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Memorials - January 26, 2000
John Booth Stevens '29
Johnnie died on March 8, 1999.
He prepared for college at Culver and Lawrenceville. At Princeton he was on the swimming and golf teams, and belonged to Charter Club. His roommate was S. S. Preston.
Johnnie's business career was in a family-owned steel specialty business, of which he became pres. He was an accomplished photographer, with a darkroom in his house. His camera was always active during his extensive travels.
He belonged to the Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park, Ill., and was active in the work of the Highland Park Presbyterian Church.
In 1934 Johnnie married Louise Heuer. He is survived by their son, William, and daughters Anne Martin and Elizabeth. The class extends sincere sympathy to the members of Johnnie's family.
The Class of 1929
William P. Davis III '31
Bill Davis was born in Philadelphia Dec. 29, 1909, and died Oct. 12, 1999, of complications associated with Parkinson's disease. Except for WWII, he spent his entire life in the Philadelphia area.
He attended Chestnut Hill Academy and Penn Charter School. At Princeton, he was on the water polo and lacrosse teams, and a member of Triangle Club and Tiger Inn. His father was William P. Davis Jr. 1896.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bill "completed a classic climb up the corporate ladder at First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co., rising from the investment analysis department in 1931 to vice-chairman of the board before he retired in 1974." He then worked 10 years as Drexel U.'s v.p. for public relations.
During WWII, he was in the Office of Strategic Services assigned to the Mediterranean and China theaters. For his five years of service, Bill received the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Order of the British Empire, and the Chinese Order of Yuri Hui. He was discharged a col.
He served as director, trustee or chairman of various service organizations, and was a member of the Princeton Club of Philadelphia. He was an avid golfer.
Surviving are his wife of 59 years, Phoebe Harding, one son, Henry A. '65, and one sister. The class extends its deepest sympathy to the entire family.
The Class of 1931
James Gordon Taylor '33
Gordie was born in Louisville, Ky., Dec. 18, 1908. He died in Alexander City, Ala., Aug. 14, 1999. He was 90.
Gordie came to Princeton from the Hill School. In college he was on the swimming and pistol teams, and was a member of the Cannon Club. He roomed in Pyne Hall with Frank L. Tettemer for all four years. He did graduate work in insurance at the U. of Houston, where he earned his CLU.
Gordie spent his career with Travelers Insurance Co., finally moving to his boyhood home of Birmingham as state manager.
An avid golfer all his life, he was past pres. of Alabama Seniors Golf Assn., and a member of the Country Club of Birmingham and Willow Point Country Club, Alexander City. He was a member of the Independent Presbyterian Church of Birmingham.
During WWII, commissioned as a lieutenant, Gordie served as a gunnery officer in the North and South Atlantic, Italy, North Africa, and the South Pacific.
On Dec. 27, 1933, Gordie married Jane Kirk Lyle, his boyhood sweetheart, who was known by many of classmates because she was Gordie's guest at houseparties. She died in 1990.
He is survived by a son, James W. III, a daughter, Kirk Taylor Watts, four grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
The Class of 1933
John Sergeant Wise '37
Surgeon Johnny Wise died Oct. 24, 1999. His wife, Sonia ("she was foolish enough to marry me and my life is full again") survives, as do daughters Barbara and Beverley by his first wife, and eight grandchildren.
At Hun Johnny was active in crew, fencing, and the yearbook, and was secy. of his class. At Princeton he majored in biology and graduated with honors. He was a member of the fencing team four years, the Princeton Hun School Club, and Quadrangle.
His medical training was at Philadelphia's U. of Pennsylvania, with an internship at Presbyterian Hospital. Having been in ROTC, he entered the Army Medical Corps as a 1st lt., and came out a major after service with a medical battalion with combat troops in Ireland and Germany. He received four battle stars.
He taught anatomy at U. of Pennyslvania Medical School and served as surgeon at Presbyterian Hospital. Since 1950, he was medical staff pres. and chief of surgery a hospital in Trenton until he retired. He was then able to spend more time at his home in St. Bart's in the French West Indies, including rebuilding after damage from Hurricane Luis in 1995.
The Class of 1937
Thomas Hartley Maren '38 *90
Tom died Aug. 15, 1999, at his home in Salisbury Cove, Maine. He attended public schools in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and entered Princeton at age 16.
Torn between science and literature, he ultimately earned a bachelor's in chemistry. He also developed friendships with English department faculty that lasted through the years.
Upon graduation, Tom entered the Princeton graduate school for work toward a master's in English literature. WWII created a great need for chemists, and he returned to the field doing research in tropical diseases. (His MA was awarded belatedly in 1990.)
After the war, Tom entered Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His subsequent career as a research scientist was spent at the U. of Florida, where he became chairman of the Dept. of Pharmacology. Summers were spent at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. He received the Distinguished Service Award from our class in 1969.
His research resulted in a glaucoma medication marketed by Merck. Royalties enabled him to become a philanthropist, and Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and the U. of Florida greatly benefited from his generosity.
In addition to being a distinguished scientist, he was just plain fun.
He is survived by his wife, Emily, three sons, three step-children, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. To all of them the class extends its deepest sympathy.
The Class of 1938
Henry Dan Piper '39
Professor emeritus of English, biographer of F. Scott Fitzgerald '17, and former dean of liberal arts and sciences at Southern Illinois U.-Carbondale, Dan died July 25, 1999, at his home in Murphysboro, Ill., after a long illness.
His distinguished career always reflected the twin interests he revealed as an undergraduate. A chemistry major, his senior thesis earned a national prize for best undergraduate work on paint chemistry. Yet his spare time was devoted to writing for the Prince and the Nassau Lit. He started work with duPont and during WWII supervised a shift manufacturing TNT, then moved to the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb in Illinois and Hanford, Wash.
In 1946, he began graduate work at Princeton in English, then switched his career to teaching American literature both here and abroad, along the way holding many distinguished fellowships. He loved the southern Illinois country, and for the centennial of SIU in 1969, he and two colleagues created Land Between the Rivers, celebrating the people and the history of the region. It sold out in its first day of publication.
To his wife, Roberta Bicknell, and their two sons, Andrew and Jonathan '81, we offer our sincere sympathy.
The Class of 1939
William Mcdougall Kite '45
Bill Kite died Aug. 28, 1999, at Christ Hospital in his hometown of Cincinnati after courageously battling health problems for several years.
Bill entered Princeton from Glendale [Ohio] H.S., where he lettered in football, basketball, and baseball. At Princeton he joined Charter Club and played varsity football. Shortly before his death, he joined his family in watching a tape of his performance in the 1943 game against Yale.
After earning his AB in politics, he served as commanding officer of an LCI with the amphibious force of the Navy's seventh fleet. He then earned a law degree from Harvard in 1949. In 1950, Bill married Margaret Wulsin of Cincinnati and was recalled for service in the Korean War.
Bill was a founding partner of the law firm of Cohen, Todd, Kite & Stanford in Cincinnati, where he practiced for 43 years. He served as mayor of Indian Hill, a Cincinnati suburb; he was an elder of the Presbyterian Church, pres. of Planned Parenthood, director of the historical society, and on boards of many other civic groups. The Cincinnati Enquirer said Bill "loved sharing belly laughs with his friends and making connections with his community."
In addition to Peggy, Bill is survived by his sons, William Jr., Matt, and Tom; daughter, Margaret Armendariz; sister Annette DeWitt; and seven grandchildren, to all of whom the class extends its deep sympathy.
The Class of 1945
Bernd Phelps Rose '46
Bernie died June 3, 1999, at his home in Grand Junction, Colo., after a long battle with cancer.
Born in Pittsburgh, son of J. Bernd Rose '15, he attended Sewickley Academy and the Taft School. He majored in history at Princeton, played football, hockey, and swimming, and was a Triangle participant. Joining the army in 1943, Bernd spent time in Europe with the combat engineer corps. In 1944 he married his hometown sweetheart, Ann Chapin Heumann.
In 1948, the Roses moved back to Sewickley, where Bernie became head of the family insurance agency. He sold the business in 1969. He moved to Boca Raton, continuing in insurance for 23 years, finally retiring in 1988 in Grand Junction, Colo.
An avid outdoorsman, Bernie enjoyed years of golf, fishing, hiking, skiing, bird hunting, and camping with family and friends. He and Ann returned often to Princeton for games and reunions.
He is survived by his wife; their three daughters, Helen King, Ann, and Caroline; and eight grandchildren, to whom the class extends its deepest sympathy.
The Class of 1946
William L. Knappenberger III '47
Bill died on May 5, 1999, in Pittsburgh.
He was born and raised in Vandergrift, Pa. After graduating from high school, he matriculated at Michigan State U. as a premedical student. His studies were interrupted by WWII, during which he served as a ward attendant at Tilton General Hospital.
After military service, he entered Princeton and graduated with an associate of arts degree. Bill earn his MD at New York U. in 1949 and interned at St. Francis Hospital in Pittsburgh from 1949-50.
Before beginning his residency, he practiced privately in the West Virginia coal fields. From 1952-54, Bill completed his residency in internal medicine at St. Francis Hospital and at the Veterans Hospital in Aspinwall, Pa. Thereafter, Bill was in private practice until he retired in 1986. During these years he was on the staff at Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh. The Allegheny County [Pa.] Medical Society was among his several memberships in medical associations.
Bill was involved with the local school board, the Allegheny County Employee Health Service, and the Sera-Tec Plasmapheresis Collection Center.
His wife of 48 years, Mary Olevniczak, died in 1995. To his sons, George and William; daughters, Jane Phillips and Mary Pelton; and his seven grandchildren, the class extends its deepest sympathy.
The Class of 1947
Robert H. "Bob" Vaterlaus '47
Bob Vaterlaus was a caring and quiet man, whose cherished friendships lasted long and ran deep. He died peacefully of cancer at home in Orinda, Calif., on Oct. 16, 1999.
Born Robert Hans Vaterlaus, son of Hans and Claire Vaterlaus, in Yokohama, Japan, in 1926, he grew up in Tuckahoe, N.Y., where he attended Roosevelt H.S. before entering Princeton. After serving with the US Army in Germany, he returned to complete his degree in engineering supplemented by study at Columbia U.
Many of his 29 years working as a structural engineer with Kaiser Aluminum were spent in Australia, where he failed to pick up an accent, but acquired several authentic works of aboriginal art. Widely traveled, his concern for others extended into all quarters. As he said in '47's 40th yearbook entry, he "had always taken for granted that, upon leaving it, the world would be a little better off than when I entered it." After retiring in 1985, Bob continued to work as a consultant civil engineer, often collaborating with his architect son.
To Barbara, Bob's wife of 39 years; his sons, Richard and Robert; and his sister, Heidi Muller, the class extends its deepest sympathy, and joins in celebrating a warmly remembered life.
The Class of 1947
George Richard Lathan '48
George Lathan died Sept. 22, 1999. He was 76. A longtime resident of Charleston, S.C., George's early years were in Walton, N.Y., where he graduated from the local high school. At Princeton he earned a BNS degree in economics, played in the band, and was prominent in Terrace Club activities.
George joined the Navy following graduation. He and Esther (known as Kitty) were married in Dec. 1949. They lived in Japan and Newport, R.I., as well as at other naval bases around the world, producing a son and daughter along the way.
By 1973, they had settled in Charleston, and George was a salesman for VWR Scientific. Subsequently, he entered the real estate field and had his own title research company. His interest in bridge, golf, and politics continued into his retirement. His devotion to Princeton was constant over the years.
To Kitty, George Jr., and Carol, the class extends its deepest condolences.
The Class of 1948
Richard V. D. Luft '53
Dick Luft died approximately 18 years ago following a lengthly illness. He was born Oct. 12, 1931, and graduated from Mount Lebanon H.S.
While at Princeton, he majored in history and belonged to Elm Club. He withdrew at the end of his junior year.
Dick later became associated with Jones & Loughlin Steel Co. in Pittsburgh, where he was a lifelong resident. He married but had no children. Dick had an older and a younger brother.
Tom Lind, a former roommate and fellow Elm member, was most helpful in supplying what information we have been able to obtain. Tom remembers Dick as "a fun guy" who was "big" into pranks. We regret the lack of specific details, and we mourn the passing of our high-spirited friend.
The Class of 1953
Arthur G. Trudeau '53
With sadness we record the death of Arthur, formerly called Art, several years ago. The date and location are not known. Born in Honolulu, Arthur graduated from Washington & Lee H.S.
At Princeton, Arthur was in the Catholic Club and a member of Quadrangle. A roommate, Dick Crampton, recalled that Arthur was interested in interior design and had an off-campus job with a decorating firm. Arthur left Princeton after two years and graduated from Gettysburg College.
In the '80s, Bob Hayman, a resident of Seattle, would occasionally see Arthur, who lived in LA. At one time Arthur was associated with The Television Bureau in LA. Bob recollects that Arthur married, had a son and daughter, and was divorced.
When Bob last heard from Arthur, he was retired and living in Santa Fe. Further attempts to gain additional information have been in vain. We thank Dick and Bob for the details they were able to provide. To Arthur's children, we extend sincere condolences.
The Class of 1953
James R. F. Kunkemueller '61
Jim Kunkemueller died of progressive supranuclear palsy on June 14, 1999, at the Newton & Wellesley [Mass.] Alzheimer's Center after an eight-year struggle.
Born and raised in East Orange, N.J., and moving to Montclair in 1956, Kunks came to Princeton from Newark Academy. At Princeton, he was an electrical engineering major, and a member of Dial Lodge and the heavyweight crew. His senior year roommates were Dave McEwen and John Pasalis. Since graduation we've seen Kunks regularly at major reunions, and he maintained close friendships with many classmates, including his roomies Stan Panosian and John Bjorkholm.
After service to NATO with Hughes Aircraft in Germany, Kunks attended Harvard business school, graduating in 1965. Following a stint with the then-fledgling Boston Consulting Group and the Boston Co., he joined Analog Devices in 1976 as treas. In 1986 he founded Dover Financial Consulting, which he ran until the onset of his illness in 1990. A dedicated athlete all his adult life, he was a cyclist and a runner, completing the Boston Marathon four times.
While at Harvard, Kunks courted and married Pamela Schluter, whose devotion to him during his illness was, in a word, extraordinary. Pam survives him, as do his children, Laura '87 and Andrew; brother, Henry; and a grandson. We join them in mourning his passing.
The Class of 1961
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this episode has to be one of my favorites!
When that dirty diaper starts flying around the amusement park---you cannot stop laughing. And, do not forget the diaper made from a teddy bear! Then, there is Mr Bean sleeping all the way through a ride on a roller coaster.
At the first of the episode Mr Bean has a run-in with a Doberman Pincher (dog). The dog is in the last scene of the episode---much to the dismay of Mr Bean! Always check the back seat of your car, Mr Bean!
A true Bean Classice---one of the best!

