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After losing both George Clooney as a star and Steven Soderbergh as a director, things finally looked as though they were back on track for the long in-development adaptation of the 60s spy series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Guy Ritchie, who has found recent mainstream success with the Sherlock Holmes movies, became attached to helm last December, Tom Cruise came on-board to play Napoleon Solo in March, and Armie Hammer signed up to play Illya Kuryakin, Napoleon's partner, in April. But once again problems have arisen, as one of those very important pieces is once again missing.
Deadline is reporting that Cruise has decided he no longer wants to make The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and instead focus on his already-established franchise based on a spy television series: Mission: Impossible. While Warner Bros. was planning on having Ritchie start production on the new film this fall, Cruise is now planning to use that time to get Mission: Impossible 5 going, hoping to start shooting before the end of the year. It's worth noting that the sequel doesn't currently have a director attached, but does have Iron Man 3 co-writer Drew Pearce handling the script.
Obviously, these leaves WB with a considerable problem. They are once again looking for an actor to take the lead role, though replacing somebody with Cruise's star power isn't exactly an easy task. Unfortunately, the site doesn't mention any of the stars the studio is considering. Hammer is still attached to the project and while she isn't mentioned in the new report, presumably Swedish actress Alicia Vikander is still attached as the female lead.

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In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
The Language Game
Satan is a great deceiver. Satan's best game to keep the people from understanding the message of God is to keep them away from it. Quran was revealed in Arabic but God promised to be its teacher, 55:1-2 and the One to explain it, 75:19. God told us in 41:44 that language is irrelevant. and that only the sincere ones are going to understand the Quran irrespective of their language while those who are not sincere or failed to worship Him ALONE will fail to understand it, (even if they speak, read and write Arabic.) See 56:79
Satan designed his game to suit all kinds of Muslims to keep them away from understanding the Quran. Satan knows that reading the Quran by itself does not guarantee understanding it. Satan knows that God is in control and that no one will understand the Quran unless God let him or her. The best trick that Satan can come up with is to get the people to believe him instead of God. Once they do they are prevented from understanding the Quran, God does not accept any partners.
Here is the game Satan has been playing and seems effective on those who failed to worship God ALONE or accept His book ALONE,
If your mother tongue is Arabic, Satan (or his troops) teaches you that the Quran is written in a very sophisticated Arabic that you cannot understand it on your own. That you need someone who is very knowledgeable in Arabic to explain it to you. The Arabic speaking person would then give up reading his/her Quran in Arabic waiting for the chance to find this knowledgeable person.
If you ask your Arabic speaking friends how they find the language of the Quran, they will tell you, DIFFICULT. GO ahead and ask them. BUT what is God telling us about the Quran and the language of the Quran ? See 54:17,22,32, and 54:40 for an answer from God, Himself. Why they have difficulty, read 56:79. and 41:44
- If your mother tongue is not Arabic, Satan (or his troops) will encourage you to read the Quran in Arabic. Why does he do that ? Because he knows that you will not understand enough of it. The majority of those who learn Arabic to study the Quran do not excel enough to understand the implication or interpretation of certain words when used in a special way in the Arabic language. They will have a lot of shortcomings. Many Pakistani and Indian Muslims are forced as children to read the Quran in Arabic and still as adults read the Quran in Arabic but they do not understand a single word of what they read.
If you do not speak or read Arabic and try to read a translation of the Quran to get the message, Satan ( or his troops), will tell you NO, NO, you have to read the Quran in Arabic. Remember what Satan told those who know how to read the Quran in Arabic, he told them, that the Quran is in a difficult Arabic text.
Satan tells you, you will never get the message of the Quran if you read it in a translation.
The result is that the Arabic speaking person does not read the Quran in Arabic because he/she believed Satan and thought the Quran is too difficult to read. Those who do not speak Arabic and believed Satan will try to read the Quran in Arabic while not understanding it. They think the blessings of the Quran comes by just reading it (not by understanding it and accepting its message). Those who tried to read the Quran in their native language translated from Arabic, will fall in the same trap of Satan if they believed him and believed that they cannot get the message of the Quran by reading a translation. They would be discouraged by Satan and end by not reading the Quran in any language.
In all these circumstances Satan will succeed in keeping some Muslims away from getting the message of the Quran. ONE simple mistake these Muslims or non-Muslims do, they believe Satan instead of believing God . They deserve to be with him (Satan), where there is no Quran, no light and no guidance.
We should understand Satan's game so that we can fight it. We need to read the Quran to understand it, not to read it without understanding it, like Donkeys carrying valuable books, See 62:5.
The Quran is a message, not just another beautiful language book. If you cannot read it in Arabic do not wait until the day you excel in your Arabic language, because this day may never come. Trust God and know that He is the teacher of the Quran. He will teach in any language and to any nationality, He created all things. Read your Quran today, (do not wait any longer,) in any language that you can understand and master and leave the rest to God.


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dcane needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 98 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
We area a new enterprise software company providing software as a service to the legal community.
The software will be purchased by lawyers, but will be used by their clients (end users) as well.
We will be offering products and services to small-medium sized law firms in the US. Primary buyer of our product will be the partner at the firm.
Logo should be confident and clean but not too uptight. We will be raising money so the logo also needs to resonate with venture capital professionals.
The logo will be used on outbound communications to the firms clients and so needs to be clear to common folks as well.
The design should be clean yet fun without being too cute. we are a software company in the legal space. the logo should be more software less legal, but still convey the professionalism.
I tend to like red-black-white colors but am open to other palettes.
we have not landed on a single tag line, but let's try some with / without "Enterprise Legal Solutions"
just in case you didnt "get" the brand legalprise is a combination of enterprise and legal. maybe your design can help make that more aparent.
the name should be one word, formal case (not camel). "Legalprise"
I'm all for designs that do not have .com at the end as I dont think we need it, but if it works, you can use it.
We'll be using the mark in web and print media. It needs to be legible small as well as large - by small i mean printed on the back of an envelope (e.g. 2" wide, 1" tall)
have fun with it -- it's a cool brand destined for greatness.
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"When I found kayaking it was the perfect way to explore river canyons," says Darin McQuoid who grew up "in the sticks" exploring canyons on foot. "The more I did, the more I wanted to do. At the time (around 2002) there was very little information available online about rivers and creeks and almost no photographs. I realized others must want to know and see more too." Since he began shooting then, McQuoid has captured whitewater around the globe, from Japan and Corsica to at home in the High Sierra near his current base in Three Rivers, Calif. He also reviews overnight gear for C&K — jackets and river shoes to sleeping bags and pads.


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Some Officials Urge No Action on NE/S.D. Conservation Project
Some Nebraska and South Dakota federal elected officials have sent a letter to the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, urging "no action" be taken on the "Ponca Bluffs Conservation Area Project."
