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In the past year, many of my webinar attendees wanted to know how to create reports that automatically morph based on the user viewing them. Take, for example, a personnel roster. When clerks in the mailroom view the roster, they see employees' office numbers, but not their personal information such as salaries or home addresses. However, when mid-level HR managers look at the same report, they see virtually everything. Another example is having reports morph to accommodate the user's native language. In this case, the report's column headings, annotations, and other text (perhaps even the data itself) would be displayed in the appropriate language.
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) makes automatic customization fairly easy. It gives you two key elements about the user viewing a report -- the user's ID (User.UserID) and language (User.Language) -- that you can use to implement custom functionality. The User.UserID value is derived from the user's Windows login to the domain or local system. The User.Language value is extracted from the user's browser language settings by the report processor.
Both the report processor and SQL Server can gate access to sensitive data because each one has its own security paradigm. SSRS security settings can also play a role by limiting the visibility of folders or individual reports to specific login accounts or report roles. I won't discuss how to configure these rights but rather the strategies you can use to leverage them. I'll then show you how to use the UserID constant to control what is displayed in a report. (For information about how to use the Language constant, see the sidebar "Morphing Reports to Accommodate the User's Native Language.")
Strategies for Protecting Sensitive Information
There are countless ways to protect data. Here are two techniques that you can use to prevent data from being seen by those who shouldn't see it:
- Rights-limited queries. Most shops I work with either have or are working toward a locked-down security strategy. That is, all database tables are rights-restricted and accessible to only a few DBAs. Queries are executed through stored procedures and views that have been exposed to specific roles or application logins. This line of defense keeps adventurous Microsoft Access or Microsoft Excel users from opening a connection to the SQL Server instance and exploring the tables and their contents.
- Rights-limited reports. The first approach that usually comes to mind when trying to show information based on users' rights is to create individual reports -- one for each class of user. Although you could do that, some users might be able to find report URLs and get access to the reports anyway. (One way to find the URLs is by looking in the browser history of a high-rights user.) Plus, maintaining parallel reports means at least twice the amount of work because you need to create individual reports and keep each report's content, layout, and underlying expressions up-to-date. In contrast, the approach I'm going to demonstrate tries to keep things simple -- use a single report for everyone, regardless of rank or position.
Keep in mind that these techniques are meaningless if someone can physically access your server when no one is watching. (I can have a server's hard drive out in under a minute or plug in a USB key and upload a keylogger in 10 seconds.) Never let anyone get access to your servers -- not unless they're fully trusted. These techniques are also meaningless if a sensitive report is printed and left in the trash for the janitor to view on his or her coffee break.
Also keep in mind that data needs to be protected not only after it's recorded in a database but before as well. High-rights users shouldn't remain logged in when they leave for lunch or go down the hall to get a cup of tea.
The One-Size-Fits-All Approach
The one-size-fits-all approach involves creating a report that shows the maximum amount of information -- a report that only the person with the highest rights should be able to see. Once the report is built, you write code that determines whether or not to show data in the report to a specific user based on the UserID constant, which contains the domain-qualified name of that user.
A question I'm commonly asked about this approach concerns whether users should be authorized to launch the report in the first place. That's up to you. If your SSRS authentication roles and rights schemas are configured correctly, a report's name might be visible in the Report Manager catalog or the Reports virtual directory, or the user might be able to enter the report URL directly, but that doesn't mean the report processor will be permitted to run it. In other words, even though some users are authorized to run the report, they might not be able to. Consider that the user credentials just might be those passed through to SQL Server (or the target data source) to gain access to the underlying data objects. If the report uses Windows' Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) authentication and those credentials have been granted access to the objects referenced in the report's data sets, the report has a good chance of running. In some cases, users might have rights to run a report but not the rights to the underlying data, so the report won't run. To prevent Trojan horse attacks, you shouldn't use Windows authentication credentials in a report's data sources.
To demonstrate managing report object visibility based on the UserID constant, I created the HideThisColumnFrom function. This function tests for specific users, returning True or False. When True is returned, the columns or individual cells are hidden from the user. When False is returned, the user has access to the columns or individual cells. You need to insert this function into each report in which you want to hide data from certain users.
Listing 1 shows an example of how to use the HideThisColumnFrom function. It's hard-coded to permit me (billva) and Alice Farkle to have access to the hidden parts of the report. All other users don't have access to the hidden content.
Function HideThisColumnFrom(strUserID As String) as Boolean Select Case strUserID Case "SBSDOM\billva" : Return False Case "SBSDOM\AliceFarke" : Return False Case Else : Return True End Select End Function
The main advantage of the one-size-fits-all approach is that the report is easier maintain. Although you have to set the visibility properties for each report element (e.g., column, text box), once they're configured, you only have to revisit the HideThisColumnFrom function when you need to add or remove users from the permitted users list.
The hard-coded list approach is simple to implement, but it's not exactly ideal because it requires you to revisit, retest, and redeploy the HideThisColumnFrom function each time the list changes. Unless you're being paid by the hour or need a lot of busywork, this approach probably should be replaced with a self-maintaining data-driven scheme, such as one of the following:
- Query Active Directory (AD) to determine the rights associated with a specific user. This would require coding and deploying a protected managed-code DLL. Because the HideThisColumnFrom function would need to access AD through the Microsoft .NET Framework, it would have to run with elevated rights.
- Create your own database table of permitted users and their associated rights.
Here's how the second approach works:
1. You implement a report that uses parameter-driven user authentication. In this case, in addition to using the UserID constant, the report captures the name of the employee from a filtered drop-down list of known employees. This can be generated through DLL-invoked calls to AD or a database query that returns valid login names and their associated rights.
2. Using the UserID constant as a cascading parameter, the report prompts the user for a password.
3. Using the user-provided password as another cascading parameter, the report tests the validity of that password by checking it against an encrypted employee-password table in the database.
4. If there's a match, a "rights" value is returned, which you can use to grant varying degrees of access to the user.
How to Hide Content
As I mentioned previously, with the one-size-fits-all approach, you need to set the visibility properties for each report element in the report. For the most part, you can use these properties to hide report columns, values, data regions, data visualizations, and other report elements. The report processor knows how to execute expressions on nearly every property of every report element, so let's look at some ways to programmatically hide report elements.
The Tablix column hierarchy exposes a Boolean Hidden property that can be set to True to hide a selected column. You can set this property by right-clicking a Tablix column and choosing Column Visibility, as shown in Figure 1.
For this example, I simply set the Column Visibility property to a Boolean expression that calls the HideThisColumnFrom function:
The text box in each Tablix cell also exposes the Boolean Hidden property, as do all of the other report data regions (e.g., chart, list) and other report elements (e.g., rectangle, line). Note that when you choose to conditionally expose data by expanding data groups, this simply toggles the underlying Hidden property on the selected groups of rows.
How to Customize and Obscure Values
Another approach to limiting what's visible to users is to modify a text box's value or modify how that value is displayed. You can clear the value of a text box's Value property or replace it with an alternative value. You can even set the value's color and the background color to the same color, obscuring the value.
For example, suppose that a company's mailroom clerks are responsible for coordinating company birthday parties. Although they need to know the month and day of the employees' birthdates, they shouldn't be allowed to see the year. That detail is confidential information that only HR should be able to see. Leveraging the HideThisColumnFrom function, you can set the "Date of Birth" column's Format property to the following code expression:
=iif(Code.HideThisColumnFrom (User!UserID),"MMM dd", "d")
(Although this command wraps here, you'd enter it all on one line.)
How to Hide Subreports
Subreports expose a global Hidden property that you can use to programmatically show or hide them. You can also use a report element's Action property to show different versions of a subreport to different users. Specifically, you set the Action property to an expression that resolves into a path to the appropriate subreport.
One of the shortcomings of the current version of the Report Definition Language (RDL) is that the report element's Action property doesn't support a way to programmatically enable or disable the invocation of a subreport. However, you can change the path so that it leads to a benign subreport that doesn't show sensitive data. Another approach is to hide the "action button" -- the report element that has the Action property programmed to show the sensitive subreport.
To avoid having someone stumble upon or unearth a sensitive subreport, you can hide the parameter prompt and not set a default parameter. This way, the subreport can be invoked by an Action click-through but not directly from Report Manager. Any attempt to launch the subreport on its own results in a query failure that complains about a missing parameter.
Keep Sensitive Data Private
We all have to deal with sensitive data. Whether it's the name and financials of an organization that your company is about to acquire or the results of an employee's drug test, it's important to keep some data private. In the United States, federal and state laws also dictate what can and can't be made public. Posting a report about someone's medical history on a bulletin board can lead to some pretty serious repercussions. Sending out a URL to the same report is just as bad if it's viewed by someone who has no right to see it. You can avoid this type of problem with SSRS reports by carefully applying the techniques I showed you to hide or obscure sensitive data.


