)
Introduced by Darrell Issa (R-CA). Passed Committee on June 27, 2013 by a vote of 20 to 14.
Higher-skilled immigration bill that increases immigrant and non-immigrant employment-based visas for skilled immigrants, entrepreneurs, and STEM graduates, while decreasing family-based immigration and eliminating the diversity visa program. CBO cost estimate: the bill would increase revenues by $118 billion over the 2014-2024 period.
H.R. 1773, the Agricultural Guestworker Act
Introduced by Judiciary Chairman Goodlatte (R-VA). Passed Committee with a vote of 20 to 16 on June 19, 2013.
Agricultural worker bill that simplifies and expands visa programs for agricultural employers while lowering worker wages and reducing worker protections.
H.R. 1772, the Legal Workforce Act
Introduced by Lamar Smith (R-TX). Voted out of Committee by a vote of 22 to 9 on June 26, 2013.
Establishes national electronic employment eligibility verification system that all employers would be required to use within two years.
One bill voted out of Homeland Security Committee unanimously:
H.R. 1417, the Border Security Results Act
Introduced by Representative McCaul (R-TX). Passed by the Committee by unanimous voice vote on May 15, 2013.
Requires control of the southwestern border within 5 years and emphasizes measurable metrics and independent verification of results.
Independently introduced bills involving immigration reform:
H.R. 15, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
Introduced on October 2, 2013 by Representative Garcia (D-FL). As of March 2014 H.R. 15 had 199 co-sponsors, including Republicans Jeff Denham (R-CA), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), and David Valadao (R-CA).
A modified version of S. 744, a major immigration bill passed by the Senate on June 27, 2013, H.R. 15 is a comprehensive bill addressing border security, a path to citizenship for the undocumented, interior enforcement, visa backlogs, higher and lower skilled work visas, visa backlog reduction, family visas, and the immigration courts, among other issues. See Guide to H.R. 15.
H.R. 3431, the American Families United Act
Introduced on October 30, 2013, by Reps. Pearce (R-NM) and O'Rourke (D-TX). Co-sponsors include Reps. Costa (D-CA) and McGovern (D-MA).
Amends the current immigration system to allow legalization of some of the undocumented and address the separation of immigrants from U.S. family members. No new paths to legal status are created.
H.R. 3163, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2013 (CIR ASAP)
Introduced by Reps. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Vela (D-TX) on September 20, 2013. 37 Democrats are co-sponsors.
A comprehensive bill addressing border security, enforcement, employment verification, visa backlog reduction, STEM visa increases, and citizenship for the undocumented, among other issues, with more generous benefits and fewer punitive proposals.
H.R. 435, the Military Enlistment Opportunity Act of 2013
Introduced by Rep. Coffman (R-CO) on January 29, 2013, with 16 co-sponsors.
Would allow certain undocumented immigrants to obtain legal status through military service, including beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
H.R. 714, the Startup Act 3.0
Introduced by Rep. Grimm (R-NY) on February 14, 2013. 14 Republican and Democratic co-sponsors as of April 2014.
Provides additional green cards for immigrants with advanced degrees in STEM fields and certain immigrant entrepreneurs. Per-country quotas for employment-based visas are eliminated.
H.R. 2377, the Encourage New Legalized Immigrants to Start Training Act (ENLIST Act)
Introduced by Rep. Denham (R-CA) on June 14, 2013. 48 Republican and Democratic co-sponsors as of April 2014.
Would allow certain undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as children to obtain legal status through military service.
H.R. 4178, the American Entrepreneurship and Investment Act of 2014
Introduced by Reps. Polis (D-CO), Salmon (R-AZ), Garcia (D-FL), and Amodei (R-NV) on March 6, 2014.
Makes the EB-5 immigrant investor program permanent, streamlines procedures, tightens requirements and oversight, and includes the Commerce Department in the regulation of the program.
H.R. 4303, the Border Enforcement Accountability, Oversight, and Community Engagement Act of 2014
Introduced by Rep. O'Rourke (D-TX), co-sponsored by Pearce (R-NM) and Filemon (D-TX) on March 26, 2014.
Establishes a border oversight commission and border ombudsman charged with overseeing border enforcement and protecting human rights.
Summaries of Significant Immigration Bills in the House of Representatives
H.R. 2278, the SAFE Act
The SAFE Act represents a wide-ranging effort to increase interior enforcement, expanding numerous punitive enforcement measures, shifting more immigration enforcement authority to states and localities, criminalizing unauthorized status, greatly increasing mandatory detention of immigrants, and generally relying on the enforcement philosophy known as "attrition through enforcement." The Congressional Budget Office estimates that its implementation would cost $22.9 billion over the 2014-2018 period. See fact sheet on the SAFE Act. Key provisions include:
- Expansion of local immigration bills like Arizona's SB 1070: The bill attempts to overturn the Supreme Court decision in Arizona v. U.S., preventing states from legislating in certain areas of federal immigration law, by authorizing both state and local governments to enforce federal law and to create their own immigration enforcement laws. States and localities that decline to enforce federal immigration law would lose federal funds.
- Criminal prosecution for unlawful presence: Makes unlawful presence in the United States a criminal act for the first time and imposes jail time for the offense. Historically unlawful presence alone has been a civil violation, not a crime. Criminal penalties include fines and/or up to 6 months in jail for the first offense and up to 2 years in jail for the second offense.
- Increased mandatory detention: Imposes mandatory detention of persons arrested for suspected immigration violations at the state and local level, and precludes the use of secure alternatives to detention such as ankle bracelets or release on bond, even for individuals not considered a danger or a flight risk. Immigrants charged, but not convicted, of a crime could also be detained.
- Expanded definition of "aggravated felony:" Expands the definition of the most serious offense in immigration law, the "aggravated felony." An "aggravated felony" is an arbitrary immigration concept which needn't be aggravated or a felony. An "aggravated felony" triggers the automatic deportation and permanent exclusion of any non-citizen. The category would be expanded to include acts related to assisting unauthorized immigrants, improper entry and reentry, and two DUIs, regardless of whether they are misdemeanors or when they occurred.
- Deportation of DREAMers and Decreased Prosecutorial Discretion: Eliminates the administration's discretion to temporarily stay deportation of young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and meet other age and educational requirements under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). The bill prohibits implementation of memorandums that prioritize the deportation of serious criminals over those with clean criminal records, close U.S.-citizen family members, or relatives in the military, among other factors.