Senators John Thune (SD), Mike Johanns (NE) and Deb Fischer (NE) and Representatives Kristi Noem (SD) and Adrian Smith (NE-3) signed the letter. The proposed project is in South Dakota and Nebraska.
Here is a portion of the letter, "In the current era of high federal deficits, we do not believe the projected costs of this project are justified, nor do we believe the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) reflects there would be satisfactory benefits to the U.S. taxpayers in return for the federal outlays required to fund and maintain this proposed project area."
The letter concludes, "We are concerned that enrolling 112,000 acres into easements and the federal acquisition of 28,000 acres in this proposed area would have adverse economic impacts on local businesses, rural towns, agricultural land prices, and farm and ranch operation."
My comment: The Government is now shutdown and even after it opens the chances of finding money for this project seem slim. If it is important to conservation then private groups and individuals, along with local and state governments should be leading the effort.


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Innovation, Collaboration, and Incubation
By Mark Macmurdo, with Kate Monahan
NYU's recent 2012 Teaching with Technology Conference showcased presentations on an impressive array of instructional and research projects, advanced the ongoing conversation about effective ways to enhance teaching using technology, and facilitated conversations and collaborations between many of the more than 300 faculty, graduate students, and staff in attendance. Though the topics of the presentations were as diverse as the NYU community itself, one theme stood out: NYU's continued development into a truly Global Network University puts us in a unique position to leverage and develop instructional technologies in exciting and innovative ways.
The conference, first held in April 2010, took place on February 24 at the Kimmel Center for University Life and was organized by the Center for Teaching Excellence and a group of NYU co-sponsors (see sidebar for details). The event was designed not only to highlight technology-driven teaching at the University—both complete and in-progress—but to be a means of informing and inspiring attendees about ways to experiment with the many tools available to them. This year's presentations were organized around the themes of "innovations," "collaborations," and "incubations," and while they covered a wide variety of issues—from teaching methods to cultural values and beyond—all shared a common theme in addressing how technology is enabling and changing education at NYU.
Matthew Santirocco, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs and Chair of NYU's Teaching Technology Committee, was one of many who helped shape the direction of the conference. He emphasized how the use of technology in the Global Network University enables unique learning opportunities that span continents (see Where the City Meets the Sea: Course Collaboration Across Oceans) and how the conference and the Teaching Technology Committee aim to support innovation of all kinds. They do so by highlighting concrete examples of successful, cutting edge projects (see Video Games & the Future of Learning), collaborations between people (and between people and technology), and incubations, or works in progress.
Thinking Creatively about Teaching and Learning
One attendee, Dr. Colette Mazzucellli, Associate Professor at the Center for Global Affairs, described the conference as a "game changer." Mazzucelli thought the event was significant partly because it showed faculty the diversity and magnitude of technology available at the University—something that may not always be obvious in a large, global institution.
There was also a strong contingent of graduate students at the conference. Chelsea Trembly, a Museum Studies graduate student, attended the conference to learn about new ways to use technology in her field. From her perspective as a student, she expressed interest in the potential for recorded lectures to enhance learning. Presenter and faculty member Clay Shirky, recounted that he was approached by a cohort of graduate students from Steinhardt's Media, Culture and Communication department who had ideas for a collaboration between their program, the Faculty of Arts and Science Journalism department, and Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program. He reflected on how the conference created an opportunity for the students to discuss their desire for cross-disciplinary collaboration, and how his attendance helped facilitate those connections.
Making Connections, Sharing Resources
As evidenced by Shirky's anecdote, the conference was not just an opportunity to hear interesting stories about new technologies and teaching methods. It also served as a vehicle for members of the NYU community to meet each other and learn about the resources at their disposal. During lunch, conference attendees perused a variety of booths in the "resource fair," set up to advertise the technological tools, facilities, and staff resources available at NYU. Representatives from the respective groups were on hand to field questions from attendees, as well as to demonstrate their services.
The conference concluded with a reception, which included snacks and a raffle for various door prizes. This portion of the conference was arguably as important as the presentations, as it served as a vital opportunity for attendees, staff, and organizers to mingle and discuss their interests and experiences. As described by presenter Carl Skelton, (see BetaVille: Engaging Students (and Communities)), the conference's choice to involve NYU staff was critically important. "University staff can be the research and development partners that faculty often seek in other academic colleagues. The tables at the conference helped break down walls." Collaborations of this sort, Skelton offered, can be fun, produce better work, and have the potential to be fundamentally important for NYU.
Success and Next Steps
By all measures, the conference was a huge success. The turnout was, in Santirocco's words, "staggering." All available spots to attend the conference were filled, and many attendees stayed until the very end, deeply engaged in conversation. Debra Szybinski, Executive Director of the Office of Faculty Resources, reports having received glowing feedback from many attendees.
The conference raised attendee awareness not only of the interesting work of their colleagues, but also of practical resources available for their use. Some described how the opportunity to see technologies and current examples of their use that they didn't know existed, or would never have thought of, whetted their appetite and made them feel empowered.
For readers who are interested but were unable to attend the event, or those who wish to revisit the presentations, the event coordinators recently launched a Teaching with Technology Conference companion website. The site offers a full list of presenters and links to technology resources for instructors. If you attended the event and have feedback to share, or if you want to keep up with future offerings, visit the Center for Teaching Excellence website.


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As procurement director, Donna Clavin solicits area businesses and communities to remember Habitat for Humanity as a source for donations when moving or remodeling.
The Westin Cape Coral Resort at Marina Village and property owner Freeman & Hasselwander Resort Properties, LLC donated more than 1,000 furnishings and accessories to Habitat's ReStore center where the items are sold and the proceeds benefiting construction of Habitat homes. On its first-year anniversary in Cape Coral Friday, Dec. 13, the resort delivered the last of the items to ReStore workers.
Items included more than 400 lamps, 200 ceiling fans, treadmills and other fitness equipment, toilets and other accessories taken from the resort's 220 rooms during a facilities upgrade. Westin adheres to higher quality standards as a Starwood hotel.
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Upgrades to the rooms at Westin Cape Coral Resort at Marina Village enabled them to donate more than 1,000 furnishings and accessories to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore to benefit local families. From left, Lauren Hagan of property owner Freeman & Hasselwander Resort Properties, LLC poses with Westin Resort general manager Eric Ashton delivering lamps and items to ReStore procurement director Donna Clavin on Friday.
"We're thrilled that Habitat for Humanity was chosen for this donation," said Westin Resort general manager Eric Ashton. "We like Habitat. As we refresh and renew our rooms, it's better that they benefit instead of sending it all out to auction."