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Where the Freelance Economy Is BoomingBy
There were 22.5 million U.S. businesses that didn't have any paid employees in 2011, 1.7 percent more than in the year before, about 75 percent of total businesses. They reported $990 billion in total revenue, up 4.1 percent from 2010. About 18 million non-employer businesses, or about 80 percent of the total, reported receipts of less than $50,000. By non-employer businesses, we're talking about a wide-ranging group, from freelance writers and fashion designers to real estate agents and taxi drivers who work for themselves—as well as necessity entrepreneurs who were pushed into self-employment by a rough job market in recent years.
Those numbers are from the U.S. Census Bureau, which released its annual report on non-employer businesses yesterday. As for where they worked and what jobs they did, a couple of tidbits worth noting:
• The number of non-employer businesses in North Dakota increased 4.3 percent, while the state's non-employers' sales increased 13.2 percent, to $2.3 billion. That's the biggest sales increase nationwide. (Check out Kasia Klimasinska's story on the complementary service businesses women are starting in North Dakota, sparked by the shale boom.)
• Finance, insurance, and construction were the only industries nationwide to show fewer non-employers in 2011 than in 2010.
• Fittingly, the fastest-growing sector in 2011 was what the Census Bureau lumps into "other services," which includes auto repair, beauty salons, and dry cleaners.
One reason the economy of non-employers might keep growing: The Affordable Care Act, the bulk of which takes effect next year, will make it easier for self-employed Americans to buy their own health insurance. To that end, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation estimates that their ranks will swell by 1.5 million in 2014.
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Everyone loves a good patio. The sunshine, a light breeze, the evening air there's nothing better.
As it usually goes in the restaurant business, whats good for your customers is good for your bottom line, to the tune of 30%. Some, like VSAG, go as high as 65% gross profit boost from adding a patio to a restaurant!
Heres how you can get the most from your patio, and really fatten up this cash cow.
If you've got a view, use it.
Patios with a view are particularly sought after, especially in warmer climates.
If youre thinking about adding a patio, try and build it with a view. Particularly for restaurants and more serious dining (e.g. not a bar), a view can make a BIG difference to your bottom line.
Use outdoor heaters to extend patio season
The only problem with patio season is that it ends. For some places, particularly those who have invested in patio covers and other improvements, this means cutting down the size of their restaurant by 60-70 percent.
Naturally, this means looking for ways to keep the patio party going for as long as possible. One solution thats been used effectively for years is patio heaters.
Even a small heater can make a big difference to the happiness of your patrons keeping them comfortable for weeks or even an extra few months on either side of summer.
Keep your patio looking great
As per the rest of your establishment, its important to keep your patio looking great all the time. The standard recommendation is to refurbish your patio every five to seven years. However, it really depends on what sort of venue vibe youre going for.
For some restaurants, patios can actually benefit from staying the same. If you have a beautifully designed patio, it can even become part of your branding and you might want to think twice about changing it.
That said, because your patio is exposed to the elements, youll need to be vigilant about your maintenance. Expect things to break sooner, and budget for regular paint and touch ups to keep everything ship shape.
The street isn't the only place for a patio
Dont have the zoning permission for a street side patio, or are unwilling to pay an additional city tax? No problem there are other patio solutions that people have been using for years.
Beer gardens, for example, remain one of the most popular types of venues for the privacy and intimacy they afford, without giving up the benefits of being outside.
Wrap up
If youre in a place where a patio is a possibility, its definitely worth considering investing in.
Not only is it a great way to expand your total square footage and increase your footprint in your neighborhood, but it will also help you get in new customers who might otherwise wander on by.
Plus, with anywhere from a 30-65% gross profit boost, youd be crazy not to try.


