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Priest Who Denied Communion to Lesbian Woman Is Removed from Parish Ministry
Rev. Marcel Guarnizo, the priest who denied communion to Barbara Johnson, a Catholic lesbian woman, at her mother's funeral, has been temporarily removed from pastoral duties and has had his priestly faculties suspended, because of "credible allegations" that he has intimidated pastoral staff and others, according to a letter from Washington, DC, Auxiliary Bishop Barry Knestout.
The letter, dated March 9, 2012, is addressed to priests in the Archdiocese of Washington. No mention of Ms. Johnson's case is made in the letter. According to The Washington Post's blog posting on this development, Fr. Thomas LaHood, pastor of St. John Neumann parish, Gaithersburg, where Fr. Guarnizo was assigned and where Ms. Johnson's mother's funeral Mass took place, announced the news to parishioners on Sunday,
"including noting — and repeating — that the removal was not related to the Communion standoff, but 'pertains to actions over the past week or two.' He did not elaborate."
The Washington Post report adds that the pastor told the parishioners:
" 'As we know there's been disagreement within the parish over how and to whom Communion is distributed. From my perspective this disagreement and related emotions flow from love. Love for Christ, really and truly present in the Eucharist. However, how we live out this love is important. The Scriptures tell us that we are known above all by how we love,' he said before reading the letter. After, he said 'I realize this letter is hard to hear. Please keep mind that this is a first personnel issue, dealing with issues of ministry in the church. Father Guarnizo will have every opportunity to present his position.'
"An archdiocesan spokeswoman Sunday would not clarify if LaHood's comments meant that Guarnizo would not be penalized for his handling of Barbara Johnson at the funeral."
Ms. Johnson has issued the following statement:
"The Johnson family continues to pray for the Archdiocese of Washington, Father Guarnizo, and all Catholics during this time of upheaval. While we understand this letter does not pertain to the events that occurred at our mother's funeral, we are hopeful that Bishop Knestout's decision will ensure that no others will have to undergo the traumatic experiences brought upon our family. We urge all Catholics to put aside political points of view, and pray that our Church will remain in Christ's love."
New Ways Ministry's Executive Director, Francis DeBernardo, made the following statement about this development:
"The Archdiocese of Washington's removal of Fr. Marcel Guarnizo from priestly duties and parish life pending an investigation is a good first step towards ensuring that full and just reconciliation can occur for Barbara Johnson, her family, and the people of St. John Neumann parish. Though the cruel and insensitive way that Fr. Guarnizo treated Ms. Johnson at her mother's funeral is not mentioned in Bishop Knestout's letter, it should definitely be included in any investigation of "intimidating behavior," since that label can be accurately applied to his denial of communion to Ms. Johnson at her mother's funeral. For that reason, Ms. Johnson and her family most certainly should be consulted in this investigation.
"This first step is necessary towards determining any future and permanent actions for Fr. Guarnizo. The Archdiocese of Washington also needs to take the important step of providing better training for priests and church professionals for ministering to and with LGBT people and their family members. The funeral incident caused tremendous pain for Ms. Johnson and her family, but it also revealed that training in pastoral care for LGBT people is sorely needed for all church professionals. Administering justice for Fr. Guarnizo's actions is one step, but the only way to guarantee that such an incident doesn't happen again is for better education on LGBT issues to be part of the church's preparation for pastoral ministers."
As Bondings 2.0 reported two days ago, Ms. Johnson will be a special guest at New Ways Ministry's upcoming Seventh National Symposium, From Water to Wine: Lesbian/Gay Catholics and Relationships, March 15-17, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland. Ms. Johnson will address the Symposium participants and receive a blessing from them at the closing session on the morning of Saturday, March 17th.
"Barbara Johnson's faith witness has been strong throughout this whole ugly incident," said DeBernardo. "We are honored and humbled that she will be with us for the Symposium, and we are sure that all will benefit greatly from her presence."
For more information about the Symposium, click here. For other past Bondings2.0posts about Barbara Johnson's story, click on any of the following titles:
"Communion Denied to Lesbian Woman at Her Mother's Funeral"
"Is It Possible to Find Hope in This Week's Painful New"
"Lesbian Denied Communion Explains How Her Faith Has Been Strengthened"
"Barbara Johnson to Address New Ways Ministry Symposium!"
–Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry


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Our Oct 3 blog post by Gary Metcalf announced Saybrook's plans to offer a new certificate program in Crisis Management, based on the important work of Ian Mitroff. Mitroff is a systems guy, someone who understands that planning, preparing, and responding to the crises we are experiencing today need a new approach. Angie's list recently published a recap of some of the stats on Crises, and they are staggering. These include having eight EF-5 tornadoes in the U.S. in the last three years; $62.2 billion insured losses for Hurricane Katrina, and $6 billion insured losses from tornadoes/storms in the U.S. from January-June 2013. An interesting one in terms of planning is that an estimated 4.2 million homes are at risk of damage caused by hurricane storm surge flooding in Florida, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Louisiana. And these are only the natural disasters.
Crises also include the mass murders that have taken place at schools across the U.S., hospitals that lose power, or computer systems that crash or are hacked. How do we prepare, protect, and recover from those tragedies? How do we create communities, schools, organizations, governments that are safe places for people to live and work?
The reality is that because systems thinking and scenario planning are fairly new processes and not well known by many, we are not prepared to meet and recover well from crises. We don't have the capacity to take care of people who are affected physically and psychologically. We really don't even know how to have the conversations that help us prepare and respond well.
Mitroff emphasizes that crisis management is quite different than risk management. He notes that from a risk management perspective, 9/11 had very low probability and thus may not have been on a risk manager's radar. Crisis management is about planning for the unthinkable, which is what we experiencing more today. Crisis management helps organizations evaluate their vulnerabilities and strengths and take action to build their capabilities to protect, respond, and learn from crises. Mitroff also emphasizes that companies who build this capability are more profitable and have cultures that support learning and innovation.
Saybrook's certificate program in Crisis Management will prepare participants to think systemically, connecting the dots in ways that non-systems thinkers cannot. Participants will learn how to anticipate the effects crises have on people and the chain events that often follow. The communicative skills people will learn in this program will have a positive effect in their lives and work, across their organizations and communities as they can support new ways of engaging others in planning and learning.
We all remember watching in disbelief what transpired after Hurricane Katrina. No one, including the President of the U.S. and the government agencies at all levels knew how to respond, protect and recover well from that disaster. It was a time of disgrace for the American people and we did learn from it. But more disasters continue to hit us every year. More people we know are affected by them. The destruction is eroding our society, as people become more fearful and lose faith in our government's ability to aid a quick recovery. We need new knowledge, skills, capacity to meet this challenge. We hope Saybrook University's role in offering this program can provide support.
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Over on Google+, Andy Rubin says:
There are now over 700,000 Android devices activated every day…and for those wondering, we count each device only once (ie, we don't count re-sold devices), and "activations" means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service.
This does clear up some points people have been wondering about, but it raises larger questions. Like, why aren't those users showing up in the comScore statistics?
700K users per day ought to translate to about 21M a month. But Android has only been gaining 2M U.S. smartphone users and change per month. If comScore isn't way undercounting, that implies than a bit less than 9/10ths of daily Android activations are tablets or overseas.
That percentage seems pretty high to me. But I don't have any alternate theory.


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Indy agrees to meet ADA standards
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced a settlement with the Justice Department on Thursday that calls for updating the sprawling, century-old facility to comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
Among the changes will be the addition of wheelchair seating in the grandstands, features making bathrooms wheelchair accessible and adjustments to parking. The infield mounds will be wheelchair accessible, and the slopes of ramps throughout the facility will be altered for safety reasons.
Speedway officials said Thursday the timetable for the changes is two-and-a-half years.
The speedway, like the IndyCar Series owned by the Hulman-George family, was built in 1909. The original ADA standards were adopted in 1991 and updated in 2010.
Officials said the Speedway is a historic landmark, complicating some of the changes that can be made. At 253 acres and with more than 250,000 seats, it is also one of the largest sports facilities in the world.
''It brings with it, because of its age, unique sets of challenges that more modern sports facilities simply do not face,'' U.S. Attorney Greg Hogsett said.