H.R. 2131, the SKILLS Visa Act
The SKILLS Visa Act increases immigrant and non-immigrant employment-based visas for skilled immigrants, entrepreneurs, and STEM graduates, while decreasing family-based immigration and eliminating the diversity visa program. Employment-based visa backlogs that disproportionately affect certain nationalities, such as Indians and the Chinese, are eliminated. Some provisions are similar to the higher-skilled provisions of the Senate bill, although the higher-skilled visa increases are offset by deeper cuts to family immigration. The CBO estimates the bill would increase revenues by $118 billion over the 2014-2024 period, primarily due to increased tax income and expansion of the labor force. Key provisions include:
- Increase in employment-based immigrant visas: Raises the employment-based immigrant visa cap from 140,000 to 235,000 per year. Eliminates country-specific limits on employment-based visas, addressing severe backlogs for immigrants from certain countries. Specific allocations are made for graduates with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
- Higher-skilled temporary visas: The cap for non-immigrant H-1B skilled worker visas is increased from 65,000 to 155,000. The required wage that H-1B workers must be paid is raised in most circumstances by reducing the prevailing wage system from a 4-tier system to a 3-tier wage level system (similar to that adopted in the Senate bill). Spouses of H-1B workers would be allowed to work.
- Decreases in family visas and diversity visas: family-based immigrant visas are reduced from 480,000 to 440,000 per year. The immigrant category for siblings of citizens is eliminated. The diversity visa program, which allocates visas to countries with low rates of immigration, is eliminated.
- Entrepreneurs and investment visas: the EB-5 immigrant investor pilot program is reformed and made permanent and a new EB-8 immigrant visa for venture-capital backed entrepreneurs is created.
- Wages and working conditions: L visa intracompany transferees, TN visa holders, and students working on OPT would have to be paid at least the prevailing wage and could not adversely affect US working conditions.
- Fees and procedures: New fraud-prevention fees would be imposed on applications, and certain procedures would be streamlined for companies who file multiple employment-based petitions.
H.R. 1773, the Agricultural Guest Worker Act
This bill creates an H-2C agricultural worker visa program to replace the H-2A program. The H-2C program would simplify and expand the program for agricultural employers, while reducing worker wages and protections. The bill streamlines the agricultural worker program, which is expensive and cumbersome for employers, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. However, when compared to S.744's agricultural provisions, which were the product of agreement between agribusiness and the United Farmworkers, the bill lowers wages and weakens legal protections in ways that may harm working conditions for both guest workers and U.S. workers alike. The H-2C visa is temporary, would not lead to permanent residence, and would exclude workers' family members. The undocumented would be required leave after the visa's expiration and could not change to any other status. The bill provides no permanent solution for the experienced but undocumented workers upon which agricultural employers now depend. Key provisions include:
- Attestation of recruitment of US workers: Employers must attest that they have conducted adequate recruitment and have been unable to find qualified U.S. workers. The Department of Agriculture, as opposed to the Department of Labor, will be responsible for reviews, audits, and fines to ensure compliance.
- Wages and working conditions: H-2C workers must be paid the higher of the prevailing wage or the federal, state, or local minimum wages. These wages would generally be lower than current requirements under the H-2A program. Employers would be required to offer U.S. workers the same wages, benefits, and working conditions. Employers would no longer be required to provide guest workers with housing or transportation.
- Longer-term positions: The H-2C worker program could be used to fill longer-term positions, in addition to seasonal or short-term positions, and would be expanded to cover food processing such as dairy, meat, fish, and shellfish.
- Withholding wages and foreign stay requirements: 10% of worker wages would be withheld. These wages could only be recovered after the worker returns to their country of origin. H-2C workers would be required to remain outside the U.S. for a certain amount of time before returning.
- Reduction of guarantee of anticipated employment: H-2C workers would be guaranteed 50% of the employment they were initially offered in their contracts. Currently H-2A workers are guaranteed ¾ of the hours they were originally promised.
- Workers' rights: Workers would be subject to binding arbitration for work-related grievances and would be required to participate in mediation before any civil action could be brought against an employer.
- Visa cap: H-2C visas would be capped at 500,000 per year. The cap could be adjusted by the Department of Agriculture based on demand, unemployment rates, and other factors. The H-2A program is uncapped.
H.R. 1772, the Legal Workforce Act
The Legal Workforce Act establishes a national employment eligibility verification system that all employers would be required to use within two years of enactment to verify the employment eligibility of new hires and employees with expiring work authorization. This timeline is significantly shorter than S.744's 5-year employment verification implementation plan, which is combined with work visa reforms and legalization programs designed to provide access to the legal workforce employers need. H.R. 1772 provides enforcement without broader reforms. Provisions of the bill include:
- Employment eligibility verification system: creates an employment eligibility verification system similar to the E-Verify program established in 1997. Inquiries may be made by phone and the internet or other toll-free electronic media. Government response time should be within 3 working days.
- Two-year implementation requirement: phases in mandatory implementation by requiring employers with 10,000 or more employees to use the system within 6 months of enactment. Those with 500 to 9,999 employees are given a year, those with 20 to 499 employees have 18 months, and employers with as few as 1 employee have two years. Agricultural employers would be given two years to comply.
- Notification of multiple usage of social security numbers: the Social Security administration would be required to notify employees annually who submit social security numbers that are used by multiple persons.
- Fines and compliance: Fines for non-compliance would be raised to up to $25,000. Multiple violations could result in a fine of up to $15,000 per unauthorized worker and from one to ten years in prison. Exceptions could be made for good faith attempts to comply.
H.R. 1417, the Border Security Results Act
The Border Security Results Act requires control of the southwestern border within 5 years and emphasizes measurable metrics and verification. Passed out of the House Homeland Security Committee before the Senate adopted S.744, it was conceived as a stand-alone border security bill that emphasizes analysis of security goals and independent verifiability. The broader policy implications of H.R. 1417 remain to be seen if it is adopted as part of a broader plan to fix the legal immigration system or in conjunction with legalization. Provisions include:
- "Situational awareness" and "operational control" within 5 years: requires certification of "situational awareness" and "operational control" of high traffic areas within two years and certification of "operational control" of the entire southwestern border within five years.
- "Situational awareness" and "operational control" defined: "Situational awareness" is an understanding of illicit border crossing activity using existing and new surveillance technology. "Operational control" is achieved when there is not lower than a 90% "illegal border crossing effectiveness rate." The effectiveness rate is obtained by dividing the number of apprehensions of border crossers by the total estimated number of apprehended and un-apprehended border crossers.
- Measuring results and allocating funding: The bill requires the development of metrics to measure the achievement of goals, regular reports on progress, and independent reviews by the Government Accountability Office. Funds are not appropriated for implementation until the appropriate strategies and costs are determined.