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I logged on to the Mature Free and Single website and noticed instantly that Phil was online. Phil and I had been chatting on and off for a few months and he had asked me several times to meet up for a coffee. For some reason something kept holding me back from accepting a date. He came across just a little bit over confident for me.
Just then an email landed in my inbox from Phil saying. "Hello, so when are you going to admit that you are just dying to meet me". I smiled to myself, talk about persistent but I did not want lead him on when I was not really feeling it.
Hi Phil I replied: "How are you tonight?" Phil replied back saying "I am great thanks" and then asked me again to meet up for a coffee. I pondered on it for a few minutes and then thought oh well why not I had nothing else planned.
We arranged to meet in a Garden Center part way between where we both lived the following Saturday. I read his profile again and was pleased that he had put that he was 6ft so he was taller than me.
When Saturday arrived I dressed casually in jeans and a smart blouse with a nice pair of shoes with quite a high heel, knowing that he would be a good bit taller than me. I felt rather nervous; I think that is only normal though, due to the fact that I was meeting someone for the very first time.
I drove to the Garden Center and arrived five minutes early, he had told me that he drove a black Merc with his own registration plate Phil 007. Hmm a bit ostentatious I thought but each to their own.
I saw the moment his car entered the car park and I sat a little bit lower in my car feeling rather overcome by shyness. He parked near the entrance and opened his car door and jumped out.
OMG I was shocked, if he was five foot 5 I was being generous. He saw my car down the car park and he started walking towards me. I looked round to see if I had left any other shoes in my car that were flat but no such luck so I opened my door and stepped out with my 5ft 7inch height made higher by 3inch heels.
I towered over him as he stood on his tip toes and I bent forward so he could kiss my cheek. I was so embarrassed he did not seem to be bothered at all. We walked into the garden center and found the coffee shop and I sat down while he bought a couple of coffees
Now don't get me wrong I don't mind shorter men if they are honest about it, but to blatantly lie does not sit well with me and I could feel my annoyance rising. He sat down with the coffees all smiles. Phil I said I am not being funny but doesn't your profile say your 6ft tall? Oh yeah he said, but I found that I could get more dates if I added a few inches on my original height.
The date went downhill from that point, I was polite and we drank our coffees and said our goodbyes never to meet again. Word of warning to everyone; be honest on your profile.
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Did you try hooking up your old notebook again and see how it does now?
My old notebook was too old lol. It was too broken also, and I threw it away
Hey, apologizes for the post i have done with the tracert part, didn't spot it properly and was short of time, therefore i miss looked that info to give u proper feedback, luckily RedBaird already fixed it.
Hum well considering the fact that u switched between notebooks, i would like u to upldate your network drivers, maybe that is actually a problem towards lag issue, do u have a motherboard CD next to the notebook u bought? Normally on that CD u would have a network drivers, or even better, do this:
Press start Menu:
-Control Pannel
-Select Hardware and Sound Group
-Under Devices and Printers, select Device manager
-U will have a menu with hardware list shown, open tab with Network adapters
-Select your network drivers and click on Update Driver
-Wait to see if the system can find any updates in internet, make sure connection is enabled as well
Other option would be, if u know which network drivers u have, u can check it the same way posted above to see which ones u have, to go on their official site and download newest drivers and update those then see if there's any difference for lags.
E: Do u have modem connected to router, if so, can u use modem and cable to directly connect it with laptop. One other possibility is that your router/modem is going faulty and that this causes lags, do u have or can u get any similiar replacements (maybe borrow from friend?) to see if that does any change?
Well, I did what you said.
I updated network drivers (Qualcomm Atheros AR956x and Realtek PCIe Family Controller), funny how a brand new notebook doens't come with updated devices.
Anyway, It was installed and I'll make a test now.


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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal jury has begun to deliberations on whether the constitutional rights of a western Pennsylvania religious group were violated during a 2009 drug raid.
The Uniontown Herald-Standard reports that deliberations began Thursday over the Church of Universal Love and Music, which held concerts at a 147-acre farm about 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Fayette County officials didn't believe the group was a real church, and prosecutors say the concerts were a cover for illegal drug activity.
In closing arguments county defense counsel Marie Jones asked jurors to consider whether law enforcement should have turned a blind eye to drug use when they discovered it.
But church attorney Patrick Emery says the county displayed a pattern of retaliatory behavior toward the church based on its religious expression.


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Over at the Washington Free Beacon they have an article titled "Wealth of Congressional Democrats Spikes Despite Income Inequality Agenda" that gave me a good laugh. They got the title wrong. The democrats in congress have not been able to increase their wealth despite their inequality agenda, but have done so percisely because of that agenda. Collectivism, especially this new soft facism – a marriage between the state and certain large entities in the corporate world that pay it homage and good money – that the left lives by, exists to enrich the political class that banks on the envy and greed of those amongst the masses that feel it is unfair others make or have more than they do just because these others worked hard or inherited money from others that worked hard.
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I think it will come even sooner..
MRC TV has a piece up about how the demise of Social Security is coming far earlier than even the worst case projections put it at, but then again, as the first commenter pointed out, one has to wonder if these new projections even take into account the impact of Obama's new executive order that would allow millions of illegals that have not paid or paid a pittance to now suckle at the government's teat.
I am putting my faith in what I will be able to save in my own 401(k) plan, and not counting on SS for a penny. I have known that by the time I could collect from that failed system it would likely be belly up or rigged to pay nothing of value. Of course, all my planning to not need SS might be for naught if these progressives, after they collapse the economy and break everything else in their campaign to redress the ills their policies cause, decide that raiding private accounts is justified – because of "social justice" or some other such catchy bullshit.
Let the good times roll!
While we were eating Turkey and watching football…
The fucking crooks in DC, busy bankrupting this country as part of the plan of destroying it the current president's administration has been on, printed over $1 trillion of new money to pay off debt obligations on money they borrowed:
The Daily Treasury Statement that was released Wednesday afternoon as Americans were preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving revealed that the U.S. Treasury has been forced to issue $1,040,965,000,000 in new debt since fiscal 2015 started just eight weeks ago in order to raise the money to pay off Treasury securities that were maturing and to cover new deficit spending by the government.
During those eight weeks, Treasury took in $341,591,000,000 in revenues. That was a record for the period between Oct. 1 and Nov. 25. But that record $341,591,000,000 in revenues was not enough to finance ongoing government spending let alone pay off old debt that matured. The Treasury also drew down its cash balance by $45.057 billion during the period, starting with $126,568,000,000 in cash and ending with $81,511,000,000.
The only way the Treasury could handle the $942,103,000,000 in old debt that matured during the period plus finance the new deficit spending the government engaged in was to roll over the old debt into new debt and issue enough additional new debt to cover the new deficit spending.
This mode of financing the federal government resembles what the Securities and Exchange Commission calls a Ponzi scheme. "A Ponzi scheme," says the Securities and Exchange Commission, "is an investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors," says the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"With little or no legitimate earnings, the schemes require a consistent flow of money from new investors to continue," explains the SEC. "Ponzi schemes tend to collapse when it becomes difficult to recruit new investors or when a large number of investors ask to cash out."
If you or I, or for that matter any private entity tries to pay off its debts in this way, we will end up in jail. The government however keeps pretending money grows on trees so the political elite can keep their vote buying schemes and scams going long past the expiration date. And their mouth pieces in the LSM just go along because of Black Jesus and their allegiance to donkey dick. Socialism as practiced by the progressives is the bane of humanity and the harbinger of real dark times. Mark my words, but look at what many of them are doing.
It sucks to have a shitty religion
Just yesterday, because my company announced changes to our benefit enrollment plans and opened up enrollment this week, I was having a discussion with a hard core lefty and Obama supporter about the fact that the costs have yet again gone up, the plan offerings have gone down, and providers have yet again been restricted. In addition to now making every employee with healthcare that has a spouse with access to her own plan (from their employer) basically pay a fine, one that amounts to the difference of having a spouse pay for her own plan, they jacked up premiums by 12% (after similar jumps for the past 3 years), widened the various plan's donuts (that portion you have to pay before the plan kicks in again) by anywhere from 10-25%, and jacked up copays. So here is this Obamacare supporting supposedly educated moron, complaining about how he now had to pay more to cover his spouse, at the same time as his plan's rates went up, his donut had widened, and his copays had been jacked, and worse yet, his doctor no longer was on the plan for some reason, and then blaming it, of all things, on the insurance company he used. Blah blah blah – bad insurance company! I lost it
Despite the writing being on the wall for years now and the whole fiasco of a government healthcare takeover hitting him smack between the eyes, he doesn't get it. We have had countless articles like this one, showing how Obamacare was going to wreck the industry, cost all of us more, provide less quality care, restrict access, and most importantly, going to end up being used by petty bureaucrats of the usual liberal variety as a tool to subjugate those pesky and ungrateful serfs. Anyway, when I pointed out that the fault lay with the idiotic law, and cornered him with the facts to prove so, he did what all liberals do: a double take, and then returned to the talking point that they always use which is how evil insurance companies screw people over, so government was the only entity able to do the right thing for the people. That's when I asked him if he was putting his faith in that government which is responsible for idiotic things like this or this, and pointed out that other examples are in abundance of stupidity and pain that makes whatever the insurance companies do, even when they engage in it out of malfeasance, look tame.
I basically pointed out to him that the difference between progressives, or whatever they call themselves these days, and people like me amounts to progressives being willing to bend over, grabbing their ankles, and letting the usual suspects ass rape them, over and over again, all so they could stay true to the cause. No matter how blatant the lies or how outrageous the bullshit, the progressives stick to the "social justice" nonsense and ignore reality. That was the end of the conversation. And that was simply because he didn't like the pillars of his faith challenged. Liberalism is a mental disorder, and one that causes a lot of harm, I tell you. In the mean time we all get to suffer and pay more for it, because of these idiots.


