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The U.S. Supreme Court's gay-marriage rulings have raised questions about what will happen in states like Missouri that ban same-sex unions.
The U.S. Supreme Court's gay-marriage rulings have raised questions about what will happen in states like Missouri that ban same-sex unions.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law that denies federal benefits to married gay couples. It also cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California. But the court said nothing about gay marriage bans in other states, allowing Missourians on both sides of the issue to claim at least some victory. Missouri voters overwhelmingly adopted a constitutional amendment in 2004 defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
The Missouri Family Policy Council, a conservative Christian interest group, said in a written statement that it's "most grateful to God that states like Missouri will be able to continue to defend and uphold the sacred institution of marriage as God designed it."
However, several religious organizations remained deeply concerned. The Archdiocese of St. Louis said in a written statement that the rulings don't "change the reality of marriage" or the church's "responsibility to defend marriage as being between one man and one woman." The Rev. Bart Day, executive director of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod's Office of National Mission, said the church was "saddened for our nation."
On the other side of the issue, Democratic U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay called the ruling a "historic turning point that advances full equality for all."
Tony Rothert, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri, said the decisions made him optimistic that a favorable ruling will be issued in a same-sex relationship case now pending before the Missouri Supreme Court. In that case, Kelly Glossip is suing for the survivor's benefit denied him after his partner, Missouri state trooper Dennis Engelhard, was killed investigating a 2009 accident.
"The fact that the court recognized that this kind of discrimination inflicts harm that is so irrational that it fails constitutional scrutiny under any standard does encourage us that the Missouri Supreme Court will reach a similar conclusion," Rothert said.
Rep. Mike Colona, D-St. Louis, and Sen. Jolie Justus, D-Kansas City, the only two openly gay members of the state legislature, praised the rulings.
"I rarely get emotional about these issues but this morning was kind of emotional for me," said Colona, who also is a lawyer. He added: "It will take another court case or two before full equality is achieved. But it is looking promising. Rome wasn't built in a day and discrimination laws weren't torn down in a day. We just have to keep slowly but surely marching forward."
Justus agreed that legal questions remained.
"The issue is going to become, 'What happens when the federal government begins to recognize marriages from other states and Missouri does not and how is that going to work?'" she said. "I think that there is still a lot of uncertainty relating to relationships for LGBT Missourians."


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Young children in the United States watch about 80 minutes of television per day, on average. Depending on whether the programming is educational and age-appropriate, all that time in front of the tube can either help or harm their development. But what happens in that 80 minutes may be only part of the story.
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Young children in the United States watch about 80 minutes of television per day, on average. Depending on whether the programming is educational and age-appropriate, all that time in front of the tube can either help or harm their development, research suggests.
But what happens in that 80 minutes may be only part of the story. According to a nationwide study, a much bigger proportion of kids' TV exposure comes indirectly, from television that's on in the background while they're doing other activities.
The average child between the ages of eight months and eight years absorbs nearly four hours of this so-called background or "secondhand" TV each day, the study found. And this indirect exposure, by detracting from play, homework, and family time, may have possible consequences for kids' well-being.
This is the first study to quantify background television in children, and the high number is "surprising," says lead author Matthew Lapierre, an assistant professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina–Wilmington.
"From a research perspective, I would be very concerned," Lapierre says. "I think [background TV] is something that researchers need to spend more attention to, to understand and unpack."
Lapierre and his colleagues arrived at their estimates by interviewing a nationally representative sample of parents about their household's TV habits on a typical weekday and weekend.
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Background TV was especially common in certain populations. Children under the age of two, African-American children, children living in poverty, and kids with less-educated parents had the highest levels of exposure—at least five hours per day. Conversely, exposure ranged from 2.5 to 3 hours per day among whites and children from more affluent families.
The study appears in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics. Lapierre presented preliminary findings from the study last spring, at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, a group of communications scholars.
No one really knows what kind of impact background TV has on a child's development, Lapierre says. A handful of small studies have linked background TV to shorter attention spans, lower quality parent-child interactions, and poorer academic performance, but the research on this topic is still in the early stages.
The impact likely depends on a child's age, and what he or she happens to be doing while the TV is on, says Sara Rivero-Conil, Psy.D., a pediatric psychologist at Miami Children's Hospital, in Miami, Fla.
A toddler, for instance, "is developing and learning how to play," Rivero-Conil says. "Background television is decreasing their attention to the play at hand. You're taxing something that's already limited."
The constant flickering and sound of a nearby TV may be even more distracting to school-age children, Rivero-Conil adds. As kids get older, they're more likely to be drawn to the actual content on the screen, at the expense of their homework or other tasks.
Despite the limited research, background TV has gotten the attention of pediatricians. A 2011 policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (which publishes Pediatrics) included a section on secondhand TV, and urged parents with children under age two to be mindful that their own TV watching "can have a negative effect on their children" and "is distracting for both the parents and the child."
The good news is that limiting background TV is easy. Parents can simply turn the television off when no one's watching, and make sure it stays off during homework time, mealtimes, and bedtime.
"These are good points in the day to limit TV. It should be standard practice for kids growing up to know this," Rivero-Conil says. "It also forces families to talk about each other's day."
But perhaps the single most important step parents can take is to "get the TV out of the bedroom," Lapierre says. "There's overwhelming evidence that having a television in a child's bedroom is really not a good thing."
Children who have a TV in their room have a higher risk of obesity, poor sleep habits, and lower academic achievement, research has shown. And in the new study, not surprisingly, kids who slept in the same room as a TV received an extra hour of background exposure per day.