In 1999, Dan Ward attended a practice session at IMS and said he was denied access to the pits because he was in a wheelchair, even though he had a pit pass. He took his concerns to the U.S. Attorney's office, and an investigation found 360 different ADA violations. Besides the improvements, the speedway also agreed to pay Ward and the Justice Department $35,000 each.
Kevin Forbes, director of engineering for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, said the way the changes came about wasn't ideal, but he sees the situation as an opportunity.
''This has been a very humbling experience,'' he said. ''In spite of our efforts, our desires, our wants to do everything right to make our facility accessible, to make it enjoyable, to make it a great experience for our customers and all of our patrons, sometimes we fall short of our expectations, of everybody's expectations.''
The speedway will submit a report to the U.S. Attorney every 90 days for two years detailing compliance with the agreement, and every six months after that. The speedway also agreed that all future changes will meet ADA standards.
''Today's announcement serves as a reminder that the march toward equality continues, and this office remains dedicated to defending the civil rights of all Indiana residents,'' Hogsett said.


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The last Wacoal Eveden brand I'll be covering is Elomi! I usually preview Elomi and Goddess together, however, this preview will mostly be of Elomi, as for some reason there was only one Goddess style available for me to look at. I'm not sure if the other samples were being shown elsewhere, or if Goddess are primarily focussing on continuity styles rather than fashion styles at the moment, but it's something to keep in mind for this preview. The Elomi AW16 collection primarily features shades of teal, bright blue, red, brown and black, with pops of silver, pink and white.
Elomi Bijou Longline Moulded Bra in Teal (34 F-H, 36-40 E-H) ; Elomi Bijou Banded Moulded Bra in Teal (34 F-H, 36-42 E-H, 44 E-G) ; Elomi Portia Plunge Bra in Silver (34 G-JJ, 36-40 DD-JJ, 42 DD-HH, 44 DD-G, 46 DD-FF)
Teal is a strong colour for this season, as shown in the Bijou and Portia. Let me start this preview by saying that this Bijou longline is quite possibly the prettiest style from Elomi I have ever seen. Look at it!!! The rich teal colour, the bold black piping above the cups, the scalloped lace overlay, it is just perfection. I also really liked the Portia – on first glance, the print looks almost like stained glass windows, but when looking closer, the details of the butterfly print really come out.
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Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 7, 2012. The Obama Administration today announced new efforts to fight Alzheimer's disease, including immediately making an additional $50 million available for cutting-edge Alzheimer's research. In addition, the administration announced that its Fiscal Year 2013 budget will boost funding for Alzheimer's research by $80 million. Today's announcement also includes an additional $26 million in caregiver support, provider education, public awareness and improvements in data infrastructure.
In January 2011, President Obama signed the National Alzheimer's Project Act, which calls for an aggressive and coordinated national Alzheimer's disease plan. The Act also establishes an Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care, and Services, which brings together some of the Nation's foremost experts on Alzheimer's disease to inform the development of the national plan. The preliminary framework for the National Alzheimer's Disease Plan identifies key goals including preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease by 2025. As work on the plan continues, the Obama Administration is taking action.
"Today's announcement reflects this administration's commitment to confronting Alzheimer's, a disease that takes a devastating toll on millions of Americans," said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "We can't wait to act; reducing the burden of Alzheimer's disease on patients and their families is an urgent national priority."
As many as 5.1 million Americans currently suffer from Alzheimer's disease, which is a progressive, irreversible brain disorder that destroys memory and thinking skills. With the aging of the U.S. population, the number of people with Alzheimer's disease could more than double by 2050.
"These projections are simply staggering," said National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "This new funding will accelerate NIH's effort to use the power of science to develop new ways of helping people with Alzheimer's disease and those at risk."
Together, the fiscal years 2012 and 2013 investments total $130 million in new Alzheimer's research funding over two years – over 25 percent more than the current annual Alzheimer's research investment.
The additional NIH research funding will support both basic and clinical research. Investments will include research to identify genes that increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease and testing therapies in individuals at the highest risk for the disease. On the clinical side, the funds may be used to expand efforts to move new therapeutic approaches into clinical trials and to develop better databases to assess the nation's burden of cognitive impairment and dementia.
The initiative announced today also includes $26 million to support additional goals in the preliminary National Alzheimer's Disease Plan. While the plan continues to be developed, experts have identified several goals that will be supported by today's announcement, including support for caregivers in the community, improving health care provider training, and raising public awareness.
"These new funds will help increase our understanding about how to manage Alzheimer's disease, especially those services that allow families to plan in the early stages and support family caregivers," said HHS Assistant Secretary for Aging Kathy Greenlee.
For more information on the efforts to fight Alzheimer's disease visit: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2012pres/02/factsheet_alzheimers.html
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[308 U.S. 271, 272] Mr. J. L. London, of St. Louis, Mo., for petitioner.
[308 U.S. 271, 274] Mr. Warner W. Gardner, of Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice REED delivered the opinion of the Court.
A writ of certiorari was granted1 to review the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit2 affirming a judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri which awarded to a property owner, against the United States, compensation in condemnation less in amount than a sum fixed by an arrangement between the parties prior to the institution of the condemnation. This judgment provided for payment of the award into the registry of the court and that upon such payment the United States should be entitled to the relief sought. Although the issue was raised by the landowner, no pro- [308 U.S. 271, 277] vision was made as to interest. The writ was granted to determine important questions of federal law as to the effect in condemnation, of prior agreements by the United States as to the amount of awards and as to the running of interest.
This proceeding arose in the course of carrying out the protection from destructive floods of the alluvial valley of the Mississippi between Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Head of Passes, Louisiana. This work of internal improvement was begun under the Flood Control Act of May 15, 1928. 3 The passage of this act followed the disastrous experience with the flood of 1927 and was based upon a comprehensive report and plan known as the Jadwin Plan, Major General Edgar Jadwin, then Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, being in charge of its development. 4 The plan covers the great alluvial valley of the Mississippi through its entire length from the Ohio to the delta. In essence, the plan in its entirety is based upon a levee system which constricts the water to a moderate degree and allows in periods of extreme floods the escape from some lower levees, known as fuse-plugs, of the water from the main channel to back waters and floodways.
The particular portion of the plan involved here is known as the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. Prior to the passage of the Flood Control Act, there were levees along the west bank of the Mississippi between Birds Point, Missouri, and New Madrid, Missouri, which substantially followed the meanderings of the river. To get a greater area for the spreading of flood waters, the plan [308 U.S. 271, 278] provided for a second levee to be set back about five miles from the riverbank levee running from Birds Point to St. Johns Bayou, just east of New Madrid. Near its upstream connection with the set-back levee the present riverbank levee would be lowered some five feet by what is called a fuse-plug, so that at high flood the water will begin to flow into the wide floodway below. It is expected that this enlarged channel will keep anticipated floods from rising above the levees protecting Cairo, Illinois. The set-back levee will confine its diverted water to the floodway area between the set-back levee and the riverside levee and will return the water to the Mississippi through a lower fuse-plug section where a gap is left in the levee system to permit complete drainage. The land involved in this condemnation is situated in this floodway immediately east of the set- back levee and about midway between Birds Point and New Madrid.
The Flood Control Act stipulates that the United States 'shall provide flowage rights for additional destructive flood waters that will pass by reason of diversions from the main channel of the Mississippi River.' The same section authorizes the Secretary of War to 'cause proceedings to be instituted for the acquirement by condemnation of any lands, easements, or rights of way which ... are needed in carrying out this project ....' Jurisdiction of the proceeding is given to the United States district court for the district in which the property is located. Commissioners were authorized to view and value. It was further provided: 'When the owner of any land, easement, or right of way shall fix a price for the same which, in the opinion of the Secretary of War is reasonable, he may purchase the same at such price; ....'5
There is the additional provision in Section 1 of this same Act, 33 U. S.C.A. 702a, that 'pending completion of any floodway, spillway, [308 U.S. 271, 279] or diversion channel, the areas within the same shall be given the same degree of protection as is afforded by levees on the west side of the river contiguous to the levee at the head of said floodway.'
Construction work began on the set-back levee on October 21, 1929, and was substantially complete on October 31, 1932. The riverside levee is maintained at its original height of about 58 feet and the upper fuse-plug, which is designed to admit water into the floodway, has not yet been created.
