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A walk-around in Portland, Oregon. First stop in Pioneer Square for the Sand in the City annual event. Then a walk along the riverside with a stop at the Saturday market. Final stop in Beerzilla, an international beer festival with over 100 beers from more than 15 countries.Read More

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Everyone at Google is getting a nice raise. Well, almost everyone.
News broke early on Wednesday that Google was giving 10% raises to its entire workforce of 23,000 people worldwide.
By Wednesday night, however, CNNMoney.com reported that not every Google employee would, saying that the worker who leaked information about the raises has been fired.
A Google spokeswoman told Computerworld Wednesday evening that the company would not comment on "personnel matters."
The raises, which are reported to become effective in January, are an attempt to keep Google employees from jumping ship and heading to other Internet-focused companies like Facebook, reports the Wall Street Journal. About 10% of Facebook's staff, for instance, are former Google employees.
Earlier on Wednesday, Google declined to confirm the report directly, but said in an e-mailed statement to Computerworld: "While we don't typically comment on internal matters, we do believe that competitive compensation plans are important to the future of the company."
Google's reported attempt to keep employees loyal to the company comes as its rivalry with Microsoft intensifies. The two companies have a wide-ranging battleground -- from search engines to cloud-based office applications and browsers.
And now a new rivalry with Facebook is beginning to heat up.
Last month, Facebook turned to Microsoft instead of Google when it launched an effort to tie search more closely to social networking. Industry analysts said Microsoft's Bing search engine has failed to steal much, if any, of Google's share of the search market. However, by taking advantage of Facebook's worldwide popularity, Bing could start to make some gains.
More recently, Google and Facebook have been in something of a war of words surrounding the issue of data portability. The contention boils down to the ability to move user data back and forth between Web services, such as Google's Gmail and Facebook.
Analysts speculate that such issues could end up exposing Google's Achilles' heel.
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Winter blues, spring fever—most of us take seasonal changes in mood for granted. According to a new study, the cause might be the seasons tinkering with the chemicals in our brain. As reported in the November 3 Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health found evidence of seasonal differences in dopamine—a chemical messenger involved in motivation, pleasure, movement and learning.
Using brain scans, psychiatrist Daniel Eisenberg and his colleagues measured dopamine levels in the brains of 86 healthy people at different times of the year. People scanned in the fall and winter had an average dopamine signal 4.3 percent greater than those scanned in the spring and summer in an area that receives messages from dopamine-carrying neurons.
Eisenberg says future work will have to test whether dopamine levels in individuals fluctuate with the seasons the same way or if this result reflects some other difference unrelated to season between the groups, which were similar in age, sex and ethnicity. If the pattern holds, it means environmental cues that change seasonally, such as the amount of sunlight we see, may actually mold our brain state.
Eisenberg says this type of dopamine fluctuation could contribute to the winter sluggishness and summertime pep experienced by many healthy people. It may also provide clues to the winter onset of seasonal affective disorder, as well as seasonal symptom changes noted in psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia.


