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Tripoli: Four people have been killed when a protest outside a base for security forces in eastern Libya turned violent less than a week after suspected Islamic militants killed four policemen at the same compound.
A police official in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi said protesters and suspected Islamic militants had gathered outside the compound to demand the release of a man being held in connection with the assassination last month of the head of one of the city`s security agencies, National Security Chief Col Farag el-Dersi.
Some in the crowd opened fire on the compound during the protest and clashed with police, the security official said. Assailants then launched a rocket-propelled grenade on a military vehicle that was sent to the scene. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
The official said two civilians, a suspected Islamic militant and police officer were killed yesterday. Nine people were wounded, including the head of a powerful militia aligned with the military.
In Benghazi, where the revolt that unseated longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi began last year, security has sharply deteriorated over the past year. An attack in September on the US Consulate in Benghazi killed US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Yesterday`s attack takes place just four days after four policemen were shot dead when militants attacked the same security compound. The unknown assailants attacked the security compound in an apparent attempt to break into a nearby detention centre where the suspect in el-Dersi`s killing is being held.


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A federal judge has given Country Crossing casino developer Ronnie Gilley another two-week delay in reporting to prison.
Gilley was supposed to report to federal prison on Monday. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson has granted Gilley's request to delay that until Nov. 19. The delay will allow the Enterprise businessman more time to recover from a complication from an unspecified surgery. It is the fourth delay granted to Gilley.
He was originally scheduled to report to prison Aug. 27 for offering bribes to legislators to support pro-gambling legislation. He has received delays to allow him to pay for his surgery and recovery rather than the federal Bureau of Prisons paying for it.
Gilley faces a sentence of six years and eight months.
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A father of two has made an emotional plea to both local and federal Government to deliver aid, eight months after Hurricane Sandy destroyed his family home in Breezy Point, Queens.
Around 120 Breezy Point homes were burned to the ground during Hurricane Sandy when the storm battered the East Coast on October 29 last. All that is left of Kieran Burke's home at 8 Irving Walk is an empty lot.
"Everything I own, everything my wife and I worked towards and everything that belonged to our family was incinerated," Burke explains during an emotional video entitled 'What's left of my house'.
"Our homes were here at 12 o'clock in the afternoon on October 29th 2012, it is now the 23rd of June 2013 we are closer to a year of being homeless than we are to the date of that storm and it is absolutely unacceptable."
"We need action, we need dunes, we need support," Burke pleads.
After the storm Burke, 41, a lifelong resident of Breezy Point, his wife Jennifer, 40, and sons, Kieran James, 2, and infant Matthew Patrick Burke, were left homeless
"It seems as if we've been forgotten about. It's been eight months, I don't know what to tell my child, I don't know what to tell my wife about how we can get home."
"We are still no closer than we were the day that this area was smoldering."
"It's unacceptable that all these people are homeless, that eight months have gone by and this is a ghost town and it's unacceptable that we cannot get any concrete answers about floodplain maps, about dunes, about replenishment."
Last month Burke revealed he was still receiving bills from the Long Island Power Authority, despite his home burning to the ground.
"We are paying mortgages on empty properties. We are paying rents in displacement homes.
"We are paying bills that we couldn't have possibly planned for. We have insurance policies that cannot be acted on, because the government will not allow us to move forward."
"It needs to stop now, please lend us your support, put yourself in our shoes. Understand that what happened to us could happen to anybody,"
Watch Kieran Burke's video plea below:
what's left of my house... from Annie Watson on Vimeo.


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Heather Hathaway and Andrew Utterback have announced their engagement.
Heather Hathaway and Andrew Utterback have announced their engagement.
She is the daughter of Marvin and Wuanita Hathaway.
His parents are Mark and Judy Utterback and Nelsie Taft.
The prospective bride is a 2003 graduate of Monroe City High School and a 2007 graduate of Columbia College, with a bachelor's degree in human services. She is currently employed with the University of Missouri Extension in Paris, Mo.
