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Former Albany County District Attorney Sol Greenberg not only thinks Jim Coyne is the best man in the field to succeed Assemblyman Jack McEneny but also that the former county executive was railroaded by federal prosecutors two decades ago.
"He was wrongfully punished and should never have gone to trial," Greenburg says in a signed endorsement statement release by Coyne's campaign. "I proudly endorse Jim in his comeback for NYS Assembly."
Greenberg, who served as DA from 1975 and 2000, is of course referring to Coyne's 1992 conviction for bribery, extortion, conspiracy and mail fraud, partly in connection with a $30,000 loan from the architect of the county-owned Knickerbocker Arena, the construction of which Coyne hails as one of his proudest achievements as county executive.
That conviction resulted in a 46-month federal prison sentence. Coyne, however, has always maintained his innocence and faulted overzealous prosecutors intent on scoring themselves judgeships for his fall.
In fact, upon leaving office Greenberg was defensive about suggestions that his office — not federal prosecutors — should have prosecuted Coyne.
"The FBI spent 2 years investigating him" Greenberg said in 2000. "Do you think we had the resources for 2 years?"
In 1993, after taking criticism for not prosecuting Coyne from his then GOP challenger, Tom Marcelle, Greenberg said his office never got involved in the Coyne prosecution because the FBI was already looking into the matter.
"How many people are going to investigate?" he said.
The rest of Greenberg's endorsement — the full text of which is available here — reads as follows:
"As former Albany County District Attorney, I worked with Jim Coyne for many years when he was Albany County Executive. He constantly cut property taxes and was always supportive of the District Attorney's office both financially and programmatically. He helped me establish the nationally recognized Rape Crisis Center among other anti-crime programs."
Coyne is one of six Democrats running in Thursday's primary to succeed McEneny in the 109th Assembly District.


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5 best restaurants in Phoenix
Our favourite places to eat. Enjoy awesome food and stunning decor.
Different Pointe of View
For the finest views
During its 31-year history, Different Pointe of View has become a culinary experience as memorable as its vistas from the top of North Mountain across the desert landscape. A relaxed yet elegant atmosphere with indoor seating and floor-to-ceiling windows complements the alfresco Terrace Room with its sunsets that turn into twinkling stars. An innovative, bold menu ranges from vanilla brandy poached Maine lobster to Cabernet roasted short rib, accompanied by favourites from the wine cellar.
Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs, 11111 North 7th Street, Phoenix 85020
Tel: 602 866 6350 www.tapatiocliffshilton.com/different-pointe-of-view-restaurant
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Kai Restaurant
Authentic Arizona
Focusing on native American culture, Kai's menu is rich in creativity and history. The essence of the Pima and Maricopa tribes is combined with locally farmed ingredients to create dishes like pork duo and tenderloin of buffalo, not to mention butter basted lobster and seafood medley. Sample the more expensive tasting menu for a special experience – whatever you choose, the in-house sommelier will spend time selecting the perfect wine to accompany your perfectly presented meal.
Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa, 5594 West Wild Horse Pass Blvd, Chandler, Phoenix 85226
Tel: 602 225 0100 www.wildhorsepassresort.com/chandler-restaurants.html
Tel: 602 200 8111 www.stfrancisaz.com
St Francis
For the modern family
The daily Happy Hour pulls diners into this trendy central Phoenix restaurant from 3-6pm, with food and drink specials on the seasonal menu. Simple, quality ingredients are prepared in the central 19th-century wood-fired oven to produce dishes like Moroccan Meatballs and the French Onion Burger, along with roasted meats and freshly baked San Francisco sourdough bread. A rustic, family-family restaurant, it also serves an array of cocktails and wines that can be sipped on the pretty patio.
111 East Camelback Road, Phoenix
Wright's at the Biltmore
First-class fine dining
The signature restaurant at the Arizona Biltmore, a Waldorf Astoria hotel, Wright's serves a 1930s-inspired seasonally changing menu created using the freshest local ingredients. The stylish surrounds are the perfect backdrop to game dishes like elk, pheasant and rabbit, as well as more modern offerings of seafood, meat and poultry. Choose the Chef's tasting menu for variety, and complete the experience with the suggested wine to match your meal, from the wine cellar. Sumptuous and sophisticated.
2400 E Missouri Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85016-3106
Tel: 602 954 2507 www.wrightsbiltmore.com
Bink's Midtown
A fresh take on your five a day
New on the Phoenix scene, Bink's Midtown is set to become one of the city's most popular restaurants. Run by Kevin Binkley, the brains behind the upscale Binkley's Restaurant in nearby Cave Creek, it specialises in small plates of local produce with a twist – think fruit and veg of the future!
Try zingy butternut squash bread, strawberries with foie gras mousse, and a sorbet soup frozen with nitrogen. The cosy but modern setting also plays host to an all-you-can-eat pig roast on Saturdays and a gourmet Sunday Brunch.
Try zingy butternut squash bread, strawberries with foie gras mousse, and a sorbet soup frozen with nitrogen. The cosy but modern setting also plays host to an all-you-can-eat pig roast on Saturdays and a gourmet Sunday Brunch.
Bink's Midtown, 2320 E. Osborn Road, Phoenix 85016
Tel: 602 388 4874 www.binksmidtown.com


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Mountain View Homes understands that your new home is a major investment. We strive to create a budget that allows you to design the home you want without the restrictions a conventional builder typically includes. Choose from one of our many floor plans, which can be customized to meet your needs. Our in-house draftperson can design your dream home or you may bring us your own plan. We use nothing but the finest materials and craftsmanship, and energy efficient methods, to create a pleasant and comfortable home. And, when it comes to selecting the finishing touches for your home - flooring, fixtures, lighting, paint, cabinets, counter tops- the choice is yours. We will simply give you a price range to work from and let you make decisions based on your style and taste to help us create the home you desire.
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Dairy-Free, Tomato-Free, and Nearly Carb-Free "Pizza"
Okay, the folks over at Slice are way too serious, so I'm cross posting here. I've added quotation marks around "pizza" and "crust" to keep the visiting Slicers happy. Please keep in mind I'm attempting this for the challenge and will only serve to anyone if I can make something truly outstanding.
I'm part of a group that does regular potlucks and we have a huge range of dietary restrictions. Which brings me this huge challenge:
I want to successfully create a dairy-free, tomato-free, and nearly carb-free "pizza". We can't do real cheese, but can do most other veggies besides the tomato. We can do meat. But the toughest challenge is the crust. I can't use wheat (or gluten), rice, corn, soy or other grains. I can use minimal starchy roots. I can use cashews, almonds and other nuts (except peanuts). I can use eggs, but no coconut.
My goal is to develop a recipe by December 1st. I'm thinking probably meat and "pesto" (cheese-free) sauce for the topping. (And cheese for those that can?)
So far, options for making the "crust" involve: almond flour, potato flour, tapioca flour, chickpea flour, amaranth flour, quinoa flour.
And I've seen some recipes using cauliflower? Perhaps that? So, people. What are your suggestions? Tips? We're bread lovers at my house so I'm rather inexperienced with gluten-free cooking. Let alone carb-free. (Although I was forced to eat low carb when pregnant.)
I will document everything and report on it once I'm finished.


