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Nor is it pining for the fjords.
First sign a technology is dying: supporters start writing articles stating [technology] is not dead.
Ron Savage asserts on my blog:
Whether you like YAML or not, it's effectively dead and gone. Accept this reality and forget it.
- No supporting argument
- No Link
- No alternative evidence
It's the first time I've heard anyone say this, and normally I'd dismiss a naked assertion like this out of hand. But I'm not too invested in YAML at this point (although getting more invested all the time) and it is probably worth a few minutes digging to avoid several months of time wasted. Whether it is worth the extra minutes to write this blog post is debatable however 🙂
So first of all I search at duckduckgo.com for
"YAML is dead". None of the first 30 links I glance at are talking about YAML's moribundity.
Next I look at Stack Overflow. 170 questions tagged YAML vs 3,554 tagged JSON (10,978 tagged xml). But I'm not particularly worried about popularity, otherwise I'd be using Java over Perl right? A lot of the YAML questions are fairly recent and have responses.
That's enough for me. It has parsers, a perl module and it looks far nicer than JSON. I'm going to stick with it.

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The Goodguys Hot Rod Nationals Hits Driving Age in Indy
Indianapolis is a car town, plain and simple. It has long held a reputation for speed and performance thanks to national- and international-scale motorsports events such as the NHRA U.S. Nationals and Indianapolis 500. For the last 16 years it has also played host to one of the premier outdoor rod, custom, and nostalgia drag racing events in the country, the Goodguys Hot Rod Nationals.Simply put, Goodguys Indy is the place to see and be seen for thousands of rod and custom enthusiasts from coast to coast but particularly for those in the nation's midsection. It typically serves as a "coming out" party for many pro builders' latest creations and an annual reunion for the thousands of folks who return every spring. Early June scheduling means it also kicks off the big summer show season in the central part of the country.
This year's Hot Rod Nats, held June 11-13 at Indianapolis Raceway Park, continued the tradition with style. Thousands of cars filled the show 'n' shine field, hundreds of racers burned rubber down the 'strip, and all in attendance seemed thrilled to be surrounded by so much neat old iron. Another Indy tradition–rain–played its part on Saturday and Sunday, but most folks seemed to take it in stride, even when their tires settled into the soggy soil. A rain-shortened racing schedule was probably the weekend's biggest disappointment.
Wet weather or not, there was still plenty of fun to be had in Indy. Whether you were participating in the Indy 500 Track Cruise, vying for a Boyd Coddington Pro's Pick, shopping for bargains in the swap meet, watching the fuel-burning diggers, drinking Pabst in the new Garage Grown area, or simply cruising the hotel parking lots at night, you were sure to find plenty of like-minded individuals to share the experience. After all, this is Indy, the most car-friendly city in the country.


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The Lincoln Earth Day Planning Committee has extended the deadline to register for Earth Day sponsorships, exhibits and activities. The City will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with events from April 16 through 24. The deadline to apply or register for these opportunities is now Monday, April 12. Earth Day events are supported by Mayor Chris Beutler's Cleaner Greener Lincoln initiative.
Opportunities to be involved in Earth Day include the following:
More information is available at lincolnearthday.org. Those wishing to volunteer for the Day of Service, the Day of Celebration or other environmental activities also can register at that Web site. More information on the international Earth Day Network is available at earthday.net.


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Philosophers over the centuries have struggled to come to terms with what a human is, at heart: are we rational or primarily emotional beings? If current research is to believed, it would seem that the answer to that question is "yes". Humans are both rational and emotional. Which means that we are often irrational for emotional reasons. But, according to Jonathon Haidt (in The Righteous Mind, reviewed this blog), it appears that the notion that we can detach our reason from our emotions is a bit of a pipe dream, as it seems that the emotions are a vital support system for our intellect and reason.
On consideration this makes sense. After all, both our emotions and our reason have evolved together for a long, long time. If one or the other were superfluous, one or the other would have been cast adrift (by natural selection) a long time ago. This by no means tells us that our particular blend of feeling and thinking are the perfect answer to meeting life's challenges. It only tells us that this combination is what came of the raw animal materials evolution had to work with, and that it was sufficient to the challenge of our specie's survival.
There have been a rash of studies of late comparing the so-called "liberal" and "conservative" mind. I have no doubt that there is validity to the comparisons that show that "conservative" minded people crave stability over novelty, and that the "liberal" minded are just the opposite. (The potentially nefarious aspect of this news is the way in which this "fact" can be employed as yet one more cudgel to minimize the views of one's political enemies. Science is always influenced by the cultural ideas current in the society at large, so I am awaiting the further research that will put these findings in a more complete perspective).
But in the meantime, we are left with the realization that not all human minds work in the same way. Certainly we are all on a limited spectrum, so we're not really talking apples and car alarms here, but variations on a theme. As Haidt points out in his research (described so well in The Righteous Mind), all of us humans have a moral sense, but this sense turns out to act more like a collection of different moral "taste buds" than universally-calibrated on and off switches. Which means the thing that morally outrages me may only mildly bother you. This, I think, is clearly true, and it is the main reason that liberals and conservatives can shout at each other all the live long day and not make a dent in each other's views.
This is the damnable and frustrating thing about this kind of knowledge: it seems to make any idea of human unanimity appear ever more remote. We may have moved a great distance from our original blood-kin tribalism, but we remain tribal to a large degree, and our current level of tribalism may have moved beyond the nationalism that marked the last few centuries of our history to a more ideological form of in-group identification. Hence, the rationalist idea that one can simply educate an uninformed person with facts and thereby change that person's opinion is proving unequal to the challenge of obliterating the many strains of dangerous ignorance that plague our species.
Of course I'm thinking of one of the great current divides, which is that between Islam and "the West" (which could just as easily be called "Christiandom", though with much qualification). Never mind that the fundamentalist Christian and the fundamentalist Muslim have much more in common than they would care to admit, they would certainly consider themselves as inhabiting completely opposite world views.
And this is where we can find as good of an example as any of one of the great unacknowledged barriers to a reason-based shift in worldview: identity.
Being the profoundly social animals that we are, we seek out other humans among whom we feel comfortable and understood. And so we might join a church with a list of doctrines that we can easily assent to, and thereafter shape ourselves ever more like our fellow church members in both our moral likes and dislikes. It's easy to see that membership groups like this are not random cross-sections of a variety of people, but tend to be naturally self-selecting populations. (As my brother Chuck once told me: "A church is a group of people who all share the same sin").
