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Restaurant Review
Pupuseria y Restaurant Salvadoreño
El "Happy Meal" Salvadoreño
Last year the popular South Valley Pupuseria y Restaurant Salvadoreño opened a satellite restaurant on Gibson and San Mateo, in the shadow of the infamous "Chevy on a Stick" statue. When I ate there recently, I was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a famous set of golden arches and the word "McShit."
I mention this because when my bill arrived, it said "5% off because of the shirt."
Ed Aguilar, who co-owns the pair of restaurants with his mother Ruth, earned points for giving me points for my shirt. But he gets more for running a top-notch restaurant.
As I ordered at the counter, Aguilar asked if I wanted something to drink. I surveyed the drink options and thought to myself, Here we go again. All I saw was the painfully familiar lineup of soft drinks and little else—drink selection is the Achilles' heel of otherwise interesting restaurants. Perhaps sensing my frustration, Aguilar flipped over the menu and exposed a back page full of fresh juices, aguas frescas and smoothies. I settled on a tamarind agua fresca and an orange-carrot-celery juice, freshly made on the spot.
The ambience of the new Pupuseria y Restaurant Salvadoreño is happy and laid back, like a small beachside cabana. The cinder-block walls are covered with neon beach towels sporting depictions of coffee pickers, a market scene and, of course, a pupuseria. Paper palm trees lurk in the corners and salsa music blares. A covered patio offers outdoor seating (and a view of McDonalds).
Pupusas are like advanced corn tortillas—as thick as pancakes and stuffed with goodies. In addition to a deep line of pupusas (chicharrón, fish, chicken, beef, ham and cheese, carne asada, beans, cheese, calabacitas), the menu includes an assortment of dishes that may seem vaguely familiar to aficionados of cuisines from south of the border. The large tamale Salvadoreño wasn't drenched in red or green chile but was filled with olives, potatoes, capers and shredded chicken.
Pupusas are like advanced corn tortillas—as thick as pancakes and stuffed with goodies.
Plain pupusas, which come with most meals, are eaten with a mild tomato sauce and a side salad called curtido, a sort of Salvadoran sauerkraut of pickled cabbage with flecks of beet, oregano and chile.
Five bucks for a side of boiled yucca seemed a little steep, but I went for it because I have a soft spot for those sweet tubers. The yucca arrived alongside a small salad and a large helping of chicharrónes, which easily moved it from overpriced to a deal.
The fried tilapia was large, with a golden exterior and thick flesh. Slices across each filet increased the fried surface area and allowed the pieces to be extracted with minimum effort. The feast of a plate was rounded out by vegetable-studded rice, a side of fresh and spicy pico de gallo, and two plain pupusas with attendant pupusa condiments. I licked every last bone.
Fish soup (caldo de pescado) had a touch of sour cream and delivered a whole-body satisfaction akin to a fish coconut curry. This Salvadoran comfort food can also be ordered with shrimp.
The flavor of a green chile pupusa was similar to a chile relleno, while the loroco pupusa, stuffed with the buds of the Central American loroco flower (aka Fernaldia pandurata), was thoroughly unique. The loroco had a wild, vegetative presence, like fiddlehead ferns or asparagus.
Pupuseria y Restaurant Salvadoreño is worth a visit, whether it's at the new address or the flagship location on Bridge. The food is full of pleasant surprises and simple elegance. And it's served by friendly staff who know enough to reward you for making fun of McDonalds.
The Alibi recommends:
• Surf—Mojarra frita (whole fried tilapia), caldo de pescado
• Turf—boiled yucca, loroco flower and chicharrón pupusas, tamale Salvadoreño
• Washing it all down with a glass of carrot-orange-celery juice
Pupuseria y Restaurant Salvadoreño
2025 Ridgecrest SE (corner of Gibson and San Mateo)
goforpupusas.com (coupons available on the website)
Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Closed Sunday.
Vibe: Beachfront
Price range: $2.25 (stuffed pupusas ) to $10.25 ( Mojarra frita plate)

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Consider a two dimensional array with M rows and N columns. This represents the world in which some organisms live. Each of the M by N cells in this array is either occupied (if an organism lives there) or is vacant. No more than one organism can live in any one cell at any time. Each cell, except those on the boundaries (the edge of the world), has exactly eight neighboring cells (above, below, left, right, and four diagonals). The cells on the boundaries have less than eight neighboring cells.
Initially, there is a given population of organisms occupying certain of the cells. At each succeeding generation, the organisms reproduce and die as follows:
For example, suppose the initial world (the ``zero"th generation) is as follows, using X to indicate the occupied cells and blanks for the vacant cells:
X X XXX XX XXXX X X XXThen the next generation is
On the input file, the blanks are represented by dots.
Write a program to play this Game of Life. Your program should read the initial world from a file (see below) and repeatedly generate new generations, prompting the user each time to see if he or she wants to see the next generation or terminate the program. Also, the program should terminate automatically if the world becomes empty, displaying a message accordingly (this will happen for life3.dat).
Use two-dimensional arrays of type char to store the old and new generations respectively. To keep things simple, assume that M=25 and N=75, i.e. the world has 25 rows and 75 columns, and define these in a final statement before declaring your array variables.
Data files for testing your program will be provided on the home page. You should make sure your program works correctly on all these files, and you should also try your own test data. Download these files simply by choosing save Target link as when the cursor is on the specific file on the The Data for the Game of Life page and the mouse right button is pressed. If you type .dat after the file name, it will be saved as dat file. Thus your program would read for instance, file0.dat. The program should prompt the user for the name of the input file (use a String variable).
Empty cells are represented with dots and occupied cells with X's. Read the data and assign the data to a two-dimensional array using two nested for loops. The outer loop reads a string consisting of the data on a given line of the input file. The inner loop assigns the data to a given row of the array. In order to read the file, you will have to use FileStringReader (it is posted directly under the link for this assignment) which has the string indicating the file you are reading as the parameter of the constructor. Thus to read the first file you would have FileStringReader kbd = new FileStringReader( "file1.dat");; and then String line = kbd.readLine() to read a string. Of course, in your program you would have a string variable representing "file1.dat" whose value you type as input to your program .
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You need two 2-dimensional arrays---the new generation should be created based on information from the old generation. If you use only one array, you will find that your old generation is overwritten by the new one before you have finished using all the information you need from it.
You should create a ``border'' of cells that always stay empty by declaring your arrays from 0 to M+1 and from 0 to N+1. This way, the cells on the edge will also have eight neighboring cells and won't need special treatment.
Include at least two non-void methods. One should take a world and the coordinates of a cell and return the number of neighbors (organisms in neighboring cells) that the cell has. The other should take a generation array and return a Boolean value that tells whether or not the world represented by the array is empty.
Write all generations to the screen (don't forget the generation numbers), with a prompt to the user to type a key when ready to see the next one.
You can see how the game, as described so far, works by connecting to the web page and running the program there on the Demo for different worlds link. However, your program should not be an applet; it should be a Java application.
