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What a rollercoaster ride the last 24 hours has been with regard to our war with Hamas.
Yesterday Egypt announced a proposal for a ceasefire: Both sides would stop firing, and then in 48 hours parties would convene in Cairo and – via an intermediary – discuss terms for a more permanent truce. Kerry was said to be coming to Cairo to participate.
This really did not have a good feel to it, and there was anxiety in several quarters here regarding what appeared to be pending capitulation by our prime minister. For word had come out that he was favoring acceptance of this proposal. Was he going to say that we had done enough, and that it was now time for 'quiet for quiet'?
For the bottom line is that we have not done enough – I don't care what Defense Minister Ya'alon says. Yes, there are ways in which Hamas has taken a real beating. But I'm picking up on reports that indicate that the key leaders, sitting in their underground tunnels, are alive and well and would be ready to pick up the fight again in no time. Similarly, because of the tunnels and the use of human shields, a large portion of the rockets remains intact and ready for future use. One source said we've destroyed one-third of their rockets. Ya'akov Amidror – who is a straight talker – says they have retained 90% of their high quality rockets.
No, it hardly time seemed like time to call it quits if there is serious intent to make sure that Hamas does not come back at us again in two years or three. Or four or five.
Of course, there was always the question of what Netanyahu would demand at those truce negotiations. But yet…but yet…
This morning the prime minister called a 7:00 AM meeting of the eight-person Security Cabinet to discuss the Egyptian proposal. Word came out that they had decided to accept the proposal. Only Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Lieberman were opposed, and they were both furious. Hearts dropped, stomachs tightened, all over Israel. This looked like caving, a disastrous show of weakness. My own depression (and yes, I know what depression is) was heavy.
At 9:00 AM we stopped all attacks on Gaza.
But Hamas, adamantly and defiantly refusing the Egyptian proposal, kept right on firing rockets at us – at least 50 in the next six hours.
Credit: Yonaton Sindel/Flash90
Hamas would have had trouble accepting the ceasefire because they had not achieved any significant "victories." With their honor-shame mental-set, it would have been near impossible to do. Especially as they did not anticipate any major victory in the negotiations – no Gaza blockade lifted, no Hamas prisoners released. Their leaders actually complained about this: How can we stop when there is nothing indicated about what terms would be? All that was discussed was a readiness by Israel to open crossings to let additional supplies in.
It took six hours. At 3:00 PM, Netanyahu said, "That's it!" He ordered attacks on Gaza to begin again, and about half an hour later they started.
Well now…we were suddenly seeing something different. And perhaps quite brilliant.
Netanyahu had been seeing the growing criticism of Israel around the world. The scum in Hamas, by encouraging human shields, had upped the casualties and secured multiple PR opportunities for talking about how Israel hits innocent children. (See more about this below.) In multiple quarters, there were anti-Israel voices being raised. Forgotten is the fact that Hamas started firing those rockets first. Or that we abort sorties to save children.
Our prime minister (and the Cabinet?) likely saw that carrying through a major operation would have been increasingly problematic because of large scale international criticism. The dynamic needed to be changed.
And this undoubtedly changed it. The situation was structured so that Netanyahu became a seeker of peace, the person willing to stop shooting. And Hamas was the party that sought violence even in the face of quiet.
Credit: Olivier Fittousi
This is what Netanyahu said at a press conference earlier today with the German foreign minister (emphasis added):
"…the refusal of Hamas to honor the ceasefire "gives Israel full legitimacy to expand the operation to protect our people."
"We agreed to the Egyptian proposal in order to give an opportunity for the demilitarization of the Strip – from missiles, from rockets and from tunnels – through diplomatic means.
"But if Hamas does not accept the ceasefire proposal, as would now seem to be the case, Israel would have all international legitimacy to broaden the military operation to achieve the required quiet."
John Kerry had cancelled his trip to Cairo, because there were not going to be any ceasefire negotiations after all. From Vienna, he said (emphasis added):
"I cannot condemn strongly enough the actions of Hamas in so brazenly firing rockets in multiple numbers in the face of a goodwill effort to offer a ceasefire, in which Egypt and Israel worked together, that the international community strongly supports.
Hamas is "purposely playing politics" by continuing the rocket fire, using innocents as "human shields… against the laws of war. And that is why they are a terrorist organization."
How about that? He cannot tell us to use "restraint" now, can he?
I'm going to stick my neck out here, with pure speculation, colored by a bit of intuition. (No one has let me in on any secrets.) I think it possible that Egypt was complicit in setting up a situation that cornered Hamas. I think this did not just "happen." I've provided evidence in recent days of an Egyptian desire to have Israel take out Hamas. Their role in the current scenario has helped to make it more possible.
How far will Israel now go towards taking Hamas out? This remains to be seen. Still tonight, I hold my breath, as I wait to see what unfolds. The nation is so weary of this, and so eager to be done with Hamas.
We are being told there is a long operation likely ahead of us, and that what must be done will be done. But this tells us nothing. The prime minister says the war will intensify. Lieberman is pushing for us to take over Gaza.
YNet quotes an unnamed "senior military official," who said:
"A ground offensive could help combat the many tunnels in the Strip, where the Air Force is not effective…
"Our recommendations to the political leadership were clear on this issue. A ground maneuver to destroy the tunnels will take somewhere between a week and two weeks, and the troops deployed to the border are trained for this and prepared for this. There is a small but significant amount of tunnels that we've yet to expose, and they're targets in this maneuver.
[A ground offensive against the terror tunnels] "has high chances of being successful. It will require confrontation with the enemy and the evacuation of civilians, and will lead to the increase of rocket launching at Israel, but we trust the troops. The solutions will come from the fighting forces on the field, from the bottom, not just from the army command."