H.R. 15, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
H.R. 15 is a comprehensive immigration reform bill based on S. 744, which was passed by the Senate in 2013. For the most part, the bill closely mirrors the Senate bill, but does not include the "border surge" provisions known as the Corker-Hoeven amendment or other amendments rolled into Corker-Hoeven as introduced on the Senate floor. Instead, the House bill includes the border provisions of H.R. 1417, the Border Security Results Act, as passed unanimously by the House Homeland Security Committee. H.R. 1417 was a stand-alone bill and its border security goals do not serve as "triggers" for H.R. 15's legalization programs. Instead, H.R. 15 presents S. 744's security triggers as alternative security goals that could be required before H.R. 15's legalization programs can take effect, at the discretion of DHS.
A comprehensive reform bill, H.R. 15 addresses border security, a path to citizenship for the undocumented, paths to citizenship for undocumented childhood arrivals and agricultural workers, interior enforcement of immigration laws, employment eligibility verification, visa backlogs, family visas, agricultural worker visas, higher and lower skilled work visas, visas for investors and entrepreneurs, green cards for STEM workers, and the dysfunctional immigration court system, among other important issues. A detailed summary of this bill may be found in the Guide to H.R. 15.
H.R. 3431, the American Families United Act
H.R. 3431 focuses on amendments to the current immigration system that address the separation of immigrants from their U.S. family members. The bill expands discretionary governmental authority to waive minor violations of the law, but in contrast to H.R. 15 does not create a discrete program for legalizing the undocumented. The bill focuses on a narrow group of individuals who might be eligible for legal status under current law but for certain legal obstacles. For example, the bill would allow young undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as children to obtain higher-skilled H-1B visas by waiving the "3 and 10 year bars". The currently-available waiver of the 3 and 10 year bars based on hardship to a family member is expanded to included parents of a citizen or permanent resident. Other bars are also limited in their scope. The authority of judges and immigration officials is expanded to waive other obstacles to legal status in the interest of family unity and the public welfare. There is no authority to waive serious crimes or threats to national security. See our "Understanding H.R. 3431: The Americans Families United Act" fact sheet.
H.R. 3163, Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity of 2013
Essentially the same as H.R. 4321, the "CIR ASAP" bill introduced in 2009, H.R. 3163 is a comprehensive proposal addressing border security, enforcement, employment authorization verification, visa backlog reduction, STEM visa increases, and legalization and citizenship for the undocumented, with an emphasis on more generous benefits and fewer punitive enforcement proposals. CIR ASAP provides a more accelerated path to citizenship than S.744, creating a 6 year temporary legal status that leads to citizenship in about 11 years. The bill addresses preventing abuses by Customs and Border Protection, improving immigrant detention conditions, restricting state involvement in immigration enforcement by repealing the 287(g) program, and eliminating waits for visas for spouses and children of permanent residents. Like S. 774 and the American Families United Act, the bill allows judges and immigration officials to consider the individual circumstances of immigrants who may be eligible for immigration benefits. A Commission on Immigration and Labor Markets is created to set immigration policy.
H.R. 435, the Military Enlistment Opportunity Act of 2013
H.R. 435 would allow certain undocumented immigrants to obtain legal status through military service, including beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Undocumented enlistees in the armed forces are provided lawful permanent status under the expired registry provision of the INA.
H.R. 714, the Startup Act 3.0
H.R. 714 would provide 50,000 additional green cards for immigrants with advanced degrees in STEM fields and 75,000 green cards for certain entrepreneurs. The residency status for these visas would be conditional and would become permanent after certain conditions are met. Per-country quotas for employment-based visas would be eliminated. Country caps for family-based immigrant visas are increased from 7% to 15% per country. The bill also addresses tax and regulatory issues.
H.R. 2377, the ENLIST Act
The ENLIST Act would authorize the enlistment in the Armed Forces of undocumented immigrants who were younger than 15 years of age when they entered the United States. It would allow them to obtain lawful permanent residence through military service.
H.R. 4178, the American Entrepreneurship and Investment Act of 2014
H.R. 4178 would make the EB-5 immigrant investor program permanent, streamline EB-5 procedures, include the Commerce Department in the regulation of the EB-5 program, exclude persons liable for fraud or securities violations from participation in regional centers, allow for concurrent filing of EB-5 petitions and adjustment of status applications, and allow national interest waivers for entrepreneurs.
H.R. 4303, the Border Enforcement Accountability, Oversight, and Community Engagement Act of 2014
The bill is intended to increase accountability and community engagement within U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Like the Senate bill, it establishes a border oversight commission charged with overseeing border enforcement, protecting human rights, and improving CBP officer training, among other duties. A border ombudsman office is created.
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A new book detailing 288 murder cases in Muhlenberg County over the past century has sold more than 1,100 copies and causing heated discussion among victims' family members.
"Murders of Muhlenberg County" was written by Mike Moore who says his research into his grandfather's 1947 slaying inspired the book.
"I always wanted to know what really happened, and the book tells what really happened," says Aaron Eaves, whose grandmother was found murdered in 1977. "There are a lot of family members out there that things happened to their family members in this county and they want to know why, just like I want to know why."
But not all victims' families have the same reaction. One family of a recently murdered victim asked to remain anonymous, but said they believe the new book reopens old wounds and is making profit from their relative's death.
"That was one of my biggest concerns is offending someone," Moore says. "So I tried to be as sensitive as possible; not only to the victims' families, but to the families of those who committed the crimes. Mainly this book, if it's about one person, it's about my grandfather. I just really didn't think about the money. It's good to make money off of something you spent 10 years of your life doing."
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A friend of mine is planning for a campaign in a colonial/pirate setting, and is planning on re-skinning crossbows as firearms, (i.e. light crossbow = musket, hand crossbow = flintlock), but I was wondering if there were already rules for such weaponry.
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The 3.5e Dungeon Master's Guide has some rules for firearms in the Building a Different World section (p144).
Page 145 provides details for Renaissance weapons: pistol, musket, bomb and smokebomb. It also provides some details and considerations for how gunpowder and firearms work. They're stronger or as strong as a heavy crossbow, but have some different drawbacks.
In addition, the following page details Modern and Futuristic weaponry (from revolvers to antimatter rifles). The game is much less prepared for how powerful these are, though! You may be able to use the futuristic weapons if you reskin them as powerful magic weapons.
Bear in mind this is all a starting point. The chapter containing these rules is provided as a sort of springboard rather than a complete ruleset.