Once your program is working,
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Tuesday is Election Day in three of Barrow County's municipalities. Voters in Winder and Statham will choose members of their city councils. Voters in the Town of Carl will decide whether they want, for the first time, to allow restaurants to serve alcohol by the drink.
While municipal elections typically don't generate a lot of excitement among voters, Tuesday's elections will be historic in a couple of ways. Winder voters for the first time will cast their ballots on electronic voting machines.
And with eight candidates vying for three council seats, Statham voters will have an unprecedented number of candidates from which to choose.
Although the county elections office is running Winder's elections this year, voting on Nov. 3 will be at the same place it always is, the Winder Community Center at 113 E. Athens St. Inside the council's chambers from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday will be electronic voting machines and county elections personnel.
With only two council races on the ballot — Ward 1 incumbent Sonny Morris versus challenger Don Graden and at-large incumbent Mike Mingus versus challenger Bob Dixon — voting should be a snap.
Polls at Statham City Hall on Jefferson Street will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Although incumbents Betty Lyle and Gayle Steed, who have both been on the council since the early 1980s, are running for re-election, the outcome Tuesday is anybody's guess.
With eight candidates splitting the votes, turnout will be the key for the three winners.
The challengers are Jeremiah Bennett, Johnnie Ellington, David Huth, Betty Kinney, Susan Martin and Terry Tripp.
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'This Sub Procedure Initializes The Direct and Direct3D objectHTML Code:'-------------------------- 'Game Programming Tutorial - Part 1 'Drawing a colored Screen 'For the time being we will use the Main Form, will change later 'MainForm.frm 'Since we are using MainForm public can be dim on the const and objects, but set them to public becase they will be moved to a MODULE in the upcoming Tutorials '-------------------------- 'Make sure all variables are declared Option Explicit 'CONSTANTS NEEDED 'CUSTOMIZE PROGRAM HERE 'desired width Public Const SCREENWIDTH as Long = 800 'desired height public Const SCREENHEIGHT AS LONG = 600 'change to true when all 'code works public Const FULLSCREEN AS BOOLEAN = FALSE 'COLORS Public Const C_BLACK as long = &h0 'Direct Objects that will be needed 'this will be explained in Sub InitDirect public dx as directx8 public d3d as direct3d8 public d3dpp as D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS Public dispmode as D3DDISPLAY_MODE Public d3ddev as direct3dDevice8
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On Form Load EventHTML Code:Public Sub InitDirect( _ ByVal hwnd as long, _ ByVal lWidth as long, _ ByVal lHeight as long, _ ByVal bFullScreen as Boolean) 'catch errors on local error goto error_handler 'Create the DirectX Object Set dx = New DirectX8 'Create the Direct3D Object Set d3d = dx.Direct3DCreate() if d3d is nothing then MsgBox "Error Initializing Direct3D!" Shutdown End If 'use the current color depth d3d.GetAdapterDisplayMode D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, dispmode 'Set up the Present Parameters For Windowed Mode With d3dpp .hDeviceWindow = hwnd .backbuffercount = 1 .backbufferwidth = lWidth .backbufferheight = lHeight .SwapEffect = D3DSWAPEFFECT_COPY_VSYNC 'If change FULLSCREEN to TRue then Windowed = 0 (Fullscreen Mode) 'else then Windowed = 1 (Normal Mode) if bFullscreen then .Windowed = 0 else .Windowed = 1 End If End With 'Create the Primary Display Device Set d3ddev = d3d.CreateDevice( _ D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, _ D3DDEVTYPE_HAL, _ hwnd, _ D3D_CREATE_SORTWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING, _ d3dpp) if d3ddev is nothing then msgbox "Error Creating Primary Display Device!" Shutdown End if exit sub error_handler: MsgBox "Error Creating Direct Objects!" Shutdown End Sub
I hope some people can use thisHTML Code:Private Sub Form_Load() me.caption = "Color Screen" me.scalemode = 3 me.width = screen.twipsPerPixelX * (SCREENWIDTH + 12) me.height = screen.twipsPerPixelY * (SCREENHEIGHT + 30) me.show 'Initialize Direct3D InitDirect Me.hwnd, SCREENWIDTH, SCREENHEIGHT, FULLSCREEN 'Clear the Screen d3ddev.Clear 0, ByVal 0, D3DCLEAR_TARGET, C_BLACK, 1, 0 'Refresh the screen with the color d3ddev.Present ByVal 0, ByVal 0, 0, ByVal 0 End Sub
Also I am not good with graphics so if someone can send me a small 2D tile game world map, I will show users how a character moves around
Size 1600 x 1200, Tile Size Does not matter, but I normally use for my world 64 x 64, 32, x 32 is fine. I have a site that I can get the sprites from just not the tiles for the map.


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V-point drills are used for drilling thru-holes in solid wood, wood composites, or plastic laminated materials. These bits have been extensively tested throughout the furniture and cabinet industry with excellent results. V-point drills will leave a clean exit hole, but may cause some chipping on the entrance cut. Most bits are in stock available for immediate shipment.
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Coverage begins with "Football Night In America" at 4 p.m.
Chiefs-Colts at 4:30 p.m.; Saints-Eagles at 8 p.m.
13th annual U.S. Army All-American Bowl Saturday at 1 p.m. on NBC
NBC Sports will kick off its coverage of the 2013 NFL playoffs with a Wild Card doubleheader on Saturday featuring the Kansas City Chiefs (11-5) vs. Indianapolis Colts (11-5) at 4:30 p.m. ET, and the New Orleans Saints (11-5) vs. Philadelphia Eagles (10-6) at 8 p.m. ET. Both games will also be live streamed online via NBC Sports Live Extra. NBC and NBC Sports Live Extra's NFL Wild Card coverage on Saturday begins at 4 p.m. ET with a special 30-minute edition of "Football Night In America."
"Football Night In America," the most-watched pre-game show in sports, is hosted by 25-time Emmy Award-winner Bob Costas, who will report from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Costas will be joined on-site by two time Super Bowl winner and Super Bowl XL MVP Hines Ward.
Dan Patrick co-hosts "Football Night" from NBC's famed Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Patrick will be joined by Super Bowl-winning head coach Tony Dungy, two-time Super Bowl winner Rodney Harrison, Peter King of Sports Illustrated, Mike Florio of "Pro Football Talk on NBCSN" and NBCSports.com, and longtime NFL front office veteran and former NFL Executive of the Year Scott Pioli.
In the early game, Andrew Luck and the Colts host Alex Smith and the Chiefs at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The Colts enter the playoffs on a three-game win streak, having recently beaten the Chiefs in week 16 by a score of 23-7. The Chiefs finished the regular season with an overtime loss on the road against the Chargers this past Sunday, but Kansas City still holds the best record on the road in the NFL this season (6-2). Veteran play-by-play announcer Dan Hicks will be in the booth, joined by analyst Mike Mayock and reporter Alex Flanagan.