I will add here that trusting the troops with solutions from the bottom is very Israeli.
Data of note:
In a report it just released, CAMERA has revealed Israel has killed "mainly combatant-age males, not women or children": a close read of the data "shows that, as in past hostilities, the fatalities are disproportionately [compared to the overall population] among young males, which corresponds with the characteristics of combatants. Males over 40 years old are also disproportionately represented. Some of the fatalities in those over 40 years of age likely represent senior members of terrorist organizations."
This contradicts "media reports that tried to paint Israel's Operation Protective Edge as indiscriminately killing civilians."
Keep praying for our soldiers, please! And for all of Israel.


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POPLARVILLE - Pearl River''s Wildcats rallied from a startling 14-0 first-quarter deficit to take an impressive 35-21 come-from-behind victory over previously-undefeated Southwest Mississippi to open both squads'' MACJC South Division schedules here Thursday in John I. Hurst Stadium.The home-standing Bears slapped 14 points on The River right off the bat - off a total of 11 offensive snaps - in the first eight minutes of the contest. All PRCC partisans on hand, to say the least, were stunned, not to mention ninth-year Wildcat head coach Tim Hatten."Who would''ve ever thought it," he said. "We knew going in they (Southwest) were a good football team, but we never thought we''d be looking at a two-touchdown margin at any point of the game...particularly in the first quarter."SMCC, which dropped to 2-1 overall and 0-1 in division play is the loss, scored its first two TDs on its first three possessions of the night."We made it easy for them early," explained Hatten, whose Wildcats improved to 2-1 and 1-0, explained. "Defensively, we were out of position and didn''t tackle well at all. We were reckless, to say the least. But we finally settled in and got down to business and managed to pull out the win."Pearl River managed a catch-up score with 22 seconds left in the opening period, but Southwest speed demon Mardavian Martin returned the ensuing kickoff 60 yards to the Wildcat 24. And it took quarterback Vintavious Cooper only two successive keepers to run in for the Bears'' third and final touchdown of the night.The Wildcats finished the night with 477 yards (379 pass, 98 rush) of total offense with 279 of that total coming in the first half. Conversely, the Bears totaled 379 offensive yards (237 rush, 16 pass) in the game with 279 coming in the first two quarters - only 100 in the second half.SMCC''s Josh Hawkins returned the game''s opening kickoff 28 yards to his own 40 and it took the Bears only six plays to cash in. Cooper did the scoring honors on a 27-yard keeper with 11:52 left in the period. Brandon Thomas kicked the extra point to make it 7-0.After Southwest held the Wildcats to a three and out, PRCC thwarted the Bears following series when defensive back Delvin Ervin of Oak Grove High picked off an SMCC pass at his own 15. But, again, The River went three and out and Ryan Knight of Sumrall High boomed a 42-yard unreturned punt to the SMCC 39.The Bears struck again on first down when Tray Bateaste took a Cooper hand off and rambled 61 yards to the end zone. Thomas'' PAT made it 14-0 with 6:03 left in the first.But Pearl River answered. Starting at its own 18, quarterback Melvin German of Fort Myers, Fla., engineered a 12-play scoring series with running back Marcquis Smith of Hattiesburg High capping the drive with a two-yard plunge with 22 seconds left in the first period. German went four for six for 63 yards through the air in the drive. Knight''s extra point kick made it 14-7.Southwest padded its lead to 21-7 on the ensuing possession after Martin''s 60-yard kickoff return and Cooper''s scoring run, but PRCC responded quickly.Steve McNair, Jr., returned the following kickoff 20 yards and his effort was padded by a five-yard SMCC penalty to put the Wildcats in business at their own 38. German passed to McNair on first down for 13 yards, then again on the next snap with McNair taking the lateral and passing to Seth Roberts of Tallahassee, Fla., for a 49-yard score. Knight''s extra point made it 21-14 with 14:05 left in the half.After Southwest went three and out on its next possession, German guided the Wildcats 90 yards 10 plays to tie it up. German went four for six for 37 yards on the drive, while keeping three times for 43, including a dazzling 28-yard run on a fourth and 12 for the score. Knight''s kick knotted things at 21-21 with 9:10 left before the intermission.After an exchange of punts, SMCC drove 35 yards to the Wildcats'' 27-yard line in six snaps only to see Cooper throw incomplete on a fourth and 11. PRCC took over and the half ended seven plays later.The River took the lead for good on the opening possession of the third quarter. Starting at their own 43, German hit Snoop Rollins of North Forrest High on first down with a 14-yard completion before targeting Roberts with a 28-yarder to the Southwest 15. After an incompletion, German found McNair in the end zone for the go-ahead score. Knight''s boot made it 28-21 with 13:47 left in the third.Cooper coughed up the ball at his own 24 on the second snap of Southwest''s ensuing possession and Derrick Bourne of Columbia High recovered for the Wildcats. Five plays later, German kept for an eight-yard TD. Knight''s extra point made it 35-21 with 11:03 left in the third.Defensive back Otha Foster of Varnado (La.) High ended SMCC''s next possession when he intercepted Cooper and returned his pick 10 yards to his own 42. After Steve Simon of East Marion High was dropped for a minus-four on first down, German delivered five straight completions for a combined 47 yards, then kept for nine on a second and 10 to the Southwest six. An incomplete pass later, Dunzie Goins of Lumberton High plowed up the middle but was stopped cold inches short of the first down.The Bears managed to drive to the Wildcats'' 45 in seven snaps, but