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"I was intrigued by a recent John Abercrombie interview in which he described his Jazz as European influenced," Jentsch says. "When pressed for elaboration of that buzz-term, he indicated European Classical and Folk music influences in balance with or even at the expense of more hardcore Bebop or Blues sonorities."
All About Jazz: What kinds of music were you hearing growing up in Brooklyn?
Christopher Jentsch: I grew up in the '60s in Cherry Hill, NJ, which is a nice suburb across the river from Philadelphia. The music I heard was basically the Beatles (from my interest), Frank Sinatra (from my father), the musical family next door and all the hits on pop/rock radio at that time, since I listened to the radio a lot. I've been in Brooklyn since 1999.
AAJ: Did you do the usual sideman apprenticeship while studying the guitar and composing?
CJ: Not as much as many other NY musicians. I was self- or informally taught for quite a while on guitar before I began doing gigs or attending music schools. Consequently, my sight-reading was poor, even for a guitarist. The sideman apprenticeship thing you refer to still happens, but it is much less common a phenomenon for learning the music. Colleges and conservatories of music have sort of replaced the sideman thing you refer to, and I'm afraid I'm an example of this trend for better or worse. As the rise of jazz in music schools has developed, touring and keeping a regular band has become more challenging. My friend Gary Versace is a great contemporary example of someone who has combined the best of both of these two educational models.
My reading has gotten better over the years, but only to the point where it helps me with what I'm trying to create as a composer and guitarist. I don't really get calls to be a sideman because there are so many others who are faster at being able to contribute to the situation. Plus, I'm not as strong rhythmically as many others. As [Frank] Frank Zappa once referred to himself, "I'm an unreliable parts player," so perhaps I'm perceived as best cut out for playing my own music.
Having said all that, I'm comfortable with the situation as it is and also with my continuing evolution as a player. I'm so busy with teaching and organizing my own projects, that I probably don't have time for adding on a bunch of sideman stuff. Plus, a guitarist friend of mine does too much sideman work in his own view; he remarked that he felt I was lucky I didn't have to make my living that way.
AAJ: Your candor about your sight-reading is interesting in light of the formal education which you received at the New England Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music.
CJ: I began attending all the music schools six years after I had already graduated from college. (I have a degree in history from Gettysburg College.) Like I said before, I had been largely self-taught on an instrument that was not known for players who were great readers in the first place, especially back in the big hair metal '80s. I didn't even start guitar in the first place until age 17, so I also missed out on the whole high school band experience where a lot of players get their early intensive reading experience. I never played a band instrument. So I gained admittance to those schools on the strength of my ears and guitar auditiona modest ability to play standard tunes and improvise that I had developed in the '80s playing in small jazz groups and also doing casuals and weddings (good situations in which to be expected to know tunes). I was already somewhat of a working professional, playing commercial gigs, touring with top-40 bands, etc., but I sensed a real dead end for my musical development in that direction and decided to get some more education.
I even went to Berklee [College of Music] for a semester, waiting for a spot to open up at the conservatory. At Berklee, all the musicians earned a four-digit "ensemble number" that changed with the twice-a-year instrument juries; it was used primarily to place people in the different bands. The first digit was for sight-reading, the second for scales or modes or something, and then playing a standard melody with improvising, and the fourth was all-around musicianship. At one point during the one semester I was there, I was assigned something like a 2445 or a 1334 as a 26-year-old "freshman." If you asked someone to play a session, they would ask you for your ensemble number, and if it was too much lower than theirs, they might say no and vibe you. Tiger Okoshi [the trumpeter, now on Berklee staff] was rumored to have had the only 9999.
I went into the toilet once at Berklee, and in one of the stalls was a kid sitting on the commode practicing guitar with his pants around his ankles. That's the kind of school it was, and ultimately not for me, but I certainly learned a lot of important fundamentals in the four months I was there (beginning harmony, ear training, arranging basics, calligraphy/notation, etc). I think the people who could read and play at a higher level even upon entering Berklee made out better than I did. Plenty of friends that I know now thrived there back in the day.
It was assumed then that my deficiency in sight-reading would be rectified along the way as I progressed through music schools. Once I actually got into the schools, I concentrated more on improvisation, ear training, composition and orchestration. I got better at reading since I was dealing with printed music all the time and playing a lot, but I never achieved the sort of reading fluency that many of the good NYC guitarists have. In the end, I think this unusual path has helped me develop an individual musical personality.
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Django threading review
- Summary: as of 1.0.2, two more threading bugs were discovered. …
- Introduction
- Globals
- Class attributes
Django threading review
Summary: as of 1.0.2, two more threading bugs were discovered. If you find a threading bug, please file a ticket with threading keyword.
As of 1.0.2 the following tickets list threading bugs: #10472, #10470.
Relevant tickets: #5632, #6950, #1442, #7676.
Relevant discussions: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_frm/thread/a7d42475b66530bd, http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/fbcfa88c997d1bb3, http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/905f79e350525c95
Only easy-to-identify globals have been reviewed, a related task is to identify other components not listed here that may have threading issues.
The review was done before qs-rf merge, class attrib review is incomplete.
The main pattern of global variable usage in Django is use
var if initialized (read), otherwise initialize (write), where
var can be a single value or element of a data structure. This is generally not thread-safe.
"Not thread-safe" has two broad subcategories in this case:
- inefficiencies due to initialization calls meant to occur only once occurring more than once (including
- errors due to incomplete initialization.
Paradoxically, accepting the "inefficiencies" results generally in more efficient execution as:
- mutual exclusion (locking) is expensive,
- the inefficient case is not a certain event, it only occurs with a probability that can be quite low,
- locking would needlessly penalize single-threaded execution.
Thus, lock-free algorithms should be always preferred and the inefficient case tolerated -- unless the inefficiency is highly probable and results in overhead that is considerably greater than with locking or has harmful side-effects.
When evaluating the inefficiencies, their impact should be considered as outlined above: probability, overhead and side effects. The duplicated case,
1. thread 1: if not foo: true, needs initializing 2. thread 2: if not foo: true, needs initializing 3. thread 1: initialize foo 4. thread 2: initialize foo
is not that common. No code where duplicated call would cause a considerable overhead or harmful side-effects was found during the review, so the "inefficiency issues" are really non-issues and listed below only for reference. In the multi-process case each process does initialize
foo individually anyway.
Note that as modules are cached in the Python interpreter (see
sys.modules), duplicate
__import__ calls don't re-import modules.
Errors due to incomplete initialization
Incomplete initialization problem is the following:
foo = [] 1. thread 1: if not foo: true, needs initializing 2. thread 1: foo.append(x) 3. thread 2: if not foo: false, does not need initializing --> use the incomplete foo 4. thread 1: foo.append(y) 5. thread 1: use fully initialized foo
Incomplete initialization errors can generally be avoided by using full assignment instead of elementwise modification; additionally, to make sure no further modifications of a list can happen, tuples should be used instead of lists (inspired by source:django/trunk/django/template/context.py@7415#L86):
foo = [] def init_foo(): ... if not foo: for x in y: foo.append(x)
foo = None def init_foo(): ... global foo if foo is None: tmp = [] for x in y: tmp.append(x) foo = tuple(tmp) # assignment is "atomic", tuple is const-correct and more efficient
There are four types of globals:
- globals that are initialized at module level and never modified later (THREAD-SAFE),
- global mutable data structures that are initialized at module level and whose elements are modified with module level code, but never modified later (PROBABLY THREAD-SAFE, although elementwise modification at module level is not thread-safe per se, the module is most likely cached before threads get access to it)
- global mutable data structures (lists and dictionaries, also instances) that are initialized at module level but whose elements are modified in functions and that are accessed without using the
globalkeyword (NOT THREAD-SAFE),
- globals initialized in functions by using the
globalkeyword (NOT THREAD-SAFE),
Modules' use of globals
Note that only lists, tuples and globals accessed with the
global keyword have been reviewed. Global class instances (e.g. registries) and class variable access without the
__class__ keyword are missing. The latter are probably impossible to catch with
See below for raw
grep results.
|Incomplete init
|settings and global_settings
|MODULE LEVEL INIT, not reviewed
|lots, including code
|MODULE LEVEL INIT, not reviewed
|one db hit intended, more than one possible
invalid_var_format_string, libraries, builtins
|Fixed with #6950
_accepted, _active, _default, _translations
|explicit threading support, no inefficiencies
_callable_cache, _resolver_cache
memoize decorator
|Fixed with #7676
|OK?, needs further review
append() in
add_lazy_relation() can add duplicated values, which may or may not confuse
pop() in
dirty, state
|explicit threading support, no inefficiencies
connections, senders, sendersBack
|not reviewed
django/template/loader.py: the "wrong" algorithm above, fixed with #6950
_load_serializers()is unsafe, fixed with #7676:
1. thread 1: if not _serializers: true --> _load_serializers(), enter for loop 2. thread 1: register_serializer(x) 3. thread 2: if not _serializers: false --> use incomplete _serializers 3. thread 1: register_serializer(y)
add_lazy_relation()can add duplicated values, which may or may not confuse
Class attributes
Class attributes are shared between instances and thus between threads as well (as module-level classes are just global class objects).