"That's substantial," Lapierre says.

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I am genuinely curious now about the word "jack off" I think that when used as a noun it should be hyphenated: You're a bastard, a jack-off, and a son-of-a-female dog. And when pluralized it should still be hyphenated: You're all bastards, jack-offs, and son-of-a-bitches.
although, if they are all brothers then they could be "sons of a female dog."
Man, you guys don't get it. I was not trying to pluralize "son of a female dog" correctly. I was trying to have fun with language. I guess I should remember to put smileys next to everything that is not a completely serious pronouncement about life.


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Mr Schlafly, this is a very unusual piece of homework. There doesn't seem to be much point in writing down what percentage of words we know, as you can't check whether or not we are fabricating results. It also isn't testing us on anything in Lecture Six - as the Study Guide is compiled through homework assignments, we will be memorising Study Guide terms from last year and thus as we are unable to add to the Guide, our knowledge of any terms relating to this year's Lecture will not be tested. Can we please return to the format of questions which specifically relate to the Lecture? Otherwise, with no testing and no ability to add to the Study Guide, there is no means of testing our knowledge and not even an incentive to read the Lecture.
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The Dow Jones industrial average fell 85 points to 12,925 shortly after the opening bell Monday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost eight points to 1,401 and the Nasdaq composite was also off eight points at 2,959.
Shoppers flooded stores in record numbers over the weekend, according to the National Retail Federation. The organization said 247 million shoppers visited stores and shopping websites during the Thanksgiving holiday, up 9.2 percent from last year.
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With Jurassic Park coming back to theaters this week, we're looking back at the years when Steven Spielberg released two films, and how those films reflect on each other. Earlier this week Sean dug into 1993's double feature, Jurassic Park vs. Schindler's List, and Kristy tackled 1989's Always and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Today Katey takes on 2005, when Spielberg released Munich and War of the Worlds.
Less than four years passed between the attack on Pearl Harbor and the end of the global war that the U.S. entered because of it. Just shy of 60 years later the World Trade Center was destroyed, but in 2005 the United States was four years into a secretive, muddled war with no end in sight. Two weeks before Steven Spielberg released War of the Worlds in June of that year, five Marines were killed by a roadside bomb in Western Iraq. In December of that year, as Spielberg's Munich was heading to theaters, President George W. Bush admitted for the first time that the invasion of Iraq was based on bad information.
Spielberg's war movies have been exclusively about the two World Wars-- conflicts with clear national boundaries and treaties, and the historical distance to spin tragedy into triumph. But after 9/11, America's most iconic filmmaker could not shake the lingering national wound and the endless war that came from it, releasing two of his darkest and most morally conflicted films. One was a massive summer blockbuster, the other a two-and-a-half-hour Oscar nominee; one was led by the planet's biggest star and the other by a cast of unknowns and character actors; one features alien bad guys, and one doesn't allow for the existence of bad guys at all. But War of the Worlds and Munich both allow Spielberg to step into his familiar role as the American pop culture conscience-- but at a time when straightforward morality no longer mattered.
There are blatant 9/11 references in Munich and War of the Worlds-- the Twin Towers at the center of Munich's closing credits, Tom Cruise coming home covered in gray dust after the first alien attack-- but the nods to the Iraq conflict are knottier and denser with meaning. At the beginning of Munich, when Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir begins planning the assassinations of Palestinians who organized the slaughter of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes, the language is thick with false righteousness. "It's the same as Eichmann-- you didn't want to share this world with us, we don't have to share this world with you," Meir says to her cabinet, explicitly referencing Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann but also George W. Bush's "you're either with us or against us" ultimatums. Sensing discomfort in the room but sticking by her plan, Meir reminds her confidants that "Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values."
That's the thesis statement of Munich, which spins out a heavily fictionalized story about the Israelis hired to carry out these assassinations, and revenge comes at the cost of sanity, safety and their lives. Eric Bana's Avner starts the film as a reluctant warrior, but even the most gung-ho-- like Daniel Craig's hulking Steve and Mathieu Kassovitz's bomb-maker Robert-- are shattered by the end of their quest. The decision to individually target the men who planned the Munich attack is far simpler and ostensibly cleaner than, say, invading an entire country as retribution for a single terrorist attack. But nothing is quite so simple. Avner decides to veer off course and kill the woman who killed his friend. The same man (Mathieu Amalric's perfectly slimy Louis) who helps Avner find his targets sells him out to the Palestinians. Decades later, Iraqi insurgents would be murdering U.S. soldiers years after "mission accomplished." Revenge never works the way you planned.
The moral universe of War of the Worlds seems much simpler on the surface, with the invading pods pulverizing humanity so ruthlessly that it's impossible to root for anything other than our survival. But as Badass Digest recently pointed out so well, Ray's development into a good father requires an embrace of selfishness, the kind of "my life is more important than that life" rationalization that drives the assassinations of Munich or the 120,000 Iraqi civilians killed since 2003. The beginning of the film is crammed with 9/11 allusions, from the groups of onlookers gaping in horror at the sky to the flyers for missing people that paper public spaces, but the film immediately heads in a direction very different from the stories we tell about the way we acted after 9/11. People push each other out of the way and wield guns to get what they want; people, Ray included, steal and kill just to get one step ahead of the frantic masses. One of the most blatant 9/11 references is also the most false-- as Ray's family approaches the ferry, a woman announces they no longer need blood donations because they have plenty. Who in this grim, desperate scenario would have donated blood to begin with?