The prospective bridegroom is a 2001 Monroe City High School graduate and is currently employed by Feldman's Flooring Installation.
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Kansas State edges George Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) — Angel Rodriguez scored 14 of his 17 points in the second half as Kansas State defeated George Washington 65-62 Saturday.
Rodney McGruder finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds, and Will Spradling scored 10 for the Wildcats (7-1), who played their first true road game this season.
Dwayne Smith scored 14 points and Isaiah Armwood had 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Colonials (4-5), who hosted their first BCS program since the 2009-10 season.
Kansas State defeated George Washington 69-56 on its home court last season.
The Wildcats let a seven-point second-half lead slip away but jumped ahead for good on Nino Williams' putback with 3:18 remaining. Rodriguez was fouled while attempting a 3-pointer with Kansas State ahead 58-57, and he sank all three free throws with 1:46 left.
After Armwood made 3 of 4 free throws for the Colonials, Rodriguez's jumper with 1:03 left pushed the lead back to 63-60, but he missed a one-and-one free throw with 26 seconds left.
Joe McDonald's layup cut the lead to one, but Spradling made two free throws, putting Kansas State up by three with 13 seconds left. Smith's 3-point try with 2 seconds remaining went long.
The Wildcats grabbed 24 offensive rebounds and finished with a 46-36 edge on the glass.
Trailing 29-27 at halftime and by four early in the second half, the Wildcats surged ahead 44-37 with a 15-4 spurt, which included two Spradling 3-pointers. The Colonials countered with a 13-4 run, going ahead 50-48 on Smith's 3-point play with 9:03 remaining.
Lasan Kromah scored 12 points and Patricio Garino 10 for the Colonials, losers of two straight.
George Washington turned a 9-2 spurt first half spurt into a 25-18 lead, the Colonials' largest of the game. McGruder stopped the run with a 3-pointer and the D.C. native tallied 12 points in the first half. Kansas State grabbed 25 rebounds before halftime but shot only 31.6 percent and trailed George Washington 29-27 at the break.


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The first thing Federico Peretti sees as he looks out of the balcony of his Buenos Aires apartment is the slogan "You're in the B". Crudely daubed in large black letters on the roof of a neighbouring building, it is a message aimed squarely at the 31-year-old photographer, director and River Plate fan.
He has learned to see the funny side of this daily reminder of his team's relegation to the Primera B Nacional, Argentina's second division. After all, the clubs he has visited for his book and documentary, 'El otro fútbol' (The Other Football), make teams in La B look like Barcelona and Real Madrid. In a 50,000 km odyssey by car, bus and plane, he has visited over 180 lower league, or ascenso, football clubs. But, as he is quick to point out, this is not your average football documentary.
"Football is the excuse," says Peretti, "what caught my attention was everything that goes on around that rectangle on which the game is played. It's a look at how people live in places like La Quiaca and Ushuaia. That's why in the book and the documentary you won't see any pictures of goals or barras bravas."
What you will see are half-painted stadiums, dusty pitches, and fans braving the elements to follow their team. He describes the project as being: "about people and the places they go to meet every Saturday with their family, their friends, their colours and their past." It is this social element, the football club as the beating heart of the community, that is the essence of the other football.
"'El otro fútbol' is the feeling that goes beyond win or lose. People want to see their team win championships and get promoted to the primera división, but if they don't, they support them anyway. Because their parents supported them, because their kids support them. They turn up to the game two hours early, eat an asado, and help to paint the stands. It's not just for the dream of sporting glory."
To journey to the four corners of Argentina visiting forgotten or unheard of football clubs sounds like the kind of challenge that started out as a bet, but the project's origins are far more organic. While covering lower league games as a photographer for the magazine Ascenso, Peretti's lens began to stray from events on the pitch.
"In reality the goals, the moves, it's all of a lower standard to what you'll see in the Primera División. The stadiums are older, the players are fatter, so I started looking at everything going on around the game. Like the picture I took at Deportivo Armenio, a whole stand with just one fan in it, sitting there in the beating sun as if he were at the beach. I started to bring my old Russian Logica camera along to the games as well as the digital one I use for the magazine. Whenever I saw something interesting, I took a picture, and after a while the idea came to me that it could turn into a book."
