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hi people,
i noticed that in the paid version, it allows for the addition of an os firewall.
so does this mean that the paid version has two firewalls at the same time that are both active,
which doubles your protection?
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hi people,
i noticed that in the paid version, it allows for the addition of an os firewall.
so does this mean that the paid version has two firewalls at the same time that are both active,
which doubles your protection?
the OSfirewall is part of the whole Firewall package on Zone Alarm.
Two-way Firewall
Stops Internet attacks at the front door and even catches thieves on their way out. Our two-way firewall proactively protects against inbound and outbound attacks while making you invisible to hackers.
- Threat Traffic is monitored and blocked - inbound and outbound.
- Full Stealth Mode makes you invisible to hackers.
- Kill Controls instantly disable malicious programs.
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No product is 100% effective against viruses or spyware. ZoneAlarm's advanced firewall monitors behaviors within your computer to spot and stop even the most sophisticated new attacks that bypass traditional antivirus and security suites.
- OSFirewall Monitors programs for suspicious behavior - spotting and stopping new attacks that bypass traditional anti-virus protection.
- Advanced-access Protection targets and defeats new, advanced attacks that other firewalls miss, such as raw data access, timing, and SCM and COM attacks.
- Zero-hour Protection prevents silent outbreaks from gaining system access - before other security programs can even detect the threat.
- Application Control uniquely shields your operating system during start-up, before most security products have even loaded.
- Early Boot Protection uniquely shields your operating system during start-up, before most security products have even loaded.
Can I use more than one software firewall?
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Due to the potential for conflicts and problems that can arise from using
multiple firewalls, ZoneAlarm recommends the use of only ZoneAlarm and
a virus scanner.
When multiple software firewalls are installed, there is no way of ordering
which product will get a packet and which will report it; the determination as
to which product gets operating system preference to monitor the traffic will
be made at random. When running more than one firewall, ZoneAlarm
might not be able to report on incoming port scans or hack attempts. In
some cases, running two software firewalls at the same time can cause
more problems than running only one.
ZoneAlarm works well with hardware firewalls - in these cases the hardware firewall would protect incoming ONLY (you would need to set that up for logging if you wish to see those alerts) while ZoneAlarm continues to protect with Outbound Control. Also, note that some software firewalls, such as the built-in Windows XP firewall) provide inbound protection only.
ZoneAlarm provides both inbound protection and outbound anti-Trojan
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Re: Devouring Maggot
after a few hours of farming the area outside utgarde keep and halgrind, i decided to give up and try my luck at finding a fjord worg pup. stopping briefly to battle a wild pet on the way, the first pet i engaged outside of those two areas previously mentioned was accompanied by a devouring maggot! it seems these only exist as secondary accomplices as far as tamables are concerned. coordinates: 45,50
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Indian Cities Are Attracting the Most Tech Talent, LinkedIn Says
Move over Silicon Valley. The U.S. may no longer be the top city where technology professionals go to for business.
According to a new study by LinkedIn, four of the top five cities that technology professionals moved to last year were not in the U.S. but in India–Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai.
The trend underscores the technology boom in the south Asian nation, home to some of the world's largest outsourcing services firms such as Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro, as global corporations poured in money to do everything from write software to run call centers and manage networks.
"This data validates how strategically important India is to companies around the world," said Nishant Rao, country manager for LinkedIn in India. "It is also very telling of where the talent for technology, which is generally scarce, reside," he said.
On average, 16% of the new residents who moved to new cities had technology skills, LinkedIn data showed. However, most Indian cities had more than double that average.
The study also shows that most new residents with a technology background were those with software infrastructure and programming skills.
The rankings, released this week by Linkedin were based on analyzing the change in location profiles of its 1.5 million members in 52 cities across the world between November 2012 and 2013. LinkedIn has more than 300 million users world-wide, a third of whom are located in the U.S., its largest market.
India ranks a distant second with more than 26 million users on LinkedIn.
According to LinkedIn data, 44% of the more than 60,000 new residents who moved to Bangalore last year had technology skills.
Compare that with the San Francisco Bay Area, which ranked fifth on the list. The city is the new hub in the U.S. with a thriving tech community, where a number of technology firms such as Twitter, Zynga and Dropbox are based.
Close to one in three of the more than 90,000 new residents who moved to the city last year were tech professionals.
"It is hard to find tech talent in the Bay Area," said Mr. Rao. Also, the high cost of living and rising rental costs make it tough for new talent to live in the city, he said.
The other hubs in the U.S. to which many technology professionals have moved are smaller metropolitan cities such as Seattle and Austin, the data showed.
Down under, Melbourne and Sydney figured right behind the U.S. cities at the tail end of the list.
Below are the top 10 cities to which technology professionals migrated between November 2012 and 2013:
Cities Proportion of new residents that have tech skills
1. Bangalore 44%
2. Pune 43%
3. Hyderabad 43%
4. Chennai 38%
5. San Francisco 31%
6. Seattle 29%
7. Austin 23%
8. Melbourne 22%
9. Sydney 22%
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I'm christine. I live in NYC and I'm a big fan of harry potter, obviously. I would like to take a swing at Fan Fics, I've role played a couple times in my youth. I love writing and reading.
I don't know how to work the site, all I know is you post a story and presto, fan fic. So if anyone can help me, that'd be grand and lovely.


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Windows XP Startup
After several SSD product reviews in which I recorded Windows XP startup time data, I have repeatedly omitted my results from the article for lack of enough comparison data. In all honesty, I cannot make this an interesting subject. Most of you reading this article have already watched the video of a Windows computer starting up in mere seconds when it used a Solid State Drive, so it wouldn't be very exciting to show it again. Instead, I have recorded the length of time it took for my Dell Inspiron 6400 notebook computer to startup with each drive. Here are the specifications on the notebook:
This "test" is going to be useful to laptop computer users only, primarily because I did not test the desktop hard drives. The only hard drive included was the high-performance 7200 RPM Hitachi Travelstar 7K100, which recorded a 28-second load time from the moment I pressed the power button to the moment the Windows Login screen was displayed.
The primary purpose of this test was to demonstrate that a Solid State Drive could in fact cut the Windows load time in half, but there are other factors to consider. It's important to note that this particular Dell notebook consumes almost 11 seconds on the BIOS pre-loading and POST (Power-On Self Test) routine prior to actually beginning to load Microsoft Windows XP, so it's not realistic to think that my results would match another system identically.
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In the next section, I begin to summarize my final thoughts on the OCZ Vertex series SSD as well as Solid State Drives in general. Please continue on to see what I think of SSD technology in todays consumer market.