And so it immediately becomes apparent why any human who has identified with one group or another would be doubly resistant to a radical change in their views on any topic that is important to their inclusion in the group. Add to this the reality that our brains process information that comes from a trusted source by first believing it without question, and doubting it only after much extra post-hoc effort, and you have a naturally strong resistance to change.
There is, of course, another barrier to consensus, and that is found in those whose worldview happens to be one that does not easily align with physical reality. I'm talking here about "faith" positions, that allow any and all kinds of physical phenomenon to be interpreted in a way that confirms religious or ideological world views. For example, a natural weather event such as a hurricane, or the explosion of a meteor over Russia, will be taken as events with a spiritual (as opposed to a natural) cause. This kind of thinking creates what I'd call an "insulated ignorance", meaning it is a lack of knowledge that is active in preserving a certain informational vacuum (active far beyond the usual passing discomfort any of us feels when having to admit we were wrong on a fact). We see this especially with regards to historic worldviews that have been carried forward into a period of history where science continues to present factual challenges that — if these worldviews are to survive — simply must not be accepted. They are living artifacts of human ignorance, fighting tooth and nail for their very lives.
So when we look at the reality of how most humans really operate, the real question turns out to be not why more people aren't open to changing their minds, but why we thought people could easily change their minds in the first place?
Liberal or conservative, it turns out that most humans are innately conservative (at least if we consider the "moderate" human to also be "conservative" in relation to the "liberal" members of the tribe). In evolutionary terms, this mix makes sense. Every tribe needs risk takers to rise to unusual challenges, but it also needs those who are more attuned to staying home and keeping the woodpile stocked and the tent mended. And there is a reason that most religious conversations occur among the young (whose personalities are still very much in flux), and much more rarely in adults (who have already begun to "lock in" to their ideology).
I see myself as having become someone who responds to evidence, and who is willing to change his mind about things when facts prove me wrong. Now, one could argue that I'm no better at this than any other human, but I don't think that case would be strong. True, I'm susceptible to all of the quirks of a human brain whose reason is linked to feeling, but I have also taken advantage of the plasticity of the brain and have developed a relationship between my feelings and my thinking so that it actually feels better for me to see that my views are aligned with our physical reality as much as possible. For a human, I think I do pretty well on that score. But that's the thing. I am still human.
And I can't assume that others experience anything like the "positive" feelings I do when absorbing certain (potentially) unnerving scientific facts. For instance, I feel okay accepting the reality that I am most likely not a divine or spiritual being connected to any sort of intelligent creator, or that my body is an evolved version of the body-plan of a lobe-finned fish, or that any and all sense of my self as a distinct personality will cease as soon as my brain stops working. I've worked to make my peace with these evidence-based ideas.
But, then, I am not deeply invested in a church group with the added group-binding agents of a wife and children and extended family. True, there was a time when my fall from belief was a source of conflict (and led to ruptured relationships) but that time has (mostly) passed. I do still worry that my words or actions (as they broadcast my deeply-held views) will offend others or damage vital personal relationships. Because, let's face it, ours is a culture that is permeated with religious and quasi-religious beliefs, be they Christian or "New Age", and so my (irreligious) views are always going to be at odds with the majority of my fellow humans (even most of my closer friends). Fortunately for all of us, part of our innate social sense is to make allowance for those we love, and it is in the space carved out by such selective social blindness that we find room to stay close to each other, even when we hold very different views on important matters.
Plus, knowing that I am not immune to being wrong (I do have a human brain, after all), I have to maintain a certain humility about even the things that I am most firmly convinced are true (especially those things). And it is this humility among thoughtful people that allows profound ideological differences to coexist without triggering deep social disruption.
There could yet be a wave of reason that will sweep across the globe, dampening the fires of religious extremism or the blinders of ideological dogmatism. Maybe when that happens there will be enough "safety in numbers" that the more "conservative" questioning humans will be willing to jump ship, confident that they won't be the only ones foregoing the security of their ideological group.
But in the meantime we are left with the unsettling reality that a substantial percentage of humans are resistant (to a greater or lesser degree) to the penetration into their reason of the scientific evidence as it pertains to their own existence. Reality may, indeed, have a "liberal" bias. But humans, most certainly, do not.
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'71 Lions secure their place in history
Huw Richards
August 12, 2011
British & Irish Lions scrum-half Gareth Edwards makes the break that lead to Peter Dixon scoring for the Lions © Getty Images
Context is all. Certain matches will always be memorable, whatever the quality of the rugby played. Ask anyone who was at any of the six World Cup finals so far - even the supreme dud that was 2007 - and they'll tell you so. Yet would we remember any of them for the straightforward quality of play?
The same evidently applied 40 years ago this weekend when the All Blacks took on the British & Irish Lions in the final match of a four-Test series at Eden Park, Auckland. It was two weeks on from the match described in the previous article in this series, the third Test at Dunedin, where an 11-3 win had given the Lions a 2-1 lead.
All Black captain Colin Meads pointed congratulation to the tourists on 'drawing the series' but had made it clear they had no intention of letting their unbeaten record in Lions series slip without an immense battle. The tourists stood on the verge of a triumph unmatched since the earliest days of touring, when the hosts had still been novices in the game - a series victory over one of the southern hemisphere giants. Their predecessors of 1955 had led 2-1 in South Africa, only to go down 22-8 in the final Test.
As tour chronicler John Reason wrote: "No one looking at images on film, or reading words on paper, will ever be able to feel the tension that gripped not only Eden Park but also the whole of New Zealand and the whole of the rugby communities of Great Britain and Europe. Making history was an agonising business."
The outcome, he reckoned, was a match that the detached observer might consider a 'last act of the drama not worthy of the rest of the play'. It was a match in which the teams, as Meads wryly concluded afterwards, the teams reversed their roles. As he told his Lions counterpart John Dawes: "You've always claimed that your Lions are the ball-handlers in this series - but we did that today and all your guys did was kick!"
Dawes conceded that Meads was right, but told biographer David Parry-Jones: "To secure our place in history, we simply had to play winning rugby. Otherwise our mission was doomed to be less than historic."