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Why install an internal serial adaptor to get extra COM ports when using an external USB connection makes more sense? Our USB Hubs convert your serial devices to USB-adaptable peripherals without sacrificing serial connection speeds.
The hubs feature high-speed UARTs with 128-byte FIFO transmit buffers and 384-byte FIFO receive buffers. With data rates of up to 921 kbps for RS-422/485 and 460 kbps for RS-232/V.24, these hubs are among the fastest USB serial devices in the industry!
They're also ideal for connecting devices in harsh environments where communication lines may be affected by noise and voltage spikes. Not only do the USB Hubs give you industrial-quality serial connections, but they also support automatic RS-485 data enable/disable and include a DB9 connector that's backward-compatible with PCI and ISA RS-422 products.
The USB Hubs connect easily to peripheral serial devices in external plug-and-play fashion. Because they're hot-swappable, you can install them without having to power down your PC.
Each hub comes with all necessary drivers, utilities, and help files for quick setup in Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP operating systems. Simply load the included software drivers, then connect the hub to your USB port and a serial device (printer, bar-code scanner, etc.). The hub even autoconfigures itself, enabling hassle-free, seamless integration into your existing application.
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Monday was a big day in the life of international pop sensation Ricky Martin, who revealed for the first time that he is a gay man.
On Tuesday, he offered his gratitude for the support he has received since making his announcement on his Web site in an emotional essay.
"I'm doing great!" the Latin heartthrob wrote on his Twitter page. "Stronger than ever!"
Ricky added that his heart was warmed by the messages people sent to him since his big announcement.
"I'm here relaxing @ home enjoying ur messages!I feel the love!" he wrote. "Thanx for all!peace."
Ricky, as per his usual Tweets, also wrote the message in Spanish.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, after years of keeping quiet about his personal life, Ricky confirmed he is gay on Monday with a heartfelt message on his Web site.
"I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man," Ricky said in a message posted on his offical Web site. "I am very blessed to be who I am."
Ricky said writing his memoir and thinking about his two twin sons led him to go public.
"To keep living as I did up until today would be to indirectly diminish the glow that my kids where [sic] born with. Enough is enough. This has to change. This was not supposed to happen 5 or 10 years ago, it is supposed to happen now. Today is my day, this is my time, and this is my moment," he wrote.
Though the 38-year-old kept his sexuality private throughout most of his career, Ricky said he drew strength from that time.
"These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed," he continued. "What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment. The word 'happiness' takes on a new meaning for me as of today. It has been a very intense process. Every word that I write in this letter is born out of love, acceptance, detachment and real contentment. Writing this is a solid step towards my inner peace and vital part of my evolution."
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Several years ago, a friend decided she wanted to follow her passion. She loved the liberal arts and the academe. She was a talented graphic designer, a great writer, and was the president of a student club. But the prospect of working a nine-to-five job was never interesting. I can't blame her. After all, ours is a millennial generation proselytized to pursue our dreams. So she spent seven years getting a PhD, writing an award-winning dissertation in the process. It was a wonderful ride while it lasted, and she was among the happiest people I knew.
Then the recession hit. The value of university university endowments crashed. Teaching and research positions were cut. She moved back in with her family, stopped paying off her student loans, and waited two years before getting a minor teaching role in a small research center. Throughout this time, she suffered the anguish of an uncertain future, became socially withdrawn, and felt a sense of betrayal.
It's a poster tale for our times. Was following her passion worth it?
Like myself, today's twentysomethings were raised to find our dreams and follow them. But it's a different world. And as the jobless generation grows up, we realize the grand betrayal of the false idols of passion. This philosophy no longer works for us, or at most, feels incomplete. So what do we do? I propose a different frame of reference: Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.
Putting problems at the center of our decision-making changes everything. It's not about the self anymore. It's about what you can do and how you can be a valuable contributor. People working on the biggest problems are compensated in the biggest ways. I don't mean this in a strict financial sense, but in a deeply human sense. For one, it shifts your attention from you to others and the wider world. You stop dwelling. You become less self-absorbed. Ironically, we become happier if we worry less about what makes us happy.
The good thing is that there are a lot of big problems to go by: climate change, sustainability, poverty, education, health care, technology, and urbanization in emerging markets. What big problem serves as your compass? If you're a young leader and you haven't articulated this yet, here are some things you can do.
Develop situational awareness. There's too much focus on knowing the self. Balance this with knowing the world. Stay in touch. Be sensitive to the problems faced by the unfortunate and marginalized. Get out of the office and volunteer. If you're in school, get out of the classroom. It's been a long time coming, business schools are finally instituting changes that put the real world at the center of their programs.
Look into problems that affect you in a very personal way. We're more likely to be motivated by problems we can relate to on a personal level. In Passion & Purpose, Umaimah Mendhro recounts her story fleeing a war-torn Pakistan with her family and how the experience of dodging bullets to escape helped her summon the wherewithal to found thedreamfly.org, an initiative that helps create connections across communities in conflict.
Connect with people working on big problems. In a world where problems are by their very nature interdisciplinary, just getting to know people who are passionate about one problem leads to discussions on how other problems can be solved. When Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala helped reinvent Manila Water to better provide for the Philippines' capital, he had to deal not only with the typical issues a public utility had to face, but also with problems related to climate change, technology, and community development.
Take time off and travel. Forget about traveling as a tourist. Instead, structure a trip that takes you off the beaten path. Go to an unconventional place. Backpack and get lost. The broader and richer experience pays dividends down the line. Steve Jobs described his time living in India as one of the most enriching and mind-opening phases of his life, and this undoubtedly helped him develop the intuition to solve the big problem of making lives simpler through technology.
We don't find happiness by looking within. We go outside and immerse in the world. We are called to a higher purpose by the inescapable circumstances that are laid out on our path. It's our daily struggles that define us and bring out the best in us, and this lays down the foundation to continuously find fulfillment in what we do even when times get tough.
Happiness comes from the intersection of what you love, what you're good at, and what the world needs. We've been told time and again to keep finding the first. Our schools helped developed the second. It's time we put more thought on the third.
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PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in the Sierra Nevada foothills that some officials describe as one of the most egregious cases of illegal mining they have ever encountered.
The dispute between local and state officials and the owner of the Big Cut Mine is coming to a head after a bureaucratic stalemate that has dragged on for three years, with the county district attorney filing 14 charges, including four felonies, and the state leveling fines approaching $900,000.
Authorities say the land owner has refused to comply with cease-and-desist orders, pay any fines or even to submit to an arrest warrant. He became a fugitive last week after failing to turn himself in as promised.
"What we don't see very often is a flagrant, a total disregard of the law," said Stephen Testa, executive officer of the State Mining and Geology Board. "This is an order of magnitude larger than what you would typically see. This is a full-blown surface-mining operation."
Land owner Joseph Hardesty contends that he has a historic right to operate the Big Cut Mine, which is on nearly 150 acres he bought seven years ago as the price of gold began to rise. Gold now hovers around $1,700 an ounce, an increase of about 470 percent from its price a decade ago. The run-up has prompted a feverish rush to tap former gold fields and rivers throughout the West, from established mining companies to weekend gold-panners.
In California alone, gold reported from small claims and the state's few commercial mines has increased more than six times as prices have spiked, from 30,155 ounces reported in 2006 to 198,946 ounces in 2010, the last complete year available.
Hardesty, his wife, Yvette, and his partner, Rick Churches, brought in bulldozers and other heavy equipment to cut into a steep ridge that has a history of gold mining activity. Locked gates covered with "no trespassing" signs block entrance to the property.
An Associated Press reporter and photographer were unable to gain access to the site during a recent attempt to visit, but surveyed the land from a forested ridge a few hundred yards away. From that vantage point, hillsides that had been scoured away were clearly visible.
The property is in a region of Northern California thick with gold mining history, partway between the state capital and Lake Tahoe.
Nearby Placerville — named after a type of gold mining — was once known as "Hangtown" for its rough handling of claim jumpers. The town is the seat of El Dorado County — "El Dorado" being the Spanish name for a legendary golden city — and is nine miles south of where gold was discovered. Placerville grew up along the main stage coach route between San Francisco, Sacramento and the Comstock Lode silver mines in Nevada, a route that today is Highway 50, a conduit for campers and skiers.
The Big Cut Mine is only about a mile-and-a-half outside Placerville, now a popular tourist destination, but seems like a world away. It can be reached only after driving narrow, winding roads over country that is thickly forested with few people.
Court filings hint at the land's past, saying it is reported to be the site of a rich vein of gold called "the Deep Blue Lead."
Joseph Hardesty's attorney, William Brewer of San Diego, denied that his client is mining gold and insists he wants to operate a sand and gravel business to complement another he owns in Sacramento County.
"He's not a crook, he's not a cheat, he's not doing anything illegal or immoral," Brewer said. "He's trying to do what he can to make a living."
Local and state inspectors tell a different story.
Last spring, they said they found gold on what is known as a "shaker table," a device used to separate the metal, which is heavy, from sand and gravel.
They had entered the property on a warrant after the owners would not allow government agents on their land. Officials said Hardesty blocked the access road with his truck until deputies threatened him with arrest.
They returned on Jan. 24 to find at least 30 acres stripped bare, four drainage ponds and a gravel bed the size of a football field, 60 feet deep in some places.
Bruce Person, a county transportation department engineer who helped inspect the property, said a previous owner found that a dry, ancient riverbed on the property could produce between 1 ounce and 3 ounces of gold for every ton of material removed.
"If they've moved hundreds of thousands of tons of material, the potential is for hundreds of thousands of ounces of gold," Person said. "The potential is they're becoming millionaires. They have not reported a dime of earnings."
State and local authorities contacted for this story say they believe the Big Cut operation is so profitable that Hardesty can afford to ignore the laws governing mining.
"He can make more than we can fine him," said Jim Wassner, a senior code enforcement officer who has led El Dorado County's investigation. "The amount of gold they can pull out of there is astronomical."
The State Mining and Geology Board, a division of the California Department of Conservation, voted in mid-January to fine Hardesty a total of $850,000 in administrative penalties for operating without a permit and polluting a nearby creek. The penalty climbs by $15,000 each day he continues to operate.
Late last month, the El Dorado County District Attorney's office charged Hardesty with 14 criminal violations, including four felonies, for mining and grading without permits, working despite stop orders, releasing sediment into Weber Creek, violating zoning laws and using hazardous materials without proper permits.
He is considered a fugitive in the case, but a prosecutor said he is negotiating to turn himself in.
Hardesty already was on probation after pleading no contest last year to a misdemeanor charge of storing unpermitted hazardous waste in Sacramento County. He now faces allegations that he violated his probation by continuing to operate at both the Sacramento and El Dorado locations.
Joe Hardesty is the only one charged in both cases.
He filed a reclamation plan for the El Dorado County property in 2009 and has put up a total of $188,000 in bonds, beginning in 2007. Brewer, the lawyer, contends that gives Hardesty the legal right to mine while his own lawsuit against the state mining board and other government agencies is pending. Those lawsuits, filed last year in state and federal court, allege that his rights are being violated.
The mining board subsequently ruled that the bond and reclamation plan were not enough to allow mining to begin again. In 2010, the board ruled that all legal mining had ceased on the property before the state's permitting law took effect 35 years ago.
"He's not a renegade," Brewer said of his client. "He simply wants to work, and the agencies are telling him he can't, no matter what he does."
Hardesty and his wife did not return telephone messages.
Some of those who live near the property say they are sympathetic to a certain amount of mining activity. After all, the area has a rich history and clings to its Gold Rush tradition.
Neighbor Sandra Thein hopes Hardesty strikes it rich, if only because it would increase her property's value. She has lived nearby for 22 years but plans to sell soon and expects that a nearby gold strike would raise her asking price.
Other neighbors are fighting the mining operation, said real estate agent Aaron Bate, who is trying to sell another neighboring property.
"They don't want the traffic and the noise and the dynamite," he said.
Thomas East, of nearby Diamond Springs, said he has found plenty of gold flakes and nuggets weighing up to an ounce in Weber Creek, downstream from the Big Cut Mine.
"They won't let anybody mine it because the California Gold Rush could start again. All the people up here are paranoid about it," East said, standing by the creek outside the mine's locked entrance gate.
Brewer said his client wishes the rumors of immense riches being unearthed at the Big Cut Mine were true.
"Basically, the government is at the point of bankrupting Joe," the attorney said. "At this point, Joe doesn't have much to lose. It would be great if he could find $1 million up there."