In the late game, Nick Foles and the Eagles will host Drew Brees and the Saints at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. The Eagles made it into the playoffs after a thrilling victory on the road this past Sunday in a win-or-go-home contest against the Cowboys. The Saints have a better overall record than the Eagles this season, and are coming off a 42-17 win at home against the Buccaneers, but are 3-5 on the road in 2013.
Coverage of Saints-Eagles will begin at 8 p.m. on NBC. Calling Saints-Eagles is seven-time Emmy Award-winner Al Michaels (play-by-play), who will be joined by 14-time Emmy Award-winner Cris Collinsworth, and Emmy Award-winning sideline reporter Michele Tafoya.


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Hugo Francisco Hijar
August 4, 1968 - March 29, 2013
Hugo Francisco Hijar "Frank" has left this world too soon. You will be missed by many loved ones for
your laughter, happiness, wisdom and advices. Like you said "you are, one of a kind". How true that is, our lives will not be the same. Que Dios te bendiga, vas hacer mucha falta. Love you.
Survived by sons; Eric, Alexander, Andrew and Anthony Hijar.
Daughter Alexis Hijar. Brother Jorge Abrica, Mother Rosalina Abrica.
Visitation Casa Bonita, on Apr. 6th, and 7th from 12-8pm. Rosary Apr. 7th at 4pm, 2500 Cemetery Ln, Stockton 95204. Mass, St. Mary's, Apr. 8th at 9:30 am. Burial at San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery on Harding Way.


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text: As a kid I often played 'Post Office'; I would cut out a window ('counter') in a large box, draw a few images on small pieces of paper ('stamps') and handle used envelops and magazines ('post') all afternoon. Ah, those where the days, sez auntie Femke. Perhaps that's why I still love to send out 'touchable' post in hi tech communication days like these. But receiving post is just as nice, especially if a package is filled with awesomeness. Today I got a package from US art pal Michael that contained three très cool objects; a freaky, home made hippie doll with leather skin and pieces of shell for eyes and two vintage finger puppets; a rabbit and a bear. It's not hard to imagine these amigos into my painted world. The doll is now leaning to my inspirational wall as if it never did anything else and the two puppets blended right into my cabinet of 'popjes' (small puppets). Thanks, Michael! And also thanks, Mr. Postman.


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McALLEN, Texas — Finally, Royce White will answer the questions on a basketball court.
The Rockets rookie hopes to make his season debut with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA D-League tonight against the Maine Red Claws (8:30 ET).
The 6-foot-8 power forward, who was the 16th pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, had twice previously rejected assignments to the D-League as he demanded a "protocol" to deal his anxiety disorder, which makes traveling — especially air travel — difficult.
White opened the season on the Rockets roster, but did not play and left the team in early November. With a nose for crashing the boards and knack for passing, he would seem to be a perfect complement to the NBA's fastest-paced offense.
White passed a physical by the Rockets over the weekend, arrived in the Rio Grande Valley on Sunday and met with Vipers team president Bert Garcia on Monday. Coach Nick Nurse will make the final determination at a pregame workout, but White is expected to be in the lineup.


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Bergmann and Kummer triumph in Bad Gastein Parallel Slalom
The first of two parallel slaloms of the FIS Alpine Snowboard World Cup tour staged in Bad Gastein, Austria, today, brought a surprising winner and a favourite taking the Gold with Alexander Bergmann (GER) clinching his career's first and Patrizia Kummer (SUI) her career's ninth.
Bergmann, a 26-year-old from Berchtesgaden, whose best result was a ninth rank in 47 World Cup starts before, tellingly earned in Bad Gastein last season, demonstrated his carving skills in the enthralling and exciting finals staged in the single run format on the Bucheben slope by edging off local hero and last year's winner Andreas Prommegger (AUT) to second.
"It's such a relief. I can't get it yet that I actually won a World Cup. The most important thing was to make it to the top-8, the rest was just the icing on the cake," the goofy rider said.
However, he also had a bit of luck after winning both, his semi and the final, with the tiny mere of only 8 hundredths each.
"Winning my duel in the round of the best 16 took a load off my mind. Ever since, it just went smoothly", he said.
One man's meat is another man's poison. In this case, for Andreas Prommegger who still was able to make his bad start into the season forgotten and thus told the media at site: "It's bitter to lose the final that close but on the other hand I was the lucky guy in the semis."
In his semi with Aaron March (ITA), the Alpine Snowboard Overall World Cup title defender only proceeded due to his better qualifier time.
Both athletes had stormed down the 270 metres long course head to head, staying side by side all the way down through the 21 gates before crossing the finish line at the same time.
"It's pretty rare that a person is out after being in a tie. Andi and I had a very good run. My first impression was that I made it but then I noticed the tie. So he went on due to the better qualifier time. That's hard but OK. I can live with that", March commented the tight duel which was only one of many today.
Especially as the South Tyrol resident rounded out the podium as third after beating Sebastian Kislinger (AUT) in the small final.
Kummer becomes Ms Bad Gastein
On the women's side Patrizia Kummer celebrated her third win in Bad Gastein, her fourth in Austria thus demonstrating her preference for races in her neighbour country while also reenforcing her claim to the Alpine Snowboard World Cup titles.
The Swiss athlete, one of the race board's dominating faces of the past years, now sits in first of the PSL World Cup standings with 1,400 points and also leads the Alpine Snowboard Overall World Cup ranking with 2,400 points.
However, the 26-year old from Mühlebach had not expected a result like this.
"I can't believe it. I'm super happy. I never thought that I would be able to keep the momentum like this. I really enjoyed the day.
The slope was actually in a good shape given the worse conditions the Local Organisers were facing over the past couple of days. They did a great job!"
Ledecka impresses
Multi-talent Ester Ledecka (CZE), who will not only compete in the parallel events of the snowboarders at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games but also in the super combined of the alpine skiers, clinched her career's best finishing in second position.
"It's amazing. I really enjoyed my first World Cup podium. It was tough because of the soft snow but still OK."
Marion Kreiner (AUT) rounded out the podium as third while Ekaterina Ilyukhina (RUS) had to settle with the fourth rank.
The FIS Alpine Snowboard World Cup tour continues next Sunday in Bad Gastein with another parallel slalom (finals 1 PM CET). This time, the race will be staged in the re-run format while also bringing the first decision for a Crystal Globe. Right now, Kummer – as written above - leads the race for the PSL World Cup title with 1,400 points on the ladies' side of things while Sylvain Dufour (FRA, 1,290) leads the men's standings.
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Civil and military conflicts in neighbouring countries have surrounded Iran ever since its own war with Iraq came to an end in the late 1980s. Although the resource-rich country was able to recover from the war with Iraq, the continuous influx of refugees, especially from Afghanistan and Iraq, required international assistance.