The Lions had already sealed one piece of history, completing a clean sweep of all 20 matches in New Zealand outside the Tests. But there too, the pressures of nearing achievement had told. The final two matches saw them pressed hard by a North Auckland team containing three Going brothers among their backs before winning 11-5, then outscored by three tries to two by Bay of Plenty and rescued by the goal-kicking of fullback Bob Hiller, whose 11 points in a 20-14 victory took him to the unprecedented feat of twice scoring 100 points on a Lions tour. Yet Hiller never played in a Test match for the Lions, finding himself stuck first behind tour captain Tom Kiernan in South Africa in 1968, then the incomparable J.P.R Williams in 1971.
That the Lions would complete their mission looked highly unlikely in the opening minutes as the All Blacks charged into an 8-0 lead. Tension was evident from the start, with the Lions making a series of errors and the All Blacks' Peter Whiting, usually mild-mannered, punching opposite number Gordon Brown at an early line-out.
Brown went off for treatment to his mouth and while the Lions were down to 14 men, the All Blacks called a set move that involved the No.8 standing off, dummying to the blind side and then passing to a runner on the open side. Reason reported that the Lions had been waiting for this move all series and knew it so well that they were aware of the All Blacks code for it. The problem was that, with Brown off, their No.8 Mervyn Davies - whom Meads was later to bracket with centre Mike Gibson as the key member of the touring party - had to change his positioning.
All Blacks No.8 Alex 'Grizz' Wyllie carried through his appointed role and first five-eighth Wayne Cotterell exchanged passes with centre Mick Duncan and went over for a try, still worth only three points at this time. Fullback Laurie Mains converted, then added a penalty to make it 8-0.
One New Zealand account expresses bafflement that the Lions, needing a result, opted to play conservatively at this point, but Dawes' reasoning was simple. As he told Reason: "We had to stop them scoring again. You can come back from 8-0, but 11-0 or 13-0 is a different proposition."
The Lions held on until just before half-time before Barry John, who had earlier amazed his team-mates by missing from short range, landed a penalty. Dawes would have been happy, given the poor start, with 8-3 at the break. Instead the Lions were level, English flanker Peter Dixon scoring after a typical break after a line-out by Gareth Edwards and John adding the conversion.
Dawes told Reason: "I knew that we would not lose then", a conviction doubtless strengthened when John landed another penalty earlier in the second half to make it 11-8. But the All Blacks struck back with a try from flanker Tom Lister to level the scores at 11-11.
Then came the single most-remembered moment of the match. J.P.R Williams had, to much derision from team-mates who knew he rarely did such a thing, been saying all week that he planned to drop a goal. Receiving the ball close to half-way, and with few other options, he did exactly that to make it 14-11.
Still, though, the All Blacks pressed, dominating line-out and scrum. The Lions tackled furiously and John kicked every time the chance arose. With six minutes to go crafty scrum-half Sid Going lured Dixon offside at a scrum and Mains levelled the scores.
But, as Reason recorded, "the All Black forwards had given everything they had and by then Barry John had pushed them back and across the field so often that they were almost out on their feet." It was the Lions who dominated the final exchanges, with John and Edwards both failing with attempts at a match-winning drop-goal.
Dawes and Reason both thought that the Lions should have won, and that John and Edwards opted to pass rather than drop, a try might have resulted. But at this stage the Lions were bent on the draw that would make history, with victory on the day a secondary consideration.
Referee John Pring, who had handled all four Tests, blew for time with the 14-14 scoreline fulfilling Lions manager Doug Smith's pre-tour prediction of a 2-1 Lions win with one draw. It was also the end of perhaps the greatest All Black career, Meads' final match after 55 Tests and 133 appearances all told spread over 14 years.
For the Lions it was more of a beginning. The 1974 team in South Africa, containing many of the same players, would write their own chapter of history, winning every match until they too were held to a draw in the last. The 1989 team in Australia and the 1997 visitors to South Africa have added to the short list of winning Lions teams.
But the full extent of the achievement of 1971 is clear when one considers what has happened to Lions teams in New Zealand since. The four sides to venture there have recorded just two victories in 14 Tests and only one of them - that of 1993 - going into the final Test with the chance to emulate their predecessors of 1971 by winning the series.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Monday that it has filed a complaint that charges hedge fund John Thomas Financial, its CEO Anastasios "Tommy" Belesis and several other staff members with fraud tied to a sale of stock in America West Resources Inc.
The private industry watchdog said that the New York company and many of its customers owned stock in America West. It says the company sold its shares in the coal producer at the height of a spike in stock price, reaping proceeds of more than $1 million. John Thomas Financial also received at least 15 customer orders to sell more than 1 million shares, but FINRA says it only entered one of those orders and prevented the other orders from being executed the day they were received.
So while the firm was able to cash in at the peak, customer orders were completed in subsequent days when the price had fallen. America West is now in bankruptcy and the customers' investments are virtually worthless, according to FINRA.
FINRA also alleges that the company and some of its staff lied to the firm's representatives and customers about the reasons the customer shares could not be sold that day, and attempted to conceal that they received certain orders but failed to execute them.
The complaint charges the firm, Belesis and two other staff members with violating FINRA's anti-intimidation rule by physically threatening, harassing and assaulting registered representatives who have disagreed with Belesis' business practices. It also charges the firm and Belesis with trading ahead, failing to provide best execution for customer orders and various other violations. The complaint also names the following John Thomas staff members: Michele Misiti, branch office manager; John Ward, trader; Joseph Castellano, chief compliance officer and Ronald Vincent Cantalupo, regional managing director.
Ira Lee Sorkin, an attorney with the law firm Lowenstein Sandler LLP which is representing the John Thomas Financial, said that the company disagrees with the allegations and intends to fight them at a hearing.
Under FINRA rules, a firm or individual named in a complaint can file a response and request a hearing before a FINRA disciplinary panel. Possible sanctions include a fine, censure, suspension or bar from the securities industry, disgorgement of gains associated with the violations and payment of restitution.
Monday's news follows an announcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission in March that it was beginning administrative proceedings against Belesis and his firm, following an investigation of a Houston-based hedge fund manager and his firm that are accused of defrauding investors in two hedge funds and steering bloated fees toward Belesis.