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ELBOW LAKE, Minn. — A Maynard woman is charged with attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend 13 times while they were camping Saturday on Pomme de Terre Lake near Elbow Lake.
Carly Ann Lacey, 31, was in custody Wednesday with bail set at $500,000 unconditional and $250,000 with conditions, according to information from Grant County Sheriff Dwight Walvatne and County Attorney Justin Anderson.
Lacey made her first court appearance Tuesday in District Court in Elbow Lake.
Her boyfriend, Keith Peterson, 36, of Maynard, was reported in stable condition at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo, where he underwent surgery for the wounds. He was stabbed in the neck, back, arm and abdomen, according to the criminal complaint.
The two were camping in a relatively remote tent site at the Tipsinah Mounds Campground when the incident occurred just before 1 a.m. Saturday. According to the complaint, the two had been drinking heavily and got into an argument. Peterson told officers that Lacey started swinging at him and he fell on top of her and discovered he was bleeding.
He got away from her but she continued to pursue him as he swatted his arms.
He suffered 13 stab sounds, including a nearly 2-inch-long cut to his neck close to his carotid artery.
Walvatne credited a nurse and four of her fellow campers with likely saving Peterson's life by coming to his aid after hearing his calls for help. Lacey and Peterson were in a campsite away from most other campers, but the five people heard his calls and decided to go to his aid as a group, the sheriff said.
Peterson was bleeding profusely, and the nurse and her fellow rescuers took action to slow the bleeding until emergency personnel could arrive.
Officers responding to the scene found Lacey in the woods near the site and took her into custody. Investigators also collected as evidence a flat, black knife found in the glove compartment of a pickup truck at the site registered to Lacey.
Peterson told authorities he had tried to call 911 for help, but that Lacey had knocked the phone from him. He started screaming and Lacey fled into the woods, the complaint states. He found his phone and called 911.
Lacey had a blood-alcohol level of 0.264 percent shortly after her arrest, according to court documents, more than three times the limit for drunken driving.


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Ebay should have most of what you need. Ribbons and stuff you can go to walmart, micheals the hobby lobby any craft store. I was looking on ebay a few weeks ago and came across little (ring sized) boxes that were zebra print that would be good for haning out to the guests or wedding party. Best of luck. I really like the zebra theme.
Wanted: Zebra print wedding decorations
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PAM—Securing Linux Boxes Everywhere
Listing 5. The /etc/security/access.conf is used by pam_access.so to decide which users are allowed to log in and from which IPs. In this case, everybody from the local network can log in, but only remoteKereki is allowed external access.
+ : ALL : 192.168. + : remoteKereki : ALL - : ALL : ALL
Listing 6. The password section of the /etc/pam.d/passwd file that enforces good practices for new passwords.
# # retry=3 allows three tries for a new password # minlen=10 requires at least ten characters # ucredit=-1 requires at least one uppercase character # lcredit=0 accepts any number of lowercase characters # dcredit=-2 requires at least two digits # ocredit=-1 requires at least one non-alphabetic symbol # password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=10 \ ucredit=-1 lcredit=0 dcredit=-2 ocredit=-1 # # As pam_cracklib only checks passwords, but doesn't store # them, we require the standard pam_unix module for this. # The use_authtok parameter ensures pam_unix won't ask for a # password by itself, but rather will use the one provided by # pam_cracklib. # password required pam_unix.so use_authtok nullok
To get a handle on all this, let's consider an actual application. I wanted to be able to access my machine remotely with SSH, but I didn't want to allow any other users (Listing 4). So, I configured my /etc/pam.d/sshd file. See the Modules, Modules Everywhere sidebar for more details on these and other modules. Here are some of the modules I used:
pam_unix2.so: provides traditional password, rights, session and password-changing methods, in the classic UNIX way.
pam_nologin.so: disallows login if the file /etc/nologin exists.
pam_access.so: implements extra rules for access control (more later in this article on how I used this).
pam_limits.so: enforces limits for users or groups according to the file /etc/security/limits.conf.
pam_umask.so: sets the file mode creation mask for the current environment (do info umask for more information).
pam_pwcheck: enforces password-strength checks (more details on further uses of this module later in this article).
If you check your own /etc/pam.d/sshd file, it probably will look like this, except for the pam_access module, which is the interesting part. This module implements added security controls based on the /etc/security/access.conf file. I edited it in order to specify who could access my machine (Listing 5). The first line means that anybody (ALL) can log in to my machine from within the internal network at home. The second line allows the remoteKereki user to access my machine from anywhere in the world, and the final line is a catchall that disables access to anybody not included specifically in these lines. I created the remoteKereki user with minimum rights to allow myself entry to the machine, and then I execute su and work as myself or even as root, if needed. If people guess the correct password for remoteKereki, it won't help them much, because attackers still will have to guess the password for the other, more useful, users. As it is, it provides an extra barrier before intruders can do serious damage.
I had to modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config by adding a line UsePAM yes, so sshd would use the PAM configuration. I had to restart SSH with /etc/init.d/sshd restart so the configuration would be used. For even more secure connections, you also could change the SSH standard port (22) to a different value, forbid root remote logins and limit retries to hinder brute-force attacks, but those topics are beyond the scope of this article. Do man ssh_config for more details.
Left on their own, most users will (trustingly and unknowingly) use easily guessable and never-changed passwords, simplifying the job for intruders. With PAM, you can enforce several good practices for password management by using the password stack and the pam_pwcheck.so module. This module does several checks on the strength of your password:
Is the new password too short?
Is the new password too similar to the old one?
Is the new password merely the old password, reversed or rotated (for example, safe123 and 123safe)?
Is the new password the same as the old one, with only case changes (such as sEcReT and SEcrET)?
Was the new password already used before? (Old passwords are stored in the /etc/security/opasswd file.)
You can add several parameters to the module (do man pam_pwcheck for complete documentation) for extra rules, such as:
minlen=aNumber: specifies the minimum length (by default, five characters) for the new password. If you set it to zero, all password lengths are accepted.
cracklib=pathToDictionaries: allows use of the cracklib library for password checks. If the new password is in a dictionary, a simple brute-force attack quickly will guess it.
tries=aNumber: sets how many attempts to allow, if previous attempts were rejected because they were too easy.
remember=aNumber: defines how many previous passwords will be remembered.
Another module provides similar functionality, pam_cracklib.so, but it has some different parameters. For example, you might specify how many characters must differ between your old and new password and whether you want to include digits, uppercase, lowercase and nonalphabetic characters. Do man pam_cracklib for more information.
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Target: Roscommon County Prosecuting Attorney, Mark D. Jernigan
Goal: Increase the far too lenient sentences faced by puppy mill operators charged with animal cruelty.
A family charged with animal cruelty after allegedly operating an inhumane puppy mill for over 15 years may only get a one year ban on pet ownership. Over 50 dogs were removed from the Quick's property from what has been described as "heartbreaking conditions." The dogs were reportedly found living in small wire cages stacked in a filthy and crowded basement. According to the ASPCA, most dogs had no access to food or water and many were distressed and fearful.
The Quick family has pleaded guilty to two counts of abandoning and cruelty to 10 or more animals, thus taking a plea deal allowing for all charges to be dismissed after one year. However, in light of the reportedly cruel conditions endured by the animals in their facility, a spokesperson for welfare group Puppy Mill Awareness of South East Michigan has stated that "one year with no animals is really not enough for this type of case."
Sign this petition urging authorities to increase the sentence faced by the perpetrators to include a lifetime ban on owning animals.
Dear Mr. Jernigan,
The Quick family has pleaded guilty to two counts of abandoning and cruelty to 10 or more animals after over 50 dogs were removed from reportedly terrible conditions at their facility. This plea deal may see their charges dismissed after a year. As Pam Fordyl of welfare group Puppy Mill Awareness of South East Michigan rightly states, "One year with no animals is really not enough for this type of case."
Dogs were reportedly found cramped in a filthy basement in tiny wire cages stacked on top of each other. The ASPCA reports that many dogs were unsocialized and had no access to food or water.
Michigan needs strong regulations of puppy mills; it is one of the few states that has yet to enforce any. This particular cruelty case must stand as an example. Please ensure that these puppy mill operators are punished to the full extent of the law and are given a lifetime ban on owning animals, if they are found guilty for these horrendous crimes.
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Duffy Frustration Mounts
Darryl Duffy cuts a lowly figure these days with a baron run of form that that has seen the former Hull City striker not score in the league since the 14th of September.
Duffy has seen in recent months Guillem Bauza , Jason Scotland and loanee Warren Feeney overhaul him in Roberto Martinez's squad.
In a side that has shown a brand of free flowing football Darryl Duffy's chances of securing first team action firmly rest in cup competitions.
The Liberty Stadium faithful have been left aghast at the demise of the talented striker that scored 5 goals in 5 games at the tail end of last season. That goal spell threatened to force Swansea into the play off's but a 6-3 loss over a rampant Blackpool side scuppered those plans of a late promotion challenge.
As frustration grows the striker is determined to force his way into a Swansea side who are performing so well. Despite his growing concern Duffy has shown a level of team spirit that would defy his position.
The former Falkirk striker insists he is happy for his team mates but the player cannot contain his disappointment of not featuring in the clubs excellent run of form that has seen them go straight to the top.
He Told The Evening Post
|'Now it's just getting ridiculous really.'
I'm frustrated, just like anybody else in my position would be."
The only thing that has been keeping my head up a little bit is that I haven't been missing one-on-ones or sitters every week...the chances I have had have been limited."
When they have come, keepers have made really good saves or I've made the wrong decision.
The team has changed a lot since I was here on loan, but it's my fault I haven't scored as many goals as I did when I came to the club at the back end of last season."
The lads are going really well and I know it's difficult for the manager to change things in that situation.I'm happy for my team-mates, but on a personal note it's quite disheartening."
You just have to be patient, but I know I'm not the most patient person in general, not just in football."
Duffy will be out to seize his chance against Blue Square South outfit Havant and Waterlooville in the 3rd round of the FA Cup tomorrow. He will also get a second bite at the cherry as Swansea Play host to Brighton in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy Southern Section semi final.


