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ORRVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Microphone in hand, Republican Rep. Jim Renacci gave his constituents a grim report on Washington's gridlock.
House Republicans, he said, had passed a number of bills that would boost energy production, cut regulations and rein in spending. But, he added, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats haven't done their part.
"It's not the easiest thing when you only control one-third of the federal government," said Ohio's Renacci, faulting the Democrats who control the Senate and the White House for the stalemate as he flipped through a series of PowerPoint slides intended to send a message that Republicans are focused on "Making Washington Work."
This summer at the behest of their leaders, House Republicans like Renacci are fanning out across the nation to press this anti-Washington, blame-Democrats pitch at town hall-style meetings. They're trying to counter claims that they are responsible for a "do nothing" House and feed on the public's antipathy for anyone linked to Washington. They gloss over the fact that they are in control of the House and have played a significant part in the inaction on a host of issues, suggesting that there's little they can do in the face of what they call Democratic roadblocks.
The message suggests partisan battles are ahead this fall when Congress returns to Capitol Hill and also could preview the GOP's likely argument to voters in next year's midterm congressional elections — keep Republicans in control of the House so they can provide a check on Obama's power.
Democrats say the GOP argument will fall flat because Republicans control the House.
During a news conference earlier this month, Obama said Republicans had shown an "ideological fixation" with repealing the health care law, his signature legislative achievement, and there was "not even a pretense now that they're going to replace it with something better."
"It's a totally cynical playbook designed to mislead the American public," said Democratic strategist Jeremy Bird, a former Obama campaign aide. "They've been the most obstructionist branch of government, perhaps in American history."
Republicans are trying nonetheless.
About 60 miles west of Charlotte recently, Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., tried to commiserate with a public that doesn't look kindly on the capital, saying: "If you're frustrated sitting here in Polk County, imagine how frustrated I am going there and seeing it up close." In upstate New York, Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., told people at a pig roast that "we need to be fighting Washington, D.C. We need to be standing up for our rights."
And in Lincoln, Ill., GOP Rep. Aaron Schock told an audience at a coffee shop that the Democratic-controlled Senate had "sat on their hands" while the House sought to repeal Obama's health care law. "The president right now is doing a very good job of trying to make it look like the House is dysfunctional," Schock said. "Really what we're trying to do is carry out the wishes of the people."
Back in Ohio, a standing-room-only crowd of more than 100 greeted Renacci in Orrville, home of The J.M. Smucker Co., famous for its Smucker's jams and jellies.
After a short film describing a typical day, Renacci walked his constituents through a 30-minute slide presentation that focused on steps he and House Republican colleagues had taken to spur job growth, promote diverse sources of homegrown energy and tame the federal deficit.
He made no apologies for opposing Obama's health care law, citing it as a reason why many businesses had decided not to expand their work force.
"I am definitely one of those people who have voted to repeal Obamacare 40 times," he said.
During a question-and-answer session, Jared Bauman, a 26-year-old physical therapist, said he agreed with Renacci on the flaws of the health care law but said he had grown impatient with the House's repeated attempts to repeal the law.
"It just kind of gets a little frustrating. I start to roll my eyes. OK, we're not getting anywhere," he said.
When several attendees pressed the congressman to support comprehensive immigration reform, Renacci said the immigration system was broken but securing the border had to be the first priority. He repeatedly cited the length of the Senate bill as a reason to oppose it.
"We'll get immigration reform right by making sure we avoid mistakes of the past. You know what the mistakes of the past are? Let's throw 2,400 pages in a big bill, let's throw it out there, let's let people understand it after we pass it," Renacci said. "That's not going to happen again."
Many of his constituents' questions and comments turned to a general unease with Congress and the Obama administration.
"Is everyone in Washington that out of touch?" asked one man.
Renacci took the comment in stride, joking about Washington's reputation for being a foreign place to the rest of the nation while also adding: "Look there are some really good people in Washington."
Associated Press writer Bill Barrow in Lincolnton, N.C., contributed to this report.
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After two amazing weeks of vacation, which included an absense from AO, I have read as many posts as I could, mainly the ones of banned members so I could feel the ever changing pulse of our site.
It is obvious to me that the number of "new", **** stirring ppl. has remained as it has since I joined AO. There will always be angry disturbed people posting here.
Remember the days when the "Internet" meant you were on a terminal at a University, at best exchanging insults with a fellow "Geek" 50 miles away and feeling bold?
Those days are over, for better or for worse. As it stands anyone with a connection can do and say whatever their black hearts desire.
IE: The Alias attacks of Ms. Mittens, by the Uber Bad spelling of Reset_Button.
The problem here is the response to these posts. It is what they want.............A reaction is what they want. They enjoy being Flamed, as it gives them a sense of importance.
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Arrival at the mysterious and enigmatic planet Venus on 11 April 2006 will be initiated by a braking manoeuvre in which the spacecraft must reduce its speed, approximately 29 000 kilometres per hour, by 1310 metres per second, equivalent to 4716 kilometres per hour, in order to lower itself into Venus orbit.
This critical manoeuvre will start with the firing of the spacecraft's main engine for a burn due to last 50 minutes. The engine was extensively and successfully tested in mid-2003 by DLR's Lampoldshausen test facility, in Heilbronn, Germany.
The robotic mission carries a suite of seven onboard instruments, including a plasma analyser, a magnetometer, three spectrometers including the VIRTIS (Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer), the VeRa (Venus Radio Science Experiment) and the VMC (Venus Monitoring Camera). DLR and its institutes were deeply involved in building the VMC camera and VIRTIS spectrometer, and will further contribute to analysis of data from the mission.
"Although Venus is our neighbour planet and, at a distance of approximately 40 million kilometres, is relatively close, we actually know very little about it since the surface is hidden beneath a thick cloud cover. With Venus Express, we aim to expose the planet's secrets to a little air," says Dr Ralf Jaumann of DLR's Institute of Planetary Research and the DLR project manager for Venus Express. He adds: "After a solid success with Mars Express, we look forward to obtaining similarly spectacular results from our other neighbouring planet via Venus Express. Today, several fundamental questions about Venus remain undecided, in particular concerning the planet's volcanic activity and its effect on the atmosphere. We would like to know more."
Venus Express and Mars Express share a common heritage
The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Mars Express spacecraft has been in orbit around the Red Planet since Christmas 2003. In addition to similar names, both spacecraft have many components in common, allowing ESA to reduce development time and risk and improve economies of scale. While benefiting from its Mars Express heritage, Venus Express faces additional and unique challenges: to voyage to and conduct scientific data gathering at one of the Solar System's most challenging planets in a harsh environment that is much closer to the Sun than Mars, achieve its mission goals within a strict budget envelope, and to go from inception to orbit entry in a very short time - just a few years.
Germany, as a full member of ESA, has contributed 24 percent of the overall mission costs related to spacecraft construction, launch and mission operation. In total, ESA has budgeted 1640 million euro for the three sister missions, Mars Express, Venus Express and Rosetta. The total cost for Venus Express was only 85 million euro, since the mission gained cost advantages from both the earlier Mars Express and Rosetta missions.