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I've been a fan of the PC version of Borderlands 2, even though it hasn't been without some issues.
Today, a whopper of a patch was released for the PC version, which fixes a ton of various bugs and repairs a grip of broken missions that I didn't even realize were bugged. Here's the full rundown:
- Fixed fast travel stations from downloadable content sometimes disappearing when loading a saved game.
- Fixed an issue where players could occasionally be unable to connect to one another if one of them had recently been in DLC that the other doesn't have.
- Fixed an issue where players were sometimes unable to pick items up after another player had bulk-picked-up a nearby item.
- Fixed a bug in the inventory UI when quickly scrolling to the bottom of a list using the mouse wheel.
- Improved PhysX fluid rendering quality at high resolutions.
- Improved NVIDIA 3D Vision integration.
- Fixed the "Inverted reverse steering" option not working for clients in a multiplayer game.
- Fixed the player's backpack sort setting not persisting.
- Fixed an issue causing players to sometimes crash or freeze after killing Master Gee in the Captain Scarlett DLC.
- Fixed challenges showing inaccurate completion amounts for area-specific challenges.
- Fixed a bug where the player's active mission would sometimes fall back to main-game missions when completing other missions in DLC areas.
- Fixed a bug that could cause players to lose mission rewards that they had not claimed when switching between Normal mode and True Vault Hunter mode.
- Added a confirmation dialog when opening the golden chest in Sanctuary.
- Fixed Arid Nexus Badlands showing an undiscovered challenge that was not attainable.
- Restored some lost progress to players who have had their profiles reset. To ensure you are credited for as much progress as possible, please load your character, select "Continue" on the Main Menu, and then "Save and Quit" after you enter the world. Repeat this process for each character in your character list.
- Fixed the Mechromancer's Anarchy skill sometimes losing stacks incorrectly for multiplayer clients.
- Fixed a bug causing players to sometimes get stuck zoomed in when in "Fight for Your Life" mode.
- Fixed challenge "For The Hoard!" to work properly after resetting challenges.
- Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause players' skill points to be reset when loading their character.
- Fixed a bug that could cause enemies and missions to be locked to an incorrect level.
- Fixed bug causing Tediore reloads to get Amplify shield damage bonuses for each round remaining in the clip.
- Amplify damage from Amplify Shields is now divided among all projectiles fired from a single shot.
- Balance adjustments to "The Bee":
+ Increased Recharge Delay
+ Significantly increased Recharge Rate
+ Reduced Amplify damage
- DLC raid bosses no longer drop Seraph crystals in Normal Mode.
- Reduced level of DLC raid bosses in Normal Mode.
- Fixed issue resulting in infinite leveling exploit with Fleshstick.
- Increased the health of Terramorphous, Willhelm, and Blue.
- Additional miscellaneous balance tweaks.
- Fixed issues with the following missions that could cause players to get stuck or not be able to complete them:
+ Plan B
+ Wildlife Preservation
+ Mighty Morphin
+ Animal Rescue: Food
+ The Man Who Would Be Jack
+ Get To Know Jack
+ Where Angels Fear to Tread
+ Trailer Trashing
+ Clan War: First Place
+ Stalker of Stalkers
+ The Once and Future Slab
+ Home Movies
+ Shielded Favors
+ You Are Cordially Invited: Tea Party
+ (Captain Scarlett) Freedom of Speech
Dang. That's a lot of patchin'.
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As I was posing questions to an NFL general manager about the value of running backs prospects and the overall draft class at the position, I got a question boomeranged back toward me: How many teams, right now, really need a running back?
It took me a minute. Miami, obviously, because Ricky Williams and Ronnie Brown will become free agents. Washington and then maybe Seattle, at least in terms of needs a running back. Nobody's really dying for one, I guess.
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Then came the follow up to the GM's initial question: Doesn't just about every team have other positions to address which could be considered more important than running back?
Yes, yes and yes. In fact, just about every team needs help -- more help -- at other positions besides running back. Many teams have a value scale that makes the same determination. Running backs tend to come up on the back end of that scale for this draft.
"There might be some running backs good enough to go in the first round, but is the need stronger at left tackle, outside linebacker?" the GM asked. "Teams have to ask themselves, can we get through this round better without the running back or a left tackle?"
That line of thinking is a precursor to several GMs telling me that this also simply isn't a great draft class at the position. Alabama's Mark Ingram is considered the only running back likely to be selected in the first round -- he's widely projected to the Dolphins at No. 15 -- but from conversations I've had, it wouldn't be stunning if he slipped into the late first or even the second round.
That scenario could become reality because not only is Ingram not necessarily a game-changer like Adrian Peterson, but also because he's hampered by the trend of teams finding greater value at the position outside of the first round.
The Texans' Arian Foster, who went undrafted, was the NFL's leading rusher last season. The second-leading rusher, Jamaal Charles of Kansas City, was a third-round draft pick. Tampa Bay's LeGarrette Blount, a candidate for Offensive Rookie of the Year, went undrafted last spring. Cleveland's Peyton Hillis, who rushed for 1,177 yards and 11 touchdowns, was a seventh-round pick in 2008. Green Bay rookie James Starks, a sixth-round pick, emerged from injuries late in the season to become the Packers' main ball carrier during their Super Bowl run.
Conversely, past high picks from the past two drafts have only shown flashes due to injuries and inconsistency at a position many NFL evaluators say is one of the easiest to make an immediate impact. That list includes Knowshon Moreno (No. 12 overall), Donald Brown (27) and Beanie Wells (31) in the 2009 draft, and C.J. Spiller (No. 9), Ryan Mathews (12) and Jahvid Best (30) in 2010.
That's not to say that if there was a monster running back available, teams pass. All six of those running backs were taken in the first round (three each) the last two drafts.
That's just not the case with this group of prospects.
"In regards to the running back group, there are more second/companion and third/specialty running backs than [featured] running backs this year," another general manager said.
Besides Ingram (5-foot-9, 215 pounds), the top running backs include Kansas State's Daniel Thomas (6-0, 230), Illinois' Mikel LeShoure (6-0, 227), Oklahoma State's Kendall Hunter (5-7, 199), Jacquizz Rodgers of Oregon State (5-6, 196) and Virginia Tech's Ryan Williams (5-9, 212).
All are considered players who can contribute right away, but none are viewed as must-haves -- at least when it comes at the cost of a high draft pick. The one thing we do know is that someone no one is talking about is going to emerge from this group.
One GM said that he is intrigued by the amount of change-of-pace backs in this draft. Many of the prospects are coming from spread offensive systems, meaning they're adept at reading coverages, catching the ball and making plays in open space. This could be the perfect crop of players to find the complement to say, Peterson, Pierre Thomas or Frank Gore.
"You're seeing more scatback types than pounder, inline types," the GM said. "You can hit on running backs and wide receivers in the mid-rounds (that are) as good or better than all other positions."
While six running backs were taken in the first two rounds last season, the first being Spiller, six were also taken during the final two rounds, with Starks being the most notable. Only two were selected from rounds 3-5. In 2009, four running backs were taken in the first two rounds, including three in the first. Nine were chosen in the sixth and seventh rounds, combined. Nine also were taken rounds 3-5.
So what's clear is when it comes to running backs, things will go in cycles. In a year or two, some of the current workhorses will be wearing down, possibly at the same time that a sizeable group of running backs will be entering the draft. But this isn't that year.