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Police wait for suspect in bike death, arson to get out of hospital
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Wilmington Police are waiting for a woman to get out of the hospital before charging her for two incidents yesterday.
Police have warrants for Christina Maria Marcotte, 59, of Wilmington. Marcotte was admitted to New Hanover Regional Medical Center yesterday after being involved in a traffic a fatality around noon.
Investigators will charge Marcotte with felony death by motor vehicle in the death of Robert Bennett Byrd, 49, of Wilmington. Witnesses told police that Marcotte was driving the SUV that hit Byrd yesterday at the intersection of 4th and Greenfield streets. Byrd, who was riding a bicycle when he was hit, was transported to New Hanover Regional Medical Center and died as a result of his injuries.
Police have also issued a warrant for first degree arson against Marcotte. Investigators believe she set her bedroom on fire yesterday before the crash at 4th and Greenfield streets.
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It's not that we have anything against the Flash plugin for Mac browsers. Well, other than the fact that it's crashy, and slow, and makes our laptop fans spin up like we're doing wind tunnel testing for the Air Force. But other than that, we have nothing against it -- and it's lovely that the new 64-bit version of Safari in Snow Leopard can isolate Flash-related stalls and hiccups from the main browser process for enhanced crash protection. Very nice.
Unfortunately, as pointed out initially by Graham Cluley over at the security and anti-virus vendor Sophos, the version of the Flash plugin that Apple bundles with Snow Leopard is old. It's the 10.0.23.1 version, old enough that it has some notable vulnerabilities versus the currently shipping 10.0.32.18 version. You can check which version of the plugin you have by visiting this Adobe check page. Even if you had the current build on your machine before upgrading to Snow Leopard, the upgrade process replaces your Flash with the vintage Flash instead -- poor form! Cluley recommends, and Adobe concurs, that the best thing to do is head over to Adobe's download site and get the most up-to-date version instead.
It's understandable that Apple had to lock down a version of the Flash plugin for inclusion in the OS golden master, but if you're gonna do that then you've got to provide an integrated method for users to update to the current build when the time comes (like, say, via an OS-wide Software Update utility). Downgrading user security while upgrading OS versions is a rotten way to run a railroad.
[Side note, does Cluley's narration in the video above make you wonder if, just maybe, he's moonlighting as Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw over at The Escapist? NSFW!]
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By With Don Mock
Classic Rock Guitar. By With Don Mock. Guitar DVD; Method/Instruction. Getting the Sounds. Rock. DVD. Published by Alfred Music (AP.901903).
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Learn how to get all the great classic rock guitar sounds from the Beatles to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, The Police, and many more. This DVD will provide you with a complete tonal "menu" from which to select your favorite sounds. Special DVD features include additional video previews, "getting to know your amplifier" interactive features, and much more!