Careful approach to the Venusian hothouse
After the main engine burn on 11 April 2006, the initial orbit around Venus will be highly elliptical - with the closest passage over the surface (pericentre) at an altitude of about 250 kilometres and the furthest altitude (apocentre) ranging to approximately 220 000 kilometres over Venus. Five days later, on 16 April 2006, the main engine will again be fired as the spacecraft passes pericentre so as to lower the apocentre to 66 000 kilometres.
After further firings, a 24-hour polar orbit will be achieved, marking the entry of Venus Express into its operational orbit early in May. The duration of the orbit was selected to facilitate operation of the mission's ground segment on Earth and the gathering of science data. Once in operational orbit around the planet, fine control of the spacecraft will be maintained through firing the eight small, 10-Newton thrusters as required.
Volcanoes, clouds, winds: A hot, hostile world full of mysteries
Similar to Earth in size, mass and distance from the Sun, Venus was expected to be very similar to our planet when the first Russian and American space probes approached it in the early 1960s and started returning data about its atmosphere. Observers soon realised that Venus is an entirely different, exotic and inhospitable world, hidden behind dense clouds of noxious gases. It has an atmosphere mainly composed of carbon dioxide, with crushing surface pressure and burning-hot temperatures. The question quickly arose: why did a planet apparently so similar to Earth evolve in a way so radically different over the last four thousand million years?
By the mid 1990s, many ground observatories and more than 20 spacecraft had attempted to explore Venus. Orbiters and descent probes - including the Soviet Venera-series and the Vega balloons and landers, and the US Mariner, Pioneer Venus and the 1990-94 Magellan missions - tried to penetrate this hostile world to find solutions to the giant puzzle that Venus represented for scientists.
Many missions were lost and many landers were destroyed under the high pressures and temperatures of the Venusian atmosphere; nonetheless, past missions provided solid initial information about the planet, lifting the veil of mystery. For years, scientists were prevented from seeing what lays below the dense atmosphere and the thick cloud cover blocked any view below, hindering attempts to understand the nature of the Venusian surface.
The atmospheric pressure at the surface of Venus was found to be over 90 times greater than that on Earth. Further, the composition and dynamics of the two planets' atmospheres are completely different. On Venus, almost no wind occurs at the surface, but higher up - in clouds of sulphuric acid - winds blow at hurricane-force speeds, circling the planet in just four days - much faster than Venus turns on its axis.
The atmosphere comprises a mixture of carbon dioxide, sulphur and traces of water vapour, with the carbon dioxide causing an intense 'greenhouse' effect, trapping the strong solar energy and helping generate a surface temperature of 480 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt lead. Any water on the surface would immediately boil away and as a result the planet is a bone-dry desert.
The mission aims to gather data that will help scientists create an overall characterisation of the planet, and will look at Venus's structure, composition and dynamics. In addition to studying the immediate environment of Venus and its interaction with the intense solar wind, Venus Express is particularly designed to study the planet's atmosphere.
Scientists have many questions, including:
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Of the seven experiments onboard, six share a common heritage with the two previous ESA missions, Mars Express and Rosetta. Only one instrument, the Venus Monitoring Camera, had to be newly developed to help answer the scientific questions above. All the highly sensitive instruments, as well as the spacecraft itself, had to be specially adapted to operate in the harsh environment around Venus, where the Sun's radiation and the solar wind are much stronger than by Earth or Mars. Excessive irradiation will be avoided by carefully selecting the spacecraft's orbit, while ensuring robust opportunities for science data gathering.
The Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC) was developed by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Lindau, Germany. The VMC is a wide-angle multichannel camera that will gather light in the visible, ultraviolet and near-infrared spectrum; data will be analysed by DLR's Institute for Planetary Research and will be used to generate images of Venus's dynamic atmosphere. VMC images will also help in the identification of phenomena seen by other instruments.
The VMC may also be able to gather images of the Venusian surface. The VMC principal investigator (PI) is Dr Wojciech Markiewicz of the Max Planck Institute.
To investigate the chemical composition of the Venusian atmosphere, including temperature and dynamics, scientists will use three onboard spectrometers.
First is the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS), led by an Italian team. The PFS will be able to measure the temperature of the atmosphere between altitudes of 55-100 kilometres at a very high resolution, and also obtain measurements of the surface temperature and thus, by implication, gather evidence for volcanic activity.
Next is the Ultraviolet and Infrared Atmospheric Spectrometer (SPICAV/SOIR), operated by scientists from France, Belgium and Russia. SPICAV will assist in the analysis of Venus's atmosphere. In particular, it will search for the small quantities of water expected to exist in the atmosphere. It will also look for sulphur compounds and molecular oxygen in the atmosphere. It will determine the density and temperature of the atmosphere at 80-180 kilometres altitude.
The third spectrometer is the VIRTIS (Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer), which will also study the atmosphere. VIRTIS is an imaging spectrometer (VIRTIS-M) for the visual (0.25-1µm) and the near-infrared range (1-5µm) combined with a high resolution IR-spectrometer (VIRTIS-H) for the spectral range from 2-5µm. The VIRTIS instrument was developed by DLR Adlershof, together with Kayser Threde GmbH.
VIRTIS can also use the so-called 'spectral windows' that exist at certain wavelengths in the atmosphere to look through to the surface of the planet. VIRTIS scientists plan to create a chemical and mineralogical map of the surface using this technique. "It would be even more exciting," says DLR scientist Dr Joern Helbert, who is part of the investigation team, "if VIRTIS succeeds in discovering active volcanoes on Venus by virtue of their thermal radiation or due to gases ejected from volcanoes being detected in the atmosphere." DLR Adlershof, in Berlin, is also responsible for evaluation and analysis of VIRTIS data.
Venus Express also carries:
German involvement in the development of the engine
In addition to key onboard instruments, DLR has been intimately involved in testing one of the spacecraft's most important components: the main engine.
Long before this week's crucial live firing that will initiate Venus orbit entry, the main engine was proven on the test stands at DLR Lampoldshausen.
In June 2003, engineers from DLR's Institute of Propulsion Technology successfully operated the engine in acceptance tests under vacuum conditions, including engine re-ignition with a running time of 20 minutes. The testing at DLR Lampoldshausen's Test Stand P1.0 was conducted in cooperation with EADS Space Transportation, manufacturer of the engines for Venus Express.
The engine operates using nitrogen tetroxide (N2O4) and monomethylhydrazine (MMH) as fuel. These require extremely careful handling as they are hypergolic reactants, i.e. they will spontaneously catch fire upon contact with each other. The engine, about as big as a shoebox, developed a thrust of some 400 Newtons (N), the force of which was transferred to the test mountings which had to be anchored against this pull, equal to approximately 850 Horsepower (HP).