Near the film's end humanity does begin to redeem itself, as fellow captives in the tripod help Ray plant a grenade inside the machinery, and the military organization in Boston helps corral survivors and bring down a tripod at last. The humans here are fighting a "good" war, like the one in Saving Private Ryan or War Horse, and the much-derided happy ending allows us to believe that the humans won a righteous victory. But nearly all of War of the Worlds is about not fighting at all, as Ray and Rachel struggle to hide from the tripods or run away. Tim Robbins's histrionic Harlan, wielding a shotgun and promising to fight back, shouts "This is an occupation! Occupations always fail!'-- a line with unavoidable real-world connotations in 2005. Ray takes the gun from his hands. Even after a historic attack, even when humanity is in shambles and the enemy is a terrifying space creature-- Spielberg says the retaliation isn't worth it. Not, at least, until you really know how to fight back.


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(Reuters) - Truck and military vehicle maker Oshkosh Corp said it will cut about 900 jobs in its defense business due to U.S. budget cuts.
About 200 full-time positions will be eliminated through July and about 700 hourly positions from mid June onwards. The defense unit will have 2,800 employees after the cuts.
The company maintained high levels of hiring at its defense business during the height of the recession, but "circumstances have now changed," said John Urias, Oshkosh's President of Defense.
The US Government implemented $85 billion in federal budget cuts known as the "sequester," starting on March 1 this year.
see also: Polls: Democrats Believe Kavanaugh's Accuser, Dismiss Keith Ellison's -- Despite Gap in Corroborating Evidence
The company, which had earlier cautioned that the budget cuts and a wind down in war activities would impact volumes, said it expects a 30 percent fall in military vehicle production this summer.
Oshkosh also makes emergency vehicles such as ambulances and fire trucks and specialty trucks for construction, and has been trying to reduce its exposure to the defense market.
Defense sales, which account for about half of its total, fell 21 percent during the first quarter.
On the other hand, a recovering housing market has led to higher sales of its access equipment products such as aerial work platforms and boom lifts.
Shares of the Wisconsin-based company, which have risen almost 35 percent this year, closed at $39.17, down 0.6 percent, on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
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It is Ash Wednesday and throughout the day and the week my friends and I will be bantering back and forth about what we intend to give up for the season of lent. The list will inevitably include more and less brave endeavors. After many years of self-discovery, I now try to keep my personal commitments, ahem, modest.
Lately I have begun to think that our lenten choices are beginning to feel more and more like new year's resolutions than spiritual exercises: quit smoking, exercise, skip dessert, drink less, eat more broccoli… And if I happen to loose a couple pounds along the way, so be it. Self control and discipline are good and praise worthy, but I do have to wonder if that kind of discipline really needs God. If our lenten practices have become mere efforts of will power and self-help then I am pretty sure we are still missing out on the transformative power of this kind of fasting can be: grace. Continue reading


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LAS VEGAS – A Nevada paleontologist said Monday that he thinks apparent dinosaur bone fossils found at a state park about 20 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip could date to the late Triassic period and might be the oldest land animal ever found in the state.
Josh Bonde, a geoscience teacher and paleontology research associate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said in a brief telephone interview that the fossilized backbone vertebrae come from a layer of rock some 220 million to 230 million years old.
There's no positive identification yet, but Bonde told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the fossils found at Spring Mountain Ranch could predate 190-million-year-old dinosaur footprints spotted in 2010 in nearby red rock sandstone.
He said the bones might have belonged to a phytosaur, an early ancestor of the crocodile, or a metoposaur, a giant amphibian with a broad, flat, triangular head.
"It's something big," Bonde said. "These are great big vertebrae."
The animals would have lived when present-day Nevada was covered by a shallow sea and populated by the ichthyosaur, a marine reptile as big as a school bus that is now Nevada's official state fossil.
Bonde said a search team found more fossilized bones and fragments during the weekend in the area where Harold Larson, an 84-year-old retired civil engineer, found the first odd-looking rock specimen a few months ago.
Larson, a Las Vegas resident since 1954, told the Review-Journal that even his friend, Nick Saines, a geologist and naturalist for the Red Rock Canyon Interpretive Association, didn't believe at first the rock he found was a fossil. The nonprofit association helps the federal Bureau of Land Management operate Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
State park workers later found two more fossilized vertebrae in the same general area.
"The moral of the story is if you believe something, you gotta keep working at it," Larson said.
Bonde has been hunting old bones in Nevada for a decade, and played a role in discoveries ranging from 300 million-year-old dinosaur fish in central Nevada to an ice age wolf in the hills north of Las Vegas.
He said the new find comes from the same layer of rock as fossilized logs found at Valley of Fire State Park northeast of Las Vegas and Petrified Forest National Park in eastern Arizona.
Russ Dapsauski, southern regional manager for the Nevada Division of State Parks, said any fossils from Spring Mountain Ranch will go to the Las Vegas Natural History Museum for study.
Fossils found on BLM land are collected and studied at California's San Bernardino County Museum.
Dapsauski said the exact location of the Spring Mountain Ranch find was being kept confidential to protect the sensitivity of the site.


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Hydra-Sports set out to create a center console so loaded with features they would not only keep their existing customers wanting to move up happy, but also make an attractive option for folks in large sportfish convertibles wanting to trade down. The result is the 4200 SF, a mix of size and CC functionality. Trading up is a no-brainer - all you need is lots of cash. Trading down offers the same capabilities of a larger sportfish for a lot less than half the price and a fraction of the operating expense. You don't need an expensive full-time captain, just a mate or some expert fishing buddies. About all you give up is the shelter of a cabin, and that is a fair trade-off.