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Eucalyptus Systems has updated its IaaS (infrastructure as a platform) cloud computing software so that computing jobs may be started more easily.
The open source Eucalyptus 3.1, to be released June 27, will also be the first version to be available on the GitHub online repository of open source software, providing a central place for developers to work on the code.
Developed by a University of California researcher, Eucalyptus is a cloud software platform that reproduces the Amazon Web Services API (application programming interface). With this software, organizations could duplicate AWS internally, allowing them to move jobs easily between Amazon and an in-house system. In March, Amazon announced that it would support development of Eucalyptus.
This release builds on version 3.0, released last August. It's the first to come with FastStart, a provisioning service that allows an administrator to get a cloud computing job running within 20 minutes, the company claims. Virtual machines are kept in a library so they can be easily deployed. The software also includes a suite of installation tools, called SilverEye, for advance installation and configuration of the virtual images. FastStart works on CentOS 5 Linux distribution with the Xen hypervisor, or CentOS 6 with Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.
This version of the software has been updated to work with the latest versions of other platforms as well. It can now run on the latest version of with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), allowing users to deploy either Xen or KVM-based virtual machines on RHEL servers. Users can run Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Simple Storage Service (S3) and Identity and Access Management (IAM) services on RHEL. Eucalyptus 3.1 has also been engineered to work with VMware's virtualization management software, vCenter version 5.
The move to GitHub should bring more community participation in the further development of the software, the company predicts. Eucalyptus Systems sells an enterprise version of the software with additional proprietary management features, though the company also shepherds the development of the open-source core of the program, called Eucalyptus Community Cloud. Placing the codebase on GitHub will centralize the development activity in one public location, as well as allow Eucalyptus users to file requests for new features and bug fixes, and watch their progress through the development cycle. Defects and new features will be tracked with a copy of the Jira project tracker.
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Custom YouTube Players: Here Comes YouTube TV
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This addition is great. It can and hopefully will be a way of watching related videos with ease. Searching is also quite tiresome so i think this "TV" idea will help.ReplyDelete
I like the interface however, i hope there is more to be added.
Yes, there's a more advanced interface that shows information about the videos in a sidebar, but it was too big for this blog (780X445).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2007 at 4:49 AM
The terrain shapes in the first video seem to be fake, especially the Firefox sign!ReplyDelete
They aren't fake.ReplyDelete
(From Google Earth Blog) << A bunch of Firefox devotees set out to generate more PR for Firefox. They decided to make a huge accurate Firefox logo in a crop field (designs like these are called "crop circles"). This was a big project involving a lot of planning, building the crop stompers (to lay down the vegetation), GPSes, walkie-talkies, a plane and a helicopter (for the aerial photos). >>
Here's the huge Firefox logo in Google Maps. You can also find information about other places in this archive or from the comments to the original YouTube videos.
- AnonymousAugust 7, 2008 at 12:14 PM
These custom players are not functioning now.. Everybody is facing problem and Getting a 'We're sorry this video is no longer available.' message in the players, although the videos are still available on YouTube andReplyDelete
still play if go to YouTube account:
This addition is great. It can and hopefully will be a way of watching related videos with ease.I like the interface however, i hope there is more to be added.ReplyDelete
Is there a way to sort these videos in the playlist that shows next to the custom playerReplyDelete
how many videos can it hold, because it can only hold 49 videos of my playlistReplyDelete


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16 Ways to Overcome the Independent Contractor Defense
Effective representation of the plaintiff in a case of serious injury or wrongful death often requires that counsel overcome an "independent contractor" defense. That frequently involves solving a shell game of independent contractor business relationships used to evade financial responsibility. Sometimes lawyers refer to this as getting "beyond the monkey to the organ grinder."
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Salisbury looks into farm worker housing
SALISBURY — The Salisbury Development Review Board is trying to solve an issue with a local dairy farmer and the housing he provides for his farm workers.
Randy Quesnel owns a dairy farm on Creek Road in West Salisbury and employs a number of farm workers who live on the property. The problem is, Salisbury Zoning Administrator Jon Filion has issued at least two notices of violation to Quesnel for housing the farm workers in inadequate quarters that violate local and state statute.
According to Filion, the workers are living in a building that has no septic system and are using a portable toilet. The original violation was filed in March 2012, and Filion said the workers were moved, which cleared up that violation. But a new violation was created because the workers were moved to a recreation vehicle on the property, which is also considered inadequate housing.
The workers are now back in the original housing area with the portable toilet, and Quesnel appealed the second violation. The DRB held a public hearing on the issue on Sept. 19. Salisbury DRB member Sue Quesnel recused herself from the proceedings as she is related to Randy Quesnel and his wife, Jean.
The issue first presented itself in September 2011 and Filion acknowledged that he had been delaying taking swift action on the case.
"I admittedly have been dragging my feet on this because I know what farmers are up against, and I apologize to the town," he told the DRB at the hearing. "But I also have an obligation to these (workers). They may have better facilities than where they came from, but that doesn't mean this is acceptable, and it's illegal."
By law, any occupied dwelling must have a working septic system and clean water source.
"We have standards," Filion continued. "And those standards have not been met. It's a year now that these people have been living in substandard housing and something has got to be done."
Randy Quesnel didn't attend the Sept. 19 meeting but his wife, Jean, was there to field the board's questions. She defended the workers' housing, taking issue with Filion's description of the area as a "milk room."
"It's not a milk room, it's a bunk house," she said. "It has a full kitchen, a shower, a bedroom and a living room."
Quesnel went on to say that a state fire inspector had visited the property months ago and signed off on the dwelling, only requiring that one window be made larger. But no one with the town of Salisbury ever called to request an inspector, and there is no paperwork to prove the visit ever took place. The board asked Quesnel for the fire inspector's report, but she said she did not have it with her.
It also came to light that the water in the workers' kitchen and shower is gray water, meaning it is water generated from other uses, such as laundry, dishwashing and bathing. It can be recycled on-site for uses such as landscape irrigation, but is not legally acceptable for use in an occupied dwelling.
Filion said even if the Quesnels resolve the septic issue, they would need to apply for a change of use permit for the bunkhouse in order for it to be a legal residence.
Quesnel said she and her husband had an engineer draw up plans to install a wastewater system that would run across the road from the farm where they had planned to put a trailer for the workers to live in. She said she cannot afford to implement that plan, and that now they are in the process of drawing up new plans to construct a septic system for the bunkhouse area where the workers are currently living.
With no wastewater system and no certificate of occupancy, DRB Chair Deb Hurlburt asked if the Quesnels could house the workers somewhere else until the septic issue is corrected.
"I have no other option," Quesnel replied.
DRB member Mary Anne Sullivan then asked Quesnel what actions she would like the board to take and on what grounds.
"Let me put this system in and then I can get a change of use," she replied, adding that she has a limited window of time with winter on its way.
"We need to have it done by Nov. 1," Quesnel said.
But Hurlburt was not satisfied.
"We can talk about all the systems and timelines we want," she said. "But you have farm laborers in inappropriate housing and I'm not OK with that."
Sullivan then asked Quesnel if she admits that the farm is in violation of Salisbury zoning regulations.
"I'm not going to answer that," Quesnel replied. "I'm not a lawyer. I don't think what we're doing is wrong."
Sullivan was clearly dissatisfied.
"We don't let people live in houses without wastewater systems," she pressed. "Do you deny you violated the regulations?"
After a lengthy pause, Quesnel answered.
"No, I do not," she said.
Rather than go into deliberation, the DRB agreed to make a Sept. 26 site visit to the bunkhouse, then deliberate and issue a decision at a later date.
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Frank Lloyd Wright has closed, to record weekend crowds, and now we look forward to the Museum's Summer of CHINA, which opens June 11. But more on that later.
This week, Members receive double discounts in the Museum Store on Thursday, plus since May is Member Month, there are additional discounts in Cafe Calatrava and Coffee with a Conscience.
The Annual Members Meeting is Thursday, May 19, and all Members are welcome to attend the meeting at 6:15 p.m. and stay for a lecture by the Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Dr. Robert Greenstreet at 7 p.m., both in Lubar Auditorium.
Finally, weekends are for families, so don't miss out on Story Time in the Galleries (Saturday at 10:30 a.m.), Drop-in Tours (Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.), and the Kohl's Art Generation Studio, open Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Stay tuned for more on the Summer of CHINA, and we hope to see you at the Museum soon!