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PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – This week at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, you can catch a night of comedy with George Lopez and two nights of Grace Potter and The Nocturnals. Here's what you need to know about the upcoming shows:
Friday, Feb. 22 - George Lopez Join George Lopez, late-night host, sitcom star and comedian. The show was rescheduled from Nov. 2, which was canceled due to Hurricane Sandy. All tickets for the evening will be honored, or refunds will be available. This event is 18 and over. It will have reserved seats in the orchestra, loge and balcony. Tickets are $45, $59.50 and $79.50 depending on seating. To purchase tickets visit The Capitol Theatre's box office or event page . Saturday, Feb. 23 and Sunday Feb. 24 – Grace Potter & The Nocturnals Vermont-based rock band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals will grace the stage for two nights this weekend. Saturday night will feature singer-songwriter hailing from Tennessee Rayland Baxter. The vocal style of Grace Potter has been compared to rock and blues singers like Janis Joplin and Koko Taylor. She founded the band with drummer Matt Burr and guitarist Scott Tournet. The current lineup of the band also includes guitarist Benny Yurco and bassist Michael Libramento. Their latest album "The Lion The Best the Beat" was released last year, along with a live album, "Life from the Legendary Sun Studio." This event is 18 and over. It will have general admission standing-room only floor and reserved seats in the loge and balcony. The first night currently is sold out, but tickets still are available for Sunday. Advance tickets are $35 for general admission and $55 for seating. On the day of the show, tickets are $40 for general admission and $60 for seating on the day of show. To purchase tickets, visit The Capitol Theatre's box office or event pages for Saturday or Sunday . Doors for all shows open at 6:30 p.m., and music begins at 8. The Capitol Theatre is at 149 Westchester Ave., Port Chester.
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1. Re: what about ip jGroup?Wolf-Dieter Fink Nov 5, 2010 3:46 AM (in response to Duc Le)
The -u option will have multicast address, this is not a 'normal' IP address (often multicast is blocked by router/switches)
You might separate a cluster with this options:
-Djboss.partition.name=XXX -Djboss.partition.udpGroup=184.108.40.206 (same as -u) -Djboss.hapartition.mcast_port=39993
With the partition.name it is ensured that two nodes are in a separate cluster if the name is different even if the multicast address is the same (might be a performance issue).
If the mcast is blocked between two nodes you become only in trouble if you WANT to have a cluster.
see wiki http://community.jboss.org/wiki/TwoClustersontheSameNetwork
2. Re: what about ip jGroup?Duc Le Nov 7, 2010 9:19 PM (in response to Wolf-Dieter Fink)
Hi Wolf-Dieter Fink!
As you said, jgroup multicast ip is not a normal IP addr, so is it a resource of my system? Why you set the param: -Djboss.partition.udpGroup=18.104.22.168 ?? Why this IP: 184.108.40.206? This IP has to satisfy what conditions?
3. Re: what about ip jGroup?Wolf-Dieter Fink Nov 8, 2010 1:37 AM (in response to Duc Le)
Multicast addresses are a special part of IP address space (126.96.36.199 to 18.104.22.168) see e.g. wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_address
My address is only an example.
You have to ensure that all instance of JBoss that have to build a cluster use the same address/port and partition name.
4. Re: what about ip jGroup?Duc Le Nov 8, 2010 11:33 PM (in response to Wolf-Dieter Fink)
Thank you for quick reply
So, if another machine know my jgroup ip and partition name, they would join my cluster illegally and do something wrong with my app!!!!
Can I config or restrict the number of IP join in my cluster?
5. Re: what about ip jGroup?Bela Ban Nov 9, 2010 2:13 AM (in response to Duc Le)
You can use AUTH to prevent unauthorized nodes to join a cluster: http://belaban.blogspot.com/2010/09/cluster-authentication-with-pattern.html
6. Re: what about ip jGroup?Wolf-Dieter Fink Nov 9, 2010 2:15 AM (in response to Duc Le)
If another machine know (configure the same) jgroup mcast address/port and partition name, it join the cluster legal, it works as designed.
You can't configure the same multicast and say 'don't allow 192.168.1.1 to join' !
So if you do not want to build a cluster use a different partition name and, to avoid unnecessary traffic, a different multicast address/port.
7. Re: what about ip jGroup?Duc Le Nov 9, 2010 3:41 AM (in response to Wolf-Dieter Fink)
Thanks all !


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The closely watched British show known as the royal family had recently fallen into a lull. The Queen's diamond jubilee was far in the rearview mirror and the latest news was the duchess's new bangs, or "fringe," as the British call it.
But on Monday, the story shifted suddenly from royal hair to royal heir. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced they are expecting a child, capping a pregnancy watch that began even before Prince William and the former Kate Middleton's royal wedding/global media extravaganza at Westminster Abbey last year.
British media went into a joyful frenzy, bookmakers started taking odds on the sex and birth weight, and Prince Harry prepared to drop a rung in the royal succession. Britons exploded with glee on Twitter in expectation that the child's arrival might create an extra bank holiday in 2013.
The excitement was tempered by news that the duchess had been hospitalized Monday with an extreme form of morning sickness. A spokeswoman for the royal family said the pregnancy was at an early stage—not yet 12 weeks along—but that given Ms. Middleton's condition, the duke and duchess "have taken the difficult decision to be fully open about the pregnancy." She declined to say when the baby was due.
The duchess is receiving "supplementary hydration and nutrients" and is expected to stay in the hospital for several days, the spokeswoman said. The duchess was last seen in public on Friday, playing field hockey with schoolchildren in a skirt and high heels.
Congratulations poured in from all quarters, as everyone from the prime minister to Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole tweeted their best wishes. "I'm delighted by the news that the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge are expecting a baby. They will make wonderful parents," Prime Minister David Cameron wrote, adding the hashtag #royalbaby.
Within an hour of the announcement, no fewer than five fake royal baby accounts had popped up on Twitter, including @ukroyalbaby, @UnbornRoyal and @royalfoetus.
Princely Wagers
Bookmaker William Hill offers these odds on the name of Kate and William's firstborn, whose gender and due date weren't announced.
- 9 to 1: Frances (Diana's middle name) or John
- 10 to 1: Charles, Elizabeth, Victoria or George
- 12 to 1: Anne, Diana, Philip, Richard, Spencer
- 14 to 1: Mary, Henry, Sarah
- 16 to 1: Carole, William
- 20 to 1: Edward, Alice, David, Arthur
- 25 to 1: Albert
The prospect of a royal heir is good news for Buckingham Palace, the subject in recent months of seedier tabloid topics from Prince Harry's naked romp in Las Vegas to the publication of topless photos of the duchess. The pregnancy gives the royals a chance to return to the sort of hooray-for-Britain coverage that the duke and duchess's wedding generated in April 2011.
The couple's first child will be third in line the throne, behind William and his father Prince Charles.
The Guardian newspaper immediately fired up a live blog, offering tidbits like the following: "William and Kate's baby—a future King or Queen—will be the great-great-great-great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria." It also offered the duchess tips on dealing with morning sickness, in the "extraordinarily unlikely event" that she was reading the blog.
Dozens of people with cameras rushed to the central London hospital where the duchess was being treated. The Daily Mail reported that the Queen learned of the pregnancy only on Monday, and that the royal family was scrambling to inform Prince Harry, who is serving in the military in Afghanistan.