With ReStore sales centers in Bonita Beach and North Fort Myers, Habitat For Humanity accepts large or small donations of housewares, hardware, furniture, flooring, electronics, plumbing and lighting fixtures, doors and windows, appliances, cabinets and clothing.
"It's hard to put a value on the donation," said Clavin. "The value is in the relationship. We go out and rate all donations good, fair or poor. This one is excellent and all the proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity. I've been working with the resort on this for the past nine months."
"These items probably will contribute almost the cost of one home," added Habitat spokesperson Ginny Cooper.
Freeman & Hasselwander acquired the property in 2011 from foreclosure. It had been operating as the Resort at Marina Village when it went into receivership.
"To get Westin to come to Cape Coral, we had to change out a lot of things to bring it up to Westin's standards," said Lauren Hagan, Tarpon Point general manager for Freeman & Hasselwander. "It's been two years since the purchase and today is Westin's one-year anniversary in Cape Coral, so it is a special day."
Many of the changes were made for aesthetic reasons, though some were required by Westin. The project did not include a major renovation, but still is a sizable one.
For more information about Habitat for Humanity or ReStore donations visit www.habitat4humanity.org or leehendry.habitatrestores.org.


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4.no see mine
Years before any one else was calling themselves Terror, these guys were playing as Terror. I know very little about these Japanese thrashers. My old Albany friend Louis J gave me this one back in the early 1990's. All he said was "enjoy this Japanese rarity". He was the first guy I'd ever met who went balls out collecting Japanese punk hardcore records. It was like an addiction for the guy. Even back in 1989 he was sometimes paying $75 for records that I thought he was insane for buying. Turned out he was way ahead of his time.
The record is chock full of speed and blur. I'd say they were influenced by the likes of SOB, Outo, Gauze, etc. The vocals are what make this for me. I love the Totally raw recording on this ep. The songs are all like 3-4 mins long, but the only one with any metal influence that I'm here is "no see mine". The others are all raging hardcore tunes with some cool breakdowns to boot. Enjoy.


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Mexico reels from tropical storms; will U.S. be next?
This is Mexico's worst weather crisis since 1958, the government reports.
While Mexico continues to reel from a pair of powerful tropical systems, a new threat is emerging in the Gulf of Mexico that could bring more flooding to the storm-battered nation as well as heavy rains to portions of the U.S. Gulf Coast this weekend.
Hurricane Manuel made landfall Thursday morning just west of Culican, Mexico, on the country's west coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported.
As of 5 p.m. EDT, Manuel had weakened to a tropical storm with winds of 45 mph and was crawling to the northeast at 7 mph. It was expected to continue to weaken overnight and dissipate over the mountains of Mexico on Friday, the hurricane center reported.
It is yet another blow to a country battered by the one-two punch of Manuel's first landfall on Sunday and Tropical Storm Ingrid's lashing of Mexico's east coast on Monday. (Ingrid was a hurricane offshore, but made landfall as a tropical storm.)
Meanwhile, another tropical system is bubbling up in the Gulf of Mexico, which the hurricane center says will likely become a tropical depression during the next day or two.
If it becomes a tropical storm, which means its winds would have to reach 39 mph, it would be called Jerry and would be the 10th named storm of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season.
This storm is expected to have some impact on the U.S.: The combination of moisture from the new system in the Gulf, an approaching cool front from the northwest and some moisture from Manuel will bring both needed rain to parts of Texas but also the potential for flash and urban flooding, AccuWeather reports.
"New information suggests that the system in the Gulf, while it is likely to become a tropical depression and may become a tropical storm, it is not likely to become a powerful hurricane," AccuWeather meteorologist Dan Kottlowski says.
Despite this, the surf could become rough this weekend along the coasts of Texas Louisiana, AccuWeather reports, adding that there is a chance seas could get rough enough to suspend some offshore oil and gas rig operations for a time.
Mexico could again bear the brunt of the storm, which "will likely spread heavy rain over portions of eastern and southern Mexico and could cause life-threatening floods and mudslides over areas already impacted by torrential rain during the past several days," the hurricane center warns in an online bulletin.
So far, at least 80 people have been killed in Mexico from the storms, not including the 58 people missing from a landslide in La Pintada, located a few hours north of Acapulco. Thousands of tourists remain stranded in Acapulco due to washed-out bridges and dozens of landslides.
Mexican officials said that more than 10,000 people had been flown out of the city on about 100 flights by Wednesday evening, just part of the 40,000 to 60,000 tourists estimated to be stranded in the city.
Far out in the Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Depression Humberto dissipated late Thursday.
Yet another area of storminess is slowly organizing between the Bahamas and Bermuda, AccuWeather says. That area could develop into a storm that would affect Bermuda over the weekend and then potentially the Canadian Maritimes early next week.
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On this day — a new article casts new doubts on Gov. Rick Perry's continued assertions he's not looking at higher office; vouchers could make a surprise appearance in the House today; the Comptroller finds an extra billion in revenue, while Perry toughens his language on the budget; and the Senate passes its redistricting map
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***Perry for POTUS?
Almost a year after rumors flew around Austin about Perry's possible presidential ambitions after a pollster made calls to Iowa testing how a generic, conservative, southern governor would play in that state. Yesterday, the rumors got new life after Real Clear Politics reported that they had three separate sources saying that Perry was nosing around the race for POTUS.
A Texas pol who is close to Perry has been telling a few key strategists that the nation's longest-serving governor sees a vacuum and is waiting to be summoned into the race. This source believes that could happen by late summer. Without fellow Southerners Haley Barbour or Mike Huckabee in the race — and with Newt Gingrich's early troubles raising further doubts about the current lineup — there could be a glaring niche for Perry to fill.
According to another well-connected Republican, at least one Perry confidant has been very quietly making inquiries about the political terrain in the nation's first voting state of Iowa. A third Perry associate, RCP has learned, has been heralding a small contingent of Iowans with the time-tested line that is often used by would-be candidates who are leaving their options open: "Keep your powder dry."
The Republican field has gotten weaker since Perry made his initial pronouncements that he wasn't going to run — Mike Huckabee and Haley Barbour have both pulled out of the race (or decided not to get in it), New Gingrich is constantly shooting himself in the foot and no one has gotten excited about Mitt Romney.
The New York Times' polling guru/stats man Nate Silver pointed out in a couple of tweets that the exit of Huckabee and Babour from the race would make it much easier for Perry to sweep through the South. The Washington Post's Johnathan Bernstein wrote that politicos should start taking a possible Perry campaign a lot more seriously than they have in the past.
The idea that Perry is waiting for the GOP activists and donors to draft him into the race isn't new. Such a hypothesis was floated in a National Review profile of Perry that ran in the spring. Perry managed to feed into the Real Clear Politics' story narrative with his speech to top Republican officials, who were meeting in Dallas yesterday, The Washington Times reported.
