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Dear Mexican: I am a chica struggling with the choice to come out to my parents about my sexual orientation. My family is Catholic, and my parents are old school. While we are very close, I am scared of how badly this can go. My parents have been living in the U.S. for about 45 years, and they have adopted some American attitudes about life. What are your thoughts concerning those of us who juggle Catholicism, homosexuality and old-fashioned (but great) Mexican parents?
— An Innocent Bi-Stander
Dear Saint: I feel for ustedes. It's hard enough for closeted Mexicans to deal with their sexuality in a society that still doesn't allow homosexuals to marry, current California state law until sexual Know Nothings intervene notwithstanding. Mix in your Catholic faith and still-wabby parents, and the anguish must be agonizing. There's only one thing you can do: Come out to your parents. But don't take my heterosexist word for it. I asked my amiga, the hilariously subversive writer Monica Palacios, to give you some advice. The queer señorita offered this beautiful note for your use:
"Dear Chica with Muy Catholic Parents: Slip a note into the piñata that reads,
'Queridos Padres: Happy Anniversary, I love you very much and by the way — I'm a lesbian. My sexuality is not a reflection about you, it's about who I am — and I am a healthy, happy woman in love with another woman. My girlfriend and I would like for you to attend the performance of Monica Palacios. She's hot and a Chicana lesbian performer who will be doing a piece about the importance of same-sex marriage. Please come, learn, and laugh, and then we can all go out for menudo.' Be true to yourself, amiga: Your parents might be upset, but better them than you living a lie."
Wait a minute, Monica: only I'm allowed to shamelessly self-promote in this column! But do take her advice, Bi-Stander. And for any homophobic Mexicans out there: get over it. Gays and lesbians are the illegal immigrants of American sexuality, perfectly normal folk who, because they're just the slightest bit different from mainstream norms, must suffer bigots and stupid laws. If you care for your raza, you'll help defeat Proposition 8, the pernicious California resolution that seeks ban same-sex marriages in the Golden State. And if you don't care about equality for all, may the Minutemen camp outside your abode tonight.
For more info on Monica Palacios, visit www.monicapalacios.com
I have a Mexican stepson whom I love dearly. I go to all his boring soccer games and they win all the time, and these kids are so happy when they win, but when it comes to taking their picture they NEVER smile. Why don't Mexicans smile in pictures? Why so serious?
— The Joker's On You
Dear Gabacho: To hide our gold and silver teeth.
All my Mexican friends that are Catholic don't know anything about Catholicism. Sometimes, I go to their church for weddings or gang members' funerals, and they don't even know when to sit, stand or repeat the Father! I don't think they even know who the woman in the green poncho is! I know the wabs and some first-generation Mexicans know their stuff, but most of my Mexi friends (second generation and up) haven't even done their First Communion. Are the Chicanos going to hell?
— Our Lady of Perpetual Porno
Dear Gabacha: Any Catholic — observant or not, Mexican or otherwise — who hasn't risen up to fight their leadership's role in the Church's horrific sex-abuse scandal is going to hell. And any Catholic who doesn't support the Church's pro-Reconquista stance on immigration also has a date with the diablo. In conclusion, worship Huitzilopotchli.
ALERT! Buy the Mexican's new book, Orange County: A Personal History! New contest coming soon so ustedes cheapskates can win a free copy!
Get all your Mexican fun at myspace.com/ocwab, youtube.com/askamexicano, or send your questions to email@example.com!


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INSTAGRAM HAS ANNOUNCED it is clamping down on images related to self-injury such as cutting.
The move came after British Health Secretary Matt Hancock met with social media companies about doing more to safeguard the mental health of teenagers using their platforms.
British teenager Molly Russell was found dead in her bedroom in 2017. The 14-year-old had apparently taken her own life, and her Instagram account reportedly revealed she followed accounts related to depression and suicide.
"It is encouraging to see that decisive steps are now being taken to try to protect children from disturbing content on Instagram," said the girl's father, Ian Russell.
"It is now time for other social media platforms to take action to recognise the responsibility they too have to their users if the internet is to become a safe place for young and vulnerable people."
Changes to Instagram's self-harm content rules follow a comprehensive review involving experts and academics from around the world on youth, mental health, and suicide, according to chief executive Adam Mosseri.
Downplaying self-damage
"Over the past month, we have seen that we are not where we need to be on self-harm and suicide, and that we need to do more to keep the most vulnerable people who use Instagram safe," Mosseri said in an online post.
"We will not allow any graphic images of self-harm, such as cutting on Instagram – even if it would previously have been allowed as admission."
Instagram has never allowed posts that promote or encourage suicide or self-harm.
The Facebook-owned service is removing references to non-graphic content related to people hurting themselves, such as healed scars, from search, hashtag, explore, or recommendation features.
"We are not removing this type of content from Instagram entirely, as we don't want to stigmatise or isolate people who may be in distress and posting self-harm related content as a cry for help," Mosseri said.
Instagram also planned to ramp up efforts get counseling or other resources to people who post or search for self-harm related content.
"During the comprehensive reviews, the experts, including the Centre for Mental Health and Save.org reaffirmed that creating safe spaces for young people to talk about their experiences — including self-harm — online, is essential," Mosseri said.
However, collectively it was advised that graphic images of self-harm — even when it is someone admitting their struggles — has the potential to unintentionally promote self-harm.
Instagram's aim is to eliminate graphic self-injury or suicide related imagery and significantly downplay related content in features at the service while remaining a supportive community, according to Mosseri.
Yesterday, Mosseri joined representatives from Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Twitter and other companies who met with Hancock to discuss handling of content related to self-injury or suicide.
"What really matters is when children are on these sites they are safe. The progress we made today is good, but there's a lot more work to do," Hancock said after the meeting.
"What all the companies that I met today committed to was that they want to solve this problem, and they want to work with us about it."
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Nigerian Church, Mosque Shootings Create Confusion; Leaders Warn of Anarchy
Tensions are mounting in Nigeria after four people were killed Aug. 8 near a mosque – providing a new twist in a national conflict that so far had exclusively targeted Christians.
According to reports the attack on the Muslim prayer building occurred at the Central Mosque in Okene, when armed gunmen came out of a van chanting Islamic songs before shooting at people standing outside, killing two soldiers in the process.
The incident came the same week that 25 Christians were shot dead by gunmen using AK-47s in Okene in Kogi state near the capital of Abuja.
While police have yet to determine who carried out both attacks and if they were related, the Islamic radical group Boko Haram has strongly been linked with the Christian attack. The group has been targeting churches and believers for a year, killing over 600 people in their self-stated mission to get rid of Christianity in Nigeria.
The mosque attack remains a mystery, however, as it is not clear if or why Boko Haram would this time chose to target Muslims – or if it is in any way a retaliation attack in response to the growing tensions between Christians and Muslims. Whatever the reason and motives, however, church leaders in Nigeria are pleading with citizens not to allow the country to descend into total chaos by turning on each other.
"At the rate we are going, the country is drifting fast into anarchy," Anglican Archbishop Nicholas Okoh said. He added that the government, led by President Goodluck Jonathan, needs to do more to protect its people.
"If dog eats dog, that is the end of the country," Okoh continued. He added that the attacks against innocent people were a "damnable thing; it is evil."
"Those killing innocent people are heartless people who are not fearing their God. The incessant attacks are condemnable, it's against the teaching of any religion, so those who are doing this act are criminals who will face God hereafter," Sheikh Ahmed Gummi, an Islamic scholar in northern Kaduna has also said.
"There is not any religion in the world that accepts killing of innocent people at their worshipping centers," remarked Tunde Ishaku, a senior member of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). "We have to be serious now to take urgent action for the sake of our life and that of our followers."
Church leaders have asked the government to spare no resources in increasing security at churches.


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theory, research, and practice
theory, research, and practice
Stage Theory is based on the idea that organizations pass through a series of steps or stages as they change.
After stages are recognized, strategies to promote change can be matched to various points in the process of change.
According to Stage theory, adoption of an innovation usually follows several stages.
Each stage requires a specific set of strategies that are contingent on the organization's stage of adopting, implementing, and sustaining new approaches as well as socioenviromental factors.
History, Key Concepts and Application of Stage Theory
While Kurt Lewin is credited for creating one of the earliest stage models, modern stage theory is based on both Lewin's work and Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations theory.
Four stages of Stage Theory:
There has been less research on the factors that influence how an organization moves from one stage to the next and more research on the activities that occur during each stage.
Different leaders or "change agents" within the organization assume leading roles during different stages.
Strategies that organizations use depends on their stage of change and whether the nature of the social environment surrounding the innovation is supportive or otherwise.