(A spokeswoman for the royal family said she couldn't comment on the Queen, but said Prince Harry was told of the news in Afghanistan.)
Britain's bookmakers—which take bets on just about anything, including the color of the Treasury chief's tie when he makes important economic statements—were already offering baby-related odds by Monday afternoon.
Bookmaker Paddy Power PLC was offering six-to-one odds that the baby would have ginger hair—meaning that every pound placed on a winning bet would produce six pounds profit. William Hill PLC was touting odds of 33-to-one that it would be twins and said favorite names included Princess Diana's middle name, Frances.
Other favorite names, according to William Hill are Diana and Phillip (both 12-to-one odds), William (16-to-one) and Elizabeth (25-to-one).
As a cheeky outlier, William Hill offered 1000-to-one odds that the baby would be called Chardonnay.
The royal couple needn't worry if their baby is a girl: The government has been seeking to scrap the so-called rule of primogeniture, which hands the throne to a boy when possible.
On Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the government was putting "the finishing touches" on the legislative changes. "We're making sure that if it is a baby girl, she can be our queen," Mr. Clegg added, speaking in a television interview.
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In the United States, cats seem to be a popular choice for pet owners — according to the American Pet Products Association, Americans own 86.4 million cats, as opposed to 78 million dogs.
However, this doesn't necessarily hold true for Kansas, where more people say they own dogs than cats (U.S. Pet Ownership and Demographics Sourcebook). Will Tate, fundraising/marketing coordinator with Caring Hands Humane Society in Newton, said cats are sometimes looked at as "second-class animals," and this is an attitude Caring Hands is hoping to change. He believes altering this perception is especially important due to the overpopulation of free-roaming cats in the area.
"We need to change it," he said. "We're at a critical situation here in Harvey County."
Tate said dogs tend to be more popular in rural and agriculturally based areas, while cats are more popular in urban areas, for which they are perhaps better suited. Dogs may be seen as a useful part of a farm, such as running off coyotes, though cats can be used for rodent control.
"I think you find nationally rural communities are more apt to value dogs than cats," Tate said.
Many shelters across the country are overrun with cats, including Caring Hands. In August, Caring Hands received 203 cats — a 14-year record. The average number per month at this time of year is 100. By contrast, the shelter receives about 70 dogs per month.
The shelter's executive director, Kevin Stubbs, has a theory about why free-roaming cats are a bigger issue than free-roaming dogs. He said about a century ago, wild dogs ran in packs through the streets and were seen as dangerous due to the potential spread of rabies and the threat of attacks. People made an effort to control the wild dog population to eliminate this threat, but the public didn't perceive the same danger from the cat population.
If people see a dog running down the street, they are more apt to stop and help it, while if they see a cat running down the street, they assume the cat can care for itself.
Tate and Stubbs said free-roaming cats are not usually spayed or neutered and do not receive veterinary care, causing them to be less healthy. Since they haven't been vaccinated, they can spread diseases when they are brought into a shelter.
"The animals themselves aren't living the best life they can," Tate said.
The city of Newton has one animal control officer, and the number of free-roaming cats is too much for one person to take care of, Tate said.
Stubbs recommends Harvey County communities consider a "managed colony approach," where the free-roaming cats are caught, spayed or neutered, and then released to be monitored by a designated caregiver in a neighborhood. He believes this could ultimately be a better method of controlling the population.
For now, he and Tate encourage cat owners to spay or neuter their pet. Even if your cat is an indoor pet only, there is a chance the animal could still escape. Spayed and neutered cats also are healthier and have better temperaments.
The humane society has $65 vouchers for both cats and dogs for a spay/neuter procedure at a local vet's office. The vouchers result in about a 50 percent savings on the service. Caring Hands has handed out about 7,000 of these vouchers over the past nine years — a $500,000 equivalent.
Stubbs also said if you see a lone cat wandering through the neighborhood, bring it into Caring Hands right away — don't wait until the cat has a litter of kittens, increasing the cat population even more.
Caring Hands strives to be a no-kill shelter, but they will need the help of city governments, volunteers and donors to reach this goal, Tate said.
"There's no solution to this problem that is quick, because we have such a large population of cats," he said. "... It's a community effort."
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This weekend I finally went to see Goblet, so here's a mini-review. Well, perhaps not so mini, but it does have lots of bullet points. Probably any fan has seen it already, and my opinion won't be terribly relevant to a non-fan, but hey, it's my blog and I can post a pointless review if I want ;) Lots of spoilers inside for this movie, the previous ones, and all the books.
To put this movie in context here are my opinions (briefly I hope) of the previous three:
Ok, maybe not so brief there :) It's hard to get me to shut up about Harry Potter as anyone who knows me will attest.
Anyway, on to Goblet.
Summary: this is what a Harry Potter movie should be. Now go back and remake the first two this good...


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this is very useful information. particularly for internet entrepreneurs like me where i am almost always on my laptop and sometimes needing a cyber cafe. I do not use the online storage but i will start doing it. There are also several ways of protecting an online business against hacker scam. This is extremely important. I will bookmark this post
Cyber Security on the Road
This article is a reprint of Wise Bread's contribution to OPEN Forum from American Express -- where small business owners can get advice from experts and share tips with each other.
Whether you are on the road for a business trip or traveling full time with a location independent career, maintaining good cyber security is paramount. We have already discussed some of the essential services for the road required to keep your business going from anywhere. In this article, we'll look at how to protect your identity and electronic data while traveling, so you — and your business — return home safely every time.
Laptop Travel
When you travel with your laptop, you are protecting yourself against multiple risks, the primary ones being theft, damage, and loss. Here are a few techniques for how to manage these risks.
Keeping Sensitive Files Secure
If your laptop is stolen, your files could be accessed by a savvy robber. You can manage this risk by encrypting your files and folders. Programs like TrueCrypt (free) for Windows or FileVault (built-in) for Mac can be used to encrypt your hard drive so that if it falls into the wrong hands, nobody can access your sensitive information without your password.
However, even if you encrypt your hard drive, if a customs authority wants access to your laptop, you are legally required to enter in your password to open all your files for inspection. As an additional (or alternate) method of protection, you can create TrueCrypt hidden folders to protect certain pieces sensitive information from an unwanted intrusion.
Backing Up Your Data
Protecting your laptop from damage and loss is mostly a matter of being prudent about how you carry your laptop and where you go. But accidents do happen, so regularly backing up your data is your fallback. The key is to back up your data regularly and religiously. Here are a few ways to do this:
1. Online Backups
There are a number of online backup services, many of which are free to use. Most employ encryption systems to keep your data secure. Some examples of online backup services are Carbonite, Mozy, CrashPlan, and BackBlaze. We'll discuss how to manage some of the risks of storing and transmitting your data online later.
2. External Hard Drives
Backing up data onto an external hard drive or USB drive is a preferred method for many travelers to keep their data safe. I like to use two versions of this strategy: I back up my entire laptop onto an external hard drive (which I am sure to keep in a separate place from my laptop), and I also store and encrypt some particularly important files on a USB drive which I keep in another secret spot.
