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WestConn's EdD program in Instructional Leadership is the only doctorate of its kind in Connecticut and is one of only 15 doctoral programs in the country to focus on instructional leadership. The dynamic curriculum prepares educators, such as teachers, curriculum specialists, counselors, school psychologists, and administrators to create innovative learning environments; to respond to reform at the national, state and local levels; and to transform educational organizations. Therefore, program experiences were designed to strengthen the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of Candidates as they lead educational reform efforts.
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Introduction to Zend Framework
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Internationalizing and localizing a site are fantastic ways to expand your audience and ensure that all visitors can get to the information they need. However, it often comes with a performance penalty. Below are some strategies you can employ to reduce the overhead of i18n and l10n.
Not all translation adapters are made equal. Some have more features than others, and some perform better than others. Additionally, you may have business requirements that force you to use a particular adapter. However, if you have a choice, which adapters are fastest?
Zend Framework ships with a variety of translation adapters. Fully half of them utilize an XML format, incurring memory and performance overhead. Fortunately, there are several adapters that utilize other formats that can be parsed much more quickly. In order of speed, from fastest to slowest, they are:
Array: this is the fastest, as it is, by definition, parsed into a native PHP format immediately on inclusion.
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the CSV adapter are roughly equivalent performance-wise.
Gettext: The gettext adapter from Zend Framework does not use the gettext extension as it is not thread safe and does not allow specifying more than one locale per server. As a result, it is slower than using the gettext extension directly, but, because the gettext format is binary, it's faster to parse than XML.
If high performance is one of your concerns, we suggest utilizing one of the above adapters.
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Zend_Translate and
implement caching functionality that can greatly affect
performance. In the case of each, the major bottleneck is
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Backpack of Holding
Now that's a handy haversack
- A proper Backpack of Holding for all your stuff
- Carry All The Things!
- Who doesn't need some non-dimensional space?
We've had a Backpack of Holding for a while now. It was basically our Bag of Holding with backpack straps. We were making do with what we had. You know, sort of like how you have your 10 ft. pole and your rope and you ask your GM if you can make a fishing pole out of that.
But in the background, our merchant who's obsessed with bags was busy deep in Dwarven caverns, forging a new, better Backpack of Holding.
Behold. The Backpack of Holding! (2.0. Or maybe 1.0, because the previous backpack was really the Bag of Holding 1.2.) (Moving on.) The first thing you'll notice is that it's an inch or two bigger all directions than your typical JanSport-style backpack. And, as anybody who understands geometry can tell you, an inch or two in each direction makes a world of difference in terms of volume. But wait. There's more. The top flap isn't just a flap. It's actually part of the bag, which means you can unfold it to get another half a foot of height out of the bag. And it's entirely useable in that format. It just doesn't seal, which means it's great for toting your rolled-up posters, your cosplay sword when you're not in character, or your Quidditch broom. Just be careful with those doorframes.
Product Specifications
- Brown canvas backpack, designed and made by ThinkGeek!
- Chrome d20 badge with "Backpack of Holding" proudly printed on the flap
- 2 3/4" wide shoulder straps with mesh back for wicking adjust from 19" to 36"
- Top handle for easy grab-and-go
- Flap doubles as top of bag & can be unfolded to bring bag up to 2 ft. tall
- Flap closes with 2 leather-reinforced, nylon quick-release buckles
- Snaps on side of flap keep it in check
- Edges of flap/bag reinforced with bias tape
- External Dimensions: 18" tall x 16" wide x 7" deep (24" tall with top of bag unfolded)
- Main compartment: 17 1/2" tall x 11" wide x 5" deep
- Padded tablet sleeve with hook and loop closure (inside main compartment): 12" tall x 10 1/2" wide x 1" deep (if you choose not to use the closure, this compartment could hold an object up to 17" tall in standard backpack formation or 23" tall with top of bag unfolded)
- Four pockets (inside main compartment) to hold pens, phone, lipbalm, etc. (no closure, for use only when top of bag is unfolded)
- 1 zippered front compartment: 9" wide x 6 1/2" tall x 1 1/2" deep
- 2 zippered side pockets: 4 1/2" wide x 7 3/4" high x 1 1/2" deep
- Reinforced bottom
- Materials: Canvas
- Water-resistant but not waterproof
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With one of the most anticipated films of the year, Ocean's 8, moments away from release, we're giddy with excitement at the Westfield offices. Our excitement's not just for the exhilarating storyline full of twists and turns, but also (and maybe more importantly) for the cameos and fashion moments set for the big screen. With everyone from our homegrown queen of style and class, Cate Blanchett, to Rihanna, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anne Hathaway and rom-com superstar Sandra Bullock making an appearance, we cannot wait for the immaculate styling to take place.
We've looked at the main stars and broken down their street-style looks, so you can ask yourself the most important question in preparation for the film: which Ocean's 8 star am I?