In 2002, a tripartite agreement was signed between the governments of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Afghanistan and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), outlining a four-year repatriation programme for Afghan refugees. According to the latest UNHCR reports, since the beginning of the Joint Programme for Voluntary Repatriation of Afghan Refugees and Displaced Persons in April 2002, the total number of Afghans who returned from Iran with UNHCR assistance is about 900,000. Many Afghans remain in Iran due to lack of peace, stability and resources in their home country.
Today, 950,000 Afghans and 50,000 Iraqi refugees live in Iran representing a burden on the local economy. In line with repatriation policy, the government limited areas where refugees can reside to certain parts of the country. Meanwhile, heavy fines for employers have discouraged companies and individuals from hiring refugees as casual labourers.
Moreover, in December 2010, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran implemented its economic reform plan and lifted blanket subsidies for fuel, water, electricity and wheat flour, from which refugees used to benefit and replaced it with targeted cash assistance to vulnerable Iranians only. This inevitably increased the living costs for refugees making them more dependent on UN assistance until they are repatriated.
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In Iran, WFP aims to address the basic food needs of refugees, strengthen their coping mechanisms and support their efforts to achieve food security through a prolonged relief and recovery operation. Currently, 950,000 Afghans and 50,000 Iraqi refugees still live in Iran in areas designated by the government.
WFP is currently providing food assistance to some 30,000 Iraqi and Afghan refugees living in 18 settlements located in the designated areas in 12 different Iranian provinces. Refugees receive a 14 kg monthly basket of staple food items such as wheat flour, rice, pulses, sugar and vegetable oil. The food basket provides each person with an average of 1,738 kcal per day covering a significant 83 percent of a person's minimum daily requirement.
WFP also provides an additional monthly take-home ration of vegetable oil as an education incentive to some 3,000 primary and secondary refugee schoolgirls and their female teachers. This intervention aims to stabilise girls' enrolment rates in primary schools as well as increase enrolment and reduce drop-out rates among girls in secondary schools. The additional ration encourages families to send their girls to school and has significantly reduced the gap between the enrolment rate of girls and boys from 30 percent in 1999 to 12.5 percent in 2007.
Joint Monitoring visits by WFP, UNHCR and the Bureau for Aliens and Foreign. Immigrants (BAFIA) are conducted twice a year in all 18 settlements where refugees reside. These visits aim to ensure that refugees have access to adequate quantity and quality of food besides monitoring food storage, handling and distribution and ensuring it is in line with WFP standards.
In July 2012, WFP and UNHCR conducted a Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) to ensure that food security and refugees' food-related requirements are adequately addressed throughout the on-going operation as well as to envisage future WFP activities in Iran.


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The Woman Behind the New Deal: Frances Perkins
She is no longer a household name, but during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration Frances Perkins was one of America's most influential women. As the first female secretary of labor she was responsible for implementing programs that reshaped society and business and established the social safety net we enjoy today.
Biographer Kirstin Downey examines Perkins' life and enduring impact in a discussion of her book The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins – Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage.
A former reporter for The Washington Post, Downey was the lead writer of The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report about the 2008 economic meltdown.
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This week, there is expected to be a strong push by some to go to an expanded nine-game SEC schedule in 2014 or at some point in the near future.
The nation's most powerful college conference has a reputation for doing things big, from its championship events, to its annual football media days in July, to its national news conference a few weeks ago announcing the formation of the SEC Network.
And so it is with the SEC's annual spring meetings. Once a quaint little event on the panhandle's Gulf Coast that went largely unnoticed, the meetings now attract media members from all over the country.
They have become so big that the SEC apparently has decided to scale back the event and, well, turn them back into just meetings again among the coaches, athletic directors and presidents and chancellors.
At this week's meetings in Destin, each media outlet will be restricted to one credential, photographers are not allowed and there will be less access to the coaches, ADs and presidents.
SEC commissioner Mike Slive, the voice of the conference, will be just that this week. He will be the only one holding news conferences. They will come at the end of each day, the final one on Friday, when Slive will announce a record payout to the league's 16 member institutions (something that happens every year).
The new restrictions may mean fewer quotes and anecdotes coming out of Destin, but there will be a lot of serious discussions going on behind closed doors.
One hot topic will continue to be scheduling in football, which also was a priority at last year's meetings, when the league voted to go with a 6-1-1 format (six division games, one permanent opponent from the opposite division and one permanent cross-division opponent) through the 2013 season.
This week, there is expected to be a strong push by some to go to an expanded nine-game SEC schedule in 2014 or at some point in the near future. It certainly should prompt some serious debate. Several coaches and athletic directors have expressed over the past year that a nine-game league schedule would be too demanding. Others have said it makes sense in the expanded league.
One aspect of the current schedule format that some of the coaches don't like is the permanent opponent from the opposite division. Perhaps the most outspoken against it has been LSU's Les Miles. The Tigers' permanent cross-division foe is Florida.
"It's interesting to see how you would compare our schedule with others," Miles said during the SEC coaches' spring teleconference a few weeks ago. "I wonder if there should be permanent partners. I wonder if we could choose cross-division opponents through a computer draw."
South Carolina's Steve Spurrier also is less than fond of having permanent opponents.
"If we want to be fair, we wouldn't have permanent opponents," Spurrier said. "But nobody said it was supposed to be fair."
Along with football scheduling, other items expected to be discussed this week are the football playoff, the SEC Network, which is scheduled to launch in 15 months, and bowl tie-ins as the league moves forward.
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Zach Braff Joins Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway Musical
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Zach Braff, who appeared in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery and recently told Allen all about Kickstarter, has landed his debut Broadway role in 2014's musical adaptation of Bullets Over Broadway. Allen is writing the adaptation and using Prohibition-era tunes for the music. Braff will play the part John Cusack had in the movie, "a young playwright in 1920s New York who, to get his work produced, is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend, to be played on Broadway by Heléne Yorke." So you will see Zach Braff singing. A lot.


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i would like a batch to come on at certen times any ideas? thanks!
Holy **** dude... How many threads about batch files plz must you make? It's called google.com... There are TONS of freaking batch tutorials out there.. IT's NOT THAT HARD TO DO BATCH! you throw commands in a file for gods sake... MUST you be spoon fed EVERYTHING?!?!? Go learn something on your own for once... Especially when it's something this easy... If you learn it on your own you will recollect it much better later on... Learn in well on your own... Spoon feeding teaches you nothing.
I'll help a little anyways since you really won't be able to use batch to start a batch file at a CERTAIN time. Use Task Scheduler to tell it what time to start... There's not much else you can do to make something start at a specific time without having another program already running.
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i would like a batch command that starts the batch on a certen time
That's because there ISN'T a command, because the batch would have to be RUNNING to make it START. If the BATCH is not running, how in the hell is it going to run the command that tells it to start?
I'm not HATING either... Don't double post...
You didn't find anything on google because it doesn't exist.
... your scareing me....... plz stp.....
EDIT: lol just playn so once it is activated it can set its self ona timer right? if so how?
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If your using windows you can use the Task Scheduler to run your batch file at a given time.
but is there a batch command that can set it?