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Some major scoops and treats at this year's outing, the biggest being the world premiere of the newly restored Things To Come, a stunning vision of the future from 1936. Anime fans are well served by Satoshi Kon's astounding Paprika and Ghost In The Shell: Solid State Society. Stamina is tested and rewarded with a pair of all-nighters: early Hammer classics followed by the wisecracking robots of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. John Landis turns up for a chat, the David Mamet-scripted Edmond gets a debut and it's all rounded off with the bigger, better and "zombier" 28 Weeks Later. The future may not look bright, but it's certainly busy.
· Apollo Cinema, SW1, Wed 2 to May 6, visit www.sci-fi-london.com
Voices Outside The Frame
The term "Berlin School" used to refer to German 1970s prog-rock bands like Tangerine Dream but now it's been appropriated by a network of German film-makers favouring cryptic storylines, a spare, artful style and contemporary, local settings. The 17 films selected here represent the first wave of this intriguing new movement, which has been gaining ground over the past decade. Forerunner Christian Petzold will be turning up for a Q&A and to present a pair of his films (Wolfsburg and his latest, Ghosts), as will Christoph Hochhausler (Low Profile and This Very Moment, pictured), while Valeska Grisebach's complex adultery tale Longing gets an extended release.
· Ciné Lumière, SW7 & Goethe Institut, SW7, Mon 30 to May 10


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What is included with this book?
|The Role of Nutrition Therapy in Health Care. 1
|Role of the Dietitian in the Health Care System
|The Nutrition Care Process
|The Nutrition Care Process
|Nutrition Assessment: Foundation of the Nutrition Care Process
|Nutrition Intervention
|Methods of Nutrition Support
|Nutrition Monitoring and Evaluation: Documentation of the Nutrition Care Process
|Introduction to Pathophysiology
|Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
|Acid-Base Balance
|Cellular and Physiological Response to Injury: the Role of the Immune System
|Nutritional Genomics
|Nutrition Therapy
|Energy Balance and Body Weight
|Diseases of the Cardiovascular System
|Diseases of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract
|Diseases of the Lower Gastrointestinal Tract
|Diseases of the Liver, Gallbladder, and Exocrine Pancreas
|Diseases of the Endocrine System
|Diseases of the Renal System
|Diseases of Hematological System
|Diseases and Disorders of the Neurological System
|Diseases of the Respiratory System
|Metabolic Stress and the Critically Ill
|Neoplastic Disease
|HIV and AIDS
|Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System
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DiNapoli: Fund value rebounding
Municipalities still have to make up for recession shortfalls
Published 9:26 pm, Monday, May 6, 2013
The final numbers aren't yet confirmed, but Comptroller Tom DiNapoli on Monday said the state pension fund is coming back even stronger than a year ago, when it posted a gain of nearly 6 percent.
"It's going to be better than last year," DiNapoli said during a brief speech to members of firefighter unions from around the state.
The fund's value is calculated at the end of March, but the comptroller said the precise figure would be out once the numbers were checked and finalized. The fund's value rose 5.96 percent last year as part of what DiNapoli has described as a steady comeback from the 2008 financial crash.
The most recent valuation was $152.9 billion at the end of 2012.
A healthier fund, though, doesn't mean the immediate end of challenges facing localities. Towns, cities, counties and other local governments will see another year of sharply rising pension costs to make up for the previous shortfalls created by the recession.
Under state law, the bulk of public employee pensions come from investment returns generated by the retirement fund. But if returns dip, localities have to make up the difference by allocating a portion of their budgets.
Local governments were recently hit with an 11 percent increase in pension costs to make up the shortfall.
Critics have said the rising pension and health benefit costs for the public sector are driving local governments into insolvency, as well as driving unsustainable property tax increases. But DiNapoli told firefighters that once they get over the gap created by the 2008 crash, pension payments from local governments should even out.
Firefighters as well as police unions are facing a challenge from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who wants to change the long-standing arbitration system that guides union contracts with uniformed employees.
Municipal and county leaders say arbitration has contributed to sharply higher costs.
Under the existing system, contract talks that are at an impasse go to three-member arbitration panels. Mayors, county supervisors and others have long believed that the arbitrators favor unions.
For instance, during a recent arbitration in which 6 percent raises were awarded to Albany police sergeants and lieutenants, the panel concluded the city's residents are not overtaxed.
Cuomo has proposed that municipalities under financial strain could go to a special five-member panel that would arbitrate pay disputes.
The members would include representatives of the comptroller, attorney general, state Budget Division and two individuals from the private sector.
But both parties — municipalities and unions — would have to agree to use the alternative arbitration. Thus, if a police or firefighters union felt they would do better sticking with the old system, they could do so.