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The 'main()' method in Java is referred to the thread that is running, whenever a Java program runs. It calls the main thread because it is the first thread that starts running when a program begins. Other threads can be spawned from this main thread. The main thread must be the last thread in the program to end. When the main thread stops, the program stops running.
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Your location: Home > > National Communications (Non-Annex I) > Non-Annex I Inventory Software
What is the reason for changing from the Excel-based software to the web-based
NAIIS?The web-based NAIIS application is an upgrade to the Excel-based software. This upgrade
is a response to a request by Parties at SBI 35. The web-based application provides a greater degree of
user-flexibility and eliminates the need for desktop software for GHG inventories, increases the efficiency
of user management, ability to work on multiple inventory years in parallel as well as allows for
simultaneous data entry by members of the national GHG team.
What will become of the GHG data generated using the old Excel-based software?
Parties with GHG data generated using the old Excel-based software could choose to migrate these data into
the NAIIS. Currently, this migration needs to be done manually. The secretariat plans to develop a tool to
facilitate the migration of GHG data into the NAIIS.
Who is eligible for access to the NAIIS?
Access to the NAIIS is limited to non-Annex I Parties to the Convention and can only be requested and granted
through the designated NFPs.
Is there a difference between the UNFCCC NFP and the NAIIS NFP?
Yes. However, these roles can be played by the same person. The designated UNFCCC NFP must first request
(this request should be accompanied by a name and details of an expert identified to serve as the NFP for
NAIIS) for access to the NAIIS.
The NAIIS NPF refers to any individual who is assigned that role only for the sole purpose of overall
administration and management of the NAIIS web application for the country.
Can national experts who are not part of the GHG inventory team gain access to the
NAIIS?The user administration of the NAIIS web application is left to the expert who is
identified as the national focal point (NFP) for the NAIIS web application. Hence, access to the NAIIS
account of a country is managed by the NFP for the NAIIS.
What is the procedure for requesting and acquiring access rights to the NAIIS?
The Party, through its designated NFP, must complete the NAIIS Registration form located here and submit it
to email@example.com. Once the secretariat receives this form, it
will proceed to process and e-mail log-in information to the NFP.
What are the next steps after a Party has received its log-in information?
Log-in information will be provided for the NFP account of the Party by the NAIIS Administrator. The NFP
should proceed to log-in and change the temporary password provided and from the User Administration
Functionality of the application, create accounts for the country's national GHG inventory project
manager (PM) and sectoral experts (SE). The PM can also create and disable SE accounts as necessary. For
further details, see page 15 of the NAIIS user manual located
here (3454 kB) .
Is it possible for members of the national GHG team to access and input data simultaneously into the
Yes. Simultaneous data entry is possible.
Can I simply download the application into a data storage device (e.g., USB key or
No. The application is web-based and all you need to access and use it is a computer with internet access and
log-in information which can be requested from the secretariat. Information entered into the application is
stored in real time in the Party's user account on the central server hosted at the secretariat.
Further details on how to navigate the application are included in the user manual located here.
I am having difficulties viewing certain functions of the NAIIS, for example, the "start
inventory" button is not available even though I can see it in the screenshots in the NAIIS user
manual, what could be the problem?
The NAIIS is designed to filter and only provide functions by user account type. Each Party can have up to
three types of users – NFP, Project Manager (PM) and Sectoral Expert (SE). While these roles can be
played by the same person, the system is designed to keep these accounts separate and certain functions are
only available to the user depending on whether they are logged in as NFP, PM or SE. For example, the
"start inventory" button only becomes available when you are logged in as the PM (see Figure 8 on
Page 10 of the user manual located here).
Can a Party have and operate more than one NFP or PM account in the NAIIS?Each Party
can have multiple NPF and PM accounts BUT only one of those accounts can be active at any given time.
Multiple accounts can be active for SE at the same time.
Is the NAIIS connected to the IPCC emission factors database (EFDB)?
No. Emissions factors and activity data must be entered by the Party. However, the default values of other
parameters and factors, besides emission factors, are available in the application.
Does the NAIIS have built-in Global Warming Potentials (GWP) for greenhouse gases?
Yes. The GWPs from the second assessment report of the IPCC (e.g. 1 for CO2, 21 for CH4 and 310 for N2O) are
implemented in the application.
What should I do when I encounter technical difficulties using the application?
The first thing to do when you encounter difficulties is to look at the user manual for the NAIIS and also
these FAQ. The user manual is located here.
If the issue cannot be resolved using guidance provided in these documents, please send an e-mail to the
NAIIS Helpdesk at firstname.lastname@example.com. Details specifying the stage
at which the difficulty was encountered, steps you took and the purpose before encountering the problem,
information on any pop-up window(s) and message(s) from the NAIIS system you may have seen, and if possible,
screenshots, should be included in this e-mail.
How long should I expect to get a reply from the NAIIS Helpdesk when I submit a request for
Generally, the NAIIS Helpdesk will acknowledge the receiving your request within 24 hours with an estimated
resolution time.
The resolution of a reported issue depends on a number of things including: 1) the amount of open queries
from users of the application; 2) the magnitude of the problem reported 3) the completeness of the
information included in the report from the Party.
The NAIIS Helpdesk will make an effort to update the Party regularly as the issue is being resolved.
What type of support is available to countries for building capacity to use the NAIIS?
The secretariat conducted regional capacity-building workshops to train national experts on the use of the
NAIIS, when the application was released. While the secretariat does not provide in-country support, users
can use the NAIIS user manual of these FAQs for guidance or seek assistance to specific problems from the
NAIIS Helpdesk at email@example.com.
After creating an inventory in the NAIIS, we downloaded all the spreadsheets and renamed them in
order to easily distribute to our consultants. Do we have to change the spreadsheet names again to the
original ones before importing when we are done?
Excel files exported from the NAIIS by sector can easily be imported back into the system even when the files
have been renamed. What is important is not to change the order of the worksheets because there are hidden
worksheets in the Excel workbooks which contain variable UIDs needed for the import process.
We have created our inventory, but haven't changed the status to "started"
yet. Will it be possible to import spreadsheets with data for this inventory?
No. The PM must first change the status of the inventory to "started" before doing the
import. Data entry is only possible for inventories in status "started".
Can a Party be able to work on multiple inventory years simultaneously?
Yes. Work on multiple inventories can occur simultaneously in the NAIIS.
How can users be sure that information entered into the NAIIS on the web cannot be accessed by
1) Regarding the security of information in the NAIIS there are two aspects:
i. Security of the whole
NAIIS web application and the data entered into it –
NAIIS web application, along with the underlying database, is hosted on
centralized server of the UNFCCC secretariat.
There is a
full backup system built-in to prevent loss of any data in the
case of the server crash.
Further, the
secretariat applies and implements international standards of
protocols to protect its servers in operations.
ii. Security of data
entered in the system by countries – the date entered
by a
country in the system through its account is accessible only to the country
concerned. The secretariat values and maintains the sanctity of the confidentially
of the
information entered in the system. This is achieved through the UN Code
conduct on confidentiality that each staff member in the secretariat, at large,
has to
adhere to and also through the in-house NAIIS web application
administration policy.
2. The system is also designed in a way to allow each Party to choose the
that it wants to include in its final GHG
inventory report. After a complete inventory has
been developed, which resides only in the
system, the Party concerned has the option
to make a selection, by year and by
sectoral tables, to produce a set of Excel tables
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text: Hello, I am maintaining LIRC packages and I believe that the current packages which entered testing lately are in quite good shape, but yesterday a new upstream version of LIRC was released. I want to update the packages but there will be some changes and I don't want to take the chance of replacing good "mostly up to date" packages with bleeding edge buggy packages for woody. I would like to release the updated version to unstable and keep it there until I am satisfied with the packing. How can I do that? o Filling a RC bug against my own packages? o Maybe a new 'urgency' value could be used for this purpose in the future. Thanks for your attention ranty -- --- Manuel Estrada Sainz <email@example.com> <firstname.lastname@example.com> ------------------------ <firstname.lastname@example.com> --------------------------------- God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.


text: On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:44:30 +1000Paul Mackerras <email@example.com> wrote:> Andrew Morton writes:> > > Let me restore the words from my earlier email which you removed so that> > you could say that:> > > > For you the driver author to make assumptions about what's happening> > inside pci_set_mwi() is a layering violation. Maybe the bridge got> > hot-unplugged. Maybe the attempt to set MWI caused some synchronous PCI> > error. For example, take a look at the various implementations of> > pci_ops.read() around the place - various of them can fail for various> > reasons. > > Maybe aliens are firing a ray-gun at the card. I think it's> fundamentally wrong for the driver to deny service completely because> of a maybe.> > Either there was a transient error that only affected the attempt to> set MWI, in which case a printk (inside pci_set_mwi!) is appropriate,> and we carry on. Or there is a persistent error condition, in which> case the driver will see something else fail soon enough - something> that the driver actually needs to have working in order to operate -> and fail at that point.> > For the driver to stop and refuse to go any further because of an> error in pci_set_mwi has far more disadvantages than advantages.> Sure.So I think what we're needing in this case is:- A modified version of Willy's patch which returns 0 if MWI was enabled, 1 if MWI isn't available.- A printk if something went bad It appears that the various functions which try to match the line sizes already have printks if something went wrong, but they're using KERN_DEBUG facility level and that warning would dupliate the new one in pci_set_mwi(). And although the various implementations of pci_read_config_foo() and pci_write_config_foo() can return error codes, we have so many instances where we're not checking it, I don't think it's practical to try to start doing that everywhere.- drop the __must_check.Question is, should pci_set_mwi() ever return -EFOO? I guess it should, inthe case where setting the line size didn't work out.-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to email@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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WORLD> Middle East
Kirkuk oil may make or break Iraq's future
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-11-05 10:29
BAGHDAD: Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control.
The dispute has caused a deadlock over the country's election law, threatening to delay Iraq's nationwide elections set for mid-January. Any vote setback could, in turn, disrupt US plans to withdraw troops from Iraq, scheduled to ramp up after the vote.
The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission has warned that today will be the last day for the lawmakers to agree on an election law.
"We are getting to a crisis," said Marina Ottoway, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "They have been trying for over a year to reach a compromise on Kirkuk."
"Now," she warns, "it is becoming a problem for the United States."
For years, tensions have simmered over Kirkuk and its surrounding province of about 1.3 million people, 290 km north of Baghdad. Boasting an ancient citadel, it is in many ways an ordinary, if somewhat shabby, Iraqi city.
But it sits on a political and cultural fault line among ethnic Kurds and smaller groups of Arabs and Turkomen, or ethnic Turks. Vast oil fields, dotted with flaming smoke stacks, lie just to the north and west, raising the stakes.
Displacement by Saddam
Kurds consider Kirkuk a Kurdish city and want it part of their self-ruled region. But during the rule of former dictator Saddam Hussein, tens of thousands of Kurds were displaced under a forced plan by Saddam to make Kirkuk predominantly Arab.
Regaining control of the city is thus extremely symbolic for Kurds and many Kurds have returned since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. But other groups claim Kurds have packed more Kurds into the city than before.
The population breakdown remains in dispute but US officials estimated last spring that Kurds make up 52 percent of Kirkuk and its province, with Arabs at 35 percent and Turkomen about 12 percent.
The Arab-led central government in Baghdad vehemently opposes anything that would remove Kirkuk from its control. A referendum on the city's future - required by the Iraqi constitution - has been repeatedly postponed. The Turkomen have generally sided with Arabs, believing they'll be treated better than under the Kurds, a longtime enemy of their Turkish supporters.
The immediate dispute centers on voting rolls listing who can vote in Kirkuk in the January national election. While many proposals have been discussed, Kurds have favored using the 2009 voter registry, which likely reflects the Kurdish growth, while Arabs generally prefer the 2004 voter registry, when the Kurdish population wasn't so large. That has delayed the necessary deal on the election law.