In January, 1937, the Mississippi River attained its highest flood stage in recorded history. Late in that month the United States Army officer in charge of Memphis Engineers, District No. 1, directed a subordinate to proceed to the area and place the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway in operation. These instructions were issued by the officer in charge of the district without orders from any superior. The directions were carried out after flood waters were trickling over the riverside levee into the floodway area through a natural crevasse and when pursuant to these orders an artificial crevasse was created by dynamiting the northern portion of the upper fuse-plug section. Later another artificial crevasse was created and other natural crevasses developed. Through these crevasses petitioner's land was flooded. As the river would have reached a stage sufficiently high to overtop the riverside levee, even with extraordinary high-water maintenance, the land of the petitioner would have been flooded without the crevassing. The set-back levee did confine the diverted water to the floodway. It increased its depth and destructiveness on petitioner's land. After the flood subsided, the riverside levee, including the upper fuse-plug section, was restored to its previous height.
Prior to the institution of this action, orders had been issued by the Secretary of War, under the provisions of [308 U.S. 271, 280] Section 4 of the Flood Control Act, to purchase this tract of land. A letter containing the offer for the flowage rights here involved, dated January 14, 1932, had been received by the petitioner and the offer accepted by him within an agreed extension of the limited time. The letter, so far as pertinent, reads as follows:
After its acceptance, there was an attempted withdrawal of this offer by a letter of July 8, 1932, which advised the owner that 'after a careful review of the question of flowage over these tracts it was found by higher authority that the prices first suggested could not be properly recommended to the Court.'
After this letter, a petition was filed by the United States to condemn over the land here in question a perpetual right, power easement, and privilege to overflow, as contemplated by said project and described in House Decument 90. After the appointment and report of the commissioners for the determination of an award, petitioner filed an answer and counterclaim. In the answer he set up that prior to the filing of the suit a 'written offer of settlement for the damages and for the purchase [308 U.S. 271, 281] of an easement' for floodway purposes was made by the United States and accepted by petitioner. Petitioner further alleged an offer of title to the easement sought and a request for the payment of the agreed sum. Judgment against the United States was asked in that amount, 'with interest,' to be paid into court for the benefit of the defendants, in accordance with their respective rights and against the defendants for the perpetual flowage easements 'upon payment into Court' of the agreed sum. Changing the designation of the pleading from answer to counterclaim, these allegations were repeated as a counterclaim. The Court sustained a motion of the United States to strike this answer and counterclaim on the ground that the petitioner had waived his rights under the written agreement because of his failure to plead them prior to the entry of the interlocutory order allowing the condemnation and appointing commissioners. Subsequently the reports of the first and second commissions appointed to view the property were set aside for reasons which are immaterial here. To the report of the third commission, awarding $17,921.70, the petitioner renewed the objection that the agreement between the United States and him was decisive in fixing the award at $31,681.98; asked for interest 'from such time as the Court may find that plaintiff (the United States) appropriated the flowage easement in question' and sought new viewers to determine the award as claimed by petitioners or in the alternative that the Court enter judgment for the sum claimed with appropriate terms to create the flowage easement in the United States.
Upon this exception a hearing was had and findings and judgment entered confirming this report and adjudging the condemnor the easement sought upon payment of the award. Nothing appeared in the order as to interest. By assignments of error on appeal to the Court of Appeals and in the statement of questions involved [308 U.S. 271, 282] and reasons for granting the writ of certiorari, petitioner has preserved the issues of his right to an award in the agreed amount and to interest from the date found to mark the taking from him of the land.
Determination of Value.-By answer and exception to the report of the commissioners, the petitioner pleaded the agreement on the value of the easement evidenced by the letter and acceptance referred to above. The Government contends that the 'relevance of the contract ... as a measure of the value of the easement is not in issue; the petitioner pitches his case solely on the proposition that he can enforce the contract.' With this contention we do not agree. In the answer, it is true judgment is prayed against the United States for the agreed amount. But a judgment is offered to the United States for the perpetual flowage easement upon payment of the sum into court. In the objection to the commissioners' report the prayer is for entry of a judgment in the agreed sum 'and upon payment of the same that the Court decree an appropriate judgment in favor of plaintiff for the said easement.' We construe the accepted offer as an agreement to fix the price at the named figure for the easement sought. Paragraph 3 of the letter shows condemnation was in mind.
This action is brought under the provisions of Section 4 of the Flood Control Act. The jurisdiction of the Court to consider the landowner's contention depends upon the language of that Act, not upon the Tucker Act6 or the general statute on condemnation. 7 We have no doubt that the authority to purchase given to the Secretary of War is sufficiently broad to authorize a purchase of petitioner's interest in land subject to perfecting the title through condemnation. The effect of such an agreement [308 U.S. 271, 283] is to fix the value of the easement when the authority of the Court is invoked against a party to the agreement to acquire good title. 8 In dealing with a stipulation to waive a requirement of filing a claim for tax refund with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, we held such waiver enforceable in the face of a statutory requirement for such filing. 9 The convenience of preparation for trial and the interest of orderly procedure was decisive there. Here the same reasons with the supporting language as to the power of purchase leads to the conclusion that the trial court erred in striking the answer and refusing the motion to determine the value at the agreed price. 10 We need not consider the counterclaim as the answer covers the entire subject of the determination of value.
Interest.-Petitioner seeks interest on the judgment from the time of the taking or appropriation of the flowage easement. Petitioner fixes this appropriation at the time of the enactment of the Flood Control Act of May 15, 1928, on the theory that the passage of that act diminished immediately the value of this property because the plan contemplated the ultimate use of the floodway. Alternatively the date of the taking is fixed by petitioner as of October 21, 1929, when work began on the set- back levee or October 31, 1932, when the set-back levee was completed.
There is no disagreement in principle. Just compensation is value at the time of the taking. The Congress, in other situations, has adopted the time of taking as the [308 U.S. 271, 284] date for determination of value. 11 For the reason that compensation is due at the time of taking, the owner at that time, not the owner at an earlier or later date, receives the payment. 12 Unless a taking has occurred previously in actuality or by a statutory provision, which fixes the time of taking by an event such as the filing of an action,13 we are of the view that the taking in a condemnation suit under this statute takes place upon the payment of the money award by the condemnor. No interest is due upon the award. Until taking, the condemnor may discontinue or abandon his effort. 14 The determination of the award is an offer subject to acceptance by the condemnor and thus gives to the user of the sovereign power of eminent domain an opportunity to determine whether the valuations leave the cost of completion within his resources. 15 Condemnation is a means by which the sovereign may find out what any piece of property will cost. 'The owner is protected by the rule that title does [308 U.S. 271, 285] not pass until compensation has been ascertained and paid ....'16 A reduction or increase in the value of property may occur by reason of legislation for or the beginning or completion of a project. Such changes in value are incidents of ownership. They cannot be considered as a 'taking' in the constitutional sense.
In Brown v. United States17 this Court had occasion to consider whether interest should be allowed on the value of the property from the date of summons, the day fixed by the state statute to determine compensation and damages. In that case condemnation proceeded under the federal conformity statute which directs federal courts to conform to state practice and procedure, 'as near as may be.' 18 Interest, it was thought, was not governed by the conformity act,19 but should be allowed in accordance with the state law from the date of summons. This conclusion flowed from the acceptance by this Court, without question, of the day of summons as the date for the determination of value, the day of taking. 20 Here proceedings are under a Flood Control Act prescribing [308 U.S. 271, 286] jurisdiction and procedure. Where the condemnation is free from statutory direction, as here, there would be no interest before the taking. 21
This leaves for consideration the contention that there was a taking by the enactment of the legislation, when work began on the set-back levee or when that levee was completed. The mere enactment of legislation which authorizes condemnation of property cannot be a taking. Such legislation may be repealed or modified, or appropriations may fail. 22
For completion of the set-back levee to amount to a taking, it must result in an appropriation of the property to the uses of the Government. 23 This levee is substantially complete. The Government has condemned the land upon which the set-back is built. The tract now in litigation lies between the set-back and riverbank levees. The Government could become liable for a taking, in whole or in part, even without direct appropriation, by such construction as would put upon this land a burden, actually experienced, of caring for floods greater than it bore prior to the construction. The riverbank levee at the fuse-plug has not been lowered from its previous height. Consequently the land is as well protected from destructive floods as formerly. We cannot conclude that the retention of water from unusual floods for a somewhat longer period or its increase in depth or destructiveness by reason of the set-back levee, has the effect of taking. We agree with the Court of Appeals that this is [308 U.S. 271, 287] 'an incidental consequence' of the building of the set-back levee. 24 Nor can we conclude that a taking occurred through the act of the Army officers in dynamiting the levee during the emergency of the 1937 flood. It was restored to its previous height. Up until this time, the plan for a fuse-plug to permit the escape of destructive flood waters was not in effect. Indeed, the petitioner disclaims any contention that the crevassing of the levee by the Government was a taking. The taking, he urges, took place before and this use is only evidence of the control obtained by the prior taking.