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The Language of the Cayce Readings
By Gina Cerminara
Many thousands of people are introduced to the Edgar Cayce information every day. Some find it hard to understand the readings in the format in which they were given— what some call a King James-style of language. In 1945, Gina Cerminara, author of the best-selling book Many Mansions, wrote an article about the language of the readings for an A.R.E. Bulletin. We thought it would be helpful to revisit her insights. Here is an excerpt of her article.
Anyone who has ever had a reading from Edgar Cayce knows that the language in which it was couched was very often hard to understand… Why was the language so odd? …To this question we cannot give a complete authentic answer, because we are not in possession of all the facts in the case. But we can draw some reasonable deductions from what the readings themselves have offered as explanation, and we can make an intelligent appraisal of all the facts as we know them, in connection with the phenomenon of language in general…
Now it seems fairly clear that—whichever source he used to obtain his information, he was speaking from a point of view infinitely vaster and more intricate than the point of view of earth-plane man, and it is perhaps for this reason that a language difficulty arises… Exactly what the language mechanism was has never been explained by the readings themselves, except for very fragmentary remarks to the effect that higher-dimensional realities cannot easily be expressed in three-dimensional terms. This sounds reasonable…
It must be remembered that the readings were given from a point of view of an enlarged consciousness—that is to say, the source of information was conversant with many dimensions, and needed to condense what he knew into 3-dimensional terms. This is a difficult thing for us to grasp, because we are all so completely imbedded in a 3- dimensional consciousness that we cannot conceive of realities of 4, 5, 6, 7, and more dimensions. Yet both mathematicians and physicists, occultists and clairvoyants, assure us that higher dimensions do exist; and the readings themselves…often make reference to the fact.
By way of learning to appreciate the difficulty involved in compressing knowledge into narrower terms than those really adequate to describe it, one might try a little experiment. One might attempt to make a description of something, say the American flag, without using any words that contain the letter "r," on the assumption that you were talking to a person whose…language contained no letter "r."
It seems a simple enough sort of assignment. Yet the moment you began to refer to the most basic features of the thing you would realize that you could use neither the words stars nor stripes. Your first task would be to find other ways of expressing those ideas. Not even bars…perhaps bands would be the closest available equivalent. For stars you might begin to say, "five-pointed figures," and in the midst of it realize that figures would be incomprehensible to an "r"-less people; so you would settle on five-pointed symbols of heavenly bodies.
Red would be your next preoccupation. You could neither say darker nor deeper shade of pink, but finally you would approximate the idea by saying deep pink… You cannot say there are thirteen bands which alternate in color, nor can you remark that there are forty-eight stars which represent forty-eight states of the United States of America. Even country would be unavailable to you.
Devising circumlocutions for all these…non-existent words—you might finally emerge with a description something like this:
"The flag of the United States of the Continent of the West (that is, the land found by Columbus) consists of eight and five bands of white and a tint that might be called deep pink, passion pink, wine pink, that is to say, the tint of blood—a band of white and then a band of this tint. In the top left of the flag is a field of blue on which we see twenty and twenty-eight five-pointed symbols of heavenly bodies, each to stand as symbol of the twenty and twenty-eight states that make up the land."
This—as anyone who has ever read a Cayce reading will admit—sounds extraordinarily like a reading—and its clumsiness very likely arises from the same basic cause.
The readings, of course, need no apology. Their merit has been proven so many thousands of times in so many extraordinary cases that the genuineness of their clairvoyance can simply not be questioned. But it has seemed worthwhile to write this article in the interest of bringing out into the open a matter which, to some people at least, looms large as an obstacle to the full acceptance of the readings…
Excerpts from an article in the A.R.E. Bulletin (Dec. 1945); reprinted in The A.R.E. Journal (Apr. 1966)
Gina Cerminara (Apr. 11, 1914–Apr. 1984) was an American author in the fields of parapsychology, spirituality and reincarnation. She was born in Milwaukee and received BA, MA, and PhD degrees in psychology from the University of Wisconsin. She spent years researching the readings of psychic Edgar Cayce before publishing the best- selling book Many Mansions. She toured as a lecturer in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, and Japan.