3. Remote Backups
CrashPlan has a free option that lets you back up your data to other (remote) computers. The data is encrypted while being transmitted, and is easily recoverable should you need to access it.
Password Storage
With increasing numbers of user names with complicated passwords, many of us are challenged to remember them all. Here are some online and offline password storage options:
Online Password Storage
There are many free services that allow you to create a database of user names and passwords (and often attach documents and pictures to them as well) to help you manage your online identities. They feature different levels of encryption, and I know many who swear by these programs.
However, beware that storing and accessing your passwords online is only as secure as the computer you are using, the internet connection, and the cyberspace in between. In addition, having all your user names and passwords in one place makes it a hot commodity for hackers. If they can hack the one password you have to access the program, they can fairly easily steal your identity. Read on for some tips to increase the security of your passwords and decrease hacker-risk.
Offline Password Storage
KeePassX and Password Safe are free programs that allow you to create an encrypted database on your laptop or USB drive. However, if your laptop/USB drive is stolen or damaged, you are once again in a position where you don't have access to the files you need, and/or may be at risk for having your password storage program hacked.
I manage the risk of loss by having multiple copies of my encrypted database: one on my laptop and one on a USB drive, which I keep in a secret spot. This data is also backed up on to my external hard drive, so I have this risk managed as best I can.
Password Tips
In both the above cases of password storage, the weak link is the master password used to access the program. If somebody has this master password, then they have access to all your sensitive information.
The best passwords are randomly generated and are at least eight characters. You can go to GRC's Password Generator and select any eight characters to get started. Now the challenge is to remember this password! If your memory isn't that good, you could write the password down on a piece of paper with no other information on it. Passwords not associated with any user name or program aren't particularly valuable. This method isn't infallible, but it's all about managing risk as best we can.
Accessing Websites Securely
Whether using your laptop or otherwise, securely accessing websites that have sensitive information (such as banking) poses additional risk. When you are traveling, you're at the mercy of the internet connection you are using, which is never as secure as what you have at the office or at home.
To manage this risk, look for sites that have two-factor authentication. Paypal offers this service, for example. $5 will get you a device the size of a credit card that generates a rotating password. You need this randomly generated password in addition to your regular one to access your account.
Many banks (and other secure website service providers) offer this type of service but don't advertise it, so it's worth asking.
Using Internet Cafés
If you aren't traveling with your laptop, you might need to use an internet café or public computer in your hotel. However, savvy hackers have a number of tricks up their sleeve to access your passwords and data, so here are a few precautions:
- If you have any concerns about the computer you are using, don't access websites with sensitive information.
- If you do have to log on to these websites, make sure you log out when you are finished.
- Delete the web history and close the browser before you leave.
- If you are on a VPN or other connection that involves clicking "Yes" from the browser to get online, be aware that the data is passing through another portal that could be insecure.
If you are technically inclined, you can install a portable version of Firefox or Linux (such as Xubuntu, which is free) on a USB drive and load the browser directly from the USB drive to increase your secure browsing.
Although you can't shield yourself completely from all cyber-security risks while you are traveling, you can help to protect your identity and electronic data by backing up and encrypting your data, managing your passwords, looking for two-factor authentication, and being careful about public connections. Happy traveling!
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Records show that a political figure at the center of a Las Cruces judicial scandal was in regular contact with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's staff to offer input on appointments to the bench in Dona Ana County.
The Albuquerque Journal obtained (http://bit.ly/18MKo4m ) the emails and a tape-recorded interview under the Inspection of Public Records Request. They suggest that, at the very least, real estate investor Edgar Lopez believed he was the man to see if someone wanted to garner a judicial appointment in Dona Ana County.
Lopez emailed Richardson or his staff on at least a dozen occasions to provide local political background information on nominees, according to the records. And over the years, Lopez, a Richardson fundraiser and transition team member, repeatedly asked Richardson or his staff for "five minutes" of the governor's time for unspecified reasons.
In one email, he reminded the governor that the nominee he was touting at the time provided the Richardson campaign with free buses for political events.
Lopez was never charged with a crime in the bribery case brought by a special prosecutor, Clovis District Attorney Matt Chandler. However, it was the suggestion by then-District Judge Mike Murphy that a potential judicial nominee needed to make contributions to Richardson through Lopez that led to a wider investigation and, ultimately, a grand jury indictment on charges of bribery and witness intimidation against Murphy.
When the allegations became public, Richardson, a Democrat who was governor from 2003 to 2011, called them "outrageous and defamatory" and defended his record on judicial appointments.
Lopez said in a telephone interview last week that the emails were just "personal recommendations" and that Richardson "made the decisions based on all the information he received."
"The final decision was the governor's and he made them," Lopez said.
Lopez has maintained that there was no connection between campaign contributions and judicial appointments. He has also said he never accepted cash contributions for Richardson.
The potential nominee, Las Cruces attorney Beverly Singleman, told District Judge Lisa Schultz about Murphy's advice that she make cash contributions to Lopez on a weekly basis. Schultz confronted Murphy about the allegations and later taped conversations with him in which he discussed making political contributions to get judicial appointments.
Schultz was reluctant to lodge a complaint with the Judicial Standards Commission because it was controlled by Richardson appointees. She eventually brought the allegations to then-Dona Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez, who is now the state's governor. Martinez, in turn, asked Chandler to be special prosecutor.
In an agreement with the Judicial Standards Commission, Murphy resigned from the bench last year for making off-color, anti-Semitic and anti-gay remarks that were taped by Schultz in subsequent conversations between the two.
After the scandal came to light, the state Supreme Court tightened rules on the types of political activity judges were allowed to do, including banning direct solicitations of campaign donations for political parties or other candidates.


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Blossom alum Jenna von Oy has given birth to a baby girl, People reports.
Gray Audrey was born on Monday in Nashville, weighing in at 7 pounds, 6 ounces.
"Brad and I are, of course, ecstatic she's here and we are madly in love with her already," von Oy told the magazine. "It's truly unimaginable how quickly she wrapped us around her little finger!"
See other celebs who have given birth this year
The actress, 35, unexpectedly underwent a C-section three weeks early.
"We are exhausted, but enjoying every moment of it, as every moment she's doing something new and memorable," von Oy added. "She has an incredible amount of hair! So much so, that the hospital nurses washed it, brushed it, and put a bow in it on the first day! We know kids a year old who don't have half the amount of hair our daughter had at birth!"
Von Oy and her husband Brad Batcher married in October 2010. This is their first child.


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I've written before (as have others) about the dangers of an "either/or" mentality with various technologies, including the "cloud". Companies are starting to understand this message - I've been traveling a lot this year from Alaska to California, from the UK to Copenhagen, Denmark, talking with companies that are implementing Hybrid systems, and giving presentations on how to implement one.
I'm doing another of these Monday of next week, in Boston here in the US. You can read about it and register here (it's a free event) and learn not only more about Hybrid systems using on-premises databases and Windows Azure, but more about SQL Server as well from other speakers.