Reversed in part and affirmed in part.
[ Footnote 1 ] 308 U.S. 538 , 60 S.Ct. 113, 84 L.Ed. --.
[ Footnote 2 ] 102 F.2d 5, 105 F.2d 318.
[ Footnote 3 ] 45 Stat. 534, 33 U.S.C. 702a-702m, 33 U.S.C.A. 702a-702m.
[ Footnote 4 ] The plan is found in 'Flood Control in the Mississippi Valley,' H.R. Doc. No. 90, 70th Cong., 1st Sess. Reference is also made in the FloodControl Act to a plan recommended by the Mississippi River Commission and authority is granted to adjust the engineering differences between the two plans.
[ Footnote 5 ] 45 Stat. 534, c. 569, sec. 4, 33 U.S.C.A. 702d.
[ Footnote 6 ] Judicial Code 24(20), 28 U.S.C. 41(20), 28 U.S.C.A. 41(20).
[ Footnote 7 ] 25 Stat. 357, 40 U.S.C.A. 257, 258.
[ Footnote 8 ] Cf. Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. v. United States, 4 Cir., 98 F.2d 609.
[ Footnote 9 ] Tucker v. Alexander, 275 U.S. 228 , 48 S.Ct. 45.
[ Footnote 10 ] Cf. Judson v. United States, 2 Cir., 120 F. 637 (U.S. District Attorney's agreement to submit matter of damages to arbitration, in condemnation, in accordance with the state statute is binding).
[ Footnote 11 ] 46 Stat. 1421, 40 U.S.C.A. 258a et seq.; 47 Stat. 722, 305, 40 U.S.C.A. 258a note.
[ Footnote 12 ] Kindred v. Union Pacific R. Co., 225 U.S. 582, 597 , 32 S.Ct. 780, 782; in Roberts v. Northern Pacific R. Co., 158 U.S. 1, 10 , 15 S.Ct. 756, 758, the precedents are collected.
[ Footnote 13 ] See various statutory means of determining the time of taking in Nichols, The Law of Eminent Domain, 1917, section 436.
[ Footnote 14 ] See Bauman v. Ross, 167 U.S. 548, 598 , 599 S., 17 S.Ct. 966, 985, where there was a statutory provision relating to condemnation for streets in the District of Columbia which made the failure of the Congress to appropriate, after six months in session, for the payment of the award of damages an event which terminated the proceedings. 'This provision,' this Court said, 'secures the owners from being compelled to part with their lands without receiving just compensation, and is within the constitutional authority of the legislature.' 'The Constitution does not require the damages to be actually paid at any earlier time nor is the owner of the land entitled to interest pending the proceedings.'
Cf. Kanakanui v. United States, 9 Cir., 244 F. 923; Johnson & Wimsatt v. Reichelderfer, 62 App.D.C. 237, 66 F.2d 217; Barnidge v. United States, 8 Cir., 101 F.2d 295, 298.
[ Footnote 15 ] See Lewis, Law of Eminent Domain, 3rd Ed., section 955.
[ Footnote 16 ] Hanson Lumber Co. v. United States, 261 U.S. 581, 587 , 43 S.Ct. 442, 444.
[ Footnote 17 ] 263 U.S. 78 , 84 et seq., 44 S.Ct. 92, 94.
[ Footnote 18 ] 25 Stat. 357, 40 U.S.C.A. 258.
[ Footnote 19 ] 263 U.S. at page 87, 44 S.Ct. at page 95.
[ Footnote 20 ] 263 U.S. at pages 85, 86, 44 S.Ct. at page 95: 'In these cases, the value found was at the time of taking or vesting of title, and the presumption indulged was that the valuation included the practical damage arising from the inability to sell or lease after the blight of the summons to condemn. Where the valuation is as of the date of the summons, however, no such elements can enter into it, and the allowance of interest from that time is presumably made to cover injury of this kind to the land owner pending the proceedings.' At page 87 of 263 U.S., 44 S.Ct. at page 95: 'But the disposition of federal courts should be to adopt the local rule, if it is a fair one, and, as already indicated, we are not able to say that, with the value fixed as of the date of summons, and the opportunity afforded promptly, thereafter to take possession, interest allowed from the date of the summons is not a provision making for just compensation.'
[ Footnote 21 ] Shoemaker v. United States, 147 U.S. 282, 321 , 13 S.Ct. 361, 394.
[ Footnote 22 ] Willink v. United States, 240 U.S. 572 , 36 S.Ct. 422; Bauman v. Ross, 167 U.S. 548, 596 , 17 S.Ct. 966; United States v. Sponenbarger, 308 U.S. 256 , 60 S.Ct. 225, this day decided.
[ Footnote 23 ] Obviously if there was not a taking at the completion of the set- back levee, there could not be a taking by the beginning of construction.
[ Footnote 24 ] Compare Bedford v. United States, 192 U.S. 217 , 24 S.Ct. 238; Jackson v. United States, 230 U.S. 1 , 33 S.Ct. 1011; Sanguinetti v. United States, 264 U.S. 146 , 44 S.Ct. 264.
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|Domination Changes - Coming 6/23/10
Solo Vanilla
Scoop count will equal the number of forums held, beginning with 4.
Perfect solo run: 4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12=72 – the same as a perfect solo raid in the current environment. If the player drops back down to 4 (for instance) then goes back to 5 and continues on as planned, the scoop count would reflect 4+5+5+6+7+8+9+10+11
Klan Raids
1) Alts are now allowed in a raid (although the maximum number of characters/alts in a raid remains at 13)
2) Scoop counts:
– Instead of only one vanilla for each member when exactly 12 forums pwned: Each member receives one vanilla for each count of forums held above 11, but only once. Example:
– 12 pwned = +1 scoop, 13 pwned = +1 scoop, 13 pwned = 0, 14 pwned = +1
3) Participants must have 12 visits available in order to join the raid.
4) Remaining visits at raid end will be wiped for all participants so they can't double dip into solo scoops. (This occurs regardless of how the player leaves the raid. Being kicked, leaving the raid or the raid ending naturally will all result in lost visits.)
5) Removed 60 hours between raids limit. (The 12 visit requirement will prevent people from joining raids every day just to earn scoops without contributing.)
6) All solo vanilla scoops are disabled during a klan raid. Not just lowered like they are right now.
(As of 6/10/10, there is a bug that if forums are pwned too closely together, it may miss awarding a vanilla scoop. This is being worked on.)
Pistachio scoops will be given as "normal" up to a streak of 56 forums pwned. With 60, your pistachio award will begin at 1 scoop and follow the same award numbers as if you had zero forums in your streak.
No change
No change
The algorithm used to determine fans needed for scoops has been leveled out some. It should no longer be a "three scoops or nothing" scenario, nor should it guarantee three scoops on every run.
Season Length
Seasons will be standardized at 20 weeks.
edited 6/13/10 8:37pm: removed "in development" note from lemon and pistachio sections
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At this time, this should be accurate. If anything changes between now and then, we'll let you know.
That said, if you have any questions, ask them here. Log in to see images!
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Thanks for posting this with some lead time before the changes Spacey. Good work.
|Posted On: 06/12/2010 12:44AM
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Sounds interesting, I might come back and play Dom for a week or two.
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So, correct me if I'm wrong – it's like 145 (12*12+1) vanilla for every participant in a 13-player perfect raid, right?
|Posted On: 06/12/2010 2:09AM
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spacekadt Posted:
Is the "hold 13 forums by grabbing one before rollover" issue going to be fixed or will raiders be able to capitalize on that?
Come to think of it, will forums held before the raid count towards this total (theoretically allowing up to 4 extra per raider)?