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Batelco announces support for Royal Fund for Martyrs
Batelco, in line with its commitment to support worthwhile initiatives in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has announced its support for the Royal Fund for Martyrs with a contribution of BD100,000.
The great initiative has been established by the Deputy King, His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, with an initial allocation of BD1 million. Following the orders of His Majesty the King, Shaikh Salman directed authorities to fast-track the fund's establishment to help the families of the martyrs.
Batelco highly praises the commitment of those who put their lives on the line in the course of duty to protect the Kingdom and its citizens. Batelco is both honoured and proud to contribute to the noble fund.
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Your Picture
use of a frame can turn an otherwise plain
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Also, a word of caution about using artificial
Your Photos For Display
you often wonder why your pictures (unretouched,
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White Balance
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How To Enhance Transients With Enveloper
Transients, or the attack phases of sounds, are very important in music. A transient is what makes a snare snappy, a kick punchy, andsoforth. Those first signature milliseconds are telling you : 'Smack, I'm a snare, and I'm loud' … or : 'I wish they'd hit me harder' …Compression is still a good way to work those transients, like it's always been. But there's a quicker way to alter the initial phase of a sound with Enveloper. And it's level-independent.
The two Gain Faders, one for the Attack Phase and the other for Release, are most important. Attack Time is next, with this you control how much (as in time) of the original Attack Phase will be altered. Around 20 ms is a good place to start. Release Time lets you alter the release phase. For a complete description of all knobs, visit Apple's Logic Studio Effects Guide.
Let's see what this looks like graphically.
Here's a snare, before and after treatment with Enveloper:
Just by looking at it you can tell it's snappier. The first couple of spikes at the beginning are louder in the second graph. Let's zoom out a bit, and work the tail of the audiofile by adding 70% gain to the Release Phase:
Endless possibilities. By decreasing the Gain Faders below zero, you can decrease the impact of percussive sounds and remove reverb from sounds respectively. When working with loops instead of single shots, adjust the threshold until transients are correctly detected.
More plugins, similar trick:
SPL Transient Designer
Waves Trans-X Wide
Waves Trans-X Multi (Multiband, ouch!)
Sonnox Oxford Transient Modulator
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-On [20050112 18:12], Zera William Holladay (zholla1@xxxxxxx) wrote: >1. What is the diff between a "trap" and an "interrupt?" The distinction >between the two seems blurred at best. An interrupt is where peripheral devices signal the CPU that data is ready to be moved to/from memory from/to the device. The CPU interrupts its current process scheduling to handle IO. That explains also why on a LAN that has a lot of excessive broadcasting traffic a simple NIC can slow down the entire computer. I think the trap should be exception. And those are internal states the CPU triggers for itself: division by zero, breakpoints, overflow, page fault, and so on. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(at)wxs.nl> / asmodai / kita no mono Free Tibet! http://www.savetibet.org/ | http://ashemedai.deviantart.com/ http://www.tendra.org/ | http://www.in-nomine.org/ Ignorance is the opportunity to learn...


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Noah back, Deng out for Bulls; Knicks' Felton sits
NEW YORK (AP) -- Joakim Noah is back in the Chicago Bulls' lineup after missing a game with a bruised right thigh, while the Knicks' Raymond Felton was out for the first of possibly a few games with a sore left hamstring.
The Bulls were still without Luol Deng. He missed Wednesday night's game because of a sore left Achilles.
Knicks coach Mike Woodson said Felton's absence could ''probably be a little while'' with an injury that has bothered him throughout the season. Pablo Prigioni got the start at point guard, and Kenyon Martin was also back in New York's lineup after missing two games with a sore left ankle.
Amare Stoudemire also was available to play on the second night of back-to-back games for the first time this season.


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Resplendent in red, white and blue boaters, pint-sized patriots at Public School 216 showed their true colors by offering a pomp-filled salute to local war heroes in honor of Veteran's Day.
More than 25 members of the Kings County Council of Jewish War Veterans arrived in a color guard processional, followed by members of other local veterans groups, including the American Legion Marlborough Post 1347, for a tribute in the auditorium of the school, 350 Avenue X.
Songwriter Hank Fellows was on hand to hear students sing his patriotic song, written after 9/11, entitled, "The Spirit of America."
Among the guest speakers was Irwin Beck, junior vice commander of the Sgt. Meyer Levin Flatbush Post 169, who spoke about the roots of the Jewish War Veterans. The group is the oldest veterans' service organization, which began as the Hebrew Union Veterans Association after the Civil War, and assumed its current name around 1896, at the time it received a charter from Congress.
The Jewish War Veterans have served in every armed conflict, from the French and Indian wars that preceded the American Revolution to the Civil War, Spanish American War, World Wars I and II and Korea in addition to Vietnam, Desert Storm, Bosnia and, currently, in Iraq.
"When you teach a child patriotism, you teach a whole generation," said Principal Celia Kaplinsky.
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Instead of the stupid "seven rounds" magazine bit, why don't they say MAKES 'ILLEGAL' EVERY GUN DESIGNED IN THE LAST 102 YEARS?
If someone had pointed out the classic 1911 contains 7 rounds, I'm sure they would have dropped the limit to 6 rounds. I may have missed it, but I didn't see if this law covered the multitude of revolvers having 7-10 rounds or if it covered speed loaders.


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Bridesmaid dress - Tania Olsen Poseur Charlotte Cobalt
Give your bridal party a vintage feel in the Charlotte cobalt bridesmaid dress by Poseur Design. Also perfect as a formal dress or ball gown this season.
You will feel pretty in the Charlotte cobalt bridesmaid dress. Made with delicate lace this gown features fine lace high cut sheer neckline with a sweetheart cut under bodice finished of with a eyelash scalloped lace edging which follows through the back v neckline.
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Mom dies in crash with two kids in truck
Updated 5:06 pm, Tuesday, November 20, 2012
HOOSICK — State police say speed and a slippery road apparently contributed to an accident Monday that killed a woman driving with two children on Johnson Hill Road.
Joe-De M. Wilbur was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after the 1:15 p.m. crash just west of the road's intersection with Burgess Road, troopers said on Tuesday. Wilbur's two children, ages 5 and 7, were in the truck at the time of the crash, troopers said. They were taken to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington. One child had a minor injury.
Wilbur was driving east on the road when she lost control of the pickup and crossed into the westbound lane. The truck left the road and overturned.
Police continue to investigate the crash. An autopsy has been scheduled for Wednesday, troopers said.