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When a builder creates a boat in this class, they have to ask who would want one? In a world where single-task boats are going the way of dial-up modems, one would wonder why Hydra-Sports didn't just make another express fish boat and load it up with family amenities. The fact is, sexist or not, there are very few women this boat will appeal to. Sure, they are out there, but this is a total "guy" boat that likely has testosterone as standard equipment. Nor is the 4200 SF made for the faint-of-heart angler who only intends to go out on clear, flat calm days and play it safe. Rather, this Hydra-Sports machine is intended for the type of big game fisherman who isn't intimidated by a little wind and chop, but who is also not foolhardy. From the moment you step aboard and feel how solidly built this boat is, you'll realize that she is not happy sitting at the dock -- she's looking to compete with anything and everything in blue water and bring home the prize.
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There is a trade-off in this, however, and it comes in the form of weight. She'll tip the scales at over 23,000 lbs. dry and 28,000 lbs. fully fueled and loaded for billfish. That puts her in the heavyweight category for her class. So to put it another way, when the bell goes off and everyone is running in the flat water of the channel to get offshore, some of those other boats may be leaving you behind -- even with the quad Yamaha 350-hp V8's. However... once she gets offshore and all the competition has throttled back to reduce pounding in the three-to-four foot stuff, the 4200 will keep going and leave the others in her wake. With her 23-degree deadrise -- just one-degree less than high-performance racing-type boats -- the 4200 SF should be the envy of the battlewagons you'll be passing, much less the made-for-smooth-water center consoles.
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At the bow, the 4200 has a stainless steel anchor davit, a Lewmar windlass with controls both at the bow and at the helm, a 10" pop-up cleat, plus storage for a second anchor and the anchor rode. Naturally, the anchor storage is also self draining.
Fishy Stuff.
As we move aft, we find the first of -- get this -- 48 rod holders. Just under the bow, we have the first four of the boat's 18 stainless steel drink holders, as well as storage under the bow cushion. On either side of the bow are the first two of the boat's seven fish lockers (four in the sole, two at the bow, and the coffin box ahead of the console). I'll tell you what... you fill up all 7 of these and you'll definitely be over your limit!
There is a multi-function non-skid platform for the bow. You can use it as a casting platform, or for the non redheads among us, add a cushion to make a sun pad. There's also a pedestal to raise it for the addition of the optional dining table. Once you get into the habit of entertaining onboard the 4200 SF, you'll come to appreciate the stereo remote hidden at the bow.
Special Props.
Under the deck hatch in the bow, there's a huge lazarette with indentations for holding 2 five gallon buckets and secure storage for two of the boat's innovative props. The Yamaha 350's on this boat required special props that were custom made by Yamaha. You're not going to be able to just walk into the nearest ship's store and pick one up, so having spares onboard is a great feature.
Coffin Box.
Just forward of the center console is a Frigid Rigid coffin box with a compartment separator and an option to turn it into a freezer. Atop the coffin box is a comfy sunpad and dual ergonomic seats with flip-down armrests and drink holders in between.
The head is plenty roomy. I found 75" of head room. I've also seen some manufacturers make the head into a mini galley by recessing a microwave into one of the bulkheads. That wouldn't be a bad feature on this boat. There is a sink, a shower, opening port lights and a teak sole.
Center Stage
Now let's move to the center console itself: it's a unique setup. You have three wrap-around seats at the helm, followed by two sleigh seats, and then the bait station. Let's start with the helm and move aft.
The helm itself is uncluttered and uncomplicated with plenty of room for three 15" (38.1 cm) nav screens. Our test boat was equipped with two displays and in between were dual Yamaha Multi-function LED gauges. I found the helm to be a bit high for my liking. I'm 5'8" and I had a hard time even seeing the compass. A step up behind the helm wouldn't be a bad idea. Also at the helm is a large glove box with two connections for charging cell phones, one connection for hooking up your MP3 player and even a USB outlet. The three helm seats are designed to support you for sustained high-speed operation. The flip up seat cushions are electrically actuated. And you have two-position footrests at the bottom of the helm, one for sitting and the other for leaning.
Sleigh Ride.
Just abaft is three-across sleigh seating. There's an option for having a flat screen mounted on the back of the helm seats so the passengers can watch a DVD on the way out to the canyons (as if), or it can be tied to the nav system for following along with the navigation. While fishing the rigger can see the fish finder display while working the aft station.
Bait Station.
At the working end of the bait station are two of the boat's ten tackle drawers, in the center a "galley up" stove. Below is a Frigid Rigid cooler that pulls out to become a convenient seat for the rigger to keep an eye on the action. On the side, there are holders for four different spools, depending on which class you're rigging for at the time. Rod holders are right in front of the rigging station, keeping gear at the ready for a quick tradeoff. Overhead, the hardtop is standard, and there's an option for adding a tower.
The 4200 SF has two centerline mounted gas tanks. The aft tank is 412 gallons (1,559 L), the forward, 212 gallons (802 L), for a total of 624 gallons (2,362 L). I really like that there are fills for both tanks on BOTH sides of the boat. Not only do you not have to deal with which side of the boat the gas dock should be on, you can open the fills on the opposite side for additional venting for high volume pumps.
The padded cockpit bolsters start at 28" (71 cm) high in the stern of the boat, and slope upward as you move forward to a height of 38" (96.5). To add to the safety of the bolsters, there are toe rails at the deck to hook your feet under for added stability while fishing in a seaway.