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While a flood of 7200rpm 320GB notebook-sized hard drives dropped not too long ago from pretty much all the majors, Dell is actually the first notebook maker to ante up and offer them (from Seagate) in their 17-inch XPS notebooks. The ballyhoo is 'cause most notebook drives spin at a pokey 5400rpm, and if you wanted the extra performance of a 7200rpm drive, you had to skimp on capacity. Now for $50 more (vs. a 5400rpm 320GB drive), you don't. Expect them in Alienware stuff soonish. [Dell via Crave]
Dell First to Offer 7200rpm 320GB Notebook Hard Drives


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No GOP presidential candidate except Ron Paul made it out of Jay Leno's monologue Thursday unscathed — but Mitt Romney, whose campaign took a hit with big losses Tuesday, got the brunt of the heat.
On "The Tonight Show," Leno front-loaded his monologue with plenty of jokes on the struggling front-runner.
"A man by the name of Felix Baumgartner hopes to set a world record by parachuting out of a balloon from over 20 miles high. He hopes to break the record for longest free-fall, currently held by Mitt Romney," he joked.
Romney's campaign has been trying to regroup, and refocus its attacks, in the week of a projected triple victory by Rick Santorum in Tuesday's primary and caucuses.
"Mitt Romney said he learned something: There are some things that money can't buy, like Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri," Leno continued.
"Mitt Romney's in bad shape! He got beat up so bad on Tuesday that today he asked if he was covered by ObamaCare," Leno said. "But he is not quitting. Romney says he will keep fighting, and you can take that all the way to the Swiss bank."
Perennially pious Rick Santorum got his turn in the spotlight, too. ("They asked Rick Santorum if he believed his campaign was evolving but, you know, he doesn't believe in evolution.")
So did the perennially philandering Newt Gingrich, despite his dismal showing Tuesday. ("In terms that Newt can understand, I think the voters told Newt they want to start seeing other candidates.")
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Roll call is falling short over at the New York Aquarium. According to a statement released yesterday by the Wildlife Conservation Society, some of the aquarium's fish collection were lost as a result of flooding and power outage in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Death by flood in an aquarium. ... huh. On the upside, it reported that "walruses, sea lions, seals, sea otters, sea turtles and sharks are all fine."
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I am trying to get django running on an ubuntu 12.04 release using postgres (clean install). To get it running it used to be that you would have to edit the
/etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf file. However when I look at this release there is no
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/etc/postgresql-common and there doesn't appear to be a file that resembles
pg_hba.conf under that directory.
Additionally while I have you ear this is the change I wanted to make:
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VueMinder Pro and Ultimate can be skinned with custom appearance themes. The documentation linked below gives a brief introduction to using the theme editor:
http://www.vueminder.com/products/vuemi ... theme.html
How to Share a Theme
If you've created a custom theme and would like to share it with other VueMinder users, please post it here! The theme can be uploaded as a zip file. Optional - if you've edited the icons too, include the file named "ToolbarsUser.xml" in the zip file. That file is located in the folder where VueMinder stores its data.
How to Install a Theme
To install a theme that has been uploaded here, download and extract the file. Copy the file that ends with an "isl" extension to the folder where VueMinder was installed. This is usually "C:\Program Files (x86)\VueSoft\VueMinder". The theme can then be selected in the Appearance Options.
If the zip file includes a file named ToolbarsUser.xml, exit VueMinder by right-clicking its icon in the task tray and selecting "Exit". Extract the ToolbarsUser.xml file to the folder where VueMinder saves user data. The path can be found in the Program Options. When VueMinder is restarted, you'll see icons that are more consistent with the appearance theme.


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In Excel, you have several ways to filter for unique values or remove duplicate values:
To filter for unique values, use the Advanced command in the Sort & Filter group on the Data tab.
To remove duplicate values, use the Remove Duplicates command in the Data Tools group on the Datatab.
To highlight unique or duplicate values, use the Conditional Formatting command in the Style group on the Home tab.
Learn about filtering for unique values or removing duplicate values
Filtering for unique values and removing duplicate values are two closely related tasks because the displayed results are the same — a list of unique values. The difference, however, is important: When you filter for unique values, you temporarily hide duplicate values, but when you remove duplicate values, you permanently delete duplicate values.
A duplicate value is one where all values in the row are an exact match of all the values in another row. Duplicate values are determined by the value displayed in the cell and not necessarily the value stored in the cell. For example, if you have the same date value in different cells, one formatted as "3/8/2006" and the other as "Mar 8, 2006", the values are unique.
It's a good idea to filter for or conditionally format unique values first to confirm that the results are what you want before removing duplicate values.
Filter for unique values
Select the range of cells, or make sure the active cell is in a table.
On the Data tab, in the Sort & Filter group, click Advanced.
In the Advanced Filter dialog box, do one of the following:
To filter the range of cells or table in place, click Filter the list, in-place.
To copy the results of the filter to another location, do the following:
Click Copy to another location.
In the Copy to box, enter a cell reference.
Alternatively, click Collapse Dialog to temporarily hide the dialog box, select a cell on the worksheet, and then press Expand Dialog .
Select the Unique records only check box, and click OK.
The unique values from the selected range are copied to the new location.
Remove duplicate values
When you remove duplicate values, only the values in the range of cells or table are affected. Any other values outside the range of cells or table are not altered or moved.
Because you are permanently deleting data, it's a good idea to copy the original range of cells or table to another worksheet or workbook before removing duplicate values.
Select the range of cells, or make sure that the active cell is in a table.
On the Data tab, in the Data Tools group, click Remove Duplicates.
Do one or more of the following:
Under Columns, select one or more columns.
To quickly select all columns, click Select All.
To quickly clear all columns, click Unselect All.
If the range of cells or table contains many columns and you want to only select a few columns, you may find it easier to click Unselect All, and then under Columns, select those columns.
Click OK.
A message is displayed indicating how many duplicate values were removed and how many unique values remain, or if no duplicate values were removed.
Click OK.
Issue: I'm having problems removing duplicate values from data that is outlined or that has subtotals.
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After a third-round game in a U-20 soccer tournament in Minas Gerais, Brasil on Monday, the players brawled. That brawl suddenly ended, however, when Sport Recife goalkeeper Gustavo karate-kicked Vasco da Gama's Elivelton directly in his neck from behind and with no warning.
Medics carried Elivelton off the field on a stretcher and he was treated at a nearby hospital for "suspected cervical spine trauma." He does not have a broken neck. Gustavo, 18, has already been relieved of his goalkeeper duties for what a Vasco coach called a "cowardly act" — and for what we'll admit was a fairly athletic feat for a goalie — and will be credited for a 3-1 loss, as well.


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Florida wildlife officials believe the giant eyeball that washed ashore in Pompano Beach last week came from a swordfish.