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Grizzlies take on Raptors in hoops contest
Memphis Grizzlies vs Toronto Raptors Odds
The Grizzlies will look to pick up a win while covering the spread when they take on the Raptors in Toronto at Air Canada Centre on Wednesday in NBA action.
Toronto battles the Grizzlies, currently with a 34-18 mark (30-21-1 ATS). The OVER/UNDER records, important for totals bettors, are 27-27 for the Raptors and 23-28-1 for the Grizzlies. (Note: follow us on Twitter for line updates and injuries news).
View Memphis vs Toronto Odds and Stats.
Betting Line:
Sportsbooks such as TopBet had the Raptors installed as 1-point favorites in this particular matchup. The over-under number was listed by most sportsbooks, including Bovada, at 186.5.
Power Rankings / Prediction:
According to new Power Rankings at Odds Shark, it's the No. 22-rated Raptors and the No. 8-rated Grizzlies in this matchup. Predictive computer formulas point to a 99-94 win for the Grizzlies on Wednesday.
How They Match Up:
In rebounding, the battle of the boards features Toronto's No. 28-rated squad against Memphis's No. 13-rated roster. When it comes to long-range shooting, Toronto rates No. 11 in the league with 7.5 per game, while their foes tonight rank No. 30 with 4.7 per outing.
In comparing how the teams stack up statistically, the Grizzlies own the league's No. 2-rated mark, allowing 93.7 points per game when playing on the road. Toronto, on the other hand, rates No. 15 in scoring on their home court.
Memphis was a 105-91 winner in its last match on the road against the Pistons. They covered the 3-point spread as favorites, while the total score of 196 sent OVER bettors to the payout window. Memphis got 19 points from Mike Conley en route to a 105-91 victory over Detroit on Tuesday at The Palace of Auburn Hills.
The Raptors were a 96-88 winner in their most recent outing on the road against the Wizards. They covered the 3-point spread as underdogs, while the total score (184) made winners of UNDER bettors. The Raptors got 24 points from Rudy Gay as Toronto ran past Washington 96-88 on Tuesday at Verizon Center.
Memphis Grizzlies Trends:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing Orlando are 5-5
After playing Detroit are 5-5
After a win are 5-5
Toronto Raptors Trends:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing New York are 4-6
After playing Washington are 5-5
After a win are 5-5
A few Grizzlies at Raptors trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Memphis's last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Memphis's last 9 games when playing on the road against Toronto
Memphis is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing Toronto
Memphis is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Toronto is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Toronto's last 9 games when playing at home against Memphis
The total has gone UNDER in 20 of Toronto's last 25 games when playing Memphis
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Toronto's last 9 games
Next up:
Memphis home to Orlando, Friday, February 22
Toronto home to New York, Friday, February 22


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A bit more than 24 hours ago, http://redrobbery.wordpress.com/ (Follow him on http://twitter.com/#!/redrobbery!) asked who'd like to write an article about Wolfsburg. Well, as I was bored and didn't know what to do I decided to write it. I had lots of fun while writing it and I'm happy that I did it! And now: enjoy! 😉
Like a phoenix from the ashes?
Before the 2:3 defeat in the German Cup against RB Leipzig, Felix Magath was sure that his team would be very uniform and he had also noticed a new team spirit. But soon his team brought him back to earth. It seemed that his players had forgotten everything they had trained in the pre-season. No effort, no joy of playing, no team spirit; nothing!
Magath was shocked. And when Felix Magath is shocked and disappointed, he has no mercy. He let his players show up at the training ground only five and a half hours after the disgrace in Leipzig and announced changes.
Basically, during the pre-season, Magath wanted to make the fans, the players and (most important!) the VW group forget the 15th place of the previous year. To accomplish this, he wanted to feature the team and not single players. Put another way, Magath uses the principle that has made him to one of the best managers in Germany, probably even in Europe: The manager is the star. Thanks to this motto, he won the championship with Wolfsburg in 2009 and reached an awesome second place with Schalke 04 during his first season in the Ruhr Valley.
To refund the trust that was placed in him by the investor, the VolksWagen group, he didn't spend much money. Why?
On the one hand, Magath knows that his investors and friends have already spent a lot of money during the two seasons he was away. In 2009/2010 Wolfsburg spend 27,5 million euros for players (Ziani, Rever, Johnson, Obafemi Martins, Kahlenberg) that never made the breakthrough. Then, in 2010/2011 Volkswagen spent 55 million euros! It stands to reason that they didn't want to buy too expensive players after two really disppointing seasons.
On the other hand, Magath likes to forward young players. He actually won the championship in 2009 with many young players as for instance Edin Dzeko. For the next two years (his contract ends in 2013) he wants to train young, developable and ambitious players. He does think that every player was dispensable.
Well, Magath did only spend 16,5 million Euros for four players. Altogether six new players have joined his team so far. Srdjan Lakic (K'lautern) and Hasan Salihamidzic (Juventus) came on a free. Christian Träsch (VFB Stuttgart), probably the most important new player cost 9 million. Marco Russ and Patrick Ochs (both Francfort) came for 3 million each. Mateusz Klich (MKS Cracovia) was the cheapest of Magath's new signings and cost 1,5 million euro.
After the elimination of the German cup, Magath announced new players and by extension new rumours were in circulation. His inverstors are ready to spend some more money because they don't wanna be the laughingstock for another season. As Magath was complaining about the bad conversion of chances by his strikers Mandzukic and Lakic, it was rumored that Magath wanted to buy Papiss Demba Cissé from SC Freiburg who has scored 29 times in 49 matches in the German championship, for 12 million. But Freiburg wants 17 million euros and it seems that Magath will buy the Senegalese despite Patrick Helmes' great performance last week-end against Cologne when he scored twice.
The defeat against RB Leipzig didn't only reveal that the strikers aren't good enough for Magath but also showed that his team suffers a lack of creativity. In the pre-season Magath had already tried to fight against this huge problem and let Ja-Cheol Koo and TUncay Sanli play on the ,,ten" but they couldn't convince him and Mateusz Klich isn't strong enough for the Bundesliga at the moment. So Magath's looking for a new Misimovic. He has already casted an eye at Milan Badelj (Dinamo Zagreb), a 22-year-young Croatian international (nominated twice) and at Niko Kranjcar (Tottenham). Both are great talents but rather expensive. For each of them, Magath has to pay at least 10 million euros. There were rumors that ,,Quälix" was also interested in Marko Marin (Bremen) but the German international is rather a winger and quite expensive.
Magath should also buy two new defenders because Simon Kjaer and Marco Russ aren't self-assured at all and might pose a risk to Magath's goals. People say he was interested in Daniel van Buyten but I don't think so because for one thing Bayern won't let the Belgian go and for another thing Magath still has players like Madlung or Friedrich sitting on the bench.
Thanks to the defeat against Leipzig, Magath recognized that his favorite tactics, the diamond formation wasn't the right one for his team. He decided to play with two definsively-minded midfielders, Josue and Träsch. Magath still has quite a big problem, though. He cannot play in the 4-2-3-1 because he has no good player on the ten and in the 4-4-2 he has no creative wingers. Hasebe and Ochs are rather workers than virtuosi. Träsch doesn't want to play on the wing, neither wants Mandzukic and Tuncay isn't good enough for Magath. Probably Magath will try the 4-4-2 till he's bought Badelj or Kranjcar.
It's difficult to say how Wolfsburg will play during the new season. It could be that they reach the Euro League but they could also finish on the 10th place. There's a huge lack of creativity in comparison to the other clubs who want to reach the Euro League as well. HSV, Stuttgart and Bremen have more creative and better players in the offensive. But if Magath manages to be evocative of team spirit, Wolfsburg could be the (pleasant?) surprise of the new season and accomplish Magath's goal; the international competition.