Try looking at the help for at. As for there being a batch command to time it, no, you would have to get an executable capable of sleeping for a specific amount of time.
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The Grunt wasn't "hating" as you put it, he tried to help you, but you don't seem to listen to what people are saying, so he was getting frustrated. If you had read The Grunt's first post properly, you would have noticed that he already gave you the answer to your question even though it didn't look as though you had looked yourself.
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The Weeks, "Dear Bo Jackson" (Serpents and Snakes)
Here's more proof Nashville, Tenn., is saving rock 'n' roll one band at a time: The Weeks.
The mostly Mississippi quintet moved to Nashville a few years ago after putting out a few promising albums, signed with Kings of Leon imprint Serpents and Snakes Records, and have been polishing the music and enhancing the songs on "Dear Bo Jackson" till they shine.
The only real knock against them was that lead singer Cyle Barnes sounded waaaayyyy too much like KOL frontman Caleb Followill. "Dear Bo Jackson" mostly dispenses with that issue with 11 flavor-packed songs that show a band unafraid to embrace — and update — its Southern rock roots with the kind of love that's mostly missing from today's scene.
Five or six listens in and "Dear Bo Jackson" is still offering new delights from keys, pedal steel and strings that were initially obscured by the country funky, groove-oriented heart of each song. The Weeks rocked harder on earlier albums, but show they've grown into a band with the ability to stun on slow, emotional tracks like "Ain't My Stop," a song that stays with you awhile, "Gobi Blues" and "Chickahominy."
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Meanwhile, talk of a transaction tax has moved beyond individual countries to the European Commission itself — which wants to help states that impose an FTT collect that tax on shares traded outside their own jurisdictions. Only 11 of the European Union's 27 member states advocate an FTT, but these include three of the EU's four largest economies (Germany, France, and Italy). Those countries alone, however, don't have the clout to impose an EU-wide FTT, and the United Kingdom — the EU's third-largest economy — is glaringly absent from the list.
The Commission is considering a proposal that would let countries enforce collection of the tax across the European Union and even beyond. That means shares of a Paris-listed company traded in London would have to pay the tax, even if the United Kingdom doesn't adopt it. It also means exchanges in the United States and other countries might have to collect the tax as a condition for listing the shares.
For people who trade with a perspective longer than a minute or two, the tax is barely noticeable at 0.1% for stock and bond trades and 0.01% of notional value for derivatives traders. For HFT practitioners, however, that amount could be deadly, which is what makes the German announcement so interesting. Under the proposal, derivatives transactions only will be taxed if they're made by companies with an office in the country, and HFT practitioners will have to have an office in the country if the provision goes through as drafted.
For most hedgers and speculators, it's difficult to see why currently proposed taxes would be an issue. HFT certainly has increased volumes, but it's debatable as to whether it's made it easier to get into and out of positions that are held for longer than a few minutes. What's more, overall costs still will be a fraction of what they were back in the days of open outcry, and there's a growing sense within the industry that HFT isn't worth the headache. That sense is part of a larger debate over the relative merits of efficiency and resiliency in the marketplace.
"Basically, efficiency is the ability of a system to grow and expand and process throughput, while resiliency is the ability of a system to recover from a shock," says former JP Morgan Managing Director John Fullerton — an FTT advocate in the United States. Senator Tom Harkin and Congressman Peter DeFazio long have been pushing for an FTT, and they're continuing to do so. "Economics has tended to focus on maximizing efficiency, but resiliency is only now getting widespread attention."


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Q & T SIG Talk Series - Jenkins & Continuous Integration [Complete Edition]
Jul 24 2018
67 mins
Richard Bishop, Chris Trimper
Quality and Testing SIG Talk Series - Automation with Jenkins and Continuous Integration [Complete Edition]
This SIG talk features two Vivit Board members, Richard Bishop and Chris Trimper. They will share their expertise and knowledge about automation with Jenkins and Continuous Integration.
Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:
Speaker: Richard Bishop
Automating UFT, LoadRunner and Performance Center tests using Jenkins: Richard is a test specialist at Lloyds Banking Group in the UK and in recent years has helped test teams to adopt automated approaches to testing. In a shortened version of his recent presentation at the Micro Focus Universe conference in Monaco, Richard will demonstrate the use of Jenkins as an orchestrater for Micro Focus ADM tools including UFT, LoadRunner and Performance Center. There will be opportunities for Q&A and discussion of the approach that he has used.
Speaker: Chris Trimper
Preparing functional test automation for Continuous Integration
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The Rise and Fall of the Empire - ITIL and Digital Transformation
Jul 19 2018
44 mins
David Smith President Micromation Inc. VeriSM, ITSM, ITIL, Lean, Kaizen, ISO, TCO. Author – Implementing Metrics
DT is altering the food chain! Is your ecosystem adapting fast enough?
Listen to real-world examples of how some companies are evolving and transforming at an incredible rate fueled by technologies that didn't even exist a short while ago.
No sector or industry is immune or future proofed from what's about to follow. Traditional big business and institutions are at risk of being displaced, becoming obsolete or made irrelevant.
The pace of change is accelerating exponentially; are you adapting fast enough?
What if - there was a new service management model that could help you tap into and leverage your current investments, methods and human capital to adapt more quickly.
What if - this new service management model was self-organizing, just-in-time, low entry cost, flexible and elastic?
What if - this new service management model inspired innovation, creativity and outside the box thinking?
Would it be worth the hearing about it?
This session is about how to optimize and transform IT Service Management in the digital age.
In 45 minutes we'll cover:
*How digital transformation is shaking things up
*How ITSM is evolving to manage services in the digital age.
*What's VeriSM all about
*What's the new Business/IT ecosystem
*What's the new management mesh
*How does governance enable innovation
*How to pick up the pace
*How to learn more
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ITSM Masterclass: ITIL in a world of digital transformation
Jul 19 2018
33 mins
Akshay Anand, ITSM Product Ambassador, AXELOS
What is digital transformation, how are companies going about accomplishing it and what does that mean for ITSM?
In this session ITSM Product Ambassador, Akshay Anand, discusses the role of ITIL in digital transformation initiatives. Akshay will reveal how you can leverage the ITIL 9 Guiding Principles to achieve success in your digital transformation.
Join this session to gain actionable insights and learn how you can get involved with upcoming ITIL content which will improve success for digital transformation at your business today.
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VeriSM™ - Exploring the New (Service Management) Kid in Town
Jul 19 2018
45 mins
Simon Dorst, Michelle Major-Goldsmith - Kinetic IT
Michelle Major-Goldsmith and Simon Dorst of Kinetic IT will discuss the role of VeriSM in digital transformation, and its relation to ITIL and other service management practices.
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The Digital Transformation of ITSM - AI, Automation and NLP
Jul 18 2018
49 mins
Doug Tedder, Principal, Tedder Consulting
So much is being written (myself included!) about how ITSM helps an organization prepare and support digital transformation. But ITSM itself is going through digital transformation.