If this question doesn't make sense, keep in mind it comes from a non-raider.
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Inconnu Posted:
For a perfect raid, that looks about right.
MC Banhammer Posted:
Still a possibility, afaik.
MC Banhammer Posted:
That's been tested on the beta server and they do not count toward the raid. Only forums pwned while the raid is active will count.
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I am glad that you guy listened to some suggestions that were raised two years ago.
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I don't want this to be read in the wrong way. I understand how those things happened. You know, it wasn't brought up by anyone in either the Brainfreeze or Directors cartel. It is easy to understand why those people were ignored.
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I liked things better before you guys banned me and I was uninterested in Forumwars.
|Posted On: 06/12/2010 4:37AM
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I think spending some time here is helping me become uninterested again.
There is nothing like being here to make me not want to be here.
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Life's like that sometimes.
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These changes will help me a lot to stay in the top bracket forever.
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what happens if you pwn/hold forums at rollover? can you feasibly get up to 16 vanilla?
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so really with that tactic you could have 130 as solo but if everyone did that tactic in a klan raid you could get 193?
|Posted On: 06/12/2010 7:08PM
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While rollover raids are the best way to get the most scoops (12, 16, 12) it can't be done at the last minute of play and doing them twice puts you right in bumhole range long before Dom end and only allows you a maximum of 8 Visits for dom end. Combined with a bunch of European players doing raids then, it might actually be a tricky maneuver to pull off properly.
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suck my male reproductive organ
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So p much what your saying is that you need to hold 12 to get 72 Log in to see images! is fixed
so no more hold 4 and stuffs
If that's not it will some one put it in dumb girl terms for me
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Dirty Birdy Posted:
That and pistachio will change. It caps at a much lower rate, but could conceivably loop indefinitely. Makes streaks not matter as much as they do currently.
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Acer reported loss for the second quarter in a row, as the Taiwanese company struggles with sagging PC sales and the rise of tablets.
Acer's net loss for the third quarter totalled NT$1.1 billion (US$36 million), lower than the company's second quarter loss of NT$6.7 billion.
Revenue for the quarter fell 30 percent year on year, to NT$117.3 billion.
Acer, formerly the world's third-largest PC maker, has fallen to fourth place in the market since the end of last year, according to research firm IDC. IDC said the company saw total shipments in the third quarter fall by 20.6 percent, with sales of mini-notebooks also declining.
The company's struggles come as growth in the PC market has slowed, with shipments falling below analysts projections. A decline in spending brought on by wider weak economic conditions has caused consumers to look at other devices over the PC, according to IDC.
While most of Acer's sales come from laptops, the company hopes to reverse its financial decline by selling tablets. Acer has previously said it expects to sell around 7 million tablets this year, with officials anticipating it will help improve revenues.
However, competition in this market is fierce: Market research firm Strategy Analytics reported Friday that Apple still held two-thirds of the tablet market in the third quarter, leaving Acer and other manufacturers of Android tablets to share 27 percent, or 4.5 million units, between them. The remaining 6.7 percent or so was composed of tablets running other operating systems, including Windows and QNX, the OS used in the BlackBerry PlayBook.


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SDL::RWOps is an ``undocumented'' feature of SDL, allowing you to use pointers to memory instead of files (though it can handle files too) for things such as images or samples. The primary advantage of this feature is that many libraries load files from the filesystem themselves, leaving you a bit stuck if you want to implement your own special file access, such as an archive format. Fortunately many libraries, such as SDL_image, provide additional methods designed to read from an SDL_RWops, so that you can provide the data in whatever way you like.
An example usage would be to put a bunch of resources in a zip file and use Zziplib to access them easily.
Mode Strings: "r" Open a file for reading. The file must exist. "w" Create an empty file for writing. If a file with the same name already exists its content is erased and the file is treated as a new empty file. "a" Append to a file. Writing operations append data at the end of the file. The file is created if it does not exist. "r+" Open a file for update both reading and writing. The file must exist. "w+" Create an empty file for both reading and writing. If a file with the same name already exists its content is erased and the file is treated as a new empty file. "a+" Open a file for reading and appending. All writing operations are performed at the end of the file, protecting the previous content to be overwritten. You can reposition (fseek, rewind) the internal pointer to anywhere in the file for reading, but writing operations will move it back to the end of file. The file is created if it does not exist.
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Amelia Chases a Dream in the Clouds
- Christian Hamaker Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2009 23 Oct
DVD Release Date: February 2, 2010
Theatrical Release Date: October 23, 2009
Rating: PG (for some sensuality, language, thematic elements and smoking)
Genre: Drama, Biopic
Run Time: 111 min.
Director: Mira Nair
Actors: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Joe Anderson, Cherry Jones
Amelia Earhart was, according to Amelia, the new film about the aviatrix's life, a woman consumed by one passion, and one passion only: She wanted to fly.
Like Dieter Dengler in Rescue Dawn, the Kansas native falls in love with the idea of flight while a child, then gets the opportunity to pursue her dream as an adult. Like Dengler, she faces institutional resistance, but not from the military or from warriors in another land. Instead, her fight is against sexism on the home front in the early part of the twentieth century.
It was a heady time in America, as the optimism of the Roaring 1920s gave way to the Great Depression, and as the public became fascinated with Earhart (Hilary Swank).
But while Amelia hints at a larger picture of American culture in the early twentieth century, it settles for something much more obvious and less satisfying: a narrative built upon the ups and downs of Earhart's romance with publisher and promoter George Putnam (Richard Gere). That relationship never generates much heat, and consequently makes for a largely unaffecting film. By the time the two lovers have their final conversation, knowing it might be their last, many tears are shed onscreen, but no sniffles could be heard, nor tear tracks seen, among the packed house at a recent preview screening.
The story of Earhart has the elements of a great, American biopic. Determined to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, she teamed with impresario Putnam to become the first woman to traverse the Atlantic—but only as a passenger, while men did the main piloting. Putnam sees it as a public-relations move, a way to catapult both of them into the Big Time, and it's here that the film hints at one of its underdeveloped ideas, still relevant to today's audience—the exploitation of public figures in a culture that wants inspiring, photogenic heroes. Putnam is the mover and shaker behind the scenes, and the more interesting character for exploring this, but the filmmakers didn't call their film Amelia for nothing. This is her story, not Putnam's. So we get images of Earhart in flight (scenery!), and of her navigator nearly falling out of a plane (action!), then a too quickly developed romance between Earhart and Putnam, then a romance with another man, Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor, who has more spark on-screen with Swank than does Gere), and a few more scenes of perilous flight.
Along the way, characters and themes of seeming importance are introduced and dropped without any rhyme or reason. For instance, Earhart champions more women pilots, and mentors one female teen aviator who is secretly ordered by Putnam to lose to Earhart during a cross-country flying race. The character of the teen pilot vanishes from the film soon thereafter.
Worse, we never get inside Earhart's mind. Swank does her most with the part, but we never learn more about her than her consuming desire to achieve her goals. Like all driven people, that intense focus is admirable in some sense, but when a person becomes so consumed by a goal that it wreaks havoc with her marriage and all other relationships, it's fair to wonder what void she's trying to fill. The movie has no ultimate answers, although in one intriguing scene, Earhart reveals that her father—the only man she ever loved "unconditionally"—was an alcoholic who disappointed her. However, instead of going deeper into Earhart's psyche, the script uses this remark only as leverage for Earhart to enlist the help she needs in that moment. Religion and prayer aren't embraced by the principal characters, only devotion to goals, so the script adds a few more Earhart exclamations about toppling barriers and doing what hasn't been done before in the aviation world.
The film is at its best when it shows how Earhart's pursuit of her goals take her away from the man who helped launch her career and then made her his wife. Putnam's pain at the discovery of Earhart's infidelity is moving (and shows that Gere, after this film and Unfaithful, is getting quite good at playing the aggrieved spouse), and his desire to see Earhart leave behind her obsessive pursuit of aviation is touching. Yet even Gere's performance, with an accent that comes and goes, is somewhat problematic, and comes far short of making the film worth seeing. Further exploration of Putnam's ruthless business savvy, building on his comments to Earhart early in the film ("This is America—I'm obligated to make as much money as I can," and "ownership is the trump card" in business pursuits) would have been more interesting than watching him turn into a love-struck, emasculated spouse.