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'It is believed that Ennis is the first player to score six goals in a game in the history of the Tigers organization. He was one goal away from equaling the WHL record for most goals in a single contest at seven, which is held by five different players. "Every time I scored and came back to the bench it was just like 'wow,'" said Ennis, who had an ear-to-ear grin during the post-game media scrum. "I couldn't believe it. They just kept going in."'
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – In just their second year in Conference Carolinas, the King University women's soccer team is coming off of their second consecutive conference tournament appearance. The Tornado have a solid group returning and will look to get back to the postseason for their third time in as many years in 2013.
King finished last season with an overall record of 4-10-2, while going 3-6-2 in Conference Carolinas play, landing them in eighth place in the CC standings. The Tornado saw their season come to an end in the conference tournament for the second consecutive season, falling at conference champion Lees-McRae College in 2012.
The 2013 team will look different from a season ago as the Tornado lost eight seniors, including their top three leading scorers. However, head coach Simon Duffy has brought in six newcomers and he is confident the returning group will pick up where the 2012 team left off.
King's top returning scorer is Rachel Thorpe, who netted one goal during her freshman campaign. The Ontario, Canada native also dished out a team-high three assists for a total of five points. Duffy will also rely on senior Devon Shanklin, sophomore Rayna Spears up front. Shanklin, a native of Knoxville, Tenn., took a redshirt year in 2012 while Spears, a Smyrna, Tenn., native appeared in seven games during her freshman season.
"We've got a few girls returning that we're excited about, obviously Rachel Thorpe up front, and Rayna Spears," Duffy said. "Rachel coming off last year did really well, and Rayna missed most of last year due to injury, but had a great spring for us, she was probably one of our best players this spring. So we're excited to see what she brings. We've got some young girls coming into the fray as well, some of our freshman so we're looking forward to it. We'll be young, but hoping we can build on what we did in the spring and carry it over to the fall."
Defensively the Tornado will be led by senior Bekah Ramstack who started all 16 games a season ago. The Wichita, Kan., native will be joined on the defensive end by fellow senior Kelsey Plummer, junior Grayson Collins and sophomore Keely Easterling. Plummer hails from Hendersonville, Tenn., and started six of the 10 games in which she appeared last season. A native of Bristol, Va., Collins made 13 appearances and 10 starts in 2013 while Easterling, a Bristol, Tenn., native appeared in all 16 games, making seven starts last season. After redshirting in 2012, Katie Keys will also compete for a spot in defensive backfield.
In goal, both Morgan Lawson returns for her sophomore season after starting six of the eight games in which she appeared in. The Goodview, Tenn., native led the Tornado with 65 saves during her freshman campaign in 2012. She will be pushed by freshman Nicole Dagher.
King was selected to finish sixth in the Conference Carolinas Preseason Coaches' Poll. Belmont Abbey College was picked to win the league with Lees-McRae College and Limestone College being selected to finish second and third, respectively.
The Tornado open the 2013 campaign on the road with a test at Brevard College on September 5. King opens their home schedule just two days later against Bluefield College on September 7 at 2:00 p.m. The Tornado are slated to open Conference Carolinas play on Saturday, September 21 against Pfeiffer University at 2:00 p.m., kicking off a four-game home stand.


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The Abuse Excuse
Zacarias Moussaoui's lawyers float the "Impoverished French Muslim Syndrome."
The Zacarias Moussaoui defense team has decided that the best way to save Moussaoui's life—to convince the sentencing jury that the mitigating factors in his case outweigh the aggravating factors—is to paint their client as a mentally disturbed victim of abuse. They will argue that despite the horrendous nature of the crimes to which Moussaoui has confessed, his "diminished moral culpability" entitles him to leniency. To make their point, the defense is parading a series of witnesses into court to testify to Moussaoui's troubled childhood. The witnesses tell tales of an abusive father, Dickensian orphanages, and pervasive French discrimination against Muslims. The most poignant story to emerge is that of Moussaoui's longtime high-school girlfriend, whose parents mistreated Moussaoui because they considered him "a dirty Arab." Moussaoui was also deeply shaken, according to a former friend, when racist bouncers refused him entry into nightclubs. These injustices, coupled with his poverty and proximity to violence, radicalized and destabilized the young Moussaoui, ultimately turning him into an al-Qaida terrorist.
Media reports of Moussaoui's courtroom antics certainly do not inspire confidence in his emotional balance. But using a bum childhood as a vehicle to mitigate a sentence is a questionable gambit.
The "bum childhood" defense has become so pervasive that we often forget that there are more successful mitigating arguments. Studies suggest that a defendant's expression of remorse is far more likely to resonate with a capital jury than a claim of personal unaccountability. Professor Stephen Garvey showed in the Columbia Law Review that, in a comprehensive investigation into the weight jurors give to aggravating and mitigating factors, a full 39.8 percent of respondents said that the defendant's lack of remorse made them more likely to vote for death (including 21.7 percent who said that lack of remorse made them much more likely). According to Garvey, "only the defendant's prior history of violent crime and future dangerousness were more aggravating than lack of remorse."
The remorse factor presents a problem for defendants who assert innocence in the guilt phases of their trials. (Capital cases in America are bifurcated into "guilt" and "sentencing" phases.) After being found guilty, capital defendants are often placed in the awkward position of having to accept responsibility and express sorrow for what, only a few days prior, they swore they had not done. Jurors understandably find the about-face disingenuous. But for a defendant like Moussaoui, who pleaded guilty, no such conflict is presented. As of Tuesday, however, Moussaoui's only expressed regret is that more innocents did not die on Sept. 11. Moussaoui has called victims and their survivors "disgusting" and has said that he hopes they will "suffer more pain." In response to one of his own character witnesses, a Jewish man who befriended him, Moussaoui shouted "Death to the Jew!" The "remorse factor" is not a viable option for the defense team.
Moussaoui's lawyers are left with what I have called "the abuse excuse," the tactic by which criminal defendants claim a history of abuse as an excuse for violent retaliation. The trouble with this tactic is that, if the jurors think about it, they will realize that it doesn't make much logical sense. Lots of people of Middle Eastern and North African descent grew up in France. Lots were raised in poverty. Many faced racial or religious discrimination, or otherwise experienced difficult childhoods of some sort of another. But only a tiny minority of those who experienced those conditions, and sometimes much worse, grew up to participate in conspiracies to murder thousands of people by terrorism. According to the New York Times, the prosecution has already highlighted this point. In his cross-examination of Moussaoui's sister, Assistant U.S. Attorney David J. Novak noted that their brother, Abd Samad, who "endured the same difficult home environment," is now a "successful engineering teacher in France and not a terrorist."
In addition to the illogic of the abuse excuse, it poses the threat that, if taken seriously, it could have dire consequences for precisely the people "represented" by the defendant. If you accept the notion that someone is less responsible for his actions based on his demographics, socioeconomics, or history, you are also making the case for racial profiling and a slew of liberty-curtailing state actions, such as the surveillance and preventive detentions of entire categories of people. After all, what Moussaoui's defense team is essentially alleging is that Moussaoui is not as morally culpable as he might otherwise be, because poor Muslim immigrants are not capable of controlling their rage. It is a profoundly anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant position. The abuse excuse is always a two-edged sword: It might help a particular defendant, but it is bad for the groups to which that defendant belongs, and it is bad for the society that loses the capacity to demand personal accountability from all its members.
American courts have closely circumscribed the types of abuse excuses available to criminal defendants. Battered-woman syndrome has achieved the most success. Though BWS's existence is controversial within the medical community, courts generally allow expert testimony to explain why a battered woman could not simply leave her batterer. Other proffered excuses, such as the "urban survival syndrome," the "black rage" defense (as per William Kunstler's coining), Cherambault-Kandinsky Syndrome (AKA "lovesickness"), "fan obsession syndrome," "football widow syndrome," "Gone with the Wind syndrome" (the perception that violent rape is consensual), "premenstrual stress syndrome," "adopted child syndrome," and "Holocaust survival syndrome," have been markedly less well-received by the courts. All these newly minted "syndromes" share similarly vague psychobabble symptoms: disaffection, marginalization, and stigmatization. And these are the same words that are now being used to characterize Moussaoui.
We might call Moussaoui's alleged condition the "impoverished French Muslim syndrome." To be sure, that status signifies a difficult environment in which to live. But it is not really a medical syndrome, and it hardly diminishes one's culpability for violence and terrorism.
I am against the death penalty, and I hope that the jury will not vote to execute Moussaoui. But I also hope that the jury will not use his race, nationality, and childhood as the hooks upon which to hang its clemency. As Moussaoui has commented on his defense lawyer's strategy: "A lot of American B.S!"
On that point, and that point alone, Mr. Moussaoui and I agree.


