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"That whole industry is being absorbed: half by the construction and half by the security industry."
Justice Department officials are trying to determine whether to try the pirate in the U.S. or leave him to a pirate court in Kenya that has yet to try anyone for piracy.
"Everybody who's ridden that ferry agrees that the security checks are not only not effective, but probably not needed," Clark said Thursday. "If we can save $1.6 million on the cost of providing security that isn't needed, we're most of the way to achieving the savings VDOT would achieve by cutting back on the ferry."
Stan Clark, an Isle of Wight County supervisor and a contender for the state House seat held by Del. William K. Barlow, is leading the effort. Barlow is a Democrat who represents the 64th District, which includes Isle of Wight and James City County.
Though security is mandated by the federal government, the cost falls on VDOT's shoulders. The $1.6 million covers a security detail of between 32 and 35 armed security guards provided by a private security firm, according to Hansen. The guards each are provided basic weather gear, a sidearm, a nonlethal weapon and a flashlight.
VDOT does not keep a log of incidents handled by ferry security guards, but numerous arrests have been made involving "threats to the ferry, contraband and assistance in breaking up fights," Hansen said.
"The biggest thing we have found is that having the security presence there has been a deterrent to people breaking the law," she said.
Pelco to Participate in IFSEC 2009
Clovis, CA (April 8, 2009) – Pelco is excited to announce that after careful evaluation and reconsideration, it will once again be participating in IFSEC 2009. This is a shift from an announcement made late last year that the company would not participate at the 2009 IFSEC show.
"Following some last minute discussions with the show organizers we have reached agreement for Pelco to exhibit in the IP section of the show, albeit with a much smaller stand than in previous years, in order to launch several exciting new products including the Sarix megapixel camera range and the new Endura HD Optimised, enterprise-class video management system,†says Kevin Smith, Pelco Regional Manager for the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The Pelco stand will be located in Hall 5, stand D80.
H.R. 1939, the "Electronic Life Safety and Security System Federal Background Check Act of 2009,†permits industry access to a database which can be used to check a potential employee's criminal history. Congress has authorized similar access in the past to groups such as banks, credit unions and private security guards.
"It is outrageous that a potential felon could have access to our citizens' homes and businesses without the employer knowing his or her record, and that is why this legislation is so important,†Luetkemeyer said. "It would be irresponsible to allow this to continue because it puts those families and businesses who think they are being protected at risk.â€
States are not currently able to stay apprised of crimes committed from one state to another, and many private background check services do not capture complete law enforcement information upon which to base a hiring judgment. Some states have no background check requirements for this industry. The legislation is not a government mandate, but simply offers the electronic life safety and security industry access to the same background information that is currently available to many other groups.
Americans do not want a person with a questionable criminal background installing systems designed to keep them safe in facilities such as child daycare centers, schools, public pools, chemical plants, water and nuclear facilities, banks, hospitals, port facilities and air terminals.
"I look forward to working with my colleagues to pass this commonsense legislation to keep our families, businesses, and critical infrastructure safe,†Luetkemeyer said.
Once the legislation is passed, the industry will need to secure support from the Attorney General to permit states to access the database. The bill also recommends certain standards for the Attorney General and Department of Justice for those states wishing to participate, including a reciprocity requirement and NBFAA's involvement as part of the background check process.
The bill will require significant support to pass both the House and Senate, as other groups are requesting background check access, creating a long delay in accommodating non-law enforcement organizations such as NBFAA. With the help of the security industry, NBFAA will work on securing a senate bill and seek to pass the legislation.
At 5:31 PM on December 30, 2000 a tragic fire happened at Simpson House that resulted in 3 deaths. (see NFPA Journal Sept/October 2001 and Security System News January 2007) After this fire FAMCO installed an IFP-1000.
At 5:44 PM on April 1, 2009 a fire started in a residents room when a lamp was knocked into a trash can full of paper. Within seconds a smoke detector in the hallway activated sounding the general alarm and the Fire Department was dispatched. The IFP-1000 continued to send signals to our Central Station as the Water Flow, additional Smoke Detectors, and Pull Stations were activated. Due to the early warning provided by the IFP-1000 all residents and staff were safely removed from the building. The Fire was contained to one room. The fire was very hot and 4 sprinkler heads activated during the fire. FAMCO responded and within a few hours all of the damaged Smoke Detectors had been replaced and the IFP-1000 was fully functional again.
No lives were lost and no one was hurt. This is remarkable due the fact that a lot of the residents use walkers to get around.
Congratulations to Silent Knight for building a product that has worked and continues to work 24 hours a day for the past 9 years. A product that gives the residents and staff of Simpson House confidence it a Life Safety System. This is what it is all about, saving lives.
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Strong summer for Winthrop men's golf team
The returning members of the Winthrop men's golf team, led by sophomores Zach Seabolt and Bradley Kauffman along with junior Nick Eberhardt, are having successful summers competing in numerous national and regional events.
Seabolt (Raleigh, N.C.), who qualified for the NCAA Regional in Raleigh this past May, has enjoyed a very solid summer to date. He has competed in numerous top national and regional events, including the Palmetto Amateur, North-South Amateur, Dogwood Invitational, and the North Carolina Open with outstanding results, said Winthrop coach Kevin Pendley.
At the prestigious Dogwood Invitational held in Atlanta last month, Seabolt shot rounds of 70-63-65-69 to finish in a tie for first place but lost on the second hole of the playoff. He also held the lead at the Carolinas Amateur thru two rounds before finishing in a tie for fifth place. He will compete this week at the North Carolina Match Play and is the only Eagle who successfully qualified for the US Amateur to be played at the Atlanta Athletic Club Aug. 11-17.
Kauffman (Greenville, S.C.) has continued to develop his game this summer by capturing the South Carolina Match Play championship and earning a top 15 finish at the Carolinas Amateur. "His stroke average for the summer is very solid and his confidence is at an all-time high," Pendley says.
Eberhardt (Fort Mill, S.C.) qualified for the US Amateur Public Links Championship which was played earlier this month in Newton, Kansas. He successfully advanced to the Match Play rounds with solid scores of 70 and 73, but lost in the first round of match play. "It was a great experience for Nick and he will be in action this week at the South Carolina Amateur along with junior Christian Sease (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.)," said Pendley.
Senior Taylor Dickson (Gastonia, N.C.) has played better of late after struggling some early, according to his coach. "He made the cut at the Palmetto Amateur and had a solid week at the Carolinas Amateur with a top 15 finish. He will be playing this week at the North Carolina Match Play along with Seabolt.
Sophomore Weston Bell (Piedmont, S.C.) and Sease have been working hard and competing in various events, according to Pendley, including the Eastern Amateur and North Carolina Open. Senior Sam Whitehead has been competing back home in England in many of that country's top events.