a SMCC holding penalty pushed things back 10 yards before McNair intercepted Cooper at the PRCC 33 and returned his pick 44 yards to the Bear 13.German fumbled for a minus-13 yards on second and nine before hitting Duncan with a 16-yard completion on third and 22. An illegal procedure penalty pushed the Wildcats back to the 14 where Knight was wide left on a 29-yard field goal attempt.Three punt exchanges later, Pearl River killed the lock with a five-play, game-ending series.PRCC finished the game with 23 first downs to SMCC''s 17 and drew 10 penalty flags for 80 yards. Southwest drew the same number, but for 100 yards.Roberts led all receivers in the contest with six for 131 yards, while McNair had seven catches for 82, Duncan four for 52, Simon seven for 44, Rollins six for 44, and Jhyryan Taylor of Franklinton, La., two for 26.German wrapped up the game with a combined total of 394 offensive yards, including a 31-of-41 (no interceptions) passing effort for 330 yards while leading all PRCC rushers with 64 yards on 12 carries. McNair had one completion for a 49-yard TD.Cooper paced SMCC rushers with 92 yards on 17 attempts, while Bateaste had 87 on six, and Martin 54 on 10.Knight punted four times for a 44-yard average, while Southwest''s Justin Holt booted four times for a 43-yard average.Other Week Three Action In The MACJCIn other South Division action around the MACJC, 16th-ranked Copiah-Lincoln smacked 18th-ranked Hinds 30-17 in Raymond; while in the North Division, 11th-ranked Northwest Mississippi trimmed defending division and state champ East Mississippi 25-19 in Scooba, Northwest Mississippi smacked Mississippi Delta 26-13 in Moorhead, and Coahoma bombed Holmes 41-14 in Clarksdale. In the week''s only non-division match up, Itawamba dropped East Central 21-14 in Decatur.On Saturday, 21st-ranked Jones County hosts second-ranked Mississippi Gulf Coast at 7 p.m. in Ellisville.Next Week In The MACJCSix of next Thursday''s seven games will be division battles with Mississippi Delta (0-3, 0-1) hosting Hinds (2-1, 0-1) in Moorhead in the only intra-divisional contest set for Week 4.Elsewhere, the North sees Northwest Mississippi (3-0, 1-0) hosting Coahoma (2-1, 1-0) in Senatobia, Itawamba (1-2, 0-0) hosting East Mississippi (0-3, 0-1) in Fulton, and Holmes (0-3, 0-1) hosting Northeast Mississippi (1-3, 1-0) in Goodman. In the South, Pearl River (2-1, 1-0) hosts East Central (0-3, 0-0) in Poplarville, Copiah-Lincoln (3-0, 1-0) hosts Jones County (2-0, 0-0, plays MGCCC Saturday) in Wesson, and Mississippi Gulf Coast (2-0, 0-0, plays JCJC Saturday) hosts Southwest Mississippi (2-1, 0-1) in Perkinston.
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Or perhaps a better title for this post would have been, "Home is where the belief is." However you pin it, Melanie Oudin is about to drop out of the top 100. The Georgia gal who took the tennis world by storm at the 2009 US Open has struggled in the 22 months since she won four matches and captured all of our imaginations along the way. After a semi-decent 2010 in which she went 25-24, Oudin has epically struggled this year, winning just eight matches in 30 tries. Between the French Open and Wimbledon, she won just three games in two matches (to be fair, she went out to Schiavone and Ivanovic, respectively).
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TSF got to listen to Melanie talk the reporters (and herself) up for a few minutes and she weighed in on a couple of things we had been curious about.
TSF: Melanie, tell us about your plan for the summer. What is your schedule going to be other than the Citi Open?
Melanie Oudin: Nothing is really finalized right now. I'm not really worried about playing qualifying right now. It might be good for me to play someone who isn't in the top 50 in the first round. Qualifying can help me get some matches under my belt and be ready for a main draw match. It wouldn't be the worst thing for me, I think.
I took a wild card to play in [USTA Pro Circuit event] Lexington. First of all, I love that tournament. It was the first pro tournament that I ever won. The people there are so nice and I felt like going back there where I first started and won my first tournament would help a lot and hopefully it'll be a really good week.
TSF: Recently Donald Young got into a bit of trouble on Twitter for hurling some choice words at the USTA. You've dabbled on Twitter in the past, but do you think you might do more of it in the future?
MO: I'm on some but not a lot. I would never put something really personal up there because I don't feel like that's what you put on Facebook or Twitter. I know Donald did apologize so I think everything is good with them now. I just don't think it's the place to be too personal and put any huge information on there but I think it's good for fans to be able to follow different athletes and people they're inspired by.
But the real question is: what word is going to be on her shoes this year?! Get on that, Wilson!
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LONDON (AP) — Toting his third gold medal of the London Games, Usain Bolt gave a little wave to 80,000 or so of his best friends in the Olympic Stadium stands.
Almost immediately, the questions started: What did that mean? Was Bolt bidding adieu for good? Will he be back? Will the world get to watch him sprint on his sport's biggest stage again in 2016?
"It was a goodbye to London. I was just having fun with the crowd," the Jamaican explained. "I came here to London to become a legend, and I am a legend, and I wanted to thank them for supporting me."
He accomplished exactly what he wanted to at the 2012 Olympics.
Three events — the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4x100 relay — and three victories. Plenty of pre- and postrace preening.
Just like at Beijing in 2008.
As for trying to go for a Triple Triple four years from now, Bolt insisted Rio de Janeiro isn't necessarily in the offing.
"The possibility is there, but it's going to be very hard. ... I've done all I want to do," said Bolt, who turns 26 on Aug. 21. "I've got no more goals."