How will the way we approach and deliver ITSM change as a result?
Join me as I discuss "The Digital Transformation of ITSM".
About Doug Tedder:
Doug Tedder is the principal of Tedder Consulting LLC, a Service Management and process improvement consultancy. Doug is a recognized thought leader who is equally adept in interactions from senior leadership to day-to-day practitioners. His attention to detail, industry knowledge, emotional intelligence, and the ability to "see the big picture" and make it actionable has resulted in a track record of success in transforming IT organizations into valued business partners.
Prior to starting his business, Doug spent over 25 years working in corporate IT organizations in a variety of local, regional, and global roles.
Doug holds numerous industry certifications in disciplines ranging from ITIL®, COBIT®, Lean IT, DevOps, KCS™, VeriSM™, and Organizational Change Management.
Doug is an author, blogger, and frequent speaker and contributor at local industry user group meetings, webinars, and national conventions. Doug is a member and former president of itSMF USA, a member of HDI, a contributing author to VeriSM™, and co-author of the VeriSM™ Pocket Guide. Follow Doug on Twitter (@dougtedder) or visit his website (dougtedder.com).
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A new approach to IT Service Management: Selfless Service
Jul 18 2018
31 mins
Sanjeev NC, Solutions Architect, Freshworks
Service desks are closer to the customers than we can ever imagine. With self-service adoption on the rise and Service desks making it easy for their users to reach them, why do we still hear IT agents complaining users don't raise tickets? Can we get the Service desk closer to the customers? What if the Service desk lives where the customers are already there?
This talk explores the possibility of approaching Service management with a selfless mindset focusing primarily on self-service and customers logging tickets with the service desk. A selfless approach takes a lot of effort but not without its benefits.
About Sanjeev NC;
Sanjeev is a Solution Architect helping Enterprise customers with their ITSM tool implementation. He's an ITSM enthusiast with consulting, blogging & speaking experience and enjoys delivering content creatively through memes, comics and puns. He is currently on a mission to ensure every customer support interaction yields the best possible experience.
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How Can ITSM Exist in the Cloud?
Jul 18 2018
41 mins
Daniel Breston, Principal Consultant, Virtual Clarity
I remember when virtual or cloud became the scary marketing words for any Operations or Infrastructure or ITSM person. My role is going, my skills won't be needed. Our processes will break. We can't go that fast!!!
Now years later – we have seen that what we do underpins what the organisations gets when they adopt and adapt to cloud based services. Let's see why this happened and discuss how we can continue to be the innovation side of technology just like we have been all along.
Join me, Daniel Breston, to discuss how ITSM is relevant in the world of cloud or fast technology services delivered by multiple suppliers or technologies.
About Daniel Breston;
Daniel is a Principal Consultant for Virtual Clarity leading the operating model practices incorporating DevOps, ITSM, Agile Ops and leanIT Leadership. Daniel is a frequent speaker for BrightTalk, the British Computer Society, SITS, HDI or other conferences. Daniel is also a contributor to the VeriSM and SIAM Body of Knowledge acts as a mentor or coach for leaders interested in getting the best from technology services.
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How can static analysis help DevOps teams maintain velocity securely?
Jul 17 2018
46 mins
Meera Rao, senior principal consultant and director of the secure development practice - Synopsys Software
Static application security testing (SAST) is the process of examining source code for security defects. SAST is one of many checks in an application security assurance program designed to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities early in the DevOps process. Integrating SAST tools into DevOps processes is critical to building a sustainable program. And automating these tools is also an important part of adoption, as it drives efficiency, consistency, and early detection.
If you have questions like these, and you're concerned about integrating SAST tooling into your DevOps process, this session will offer actionable advice to automate security testing that supports DevOps velocity.
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How do I manage false positives?
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How can I use a tool in my DevOps pipeline?
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I just finished a five-day bus trip to Washington, D.C. with St. Dominic's eighth grade class and their parents. Well, let me tell you something. You never met a rowdier bunch in your life. Sure, the kids were OK, but those parents need some sharp edges rounded off.
This trip started at the "crack of dawn." I always wondered what that looked like. Cindy drove me, my brother Tom, my son Will and nephew Christopher down to meet the bus at the school. I was determined to be on time for the early departure.
The Loretto Motherhouse will be featured on Kentucky Life on KET1 May 16 at 8 p.m. and May 17 at 4:30 p.m. and on KET2 at 7 p.m. on May 17. The description in my email reads, "The program visits the sisters of Loretto's Motherhouse, a community of active and retired nuns, who farm, host retreats, maintain an art gallery and conduct tours detailing the history of one of the oldest convents west of the Appalachians."
Last week, our community was fortunate enough to host the fourth-annual Bible-reading marathon on the steps of the Washington County Courthouse.
This event, while a blessing to those who get to read the word of God in public over this 90-hour event, is also a blessing to our community. Some folks who never hear God's word get the opportunity to sit on a quite, cool evening and listen, while others might just drive by and hear a few words in their cars.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Being a parent is a tough and frightening job at times. But being a mother is always twice as hard as being a dad.
Listen to my story.
Before I married Cindy, we talked about many things. Most was about our future together and what we wanted from life. I came from a big family and I wanted a big family. You know, that's not a very popular choice these days.
We all know why.
There is an ongoing debate about the merits of capital punishment in Kentucky.
For me, the debate ends just as soon as one brings up the morality of the death penalty. Is it right to kill another human being, regardless of what that human being does? For me, the answer to that question is a resounding "no," unless it is a matter of self-defense.
Dear Editor,
Miss California Carrie Prejean expressed an opinion during the April 19 Miss USA contest based on her Christian faith, and it probably cost her a beauty pageant crown, endorsements, fame and fortune.
Prejean, a student at San Diego Christian College, said she saw the question from contest judge Perez Hilton about whether every state should legalize same-sex marriage as a test of her faith.
Prejean replied that she is opposed to gay marriage, and her answer may have cost her the crown. She finished second to Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton.
A climate change has been developing over the last few years that could dramatically affect the life of every Kentuckian. The "climate" is not atmospheric, but political and social — growing sentiment toward reducing the role of coal in electric generation. Whatever its ultimate course, this climate change carries enormous implications for Kentucky, including price increases that could outpace any seen in our history.
Thursday afternoon when I came out of the Wal-Mart in Bardstown, my car would not start. A wonderful lady by the name of Lanette, who was parked front-to-front with me, offered her cell phone so that I could call home and AAA.
While I waited for AAA to arrive, Lanette went into the store and did her shopping. When she returned she had a Pepsi for me. Two other women and one man also stopped by and offered to help.
It's an embarrassment to say that I've never been a good shot with a rifle and I come from Washington County.
I don't know about Abraham Lincoln, but his Uncle Mordecai was lethal with a musket. He once shot an Indian off Abraham's father, Thomas, when he was a kid. Needless to say, Mordecai was always Abraham's favorite uncle.