The behaviour is similar to globals: in similar manner to the global keyword in
functions, explicit class specifier
foo.__class__.bar is required for setting
class variable
bar from instance
foo, otherwise a instance scope variable
will be created that hides the class scope variable.
(As this may not be obvious, let me illustrate it:)
>>> class Foo(object): bar = 1 ... >>> f = Foo() >>> f.bar = 2 >>> Foo.bar 1 >>> f.bar 2 >>> f.__class__.bar 1 >>> f.__class__.bar = 3 >>> f.bar 2 >>> Foo.bar 3
As with globals, there are three types of class variables,
- class variables that are initialized when the class is defined and never modified later (THREAD-SAFE),
- mutable class level data structures that are initialized when the class is defined but whose elements are modified in methods and that are accessed without using the
__class__keyword (NOT THREAD-SAFE),
- class variables initialized in methods by using the
__class__keyword or directly by
Classname.varname(NOT THREAD-SAFE),
Metaclasses -- think through the implications.
grep results
Globals accessed with the
global keyword
$ grep -r '^[[:space:]]*global ' django/ | egrep -v '(\.svn|\.html|\.css|\.pyc|_doctest\.py)' | sort | uniq
yields the following results
django/contrib/sites/models.py: global SITE_CACHE django/core/management/__init__.py: global _commands django/template/context.py: global _standard_context_processors django/template/__init__.py: global invalid_var_format_string django/template/loader.py: global template_source_loaders django/utils/translation/trans_real.py: global _accepted django/utils/translation/trans_real.py: global _active django/utils/translation/trans_real.py: global _default, _active django/utils/translation/trans_real.py: global _translations django/utils/translation/trans_real.py: global _translations
Out of these,
django.core.management is not used in multi-threading context.
Global dictionaries
$ grep -r '^[[:alnum:]_]\+ *= *{' django | egrep -v '(\.svn|_doctest\.py)' | sort
yields the following results
django/conf/global_settings.py:ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {} django/conf/global_settings.py:DATABASE_OPTIONS = {} # Set to empty dictionary for default. django/contrib/admin/utils.py:ROLES = { django/contrib/admin/views/doc.py:DATA_TYPE_MAPPING = { django/contrib/formtools/tests.py:test_data = {'field1': u'foo', django/contrib/localflavor/ca/ca_provinces.py:PROVINCES_NORMALIZED = { django/contrib/localflavor/in_/in_states.py:STATES_NORMALIZED = { django/contrib/localflavor/us/us_states.py:STATES_NORMALIZED = { django/contrib/sites/models.py:SITE_CACHE = {} django/core/cache/__init__.py:BACKENDS = { django/core/cache/__init__.py:DEPRECATED_BACKENDS = { django/core/handlers/wsgi.py:STATUS_CODE_TEXT = { django/core/serializers/__init__.py:BUILTIN_SERIALIZERS = { django/core/serializers/__init__.py:_serializers = {} django/core/servers/basehttp.py:_hop_headers = { django/core/servers/fastcgi.py:FASTCGI_OPTIONS = { django/core/urlresolvers.py:_callable_cache = {} # Maps view and url pattern names to their view functions. django/core/urlresolvers.py:_resolver_cache = {} # Maps urlconf modules to RegexURLResolver instances. django/db/backends/dummy/creation.py:DATA_TYPES = {} django/db/backends/dummy/introspection.py:DATA_TYPES_REVERSE = {} django/db/backends/mysql/creation.py:DATA_TYPES = { django/db/backends/mysql/introspection.py:DATA_TYPES_REVERSE = { django/db/backends/mysql_old/creation.py:DATA_TYPES = { django/db/backends/mysql_old/introspection.py:DATA_TYPES_REVERSE = { django/db/backends/oracle/creation.py:DATA_TYPES = { django/db/backends/oracle/creation.py:REMEMBER = {} django/db/backends/oracle/introspection.py:DATA_TYPES_REVERSE = { django/db/backends/postgresql/creation.py:DATA_TYPES = { django/db/backends/postgresql/introspection.py:DATA_TYPES_REVERSE = { django/db/backends/postgresql_psycopg2/introspection.py:DATA_TYPES_REVERSE = { django/db/backends/sqlite3/creation.py:DATA_TYPES = { django/db/backends/sqlite3/introspection.py:BASE_DATA_TYPES_REVERSE = { django/db/models/fields/related.py:pending_lookups = {} django/db/models/query.py:LEGACY_ORDERING_MAPPING = {'ASC': '_', 'DESC': '-_', 'RANDOM': '?'} django/db/transaction.py:dirty = {} django/db/transaction.py:state = {} django/dispatch/dispatcher.py:connections = {} django/dispatch/dispatcher.py:senders = {} django/dispatch/dispatcher.py:sendersBack = {} django/template/__init__.py:libraries = {} django/utils/dates.py:MONTHS = { django/utils/dates.py:MONTHS_3 = { django/utils/dates.py:MONTHS_3_REV = { django/utils/dates.py:MONTHS_AP = { # month names in Associated Press style django/utils/dates.py:WEEKDAYS = { django/utils/dates.py:WEEKDAYS_ABBR = { django/utils/dates.py:WEEKDAYS_REV = { django/utils/_decimal.py:_condition_map = {ConversionSyntax:InvalidOperation, django/utils/_decimal.py:_infinity_map = { django/utils/simplejson/decoder.py:BACKSLASH = { django/utils/simplejson/decoder.py:_CONSTANTS = { django/utils/simplejson/encoder.py:ESCAPE_DCT = { django/utils/termcolors.py:opt_dict = {'bold': '1', 'underscore': '4', 'blink': '5', 'reverse': '7', 'conceal': '8'} django/utils/translation/trans_null.py:TECHNICAL_ID_MAP = { django/utils/translation/trans_real.py:_accepted = {} django/utils/translation/trans_real.py:_active = {} django/utils/translation/trans_real.py:_translations = {}
Out of these, the following are read-only (i.e. not changed anywhere in code) or otherwise irrelevant:
contrib/admin, formtools tests, localflavor mappings,
core/cache, core/handlers, core/serializers/__init__.py:BUILTIN_SERIALIZERS,
core/servers, db/backends, db/models/query.py, utils/dates.py,
utils/_decimal.py, utils/simplejson, utils/termcolors.py,
SITE_CACHE and everything in
django.utils.translation.trans_real has already been listed under
globals above.
_callable_cache and
_resolver_cache in django/core/urlresolvers.py are used within the memoize decorator,
result = func(*args) may be called more than once in
utils/functional.py, but this should generally be a non-issue.
That leaves the following relevant global dicts not listed before:
django/core/serializers/__init__.py:_serializers = {} django/db/models/fields/related.py:pending_lookups = {} django/db/transaction.py:dirty = {} django/db/transaction.py:state = {} django/dispatch/dispatcher.py:connections = {} django/dispatch/dispatcher.py:senders = {} django/dispatch/dispatcher.py:sendersBack = {} django/template/__init__.py:libraries = {}
Global lists
$ grep -r '^[[:alnum:]_]\+ *= *\[' django | egrep -v '(\.svn|_doctest\.py|__all__)' | sort
yields the following results
django/db/models/fields/__init__.py:BLANK_CHOICE_DASH = [("", "---------")] django/db/models/fields/__init__.py:BLANK_CHOICE_NONE = [("", "None")] django/template/__init__.py:builtins = [] django/template/loaders/app_directories.py:app_template_dirs = [] django/utils/_decimal.py:rounding_functions = [name for name in Decimal.__dict__.keys() if name.startswith('_round_')] django/utils/_decimal.py:_signals = [Clamped, DivisionByZero, Inexact, Overflow, Rounded, django/utils/html.py:DOTS = ['·', '*', '\xe2\x80\xa2', '•', '•', '•'] django/utils/html.py:LEADING_PUNCTUATION = ['(', '<', '<'] django/utils/html.py:TRAILING_PUNCTUATION = ['.', ',', ')', '>', '\n', '>'] django/utils/simplejson/decoder.py:ANYTHING = [
Leaving out the irrelevant read-only ones, the following remain:
django/template/__init__.py:builtins = [] django/template/loaders/app_directories.py:app_template_dirs = []
As a matter of style, the read-only ones should really be tuples, not lists -- the 'say what you mean' idiom: if it shouldn't be modified, don't let it be by making it a tuple. Tuples are also marginally more efficient speed- and space-wise. There is a slight semantic distinction between lists and tuples though http://jtauber.com/blog/2006/04/15/python_tuples_are_not_just_constant_lists/ . But as there are no constant lists in Python, tuples are the only way to be const-correct.