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My first post on this topic discusses my then-two-year-old daughter's desire to cut fabric, and my search for proper fabric scissors that would be safe in her hands. (I've since shown her the business end of a pin and how to use them safely, since naturally, after cutting a bunch of fabric pieces, you want to pin them together.) I didn't necessarily intend this subject to become a series, but here's another post in the same vein nonetheless.
N (age 7) and I signed up for a parent/child art class at a local museum. We both like art, and art museums, and I think he, as my middle child, is really in need of some one-on-one time with me. This class seems like a great way to do that. I wasn't sure what to expect, but it seems (we've only had one class) that we'll be working on one collaborative project over the five sessions. The first day, part of what we needed to do was sew the shoulder straps that will connect to the rest of the project. Rectangles of craft felt were pre-cut, and we were to choose two rectangles, and fold each in half and sew the two halves together, to make two straps. Easy enough. N and I looked around for needles…
…and all they had were tapestry needles. Those are the large, blunt-tipped needles you use, generally, with yarn, which is exactly what we were to use them with too. But they don't pierce felt, so we were supposed to punch holes in the felt with hole punches first, and then weave the yarn through the holes to "sew." Which is a pretty good method, except that anyone who cuts fabric knows never to use your fabric scissors on paper because it dulls the blade, and boy did it look hard to punch holes through craft felt!
N really wanted to use a "real" needle, which I thoroughly support. I don't know if the tapestry needle/hole punch/yarn method was chosen out of expediency or safety. I got the sense it was safety, but the class is geared for kids ages 6-9, and any six-year-old can use a real needle if shown how. And I'll be honest: I really didn't want to try to punch holes in craft felt with a paper hole punch, so we took our pieces of felt home to sew.
Here's N, using an embroidery needle and floss to sew his felt.
(That is a rare TV-on sighting in our house! It was Sunday afternoon–football was on.)
N used the chalk that you see in the photo to draw a line of what he wanted to sew, and then he followed the line. I showed him how to backstitch and helped him around the corners and sorted it out when he forgot and sewed around the edge of the fabric instead of back and forth. After a few times, he figured out himself how to fix that, even re-threading the needle himself. Since this is a collaborative project, we each sewed a strap. Here they are together (click to embiggen).
N's is on the bottom. He backstitched that zigzag himself. With a real needle. And he is pleased. And yes, he poked himself once or twice with the needle, but he didn't even bleed (so he's doing better than I am; I usually draw blood from my thumb at least once per embroidery session).
Kids are so capable. Let them prove it to you!
(PS: We also made the shirt he's wearing, many years ago. It's printed using a vinyl fish replica and liquid acrylic craft paint.)


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In defense of fan fiction
As you probably know by now, a total hack named EL James wrote a piece of fan fiction (that is to say, a steaming pile of doody) based on Twilight, then got luckier than Hugh Hefner on a good day and made a steaming pile of money. Not only was it a steaming pile of doody, it was a rip-off, using someone else's premise and characters. Why, it's just…just…awful, this steamy colony of doody called fan fiction, isn't it?
Bookriot raised this question recently. It asked whether fan fiction is evil and derivative, whether it's effectively theft–or at least heavy borrowing–of someone else's property.
When Magnum, PI went off the air back when the dinosaurs roamed the land, I was peeved because they never really settled the question of whether Higgins was really Robin Masters. Sure, it was an invention late in the series' history that was contradicted by some early episodes, but it was never resolved.
So I resolved it. Higgins was sort of Robin Masters, but not really. In reality, Robin Masters was an invention of British intelligence, and the British government really owned the estate and employed Higgins. They hired Magnum as part of an agreement with the US government to keep an eye on Magnum, who had a lot of secrets in his head, and needed tending after left the Navy. He was, after all, a POW for several years, and lived through the supposed death of his wife Michelle. Life with Higgins was a perfect way to keep an eye on his while not appearing to do so.
I even had a plot worked out for the story. If I were so-inclined, I'd write it and post it to a fan fiction site someplace because…what else would I do with it?
When EL James wrote her original stories, she wasn't looking to publish mommy porn. She was writing another story about characters she really liked. She wasn't looking to make money off the thing. She just wanted to fill a need. After all, characters–when created well–are like friends. And you miss them when they're gone.
She wasn't stealing anything, because she wasn't didn't intend to make money on it. Nor would I be, if I wrote the Magnum story. I just like and know the characters.
And therein lies the benefit of fan fiction. I don't need to create Magnum, Higgins, Rick, TC, or any of the other characters from scratch. I know them. I can make them do things and include the little ticks that make them genuine because I've already met them–for eight seasons.
In short, I can use the training wheels that Glen A. Larson, Donald P. Bellisario, and Tom Selleck gave me. No one's going to care, except the people who are looking for a new Magnum story anyway. And as I become more skilled and confidence, I can remove those wheels and write my own characters with their own stories.
If you want to write that first novel and you don't exactly know how, there are worse ways to start than by cutting your teeth on your favorite TV or movie characters.
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Twenty-four was the lucky number Friday morning at the Lexington City Schools administrative office.
Twenty-four was the lucky number Friday morning at the Lexington City Schools administrative office.
Twenty-four elementary students competed in a Math 24 Challenge Tournament, which is a mental math game that promotes critical thinking skills and adds fun to the curriculum.
Southwest Elementary School fifth-grader Cody Mauney became the 2013 champion of the system after five intense rounds of math problems. Ever since last year's tournament, Cody has been practicing and preparing himself to return and conquer the other students. This was the second year the system had participated in the tournament.
"It's an honor to even come here. I'm glad I won. I was very nervous," Cody said.
The runner-up was Dymond Robinson, who is also a fifth-grader at Southwest. Each school had two teams of four students — fourth- and fifth-graders.
"Congratulations to you and thank you for being here. It's awesome out of your whole school, you are the top folks here," said Emy Garrett, assistant superintendent of elementary, to the students. "It went very smooth. It's always such an intense game. They did an amazing job."
Students were charged with making the number 24 using the four numbers on a game card. They could add, subtract, multiply or divide using all four numbers only once to figure out a three-step pattern.
For example if a card has numbers 24, 8, 2 and 6. A solution could be:
Another example if the numbers were 2, 9, 3 and 5, one answer would be:
Rounds one and two consisted of 24 students and 42 cards. Four students sat at six tables. A proctor placed a card on the table, and the first student to touch the card with a solution kept the card. Each card was worth one, two or three points depending on the difficulty.
Total points won in the first two rounds determined the top 12 who went to round three. The six highest scores moved to round four, which also had 24 cards. The top two scores played in round five with 24 cards to determine the winner.
Monica Griffin, Southwest's fifth-grade AIG teacher, was proud she taught the top winners. She commended Cody on being motivated to win this year.
Students received a certificate and McDonald's gift card for participating. Cody and Dymond both received a medallion and gift cards to Walmart and McDonald's. A surprise $100 award was given to each of the top two students from the Jacket Academic Boosters Club, which was newly formed to create scholastic competitions for students.
Cody's parents, Phillip and Karen Mauney, and sister Elizabeth Isom were in the crowd cheering him on. He gave them credit for helping him practice. He plans on getting a game at Walmart but is unsure what he'll do with the prize money.
Due to the game being introduced to him, Cody now thinks math is fun.
"It feels pretty awesome. I'm just happy to be here," he said.
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Chiefs to introduce John Dorsey as new general manager
News conference set for 2 p.m.
Chiefs to introduce John Dorsey as new general manager
News conference set for 2 p.m.
KANSAS CITY, Mo —
The Kansas City Chiefs have announced the hiring of John Dorsey as the team's new general manager.Dorsey, currently the director of football operations for the Green Bay Packers, has close ties to Chiefs new head coach Andy Reid. They had worked together at one point in the Packers organzation.
Dorsey interviewed with the team last week.
The team will introduce Dorsey at a 2p.m. news conference. Under the team's new management structure, Reid and Dorsey will report directly to Chairman Clark Hunt.
He replaces Scott Pioli, who parted ways with the Chiefs after four seasons.
Dorsey's wife has ties to the Kansas City area. She holds a degree from the University of Kansas and she works for Kansas City's Polsinelli Shughart law firm, but currently works out of Wisconsin.