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"No ID? No vote!" These were the words that Fern Leard heard when she tried to vote last Tuesday in Lackawanna County. The voter ID law had been suspended for this election, but it seems someone had neglected to inform her precinct's poll workers.
Or perhaps they were just confused. Under the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, any first-time voter at a precinct needs to present ID. Fern was indeed a first-time voter at that precinct, but the list of allowed ID's under HAVA is much more expansive than the ID's deemed acceptable by the state's voter ID law, and includes a variety of photo and non-photo IDs.
So Fern had brought her voter registration card, but after presenting it was told she could not vote because it was not photo ID. Her protests fell on deaf ears, as did her request for a provisional ballot, which, under both the PA voter ID law and HAVA, is to be provided to any voter without ID. Instead, she was shown the door.
She wasn't the only one. On November 6, the Election Protection 866-OUR-VOTE hotline phones were ringing off the hook. In the hotline command centers around the state, staffed by the ACLU and several other ally organizations, reports came in from hundreds of individual citizens and poll monitors all over the state that voters were being turned away at the polls or forced to use provisional ballots because they did not have ID. No sooner would the claim be filed and a lawyer dispatched to address it, the phone put down, then it would ring again with a new complaint.
Marcia Hatchett of Delaware County called the hotline when poll workers at her precinct told her ID would be required and her college ID was not sufficient. The first poll worker Marcia encountered made this claim. Then, as if the woman's left-brain didn't know what her right-brain was doing, she handed Marcia a flyer that contained a list of acceptable ID's, and there on the list was "college ID".
The voter ID law would have in fact accepted a student ID from any state-accredited institute of higher learning as long as it had an expiration date. Marcia's did. The HAVA for first-time voters at a precinct also include student ID.
But this was irrelevant, as the state voter ID law was not in effect, and Marcia was not a first-time voter at the precinct. She pointed this out to two other poll workers, demanding they allow her access to a voting machine as well as an apology for trying to deny her right to vote. Instead, she was shown the door. "You need to leave," she was told by a poll worker pointing an accusatory finger at her.
Marcia called the Election Protection hotline, which encouraged her to return and try again. The second time around a poll worker told her she was in the poll book as a first-time voter and would have to show photo ID – a misstatement of the federal law. Marcia reminded them she had voted at this precinct in every recent election, but they refused to allow her in without photo ID. "Do you want to vote?" they repeatedly asked of her, as if her failure to passively comply with their unlawful requirements was what stood between her and the voting booth. Determined to cast a ballot no matter what, she showed her driver's license, only to be refused admittance because the address did not match the one on her registration – another miscarriage of the law, which only requires a current address on the non-photo ID's of first-time voters.
Eventually Marcia's protests wore them down and she was allowed to vote. The same was true of Melissa Hobday Motley, who was only permitted access to a Montgomery County voting machine after she started to video the poll workers who were denying her entrance.
Melissa had been voting at that precinct for 10 years but had recently changed the name on her voter registration to match her official ID in order to comply with the PA voter ID law. The law, if it goes back into effect, will require all voters to have a state photo ID with a name that is closely matches the name on their voter registration. This is a particular issue for women who have changed their names due to marriage or divorce.
Although Melissa had added her husband's name after her maiden name on her voter registration, the update was not listed in the poll book. Instead, there was a star next to her name and she was being required to show ID, which she had not brought because she knew the voter ID law was suspended. She said she saw stars next to many names.
Anecdotal reports from voter and poll monitors indicate that many people were incorrectly categorized as first-time voters at their polls this year.
"What is the role of the government and elections officials on election day? Isn't it to facilitate voting – not obstruct it?" asked Fern. After being curtly told "No ID? No vote!" despite showing her voter registration card , it was a fair question. She was with her 17-month old twins, both of whom have health problems; her son was crying loudly. You'd understand if she had other things on her mind. But Fern's anger about her difficulty voting three days ago was still palpable.
"I went back in there, and when the poll worker asked for ID again I took her picture. She asked `what was that for?' and I told her `Because I think people should know what voter suppression looks like.' Another poll worker, or maybe it was the judge of elections, came over at that point and corrected the woman and told her that a voter registration card was valid ID for first-time voters." Fern was allowed to vote.
"They messed with the wrong person. I'm educated. I know my rights. But I have friends who told me similar stories. Think of all the people who didn't know their rights and weren't allowed to vote."
–Emily Cleath, voter ID organizer, ACLU of Pennsylvania


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Many vacationers and locals made memories on the Emerald Coast this Memorial Day weekend.
Two-year-old David Stolz ran sand through his fingers Saturday morning and peered at the crowds around him from under his blue bucket hat.
His mother, Christy Stolz of Birmingham, Ala., was setting up their beach spot behind The Boardwalk at Okaloosa Island on Saturday morning, remembering when David didn�t want to put his feet on the sand last year.
�This year, we�re hoping he plays a bit more,� Christy said.
The Stolz family were among many vacationers and locals making memories on the Emerald Coast this Memorial Day weekend.
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Motorists slowly made their way to the beaches, as cars lined the side of U.S. Highway 98 near the accesses on Okaloosa Island.
Cathy Moone of Montgomery, Ala., and her family visit the area five to six times a year.
�It�s more of a family beach,� Moone said on the beach behind The Boardwalk.
She expected a bigger crowd, and hoped her 13-year-old son would make some friends.
�I think (tourists) are all fishing from the look of Wal-Mart last night," Moone said with a laugh.
For some locals, their beach days are numbered as the crowds grow during the summer. Derek Bussard of Crestview said he and his family probably wouldn�t be back regularly until the end of August.
Locals learn to adapt, he said.
�This is why we put a pool in our yard,� Bussard said as he scanned the crowd on Okaloosa Island.
Hundreds of boats dotted the green and blue water on either side of the Marler Bridge in Destin.
Petty Officer Jeff Mitchell at Coast Guard Station Destin said there had been three minor vessel collisions earlier Saturday.
The number of boaters has definitely increased compared to past years, Executive Petty Officer Jason King said. With other law enforcement agencies such as the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission patrolling the waters, the Coast Guard is focused more on being visible than increasing its patrols, he said.
Boaters need to drink responsibly, ensure they have proper floatation devices for their children, and tell someone if they plan to boat at night, King said.
�Be smart and be considerate with the alcohol, and be considerate of the fact you have to go somewhere later,� he said.
Business was starting to pick up for local merchants Saturday, although most expected to be overrun with vacationers later that night and Sunday.
Dawn Ledford, manager at Harry T�s at HarborWalk Village in Destin, said about 1,000 covers were sold Friday night, and she expected more than 1,200 Saturday night.
�We�re prepared for it, though,� Ledford said. �We have extra hostesses, extra servers and extra bartenders.�
Tour slots at Destin Snorkel were beginning to fill Saturday, and several Sunday tours already were sold out, said Val Costley, one of the owners.
They spent weeks preparing for the start of tourist season to make sure they had enough employees and that all the equipment and boats were shipshape.
�The staff is all excited,� Costley said. �We�re ready to go. We�re ready to get people wet.�
Some local hotels and bed and breakfasts were completely full and turning people away. In addition to handling vacationers, Highlands House in Santa Rosa Beach was organizing three weddings over the weekend, said Marc Russack, one of the owners.
�We could use another three of us right now,� Russack said.
This weekend is the beginning of summer for many people, Russack said. Kids are starting their summer vacation and parents are looking for quality family time.
�Memorial Day Weekend is a big weekend. People want to get out here and enjoy the area. They�re looking for something special.�


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Pastor: Slain Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton the face of "epidemic of violence"
CHICAGO A prominent Chicago pastor remembered a slain 15-year-old girl Saturday as the face of an "epidemic of violence causing funeral processions around the country."
Father Michael Pfleger spoke at Hadiya Pendleton's funeral, telling a packed South Side church that "we must become the interrupters of funeral processions."
Pendleton was a band majorette and honor student who was shot and killed on Jan. 29, just a few days after performing for events surrounding President Obama's inauguration. Police say Pendleton was an innocent victim in a gang-related shooting.
Hundreds of mourners and dignitaries including first lady Michelle Obama stood and applauded Pendleton's family for their strength after her death brought national attention to the city's staggering gun violence.
Mrs. Obama met privately with the family and accompanied the girl's mother to the open casket at the front of a packed South Side church just before the start of the service.
Mrs. Obama, who grew up on Chicago's South Side, put her arm around Cleopatra Pendleton and patted her back. The woman threw her head back and wailed as the lid of her daughter's flower-strewn casket was closed.
Moments later, the hundreds in attendance rose to their feet to begin the service with a round of applause "to the strength of this family." Then, the choir began to sing so loud the floor shook.
Some of Illinois' most recognizable politicians and clergy were also in attendance, including Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Father Michael Pfleger. But Pendleton's family says her funeral service was not about politics it was about remembering a girl who loved to dance, who once appeared in an anti-gang video.
"Everything is about Hadiya," said Shatira Wilks, one of Pendleton's cousins and a family spokeswoman.
None of the dignitaries was slated to speak during the service, which was officiated by the teen's pastor, the Rev. Courtney Maxwell, and the Rev. Eric Thomas, the pastor of the Greater Harvest Baptist Church, where the service was held. The teen's brother was also expected to speak, and the musical group that Pendleton was a member of will perform.
Pendleton was shot and killed while she talked with friends after school at a park not far from the Obamas' home in the Kenwood neighborhood. Police have said the shooting appears to be a case of mistaken identity involving gang members who believed the park was their territory. No charges have been filed.
Pendleton's death brought new attention to Chicago's homicide rate and the national debate over gun violence. Pendleton's slaying came in a January that was the city's deadliest in a decade. In 2012, Chicago recorded 506 homicides.
Earlier Saturday morning, a line of hundreds stretched from the church as mourners filed past Pendleton's casket. A woman who walked in with the girl's family sobbed loudly while organ and piano music played.
A glossy, eight-page funeral program included photos of Pendleton and details about her life, including her favorite foods cheeseburgers, fig cookies, Chinese and ice cream and the numerous school organizations she was involved in, and said she wanted to major in pharmacology and journalism in college.
The program also included a copy of a handwritten note from Mr. Obama addressed to the girl's family.
"Michelle and I just wanted you to know how heartbroken we are to have heard about Hadiya's passing," it reads. "We know that no words from us can soothe the pain, but rest assured that we are praying for you, and that we will continue to work as hard as we can to end this senseless violence. God bless, Barack Obama."
Other dignitaries at the service were Gov. Pat Quinn, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett all of whom are from Chicago.
Quinn mentioned Pendleton's death in his State of the State address earlier this week as he called for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
"There are no words in the English language or any language to relieve the pain of parents who lose a child," said Quinn, who said he spoke with Pendleton's family two days before his speech.


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The blogger assumes the police put the handcuffs on the doorknobs, but that wasn't the perception Meade had Wednesday night:
Protesters are locking the Capitol doors shut from the inside using metal handcuffs, Meade reports from the scene.Of course, it's terrible if the police did it too. Indeed, there needs to be a serious investigation into the police behavior throughout the protest. Meade and I have seen quite a bit of evidence that the police were, if not colluding with the protesters and facilitating their activities, turning a blind eye to all sorts of things that they would not have permitted in the normal course of performing their duties. Why did they retreat on Wednesday and allow the building to be retaken? I assume there are some good reasons for letting a mob take over a public building, after hours, and to block the state legislature the following morning. But how dare the police make such an abject public demonstration of their ineffectuality?
He told me that just now, by phone. He got out, and is warning others not to go in. Obviously, it's a terrible fire hazard to make it so people cannot get out of the building easily. Presumably, protesters think it's a good idea to keep the police out, but it is dangerously stupid.
ADDED: Is anyone using the Wisconsin Open Records law to get access to the communications between the police and the protesters?
UPDATE: Meade has been trying to get an authoritative interview from the police. He was over at the Capitol on March 11th and got as far as a police escort into the office of Wisconsin Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs. Tubbs was there, but talking on the phone. He shunted Meade to a secretary, to take Meade's name and number. A phone call was promised. We're still waiting for the phone call.
UPDATE 2: Tubbs called Meade back at 2:15 pm on Saturday to say that the matter is under investigation. He said he'd have more on Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning.


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In the heat of the field or a gray cubicle spaceThats a first verse and a chorus for a really old song of mine and words hit the target these days. I wrote that one quite a while ago, after coming back from a work having had a conversation with "the boss man". I had completed some extra tasks and i did the well but found out in the end that i was being ripped off even thou things where "promised". I ought to have memorized these words to my heart and do what i've been singing.
people slave to stay in this rat race
working just to please the superior man
exploiting you, just because he can
he will rip you off anything you got
you and you and everyone in your block
you gotta watch out for a slavemasters whip
seeing is beliving, this is just a tip
Hail Rasta, never sell your soul
don't fall into temptation of an easy gold
just work for yourself and nobody else
promises promises thats all what he will tell
Hail Rasta, never sell your soul
don't fall into temptation of an easy gold
just work for yourself and nobody else
promises promises.
Its funny thing you know. I'm not a very popular singer in the local circles in sense of mass following but i do get offers to voice songs and gigs. Actually, i do get so many offers that i tend to turn down the offers more than i actually commit into. Once in a while there's someone whom i feel that deserves something but i do need to feel that the respect of doing the works goes both ways in form of respect. Easy way to do archive this is that i ask for a very nominal fee. It doesn't always have to be money, it can be pretty much anything but the most important thing is that I can trust that the other person is man of his word. If i take my time and effort to commit into your time schedule, write a song that i don't intend to voice for anyone else, i consider that to be a show of respect for your works. But in same vain, i expect that you commit to same. This spring i voiced one tune for a few people and was promised a payment of a very nominal amount that wouldn't even cover a studio time if i'd done it elsewhere. I bring in my own gear, i've put time in to write a new song and taken it away from time available for a family. I bring in my own mic, stand & cables which i had to go and fetch from another place. Afterwards, i get messages almost every day for couple of weeks because "you haven't delivered the pics taken in the session".
But when it comes down to getting what was agreed to be paid, i hear nothing. No phone calls, no messages, just nothing unless I ask and even then, few occasions my phonecalls where not even answered as we already had set a date and time where we should meet.
And in the end, i've been accused for "selling my soul" because i'm asking for a reward that this person promised to deliver 3 months ago.
Apparently this fellow did have enough money and time to travel to Denmark and Norway but not some 20km from his house. But hey, atleast i got my song to be played in one session and also im a shitty person for trusting a person to be man of his word and holding his part of the transaction.
I really do feel like i've sold my soul but the reason is definitely something that i've been accused for. I've whored my name and time for sure and for that i'm angry and passing the judgement for myself. Why can't i just keep doing my own stuff and avoid these sorts of people who are there only to exploit others?
Im such an idiot.