Effortlessly immaculate at every occasion from the red carpet to the school pick-up, Cate Blanchett never ceases to amaze. Pictured here in a leopard print statement jacket, the look is softened up with feline-shaped glasses and some classic-cut trousers.
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Pictured right, clockwise from top left: H&M jacket, Off-White X Sunglass Hut sunglasses, The Horse watch from Universal Store, Uniqlo t-shirt, Converse sneakers from Rebel Sport, Akin by Ginger & Smart pants from David Jones, Lancaster bag from David Jones.
America's sweetheart Anne Hathaway floats all the way across the screen to the street in what is always an immaculately feminine silhouette. Wearing a floaty chiffon dress here with a pop of colour, her waist is cinched with a statement belt and balanced out with a bold shoe and lip.
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Here, hilarious silver-screen queen Mindy Kaling wows in a bodycon dress accentuating her incredible curves. This feminine look is taken to new heights with sky-high sandals and a statement purse, finished off with a dark and sultry eye.
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Channelling rock-chick in this brave and bold pantsuit, Sandra Bullock showcases her androgynous and tailored day-to-day look, a noticeable change from her on-screen soft and lovable style.
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Drink the Book: 'Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes'
Author and ice cream enthusiast Adam Ried sees the milkshake as a blank canvas, a sweet and creamy medium to which all sorts of flavors and textures can be incorporated. In Ried's fabulous Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes he goes way beyond chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry with daring milkshake creations such as mocha-cardamom, raspberry-rose, and lemon-buttermilk. By blending in fresh fruit, herbs and spices, liqueurs, wines, and beer, Ried takes the milkshake out of the 1950s malt shop, reinventing it into something that's well, thoroughly modern.
With a background from his time at America's Test Kitchen Ried has done his homework when it comes to mixing up the best possible shakes. He's devised simple tricks for maximum milkshake deliciousness—classics like chocolate and strawberry are made with both ice cream and sorbet for ideal flavor and consistency and vanilla gets a boost from a few teaspoons of vanilla extract.
In Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes Ried has given a fair shake to to every milkshake variation out there. Custardy concretes and New England cabinets are discussed at length as well as frosty international treats like aguas frescas, lassis, and cholados.
This week we have our freezer stocked with ice cream and the blender ready to go for testing out recipes from Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes. We'll mix up a Stupendous Strawberry Shake that lives up to its name, bring shakes into the a.m. with a Maple-Bacon Shake, and blend a Cucumber-Honeydew Shake with Cucumber Granita perfect for early spring sipping.
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Sepultura Cancel 2013 North American Fall Tour Over Visa Issues
Sepultura had hoped to be spending the latter part of 2013 touring North America in support of their new album, but unfortunately that won't be the case as the band ran into issues getting their visa paperwork approved in time.
The Brazilian metal veterans just released their new disc, 'The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart,' which they recently completed with producers Ross Robinson and Steve Evetts at the helm. To coincide with the album release, the band had booked a tour but will now have to bow out.
In a statement on their Facebook page, they revealed their disappointment. Their posting reads as follows:
Due to the delay in obtaining a visa for the band to enter the United States, we regret to inform all fans that the previously announced North American tour is being cancelled. We apologize to the fans, promoters, and the bands who were going to be part of the 'Tsunami Of Metal' tour – UNEARTH, KATAKLYSM, SCAR THE MARTYR, ANCIIENTS, and DARK SERMON.
Fans who purchased advanced tickets will be entitled to a full refund.
Though it's little consolation, the band's album can be streamed via Metal Hammer through Nov. 1. In addition, album bundles are currently available at the Nuclear Blast webstore. At this point it is unknown when Sepultura will be able to hit the States for a makeup trek.


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Below is a comprehensive monthly review of the news and other media's coverage of CVE. A brief summary of each news item is listed with its title, author (if identified), date, and media source.
SCMagazine.com, December 29, 2008
CVE was mentioned in a December 29, 2008 article entitled "Microsoft denies vulnerability in Windows Media Player" on SCMagazine.com. The article quotes CVE Technical Lead Steve Christey and CVE Team Member Mark Loveless, who explain that the vulnerability causes Windows Media Player to crash, but is probably not exploitable: "There's always the potential in these types of situations, with this type of crash-that it could be it could be exploitable," Loveless said. But, the only impact of the vulnerability now is that users will have to restart their media player, Steve Christey, editor of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE), a dictionary maintained by MITRE that provides the common names for publicly known security vulnerabilities, told SCMagazineUS.com Monday. Over the past three or four years, there has been an increase in vulnerabilities in media players, Loveless said. The operating system itself is being locked down and is getting harder to break into, so hackers are moving toward desktop software. Since many of these applications can connect to the web, that erodes the defenses of a traditional firewall. "Most hackers will go for the lowest-hanging fruit," Loveless said. "Desktop applications these days are some of the lowest-hanging fruit."