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Marseille, France (SportsNetwork.com) - Top seed Richard Gasquet and reigning champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France secured berths in the quarterfinals at the Open 13 indoor hardcourt tennis event.
Gasquet handled Slovenian Blaz Kavcic 6-3, 6-3, while the second-seeded Tsonga held off former world No. 3 Russian Nikolay Davydenko 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (10-8) at Palais des Sports.
Tsonga beat Czech Tomas Berdych in last year's marquee final to capture a second title here in five years.
In opening-round action involving seeds, No. 7 Frenchman Julien Benneteau dismissed Dutchman Jesse Huta Galung 6-1, 6-4 and No. 8 Nicolas Mahut beat fellow Frenchman Kenny De Schepper 7-6 (7-2), 6-3. Benneteau was the runner-up here in 2010.
Also in round one, German Jan-Lennard Struff overcame French qualifier David Guez 3-6, 6-1, 6-1; Frenchman Michael Llodra, the 2010 champion and two-time runner-up, topped Slovak Lukas Lacko 6-3, 7-6 (7-2); Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut edged out German Dustin Brown 7-5, 4-6, 6-3; and Lithuanian qualifier Ricardas Berankis was leading Jan Hajek 6-5 in the first set when the Czech retired on Day 3.
The second round will conclude Thursday in Marseille, including matches for six seeded men, including Benneteau and Mahut.


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ATLANTA (CNN) — Justin Ross Harris apparently called himself RJ on a social media personal networking site through which he met a woman that police say he was messaging on the day his son was dying in a hot SUV outside his office building.
On a profile on the Skout website, "RJ" posted three profile photos, all of which appear to be Harris. The Georgia father has been charged with murder and child cruelty in the death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper.
The Skout user says he is a married man from Smyrna, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. It lists his age as 27. Harris, who is 33, lives in nearby Marietta.
"Just looking to talk. Message me, I'm harmless," the profile creator wrote.
The profile was last updated five months ago. There is a post on the page from a year ago, but it is was not possible to determine how long the profile had been up or to say with certainty that Harris had created the profile.
A message left with Ross Harris' attorney, H. Maddox Kilgore, was not immediately returned Tuesday night.
Police say Harris left son Cooper strapped into a car seat in his SUV for seven hours while he went to work on June 18.
Records show that the mercury topped 92 that day, and police say the temperature was 88 degrees when the boy was pronounced dead in a parking lot not far from his father's workplace.
Kilgore said at a hearing last week that his client forgot Cooper was in the car. Harris has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Harris messaged six women, one of whom was underage, and exchanged explicit texts from work while Cooper Harris was dying, Cobb County Police Detective Phil Stoddard testified at a probable cause hearing last week.
Harris allegedly sent explicit photos, including one of an erect penis, to an underage female. Stoddard said Harris was using a messaging service called Kik and one of the women had told him she met Harris on Skout.
Kilgore repeatedly objected to the testimony being used at the hearing. But the judge allowed the testimony.
Cobb County Chief Magistrate Frank Cox found probable cause to move forward on murder and child cruelty charges.
"For him to enter the car … when the child had been dead and rigor mortis had set in, and the testimony is the stench in the car was overwhelming at that point in time, that he — in spite of that — got in the car and drove it for some distance before he took any action to check on the welfare of his child, I find there is probable cause for the two charges contained in the warrant," Cox told a packed courtroom.
Harris remains in jail. His wife, Leanna Harris, visited Tuesday, according to WXIA, an Atlanta TV station and CNN affiliate. It is unclear whether she was able to see her husband.
A series of documents released Monday revealed more details of the investigation.
The documents, which include applications for search warrants and eight actual search warrants in the case against Harris, seek the medical records of Harris and his late son, a DVD, a 2-gigabyte memory card, a 32GB thumb drive and an external hard drive.
CNN's Justin Lear, Eliott C. McLaughlin, John Murgatroyd and Devon Sayers contributed to this report.
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Generate documentation from source code
Doxygen is the standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources, but it also supports other popular programming languages such as C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, Tcl, and to some extent D.
Run following command in terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install doxygen
It's very simple to use. Just type $ doxygen in terminal and you got its manual.
For using comments format is very important. So before start check its comment instructions.
To create documentation, move to folder where your source file exits through terminal and then type
$ cd /path/to/your/project/source/
$ doxygen -g [filename]
You can fill any filename as your choice. Its configuration file and you can edit that according your project details like change project name in filename.(config file for doxygen)
Then run
$ doxygen [filename]
By this your documentation will be generated. This will create 2 folders in your current directory.
- html for html documentation open /path/to/project/source/html/index.html to check documentation.
- latex for documentation using latex as pdf output. For that file run
$ cd /path/to/your/project/source/latex
$ make
This will create refman.pdf file(check pdf file as file name may be changed in your case).
That's all. This is basic guide, you can do more by exploring filename.conf file.
You can also add Special Commands in comments to make your documentation more descriptive.
Hope this will help you.


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The Marble Basin of Carrara
Ministry of the Environment and Land Protection
Region: Tuscany - Province: Massa Carrara
The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate harmonization of Tentative Lists at regional and thematic levels.
The sole responsibility for the content of each Tentative List lies with the State Party concerned. The publication of the Tentative Lists does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World Heritage Committee or of the World Heritage Centre or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its boundaries.
Property names are listed in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party
The protected area of Alpi Apuane, which are defined "Alps" due to their morphology, are a mountain system that goes from the north-west of Tuscany and spreads over a surface of 400 square km. The mountains are formed by a dorsal which runs parallel to the Tirrenian coast and raises up to 2000 meters. It spreads over the lands of the provinces of Lucca and Carrara. To safeguard and valorise the area, Tuscany set up a park in 1985.Facing the inlands, the historical centre does not appear, because it is hidden in a bowl of green hills, at the bottom of a piedmont bench. The territory, from the sea, presents first a clear-cut hill belt that is followed by tall Alpi Apuane, where the park is, and where a complex system of paths for mountain lovers is present too: the mountain is ripped by marble quarries that pour down river into ravaneti white casting which give a one-time and peculiar feature to the sight, generating a Mineral Natural Park of high beauty.
Carrara quarries continue on the mountains over the city, precisely inside the so-called agri, i.e. in highland forests and pasture-lands which once belonged to inhabitants of villages below. The large scale exploitation of Carrara quarries begins in the I century A.C., when the region was dominated by the Romans. From the ancient extracting activity many traces still remain: there are about 30 quarries from Roman age, and many cutting side from renaissance. Notable is the fact that quarries from Roman age are present only in the basins of Carrara and not in other extractive sites of Alpi Apuane: and that in the neighbourhood of Colonnata the biggest and more articulated roman quarry of Italy, or even of the world, is preserved. Many natural environments cause the birth, the development and the characteristics of a civilization: the sea, the mountains, the countryside, each of them characterises respectively marine, agro-pastural, farming civilizations. Territorial areas in which those civilizations developed are various as well, even if they maintain the fundamental characters that once were of distinction . While the "Marble civilization" was born, is still alive and looks at the future within the only and clear cut territorial area represented by the marble basins of Carrara.
Statements of authenticity and/or integrity
There are several excavations from the Roman age, the post medieval age and the pre -industrial age, which still preserve authenticity and integrity. As to Roman quarries, we must remark the great roman quarry of Fossacava, opened in the second half of the I century AC and operating up to the III century in the anno domini. The quarry presents a perfect state of preservation. The marble used was extremely appreciated by the Romans. It was used for public and private buildings. .Strabone defined this type of marble as "variegated azure-blue", a beautiful "bardiglio" of a grey-azure colour crossed by white "waves" of veins. The integrity of this and other quarries is guaranteed by an archaeological bind from the governor of the territory.
In the civic museum of Marble, we can find well preserved evidence of technical and artistic aspects related to marble culture, as it has been developed during the past 2000 years in Carrara.
Private owners of the quarries are in charge of the protection of the marble basins together with the municipality administration, which promotes also the knowledge of the marble basin heritage together with local authorities.
The governor of archaeological heritage of Florence and the governor of the cultural heritage of Pisa are in charge of the preservation of the integrity of the Roman quarries as well as those of the renaissance age.The monitoring of the exploitation in the marble basins is constantly carried out by the Marble Sector of the Carrara Municipality, by the ASL (Local Health Service) and by ARPAT (Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment) of Massa Carrara.
Comparison with other similar properties
There are few sites around the world where it is possible to find white marble. The most famous are: Macael (Spain), Vermont (USA) and the Greek island of Paros and Naxos. The area of Carrara is the most productive in the world with 1 billion of tons of white marble per year followed by the Macael basin with 800.000 tons/year.
From a historical and archaeological point of view, it is possible to compare Carrara with Greece. Before beginning the exploitation of the Carrara basin, the Romans imported white marbles excavated from the island of Paros and Naxos. Among the other extraction sites we must notice the travertine roman caves of Tivoli (Roma-Lazio).