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Long Trail grad gets Rotary scholarship to pursue master's
Jordan Shapiro, who graduated from Dorset's Long Trail School in 2010 and the University of Rochester in 2014, will return to Wales to study international relations at Aberystwyth University in the town of the same name. Shapiro spent six weeks in Wales in the summer of 2011 at Cardiff University, Bangor University, and Aberystwyth, thanks to a US-UK Fulbright Commission Scholarship.
This time, Shapiro will work to earn her master's degree in international relations thanks to a Rotary Global Grant Scholarship. The global grant program helps to fund humanitarian projects, vocational training teams, and graduate-level academic studies around the world. Rotary International has 1.2 million members across six continents, and began as the Rotary Club of Chicago in 1905. Since 1947, the organization has donated over $532 million to such causes.
Shapiro, who majored in international relations and history at Rochester, plans to write her thesis on the 1998 Devolution Referendum, according to a release from Rochester. That resolution asked the people of Wales, "Do you agree that there should be a Welsh Assembly, as proposed by the Government." The resolution passed by only 7,000 votes, 50.3 percent to 49.7 percent, and led to the passing of the Government of Wales Act in 1998, which formed the National Assembly of Wales. Shapiro plans to use primary source documents in the National Libraries of Wales as part of her research.
While in Wales, Shapiro will teach a seminar on elections, voting, and political advocacy at the Ysgol Penglais School in Aberystwyth. "I'm excited to work with Penglais, as encouraging political advocacy in young people helps them not only feel confident in their ability to make a difference, but creates the active citizenship essential to democracy," she said.
Shapiro was the first Rochester student to be selected as a US-UK Fulbright Summer Institute Participant, and will now be the first alumnus to receive the Rotary Global Grant Scholarship.
Before traveling to Wales for the first time in 2011, Shapiro spoke with the Bennington Banner about her hopes for her studies. "One of the things I'm looking forward to," she said, "is that Welsh history and English history is closely tied to American history, obviously, and I know in New England we have a lot of people with Welsh descent. The Granville slate mines were started by the Welsh, so it will be very interesting for me to correlate the two histories as well as the people, and to better understand Americans through the Welsh."
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What hole had your number today?
There are days where a hole just kicks your butt, be it at a course you've never visited before or one you've played a hundred times. This thread is for commiseration purposes. Plus, I always like to see the challenges that others face out on the course.
For me today it was City Park hole 7.
The basket is to the right of the big oak in the center of the picture, almost dead ahead. What makes this hole so difficult is the pin placement (very close to the oak's branches) and the OB (sidewalk running the right side). It's very hard to anny around the left of the tree in front of the tee hard enough to avoid the obstacles to the left without ending up OB. Flex shots are hard both for the low ceiling and for the branches waiting to engulf your disc if it flexes back too hard. Hyzering around the tree is tough unless you totally layup, mostly for the low ceiling. Today I let a good 10 shots rip on this without being truly satisfied with any of the outcomes; my best shots were annys with a Tangent that ended up just OB. It's a fun hole, but was frustrating the hell out of me today.
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First time I had played the course as I was on the way home from a business trip. I was playing conservative, hitting my windows true, and banged a couple longish putts. Was sitting at 24 after #9. Carded my only four here on #10. RHBH Opto River came out of my hand a wee bit late and I missed my intended gap across the deep gully to the right and hit a tree. Disc slid halfway back down into said gully. Upshot was blind and placed me on a bad line with a big old tree blocking any reasonable hope. Lay-up ten feet from pin was easy at least.
I did find two more birdies and finished at 50. I know I am capable of sub-50 on this course, but likely will not see it again anytime soon
I was physically abused by hole # 5 at Oak Meadow yesterday.
Played 2 rounds of 27 at Joralemon yesterday.
Hole 24 had my number
Hole #12 at Vicksburg Recreational Area. I missed the gap and totally deserved the double-bogey that marred my otherwise stellar round. Great hole, Larry Labond...
Honestly for me, it's always the hole after the long wait. I played a tournament today. Spanking the card by 5 strokes, come into about a 15-20 min wait/back up and proceed to give away 5 strokes over the next 5 holes. 2nd round... Same situation, solid play winning the card... come into a 10 minute wait (lost disc I think) throw the worst shot on the hole I've thrown in my life, proceed to give away 7 strokes over the next 7 holes.... Unbelievable. I go from shooting golf that would've easily won the tournament to nightmare golf that should never happen... FML
Not today, but yesterday while playing The Hunt at Deer Lakes near Pgh, hole 11 in the 2nd round bit me hard. Forget about the holes in the first round that I wish I could take back. I had a mediocre first round of a 69 on a par 66 from the white tees. As mentioned there were a few holes that I want back including the one where I put my drive 15-20 feet from the basket, and my putt was just an inch too low hitting the cage, falling to the ground and then rolling 60 feet down the slope into the woods with end result being a 4 when I should have had a 2. OK BAD break on that one.
However my 2nd round was going pretty well even with a double bogey on a par 3 already in the round. But I had 7 birds and hole 11 was the last hole of the round. All I needed to do was make a par 3 and I would be 3 under and probably finish in the top 3. No probelm as I parked it for a duece in the first round. The hole is a downhill wooded shot into a ravine with the basket about 50 feet up the other side, maybe 275 total. Before I tee, everyone is congratulating me on a great round even joking that I should just leave my bag at the tee and just carry my putter down the hill as we would be heading to HQ back up the hill. I tee up with the same disc I dueced it on taking the same line. I let her rip only to release my disc just a smidgen too soon and my disc goes right into the first tree not 30 feet from the tee and richochets left into the woods. Damn!! OK, maybe I can still par it if I have a line out of the woods. No such luck. Best I can do is throw a control shot through a small opening and get it back to the fairway. OK, I will get a 4 and still finish 2 down. I take my upshot and misjudge the distance and shoot past the basket by 30 feet. Double Damn!! I look at my putt and I have to putt back to the basket on a down hill slope. There is one tree in the way, but I can step off to the side and still get a clean look at the basket. I decide to go for it and get my 4, only to hit the chains off to the side and my disc falls to the ground about 20 feet past the pasket. Triple damn!!!! OK, sink this put and finish 1 down. It is now an uphill putt and I stare the basket down, take my shot only to have it bounce again off the chains and fall to the ground right next to the basket. I forget how many damns I have now but it was a triple bogey and I finished even and in 6th place where I could of, would of, should of finished in the top 3.
But I still had fun as it was a beautiful day and the group I played with was a fun bunch of guys.
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Ask someone who did have the extra minute and the answer tended to be, "Not so bad".
Does this study imply that if George W. Bush gets another term in office, I'll actually start to like him? What strange, fickle organisms we are.
You mean aside from what he's already done?


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The former Massachusetts governor won the majority of the vote in the presidential election in Arkansas. He had been widely expected to win the state, where President Barack Obama remains deeply unpopular.
Obama lost Arkansas by 20 points in the 2008 election and has not visited Arkansas since 2006.
Many of the state's top Republicans backed Romney's White House bid long before he won the nomination earlier this year. Romney has also mostly stayed clear of the state, though he held a private fundraiser in downtown Little Rock in August.
Republicans have made gains in Arkansas after tying Democrats to Obama and other unpopular national party leaders.


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The big news of Tuesday was Oklahoma's offer to in-state three-star athlete Dominique Alexander. The 6-foot-2, 195-pound prospect found out the news from both his father as well as his head coach, Marvin Dantzler. When both got in touch with the Sooner coaching staff Oklahoma made it clear that the state's current No. 4 prospect could be a fit for the Sooners.
Not surprisingly with such news he has already heard from many people around him on just what he needs to do with his choice after the Sooners offer and spending nearly four months as an Arkansas commitment.
"Oh yeah, lots of people at school follow me on Twitter so they all knew about (the offer) pretty quickly," Alexander said. "Most were telling me I should do this or that. Even my assistant principal, who was around Oklahoma back when (former Booker T. Basketball star) Waymon Tisdale was there, and he was telling me that's where I have to go! Really most are telling me that is where I need to go but that I should just keep praying about."
The No. 33 athlete in the country put on a strong performance at Oklahoma's summer camp as well as when the SoonerScoop.com staff got a chance to see him at a Jenks team camp in early June. He has followed that up with a senior year that has placed a lot of people on notice, and that work has not missed the Sooner coaching staff.
"My dad and coach told me that when they were on the phone with Oklahoma that they were saying they loved the way I'm playing and my tape," Alexander said.
"When people notice your hard work it lets you know you're doing something right. When you work so hard and nothing comes out of it that's hard but when you get rewarded you get blessings upon blessings. When people are coming to you, Oregon State, Oklahoma, Kansas State, it lets you know that you are doing something right."
Of course all this attention comes behind a Arkansas offer that happened after he put on a similarly impressive show at the Razorbacks camp. So now that his offer list has changed, where does his commitment stand?
"Well, I'm still committed to Arkansas for sure but you know, Oklahoma, growing up in Oklahoma every kid wants to play for OU," he said. "There are a lot of things I've got to weigh out and I've got to figure out who Arkansas' head coach is going to be.
"But as of now I'm still committed to Arkansas."
Alexander, who made trips to Norman for both the summer camp as well as Oklahoma's February junior day says that the Sooners have some ground to make up after leaving him a bit unsure of where he stood with both events.
"When I took the unofficial for the Jr. day it was different, the only offer I had was Texas Tech and I was down there with guys who had offers from Alabama and LSU. I wasn't getting a lot of attention, I was kind of the 'Average Joe', I was down there, but I was average joe compared to those other dudes," he explained.
"I want to get back down to a game, and see now that they actually do want me. When I was at the camp I was getting a lot of attention from coach (Jackie) Shipp and coach (Mike) Stoops. They noticed me and now that they've offered me I want to see what the conversation is like."
One coach that Alexander hasn't spent any real time around, nor talking to, is first-year Sooner assistant Tim Kish. In fact it's pretty clear that there is a bit of making up to do for the Sooner assistant.
"Yeah, I've got to check out what I think of him, when I went for the unofficial visit, he was talking to some guy, I think he was talking to a guy named Maurice Smith, he was spending a lot of time with him and Justin Manning. Also when I went there for the camp, they were looking at some other dudes.
"I understand though because you also have to take into consideration my highlight film from my junior year, I played all over the place and going into the camp I can understand they didn't know where they wanted to put me and I understand now."
Alexander is good friends with current Tulsa area Sooner commitments Jordan Smallwood of Jenks and Tulsa East Central's Stanvon Taylor and those friendships along with several other current Sooner standouts from the Tulsa area could help Oklahoma's chances.
"Oh yeah, that's always good, it's always good to know different people that have been there, you can learn from their mistakes, they can tell you what it's like and they won't lie to you," he said. "If I can see what it's like, and talk to them about why they loved it, then you know, that's great."