__class__ keyword used for accessing anything other than
$ grep -r '__class__\.' django/ | egrep -v '(\.svn|\.html|\.css|\.pyc|_doctest\.py|__class__\.__name__)' | sort | uniq
yields the following results
django/contrib/auth/middleware.py: request.__class__.user = LazyUser() django/contrib/contenttypes/models.py: ct = self.__class__._cache[id] django/contrib/contenttypes/models.py: ct = self.__class__._cache[key] django/contrib/contenttypes/models.py: self.__class__._cache.clear() django/contrib/contenttypes/models.py: self.__class__._cache[ct.id] = ct django/contrib/contenttypes/models.py: self.__class__._cache[key] = ct django/db/models/base.py: q = self.__class__._default_manager.filter(**kwargs).order_by((not is_next and '-' or '') + field.name, (not is_next and '-' or '') + self._meta.pk.name) django/db/models/base.py: raise self.DoesNotExist, "%s matching query does not exist." % self.__class__._meta.object_name django/db/models/fields/__init__.py: not instance.__class__._default_manager.filter(**{'%s__exact' % self.name: getattr(instance, self.attname)}): django/dispatch/saferef.py: del self.__class__._allInstances[ self.key ] django/newforms/models.py: opts = instance.__class__._meta django/newforms/models.py: opts = instance.__class__._meta

subset: commoncrawl


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Lancashire have refused to rule out the prospect of Andrew Flintoff making a shock return to domestic cricket.
The Red Rose county have made no secret of the fact that Flintoff has been training with the first-team squad and working with academy players this season, giving rise to speculation over the 36 year-old's future plans.
A report in the Mail on Sunday claims the former England captain, who quit the sport in 2010 after a succession of injuries, could be tempted out of retirement to feature for his former county in the NatWest T20 Blast competition, which gets under way later this month.
It is understood the chances of an imminent return are unlikely, although it is believed the situation is ongoing and Lancashire have stopped short of dismissing the prospect out of hand.
"There is an awful long way to go before that happens. We haven't asked him to come back, and he hasn't come to us saying he wants to play," the Lancashire board cricket representative Paul Allott told the Manchester Evening News.
"Andrew has been down at the ground over the last couple of months and has been mentoring the academy.
"He put his pads on to have a bat and he has been batting and bowling pretty well. But he has not played cricket or done any running around the outfield or taken any catches.
"He has been more than useful helping the lads. Who knows if it will come to more than that."
Flintoff has embarked on a successful career in the media since retirement, featuring in a number of television and radio shows for the likes of Sky and the BBC.
He also hit the headlines by making a brief foray into boxing in 2012, when he shed the pounds before beating American journeyman Richard Dawson in a poorly-received bout in Manchester.


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When U.S. forces, aided by those from several other countries, invaded Iraq a decade ago last week, many Americans believed a just, necessary conflict was under way and would be concluded swiftly.
Now we understand we were wrong – concerning just about everything.
U.S. and other coalition forces already had driven Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorists and their Taliban enablers from power in Afghanistan.
Having crippled those responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the decision then was made to go after Iraq, classed as a rogue state.
It was at that point that things began to go wrong. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not possess the weapons of mass destruction we thought were in his hands. Our armed forces, trained for years to confront the Soviet army, did a marvelous job of destroying Iraq's conventional forces.
Then, in a situation something like what confronted Americans in Vietnam, fighting shifted to something different, for which U.S. forces were not well-prepared. For years, American soldiers and Marines found themselves fighting guerrillas who used tactics and weapons, such as IEDs (improvised explosive devices) that were very effective against a conventional force.
And yes, like Vietnam, Americans frequently were assured victory was just around the corner.
It was not. Even though the official U.S. combat role in Iraq is over, hundreds of armed "contractors" remain there to protect our diplomats. And terrorist bombings continue.
In Afghanistan, the current strategy also seems to be to get our forces out as quickly as possible, and leave it to the Afghans to craft what we hope will be some sort of peace.
One thing about Iraq and Afghanistan is not the same as Vietnam – thank heaven. Too often, U.S. service men and women coming home from Southeast Asia were spat upon, both figuratively and literally, by the very Americans they served.
That was wrong. It was not then and is not now the fault of the brave men and women we send to war that their leaders, both military and political, were lacking.
Now, we honor those who serve us in uniform.
And we mourn them. Of the 6,676 American service men and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, 29 were West Virginians and 188 were Ohioans. Of the 22,516 wounded, sometimes very badly, 1,264 have been Ohioans and 218 hailed from West Virginia.
We owe them and those who will serve in the future our respect. More important, we owe it to them to learn what went wrong in Iraq and Afghanistan – to avoid making similar mistakes in the future.


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Federal across-the-board spending cuts will impact local governments and other operations to varying degrees, a panel of experts said Tuesday.
At Sarasota Memorial Hospital, smaller Medicare payments will cost $20 million a year.
Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport may see delays in air traffic and longer lines at security gates.
And federal payments to Sarasota County for bonds used to finance construction projects may shrink, though not to a significant degree.
Local officials and national financial experts addressed the potential effects of the so-called sequester Tuesday at a forum sponsored by New College of Florida and the Global Interdependence Center.
National economists told the 100 attendees that federal budget cuts — $85 billion in all — have done little economic damage so far.
That appears to be the case in Sarasota County as well, although some will soon feel the pinch more than others.
David Verinder, chief operating officer at Sarasota Memorial, said federal payments for Medicare patients will be reduced by 2 percent in coming months.
Medicare and private insurance account for 90 percent of the hospital's $650 million in annual revenues.
"We will lose $20 million a year on Medicare," he said.
Sarasota-Bradenton president Fredrick "Rick" Piccolo, meanwhile, said the sequester will not reduce the number of arrivals or departures at the airport.
But passengers could wait longer for planes as flights from major hubs like Atlanta and Chicago are delayed by air traffic controller furloughs and other slowdowns.
Security lines could also become clogged if the Transportation Security Administration has to furlough workers or stop paying overtime, though Piccolo did not think it would be much of a factor at Sarasota-Bradenton.
"If the lines at Tampa get longer, it would show the advantage of using SRQ," Piccolo said, referring to the regional airport's call letters.
Sarasota County attorney Stephen DeMarsh said the sequester may cause a small reduction to the federal subsidy of the Build America Bond program, which the county used to help with the $31 million renovation to Ed Smith Stadium.
"We'll survive it just fine," he said.
Verinder said he is more concerned about how the hospital will cope with the Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," which kicks in in earnest next year.
He said the program could shave Medicare payments by up to $35 million a year.
"That's a tremendous amount of dollars we can't absorb by doing nothing," he said, noting the hospital has been working to cut costs in preparation.
Department of Defense furloughs will affect more than 71,000 personnel in Florida, said Natalie Cohen, head of municipal research at Wells Fargo Securities.
That will feel like a 20 percent pay cut for some of them, she said, and the economies of Florida cities with large military operations, in turn, may be hurt by less consumer spending.
Pinch of federal spending cuts to be felt locally
Federal across-the-board spending cuts will impact local governments and other operations to varying degrees, a panel of experts said Tuesday.