MITRE Web Site, December 1, 2008
CVE was mentioned in a December 1, 2008 MITRE news release entitled "MITRE Releases New Security Software" about its new, open source "Recommendation Tracker" software that "facilitates development of automated security benchmarks." "System administrators use benchmarks — essentially a set of recommendations — to securely configure an operating system or software application and then set up automatic testing to ensure proper configuration."
CVE is mentioned when the release notes that Recommendation Tracker is "the latest tool developed by MITRE in the last 10 years to help the security community produce automated, standardized benchmarks" and that four MITRE-run information security data standards — CVE, CCE, CPE, and OVAL — are used in the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) to enable automated vulnerability management, measurement, and policy compliance evaluation.
Government Computer News, July 16, 2008
CVE was mentioned in a July 16, 2008 article entitled "Oracle releases critical updates" in Government Computer News about Oracle including CVE Identifiers in its quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) documentation. The author provides three examples of the patches along with their corresponding CVE IDs, and concludes the article with the following statement: "This quarterly patch cycle is the first to assign CVE Identifiers (CVE IDs) to vulnerabilities, according to Mitre, which oversees CVE management."
InternetNews.com, July 16, 2008
CVE was mentioned in a July 16, 2008 article entitled "Oracle Patches 45 Vulnerabilities" on InternetNews.com about Oracle including CVE Identifiers in its quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) documentation. The author states: "Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure, or CVE, is a standard approach to providing a common identifier for vulnerabilities. The CVE system is widely used by several technology vendors such as Microsoft … and Mozilla to identify security items." The article also includes a quote from a blog post from Eric Maurice, manager for security in Oracle's global technology business unit, who explains how Oracle's adoption of CVE: "Starting with the July 2008 Critical Patch Update, Oracle will use these CVE identifiers to identify the vulnerabilities fixed in each new CPU, and will no longer use the proprietary numbering convention previously used in the CPU risk matrices. As a result, each new vulnerability fixed in the CPU will be assigned a unique CVE Identifier. This change was made possible because Oracle became a "Candidate Naming Authority" under the CVE program."
Oracle Web Site, July 15, 2008
On July 15, 2008 Oracle began including CVE Identifiers in its quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) documentation and is now a CVE Candidate Numbering Authority, joining other major software companies (Cisco, Red Hat, Debian, HP, FreeBSD, Ubuntu Linux, Microsoft, and Apple) already independently issuing CVE IDs for their products.
Oracle promoted their adoption of CVE IDs in a July 15, 2008 posting on their "Oracle Global Product Security Blog" about the July CPU in which the author states: "As mentioned earlier in this blog, this CPU is also characterized by the adoption of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) system. As explained on the CVE program web site, "CVE Identifiers (also called "CVE IDs," "CVE names," "CVE numbers," and "CVEs") are unique, common identifiers for publicly known information security vulnerabilities." Starting with the July 2008 Critical Patch Update, Oracle will use these CVE identifiers to identify the vulnerabilities fixed in each new CPU, and will no longer use the proprietary numbering convention that was previously used in the CPU risk matrices. As a result, each new vulnerability fixed in the CPU will be assigned a unique CVE Identifier. This change was made possible because Oracle became a 'Candidate Naming Authority' under the CVE program. Note that while the CPU documentation is the only authoritative source of information about vulnerabilities in Oracle products, and as such should remain the primary source of information about such vulnerabilities, the use of unique CVE identifiers should result in simplifying how Oracle vulnerabilities are identified in external security reports such as those produced by security researchers and vulnerability management systems. The use in the CPU documentation of CVE identifiers, along with the publication of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, is further evidence of Oracle's customer focus in its vulnerability disclosure practices."
Government Computer News, March 3, 2008
CVE was mentioned in a March 3, 2008 article entitled "SCAP narrows security gap" in Government Computer News. The main topic of the article is the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) program, which is "a suite of tools to help automate vulnerability management and evaluate compliance with federal information technology security requirements."
CVE is mentioned as one of the "more mature standards" of the six SCAP includes: "The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Standard from Mitre, which provides standard identifiers and a dictionary for security vulnerabilities related to software flaws."
Three of the other standards the author references as mature are Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL), a standard XML for security testing procedures and reporting; Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF), a standard for specifying checklists and reporting results; and Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), a standard for conveying and scoring the impact of vulnerabilities. The author also notes the two "less mature" standards SCAP uses: Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE), standard identifiers and a dictionary for system security configuration issues; and Common Platform Enumeration (CPE), standard identifiers and a dictionary for platform and product naming.
SCAP is an expansion of NIST's U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) that is based upon the CVE List. NVD, CVE, and OVAL are all sponsored by the National Cyber Security Division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The article was written by William Jackson.