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The Tennessee Polk Salad Festival will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 6 at David Webb Riverfront Park, Harriman.
Admission is free. Emphasis will be on the arts, crafts and foods of the region; the signature artistic event will be the community "Poke Mosaic."
Gazebo performances, children's activities tables and craft demonstrations are among the attractions for the Arts Council of Roane County event.
Vendor applications are available online at http://tinyurl.com/PolkSaladFestival.
U.S. Navy Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Equipment) Airman Cameron Gaines from Kingston acts as the port safety observer during a barricade drill on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73).
George Washington and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, provide a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interests of the U.S. and its allies and partners in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
The Michael Dunn Center holds a number of social events throughout the year.
"The spring formal is always one of the highlights of those," President and CEO Mike McElhinney said.
The formal took place Saturday evening at Midtown Elementary School.
Sarah Brown said her son, Christopher Forrester, had been looking forward to it for weeks.
"He loves it," she said. "He's been coming for the last three years."
Barbara Snell said this was her son T.J.'s third year as well.
Post offices throughout Tennessee — including those in Harriman, Kingston and Rockwood — are asking for the community's support on May 9.
That's the day they join America's letter carriers and Feeding America, one of the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief organizations, in the annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive.
Hosted each year by the National Association of Letter Carriers, Stamp Out Hunger is one of the largest single-day food drives in the country.
The Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program recently awarded Roane County $9,366 in federal funds to be used to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the area.
The funding is to be distributed through a local board that consists of members representing the Salvation Army, American Red Cross, Catholic Charities, area churches, a recipient who has benefitted from the services and the Roane County United Way.
Agencies interested in applying for the funds need to contact the Roane County United Way at 882-7711 to receive an application.
"American Idol" top-five contestant Janelle will give a benefit concert this weekend.
The concert will begin at 7 p.m. May 8 in the Princess Theatre in downtown Harriman.
Proceeds benefit Roane County Schools Education Foundation.
Tickets are $20 each and are available at Rocky Top General Store, Roane County Schools' central office, AGA Insurance and The Jewelry Exchange.
Arthur, an Oliver Springs native, placed in the top five of the FOX reality television talent show in 2013.
The Roane County News' latest vacation adventure is with Madge Jackson of Kingston.
She took the News with her to San Diego for her granddaughter's wedding.
She poses with son, Keith Hopkins, and daughter, Kathy Dawson, at the Port of San Diego at the USS Midway Museum and National Salute to Bob Hope.
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Be sure to tell us where you — and the News — traveled for a break and photo.
The annual Rockwood Classmates reunion for all those who attended Rockwood High School will be June 1-7 on the Rockwood First Baptist Church lake property.
No planned activities for Monday or Tuesday, but alumni are welcome to stop by and relax on the lake.
A covered-dish dinner begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Thursday is Game Night; meal will be available from a vendor.
A dance with a band performing will begin at 7 p.m. Friday.
Saturday activities begin at 11 a.m. with group class pictures.
The Michael Dunn Foundation online auction is now live and will accept bids until midnight May 18.
Register to begin bidding at http://michaeldunncenter.com/auctions/register.php.
"By bidding, you are supporting our mission of 'Empowering individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence'," said Michaele Butler, Michael Dunn Center's vice president of public relations, development and quality assurance.
Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association will have a cookout for its next monthly meeting.
The meeting begins at noon May 8 at Midtown Community Center (Wildcat Den) at 102 Robertsville Road, Oak Ridge.
The event is open to the public.
The Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association serves to promote historic preservation and the history of Oak Ridge's heritage.
Monthly meetings are in Midtown Community Center, except when special "field trip" meetings are scheduled.
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Simon Spiteri became a Chartered Architect in 1996, after completing his RIBA pt. III at the Bartlett School of Architecture. His earlier architectural education includes a BSc. Honours Degree from the Polytechnic of North London where he studied under the tutelage of Florian Beigal and a Dip. Arch completed at the University of Brighton.
His experience ranges from working on major London office interiors to very high profile residential projects in the Belgravia and being a shell architect on the new GCHQ Cheltenham whilst working for the internationally recognised practice, Gensler. Whilst at Gensler, he was also project architect for overseas projects which included Clients such as IBM Sweden.
In 2003, he formed his owned architectural practice, Urban Arc and was shortlisted for the Downland Prize in 2004. Development of Urban Arc lead in 2007, to him taking up the position of Architectural Director at interior design practice Design LSM.


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Las Vegas, NV – If there was ever a doubt in Caetano Veloso's mind of how much he is loved by his peers in the music industry, all hesitation was put to rest Wednesday during the Latin GRAMMYs Person of the Year ceremony, where Veloso was the shining star.
The gala took place in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Hotel.
During the tribute event to the Brazilian musician, artists of all parts of Latin America joined forces with the Latin Recording Academy to highlight Veloso's songs as well as his philanthropic and political achievements.
"[Caetano] is somebody who is legendary, iconic, whose music is known by many," Neil Portnow, president of the GRAMMY Recording Academy told Fox News Latino.
"[It is] somebody who is innovative and brought new ideas to music and he certainly has done that. We also like someone who gives back," he said, adding that Veloso is known for being "a very giving man" with his non-profit organization focused on helping this with HIV/AIDS in Brazil.
"Caring about his people, his culture" is something that Portnow says Veloso "has made a personal sacrifice to do it."
International musician Nelly Furtado, who has dominated both English and Spanish markets with her music, told Fox News Latino that Veloso's music "is like an act of heroism."
"It's beautiful, it's sensitive," said the Portuguese-Canadian artist, who later in the evening took the stage to perform one of Veloso's songs and said she hoped she would "not faint" when seeing Veloso in person.
"When I listen to his music I just listen to real beauty... I love a lot of his stuff from 'Tropicalismo,'" she added. "When Caetano recorded 'Island of Wonder,' a song on my second album, he recorded his part with a Portuguese accent! So generous. It was a surprise for me."
Like Furtado, other A-List musicians felt the word "generous" was the best way to describe Veloso as a person and artist.
"Caetano is a friend," Brazilian singer Alexandre Pires told Fox News Latino excitedly, adding that he has known him since 1996 and has been able to record songs with him for several projects.
"I know Caetano as a person," he continued. "Many know of him or know about his body of work professionally. I know him as human being. A person who is always with open arms for everything and who has a deep love for artists of the new generation."
"Pires also says what makes Veloso special is that he is representing "all of Brazil."
"It is an unforgettable night for us Brazilians, for our music and our culture," he added. "I am really happy to he here tonight."
Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz was all smiles as he embraced Pires on the red carpet, talking to the press about Veloso's hits, how the singer inspired his career and how he is spending his free time in Vegas.
"I am not into going to casinos but I do enjoy shows like Cirque du Soleil," Sanz said.
Not long after Sanz strolled the red carpet, Veloso told FNL that he was delighted to be around so many colleagues.
"I feel good because people are showing me love," he said, adding that he thought he would shed a tear or two during the tribute in his honor.
"But, most of all, so many singers will be singing my songs tonight," he said. "So many wonderful singers."