The book idea led to thoughts of a film. Barring Fox Sports' fly-on-the-wall documentary following the highs and more often lows of bottom-league strugglers, Club Atlas, coverage of the smaller clubs is almost non-existent. Where the Atlas scenes sometimes have the feel of a staged soap opera, Peretti was aiming for something far more authentic.
"When Fox arrive at Atlas, they have an entire film crew, but we were just two people. Sometimes it was only me, with my camera, in the dressing room. They presumed I was only taking photos so the players didn't take any notice. Not once in the documentary does a player look directly into the camera and we get to see what really goes on in a dressing room, with no one acting up for the cameras."
After winning funding from the National Institute of Cinema and Audovisual Arts (INCAA) on the back of their initial footage, Peretti got more ambitious: "Up to that point we were focusing on Capital Federal and Greater Buenos Aires but with the funding I said, no, let's widen it, and so we went to San Juan, La Rioja, Santa Fe, Ushaia, Córdoba, La Quiaca…"
In a journey to every stadium from the Primera B (the Argentine third division) to the Primera D, and over 100 clubs in regional leagues below that, Peretti amassed over 300 hours of footage, of which only an hour and a half has made it into the final cut. After three years covering lower league games every Saturday, the director has a few new favourite stadiums.
"There's the Estadio Único in La Quiaca. You hear the name and you think, 'wow, this is going to be something'. But really it's a badly cared for, half-painted pitch which doesn't even have lines on it. In Chilecito, in the province of La Rioja, the ground where they play most of their games has two normal stands and on the other two sides there are mountains. When the ball goes out it bounces off the rock and people who don't have tickets just climb onto the mountain to watch the games."
As surreal as these places sound, the idea of the project is not to display remote stadiums as eccentric outposts, or the fans that visit them as oddballs to be pitied. Peretti explains: "The voiceovers on coverage of these teams usually say things like, 'look at these poor people, who barely have money for shoes, who have to play on these terrible pitches…' But that's not the reality I saw. In La Quiaca there's a team called Inter de La Quiaca, who play in one of the lowest leagues in the country; it's almost like having a kick-around with your mates. And because they can't afford their own kit they play in the shirts of Inter Milan. One of their players told me, 'Inter is my life, it's my dream to play for them', the guy was serious, he thought he was playing alongside (Esteban) Cambiasso and (Javier) Zanetti in the real Inter. But he was happy, he'd fulfilled his dream."
They may be a long way from the dizzy heights of the Primera División but these players take things just as seriously as the professionals, even down to pre-match preening, as one remarkable story covered in the documentary shows. "There's a team of prisoners, Pioneros, who won the league of Campana and were promoted to the Torneo C, a much bigger league. For the first time they played outside prison walls. There was a policeman for each member of the squad and the team bus went to games escorted by four police trucks. The matches were played behind closed doors and the only spectators were policemen with rifles, but it didn't matter, in the dressing room the ritual was the same. They combed their hair and put in gel just like the River players do before a game."
While games played behind closed doors are a rarity, games without away fans are the norm in the ascenso. The murder of a fan at a game between Nueva Chicago and Tigre in 2007 led to a ban on visiting supporters that still stands. This is something Peretti admits takes some of the shine off lower league football. "There have been protests and complaints since it came into action but I think fans are used to it now. It's a shame because the fun of the ascenso is if you watch a game in the D, there are probably about 200 fans for each team and you can hear exactly what they are saying to each other."
While that banter between fans may be missing, he believes violent incidents have decreased because of the ban. That is not to say he did not encounter any unpleasantness during his journey. Towards the start of his stint working for Ascenco, Peretti covered the Defensores Unidos versus Villa Dálmine derby. After changing ends to cover a penalty for the away side he was accused of being a visiting fan. The shouts turned to threats and when leaving the stadium he was met by a punch to the side of the head and dragged into a crowd of 50 local fans baying for his blood. The head of security intervened and he eventually managed to persuade the club vice president he was just an impartial observer, there for a work assignment. Unsurprisingly, the incident made him question the entire endeavour.