Aft Deck
Pump Room.
There are 50 square feet of cockpit space. In the center of the aft deck is a hatch leading to a great Hydra-Sports feature, the pump room. This is a staple of every Hydra-Sports boat, and I'm continually impressed every time I see it.
Inside is easy access to the fuel filters and manifolds, bilge pumps, trim pumps, washdown pumps, and bait well pumps. There's also additional room for storage, and if you opt for the air conditioning, the generator will go in this room also. To starboard is a tuna door with a unique hinging system to avoid contacting the door with the rigging station.
When you're making your way out to the fishing grounds, there's a convenient rumble seat at the stern. When you arrive, it stows away as easily as it deploys. In the starboard quarter, you have two tackle drawers, two of the boat's six deck drains, and two of the boat's four scuppers. Shipping water on this boat is the least of your concerns... if you can get it to happen. In the port quarter, you have a transom door with a positive lock, and a hot and cold shower. For working gear, you have a ballyhoo sink, a 50 gallon (189.3 L) recirculating bait well, and one of the boat's six freshwater wash downs. When I'm on a boat that's rigged for going offshore, I always make sure that there are grab rails in all locations so I can walk around the boat without letting go at any time. On this boat, they're everywhere, so no worries about being tossed by a wave as long as you're holding on.
There's a long list of options for this boat, but two of my favorites are the FLIR, or Forward Looking Infra Red, camera, and the misters in the overhead for those impossibly hot days when there is no wind. And it's not just for the helm: they're also at the sleigh seats and aft for the riggers at the bait station.
Not only is this boat rigged and ready to take on anything that swims, but Hydra-Sports also prides itself on offering a completely customizable boat that you can equip to your taste. If you are big on options, the list is long and distinguished. If you like to keep it simple, that can be done as well. Hydra-Sports starts you off in the middle of the road, at least as far as standard equipment is concerned, and you can move up or down the list as desired. As you can see, whether trading up or down, there are few production boat choices that can match the Hydra-Sports 4200 SF -- she is almost in a class by herself. Over the last several years Hydra-Sports -- which has always had a great reputation -- has gotten even better. We now consider it at the top of the premium category of production open boats.
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For the past couple of years, the property development of a protected ride program at UCF has been sputtering along like a car running on vacant.
A brand-new year brings the program the farthest it has ever been in its growth.
By the end of January or early February, Taxi Cab Service will introduce, offering free rides on Friday and also Saturday evenings from around 7 p.m. to 3 a.m.
"I essentially think that this could change our college for the better," claimed program supervisor, Adam Brock. "Not just will it aid individuals look for alternative remedies to heading out and also consuming, I think it will certainly also help people make a a lot more liable choice when they're out during the night, regardless of whatever they do.".
In older blueprints, the program was described as KnightDrive, but it never got off the ground as a result of too many liability concerns.
This time around, rather than attempting to establish a program like one at Texas A&M where student volunteers drive automobiles like a taxi solution in vehicles leased by the program, UCF has partnered with Lynx, the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority.
"Once we started considering all the details and how it would be executed below … it didn't transfer over well from Texas A&M to right here in order for us to offer a solution that would certainly be effective, effective as well as trustworthy," claimed SGA President Michael Kilbride.
Kilbride stated the distinction this time is that UCF is partnering with the location's leading specialist on mass transport.
"Their engineers have functioned to assist craft these trip timetables with the quits so we do it in a prompt manner in addition to a reliable fashion," Kilbride said. "We're lucky to be able to companion with them to give this solution to pupils.".
During December 2010's Activity as well as Service Fee budget plan conferences, the committee asked for that $105,000 of the $17 million budget plan be designated to the KnightLynx program.
However, Kilbride asked for to postpone voting on that spending plan line until the next fiscal year when the agreement need to be finalized as well as the program tested.
"If we show that it's pertained to accomplishment … after that we could discuss funding it for the following year rather than talking about it currently while we still have obtained any type of comments back and also an executed contract for this fiscal year," Kilbride stated. "This is something we regularly hear about, so I'm hoping it's going to succeed.".
"They depend on them for any sort of kind of night task they participate in and I hope to bring that to UCF with this brand-new addition of the KnightLynx program.".
Alumna Patricia Pena, that resided in Pegasus Landing all four years, didn't have a vehicle and did not like asking close friends for rides.
"I always felt really bad asking people to go out of their means," Pena claimed. "It would certainly've been really helpful to have a bus that would visit the food store or Waterford and also things like that.".
There was speculation throughout KnightDrive's advancement that such a program would urge consuming, Brock as well as Kilbride said there's a lot even more to it than that.
"This program isn't necessarily simply for individuals which go out to bars. This program is for people that desire to go obtain groceries," Brock claimed.
Kilbride claimed the program will certainly be a connection to the community for UCF students, as well as a safe ride choice late in the evening.
Till the allocate the financial year is accepted in late March or early April, Brock intends to do whatever he can to get comments from students that make use of the program.
"I'm going to be available practically every weekend aiming to get feedback on this," stated Brock. "This project is my body and soul. I haven't stopped working on it and I'll never stop working on it until it's ideal.".
"They depend on them for any type of kind of evening task they engage in and I wish to bring that to UCF with this brand-new addition of the KnightLynx program.".
"This program isn't always simply for individuals who go out to bars. This program is for people which desire to go obtain groceries," Brock claimed. "It's a multi-functioning bus service for really any sort of pupil that goes to UCF.".