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WE had a tedious winter passage, and from the distance spectres seemed to rise up on the shores of the United States. It is a sad feeling to be afraid of one's native country. We arrived in New York safely, and I hastened to Boston to look after my children. I found Ellen well, and improving at her school; but Benny was not there to welcome me. He had been left at a good place to learn a trade, and for several months every thing worked well. He was liked by the master, and was a favorite with his fellow-apprentices; but one day they accidentally discovered a fact they had never before suspected--that he was colored! This at once transformed him into a different being. Some of the apprentices were Americans, others American-born Irish; and it was offensive to their dignity to have a "nigger" among them, after they had been told that he was a "nigger. " They began by treating him with silent scorn, and finding that he returned the same, they resorted to insults and abuse. He was too spirited a boy to stand that, and he went off. Being desirous to do something to support himself, and having no one to advise him, he shipped for a whaling voyage. When I received these tidings I shed many tears, and bitterly reproached myself for having left him so long. But I had done it for the best, and now all I could do was to pray to the heavenly Father to guide and protect him.
Not long after my return, I received the following letter from Miss Emily Flint, now Mrs. Dodge:--
Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy.'


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Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter Richie Havens — who died April 22 at age 72 — appeared on Mountain Stage on Jan. 29, 1995. His unmistakably percussive guitar style and intense vocals helped set him apart from other songwriters, while his ability to make traditional and cover songs his own made him a primal force in the world of solo acoustic performers. Havens had long since secured his place in history by opening the fabled Woodstock festival with a three-hour set that kept thousands of listeners spellbound.
Richie Havens was a colorful, larger-than-life performer. He plays several of his best-known songs during this set, during which you can often hear the sound of his beads hitting his guitar and adding to the music.
Set List
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i won't tell you what it is but it kills cancers within hours. i just took out another batch. i will give it to you when you come. god said my skin has gone dark anthrax why they turned the water off hiv worms as well. i can not get better in this house i would die in here. god said all i have are little worms left he just told me to take out the piece of shit in my eyes she is nearly gone my mouth is burning hiv worms coming out because of what i just gave her. god said it is the carbon that saved me all of the anthrax worms who came in are dead worms it happened in chingford annn but i was able to wash them out the water was hot 8 9 baths a day
the new cancer cure i promise you they don't know it is you they drop god said i have take out so many since i have been here what can i say you hit them everything starts moving do it again later. you can keep doing it. they are not getting that cure i need it for my family.
god said because of what i am giving to them and what i wash in none of the worms will root up in my body that is why i can wash them out.i soon as i wee they flood out but different ones come he said it is this house. after i leave here i get rid of them quickly but hers are rooting up in her
on my childrens life i can clean all of your cans out of your body in 1 week you cuts wait for it,
the carbon is immunity that is what i found immunity why the anthrax won't kill me they see the haylo that is why they keep coming in
i have been fighting with the little worms but i could have cleaned out all of the cancers in a week all of them need a drink and food as long as they put their hand in there they are gone.
worms don't listen as soon as one batch is gone they push them out the way and go in there is room that is what they say,
god said anna only put a little bit of anthrax in the house every fucking person coming to the door is throwing it in. like the africans who knock the door and goes to the white woman across the road the council people and the african next door who has it rooting up in her and her childrens bodies and the man she is with and their friends and family.
god told me not to open any letter which comes here to me dss council anthrax is in all of them only a little but the powder is in there.
the worms anthrax will not touch my children they are fighting with me i'll take the fall. god said the worms don't know we are leaving it hurts them when we don't come back they go after the people who come in to this house.
god told me i am not allowed to take anything from this house because of the anthrax nicole called this morning i told her she can come at 1 on friday. she asked if i wash shifting things. the cheek. god said it was nicole he let me here say "i don't want that " and all of the kedos were her odimiwa "no i am not alright" kedo how are you
god said i told the council i was george and charlottes family milli naire told nicole and she said she didn't want that. even the african shop took out their tobacco all of the africans joining in is because of nicole.
they know there is no itch it is pins they hurt they know. i can not wait to wash in hot flowing water they drop when i pour hot water overmy body qickly my legs pins fall down.
david better move himself god said they don't take him out it was him for the white woman. god said we stayed in his hotel in archway he saw me and looked we kept washing he said he was going to stop me and my children from washing so that i could smell like the white woman. god said he wanted to pick me up because of the ship that was how he came but to pick up a white woman he would never have done that to her. the klu klux.
in asda the sticks were making whole for the pregnat cancer i took her out but the sticks are still here i took out some washing but they are in my neck and face it hurts all around my mouth i took some out today very spiteful my eyes as well i am in pain
if i sit on the toilet seat you can see lots of pins like little hairs
your all fucking worms look what i gave to the dogs! your dogs!
those worms are not sticking out of my neck they are sticking into my throught. i took some out this morning
i better start thowing things out pain or no pain i need to clean up. bye
god said that is why he made me give the song to joshua who only go out with asian women.
the bleach kills them straight away neat bleach it makes my face sinny for a little bit. im sore.
i am itching down below hiv coming down bit the burning on the hair area is the anthrax.
i take them all out as soon as i go to sleep they go back in.,
antrax is in my ears i blow them out but they are dropping from the celin they are in my childrens hair but won't go in them god said they jump off my children. they are not upset with them. they love sapphire they think she is beautiful. her hair was full not one went in.
i uswe tissue to brush them out they can not get out of tissue if i put the tissue on the table they shoot out of my body like just now i f i put the tissue on the floor it is disrespect they come in b god said serve every body right because of what is going to happen to them they are using anthrax to take me out and that is the behavior of that worm why the hiv worms are behaving like that
god said before i moved in nicole sprinkled some athrax onto carpets he said her urin had hiv worms in it why the sticks are in the sofa whitch she poured her we on he said that is what they turned into.
god said the people at the council in newham got her the anthrax why they took my deposit and rent and wouldn't give it back.
god said mention nicole to the worms who understand he said i make them understand they are teaching me to show respect to them. i told them nicole made the water broken showed them hot and cold and the heating doesn't work she broke it they are after nicole.
i told them to do it to nicoles arm she is the reason why it is not warm. i am leaving the cooker on when i go.
the window ledges are full of water anthrax woms are all over the walls in myles' room i cleaned the windows and walls in that room two weeks ago the windows were black again i am not touching them god said leave them on the walls the back room i had a fight with them i'm leaving the soap powder they keep juming on me even if i walk in if the gas cooker is not on and it is cold i will tidy that is it she did it. lotss of disruting worms why the house is a mess. it is not to bad just rubbish to throw out. they keep coming in and leaving trying to cut my skin off my body.
anthrax did it all over the coats in the cupboad over ther suitcases in plates on the carpet. babies nicole.
god said i needed sapphire they won't do it were here clothes are and that is why they won't touch my other children she is different from all of the other children in the house davina ryan and jake has been here they know they are mine
god said even if sapphire did spite to them they don't care they love her colour.but not the white men and women. she is like a cute little dog to them.
i can get up now lots of the worms came out i can still feel lots but they are not shooting out.
god said the cancer who told the woms to stick out in asda knew i was out why she did it. i lost lots of hiv worms why my sking on my legs were burning they left
god said i have to wash first i have to we in the bath i am not allowed to use the toilet like i am doing in here he said the worms get upset because they are somewhere different they don't shoot out they behave they are worried about their families
i worried about having to put on the same boots i have them on i went up the shop i can feel them trying to get out.
the boots are new i washed them after wearing them they are in my feet and come out for water and go back.
god said they look at the other worms around them when we leave and know they won't help them. god said there are lots of worms in hotels none of them came into my body whilst i was staying in them anthrax worms and hiv. the anthrax burns they are flat.
there is a worm who called in every fuck worm stick into her body but let them go in mshe pushes them out she was not the only one streaming down my back i washed lots of them out two nights ago only at tiny streaming near my neck now god said that is why the sticks are coming in because i lost too many i washe for hour soap called them out and hiv streaming
it was the night i went to asda i washed for hours that is why they put holes in me in asda.
gos told me to use the rum bottle to kill of the hiv inside. each sip burnt.
my whole body is like my arm but specked but he said it has gone black and is not red they have all been killed of with the bleach bottle like he told me to do.anthrax
i washed in carbon as welll
god said they put the anthrax on me and is asking to take me out for it. they get taken out they have it on them even with the bleach it has gone inside them because of their dirty ness
god said they are asking if i stink of fish because all of them are involved in the water she stinks of fish i don't smell. god said that is why he let you cut it off.
god said if it was her it was happening to the woms would have taken her out she would have sat there and not tried to take them out as soon as i feel them going in i step into the bath and wash all day long even if i put on the same clothes they are not in the cloths i change every day.
i don't care what i look like god said everyone up the shops know about my water that is why i go like a tramp i am am cleaner than them i won't leave out with out a wash.