"I had a fever and was in bed all week after that. Part of me thought, that's it, I'm not going to a game again, but at the same time I'd started something and taking these pictures at matches fascinated me. So I decided to go to a game the following week, regardless of whether the magazine sent me or not. As it happened they sent me to Comunicaciones, and to get to the pitch you have to pass the big local stand. I thought everyone was staring at me and that I might have a panic attack but I got through the game. After that the season ended and there were two or three months off, but if I hadn't have gone back immediately, I might never have."
Scores of clubs and thousands of fans will be grateful he did. A celebration of Argentina's vast network of historic football clubs and the people whose lives revolve around them, El Otro Fútbol seeks to educate as well as entertain. "Generally people who don't follow the ascenso think the people who go to these games are crazy. I wanted to make a film that could interest a Boca fan, for example, who would watch it and think, 'there's something interesting going on here, I never knew.'"
A long way from Boca and River this may be, but it's still football, the other football.
The book, El Otro Fútbol is out now and can be purchased by contacting Federico Peretti through the official website. The documentary is due to premiere at the end of March. Here's an excerpt to tide you over until then:
El otro fútbol from Federico Peretti on Vimeo.


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B.Ed Course in Dadra and Nagar Haveli
When it comes to admission to B.Ed Colleges in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, most of the institutions make it compulsory that the applicants must be degree holder. Not just UG holders, but also PG holders apply for B. Ed institutes in Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Bachelor of Education is a compulsory qualification for teachers these days in most of the high schools in Dadra and Nagar Haveli. When a candidate, takes up M. Ed in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, after B. Ed, the scope for placement in higher secondary schools is brighter. One of the important skills to become a teacher is good communication skill, such that concepts can be explained to students in Dadra and Nagar Haveli with ease.


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Kirindija Vedran, Pelješko, Dingac, 2002
Hand-carried back from Croatia. Color is medium crimson red with a clear lightening on the edge. In the glass are deep plum, clove-spice, dried flowers (roses, peony). Sappy plums, some slight resin, dried flowers and basket straw, raisin and deeply steeped hibiscus tea. Slight ripasso in feel: sweet, lush, and heady (14.5% alkol), but finishing with gripping tannins that suggest this is still youthful. Has a body of a zinfandel but with the signature of a southern Italian, perhaps an Etna Rosso or an aglianico in feel. Interesting and wish I had another bottle of two to trace its evolution. B+/A-
Bitouzet-Prieur, Volnay 'Pitures', 1996
Recent experience has told me to open these '96 Burgundies. (Note that I tend to enjoy them on the young side when the potential is there rather than the finding the fading flavors attractive) Oh-oh, color has a noticeable sable rim. The only flavors coaxed out of the glass are old cherry and earth, but the kind close to either a graveyard or scrap heap. Tastes old and tired, and unworthy of its $35 pricetag. D-O-A. D/D-
Dom. Bruno Clair, Chambolle Musigny 'les Veroilles', 1996
Good thing I have another 96 for comparison value. Better color, this one is light cherry-maroon red. A lovely nose of wild strawberries footcrushed by hiking boots walking on diatomaceous earth. Old, opened strawberry preserves and field hay, Japanese green tea in the mouth. Tannins are fully resolved, with tangy redcurrants falling on the sappy finish. Not bad at all, especially appealing is the beautiful, unfading nose. B+ $40 on closeout.


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Data Center Pricing Schedules: Driving Positive Vendor Behavior
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One of the most scrutinized and highly negotiated elements of an IT outsourcing (ITO) agreement for infrastructure is the resource pricing schedule. This forward-pricing matrix specifies data center management costs for billable resource units, such as server instances, database instances, network elements and storage capacity over the term of the relationship. Like a tax table or any other financial schedule, the ITO rate structure has a significant impact on the behavior of those governed by it--in this case, the service provider. To encourage efficient asset utilization, thoughtful definition of billable resource units and measurement, along with supporting contractual terms, are critical in fostering positive service provider behavior.