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This series extends RE001 – Network, which contains variations with 3-8 circles around a larger center circle. RE074 contains variations with 9-24 circles around a larger circle. When you are constructing complex networks, you can pull from both of these series.
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U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, the only GOP senator seeking re-election in a state won by Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, easily won his primary race Tuesday.
LAS VEGAS — Nevada Republicans made primary night easy, sending U.S. Sen. Dean Heller into a tough battle to save his seat and putting Attorney General Adam Laxalt on the November ballot for governor.
The toughest choice for Democrats was a close battle between Clark County Commission colleagues Steve Sisolak and Christina Giunchigliani — each hoping to be Nevada's first Democratic governor in two decades.
Heller, the only GOP senator seeking re-election in a state won by Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, easily won his primary race Tuesday. He was originally expected to face a tough challenge from Republican Danny Tarkanian until Trump asked him to run for Congress instead.
Heller will face in Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen in November. Rosen also easily won her primary race Tuesday after besting five other candidates.
"The choice this November could not be starker," Heller said in a statement. He added that, "While we've been fighting and delivering for Nevada, the only thing Jacky Rosen has done since getting to Congress is seek a promotion. In Nevada, we call that swampy.
Rosen said representing Nevada in Congress "has been the honor of my life, and I look forward to continuing this service as Nevada's next Senator."
She said in a statement that Heller "has spent the last year letting Nevadans down by breaking his promises to protect our health care, passing a fiscally irresponsible tax bill to benefit his super-wealthy donors, and failing our Dreamers to placate his party's leaders."
On the governor's race, two longtime Democratic voters in Sparks, both 67, parted ways.
Medical technician Pamela Jones said she voted for Sisolak because he seemed more honest. Retired AT&T worker Debora Lee said she went for Giunchigliani because she liked her record in the state legislature.
Both candidates have pledged to stand up to Trump and the National Rifle Association.
Sisolak, 64, is chair of the powerful governing body for Clark County, which includes the Las Vegas Strip and about two-thirds of the state's residents.
But Giunchigliani paints Sisolak as too moderate and has knocked him for receiving an "A-" minus rating from the National Rifle Association in 2012.
Giunchigliani, who goes by "Chris G," is a 63-year-old former state legislator and teacher. She's earned backing from the women's group Emily's List and on Sunday picked up an endorsement from Hillary Clinton.
Interest in the race pushed voter turnout by Tuesday afternoon to a higher level than the 2016 Nevada primary, according to Nevada Deputy Secretary of State for Elections Wayne Thorley.
The winner of the Democratic race will face Laxalt in November. He's a former lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, the grandson of former U.S. Sen. and Nevada Gov. Paul Laxalt and son of former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico.
Trump endorsed Laxalt, who handily won the GOP primary.
Wes Elliott, 70, said he voted for Laxalt because he likes the candidate's character and the fact he's a military veteran.
Another key Trump supporter, Tarkanian, is favored in the Republican race for Nevada's 3rd Congressional District. It is one of two swing seats in Nevada that Democrats are hoping to hold while they make gains elsewhere to win control of the U.S. House.
Tarkanian, the son of former University of Nevada Las Vegas basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, has run unsuccessfully for several offices over the past decade. If he prevails, he'll face wealthy Democratic philanthropist Susie Lee in the general election. Lee defeated six opponents in her primary.
Primary contests for Nevada's other swing district, the 4th Congressional District, are expected to produce a November rematch of two former congressmen, Democrat Steven Horsford and Republican Cresent Hardy. Horsford held the Democratic-leaning seat for one term before losing in 2014 to Hardy. Hardy then lost in 2016 to Democrat Ruben Kihuen, who is not seeking re-election after several women accused him of sexual misconduct.
Incumbent Rep. Mark Amodei defeated conservative activist Sharron Angle in Nevada's 2nd Congressional District.
Voters will also settle about 30 primary battles for state legislative seats. One of those races in Nye County pits incumbent Assembly member James Oscarson of Pahrump against Nevada's most famous pimp, Dennis Hof.
Hof, who starred in the HBO adult reality series "Cathouse," owns half a dozen brothels that could be threatened this year under proposals to ban such businesses in two of the state's seven counties where they're legally operating.


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20 June 2012
Tony Bridgwater, Professor of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been awarded the 'UK Environmental Capital Peterborough Clean Energy' Award. This award recognises outstanding contributions to the development, implementation and promotion of clean energy technologies.
The award was presented to Professor Tony Bridgwater on 28 May 2012 and Peterborough Town Hall by the Lord Mayor of Peterborough, Counsellor George Simons.Peterborough has a long-standing commitment to environmental leadership as the UK Environment Capital. The winner was chosen in collaboration with Peterborough City Council and Cranfield University.
Tony Bridgwater, researcher in bioenergy, has been pioneering the development of thermal biomass conversion and second generation biofuel technologies for over 30 years. Second generation biofuels are produced from non-food crops and wastes and the technologies are more advanced and more efficient than the first generation biofuels which are derived from food crops.
Professor Bridgwater's name has been closely attached to "Fast Pyrolysis", a new technology to transform biomass to liquid through thermochemical conversion. The last decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth for fast pyrolysis research and is now one of the most topical research areas in the bioenergy field. He has driven fast pyrolysis research in the UK for the last 30 years, and encouraged integrated research efforts across Europe during this time. He has established his name among the global bioenergy community, as many current researchers of bioenergy have been trained or connected to his Bioenergy Research Group.
In addition to this, Professor Bridgwater was Technical Director of the UK Flagship SUPERGEN Bioenergy programmes for over eight years. Currently, he has been involved in winning over £25 million in research grants, which established the foundation for the European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI) at Aston University.
During his career Tony Bridgwater has won the following prestigious awards:
Green Leader in the West Midlands in 2011.
Chancellor's Medal in 2010 in recognition to his consistently high level contributions to the success of Aston University.
The Don Klass Award – awarded at tcbiomass 2009 in Chicago, USA in recognition of Professor Bridgwater's extensive contributions to the field of bioenergy, as well as his past efforts as organiser of World Biomass Conferences.
Johannes Linneborn Prize winner – in 2007 at the 15th European Bioenergy Conference for "Outstanding contributions to bioenergy"
Edwin Walker Prize winner – awarded by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for "Best conference transaction publication" in 2002
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The Sugar Thieves have a sultry blues roots foundation, and powerhouse delta sound that will take you back in time. They also come equipped with a fresh new style, high-energy showmanship, and an original song list that brings music enthusiasts, of any age, to their feet to shake that meat! In 2008 and 2009, The Sugar Thieves won the Phoenix Blues Society's AZ. Blues Showdown and were voted best blues band in the state. They went on to compete in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis (Feb. 2009/Jan. 2010) where they were voted one of the top ten unsigned blues bands in the world in 09, and won the "People's Choice" award at the Old Daisy Theatre in 2010. The Sugar Thieves were also voted best Americana band in 09 by the Phoenix New Times' "Summer of Sound Series", and nominated for Best Local Band in Phoenix as well. The singular vision that drives this band is their plight to reintroduce what some call a dying genre, blues music, to younger generations and those that have simply forgotten. But don't think you've heard anything like it before. The Thieves put on a show that's worth writing home about.
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Phonons are the quantum of lattice vibrations in crystals and are not to be confused with photons, the gauge bosons of the electromagnetic force. Apparently, they contribute to heat conduction, but I don't understand why, as this is not explained in course 2062 of Aalto University.
So why is diamond a good heat conductor and how do phonons contribute/are related to this?