He came up with three remarkable runs, improving his career mark to 6 for 6 in Olympic finals.
In more than a century of modern Olympics, no man had set world records while winning the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay — until Bolt did it in Beijing.
None had won the 200 meters twice, let alone completed a 100-200 double twice — until Bolt did so in 2008 and 2012.
Now he's added a second consecutive sprint relay title, too, pulling away down the stretch and bringing his best right through the finish line to close the track schedule Saturday night with a world record in the relay.
"When he got the stick," said Tyson Gay, part of the U.S. team that finished second, "there was nothing we could do about it."
Looking ahead to Rio, Bolt pointed out that he'll turn 30 that year, while the closest thing he has to a rival, training partner Yohan Blake, will only be 26.
It was Blake who beat his buddy in the 100 and 200 finals at the Jamaican Olympic trials, raising the idea in some minds that Bolt could have trouble in London.
So much for that.
Bolt won the Olympic 100 in 9.63 seconds — the second-fastest dash in history, behind his own record of 9.58 — and the 200 in 19.32, with Blake taking silver in both races.
"It's been so incredible watching him," said U.S swimmer Missy Franklin, who won four gold medals in the pool. "There was one day when he walked into the dining hall and every athlete in there just started clapping and cheering and going crazy."
Even those other athletes are among those curious about Bolt's future. Maybe he'll take up the long jump. Maybe the 400 (although he says that's too much of a grind for his tastes).
"It's very, very difficult to predict what's going to happen in four years. For Usain, he's just enjoying the moment and living in today. What he's accomplished is enough. He's done so much for our sport, and he's definitely a living legend. Whatever he decides in the future is more than icing on the cake, if he decides to come back," said Sanya Richards-Ross, who won gold medals in the 400 and the 4x400 relay for the United States. "I don't think he can do any wrong in most people's minds."
Count NBC, the network paying more than $1 billion for the U.S. TV rights to the 2016 Games, among those hoping Bolt will stick around.
"Usain Bolt is a firmly established star in a sport that receives unprecedented interest from the American audience during the Olympics and, as such, it would be great to see him in Rio," NBC Olympics executive producer Jim Bell said Sunday.
Richards-Ross helped the U.S. end up with 29 medals in track and field this time, six more than in Beijing and the most at an Olympics since the 30 at Barcelona in 1992.
"I felt like something special was going to happen," she said. "Everybody was really focused and encouraging each other throughout the journey."
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What was expected to be a fast track was the scene for three worlds records — Bolt's Jamaican team in the men's 4x100 relay, Felix's U.S. quartet in the women's 4x100 relay, and Kenya's David Rudisha in the 800 meters, a run that International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge singled out as a "magic moment."
There were others:
— The morning session of Day 1 on the track — often a quiet, sleepy, sparsely attended affair at the Olympics — was a rolicking, must-see event with nary an empty seat, thanks in large part to Britain's Jessica Ennis, who ran a heptathlon-record time in the 100-meter hurdles to get things going. Turned out to be merely a prelude to the thrills and deafening roars the following night, when in the span of less than an hour, the host country earned three golds: from Ennis in the heptathlon, Greg Rutherford in the long jump, and Mo Farah in the 10,000 meters (he would go on to add the 5,000 title, too).
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Mr. Justice PECKHAM delivered the opinion of the court.
This case comes here on writ of error to the district court of the United States for the district of Alaska. The plaintiff in error is an Indian, and was indicted with another Indian, named Tak-ke, and, upon a separate trial, was convicted of the crime of murder, in killing one August Jansen on or about the 5th day of January, 1894, at or near Shekan, within the territory of Alaska, and within the jurisdiction of the district court thereof. He was thereupon sentenced to be hanged.
Upon the trial in the district court it appeared that the authorities at Ft. Wrangel, some 70 miles from Shekan, were informed by some indians at that place in May, 1894, of the alleged murder of Jansen in the preceding January at or near Shekan. In July of that year the United States commissioner, a deputy marshal, and some others started from Ft. Wrangel in a steam launch chartered for the purpose, and went to Shekan to find the body, if possible, and to take such other proceedings as were proper in the premises. An Indian woman, Tlak-sha, voluntarily accompanied them for the purpose of showing where the body was to be found. A short distance from Shekan the party landed on the beach, [167 U.S. 274, 276] and under her direction search was made, and the body of Jansen was discovered on the beach, covered over with rock and brush. The body was sufficiently preserved to be identified, and it was recognized by some of the party. After the finding and recognition, the defendant, with the other above-named Indian, Tak-ke, was indicted for murder, and upon the defendant's separate trial the Indian woman was sworn as a witness. She testified that in January, 1894, the deceased was killed by the defendant and Tak-ke, who was her husband; that they were in a small sloop near Shekan at the time of the murder, and there were present the deceased, three male Indians, herself, and her child. The third Indian was named Ke- tinch, and he was also sworn on the trial, and, while differing in some of the details from the story of the woman, he corroborated her in the statement that the killing was done by the defendant and by the woman's husband; the defendant shooting the deceased, and the woman's husband striking him on the head with an ax.
The two Indians above named are the only witnesses to the killing. The female witness accompanied the searching party from Ft. Wrangel, and with her assistance the body was found. As one of the two witnesses on the trial she testified against the defendant and her own husband, who was indicted for the crime, though not then on trial. It is apparent how important it was to show to the jury, if possible, the bias, if any, of the witness against the defendant, or to show that her credibility was not to be depended upon by the jury.
In the course of her cross-examination upon the trial the following questions were put to her:
Counsel for the prosecution objected to the above question as immaterial and incompetent. Objection sustained by the court, to which ruling counsel for the defendant then and there duly excepted.