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Riding my bike through Chiapas has been on my mind for almost two years. Since I first visited this part of the world I imagined riding my bike through here. Truly fascinating.
After Justin recovered (mostly) from his Montezuma's revenge we left Tuxtla for 'the climb', 4500 ft elevation gain over 50 miles. 30 of them being uphill. Imagine it this way: That is higher than 3 sears towers stacked on top of each other. Now picture a 30-mile road circling its way around to the top of the third building. That was our climb to San Cristobal de Las Casas. My props go to Justin for doing two days after shitting 13 times in 8 hours (I wonder if he wanted me to divulge that information?). In San Cristobal we were chillin in the zocalo eating churros when a kid came up to us and talked bikes. He ended up taking us to a 'hotel' that was more of a chill spot for hippies that a real hotel. There wasn't even a sign! It was perfect for this city, its got such a cool vibe with the mix of old buildings, locals, hippie travelers, zapatoristas, and indigenous people from the surrounding villages. We had to cancel the day off here but spent most of the next morning chillin around. I got my beard shaved off for a dollar. Justin shopped around for some Zapatista dolls. Drank tamarindo juice and hung out with some other travelers. You know, the usual.
Out of San Cristobal we had some climbs and it rained for the entire day. Such stunning views. We finished the day in Ocosingo because it got to dark to make it to the Tonina ruins just outside of the city. Ocosingo was one of the cities the Zapatistas took over in their uprising on January 1st, 1994. The notoriously brutal governor was sentenced in a Zapatista trial to serve 25 years peasant labor. Of course the uprising was smashed and there is nothing there to show it ever happened; but just knowing something like that gave the town some energy.
Palenque is a ruin site in the eastern part of the state of Chiapas. It is best known for its jungle setting and close proximity of tall structures. After a long day of up and down hills Justin's bike exploded. I wont go into details, but we needed a bike shop quick. Roll into the city and they are all closed. We head to the ruins and its dark by the time we get close to the restaurant/hotel we are looking for outside the entrance to the ruins. Its late, JC's bummed on his broken bike, and then the vegetarian restaurant is closed. Both of us are bummed and grumpy sitting in the dark. Then these German girls roll up looking for the previously mentioned eatery. Justin is instantly cheered up by the female presence. I decide to apply some Mexican learned knowledge and not trust the 'closed' sign. I search back through and find the restaurant; sure enough open and filled with hippies. Perfect! We eat some curry, which is mediocre, yet amazing. We hadn't eaten curry in almost two months so the taste was new again. yum yum. We barter for a place to stay and decide to sleep in the covered hammock section and save the $2 by sleeping on the floor. Bugs in the jungle? I guess there were some but we still slept in shorts and no shirt. In the morning we got our culture on, fixed JC's bike at a shop, bought our plane tickets, and headed south towards the Lacandon jungle.
"Whoa look an Adventist church!" It was a small village on a hillside that was fighting back the encroaching jungle. I enquired about sleeping there and they told me it was occupied and to check with the teacher of the school. We worked it out to sleep on the floor of the one room school building. This village, called Nuevo Canan, had so many kids! What was different here was that almost no adults came over to hang out with us. Just JC, me, and 15 or so kids aged 6-16. It was one of those moments on this trip that I look back on and smile. I can't even think of what to type about it that would hold your interest, but to me those memories remind me of why I took a trip like this.
In the morning we pedaled our final miles in Mexico. It was sad to leave the country we had spent so much time. We had seen more of the country than most Mexicans probably see in their entire life. Even though a border is an imaginary line we were nervous about crossing it. What would Guatemala be like? We bargained the boat-crossing fee, got our exit stamp in our passports and headed to Guatemala. Instantly different. We were merely across a river, but to us it was all new. We hung out at the bus station/immigration/store building with some guys and decided to stay the night. We found a 'hotel' that consisted of some wooden shacks behind a house and called it home for the night.
Lesson learned from Guatemala: roads that are shown on the map as 'seasonal paths' are not a good choice for bike touring. It would of been difficult on an empty mountain bike. On a fully loaded touring bike it was hell. Big ass rocks kept our speed around 4 miles per hour. We did 30 miles in 8 hours. Justin and me wanted to kill each other. 4 flats. About 2 hours of daylight left. So when the truck pulled over and offered a ride we got in. 12 miles later we got dropped off in the 'big' town and got supplies. 10 more patience-building miles and we hit pavement. It was almost dark but we had to crush to La Libertad, the next biggest town. Pavement was so fast, we hammered out the 15 miles in no time. Ate some Salvadorian food that I wont even attempt to spell, and drank some new types of juice. Guatemala is going great so far.
Tikal is the most well known ruins in Central America and right fully so. On the other hand they are expensive and filled with tourists. We paid $8 to get in and $6 to sleep in a hammock. We talked with some Swiss girls and the plan was set to wake up at 430am. Yeah, apparently the thing to do is walk to the structure on the far side of the park, climb up it above the canopy of the jungle, and watch the sunrise. So after a restless night filled with a blackout, screaming Frenchies, frantic guards, animals trying to get to our food, and the loudest thunderstorm ever we walked in the dark towards tower IV. Sitting on a 1200-year-old building, watching the sunrise from the mist over the jungle was a great location for taking this whole trip in perspective. "I rode my bike here…..I bet there are some other pretty cool places to ride my bike to…."


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With the prep basketball season halfway through, here's a look at the top high school basketball players for the class of 2015, according to Rivals, Scout, 24/7 Sports and ESPN.
At the top is Overland's lightning-quick point guard Austin Conway, who received three-star ratings across the board, and Montbello's Troy Green.
Only players who received two stars or more from at least one of the recruiting services are included. Who do you think was left out? Who do you think is overrated?


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In high energy physics, the use of the classical Lie groups are common place, and in the Grand Unification the use of $E_{6,7,8}$ is also common place.
In string theory $G_2$ is sometimes utilized, e.g. the $G_2$-holonomy manifolds are used to get 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ susy from M-theory.
That leaves $F_4$ from the list of simple Lie groups. Is there any place $F_4$ is used in any essential way?