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An Event in Late August-Early September, this multispecialty conference of a number of MIS Societies, helps increase knowledge of laparoscopic, endoscopic, and minimally invasive surgical techniques. The Meeting consists of Postgraduate Master's Classes; Plenary Sessions; Lap Updates of multiple topics; Expert review and discussion of surgical videos showing accidents, mishaps, and surprises; Deconstruction of video-taped surgeries performed by master surgeons; Exhibitions; Competitions for Best Papers, Videos, and Posters from Professors to Fellows and Residents; Future Technology Sessions; and over 200 General Surgery, Gynecology, Urology, and Multispecialty Scientific Presentations.
Minimally Invasive Surgery Week 2014 Annual Meeting and Endo Expo Presented by SLS and Affiliated Societies
Date09/10/2014 - 09/13/2014
LocationCaesar's Palace Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
ContactIsabel Rovira


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The Onzo Smart Energy Kit sure looks handy, providing to-the-second energy usage updates from anywhere in the house. It's UK-only, but there's nothing about its wireless display that we couldn't (or shouldn't) do right here in the US of A.
Not only can you take the display with you around the house to mind watts, you can also upload up to 10 years of historical energy use data to a web portal that issues more detailed information and conservation tips. If you're goal-oriented, you can the Smart Energy Kit to set a usage target and keep track of how you're stacking up.
I love the functionality, but would I ever use it? Actually, sure! If only to create elaborate betting scenarios with my housemates. And, you know, to help the environment and lower my energy bills and junk. [Onzo via UberGizmo]


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We had a week of record rain here in Eastern Massachusetts. Lots of roads were closed as ponds and brooks overflowed their banks, and drainage systems backed up. At various places on Mass Ave north of Cambridge water was gushing up out of blown-off manhole covers. Traffic was backed up all over the place. Yesterday, the first after the rains stopped, many residents were pumping out basements through fat hoses that snaked out into streets. Much of this water only pooled somewhere else, since many drainage systems were filled too.
In some ways I've never stopped being the newspaper photographer I was forty years ago, in my first newspaper job (I didn't have that many, total, but that was more fun than the rest of them). So I went out and looked for some actual floods worth shooting and found Magnolia Field in Arlington, near the Alewife T stop at the end of the Red Line. It's a big soccer and lacrosse field, with with the Minuteman Bikeway at one end and a playground for kiddies at the other. It normally looks flat, but inundation by water proved otherwise. I could tell by the high debris mark that most of the field had been covered with water when the flood was at its maximum depth, but there was plenty left when I showed up and shot the photo above and the rest here.
Here's the field on a sunny spring day, shot by Bing and revealed, too many clicks down, in its "birds eye view" under "aerial". Here's a link to the actual Bing view. And here's Bing's contribution to an iPhone app called MyWeather, which does a great job of showing a combination of precipitation and clouds, with looping animation:
I took that screen shot at the end of the storm on Monday night. You can see how it was our corner of a huge cyclonic weather system, rotating around an eye of sorts, out in the Atlantic off the Virginia coast. This winter we've had a series of these. As I wrote in an earlier post, it was one of these, spinning like a disk with a spindle in New York City, that brought rain to New England and snow pretty much everywhere else in February.
Now it's Spring, almost literally. The sky was blue and clear as can be, winds calm, temperature hitting 66°. I know it won't last, but it's nice to get a break.


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|Power Allocation and Outage Probability Analysis for Secondary Users in Cognitive Full Duplex Relay Systems
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|Hyungjong Kim, Sungmook Lim, Hano Wang, and Daesik Hong
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|This paper investigates the use of full duplex relaying (FDR) in cognitive radio systems. Cognitive FDR systems offer the advantage not only of increasing spectral efficiency by spectrum sharing but also of extending the coverage through the use of relays. Concurrent transmissions at the source and relay in FDR systems can overcome a loss of resource efficiency in a way that conventional half duplex relay (HDR) systems cannot. However, in cognitive FDR systems, the primary user experiences interference from the secondary source and relay simultaneously due to the full duplexing. Satisfying the interference constraint by simply reducing transmission power results in performance degradation for the secondary user. What is therefore needed is a way to optimize the transmission powers at the secondary source and relay. Therefore, we propose an optimal power allocation scheme based on minimizing the outage probability in cognitive FDR systems. We then analyze the outage probability of the secondary user in the noise-limited and interference-limited environments. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes achieve performance improvement in terms of outage probability.
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Hyungjong Kim; Sungmook Lim; Hano Wang; Daesik Hong; , "Power allocation and outage probability analysis for secondary users in cognitive full duplex relay systems," Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2012 IEEE 13th International Workshop on , vol., no., pp.449-453, 17-20 June 2012
doi: 10.1109/SPAWC.2012.6292947
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Dear Mexican,
I was wondering about the Spanish going into Mexico and taking the gold and artifacts away from the Indians. Could the Mexican government ask for the gold back? What do you think?Raider of the Lost ChonisWhy doesn't Mexico's president demand that all nations and/or entities return stolen artifacts taken from Mexico and its indigenous people? If the Jews got their stolen goods backthat had been taken during World War II, Mexico should be able to get its culture back! That's just not art, but a way of life—life of the indigenous!El MexikingDear Wabs,
While I like the thinking of ustedes (save for El Mexiking's Jewish example—the Nazis stole from specific individuals whose descendants could provide proof of ownership, usually via paperwork, and thus had a legal case), I'm afraid we don't have much ground to stand on. Although the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property protects newly found artifacts from tomb raiders and the black market, it doesn't apply retroactively to artifacts looted during the days of empire, especially when said empire no longer exists. You could conceivably build a case if, say, a bona fide descendant of Nezahualcoyotl could show that his family's treasures were looted, but all Mexico and other nations whose cultural treasures were looted for centuries have going is appeals to sympathy—and since when has Spain ever given a shit about Mexico?
Same thing goes for the gold that Raider speaks of: Spain lost that gold long ago, so good luck getting that back. Mexico could conceivably ask for reparations for the damage Spain caused to its former colony—but there's that legal nopal again. Mexico didn't exist as a political entity until declaring its independence from Spain, so all we can do to get back at our former oppressors is beat them in soccer—yeah, I laughed bitterly when I read that, too.
My question is something I think is unique to the Mexican male population that I haven't seen back East: Why do Mexican men wear pants so tight you can see every inch (or lack of) of what God gave them? I assume they're straight. But I have gay friends who don't wear their pants so tight that they have to lie down to put them on. Is it a macho thing? Is it to impress the ladies or men? Doesn't the seam up your butt and lack of circulation in the front get uncomfortable? How can you adjust yourself when your pants are so tight? Mariposa de Nueva JerseyDear New Jersey Gay Guy,
You obviously haven't been to Brooklyn in a while, eh? And not the Mexican part, but rather the gentrified areas, where hipsters wear jeans tighter than the face of Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto's telenovela wife. In regards to actual hombres: The traditional Mexican man (as opposed to his cholo nephews) will never wear baggy pants, or even loose pants. We're a working class, and loose pants can get caught in machinery and generally get in the way of our jale, something blue-collar gabachos know well. If hipsters want to wear pants like Mexicans, we welcome them—but if ustedes try to appropriate Stetsons, cinto piteado, and boots as well, prepare for a culo-kicking.
*****MEXICAN PROPHECY OF THE WEEK! "What the Mexicans could not win with their rifles, they are going to win with their peckers." Heard it from one of ustedes—and ain't that the firstname.lastname@example.com