text: This problem isn't beowulf specific. We ran into this with 107 UNIX servers. The short answers we came up with. NIS is OK, but you do have an overhead of account lookups which for some beowulf applications, can cause performance impacts. Local password files are better to eliminate this problem. Also, your nodes won't be at risk of an NIS server failure. Using rsync over ssh is a lot better solution for this case. You pick one of your nodes and call it the master. You edit the password in one place and push it to all the other nodes. This can also be slightly modified to have the clients pull the password and shadow via ssh (using the keys to secure the transaction). If this is scripted, it's essentially painless (assuming all of your nodes have the exact smae password and shadow files). Our situation was a bit more complex since our network isn't a beowulf or the same platform. We had to support different OS's (some have shadow and some don't), and political groups because not everyone has access to every server. Below is a basic idea of a script to push /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to all host. This hasn't been tested since I'm writing it in this email. You add users locally via adduser or whatever your preference and you run the script and everyone looks the same. This assumes you've already setup ssh with keys which is beyond what I am going into here. #!/bin/sh HOST=" node01 \ node02 \ node03 \ node04" for i in $HOST do /usr/local/bin/rsync -avz -essh /etc/passwd $i:/etc/passwd /usr/local/bin/rsync -avz -essh /etc/shadow $i:/etc/shadow done Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dear beowulf mailing list, > > currently, when i change passwords, i have to go through this huge > rigamarole of creating a local passwd/shadow and rdisting it to all the > nodes. > > needless to say, this is a huge waste of time and more complex than it ought > to be. > > i was thinking of using NIS on the nodes. the NIS HOWTO mentions that using > NIS with shadow is a big security risk since you lose the security of shadow > passwords. however, we're not too concerned with security among the nodes > because the front end acts as a firewall: > > / > --net---- front end ---- nodes > \ > > and we've gotten rid of telnetd/ftpd/httpd on the front end, and implemented > very restrictive tcp wrappers. basically, only a few selected hosts are > allowed to do anything with the front end. we only use ssh to go in/out to > the front end. > > so here are my questions: > 1- how do other beowulf admins manage accounts on nodes? do other people > use NIS? is there an alternative? > 2- using NIS, can i share other useful files like /etc/group or the lamhosts > file? > > this is on a beowulf on x86 architecture running linux. > > thanks! > pete > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list > Beowulf at beowulf.org > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list Beowulf at beowulf.org http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Just as 2012 was turning into a bloodbath on Wall Street, the indexes bounced back with the best week of the year.
The S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 3.7% and 3.6%, respectively, during the week of June 4-8. The renewed enthusiasm for equities had InvestorPlace contributors bursting with stock recommendations. Here are my ETF alternatives for some of those picks:
On Monday, editor Jeff Reeves highlighted five dividend stocks that were up 20% year-to-date. Of his five picks, I particularly like two of them — Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE:WHR) and Copa Holdings (NYSE:CPA).
Whirlpool is an iconic brand whose stock has been volatile in recent years. However, with a 3.4% dividend yield and a stock that has traded below $30 just twice in the past 22 years, its downside is manageable. Copa is a Panamanian-based airline that serves the Latin America market. With some of the best margins in the business, it has an excellent future.
Both are attractive long-term holds providing reasonable income. Your best bet for Whirlpool is the Guggenheim S&P 500 Pure Value ETF (NYSE:RPV), where Whirlpool is the third-largest holding at a 2.28% weighting. The Guggenheim fund's dividend yield is less than half of Whirlpool's, but it gives you a broad array of value stocks at the same time.
To own Copa, you'd go with the Guggenheim Airline ETF (NYSE:FAA), which, as its name suggests, invests in airlines from around the world. A total of 26 airlines are held in the fund, with Copa at 1.4%.
On Tuesday, Dan Burrows was discussing the pros and cons of owning Dollar General (NYSE:DG), the highly successful discount retailer. Dan believes Dollar General is cheaper now than it was three months ago. To act on this recommendation while hedging your bets, I'd go with the First Trust US IPO Index Fund (NYSE:FPX). Dollar General's a top 10 holding at 3.29%, and the fund has a very good performance record since its inception in April 2006.
By the way, the fund's most recent addition to its top 10 is Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX), which I recently recommended over the stock of its parent. I've never been a big fan of IPOs, but for some reason this fund works.
Midweek, Marc Bastow, with assistance from editors Jeff Reeves and Kyle Woodley, put together a five-stock, $10,000 portfolio. The stock in this bunch that stands out for me is Corning (NYSE:GLW), whose solid balance sheet protects on the downside.
Killing two birds with one stone, I'd buy the First Trust Technology AlphaDEX Fund (NYSE:FXL), which uses both growth and value factors to compile its list of holdings. Corning is a top 10 holding, at 2.11%. In addition to Corning, the technology fund's 89-stock portfolio includes Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), one of the other four picks by Bastow, Reeves and Woodley.
On Thursday, the InvestorPlace team disagreed about Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX). While Louis Navellier heaped praise on the coffee giant for its innovation and expansion into different markets, Jeff Reeves argued that Starbucks is losing focus and predicted that its stock is destined to take a hit as a result.
Just a day earlier, I'd taken Navellier's side, suggesting that Starbucks' latest move — acquiring San Francisco's La Boulange bakery for $100 million — was a brilliant move that will strengthen its customer experience by providing better food. Nothing the company has done in the past two years strikes me as a sign that it's losing focus. On the contrary, to my mind, Starbucks has shown a clear understanding of its business and its weaknesses.
I think you're buying growth at a reasonable price here. However, if you're not sure who's right, buy the Focus Morningstar Consumer Cyclical ETF (NYSE:FCL), which has Starbucks as a top 10 holding at 2.65%, costs only 0.19% to own and gives you a lot of great names in addition to Starbucks.
Ending the week, James Brumley discussed the value available in solar stocks. He sees solar as a far better buy at this point than social media, both of which are trading at new lows. Carting out no less than four possible picks, including First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR), this is exactly the situation where ETFs make sense: If you agree with the hypothesis that solar stocks in general are insanely cheap right now, buying either the Guggenheim Solar ETF (NYSE:TAN) or the Market Vectors Solar Energy ETF (NYSE:KWT) provides you with the best possible proxy for solar power at a cost of just 0.65%.
As of this writing, Will Ashworth did not own a position in any of the stocks named here.


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Abdullah Accuses Israel of Undermining Jordan's Nuclear Efforts
Jordan's King Abdullah accused Israel on Tuesday of attempting to prevent the kingdom from developing a peaceful nuclear program for energy purposes.
In an interview published Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal, King Abdullah said that Israel's "underhanded" actions have pushed Jordanian-Israeli relations to the lowest point since the two signed a 1994 peace agreement.
He accused Israel of approaching South Korea and France with requests to not sell Jordan nuclear technology.
"There are countries, Israel in particular that are more worried about us being economically independent than the issue of nuclear energy, and have been voicing their concerns," he told the newspaper.
"There are many such reactors in the world and a lot more coming, so (the Israelis must) go mind their own business," he added. Israel has denied trying to prevent Jordan from developing a nuclear program.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Jordan's nuclear motivations stem from economic concerns. The kingdom is 95 percent dependent on imported oil and has among the world's smallest water reserves.
The current U.S. policy is to ensure that Jordan imports its nuclear fuel so the uranium is not diverted to the military. Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty signed by Jordan, the kingdom holds the right to produce its own uranium fuel.
According to Jordan, foreign attempts to prevent it from utilizing its own uranium would violate the treaty and harm its economy. Jordan hopes to eventually export both uranium and electricity to its neighbors, particularly Iraq and Syria.