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So, I used to occasionally write and take photos, and post them all to this thing called a blog. I still read lots of them, so that means blogging is still a thing people do. I have been doing lots of social media stalking which has left me feeling a little drained and wiped out. It's like I've been so busy following other people's lives/adventures/ideas I've forgotten to live my own. Well, maybe not quite like that, but it's been a slow season for me and mine. After a busy and wonderful summer we settled into the routine of school and both kids being out of the house for a good part of the day. It's been a transition for all of us to say the least, and more words on this subject will hopefully be coming, as it has prompted some soul-searching (with a side of angst and some mild depression) on my part. But the kids are loving school and I love their teachers and how excited they are to be learning so all is well there.
I'll ease back into this blogging thing with a mostly pictures post of our latest weekend jaunt. All four of us here are introverts and bookish homebodies meaning you will usually find us all piled in bed at home devouring books and keeping warm (have I mentioned it's been COLD here?). But every once in a while it's nice to get out and explore.We decided to take a picnic to Cathedral Park in north Portland and had a wonderful afternoon playing and spending time together. And of course taking some photos to document it - hooray for leaving the house!
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Geoffrey Robertson calls on government to fight for Peter Greste at The Hague
The Australian government could use an international court to force Egypt to free imprisoned journalist Peter Greste, in the same way it got Japan to end its Antarctic whaling program, a leading human rights lawyer says.
Australian lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, QC, based in London, said the sentence handed down to Greste was "an outrage and a blatant breach of the international guarantee of freedom of speech".
He urged the Australian government to take immediate action against Egypt, in the same way it used the International Court of Justice in The Hague to make Japan end its whaling in the Antarctic ocean.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1966, commits its signatories to supporting freedom of speech, due process and a fair trial.
Egypt signed the treaty in 1967 and ratified it in 1982.
Mr Robertson said: "After Australia's success against Japan in the whaling case, we should be making more use of international legal avenues, and this is the only way in a world forum that Peter could be vindicated."


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The purpose of this study is to see if it is safe and effective to add interleukin-12
(IL-12) to the standard drug combination (paromomycin plus azithromycin) used to treat
cryptosporidiosis in AIDS patients. Doctors would like to find out if the combination of
IL-12, paromomycin, and azithromycin is more effective than paromomycin and azithromycin
Cryptosporidiosis is a type of opportunistic (AIDS-related) infection seen in HIV-positive
patients as their immune systems weaken. It is caused by a parasite that invades the
intestinal tract, and it can cause watery diarrhea, stomach cramps, an upset stomach, or a
fever. Antibiotics (paromomycin and azithromycin) are usually used to treat
cryptosporidiosis. In this study, doctors will look at the effectiveness of using IL-12.
IL-12 is a type of protein naturally produced by certain types of cells of the immune system
and is believed to be important for immune function. Doctors hope that IL-12 can help boost
the immune system in fighting cryptosporidiosis.
Cryptosporidium parvum, an intracellular protozoan parasite, is a frequent cause of chronic
diarrhea in HIV-infected patients, causing significant morbidity and mortality. Highly
effective antiparasitic treatment for this infection is not currently available. Paromomycin
and azithromycin have some efficacy and have been used in combination in a small number of
patients. Immune reconstitution with highly active antiretroviral therapy appears to be the
most effective therapy, but this is not possible for all patients. Interferon gamma
expression is strongly associated with control of cryptosporidiosis, and IL-12 is the
cytokine primarily responsible for stimulation of interferon gamma expression in vivo. It is
hoped that treatment with recombinant human IL-12 can result in stimulation of an intestinal
cytokine response in AIDS patients with cryptosporidiosis and that response combined with
chemotherapy can lead to the elimination of detectable numbers of Cryptosporidium oocysts
from the stools.
All patients receive azithromycin and paromomycin, and patients are randomized to add either
IL-12 or placebo. IL-12 (or placebo) injections are given twice a week. Patients take their
study medications for 4 weeks. During this time, they will be asked to record bowel
movements and any symptoms they experience. Patients return to the clinic at least twice a
week to receive IL-12 (or placebo) injections. At Weeks 2 and 4, patients are seen by one of
the principal investigators. Blood samples are obtained for viral load measurements and CD4
count, as well as routine urinalysis. Patients undergo upper endoscopy with jejunal biopsy
and colonoscopy with ileal biopsy between Weeks 2 and 4 of therapy for assays of intestinal
cytokine expression. A final clinic visit occurs 12 weeks post-therapy for a physical exam
and blood tests.
Inclusion Criteria
Patients may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are HIV-positive.
- Have a CD4 cell count below 150 cells/mm3.
- Have been on stable anti-HIV therapy that includes at least 2 nucleoside analogues
for at least 4 weeks.
- Have chronic diarrhea (3 bowel movements a day that are loose or watery, for 5 days
per week over 3 weeks).
- Test positively for Cryptosporidium.
- Are at least 18 years old.
- Agree to use effective methods of birth control.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients will not be eligible for this study if they:
- Have any other active opportunistic (AIDS-related) infection.
- Require intravenous (IV) fluids.
- Have a history of an allergy to certain medications, such as colony-stimulating
factors (G-CSF or GM-CSF) or a type of antibiotic.
- Are pregnant.
Treatment of Chronic Cryptosporidiosis in AIDS Patients
A Pilot, Proof-of-Concept, Dose-Escalating Trial of Recombinant Human Interleukin-12 (rhIL-12) Versus Placebo Along With Paromomycin and Azithromycin for Chronic Cryptosporidiosis in AIDS
18 Years
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
United States: Federal Government
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Among other things, today is the day that the new Assassin's Creeds are out (III and Liberation) as well as the new Need For Speed. We have reviews in the works for all of them and will share at least some of the review material here.
There will be some news stories spinning out of ACIII's launch, I assure you, and will have some insights on them.
We'll also share some stories about the storm's effect.
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are there now any doubters left as to mcgraths powers of forsight?
My favourite is the one about Flintoff being the world's greatest player. Flintoff - can't bat, bowl, field or captain. All round useless. One series doesn't make a player great....but one series can really make a player look ordinary.
Back off on McGrath - I can't remember him making any predictions other than for the 2005 and 2006 ashes. His predictions are more often than not about who he's going to target...and 99% of the time he nails his man.
Back in 2004 when England were playing well McGrath was asked how the'd fair in the 05 ashes - I distinctly remember him saying 4-0 or 4-1. He made the 5-0 after Lords, and I have no doubt in my mind that if he didn't step on that ball it would've been 5-0.