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BERLIN – Berlin needs more sidewalks, the Berlin Town Council concluded during a discussion of a resident's request to split the cost of a new sidewalk at his home.
"I think we definitely need to be encouraging homeowners to put in sidewalks," said Council Vice President Gee Williams. "I think it's a benefit to the town."
Williams said that it does not take a degree in engineering to see that Berlin is better off with sidewalks.
The discussion began Monday night when Paul Evans requested that the town pay half the $4,632 cost to install sidewalks along the two roadside edges of his property, a practice that the town council has followed for repairing and replacing existing sidewalks.
"This is brand new. There is no sidewalk there," explained town council member Paula Lynch.
"On Maple Dr. it's the only property that does not have a sidewalk," said Linda Bambary, Berlin administrative director.
According to town attorney Dave Gaskill, the Berlin code calls for the town to pay for half of a new sidewalk if the code enforcement officer determines there is a need.
"I totally think you need to add one there. It's a perfect place to add to," said Lynch.
Jim Hoppa, who lives in Berlin, wondered whether the council was setting a precedent by agreeing to pay for half of the new sidewalk.
"Are we opening Pandora's Box here?" he asked.
Hoppa said he feared developers would leave sidewalks out of their plans if the town is willing to take on the responsibility.
"Look where the mayor lives, in Henry's Green. There's not a sidewalk in there," he said.
Troy Purnell, a developer who built some of the homes in Henry's Green including the home of Mayor Thomas Cardinale, said that sidewalks were originally planned for Henry's Green, but that homebuyers did not like their placement so close to their front doors.
The town allots a certain amount of funds for sidewalks in every budget. Once that money is used, home improvers must wait until the next budget to share sidewalk costs with the town.
Williams called the spotty sidewalk coverage in the town an embarrassment.
"It's ridiculous in the 21st Century we're just getting ready to put in a sidewalk on Flower St.," Williams.
The council voted unanimously to approve the cost sharing for Evans' sidewalk, contingent on a staff assessment.
"It's good to go," said Bambary later that week.


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The second $20 nine hole game is played in conjunction with the Wednesday league. The second nine hole skins pot will likely be a bit bigger, since many players from that league also toss in.
Pros may play in these Wednesday skins games as well, but must pay $30 for each 9-hole pot.
Cost for 18 holes of golf + cart for the Fox Den Big Wednesday Skins Game is just $31; the league 9-holes of golf + cart is $22.
There are no advanced signups required to play on any Wednesday of this come-when-you-can series; simply show up at Fox Den before 2:30p for the first nine holes or before 4:30p for the second nine holes and you will be paired on the tee with other players.
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The Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University presents "Show and Tell: An afternoon with lace collector and restorer Molly Carroll." A talk and question-and-answer session given in conjunction with the exhibition "(Re-)Making Irish Lace" (on display through Dec. 2) will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday at the museum.
Carroll, a Buffalonian, has been collecting and restoring handmade lace for more than 30 years. Join in for an afternoon with Carroll as she shares her experiences and travels, as well as special pieces from her extensive collection of historical laces.
For more information, contact Carrie Hertz at 716-286-8290.


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MySpace and Facebook announced a new service called "Mashup with Facebook" that will allow Myspace to suggest entertainment content to its users based on the entertainment interests and preferences those users have expressed on Facebook.
The information pulled from Facebook will allow Myspace to compile a custom page filled with the user's favorite music, TV shows, movies and celebrities, and will also suggest related content the user might also like.
When you log into Myspace, an opt-in "Connect" button within the sign-up and log-in box will ask you if you want to allow Myspace to use your Facebook data to customize an entertainment page for you. If you say Yes, you'll be taken to a page (click image at left) where all your favorites are waiting for you, along with some new stuff.
Today's announcement isn't the first friendly agreement between the two companies. In July, Myspace made it possible for its users to send the content they put on Myspace (photos, status updates, links and videos) out to Facebook (and Twitter) with just one click.
The companies say there are "no financial terms" (i.e. no revenue sharing) around the new agreement, but both companies will benefit materially. Using Facebook data, Myspace can suggest entertainment content to users that they are more likely to enjoy and then buy from Myspace's entertainment company partners.
Facebook says that for now, the entertainment choices users make at Myspace will not flow back to Facebook to further enrich its huge database of user data—its most valuable asset. But Myspace says it will soon implement Facebook "like" buttons all over its site, and when a user expresses a preference by hitting one, that data will flow back flow back to enrich Facebook's already-huge cache of highly personal user data. This data is extremely valuable to Facebook app makers and marketing partners.
Myspace has taken a sharp strategic turn over the last year toward being an entertainment site (with social networking features) as opposed to being a social networking site with entertainment features, as it once was.
Asked if this move represents an admission of defeat by Myspace in the social networking war, Myspace CEO Mike Jones said Mashup with Facebook is just a way of giving Myspace users what they want. "We have seen a migration of our own users toward entertainment content," Jones said.
It's true that Myspace has always had a strong entertainment bent, acting as a friendly host to bands and artists of all kinds. But it's still an obvious "if you can't beat 'em join 'em" move, and one that's probably the best thing Myspace can do now, considering Facebook's complete domination of the social networking space, in the U.S at least.
Facebook now has more than 500,000 million members and climbing, while Myspace's member count had been reduced by half by mid-July of this year.
Myspace says the new functionality will be rolling out throughout the day today (Thursday).


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Bhaktapur Town and Temples
The old city of Bhaktapur, just 15 kms from Kathmandu, with its pagoda roofs and blend of wood, mud-brick and copper was a beautiful place to spend a couple of days and nights. Exploring its three main squares, sitting people-watching, seeing photo opportunities at every turn and feeling very welcomed by the residents here who just carry on their lives despite the influx of day tourists from Kathmandu. To walk around the old city at 5.30am and have the place to yourself and the locals setting up their market stalls and doing their morning puja at the many shrines was really special.Read More