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Appeals for Sanjay Dutt, but should he go free?
Actor Sanjay Dutt has received support from not just Bollywood but also from political circles. But the debate on whether he should be shown mercy continues. Hindustantimes.com conducted a survey on this question. Read on to know the results.india Updated: Mar 25, 2013 10:08 IST
The Supreme Court had on Thursday sentenced Bollywood actor Sunjay Dutt to five years in jail after upholding his conviction under Arms Act for illegally possessing prohibited weapons including an AK-56 rifle, which was part of the consignment of weapons and explosives brought to India for the 1993 coordinated serial blasts in Mumbai by Dawood Ibrahim and associates.
The veteran actor said that he believed in the judiciary and would explore legal options after the Supreme Court verdict.
"I still believe in the judiciary. My family is with me and I am still strong," he said in his first reaction to the judgement upholding his conviction in the 1993 case.
Meanwhile, Congress MP Priya Dutt said that their family would explore all the options to seek clemency for her actor-brother Sanjay Dutt.
"As a sister, as a family...we will always stand by him (Sanjay). That is what any loving family will do. It is only logical that as a family we will explore every option," Priya said in a press statement issued in Mumbai.
While Dutt is busy exploring the available legal options, he has been receiving both support and opposition from all sides. The actor has received support from not just Bollywood but also from political circles.
People supporting mercy to Sanjay Dutt:
Digvijay Singh, Congress leader
"Sanjay Dutt is not a criminal, he is not a terrorist. Sanjay Dutt, at a young age, in the atmosphere of that time, thought that perhaps the way Sunil Dutt had been raising his voice against communalism and favoured the minorities, then perhaps he could be attacked," Digvijay Singh, told reporters in New Delhi on Sunday.
"So as an obvious reaction of a kid to do something, if he has committed a mistake then I feel that he has undergone the punishment for it," he said.
Rajiv Shukla, minister of state for parliamentary affairs:
"I know a lot of people have made this appeal. My sympathy is with Sanjay Dutt and his family. He has already suffered a lot but ultimately this decision can only be made by the judiciary."
Justice Markandey Katju, Press Council chief:
"Surely, this is a lesser offence than murder. When the Governor of Maharashtra granted pardon to Nanavati, surely he can grant pardon to Sanjay," Katju said.
Naresh Agarwal, SP leader:
"I would like to appeal to the government to give some relief to Sanjay Dutt so that he can do something for the country."
DP Tripathi, NCP leader:
"Even the Supreme Court found Sanjay Dutt not guilty of terrorist activities. I feel that the Maharashtra government should pardon Dutt and give him a reprieve. Justice Markanday Katju is right in his demand."
Jaya Bachchan, Actor-turned MP:
"He (Dutt) has already been punished enough. Twenty years is almost like life imprisonment. I mean he suffered for twenty years and I think to do this to him at this time..... I am going to personally meet the Governor," Bachchan told reporters outside Parliament House.
Superstar Rajinikanth:
"I was very disturbed when I heard about my friend and a lovely person Sanjay Dutt's verdict. The current support and appeal for his pardon is giving me hope. I pray to god that he gets remedy," Rajinikanth said in a statement.
Priyanka Chopra:
"My heart goes out to Sanju sir and his family..the nicest gentlest person..I pray for some respite for him through our judiciary.. (sic)".
Hrithik Roshan
"I cannot comprehend. I know d law is d LAW. But I can bet my Life 2 say that Sanju sir doesn't deserve this! D most loved man!i stand for Sanjay dutt. (sic)"
Mahesh Bhatt, director
"Man lives in hope and dies in hope! I am hopeful that the apex courts verdict will finally bring enduring peace in Sanjay Dutt's life."
Daboo Ratnani, photographer
"Shattered to Hear about @duttsanjay ...Love Him...He is Like My Elder Brother & has a Pure Heart of Gold. God give Him Strength (sic)"
People opposing mercy to Sanjay Dutt
Gopinath Munde, senior BJP leader:
"Granting any remission to Sanjay Dutt would set a bad precedent. Sanjay Dutt should not be pardoned simply because he is a celebrity."
Balbir Punj, BJP MP:
"Supreme Court has decided as per the law. Supreme Court decision should be honoured otherwise it will be misunderstood that there are two laws - one for poor and another for famous people."
Anna Hazare, social activist:
"Sanjay Dutt should abide by the Supreme Court's decision and serve the sentence given to him."
"The judiciary has given its verdict. It is not proper to interfere with the court judgement."
Panchjanya, RSS mouthpiece:
"On the one hand there are family members of the victims who are looking for lines in the verdict that would cool their anger which has been simmering for the last two decades."
"...On the other hand are those who are crying for the star... that he has two small kids and hundreds of crores are at stake in Bollywood," Panchjanya says.
In a poll conducted by hindustantimes.com, people were asked the question – Should the actor's prison sentence be reduced?
The poll results showed that 40% people voted in support of the actor while 57% people were against reduction of his prison sentence.
Legal options:
Earlier, his lawyer Satish Maneshinde had said he had accepted the punishment handed down by the apex court "as it is".
Maneshinde, who represented Dutt at the trial in the blasts case in the TADA court, said he had spoken to the actor who will have to undergo three-and-a-half more years in jail.
"Sanjay Dutt told me I have accepted the judgement as it is. I have accepted it," Maneshinde said quoting the actor. 'Dutt has accepted SC decision'
The lawyer said though they will pursue the legal course available, "I am not sure what relief he can claim".
"But Sanjay Dutt will abide by the apex court's order of undergoing the sentence of three-and-a-half years in letter and spirit. Three-and-a-half-years is not a long period," he said.
"We have prepared him (for sentence) from the very beginning. Sanjay Dutt is a strong man and will fight for himself," Maneshinde said.
Eminent criminal lawyer Majid Memon, who defended many of the accused in the case, said there was only a "narrow" window open for actor to seek relief after the Supreme Court judgement.
"He has only a narrow window of approaching a larger bench or file a review petition but in that case also, I am afraid that unless stay is granted on today's order, he will have to walk into the prison," Memon told reporters.
Describing as "unfortunate" Dutt's conviction, Memon said since the actor had already undergone 18 months' imprisonment, he was expecting that the apex court, after examining evidence against him and taking into account facts and circumstances singularly applicable to him, could give him the "benefit of sentence undergone".
The story so far:
Sanjay Dutt was convicted by the TADA court for illegal possession of a 9 mm Pistol and a AK-56 rifle which was part of the consignment of weapons and explosives brought to India for the coordinated serial blasts that killed 257 people and injured over 700.
53-year-old Dutt, son of famous bollywood couple late Sunil Dutt and Nargis, has already spent one and half years in jail and was out on bail. Sunil Dutt was a long standing Congressman and was a Union Minister.
Bringing to a closure the appeals by the convicts and the state in the 1993 Mumbai blast case, a bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan upheld the death sentence of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, brother of one of the absconding main conspirators Tiger Memon and life sentences of 16 of the 18 convicts.
The death sentence of 10 others was commuted to life sentence by the court which directed that they will remain in prison till death.
Read more: 1993 Mumbai blasts: a peep into history
How close are we to Dawood? | No home-cooked food for Dutt this time | '3 top actors also got guns' | Judgmnent decoded | Total recall | The verdict | Options for Dutt | Date of serial blasts
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I recently speculated whether Detroit's fiscal problems should be a warning sign for the crowd in Washington.
The answer, of course, is yes, though it's not a perfect analogy. The federal government is in deep trouble because of unsustainable entitlement programs while Detroit got in trouble because of a combination of too much compensation for bureaucrats and too many taxpayers escaping the city.
A better analogy might be to compare Detroit to other local governments. Some large cities in California already have declared bankruptcy, for instance, and you can find the same pattern of overcompensated bureaucrats and escaping taxpayers.
And the same thing may happen to New York City if the next mayor is successful in pushing for more class-warfare tax policy. Here are some excerpts from an excellent New York Post column by Nicole Gelinas:
Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio…thinks New York can hike taxes on the rich and not suffer… De Blasio's scheme is this: Hike income taxes by 13.8 percent on New Yorkers making above half a million dollars annually….After five years, de Blasio would let this tax surcharge lapse, and — he says — find another way to pay.
But there's a big problem with de Blasio's plan. Rich people are not fatted calves meekly awaiting slaughter.
In 2009, the top 1 percent of taxpayers (the 34,598 households making above $493,439 annually) paid 43.2 percent of city income taxes (they made 33.9 percent of income), according to the city's Independent Budget Office. Each of these families paid an average $75,477. No, most people won't up and leave (though if 20 percent did, they'd leave New York with less money than before the tax hike). But they can rearrange their incomes. Unlike most of us, folks making, say, $10 million have considerable control over how and when they get paid. That's because much of their money comes from cashing out a partnership, or selling stock or a house or a painting. To avoid a tax hike, it's easy enough for them to pay themselves earlier by selling their stuff earlier — before the tax hike. The city made $800 million in extra taxes last year because rich people sold their stuff before President Obama increased investment taxes in December. Or, people can pay themselves later — after the five years' worth of higher taxes are up.
Gelinas makes some very important points. She warns that the city would have less money if just 20 percent of rich people escaped. She doesn't think that will happen, but she does explain that rich people can stay but take some simple steps to reduce their taxable income.