In addition, this is the land where I routinely see kids in the paper with rifles taller than they are, standing next to a deer they just shot.
It won't be long before it's vacation time.
I don't know about you, but I always feel like I need a vacation after a family vacation any more. Young people with all their energy will flat wear you out. Still, young kids and funny incidents seem to go together, and can make things "interesting." It may not always seem funny at the time for the parents, but later, after you've settled down, it can bring a smile.
Here's an example.
It's 2009, and the world just keeps on changing.
The way we do things these days is not the same as it was 20 years ago, or even 10 or five years ago, for that matter.
Our TVs are now digital, our phones are now almost all cellular, and our news comes at us from every direction, 24 hours a day.
My second oldest came to me one evening and said with all the courage she could muster, "Daddy, I'm ready to learn how to drive."
I looked up from my Lazy Boy recliner and said, "Really."
I was actually standing up next to the recliner when she spoke. My reply came after I was revived.
I enjoy teaching teenagers how to drive.
President Obama, trying to jump start the economy, is using a series of stimulus packages in an effort to save banks and the major auto companies.
President Lee Todd, trying to jump start the Big Blue Nation, is using John Calipari as his stimulus package to save what? Basketball bragging rights?
This hiring move doesn't have even the patina of hope and encouragement that Kentuckians need to get through the next few years.
In this day of economic turmoil, paying a basketball coach nearly $32 million over a period of eight years is ludicrous.
"Be not afraid."
It's pretty scary out there, isn't it?
You know what I mean.
It doesn't matter where you work. It's like everything has dropped off a cliff. Most families are nervously waiting to see what happens next, if it hasn't already.
Since this is Child Abuse Prevention Month, I wondered if you might like to hear from a victim.
I'm a resident of Springfield. My family is well known. One of my parents is still living, and so to protect my innocent siblings, I wish to remain anonymous.
By the age of 5, I was called a whore. I didn't know what one was, but I knew it must be bad.
From the beatings I received, I learned to run really fast, and I have never let myself get caught in a corner of a room.
I learned never to trust anyone.
In 2008, more than 88,292 children across the Commonwealth were reported as abused or neglected to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
In Washington County their were 734 reports involving 864 children - 48 reports substantiated and 67 children substantiated. Last year in Kentucky there were 25 children whose death was the result of abuse or neglect.
"An ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood."
General George Patton
The same quote can be used for college scholarships. Work hard in high school and prevent paying off college student loans for decades to come.
Let me stop you right here.
If you're a high school senior, or the parents of a high school senior, and are just now thinking about college scholarships, then you are going to be sorely disappointed in the rest of this column.
Before the education reform act of 1990, Kentucky was ranked near the bottom of the list when compared to other states. Now our state has become a model for reform and has made significant jumps in almost all rankings related to education and student achievement. All Washington County schools have made significant academic progress during the past several years. This progress has been documented and measured by increasing scores on both state and national assessments.
It's comforting to live in a small town, where there's little crime and few problems in the community when compared to larger cities. There are certain things you don't have to worry about when it comes to your day-to-day life, simply because certain things just happen in big cities, while they typically aren't a problem in smaller towns.
That's how I feel, and it's what I have thought for most of my life. But recently, the problems in our community that are rearing their heads are simply amazing to me.
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The Springfield Sun is your source for local news, sports, events and information in Springfield, KY, and the surrounding area.


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Dell 4 EMC 4 eva?
Dell 2.0 - the Rollins experience
Dell gets to keep pretending to be an enterprise storage player with a new extension of its deal to rebadge low-end EMC kit.
The arrangement, which began in 2001, will now run until 2011. It's an important deal for both players - Dell accounted for about $360m of EMC's Q2 revenues, or around 14 per cent. Analyst house TBR reckons Dell will have been able to put the squeeze on EMC with the new contract, demanding a greater share of the Clariion margins.
Dell's statement said: "From the outset, Dell and EMC implemented a unique model of sales, marketing, engineering, and manufacturing collaboration to leverage each other's strengths to deliver compelling value to customers."
Dell would still presumably like to develop its own storage range, rather than just being an EMC reseller. With the bottom line dominating strategy at Dell right now, that plan looks to be on the backburner for a while.
Dell is punting its tightness with EMC as a prime example of "Dell 2.0" - the plan the board has come up with to wrangle the firm back onto the growth curve.
CEO Kevin Rollins told journalists: "The Dell experience is the number one priority of the company. It is where we are going to invest this year and for the long-term to provide the best customer experience, bar none."
Responding to criticism of his chief exec, Michael Dell said: "If you want to blame somebody you can blame me too.
"Our company will continue to grow and prosper and do well. Any press speculation on [ousting Rollins] is completely useless. It's not going to happen."
Money saving tweaks to the supply chain are going to happen for Dell 2.0 though. The firm said it would be announcing a new factory in Western Europe soon. ®


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06.08.09 Fast BreaksPosted by rtmsf on June 9th, 2009
Another week has started, and we're within one week of the NBA Draft withdrawal deadline, so let's see who's returning…
- LSU's Tasmin Mitchell will return to Baton Rouge for his senior season (smart move).
- Villanova's Scottie Reynolds is leaning toward a return to the Main Line for his senior year (also a smart move).
- Arizona's Nic Wise will also return for his senior season (a wise move, indeed).
- Miami (FL)'s Dwayne Collins has wisened up and will also be back for his senior season (yep, these guys are getting it).
- Memphis players continue to jump ship, with Shawn Taggart now deciding to forgo his senior season (not a great move, but he's already 24 and who knows what penalties Memphis may face next season).
- Tennessee's Tyler Smith is still thinking about returning, but he's also considering going to Europe to start his professional career. While on the subject of collegians moving to Europe, Luke Winn explores the issue a little further in the context of Nick Calathes' decision to play in Greece.
- Wake Forest's Jeff Teague injured his knee in a workout last week, but is expected to remain in the first round and therefore will most likely stay in the draft.
Some other news bouncing around the early summer months…
- Memphis made its defense to the NCAA on Saturday, and we pretty much agree with most of what Gary Parrish writes here. Details are scarce as to what was actually said at the hearing, but Kentucky's John Calipari did phone in from China, and Memphis official stated on the record that they feel that they'd made their case to the NCAA. Not sure what else they could say in that spot though. Memphis should hear something from the NCAA in 6-8 weeks.
- The Shane Battier Memorial Rule will be in effect beginning next season. Wonderful.
- We really don't have a good feeling about the long-term prospects of Josh Pastner at Memphis. Nothing against the kid, but Calipari is just too tough of a situation there to follow. He's showing his recruiting chops already, but can he coach?
- In a cost-cutting measure, three Big Ten schools (Michigan, Ohio St., Wisconsin) are eliminating their annual media guides for their sports teams. We'd expect this to be a major trend in the next few months nationwide. The NCAA is also lending a hand by suspending members' dues this upcoming year.