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@ all those that doubted McGrath
before the series started. The main point though is that it wasn't so much an arrogant dismissal of England's ability as a statement of his positive attitude towards every match. He believed that he and the other Australian players should accept nothing less than winning every game.
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LOVED this week! My hubby took some great shots of my boys at a campout they went on--shared on THIS layout. I stamped with my dear Lizzy stamp and used some cuts from my silhouette.little closeup of one of my cut outs from my silhouette & sticker from Jenni Bowlin.
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Playoff hockey overtime might be the single greatest thing in the sports world — assuming your team isn't involved. Then it's a war of nail-biting, heart-stopping attrition, destined to end in glory and highlight compilations for one side, and wondering why you even bothered staying up late for the other.
Above is Marion Gaborik picking up an assist on Jason Chimera's double OT winner. Gaborik doesn't play for the same team as Chimera. As Ranger goalie Henrik Lundqvist goes to cover the puck, Gaborik inexplicably pokes it away - directly to Chimera, who finds himself alone in the crease for the tap-in.
"I should've seen Hank earlier," Gaborik told NHL.com. "I saw the puck. I don't know if it was a rebound or something, but I saw it in front and just tried to clear it. I didn't see Hank went for it and when I just cleared it, I saw him at the last second. I tried to clear it, but I didn't see Chimera. I guess it hit him in the stomach because he was right there.
"I don't know. I should've just…I wish I would've seen Hank quicker and go for it."
For his part, Chimera called it "the best thing that ever happened to me, next to getting married and having kids."
A few minutes earlier in Tampa (yes, both home teams lost their 2OT games. That's got to be fun for fans in attendance), Pittsburgh's James Neal ended it with a bad angle shot. We're bringing you both announcing teams' calls, because the Penguins guys appear psychic, while the Lightning crew is despondent: "Oh no."


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Set close to the centre of the historic market town of Abergavenny, The Abergavenny Hotel offers 4 star guest accommodation in a charming Victorian bu...
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A former coaching inn, The Bear at Crickhowell has been welcoming guests for 500 years and still extends the same warmth, comfort, cosy atmosphere, go...
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AA HOTEL OF THE YEAR, WALES 2016/17Set in centre of the historic market town of Abergavenny, The Angel Hotel, 4 star hotel, is the perfect base for ex...
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Gliffaes Country House Hotel
Hidden off the beaten track in between the Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountains is one of Wales's best kept secrets. Among the old trees, spacious l...
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Swn yr Afon (sound of the river) phonetically: soon-err-ahvon is a lovely home in a quiet leafy part of Brecon town, close enough to stroll the five-...
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Doing business sustainably involves measuring your success in terms of social and environmental responsibility as well as financial results — assessing the "triple bottom line" of people, planet and profit. Our co-op values are the basis for our belief in and support of sustainability. We care deeply about the effect Frontier has on the world we live in — the people and communities we do business with, the way the production of our botanical products affects the environment, the holistic health of us all.
We consider, track and report on the sustainability of every step of growing, buying, processing, packaging, and shipping our products, along with the well being of the people involved in each of those steps.
This page provides a brief description of some major areas of concentration in our overall sustainability effort here at Frontier. We'll also provide a number of links if you'd like more information on specific aspects of sustainability. (For a comprehensive and detailed review of all our sustainability initiatives, see our annual Sustainability Report.
Sustainable Sourcing
Our sustainability efforts begin at the source — with the environment and people around the world who produce the botanicals we purchase. We deal ethically with our growers and their communities and work with them to preserve and protect their resources. We are committed to sustainable sourcing. We track the percentage of our product that is certifiably sustainably sourced with the goal of raising that percentage to 100%.
We offer fair prices, dealing directly with growers whenever possible so they get maximum compensation for their products. Through programs like our own comprehensive sustainable sourcing program, Well Earth, and purchasing Fair Trade Certified products, we help growers develop certified organic, sustainable production methods and improve social conditions for workers and their families and communities.
Sustainable Operations
We also have a commitment to sustainability in the storage, processing, packaging and shipping of our sustainability sourced products. We are work continuously to use energy more efficiently and reduce waste of all kinds in every aspect of our operations. Our efforts in this area run the gamut from re-establishing a tallgrass prairie on 28 acres of our land in Norway to turning of light when we leave our offices. We have converted to 100% renewable energy through the Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) Green Tag program. We were one of the first distribution centers to provide 100% carbon neutral shipping, offsetting carbon generated from shipping. Frontier is a member of the EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) Green Power Partnership Program. Sustainability is a consideration in every operational decision made — from building to commuting, from equipment purchases to scheduling.
Detailed information on our initiatives to make operations more sustainable are available in the Operations section our Sustainability Report.
Community Involvement
Each of us is a member of a variety of communities based on geography, interests and social interactions. This holds true for a business like Frontier as well. In addition to the social contributions made to grower communities through our Well Earth Program and the sale of Fair Trade Certified products, we are active in our support of our community of employees, our local community here in Iowa, the organic and natural products communities and others. We support socially and environmentally responsible causes and organizations in all of these communities, through a variety of funds, including the Frontier Foundation, the Simply Organic 1% fund, the Aura Cacia Organic Fund and our Community Giving Team. You can see details on our community giving in the Community section of our annual Sustainability Report. The report also has a section on our Employee initiatives.
We also maintain a list of the organizations we contribute to with a profile of each.
Sustainability Report
The keystone of Frontier sustainability is our annual Sustainability Report. The online report is completely transparent and accessible to all. It details our environmental and social objectives, our initiatives, our long- and short-term goals and our results -- both accomplishments and disappointments. The report is divided into six sections — sourcing, products and packaging, customers, operations, employees and community. Each of these sections analyzes the efforts to improve sustainability in the area and provides the quantifiable results of those efforts. The online format allowsfor regular updating and links to related information. We also encourage readers to share their questions, opinions and ideas with us via email links throughout the report.
Frontier is a member of the Food Trade Sustainability Leadership Association (FTSLA), a non-profit trade organization for the organic food trade. The organization is dedicated to helping members improve their sustainability performance and has developed a report format based 11 key sustainability areas. We submit these FTSLA metrics to the organization each year and have also made them a part of our online Sustainability Report.


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Faced with a downturn in orders, Hardinge Inc. is laying off workers, cutting executive salaries, and freezing hiring. But the machine toolmaker in Elmira, N.Y., is also doing something else – something that hasn't happened much in other downturns: Most of its workforce is now only getting paid for four workdays a week.