Considering the talent involved, Amelia should have been better. Director Mira Nair's previous film, The Namesake, was both sumptuous and meaningful, while her earlier Monsoon Wedding was a vibrant, multicultural celebration. Here Nair has taken on a quintessentially American story, with refrains that are meant to be inspiring—"Who wants a life imprisoned in safety?" and "Everyone has oceans to fly"—but which instead come across as empty. The film's best qualities are its sometimes lush visuals (by Stuart Dryburgh) and an aggressive but sometimes lovely score by Gabriel Yared—neither of which will be enough to keep audience members from flying for the exits as soon as the credits roll, if not earlier.
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- Language/Profanity: Lord's name taken in vain; "go--amn" and multiple instances of foul language.
- Smoking/Drinking/Drugs: A few scenes of drinking and smoking; an endorsement deal for cigarettes; a navigator with a drinking problem says it's never interfered with his work, but under the influence of alcohol, he propositions Earhart.
- Sex/Nudity: Kissing; Earhart sleeps with Putnam and Vidal; shot of her sitting by bed after sex, with sheets turned back, and Putnam shown without his shirt on, she in a nightie.
- Violence/Crime: Plane crash footage.
- Marriage/Family: Earhart marries reluctantly, then has an affair but returns to her husband; Earhart says she won't hold her husband to a medieval code of faithfulness, and that he shouldn't expect the same from her; during wedding vows, she says she can't abide the "obey" part; a betrayed husband finds his wife's love letter to another man, and reads it back to her.
- Religion: Earhart asks Putnam to pray for her, and when he says he's not much of a praying man, she asks him to tip his hat and cross his fingers; exclamations such as "Praise be!" and "Glory, hallelujah!" after a major accomplishment; when Earhart insists on flying through bad weather, a character tells her, "In a monsoon, you need divine help."


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San Francisco based Mildred emailed us some photos from a recent trip he and Pacolli took to Sao Paulo, Brazil for the group show Dream Team she curated featuring the likes of Travis Millard, Mel Kadel, Michael Hsiung, Mark Todd, Esther Pearl Watson, Matthew Rodriguez, and many others. Words and photos from Mildred.
Before the show it was pretty much just me and Pacolli painting the whole gallery and doing all the instalations and hanging all the work. lots of shit to be done. I also painted the front of Choque the week after the opening. And we had a little concert at Choque in which I played keyboard and two other folks played guitar and sang. Ephameron went there the day before the opening and did a tape installation as well. During the month we also had a zine/print/shirt sale at Choque as well. It all went very well and we had a blast! -Mildred
Dream Team
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Artists Travis Millard, Mel Kadel, Michael Hsiung, Mark Todd , Esther Pearl Watson, Matthew Rodriguez, Mildred, Pacolli, Mats?!, Kapten Hanna, Jason Vivona, Jeanspezial, Brecht Vandenbroucke, LLCool Jo, Ephameron, UIU, Hell'o Monsters, The Love Movement, and Tetine.
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Active Directory is the directory service for the Windows Server 2003 operating system; DNS is the primary name resolution service for Windows Server 2003, and a core component of Windows Server 2003 TCP/IP networking.
Strictly speaking, DNS is not a component of Active Directory. However, knowledge of how Active Directory depends on DNS is necessary to understand how Active Directory components are able to perform their assigned operations. DNS is used by Active Directory for domain controller location and DNS naming is leveraged by Active Directory for domain naming. Because Active Directory depends on DNS for domain controller location and DNS influences Active Directory domain naming, DNS is discussed in this technical reference subject as a component of the Windows Server 2003 directory service solution.
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Incorporated in 1855, Bellevue played an important role in the development of the metropolitan community and is Nebraska's oldest continuous town. Established as a fur trading settlement in 1822 for native, American tribes and French Canadian trappers, it was called Belle Vue (beautiful view) by most of them. This name eventually was "Americanized" and adopted as the official name for the settlement.
Bellevue experienced great fluxes in population and its economy during the 19th century. In 1890, to encourage expansion, the town offered inexpensive land for development. This resulted in the establishment of Fort Crook which was later redesigned and named Offutt Air Force Base. A Martin bomber plant opened on base at the start of World War II, employing thousands of civilian and military people. And the population boom began!
Today Offutt is home to the 55th Wing, United States Strategic Command and the Air Force Weather Agency. The presence of this military installation has not only multiplied the population many times over but has resulted in the construction of homes and the establishment of technical services, businesses, and retail outlets to serve the military. These businesses have been the basis for an expanding economy which now serves the civilian population as well. Additionally, the Kennedy Freeway, a limited access highway, provides easy access to employment and entertainment in all areas of Omaha/Council Bluffs.
At this time, Bellevue's population exceeds 50,000 people. It is home to Bellevue University, two growing public high schools, plus numerous public and parochial middle and elementary schools. Its population consists of many ages, races, religions, and cultures. Homes of all ages, styles and prices, as well as apartments and condominiums offer reasonable housing options. Parks, trail systems and Fontenelle Forest, a popular nature center, provide year-round outdoor activities, while theaters and historical sites are venues for cultural and ethnic programs.


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Earlier this week the Government Accountability Institute published yet another report featuring Obama's dubious donations. The GAI has posted a PDF of the report here. Courtesy of readers Hunter Schultz, Sean Mahan, Charlie King, Jim Bell, Jim Arneson and Dave Wollstadt — thanks to you all — I'm posting the report's chart from page 3 below. Analyze this:
GAI president Peter Schweizer describes the report as "a big picture look at FEC data indicating a much looser level of security by the Obama campaign." Peter adds: "We looked at donations from nonexistent zip codes in the FEC filings of both Obama and Romney. Any kind of AVS [Address Verification System] worth anything will require an accurate zip code. Some of these donations could be from personal fundraisers, but the Obama numbers are enormously high: he has accepted 20 times the number of donations with nonexistent zip codes as Romney. And he was a clear outlier even in 2008."


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Library countdown: Volunteers help ready books for the move
Good things come to those who wait.
It's an adage Jackson County library users will need to bear in mind this spring during a month-long closure of the Sylva branch during the massive move into its brand-new, first-class digs.
Librarians face the daunting task of packing up 35,000 books in circulation at the current library and arranging them in their new home. It can't be done while continuing to keep the doors of the library open, according to Betty Screven, public relations chair with Friends of the Jackson County Library.
Volunteers with Friends of the Library are lining up to help with the operation. In fact, they've already started.
They have been combing the stacks of the Sylva library outfitting each book with a special radio-frequency identification tag. The new tags will take the place of the traditional barcodes used to check out books today.
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Radio-frequency tags allow entire piles of books to be scanned at once, not only making it easier to check books in and out but also to keep track of collections. Librarians can inventory of a whole shelf in seconds without ever taking a book off. Library users will even be able to check out their own books.
The technology is considered cutting edge, but making the transition to the radio-frequency tags is too expensive and time consuming for most libraries to tackle.
The new library, which was constructed as an enormous wing on the back of the historic courthouse, will be more than three times bigger than the current one. The county is spending $8 million to build the library and restore the historic courthouse.
Jackson County Friends of the Library raised $1.8 million to furnish the library — from shelving to armchairs to desks — with $400,000 of that devoted to buying new books and materials. Newly purchased library items will come already equipped with the radio-frequency identification tags.
The new library will have a soft opening sometime in May with a grand opening planned for Saturday, June 11.


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Somewhere in Portland, there's a very old building, and that very old building has a very, very old basement. An incredible basement, a video-game-level basement, a set-decorator's dream basement.
And when you walk past the janitors office, with the wonderfully decked halls…
And tromp down a sunken hallway…
You find a old room. Mostly empty, dusty, and dead quiet.
And then you start to look closer at the walls.
And you start to see things.
(You see that Brown didn't often pay his dime for coffee.)
(You see that a lot of calculation was done right on the wall.)
(You see that World War I was front and center on everyone's mind.)
(You wonder what was being tallied, and if it was better to win or lose.)
(And you learn the tongue-in-check "rules" of the room.)
And eventually, you crawl behind a corner, and discover a bundle of conduit.
Conduit for every major internet carrier you've ever heard of.
Oh, right. You had almost forgotten.
This building, this basement, is the major internet hub for the entire region.
And a wall, where all this data enters the basement just as you did, you see them.