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In part two of MTV .com's chat with big, bad Jack, Tim Burton's Joker admits to being sad about not being able to discuss the role with recent Clown Prince of Crime, the late Ledger, who played the role in the upcoming The Dark Knight.
Pop over to the music site to read Jack's full admission, along with his pithy remarks about wanting to work with the Coen Brothers. We know they do quirky Jack, but are they ready for you?
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Determined to never say never again; until it never happens again
As I sit at my desk I can't help but think about what it has taken for me to be here. This time last year I was very excited to be done with my master's degree. Nothing had been so...
Emily Frost / 26th November 2014


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If you keep stuff you don't use because of a sentimental attachment, take pictures of it and put it in an album (online is OK) with a note explaining what it was, why you cherished it, and why it should find a new home. That way, you can keep the memory but recycle the item to a new home.
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I include a bag when doing laundry. If something is stained too badly, I toss it. If it doesn't fit or I'm not crazy about it, it's in the bag to donate. I don't have to put away anything but what I keep. It saves going through clothes another time.
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Saratoga: Quick Wit by a nose in Hall of Fame Stakes
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - On paper, it looked like a sloppy track was the last thing trainer Dale Romans wanted to see for his 3-year-old Quick Wit.
On the track, it turned out to be just perfect for the son of Sharp Humor.
After hooking up with Csaba at the five-sixteenths pole, Quick Wit, a 10-1 shot under substitute jockey Rajiv Maragh, prevailed by a nose over the favored Csaba, under Julien Leparoux, to win the $200,000 National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Stakes Friday at saturated Saratoga. It was 4 3/4 lengths back to Daddy Nose Best in third.
[Complete coverage of racing at Saratoga: News, PPs, and video]
The Hall of Fame Stakes was originally scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the inner turf course, but heavy rain forced the New York Racing Association to move it to the main track. Thus, the race is downgraded to a Grade 3 pending a review of the North American Graded Stakes Committee.
For Quick Wit, owned by Michael Bruder and trained by Dale Romans, it was his first stakes victory in four tries. In one of his previous stakes tries, Quick Wit was beaten 27 1/2 lengths in the Grade 3 Derby Trial, which was also run over a sloppy track. Romans said the off track was not the reason for the poor performance that night.
"He had other excuses, he came out of the race a little jammed up," Romans said. "I didn't think it was the track surface at all."
Romans had named Corey Lanerie to ride, but that jockey missed his connecting flight from Atlanta to Albany, so Maragh picked up the mount.
Maragh put Quick Wit in third position early, but kept him in the space between Csaba and Skyring so that he wasn't getting slop kicked in his face.
Maragh split horses at the five-sixteenths, joined up with Csaba, and the race was on. It appeared as though Quick Wit was going to open up on Csaba in the stretch, but Csaba fought back. In the end, it was Quick Wit who put his nose on the line first.
Quick Wit covered the 1 1/8 miles in the slop in 1:51.95 and returned $23.80.
"When I first passed him I thought if my horse would sustain the run that he was making he would pull away," Maragh said. "But the other one started battling back, so it came down to a really close race. Fortunately, I got the win."
Phil Gleaves, who shipped Csaba here from south Florida, was naturally frustrated by the result, albeit pleased with his colt's gutty performance.
"I thought he ran game," Gleaves said. "When he was headed, it looked like he was going to back up, and he came back again. I don't know how the race will shape up time-wise, but I was very proud of his effort. It's a long way to come to get beat a nose."


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Even the mildest fan of outer space adventures should enjoy the return of the cheeky British series "Torchwood" (8 p.m. Saturday, BBC America).
The qualities that set the show apart in its highly enjoyable first season -- a disarming lead actor (John Barrowman), an appealing cast, capable and even touching storytelling, interesting alien beasties -- are all back. And you don't have to know much about the previous season of "Torchwood," or "Doctor Who," the series that spun off the show, to join in the fun.


text: "[T]he remedy crafted to address a violation must be tailored to fit that violation. . . . If, by way of modest example, Smith constructs a building on Whiteacre that intrudes slightly onto Jones' Blackacre, the remedy that fits the violation, one would naturally think, would be to require Smith to remove the portion of his building unlawfully situated on Blackacre. It would seem excessive and wrong to require Smith to demolish the entire building, rather than just the offending part of the structure, for such a 'remedy' would partake more of the nature of a sanction or punishment upon Smith for trenching on Blackacre."