"I would love to see a movement to draft Rick for the nomination if that's the only way we can get him to run," said Republican National Committee general counsel Bill Crocker after Mr. Perry delivered a luncheon address that had several hundred party officials attentive throughout.
"The comments I got after his speech made it clear I am not alone," Mr. Crocker said at the meeting of GOP state chairmen and other RNC members.
Interviews with more than two dozen people after Mr. Perry spoke produced a highly unusual degree of consensus about the third-term governor's potential prospects as a candidate.
The party officials had been meeting here since Sunday, all the while bemoaning the chances of the current field of Republican candidates to raise the pulses of voters and mount a formidable challenge to President Obama.
But wait, there's more. CNN reports that in his speech to the gathering of GOP brass, Perry described what his dream Republican candidate against President Barack Obama would be and it sounded a whole lot like Rick Perry. And the National Journal reports that Perry also took a shot at current GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney.
Below the fold — potential problems with a Perry campaign for the presidency; the Houston Chronicle's Nick Anderson on the Republican presidential field; and 'The Clips,' featuring the budget compromise, redistricting and a return of vouchers.
The Problems with a Perry Run
There are a lot of problems that any Perry presidential run would have.
– Firstly, how will his comments about session, abortion, and Pres. Barack Obama play with independent voters outside of Texas, who are a lot more liberal than independent voters inside of Texas.
– Secondly, while Perry has been able to survive repeated questioning about his handling of the Cameron Todd Willingham investigation and allegations that he's used the Texas Enterprise and Emerging Tech funds to reward his political donors; the national press will take another pass at those stories.
– Third, two key members of his campaign team — Dave Carney and Rob Johnson — are working on Gingrich's 2012 campaign; so does Perry expect them to come home while Gingrich still in the race or does he expect Gingrich's campaign to fold before he jumps in.
– Fourth, you need to look no further than Gawker's story about the Real Clear Politics story to see how Democrats will caricaturize Perry — as a gun crazed, anti-woman, anti-government hairdo who can't be trusted to run the country — to fire up their base for the 2012 election. (See the photo above)
Nick Anderson on the Republican Presidential Field
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– The Houston Chronicle/San Antonio Express-News' Gary Scharrer reports that an amendment that would create a voucher program could be brought up on the fiscal matters bill that the House will hear today.
House Democratic leader Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, asked Pitts about reports that some lawmakers would try to insert school vouchers into that bill.
School vouchers are extremely controversial and would likely provoke strong reactions from lawmakers who oppose diverting money from public education.
In response to Farrar, Pitts explained that he typically asks members to table amendments if the issue failed to pass out of a legislative committee. School vouchers were not considered this session.
Pitts' response satisfied Farrar.
– The Houston Chronicle/San Antonio Express-News Austin Bureau Chief Peggy Fikac reports that the Comptroller has increased her revenue projection by $1.2 billion, helping to close the gap between the House and Senate proposals on public school funding.
Lawmakers struggling to agree on education funding welcomed a $1.2 billion revenue estimate increase from the state comptroller Tuesday, but leaders noted it's not enough to bridge the wide gap in House and Senate budget proposals.State Comptroller Susan Combs' revised revenue estimate for the next two-year budget period "will make it easier for the House and Senate to close out the budget, but it won't solve all of our problems," Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said.
Budget negotiators had anticipated Combs would raise her revenue estimate by $700 million, House and Senate leaders said, so her estimate provides just $500 million in unexpected funds.
The Senate has approved spending about $4 billion more than the House on public education, and $1 billion more on higher education.
Negotiators who've agreed on other budget areas haven't been able to find common ground on education, with key senators saying they're unwilling to lower their number.
The plan, approved on a vote of 29-2, protects all but one incumbent and seeks to strengthen the Senate's Republican majority.
The incumbent left out in the cold, Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, accused the GOP map makers of deconstructing her Tarrant County district at the expense of minority voters. Left with a district that will be difficult for a Democrat to hold on to, she was one of the 'no' votes.
The other was Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, who accused map makers of packing minority voters into particular districts — including his own district, which is 80 percent minority — so the creation of other minority-opportunity districts becomes more difficult. He also said the new map disenfranchised people of color.
"I don't like it, and I think it's wrong, and I think if the United States Justice Department does its job, they will object to it, and I hope it ends up in court," Ellis said.


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Agile development products and services company ThoughtWorks Studios has recently announced new enhancements to its Adaptive ALM suite, including upgrades to its Go Agile release management and Twist Agile testing solutions.
Adaptive ALM, which includes the Mingle Agile project management solution, is described as an integrated ALM suite that helps improve team productivity and collaboration in software application development. More specifically, its maker details its "flexible approach" that allows teams to break free of heavyweight and prescriptive approaches to Agile software development, which it argues can stifle productivity and innovation.
"The Adaptive ALM suite was designed with ThoughtWorks' best practices in mind. Our goal is to help teams manage the challenges of the application lifecycle, where supporting disparate, hybrid, and evolving processes are crucial," said Chad Wathington, VP of product development for ThoughtWorks Studios. "These new releases support Agile ALM by extending the traceability and audit capabilities for continuous delivery and adding support for popular open source automation tools."
Note: Readers may be interested to note that ThoughtWorks brands "Continuous Delivery" with capitalized letters and (on the company's website) describes its take on this process as… the ability to transform manual, disconnected, and error-prone processes to make enterprise software releases so fast and assured they are a non-event rather than a Big Event (more CAPS!); so well-controlled and automated that release timing can be placed in the hands of business stakeholders.
Adaptive ALM is also said to remove operational silos through cross-functional automation to help enterprise IT organizations effectively meet strategic business objectives.
ThoughtWorks specifies that Adaptive ALM addresses the shortcomings of traditional ALM solutions that lack the functionality to effectively manage Agile practices in the enterprise. The conceptual approach here is the option to provide a fully automated suite that supports all aspects of the software development and delivery lifecycle — from requirements definition and change management to test automation, quality assurance, and release management.
"Beyond reliably building and deploying software quickly, Continuous Delivery requires a clear, traceable, and controlled path to production. Go 2.3 provides a market-leading solution for auditing, traceability, and compliance in the software delivery process. In addition, Go's improved configuration interface makes setting up and managing build pipelines, and the Go server itself, even easier. Go 2.3 also introduces a new build visualization to help teams spot trends in build duration over time," said the company, in a press statement.
Specific new features include:
- Automatic verification of every file retrieved from Go's repository: ensures files haven't been tampered with.
- Agent history: view complete history and traceability of all work done by an agent.
- Recording of configuration history: sees exactly what the configuration looked like when a given task was conducted.
- Visualize builds over time: analyze build duration trends for failing and passing builds.