Somehow, still surrounding these cutting-edge, fiber-optic links that burst through the wall, they're frozen in time, looking at you.
How are they still there? My god, 2012. Could they even imagine?
On the way out, you chat up a worker in the building.
And his story clicks it all into place.
Turns out, he claims, "they used to print The Oregonian down here, way back."
The pressmen, one imagines, worked day and night down here, working the lumbering machines, spitting out another edition of the day's business.
And when something caught their eye? Out came the scissors and the paste.
It's almost too perfect.
The roar of the presses that ruled these rooms has been replaced, just as we all suspected, with the calculated silence of the conduit that carries our data. This data, in fact. These very photos.
100 years from now, when another one of you goes spelunking around this basement, that data, those bits, today's moments, will likely be long, long gone.
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Yes, this is another one I have for the winter scene. I only did not mention it because it is retired. If going for retired.. I think I slightly preferred the look of the Mountain hut, which I think might mesh well with the lakeside lodge which is out. Any of them are fairly nice to consider. It really just depends on the sort of scene you are looking to create.Ronyar said:You might also want to consider the Creator set #31038 Changing Seasons. We incorporated the winter build into our village this year, and it fit in well. We really enjoyed the fireplace that lit up and the snow blower.
First of all, That's what she said.Her first response, "Where do you think you'll put this?"
The way I always think about this is that it's already in my mind to purchase these things and this is an especially good deal. So, instead of paying a lot more later, I can get them now for less. And honey, you've been on your feet all day, so wouldn't a foot rub be nice right about now?
I've pretty much maxed my Lego budget with the Mrs. as of late along with several other larger household purchases. Not sure she'll go for it. But $150 for both!? The cottage alone is worth more than that.
Can't you use your own personal private savings? Like some cash stashed inside the cookie jar or something like that? :)^Yeah, seriously!
So by "all of the winter sets" she really meant she has the Cottage and Bakery. They're complete (minus the pieces I got already) and she's only asking $150 for both..........
I've pretty much maxed my Lego budget with the Mrs. as of late along with several other larger household purchases. Not sure she'll go for it. But $150 for both!? The cottage alone is worth more than that.
I'll have to be strategic about how I approach this one. Maybe the seller would consider a payment plan?
EDIT - Looks like it also includes #3300014.
So a conservative used BL value for all three would be $310?
^I love the sets in those cabinets! I figured I would do a similar "fake snow ground" under stuff to tie it together until I could build a full brick-built scene.
What are those longer curved pieces slightly behind the bunny hill?
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Yellow wedding waistcoats
Men's tuxedo vests, for example, in yellow for your suit at your wedding or on your own is a must for every groom. In most cases, the wedding vest is color-matched to the woman's wedding dress. Since you have a huge selection of different colors and patterns from the Gr. 44 to 64 is constantly in stock for you and thus immediately available, should the perfect outfit nothing stands in the way.
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The Kentucky Bourbon Festival Bardstown Sampler is set for April 30 from 6:30 – 9 p.m. at the Guthrie Opportunity Center, 900 Nutter Drive.
The Sampler is a tasting of the Kentucky Bourbons that will be participating in the Kentucky Bourbon Festival in September. Regional restaurants and caterers will provide cuisine. A silent auction will be held during the event.
The theme for the 20th Annual Kentucky Bourbon Festival as well as the new lapel pin will be unveiled at the Sampler. Also, the winner of the 2011 KBF scholarship will be announced. Distilleries and brands will draw for their location in the tasting area during the Great Kentucky Bourbon Tasting and Gala held in September.
Tickets are $40. For more information or to purchase tickets, write the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, One Court Square, Bardstown, KY, call 502-348-3623 # 4 or visit www.kybourbonfestival.com.


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Forwarding a message with attachments in MuttI've wanted to know forever how to forward a message with all or some of its attachments from mutt.
You can set the variable mime_forward so that when you forward a message, it includes the entire message, headers, attachments and all, as a single attachment. You can't edit this or change it in any way. If you want to trim the original message, or omit one of the attachments, you're out of luck.
I've found two ways to do it.
First: type v to get to the attachments screen. Type t repeatedly to tag all the attachments, including the initial small text/plain attachment (that's the original message body). When they're all tagged, type ;f (forward all tagged attachments). After you fill in the To: prompt, you'll be able to edit the message body, and when you leave the editor, you'll have the attachment list there to edit as you see fit.
If that doesn't work (I haven't tried it on HTML messages),
there's a slightly more elaborate procedure: use
Esc-e resend-message use the current message as a template for a new one.
This calls up an editor on the current message, including headers. Change the From to your name, the To to your intended recipient, and edit the message body to your heart's content. When you're done, you're sent to the Compose screen, where you can adjust the attachment list and send the message.
Forwarding is pretty clearly not what Esc-E was intended for ... but it does the job and might be a handy trick to know.
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The campus bookstore is located on the street level of the Michael J. Adanti Student Center. The bookstore is a Barnes & Noble branch that works in conjunction with the faculty of the university to provide course books to the students. You may contact the bookstore via telephone at (203) 392-5270
You will find more information, including hours, at the bookstore's main Web site.


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Microsoft has made hardware more of a priority in recent years, what with the Surface Pro line of tablets and Surface Book laptop. But these devices might be just the beginning of Redmond's PC push. If a couple new reports are any indication, the company is also about to jump into the desktop PC game.
Windows Central reported Friday that the company is hard at work on the Surface AIO, an all-in-one desktop PC that could soon join Microsoft's existing Surface product lineup.
The Windows Central report reinforces the veracity of an earlier report from DigiTimes, which claimed that Microsoft would introduce a Surface desktop PC "in the third quarter of 2016 at the earliest." Daniel Rubino of Windows Central casts doubt on the timeframe, though, noting that, "our sourcing suggests such details are undecided at this time."
Although specs are still mostly unknown, both DigiTimes and Windows Central suggest that the exact timing—and the release of the next-gen Surface Book—may depend on when Intel's upcoming Kaby Lake 14-nanometer processors are ready.
We also don't know what a Surface AIO would look like, but Thurrott's Brad Sams points to a patent application that Microsoft filed last year showing conceptual drawings for an all-in-one PC.
The story behind the story: Microsoft's expansion into PC hardware comes at a time when PC sales have taken a nosedive in recent years. Worldwide PC sales slumped nearly 12 percent in the first quarter of 2016, compared to the same time last year. Gartner's report at the time stated that "There was no particular motivation for U.S. consumers to purchase PCs in the first quarter of 2016," some harsh words for the industry as a whole.
A new way forward for the PC?
Microsoft by itself may not be able to get the PC back on track, but it could help provide the PC industry with a new direction to follow—a little like how the Surface Book put a new spin on the laptop.
And as Windows Central's Rubino points out, Microsoft is uniquely positioned to bring something new to the table (or desktop, as it were): As Rubino speculates, a Surface AIO could end up being an updated, consumer-level version of the PixelSense, the company's attempt at a touch-centric tabletop computing device.
If so, Microsoft may be able to take the touchscreen all-in-one from the somewhat awkward-to-use device that it is now into something that is truly unique, useful, and easy to use. Here's hoping.
Disclosure: The author of this article provides copywriting services to TechSoup, a nonprofit organization that works with Microsoft and many other technology companies to provide nonprofits with technology products and services. His role at TechSoup does not influence his work for this publication.


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Attacktecs™ Attack Techniques used to exploit network infrastructure, servers, databases and other
services with the intent of stealing or destroying intellectual property and/or to deny users and clients legitimate access.
Defentecs – Defense Techniques and implementation methods used to defend against the latest Attacktecs.
This class will cover a wide variety of the publicly-available exploit tools and how they can be used specifically against a Cisco infrastructure. A majority of the class time will be spent in practical labs. Therefore, a certain level of Cisco expertise will be expected. The training will also cover the possible defenses against these attacks.
Students will be using 2600 series routers, and 2950T switches for their labs. The lab core will consist of 3750s, 2800s, and servers of various flavors. Students will be required to bring their own laptops to attach to the labs (with appropriate caution). Students must have a working serial port and terminal emulator. This class will focus on internal infrastructure vulnerabilities and will not be covering firewalls, VPN concentrators, or IPS tools.