Pathfinder has some gun rules available, as well as an entire gun-themed base class. Both are fairly weak (about the power level of a 3.5 soulknife) but if it's gotta be Guns or Bust, it might be worth looking into.
Pre-existing sources of d20-compatible blackpowder weaponry include (just what I can remember right now):
Frankly speaking, for a setting you describe the DMG rules are more than enough. You will have to work a bit if you want more detail, and you will definitely have to add cannons (reskinning existing siege weapons, probably), but open DMG and you're set.
Besides the DMG (see previous answers by others), issue #321 of Dragon Magazine dealt with guns. You should try and get a copy of it (see my link, but you might want to run a google search as well for other options / sellers.)


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October 25, 2012 I found myself traveling to Fort Lauderdale Florida on business. As the day progressed the weather became the leading news story of the day. Tropical storm Sandy was coming to shore, which meant that my plane had to land in great turbulence and that travel by automobile was treacherous at best. With winds gusting to seventy miles per hour I managed to take care of my personal business and begin the journey home.
What should have been a two day trip turned into a five day experience with several unexpected twists and turns. In the midst of the storm I found myself having to reroute my journey and call out to the Lord for protection and direction.
Like many of you, I have spent hours glued to the television screen observing the devastating destruction and wondering how much longer will this last, how much worse will it become, will the storm effect me and from whom will help come?
There is a more fundamental question that is surfacing; not on the newscasts, but in the hearts of victims and viewers. "Where is God in this storm?"
The disciples of Jesus asked an identical question. "Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side.He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now, when evening came, He was alone there. But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary." (Mt. 14:22-24)
What we saw off America's eastern coast, was a storm like no other, but we can relate the people in the storm to that which the disciples saw on the Galilean Sea.
They were challenged by enormously tall, angry waves. Their fishing boat bounced and spun on the white-tops. The sky rumbled above them, the water churned beneath them. And I wonder if they asked, "Where is Jesus? He told us to get into the boat. Now we are alone in the storm. I wonder if they asked but where is Jesus? The answer is praying. "He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray." Jesus made intercession His priority. Did He know about the storm? Could He feel the winds? And see the thunder? No doubt. When He sensed the danger, He chose to pray.
He still does. He offers unending intercession on our behalf. He is "in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us." (Rom. 8:34) He prays us through the storm. And, at the right moment, He meets us in the storm. "Jesus went to them, walking on the sea." (Mt. 14:25) He entered the turbulent world of His disciples and reached out to them.
He is doing the same at this very moment. He wants us to get to the other side. He comes to us walking on the water. You ask how? He supernaturally arrives right on time. It may be through the steady hands of a first responder; the compassion of physicians; perhaps the kindness of neighbors, or the generosity of people. He comes to us right where we are in the midst of a storm. We see only a small portion of His activity. But we know this: He still steps into the super-storms of life.
Yes the storm led in a different direction than I had planned, but He guided my steps and brought me safely home. I experienced others struggling to get through their own storm. Whether it is an unexpected death of a loved one; the doctor's diagnoses bringing devastating news; a marriage is being shattered. You find your back against the wall and there is nowhere to turn. Whatever your storm, He will come to you in the midst of it and speak, "Peace be still!" He works all things for good to those who love Him and are called by His name. He is an ever present help in the time of trouble and He will never leave us nor forsake us.
This is a turbulent time for our country. We have a struggling economy; International conflicts surround us; an unprecedented storm was followed by an insane school shooting. Jesus met the disciples in the midst of their storm. Let's ask Him to walk into the middle of ours. AMEN
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"Strengthening Voices for Democracy"
Following the global theme "Strengthening Voices for Democracy", in partnership with the Institute of GNH Studies (IGNHaS) and UNDP Bhutan, the International Day of Democracy was observed at the Paro College of Education. The event was designed to understand the importance of bringing youth issues and concerns to the forefront of policy debate.
The local theme "Empowering Youth voices and participation" was adopted and brought together Bhutanese youth and decision makers to share views on youth and democracy. Youth spokespersons called on national leaders to hear the voices of youth and design a future inclusive of youth concerns.
In her statement, UNDP Resident Representative Christina Carlson, stressed the relevance of youth participation for a young democracy like Bhutan where youth constitute about 40% of the population. She also advised Bhutan on "nurturing its youth and children today with proper care, education and guidance to become responsible citizens".
The event saw energetic youth participation and passionate voices resonate the message that young people cannot be ignored. Gyem Tshering, a youth representative from the Police Youth Partnership Programme (PYPP) disclosed how the under 18 youth contributed in the 2013 election process.
"We have always understood democracy as a "gift" from our kings, but being part of the PYPP I realized that it's not just a gift, it is a true responsibility" says Gyem. He shared how the PYPP helped polling stations by ensuring security, upholding election laws, and acquiring firsthand behind the scenes experience, he further added "democracy is not just about voting it's about giving others the opportunity to make their decisions and elect a government of their choice".
The Chief Election Commissioner Dasho Kunzang Wangdi said the young people's voices are at the core of democracy and encouraged youth to be responsible so a better future of democracy can be ensured.
Yeshey Zangmo, a trainee teacher articulated that "As a future teacher, I look forward to educating the young children on the importance of democracy." Recognizing Bhutan's peaceful advancement to democracy with "the kings leading the way" she stated how fragile youth perceptions are. She added that democracy is still a new concept for youth and rural communities, and it is important "to build Bhutan as model to the rest of the world" that "we must not just support the government, but also provide critical analysis to become a dynamic and vibrant democracy".
Dr. Karma Phuntsho, the founder of Loden Foundation said "Buddha's teachings on freedom and equality are basic traits of a true democracy". He encouraged the youth to have a sense of purpose and to give back to the community.
Since embracing democracy in 2008, Bhutan has with UNDP support continued to advance on democratic advocacy and awareness for people's participation. The event was attended by the Chief Election Commissioner, Members of Parliament, local NGOs and youth representatives.
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I understand that magic find increases the chance of an item being "upgraded" from a white to blue, blue to yellow, yellow to orange/green, but is there anything, like high monster power, that affects the "quality" of an item, like a weapon's damage?
Enabling Monster Power in Inferno causes all monsters to be level 63. Since item affixes are generated based on monster level, this means that any item can now generate the best possible affixes. You also have the best chance of iLvl 63 items spawning, which have the best base stats. Without Monster Power, you wouldn't get that until Act 3.
Otherwise, no. Monster Power has no impact on item rarity beyond the magic find impact.