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Innovating education with technology.
This is copied from my new blog.
I have just started my blogging of my school and how I manage the iPads but I plan to try and cover it all. So, check there if you don't see more from me here.
Ok, this is a good one. My school is already setup with a printer in every classroom. They are not AirPrint ready but they are networked or connected to a computer on the network.
Here I'll show you how I have all my network printers setup so I can use AirPrint to be able to print from an ipad to them using one copy of FingerPrint. I think it was $25. There's a free trial that just puts a watermark on your print so you can really fully try it before you buy.
FingerPrint Requirements
iOS4.2 - iOS6.0.1
Mac OSX - 10.6 thru 10.8
PC - XP SP3 thru Windows 8 & Server 2003-2008 (Win 7 Starter and Windows RT not supported)
This can be done with any computer on the same network but in this case I'm using a windows 2008 server because no one has access to it but me, again, Server is not required.
In this tutorial, I'm using a network printer with an IP address. The process for a printer connected via USB is similar and I'll cover that in another post, soon but the quick answer is \\computername\printername instead of IP as seen below... I'll cover it.
So, on the computer, I'm going to first, install fingerprint, pretty straight forward, just follow the directions. You don't have to do anything special for this to work.
Now, Add a new printer.
Choose "Add a local printer"
Enter the IP of the networked printer and change the port name to something you can recognize later. It will help keep you sane.
Install drivers of coarse.
Share the printer, I use the classroom number as the name of the printer.
Once installed you can bring up fingerprint and you'll see it listed automatically.
See room 202 listed on the left?
Now you can check it on your iPad and do a test print.
So, every printer I setup locally, on that machine, if shared, will be listed in my printers list when I'm on the same network.
I had some trouble with some of the printers. In a few cases it just wouldn't print but no reason why. I found that unchecking duplex printing for that printer or setting the printer settings to always scale, fixed it.
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Spinach Roulade
This healthful Spinach Roulade boasts an Asian-style filling of sautéed mushrooms, peppers, and corn.
Total Time:
Level: Moderate
Yield: 6 main-dish servings
Serves: 6
- 1 tsp. olive oil
- 1 package sliced mushrooms
- 1 large red pepper
- 1 package frozen corn kernels
- 1 package frozen chopped spinach
- 6 large eggs
- ½ c. reduced-fat (2%) milk
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 4 green onions
- ⅓ c. bottled stir-fry sauce
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 15 1/2" by 10 1/2" jelly-roll pan with nonstick foil, leaving 2-inch overhang at each short end. Evenly spray foil with nonstick cooking spray.
- In 12-inch skillet, heat oil on medium-high until hot. Add mushrooms and red pepper, and cook 6 minutes or until vegetables are tender and all liquid evaporates, stirring frequently. Add frozen corn and cook 2 minutes or until heated through, stirring frequently. Remove skillet from heat.
- In blender, combine spinach, egg yolks, and milk; cover and blend until pureed. In large bowl, with mixer on high speed, beat egg whites with 1/4 teaspoon salt until stiff peaks form when beaters are lifted. With rubber spatula, gently fold spinach mixture, one-third at a time, into beaten egg whites just until blended. Spoon batter into prepared pan; spread to an even layer. Bake 10 minutes or until spinach mixture is set. Lift foil with spinach mixture and place on work surface.
- Return skillet, with mushroom mixture, to high heat; add green onions and stir-fry sauce. Cook mixture about 1 minute or until hot, stirring. Run knife along sides of spinach mixture to release it from foil. Reserve 1/4 cup corn mixture to garnish top; evenly spread remaining corn mixture on top of spinach mixture, up to 1 inch from long side farthest from you. Roll up from long side nearest you, lifting foil to help roll. Roll onto platter or cutting board. Top with reserved corn mixture. To serve, use a long serrated knife to cut roulade into 6 thick slices.
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NEW ORLEANS, LA – Today, over 200 volunteers joined Mayor Mitch Landrieu along with City officials, local community organizations, and residents for the seventh NOLA FOR LIFE Day. The event, a component of the Mayor's NOLA FOR LIFE comprehensive murder reduction strategy, was held at Stallings Gentilly Playground and motivated citizens to join efforts geared toward revitalizing neighborhoods in high crime areas.
Watch Video: Mayor Landrieu welcomes volunteers to NOLA FOR LIFE Day
"Today marks the seventh time that residents, volunteers, and community partners have come together to improve the quality of life for our families and our children through NOLA FOR LIFE Days," said Mayor Mitch Landrieu. "Public safety is our number one priority so we're staying the course to create safe communities across the city. I'm thankful for everyone who rolled up their sleeves today and helped to make a difference in this community."
View Pictures: NOLA FOR LIFE Day at Stallings Gentilly
City Council President Stacy Head said, "A comprehensive approach to public safety includes building safe and vibrant communities and engaging with our neighbors. NOLA FOR LIFE days are a vehicle for achieving these goals. I am appreciative of the involvement and work done by the many volunteers who give their time for the sake of our city and I look forward to many more of these productive community events."
Volunteers canvassed the surrounding area and installed 250 energy efficient light bulbs in 16 homes with Green Light New Orleans, collected 200 pounds of garbage, painted the Stallings Gentilly playground pool house, concession stand, front gate and columns with Rebuilding Together New Orleans, painted eight light poles and built five trashcan holders. Hike for KaTREEna distributed nearly 100 trees. In addition, volunteers donated 10 units of blood at the Blood Center's mobile unit.
NOLA FOR LIFE Day also included a resource fair at the park with representatives from over 20 City and partner agencies available to share and discuss beneficial information with the public. Additional partners included Coca Cola.
In addition to the volunteers' work, the effort included blight eradication and beautification efforts from City departments including Public Works, Parks & Parkways, Sanitation, New Orleans Recreation Development Commission (NORDC), Code Enforcement, New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA), the Sewerage & Water Board and the Neighborhood Engagement Office. In all, the City removed debris, including tires, trash and furniture from 10 properties, repaired two damaged fire hydrants and four meter leaks, treated 10 storm drains, grinded five tree stumps, trimmed eight trees, collected litter, mowed six lawns, repaired 555 potholes and 17 sinks, cleaned 64 catch basins, installed 11 new street signs and repaired 13 signs and 38 streetlights.
About NOLA FOR LIFE
Launched in May 2012, NOLA FOR LIFE is New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's comprehensive murder reduction strategy to tackle the city's historically high murder rate. Recognizing that law enforcement alone cannot solve the murder problem, NOLA FOR LIFE takes a holistic approach to get to the root of the problem, and implements initiatives in five main categories: Stop the Shooting, Invest in Prevention, Promote Jobs and Opportunity, Strengthen the NOPD and Get Involved and Rebuild Neighborhoods. For more information, visit www.nolaforlife.org and tune in to NOLA FOR LIFE original programming 24/7 on Cox Cable Channel 99.
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The science of biology has things it can't explain
Though it's "Science has the answers!" as the boast.
You can search the latest journals, but you'll find you search in vain
For the transubstantiation of the host!
The biologists won't touch it; it's a truth they'll never find—
They refuse to even look for their solution
It shows that there are answers of a different, better kind…
And it clearly puts the lie to evolution.
So, yeah, I was looking through my aggregator's suggestions, and found a blog I'd never heard of before, but which I clearly should have, a conservative political/religious blog by "Archbishop Cranmer" (roughly a Church of England version of Rush Limbaugh, in terms of political spectrum and self-importance). Today, he was grousing about Richard Dawkins. But my verse is actually prompted by one of the comments there, which takes Dawkins to task for the inadequacy of his scientific world view (excerpt):
But can he explain consciousness? Well, no he can't.
Can he explain conscience? No he can't.
Can he explain the existence of morality? No, he can't.
Can he explain irreducible complexity? No, he can't.
Can he explain the connection between the brain and the mind? No, he can't.
Can he tell me what a thought is? No, he can't.
Can he explain the mathematical impossibility of the formation of so much as even one protein molecule of RNA? No, he can't.
Can he explain the uncaused cause for existence? No, he can't.
Can he find any purpose or meaning in the existence of man external to man's own individual desires? No, he can't.
Can he even so much as show me the data that validates the models upon which he bases so many of his conclusions? No, he can't. He has no data.
I suspect he also can't tell how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Now, I have a couple of immediate reactions to this comment–the first is, most of these are difficult to answer only because they are phrased so poorly. They are framed in dualistic terms, so the scientific work that goes into investigating the related phenomena will be rejected for answering a different question. Secondly… it doesn't seem to bother the commenter that his own world view is likewise unable to answer the questions. "Goddiddit" is as close as they come.
Sometimes, the inability of science to answer a question is simply evidence that it's a bad question.


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'Glee' Producers Say the Show Will Go On Without Cory Monteith
While the world mourns Cory Monteith, 'Glee' fans will also mourn the loss of his character, Finn, on the hit Fox series.
Seeing as Finn was a key player in 'Glee' plotlines, what's going to happen to the show in light of Monteith's untimely passing?
The writers are working on just that.
TMZ reports that the 'Glee' team had an emergency writers' meeting to try to salvage the show in light of losing one of its main characters without warning.
An insider, who sounded a lot like a Fox PR mouthpiece, told the site, "The producers and writers are taking time to meet and figure out how to best address this situation in the context of 'Glee.' No decision has been reached about a script yet, as it's still early."
The show is expected to pay tribute to Monteith in some way, though details are still being worked out — and no, it won't be cancelled because of his death.
Sources explained, "'Glee' is definitely not canceled. If you look at the dollars and cents of the show and that it was very much an ensemble with new kids being added last year when some graduated. It's clear that the show wasn't about one character."