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by Judith Curry
Too rapid a movement towards a low-carbon economy could materially damage financial stability: a climate Minsky moment — Mark Carney
A recent speech given by Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, entitled Resolving the Climate Paradox. The whole text of the speech is well worth reading, here I focus on excerpts related to the idea of the 'tragedy of the horizon.' Excerpts:
When I spoke at Lloyd's of London a year ago about the financial stability risks arising from climate change, I, in effect, highlighted two paradoxes.
1 First, the future will be past. That is, climate change is a tragedy of the horizon which imposes a cost on future generations that the current one has no direct incentive to fix. The catastrophic impacts of climate change will be felt beyond the traditional horizons of most actors including businesses and central banks. Once climate change becomes a clear and present danger to financial stability it may already be too late to stabilise the atmosphere at two degrees.
2 The second paradox is that success is failure. That is, too rapid a movement towards a low-carbon economy could materially damage financial stability. A wholesale reassessment of prospects, as climate-related risks are re-evaluated, could destabilise markets, spark a pro-cyclical crystallisation of losses and lead to a persistent tightening of financial conditions: a climate Minsky moment.
The final and most important channel involves transition risks, which could result from the adjustment towards a lower-carbon economy. Changes in policy, technology and physical risks could prompt a reassessment of the value of a large range of assets as costs and opportunities become apparent.
The speed at which such re-pricing occurs is uncertain but could be decisive for financial stability. There have already been a few high profile examples of jump-to-distress pricing because of shifts in environmental policy or performance.
Tonight, I would like to discuss how building new markets – in climate transition and green finance – can help resolve the tragedy of the horizon. Over the past year, the focus of G20 Leaders and the aegis of the FSB have spurred important progress. The upcoming German presidency of the G20 now has a historic chance to mainstream climate finance and turn risk into opportunity.
Clear policy frameworks that encourage sustained private investment are thus essential, including those that mobilise private investment to finance the transition to the low-carbon economy. As I will discuss, the magnitudes required are significant, the horizons long, and the distribution Pareto improving.
Therefore, Paris clarifies actual and stretch objectives. It provides detailed climate policies and creates the prospect of a future ratcheting up of efforts. In doing so, it greatly increases transition risks as well as opportunities. By bringing forward the horizon, it puts a premium on the ability of private markets to adjust.
Smooth adjustment is crucial because transition risks are how success could turn into failure. Specifically, sudden changes in policy, technology and physical risks could prompt a reassessment of asset values as costs and opportunities become apparent. In other words, an abrupt resolution of the tragedy of horizons is in itself a financial stability risk.
The point is that the more we invest with foresight; the less we will regret in hindsight. Financial stability risks will be minimised if the transition begins early and follows a predictable path, thereby helping the market anticipate the transition to a two-degree world. And that requires the right information. On this front, there has also been considerable progress in a short period of time.
Markets that value the future
Financial policymakers will not drive the transition to a low-carbon economy. Governments will establish the frameworks, and the private sector will make the investments.
Nonetheless, financial policymakers do have a clear interest in ensuring the financial system is resilient to any transition hastened by those decisions. Our role is to help develop the frameworks for markets to adjust efficiently.
Given the uncertainties around climate, not everyone will agree on the timing or scale of adjustment required. The right information allows sceptics and evangelists alike to back their convictions with their capital.
A market in the transition to a two-degree world can be built. It will reveal how the valuations of companies that produce and use fossil fuels might change over time.
It will expose the likely future cost of doing business, paying for emissions, changing processes to avoid those charges, and tighter regulation. It will help smooth price adjustments as opinions change, rather than concentrating them at a single climate "Minsky moment".
And it would allow feedback between the market and policymaking, making climate policy a bit more like monetary policy, with policymakers learning from markets' reactions, and markets internalising policymakers' objectives, strategies and instruments. When rates are low, the present value of future returns and risks are greater.
That is why a vocal minority are already calling on businesses to invest for the future, including by supporting the transition to a low carbon economy, and for investors to internalise the risks and opportunities of climate change. With better information as a foundation, we can build a virtuous circle of better understanding of tomorrow's risks, better pricing for investors, better decisions by policymakers, and a smoother transition to a lower-carbon economy. By managing what gets measured, and building a mainstream green bond market, we can help resolve the Tragedy of the Horizon.
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A transition away from fossil fuels by the end of the 21st century is not unlikely, independently of a climate change driver. The key issue is whether and how fast climate change should drive the transition away from fossil fuels.
Carney makes important points about the Tragedy of the Horizon and also transition risks. A Minsky moment is a very real and substantial concern regarding rapid emissions reductions. He proposes that that a green bond market, combined with better information, can help manage the Tragedy of the Horizon as well as transition risks. This proposal sounds much more appealing to the broad political spectrum than regulations and taxes.
I find this point to be key:
Given the uncertainties around climate, not everyone will agree on the timing or scale of adjustment required. The right information allows sceptics and evangelists alike to back their convictions with their capital.


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… with jewelry design professor Steven Parker's help of course. In the old days — the very old days — people shopped for pre-owned jewelry at their favorite Egyptian tomb. A lot of that loot survives today in the wings of major museums.
But sometimes precious items go missing yet again during periods of political upheaval. Well, at least they could. A bracelet of King Tut's — a lesser known ninth bracelet — with a prescient clockwork mechanism was lost, then found, then lost again. Well, in truth it was never lost. But it was "found" by Professor Steven Parker, whose fanciful creation of this ancient Egyptian-themed bracelet suggests what Tut might have worn.
The famous archaeologist Kent P. Streaver (an anagram of Steven Parker) writes in metalsmith magazine that when he came into possession of the original bracelet, he called on its oracular powers. The bracelet foretells that the famous archaeologist might not fulfill his mission.
Sure enough, "a hand bandaged with dirty linens," swipes the bracelet from the archaeologist's "field of vision." Alas, "the bracelet [is] gone!"
"I can only hope that the bracelet will resurface someday," concludes Streaver (setting us up for future adventures).
To read the full story of the bracelet's journey go to: acmeclockworks.com. And expect more amazing discoveries from the good archaeologist… err… FIT professor.


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Obama aims to cut deficit in half by '13
This week is about the budget, as he issues his first, hosts a 'fiscal responsibility summit.'
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Call it Fashion Week for budget wonks. In a city known more for sensible shoes than stylish stilettos, Washington is entering a week like no other.
The action begins Monday, with a White House "fiscal responsibility summit" aimed at focusing attention on the exploding budget deficit and looming insolvency of entitlement programs. On Tuesday night, President Obama delivers a State-of-the-Union-like speech to a joint session of Congress.
On Thursday, Mr. Obama releases his first budget, or least the outlines of one. The week ends in Philadelphia, with the first official meeting of Vice President Joe Biden's Middle Class Task Force.
Taken as a whole, the week is shaping up to be equal parts substance and public relations. On Monday, Obama is expected to announce that he plans to cut the budget deficit in half by the end of his term. The White House projects that the inherited deficit of $1.3 trillion will be reduced to $533 billion by 2013, as the US withdraws troops from Iraq and raises taxes on business and the wealthy, according to published reports.
Much has been made of former President Bill Clinton's suggestion that Obama speak a bit more optimistically about the economy to raise consumer confidence. But the president is walking a fine line, as economic indicators grow increasingly bleak.
"In terms of tone, he has to strike a balance," says political analyst Stuart Rothenberg. "He can't say we've turned things around, things are going to get better, because he doesn't know if that's the case."
If Obama sounds too upbeat, he will be quickly seen as out of touch, Mr. Rothenberg adds. "But I think Clinton's probably right: There's a danger of talking down the economy," he says. "Since psychology is such a critical part of the economy and our ability to get out of the current spiral, he has to address that."
By starting the week with a three-hour summit on "fiscal responsibility," Obama signals that longer-term fiscal problems must be considered in conjunction with the immediate economic crisis. Discussions will touch Social Security, healthcare, tax reform, and the budget process. The 130 invitees include lawmakers, scholars, and leaders of advocacy groups.
On the face of it, talking about reducing the deficit – which entails budget cuts, tax increases, and politically risky changes to entitlements – may seem to contradict the spending increases and tax cuts just put in place in Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan.
"It does sound like stepping on the gas and on the brake at the same time," says Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, which advocates fiscal discipline. "In fact, I think it's complementary."
Over the next several years, he says, the nation will be spending and borrowing vast sums of money, and by focusing concurrently on how to bring back balance, it sends a signal to both the political and financial communities that there's an "end game, that there's an exit strategy to this massive borrowing."
This signal is also important for foreign lenders who are providing most of the capital for US deficit spending. "They will need to see at some point that there's a viability plan, just like we demand from the auto companies," says Mr. Bixby.
Monday's summit is not intended to reach conclusions or launch initiatives, but to frame the debate. A bipartisan group of budget experts recommended Thursday that the summit be followed by creation of a bipartisan, independent commission that would craft a solution to America's long-term fiscal problems. Based on the model of military base-closing commissions, the group would present recommendations to Congress for an up-or-down vote.
In terms of substance, the week's highlight will come Thursday, with the unveiling of Obama's first budget. Though it will be more an outline than a detailed blueprint, as is customary for a new president, enough will be there to provide a sense of the Obama administration's direction. The full budget will be ready in April.
"One of the things that the president really has to do with the budget is to send a clear, credible signal that there is a long-term plan to save the economy and keep the federal budget from going over a cliff," says William Galston, who served as domestic policy adviser in the Clinton White House.
Already, the Obama administration has signaled an end to what it calls the budgetary "gimmicks" of the Bush administration, such as keeping Iraq and Afghan war and disaster spending off budget.
No one doubts the numbers will be ugly. A paper released Thursday by two economists, Alan Auerbach of the University of California, Berkeley, and William Gale of the Brookings Institution, projects that in 2009, the federal deficit will be larger as a share of the economy than at any time since World War II.
Even under optimistic assumptions, they write, "the deficit is projected to average at least $1 trillion per year for the 10 years after 2009."
It is within this gloomy context that Obama will address Congress, the nation, and the world Tuesday evening. In his weekly Internet address Saturday, the president provided a glimpse of what he is expected to say on Tuesday. He reviewed the elements of the just-signed stimulus package and the ways in which its effects will be felt. He also sought to demonstrate the interconnectedness of the economic crisis – how the banking and credit crisis links to housing and jobs.
And he stressed the importance of fiscal discipline, saying the government must do "all we can to get exploding deficits under control as our economy begins to recover."
"In short, we cannot successfully address any of our problems without addressing them all," he said.