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From the d3 official blog: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/7540457/
No. The only improvements from playing at a higher monster power is increased chance for magic/gold find, and a increased chance of a regular white monster dropping an additional item when killed.
Magic Find also does not improve the 'quality' of a weapon modifier (i.e. adds 1000 damage instead of adds 100 damage), but it does have an affect of the number of affixes on an item may have. The higher the MF%, the more likely it is for an item to have more affixes (i.e. 6 instead of 4).
I agree with everything you have answered but i have to seperate the affixes that must be rolled for a drop with the Values the games rolls for those affixes .. There is this rumor that bigger the MP is better the rolls for values of those affixes are.. you can't confirm it easy because you need a very big testing pool ... My personal feeling is that harder the mp is better the stat values of the affixes are.. But even if the rolls of values are slightly better on bigger MP the time it gets for you to get items in bigger MP doesnt poise the quantity you get in less MP. so i believe farming must be done in the MP you do faster..


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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (February 12, 2013)--Another round of rain and thunderstorms was expected to complicate efforts to clean up parts of southern Mississippi Tuesday after a tornado roared through the area two days ago.
The nasty weather is expected to continue through the day Tuesday.
On Monday, residents tried to cut trees and branches with chain saws and hang tarps across holes where shingles were ripped from structures, but rain and flooding complicated efforts, and some simply carried armfuls of belongings, trying to find dry ground.
Officials say the human toll could have been much worse, but the nature of the storm allowed forecasters to give people ample warning.
Furthermore, the University of Southern Mississippi was emptier than usual because of Mardi Gras, and most businesses were either closed or quieter than normal because it was Sunday.


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Dear Boy Scouts of America National Executive Board of Directors: We are writing today as former Boy Scouts having achieved the rank of Life Scout. At the time of our involvement, local troops were all organizationally unstable, thus forcing both my brother (also a member in Order of the Arrow) and me to leave one dissolving troop to join another on three separate occasions, which ultimately created a timing issue and prevented both of us from reaching and achieving the rank of Eagle Scout. Even so, our participation in the BSA program was truly one of the most influential character-building and life-forming experiences we could have ever known. The BSA offers American boys and men a reputable – and currently morally correct — standard to follow, and with which to measure other civic organizations. We are both proud to be former Scouts.
We have two nephews, the sons of our sister, who lived and breathed scouting as they progressed through the ranks. These young men were also award-winning Order of the Arrow Scouts. Each achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. The eldest was also visually impaired and became the very first visually impaired Scout in the State of Florida to earn the Eagle designation. Are we proud? Absolutely! My brother is the Scout Master of a local troop for his three sons, with the eldest recently being awarded the Eagle Scout Award. We believe in the Boy Scouts of America and are continuing to support this worthwhile organization — as the organization currently stands.
As we were growing up, my brother and I needed a morally solid character standard to which we could aspire. The BSA was that organization which properly taught and strengthened us in our morals and personal integrity. The BSA was that organization which helped shape our worldview and sense of contributing to society. The BSA was that organization which inspired us to participate in life with determination, dedication, and direction. The BSA was that organization which offered a rewarding and enriching life growth experience. My brother and I see all these attributes as wonderfully beneficial and correctly focused while reinforcing a respectable, valuable, and desirous legacy for future Scouts.
Now with this sincere exaltation and encouragement having been expressed, please know we are extremely concerned about the BSA forsaking its founding principles, practices, and policies from traditional family values and Judeo-Christian values to embrace 'Big Gay's' (and any future conflicting proposals of the founding principles) agenda of politically correct, hyper-liberal, immoral homosexuality under the guise of sexual nondiscrimination and diversity. Incorporating this deception into the entity of the BSA would profoundly disgrace this organization by destroying its honorable historical reputation and legacy, and its future effectiveness in American society.
We encourage the BSA membership and community to support their century-old founding principles promoting a program of character development and leadership training. Specifically addressing sexual issues, the BSA has clearly defined their policy, "Scouting, and the majority of parents it serves, does not believe it is the right forum for children to become aware of the issue of sexual orientation, or engage in discussions about being gay. Rather, such complex matters should be discussed with parents, caregivers, or spiritual advisers, at the appropriate time and in the right setting."
We hasten to address the leadership quality and orientation within the Boy Scouts of America. It is obvious that at least two BSA board members, James S. Turley and Randall S. Stephenson, do not share the historical truths and values of the Boy Scouts of America. They desire to morph the organization to accommodate liberal, immoral views and lies. These two board members, as well as any additional board members, employees, or volunteers who do not support the BSA founding principles, should be immediately removed from both their positions of responsibility, and completely without the organization itself. The BSA recently released a statement, "the chartered organizations that oversee and deliver Scouting would accept membership and select leaders consistent with their organization's mission, principles or religious beliefs. BSA members and parents would be able to choose a local unit which best meets the needs of their families." This proposed position should be withdrawn. This is a clear compromise of principles and/or surrender to outside pressure. The only leadership for the BSA should be those individuals who will wholly support the BSA's historical foundations, ethics, and principles.
There is absolute Truth in this world and for our American society. That Truth is the Word of God. It is the standard by which all philosophies and other teachings, practices, lifestyle behaviors, and beliefs are compared, contrasted, and measured. The Word of God is the foundation for the principles in the BSA. The current BSA declarations honor God and His Word. In 2000, the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision against homosexuality being mandated into the BSA. This battle has already been won with that judicial ruling. The BSA's own appointed special committee for the last two years has labored over reviewing this very issue, and unanimously voted to keep the ban in force. You have every reason to courageously stand against your detractors, and resist the bullying and unwarranted pressure to change. Therefore, the current BSA beliefs and core principles should not be compromised and/or abandoned due to pressure from any outside group, organization, or other belief system. Please stand resolute. Do not waiver; do not succumb to politically-correct jargon or influence. Renounce that which conflicts with your founding principles. Do your best to do your duty to God and your country.
Rev. M. James "Jim" Reddick, Jr.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- The Kansas Department of Agriculture is relocating to Manhattan and setting up shop on Kansas State University's campus.
Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Dale Rodman made the announcement Thursday. The city of Manhattan and Kansas State University also put out information on the agency's move which will occur no later than June 30, 2014.
"It's the best thing that's happened to Manhattan in many years," said Manhattan Mayor Loren Pepperd.
Pepperd says Governor Sam Brownback and the Kansas Senate recently approved the move, making the Little Apple a hub of agricultural services and research.
"We felt that the Kansas Department of Agriculture should be centered next to our land grant school and next to our Agriculture Department at K-State. As you know, K-State has one of the largest agricultural departments in the nation for grain science and for livestock swine and beef industry," he added.