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Recent studies suggest that drinking coffee could protect against type 2 diabetes and obesity, which led researchers to look for the constituents in coffee that might be responsible for these effects. They discovered that coffee contains something called chlorogenic acid, a substance that seems to influence glucose and fat metabolism. Unroasted—or green—coffee beans contain substantially more chlorogenic acid than roasted beans do.
To test the effects of a standardized green coffee extract on weight loss, 16 overweight people (average age 33 years) took high dose (1,050 mg per day) green coffee extract, low dose (700 mg per day) green coffee extract, and placebo, each separately for six weeks, with a two-week break between phases. The participants didn't change their diets during the trial. Body weight, BMI (body mass index), and percent body fat were measured before, during, and after each period of the study.
Both dosages of green coffee extract led to significant reductions in percent body fat, body weight, and BMI. Percent body fat also decreased significantly with placebo, but body weight and BMI remained unchanged. While taking green coffee bean extract, the people lost an average of almost 18 pounds and 4.4% of their body fat. What's more, 88% of the people maintained their weight loss four months later. No side effects related to the treatment were reported.
"The results suggest that green coffee extract may be an effective nutraceutical in reducing weight in preobese adults, and may be an inexpensive means of preventing obesity in overweight adults," concluded the researchers.
The results of this small study were impressive but need to be reproduced in larger trials before solid recommendations can be made about taking green coffee bean extract for weight loss. Doctors who specialize in weight loss agree that lasting results can only be achieved when you make permanent lifestyle changes that include eating less and moving more. Each positive step that you take adds up to help you meet and maintain your weight loss goals.
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DETROIT - The Fennville High School boys basketball team won another game days after its star player died.
One day after teammate Wes Leonard's funeral, Fennville beat Bangor High School 79-50 Wednesday evening to advance to the Michigan Class C district final.
Leonard died March 3, minutes after hitting the game-winning shot for Fennville. Doctors confirmed he died from cardiac arrest due to an enlarged heart.
Fennville will play in the district championship Friday.
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The Christmas pajamas are done! I'm so excited to share them with you today, and so grateful to Amy of Peek a Boo Pattern Shop for letting me join in on her 2012 Holiday Tour.
Every year my mom and I make Christmas pajamas for all of the grandkids. I told my mom last year that I wanted to do traditional flannel PJs in 2012. I think she thought I was nuts, but my mom has a hard time saying no. We used the Sweet Dreams Button Up PJ Set from Peek a Boo Patterns and they're awesome!
When you're making ten of anything, especially something with multiple steps and needing it in multiple sizes, you need a good pattern. The Sweet Dreams PJ is a great pattern. The instructions are clear and easy to follow with enough pictures to walk you through without having to rely solely on text, which is important to me and my visual brain. The pattern has all the details-collar, piping, cuffs-that we wanted. My mom's favorite thing about the pattern was the option of making the girls' cuffs ruffled. The ratio of boys to girls in the grandkids is 7:3, so it's fun to add something feminine with the girls' PJs.
My only complaint is that the collar facings keep working their way up, so I need to go back and understitch. But other than that, we had no issues at all. And with it ranging in size from 3 months to child's 12, we were able to use the one pattern to make all ten pairs, with just a couple of adjustments to the biggest and the smallest of the group.
We printed one pattern, and just worked from the largest down when we were cutting, trimming the pattern as we went. We did increase the pant rise, and leg and arm lengths for my oldest nephew, based on his measurements. But he's skinny, so that's all we had to change for him. And then for the four-month old, we extended the PJ top down past his feet, closed up the bottom, and made him a sleep sack.
We set up shop assembly-line style and finished everything in three days. In fact, it proved infinitely harder to photograph ten PJd kids than it was to sew for them.
To this, all from one pattern!
One Sweet Dreams Pattern, 24 yards of fabric, 40 yards of piping, 54 buttons (and their respective holes), ten kids
Don't forget to check out the rest of the stops, and all the great patterns on the tour!


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European Union (EU) is a little bit upset with the United States federal
government after it caught wind of a possible plan to swipe EU citizens'
private data from cloud service providers, in violation of EU laws. And
the U.S. government can blame software giant Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
for letting the secret out of the bag.
I. PATRIOT Act: Policing the World
People often get caught up in possible domestic spying issues of the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate
Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001"
(USA PATRIOT Act of 2001) as it authorizes the gathering of "foreign
intelligence information" from U.S. citizens.
But the bill, which was renewed for four years by President Barack Obama in
2011, is primarily aimed at gathering intelligence from foreign nations.
In that regard, much of its authorizations deal with "spying"
on foreign nations -- not solely U.S. citizens.
With citizens in the U.S. and Europe increasingly using "the cloud"
-- services from companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google Inc. (GOOG),
and Apple, Inc. (AAPL)
-- the question becomes how secure these resources are.
While the U.S. does not guarantee the privacy of its citizens online, the EU
has a law titled the Data Protection Directive, which mandates that the EU protect
the privacy of its citizens. The Directive demands that citizens be
informed any time private data is obtained. The problem is that mandate
does little to stop the U.S. from secretly seizing cloud data in the name of
the PATRIOT Act according to warnings from Microsoft and top lawyers.
II. Our Laws Are Greater Than Yours
Microsoft warns that under the PATRIOT Act, it might not only be forced to hand
over EU citizens' data; it might also be forced to do so secretly, without
informing the EU. This would directly violate the privacy protections the
EU promises to enforce.
The company writes, "In a limited number of circumstances, Microsoft may
need to disclose data without your prior consent, including as needed to
satisfy legal requirements, or to protect the rights or property of
Sophia In't Veld (Netherlands)
an EU parliamentarian, voiced outrage at the prospect, stating, "Does the
Commission consider that the U.S. PATRIOT Act thus effectively overrules the
E.U. Directive on Data Protection? What will the Commission do to remedy this
situation, and ensure that E.U. data protection rules can be effectively
enforced and that third country legislation does not take precedence over E.U.
"I hope Commissioner Reding will respond soon, as this is really a key
issue. Essentially what is at stake is whether Europe can enforce its own laws
in its own territory, or if the laws of a third country prevail. I hope the
Commissioner will ensure that the U.S. and other countries respect E.U. laws in
E.U. territory. I don't think the U.S. would be amused if Europeans (or other
non-U.S. authorities) were to get access to databases located within U.S.
The EU and the U.S. already have an agreement called Safe Harbor, which allows
for the sharing of data under certain restrictions such as the promise of
reasonable data security, and clearly defined and effective enforcement.
In these cases the EU is informed of the request, so it can inform the
affected citizens about it.
The problem is that the PATRIOT Act offers a far easier secret backdoor to the
same information. And there's little the EU can do to stop it.
Theo Bosboom, IT lawyer with Dirkzager Lawyers comments, "I'm afraid that
Safe Harbor has very little value anymore, since it came out that it might be
possible that U.S. companies that offer to keep data in a European cloud are
still obliged to allow the U.S. government access to these data on basis of the
PATRIOT Act. Europeans would be better to keep their data in Europe. If a
European contract partner for a European cloud solution, offers the guarantee
that data stays within the European Union, that is without a doubt the best
choice, legally."
That could spell big trouble for companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft,
and Apple should the EU decide to apply restrictions or mandates to their
services in order to protect its citizens' privacy from foreign powers.
Such restrictions could for the companies to switch to local, isolated
serving to prevent the U.S. from having access to the data. However, such
schemes would be pricey to implement.
III. Does U.S. Privacy Bill Provide an Answer?
One potential solution may lie with the pending online privacy protection legislation proposed
by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.).
The bill has received much resistance from the online data mining and
advertising community, as it suggests the creation of a mandatory opt-out of
data gathering. Such an opt-out could be cost-prohibitive for smaller
sites and could seriously undermine online advertising's profitability.
The bill could also make it harder to use the PATRIOT Act to grab information
without public notification.
States EU Data Protection Commissioner Viviane Reding, "I welcome a draft
Bill of Rights just introduced in the U.S. Congress as a bipartisan initiative
of Democrats and Republicans. The Commission also shares the main objective of
the Bill: strengthening individuals' trust in new technologies through
compatible standards."
A compromise may be reached, but it's doubtful this will be the last we hear of
this controversy.


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Royals replay: Shields, Hoz power DH sweep
DETROIT -- Now this is twice as good.
The Royals, after losing the opener of their crucial five-game series against Detroit, bounced back in a doubleheader on Friday and completed a sweep as James Shields engineered a 3-0 victory over the Tigers in the nightcap. The Royals won the afternoon game, 2-1.Full Game Coverage
DETROIT -- Now this is twice as good.
The Royals, after losing the opener of their crucial five-game series against Detroit, bounced back in a doubleheader on Friday and completed a sweep as James Shields engineered a 3-0 victory over the Tigers in the nightcap. The Royals won the afternoon game, 2-1.Full Game Coverage
And if you're counting, that's a total of one run in two games against a Detroit team that was leading the American League in scoring and batting average.
"It was a great day's work by our pitching staff -- everybody, from our bullpen guys to our starters," manager Ned Yost said. "You play 18 innings against a team like that and give up one run, somebody's doing something pretty special out on that mound."
Shields pitched seven shutout innings and Eric Hosmer belted his second home run of the day to disappoint most of the 40,980 fans who packed Comerica Park on a fine 76-degree evening.
The double victory pulled the Royals back to 6½ games behind the first-place Tigers in the American League Central. They were 4½ out in the Wild Card race pending Oakland's outcome on the West Coast.
Hosmer unloaded his 14th homer in the third inning to put the Royals ahead, 2-0. Tigers starter Jose Alvarez, called up from the Toledo Mud Hens for the occasion, issued a two-out walk to Jamey Carroll. Hosmer sent a 1-1 changeup soaring deep into the right-field seats.
"I think this kid has got a chance to be a great player," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "And it looks to me right now that he's swinging the bat as good as anybody they've got. I don't really feel comfortable walking him to get to Billy Butler, but if you watched him swinging these two games, I thought he was probably swinging the best on the club -- not only a threat to get a base hit, but to hit a home run. And he got two today."
Almost immediately, however, Shields slipped into the danger zone. In the bottom of the third, he walked leadoff man Austin Jackson and gave up a single to Torii Hunter. At least he had a two-run lead to comfort him.
"That's huge, especially with their lineup and who was up -- you had Miggy [Cabrera] and you have [Prince] Fielder right behind him and Victor [Martinez]," Shields said. "Those are three of the best hitters in the big leagues and if you get out of situations like that, you're going to have a good night."
That's exactly what Shields did.
Cabrera, who leads the solar system in hitting, tapped back to Shields while the runners moved up. But, with the potential tying runs in scoring position, Shields got Fielder and Martinez to fly out harmlessly.
"That's one of the biggest innings in baseball -- when you score and you shut the other team down the next inning," Hosmer said. "With Shields on the mound with a lead like that, it's a comfortable feeling."
Those three outs started Shields on a roll; he retired 15 of 17 batters, allowing just a hit batter and a walk until he bowed out. He gave up just three hits along with four walks and, oddly enough, had just one strikeout.
That marked the first time that Shields had gone seven or more innings with just one strikeout since way back on Aug. 31, 2008, when he beat Baltimore, 10-4, for Tampa Bay.
"But this is a good-hitting team and they're not going to strike out that much," Shields said. "I think that one inning [the third] when I had Miggy up with first and second and no outs, that was a huge momentum shifter."
The Royals breathed a lot easier when they added an insurance run in the seventh, courtesy of reliever Jeremy Bonderman. Chris Getz led off with a looping single to center and, when Bonderman threw past first base on a pickoff try, Getz advanced to third on the error.
Carroll's line-drive sacrifice fly to left field was just deep enough to get Getz home safely.
The Royals turned to reliever Luke Hochevar in the eighth and he delivered a perfect inning, retiring Hunter, Cabrera and Fielder. If the Royals had added a fourth run in the ninth, Hochevar would have returned to pitch the ninth.
But they didn't, a save situation was in order and Yost waved in closer Greg Holland, who had also saved the first game.
"You always worry about him, but he had a pretty quick first game," Yost said. "And then his first pitch was 97 [mph] and that's when I just sat back and said he's going to be fine."
Fine although not perfect. Martinez opened the Tigers' ninth with a single, but Andy Dirks looked at strike three and Brayan Pena rapped into a double play. It was Holland's second save of the day and his 34th this season, including the last 27 in succession.
Game over, a sweep and the one run allowed by the Royals was the fewest in a two-game day since Aug. 13, 1991, when they swept the Yankees in New York, 5-0 and 8-1.
"This was a big day for us," Yost said. "We wanted to come in here and compete with these guys. I thought we did it last night even though we didn't win and I thought we did it to a real good degree this afternoon and tonight."
The Royals lost Thursday night's opener, 4-1.
"We had a tough loss yesterday and to come back and win two, I think shows a lot of character in our team," Shields said. "We're not quitters, we're never going to quit, we're going to fight to the end."