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Never Been Kissed is the sixth episode of Glee's second season and the twenty-eighth episode overall. It premiered on November 9, 2010.
With Sectionals near, it is revealed to New Directions that Dalton Academy and The Hipsters are their competition. Will announces the Glee Club's second annual mash-up Boys vs. Girls competition. Will changes the competition with a twist for Kurt so boys perform songs originally written for female artists and the girls to sing songs traditionally sung by male artists. When Kurt tries to prep up the boys, they send him to investigate at Dalton Academy, where he meets Blaine and begins to fall in love. At the same time, Kurt struggles with bullying at school and Coach Beiste is picked after Finn and Sam find an unconventional way of controlling their urges, a few Glee Club members pick up on the strategy and start using it too. But when Coach Beiste gets wind of what they are up to, the Glee Club has some explaining to do.
This episode is the second of four "mash-up contest" episodes, with the first being Vitamin D, the third being Mash Off, and the fourth being Girls (and Boys) on Film.
The episode was directed by Bradley Buecker and written by Brad Falchuk.
PlotThe episode starts off with Finn and Sam taking baths in the locker room. Finn is taking a steaming hot one while Sam is taking an ice bath. Finn asks Sam how he can stand the cold and Sam replies that he gets a lot of it with Quinn, resulting in a flashback that reveals Quinn making out with Sam and refusing to go any further when Sam puts his hand on her thigh, knowing what would happen if they did. Finn and Sam start talking about more kissing and Finn reveals his story about hitting the mailman being his "cool down" during make out sessions. Sam states that he wishes he had a "mailman" and suddenly finds it in Coach Beiste.
We then cut to Sam and Quinn who are making out and Sam needs a "cool down." To cope, he imagines Coach Beiste in suggestive situations. When Quinn asks Sam to say her name, he instead accidentally mutters "Beiste," which results in Quinn going to talk to Sue Sylvester, who immediately comes up with a new plan to get Shannon fired, based completely off of assumptions. Mike and Tina meanwhile are talking in the hallway and Mike reveals Sam's "cool down" secret. Tina suggests they try it out and begin making out in an empty classroom, which results in Tina imagining the coach and muttering "Beiste." The scene then cuts to Sam and Quinn fighting in the hallway, Quinn demanding to know why Sam said Coach's name while they were making out. Sam requests that they speak later, but Quinn refuses to back down and, on Sue's requests, makes a scene. At that moment, Coach Beiste comes up, causing Quinn to panic and flee. Mike walks by and demands that Coach Beiste stay away from "his woman." Coach Beiste, confused, eventually goes to Will Schuester, who reveals the "cool down" method that he had recently talked the club out of.
This ultimately leads to Coach feeling horrible and depressed. It leads to her actually wanting to quit. We find this out through Sue, who calls Will into the auditorium and reveals that Coach Beiste quit, firing her confetti canons. Will catches Beiste cleaning out her office and tries to convince her to stay, telling that the New Direction kids will apologize and make it up to her. Beiste refuses and starts to leave before Will demands that she stay and talk. They have a heart-to-heart, in which Beiste reveals that she's never been kissed, and that she feels lonely and ugly. Will states that she's beautiful, inside and out, and gives her an innocent kiss. He also invites her to come over to the Glee Club tomorrow at four.
As Sectionals draws closer the schools that New Directions are competing against are revealed. New Directions is having another "Guys vs. Girls," in which they have to sing songs directed towards the other gender, with girls doing more rock-and-roll and boys performing numbers originally intended for women, after a suggestion from Kurt to Will. Kurt tries to take action for the boys' team, but after being jokingly rejected and insulted by Puck and the others, Kurt decides to "spy" on the Dalton Academy glee club, where he meets Blaine Anderson, an openly gay student. He sees them singing Teenage Dream. The guys from Dalton Academy quickly figure out that Kurt is a spy, but state they won't beat him up since he was such a lousy spy they thought it was kind of endearing. Which leads Blaine to suspect there might be an ulterior motive for Kurt to come to Dalton Academy. Kurt states he's the only open gay kid at his school, which leads to bullying, and Blaine can relate to this, having left his old school for the same reason. He then encourages Kurt to stand up against Karofsky who has been bullying him now worse than ever. After receiving a text from Blaine saying "Courage," Kurt finally stands up to Karofsky in the empty locker room, saying "You can't punch the gay out of me any more than I can punch the ignoramus out of you," as which results in Karofsky kissing Kurt passionately on the lips, stunning Kurt and showing that Karofsky has been channeling his confusion about his sexual orientation through bullying Kurt. Where after Kurt and Blaine attempt to talk to Karofsky about his orientation, but he reacts angrily and pushes Blaine away. Blaine tells Kurt that Dave isn't going to come out anytime soon, but this does not cheer Kurt up. When asked what's wrong Kurt admits to that being his first kiss that really mattered. After this confession, there is a short silence and Blaine offers to buy Kurt lunch.
Puck gets out of juvie early, sporting earrings and a mohawk again, promising to do community service. He uses Artie as his community service, albeit in the misguided way of showing him how to make money. They sing One Love (People Get Ready) in the backyard of the school. Then, Puck teaches Artie how to attract girls by being rude to them. At one point Puck and Artie have a double date with Santana and Brittany at Breadstix, but when the bill comes, Puck tells everyone to make a dine-n-dash, but Artie follows his conscience and stays to pay for the bill. This upsets Puck, resulting in him leaving Artie at Breadstix to take the short bus home. Music for the mash-up of Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer and during the performance Becky walked in to give Mr. Schue a note from Sue Sylvester. He then tells Artie that he is getting a little sucky sucky. Puck is eventually confronted by a woman from juvie, who thought that he would be reaching out to gang members.
She tells him that hanging out with Artie is not an acceptable community service. This leads him to have a meltdown, shouting that nobody is really interested in helping him and he storms out. Later, Artie finds him and Puck tells Artie that he is planning to run away, confessing that he doesn't want to pick up trash on the highway, but he doesn't want to go back to juvie because it was a terrifying experience. Artie convinces him to pick up the trash for his community service, promising him that if he does, he will tutor him in geometry and make sure that he passes their next exam, or at least buy him a lifetimes worth of waffles.
The guys from Glee Club wants to apologize to Coach Beiste and decide to dedicate their mash-up to her, stating they really feel sorry for their actions. They sing a mash up of Stop! In the Name of Love/Free Your Mind in a form of apology. After their song Coach Beiste admits that it was pretty good and she accepts their apology, ending in them hugging it out.
|Song Title
|Original Artist
|One Love (People Get Ready)
|Bob Marley & The Wailers
|Artie Abrams and Noah Puckerman
|Teenage Dream
|Katy Perry
|Blaine Anderson with
the Dalton Academy Warblers
|Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer
|The Rolling Stones/Bon Jovi
|New Directions Girls
|Stop! In the Name of Love/
Free Your Mind
|The Supremes/En Vogue
|New Directions Boys
Guest Stars
- Iqbal Theba as Principal Figgins
- Dot-Marie Jones as Shannon Beiste
- Harry Shum Jr. as Mike Chang
- Chord Overstreet as Sam Evans
- Max Adler as Dave Karofsky
- Darren Criss as Blaine Anderson
- Michael Hyatt as Joan Martin
- Josh Sussman as Jacob Ben Israel
- Telly Leung as Wes
- Jeanine Anderson as Waitress Sandy
- Titus Makin Jr. as David
- Ashley Fink as Lauren Zizes
- Lauren Potter as Becky Jackson
- This episode marks the first appearance of Darren Criss as Blaine Anderson, who would later become a member of the Main Cast.
- Heather Morris stated that Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer was her favorite performance to do because she got to wear leather, which was a dream of hers.
- Heather Morris said that during the rehearsals of Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer she accidentally dropped the mic on Lea Michele's head when she picked it up for her to sing.
- Dot said that she was shy when kissing Matthew Morrison.
- This episode was watched by 10.99 million viewers.
- This episode was featured in Ology.com's ranking of The 25 Best TV Episodes Ever 2011.
- In a deleted scene, Emma appears and sees Will kiss Beiste.
- When Kurt checks his iPhone during Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer, he has 124 unread mails.
- Every sixth episode of a season (including this one) involves mash-up/mash-off. This trend was broken in Season 4 when Glease did not feature a mash up competition.
- After the episode aired, Teenage Dream reached #1 on the ITunes download charts, and it still is the most successful released song from the show.
- Originally, there were different mash-ups, with different soloists Source
- At one point during the performance of Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer you can see Dianna Agron trip over her microphone stand.
- When Rachel yells "spies" to Puck and Artie, she points with her left hand. On the next shot, she has her right hand pointing.
Blaine: I take it you're having trouble with school.
I think I just found my mailman.
Puck: You're my boy now.
Well, he's not coming out anytime soon.
—Blaine about David Karofsky
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Almost as if Blizzard heard my cries about wanting a female spokesperson for World of Warcraft in the wake of the Chuck Norris debacle, it debuted this "What's Your Game" ad spot featuring Aubrey Plaza of Parks and Recreation fame. She plays herself (or perhaps a bit of her April Ludgate character from the show) talking about her boyfriend getting her this game for her birthday and subsequently dumping him when she realizes she likes the game more than him.
The video is funny enough, however there has been some criticism amongst some of the gamers I know about how it still relies on the "bitchy girlfriend who isn't into video games" trope in order to be funny. I would say it is a little bit of that but manages to turn it on its ear by the end. The line about wanting diamonds is the crux of that criticism; advertisements, especially around the holiday season, tout a lot of heterosexual marriage proposals and buying a diamond for your special lady. So Aubrey wanting diamonds, even as a joke, could be seen to play into that. It also seems like the boyfriend is talking about the ever-popular Minecraft at first, considering how mining for diamonds is somewhat of a thing.
In the end though, the insensitive boyfriend is tossed on his butt and Aubrey goes on to enjoy the game as her own person. As a Horde player, presumably, judging by her shirt. While I'm glad that Blizzard decided to go with a woman celebrity, and especially a funny one at that, the idea that she didn't get the game on her own still sticks in my craw. I want to see her playing an undead mage or something!
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TuneRanger connects iTunes-running computers over a network, allowing music, video, and playlists to be copied from one iTunes library to another seamlessly. TuneRanger even works across platforms letting iTunes on Windows communicate and synchronize with iTunes on Mac or any combination. TuneRanger offers true synchronization. It compares songs and videos on all computers and only moves what has changed. It even does this for playlists.
What's New in TuneRanger
- Fixes a rare crashing bug that affected some users.
- Updated main window interface icons.
- Compatible with iTunes 9.