"I'm going to be out there practically every weekend break trying to obtain feedback on this," said Brock.…


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The renderings are striking for Marina Lofts, a $150 million development proposed for a blighted stretch along the south side of the New River in Fort Lauderdale.
One of the three Lego-like buildings looks as if a lightning bolt tore through it. Several blocks appear to have fallen off the top of another building. The blocks serve as a bridge, allowing pedestrians to cross an existing water basin.
The design for the mix of boutique shops, quaint cafes and 1,000 rentals targeting young professionals is the creation of Bjarke Ingels, a renowned Danish architect.
"Well, you've got to admit, it's not a boring elevation," said Helene Dreiling, president-elect of the American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C. "That's pretty cool. This is a real opportunity for transformation. This could be the catalyst for other projects that are of a higher design quality."
Developer Asi Cymbal, 43, insists Marina Lofts will be a dramatic addition to the skyline and draw international attention to Fort Lauderdale – if it's approved. Cymbal hopes to get the city's blessing this spring. Construction would begin next year, with the first of three phases opening in 2015.
"We're not interested in building another ordinary box," says Cymbal, a native of Israel and an aficionado of art and architecture.
He put together a list of about 10 architects worldwide and eventually hired Ingels, who won the Wall Street Journal's Innovator of the Year award for architecture in 2011. Ingels, 38, "has a reputation for creating eco-friendly spaces with playful design touches," the paper said.


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Greece In Panic Mode May Allow Building on Environmentally Protected Areas
In crisis-hit Greece, government decisions taken in haste and despair to save the country from default, risk having a serious impact on the environment. A new bill seeks to relax restrictions on construction of public and private forestland even for those areas which are considered protected.
Katerina Batzaki is a Press Officer at the Worldwatch Insitute Europe.
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A joint statement by the country's biggest environmental organizations said that the legislation would be destructive for the environment and harmful to the economy and development of the country. The statement was signed by 10 organizations, including WWF, Greenpeace, MOm and the Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage.
Under the would-be legislation, which was made available to the public for ten days, hotels would be able to expand into wooded areas while new tourism developments such as golf courses and spas could also be constructed on forestland. WWF says that the bill seeks to scrap protection of environmentally important areas covered by sparse and low vegetation.
WWF Head in Greece, Dimitris Karavelas, has said that the biggest problem of this law is that it suggests the declassification from a protected status of about 15 percent of Greek territory, mainly in the islands and coastal areas."The draft law opens up areas that used to be protected to various forms of development and it legalizes a number of developments in the past where financial penalties were pending," said Karavelas.
In panic mode, the Greek government is making economic decisions that could cause environmental harm. Source: J. Griffin Stewart
Environmental encroachments in Greece are not new
When the 2009 fires were raging in eastern Attika, they broke out in a forested suburban region known for its illegal ribbon development, where thousands of illegal homes have been legalized ahead of successive elections by incumbent governments. This area is also expected to undergo further development with a population increase as a result of new urban plans.
In 2011 the government at the time asked Greeks to pay penalties to the state for building homes without permits in return for which they were allowed to save them from demolition. The Environment Ministry assured the Greek public at the time that this was part of the process to put the properties "in order." It said that they would be included in a new framework being developed for illegal properties.
More than 500,000 properties have either gone through these schemes or are in the process of doing so. This has raised almost 800 million Euros (1.08 billion dollars) for the government by the end of February 2012. About 530 million Euros (722 million dollars) came from penalties and the rest from processing fees that applicants had to pay.It also meant a considerable source of income for the debt-stricken state. But the Council of State then, the country's highest administrative court, deemed that the government's action was unlawful.
Today Greek NGOs argue that many of the provisions contained in the draft legislation have no scientific basis and in fact run counter to recent decisions by the Council of State.
According to Karavelas, there has been a precedent but never to the size and scale of this draft legislation. "The law means legalization for a number of illegal houses or buildings that have already been there for a long time. It means a loss in the protection of status of NATURA 2000 sites (an EUwide network of nature protection areas established in 1992), that are quite critical and that we have a responsibility towards the European Union for protecting. So, it is really a massive change in the landscape. And one we think is to the detriment of the country's economy in the long-term."
Karavelas adds that the reasons behind this move are bad crisis management in panic mode. "The government is interested in how we can open up the land and sell anything we possibly can to bring in the money in the short term. But what we are not realizing is that just as we have borrowed financial resources from the future and accumulated this massive financial deficit, what we are actually doing is borrowing natural resources from our future and we will be accumulating a massive ecological deficit," he says.
Dimitris Karavelas is worried about what impact this law may cause. "We haven't heard an official position from the Council of State on this yet, but we've already heard officially from a number of legal experts, who are saying that this law is certainly unconstitutional in a number of ways in a number of its articles. What this law is actually saying is that following the fires there is no longer the requirement to designate this land as an area that has been burned and needs to regenerate so basically it is creating an amazing incentive to people start burning more forest."
"The government is going into the wrong direction. The natural environment of this country and its civilization and its history are the strongest cards that we have in the European and the global context. To kill that potential, because that is basically what we are talking about, is really suicidal."
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Prior to SQL Server 2008, the database engine tried to provide balanced performance to all concurrent users, so you had little control over the priority assigned to users or workloads. In addition, many organizations have hundreds (or even thousands) of applications, and DBAs have little knowledge of which applications are being used to access their databases. The problem is made worse by the use of fixed SQL Server logins for a large number of users of applications.