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Santos president Luis Alvaro Ribeiro has confirmed Chelsea have attempted to land Neymar this summer.
Ribeiro has been warning Real Madrid off their prize asset this week, but revealed other clubs have also been in contact.
"Neymar is not only wanted by Madrid, he is wanted by Barcelona, Chelsea, Juventus and PSG. It's normal.
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08 January 2014Government Contracts Alert
In a long awaited decision, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals held that affiliates of Public Warehousing Company, K.S.C. (PW), which was indicted for fraud, may be suspended for periods in excess of 18 months even though they were not charged or otherwise implicated in the misconduct. Agility Defense & Government Services v. U.S. Dept. of Defense, 2013 WL 6850891 (11th Cir. Dec. 31, 2013). The decision overturned the district court's decision finding it was improper to continue the suspensions of affiliated entities Agility Defense & Government Services (ADGS) and Agility International, Inc. (AI) beyond 18 months without instituting independent legal proceedings against the affiliates. Agility Defense and Government Services, Inc. v. U.S. Dept. of Defense, 2012 WL 2480484 (N.D. Ala., June 26, 2012). The 11th Circuit ruling means that affiliates of suspended entities may have little recourse beyond the limited due process afforded by the agency suspension and debarment process (i.e., the right to separate notice and an opportunity to respond).
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CHICAGO — An anonymous $10,000 bid was withdrawn Saturday for all the contents of the hotel room where O.J. Simpson stayed for a few hours the day after his ex-wife and her friend were killed.
That meant some Simpson collectors at the auction were able to acquire what they believe could be pieces of history. Others, however, still walked away empty-handed.
"Someone will pay $100,000 for this room someday," said Rose Simone, who unsuccessfully bid $65 for lamps Simpson may never have switched on.
Auction organizer John Klesch described the person who offered the $10,000 as an eccentric millionaire who changed his mind.
"He bought it with the intent of investment and was going to sell it in London, but then he . . . figured it wasn't worth the (aggravation)," Klesch said.


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The Five Tool Trial: The People vs. Kurt Warner
(Bailiff enters)
All rise!
(Judge enters)
Hear ye, hear ye, ladies and gentlemen of Blogfrica. Five Tool Court is now in session to determine the fate of Kurt Warner, quarterback of the Arizona Football Cardinals. Mr. Warner stands accused of the following crimes:
> Multiple counts of criminal abuse of a religious deity
> Multiple counts of fraud, from misrepresenting the excellence of his teammates as his own
> Multiple counts of animal husbandry, because there's no way that, recent improvements to the contrary, Brenda Warner is human
> Multiple counts of giving aid and comfort to Red State Americans who should have neither aid nor comfort
If found guilty, Warner will be afflicted with a cancer to be determined by the prosecutor, and I think we all know where he's going to put it.
He will also take the position as the third member in FTT's Quarterback Phantom Zone, and will be eventually Photoshopped into a 3-way with Brett Favre and Tony Romo, and more likely than not, made to take the Sarah Douglass position, with the little bob haircut.
(collective gasp from the crowd)
If found innocent, Warner will remain free as an honorable combatant to Eagles Nation, with no greater scorn or malice than dozens, if not hundreds, of other NFL players.
Your votes in the comments shall decide Warner's fate. Choose wisely.
The prosecuting attorney is Tracer Bullet. He has the opening statement.
Thank you, your honor. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I do not envy you today. For today, you have to gaze into the very soul of a man – a man prone to inappropriate outbursts of religiosity, a man given to denigrating the hard work of his coaches and teammates by ascribing all success to his imaginary friend in the sky, a man whose self-aggrandizing pieties are so shocking, so naked, so base and profane that one wonders if he doth not protest too much – and you must judge him.
Is Kurt Warner, in fact, a Satanist? No. Probably. Is he an insufferable god-botherer who should take that Jesus schtick somewhere where men don't spend their work hours trying to destroy each other and the off-hours trying to destroy themselves? That is for you to decide.
For today, you must look into the very soul of Kurt Warner, and you must judge him. Indeed, his story is impressive, going from the Arena League to now his second Super Bowl. Yes, he deserves praise for saving untold numbers of billy goats by marrying that wire-haired man-goblin he calls a wife and taking her from beneath that bridge where she'd lived for centuries. But does that absolve him from shoe-horning some tortured reference to Jebus into every conversation? That is for you to decide.
For today, you must look into the very soul of Kurt Warner, and you must judge him.
Does not the Bible, a book that, as we will prove, Kurt Warner has sex with on a regular basis, say in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter six, verse five: "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward."
Is a post-game interview anything but a street corner writ large? By that standard, by his own standard, I say YEA VERILY, Kurt Warner is but the basest and most foul of hypocrites. A man who feigns piety for his own glory.
And so, by that standard, by the standard of any reasonable man or woman, you must gaze into the soul of Kurt Warner and you must judge him. No, ladies and gentlemen of the jury I do not envy you, for you must sit in judgment of a man today. Yet, judge him you must and judge him you shall. You must name him for the beast that he his: A self-righteous ass-clown.
Good luck. I thank you for your often thankless service.
Warner's court-appointed defense attorney is DMtShooter. His rebuttal is as follows.
People of the jury, I am not here to defend all of the actions and choices of Jebus's Own Quarterback. I share neither the faith nor the inclination to defend all of the actions of a man who, like a child, should be seen and not heard. As an Eagles' fan, I deeply desired that his last game would have resembled "The Passion of the Christ", only with more gore.
But the simple fact is that Warner, while guilty of a fair number of crimes, is not worthy of banishment to the Phantom Zone, nor the prosecutor's insistence on dick cancer. He is, simply, no worse than most of his NFL brethren. Consider the following.
1) He's not a Manning.
2) He doesn't pout on the field like Jay Cutler.
3) He doesn't drink with the underaged, like his back-up, Matt Leinart.
4) He hasn't made his coach think he's going to off himself like a bulimic teenager, a la Vince Young.
5) He doesn't impregnate models, run up the score, and make decent people spit, like Tom Brady.
I've just named five quarterbacks more worthy of banishment. Where is the prosecutor's dick cancer for them?
Warner's greatest crime for the prosecutor is that he beat the Eagles in a big playoff game. Which brings up the other matter: why Warner, more than Brad Johnson? Why him, more than the quarterback who has not only beaten the Eagles at home in a playoff game, but also gave the Cardinals safe passage to the game in which they defeated the Eagles?
And yet Jake Delhomme is free to walk the streets, admittedly drunk, homeless and in disguise, lest he suffer the same fate as Benito Mussolini. But a free man nonetheless.
No, Warner's biggest crime is simply his jersey. Had he been wearing the local laundry, and won a Super Bowl, we would not be here today. Instead, we would all be kneeling in his church, hopeful that our hero was about to take our team to the promised land once again.
The prosecutor would be on his knees, accepting Kurt's communion. And he would not be alone.
The defense rests.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, what say you?