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oh, hello friend is hiring:
March 2, 2012
24 hello's:
- Anonymous02 March, 2012 06:42
Ah! I'd love to work for you! Too bad I'm at school in DC :(ReplyDelete
Too bad I'm in TN. This is a dream job! :(ReplyDelete
If only this could be a telecommute job...ReplyDelete
- Michele S.02 March, 2012 08:11
This would be PERFECT for my daughter who is finishing her junior year of college, majoring in graphic design. But sadly, we live near Seattle. (Not sad to live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, just sad she can't apply for your job!)ReplyDelete
I'm sure you will find a person very fast, but just in case, I'm sure the folks at AIOC might have a few people looking for something for a few hours a week :) Plus you'd get a graphic person. Good luck!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous02 March, 2012 08:31
AH! If only I lived in Cali! I'm sure you'll still find an amazing assistant though! :DReplyDelete
oh pick me and you could fly down to the caribbean for a meeting every month :) hehehee.... wishing i was in ca for something like this it sounds like fun! best of luck ;))ReplyDelete
I'm in Southern California, but unfortunately I live in Irvine... I wish!ReplyDelete
How exciting!! :) Can I apply?! :)ReplyDelete
It sounds like a dream job. :)ReplyDelete
But - what a shame- I live in Latvia (in different part of the world) and I'm not so old. Hope you get a wonderful assistant! :)
Aww I'd love to do this! I'm in southern cali too! But sadly I live in San Diego & I feel like the drive would be too much :| good luck though! <3ReplyDelete
Exciting! I've been thinking recently I'd be a lot more productive if I had a part-time helper, but can't afford one yet. Hope you find someone great!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for your encouragement and thoughts friends, so honored that many would apply if you were local ;)ReplyDelete
@monica - GOOD IDEA! I didn't even think of that, will definitely look into it, thanks!
@Sage Crown Parker - I'd love to fly down to the carribean!
@Lillian - seriously?! That'd be the best, haha. But you have your own thing going on ;)
So close, yet so far! I live in Pasadena :( but this would have been perfect. Good luck!ReplyDelete
Is there any way I can help online?ReplyDelete
I live in Santa Monica and I can go sometimes there, but 2 a week will be to much driving and expenses for me now.
I'm studying photography and I believe I can help you a lot.
Let me know.
I'm adding this comment again, because the first one has a fail in my name...ReplyDelete
Is there any way I can help online?
I live in Santa Monica and I can go sometimes there, but 2 a week will be to much driving and expenses for me now.
I'm studying photography and I believe I can help you a lot.
Let me know.
- Anonymous04 March, 2012 00:39
how nice is this! :D really looking forward about the work of you and a co-worker, it´s like a blog-family growing! :D hope you find someone great soon!ReplyDelete
:( "zut", I'm in France but it must be really great to work with you !ReplyDelete
Thanks for this wonderful blog.
I can move from italy!!! Ahah i wish i could come to california!!!!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous04 March, 2012 23:05
I emailed you yesterday!!! i hope you received it!! i'd love to work for you and your growing company!!!ReplyDelete
xx, Tesia
So bummed I live 1,000s of miles away!ReplyDelete
♡ Lexi
FASHION: Glitter & Pearls
WEDDINGS: Glitter Weddings
Would love to cross the ocean for this job!ReplyDelete
If you dont mind sharing, I'd love to know how this goes for you. I could so use some help and a few hours a week would be just the thing but Im a bit nervous about letting some stranger into my life like that.ReplyDelete
Gosh, my heart felt so happy when I saw the heading..and it sank when I saw that the person needed to be in California. Waaah, can't I pretend that I am in California even if I am sitting in India at the moment :)ReplyDelete
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thenitetechs over on Twitter linked me to an interesting competitor for Windows Live Writer called Zoundry Raven, which I'm using to write this post:
Zoundry Raven is our next generation WYSIWYG blog editor that makes posting to your blogs easier and faster. It's as easy to use as a word processor, plus we include simple tools to add links, tags, photos, music and video files, and more.
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Install Raven as a Portable Application on your flash/thumb drive. We'll stay out of your Windows registry and let you take your Blogging on the road.
It looks nice, actually, and works with a ton of blogging services as you'd expect.


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When it comes to accommodations, Savannah stands out. We have hotels and motels to suit all tastes and budgets. Or choose from historic inns and bed & breakfasts run by families with all the comforts of home. See some Savannah spirits with a stay in one of our haunted hotels. Planning to stay a while? We have plenty of vacation rentals and extended stay properties to choose from. Enjoy the city's surrounding parks and nature trails at one of the camping & RV sites. Or head for a beach vacation on Tybee Island, Savannah's beach.


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Nottingham 54 - 24 Melrose: Borderers can't recover from first-half battering
Scorers: Nottingham: Tries: Streather, Jackson, Calladine, Shaw, Parr, Lewington 2, penalty try. Cons: Lynn 7. Melrose: Tries: Holborn, Visser, Miller, Mill. Con: Mill 2.
The Borderers defeated Doncaster Knights in their opener in October, but losses to Llandovery and Nottingham have now followed, with last night's first 40 minutes not to be looked back on fondly.
The hosts knew they had to get a victory in this one, having lost their first two Pool 8 matches and within the first five minutes they had built up a 14-0 lead, having come out of the blocks flying.
Firstly stand-in skipper Tim Streather, playing in the centre, went over and then soon after, full-back David Jackson scored the second try and his 99th for the club. Teenage stand-off Rory Lynn converted both and the reigning Scottish top-flight champions were left with a mountain to climb.
Things went from bad to worse for Melrose in the 21st minute when Nottingham's third try of the night arrived. This time it came through back-row Tom Calladine when the hosts had too much forward power for the visitors. Once again, Lynn converted. And the hosts' fourth try came before the half-hour mark as No.8 Alex Shaw burrowed over, with Lynn converting.
Melrose got themselves on the scoresheet through prop Gary Holborn before Nottingham prop Matt Parr's converted try made it 35-5 at the break.
Four minutes into the second half Nottingham's sixth try of the match came through winger Alex Lewington and soon after a converted penalty try made it 47-5. Sep Visser, made available by Edinburgh, then scored Melrose's second try on his first outing for the club.
Nottingham centre Andy Forsyth then spent time in the sin-bin and Melrose took advantage with a converted try through replacement Ross Miller before late converted tries came from both sides.
Nottingham: D Jackson; A Lewington, T Streather, A Forsyth, R Crane; R Lynn, S Romans; M Parr, S Malton, M Holford, D Montagu, J Cain, R Cooper, A Shaw, T Calladine. Subs: S Wright, R Bower, J Quinn, B Wilson, F Barnham, J Cobden, R Hough.
Melrose: F Thomson; J Helps, B Cairns, B Dick, S Visser; R Mill, B Colvine; N Little, R Ferguson, G Holborn, J Gray, P Eccles, J Dalziel, A Nagle, G Runciman. Subs: C Keen, L Niven, R Miller, R Ovens, S McCormick, H Leonard, S Chalmers.
Referee: K Shorte (Wales). Attendance: 981.


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She weighed 8 pounds even and is 21 inches long (which explains her talent for kicking my ribs while simultaneously head-butting my bladder).
Her mommy laughed in relief and her daddy cried with joy as she squawked her way into the world. And then we discovered (much to our surprise) that our Deuce was a girl!
She's basically the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen. She's so freaking perfect. I can't believe how in love with her we already are. And yes, she looks a lot like her sister Eliza. She is such a gift.
Thanks so much for all the e-mails, comments, and texts. We're still exhausted and overwhelmed and marveling at our good fortune.
We should get discharged tomorrow. Can't wait to take our new baby girl home with us.
|Baby Caroline on her birthday


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AG legging jeans
LnA t-shirt
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J Crew Field Jacket (on sale for $103 at J Crew)
Repetto BB flats
Jas M.B. bag
Whew! Are you finished shopping? I hope not, because I'm sure there will be lots more great deals before the end of the year. One of which is the J Crew field jacket – on sale for $103 through tomorrow at J Crew. My dad bought mine for me when he was here, thinking it would work for Amsterdam. It will not. It's 54 degrees today and I'm cold…But then again, I'm only wearing tees underneath. The jacket is great for what it is: a lightweight, water-resistant, outer-layer for cooler, but not cold weather. I'm wearing a size large, although I originally got the XL so it would be bigger and more layer-able, but it turned out to be way too big on me.
Speaking of Amsterdam, I got the Uniqlo ultra light down parka yesterday and it's too small (I ordered a large). Well, actually it's too small and too big. It was a teeny bit big on top and barely zipped up over my hips/butt. I'm really disappointed, and am going to send it back. I would have exchanged it for the jacket style, which is shorter, but they're sold out of my size and color 🙁 So I think I'll have to take my old Marc by MJ wool peacoat and just layer with lots of cashmere to stay warm!
And finally, the jeans. I got the AG ankle legging jeans from Shopbop with some credit I had and I'm not convinced that I'll keep them yet (I haven't worn them out). I love them, and would like to never ever take them off, but they're not that different than the HELMUT leggings I just got. Except they're jeans. Hmm….