SQL Server 2008 introduces the Resource Governor, which provides you with a degree of control over your resources. Resource Governor can help prevent performance problems and somewhat identify the applications being used. Although Resource Governor currently has several limitations, it's sufficient for dealing with many common resource problems. In this article, I'll show you how to manage your CPU and memory resources by creating resource pools, assigning applications to resource pools, and using classifier functions to assign sessions to workload groups.
Creating Resource Pools
Resource Governor works by controlling the CPU and memory allocated to a session. You can specify the maximum and minimum percentages of CPU and memory that an application can use, as well as the maximum degree of parallelism permitted. To do so, create broad pools of resources to allocate sessions into and set the minimum and maximum percentages on them using the CREATE RESOURCE POOL command. For example, the commands in Listing 1 create three resource pools that are limited based on CPU percentage. The CPU percentages used in these commands aren't hard limits. For instance, if a single low priority application is the only application running on the system, it will be allocated total use of the CPU. The governing of resources based on the CPU percentage occurs only in times of overlapping concurrent demands.
In Resource Governor there's a hard-coded maximum limit of 20 pools, 18 of which are available for configuration. Of the remaining two pools, one is allocated to internal processes, such as cleanup operations, and the other is the default pool used for sessions not assigned to other pools. Therefore, you shouldn't create too many resource pools too early and should carefully consider which pools will be needed.
Creating Workload Groups
Once you've grouped the available resources, you can group the applications that will be assigned to these resource pools by creating workload groups using the CREATE WORKLOAD GROUP command. Listing 2 shows some sample CREATE WORKLOAD GROUP commands.
In Listing 2, five workload groups were created and assigned to three resource pools. The Access and Excel applications are kept in separate pools, in case you want to change the resources allocated to one versus the other in the future. Poorly behaving Access applications and applications that we can't identify will be given few resources. Applications that we have identified as critical to our business will be given the highest priority on resources.
Viewing Your Resource Governor Configuration
Once you've created the workload groups and assigned them to resource pools they don't start working immediately. To determine what else needs to be configured to get Resource Governor up and running you can view the current Resource Governor configuration, which is provided in a new dynamic management view. Executing the command
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_resource_governor_configuration;
produces the output shown in Figure 1.
(Note that this output is shown in the Results tab in SQL Server Management Studio—SSMS.) The value of 1 in the left column is the output row number.
This output tells you two things. First, the is_reconfiguration_pending flag means that you need to execute the command
before your changes will take effect. After you run this command, the is_reconfiguration_pending value is zero. Second, the value of zero for the classifier_function_id means no classifier function has been assigned. (As a side note, I feel this column should return NULL, not zero, for this value.) A classifier function is used to determine which workload group a session should be placed in. I'll show you how to use classifier functions in a moment.
Next, you can see the resource pool configuration by executing the command
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_resource_governor_resource_pools;
which returns the output shown in Figure 2.
Notice that until you execute the reconfiguration command, only the internal and default pools will appear in this output. You can see the workload pool configuration by using the command
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_resource_governor_workload_groups;
which returns the output shown in Figure 3.
Classifying Applications
The final step to configuring Resource Governor is identifying the sessions that you want to control. You can do so by using a classifier function, which assigns a session to a specific workload group, as Listing 3 shows.
Classifier functions must return a value of type SYSNAME, which is currently an alias for NVARCHAR(128). For the purpose of this article, I have based the decision about which workload group a session should go into on the application name function (APP_NAME()). This function returns the value that was specified in the connection string from the application. I have a particular liking for this option as it lets you make classification decisions based on which application is running. There are several other options you can use when classifying sessions, which I'll describe later.
Applications are often built without the application name being specified in the connection string, but it's important to add the application name to the connection string or to specify the value in the application configuration files. This practice is also useful outside of Resource Governor because the application name appears in traces created by SQL Server Profiler and can be used to filter events within the traces. Having access to application names via the connection strings also assists with tracing access to SQL Server when trying to isolate an application-related problem. However, some less well designed applications have hard-coded connection strings that don't lend themselves to this approach. Hard-coding connection strings is a practice that should be avoided.
Also, I have found classifying applications by name to be a good starting point for identifying unknown applications that are connected to a server. The beauty of Resource Governor in this situation is that the unknown applications would be placed in a low priority resource pool, and it's likely that the users involved would then quickly identify the applications they're using. This capability lets you determine who is actually using your systems.
Although the APP_NAME() function was used in Listing 3, many other functions can be used to classify sessions, such as HOST_NAME(), SUSER_NAME(), SUSER_SNAME(), IS_SRVROLEMEMBER(), and IS_MEMBER(). If you decide to use either HOST_NAME() or APP_NAME() as the classifier function, be aware that it's possible for these functions to be altered by users. In practice, however, I have found APP_NAME() to work very well.
In addition to these functions, you can use several properties when making classification decisions. The LOGINPROPERTY() function now includes two properties (DefaultDatabase and DefaultLanguage) that can be used in classification functions. In addition, the CONNECTIONPROPERTY() function provides access to the network transport and protocol being used for the connection, as well as details of the authentication scheme, the local IP address and TCP port, and the client's IP address. The ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() function is also useful because it returns the name of the database that was provided when the session first connected, as opposed to the default database. These properties let you to make classification decisions based on any of these values. For example, you could assign a connection to a workload group based on which database the user typically uses.
It's important to test the classifier function before putting it into use; otherwise your system can become unresponsive. For example, you can test the APP_NAME() classifier function in SSMS by executing the command
which returns the output shown in Figure 4.
Because SSMS wasn't on the list of applications that the classifier function knew about, you shouldn't be surprised that executing the command
SELECT dbo.UserClassifier();
returns the output shown in Figure 5.