god said what the woms are doing to me is a take out. take who? god said it hurt them i wiping them out quickly. why she called for worms that were not hers i walked up to mac holls before going to asda the hiv was not from this house why they left.
a little batch just walked in i take out more than what goes in. it won't stop until i leave i am going to leave them until later i have things to do the get jealous of humans why they do it. it hurts them because i am winning.i just threw lemon floor cleaner on them won't take them out they have gone ito a bag they made for themselves in the hair area. later i will burn them out i won't tell you how.
god said that was hiv. god said those are some from the wall they are brown all of the worms in this house likes to make trouble they did it to the woman nicole and her husband took out in here god showed me nicole he said she did some of the murders the children. after the paedophiles were finished and she enjoyed doing it.
god said the white woman could wash them out but they still made trouble why they were moving out
god said it is because of the paedophiles next door lots of the woms come from there they hate humans lots of them in here has been ito the schools
god said the council said they would help me now.
a white vwoman tried to take my bag in tesco two attemps god said they said she was a stinking woman. she said "oops" the second time she said "sorry for not taking your bag" god said open the window i want anthrax in here the super bugs because of what hiv is doing to your body two nights ago. he said that they came in and are doing a take out they told the worms in here before to leave me alone i showed respect by putting a pillow and water down for them god said the other level took out the white woman she only walked in to tesco because she knows they are looking in to see who will take my bag she thought because she is a white woman they would not do anything to her like andy . god said what i did was called in anthrax it is a different level i have reach why they are getting taken out now. god said the anthrax woms outside don't live in people and have told these one which are different to go outside like them in the cold and have told them they are dirtying up peoples walls god said anthrax only behave like the because of the burns they can give like the black widow spiders.
god said the white women are saying it is ok because i have no where to live and no money so they are happy. you are going to get a shock god said someone come to help. god said they would take me out in that house but i show respect why they don't. god said they said they don't care if we show off they don't want to see disrespect. god said they speak to my children who listen. they are respectful. god said what they ask their children to do mine would never do. i boxed them they are rebelling because of them god said it is andy. he called the council and told them not to help us he called the dss and told them to cut down all of our money because he helps and feels that is enough. that is a stinking piece of shit.
god said andy was in there that is why were keep being made homless and why he slep with the dirty whore in there chingford time his dss friends arranged it for him. i can't see
the worms are coming out of my face the other ones went in so i would go and wash so that the ones in my face could stay and get a drink why i won't wash yet or my face i did this mornoing.
god said it is painful for the sticks to go into my face they were told not to come back in why they don't want to leave it is painful.
those ones are hairs little bit longer than the sticks like facial hairs they put on your bodies but do'nt straighten their backs.
i am going to give that cure to the person who comes to help me the secret god told me they won't touch it you have cancers.
like i gave the songs away give it to you to market.
i took the cure when i came back from the shop i think sheb is gone she controls my eye lids she is not doing it now she isalmost gone.
god said it is the klu klux who come a different level he said because i am respectful i become klu klux on that level. i love to be nice i will throw out anything i write to you. it is yours
god said you are interested in my special powers. i heard a judge who took pleasure in telling someone they are going to prison because i did the accounts.
i will take some of the cure to show you it won't hurt you then i will let you take some you will feel them i anm empty why i feel them.
god said he sees tablets lots of little tablets that is what you do with it.
rufus died from cancers yesterday which god told me pulled out of him they go through your organs. sometimes when you take them out you feel the pain where they have gone through they burst why you feel it. my liver my kidney my lungs and they where hitting the skin around my heart trying to go through they have hearts i took them out.


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Everyone seems to be enjoying the "Build a name together" game. This one's kind of like that. I really enjoy thinking of sibling sets that "go" together. So this one is played by adding siblings to the names given. After each set has 5 "siblings" we start over with new sets! (You can decide if the next sibling is a boy or girl.)
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I found this blenny in the islands in the sea of cortex. I do not see them in my Reef Fish book for that region.
Any idea what they might be?
Note the blue spot with ring around it near the base of the tale in the second photo. They both have it.
Not saying they are rare but they are hard to find unless they move a bit.


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A typical dose of 5-HTP is between 150-300 mg a day. 5-HTP must not be used with any other antidepressant medication because of the risk of serotonin syndrome (or serotonin toxicity) that produces mental confusion, agitation, headache, shivering, sweating, hypertension (high blood pressure), tachycardia (fast heart rate), and other symptoms. 5-HTP also may interfere with lithium (a medication typically used for bipolar disorder).
The side effects of 5-HTP include: agitation, drowsiness, flushing, headache, mild stomach upset, and tachycardia (fast heart rate). There is a small risk of developing liver toxicity when using 5-HTP. L-tryptophan, a closely related chemical, was pulled from shelves in 1989 when it was associated with liver failure in a few people taking the supplement. While it appears that 5-HTP does not cause this problem, it is best to check with your health practitioner before starting any new medication, especially if you currently have (or have a history of) liver problems.
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In addition to amusing comments from the authors of the code, we look for these kinds of things.
2. Why are committers asked to enter one CQ per jar file?
Using examples, a long-winded answer to that age-old question.
3. To enter a CQ for third party package, or not to enter one.........that is the question.
Maybe a handy flowchart will help (we like flowcharts :-)).
4. My project is going to Move or Graduate. I know it's recommended that I create an automated IP log from here, or if for some funky reason that isn't working, I can create it manually based on this template. But what does the IP Team look for when reviewing the IP log?
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a) We check your committer list to make sure it matches what we have in our database.
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The USCIS announced on February 15th that it's publishing guidance for it's officers to consider when adjudicating spousal petitions involving minors. The guidance published is an update to the Adjudicator's Field Manual. It clarifies age requirements for a petitioner filing an affidavit of support for a spouse in conjunction with concurrently filing the I-485 and [...]
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Gluten-free Dining in San Francisco Part 1: The Plant
It has been a long time since I could eat anything interesting in a restaurant on my allergen/everything-free diet undertaken for love of Baby Yum. You might have noticed that restaurant reviews dropped dramatically here at the Book of Yum. Instead of "what epicurean delight can I experience today" it became "what the heck can I eat today?" as I struggled to find breads and other starchy staples to keep myself going. I guess it just shows that a mother's love is one of the strongest forces out there- and the force behind many a gluten-free blog! Fortuitously for me, shortly before the Blogher Food 2010 conference, it became clear that Baby Yum had outgrown her protein intolerance issues, and I could start partaking in some of those long-forbidden top-eight allergens. Oh how I had missed them! But, most importantly, I missed the freedom of eating out. It is hard enough to eat out gluten-free, but tack on "dairy, nut, soy, corn, rice" free – and preferably vegetarian- and the choice becomes lettuce, lettuce, or lettuce. Granted, I was a bit hardcore about it and didn't even eat soy lecithin or soybean oil, both of which generally do not provoke an allergic response. That took out a lot of restaurant dishes. I remember a particularly bleak meal at Claim Jumper where they couldn't decide if the potato was gluten-free and the roasted veggies were basted in soybean oil. I can't remember what I ate, but it certainly wasn't blog-post inspiring. (They seem to have figured out some things since then- here is their gluten-free menu listing both potato and sweet potato as gluten-free.
Anyway. On to happier times. Fast forward to Blogher Food 2010, where I impulsively got a ticket and then found myself surrounded by my gluten-free people. It is nice when you are used to being the only weird "special diet" person to suddenly find yourself surrounded by others with your same concerns. To make it even better, our intrepid Gluten-free scout Mother, Diane of the W.H.O.L.E. Gang, had made special plans for us gluten-free folks both before and after the event.
Left (front to back): Wendy, Shirley, Nancy, Diane, Alisa*, Tia
Center: Lael of The Educated Palate*
Right (front to back):Ali, Me, Amber of Blue Bonnets and Brownies*, Lauren, Kim
*Not gluten-free bloggers
Thursday Night Out with the Gluten-free Girls
The Plant
Pier 3, The Embarcadero
Diane made reservations at a very special organic restaurant in the Ferry Building called The Plant. This place has gorgeous food, warm, welcoming and courteous staff, and clearly labeled gluten-free food on their menu. The DH dropped me off early, so I had some time to kill. My policy as a transplanted Seattlite; When in doubt, drink coffee. The Plant has two sides. One, a chill cafe with a small bakery case full of both gluten and gluten-free desserts. Many of the desserts were raw desserts and so naturally gluten-free and vegan but not nut-free. The (non-raw) Mocha roulade made me weak at the knees just from reading the dessert title. I ordered a simple but lovely organic soy latte and sat in front of the window to wait for my party to arrive.