Here is a list of some of the topics that will be covered:
Stephen Dugan is currently an independent contract instructor and network engineer. He has been teaching Cisco networking for the last several years focusing on Router and Switch configuration, Voice/Data integration, and Network Security. His students come mostly from Fortune 500 companies, government/military and service providers. He also teaches private internal classes to Cisco Employees. As a Network Engineer he has worked on the design and implementation of large enterprise, government, and service provider networks. He is also working on a unique security book covering the aspects of hacking VoIP networks. Although the book has been delayed, it should be out in 2006.


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Blood in the eye: Medically known as a subconjunctival hemorrhage. A very common cause of a painless bloody eye usually first noticed by somebody else or by the person with it when they look in the mirror. The bleeding results from a break in a small blood vessel in the sclera, the white of the eye. This releases a tiny amount (less than a drop) of blood which is trapped underneath the conjunctiva, much like the blood in a bruise is trapped in the skin. It is called a subconjunctival hemorrhage since it occurs beneath the conjunctiva, the transparent membrane covering the sclera.
A subconjunctival hemorrhage can occur with heavy lifting, coughing, sneezing, vomiting or for no apparent reason. It looks bad and may be frightening, but is not dangerous and leaves no residual change in vision. There is no discharge from the eye. The redness may turn brown or green and everything returns to normal within 3 weeks as the blood is absorbed.
Subconjunctival hemorrhage does not require treatment. Any features not characteristic of subconjunctival hemorrhage (such as pain in the eye, a change in vision, or failure to clear up within 3 weeks, or recurrent hemorrhage) are reasons to see a doctor. Medical conditions that can upon occasion cause subconjunctival hemorrhages include bleeding disorders, blood-thinner (such as heparin and Coumadin), and high blood pressure.


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Red Wings
"I'de blow em."
"They can't see me."
"They suck."
"Henrik Zetterberg sucks cock"
"Just like Roadrunner, they are my sworn enemy."
Everyones mom blows the Wings on a regular basis
The Early Years[edit | edit source]
The Red Wings were formed by NHL Motors, Inc. with the intention of producing such beasts as the Cadillac Shannahan, the Dodge Draper, the Ford Lidstrom, and the Chevrolet Howe. Ever since then, the Red Wings have been known as the team of Hockeytown (Motor City Motherfuckers). Originally, they were called the Jerusalem Apostles, but after the death of Jesus, they were quickly turned over to Judas Iscariot. Here they were left untouched and became one of the only teams in the world to allow slaves I mean exotics, tuners, and muscle cars to participate in any sport. This was not meant to last however, because in the year 70 A.D. the team went completely bankrupt and were unable to run Michigan International Speedway. Some experts contribute this to the fact that no other people outside of the Red Wings organization even knew what hockey was. But, in 1926 Jesus was feeling bad for watching a former team come to a halt for over 1800 years, so he asked his dad to bring them back to life. So, God possessed Chuck Norris and made him suck some major cock. This action ejaculated the Red Wings right back onto the race track.
1930s-1980s[edit | edit source]
At first the Red Wings sucked as much as its original owner did. But, then God possessed the trouble maker Gordie Howe in the year 1948. As Howe he was able to lead the team to several Stanley Cups. But, as Howe, he tragically died in his youth on June 6, 1980 in a gardening accident where he was watering his petunias and was hit by an airplane. To honor the deceased, the players decided to play as well as the dead for as many years possible. But, in a miraculous return, God came back in the form of a young lad (who was once ALLEGEDLY molested by Oscar Wilde) named Steve Yzerman. From this point forward, the Wings were able to play as outstandingly as they did with Gordie Howe. It should be noted that with Howe, the Red Wings won every Stanley Cup from 1948-1968 and 1970-1980 (the NHL awarded the Canadiens a trophy in 1969 for nearly competing with the Wings every year). Starting from 1980, the Red Wings became the Detroit Dead Wings.
1990s-Present[edit | edit source]
After winning every single Stanley Cup from 1993-2007, the Red Wings and their fans were shocked when world renown Israeli Sharpshooter Lee Harvey Oswald, murdered Steve Yzerman with his banjo. Once again the Red Wings playing suffered. This generated a large amount of anti-semetic feelings among the team and fans, which boiled to a point where the Red Wings changed there names to the Detroit We Think We Own The NHL Nazi Wings. In the first year with this name, they won their first Stanley Cup without divine intervention. However, the next year they were outplayed and Detroit fans begun cooking up conspiracy theories such as: "well known homosexual and Jew Sidney Crosby made a pact with notorious NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and the after over 300 hours of oral sex (299.5 of them were for fun), convinced him to let the Pittsburgh Waddling Antarctic Birds win the Cup."
Mascot[edit | edit source]
Now, since they decided to go with the Red Wings and not the Nomadic Russian Bisexuals (which would have been easy to find a mascot for) they had to think about what their mascot would be. One might think they would go with a cardinal, it having red wings and such. Instead, they went with a squid, for obvious reasons (?). Unknown to most, the squid was named their mascot in honor of Pavel Datsyuk's six penises(Or should I say penii?[very Manly]), resembling a squids tentacles. Don Cherry and Thomas Edison are also both mascots, and it is said that Elvis didn't die, instead he plays the in stadium music, and he sleeps in the squid during intermissions.
Goaltending[edit | edit source]
Chris Osgood is currently one of the wings goaltenders and decides when he wants to be good. His playing style varies from night to night, from "HOLY SHIT, NICE SAVE!!", to "I'll just let in a few goals to make this weak game interesting". HOWEVER, when the playoffs roll around, he turns into his alter ego, Chris "Out of the Net" Osmediocre. Before the 2009 post season, however, he was known as Chris "Super Saiyan level 9001" Osawesome, however he has instead shrunk his arms so that they can wrap evenly around Sidney Crosby's incredibly small penis and suck it while letting in a weak goal.
Currently, up and coming goaltender Jimmy Howard has been playing along with Osgood. Unfortunately, he suffers from a curse bestowed upon him by Tony Romo which allows him to turn into a brick wall. However, it also causes the rest of the Red Wings to turn into brick walls and they are unable to score.
Joe Louis Arena[edit | edit source]
This sad excuse for a Canadian Street Fighting Arena was named after the famous Red Wing owner that taught the team what anal rape REALLY was. The home stadium of the Red Wings is called Joe Louis Arena, or to the players, coaching staff, and the front office as the entrance to hell. There have been repeated sightings of the devil rise from the Red Wings logo at center ice during games against the Penguins. It is known only to the front office staff and the builders of the arena that the devil made a deal with Gordie Howe in the 1950's, saying that if a new Detroit arena be used as the entrance to hell, he would guarantee at least 20 Stanley Cups before 2020. This is also why the Red Wings wear red uniforms.
War with Colorado I[edit | edit source]
General Claude Lemieux of the Colorado Avalanche decided to push Kris Draper of the Red Wings calvary down the stairs. His face caved inwards and Darren 'I like a drinky-poo or two' McCarty decided that it was outrageous that something else other than his cock was responsible for mauling Drapers face. This resulted in Lt McCarty of the 4th line Regiment to declare war with Colorado. McCarty got far and beat up the old General by heroically taking him down when his back was turned. Patrick Roy was also involved somehow, squaring off with Mike Vernon and later Chris Osgood, and but no body cared due to Allen Iverson's barmitsvah.
Hockey Town v.s. Hockey State v.s. Hockey Bay[edit | edit source]
Recently their have been debates on whether Detroit or Pittsburgh is the true Hockey Town or if Minnesota is the one and only hockey state. And then of course there is Hockey Bay located in Florida. (WTF?!?!) Anyway, it seems we have an identity crisis here. Honestly, there is only one true Hockey Nation and that is, Detroit, which is ironic given the quality of their professional teams.
Detroit Red Wings Trivia[edit | edit source]
- The Guinness Book of World Records lists the fact that the best thing about Detroit is six white guys as the most ironic thing ever.
- Sidney Crosby is a Fag.
- The current Red Wings head coach is Mike Babcock.
- Wile E. Coyote always wanted to eat Roadrunner with the Detroit Red Meep Meeps as a side dish
- The Red Wings are known as the Detroit Red Meep Meeps in Phoenix
See Also[edit | edit source]
- The Honorable Mayor Kwame being greeted at Red Wings Victory Celebration.
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- That sucky team from Canadia
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