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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
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Evolution of Model-Driven Engineering - Three PerspectivesZeit: Tue 12.5.2015, 13:00, 60 Minuten
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ZusammenfassungAlready, in 1974 Lehman and Belady expressed a couple of laws on software evolution. The probably most well-known amongst them being the law of continuing change. 40 years later it is still an accepted fact and challenge that software changes and will change. However, new development paradigms have diversified and shaped the way developers work today. For example, in the 1990s the Unified Modeling Language (UML) came up, accompanied by the introduction of model-driven development paradigms, which also include the partial automation of software development. Roughly speaking: there are no more only humans, but also software systems that develop software systems. Unsurprisingly, the software systems that are used for software development (called MDE in the following) evolve, too. While research provides already automation support for some aspects of this evolution, other ones are still not completely understood. In this talk, I will provide an overview about three perspectives on MDE-evolution that are subject to my ongoing research: 1) the microscopic perspective, targeting at the evolution of modeling languages and the consequences for related artifacts, 2) the macroscopic perspective, targeting at the evolution of complete MDE settings, i.e. combinations of different (modeling) languages and automation technologies, and 3) the context perspective, targeting at the question what happens to organizational aspects, such as processes, when MDE evolves.
VortragenderRegina Hebig is a postdoctoral researcher, at the Laboratoire d?informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris since start of 2014. She did her PhD at the University of Potsdam in Germany, where she also finished her master?s degree. Her research focusses on the use of modeling technologies and software processes. Therefore, she uses empirical research as a basis to enable and inform the development of new research approaches, e.g. on model management or language evolution support. Regina is engaged in the organization of the Model-Driven Processes and Practices (MD2P2) workshop, which aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners who want to tackle the challenges associated to introducing modeling techniques within legacy development practices.
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Its that time of the year, again. The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in November 2010.
In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Strawberry Perl and Perl on a Stick, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others (just check http://www.perlfoundation.org/completed_grants for more references).
You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you!
Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but just need that little extra help? Submit a grant proposal by October 31.
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On November 1st, proposals will be made available publicly (on this blog) for public discussion, as it happened in the previous rounds. So, please make it clear in your proposal if it should not be public, and why.


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A ceremony to dedicate signs marking the Santa Fe Trail in Marion County will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Cottonwood Crossing Historic Interpretive Kiosk, 1.5 miles west of Durham on 290th Road.
Dignitaries representing the National Park Service, Santa Fe Trail Association, and county government will take part in the ceremony to celebrate the placing of more than 100 signs.
Marion County is the first county in which the Santa Fe National Historic Trail "family of signs" has been fully implemented.


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So I always see these quizzes floating around facebook and I think some are hilarious (but I RARELY post the results because honestly who wants to have their feed filled with useless information like which Downton Abbey character you are?)
I still think they're funny to take.
So I took a few this morning.
First up, what accent do I have?
Apparently, North Central.
I find this amazing considering that I have spent the majority of my life in Texas and I do have a twang.
I also find it incredibly fascinating that one of the towns listed on this map is "Chisholm" and that is my maiden name. Coincidence?
Next up, which Downton Abbey character am I?
Matthew Crawley.
Now, to be fair, the quiz did not ask my gender.
I do find it a little sad that this shows me as dead though.
Finally, what state should I live in?
Originally when I took this several months ago, the quiz showed that West Virginia was the ideal state for me. West. Virginia.
Today however, the Great Lakes were the answer.
Considering that my accent is Minnesotan, I think this to be quite fitting.
And just for the record, we have no plans on moving out of the state.


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KALAMAZOO—Dr. Walter L. Burt, associate professor of educational leadership, research and technology, has been appointed interim dean of the College of Education and Human Development at Western Michigan University.
Burt replaces Dr. Van Cooley, who had been serving as interim dean but died suddenly July 31. Burt's appointment is effective Oct. 15 through June 30, 2013, pending approval by the WMU Board of Trustees.
"Walter Burt brings to the college many years of education leadership," says WMU Provost Timothy Green. "I'm very appreciative of his willingness to step in and lead the college after Van Cooley's untimely death. He will lead the college while we continue our search for a permanent dean."
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Prior to coming to WMU in 2004, Burt was project manager in the District Alliance Programs of the Stupski Foundation in Mill Valley, Calif., for a year. The position put him in charge of facilitating districtwide reform in the New Haven (Conn.) and Paterson (N.J.) schools.
He served as superintendent of the Pontiac (Mich.) School District from 1999 to 2003, and the district's board asked him last November to serve as interim superintendent of schools through August 2012. His main duties in that role included developing a state-approved deficit elimination
plan for the financially strapped system as well as an approved district reorganization plan.
Burt also has served as a school administrator in Gary, Ind., and in the Michigan cities of Flint, Grand Rapids and Albion. He began his career in education as a private and public school teacher in Muskegon, Mich.
Burt has co-written three books and written or co-written several journal articles and technical reports. He focuses his research on educational leadership, with particular emphasis on leadership development of school administrators in urban school settings.
While at the University, Burt has worked on a variety of state and federal grant projects, including serving as a co-principal investigator for the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs project and as a research associate for Wallace Foundation and U.S. Department of Education projects.
He is a former Mott Foundation Fellow, an Urban Health Initiative Fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a graduate of the Broad Foundation Fellows Executive Management Program for Urban Superintendents.
Burt was an adjunct professor in WMU's Department of Educational Leadership from 1974 to 1998, and also has taught or lectured at Aquinas College, Grand Valley State University, Wayne State University and University of Michigan.
He earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Alcorn State University in 1967, a master's degree in educational administration from Eastern Michigan University in 1972 and a doctoral degree in educational administration from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1975.