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The USDA, NASS, California Field Office has released the crop production forecast for August. The latest survey, which was conducted during the last week of July and the first week of August, included the following commodities:
California's 2005 apple crop forecast is 205,000 tons, up 5 percent from 2004. Acreage is estimated at 25,000 acres, resulting in a yield of 8.20 tons per acre.
Growers are expecting a promising 2005 California apple crop. A wet, cool spring brought some hail damage to the crop and raised some concerns about the long-term extent of the damage. However, cool temperatures during June heartened growers and helped enhance fruit color. Growers began harvesting the Gala variety the last week of July, and the fruit quality has been very good so far.
Upland cotton production in California is forecast at 1.35 million bales, a decrease of 25 percent from last year. Harvested acreage is estimated at 497,000 acres, resulting in a yield of 1,304 pounds per acre.
California's American Pima cotton production forecast is 650,000 bales, 5 percent below last year. Harvested acreage is estimated at 226,000 acres, with a yield of 1,381 pounds per acre.
Wine-type variety grape production for California is forecast at 2.95 million tons, unchanged from the July forecast, but up 5 percent from 2004. The table-type grape production is expected to total 790,000 tons, down 2 percent from the July forecast, but up 3 percent from last year. The California raisin-type variety grape forecast is 2.30 million tons, down 6 percent from the July forecast, but up 13 percent from 2004.
Bud break occurred in March for raisin and wine-type grapes, 1-2 weeks early, due to an early heat wave. The hot weather was followed by unusually cool and wet weather. Bunch counts were reported to be up statewide on most varieties.
The wine and table-type grapes are reported to be in good condition for most varieties. The raisin crop looked promising early in the season, but the cool and wet spring brought on powdery mildew. To combat the mildew, many growers applied sulfur. Mite activity increased as temperatures once again soared, resulting in drying leaves and some sulfured grapes being burned. Harvest of the raisin and table type varieties for fresh use was active in Kern and Fresno counties.
Thompson Seedless was the primary raisin-type variety harvested. Flame Seedless, Red Globe, and Black Seedless were the primary table-type varieties being harvested. Overall, good size and quality were reported. Lighter exterior color of some harvested grapes was reported, however, as a result of the continued high temperatures.
California's 2005 olive crop forecast is 125,000 tons, up 20 percent from last year. The bearing acres are estimated to be 32,000 acres, resulting in a yield of 3.91 tons per acre.
Olives are an alternate bearing crop, and this year represents the higher year of production. The crop in northern areas of the state, however, was hit by bad weather during bloom resulting in a light and spotty fruit set. Rains, accompanied by hail and strong winds, burdened much of the area and knocked blossoms off the trees, leaving the area with a light, inconsistent crop.
The olive crop in southern areas was also hampered by rain during bloom, but was not damaged to the extent of the northern crop. Bloom was heavy and the rain affected the fruit set to some extent, but overall, the crop looks good.
The forecast of the 2005 Bartlett pear crop in California is 180,000 tons, down 19 percent from 2004. The rains and cool temperatures that plagued much of the state during the spring destroyed a substantial portion of the Bartlett pear blossoms. As the season progressed, additional rain and hail damaged more fruit, making it unmarketable.
The 2005 other pear forecast for California is 45,000 tons, down 6 percent from 2004. Non-Bartlett pears continued to be harvested. Spring rains had a detrimental affect on the blooms, leaving the crop lighter than average. For those pears that were not affected by the rains and hail, overall crop quality was reported to be good.
The rice production forecast is 40.4 million hundredweight, down 20 percent from 2004; alfalfa hay is 6.94 million tons, down 6 percent; other hay is 1.77 million tons, up 7 percent; corn for grain is 739,200 tons, up 1 percent; sugar beets are 1.77 million tons, down 8 percent from 2004; dry beans are 1.28 million hundredweight, up 10 percent.
Production forecasts are released on a monthly basis and do not reflect final production estimates. Late summer and fall harvests may change these estimates considerably. The next production forecast will be issued Sept. 12, 2005.