SC Magazine, February 1, 2008
CVE was mentioned in an article entitled "Vulnerability management: weathering the storm" in the February 1, 2008 issue of SC Magazine. CVE is mentioned in a section entitled "Vulnerabilities on the rise" when the author states: "Last year gave rise to about 7,000 unique vulnerabilities, says Steve Christey, principal information security engineer at MITRE, which maintains the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) list, a dictionary that provides the common names for publicly known security vulnerabilities. Since 1999, MITRE has tracked some 28,000 vulnerabilities in packaged software. While the sheer number of bugs is certainly cause for concern, flaws do have one positive attribute: they provide a tangible way to assess risk, say experts."
CVE is mentioned again when the author explains that "Each CVE listing in the National Vulnerability Database, the U.S. government repository of standards based vulnerability management data, supports the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), an open framework that standardizes the severity of vulnerabilities across heterogeneous platforms." Also included is a quote about CVSS who states that "CVSS is a way to provide a consistent risk metric. All of the vulnerability scanning tools and all of the alerts will use their own definition of risk, so a consumer of this information, if they're not using CVSS, might get multiple interpretations of how significant a single vulnerability is."
The article also mentions MITRE's Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), which is based in part on CVE. The article was written by Dan Kaplan.
Processor Magazine, October 5, 2007
CVE was mentioned in the "Product Releases" article in Processor Magazine on October 5, 2007. CVE is mentioned in the "Security" section of the article regarding Secure Elements' C5 Compliance Platform 3.3, which "…is the first product to work with NIST SCAP content to help federal government agencies meet the OMB Mandate. It also helps with compliance with NIST ISAP/SCAP initiative for auditing security configurations using OVAL, XCCDF, CPE, CVSS, CCE, and CVE."
Secure Elements Web Site, September 18, 2007
CVE was mentioned in a September 18, 2007 news release from Secure Elements, Inc. entitled "Secure Elements Announces New Version of IT Audit and Compliance Platform." CVE is mentioned in the portion of the release that describes how Secure Elements' C5 Compliance Platform Version 3.3 adds enhanced NIST SCAP FISMA reporting: "For federal government agencies, C5 is the first enterprise solution that works directly with the NIST SCAP content to help them meet the OMB Mandate for secure desktop configurations as well as incorporating all of the latest standards as defined by the NIST ISAP/SCAP initiative for auditing security configurations utilizing OVAL, XCCDF, CPE, CVSS, CCE and CVE."
Secure Elements,
Inc.'s automated vulnerability remediation product, C5 Enterprise
Vulnerability Management (EVM) Suite, is listed on the CVE Web site as "Officially
NetworkWorld, September 25, 2007
CVE was mentioned in an article entitled "Service-oriented security" in NetworkWorld on September 25, 2007. CVE is mentioned when the author discusses Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). The author states: "The basic premise is that the only way we'll ever get a handle on the operational challenges of security management is to automate as many of the processes as possible. SCAP pulls information from a number of standardized information sources, including (warning: acronym soup ahead): the eXtensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF), the Open Vulnerability Assessment Language (OVAL), Common Vulnerability Scoring System, (CVSS) and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database." The article was written by Andreas M. Antonopoulos.


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George Carlin said baseball was known as America's national pastime because "it takes so damn long to play a game." He was right. Never is this more clear than in playing simulated baseball in a videogame. While it does often retain the fun and excitement of being at the ballpark, it can also unintentionally include the tedium as well.
Guess what MLB 2K12 includes?
MLB 2K12 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 [reviewed], PC)
Developer: Visual Concepts
Publisher: 2K Games
Released: March 6, 2012
Let me get this out of the way right now: if you've played last year's iteration of the game (or even 2K10), this year's MLB 2K remains virtually unchanged from previous versions. With the exceptions of a few coats of polish, updated rosters, and some other minor tweaks here and there, it's the same ballgame from before.
That said, while the majority of the framework remains the same, graphically there have been better touches throughout making character models more realistic (though somehow more dead-eyed than usual), and everything seems brighter and more vibrant. Animations still have some stagger and hiccup, but nothing I hadn't seen in previous years. The menu presentation, however, will make you wonder if you'd accidentally purchased last year's game.
However, when it gets down to gameplay we finally see some improvements, but to be fair, they are minor. Pitching now comes with a caveat: throw the same pitch over and over, despite your catcher's suggestions, and the hitters get wise and start anticipating what you'll throw. Switching up your pitches is now more important than ever, as batters will hone in on what you've thrown and make you pay for it with a base hit.
It's with these hits that suddenly, gameplay falls apart again. Fielding here now seems unnecessarily tough, with meters appearing to determine whether or not your throw will reach the base with enough power, or even at all. Sadly, even without these meters, your fielder may not be sure where to throw or how, as they stutter through animations and allow runners to score before finally deciding to throw to where the runner used to be. Evidently, it's all determined by whether or not the fielder's feet are both planted before he throws, but when charging a ball and trying to stop a runner from scoring, who has the time to wait for a fielder to stop moving?