The latest version of Twist extends Agile automated testing with Selenium 2 support and new capabilities to test websites on Android and iOS (iPhone/iPad) devices. This helps developers manage heterogeneous environments by allowing different teams to use the web automation driver that suits them. Twist, in essence then, provides test suite maintenance features to help reduce delays caused by difficult-to-update test suites.
Specific new features include:
- Selenium 2 support: supports the popular open source web-testing tool, Selenium 2 — including a rich recorder for the new Selenium 2 Webdriver API — which drives test automation for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome, as well as the Android and iOS mobile browsers.
- Refactoring propagation control: enables fine-grained control of how test steps are extracted into higher level concepts.
- New Twist user interface: more easily update project properties, quickly change browsers between test executions, configure reporting options, and allow administrators to edit user-created properties.


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Hello everybody, I have a rather stupid question. Is it possible to run ASP scripts on Apache Server? Please answer.
Thanks for anticipated help.
\"And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.\"
Yes there is mod_asp. However I am not 100% sure if it has been ported over to Apache 2.x. It has been a while since I have used it.
Also check this site out http://apacheworld.org/modmono/
Thanks for your help jackminder but I want use it on WinXP Pro.
There is a Windows version of Mono that has ASP at http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads (Google is your friend) it also includes GTK# and Mono itself. Once it's installed follow
Copy the file /home/user/mono/mod_mono/src/.libs/libmod_mono.so to /home/user/mono/install/apache2/lib/
Copy ModMono.dll to a place where the Mono runtime will find it, usually this means /usr/lib/ or wherever the
rest of assemblies are located.
Edit /home/user/mono/install/apache2/conf/httpd.conf :
Listen 8080
LoadModule mono_module /home/user/mono/install/apache2/lib/libmod_mono.so
MonoApplication /mono /home/user/mono/install/xsp/server/test
The MonoApplication directive takes two arguments. The first one is the virtual path, which is part
of the URL used to access your application. The second one is the physical path, the directory
where the application resides. In this case is the directory containing the XSP test pages.
Only one MonoApplication directive is currently allowed.
NOTE: If a machine.config is not installed in your path, which normally occurs during Mono installation,
you may need to create a ModMono.exe.config. This file needs to be placed in the application base dir, in this case
You can find an example for the contents of this file in the data/machine.config subdirectory of the Mono distribution.
You can now start Apache with
/home/user/mono/install/apache2/bin/apachectl start
From http://apacheworld.org/modmono/INSTALL (substitute the paths on there for your Windows paths)
Mono's very good. I used it for a bit for C#, but didn't have much time. There should be a lot of IDE for .NET avaliable for Windows (MonoDevelop for Linux [probably Windows too] is great).
Good luck.
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ASP.NET is NOT the same as ASP - they are mutually incompatible.
To run ASP on Apache, you can apparently do it by loading the asp DLL using the ISAPI module in Apache. This probably breaks the licence agreement that comes with Windows. Obviously this only works on win32 where you already have a ASP.dll installed (as part of IIS (but IIS does not need to be running))
There are various other third party solutions, such as Chillisoft which also claim to be able to. These do not run ASP on Apache, but rather, use a third party emulator that is mostly compatible - it's not likely to work with compiled COM objects however (on non-win32 platforms).
ASP.NET is a completely different scenario - see Microburn's instructions above.
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Hope College Baccalaureate
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Dimnent Memorial Chapel
Job 42
By the Rev. Dr. Blaine Newhouse
Executive Director, Geneva Camp and Retreat Center
And so Job died old and full of years. In our contemporary context we would probably say it like this: "And Job lived happily ever after."
In just a few hours, you're going to walk across the threshold called graduation, and my sense is that you desire that same outcome for your life: that it would be said of you one day: "He or she died old and full of years." That you could look back on your life one day and say, "I did life well. I was able to use my gifts and the opportunity that God entrusted to my care. And even more so, I was able to overcome adversity, trial, defeat and loss, and become a better person, leverage these for some redemptive purpose."
See, my sentiment to share with you this morning is that's what God desires for you as well. But that kind of graduate-level learning does not come without the gift of wisdom and the experience of others. And to that end I want to draw from our teacher Professor Job because I believe that Job was able to live and die well because he made his peace in three important areas. First and foremost, Job made his peace with God. Second, Job made his peace with disappointing people. And finally, Job made his peace with the possibility—and I underscore the word "possibility"—that life can be good again after defeat, after tragedy, after loss.
Let's consider first of all how Job made his peace with Almighty God.
We know how the story ends. Perhaps you're not familiar with how the story begins. You see, we are told in the first few chapters of Job that Job was an uncommon kind of man—that he was blameless and upright, that he feared God and shunned evil. And because of that, he was a prosperous man. He had sheep and donkeys and cattle, more than anyone in all the world. His life was going exceedingly well, we would all agree, until one fateful day when Satan appeared in the presence of Almighty God and pushed God a bit in the way of understanding, "Why does Job love you and fear you after all? I mean, have you not built a hedge of protection around him? Have you not protected him, provided for him, made him prosperous? Of course he loves you and serves you, because there's a benefit to faith. But take that benefit away, and Job will be like every other person. Job is going to curse you to your face."
So, profound mystery of mysteries, God allows Satan to torment Job, and in short order Job loses everything near and dear to him. He loses all of his wealth. He gets the news that all of his children—seven sons and three daughters—have been tragically killed. His standing in the community begins to crumble. And in the midst of this unspeakable loss, Job finds himself in the experience of mourning—like we all do. It is often said, "When we love deeply, we grieve deeply." And Job was overcome with grief, such that he could not comprehend how life could possibly get any worse.
And yet in the midst of that state of loss, misunderstanding what exactly was going on at that moment in his life, Job made a conscious decision to worship God, saying, "The Lord has given, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."
And yet Satan was still not convinced of Job's integrity, that Job's faith really had merit. He goes to God a second time, and he says to God in effect, "Skin for skin. A person will betray everything he has and everything he believes in to protect his own life. But let me stretch out my hand and strike his very flesh, and you'll see, God: these people you've created in your image, they don't really love you, they don't really serve you. Only because it's of a benefit to them. You take away that faith benefit, and they're going to curse you to your face, Job most of all."
And so, Satan is allowed to torment Job himself, and we are told that Job is covered ultimately with sores from the tips of his toes to the top of his head. Job is in such utter torment that he can do no other but sit in a heap of ashes. He's covered in sackcloth. He takes a piece of broken pottery and he starts to scrape his skin. He just doesn't know what else to do, he is in such utter torment and pain.