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It is great to be back at Artsjournal, after a fall semester of teaching a couple of courses, taking an introductory course in Mandarin, finishing up some academic papers and, most relevant to this space, completing a manuscript of a book on strategic pricing in the arts. I'll give updates as that moves along. For now, I plan on getting back to regular posting, and I welcome suggestions for any questions on pricing in the arts that might occur to you.
To get started, I came across this article in the journal Psychological Science by Andrew C. Hafenbrack, Zoe Kinias, and Sigal Barsade (thanks to Freakonomics for the pointer) on experimental evidence indicating that meditation can help decision-makers better avoid the sunk cost fallacy. Sunk costs are any investments in a project that are unrecoverable whether the subject opts to continue ahead with the project or abandon it. At the moment a producer makes a decision whether to continue with, or quit, preparations for a performance, the costs that have been incurred to that moment in rehearsing the performance are sunk, and cannot be recovered – the hours and money spent are gone. As such, they are irrelevant to the continue-or-quit decision, which should be based upon estimates of remaining costs and potential revenues. For example, if to this point I have spent $100 on a project that is sunk, and new estimates suggest that the revenues I can gain from completing the project are $75, then I should continue with the project if remaining costs are less than $75, and quit if remaining costs are greater than $75. The $100 already spent is beside the point. If remaining costs are $85, I would quit. Quitting means I lose the $100 sunk cost, but continuing is even worse – I would lose the $100 and an additional $10 from spending $85 more dollars only to receive $75 in return.
The logic isn't that hard to follow, but we are not always entirely logical in making decisions (and I include myself in that 'we'!). Our investments in projects, and in relationships, weigh on us when we decide whether to continue. Academics and other writers persist with projects – 'because I have spent so much time on this to walk away from it' – even when there is no good reason to believe that additional time invested will bring a return that makes it worthwhile. Nobody likes to feel like a 'quitter'; we praise perseverance.
But good decisions come from being forward-looking. Will extending the run of this show bring more benefits than the additional performances will cost to stage? Costs of rehearsal, preparation, the initial marketing campaign, are all sunk, and not relevant to the decision. Should I keep or sell my old car? Relevant considerations are the expected net benefits to you of owning the car, with all its expected future maintenance needs, or selling at its current market value to purchase a new car, with all of its expected future maintenance needs. The money you have sunk into the car in the past in repairs is not relevant – that money is gone. Should I stay in this unsatisfying job (or other relationship)? Look forward: what does my career path look like if I stay, or if I go? Counting the years spent in the current job is a distraction from the decision to be made.
So when making decisions, clear your head of thoughts of past expenses and investments, and if meditation helps you do that …


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Girls Helping Girls
Most American girls like me have it all planned out. We call out our dream careers in preschool circle times. We talk college as early as middle school. Between soccer practice and piano lessons and homework and friends, our plates are full. But on November 5, during the first ever West Coast Girl Up Pep Rally sponsored by the UN Foundation, I, along with 400 girls ages 10-18, had the chance to step off of our personal treadmills to learn about girls in developing countries around the world. They're young girls just like us, but what they have on their plates is very different.
"Too many girls are not able to realize their dreams because their reality is so ugly," said Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, who made a special appearance at the Girl Up event, where several prominent speakers highlighted the problems these girls face. Of the 143 million kids around the world who aren't enrolled in school, more than half are girls. Large numbers suffer sexual assaults before the age of 15. Half of them will give birth to more than one child before they are 20 — and many will die in the process. And did you know that 7% of girls in developing countries aren't even registered at birth? — It's as if their own countries don't believe they count.
"It is a crisis affecting millions of girls, girls your age, and how they are robbed of their rights, their dignity, and their futures every single day," said Queen Rania.
All of this was hard to comprehend at first from where I stood in Los Angeles' Marlborough School gym filled with well-educated girls eating pizza. But we were surrounded by an assortment of booths trying to give us a glimpse of life in the four countries that Girl Up supports, and one exhibit really struck me. In front of Malawi's booth there were large, yellow, plastic containers full of water. I struggled to pick one up, and shrieked as the handle slipped from my grasp and the jug fell to the ground. "I think I have a callus!" one 14-year old exclaimed, examining her hand after holding the container for less than a minute. What wimps we are, I thought. Malawian girls have to carry all that water for 15 hours a day!
It's easy to feel a little helpless about the state of the world when the simple fact of where a girl is born determines whether she spends her days at a school desk or working in a factory or farm for less than $2 a day. The purpose of the rally was not to make us feel guilty though — it was to help us recognize the problem so we can work together toward a solution. I learned that just $5 from my allowance can help buy school supplies, build water points in local villages, and help support girl centers in more communities.
Mental note: add "helping girls" to my future plans.
**TAKE ACTION: Educate girls to expand their world!**
Isabel DeBre is a high school freshman. She loves learning about global and humanitarian causes and is so excited to be a young voice in Care2′s public conversation on the issues that will affect her generation for years to come.