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Line up! Line up! It's half-time, and the ladies' queue is as long as ever
Want to know my push-button issue? I'm sick of keeping the matter behind closed doors.
THERE is one thing that is guaranteed to make me grumpy (actually, there are many things that have that effect, but allow me the rhetorical flourish): it is the fact that architects still do not appear to understand that women go to the toilet differently from men.
Go to any public event - cinema, theatre, concert, sporting event, whatever - and take a look at the ladies and gents at interval. The queue will be for the ladies. Often, it seems the same number of cubicles are allocated to the ladies as the gents, even if the gents also has urinals.
No doubt there are cost implications regarding the allocation of space, but guys (and most architects, engineers and developers are still guys), your female patrons are not happy. It is no fun at all to watch the blokes enjoying a drink in the interval while we stand (or hop, from foot to foot) in a never-ending queue for the loo.
When my daughters were small I always got my husband to take them to the gents when we attended a public event. We dealt with far fewer wet knickers as a consequence.
Given how much a part of daily life toilets are (we go between four and 12 times a day, depending on how much we drink, how old we are, whether we are pregnant), it is funny how little we talk about them. Perhaps this is because one of the definitions of civilisation is how far we can separate ourselves from our own waste.
Call me juvenile, but like many people, I still find scatological humour absolutely hilarious. We tend to laugh at things that shock us a bit, that break social rules, so it seems the loo is still taboo.
Some people still feel very shy doing their business in a public convenience. I had a friend who always filled the bowl with toilet paper so no one in the next cubicle could hear any embarrassing noises. There is also a lovely story (probably apocryphal) about Marilyn Monroe having dinner with husband-to-be Arthur Miller's working-class parents in their humble New York flat. The loo was right next to the dining table, separated by only a thin wall through which everything could be heard.
When Marilyn finally had to go, she first turned the taps on in the bathroom hard so they would muffle any sound she made. When it came time for Arthur and Marilyn to leave, Arthur took his mother aside and asked her what she thought of his bride-to-be.
''She's a lovely girl, Arthur,'' Mrs Miller said, ''but she pees like a horse.''
Perhaps our inhibitions begin at school. One of my earliest memories is of the forbidding and freezing stone toilet block at the village school I attended as a five-year-old in Britain. In my memory, the cubicles were immensely tall (I had considerable trouble reaching the chain) and their high ceilings were wreathed in ornate spiderwebs. Indeed, we kindy kids used to soothe our fears of these Victorian-era toilets by drawing daddy-long-legs on our slates (yes, I know, I can't quite believe it either, 1962 and we were still using slates). A chalk dot in the middle, then huge, spindly lines out to the wooden frame for the long, nightmarish legs. The pictures we drew remain vivid in my mind, testament perhaps to just how terrified we were.
This is not uncommon. Doctors will testify to the actual physical harm many small children cause themselves by actively holding on for fear of the humiliation and vulnerability that awaits them in the school toilets.
Newer primary schools are finally being designed with toilets scattered between classrooms, so little kids don't have to march terrified into the anarchic, smelly, neglected space that is too often the school toilet block and, sometimes, the seniors' smoking room.
Mind you, there is the other extreme. Toilets in some public spaces have completely jumped the shark. There was a Twitter kerfuffle recently about some expensive urinals that were installed in a nightclub. Created by an avant-garde female German designer, the bowl of the urinal was designed to look like an open, lipsticked mouth. The outcry was loud and immediate as women declared the urinals sexist.
The club owners tried to argue they were not necessarily gender-specific, but unless they all represented Mick Jagger their argument didn't - ahem - hold much water. They were removed, with apologies, within days.
The desire of nightclubs to have groovy loos may well have gone too far. My daughters tell me of a club with unisex toilets in which the glass cubicles are clear until you enter, when they frost up. This makes many female patrons nervous. The girls have solved it by going in pairs, with one standing in front of the glass partition while the other goes.
And don't get me started on the loos that flush themselves. Startled cries of victims of a premature flush are more than enough to make me grit my teeth and cross my legs.
But it is perhaps with taps that designers have lost their heads completely. How often do you go into a venue's bathroom now and spend longer trying to get water to flow from a tap than you could imagine possible? I've waved my hands in front of sensors that turn out to be soap dispensers, searched vainly for any likely looking button only to discover it on the floor and, once, a cunningly hidden lever you were supposed to push with your knee! Who knew?
I suppose it's fear of germs. Trouble is, making taps so complicated no one can turn them on may lead to us failing to wash our hands at all.
■Jane Caro is a social commentator, writer and lecturer.
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Skip to comments.Rangel Censured by House for Ethics Violations
Posted on 12/02/2010 4:13:49 PM PST by ColdOne
The House on Thursday formally censured Rep. Charlie Rangel for financial misconduct despite pleas from the New York Democratic lawmaker and some of his colleagues for a less punishing reprimand.
The House voted to censure Rangel 333-79.
Rangel, who became the 23rd House member to be censured, appeared at the front of the chamber while Speaker Nancy Pelosi read the resolution.
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He gave control odf his electoral district over to Obama;s community organikzers in order to get off soft. The deals been cut. When Obama looses in 2012, the riots will start i Harlem and also in Maxine Waters riding.
Now Obama has ffree reign to do his fascists thang in both Watts and Tamminy Hall.Just like he did in Kenya,in 2007.Only this time , unlike his predecessors, Obama won't call out the national guard in LA and New York.
If I lived in those 2 cities, I would be ammo-ing up big time.(Then when citizens defend themselves , the left will try to end our 2nd amendment, after martial law is declared.)
You may be incredulous, but please, get with it. Its the Alinski way.
And so Rangel gets a slap on the wrist. If he did not give in to Obama, he would be in jail, and the son of his former rival would be occupyinng his seat in Congress.
This is the way fascism works folks. The deal has been struck.Both Watts and Harlem are about to be "radicalized."And then they will be used as an excuse to lock down the nation.
Did Chuckles even serve in Korea, or is that a fabrication as well?
Yes, and our non-profit, donations at the door, orchestra was fined $3000 for calling a guy who helps set up chairs a 'contractor' rather than an 'employee.'
Some animals are definitely better than others. When our fine-letter came, I should have said, "Charlie R will pay it."
Roscoe does it again! LOL! (Lootie Out Loud.)
Just thinking the same thing.
I'm sure I saw that 2 of the 79 members voting against censure were republican votes...I know one was Peter King of NY...do you happen to know who the other was?
Yeah, but Wesley wasn't in Selma.
That sucks.
Little people don't stand a chance. Getting worse all the time.
Now I have to look up the difference between a contractor and an employee.
It's sickening to watch the media keep treating Rangel like a victim even after the censure vote.
If I ever get caught doing that many things wrong, I'll ask the judge for "censure". Surely he'll see that censure would be far worse than an eight year term in Club Fed.
I can't see how he can live with himself now when he is feeling like people are treating him like a common criminal.
There has to be a better way for those who serve selflessly for so long just for the betterment of the people.
But didn't he win 5 or 6 Medals of Honor in the Civil War or something?
The COMMUNIST from SF, who has been 2 heartbeats away from POTUS for the last 4 years, and is single handedly responsible for the theft of TRILLIONS from REAL AMERICANS.
THE BEAST, who walked through the streets of the US Capitol.
with her fellow reds brandishing the SOTH gavel as if it were a ROMAN FASCES in celebration of their assault on the US medical industry.
Is now going to hang POOR OLD CHARLIE BLACK MAN OUT TO DRY, because he just isn't a big enough socialist crook to keep his big black ass out of the fire.
Har!, hope Pelosi enjoys Hitler and Saddam Husseins company in hell, looking forward to pissing on her grave, the sooner the better.
Censured and then what?
1) Does he pay the back taxes that he owes?
2) Does he pay a fine for mis-using his rent controlled apartments for political purposes?
3) Will he still be helping to write our tax laws?
If the answers are NO, NO and YES to the above, Censure is nothing but a lot of meaningless saliva.
I won't mind simply being censured by the IRS if I don' pay my taxes.
...and he won re-election.... What a sordid mess.
Wow. I'm really surprised! Only the 23rd? 24th? guy in HISTORY to be rebuked in this way by his peers?
Well, he'll EASILY be re-elected, LOL!
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Paper ballots for the Atkins In precinct, for those who live in the city limits, ran out before 3 p.m. Tuesday inside the civic center. Residents stood in line for at least 45 minutes to vote on two machines as the line grew larger and the wait grew longer.
Voter Debbie Staggs told The Courier one machine broke down, and a member of the Pope County Election Commission came to fix it and apologized to those who were waiting in line. Ballots in some other precincts ran out before 6 p.m.
"The only ballots they have are for Pea Ridge, and there's only two machines for the entire town of Atkins," Staggs said. "People are leaving because they can't stand for more than an hour. This is so disorganized."
Pool workers apologized to voters and told them they would be allowed to vote, even if they were still standing in line when polls were scheduled to close at 7:30 p.m.
The Courier contacted commissioners before 4 p.m. and they said they were aware of the situation and that other precincts were experiencing the same issues.
Election Coordinator Sherry Polsgrove said 17,625 paper ballots were ordered to accommodate Pope County's 33,608 voters. The paper ballots were used for absentee, early and election day voters.
"This has happened in the past," she said. "What the commissioners do is they determine the number of ballots to order weeks before the election ... They have to use numbers to go by based on the last comparable year. So it's a shot in the dark."
Pope County allows its voters to use paper or electronic voting methods, despite a trend other counties have followed that only allows voters to use the electronic Ivotronic machine, Polsgrove said.
Polsgrove added that while some precincts ran out of paper ballots, voters could still cast their votes with the electronic machines. She added that while questions were raised about the number of electronic machines distributed to the polling locations, the county only has 29 voting machines, some of which could be used only for early voting.
"The polling locations with the most voters have more than one Ivotronic machine," she said. "We tried to order enough ballots, but we didn't order enough ballots. A few months ago when they were planning this election they didn't they figure we'd have this big of a turnout."