It is at that very moment when Job's wife comes to confront him. She says to Job, in effect, "Are you still holding onto your integrity? In other words, this faith thing you're all committed to, this faith thing that you're committed to, Job, I don't see that it's giving the kind of desired return. Look at you there. You've lost everything. This God you say you love, that you're so devoted to: look at where you are in life. Why don't you just curse God and die?"
To which Job replies, with profound wisdom: "You are speaking like a foolish woman. Should we expect from God only good and not trouble?" See, that is a profound statement and an important question: "Should we expect from life, from God, only good and not trouble?" My sense is that many of us who live by faith kind of expect that life is supposed to work that way: that we live in a nation of prosperity and opportunity, and that's just the way life works. That, "I'm a person that's been gifted, and more often than not my gifting seems to produce the desired outcome, and that's just the way life works." We have this sense that if we do life God's way, that God has a responsibility to kind of hold up God's part of the bargain. Now, God never agrees to this, but we have this sense, "If I deny myself, if I put the needs of others ahead of my own, if I try to be loving rather than self-centered, the very least God can do is to protect me, and provide for me, and allow my life to be prosperous and productive in all the ways that matter most to me."
My contention is that doing life well means that we engage life from a healthy point of reference. The experience of Job would challenge us this morning to understand the way the world works. That we should expect in life both good and trouble. And the way we respond to both will say much about the kind of people we ultimately become.
Now, we can step back and we can agree that this world is broken, that in life we have both good and trouble, but when it becomes personal—that's when things become more difficult. I mean, we can look at this world, and we can say: tsunamis and earthquakes halfway across the world. Yes, in this world we're going to have good and trouble. We can look this world and see tornadoes in the South and realize: yes, in this world we will have good and trouble. In this community called Hope College, we know that beloved professors in the moment of greatest joy, bringing new life into this world, are struck down, and we scratch our head and we wonder about such things, and yet we know: in this world, we will have both good and trouble. We understand that from a broader point of reference, but what we struggle with is when trouble comes our way. That's what Job struggled with, because, after all, Job was trying to do life and faith the right way. We are told that Job was upright and blameless. He was a man who feared God and shunned evil. In other words, the sense was, "I'm doing life to the best of my ability. The very least that God can do is come through and encourage that kind of faithfulness in the leaves of those who endeavor to love God." And yet Job's so-called friends come alongside of Job in the midst of his struggle to understand to suggest that the world works in a way that's pretty predictable: that you get what you deserve. That bad things happen to bad people, and good things happen to good people: "Therefore, Job, if you're life isn't going well, there must be something bad there. There must be some sin you committed. There must be something wrong with your life because that's the way the world works."
Job struggles with his understanding of his faithfulness and the reality that God seems to be tormenting him, and he cannot make sense of it. And he struggles in the presence of God to wrestle and to ask God questions and to ponder what exactly is going on. At the end of the book, at the end of the account, what we really want, more than anything else, is a nice answer. We want God to step up and explain everything, but that's not what God chooses to do. Basically God takes Job to task. After Job wrestles with God for 40 chapters, God speaks to Job out of a storm and says, "Who is this that obscures my counsel with words without knowledge? Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you will answer me." And for the next three chapters God goes on to ask Job all kinds of questions: "Where were you when I did this? Can you tell me how to do this? Where were you when this happened, or this happened, or this happened?" And at the end of it all, all Job can do is cover his mouth and say, "I spoke once, but I will not speak again. I've spoken a second time, but I will speak no more." Job says, in effect, "I heard about you with my ears, but now that I've seen you with my eyes, all I can do is repent in dust and ashes. In other words, I've come to a place of acknowledging that you are God, and I am not."
Graduates of Hope College, you have been given the privilege to probe the mysteries of life and the universe. I believe that God is honored in the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, but at the end of the day, each of us has that opportunity to make our peace with what we know and what we don't know. To make our peace with the reality that there are certain things that we can know, and that there are certain things that we surrender to God, and we call that faith. Job was able to live and die well because first and foremost, he acknowledged that there were things he knew and things that he did not know, and that he could find a peace in the faith that rested in God alone.
The second reason I am persuaded that Job was able to live and die well is because he made his peace with disappointing people.
I find almost humorous verse 10 and following of Job the 42nd chapter, because we are told there that after Job was made prosperous again and God gave him twice as much as he had before—do you remember what happened next? All of his brothers and all of his sisters and all of his friends showed up and they wanted to eat at Job's table. They didn't invite Job over to their house for dinner. No: "Job, you're wealthy again. Now we're going to knock on your door. What have you got to give us?" For 40 chapters, we don't see anything of Job's brothers and sisters and friends except for the four that are mentioned—and they're not really friends at all. They want to condemn Job, they want to criticize him. And so when Job becomes prosperous again, everyone shows up and wants to have a party.
You know, that tends to be the way life works. I remember my sophomore year in high school, going through a season of great difficulty and loneliness in a way. My parents were struggling with their marriage, and I was injured and couldn't participate in athletics, and school was very challenging that year, and I remember feeling exceedingly lonely. It was a time of kind of trying to discern who I was and what I was going to do with my life. Fast forward a couple of years later, and life is just going well for me. You know, sports are going well, I'm getting recruited by all kinds of colleges, and popularity and doing well in school, and suddenly I've got all these people around me, and I'm asking myself the question: "Where were all of you two years ago?"
You know, that tends to be the way life unfolds. Sooner or later, we encounter persons who disappoint us, persons who want to grab onto our coattails in order to get promoted, or to advance in some way that they desire. Somewhere along the way we share a trust with someone else, and that trust is betrayed. And the easy and natural thing to do in those moments is to make a list. The easy thing to do in those moments is keep a record of wrongs. The easy thing in those moments is to say in our own spirit, "I'm going to repay evil for evil." That's very human. People hurt us, people let us down, we think, when we have the opportunity, we'll repay them in the same way. But I find fascinating and helpful that Job didn't do that. He was let down in an extraordinary way by his brothers and sisters and his friends, and yet when the Lord restored his standing and his wealth, he welcomed them back.
See, that's the choice that all of us have to make when we are disappointed by other people. The natural response is to allow our heart to shrink, and to trust people less. But the Word of God encourages us to forgive, to allow our heart to grow larger, and to believe that people can change and that relationships can improve. You see, the challenge for us is to hold that desire for revenge or to repay evil for evil in our own heart. And over time, that experience creates a toxin called bitterness. And ultimately bitterness is going to destroy the vessel in which it's contained. You know, I can be exceedingly upset about a person on the other side of campus. When I see that person, my heart starts to race, and my frustration starts to grow, but she's not feeling that at all. And so it is the wise person who learns the value of forgiving, who does not keep record of wrongs, but continues to open the door to hospitality, relationships and love.
That brings me to the final reason I am persuaded that Job was able to live and die well: namely, that he made his peace with the possibility that life could be good again after loss, after failure, after tragedy.