- A Tennessee congressman named Steve Cohen is petitioning the NBA to change its "one-and-done" rule. Interesingly, his district includes Memphis, who is of course dealing with the Derrick Rose fiasco. Georgia Tech's Paul Hewitt took offense at some of Cohen's comments about his former player, Thaddeus Young, and is now demanding an apology.
- Former Razorback Patrick Beverley threw Arkansas under the bus in an interview with DraftExpress when he said, "Someone from Arkansas was doing papers, was doing me and some of my teammates' papers…"
- UK countersues Billy Gillispie. This could be really fun.
- Gary Parrish explores Billy Donovan's thoughts on the Orlando Magic making the NBA Finals two years after he backed out of his commitment to coach that team.
- In a bit of a shock, Fairleigh Dickinson fired head coach Tom Green after 26 years of loyal service, including four NCAA Tournament appearances and 407 wins at the school.
- UT-Martin's head coach, Bret Campbell, resigned after an internal audit found that he had deposited $20k in basketball camp checks directly into his personal account.


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Mark Janosko, 47, is family physician at West Penn Associates
North Hills doctor arrested on child pornography charges
Mark Janosko, 47, is family physician at West Penn Associates
McCANDLESS, Pa. —
A family physician from the North Hills has been arrested on child pornography charges.
Mark Janosko, 47, of McCandless, was arrested late Friday morning after a search of his computer found thousands of videos depicting child pornography, according to a release from Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala.
Janosko is a family physician with West Penn Associates. The district attorney said there is no evidence indicating the doctor had inappropriate contact with any of his younger patients, but he encourages any parents with concerns to call 412-388-5300.
Janosko has been charged with one count each of possession of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography.


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Peter Brock
Peter Geoffrey Brock (February 26, 1945 - September 8, 2006) was an Australian racecar driver.
Early years
Brock was born in the Victorian country town of Hurstbridge, Victoria. His father was a mechanic, and instilled in him his love of cars.
Racing career
Brock rose to public attention in touring car racing, winning the Bathurst 1000, Australia's most prominent domestic motorsport event, a total of nine times through the 1970s and '80s. As the lead driver for the pseudo-factory Holden Dealer Team, in a succession of Holden Toranas and later Commodores the smooth-talking, clean-cut Brock became a household name well beyond motor racing fans, and was probably the best known modern Australian racing driver (Sir Jack Brabham being the most well known "classic" driver).
Brock and the Holden Dealer Team became involved, with full factory approval and assistance, in producing a number of high-performance modifications to the Commodores from 1980 to 1988. It was around this time that Brock began his run of six Bathurst 1000 wins in seven years, including his victory in the 1979 event, which he won by a record six laps. He has won a total of 9 Bathurst 1000 events and 1 Bathurst 24h event.
HDT, under Brock's direction and with Holden factory approval, produced a number of modified high-performance roadgoing Commodores through the early and mid 1980s. Some were "homologation specials" produced to meet the Group A racing regulations.
Brock also worked with the Victorian authorities on promoting the campaign against drink driving. The most obvious sign of this association was the racecar number "05" which related to the 0.05% blood alcohol limit in Victoria. Most cars he raced in, regardless of the motor racing division, bore this number, including the one in which he died.
Brock developed an interest in New Age-style spirituality through practitioner Eric Dowker. Brock began publicly supporting, and eventually began to fit to HDT specials, a device called the "Energy Polarizer", containing strong permanent magnets, which claimed to improve the performance and handling of vehicles through "aligning the molecules". The overwhelming majority of the Australian motoring community regarded the device as pseudoscience. Brock also recommended tyre pressures of 22psi(150kPa) for his polariser-equipped vehicles, a level which many regarded as near-dangerously low. Holden, fearing the consequences of being associated with the device, cut ties with Brock and set up an alternative racing/modification operation, Holden Special Vehicles.
Brock continued to race in privately-supported teams for some years afterwards, but returned to the factory Holden Racing Team in 1994. Brock retired from full-time driving in 1997.
After his 'retirement' he made two returns to Bathurst (2002 and 2004) and competed in the Nations Cup for highly modified and exotic cars in 2004. In 2002, he returned to top-level touring car racing as a team owner with the entry of "Team Brock" into the V8 Supercar category. However, he sold his share in the team to Kees Weelat the end of 2003.
Peter Brock died at the age of 61 in a racing accident. The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport[1] and Western Australian Police confirmed that he lost control of his vehicle on a bend[2] and collided with a tree while driving in the Targa West '06 rally at 11.50am[3] on September 8, 2006, near the township of Gidgegannup, 40km north-east of Perth. Brock and co-driver Mick Hone were in a 2001 Daytona Coupe. Hone was taken to hospital in a stable condition.[2][4][5]
- ↑ "Australian Motor Racing Legend Dies in Targa West", Confederation of Australian Motorsport, September 8, 2006.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Racing legend Brock killed in car crash", ABC News, September 8, 2006.
- ↑ "Peter Brock killed in crash", The Sydney Morning Herald, September 8, 2006.
- ↑ "Motor racing legend Peter Brock 'reportedly killed'", The West Australian, September 8, 2006.
- ↑ "Peter Brock killed in crash", The Age, September 8, 2006.


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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming residents who dream of hitting the jackpot will no longer have to drive across state lines to buy lotto tickets under a proposal advancing in the Legislature that would take the Cowboy State off a very short list of those that don't offer a lottery.
Only seven states remain without such prize drawings, but a bill that passed a Wyoming state Senate committee Tuesday would change that, allowing a state lottery and participation in multi-state games, such as Powerball.
The measure now heads to a full Senate debate with supporters saying that Wyoming residents already play the lottery, going to neighboring states to get tickets and taking millions in potential tax revenue with them. Opponents say lotteries are a form of gambling and a tax that disproportionately affects the poor.
The measure has already cleared the state House.
The Senate Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee voted 3-2 to endorse House Bill 77 and send the proposal to the full Senate where no one is quite sure about its odds of passing.
Under the legislation, lottery proceeds would go to local cities, towns and counties to spend however they wish, but the amount of money that would be raised isn't clear, with estimates varying widely.
Wyoming and Mississippi are the only states without lotteries where lawmakers are considering legislation this year that would change that, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
For Wyoming, just getting the lottery bill out of the initial chamber was an achievement.
"I believe it's the first time it's been out of the House since it was introduced in the late 1980s," said Rep. David Zwonitzer, R-Cheyenne and the main sponsor of the bill. "It's gone down by three or four votes every session. So it's always been close."
Zwonitzer said the bill's success so far this session is an indication of the House membership changing in last year's election.
"We elect about a third of the House new every session, so as you get new members in you never know when you're going to hit that one that's going to push it over," he said.
Sen. Bruce Burns, R-Sheridan and chairman of the Senate panel that endorsed the bill, said he's not sure how the proposal will fare in the Senate since it's never been debated there before.
"I've always been of the thought that it had a better chance in the Senate than it did in the House," Burns said. "I don't know."