Before long, they arrived and we filed into the crowded but chic restaurant to find a long table waiting for us. The menu inspired. There was an extensive wine list and clever fresh non-alcoholic drinks. I couldn't resist the napa cabbage salad with sesame lime dressing (sans peanuts). I found it very flavorful, refreshing and delicately balanced. Hungry after her plane ride, Ali of Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen got some coconut yams as a side dish and I was in serious side-envy. They looked so creamy and sweet! And then it came time for the main dishes. I was torn between the Spicy Green Curry or the Ginger Miso Quinoa. I loved the fact that they had main dishes with quinoa instead of the typical rice as the side starch. Green Curry is one of my favorites, but the helpful waiter said that it is not actually very spicy, and the lemongrass is somewhat fibrous. He recommended the Ginger Miso Quinoa. I was relieved to have such a difficult decision made, and tucked into my meal with gusto. It was full of umami, with a lovely blend of vegetables and (optional) fried tofu. This all was nicely contrasted by the crunchy sprouts. I was enjoying my meal when it came out that Ali hadn't thought that dish was gluten-free, and so hadn't ordered it for that reason. Have you had this happen? My heart dropped into my shoes. After all this time being so careful, had I poisoned myself with gluten and possibly set myself up to "poison" my breastfeeding baby with sick Celiac mama milk? Of course the menu was gone at that point, so I couldn't easily verify. I asked the waiter, and he reassured me that it was ok, but that little worrywart voice in my head just wouldn't be quiet. So, I sidled over to the reception desk to peruse the menu for myself. And, there it was, in discreet lowercase letters, my favorite abbreviation of all. (gf). The waiter noticed my sidled dance with my own neurosis and came over. Not as I thought in my paranoid little brain, to mock me, but to kindly reassure me once more that the dish was ok. It is amazingly nice when waiters take the time to provide peace of mind as well as a plate of food, and in that moment the Plant scored big with me. I could only eat part of my meal, perhaps due to that filling coffee beverage I started with, so I had to take the rest to go. I think it was Nancy who ordered some decadent looking eggplant with mushrooms that gave me plate envy. I love a restaurant that has so many gluten-free options I can't order everything I want to try! Many of the others ordered yummy desserts, but I abstained. I could not refrain from taking a tiny taste of Shirley's mocha roulade. One bite had me wishing I'd ordered my own, but that heavenly dip made up for quite a few months of restraint, let me tell you. To conclude, the Plant is a great hip restaurant in a beautiful location (step out the door and have a great view of the bay) with an amazing vegetarian-friendly, gluten-free menu. I wasn't ordering especially allergen-free (I did skip the peanuts) but they were very flexible about that modification, and many at our table had additional restrictions and seemed very happy. Health aficionados, vegans, and gluten-free diners (or even those who are all three) are well served by The Plant. I'd go there again in a heartbeat. In fact, I just suggested it to the DH as our next "special-celebratory-night-out" restaurant choice. If you have eaten there, share your experience in the comments! If you haven't, why not try it, and tell me about it!
Definitely last but not least, won't you meet my gluten-free friends? I'd like to introduce you to the people that made this meal such a pleasure.
The warm and lovely Shirley of the site Gluten-free Easily brightened the day with her gracious Southern charm.
The vibrant and beautiful Kim of Cook it Allergy Free has a lot to offer the gluten-free community, not the least of which is her charming personality.
The striking and dynamic Tia of Glugle Gluten-free has burst upon the gluten-free blogging scene recently with a witty and attractive blog.
I felt that thoughtful and passionate published cookbook author Alisa of the wonderfully informative Go Dairy Free site and personal cooking blog, One Frugal Foodie (*not gluten-free but useful for anyone on a restricted, especially dairy-free diet) was a kindred spirit, and am thrilled to find she's practically local!
I enjoyed getting to know the radiantly healthy and down-to-earth Ali of The Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen blog and author of The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook better, and felt that we had a lot in common. Her husband was also a charming lunch companion the next day!
Intelligent, genuine and thought-provoking blogger mom Wendy of Celiacs in the House has been a faithful participant in Adopt a Gluten-free Blogger and a good online friend.
The extremely nice and friendly Nancy of The Sensitive Pantry was a lovely dinner companion.
Diane Eblin is great fun and pure dynamite; a force to be reckoned with both in person and in her blog the WHOLE Gang, and she has brought all of the gluten-free participants together time and again at conferences. Thank you, Diane!
I first noticed the very impressive Lauren, the Celiac Teen, through her valiant participation in Daring Bakers. This very genuine, sweet, and remarkable teen is a delight both online and in person. I can't wait to see what great things the future has in store for her!
This is the end of this first post on my BlogHer Gluten-free Dining Experience. Stay Tuned for a review of Pica Pica!
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European leaders' determination to keep Greece in the euro area will be tested this week as Prime Minister Antonis Samaras struggles to secure political support for measures to assure the country's financial lifeline.
Samaras pledged yesterday that the raft of wage and pension cuts in the latest austerity package will be the last and that Greek society won't tolerate any more, according to comments made to lawmakers of his New Democracy party. The first parliamentary vote in Athens may come as early as Nov. 7.
"The Greek risk could come to a head this week," Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank AG, wrote in a Nov. 2 note. "Greece matters as a trigger of potential contagion to the much bigger economies of Italy and Spain."
Negotiations between Greece and its troika of international creditors have sought to keep the country inside the 17-member monetary union. In Athens, coalition leaders are squabbling over the terms of the latest package, while in other European capitals politicians are debating how to ease the country's debt burden.
As Samaras delivered his warning, he urged lawmakers to cast their votes with the nation in mind. An exit from the euro area would lead to an 80 percent drop in living standards from 2009 levels, while passage of the measures will free Greece from an investment "quarantine," the prime minister said.
"Those betting that we would fail, those betting on the drachma, for the first time are seeing that they are losing that bet," he said, according to an e-mailed transcript.
As Greece seeks a 31 billion-euro ($40 billion) financing tranche this month, Samaras is facing down a revolt in his three-party coalition to further cuts as the country records a fifth year of recession. Officials from the so-called troika — the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and the European Commission — have hinted that Greece will get a two- year extension to meet targets in return for the cuts.
A year after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned that they were prepared to expel Greece, triggering a debate on its potential exit, a failure to overcome this latest hurdle could mark a return to talk over a fragmentation of the euro, Schmieding said.
The debate "could be back with a vengeance despite the clear desire of Germany to keep Greece in the euro," Schmieding wrote. Such a re-emergence could be a potential trigger of turmoil in the Spanish bond markets and hence of a Spanish request for ECB-backed bailout assistance, he said.
Spanish Bonds
Spanish borrowing costs have eased from record levels in July after ECB President Mario Draghi unveiled a plan to buy unlimited euro-area sovereign debt. While that firewall will probably prevent further upheaval, "the next two weeks are strewn with risks that are worth watching," Schmieding said.
Investors will also await a Nov. 8 rate decision by the ECB, as economists predict the central bank will keep the benchmark rate at a record low of 0.75 percent, as policy makers wait for Spain to decide whether it needs aid.
Meanwhile, Group of 20 finance chiefs meeting in Mexico City today are set to maintain pressure on Europe having spent three years criticizing its leaders' crisis tactics. A draft of a statement set for release after the talks conclude warns against delaying the next round of crisis-fighting policies, according to an official from a G-20 country who declined to be identified because the text isn't finalized.
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|Some people just can't carry a tune -- not because they have poor voices, but because the difference between 'right' and 'wrong' notes isn't significant to them. Writing this week in the journal PLOS One, however, a team of researchers report that the brains of tune-deaf people do actually react to incorrect notes unconsciously. And while the work is unlikely to lead to improvements in the musical performance of tune-deaf people, studying the genetics and brain behavior of these people could help researchers better understand the differences between conscious and unconscious thought. We'll talk with one of the scientists on the project about the work and what it means.


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Originally posted on the SoftLayer blog on December 9, 2015
During the NewCo Boulder festival, web development agency Quick Left gave a talk about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The panelists shared stories of their experiences around diversity—good and bad—and gave advice on what can be done to make workplaces more inclusive. It was one of the best talks I heard all year.