Counsel for the prosecution objected to the above question as incompetent. The objection was sustained by the court, and an exception taken.
Same objection was taken, which was sustained by the court, and an exception taken.
Objection taken to the question as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial. Objection sustained by the court, and an exception taken.
We think answers to all these questions should have been permitted. The questions were directed to the purpose of showing material facts bearing upon the character and credibility of the witness, and the counsel for the defendant ought to have been permitted to proceed with his examination, and obtain answers from the witness to that end. The two Indian witnesses (of whom the woman was one) did not agree in regard to the details of the alleged murder, and there is enough in the record to show that they were both of a low order of intelligence, and that they testified without any very solemn appreciation of their responsibilities as witnesses upon the trial of one individual for the murder of another. The whole occurrence at the time of the alleged murder is left in a good deal of confusion, and the credence to be given to the testimony of the woman was of the highest importance. [167 U.S. 274, 278] The learned solicitor general, in his brief in this case, with most commendable candor and fairness, has said:
And in speaking of the refusal of the court to permit answers to be given to the questions asked, as above recited, counsel for the government also says in his brief:
He frankly says that in his opinion this evidence was admissible, and we have no doubt that it was.
The judgment must therefor be reversed, and the cause remanded to the district court of Alaska with instructions to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial.
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Just moved to Nassau County or residing in Great Neck NY? Feel like you're getting short shrift from your current technician? Finding a good Great Neck air conditioner repair or a reliable HVAC near me can be tricky.
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Lodgers at Holiday Inns, Marriott, and Renaissance hotels may have had their payment card details compromised following a new disclosure on Monday of suspected point-of-sale device attacks.
White Lodging Services, a hotel management company, warned in a news release it suspects point-of-sale systems at restaurants and lounges on 14 of its properties were compromised between March 20, 2013 and Dec. 16, 2013.
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Guests who did not use their card at restaurants and lounges, as well as those who used their room account for purchases from those outlets, were not affected, it said.
The Merrillville, Indiana-based company said it manages hotels under agreement with hotels owners and is a separate entity from the specific hotel brands it operates.
The company said it has contacted federal law enforcement and initiated a forensic review of its properties. It runs more than 169 hotels in 21 U.S. states.
"We deeply regret and apologize for any inconvenience caused by this incident and remain committed to protecting all information entrusted to us by our guests," it said.
White Lodging last week told the New York Times it was investigating a potential security breach, covered in a report from security writer Brian Krebs.
It is the latest company following Target, Neiman Marcus and Michaels to either confirm or disclose a suspected breach, as security experts warn dozens of companies worldwide may be affected.
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White Lodging said customers' names as printed on credit or debit cards, the card numbers, the cards' security code and expiration dates may have been unlawfully accessed.
Financial institutions have reissued some payment cards and are monitoring other credit and debit cards for unauthorized activity, the company said.
White Lodging listed the 14 affected facilities in the states of Illinois, Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Texas, Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky, Florida and Colorado. It includes seven Marriott, two Holiday Inn and two Renaissance hotels, plus one Sheraton, one Westin and one Radisson hotel.
At its Radisson Star Plaza site in Merrillville, a property management system used at the front desk may have been affected in addition to a point-of-sale system, White Lodging said.
The company also runs upmarket hotels such as Hilton, Hyatt and Intercontinental with others bearing the Preferred Hotel Group, Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group brands.
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(Family Features) A yard that is lush, green and free of weeds shows evidence of healthy lawn maintenance. However, many homeowners overlook an important aspect of lawn care that can affect not only the health of the yard, but also your family. Nuisance pests such as fleas, ticks, ants, spiders and more can transmit diseases and cause allergic reactions for both people and pets.
Your lawn is the perfect environment in which threatening weeds, diseases and pests can lurk, often with harmful consequences. In some cases, the primary damage may come in the form of these insects eating away at grass or the leaves of shrubs. Alternatively, grub worms or insect larvae may destroy grasses and plants at their roots.
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Expert's Rating
- Super-long battery life
- Best graphics performance in a 13-inch convertible
- Beautiful screen and good pen support
- Very expensive
- Heavy for a 13-inch ultrabook convertible
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Our Verdict
The new Surface Book i7 sticks with the original's one-of-a-kindness, and ups the graphics power gloriously.
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It's always been difficult trying to find the right category for Microsoft's hybrid tablet/laptop Surface Book. And now with the new Surface Book i7 in hand, it's even harder to figure out just what square hole to put this round peg into.
Before we get too far into the review, let me say that the Surface Book i7 is incredibly fast for a laptop in its class, offering no less than twice the performance of the original Surface Book, which itself outstripped all others in its day. Even better, it has stupidly long battery life that bests all the laptops we've tested.
Done. Fini. Move along, right? Well, not quite. The world isn't the same as it was a year ago and the Surface Book i7's competitors have been hard at work too, and there are aspects of Microsoft's hybrid device that aren't perfect.
What it is
If you're not up on current events, the Surface Book i7 is the second iteration of Microsoft's "convertible" laptop. The top half is a beautifully proportioned 13.5-inch tablet with a "PixelSense" screen that has touch and pen support.
The keyboard base (aka the Performance Base) is home to a discrete graphics chip, which takes the Surface Book's performance beyond that of any other laptop in its class.
The two sides are held together with that same crazy hinge found on the first Surface Book. There were rumors Microsoft would give up on its "dynamic fulcrum hinge" and eliminate the gap it creates, but nah, it's still there and remains one of the most prominent features of the Surface Book i7.