Variable usage ITO pricing cost is driven by both the data center pricing schedule unit cost and resource usage. The most common practice is to negotiate rates based on baseline resource assumptions and then adjust--up or down--each month based on actual consumption. In practice, limits on variance exist, with unit costs increasing at lower volumes and discounts applied for increased volumes. Of course, other charges and credits come into play, as well.
While this pay-per-use model is intuitively appealing, without diligent asset and vendor management, financial creep is a challenge in this billing approach. In fact, mid-term outsourcing relationship audits (for example, in year three of a five- to seven-year contract) have shown that many ITO clients are running at 20% to 30% over growth-corrected total spend expectations. It is critical to take the following preventive measures to proactively manage pricing overages and drive positive vendor behavior regarding resource efficiency.
1. Don't reward resource "sprawl": The obvious downside of variable pricing contracts based on resource units is that they motivate the service provider to add resource units. In a perfect world, resources would be responsibly managed to competitive utilization targets. In practice, however, we see clients paying for idle and underutilized resources on a regular basis. Real-world examples include a client paying for backup resources (automated tape library slots) that were 9% in use, a server environment that was so poorly tuned it was incurring 30% overhead (net additional hardware) and a number of clients paying for storage capacity at less than 40% utilization. For outsourcing contracts with client-owned hardware and software, consider the service provider's dilemma: Make unreimbursed investments in technology and tuning efforts to increase efficiency and drive down your revenue stream, or maintain the status quo and watch revenue grow with increased overhead. Although most contracts typically include some shared savings incentives and continuous improvement responsibilities, the contract language is often not specific enough to enforce.
To effectively manage the disconnect between service provider revenue generation and efficient asset utilization, end users should consider one or more of the following approaches to get the client-vendor relationship on track from the start
a.) Define billable resource units to align with real usage, not raw capacity.
In this approach, resource units are defined to reflect consumption, not capacity. As an example, the vendor charges only for allocated storage (the storage a server can "see" looking out from its I/O interfaces), not the available capacity of the installed storage array. While some per-unit rates may be higher, if scaled correctly, it is well worth the trade-off. For example, if a service provider is prepared to charge $100/terabyte/month for installed capacity and assumes it can get an effective yield of 60% for client-usable storage, it will seek a "usable capacity" rate of $100/60%=$167/terabyte/month. Going forward, the vendor will have to manage to 60% utilization to maintain initial profit margins. Were effective utilization to drop over time due to poor management, it would be at vendor expense, not client expense. The logic supporting this storage-based example extends to server utilization via exploitation of virtualization and standardization, network resource utilization, and so on.
b.) Define minimum utilization standards for all resource categories.
Here the contract will contain very specific resource utilization and efficiency metrics with penalties for underutilization, or billing relief for missed targets. Be very specific in defining not only what the utilization targets are, but also the specific tools and methods used to measure them. They should be measured on a regular basis--monthly is ideal.
c.) Retain architectural control and ownership of the resource definition and placement process.
In this very simple and direct approach, additions to resource pools are at the client's discretion. The statement of work (that is, the description of services) contract exhibit specifies that retained client technical resources have the final word on when new resources are created, how they are defined and where they are placed. However, be aware that without control over resource utilization and resource placement, service providers may limit their accountability for service levels around performance and, to a lesser extent, availability.
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Wood It Be Beautiful
I built my first rocking chair in 1982. Ever since, I have steadily worked to improve my design, joinery and finishing skills. Today, I'm proud to make heirloom-quality chairs that will last for generations.
For me, chair making is the most satisfying form of furniture making, not just because chairs are quite challenging to make but because I get to use and enjoy them every day.