After much discussion, both philosophical and tactical, an audience member expressed concern about counter-discrimination. Would the time come when he would be overlooked for a job because he was not a diversity candidate?
This is not the first time this has been brought up in diversity discussions, and he was expressing what many (perhaps too many) straight white males think when diversity is discussed. To the credit of Gerry Valentine, one of the panelists, he did not chastise the audience member, and instead commended him for his bravery. The man who asked the question gave voice to a common concern that is often thought, but rarely brought up. The panelists at NewCo Boulder handled it very well, pointing out that no one wants a job just based on their gender, skin color, sexual preference, or anything other than their ability to execute on the job. And, collectively, we want to create a world where everyone has the opportunity to compete for jobs on equal ground.
I was truly moved by the entire session, but found myself upset that even at the close of 2015 we are still answering questions about counter-discrimination. When Gerry commended the question for its bravery, I first wondered if he was being glib. But knowing Gerry, I was certain he was serious about his comment. Upon further reflection, I realized what's interesting about this "pale and male" pushback is that it comes from a place of fear. A fear of discrimination is at the root of the question when someone asks, "As a white male, am I going to get passed over for a job because this company wants to hire for diversity?"
Following Gerry's example, it's OK to acknowledge that fear. It's OK to point out that white men don't want to live in a world where they are discriminated against, even subtly. While that is a valid fear, for the straight white male candidate, it is only a fear of a potential future. If they can imagine potential discrimination, can they acknowledge that the reality of our world today: anyone who isn't a straight white male does experience this as real fear. Imagine walking into a job interview having to first overcome the things about you that you cannot control (gender, skin color, sexual orientation, physical handicap, economic background, country of origin, etc.) just to get to a level playing field with the other candidates. If you don't want this for yourself, you certainly wouldn't want it for anyone else.
In startups, we love to talk about unfair advantage, but when it comes to hiring, the only unfair advantages should be skills and experience. What the movement for inclusion and diversity is about—and what we should be striving for—is a world where we all compete equally. If it is a brave thing to express your fear publicly, it is braver still to acknowledge the reality of the situation and work to rectify it.
One of the things I love about the startup community is that once we identify a problem, we move forward to solve it in as many ways possible. The path to inclusion in the workplace doesn't have to be a pendulum that oscillates between two extremes—discrimination and counter-discrimination—before settling down in the middle. Pendulums are a relic of the industrial era. In the digital era, we can choose our target, set our standards, and move forward as a community to achieve them. As you build your startup, build inclusion in your workplace from day one.


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KParts is the name of the component framework for the KDE desktop environment. An individual component is called a KPart. KParts are analogous to Bonobo components in GNOME, both of which are based on the same concepts as Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding.
Konsole is available as a KPart and is used in applications like Konqueror and Kate. Konqueror is good example of how KParts can be used. Konqueror uses the KWord part to display documents, KMPlayer part to play multimedia.


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The Patriots promoted defensive tackle Marcus Forston from their practice squad on Saturday, according to the NFL's Saturday's transactions.
To make room for Forston, the Patriots waived defensive tackle Andre Neblett.
Forston, 24, has been on the Patriots' practice squad for the entire regular season. He appeared in one regular-season game in 2012 for New England. He was also the Pats' roster for the 2012 AFC title game, but he was inactive.
The Patriots had signed the 25-year-old Neblett earlier this week. A fourth-year pro from Clemson, Neblett has appeared in 30 regular-season games, all with Carolina from 2010 through 2012.


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Received from Greg Mossop, G0DUB IARU Region 1 Emergency Communications Co-Ordinator:
The amateur radio activity is continuing to help those mainly within the disaster recovery area struck by the worst earthquake in Japan in 140 years. IARU Region 3 Secretary, Ken Yamamoto JA1CJP said "several stations are handling medium distance information exchange on 7.030/7.043 MHz. The operation in VHF and UHF bands becomes more active than in earlier days. About 250 transceivers with JARL licenses are used for communications between various refugee rest places and local government offices. Two sets of 430 MHz repeaters have also been delivered to the disaster area and they are operational now to enhance the existing repeaters coverage and provide easier communications between hand-held transceivers." The big earthquake, now graded at nine on the Ritcher scale, and followed by a tsunami hit north-eastern Japan on 11 March, and crippled a nuclear power facility. More than 13,500 have been killed. The headquarters station of the Japan Amateur League (JARL) in Tokyo, JA1RL became a disaster communication centre in the days immediately after the disaster. Ken JA1CJP said, "It should be noted that some towns are so heavily disrupted that the local government offices are also in the refugee centres and the residents are staying in multiple places. In such cases, amateur radio can contribute a lot to maintain the ties between the local government and residents." In the long haul the emergency communications to be provided through amateur radio, as the disruption to normal life will continue for some considerable time to come. A presentation on the Japanese earthquake triple disaster will be made at the GAREC 2011 in Sun City, South Africa, in August this year. - Jim Linton VK3PC, Chairman, IARU Disaster Communications Committee.


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Upgraded for 2008.
The GMC Sierra was redesigned from the ground up last year, using proven powertrains, so the 2008 model year brings minor refinements, a few additions, and a special All-Terrain model.
The Sierra is built on a stiff platform for a smooth ride and sharp handling. The GMC Sierra shares platforms with the Chevy Silverado but its exterior styling is quite different. Sierra interiors offer a choice of two dashboard styles.
The 2008 GMC Sierra is offered in a Denali version, which makes for a comfortable, luxurious, pickup with the emphasis on performance rather than payload and towing capacity. The Sierra Denali offers the same sort of higher-line content as GMC's upscale Yukon Denali sport utility.
Amongst the various cab styles, bed lengths, and eight engine choices (of five sizes) the Sierra offers many permutations. There are limitations however, such as the biggest engine is limited to the Denali, the 6-liter does not go in regular cab or extended cab long bed trucks, and manual transmissions are not offered.
The standard cab is designed for fleet buyers and others who want a basic truck for work, budget play, or a clean slate for customization. It can be equipped with a standard bed (6-foot, 6-inch) or a long bed (8-foot), two bucket seats or a three-person bench seat, V6 or V8.
The extended cab has two rows of seats with rear-hinged rear access doors that open 170 degrees and have roll-down windows. The extended cab can be equipped with either a short bed (5-foot, 8-inch), standard or long bed. The extended cab can be equipped with seating for five or six.
The crew cab has two rows of seats and four front-hinged doors, like those on a Yukon. The crew cab can be equipped with seating for five or six and comes with the short bed.
Standard equipment on the Work Truck ($17,070) includes vinyl seating surfaces, air conditioning, AM/FM/XM radio, one-year of OnStar, daytime running lights, tire pressure monitoring system, Smooth Ride suspension, 17-inch wheels, chrome bumpers.
The SLE ($24,690) adds a CD player, cruise control, cloth seats, a rear-window defogger, auto-dimming rearview mirror with compass and outside temperatures, leather-wrapped steering wheel, fog lamps, handling/trailering suspension, carpeting and power door locks/windows/mirrors. To this, SLE2 ($28,465) adds premium cloth seats, dual-zone air conditioning, a floor console, six-way power driver and front passenger seats, audio controls on the steering wheel, and machined aluminum wheels.
The SLT ($30,860) adds leather seat trim, a unique instrument panel, six-disc CD changer with Bose sound system, heated windshield washers, front bucket seats with 12-way power adjustment and heat, and polished aluminum wheels; crew cab models also get a rear-seat audio system.
The Denali ($38,095) includes a top-flight interior with leather, heated and powered front seats, unique woodgrain console, side curtain airbags, dual-zone climate control, park assist and so on. Denali options include a heated steering wheel, sunroof, and rear-seat entertainment. Denali comes only as a crew cab with a 403-hp 6.2-liter V8 engine, six-speed automatic transmission and rear or all-wheel drive.
The All Terrain model, available as a late-2008 model, features the Z71 off-road package, heavy-duty trailer package, 18-inch wheels, Rancho shocks, and myriad cosmetic enhancements. When ordered with SLT trim, exclusive two-tone leather is used. All Terrain is available as an extended cab standard box or crew cab, 2WD or 4WD with 5.3-liter or 6-liter engine.
Options for the Seirra include head curtain airbags, a locking rear differential, StabiliTrak, towing and trailering equipment, and a power sunroof.