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Kaufman and Friedman hope to run for Sanderss seat
By Lincoln Anderson
After the election is called, the Democratic and Republican nominees will be elected by the County Committee of their respective parties, after which the public will vote in the special election.
Initially, many thought Councilmember Margarita Lopez who is being term-limited out of office at the end of this year and whose Council District 2 includes much of Sanderss 74th Assembly District would naturally want to run for the seat. The Assembly district stretches from the Lower East Side up to the United Nations. However, it now appears that Lopez may have dropped out in deference to Sanderss openly backing his longtime chief of staff, Steve Kaufman, to succeed him.
In addition, Sylvia Friedman, Democratic state committeewoman out of the Gramercy-Stuyvesant Independent Democrats club, is also running. Another name being mentioned is Jane Crotty, who works for George Arzt public relations and represents such clients as New School University and East Village Community Coalition. Also, former District Leader Donald Tobias, former president of the defunct Tilden Democratic Club, is reportedly interested in running.
As Sanders tells it, his recent announcement that he was retiring from the Assembly came as a total surprise to most, including Lopez. He said a week after the announcement, Kaufman told him he was interested in running. At that point, Sanders said, the first call he made was to Lopez. She asked him if there was any candidate he was hoping would succeed him; Sanders told her he planned to support Kaufman, and she indicated she would defer to Sanderss choice.
Margarita was gracious and magnanimous is not the word, Sanders said. Margarita indicated to me she would be respectful to me of my view in this regard. She strongly suggested to me that if I felt strongly about a particular candidate, she would strongly respect that and she would be motivated to support that candidate, as well. Steve Kaufman has indicated he wants to succeed me and I support him in that decision.
Lopez and Crotty did not return calls for comment.
Calling him already a surrogate representative of the district for him, Sanders said Kaufman would be a terrific representative.
I feel were he to win, the district wouldnt miss a beat, he said, because hes been doing all these things already.
As for Friedman, Sanders said, She should run shes earned it.
Sanders did note that Pataki has the option of not calling a special election at all, in which case the seat would remain vacant until November 2006
Who knows what political calculations are being made? he wondered. Sanders pointed out that two Long Island Republican assemnblymembers were likely to win elections to different offices, so Pataki might fear losing those seats to Democrats in a special election. In addition to Sanderss retiring, another Manhattan Assembly seat will become vacant on Jan. 1, when Scott Stringer becomes borough president. A Democratic Assembly seat is also vacant in Brooklyn.
Ultimately, however, Sanders predicts Pataki will call the special election, which would be for all the vacant seats.
Kaufman is very enthusiastic about running for the 74th Assembly District.
I am not just thinking. I am out there. I am running, he told The Villager. Im really excited about this. Kaufman said, though adding, Had Margarita run, I would not have run.
While Kaufman, who is openly gay, said he plans to work very hard to get elected and predicts hell win, he knows that, if elected, he might face a challenge in the primary election in September 2006.
Friedman said shes definitely running, too. She noted shes won a few races on the streets, for district leader and state committee.
I think based on what Ive done for the district and the party, I ought to win it, Friedman said. And I hope I can convince people of that. Shes head of the Reform Caucus in the State Committee, having defeated Larry Moss of Soho in an election for the post.
Of Kaufman, she said, I think hes a very nice guy, but I dont know what hes done in the community on his own. I think what hes done has always been on behalf of Sanders.
County Committee members from the districts four Democratic clubs will vote for the nominee.
This is pretty much based on how well you are known in the clubs, Friedman explained. And boy are they excited about this, she said of G.S.I.D., her home club. Tremendous enthusiasm in the club. They are serious progressives and see me as a serious progressive. I hope it will be a real election and not settled in the backrooms, as happens so often. Everyone in this district claims to be a reformer so that would be the reform thing to do.
Some wonder if there is lingering resentment against Friedman at the districts biggest club, Coalition for a District Alternative, over a past primary election in the 1990s when Friedman decided to run against incumbent Councilmember Antonio Pagan, which backers of Miriam Friedlander felt foiled her bid to regain the seat by splitting the anti-Pagan vote.
I very much wanted to defeat Pagan and I thought I could do it, Friedman said. I think some of them will never forgive me and some of them will move on.
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Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona says that for the first time in a while, he harbors "some optimism" about the chance for a bipartisan approach to some of America's compelling problems.
Senator McCain, his party's standard-bearer in the 2008 election, said he senses "a slight change in the environment of the Senate." McCain and Sen. Charles Schumer (D) of New York spoke Thursday at a Monitor-hosted breakfast for reporters about immigration reform proposals drafted by a bipartisan group of eight senators. Both McCain and Senator Schumer are part of that group.
In addition to the immigration reform efforts, McCain also cited the fact the Senate agreed to take up gun-control legislation, even though it ultimately did not pass, as well as what he called "every opportunity" for a grand bargain to deal with the budget deficit.
Schumer, vice chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus, said, "I agree with John there is a different mood in the Senate." Schumer said he and McCain hope that their immigration bill "sort of sets the model for doing this, coming to bipartisan agreements on other major issues." He added, "There is a desire among the majority of people in both parties – not everybody, but the majority of people in both parties – to actually do that."
If a more bipartisan approach were to break out, the result could be a session of Congress that "is going to be a lot more productive than the last few on a whole bunch of issues," Schumer said.
McCain said the initial steps he has seen to a more bipartisan approach are driven, in part, by Congress's low approval ratings. Its 13 percent approval rate in March is barely above the all-time low of 10 percent, recorded in 2012, according to Gallup.
If the low poll numbers persist, "we are going to see a third party in the United States," McCain said. More and more new voters are registering as independents, he noted. "Those people are voting independent because they don't find a home in either party. Sooner or later that dynamic is going to affect the political landscape," the senator said.


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May 10, 2013
Lecture today on cybersecurity modeling language
The computing and information sciences seminar series will present "Cyber Security Modeling Language, or CySeMoL," from 12:30-1:30 p.m. today at 126 Nichols Hall. Hannes Holm, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, will present the lecture.
Cyber Security Modeling Language is a modeling language for enterprise-level system architectures coupled to a probabilistic inference engine. If the computer systems of an enterprise are modeled with CySeMoL, this inference engine can assess the probability that attacks on the systems will succeed. The theory used for the attack-probability calculations in CySeMoL is a compilation of research results on a number of security domains and covers a range of attacks and countermeasures. The theory has previously been validated on a component level. In this paper, the theory is also validated on a system level. A test indicates that the reasonableness and correctness of CySeMoL assessments compare with the reasonableness and correctness of the assessments of a security professional. CySeMoLís utility has been tested in case studies.
Holm is a doctoral student at the department of Industrial Information and Control Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He received his master's degree in management engineering at Luleå University of Technology. His research interests include enterprise architecture and cyber security regarding critical infrastructure control systems.


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It probably comes as no surprise to anyone in the trucking industry that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) rejected a request by the American Trucking Associations (ATA) to delay the agency's newly reformed hours of service (HOS) regulations due to go into effect this July.
FMCSA's changes to HOS rules could impact trucking productivity, though technology provides such as Qualcomm are trying to deploy a range of technologies to help mitigate such impacts.
[Qualcomm's Norm Ellis discusses some of those efforts in the video below.]
Near-term, however, the ATA remains concerned that HOS reforms could be exceptionally costly – something Prasad Sharma, the groups' general counsel, addressed in a letter to the agency this week.
Sharma said that based on FMCSA's own estimate of the time necessary to train drivers on the new rule – along with software reprogramming and related transition costs published by FMCSA – the trucking industry alone will spend $320 million between now and July 1.
"This cost does not include costs to shippers, receivers and others in the supply chain," he added. "In addition, state enforcement agencies must spend taxpayer money to adapt to the rule changes. If the court agrees, in whole or in part, with ATA that the rule changes at issue must be rejected, those expenditures will have been irrecoverably squandered."
Bill Graves, ATA's president and CEO, chimed in with even more blunt words: "At a time of rising diesel prices, increased equipment and labor costs, the decision by the head of FMCSA to reject a reasonable request for a brief delay in enforcing this rule is unbelievable."
That may be. One thing for certain though is the changes to HOS are going forward as planned, so it's time to fasten those seat belts.


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Jim said that his character is of a broken heart and he does not want to be involved with anybody's character. But, as Jim mentioned, Rhys' character is so full of love that audience will better identify themselves with his character only. It definitely becomes an incredible pain for Jim's character
Jim Carrey calls Yes Man costar Rhys Darby a 'brilliant' colleague


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InsightsOne to Deliver 1-to-1 Marketing for Angie's List
Big Data solutions provider InsightsOne aims to boost ecommerce email conversion rates significantly while greatly improving the Angie's List customer experience
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InsightsOne, a pioneer in cloud-based predictive analytics solutions enabled by big data, today announced that Angie's List, the premier online review site, has selected InsightsOne's cloud-based predictive analytics solution to deliver a 1-to-1 consumer marketing experience to their members. InsightsOne combines cutting-edge Big Data and predictive analytics technology so companies can deliver the right offer, to the right consumer and the right channel, including web, email, mobile and contact centers.
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Angie's List's first e-commerce application of Big Data will be the daily delivery of customized "Big Deals" for its 1.5 million subscribers. Each of their opted-in members will receive offers that reflect their unique preferences.
"Leveraging Big Data is easier than we thought," said Manu Thapar, CTO at Angie's List. "InsightsOne is working with us at every step, from data collection to analysis, all the way to integrating insights into our marketing systems."
"In the end," added Thapar, "we plan to deliver a unique experience to every one of our members – the days of broadcasting the same message to all our members will be over."
With InsightsOne as its strategic marketing partner, Angie's List will be able to effectively capture, analyze and leverage vast amounts of consumer data from various channels, including email and web, to create a very accurate picture of consumer preferences.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's crude oil supplies rose last week, the government said Wednesday.
Crude supplies increased by 600,000 barrels, or 0.2 percent, to 696 million barrels, which is 9.8 percent above year-ago levels, the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report.
Analysts expected an increase of 2.5 million barrels for the week ended Feb. 8, according to Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.
Gasoline supplies shrank by 800,000 barrels, or 0.3 percent, to 232.2 million barrels. That's 0.5 percent above year-ago levels. Analysts expected gasoline supplies to be unchanged.
Demand for gasoline over the four weeks ended Feb. 8 was 4.4 percent higher than a year ago, averaging 8.4 million barrels a day.
U.S. refineries ran at 83.8 percent of total capacity on average, down 0.4 percentage point from the prior week. Analysts expected capacity to fall to 83.5 percent.
Supplies of distillate fuel, which include diesel and heating oil, fell by 3.7 million barrels to 125.9 million barrels. Analysts expected distillate stocks to decline by 1.6 million barrels.
Benchmark crude futures fell 13 cents to $97.38 a barrel in New York.