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Lent is underway and St. Martin In The Fields has several special services on the calendar.
Every Friday St. Martin's will have a Holy Eucharist service followed by the Stations of the Cross service. This service begins at 7:00pm.
A fish dinner is scheduled on Friday, April 11. The menu includes fresh fish, French fries, coleslaw, and homemade cake. The price is $10 for ages 12 and over, $5 for ages 5 to 11, and children under 5 are free. St. Martin's famous Welsh Cookies will also be for sale.
During Holy Week there will be several special services.
The first will be Maundy Thursday at 7:00 pm, April 17th. At the end of this Holy Eucharist service we will strip and wash the altar. The vestments for this service are white.
On Good Friday at 7:00 pm, April 18th, there will be a Holy Eucharist service. The vestments for this service are black.
On Easter Sunday, the Sunday of Resurrection, the Holy Eucharist will be at 10am.
St. Martin in the fields is located at 3083 Church Rd., Mountaintop.


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Donald Trump's comments Tuesday suggesting that "2nd Amendment people" could stop Hillary Clinton from making judicial nominations sparked outrage from opponents — but the campaign defended the remarks by arguing that Trump was referring to the group's considerable political power.
"Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment," Trump said during a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, NBC News reported.
"By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."
The Clinton campaign and other Trump opponents rejected the Trump campaign's explanation — that he was referring to the power gun rights advocates have at the voting booth — and blamed the GOP nominee for implying violence is a possible means of preventing Clinton from appointing judges if she is elected president.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren was one of many who took to social media to react:


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This made the rounds back in 2009. I never felt it was done properly. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. It's like a magic eye without forcing yourself to go cross-eyed just to see some stupid sailboat.Please, blog, may I have some more?
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There I was: settled in for a long evening of basketball-related entertainment, when all of a sudden my Twitter and my Tumblr and my Facebooks erupted alerting me to not only the announcement of the new Springsteen album in March, but that the first single was already here.Please, blog, may I have some more?
Monta Ellis played 32 minutes. The rest was spent nursing his broke-ass face that became broke after Anderson Varejao elbowed it into a million pieces. It was heinous. I puked a little. Babies were crying in the distance. Grandma said a prayer.Please, blog, may I have some more?
IŌĆÖm just gonna say this, and then IŌĆÖm gonna stand by it: I'm almost positive that whenever anyone thinks of the Gustavos of the NBA, Gustavo Ayon's name will be mentioned. Sit on that, Potsie. 8/5/2, with 2 stl and 2 blk as Monty Williams has been leaving some slack in the leash for this guy in the last three games.Please, blog, may I have some more?
Mike Miller is set to to make his season debut with the Heat today, which is particularly fortuitous (if I may use that term on a family blog) as the news makes the rounds of Dwyane Wade likely missing more games has resulted in thousands of monkey-punches to the groins of thousands of fantasy basketball teams.Please, blog, may I have some more?
The most recent week of fantasy basketball felt like every scene in the movie "300." Except that Dwight Howard wears more armor, LeBron is more ripped and the losers wear fewer facial jewelry than Xerxes. (I'm pretty sure that's true, right?Please, blog, may I have some more?
Upon occasion – especially while watching the Wizards – I think to myself, "Self? You could do better than these guys, right? Sure, you're not as tall as most of these guys and you have trouble going to your left, you tend to get wheezy after just a couple laps up the court, your sweat makes people not want to talk to you, you choke on the gum you're chewing 3/4 of the possessions, and your on-court communication consists mostly of reciting lines from 'White Men Can't Jump,' but still, the Wizards are awful." Now I know you think it's weird that I address myself as Self, but if I didn't do that how would I know who I'm talking to?Please, blog, may I have some more?
Wade's out. Rip's out. Stuckey's out. Tyrus is out (again). Thornton My Side was out. Lawson is day-to-day. Hawes slammed his back and left after 10 minutes last night. Curry remains out. Beasley's status was downgraded. Granger went from missing time due to food poisoning to foot poisoning,┬Ā marking the first typo-related injury in NBA history.Please, blog, may I have some more?
James Johnson scored only 5 pts, but grabbed 5 boards, blocked five shot, made 2-of-3 from the floor and sank a three. This is why he's valuable. Skip the scoring. It's not there. Won't happen. Ignore it. Grab him anyway. Of all the secondary players that are still mostly available in fantasy leagues (>25 percent owned), Johnson is the player that really shouldnŌĆÖt be unowned the most.Please, blog, may I have some more?
The fact that Ricky Rubio still isn't the starting point guard of the Minnesota Timberwolves is only batshizz crazy until you dump water over your head and remind yourself that this is the Minnesota squadron that couldn't find a regular spot in the starting rotation for Kevin Love in his first two seasons, despite him never having a PER under 18 at any point during that time.Please, blog, may I have some more?