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The fire broke out in a vacant home, known to residents as a drug den, on 20th Avenue just after 2:30 a.m. It quickly spread down the block.
Firefighters, who arrived to find the building where the fire started completely engulfed in flames, had a scary challenge fighting the fire after live electrical lines began falling from overhead utility poles.
A barking dog awoke residents in a neighboring building to the flames.
One woman was trapped, but managed to escape.
Residents said they suspect squatters in the vacant building started the fire.
At least eight people were displaced. No serious injuries were reported.
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Lamar was in a coma for the first few days following his hospitalization and since waking up, he's regained function of all four organs that were failing and has been able to communicate. What's more, he's even started walking - with someone assisting him and a walker, which is a huge improvement from the last few weeks, when he remained bedridden.
He still obviously has a long way to go and nobody is sure yet whether or not he suffered brain damage and if he did, how much. Lamar still has months of physical therapy ahead of him, which he is able to receive in the hospital and will likely continue if and when he is transferred to a rehabilitation center.
Khloe Kardashian has remained by Lamar's side since he was admitted to the hospital and has vowed to stay with, and support him as he undergoes physical therapy, although that doesn't necessarily mean they're giving their marriage another shot.
"There is so much more medically and emotionally that we have to go through in order to even think about anything romantically," she told Yahoo! Style. "This is a very serious situation with a lot of layers. He has a long road ahead of him, and I will be there by his side. I will always love him unconditionally. That will never waver coming from me."
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I'm lookin for info on my g-grandfather born in Germany whose name is either Adolph Henry Michaelis or Henry Michaelis.He married a Catherine Wahl who was born in Alsace, Lorraine France.They came to the U.S. and possibly settled in Ohio or Indiana.He had a brother Charles J. Michaelis who was born in 1850 in Germany.Charles married Mary E. Wahl in 1875 in Fort Wayne, IN.
Adolph had three children, Benjamin Henry, Charles Daniel and Harmon.
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates:
The UAE has announced the formal ratification of its headquarters agreement with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), confirming IRENA's position as the global hub for renewable energy, and the first international organisation headquartered in the Middle East.
Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, the UAE's Special Envoy for Energy and Climate Change and CEO of Masdar speaking at the IRENA General Assembly, 13th Jan, 2013 (Photo: Business Wire)
The announcement was made during the first day of the annual IRENA Assembly in Abu Dhabi, in the presence of ministers and officials from 150 countries. It formally accords IRENA all the rights, privileges and protections of an international organisation.
The agreement also highlights the UAE's emergence as a global centre of excellence for renewable energy. Abu Dhabi is home to Masdar, the renewable energy city, and this week is hosting thousands of industry leaders and policy makers for Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW).
"I want to thank the UAE's leadership for their support of IRENA's HQ ratification, which represents a major milestone for the future of the Agency," said Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, the UAE's Special Envoy for Energy and Climate Change and CEO of Masdar. "The UAE now has its first fully fledged international organization – reflecting and enhancing our position as a global hub for the energy industry."
"The ratification of our headquarters agreement, and the presence of a record breaking number of ministers and policy makers at the 2013 Assembly, marks IRENA's coming of age," said Adnan Amin, IRENA Director General. "What began as a visionary idea in 2009 has truly taken form. The renewable energy era is upon us."
Note to Editors
IRENA is mandated by 159 countries and the European Union to promote the sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy, and to serve as the global hub for renewable energy cooperation and information exchange. Formally established in 2011, IRENA is the first major international organization to be headquartered in the Middle East.
Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week
Taking place January 13-17, Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) will attract an anticipated 30,000 participants from 150 countries to Abu Dhabi for what will be the largest gathering on sustainability in the history of the Middle East. A significant platform for international dialogue and cooperation, ADSW will tackle the world's most pressing energy, water and environmental challenges. ADSW will unite world leaders, policy makers, thought leaders, experts, scientists, business and academia.
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I've never been angry at San Antonio Spurs owner Peter Holt throughout this lockout. Business is business and his team lost some money the last couple of seasons so he's trying to do what's best for his business. While I can partially blame him his business losing money, I certainly can't be angry about these things.
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Anibal Sanchez is staying with the Detroit Tigers. After the free-agent pitcher appeared to be on the verge of taking a lucrative five-year, $77.5 million offer from the Chicago Cubs, the Tigers upped the ante and Sanchez agreed to a five-year, $80 million contract Friday, his agent, Gene Mato, told USA Today. Sanchez, 28, came to the Tigers during the 2012 season from the Miami Marlins, with whom he had pitched since 2006. He finished with a combined 9-13 record and a 3.86 ERA in 31 starts in 2012. In the Tigers' postseason run, the right-hander pitched well, logging a 1-2 record and a 1.77 ERA. His career record in seven seasons in the major leagues is 48-51 with a 3.75 ERA. Sanchez has battled injury problems and has posted only one winning season yet was considered one of the top free agents on the market this year. Among the teams pursuing Sanchez, in addition to the Cubs, were Boston, Seattle, Kansas City, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels. Sanchez will remain in a formidable Tigers rotation that includes Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer and Doug Fister.
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checklists_scrapers 0.2.1
Web scrapers for downloading checklists of birds from onlinedatabases such as eBird.
Latest Version: 0.2.3===================
Checklists_scrapers is a set of web scrapers for downloading records from
on-line databases of observations of birds. Scrapers are available for:
a database hosted by the Laboratory for Ornithology at Cornell University,
covering the Americas, Oceania and an increasing number of records for
European countries.
a network of databases hosted by WorldBirds (BirdLife International),
with good coverage of countries around the Mediterranean and Africa.
The eBird API only provides checklist records for up to the past 30 days so
the scrapers must be run on a regular basis. They are intended to provide a