If you enabled the classifier function without further modification, SSMS would run in the low priority application resource pool. You can also use a classifier function to look up the workload group name in a database table, instead of hard-coding all application names into the function. Typically, performance won't be greatly affected when accessing a table to look up the workload group because the table wouldn't be large, would quickly become cached, and the classification decisions that the function is used to make are taken only when a connection is first established.
You can now implement the classifier function using the following command:
ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR WITH (CLASSIFIER_FUNCTION = dbo.UserClassifier);
Then you must reconfigure Resource Governor to put the pending configuration into operation. You can do so using the command
At this point, your Resource Governor configuration is complete. You then need to make sure it's working as it should. If you did a poor job of testing your classifier function, the system could become unresponsive to new logins and you might need to use the dedicated administrator connection (DAC) to gain access to SQL Server. If you haven't configured the DAC, you can restart the server in single-user mode. When running in single-user mode, your connection isn't subject to Resource Governor, so you can disable Resource Governor until the situation is corrected.
Should you need to change the classifier function, you'll need to first disable Resource Governor because you can't change it while Resource Governor is in use. You can disable the current classifier function by executing the following command:
As a general rule, Resource Governor changes should be implemented by the most senior DBA within your organization, given the problems that can arise if Resource Governor is misconfigured. That's also the reason I've used T-SQL scripts for implementation in this article even though you can perform these operations directly in SSMS. The CONTROL SERVER permission is required to change the configurations, and the VIEW SERVER STATE permission is required to view the configuration. Classifier function failures can be detected via events in the application log on the server.
Other Techniques for Monitoring and Configuring Resources
You can also monitor the CPU resources being allocated by SQL Server via the System Monitor (perfmon.exe) tool. Note that when you add counters that you want to monitor, the SQLServer:Resource Pool Stats object shows instances of each of the configured resource pools, as shown in Figure 6.
Similar instance-related selections have been added to SQLServer:Workload Group Stats counter. Relevant values can also be obtained by querying the sys.dm_os_performance_counters view.
To enable more detailed monitoring, additional events have been added to SQL Server, including the CPU Threshold Exceeded, PreConnect:Starting, and PreConnect:Completed events. If you want to control Resource Governor programmatically using .NET code, a ResourceGovernor class has been added to SQL Server Management Objects (SMO).
For the purposes of this article, I focused on maximum CPU percentages when configuring resource pools because you must be very careful about how you configure minimum percentages. It's easy to greatly limit the resources on a system by configuring the minimum values too high, particularly minimum percentages for memory.
You might be wondering about the limitations I mentioned earlier. I can hear people saying "OK Greg, this feature looks great. What's the catch?" First, resource pools and workload groups can't be dropped while they're in use. No big surprise there, except they could be in use for quite a while on busy systems. Also, you might think that you can use Resource Governor to drop the priority of that pesky query that you've just noticed is currently killing system performance. However, you can't use Resource Governor to do that because the workload groups and resource pools were allocated when the session connected. In addition, you can't use Resource Governor to allocate priorities amongst your OLTP applications. Short OLTP queries aren't good candidates for being governed this way. Resource Governor works really well for long-running queries that eat up resources over a long period.
Finally, at nearly every site that I work on, SQL Server is I/O bound, not CPU or memory bound. SQL Server systems that are CPU bound tend to have a limited set of problems, such as plan cache pollution problems that are causing constant recompilation. Although limiting memory can help avoid starve out smaller queries in some data warehousing scenarios, what I would like to see is the ability to govern file I/O on a file-by-file basis. Despite these shortcomings, I think you'll find that Resource Governor is a great addition to your toolkit and an excellent option to help you regain control of your systems.
Listing 1: Sample CREATE RESOURCE POOL Commands
CREATE RESOURCE POOL LowPriorityAppsPool WITH (MAX_CPU_PERCENT = 20); CREATE RESOURCE POOL MediumPriorityAppsPool WITH (MAX_CPU_PERCENT = 60); CREATE RESOURCE POOL HighPriorityAppsPool WITH (MAX_CPU_PERCENT = 100);
Listing 2: Sample CREATE WORKLOAD GROUP Commands
CREATE WORKLOAD GROUP UnidentifiedApplications USING LowPriorityAppsPool; CREATE WORKLOAD GROUP WellBehavedAccessApplications USING MediumPriorityAppsPool; CREATE WORKLOAD GROUP PoorlyBehavedAccessApplications USING LowPriorityAppsPool; CREATE WORKLOAD GROUP WellBehavedExcelApplications USING MediumPriorityAppsPool; CREATE WORKLOAD GROUP CriticalCorporateApplications USING HighPriorityAppsPool;
Listing 3: Code to Assign Sessions to Workload Groups
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.UserClassifier () RETURNS SYSNAME WITH SCHEMABINDING AS BEGIN DECLARE @WorkloadGroup SYSNAME = N'UnidentifiedApplications'; SET @WorkloadGroup = CASE APP_NAME() WHEN N'Excel_Link_BR3' THEN N'WellBehavedExcelApplications' WHEN N'Excel_Link_GR8' THEN N'WellBehavedExcelApplications' WHEN N'HR_Access_G13' THEN N'WellBehavedAccessApplications' WHEN N'HR_Access_G19' THEN N'PoorlyBehavedAccessApplications' WHEN N'Corp_HR_Maintenance' THEN N'CriticalCorporateApplications' ELSE N'UnidentifiedApplications' END; RETURN @WorkloadGroup; END;


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