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Shi Mao, CMO of Huawei West Europe, talks to Light Reading at CeBIT 2018 about how NB-IoT is developing in Europe and China, and Huawei's strategy in accelerating the industry implementation on NB-IoT technologies.
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For Its 10th Anniversary, Lazarides in London Looks at the State of Street Art
Drawing on his Northern Irish upbringing, Oliver Jeffers aims to make sense of the world through his wide-ranging work, which encompasses painting, mixed media compositions on paper, installation, film and animation, and award-winning children's book-writing and illustration. He brings a sense of paradox and absurdity to his numerous pursuits, explaining: "My interest in duality, as a continuing theme in my art, is definitely born from the contradictions inherent in being Northern Irish. There's also a sense of humor that's particular to Northern Ireland—a darkness that underpins everything, where nothing is sacred and everything can be laughed at." Jeffers's irreverence and curiosity is especially evident in his paintings, surrealistic scenarios that reveal the divide between the world as it is and as we perceive it, and which poke fun at our often futile efforts to impose order upon everything.
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Walk joined the Cal State Fullerton faculty in 1994 and has served as chair of the Department of Kinesiology since 2007. A sport sociologist whose research focuses on risk-taking, pain and injury, as well as the sociology of sports medicine, Walk served as president of the largest academic society in his field, the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS), from 2005-06.
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Light brown sugar (or white…)
Butter (cold)
Rolled oats
Flax seeds (very optional but I like to use it)
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Apples (or pears, or a mixture of the 2…)
Light brown sugar
Prepare the crust: in a food processor place flour, spices (to your tasting), salt (a pinch), oats (about 1/3 of the amount of flour) and a little each of flax seeds and walnuts (omit or use other nuts). Pulse until combined. Add the sugar, again to your tasting (if you have no clue add about half the quantity you have in your food processor by now) Now get the butter and add little by little (1 tablespoon more or less), pulse and add more butter until you're happy with the texture (some like it crispier- add less butter, some prefer it more consistent- add more butter and let the dough bond a little).
For the filling: Peel and dice the apples in small chunks. Toss with a bit of cinnamon and sugar to taste.
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Dover budget forum aims to let residents give feedback on prioritiesBy JOHN QUINN
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DOVER - Residents will have a chance to give their feedback on budget priorities at an upcoming forum.
City Manager Michael Joyal will lead the "Budget Revealed" forum, which is scheduled to begin Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Media Access Center - Room 306 - at the McConnell Center.
"The proposed budget will not be presented until April 10," Joyal said, adding officials continue to work through the process.
The school board proposed an operating budget of $46,225,864, which is $27,055 - or 0.06 percent - less than the approved $46,252,919 budget for the current fiscal year, according to www.dover.k12.nh.us.
"The budget preparation is not complete," Joyal said in an e-mail.
Until April 4, residents can complete an online survey - accessible at http://tinyurl.com/csomobe - which asks participants to rate budget priorities.
Residents can also use "Dover Dollars" at the City Hall to provide input on five areas, which include: public safety, public education, public infrastructure, economic development and fiscal stewardship.The details from both programs will be presented to the officials, who can use the information to help shape the budget. Joyal will present a proposed budget to the City Council in April.Joyal said the intention of this week's meeting is to explain the budget process, including how it is managed, to residents.The presentation will air later on Channel 22 and be available on the city's website: http://www.ci.dover.nh.us/.


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ARM Java acceleration software delivers high Java performance with Jazelle technology
CAMBRIDGE, UK - Feb. 9, 2005 - ARM, [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)], today announced that Siemens has licensed the ARM® Jazelle®
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Device manufacturers and service providers are increasingly using Java technology as a low cost means to quickly deploy new applications, such as complex games and mobile push services. ARM Jazelle technology enables execution of Java byte code in hardware offering the capability to run these new and demanding applications much faster, with limited power and cost penalties. Acceleration of Java technology, as part of the core architecture, requires no additional ROM/RAM, yet provides increased efficiency in power. This means consumers can use mobile devices to run Java applications for longer without sacrificing performance or responsiveness.
"Complexity in mobile Java applications is increasing rapidly, putting great strain on consumer devices. JTEK software enables the smooth running of these applications without sacrificing battery life or start-up time," said Chris Porthouse, Execution Environments product manager, ARM. "The exponential growth in JTEK technology-enabled handsets is set to continue and this will help strengthen our current position."
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The very latest information about soybean aphids is now available online and in a field guide from the Iowa Soybean Association (ISA). ISA and Iowa State University (ISU) have released a collaborative second edition of the Soybean Aphid Field Guide. The guide's authors are ISU Extension entomologist Erin Hodgson and ISU research entomologist Matt O'Neal.
"Every year we learn more about the biology of soybean aphids and new ways to prevent this pest from causing yield loss," O'Neal says. "We have incorporated these discoveries and tools into the revised edition of the guide in an effort to return this soybean checkoff-funded research back to soybean farmers."
One of the biggest additions to the toolbox of aphid management strategies is aphid-resistant soybeans. The guide includes a review of the research that led to aphid resistance becoming a common component of soybean genetics for many current and future commercial soybean varieties.
Printed copies of the Soybean Aphid Field Guide can be obtained by contacting the Iowa Soybean Association at 800/383-1423; they can also be ordered from the ISU Extension Online Store at www.extension.iastate.edu/store/or by calling 515/294-5247. The guide can also be viewed online at www.iasoybeans.com/productionresearch/


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He was sentenced in the 2011 death of his girlfriend's 2-year-old son, Logan Sellers.
HAGERSTOWN — Brian Michael Miller, 34, of Hagerstown was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court for the 2011 death of his girlfriend's 2-year-old son, Logan Sellers. He pleaded guilty Sept. 11 to first-degree child abuse resulting in death and two counts of second-degree felony child abuse.
Miller called 911 Oct. 5, 2011, after he realized Logan had stopped breathing, according to court documents. Later Hagerstown police were called to Meritus Medical Center for a report of an unresponsive child and investigators determined Logan struck his head when Miller became angry and pushed him to the floor. The child was taken to Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he died Oct. 10, 2011.
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