Safety features include dual front airbags and a tire-pressure monitoring system. Optional head curtain airbags automatically inflate when sensors sense a severe impact to provide extra protection in the event of a rollover or secondary collision. Also available: driver and front-seat passenger side-impact air bags; anti-lock brakes, StabiliTrak electronic stability control with rollover mitigation technology, Autotrac active transfer case, ultrasonic rear park assist, OnStar emergency notification.
The front-end design of the 2008 GMC Sierra emphasizes the truck's wide stance. The GMC emblem is set amid dark horizontal bars in the middle of an upright and chrome-surrounded grille. The headlamps are a pair of stacked, jeweled lenses. The front bumper features round fog lamps and a wide air intake and wraps around the sides of the truck to the front lower edge of the front wheel wells.
The Denali gets its own chromed grilles, both the upper section and the air vent below the front bumper, and the bumpers are painted to match.
The hood has a pair of long, narrow V-shaped power bulges and leads back to a steeply raked windshield. The windshield is tilted back for improved aerodynamics and enhanced highway fuel economy.
The side view features slightly bulging and elongated fender flares that sweep down behind the headlamps. The sides of the cargo bed are higher than on previous models, and the exterior of the tailgate is sculpted, enhancing the rear view of the truck. Stacked tail lamps are on either side of the tailgate.
Two new reds are available on a truck that looks taller and stronger than its predecessor, yet also has improved aerodynamics. Engine choices include a V6, a 4.8-liter V8, four 5.3-liter V8s (iron and aluminum blocks, some E85 flex-fuel capable, all with Active Fuel Management that disables some cylinders for fuel economy), a 6-liter V8, all with four-speed automatic transmissions, and on the Denali only a 6.2-liter and six-speed auto. Except for Denali, EPA ratings run 13-15 city, 17-20 highway, and on E85 those numbers drop substantially.
An optional cargo management system is available for the bed with side rails and various cargo-carrying and cargo-controlling boxes and dividers and tie-downs.
The GMC Sierra and Chevy Silverado are built on the GMT900 platform that debuted in 2007 and shares many underpinnings with the Yukon SUV. The pickups get a unique rear suspension and frame section that is 245 percent stiffer. The Sierra and Silverado share mechanical components, with the exception of the unique features found on the Sierra Denali.
Compared with the previous-generation, the current frame is 234 percent stiffer in torsional rigidity, 62 percent more resistant to bending and 136 percent stiffer laterally. This yields a smoother ride and better handling. It also allowed the engineers to reduce the gap between the truck bed and passenger compartment as well as the gaps between fenders and bumpers, all of which enhances aerodynamics and fuel efficiency.
The front suspension uses a coil-over-shock setup and the rack-and-pinion steering gear is mounted to the engine cross member frame. The truck also has a new rear axle design with shocks absorbers mounted outboard and more upright for better dynamic control.
The GMC Sierra SLT boasts interior features popularized by the Yukon sport utility, providing a much more upscale environment for the driver and passengers. GMC hasn't forgotten about owners who use their trucks for work, however. So other Sierra models use a pure pickup interior with more function, like dual glove boxes, and less luxury.
The 'pure pickup,' as it's called, has a unique dashboard that is more driver-oriented and has larger switchgear and door handles that are designed to be easily manipulated by those wearing work gloves. The pure pickup interior includes a 40/20/40 split front bench seat with the center section folding down to provide a large storage compartment and wide armrest.
The SUV-style luxury-oriented interior puts audio and ventilation system controls more easily within reach of the front-seat passenger and has two front bucket seats with a fixed center console with assorted storage compartments.
Either dashboard sports full analog instrumentation, and many have more info available through digital display. Operating controls are GM simple, especially on the pure pickup, while the top-line models central dash has many small white-on-black buttons that may require a short learning curve. Some drivers report peculiar ergonomic details as the steering wheel is slightly offset from the seat centerline.
Rear seating is provided for three people in the extended and crew cab versions, with 34.3 inches of rear legroom in the extended cab and 38.7 in the crew cab, space is similar to Ford's F-150 and Nissan's Titan, and smaller than Dodge's Quad and Mega Cabs and Tundra's Double and CrewMax cabs. The crew cab rear seat is split 60/40 and can folded up individually for a flat load floor; this arrangement is optional on extended cabs.
Access to the rear seating area of the extended cab is eased by rear-hinged doors that open to nearly flush with the bed sides. Sitting in the back seat of the extended cab is made more pleasant thanks to the fact that the windows in the rear access doors power fully down.
Driving Impression
We've driven multiple versions of the new GMC Sierra and found all of them to be comfortable.
The 5.3-liter V8 provided plenty of power for the extended cab SLE models we drove and the 6.0-liter V8 was more than enough for the SLT Crew Cab we checked out. All engines need to be revved up (by truck standards) for best grunt. Generally the Sierra models match competitors for smoothness, though by benefit of their five-speed automatics the Ram 4.7 typically runs with GM's 5.3, the Ram 5.7 and Titan 5.6 compete with the GM 6.0, while Tundra's 5.7 and six-speed auto performance can be matched only by the Denali's 6.2 and six-speed auto.
Of the suspensions, the Z83 is claimed the smoothest ride while the Z85 is slightly stiffer and for those who often tow moderate trailers. The Z71 is set up to enhance off-pavement driving. The Z60 configuration is for what GMC calls maximum street performance and includes big 20-inch wheels. The NHT package is designed for Sierra owners who need to tow and carry the heaviest loads.
With NHT, the SLT Crew Cab 4x2 is equipped with the Vortec Max 6.0-liter V8 engine, and a 3.73:1 rear axle. It was fitted with StabiliTrak, side-curtain airbags, a locking rear differential, and a convenience package that includes adjustable pedals, remote vehicle starting system and rear park assist. The SLT with NHT suspension is designed for maximum capacity trailer towing, with a special steering gear, shock absorbers, rear axle and tires.
The suspension is compliant relative to its carrying capacity but if you drive empty and don't tow you don't want to get the NHT package just so you can have the 6-liter V8 due to the harsher ride. Isolation and control are both very good but the best suspension setup for comfort on the widest range of surfaces is typically the Z71 package.
By virtue of its fairly stiff spring and shock rates, the NHT suspension can be driven aggressively on winding roads with tire squeal the primary indication you're approaching limits. Steering is direct by truck standards and nicely weighted, providing good feedback about how hard everything is working though the assist can fall behind during repeated full-lock maneuvering as when backing a trailer.
All new Sierras benefit from much improved brakes over earlier models, whether they have the rear discs or drum brakes.
For 2008, drivers who tow will appreciate the optional integrated brake controller like that used on the Sierra HD. However, be sure your trailer brakes are compatible with it before choosing the option, as some electro-hydraulic disc conversions do not work with the integrated controller.
The highest tow rating is 10,500 pounds on extended cab (not long bed) or crew cab models; top regular cab rating is 8900 pounds. Note these figures typically apply to a truck with just a driver on board, and vary substantially based on a variety of equipment and options.
The GMC Sierra was all-new for the 2008 model year. Those who plan to use their trucks for commuting to work, carrying lots of family members and towing boats, may prefer the SUV-style interior, while those who use their trucks primarily as working tools likely will opt for the more utilitarian-oriented pure pickup design.
G.R. Whale test drove various Sierra models and filed this report to NewCarTestDrive.com from California; with Larry Edsall reporting from Phoenix.
Model Lineup
GMC Sierra SLE, SLT, Denali; GMC Sierra Regular Cab Work Truck 2WD SB ($17,070), Extended Cab SLE 4WD LB ($30,840); Crew Cab SLT 2WD SB ($34,465); Denali AWD ($41,195).
Assembled In
Pontiac, Michigan; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Oshawa, Ontario; and Silao, Mexico.
Options As Tested
NHT package ($2,265) includes 6.0-liter engine, locking differential, trailer equipment; side-curtain airbags ($395); EZ tailgate ($95); convenience package ($540).
Model Tested
GMC Sierra SLT Crew Cab 4x2 short bed ($34,645).The GMC Sierra 1500 is a full-size pickup truck that is nearly identical to the Chevy Silverado but features more mature, restrained styling. There are four engine sizes to choose from: 4.3-liter V-6, 4.8-liter V-8, 5.3-liter V-8 and 6.0-liter V-8; all are controlled by a four-speed automatic. Like all Sierras, the 1500 is available in a wide array of bed sizes, wheelbases, drive types and cab sizes, as well as a variety of trim levels. Safety features include driver and passenger front air bags, tire pressure monitoring system and four-wheel antilock disc brakes. The GMC Sierra 1500 carries over from 2007.
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