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Westcott is a nationally certified interpreter and works for the Sign Language Interpreters Network (SLIN) and Z-Video Relay Services (ZVRS).
Through her work at SLIN, Westcott travels the state interpreting at community events, medical conferences, educational functions and really anywhere there is a need for her services. she explained.
At ZVRS, she helps the deaf communicate via the phone.
Westcott said in the past, members of the deaf community used a TTY, a special device that allowed people who are deaf communicate by allowing them to type messages to one another, to talk via the telephone.
Each party needed a TTY to communicate.
ZVRS is the name of the video relay service provided by The Z, which allows people to community with a real-time video connection.
Westcott provides interpretation that allows a deaf person to communicate with anyone, even someone or a company that doesn't have the service.
It's similar to three-way or conference calling, only Westcott interprets what she sees and hears instead of joining the conversation.
Westcott became a state-qualified interpreter 19 years ago after developing a passion for the deaf community at a young age.
Her story of how she became fascinated with sign language is unusual. It all began with a family trip to the zoo when Westcott was 7.
"A deaf lady came up to our family and began signing," Westcott recalled. "No one knew how to sign and it was an awkward moment. I remembered two words from Sesame Street and I signed them to her. Her face lit up. That's the moment I knew I wanted to learn more about sign language."
The two words Westcott remembered were Thank You and Ketchup!
Westcott bought her first sign book at the age of 14 and when she was 17, she became friends with a deaf person her age.
"I became involved with the deaf community and they taught me to sign," Westcott said. "I started my basic college courses in Harrison, but they didn't have sign classes at the time."
She was able to become certified through alternative path way, which involved rigorous testing and took her work experiences and classes into account for certification.
Westcott, her husband and two sons moved to Russellville and she began interpreting in church.
While she still lived in Harrison, she began a deaf ministry at her church.
Currently, Westcott serves a deaf ministry at First United Methodist Church in Russellville.
She interprets the early morning church service, including songs and sermon, for Bobbye Taurone of Dover.
Westcott began attending FUMC last year and just recently began interpreting for Taurone four or five months ago.
"It's a tremendous help for me," Taurone said.
Westcott said there are several other churches in Russellvlle that offer a deaf ministry including Grace Baptist Church and Russellville First Assembly of God Church.
Westsott said that the deaf population are often times isolated, particularly when it comes to church.
"The latest figures I read said that only two percent of deaf people are Christian," Westcott said. "I've had someone tell me that God is not for deaf people because the Gospel so often refers to hearing Jesus calling, or when God knocks on your door, you have to answer it. Deaf ministries at church help to overcome that."
Westcott looks as if she herself is performing a liturgical dance with her hands as she interprets the sermons and the hymns. For Taurone, Westcott signs and vocalizes. She said she customizes her services based on the client's needs.
Westcott said being a nationally certified interpreter is her passion and that bridging the gap to bring about equality for the deaf people is her number one priority.
"I'm glad God has given me the ability to interpret and that I can use that ability in a service to him," Westcott saqid.
"Equal access for the deaf is my number one goal. Arkansas is one of the few states that doesn't recognize sign language as a foreign language credit. I hope I see that change very soon."


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Clarkson University Science Cafe Returns to Downtown Potsdam Feb. 3
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Scientists, an economist and a cardiologist will take the stage starting February 3 at Jack & Wezzie's Coffee House in Potsdam for the "Science Cafe."
Science Cafes bring together university faculty and townspeople in a relaxed, informal setting, such as coffeehouses and pubs. The speaker makes a short presentation about a topic in his or her field, and then opens up the floor to discussion.
Each Science Cafe will take place at 7:30 p.m. on February 3 and 24, March 10 and 24, and April 21.
Here's a rundown of the topics and speakers:
February 3: The Rise and Fall of Cryptography
Cryptography is the science of designing secret, unbreakable messages. The craft of cryptography has existed since the times of Caesar and has appeared in classic literary works such as Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug." In the past 40 years, cryptography has been revolutionized in the computer age by the invention of public-key cryptography. Everyone knows how to multiply integers, but it is surprising that undoing this simplest of operations is the foundation of modern cryptography. Join Clarkson University Professor of Computer Science Tino Tamon as he outlines the story behind the rise and fall of public-key cryptography, from the unexpected power of number theory to the potential attacks of quantum machines.
February 24: The Games We Play
How can a politician run a campaign to win an election? Is the threat of nuclear war actually good for peace? How can we make our kids eat their veggies? These are some of the issues in life that require strategic thinking. Game theory involves the analysis of conflicts, cooperation and communication, and can be described as the science that studies the art of strategic thinking. By educating ourselves in the art of strategic thinking, we can learn to become more astute managers, negotiators, athletes, politicians, economists and even parents. Assistant Professor of Economic & Financial Studies Luciana Echazu, Clarkson University, will lead this exploration into basic concepts of game theory using several illustrations from political situations, personal experiences, movies and sports.
March 10: Calendars, Sunspots and Planning for 2013
In recent years, Hollywood and doomsday enthusiasts alike have posed the question, "Will the world end on December 21, 2012, as the Mayan calendar predicts?" According to some theorists, the winter solstice will line up with the line to the center of the galaxy, causing solar storms that will threaten our civilization, reversing the Earth's magnetic field and aligning the planets as the solar system plunges into the center of the galaxy. This talk, led by St. Lawrence University Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue, will investigate what astronomers really expect of 2012 in an attempt to convince you not to cash out your 401k for one last fling before it all ends.
March 24: Why Did the Turtle Cross the Road and Not Make it to the Other Side?
There is no spot in the continental U.S. that is more remote than 22 miles from a road. In fact, roads and road rights-of-ways cover a land area within the U.S. as large as the state of South Carolina. What are the major environmental impacts of roads and road traffic, and what can we do to reduce these impacts? Join Clarkson University Professor of Biology Tom Langen in a wide-ranging discussion about the field of road ecology and how biologists are working with transportation agencies to reduce the environmental harm caused by roads.
April 21: How Important are Trace Minerals?
You might have heard of the importance of trace minerals to our health and their role in such basic functions as normalizing the nervous system, stimulating growth, and maintenance and repair of tissues and bones. But what do trace minerals do specifically, how much do we need to consume for optimal health, and what is the proper way to guarantee their efficient absorption? Join Alexandru Stoian, cardiologist M.D., as he explains the workings and benefits of trace minerals, focusing on the specific cases of magnesium, zinc and selenium.
Find out more about Science Cafes in general at http://www.sciencecafes.org.
Find out more about Clarkson's Science Cafe at http://www.clarkson.edu/sciencecafe.
E-mail Daniel ben-Avraham at email@example.com with any comments, questions or suggestions for future Science Cafe topics.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in six alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo caption: Clarkson University Professor of Computer Science Tino Tamon will outline the story behind the rise and fall of public-key cryptography at the Science Cafe, February 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Jack & Wezzie's Coffeehouse in Potsdam.


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As the victim bicycled home from work, he was confronted by a suspect holding a black handgun who demanded the contents of his pockets, police said in a statement issued late Wednesday, July 25.
Fearing for his safety, the bicyclist complied, handing over a cell phone and a small amount of cash.
After taking the items the suspect fled on foot, leaving the bike path and heading on Encina Way toward El Camino Real, police said.
Police described the suspect as an African-American male "of average height," in his 20s wearing jeans and a black hooded sweatshirt.
The victim was not injured.
Police said they are actively investigating the crime and plan to issue a sketch of the suspect.
Officers are urging anyone with information to call a 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be emailed to email@example.com or sent by text or voicemail to 650-383-8984.
No settlement in high-speed-rail lawsuit
Efforts to settle a lawsuit filed against the California High-Speed Rail Authority failed nine days after they started because the agency insisted on a four-track system, according to the attorney representing three local cities in the suit.
"Suffice it to say the mediation was unsuccessful, and we're back on the litigation track," Stuart Flashman said Wednesday, July 25. He estimated the case will take at least a year now to resolve "one way or the other."
Menlo Park, Atherton and Palo Alto sued the authority over aspects of the Environmental Impact Report for the high-speed rail project, including projected ridership and the impact of various design scenarios on their cities.
Flashman said that one key obstacle to a settlement was the authority's insistence on a four-track system as recommended in the environmental analysis.
Even though the lawsuit is wending its way slowly through the courts, the actual project got a jump start on July 6 when state lawmakers approved funding for the first phase of the $68 billion project.
According to Flashman, the key funding vote for the Peninsula portion of the project is five to 10 years away.
"As most insiders know, the legislature's limitation on the use of funds in the initial appropriation is nothing but a smokescreen," he said. "Those funds won't be used on the Peninsula except for Caltrain electrification in any case."
He said the funding legislation does not permanently prohibit using high-speed rail funds for a four-track system along the Peninsula, despite statements to the contrary from legislators who voted for the bill.
Woman allegedly steals jewelry while man sleeps
A man who befriended a woman at Palo Alto's nonprofit Opportunity Center was robbed of $20,000 to $25,000 worth of jewelry as he slept, Palo Alto police said.
"It was basically a boy meets girl; boy invites girl into his room; boy falls asleep and girl takes jewelry" story, Sgt. Con Maloney said.
The resident told police he met the woman on Friday, July 20, at about 1:30 a.m. as he was returning to the center at 33 Encina Ave. The Opportunity Center provides comprehensive services to homeless and at-risk persons, including some residential housing.
The woman told the resident she was there to visit friends but could not get into the building. The man let her into the building, but when her friends did not answer their door, the man befriended her.
The victim allowed the woman to stay in his room and cooked dinner for her. He fell asleep at about 4 a.m., he told police. The man awoke around noon to find the woman was gone and so was the jewelry, which included gold chains, pendants, earrings and a collector's edition Rolex watch.
The woman is described as a 30- to 35-year-old African American with straight black hair, brown eyes and a slender build. She is 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 6 inches tall and between 115 to 125 pounds. She wore a long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans and carried a small white handbag.
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text: Have you been watching the ombre quilt series on Sewing With Nancy the last 3 weeks? Marvelous! I got to have some of that Ombre cloth. (I refuse to use the word, "F----c" on this QB any more, so from now on, it's "cloth".) What she used today for her Dresden Fan quilt made me drool, but I have to wait for it ... I can't find it anywhere, not even on her on-line catalog site. She does have some nice Ombre offered, but not that one she used today for the fans.