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(HealthDay News) — Patients with atrial fibrillation who have chronic kidney disease are at higher risk of stroke or systemic thromboembolism and bleeding, according to a study published in the Aug. 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Jonas Bjerring Olesen, M.D., from the Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte in Hellerup, Denmark, and colleagues reviewed the records of 132,372 patients in Denmark who had been discharged from the hospital with a diagnosis of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation between 1997 and 2008. Of these, 2.7 percent had non-end-stage chronic kidney disease and 0.7 percent required renal-replacement therapy. The risks of stroke and systemic thromboembolism and the effects of antithrombotic treatment were examined in these patients.
Compared with patients without renal disease, the researchers found a significantly higher risk of stroke or systemic thromboembolism in patients with non-end-stage chronic kidney disease (hazard ratio, 1.49) and in patients requiring renal-replacement therapy (hazard ratio, 1.83). Warfarin, but not aspirin, significantly reduced this risk. Both groups of patients also had a higher risk of bleeding, which was further increased with warfarin or aspirin.
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"Chronic kidney disease was associated with an increased risk of stroke or systemic thromboembolism and bleeding among patients with atrial fibrillation," Olesen and colleagues write. "Warfarin treatment was associated with a decreased risk of stroke or systemic thromboembolism among patients with chronic kidney disease, whereas warfarin and aspirin were associated with an increased risk of bleeding."
Several authors disclosed financial ties to pharmaceutical companies.


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California's "big three" utilities, at the behest of state regulators, are in the process of examining and improving how they price electricity, including something called time-of-use (TOU) electricity pricing. This option – which rewards people who shift some of their electricity use to times of day when clean energy is abundant and electricity is cheaper – can help California families create safer communities while saving money on their utility bills. Mom's Clean Air Force California mom Linda Hutchins-Knowles agrees, and recently wrote this opinion piece in the San Jose Mercury News encouraging others to adopt TOU.
Linda, like many moms, wears multiple hats. As a mother, she wants to help leave her children a safer, more sustainable word. As an advocate, she supports increasing our use of clean energy over dirty fossil fuels to help clean our air and environment as a whole. Finally, as a consumer, she wants to do these things without breaking the bank. Read More


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Rolfing is a form of hands-on manipulation and movement education developed by Ida P. Rolf over 50 years ago. Rolfing® Structural Integration works on the connective tissue (fascia) to release, realign and balance the whole body. Rolfing® Structural Integration enhances your posture and freedom of movement.
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The Rolfing® Ten-Series
The hallmark of Rolfing Structural Integration is a standardized "recipe" known as the Ten-Series, the goal of which is to systematically balance and optimize both the structure (shape) and function (movement) of the entire body over the course of ten Rolfing sessions.
Each session of the 10 series focuses on freeing restrictions or holdings trapped in a particular region of the body. A practitioner also maintains a holistic view of the client's entire system during each session, thus ensuring the transformational process evolves in a comfortable and harmonious way.
The Ten-Series can be divided into three distinct units:
Sessions 1-3:
Called the "sleeve" sessions, session 1-3 strive to loosen and balance surface layers of connective tissue.
Specifically, the first session is devoted to enhancing the quality of breath with work on the arms, ribcage and diaphragm. Opening is also started along the upper leg, hamstrings, neck and spine.
The second session helps give the body a stable foundation by balancing the foot and muscles of the lower leg.
The third session typically involves a "side view" for an understanding of how the head, shoulder girdle, and hips are positionaly related to one another when standing under the influence of gravity. Then, the body is addressed within the context of this new vision.
Sessions 4-7:
Sessions 4-7 are referred to as "core" sessions and examine terrain found between the bottom of the pelvis and top of the head. The idea of core also includes the deep tissue of the legs for its role in support.
Session four begins this journey, its territory extends from the inside arch of the foot and up the leg, to the bottom of the pelvis.
The fifth session is concerned with balancing surface and deep abdominal muscles to the curve of the back.
Session six seeks to enlist more support and moment from the legs, pelvis and lower back, while the seventh session turns its sole attention to the neck and head.
Session 8-10:
"Integration" is emphasized throughout the remaining three sessions, as session 8-10 provide an opportunity for the practitioner to blend previously established advancements, and ones yet to be made, into the body in a way that encourages smooth movement and natural coordination.
During sessions eight and nine, the practitioner determines how best to achieve this integration, as the protocol is unique for each individual.
The tenth and final session is also one of integration, but more importantly, serves to inspire a sense of order and balance. Once completed, the wisdom of the Rolfing Ten Series will drive and support the body with health for years to come.


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ATHENS, Greece, May 15 (UPI) -- Market research firm Dealogic said Greek companies have sold $2 billion worth of bonds in 2013, a sign of recovery on a corporate level.
A year ago through the same period there were no Greek corporate bond sales, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Although risks remain, investors appear to be returning to Greece, which has accepted billions of dollars in international assistance under terms that it drastically scale back spending, raise taxes and sell various assets to reduce government debt.
In 2012, holders of Greek government bonds took a $130 billion cut in their investments and it looked like Greece would be the first country to exit the eurozone.
This year, things look different in Athens. The European Commission on Monday said the government may need to adopt more austerity measures in 2014 but the stock market, 90 percent below 2007 levels, has rebounded in the past 12 months, climbing 80 percent.
York Capital Management, Dromeus Capital, LNG Capital and CQS LLP have made recent investments in Greek companies.
Even Fitch Ratings gave Greece a nod of approval, upgraded the country's credit rating on Tuesday to B-minus. That is still a junk bond status, but Fitch said fears that Greece would leave the eurozone had "receded," the Journal said.
Not everyone is enthused.
"We're still avoiding Greece at the moment," said Nicola Marinelli, a portfolio manager at Glendevon King Asset Management.
"If there was some weakness in the market, Greek bonds would struggle to perform."