If you've never played an MLB 2K game, this can be very frustrating, as the game itself gives no coaching to newbies. There are a few training drills, but they're slipshod and don't detail enough of the controls. The same can be said for pitching and hitting: while throws and hits were usually done with flicks of the right analog stick, I had to eventually switch to the "classic" mode of "press button to throw/swing" as the drills provided no marked improvement to my game. The analog stick movements may have awarded a bit more precision and immersion into the simulation, but overall I found them to be more of a nuisance than anything.
The other gameplay modes also end up being carbon copies of previous years. My Franchise and My Player are back, and while My Player tricks you into thinking you're setting up a unique player with specified skills (a heavy hitter or a strong-arm pitcher, for example) with the point distribution suggesting how to improve your stats, the layout and feel are still the same as before. And while it may be deep, unless you want to live out your Moneyball fantasies, My Franchise is the RPG of baseball simulations and is perhaps best avoided for fear of yawning yourself to death. There is at least one new feature to the game called MLB Today Season, where players can select a team and compare their stats as they play alongside the real-life version of that team in a day-to-day, game-to-game season.
Despite the overall sameness, at least the color commentary has changed. The announcers all seem to actually be watching the game you're playing, and their comments all seem fresh and real. I never once heard the same remark twice, and they followed along with stats and plays so well, I thought it was a live feed coming from the Internet.
Speaking of online, there's the matter of playing MLB 2K12 with people other than those on your couch with you. There are a few instances of lag, but nothing game-breaking. However, animation frames still seem to jump and hiccup, and during the opposing team's pitch is when you don't want to have that. Searching for games online is confusing, and trying to focus your search by number of innings, skill, or difficulty level seems futile due to the same confusing menu system from last year's game (controlled by the right analog stick).
When it comes down to it, MLB 2K12 isn't a terrible game. But if you've played it before...well, you've played it before. If you haven't played it before, it's not a very good jumping-on point due to little to no in-game tutorials, and the animations won't win any new fans either. For baseball to be the "national sport," it takes a nation to love said sport. I just can't see how they can love what MLB 2K12 delivers.
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An exercise in apathy, neither solid nor liquid. Not exactly bad, but not very good either. Just a bit "meh," really.
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The Berkeley Water Center takes a comprehensive approach to water resources research and management that reflects the conditions of the 21st Century: variable and uncertain supply, increasing demand and inadequate structural and institutional infrastructure. We seek to develop and demonstrate the application of new concepts, information and engineering technology and computational tools that serve diverse water interests.
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CARMEL >> The U.S. Attorney"s office and other authorities are investigating Pacific Gas & Electric Co. regarding a natural gas pipeline explosion that destroyed an unoccupied home in Carmel on March 3.
The explosion at Guadalupe Street and Third Avenue also caused minor damage to three nearby residences. There were no injuries.
The federal investigation coincides with confirmation that a new grand jury is reviewing evidence against the embattled utility.
Existence of a second grand jury looking at criminal charges against PG&E surfaced during a brief scheduling hearing in U.S. District Court and was confirmed Tuesday by court officials and other sources.
In its quarterly regulatory filing, PG&E stated, "It is reasonably possible that fines could be imposed on the utility, or that other enforcement actions could be taken in connection with this matter."
After the explosion, Carmel Mayor Jason Burnett requested that PG&E halt any similar non-emergency work in the city. At the time of the blast, a PG&E crew was working on a main gas line immediately adjacent to the residence. It was unknown if the work played a role in the explosion, Mike Calhoun, Carmel"s public safety director, said at the time.
The city has been working with PG&E and the California Public Utilities Commission to determine what caused the explosion.
Calls to Burnett and the city"s public works department director seeking comment on the investigation were not immediately returned.
PG&E spokesman Nick Stimmel said the company could not comment on the U.S. Attorney"s office investigation of the Carmel gas pipeline explosion.
On Monday, PG&E was arraigned in U.S. District Court on criminal charges stemming from the Sept. 9, 2010, pipeline explosion in San Bruno. The U.S. Attorney"s office filed charges on 12 violations of federal safety rules that caused the death of eight and injuries to 66. The explosion leveled an entire neighborhood. It was one of the worst gas pipeline explosions in U.S. history.
PG&E is accused of diverting pipeline safety funds for executive compensation and shareholder returns.
"Based on all evidence in the new indictment we still do not believe that a PG&E employee violated the Pipeline Safety Act," Stimmel said. "We"ve made a lot of progress to continue on our mission to create the safest, most reliable gas system in the nation."