"The alternative was to lay off 20 more people," says Rick Simons, Hardinge's president. "This way, we get to keep those people employed, and they get to keep their benefits going."
From coffee shops to machine shops, employers are trying to mitigate the effects of the downturn by reducing employees' hours or overtime. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, for one, has ordered some 200,000 state workers to take a two-day furlough every month in an effort to close a $42 billion budget gap. Even some of the legislation in the economic stimulus package would reward states that use "innovative benefits" – such as giving unemployment insurance to workers who have had their hours reduced.
"Shrinking the hours everyone works helps reduce the extremes of how hard people are hit and maybe makes it a bit easier," says Nigel Gault, chief US economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Mass. "It also may be more helpful for morale, perhaps."
The attempt by companies like Hardinge comes during one of the worst job markets in decades. Last Friday, the Department of Labor reported that the US unemployment rate climbed to 7.6 percent in January, up from 7.2 percent in December. And the economy shed 598,000 jobs, the worst performance since the end of 1974. Over the past two months, more than 1 million people have lost their jobs.
"This is about as bad as it gets," says Daniel Meckstroth, chief economist at Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI in Arlington, Va. "There is no good way to spin this as anything good."
Since October, the US unemployment rate has climbed by one full percentage point, a pace of layoffs not seen since at least the 1980s. Given the number of recently announced layoffs and the rising number of new claims for unemployment, the February job losses could be even worse, some economists say.
"If there is any silver lining to the news, we are seeing job cuts so widespread and massive [that] it may mean everyone is making all their job cuts all at once," says Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Pa. "We are compacting an adjustment process that might have taken two years into 12 months, so we may get through it sooner."
Reducing workers' hours may help keep the unemployment numbers from soaring yet higher, says labor economist Della Lee Sue of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. "If the unemployment rate keeps going up, it makes a lot of people feel worse about the economy," she says. "And that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."
But some work experts wonder if cutting hours is such a good idea. "It's hard to get a team of people giving it their all when you've reduced their pay," says Roberta Chinsky Matuson, president of Human Resource Solutions in Northampton, Mass. "This is particularly true if you have asked them to do more work than they have been required to do before."
She worries that many people will be forced to get a second job. "They may like the other job better or be so exhausted [that] they may not be rested."
In Elmira, Mr. Simons says his workforce seems to have accepted the cut in hours, considering the alternatives. "They read the paper and see what's going on," he says. "We have another company, Corning, up here, and they have announced a layoff of 3,500, and most people know that."
Under New York State law, the Hardinge workers are eligible for unemployment payments for the loss of a paid day of work each week.
According to Oakland, Calif.-based Maurice Emsellem, a lawyer at the National Employment Law Project, the states are "all over the place" on paying for reduced hours.
Thirty states require an unemployed worker to seek full-time employment while receiving benefits. The federal Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act under consideration in Congress, part of the Obama economic stimulus plan, would offer states incentives to improve benefits coverage for part-time workers.
Another thing that could help workers is if they anticipate that a work reduction is temporary. That's the case for Katie Corrigan, who had her hours cut in half at a Boston recruiting firm last month. She envisions that the business will pick up once the economy recovers.
"They will be calling on us. They will have to beef up their ranks," she says. "We will be well positioned."
It helps, Ms. Corrigan says, that she likes the company. "What it comes down to is if it's a company that you want to stay with, you will make the sacrifices over the short term to get the job back," she says.
For those who have had their hours sliced, however, there are adjustments. In Tacoma, Wash., waitress Kristen Olson has seen her hours at a local coffee shop cut from 35 hours a week to 20. Next month, she plans to move in with a roommate since she can't afford rent by herself. And, she says, she either "sticks to happy hours" for dinner or makes a big pot of spaghetti that will last the week.
The reduction in overtime at some companies can also be difficult for workers. In Jackson, Tenn., Bodine Aluminum has eliminated overtime for much of its workforce. "Some people bought houses and vehicles based on a 40-hour-plus workweek," says Thaddessus Watford, a quality-control employee. "I've heard a few are in danger of losing their homes, and everyone is feeling the effects of it."


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Do you want to build your own lightsaber at home but have no idea where to start? Bradley W. Lewis has created step-by-step guide explaining how to weld, screw, and paint a laser sword into existence, sans the Force.
That's Lewis' recreation of Obi-Wan's lightsaber from A New Hope up there. Here's his impetus for building it:
This is the one that started it all for me and illuminated lightsabers. This is the Obi Wan Kenobi Episode IV "A New Hope" lightsaber. The offerings from Master Replicas and Hasbro have that extra fat windvane piece that is pretty much meh.
So I decided I needed to make myself one out of the most accurate reproductions of the vintage parts, or the vintage parts themselves. I set out to make the most screen accurate ANH Obi saber I could [...]
Lewis also built Luke's lightsaber from A New Hope, a static version of Obi-Wan' lightsaber, and his own custom saber (just as any good Jedi would). The guides aren't exactly beginner-friendly, but they're pure craftporn for those of you with the DIY prowess. And hey: do or do not — there is no try.
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It seems like nothing is going to stop Bret Michaels from his "Celebrity Apprentice" destiny.
After a small warning stroke this week added to the rocker's laundry list of medical misfortunes, Michaels' crew insists he has every intention to show up for the May 23 live finale of the reality show.
"As far as I know, Bret will be there unless his doctor tells him otherwise," Michael's rep told People.com. "We're cautiously optimistic that he will attend the finale. But ultimately, it's up to his doctors."
Assuming a lightning bolt does not strike him on the way to the studio, Michaels will square off against Holly Robinson Peete in the final boardroom challenge.
After suffering from a brain hemorrhage last month, Michaels felt numbness on the left side of his body and his face. Testing showed that he had suffered what doctors called a warning stroke. Further testing also showed that Michaels had a hole in his heart. While both conditions are treatable, you would think that would be a sign to stay in bed for a little while longer.
But as his rep said in a statement: "(Bret) has made it clear he is sick and tired of being in the hospital and is ready to rock again."
And rock he will if/when he makes the big, live finale. Last season Trump showed a ridiculous soft-side (or pr savvy) handing the Apprentice-crown to Joan Rivers over the far-more deserving Annie Duke.
So, it's pretty clear how this will end should Michaels even show up. There's no way he would not win. Trump will hand him the big job without blinking or thinking. Probably more deservedly this time around, considering all Michaels has been through.


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