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The MLB Stretch Drive: Who You Can (And Can't) Count On In SeptemberSeptember 13, 2008
We're coming down the stretch of the baseball season, with just over two weeks remaining, and as the anticipation builds, everyone wants to know who will make it to the playoffs.
Well, having players who you can count on to produce late in the season is a main indicator of September success, while conversely, having guys who have repeatedly shrunk in the heat of the pennant race predicts an early exit.
Here I have named the starting nine guys you want on your team late in the season, and also the nine guys you want to avoid.
Some rules for this list:
1. Only players from contending teams were considered, since they are the ones who are actually in the pennant race. The Angels were excluded, since they have already clinched the West.
2. Players should have a proven track record of September performance, whether good or bad. A reason for not wanting a guy down the stretch cannot be "well, he's a rookie, so he hasn't been through this before".
And now here are the squads (all stats accurate as of Sept. 12).
Who you want: Joe Mauer, MIN – Mauer has been good in all months throughout his career, and September is no exception. His career .315 AVG in the big leagues hasn't slumped much late in the season, as it does for most catchers, as he has hit at a .297 clip in his career during the season's final month. This season, he has hit .321 with 23 RBI and 22 runs scored since the beginning of August.
Who you don't: Jason Varitek, BOS – Varitek is not immune to the wear and tear that backstops take over the course of a long season, owning just a .232 career batting average in September. Last season he sputtered to a .225 clip after the break and has compiled only 70 RBI in his last 170 games played, including just 10 since the All-Star break this season.
First Base
Who you want: Ryan Howard, PHI – Ryan leads the majors in home runs and runs batted in since he entered the bigs in '05, and he does his best work in the month of September. Over his career, Howard has hit .314 with 39 HR and 94 RBI in 96 September starts.
Add to that a .794 slugging percentage and 1.149 OPS, and this guy is a true September slaughterer. He started this year's final month by going .368 with six HR and 15 RBI in the first 10 games.
Who you don't: Adam Dunn, ARI – Dunn's production has consistently dropped off late in the year, as he has hit just .225 in September during his career. His 26 HR and 68 RBI in 170 September games are by far his lowest totals of any month. He has failed to produce runs of late this season, with just four HR and 15 RBI in his last 37 games.
Second Base
Who you want: Dustin Pedroia, BOS – Pedroia, along with his .302 AVG and 22 runs in 25 September games last year, established himself as one of the main components in Boston's championship run. He has hit .356 in the second half this year, which has jumped up to .371 since the beginning of August, and he has knocked in 30 runs in his last 35 games.
Who you don't: David Eckstein, ARI – Not only is Eckstein playing out of position now for Arizona, but his bat won't help them cure their woeful offense. He has just 80 RBI in the last three seasons. The entire seasons, not just September!
He hit just .154 in his first seven games as a D'back and has contributed just 35 career September RBI, to go along with a fairly modest 89 runs scored in 160 games.
Third Base
Who you want: David Wright, NYM – Wright uses his late-season performance to establish himself as the Mets' best player (over Jose Reyes, who will show up a little later).
He is a career .324 hitter in the second half, including 49 HR and 186 RBI in 260 August and September games. Last season, he hit .372 in the last two months of the season with 12 HR and 41 RBI.
Who you don't: Bill Hall, MIL – Hall has really struggled since the All-Star break in '07. He hit just .226 after the break last year and has hit just .225 for this entire season, which has dropped even lower, down to .203 after the break.
Hall has contributed just one HR and 10 RBI, since the beginning of August, in his apparent efforts to help the Brewers miss out on the playoffs once again.
Who you want: Jimmy Rollins, PHI – Last year's NL MVP turned it on late by hitting .298 with 15 XBH and 18 RBI in September '07 to help the Phillies overcome a huge deficit to reach the playoffs.
In his career, he has hit .295 with 29 HR and 124 RBI, not to mention 162 runs scored, 54 doubles, and 22 triples, all his highest totals of any month.
Who you don't: Jose Reyes, NYM – Reyes played no small part in last season's Mets demise, hitting just .205 in September. This year, he has gotten off to an even worse September start, going just .182 with two XBH, zero RBI, and two runs scored in eight games.
I will say that Angel Berroa is probably still a less-desirable stretch-drive shortstop, but given that fact that pretty much anyone would rate Reyes among the game's best at the position, his late-season struggles are more disappointing.
Left Field
Who you want: Manny Ramirez, LAD – Probably the least surprising pick on this list, Manny being Manny in September means Manny just being a damn good hitter. He is a .316 career hitter in September, with 269 RBI in 330 games.
As if that wasn't enough of an indication, Ramirez has hit an otherworldly .396 with a .488 OPB, 14 HR, and 40 RBI in 38 games as a Dodger. I guess he likes it there.
Who you don't: Pat Burrell, PHI – Burrell is one of baseball's streakiest hitters, but he has had a tendency to struggle in September. He is a .248 career hitter in the month, and this year is hitting just .210 with seven HR and 20 RBI in the second half, after offering up a .275, 23 HR, 57 RBI stat line in the first half.
Although it was disguised by the Phillies' dramatic comeback last season, he struggled to a .209 average last September.
Center Field
Who you want: Carlos Beltran, NYM – Along with Wright, Beltran was one of very few Mets not to go into a coma last September. He put up a .304 BA, with 14 HR and 50 RBI in the last two months of '07 and is hitting an outstanding .329 since the beginning of August this season.
And although it's not really among the criteria for this list, I feel compelled to remember his unreal 2004 postseason with Houston, when he hit .435 with eight HR in 12 games.
Who you don't: The Windy City Old Guys – This one came down to a tie between two of this generation's best, who have both seen better days. On the north side, Jim Edmonds (CHC) has had several consecutive years of September struggles.
Dating back to the 2003 season, his September batting average is just .238. This year, he is hitting .233 in the second half (at least he's consistent, he hit .232 before the break), and since the beginning of August has hit .203 with only eight RBI.
On the south side, Ken Griffey, Jr. (CWS) is one of the greatest players to ever set foot on the field. But the Griffey who trots out there now is far from the one who earned the Hall of Fame credentials.
Over the last three seasons, his batting average in the last month of the season is just .192 with only two homers and 12 RBI in 28 games. "The Kid" hasn't made a significant September contribution since 2001, his second year in Cincinnati.
Right Field
Who you want: Jermaine Dye, CWS – Dye has gone over 30 HR for the third time in four years and has a history of late-season success. Last season, he hit .298 with 16 homers after the All-Star break, and in '06, he was even better, going .313 with 19 bombs. On the road to the '05 World Series, Dye put up 10 HR and 27 RBI in the season's final two months.
Who you don't: Kosuke Fukudome, CHC – This is the one time where I do a bit against one of my rules, since Fukudome doesn't really have a major-league track record.
However, the decline in his numbers over the course of this season is hard to ignore. Here are his batting averages by month, from April to September: .327, .293, .264, .236, .193, .133.
Not only has his batting average declined in every single month, to the point of futility, but his power numbers have progressively gotten worse. After the break, he is hitting just .221 with a measly nine extra-base hits and a putrid .317 slugging percentage.
On the Mound
Who you want: Johan Santana, NYM – Johan has long held a reputation as a second-half stopper, and the numbers back that up. He is 55-17 with a 2.75 ERA and a .210 BAA for his career in the second half.
He has won his last six-straight decisions this year, including a 4-0 mark with a 2.10 ERA since the end of July.
Who you don't: Dan Haren, ARI – Haren is a September struggler, with just a 7-13 career record in the month. His career ERA during the months of September and August is a poor 4.44, and this year, it has been worse.
After beginning the season 11-5, he is just 3-3 with a 5.83 ERA in his last eight starts. If he doesn't turn it around soon, the Diamondbacks will have no chance of catching the Dodgers out west.
So there you have your starting lineups of the good and the bad. If you have a lot of the successful guys on your team's roster, you should feel confident heading into the season's final stretch drive.
If you have a bunch of guys on the other side (err, Arizona), well...Anything can happen, right?


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Rebecca Chamberlin and Donivan Porterfield, both of Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) Actinide Analytical Chemistry group, have been selected as 2014 Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
A specialist in inorganic chemistry and radiochemistry, Chamberlin is currently the co-principal investigator for the development of novel microreactor-based systems for plutonium process chemistry and one-step extraction and separation of rare earths at LANL. She is also managing the startup of newly-constructed nuclear material analysis laboratories in the Radiological Laboratory Utility and Office Building.
Porterfield is a radiochemist engaged in research and development and analytical services supporting stockpile stewardship and nuclear forensics and nonproliferation. His work includes plutonium heat source fabrication for deep space exploration and national security applications, nuclear material safeguards, radiobioassay, environmental monitoring and more.
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text: Our presidential election campaign is picking up steam, and money is being raised as never before, mostly to convince voters that the other party's guy is a very poor choice to be president. Most voters have already dug in and need little convincing that their views are a kind of political light that must prevail over the opposing darkness. It's as if we have brought religious sectarianism into our politics as they have been doing in Iraq and now in Egypt.Read More »


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Buhari's anti-corruption war is scaring away investors – Ben Murray-Bruce
He says the war against corruption has put fear in the minds of Nigerians that want to invest in a business that might attract the attention of the antigraft agency. He said this while speaking at the senate debate on the Economy during plenary yesterday September 22nd.
"If you look at Nigeria today, nobody is buying land, nobody is buying houses. Rent is actually is coming down. The economy has shut down. The reason why this is happening is because of Fear. Everybody is afraid. You cannot run a 21st century economy where everybody is terrified. Everybody is afraid of being arrested. As long as you have fear in the system, you will not invest your money in that economy"he said


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The Jacqueline LeVasseur Family Home Page
The Jacqueline LeVasseur Family Home PageUpdated September 6, 2000
|Jackie T. Rutledge(nee LeVasseur)
Rt. 2, Box MR105 (Mailing)
Lakeside,AZ 85929
|I am researching my family tree, starting with Jacques LeVasseur from the St. Nicholas des Champs Church Parish in Paris, France.He was married to Marie Francoise Bourdon who was from the St.Joachim Church Parish in Paris, France.
His son Charles Francois LeVasseur (b.November 3, 1738) who was married to Marie Jeanne Mader is my direct line.My fathers name was Elmo Leonard LeVasseur, (b.1902) of Shreveport, La. My ancestors started out in France,then to Canada, and into the U.S. I have quite a bit of information on this line.
In addition I am researching the John Benjamin Pavey Family (my mother's side).The Paveys came from France and England to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and some to Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
From Canada they came to the USA making their homes in Indiana, Illinois,Ohio, Missour, Arkansas, and Louisiana.Benjamin Pavey's family moved to Indiana.John Benjamin Pavey was born in Kentucky, Oct. 25, 1834.He married Maria Gibbs (ancestors from England). After they were married they moved to Indiana.
Any information would be appreciated and I am willing to share what info. I have.I am also trying to find my 2nd cousin, Tom Clark, last known address in 1987 was Waco,TX.


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At a hotel in Manchester, surrounded by hung-over Labour Conference goers, a blissfully unaware couple.
One says to the other: 'Hey, did you see the younger brother won the Labour leadership thing.'
A reminder, if one were needed, that most people don't take that much interest in politics.
At least they caught up, albeit late. I still remember a
person telling me in a council election c1980 that she couldn't vote Labour "not while they have Margaret Thatcher as their leader" (I delete the expletive!)


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Jon Lester has been nothing if not consistent. Since battling his way back lymphoma and becoming a regular member of the Boston Red Sox starting rotation in 2008, the lefthander has put up around 200 IP each year (the only time he missed was last year at 191) and had ERA's in the low 3s. Now the question is whether he can take the next step and become a dominant ace.
When Lester takes the mound you always have the feeling he's in complete command of the situation, from his stuff to his demeanor, but there are enough times that games get away from him and prevent the pitcher from achieving either the 20-win, or at least the sub-3.00 ERA that would mark him as a true #1 starter. Perhaps there's something in the pitcher's temperament holding him back. By all accounts the 28-year-old is a genuinely nice kid—even his participation in the Fenway Fried Chicken fiasco of last year is seen more as him getting caught up with the wrong people (Josh Beckett and John Lackey). And of the ringleaders, Lester was the one to express remorse.
But there's a flip side to that goodheartedness, and it's that maybe Lester doesn' t have the nastiness necessary to reach a higher level of pitching. He's listed at the top of the depth chart for Boston and maybe over a long season, he is the staff's best pitcher. But for me, if it's Game 1 of the playoffs—or this year, a one-game wild-card playoff showdown, I want Beckett on the mound.
With Lester still only being 28, there's every reason to think he can find the next level. With his own reputation damaged last year and the team in transition, 2012 would be as good a year as any to prove it.


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