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Bullhorn done did it again. Today, the staffing software giant released its fourth annual Recruiting Trends Report.
In December 2013, Bullhorn polled 1,337 agency professionals to get a sense not only of 2013 but also what to expect in the future.
As a…Continue
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S eriously. Just stop. STAHP. You're embarrassing yourself and the community at large. If I see one more ridiculous, self-serving post about the "recruitment agency of the future!" and how y'all are going to CHANGE EVERYTHING I will probably just burst into tears out of pure frustration. You. Are. Full. Of. Crap. Recruiting, recruitment, whatever the hell you call it is a…Continue
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I love football. I mean I LOVE football. And not in that silly girly way, like I just watch it because I don't want to be a football widow, or I want to impress my boyfriend or something. No. I LOVE FOOTBALL. There is something very hot about watching a bunch of big tough guys chasing each other around trying to rip each other's heads off. I know, I probably could benefit…Continue
Added by Amy Ala Miller on January 26, 2014 at 11:47pm — 9 Comments
Hey you guys, LinkedIn is DEAD. All the cool kids are recruiting on Facebook and you better have yourself some Pinterest sourcing sessions. I'm serious. So serious, in fact, I Binged "Social Recruiting" (well what did you expect) and got over 42 million results, most of which were a horrifying mix of conferences and poorly written blogs by people who couldn't make a…Continue
Added by Amy Ala Miller on December 27, 2013 at 3:30pm — 33 Comments
Why did you ask?
My husband has a love / hate relationship with my career choice. Always has. I've been a recruiter longer than I've been Mrs. Ala, so this is not new to him. In fact, at one point early in our relationship I was THE go to recruiter in his field. People would slip him resumes on job sites and ask for my phone number after meetings. It's not easy being married to me, and that was before all this social recruiting / LinkedIn / Facebook / blogging stardom. Poor Mr.…Continue
Added by Amy Ala Miller on November 8, 2013 at 7:22pm — 28 Comments
I just might be the least athletic person I know. I am surrounded by sports. My nephews and their wives do cross-fit competitions. My husband (in his youth) took part in body building competitions. My niece grew up on the soccer field and my boys have always played baseball with a little soccer and football thrown in as we wait for spring training. That leaves me and my two…Continue
Added by Amy Ala Miller on October 16, 2013 at 12:30pm — 12 Comments
The only thing cooler than having a conference in your home city is to have it hosted by your employer. I was lucky enough to snag a seat to the hottest sourcing conference around and the first time ever in Seattle. My day started out like any other, except instead of heading to my office I got to join 400+ recruiters and sourcers from across the country at The Mixer. Need a haircut? New…Continue
Added by Amy Ala Miller on October 3, 2013 at 9:02am — 6 Comments
I have a confession to make. I'm a total dork in my everyday life. I know it's hard to believe – I've been called a social butterfly and have at least once been the life of a party. For more than 10 years I've gotten a thrill out of calling up total strangers and convincing them to completely change where and what they spend the majority of their waking hours doing. I get a…Continue
Added by Amy Ala Miller on September 4, 2013 at 5:00pm — 9 Comments
Social Media is the NEXT BIG THING in recruiting. Don't believe me? Ask anyone who sells social media services…
We had a real treat on the Recruiting Animal Show this week. The guest was Jason Ginsberg of Brandemix. Animal started the show by questioning the guest's previous claim that LinkedIn…Continue
Added by Amy Ala Miller on August 21, 2013 at 8:00pm — 27 Comments
I really, REALLY hate the internet right now. I had just finished reading the latest in a string of bad advice articles (from "experts", on LinkedIn of course) and my mother pointed out a RIDICULOUSLY inappropriate and unfunny Facebook status on my 16 year old son's wall. (Yes, he had been hacked by one of his idiot friends. Yes, 16 year old boys have warped ideas about what's funny. But it's on the bleeping INTERNET, where your grandmother and just maybe future bosses can read it for God's…Continue
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NeuroMetrix, Inc. NURO, www.neurometrix.com, a medical device company focused on the diagnosis and treatment of the neurological complications of diabetes, today announced that Shai N. Gozani M.D., Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to speak at the 6th Annual OneMedForum at the Sir Frances Drake Hotel, San Francisco, CA on January 7-9, 2013. Dr. Gozani intends to provide an update on the Company's business activities and on its diabetes products including NC-stat® DPNCheck™, a diagnostic test for systemic neuropathies such as diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), and the SENSUS™ pain management device for relief of chronic intractable pain.
NeuroMetrix's presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 11:40 am (Pacific Standard Time), 2:40 pm (Eastern Standard Time). A live audio webcast will be available on the investor relations section of the corporate website - www.neurometrix.com. This webcast will be archived after the live event.
About NeuroMetrix
NeuroMetrix is an innovative medical device company that develops and markets home use and point-of-care devices, associated consumables, and support software for the treatment and management of diabetes and its complications. The company is focused on nerve related complications of diabetes, called diabetic neuropathies, which affect over 50% of people with diabetes. If left untreated, diabetic neuropathies trigger foot ulcers that may require amputation, cause disabling chronic pain, and increase the risk of falling in the elderly. The annual cost of diabetic neuropathies has been estimated at $14 billion in the United States. The company's products are used by physicians and other clinicians in retail health settings such as pharmacies, and by managed care organizations to optimize patient care and reduce healthcare costs. The company markets the NC-stat DPNCheck device, which is a rapid, accurate, and quantitative point-of-care test for diabetic neuropathy. This product is used to detect diabetic neuropathy at an early stage and to guide treatment. The company has also begun to market the SENSUS Pain Management System for treating chronic pain, focusing on physicians managing patients with painful diabetic neuropathy. The company has additional therapeutic products in its pipeline. For more information, please visit http://www.neurometrix.com.
NeuroMetrix, Inc.
Thomas T. Higgins, 781-314-2761
SVP and Chief Financial Officer
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Code that Microsoft Corp. released Monday for the Linux kernel under the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) was in violation of that license before Microsoft made it available, according to an open-source network engineer.
Stephen Hemminger, principal engineer with open-source network vendor Vyatta, in a blog post claims that a network driver in Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software used open-source components licensed under the GPL. Since the license does not allow for mixing of closed-source or proprietary code with open-source code, the software was in violation of the GPL, he said in the post, which details how the violation was discovered.
"This saga started when one of the users on the Vyatta forum inquired about supporting [the] Hyper-V network driver in the Vyatta kernel," Hemminger wrote. "A little googling found the necessary drivers, but on closer examination there was a problem. The driver had both open-source components which were under GPL, and statically linked to several binary parts. The GPL does not permit mixing of closed and open source parts, so this was an obvious violation of the license."
Hemminger said rather than "creating noise," he alerted Novell to the violation, which then informed Microsoft of the matter. He also congratulated Microsoft for releasing the code, which consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called Linux Device Driver for Virtualization.
"It took longer than expected, but finally Microsoft decided to do the right thing and release the drivers," he wrote.
Microsoft said through its public relations firm that it is working on a response to Hemminger's claims. Novell did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Microsoft's announcement on Monday that it was releasing 20,000 lines of code under the GPL -- a license it has criticized and never used before -- came as a shock to the industry, and Microsoft used it as yet another example of its interest in working with the open-source community despite a past of thorny dealings with that community. The Linux kernel is licensed under the GPL.
The drivers that Microsoft released, once added to the Linux kernel, will provide the hooks for any distribution of Linux to run on Windows Server 2008 and its Hyper-V hypervisor technology. Microsoft will provide ongoing maintenance of the code under the GPL, the company said Monday.
Many see open-source software as the biggest threat to Microsoft's software business. The company has made broad claims that Linux violates many of its patents, and it continues to seek royalties from open-source companies that use Linux-based software.


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In the thirteen years since welfare reform was enacted, many people have moved off welfare and into jobs. Some have exited poverty altogether. Many remain on welfare, however, or have used up their time on welfare but continue to face significant challenges to steady employment. This population is disproportionally made up of single mothers, often dealing with obstacles to work such as low levels of education, substance abuse, mental illness, and poor health. States offer, to varying degrees, supports such as child care, transportation, and job training — assistance that is critical to these women's employment prospects.
The current recession has forced states to reduce expenditures, so work support programs are vulnerable to being cut. For example, cash-strapped California has offered women on welfare with young children the option of foregoing work requirements in return for giving up child care and other work supports. Interestingly, few women have accepted this offer thus far, so California may even require some mothers to take the welfare check without work requirements or supplemental programs. While economically beneficial for California in the short term, this policy could counteract anti-poverty measures in the long run. California's action also could influence other states, furthering a policy that works against providing single mothers critical support as they make their way off cash assistance and into work.
As an article in The Future of Children's Anti-Poverty issue explains, child care assistance helps families stay in jobs and have more disposable income. Although low-income families purchase less expensive care than higher-income families, child care comprises a larger portion of their expenditures. Since child care is necessary for working parents, so also are the subsidies to low-income working mothers, who would otherwise not be able to afford to have someone watch their children. In addition, employment assistance is necessary for mothers facing barriers to work such as mental and physical health problems or substance abuse.
One benefit of welfare-to-work programs has been an increase in mothers' take-home earnings, which can improve family circumstances in many ways. Work coupled with child care subsidies, transportation assistance, Medicaid, and other such programs offers low-income mothers an opportunity to meet their families' basic needs.
For mothers encountering multiple barriers to work, leaving them able to work only in a limited capacity if at all, cash assistance and work supports are critical. Unfortunately, California's short term need to cut support programs could hurt vulnerable women just starting to make their way into some level of self-sufficiency.