continuous update of records and so are ideal for mirroring subsets of the
records available (for a given region for example) so you don't have to
repeatedly run reports or submit requests for data from the database hosts.
So, what is this for?
Checklists_scrapers was written to aggregate records from different databases
for loading into a
`django-checklists <http: github.com="" stuartmackay="" django-checklists="">`_
database. However, since the downloaded checklists are in JSON format the file
may be used with any similar database.
The scrapers (and django-checklists) are current used by the
`Birding Lisboa <http: www.birdinglisoa.com=""/>`_ news service which covers the
area around the Tejo estuary, Portugal. All the downloaded checklists are
loaded into a database which is used to publish the latest news as well as
generate annual reports.
A similar database could be used for any purpose - analysing observations
for conservation, environmental management or education. Aggregating the
observations from multiple databases with the scrapers makes this task a
lot easier.
Installing & Configuring
Checklists_scrapers is available from PyPI. You can install it with pip or
pip install checklists_scrapers
The scrapers are built using the scrapy engine which uses settings, in the same
way as Django, for configuration and runtime values. The settings file is
configured to initialize its values from environment variables. That makes it
easy to configure the scrapers, particularly for the most common use-case,
running them from a scheduler such as cron.
The only required setting is to tell scrapy (the engine used by the scrapers)
the path to the settings module::
export SCRAPY_SETTINGS_MODULE=checklists_scrapers.settings
The remaining settings have sensible defaults so only those that are
installation dependent, such as the mail server used for sending out status
reports. Here is this script that is used to run the scrapers for Birding
Lisboa from cron::
export SCRAPY_SETTINGS_MODULE=checklists_scrapers.settings
export LOG_LEVEL=INFO
export DOWNLOAD_DIR=/tmp/checklists_scrapers
export MAIL_HOST=mail.example.com
export MAIL_PORT=25
export MAIL_USER=<user>
export MAIL_PASS=<password>
export firstname.lastname@example.com
export firstname.lastname@example.com
source /home/project/venv/bin/activate
cd /home/project
scrapy crawl ebird -a region=PT-11
scrapy crawl ebird -a region=PT-15
The settings can also be defined when the scrapers are run using the -S
scrapy crawl ebird -a region=PT-15 -s LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
However this obvious becomes a little cumbersome if more than one or two
settings are involved.
scrapy crawl ebird -a region=PT-15 -s DOWNLOAD_DIR=downloads
NOTE: the environment variables use a prefix "CHECKLISTS" as a namespace
to avoid interfering with any other variables. When the setting is defined
using the -s option when running the scrapers, this prefix must be dropped::
NOTE: REPORT_RECIPIENTS is a comma-separated list of one or more
email addresses. The default value is an empty string so no status reports
will be mailed out. However if the LOG_LEVEL is set to 'DEBUG' the status
report will be written to the file checklists_scrapers_status.txt in the
DOWNLOAD_DIR directory.
Everything is now ready to run.
The arguments passed to the scrapers on the command line specify value such as
which region to download observations from and login details for scrapers
that need an account to access the data::
scrapy crawl ebird -a region=PT-11
scrapy crawl worldbirds -a username=<user> -a password=<pass> -a country=uk
See the docs for each spider to get a list of the command line arguments and
If you have defined the settings for a mail server and the setting
REPORT_RECIPIENTS then a status report will be sent out each time
the scrapers are run. If the LOG_LEVEL is set to 'DEBUG' the report is also
written to the directory where the checklists are downloaded to. The report
contains a list of the checklist downloaded along with an errors (complete with
stack traces) and any warnings::
Scraper: ebird
Date: 03 Jan 2014
Time: 11:00
Checklists downloaded
2013-12-27 09:59, Jardim Botanico da Universidade de Lisboa
2013-12-28 10:20, Baia Cascais
2013-12-28 13:31, PN Sintra-Cascais--Cabo da Roca
2013-12-29 07:45, RN Estuario do Tejo--Vala da Saragossa
URL: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S161101101
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/birdinglisboa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/base.py", line 1201, in mainLoop
File "/home/birdinglisboa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/base.py", line 824, in runUntilCurrent
call.func(*call.args, **call.kw)
File "/home/birdinglisboa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 382, in callback
File "/home/birdinglisboa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 490, in _startRunCallbacks
--- <exception caught="" here=""> ---
File "/home/birdinglisboa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 577, in _runCallbacks
current.result = callback(current.result, *args, **kw)
File "/home/birdinglisboa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/checklists_scrapers/spiders/ebird_spider.py", line 585, in parse_checklist
checklist = self.merge_checklists(original, update)
File "/home/birdinglisboa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/checklists_scrapers/spiders/ebird_spider.py", line 602, in merge_checklists
original['entries'], update['entries'])
File "/home/birdinglisboa/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/checklists_scrapers/spiders/ebird_spider.py", line 695, in merge_entries
if count in key[index]:
exceptions.TypeError: string indices must be integers
2014-01-01 11:55, Parque da Paz
API: http://ebird.org/ws1.1/data/obs/loc/recent?r=L1127099&detail=full&back=7&includeProvisional=true&fmt=json
URL: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S16160707
Could not update record from API. There are 2 records that match: species=White Wagtail; count=4.
Checklists downloaded also included the name of the observer, which was removed
here for obvious reasons. The stack traces in the Errors section is useful if
there is a bug but it is also a first indication that the format of the
information being scraped has changed. In either case report it as an issue and
it will get fixed.
Warnings are generally informative. Here a warning is generated because the
checklist contained two equal counts for White Wagtail in the API records -
only the species is reported information on subspecies is dropped. However
the subspecies is reported on the checklist web page. That means when the web
page was scraped it was not possible to distinguish between the two records.
The records should be edited to add any useful information such as comments,
which are only available from the web page.
* Documentation: http://checklists_scrapers.readthedocs.org/
* Repository: https://github.com/StuartMacKay/checklists_scrapers/
* Package: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/checklists_scrapers/
* Buildbot: http://travis-ci.org/#!/StuartMacKay/checklists_scrapers/
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Checklists_scrapers is available under the modified BSD licence.
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- Home Page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/checklists_scrapers/
- Keywords: eBird worldbirds web scraper birds checklists
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