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Victories! The SLO is on the move. As cases are ripening, we are currently in our own harvest season. The atmosphere in the office alternates between hot and cool—either exciting (because of preparing for court or de-briefing) or quiet (because everyone is in court). Here are some of the stories of the victories our students are winning day by day.
One municipal court judge denied our request to represent our client in his court. The judge claimed that because the prosecutor had stipulated there would be no jail sentence if there was a conviction, the client was not entitled to SLO representation. Our student attorney filed a Motion to Reconsider, citing the Student Practice Rule, which places no such restriction on the representation of poor people. The judge later reversed himself.
A woman who was denied an attorney from the Public Defender's Office chose to represent herself pro se in a jury trial where she was charged with DUI. However, during the court's initial advisement of her right to remain silent, the woman burst into tears, announcing her need for a lawyer but her inability to afford one. The court declared a mistrial, reset the jury trial for a later date, and referred the woman to the SLO where she was assigned a student attorney. Once on the case, the student attorney successfully argued a Motion to Suppress a Breath Test. The Motion was argued after the police department destroyed the client's second breath sample, causing the defense to be deprived of potentially exculpatory evidence. The student attorney used the same tactic in a shoplifting case in which the police of another jurisdiction destroyed a videotape of an alleged crime scene. The shoplifting case was ultimately dismissed outright.
The clinic represented a young father who supported his family by painting houses at night. In addition to working through the night, he and his wife exercised their son, who had cerebral palsy, during the day. The young man made the unfortunate mistake of shoplifting a portable music player, which was to be a gift for his child's birthday. With the help of a student attorney, the client received a favorable disposition – one that allowed him to continue his work and to help his son.
One local apartment manager has been the focus of several separate complaints by clients who use Section 8 Housing Vouchers to pay rent. One client is an elderly woman who was temporarily living with her adult daughter while she (the client) recovered from an extended illness. Because her lease prohibited leaving her unit vacant, she notified the manager where she was staying temporarily. She also made sure to continue paying rent. Nevertheless, the manager filed an eviction action. To date, three students have challenged the manger's efforts to unjustifiably evict our clients; two of these actions have been successful, and one case is still pending.
On average, the Student Law Office litigates 125 cases a year. We accept approximately 60 student attorneys each semester for positions in the Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, and Community Economic Development, Criminal Defense, and Environmental Law Clinics.


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Submitted: 07/07/2013
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- People could shop and learn at Northland Pines High School this weekend."Jewelry and glass, and pottery, postcards. You name it. There's just a little bit of something for everybody," says Steve Bina, manager of the Eagle River Antique Show.Twenty-five vendors from six different states set up shop in Eagle River this weekend. It was the 21st annual Eagle River Antique Show. Dealers from as far as South Carolina came to town because they know they'll sell quite a bit of antiques."One of the things that people do on vacation is they like to go to antique shops and kind of mosey around, and so we just thought it was a natural place for us to have a show," Bina adds.He expected 1,000 people to attend the two-day show. "We've always sold well at this show. People up here have the knowledge and appreciation of good antiques," says Frances Rosenau, owner of Time's Treasure's Antiques.But it's not just about business. Bina donates some of the admission profits to local organizations."Some of the money is going to go to the humane society, and then also a share will also go to St. Peter's youth group that are also doing our concessions here today," he says.Many of the dealers are former teachers. They hope teenagers will become interested in antiques."I think it's a wonderful way for students and families to come to learn about beautiful things from different periods of time," says former teacher Clarann Stocker. She now owns Antiques on Spirit."Coming to an antique show is like coming to see a piece of the past. It's a history lesson as you walk around here," Bina adds.He hoped free admission for kids 16 and under would pull them in. At least 80 teenagers attended the educational experience on Saturday. But people of all ages could learn a thing or two. The dealers offered free seminars Sunday. Frances Rosenau has one simple piece of advice for people who want to collect antiques: "If you're buying for investment, make sure what you're buying is good quality and you can live with it. Our rule about buying something is: if we never sell it, we can die with it and be happy."
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Campaign Support necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 764 diseños de 122 diseñadores freelance.
Republic aims to achieve a better democracy for Britain.
Republic is British a membership-based pressure group calling for an elected head of state and for the adoption of a new, democratic, republican constitution.
Republic sees democracy as the rule of the people, they believe all people have the right to govern themselves, and that all those who govern us should have a democratic mandate to do so (in other words, they should be chosen by the people).
Republic's campaign is supported by ordinary hard working people from all corners of the country and from all walks of life. We are united in a belief in responsibility, aspiration and, above all, democracy.
Republic's diverse membership represents the full social and political spectrum. Republic is bound together by a few simple principles and a single ambition: a republican constitution, the right to a democratic head of state and an end to the monarchy.
Republic believes our democracy should inspire a common sense of "we the people" - together we should own, control and take responsibility for our political affairs. Republic believes Britain deserves a republican constitution in place of the monarchy because the British people deserve the very best democracy possible.