I totally enjoy sharing what I know about making chairs and chair making tools. I teach these skills in "My Shop" and I donate chairs to the Carter Center and Good Samaritan Boys Ranch near Springfield, Missouri fund raising auctions each year. I could not ask for a better way to help others and share what I do.
I admire the Japanese woodworker's skills, precision and sense of tradition. I strive to apply these traits to the chairs that I make. Even though I take some liberty with design, I am committed to preserving the skills and traditions of the Appalachian Ladder Back and Colonial Windsor chair makers.


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The New York Post went with an intense front page photograph for their Tuesday morning cover story on the Queens father who was pushed onto the tracks of a Times Square subway platform , after trying to stop a "crazed" panhandler from harassing subway riders. He was hit by a train seconds later and pronounced DOA at the hospital.
Captioned with the words "Doomed" and "This man is about to die," the image begs the question, why didn't the photographer help Han? And many social media users wondered the same:
Shame on you if you'd rather take pics of a man about to die, than help that man about to die. bit.ly/TzSczC— Sarah Kogod (@SarahKogod) December 4, 2012
The NY Post cover today crosses the line, IMHO. A pic of a man pushed onto a subway track right before he is struck and killed. Grim.— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein) December 4, 2012
Absolutely disturbing cover of the NY Post today, especially with that sensationalized caption--upsetting me the more I think about it— Amrita (@the_sweetart) December 4, 2012
That NY POST cover today is just so wrong.— Nelson Branco (@nelliebranco) December 4, 2012
The photo, which captures Ki Suk Han, 58, hanging from the edge of the platform and looking toward the oncoming train, was taken by the Post's freelance photographer R. Umar Abbassi, who explained that he had tried to use his camera flash to warn the train operator.
"I just started running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash," said Abbasi, whose camera captured chilling shots of Suk's tragic fight for his life.
The train slowed, but a dazed and bruised Han still wound up hopelessly caught between it and the platform as it came to a halt.
A shaken Abbasi said the train "crushed him like a rag doll."
The NYPD department also released short surveillance footage of the altercation between Han and the unidentified man who pushed him [Via Gothamist].


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In Good Health Inc. will be the first medical marijuana dispensary to open its doors in Brockton after receiving a provisional license from the state's Department of Public Health last month.
BROCKTON – In Good Health Inc. is giving a new meaning to the term "green economy" in Brockton.
The business will be the first medical marijuana dispensary to open its doors in Brockton after receiving a provisional license from the state's Department of Public Health last month.
"We're very excited to be in the city of Brockton," said David Noble, the nonprofit's president and CEO. "We look forward to working with everybody and having a first-class operation."
Noble, a licensed nursing home administrator and manager for a medical supplies company, said he looks forward to providing patients with another choice to alleviate suffering.
"In my opinion, it's an alternative for those who might not necessarily be able to take narcotics or who suffer from chronic ailments," Noble said.
In the coming weeks, Noble said that the nonprofit will continue working with the DPH as the dispensary looks to open up shop by the end of the year.
While an official opening is likely months away, the nonprofit's application with the state gives some insight into what to expect when the dispensary begins serving patients.
The dispensary has signed a 10-year lease at 1200 West Chestnut St., which is within an overlay district specifically zoned for medical marijuana in Ward 3.
At the 16,000-square-foot facility, the nonprofit will grow, prepare and sell medical marijuana.
In its first year of operation, the dispensary expects to serve 500 patients, who would purchase an average of two ounces of marijuana every two months.
At that rate, the dispensary would sell 6,000 ounces, or 375 pounds of marijuana, during its first year of business.
At an average of $300 an ounce, the nonprofit would sell $1.8 million worth of marijuana in its first year.
By the nonprofit's third year of business, it is projected to serve 1,000 patients with 750 pounds of marijuana, totaling $3,390,000 in sales.
In addition to marijuana meant to be smoked, tinctures, salves and edibles, such as chocolates, brownies and cookies will also be available.
The dispensary will begin operation with a staff of 14, which is expected to grow to 24 by the end of its third year.
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