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The "paperless office" has long been held up as a goal for businesses large and small, but few have come even close. The average office worker, in fact, still generates roughly two pounds of paper waste every day, according to the U.S. EPA.
Aiming to help cut a few more of the ties that bind businesses to paper, Xerox on Tuesday unveiled a raft of new automation services and mobile apps for enterprise users.
Xerox's Workflow Automation Solution for Supply Chain Optimization tool, for example, targets retailers with a new way to digitize, centralize, automate and govern the manual steps involved in the product life cycle. Using the Datawatch Managed Analytics Platform, the new offering can reduce labor and printing costs, Xerox says, as well as simplify inventory and invoice reconciliation and improve fill rates by syncing data and applying automated analytics at the store level.
Several new workflow-automation offerings, meanwhile, focus on financial services, healthcare and human resources with tools for loan-application processing, health records information management and employee onboarding, respectively.
Xerox's Digital Alternatives service is now available in the cloud with additional analytics, it announced, while analytics included in its Secure Print Manager Suite offer insight into who is printing what, when and where along with how much.
Finally, five new apps for mobile printing are designed to help employees create, share and process information without servers, middleware or IT support. The Xerox Mobile Link App, for example, lets users create personalized, one-touch workflows on their mobile device to remotely control a Xerox printer and transmit documents to the cloud, fax, email or other destinations.
Other apps focus on cloud printing and faxing as well as accessibility for visually impaired users.


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My San Francisco Sourdough Quest, Take 6 (and final?)
My series of San Francisco-style sourdough bread bakes has featured several variations of levain elaboration, leaving the final dough ingredients and procedures essentially constant. Today's variation involved using a firm starter to activate the stock starter and building the stiff levain which is mixed in the final dough in three steps, rather than two. In addition, rather than retarding an intermediate build, I retarded the stiff levain.
You may also note that the activation and intermediate builds used a flour mixture of 75% AP and 25% WW flour. Re-reading my class notes from the SFBI Artisan II workshop, I was reminded that this was the feeding mixture recommended by the SFBI instructor. I thought I would give it a try.
Feeding the starter twice in 24 hours demonstrated a dramatic increase in the leavening power of the starter. The second feeding expanded dramatically faster than the first. And, even though the total fermentation time (not counting the overnight retardation) of the stiff levain was shorter than previous versions, it was very nicely expanded.
I started with my stock refrigerated 50% starter that had been fed last weekend. That feeding consisted of 50 g active starter, 100 g water and 200 g starter feeding mix. My stock starter feeding mix is 70% AP, 20% WW and 10% whole rye flour.
I activated the starter with a feeding of 20 g stock starter, 25 g water, 37 g of AP and 13 g of WW flour. This was fermented at room temperature for 16 hours. I then built an intermediate starter using 40 g of the activated starter, 50 g of water, 75 g of AP and 25 g of WW flour. This second build was fermented at room temperature for 12 hours. I then mixed the stiff levain.
Stiff levain
Bakers' %
Wt (g)
for 1 kg
Wt (g)
for 2 kg
Bread flour
Medium rye flour
Stiff starter
Dissolve the starter in the water. Add the flour and mix thoroughly until the flour has been completely incorporated and moistened.
Ferment at room temperature for 6 hours, then refrigerate for 14 hours.
Take the levain out of the refrigerator and ferment at 85ºF for 3 hours.
Final dough
Bakers' %
Wt (g)
for 1 kg
Wt (g)
for 2 kg
AP flour
WW Flour
Stiff levain
In a stand mixer, mix the flour and water at low speed until it forms a shaggy mass.
Cover and autolyse for 90 minutes
Add the salt and levain and mix at low speed for 1-2 minutes, then increase the speed to medium (Speed 2 in a KitchenAid) and mix to get early window paning. (This took about 10 minutes.) Add flour and water as needed. The dough should be rather slack. It should clean the sides of the bowl but not the bottom.
Transfer to a lightly floured board and do a stretch and fold and form a ball.
Place the dough in a lightly oiled bowl and cover tightly.
Ferment at 76º F for 3 1/2 to 4 hours with a stretch and fold at 50 and 100 minutes.
Divide the dough as desired. (Note: I had made 2 kg of dough which I divided into 1 1 kg piece and two 500 g pieces.)
Pre-shape as rounds and rest, covered, for 10 minutes.
Shape as boules or bâtards and place in bannetons. Place bannetons in plastic bags.
Proof at room temperature (68-70º F) for 2-3 hours.
Cold retard the loaves overnight (12-14 hours).
The next morning, proof the loaves at 85º F for 3 hours. (If you can't create a moist, 85 degree F environment, at least try to create one warmer than "room temperature.")
45-60 minutes before baking, pre-heat the oven to 480º F with a baking stone and steaming apparatus in place.
Transfer the loaves to a peel. Score the loaves as desired, turn down the oven to 460º F, steam the oven, and transfer the loaves to the baking stone.*
After 15 minutes, remove the steaming apparatus, and turn down the oven to 435º F/Convection. (If you don't have a convection oven, leave the temperature at 460º F.)*
Bake for another 15 minutes.*
Turn off the oven, and leave the loaves on the stone, with the oven door ajar, for another 15 minutes.
Transfer the loaves to a cooling rack, and cool thoroughly before slicing.
*Note: I baked the two smaller boules first – 15 minutes at 460ºF with steam, then 15 minutes at 435ºF convection bake. I then baked the 1 kg boule after reheating the oven for 25 minutes – 15 minutes at 450ºF, then another 25 minutes at 430ºF.
San Francisco-style Sourdough, large boule
San Francisco-style Sourdough, large boule crumb
San Francisco-style Sourdough, small boule
San Francisco-style Sourdough, small boule crust close-up
San Francisco-style Sourdough, small boule crumb
San Francisco-style Sourdough, small boule crumb close-up
The appearance of the loaves was like those previously baked, as were the crust and crumb structure. However, the flavor had a prominent sourdough tang. This bread was quite similar to the bake I blogged on March 19, 2012 (See: My San Francisco Sourdough Quest, Take 4)
This is the crunchy crust, chewy crumb, moderately sour loaf I was after … at least it's close. I cannot say it replicates the "Wharf Bread" from Parisian Bakery I ate in San Francisco years ago. It has a less sweet, more whole grain flavor. The crust is thicker and crunchier. The crumb structure is more open. But it's a keeper. This is the one I'll be making from now on ... or until I can't resist tweaking it further.
I think it would go great with Dungeness crab!
Submitted to YeastSpotting


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Hope Solo survived her fifth week on Dancing with the Stars. I'm glad: she is a smart, outspoken athlete and the challenge of that program requires that she confront the different ways by which her image, as a woman, is regulated. I, for one, am glad she's willing to do so publicly.
As I've mentioned in previous posts, some USWNT fans hate the way DWTS treats Solo: Judges complained for weeks about how unfeminine her movements are, and every week they cite her physical strength as a weakness. I've explained why I don't think that is necessarily wrong. (It's a gendered performance, Solo seems uncomfortable in heels and also unsure of how one executes a routine without powering through it.)
It is worth pausing, however, to remember why fans of women's sports can get very defensive: we've been abused. We've been abused by the media blackout on women's sports, which is interrupted only occasionally by stories of exceptional victories (in lieu of regularly coverage of a season, for example) or by portraits of female monsters. So we flinch when we see the media turn its eye towards us. It's a conditioned reflex.
Most of us don't know where to start when talking about the image of the female athlete, because every step seems to take us in a bad direction. So when in 2009 ESPN Magazinefirst produced "The Body Issue," featuring portraits of naked men and women athletes, fans of women's sports started sharpening their knives.
It turns out that a lot of the portraits directly challenge conventions regarding the feminization and sexualization of the female athlete - this is particularly true for the image of Solo used as one of the magazine's covers.
Practical matters make photographing nude women tougher than photographing men: Women are obliged to pose in ways that covers their chests. This means that the poses are more static and defensive. Solo's cover photo is an exception. The pose reveals much about her body while also refusing, aggressively, to capitulate to conventions regarding the female nude. She is in motion, moving forward toward the viewer - her curves (and she does have them) are not hidden so much as engaged, put to work.
I think this must by why a Washington Post writer recently described Solo as androgynous. Hope Solo is as far from being androgynous as one can be: When you look at Solo, you do not wonder if she's a boy. Not even close. If she were androgynous, she couldn't have played the broad shouldered, big haired 80s Bon Jovi bitch so perfectly on this week's episode. (She landed in 4th, her best finish to date.)
But the photographs of Solo treat her body in a way that is very close to gender-neutral. It's not Solo that's androgynous, but the composition of the portraits - it's the way she is being looked at. It the way she is not being looked at.
"The Body Issue" gives us a lot to think about. Those portraits are cool, but when you look at the rest of the issue you'll see a TOTAL absence of coverage of women's sports. The only place women figure in this issue is in the nude portraits. So, the project of "The Body Issue" seems to be completely independent of any effort on the magazine's part to move towards parity in terms of its coverage. The truly sad fact is that the editors of the magazine probably think putting that wonderful portrait of Solo on the cover "counts" as coverage of women's sports. Not in my book. And, I suspect, not in Solo's either.