Republic's target audience is the general public in Britain, politicians and the media.
Republic lobbies politicians and opinion-formers, conducts a pro-active media campaign, undertakes original research on the monarchy, comments on royal stories in the media, conducts talks and classes in schools and universities and provides information on republicanism
The campaign also does extensive e-campaigning.
Target audiences include online and offline supporters and opinion formers.
We need a logo that can represent Republic's aspirational case for democratic reform. The key word here is 'democracy'.
** The logo must incorporate an image and the word Republic or just the word Republic done in a particular style, but if doing an image plus the word then both must also work separately.
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Nora Ephron was really all about the food.
An acerbic observer of life whose wit translated so easily to the big screen, she was often as interested in the menu as she was in the script, and her appetite for moviemaking and crab cakes brought her to Baltimore in the early 1990s for the filming of "Sleepless in Seattle."
Ephron, who died Tuesday after a battle with leukemia, was called in to doctor a screenplay about a long-distance love affair between an architect in Seattle (Tom Hanks) and a woman newspaper reporter (Meg Ryan) in, of all places, Lancaster, Pa.
Declaring that she couldn't possibly write a script based in a town without a major-league team, she...


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What is quicktime in 64 Bit problem?
I'm about to upgrade to Carrara pro 8 64 bit. I see a note about Quicktime 64 bit having issues.
Is this on a PC or Mac. I'm on a PC and render using Quicktime Animation Codec ( Which Works Great!)
Will this be a problem in 64 bit version? Should I bother to install or just use 32 bit?
Apple is the problem .
There is NO version of Quicktime, built for 64 bit systems.
and Apple, seem to be dragging their heels on any development,. while apparently focusing on the latest mini teeny weeny "I bollox" which nobody needed in the first place.
The 32bit version is all there is.
As far as Carrara is concerned,. it's a PITA if you're regularly exporting draft stuff as Quicktime,. but,.. as they say,.. Other products are also available.
One good thing is that you get BOTH the 64 bit and 32 bit versions of Carrara 8 pro. So,. you can create a scene in the 64bit version, then save it,. load it into the 32 bit version and render as quicktime.
It's better, and safer, to export your animations as "Sequenced image files" like individual (frames of film).
Any good Video editor, can load a numbered sequence of images, as a "clip" and export that in whatever final format you need.
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I'm not sure this is true any longer. "QuickTime X was completely rewritten to implement modern audio video codecs in 64-bit." Lion and Mountain Lion are 64-bit OS, and include QT X. I say I'm not sure, because while wikipedia says QT X is 64-bit, and the new OS are supposed to be 64-bit only, I can't find anything on the Apple site saying clearly that QT X is 64-bit. So...
First I bought the normal Pro 8 Today ( $171) on the black Friday sale.
That feels good.
That did fix the Issues with loading the .cbr files, thank you.
I did try your method of using a polyline to create a single Poly to extrude.
That worked well ( but I may have to redo 5 hours of work from this weekend )
Thank You!
I'm a bit disappointed with quicktime. I am doing a hour video which much of is animation.
I edit in Sony Vegas. So I was generating HUGE Files. When compressed in the video edit they really lost something.
I posted this on the Sony Vegas fourm. A guy there that is heavy into Vegas ( like you are with Carrara ) and uses Carrara
suggested the quicktime Animation codec. I love it. It looks just fantastic, file size large but not ridiculous, and Vegas handles it like
a champ. When I export these out of Vegas they still look great. So I guess I'll just use the 32 bit for now, but was looking forward to those screaming renders I had hoped I would get from the 64 bit version.
Thanks again
Another option, is to get Quicktime pro player,..
It can load up a sequence of images,. and export out as quicktime .mov,. but,.. realistically,. if you compress the render to video, then compress it again in your editor,.., you're losing quality at each step.
Render sequenced frames, because... (depending on the image format) there's no compression.
you retain the ability to edit any single image,.. for things like poke-through.
If your system crashes,. you can pick up from the frame it stopped on. instead of starting again, and possible crashing again.
HI Carlton :)
I hear you,
several months ago I got a mailshot from them about the new version, because I bought Quicktime,
but so far, I've not seen or heard of any implementation of it on PC,. and I know it's something that the Carrara developers want to slot in, and get moving with,.. so you would imagine that if it was available,. we wouldn't still have the issue of no quicktime on 64bit
I hope you're right and they've finally done it,.. :)
As Andy mentioned, you can open sequenced images in Quicktime and expoprt them using whatever compression method you wish. I might disagree with Andy on this a bit, but each compression method is different, with some being lossier than others, so there is the possibility of no visible trans-encoding artifacts, especially if you save to a loss-less format. If you wish to render to a movie file instead of an image sequence, then the Animation Codec is great because it can also handle alphas. Under options where you set color depth, set it to Millions+. You could also just save an uncompressed file as well.