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Abhinandan Majumdar, a Cornell ECE Ph.D. student has been awarded the 2017 ECE Outstanding Ph.D. Teaching Assistant Award. Majumdar was a head teaching assistant for ECE 2300, Digital Logic and Computer Organization. As head TA he worked through the labs and demonstrated them to the other TAs, manned lab sessions, conducted office hours, answered many of the Piazza questions, and led the weekly grading sessions.
"Abhi was a tour de force as head TA," said Professor David Albonesi, instructor for ECE 2300, and Majumdar's Ph.D. advisor. "In addition to all of the work he put into the course functions, Abhi spent countless hours working with students in lab and on his own. He is arguably the most dedicated TA I have ever had."
Majumdar also developed a very strong rapport with many of the students in the class, during his lab sessions and office hours. "He spent countless hours working one-on-one with a number of these students, helping them to understand the lecture material in addition to labs," continued Albonesi. "For these students, Abhi was invaluable in their learning of the material and succeeding in the class."
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The European Central Bank left rates on hold Thursday, leaving the key lending rate steady at 0.25%. ECB President Mario Draghi discussed the impact of exchange rates on euro-zone inflation at length during his press conference. In particular, he said the euro has gained about 9% against the dollar since its lowest point of 2012, which has depressed the current inflation rate by about 0.4%.
That was very specific commentary from Draghi, who continued to emphasize that the exchange rate was not a mandate for the central bank.
The euro surged to its highest level since late 2011 during the press conference, buying $1.3845 in recent trade.
The central bank also released its latest economic projections Thursday, expecting euro-zone HICP inflation to total 1.5% in 2016.
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Jonathan Loynes, chief European economist at Capital Economics, says he's disappointed with the decision to keep rates on hold.
He writes:
It is possible that the stabilisation in the inflation rate over the last few months, coupled with some slightly stronger activity indicators, persuaded a majority of Governing Council members that the need for more policy support was not immediate. (We would take different view.) The additional uncertainty created by the Ukraine situation may also have been a factor, as might the technical complications involved in cutting interest rates further from their already very low levels and perhaps imposing a negative deposit rate.
But in the bigger picture, he still expects further action from the central bank to fight the risk of deflation.
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Draghi takes the stage.
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We are ready to consider all instruments available to us, he says.
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Developments are consistent with moderate growth, Draghi says. Ongoing recovery is expected to continue, but at a slow pace. Further improvements in domestic demand should take place, he says.
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Draghi continues to say the ECB expects a long period of low inflation.
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Euro hit $1.38 shortly after Draghi started speaking.
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Here's a link to Draghi's remarks: http://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pressconf/2014/html/is140306.en.html
Q&A now begins
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Draghi sees downside risks to growth but talking a lot more about evidence of improving economy! +EUR
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Draghi refers to the economic data since the last meeting, which were by and large on the positive side, he says. That includes PMI services data, which is important because most job creation takes place in the service sector, he adds.
Unemployment, while high, has stabilized.
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#ECB Draghi Q&A. WSJ starts (Blackstone always pushing for Q&E) — Blackstone to Draghi: are you just bluffing on easing?
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Question about the exchange rate. It's not a target for the ECB but it's very important for price stability and growth, says Draghi.
There's "no doubt," he says, that the rise in the exchange rate from its lowest point in 2012 to today has helped account for low inflation. He quantifies is at about 0.4%.
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Stoxx 600 trimmed /quotes/zigman/2380150/realtime XX:SXXP gains as Draghi started to speak, is moving back up again but is still lower — 0.1% — than before the press conference.
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"0.4pp of disinflation due to EUR strength". Quite an unusually explicit statement on FX impact by ECB standards.
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A key point during the ECB meeting discussion was about the presence of slack in the economy, says Draghi. There is a stock of slack that is weighing on the economy, says Draghi. That means the ECB's monetary policy position will stay in place even as data points to a recovery.
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Comment from Newedge in an emailed note:
Talking about the end of SMP sterilization, Draghi suggests that it is one of the instrument that is in the ECB list but no need to use it as money [market] conditions have not tightened. Draghi also adds that the benefit of additional liquidity would be limited.
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Euro keeps climbing. It hit a high of $1.3832, up about 0.5% on the day.
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Just looking at trade, capital flows, Draghi says the interconnections aren't that important and don't suggest a strong risk of contagion. But he notes that would be a very limited way to approach the situation. The geopolitical risks in the region could "quickly become substantial," he says.
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The accumulative rise in the euro-dollar rate since the lowest point of 2012 has been around 9%, says Draghi. Every 10% increase in an exchange rate, in general, decreases inflation by about 0.4% to 0.5%. Here's a chart of the euro-dollar exchange rate that includes the trough of 2012 mentioned by Draghi.
The rise in the euro is definitely affecting inflation in a "significant way," along with price of energy and food, he says.
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The ECB's accommodative monetary policy is finally finding its way through the economy, Draghi says.
The lag depends on how well the transmission of monetary policy works. In Europe, key actors in transmission are the banks. So the ECB should repair bank lending channel and speed up transmission of policy, Draghi suggests.
Here's a link to a chart that shows how policy is transmitted.
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Trust in the balance sheets of European banks needs to be restored, he says. That is the necessary and sufficient condition (can you tell someone is an economist?) for the private sector to once again invest in Europe's banking industry.
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(Reuters) - Online marketing services provider ValueClick Inc forecast second-quarter sales well below market estimates as it integrates its marketing, media and global service offerings, sending its shares down 14 percent in after-hours trading.
"Between the initiatives in the United States and now Europe, we are experiencing some of the anticipated indigestion from integration," Chief Executive John Giuliani said on a conference call with analysts on Tuesday.
"We think that's going to impact the (second-quarter) top line."
The company added that the worst was not over for it in Europe, in contrast to what it had said in February. ValueClick, however, gets almost all of its revenue from the United States.
ValueClick forecast revenue of $164 million to $168 million for the second quarter, below analysts' expectations of $175.6 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
First-quarter revenue rose 13 percent to $165.4 million, but fell short of analysts' estimates of $166.7 million.
Net income rose to $26.3 million, or 34 cents per share, in the first quarter, from $21.6 million, or 26 cents per share, a year earlier. Excluding items, the company earned 42 cents per share.
Analysts on average expected an adjusted profit of 40 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Shares of the company fell to $27.31 in after-market trading. They closed at $31.74 on the Nasdaq on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Sayantani Ghosh in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila, Roshni Menon)


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Tai Chi for Arthritis-Kingswood (Session 6 of 17)
When: Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, 11 a.m. to noon
Tai Chi for Arthritis is an easy and effective exercise class, integrating the mind and body, that improves flexibility, muscle strength and balance. The class is based on the Tai Chi for Arthritis program supported by the Arthritis Foundation of America.