The old and the new of it
The Surface Book's tablet looks identical to the previous version. In fact, from what I can tell, nothing has changed externally. The PixelSense screen is the same IPS panel with 3000×2000 resolution. Behind the screen there's an Intel dual-core 6th-gen Skylake Core i7-6600U. It's paired with 8GB and 16GB LPDDR3 options, as well as an SSD from 256GB to 1TB. (We received a model with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, which can be found on Amazon for $3,300).
For hardware addicts, that CPU is a disappointment. With truckloads of laptops now using Intel's 7th-gen Kaby Lake CPUs, you're probably wondering why Microsoft "pulled an Apple" and went with an older processor.
It appears that Microsoft was more concerned with upgrading the graphics in Performance Base. The original Surface Book featured a discrete Nvidia "GeForce" chip, which was custom but widely believed to be a GeForce GT 940M.
The new Surface Book i7 packs an Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M chip with 2GB of GDDR5 RAM. The newer GPU is far faster, but also far hotter. Microsoft said it added a second fan to keep it cool, but the Performance Base is also a little thicker than the original model, with larger air vents.
Under heavy load, the fans get louder, but the acoustics aren't bad. A bit shrill, maybe, but totally acceptable. The fans also seem to work pretty well at keeping the GPU cool. I ran a GPU torture test on the Surface Book i7 for more than an hour and although it got warmer, it didn't get uncomfortable to touch or use. So good job on the implementation, Microsoft.
Surface Book i7 performance
The Surface Book i7's CPU performance can be summed up pretty much in one sentence: It's a dual-core Intel chip. Being a 6th-generation Skylake CPU, it's around 10 percent slower than a comparable 7th-generation Kaby Lake. Of course, a lot of people won't feel that deficit very often.
Handbrake performance
To illustrate that point, the chart below shows how the Surface Book i7 compares to a stack of the best laptops around. For additional context, I also threw in a larger quad-core Dell XPS 15 and the Microsoft Surface 3, which runs on the anemic Atom X7 CPU. Our test takes a 30GB MKV file and converts it with Handbrake 0.9.9.
On most dual-core laptops (including the Kaby Lake-based Dell XPS 13 and HP Spectre x360), it takes almost two hours to run this test, and as you can see in the chart, as the chips heat up and slow down during the course of the test, there are minimal differences in performance. That doesn't mean there aren't any differences, but the 6th-gen Skylake chip keeps up.
The chart also illustrates just how little has changed from the first Surface Book. In another performance test—the CPU-heavy Cinebench R15—the score for this year's Surface Book was actually identical to one I recorded last year.
It's all about the GPU
The performance you really care about is the GPU that Microsoft tucked under the keyboard. Even though we all hoped for some secret new AMD or Nvidia GPU, the GeForce GTX 965M doesn't disappoint.
3DMark Sky Diver performance
Futuremark's 3DMark Sky Diver is a synthetic test that measures the graphics performance of a PC. Although it doesn't use an actual video game engine, it's still well respected. For comparison I also threw in the Dell XPS 15. It's a much thicker and larger 15-inch laptop with a quad-core CPU and GeForce GTX 960M. Since the overall score factors in the CPU cores, the XPS 15 takes the win.
Elsewhere in the the pack though, you can see how last year's Surface Book is head and shoulders above everyone else. But then you get to the Surface Book i7's GeForce GTX 965M, which is basically three times the performance of most laptops with integrated graphics. Watch out.
3DMark also gives you a sub score which focuses solely on the graphics performance and cuts out the CPU performance. Once we take the quad-core out of the equation, the Surface Book i7 moves into first place. Not by as much as I expected, but it's not bad.
The Surface Book i7 is basically plenty fast.
Tomb Raider performance
Not everyone trusts synthetic tests though, so I also ran the 3-year-old, but still quite lovely, Tomb Raider game. I don't have quite as many comparable laptops, but you can see how two of the XPS 13's perform when running the game at 1920×1080 on the High settting. The slowest of the bunch is the 7th-gen Kaby Lake laptop with HD 620 graphics. Moving up to the Dell XPS 13, with an Intel Core i7-6560U and Iris 540, nets a decent boost. The original Surface Book with its GeForce GT 940M is faster still, but at 35.4fps, I wouldn't play the game. That changes with the Surface Book i7, which achieves a totally satisfying 80.8fps, and even exceeds the Dell XPS 15's GeForce GTX 960M.
Stupid-good battery performance too
With the Surface Book i7's upgrade you already know Microsoft didn't touch the tablet portion, which has the same DYN-made 18 watt-hour batteries. Where Microsoft did change things was, again, in the Performance Base, whose now-thicker profile accommodates more battery capacity. The original Surface Book with GeForce card packs a 53 watt-hour cell while the new one has nearly a 63 watt-hour battery. All told, that's a massive 81 watt-hour battery pushing the Surface Book i7 along. To see how well it does, I ran our standard video rundown test on both it and the last-gen Surface Book.
Our test loops a 4K resolution movie using Windows 10 Movies & TV app. That particular app is selected because it's a super-efficient video player. We set the laptops to airplane mode and the brightness to a relatively bright 250 to 260 nits to approximate what you'd use in a typical house or office in the daytime. Audio is enabled but we use a pair of small earbuds.
The result? Stupendous battery life. In fact, it set a new record for battery life in a laptop at just over 13 hours of playback. The original Surface Book gave us a respectable 10 hours and the next closest competitor was Dell's current XPS 13 at about 11 hours.