A new three story, 50,000 square foot facility will be built at K-State's Research Park off of North Manhattan Avenue directly east of where the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility (NBAF) labs will be constructed. Work on NBAF's central utility plant is expected to start in the next few weeks.
Development of the new Department of Agriculture building will be undertaken by the Kansas State University Foundation and it will be leased to the department for a 20-year period.
The location is also adjacent to the Kansas State University Institute of Commercialization and close proximity is also provided to the College of Agriculture, Kansas State Research and Extension, the College of Veterinary Medicine, the university's international grain science complex and U.S. Department of Agriculture facilities.
Officials say having all of the entities working so closely together is ideal and more cost efficient.
Jeff Morris, Director of K-State Communications and Marketing told WIBW: "What is means for us is we achieve critical mass. It's going to be a big boost to our research park. Most importantly for the state of Kansas, it means that we'll have people that work together that are in the same industry. Agriculture is our largest industry and we think a lot of synergy is going to come out of this move. It's really part of our northeast corridor where we're bringing a lot of research assets to base so it makes a lot of sense for the Department of Agriculture to be there from our standpoint."
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I have a question about giving a shell account to somebody. How safe is it? He could read /etc. How can I give a secured shell account that will only restrict the user to some bins and his own home? Is the only way a chroot jail?
One of the most easy/efficient way to control what a user can do is lshell.
Keep in mind that parts of
A jail is the easiest way to set up draconian restrictions. There are other ways, such as setting up SElinux and arrange for the user to have a very limited security context.
If you give somebody a shell account, they can see all world-readable files. This includes many files in
If you allow the user only to log in inside a chroot, they can't see the files outside the chroot. That means you must put enough programs, libraries, etc, inside the chroot — everything the user must have access to and every dependency of these as well.
Note that a chroot only protects direct file access. The user can snoop on various things, including the names and arguments of running processes of all users (unless you set up additional protections such as SELinux). If the user isn't going to need to do much, you can set up tighter restrictions (including preventing the user from creating their own executables) with a restricted shell, but setting up a restricted shell right is very tricky, so I don't recommend it.
Nowadays, virtual machines are very cheap. You have many free implementations to choose from (User Mode Linux, VirtualBox, VMware, KVM, OpenVZ, VServer, …), and the disk space used by an extra system installation is minimal (and you might need it for chroot anyway). A virtual machine isolates pretty much everything: files, processes, networking, … Unless you have very unusual constraints, this is the way to go.
One option is to put them in a restricted shell session, such as rbash [bash -r].
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DXMichael: 8.6/10 nice concept but unfortunately the loop ain't continuous and some of the gif limitations regarding colors are showing especially near the neck area.
Koominator: 8.9/10 again nice concept like the idea with the hearts, i can see why you went for a gif, but unfortunately the quality limitations are showing a bit, personally i think it would look better with a border around the main rectangular, a border which would also cover the bottom part of the two sisters render.
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DXMichael - 9/10 Really cool animated sig graphic. However, it could use a little bit of polishing up, as delorean2200 referred to. Even as is, though, it's great!
ganbaru - 9/10 Seductive, yet classy. Stylish, yet has substance. Very nice overall.
Detective-san - 8.5/10 Cute and fun!
Koominator - 8.5/10 Good, solid sig graphic with creative touches.
delorean2200 - 9.5/10 Fantastic! Lovely tribute to one of the finest anime couples ever. I still love the trolls.
Matty543 - 9/10 Nice energy in this one. Brightly bouncy bold colors. Very well done.
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Koominator 8,6/10 you should really upload your signature in JPEG, at theast when you use them. There's much difference betweem the PNG version than yoy posted on your thread and this one.
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Triple_R: 9/10 because I laughed pretty hard first time I saw it .
Koominator: 6/10 agreed with Ganbaru, file type change definitely caused the quality of the image to drop. It looks really blurry in a few spots because of it.
ganbaru: 6.5/10 the quality is fine, but I don't really like the image itself or the fact that it is borderline NSFW.
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Konakaga 9.1/10 I can't remember if I rated this one before
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I just click this thread and then I see Triple R's sig and goes .... It's 8.8/10 from me.
Oh, I have to give other sigs some score too, right? Well then, here comes:
DXMichael: ? I can't see anything. Is it my PC's fault?
Ganbaru: 9/10 That looks delicious.
Det-san: 8.5/10 It reminds me of a shampoo commercial.
Koominator: 8.5/10 Charlotte ftw.
Delorean2200: 9/10 Wow.
Om Nerabdator: 9/10 Very cute.
Haladfire65: 9.9/10 Solid.
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Now I can see it! Excellent animation! 10/10
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New York City recorded the lowest number of fire-related deaths in its history in 2012, which also marked the seventh consecutive year in which fewer than 100 people died in a fire.
The city had 58 fatalities last year, four fewer than the previous record low of 62 in 2010. The figures mirror a national trend of improving fire safety that officials and experts attribute to several factors, primarily fire-prevention education and smoke detectors.
Of the fire-related deaths in New York City in 2012, nearly 80% occurred in places that had no working smoke detectors.
The record low in fire fatalities came even as the number of structure fires in the city rose 1% and firefighter response time increased, from 4 minutes, 2 seconds in 2011 to 4 minutes, 4 seconds in 2012. All the data were detailed in a news conference Wednesday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Fire Department Commissioner Salvatore Cassano.
"The FDNY has consistently improved fire safety over the past decade and has continued to drive response times to historic lows," Mr. Bloomberg said in a news release. Officials tied the uptick in response time partly to a crush of emergency calls during superstorm Sandy, when firefighters responded to nearly 100 structure fires.
From 2002 to 2012, the city had an average of 85 fire-related deaths per year, compared with the previous decade's annual average of 140 people. In the 1980s, an average of 236 people died in fires annually.
Smoke detectors, which became required by law in every home in New York City in 1981, are considered by fire officials and safety experts the most effective way to prevent injury and death from fires.
From 2000 to 2009, fire-related deaths declined 19.6% nationwide, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Glenn Corbett, a professor of fire sciences at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said it was difficult to "pin down any specific thing that led to this city and nationwide reduction" but pointed toward public education and smoke alarms as "the most recognizable factors."
Beginning in the 1980s, when most states began making smoke detectors in homes mandatory, fire deaths began to fall, Mr. Corbett said.
"Smoke detectors put a major dent in fire deaths," said Mr. Corbett, a former assistant chief with the Waldwick, N.J., fire department. "They compensate for people not behaving correctly."