This past Friday, as a number of you were enjoying your time together out at Camp Geneva, I was gathered together with a family just a few miles from here to mourn the one-year anniversary of the loss of a husband, a father and my very best friend. You see, one year ago on Thursday night, I took a walk with my friend, who was struggling with the challenges of cancer and depression. He was struggling, and it seemed to me that he was losing his grip on hope. And so we took a long walk together, and we talked about all the reasons that life is worth living, and all of the things that he had to live for, and the desire was to strengthen and encourage him. And I remember at the end of the walk realizing that I just was not able to break through. I reached out and embraced him. I looked him in the eyes and I said, "Lee, I know that you're in a dark place, but I also want you to know that there are so many who love you, and we can get through this. We'll just take it one step at a time." Early the next morning, I received a phone call. The person on the other end of the line was in a panic. I went to the home and realized that my friend had lost his battle with cancer and depression.
I share that story one year removed from that tragic event not to add heaviness and sorrow to this festive celebration, but to remind us of the importance of leveraging and responding to the failures, the tragedies and the losses that are common in human experience. See, you know and I know that if we are going to succeed in life, we're going to have to come to terms with failure. We're going to have to come to terms with loss. We're going to have to come to terms with tragedy.
And this thing we call hope, the thing upon which this institution is grounded, is indeed a great gift in that regard. We are told that the greatest of these, by the Apostle Paul, is faith, hope and love, but when it comes to overcoming tragedy and failure, I would suggest that hope is most important of all. Because hope allows us to believe that though life will never be the same again after loss—as Job was given seven sons and three daughters, God's sentiment was not like, "These are to replace what you've lost"—no, life will never be the same again after we fail, after we lose, after we experience tragedy. But hope asks us to believe that life can be good again. And that we need not be defined by our failures, by our tragedies, or by our losses, but by our belief in a God that is working a redemptive purpose even in the midst of things that are difficult and the things that we do not fully understand.
It is my sincere hope and desire for all of you, as you cross the threshold of graduation in just a few hours, that you live life well. That it will be said of you one day that, "He or she died old and full of years." If that is also your desire, my encouragement to you would be to make your peace with God, to make your peace with people who disappoint you along the way, to make your peace with the possibility that life can be good again after defeat, after loss, after tragedy.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.


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In today's edition of the Friday Files, we have political wisdom from the mouths of babes, news about an ethics complaint and some free advice for a few candidates … which is worth precisely what the candidates paid for it.
Scott undermines himself
Until now, Rick Scott was running a pretty savvy campaign.
But then he came to Orlando this week for a rally alongside all the "Tallahassee insiders" he had been railing against for the past three months. He also met with lobbyists and talked about taking their money — after repeatedly bragging about the fact that he had not.
It's almost like Scott quickly forgot what made him so appealing to some voters in the first place — his status as an independent outsider.
You can't very well rail against — and cuddle with — the status quo at the same time.
Some candidates fear their opponents will cut them off at the knees. Scott seems to be taking the machete to himself.
Grayson needs a chill pill
Restraint has never been Alan Grayson's forte. But Orlando's Democratic U.S. representative should consider reining in his extra-harsh attacks against GOP opponent Dan Webster.
Grayson wasted no time calling Webster "corrupt" and " Taliban Dan."
Grayson has plenty of legitimate ammo. Webster is the consummate Tallahassee insider. He gave a stamp of approval to the expressway authority's money-wasting, toll-raising ways when he was supposed to fix them. And Webster is about as far to the right as Grayson is to the left. (Sorry, moderates who are craving a centrist. You lose … again.)
Grayson would even be well within his rights to point out the basis for the Taliban nickname — that Webster once sponsored a bill pushing for "covenant marriage," which would make it harder for couples to divorce.
But comparing Webster to a radical group responsible for murdering thousands of innocent people is too much.
In fact, one can only imagine Grayson's indignant reaction if someone were to note his opposition to the war in Afghanistan, argue that it would allow evil forces to spread … and then called him Al-Qaeda Alan.
Wanting answers
Last month, this column noted several oddities in the financial disclosure of aspiring state House speaker Chris Dorworth. Among them: A listed income of less than $32,000 and annual debt obligations of more than $100,000. Also, Dorworth said his house, which is facing foreclosure, was worth $2 million even though county records suggest it is worth less than half of that.
Many readers were troubled by that report — and the fact that state ethics officials said they wouldn't look into the matter unless someone filed a formal complaint.
Well, now, someone has. Winter Springs resident and graduate student Frank Bracco filed a five-point complaint, asking the commission to investigate the discrepancies.
Asked why, Bracco said: "I've lived in Central Florida for a long time. And you read about these things over and over again. And I finally decided: I am a constituent, if I don't take action, who will?"
For Dorworth's part, he noted that Bracco was a supporter of his Democratic opponent, Steve Barnes. (State records show Bracco donated $20 to Barnes' campaign.) Wrote Dorworth in an e-mail: "This is a BS complaint filed by a desperate campaign. Most people see this for what it is — a politically motivated accusation …"
How nasty are they?
Want more proof that negative campaigning is out of control?
Well, consider this: On Thursday, I got a press release from an environmental group touting an ad campaign they were running against congressional candidate Craig Miller.
One little problem: Miller's not a candidate anymore. He lost in the primary.
When I mentioned as much to the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund, they acknowledged they must have missed that detail.
Man, you know negative campaigning has gone too far when groups aren't even checking to see whether the candidates they're bashing are actually still candidates.
A final thought
I'm a particularly proud dad this week.
Last week, my little girl came home from school, super-excited about elections for class president.
The next day, she was sad, because she hadn't even been nominated.
Yet on Tuesday, she left for school with a whole stack of "Vote for Kaitlyn" stickers she spent making the night before for a friend who was nominated instead.
Somewhere between elementary school and adult politics, things go really, really awry.
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Author Notes: Inspired by a recent trip to Barcelona, this was the asparagus at our Easter lunch last Sunday. It treats diced chorizo like lardons. Don't you always come back from a great trip and want the vacation to continue by working the flavors into regular life back at home? - EBeier —EBeier
Food52 Review: This is a simple recipe with lots of flavor. I loved the combination of perfectly cooked asparagus with the crispy bits of spicy chorizo, and the lemon juice (I used Meyer lemon) really rounds it out. There was plenty of fat in the pan from roasting the chorizo so I found no need to add additional olive oil; my chorizo was quite salty so I didn't add any salt either. I topped this with a poached egg and it made a great lunch. - WinnieAb —The Editors
Serves: 4
bunch fresh green aspargus, absolute bottoms trimmed
link chorizo
a squeeze of
lemon juice
kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
splash best-quality olive oil, optional
- Steam asparagus until still crisp but just beginning to get tender--about 3 or 4 minutes in a steamer set over simmering water. Set aside.