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Nearly $2 Billion in Homeowner Relief Awarded to Arizona Homeowners Via Servicing Settlement
This summer, the Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight released its first report detailing results of their findings around the five largest servicers' compliance with servicing standards established by the National Mortgage Settlement (NMS). Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is releasing some of the highlights gathered from the report, specific to Arizona. This report demonstrates the first public step in a monitoring process that will continue for the next several years, providing the public with a new and transparent look into how banks are treating homeowners. The report shows that the Settlement, in addition to bringing $2 billion from the banks to Arizona residents, has had a profound and positive impact on mortgage servicing even in the early stages of such a large national effort. For example, after rigorous testing, the Monitor reports that the banks passed those tests that ensure they no longer engage in the practice of robo-signing—signing off on foreclosure documents with little or no review. The report also confirms that the five banks in the NMS (Bank of America, Chase, Citi, ResCap Parties, Wells), have stopped charging distressed borrowers a fee just to process a loan modification request and are adhering to proper customer payment processing procedures. With regard to Arizona specifically, as of May 20, 2013, the banks have reported engaging in a gross total of $1.8 billion in consumer relief activities for borrowers. $627.8 million was in the form of first and second lien principal reduction with an additional $223 million in the pipeline for borrowers in trial payment plans. In addition, almost 65,000 Arizonans who had their primary residence foreclosed upon received payments totaling $96.5 million. The Attorney General's (AG's) Office is also administering a $57 million program to provide relief to Arizona homeowners using funds from the Settlement. As a result of a separate settlement with Bank of America, severely distressed borrowers from that bank received an additional $7.89 million in relief. Combining these amounts, the AG's Office fought for, and won, over $2 billion in homeowner relief for Arizona constituents. It is important to note that the Office has not yet concluded its work and further negotiations with banks will result in more efforts designed to help distressed Arizona borrowers. There is still work to be done. Most notably, the banks continue consistently to fail to send notices and communicate decisions to borrowers in a timely manner, according to the Monitor. Because of this finding, the five financial institutions in the settlement are officially on notice; they must correct their problems and if a bank fails in either of the next two quarters penalties can include court orders, up to $1 million in civil penalties per each violation, and up to $5 million fine for repeated failures. Since the mortgage settlements were announced in February of 2012, the Attorney General's Office has answered more than 4,000 consumer phone calls, 2,560 emails, and received more than 1,900 written complaints from consumers related to the mortgage crisis. A significant number of these contacts resulted in homeowners avoiding foreclosure, obtaining reductions in interest rates or principal amounts, or receiving restitution from businesses that charged improper fees or failed to do promised work. In addition, the Office continues to aggressively prosecute foreclosure rescue companies, and those involved in mortgage fraud at both the civil and criminal levels.


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Museo Slab supports up to 0 different languages such as in scripts.
Please note that not all languages are available for all formats.
When the semi-serif Museo became a success in 2008, its designer Jos Buivenga researched some possibilities of other versions. Museo Sans was not that difficult because making a sans out of a (semi) serif is — more or less — cutting off the serifs and adjusting weight, width and contrast.
So… Buivenga made Museo Sans and while doodling around and fiddling with slab serifs to make Museo Slab, he discovered something nice and used to design Calluna first. Of course that escapade had a reason: He couldn't find the right solutions to all Museo Slab's design hurdles. About one year later, after listening to a radio interview with Aaron and Matt from Read Between the Leading, his interest in Museo Slab got fired up again. "Don't know why, but this time I got it all working."
If you are looking for a modern edge, but want to retain legibility and clarity, Museo Slab is a perfect place to start. It includes all upper and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, special characters, and diacritics.
The italic face retains the stacked letter-press type lowercase a of the regular version (unlike many serif fonts, which switch to the handwritten a in the italic face), but converts bottom serifs to smooth curves in some of the lowercase letters (m, n, p, for example), giving a more delicate look.


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WASHINGTON – The Republican-controlled House will vote next week to permit the government to borrow more money to meet its obligations, a move aimed at heading off a market-rattling confrontation with President Barack Obama over the so-called debt limit.
Full details aren't settled yet, but the measure would give the government about three more months of borrowing authority beyond a deadline expected to hit as early as mid-February, No. 2 House Republican Eric Cantor of Virginia said Friday.
The legislation wouldn't require immediate spending cuts as earlier promised by GOP leaders like Speaker John Boehner of Ohio. Instead, it's aimed at forcing the Democratic-controlled Senate to join the House in debating the federal budget. It would try to do so by conditioning pay for members of Congress on passing a congressional budget measure.
"We are going to pursue strategies that will obligate the Senate to finally join the House in confronting the government's spending problem," Boehner told GOP lawmakers at a retreat in Williamburg, Va. "The principle is simple: 'no budget, no pay.'"
The Senate hasn't passed a budget since 2009, which has drawn lots of criticism from Republicans but protected Democrats controlling the chamber from politically difficult votes.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid welcomed the House GOP move.
"It is reassuring to see Republicans beginning to back off their threat to hold our economy hostage," said Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson. "If the House can pass a clean debt-ceiling increase to avoid default and allow the United States to meet its existing obligations, we will be happy to consider it."
GOP leaders have been grappling with how to gain leverage in their battles with Obama over the budget. Boehner successfully won about $2 trillion in spending cuts as a condition of increasing the government's borrowing cap in 2011.
Obama, however, was dealt a stronger hand by his re-election in November and successfully pressed through a 10-year, $600 billion increase on upper-bracket tax payers earlier this month.
Other choke points remain, including sharp across-the-board spending cuts that would start to strike the Pentagon and domestic programs alike on March 1 and the possibility of a partial government shutdown with the expiration of a temporary budget measure on March 27.
Failing to meet those deadlines would have far less serious consequences than defaulting on U.S. obligations like payments to bondholders, Social Security recipients and myriad other commitments when the government confronts a cash crisis and can no longer borrow to make payments. That could cause a meltdown in financial markets and would inflame voters already disgusted with Congress.
Boehner has previously invoked a promise that any increase in the government's borrowing cap would be matched, dollar for dollar, by spending cuts or "reforms" that could include curbs on the long-term growth in retirement programs such as Medicare. Friday's announcement did not repeat that specific promise.
"Before there is any long-term debt limit increase, a budget should be passed that cuts spending," Boehner said. "The Democratic-controlled Senate has failed to pass a budget for four years. That is a shameful run that needs to end, this year."
The measure picked up support from key GOP conservatives, including the current and former chairmen of the Republican Study Committee, a powerful group inside the House GOP.
"In order to allow time for the Senate to act, next week's bill will extend the debt limit for three months," the Study Committee said Friday in a statement. "This is a necessary first step as we work to halt the decline of America and puts the focus where it belongs: on the Senate who has failed to do their jobs to pass a budget for more than three years." The statement was issued by RSC Chairman Steve Scalise, R-La., and former chairmen, Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Tom Price, R-Ga., and Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas.
Obama's budget is due early next month but is expected to be released several weeks later.
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