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Winning Government Contracts: The First Steps
When: Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
This introductory 3-hour seminar is an overview of the critical first steps associated with winning government contracts. The Missouri Procurement Technical Assistance Center (MO PTAC) host a bi-monthly seminar on how to get started in the government contracting arena including federal, state and local government registrations and certifications. The seminar will also cover MO PTAC services available to assist Missouri businesses in all aspects of government contracting.The Missouri PTAC seminar is available to Missouri based businesses the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month. Instructor: David Jerome
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This introductory 3-hour seminar is an overview of the critical first steps associated with winning government contracts. Contracting issues covered include federal, state and local government registrations and certifications.
Please call David Jerome at 816 655 6229
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Strength and Balance Exercises for the Elderly (Session 9 of 17)
When: Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The Strength and Balance Exercises for the Elderly program is to help frail seniors learn to improve their mobility and balance and reduce risk of falls. The program focuses on breathing, strength, stretch, coordination, and balance.
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An educational program for divorcing parents. The purpose of this workshop is to help parents learn how to nurture and support their children during and after their divorce.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Now Open: Tot Dogs from Lucy Blue's
The emphasis is on a variety of hot dogs and sausages. This week's featured specialty dog (called Best in Show – get it?) is an apple chardonnay chicken sausage with smoked gouda and blackberry mustard. With visions of Hot Doug's dancing in my head, I ordered it almost without looking at the rest of the menu, and enjoyed the unexpected combination.
In addition to more familiar options like brats, metts, Italian sausage, and Andouille, Tot Dogs plans to feature game sausages (including venison and rabbit) as well as seafood and salmon dogs. An array of toppings and sides are also available. The owner told me he sources locally when possible and turns to reputable distributors for some of the more exotic sausages. He also makes some of the condiments and sides himself, including the Asian slaw. Here's my slightly wrinkled copy of the current menu.
The Tot Dogs website hasn't gone live yet (the owner is still fine-tuning the menu). But you'll be able to find it here, and can go ahead and sign up for the email list.
Tot Dogs is near the southeast corner of 7th and Vine, just north of Turquoise. I'm telling you this because, even armed with the address, I somehow walked right past it the first time. Until they get larger signage in the window (it's coming soon), keep an eye out for these brightly colored curtains.
Forgot to mention when I first hit publish, but Tot Dogs is currently open only for lunch. They would like to do breakfast eventually and are definitely planning to be open late night, as their sister store, Lucy Blue's Pizza, is.
6 comments:
- Boxer said...
Seafood dog? Oh. Hello.
So sorry they're not in Seattle.
Nice review I wish them well and hope they're new business thrives!
- February 22, 2012 at 10:54 PM
- Mike Rudd aka @marketingmiker said...
Looks tasty!! We have Dirty Frank's up in Columbus...very similar only they have dine in and a very small bar area...you should try it next time you are up here...great eats!
- February 23, 2012 at 8:36 AM
- Buzz Kill said...
I like the fact that they don't have fries on the menu. Looks like a "healthier" bunch of dogs. Game sausage dogs sound interesting but not the seafood ones. You'll have to let us know when buffalo dogs (won't you) come out (tonight).
We had a chain open up about 6 months ago called Cool Dog Cafe.
I ate there once and didn't go back. It was OK - and that's it.
- February 23, 2012 at 9:20 AM
- Diana said...
I like the combination you had, that sounds like an almost upscale hotdog.
- February 23, 2012 at 11:45 AM
I just had this for lunch with a side of Asian slaw, and holy mole was it good! This just might be the best thing to ever happen to a bun.
- February 24, 2012 at 12:55 PM
hopefully this will help the people of Cincinnati realize that places don't need to charge 9 or 10 dollars for a hot dog.
- February 26, 2012 at 11:43 AM


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5 U.S. Code § 6326 - Absence in connection with funerals of immediate relatives in the Armed Forces
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Absence in connection with funerals of immediate relatives in the Armed Forces
An employee of an executive agency or an individual employed by the government of the District of Columbia is entitled to not more than three days of leave without loss of, or reduction in, pay, leave to which he is otherwise entitled, credit for time or service, or performance or efficiency rating, to make arrangements for, or attend the funeral of, or memorial service for, an immediate relative who died as a result of wounds, disease, or injury incurred while serving as a member of the Armed Forces in a combat zone (as determined by the President in accordance with section 112 of the Internal Revenue Code).
The Office of Personnel Management is authorized to issue regulations for the administration of this section.
This section shall not be considered as affecting the authority of an Executive agency, except to the extent and under the conditions covered under this section, to grant administrative leave excusing an employee from work when it is in the public interest.
(Added Pub. L. 90–588, § 1(a), Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1151; amended Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(a)(2), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1224.)
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NHIAA Div. I Boys' Basketball Championship: 'G' is for glue as Trinity wins titleBy JIM FENNELL
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 16. 2013 5:49PM
DURHAM - A coach on the court, a glue guy. That's how Trinity of Manchester coach Dave Keefe describes Carmen Giampetruzzi.
You can just call him a winner.
The junior forward showed why he is the heart of and soul of the Pioneers, leading them past Bishop Guertin of Nashua, 50-46, Saturday in the championship game of the Division I boys' basketball tournament at the University of New Hampshire's Lundholm Gymnasium.
Giampetruzzi scored eight straight points late in the second quarter to put the top-seeded Pioneers (21-1) in the lead and then did all those little things to help them keep it as they avenged their loss to the Cardinals in the 2011 championship game.
"In my eight years here, he's the best glue guy I've ever had," Keefe said. "I'm just happy I have him for another year."
The junior forward finished with game-high totals of 18 points and 13 rebounds despite being limited to 21 minutes because of foul trouble.
He picked up his third foul at the end of the second quarter. By then, he had changed the game with his personal 8-0 run.
The seventh-seeded Cardinals (16-6) were up 21-18 when Giampetruzzi went to work. He knocked down a three on the left wing to tie the game, worked his way to foul line for a pair of free throws to put Trinity ahead and capped off the run with a conventional three-point play off one of his four offensive rebounds.
The Pioneers went into the intermission with a 28-23 lead and spent the second half fending off the scrappy Cards.
"G's a tough kid," BG coach Jim Migneault said. "He made some really nice plays and it put us in a hole."
With Giampetruzzi limited by fouls and senior center Mabor Gabriel (6 points) getting a lot of attention from the BG defense, Trinity got key contributions from Wenjin Gabriel, Brad Rhoades and Pat Keefe.
Gabriel scored the first two basket of the third quarter to stretch Trinity's lead to 32-23, while Keefe had nine of his 12 points in the second half. Rhoades scored 10 points, seven in the first half, and did another standout job on the defensive end.
After helping neutralize Nashua South's Tim Preston late in Trinity's semifinal win, the junior guard went up against BG's Steve Toscano and helped hold him to four points.
"Defense wins championships," Rhoades said. "I take that job with pride."
The Cardinals got to within one point late in the third quarter, but Rhoades answered with his second three of the game and Keefe nailed a half-court shot at the buzzer to make it 42-36 going into the fourth.
A spin move by BG senior center Jeff Lunn (15 points) made it 48-46 with 36 second left, but the Cards had to foul five times before they could get the Pioneers into the bonus at the foul line. And when they finally did, Giampetruzzi calmly made both free throws with 16.2 second left.