Think of it as Project Ara, but that you can buy
Since the tablet of the new Surface Book i7 appears to be exactly the same as the original, I naturally wondered if I could simply attach the original to the upgraded Performance Base, since that's where most of the upgrade happened. Sure enough, the two sides fit, and after a few driver downloads it was a go. Don't believe me? Here's a screenshot of last year's Surface Book tablet with the new Performance Base and its GeForce GTX 965M.
In some ways, the Surface Book i7 is the first modular laptop. With the GPU and extra batteries stored in the base, you could, in theory, upgrade by just buying a new base. It's almost like Google's cancelled Project Ara, except it's an actual product.
The problem, of course, is that Microsoft doesn't sell just the base.
That's too bad because I think Microsoft is missing an opportunity. Plenty of people who bought a Surface Book last year are probably still pretty happy with the Skylake CPU and tablet portion, but that GeForce GT 940M is getting long in the tooth. If I cared about graphics performance and I had the original, I'd jump at the chance to buy the Performance Base with the GeForce GTX 965M upgrade.
What's wrong with it
The most obvious problems are the prior sins. The original Surface Book amazed everyone at launch but went through many months of teething pains with docking and undocking issues, and multiple firmware fixes issued over the last year, which both corrected and then reintroduced new docking or sleep issues.
In the interest of full disclosure, I used an original Surface Book (although not the original review sample) off and on for the better part of the the last 10 months. For the most part, problems were few and far between but they were there and occasionally maddening.
But whether those were problems with the Surface Book, per se, or issues induced by Windows 10 Insider Preview program, I don't know. Despite all that, I still have no problems recommending it.
Still, I have complaints. The most prominent is the lack of Thunderbolt 3, or at least a faster 10Gbps port. With this class of performance, "pro" ports should be part of the package.
One of the stickiest points with the Surface Book i7 is its price. The unit you see here with Core i7, 16GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, and GeForce GTX 965M is $3,300. Ouch. A comparably spec'd MacBook Pro 13 will set you back $2,900—so yeah, this is a premium product at a premium price.
You can knock $500 off the Surface Book i7's price by cutting the SSD capacity in half. Or you can step down to 8GB of RAM and a 256GB drive for $2,400. The problem is those prices aren't competitive with competing laptops from PC makers. Of course, no other PC vendors offers anything quite like the Surface Book i7 either.
It's either too light or too heavy
The other issue I have is the size and weight of the Surface Book i7. I weighed our review unit at three pounds, 10 ounces. That's only two ounces heavier than the original Surface Book, but it's hefty. The current Dell XPS 13 with a 7th-gen CPU and no touchscreen is about a pound lighter.
Going the other direction, the MSI GS63VR Stealth with a quad-core Skylake chip, 15-inch screen, and a much more powerful GeForce GTX 1060 weighs just seven ounces more than the Surface Book i7.
And that MSI will plain blow the doors off the Surface Book i7 in everything, save battery life and build quality. Well, and screen quality.
The perennial target of the Surface Book i7, Apple's MacBook Pro 13, has also recently gone on a diet and weighs just about three pounds. That kind of puts the updated Surface Book i7 in a strange, middle place: It's heavy enough that you might consider getting a larger quad-core alternative, but yet light enough that you might be tempted to opt for the even-lighter competition.
When Microsoft announced details of the Surface Book i7, I was pretty disappointed in its middle-aged hardware.
In use, however, it appears there's plenty of life left in these parts. That the Surface Book i7 can actually give you better graphics performance than a larger 15-inch laptop with discrete graphics is amazing.
Combined with its tablet mode, swanky hinge, pen support, beautiful screen, and stellar battery life, it's easy to remember what made us fall in love with the Surface Book in the first place.
Correction: Our original review stated the incorrect resolution. PCWorld regrets the error.


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This module provides basic mechanisms for measuring and controlling system resources utilized by a program.
Symbolic constants are used to specify particular system resources and to request usage information about either the current process or its children.
A single exception is defined for errors:
The functions described below may raise this error if the underlying system call failures unexpectedly.
Resources usage can be limited using the setrlimit() function described below. Each resource is controlled by a pair of limits: a soft limit and a hard limit. The soft limit is the current limit, and may be lowered or raised by a process over time. The soft limit can never exceed the hard limit. The hard limit can be lowered to any value greater than the soft limit, but not raised. (Only processes with the effective UID of the super-user can raise a hard limit.)
The specific resources that can be limited are system dependent. They are described in the getrlimit(2) man page. The resources listed below are supported when the underlying operating system supports them; resources which cannot be checked or controlled by the operating system are not defined in this module for those platforms.
Returns a tuple (soft, hard) with the current soft and hard limits of resource. Raises ValueError if an invalid resource is specified, or error if the underlying system call fails unexpectedly.
Sets new limits of consumption of resource. The limits argument must be a tuple (soft, hard) of two integers describing the new limits. A value of -1 can be used to specify the maximum possible upper limit.
Raises ValueError if an invalid resource is specified, if the new soft limit exceeds the hard limit, or if a process tries to raise its hard limit (unless the process has an effective UID of super-user). Can also raise error if the underlying system call fails.
These symbols define resources whose consumption can be controlled using the setrlimit() and getrlimit() functions described below. The values of these symbols are exactly the constants used by C programs.
The Unix man page for getrlimit(2) lists the available resources. Note that not all systems use the same symbol or same value to denote the same resource. This module does not attempt to mask platform differences — symbols not defined for a platform will not be available from this module on that platform.
The maximum size (in bytes) of a core file that the current process can create. This may result in the creation of a partial core file if a larger core would be required to contain the entire process image.
The maximum amount of processor time (in seconds) that a process can use. If this limit is exceeded, a SIGXCPU signal is sent to the process. (See the signal module documentation for information about how to catch this signal and do something useful, e.g. flush open files to disk.)