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During the few bloated explosion excuses in Expendables, my mind kept drifting back to a little scene in Sly's fourth return to his most famous character besides Balboa. Remember when Rambo had to hightail it through the jungle, plant a charge near an undetonated explosive in aircraft wreckage, and then tear out like no other sixty-two-year-old ever before a group of nondescript little brown soldiers became millisecond fire? Or what about Arnold suiting up beachside to slaughter a small army in Commando, Sly cauterizing a bad wound in Rambo III, or Bruce picking shards of agony from his bare feet in Die Hard? Simple slices of macho hubris more exhilarating than anything witnessed in the huge personality pile-up of Expendables. The only real showstopping setpiece is a fantastic seaplane firebombing of a long pier. The slapdash frenzy that infests the rest of the confusing action deflates much of the visceral impact.
Whether this cast, regardless the project, was a good idea is debatable. Rourke, Austin, Couture, Li, and Schwarzenegger are easily "expendable" and should have never been approached. In their place, define a clear role for Van Damme, he would have been worth it, and expand Willis's turn. Maybe drop the vanilla Eric Roberts and let Bruce embody the villain. Unfortunately that's a pipe dream and in its current state The Expendables bogs down into a few obvious "acting" moments with some slopped together action segments peppered in. And yes, Al-Qaeda should have been the bad guys, not some vague South American faction, since '80s action gave a giant fuck off to topical political correctness.
It's a shame Stallone hasn't done more behind the camera through his career. When he's not orchestrating action scenes like a post-stroke Paul Greengrass with the shakes, the ol' plastic-faced lug definitely has an eye and pulls off great use of dark cinematography. At times, this aspect was actually more interesting than whatever was happening on-screen. The film also never feels its 103 minute runtime and seemed to breeze by. In the end, I still hold hope for a sequel or a really fleshed out extended cut. The Expendables isn't so much a throwback as it is a bullet someone forgot to pack with gunpowder as they rushed it through the loading press. As for Lionsgate's Blu-ray, the video and audio quality are superlative.


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Quilt is a tool to manage a series of patches relative to a common code base. It is useful when you are working on a code base, and frequently have to integrate your own patches with those coming from external sources.
- Quilt Project home page: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/
- How To Survive With Many Patches (or) Introduction to Quilt is a good tutorial for using quilt
- Quilt Introduction (online presentation)
- Another tutorial, with sample files, is at:
- http://lwn.net/Articles/134072/ - LKML message by Greg KH explaining how he uses quilt for managing kernel patches


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97 S.Ct. 1739
52 L.Ed.2d 219
John D. ASHCROFT, Attorney General of Missouri
Robert Dean MATTIS.
No. 76-1179.
Decided May 16, 1977.
Rehearing Denied June 27, 1977. See 433 U.S. 915, 97 S.Ct. 2990.
Appellee's 18-year-old son was shot and killed by police while attempting to escape arrest. Appellee filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the police officers in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. He sought to recover damages, and also to obtain a declaratory judgment that the Missouri statutes authorizing the police action were unconstitutional.1 The District Court held that a defense of good faith had been established, and denied both forms of relief. No appeal was taken from the denial of damages, but appellee did seek review of the denial of declaratory relief. The Eighth Circuit held that declaratory relief was available and remanded for consideration of the merits of the constitutional issue. Mattis v. Schnarr, 502 F.2d 588 (1974).
(1-3) On remand, appellee filed an amended complaint, in which he made no claim for damages. The Missouri Attorney General was allowed to intervene in defense of the statutes, and the case was then submitted on stipulated facts. The District Court upheld the statutes, Mattis v. Schnarr, 404 F.Supp. 643 (1975), but was reversed by a divided Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, 8 Cir., 547 F.2d 1007 (1976). The Attorney General brought an appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1254(2) from the holding that the state statutes were unconstitutional.
Although we are urged to consider the merits of the Court of Appeals' holding, we are unable to do so, because this suit does not now present a live "case or controversy." This suit was brought to determine the police officers' liability for the death of appellee's son. That issue has been decided, and there is no longer any possible basis for a damages claim. Nor is there any possible basis for a declaratory judgment. For a declaratory judgment to issue, there must be a dispute which "calls, not for an advisory opinion upon a hypothetical basis, but for an adjudication of present right upon established facts." Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Haworth, 300 U.S. 227, 242, 57 S.Ct. 461, 465, 81 L.Ed. 617 (1937). See also Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co., 312 U.S. 270, 273, 61 S.Ct. 510, 512, 85 L.Ed. 826 (1941). Here, the District Court was asked to answer the hypothetical question whether the defendants would have been liable apart from their defense of good faith. No "present right" of appellee was at stake. Indeed, appellee's primary claim of a present interest in the controversy is that he will obtain emotional satisfaction from a ruling that his son's death was wrongful.2 Appellee's Motion to Affirm 5-6, n. 1. Emotional involvement is a lawsuit is not enough to meet the case-or-controversy requirement; were the rule otherwise, few cases could ever become moot.
The judgment of the Court of Appeals is vacated, and the case is remanded with instructions to direct the District Court to dismiss the second amended complaint.
It is so ordered.
These statutes permit police to use deadly force in apprehending a person who has committed a felony, following notice of the intent to arrest. Mo.Rev.Stat. §§ 559.040 and 544.190 (1969); see Mattis v. Schnarr, 502 F.2d 588, 591, and n. 4 (CA8 1974).
The second amended complaint also alleges that appellee has another son who "if ever arrested or brought under an attempt at arrest on suspicion of a felony, might flee or give the appearance of fleeing, and would therefore be in danger of being killed by these defendants or other police officers . . . ." 3 App. in Mattis v. Schnarr, No. 75-1849 (CA8), p. 5 (emphasis added). Such speculation is insufficient to establish the existence of a present, live controversy.