Mr. Cassano said "a simple smoke detector may be the difference between you or a loved one surviving a fire or not."
Mr. Cassano credited the department's outreach efforts, coupled with better medical training for firefighters and emergency medical technicians, with saving lives that might otherwise be at risk after a fire.
He also estimated the department reached 600,000 people annually in public-education campaigns. "The best way to put out a fire is to prevent it," he said. "We're getting that message out and it's certainly working."In 2012, the city distributed 22,200 free smoke detectors and nearly 89,000 batteries for use in those alarms.
New inspection forms put into use in 2009 also have helped, Mr. Cassano said.
The forms, used by FDNY members conducting building inspections, are specific to the type of location (hotels, day-care center, construction sites, etc.) and use checklists designed to produce a more detailed review of the site.
Inspectors now formally check whether exits are blocked or rubbish is piled up, among other things. "The quality of inspections is far better," he said. "It's a bigger check list with more information on it."
Additionally, 2012 also saw a record-low response time by ambulances to emergencies that are considered life-threatening. On average, New Yorkers in dire situations waited 6 minutes, 30 seconds for an FDNY ambulance to arrive, compared with the previous record of 6 minutes, 31 seconds in 2011.
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Mr. Corbett said the city's record low number of fire deaths is a "great statistic," but cautioned it also "very vulnerable and can skew pretty dramatically with just one fire."
New York didn't have a mass-fatality fire last year as it did in 2007, when nine children and one adult were killed when a blaze tore through their Bronx building.
The fire was sparked by an overheated electrical cord, and the smoke detectors in building didn't have batteries.
"There a ton of those kinds of buildings out there," Mr. Corbett said. "It's a difficult issue to deal with."
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Lift Truck Tips: Fuel cells check milestone off the list
Fuel cell battery replacement units for electric lift trucks posted a banner year in 2011, when both lift truck suppliers and fuel cell providers saw growth in interest and sales of fuel cell offerings. Plug Power alone took orders for five times as many units as in 2010, according to Reid Hislop, vice president of marketing and investor relations at Plug Power. However, although the latest incarnations of the technology have reached the tipping point for commercial viability, says Hislop, the fuel cell industry must now adjust its focus.
Hydrogen infrastructure in a facility—whether it includes on-site hydrogen production or not—remains very costly. This and other forces conspire to make the ideal fuel cell customer a somewhat large one. While larger companies have deeper pockets, they might also bring more scrutiny and skepticism to emerging technologies. Hislop says that more than 7 million hours of runtime data and more than 2,500 units in the field have borne out the promise of fuel cells.
"The commercial viability is there, as proven by the number of customers with 100 or more lift trucks running on hydrogen fuel cells," says Hislop. "This stuff is real, it works, and if it didn't there would be a world of hurt."
But although the average threshold for viability is a multi-shift fleet of about 30 trucks or more, incremental progress is being made to expand the availability of the fuel cell alternative. The value proposition of fuel cells assumes the elimination of lead-acid battery swaps. Removing that process from the daily workflow creates huge productivity improvements, says Hislop. Energy costs end up being about equal between electric and fuel cells, but big savings are found in productivity and reduced real estate costs.
Customers who build a new facility with hydrogen infrastructure can see immediate savings from the first day the facility opens its doors, says Hislop, who estimates the removal of the battery room can reduce new building square footage by between 6% and 8%. Retrofits can take as much as 18 months to produce the same returns, but remain very attractive to some companies.
"If the removal of the battery room can enable a company to make better use of available space and postpone investing as much as $100 million into a new building, then there are even further savings," says Hislop.
Hislop says that although the outlook is good for fuel cell technology, it is still subject to lingering criticism from the early 2000s, when fuel cells for materials handling applications enjoyed a meteoric rise and subsequent contraction.
"It's still an emerging technology," says Hislop. "But we should expect more growth as the technology and access to hydrogen improve."
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I have a textbook which describes various considerations colonists made in selecting sights for settlements. For example, it says that Jamestown was too swampy, so there were many mosquitoes and diseases and the water was not suitable for drinking. Among the various considerations, it says that settlers avoided placing their colonies near the coastline, because this would increase the danger of being attacked from the sea. Prior to 1730, were there any actual situations in which a colony, being near the ocean, was attacked from the sea? Did coastal locations benefit from being easier to defend against attacks carried over land?
Here's one example: The dutch colony of New Amsterdam (on Manhattan Island, it's New York now) was captured by four English frigates sailing into its harbour.
The British are on the other side of this one, but the point stands. Here's one out of the time scale but the Battle of Nassau deserves a mention as the US marines' first amphibious landing.


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I have been using my iPad with Numbers and would like to be able to just open them up on my Mac with Lion. I can not figure out how to connect/sync to iCloud documents. I have checked iCloud documents for syncing, but my documents don't appear on my Mac. I have even set up my mobile documents folder on the desktop. I can drag files to the iCloud that way, but then I can not open them from that folder. Frustrating.
Unfortunately, Macintosh does not (yet) support complete iCloud synchronization for documents. We can only hope that Apple will implement this at some point soon.
In the mean time, go to http://www.icloud.com/ and sign in. You can drag documents to and from the appropriate section on your computer, and it'll work with your iPad. There's still another bug, which involves Mac > Mac syncing, but as long as you just do iPad > Mac or Mac > iPad, it'll work fine. :)
Also, there is a folder located at
The following works on Lion 10.7.4:
Warning! If you don't know what you are doing, then you probably shouldn't be doing this. You take all responsibility for nuking your own iCloud data.
Execute next steps from Terminal (
At this point, ubd needs to be restarted..
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Old Order Is Restored In Women's Tennis
Women's tennis has a new No. 1, and she's old. Serena Williams, 31, is guaranteed to take over the No. 1 ranking on Monday after her quarterfinal victory over Petra Kvitova in Doha Friday. She will be the WTA's oldest ever No. 1. "I never thought I would be here again," a teary-eyed Williams told the crowd. Williams missed nearly a year of tennis after winning Wimbledon in 2010 because of a foot injury, blood clots in her lungs and a hematoma. She won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 2012.
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Rees Shouldn't Pose Big Problem for Broner
WBC lightweight champion Adrien "The Problem" Broner (25-0, 21 knockouts) defends his crown against Gavin Rees (37-1-1, 18 knockouts) Saturday (HBO, 10:30 p.m. ET). Broner has exquisite balance, packs an explosive straight right and right uppercut and is on the shortlist to becoming boxing's next superstar. His opponent Rees, who briefly held the light welterweight title in 2007 has a sturdy chin, but isn't difficult to find with a glove. In all likelihood, Rees shouldn't pose much of a problem for "The Problem."