The Pioneers were in the championship game for the fifth time in seven years. It's their first title since 2009 and eighth overall.
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Trinity 50, Bishop Guertin 46
Bishop Guertin: Steven Toscano 2-0-4; Andy Williams 2-0-5; Kyle Gavin 2-4-10; Jeff Lunn 6-3-15; Jack Zimmerman 2-0-6; Joe Marandola 3-0-6. Totals 17-7-46. Three-pointers: Gavin 2; Zimmerman 2; Williams
Trinity: Wenjin Gabriel 2-0-4; Mabor Gabriel 2-2-6; Carmen Giampetruzzi 5-7-18; Pat Keefe 5-0-12; Brad Rhoades 4-0-10. Totals 18-9-50. Three-pointers: Keefe 2; Rhoades 2; Giampetruzzi
Bishop Guertin (16-6) 17-6-13-10-46
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NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a New York man is in custody after he made a remark to another passenger at LaGuardia Airport that was perceived as a threat.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey identified the man as 30-year-old Samuel Aristil, of Spring Valley. He was charged Monday with making a terroristic threat and falsely reporting an incident.
Authorities say he was removed from the plane bound for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and arrested.
A telephone number for Aristil couldn't be found.
Authorities say the Spirit Airlines flight had pushed off from a gate at around 11 a.m. Monday but had to be held on the tarmac. It took off after noon.


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The humble Ulster Brownie has several names by which he is called, a Ulster House Fairy, a Grogan, a Pecht, etc., but the real word for this diminutive fellow is a Gruagach (said, groo-gach). I will point out here, as a rule of thumb, it is always better to call a Fairy by his real name, safer too. The first Gruagaigh (plural form, said Groo-gee) arrived in the Colonies in the mid 1600s, but they were few and far between. The date that they came in numbers was 4 August 1718 when several families of them came as stowaways on two ships from Coleraine that landed in Boston harbour that day. According to Gruagaigh lore these were the house brownies of the McKeen family from the Bann Valley and that of their in-laws the McGregors. It is a matter of great pride in the current Gruagaigh community to have Bann Valley roots. The McKeen family were prominent; James McKeen becoming the first magistrate in a new colony in what is now New Hampshire. From this new colony the Gruagaigh spread, sending families south to the Pennsylvania Colony, especially around the Marsh Creek Settlement, where present day Gettysburg is. These Brownies became numerous there by the 1740s, so much so as to cause concern and great befuddlement to the locals.
Like the Anglo-Celtic settlers on the frontier, the Ulster Brownies were spreading to points south and west by the 1750s. They followed the Great Wagon Road down through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and into northern Georgia. They were with Daniel Boone as he led groups of settlers through the Cumberland Gap into Tennessee and Kentucky. From 1780s onward they spread through the Southern Hill country and Uplands and remain there to this day.
The Great Wagon Road
In the 18th, 19th and early 20th Century they were a fixture in many of the older communities in the Southern Uplands. Still believed in they enjoyed a certain elevated status in those communities that keep traditions in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, in the wooded hill country of Mississippi and north Alabama, and is spots in the Appalachian Mountains, especially in the western Carolinas. A factor that is probably a related point is all these communities have a number of people with the Second Sight, the An Taibhsearachd. Those with the Second Sight have the ability to see things, spirits, ghosts, and even into Faerie, so they could see these Brownies. One family I know of, the Tweedys originally of County Cavan, but now found in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and Missouri, were noted for having the Second Sight and were knowledgeable about the local Brownies. The Second Sight is also a burden as those with it could also see spirits that were portents of death in their community. For this reason the Tweedys, like many families with An Taibhsearchd, sought solitude and quiet out of the way places to live.
It is very likely many readers have seen a Gruagach at some time in their lives. You often get a fleeting glimpse of one moving through a doorway or opening of some sort, at such times they are briefly visible even to the average person. It is difficult to get people to acknowledge much less talk about Brownies these days, even when they see them. One certain sign that you have a Gruagach about is when you start missing things that you know you placed somewhere. It is the nature of a Gruagach that he finds great mirth in picking up your car keys, carrying them into another room and putting a magazine over them. If you have noticed a pattern of tricks such as this in your home, it is very possible you have a Gruagach living with you.
Despite the tricks they play upon a family, the Gruagach is a good thing to have around. First, they protect a home from other unpleasant, even evil, spirits that roam the earth; always a good thing. It you suspect you have one living in your house you should do what you can to make the fellow happy. Now some people may be bothered by the apparent heathen aspects of encouraging a Gruagach to live in one's house. This actually is not a concern. It is unique, but the pre Christian gods, demi-gods and assorted members of the Faerie never had any great angst against the New Faith. The Gaels of Ireland and Scotland and the Cmyru of Wales just evolved into the New Faith without much fuss and there never was any conflict in their psyche about this evolution. Perhaps the beings of the Celtic Faerie also saw no conflict. I have even heard of Church Brownies so that would suggest some sort cooperation, but these are matters for theologians and philosophers, outside the topic of this short article on the humble house Brownie.
The Gruagach will do simple cleaning chores around a house, at night usually. He will find things for you, often placing them in some obvious spot that you have examined many times in a search, causing great amazement that the object was overlooked. He will prevent accidents; look after your house while you are away. His needs are few, a small stool by the fire, a quiet spot, perhaps the back of a little used room or attic or cellar. You can attract them by playing traditional music. They are fond of the fiddle, whistles and bodhrán and absolutely love harp music. They enjoy ale, whiskey and porridge, which they consume the essence of these things, sometimes leaving the actual physical form of them.
Do not make a fuss over a Gruagach as he likes to be left alone as a rule and will make himself apparent to you on his terms only. Never mock or in anyway mistreat one. It can turn into a Boggart, which is a Gruagach that has turned bad. With a Boggart you can expect trouble, food will rot, milk spoil, things you need will disappear permanently, or worse, accidents and illness.
When you think of the Diaspora, do not limit yourself to our people entirely. There were our customs, the physical bits and pieces of our culture such as our breeds of livestock, or flora and fauna, etc. and our folkways and lore and even the odd Brownie. This article has only touched the tip of the iceberg on this topic. There are other members of the Ulster Faerie in the New World, the Púca, called a Jackro in the Upland South to name one. There are other wonderful beings such as the Aos-Sí. There is a tendency in modern people to think of Faerie as inhabited by diminutive beings such as brownies, wee folk and all that, but the Aos-Sí are tall, fair, wonderful beings of light, they are the old gods and demi-gods of the Gael, also called the Tuatha De Dannan. They are not to be trifled with, a now sad race with growingly infrequent interaction with man. There are only a dozen accounts of any one of them visiting North America, only Manannán and Dagda seem to take any interest in the Gaels on our side of the Atlantic. It is an interesting concept that these beings live among us even to this day; something for us to think about. One thing is certain, the Ulster Faerie participated in the great Migration, so have a care a Gruagach may be a close to you as your cat.
Barry R McCain © 2008