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I use 64bit Carrara and render to QT Animation. The QT32 thing opens and runs in the background....
Has anyone tried a speed test on all the formats? Is there any reason to believe QT32 is significantly slower than any of the other render formats? PNG Sequence for example?
In the past my complaint was that the hdd spins and the QT re-writes itself with each frame, accumulating longer and longer pauses between frames...., but for short animations only a few seconds long, this additional time is less headache than converting image sequences.... It's a trade off, and YMMV.Post edited by wetcircuit on
Unless I'm having a problem, I generally just render to the Animation Codec. I can't run 64 bit Carrara or anything else unless it was coded to utilize PPC 64 bit (which I've had since '03/'04 and which Intel and Microsoft took their sweet time to get to.)
Are you on a Mac? I don't even see Quicktime as a render option in 64bit Carrara on my Windows machine, though I do see it the 32 bit version on the same machine.
Without trying to speak for Holly, I'm pretty sure Holly's primarily a Mac user, though I've read some posts where she mentions using PCs as well.
I recall the Windows version of Carrara renders to AVIs, but I don't know which codecs are comparable. If you have the Windows version of Quicktime Pro, you can render to sequenced images such as pngs, tif, etc. and open in Quicktime. QT will even preserve the alpha channels (if any) as long as you export the movie to a format that can handle it, such as the Animation codec. I'm on a Mac as well, so I can't say for sure what codecs are supported across both platforms.


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NFL to Change Challenge Rule
An NFL official promised that a controversial rule that prevents a coach's challenge will be changed in 2013.
Ray Anderson, the NFL's vice president of football operations, told the Associated Press that the NFL competition committee will review and amend the rule that penalizing coaches for challenging automatically reviewed scoring plays. The process factored into the Detroit Lions' 34-31 overtime loss to the Houston Texans on Thanksgiving Day.
In the game, Texans running back Justin Forsett ran for an 81-yard touchdown, but replays showed his knee had been down by contact earlier in the run (pictured above). Detroit coach Jim Schwartz reflexively threw the red challenge flag even though all scoring plays are automatically reviewed. The result was a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on the Lions that nullifies the review process and allows the play to stand unreviewed, while penalizing the team challenging the call.
Anderson said the process will be changed to continue with a review, but the league could keep the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.


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Stuart Sierra: In general, c.c.sql is inconsistent about using tuples of column values versus maps of column=>value pairs. Both are useful, and I'd like to see versions of all the core functions that support both modes.
Having reviewed this after using the library for quite a while, I don't really see any inconsistencies except, perhaps in the naming of update-values (and update-or-insert-values).
insert-values is the base function, taking a table name, a vector of column names and any number of vectors of column values. Generates one insert statement (containing multiple rows). If only one row is inserted, returns a map of generated keys if the database supports that.
insert-rows takes a table name and any number of vectors of column values (for all columns); uses insert-values.
insert-records takes a table name and any number of maps (containing column/value pairs); uses insert-values to insert one record at a time (and thus may return a sequence of maps of generated keys).
insert-record takes a table name and a single map; uses insert-records and returns a map of generated key if the database supports that.
delete-rows takes a table name and a where clause. Perhaps delete-where might be a better name?
update-values takes a table name, a where clause and a map (of column/value pairs to update). Arguably this should be renamed since it doesn't take the same argument pattern as insert-values, but whilst update-records might sound more appropriate it only takes one "record" and update-record is clearly not right since it can update more than one row!
update-or-insert-values (taking the same arguments as update-values) can however lead to inserting a single record but it can also update multiple records instead.
On both of the latter functions, an analogy could be drawn with the findAndModify command in MongoDB which has an upsert option (to insert the document if no matches are found for the update), but most notably, findAndModify only updates a single record. I don't believe SQL has any portable equivalent but perhaps find-and-modify is a better name for update-values? Or perhaps, in the spirit of my suggestion for delete-where, we might call it update-where - and use an optional keyword argument to indicate that an insert-record should be performed when no rows match?
The only other comment I could make on update-values is that it might be nice to have a variant that took: table where-params column-names value-group - somewhat inline with insert-values (although not allowing any number of vectors of column values).


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So I found this little gem from a good friend of mine, thanks John!, this house is small but packs a ton of charm. It is a 9 x 14 foot house located in the Catskills. Originally a hunting cabin I believe, she had done quite a bit with not too much.
Ms. Foster has her own shabby-chic retreat. It may not have a bathroom or a kitchen, but it is a dream of Victoriana: stacks of Limoges china with tiny rosebud patterns; chandeliers dripping crystal; billows of tissue-paper garlands.
This is all the more impressive because she renovated the 9-by-14-foot cottage, an old hunting cabin, herself. The cost of renovating and furnishing it: $3,000.


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