The maximum size of a file which the process may create. This only affects the stack of the main thread in a multi-threaded process.
The maximum size (in bytes) of the process's heap.
The maximum size (in bytes) of the call stack for the current process.
The maximum resident set size that should be made available to the process.
The maximum number of processes the current process may create.
The maximum number of open file descriptors for the current process.
The BSD name for RLIMIT_NOFILE.
The maximum address space which may be locked in memory.
The largest area of mapped memory which the process may occupy.
The maximum area (in bytes) of address space which may be taken by the process.
These functions are used to retrieve resource usage information:
This function returns an object that describes the resources consumed by either the current process or its children, as specified by the who parameter. The who parameter should be specified using one of the RUSAGE_* constants described below.
The fields of the return value each describe how a particular system resource has been used, e.g. amount of time spent running is user mode or number of times the process was swapped out of main memory. Some values are dependent on the clock tick internal, e.g. the amount of memory the process is using.
For backward compatibility, the return value is also accessible as a tuple of 16 elements.
The fields ru_utime and ru_stime of the return value are floating point values representing the amount of time spent executing in user mode and the amount of time spent executing in system mode, respectively. The remaining values are integers. Consult the getrusage(2) man page for detailed information about these values. A brief summary is presented here:
|time in user mode (float)
|time in system mode (float)
|maximum resident set size
|shared memory size
|unshared memory size
|unshared stack size
|page faults not requiring I/O
|page faults requiring I/O
|number of swap outs
|block input operations
|block output operations
|messages sent
|messages received
|signals received
|voluntary context switches
|involuntary context switches
This function will raise a ValueError if an invalid who parameter is specified. It may also raise error exception in unusual circumstances.
Changed in version 2.3: Added access to values as attributes of the returned object.
Returns the number of bytes in a system page. (This need not be the same as the hardware page size.) This function is useful for determining the number of bytes of memory a process is using. The third element of the tuple returned by getrusage() describes memory usage in pages; multiplying by page size produces number of bytes.
The following RUSAGE_* symbols are passed to the getrusage() function to specify which processes information should be provided for.
RUSAGE_SELF should be used to request information pertaining only to the process itself.
Pass to getrusage() to request resource information for child processes of the calling process.
Pass to getrusage() to request resources consumed by both the current process and child processes. May not be available on all systems.


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Brian was a geometry teacher through the Teach for America program and started the geometry program at his school
Area of Parallelograms - Problem 1
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J.D. Univ. of Wisconsin Law school
Brian was a geometry teacher through the Teach for America program and started the geometry program at his school
The area of parallelograms formula is derived from the area of a rectangle. By drawing an altitude from one vertex in a parallelogram and translating the right triangle, a rectangle is formed. Therefore, to calculate the area of a parallelogram, multiply a height by the corresponding base. The corresponding base is the side perpendicular to the height. Related topics include area of trapezoids and rhombuses.
When we talk about area, a rectangle doesn't really have an area. What we're talking about is the region bound by the rectangle. So this rectangle doesn't really have an area but this region that is formed by the sides of the rectangle has an area.
We go back to grade school and I asked you what was the area of this rectangle? You'd say, "Mr. McCall, the area is equal to length times width." Well, now that we're in Geometry, we're going to use different language. Instead of length and width, we're going to use base times height. So forget about length times width and we're going to use the base and the height. So the area of a rectangle is going to be your base, length times its height. But how does that apply for a parallelogram that's not a rectangle?
Well, what we could do, is if I had a scissors strong enough to cut through this white board, I would cut off this triangle right here and I would translate it in that direction and I would paste it back on right on that end. So what I've created here is a rectangle out of my parallelogram. So right here, we would have that little triangle that I cut off at that end. Notice that we've created something that we know the area, a rectangle. So we can say the area of any parallelogram will be equal to its base times its corresponding height.
Now that's a little tricky [IB] what do I mean by corresponding height? Well, let's say I determine that this right here was teh base of my parallelogram. So I'm just assuming that we have 2 pairs of parallel sides here. If this is my base, the coresponding height is a perpendicular segment that connects its opposite base. So this right here could be a height because, it starts at its parallel base and it's perpendicular to b.
You could also have a height that is outside of your parallelogram. Let's say okay, taking the exact same figure. If I said that this right here was my base. Then what would I need to know in order to calculate the area? Well here, my corresponding height would still be a perpendicular segment which could be inside my parallelogram or if I extended this side it would look something like this.
So remember, area equals base times height where your height is a perpendicular segment to your base. So that's what you have to know in order to calculate the area of any parallelogram. So this applies to rectangles, parallelograms, rhombuses and squares.


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This is insane. Adam Wainwright made a comment to reporters after his outing was complete that he grooved Derek Jeter a couple of meatballs. It was harmless. Then it became a thing because Derek Jeter has to get All-Star Game hits on the level? I literally have no idea. But then, Adam Wainwright showed up on FOX cameras apologizing for everything.
This is what Wainwright said, which he now says is a joke.
He told Andrews he made a mistake and was just kidding, but who actually cares? So what if he did groove him one? If you want to be mad at something or someone, focus your ire on Bud Selig, who made this game mean something.
Wainwright seems genuinely pissed to even have to do this, but you almost feel like it was his idea to go on FOX. Maybe he got word about social media—which is obviously the problem, here—freaking out about sullying the game or some such and wanted to set the record straight. He's very adamant about not taking the spotlight away from Jeter which is just another level of insanity.
The American League won by two runs, or one more than Jeter's worthless contribution on the basepaths.


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