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The DOT is working on a section of road near one of my caches and yesterday we noticed that they were starting to replace guardrails. So when they got through work for the day I dashed down to retrieve the cache and temporarily disable it. But when I got there, I was too late. :( There was a shiny new guardrail. But then I went and looked and guess what? They had very carefully replaced the cache for me in the new section, even a good hide! Bless their little DOT hearts!:D Maybe it wasn't the first GRC they had seen??? You think.....????:rolleyes:


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I want you to try something. Walk around your department or organization, and ask people how creative they are. Say something like "Would you say you're not as creative as most people, just as creative as most people, or more creative than most people?"
And then watch them squirm.
It's an interesting question to hear people answer, both in terms of how they answer the question and why they answer the question the way they do. Most seem to fidget, at least momentarily, or look off into the distance as if the answer were inscribed on some distant wall and they were trying to make it out.
After the pause, you'll get one of the three options listed in the original question. In their minds, they're either not as creative as most people, just as creative as most people, or more creative than most people.
The follow-up question, then, is "Why do you think that?"
This is where it seems to get more difficult for folks to answer. The reason for this–at least partly–is that people have all these strange notions in their heads about what "creativity" or "being creative" is. Some people equate creativity with wearing skinny jeans, having unkempt hair, and producing some sort of art, be it on a sheet of music or a piece of canvas. In many minds, that's a picture of what a creative person is and looks like.
Others have a broader view of creativity. They see creativity as being able to occur on a grand scale or a not-so-grand scale. They see it in pieces of art, and they see it in cleverly constructed spreadsheets. They see it in beautifully-crafted original music, and they note it in how organizations treat and relate to their people.
You see, the thing we've got to get our teams and organizations to understand is that most people are creative in some way, shape, or form and to some degree. Most people, given the right environment and tools, can be creative in that they can think of new ways to do things, or time after time find ways to make things that are already good, better.
So one key for leaders, then, is to find ways to create environments for people that allow them to exercise that creativity. Create venues for them to explore their creativity–whatever that looks like for them–and make your team and organization better.
The other key–and this one is likely a prerequisite–is helping your team and organization understand that creativity is about more than wearing skinny jeans. It looks different from person to person, both in its degree and its expression.
As organizations and leaders, it's incumbent upon us to find ways to unlock the creativity in people, and help them discover things about themselves that they may not yet see.


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Hi, I'm new to the board. I am deciding between attending Catholic and Howard because of their location. Any suggestions on which one is better? BTW, Howard did not give me any money, Catholic gave me a $15,000 scholarship.
Thanks for the input! I didn't attend a HBCU for undergrad and really wanted that experience. I plan on staying local regardless (I'm from MD). As far as prestige, I'm not that concerned as long as I can find a job. I have a lot to consider before April 1st.


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Thanks HQ. Speaking of us Supporters being more technologically advanced than the Club's currently available resources, I would happily pay a Subscription to be able to watch Quins games (mainly Away Fixtures in my case) live on some sort of Online Feed. The TV Companies have the resource but don't seem to want to sweat it a little.
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We are constantly letting go.
I'm reminded of this lately by my sister, who is writing a lovely blog called One Item a Day about her plan this year to get rid of one thing per day. It's a brilliant idea. The blog is sweet and poignant, extremely personal. It's all about letting go.
It's funny because in November I went through my wine cellar to do something similar. For one reason or another, I have many wines, mostly older ones, that need to be let go. Some are sure to be great, but they apparently need special occasions that never seem to come. Others are past their best, probably anyway, and that uncertainty is part of what makes letting go so much harder. Will it be a let down? I write that and I think, so what? It's just a bottle of wine. And yet here we are. Surely it's about more than just wine.
remember that birthday was particularly poignant for me. This bottle, only connected to that moment by chance, became part of that day, a foggy, misty memory now, Edenic.
Imagine a book that dissolves as you read it. That's how wine is. A memory. So this bottle sat, unopened, until November when I lined it up with many others and resolved to treat it differently than I had. To confront things, in a way. Then the other night I pulled the cork, a little nervous. Would I be disappointed? The wine tasted decent but was a little herbal and soft, the negatives compounded by enough age that the flavors simply lacked life. The wine wasn't dead at all, just gone. We often speak of a wine that sings. This wine was silent. I wanted it to be so good, better than it had any reason to be. It wasn't, and I should have known better.
A post from last weekend on my sister's blog brought all of this together for me. She wrote about finding long lost x-rays of her son's troubled esophagaus, from one point among others in his young life when she and her husband weren't sure he would survive the complications of Down's syndrome. About her tears finding something she forgot she even had, the old x-rays, and the feeling of how can something you forgot you had trigger such emotion and be so difficult to let go? Of course, we know the answer. We can all relate, no? It doesn't make it easier though.
That post in turn reminded me of a Lorrie Moore's devastating "People Like That Are The Only People Here." That story captures unlike any other how parenting must be about letting go. No matter what. The same with children I suppose. We are constantly letting go.


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We're Cruisin' into Illinois' past with an archeological adventure. More than a thousand years ago, Native-Americans built the mysterious city of Cahokia near modern-day St. Louis. Scholars can't fully explain the pyramid-like mounds at Cahokia or why residents suddenly abandoned the site, close to 1400 AD. But just a few miles away in East St. Louis, archeologists are starting to piece together the mystery.
While excavating for the new Musial Veterans Memorial Bride, excavators with the Illinois Department of Transportation made a startling discovery. And their once-in-a-lifetime find is drawing world-wide attention.


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Smartphones are getting faster, lighter, and increasingly more capable, but their batteries can't seem to keep up. These days, you'd be hard-pressed to find one that can make it an entire day on a single charge—some are barely capable of going 4 hours before running dry. Good battery life is important, especially on a device as portable as a phone.
We take battery life seriously here at TechHive: All of the phones we review are put through rigorous tests that allow us to examine the device's battery life in a controlled environment. First, we reset the phone to factory settings and set the screen brightness to 200 candelas per square meter—or about medium brightness. We then put the phone into Airplane Mode to prevent it from pinging mobile and wireless networks, and we make it loop a 720p video until its battery is completely drained. Our lab analysts ensure that testing goes off without a hitch, and record how long devices last before giving up.
We've tested dozens of handsets over the last 12 months, and our data has revealed the five smartphones that offer the best battery performance—as well as the five phones that will have you hunting for an outlet.
The Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD currently holds the top spot on our battery life rankings, scoring just over 12 hours of use on a single charge thanks to its massive 3300mAh battery. The AT&T and T-Mobile versions of the Samsung Galaxy Note II take the second and third spots, respectively, followed by the Motorola Droid Razr HD in fourth place. Coming in fifth is the unlocked Apple iPhone 4S, which has a battery life of 8 hours and 54 minutes.
On the other end of the spectrum you have the Sony Xperia Ion, an average phone with below average battery life. The Ion scored 6 hours and 33 minutes of runtime in our test, putting it slightly ahead of the Pantech Burst (6 hours and 29 minutes) and the HTC Windows Phone 8X (6 hours and 22 minutes). The LG Viper 4G LTE has a battery life of 5 hours and 56 minutes, close to half of what you get on the AT&T Galaxy Note II. The dubious honor of smartphone with the worst battery performance belongs to the HTC Rezound. With a battery life of 4 hours and 41 minutes, the Rezound is one phone where picking up an extended battery is more a necessity than an option.
The iPhone 5, Nexus 4, and the rest
Most of the phones we tested scored between 7 to 8 hours of battery life—long enough to keep you from being tethered to an outlet. On average, Motorola's phones have the best battery life, followed by Apple's iPhones. Phones with keyboards, like the Motorola Droid 4, tend to score better than those without, and unlocked versions of phones tend to have significantly better battery life than their carrier-tied counterparts. The reason being that keyboard-toting smartphones have larger batteries at the cost of being bulkier, and unlocked smartphones aren't plagued by the excess software that ships on their carrier cousins.
Another trend we noticed is that all of the phones we tested that have quad-core processors (save for the Galaxy Note II) suffer from mediocre battery life: Google's flagship phone, the quad-core Nexus 4, barely manages to stay out of the bottom five with a battery life of 6 hours 52 minutes. Based on this data, it might be best to hold off on picking up a quad-core phone if you value battery life over raw performance, at least until manufacturers get the battery situation sorted out.
Smartphones will continue to improve when it comes to power efficiency, and it'll be interesting to see what results we get this time next year. With luck, more smartphones will boast all-day battery life, and we'll finally be able to finally leave our chargers at home, where they belong.


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