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An application to toss a guilty verdict on major fraud charges in the Okanagan, due to the lengthy time it took to get to trial, was denied by a judge in Penticton's B.C. Supreme Court chambers Thursday.
Michael Elphicke was found guilty in October of fraud and theft over $5,000 and unauthorized operation of a lottery scheme, over the failed Okanagan youth hockey tour of Europe which was supposed to happen in 2012.
Despite raising about $184,000 from parents and through a raffle scheme, which was not authorized by the B.C. Lottery Corporation, no hockey trip ever came about — by mid-January 2012, just $13,000 remained in the Okanagan Elite Hockey Association accounts.
Elphicke's hockey fraud trial took 32.4 months from charges sworn to final testimony, but court found trial likely could have been completed within 30 months if moved to Kelowna, which Elphicke opposed. #Penticton— Dustin Godfrey (@dustinrgodfrey) November 16, 2017
Justice Bruce Greyell delivered his decision Thursday morning, after hearing the case for and against the Charter application on Wednesday.
The application stems from a summer 2016 Supreme Court of Canada ruling in July 2016, in which the courts determined an accused undergoing a superior court trial should not have to wait more than 30 months between the time the charges are sworn and the trial's finish.
Related: Elphicke reportedly took $17,000 of hockey funds
Charges were sworn against Elphicke — as well as co-accused Loren Reagan, believed to be in Kuwait — in January 2015, but did not go to trial until September 2017, making 32.4 months to the end of trial.
One particular delay came in May 2016, when the Crown was forced to change counsels on the matter, as the lawyer at the time had been suffering health issues, with Crown counsel Patrick Fullerton filling in.
"It is difficult to ascribe a time delay resulting from this factor, because Mr. Elphicke decided at the pretrial conference proceeding … to change his plea," Greyell added, referring to Elphicke's change of election from a Provincial Court trial to Supreme Court.
"Mr. Fullerton was not made aware of that decision by Mr. Elphicke until just prior to May 13. That resulted in delay in this matter being scheduled in this court."
With advanced notice of Elphicke's change of trial mode election, Greyell said Fullerton could have taken steps to fix a date for the trial earlier.
Greyell also noted the issue of delays was raised more by Crown than by Elphicke and defence lawyer James Pennington following the May pretrial conference.
"In particular, the issue of delay was not raised when the dates for trial were being discussed in the period of February through September 2017."
During discussions held in fall 2016 on various dates to attempt to fix a date for the trial, it became clear there would be difficulties getting a trial before entering "Jordan territory." While Pennington was available in early 2017 and into the summer, Reagan's lawyer was not available for the five-week trial until November this year.
After thinning the trial down to three weeks through admissions in pretrial proceedings, it was determined the trial could run in summer this year in Kelowna or in September in Penticton.
Though all parties agreed the issue was born and bred in Penticton and should be heard in the city, the Crown and judge agreed it would be best to do the trial at earliest convenience, even if that had to be held in Kelowna. But Pennington took issue with moving the trial up the valley.
"Elphicke was given the opportunity by both Justices Cullen and Weatherill to have the trial heard in Kelowna, where there were more courtrooms and court judges available," Greyell said.
"While there is no evidence on the record as to when the trial might have been heard, had it been moved to Kelowna, it is clear to me from the comments of the associate chief justice and Justice Weatherill that that time could have been found, had the matter heard in Kelowna, within the Jordan time."
On top of benefiting from just under $20,000 of hockey parent and raffle money from the OEHA, in his verdict Greyell also found Elphicke culpable in the tens of thousands of dollars that went toward Reagan, having signed off on numerous blank cheques for his business partner, who reportedly raked in nearly $40,000.
Another $44,000 went toward Reagan's failed hockey dorm project in Penticton, a forensic accountant testified during trial.
Both Fullerton and Pennington said last they heard Reagan was still out of the country.
Elphicke, who appeared for his verdict hearing over video from a Calgary hospital in October, was not present for the decision on Thursday.
A pre-sentence report will be ordered prior to the sentencing hearing, which Greyell, retiring early next week, will not preside over.
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Target Audiences
9-12 year-old pupils
Two-week summer camps
The summer camps take place in 40 communities throughout the island. They are organised in partnership with the local authorities according to the needs of each community.
The aim of the programme is to disseminate the Olympic values to help combat the increase in violence among young people.
The camps last for two weeks, and are set up in partnership with the Youth Development Division of the Ministry of Education. They host 9-12 year-old children and are held in 40 local communities.
The teaching of Olympism is integrated into the activities organised throughout the summer camps. Specific prior training is available to the directors and assistant directors. Workshops are offered to the volunteers who will bring their support on a district level.
- To teach Olympic values to combat the increase in violence among young people
- To encourage fair play, team spirit and solidarity
- To promote and illustrate the importance of voluntary participation of young people in the development of their community and country.
There are various stages in the implementation of the summer camps:
- identify the communities which will participate in the programme
- implement collaboration with the various partners
- set up communications activities to make people aware of the programme
- organise meetings within communities to elect the programme directors and assistants on a local level
- meet parents and community leaders to obtain their support
- develop manuals and set up a four-day training course for the programme directors and their assistants
- organise workshops for the volunteers on a district level (eight districts)
- after the summer camps, organise an event to thank the volunteers (Volunteer Appreciation Day)
- participation of 3,000 primary and secondary school pupils in sporting and educational activities
- making the general public aware of the Olympic Movement
- developing Junior Olympic Academy activities throughout the island
Practical advice
The two pillars of olympism; sport and culture are key elements in the stride to heighten the capabilities of and harmonize body, mind and spirit. We can achieve this in our youth if we continue to construct and execute programs with this in mind.
Download documentation :
Summer Day Camp 2007 - Final Report
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Project Information
Country : Dominica
Organisation : Dominican Olympic Academy
Contact : Mr. John Charles
Address :
P.O. Box 138
14 Kings George V Street
Phone : +1 767 448 8367
Fax : +1 767 448 7010
Email : firstname.lastname@example.com
Website : http://www.doc.dm


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Feast Day: July 30
St. Germanus gave little sign of sanctity in his youth. He was of noble birth, and at first practised the law at Rome. After a time the emperor placed him high in the army. But his one passion was the chase. He was so carried away as even to retain in his sports the superstitions of the pagan huntsmen. Yet it was revealed to the Bishop of Auxerre that Germanus would be his successor, and he gave him the tonsure almost by main force. Forthwith Germanus became another man, and, making ever his lands to the Church, adopted a life of humble penance. At that time the Pelagian heresy was laying waste England, and Germanus was chosen by the reigning Pontiff to rescue the Britons from the snare of Satan. With St. Lupus he preached in the fields and highways throughout the land. At last, near Verulam, he met the heretics face to face, and overcame them utterly with the Catholic and Roman faith. He ascribed this triumph to the intercession of St. Alban, and offered public thanks at his shrine. Towards the end of his stay, his old skill in arms won over the Picts and Scots the complete but bloodless "Alleluia" victory, so called because the newly-baptized Britons, led by the Saint, routed the enemy with the Paschal cry. Germanus visited England a second time with St. Severus. He died in 448, while interceding with the emperor for the people of Brittany.
Adapted from the Lives of the Saints by Fr. Alban Butler first published in 1756 and is the Public Domain. Please feel free to comment or leave a prayer below.


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The future of campaign spending
Imagine you're one of the 40,000 people in America with a net worth of over $30 million. That's enough to have some spare cash to play with. Why not use it to influence politics? Come on. You know you want to.
Yet, you're faced with a problem. According to analyses by the Center for Responsive Politics, if you are one of the multi-millionaires who threw your money into national races, you didn't get a very good return on investment. Outside spending in the presidential race skewed widely Republican -- yet Obama won. Republicans put $100 million into seven Senate races that they lost. They outspent Democrats in 24 House races -- that they still lost. (Look at this map on ad spending! It's crazy!)
If I were a political consultant, I'd likely tell those one percenters to slack off on national race spending and pony up at the state level. By funneling their money into ballot measures and initiatives in states, they can have influence all over the country! As heavy political spenders take stock of their expenditures, maybe this is what we'll see more of in the next election cycle -- a think globally, bribe locally sort of thing. Because particularly in ballot initiatives, it seems heavy spending was often able to shift public opinion.
Take California's GMO labeling initiative. As of Oct. 1, public opinion was three to one in favor of labeling. By Oct 11 -- and millions of dollars of opposition later, as Mother Jones food blogger Tom Philpott points out -- opinion was split, and "the proposition's slide toward defeat had begun." The opposition ultimately spent $45.6 million, the proponents $8.7 million.
I was interested in seeing if this pattern held true in many controversial ballot initiatives. So I made a chart, with selected initiatives, spending for or against, and their outcome. I chose marijuana and gay marriage in many states because they are initiatives where the electorate seems to be closely divided or shifting opinion. The other initiatives I include in the chart are included because I've either been following them or the results seemed surprising to me.
Items in green are ones where those who spent the most won. Items in red are ones where those who spent the most lost.
There's more to learn from the red rows than the green, I think. In Arkansas, for example, legalizing medical marijuana was never popular. So despite the great disparity in money spent, it was not enough to overcome the fact that most people in Arkansas just didn't want medical marijuana to be legal.
Notably, the spending in Arkansas did shift public opinion, though, just not enough. As of Oct 18, only 38 percent of likely voters supported legalizing medical marijuana. Yet after money poured into the state in support of Issue 5, as it was called, 48.6 percent of the voting public supported the measure on Nov. 6. That's a hefty hike.
The Oregon casino measure is another case in point. A Canadian casino investment group, which would benefit from the casino they would build if the measure passed, poured money into it. But most Oregonians don't like the idea of casinos popping up all over their state. So despite lots of spending on it from the pro side, the measure didn't win.
I'm unsure how to explain the outcome of California's Proposition 34, which would have repealed the death penalty and replaced it with life without parole, but failed. This was despite proponents outspending opponents by an incredible amount, and California's tradition of being a liberal state, where I would imagine most people would oppose the death penalty.
Bottom line: those throwing money into local campaigns seem more likely to be successful, but circumstances do matter. For instance, it seems like spending succeeded more frequently in areas where public opinion is closely split on the topic, or public opinion is relatively uninformed on the topic, and open to messaging, like in California's modified foods labeling proposition.
Some millionaires, obviously, have already caught onto the ballot initiative game. The biggest individual donor to Colorado's marijuana legalization effort was San Francisco-based Internet businessman Scott Banister. (Perhaps he's hoping to toke up legally on his next visit to Aspen?)
It will be interesting to see if money in ballot initiatives, particularly in states like Oregon, that are traditionally low in political spending, changes in the next election.
After all, those millionaires need to put their extra moola into something. Why not your state's ballot initiative?
Stephanie Paige Ogburn is the online editor at High Country News.