Hardaway, Payton Are Hall Finalists
Tim Hardaway, Gary Payton and Mitch Richmond headed the list of first-time finalists for election into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, announced Friday at NBA All-Star weekend in Houston. Other finalists include Bernard King, Maurice Cheeks, and coaches Rick Pitino and Jerry Tarkanian. Tom Heinsohn, who already has been inducted into the Hall as a player, is up for first-time election as a two-time-champion coach of the Boston Celtics. The Class of 2013 will be announced at the NCAA Final Four in April.
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Mariinsky in DCJanuary '09 at the Kennedy Center
Posted 15 September 2008 - 12:33 PM
And... I guess anyone up for a meet-up? I think I most likely would be at one of the Sat or Sun performances, although this is at the most preliminary stages of planning....
Posted 07 November 2008 - 07:34 AM
Tue., Jan. 13 & Sat., Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Kitri: Diana Vishneva
Bazil: Evgeny Ivanchenko
Wed., Jan. 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Kitri: Olesya Novikova
Bazil: Leonid Sarafanov
Thu., Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Kitri: Viktoria Tereshkina
Bazil: Andrian Fadeyev
Fri., Jan. 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Kitri: Alina Somova
Bazil: Anton Korsakov
Sat., Jan. 17 at 1:30 p.m.
Kitri: Evgenya Obraztsova
Bazil: Vladimir Shklyarov
Sun., Jan. 18 at 1:30 p.m.
Kitri: Viktoria Tereshkina
Bazil: Leonid Sarafanov
This was posted earlier on another thread about the Mariinsky's production of Don Q (general topic) but not on this official thread for the Kennedy Center run.
It now appears that Vishneva's website has been updated to show that she is indeed scheduled for the two DC appearances.
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Posted 10 November 2008 - 04:54 AM
Kitri should be perky, short n' sassy, IMO. Obraztsova is PERFECTA....as was Vishneva 14 yrs ago, at the start of her career. After Obraztsova, Novikova is my #2 among the current Kirov Kitris (although not dancing on the weekend). Vishneva now performs the role on 'autopilot' but can still be quite effective. Tereshkina is the technical power-lady but she just doesn't do it for me, for some odd reason -- to be admired and cheered, like Lubov Kunakova in an earlier era, but not-quite-the-star like Vishneva and Obraztsova. A huge plus for the Tereshkina Sunday matinee performance should be her Basil -- Sarafanov, who dances with his perfect partner, Novikova, earlier on in the week. As for Somova -- long and gangly is definitely NOT Kitri...but I'll see her as I plan to be at each and every performance. Also, Somova's Basil, Korsakov, can be a delight when he is "on".
Posted 13 November 2008 - 08:50 AM
+100 to Natalia's opinion (though i prefered Tereshkina DQ at City Center to Vishneva's. big time)
........but I'll see her as I plan to be at each and every performance. Also, Somova's Basil, Korsakov, can be a delight when he is "on".
I am looking forward to Obraztsova+Shklyarov.
Natalia, I "envy" you, going to every performance ;-)) (though i will do my 5, definitely skipping Somova ;-)) hope they'd keep the announced cast)..... will the forum readers do as they did at City Center? meeting to "put the faces to the forum names"? Susan are you heading down to DC?
Posted 13 November 2008 - 08:58 AM
Posted 13 November 2008 - 09:41 AM
I have posted, on another thread about recent promotions, that Somova has just been made Principal Ballerina. So there will be three Principal Ballerina Kitris on this tour: Vishneva, Tereshkina and Somova. Novikova and Obraztsova remain First Soloists.
Somova in the same league as Lopatkina, Vishneva, Pavlenko et al? What a joke! Natalia , thanks for the news, no matter how bizarre... at least I can hold out hope to see Ayupova live someday before she really retires
Susan are you heading down to DC?
I already have my tickets for Sat mat & eve & Sun eve and I'm PRAYING that the announced casting holds. Some advice for anyone who's planning a trip to DC for this engagement if you can find a reasonably priced hotel book it now with the inauguration on 1/20 hotel rates are ridiculous
Posted 13 November 2008 - 11:43 AM
My friend Sheila is seeking a ride back to Manhattan after the Saturday evening performance. Willing, of course, to pick up a share of expenses.
I can vouch for her honesty and for the pleasure of her companionship.
Please contact her directly: [address removed, as no longer necessary].
Edited by carbro, 30 November 2008 - 06:34 PM.
Posted 14 November 2008 - 09:13 AM
Ok, i'd suggest it only because (me-crazy) i did that and will do it again. I'd take a chinese bus back to Manhattan. $20 - one way, $35 round trip. I did it several times going to openning nights, then hopping on a bus, there are 3 or 4 companies with departures from 11:30 to 11:45pm and going to work next morning ;-)) Chinatown DC is not scary, and I always like a nice brisk walk throug the GW university campus, then by the White House and to the Chinatown (30-40 min).
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My friend Sheila is seeking a ride back to Manhattan after the Saturday evening performance. Willing, of course, to pick up a share of expenses.
I can vouch for her honesty and for the pleasure of her companionship.
Please contact her directly: [address removed, as no longer necessary] .
Posted 14 November 2008 - 10:32 AM
As for walking from KC to Chinatown, I'd likely opt for the Metro, which shuts down for the night well after the performance is over.
Posted 14 November 2008 - 11:12 AM
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Wow, thanks, YID! I looked for Chinatown-type buses when I was down there recently, but there were so many bus lines, I never did find one with a suitable departure time. Do you remember any company by name? Greatly appreciated!
As for walking from KC to Chinatown, I'd likely opt for the Metro, which shuts down for the night well after the performance is over.
Todays leaves at 11:18pm
www. 2000coach. com/schedules.html - leaves at 11:30pm.... and I am the walker ;-)) (unless the weather forbids ;-))
Posted 14 November 2008 - 12:35 PM
Just wanted to add that you may also want to try the Megabus service. It was a low-cost Scottish carrier, but I guess they have a branch in the US. The company operates all over the Midwest and Northeast (I go to Chicago from Urbana on the service sometimes).
They have a service running from 11th St NW and G St NW to Penn Station everyday, with the last one leaving at 11:15 pm (it gets in at 3:45 AM).
You can order these tickets online, and if you order them ahead of time (you can do so for three months ahead), often you can find tickets for under ten dollars. Looking at it right now, a 11:15 PM bus for DC-NY on 11 January (the last date available) is 5 dollars.
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