- In the meantime, prick the chorizo link with a fork and roast in a cast-iron skillet in a preheated 375 degree oven for about twenty minutes or until cooked through and browned on the outside. Drain the excess fat that will have oozed out of the chorizo link and cut the link into dice.
- Toss the chorizo dice back into the still-hot skillet and return to the oven for about 5 minutes, or until the dice are a bit crispy. Remove the dice from the pan and set aside.
- Toss the steamed asparagus in the still-hot skillet, which should be nicely glazed with fat. Place in the oven for about 5 minutes, or until the asparagus is cooked through, hot, and possibly beginning to brown.
- Finish the dish by tossing the asparagus and chorizo dice together and flicking the lemon juice, salt and freshly ground pepper over it all. If the asparagus doesn't seem moist enough to you, toss again with the optional olive oil before serving.
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Asparagus Recipe
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Moment.me Collects and Organizes Shared Event Experiences
It's easy to save, and share your tweets, status updates, photos and videos across your social networks when attending an event. It's a pretty hefty tasks to view other users media from the same event. Moment.me is a service that aggregates all social media content from an event and displays the content as it happens.
By creating an account and linking your Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Picasa and Instagram accounts, all of your social media updates are added to a real-time collage of content called a "moment" that the service automatically compiles and aggregates with content from other users based on location - It takes all the work out of having to friend people just to see their location-relative content.
A moment can be viewable by other users or via public link. For the privacy sticklers, Moment.me also complies with each individual's privacy settings. So, if someone has their Facebook photos set to private, they won't show up in a public moment.
Sounds like a cool idea. The only concern I have is Moment.me is only useful if people actually sign up and connect their social media accounts. Outside of all the other services you currently manage, to many, Moment.me may appear like yet another "thing" to manage.
Time will tell if the value-add of a social media service like Moment.me is enough for people to sign up and actively engage in another social media service.


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In configuring virtual machines (VMs), you design, build, and test your VMs before deploying them to your data center. These actions do not directly impact your production environment. ZENworks® Orchestrator Server has an additional Virtual Machine Management (VM Management) interface console to aid you in developing and testing your VMs before listing them as deployable resources in your Orchestrator Console.
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Obama's critic-in-chief strikes again
President Bill Clinton — the man President Barack Obama once dubbed his "Secretary of Explaining Stuff" — once again has some explaining of his own to do with the Obama White House.
In an interview released Tuesday, Clinton called for a fix to the Affordable Care Act that would put an end to the wave of insurance cancellations that have been a public relations disaster for the White House and prompted Obama to apologize last week for having repeatedly assured Americans that they could keep their insurance if they liked it.
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Clinton's endorsement of legislation to address the cancellation issue again put the former president in a place Obama had refused to go — a familiar spot for the Oval Office's current occupant.
( Also on POLITICO: Bill Clinton: Obama should keep promise)
On issues ranging from the debt ceiling fight to Syria to rhetoric towards the rich, Clinton has parted company with the White House party line — often at crucial times that leave the current president in a tough spot and exacerbate tensions that date back to the 2008 campaign.
"I personally believe, even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got," Clinton said during a discussion of Obamacare problems in an interview with Carlos Watson on the web site Ozymandias. The former president did defend the overall impact of the law — but in backing the idea of changing it to address canceled health policies, he got on board with an approach Obama has yet to embrace.
At Tuesday's press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney downplayed the notion of any disagreement between Clinton and Obama — telling reporters the former president was still Obamacare's "explainer-in-chief. However, the spokesman carefully sidestepped the question of whether the two men share views on possible solutions.
( Also on POLITICO: HHS to Obamacare website shoppers: Please come back)
"You've heard the president address this very issue," Carney said, pointing to Obama's comment to NBC last week that he was working "to make sure that nobody is put in a position where their plan's been cancelled [and] they can't afford a better plan, even though they'd like to have a better plan."
However, Carney would not commit to any particular legislative option or even say that legislation of some sort was necessary.
"We haven't announced any potential fixes or moves that we might be able to make to address this problem," the press secretary said.
It isn't the first time Obama's team has spent a news cycle explaining away their explainer-in-chief's remarks. During last year's presidential race, Clinton angered the Obama team by describing likely GOP nominee Mitt Romney's business record as "sterling" just as Obama and his allies were trying to paint Romney as a heartless corporate raider during his time at Bain Capital.
( WATCH: 7 quotes on Obamacare glitches)
And at a closed-press event in June of this year, the former president took issue with Obama's cautious Syria policy, saying that Obama or any president risks looking like "a total fool" if they heed opinion polls showing Americans fearful of any new entanglement in the region.
The recently-published book Double Down digs into the Obama-Clinton tensions in detail, reporting that after the pair golfed together in a patch-it-up effort in 2011, Obama said: "I like him…in doses."
In an interview last week, Obama himself spoke about trying to address the cancellation problem, but stopped short of backing tweaks to the law.
"Obviously, we didn't do a good enough job in terms of how we crafted the law. And, you know, that's something that I regret. That's something that we're going to do everything we can to get fixed," Obama told NBC.
( Also on POLITICO: Dick Durbin: Obamacare line needed clarification)
Asked about the pending legislation, the president demurred.
"We're looking at a range of options," he said.


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Following the Military Wives Choir's performance for the Queen at the Diamond Jubilee Concert, their choirmaster Gareth Malone is already looking ahead to his next challenge.
The 36 year-old tells Mandrake he is considering venturing behind bars for a new project. "There could be a place for me in a prison," he says.
Malone has been inundated with letters from prisons asking him to help with their choirs. "I get a lot of requests from prisons, it comes up all the time and I would be very interested in the work."
The star of The Choir is, however, unsure if his next project will be one that is suitable for the small screen. "I think it's really important work but I'm not sure it needs television," he says. "The sorts of situations I've been into are actually helped by television but I'm not convinced the brilliant work that goes on in prisons needs a camera crew. That said, it's something I want to do."
Malone conducted the Military Wives as they performed Sing for the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Sing is the official song of the Diamond Jubilee. The piece is written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Gary Barlow and also features other musicians from across the Commonwealth.
Malone rose to fame through the BBC's 2007 reality television series The Choir. The series saw him teach choral skills to people who have no experience of singing. He has since worked creating choirs in challenging situations including an all-boys' school and with extremely shy children.


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text: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad included a science-fictional section set in the future — and won the Pulitzer Prize. And her Twitter story "Black Box" was the best thing in the New Yorker's recent science fiction issue. So we're cautiously hopeful that she'll continue moving in that direction for her next two books — for which she'll be compensated in the seven-figure range. Egan just jumped ship from Knopf to Scribner, for a seven-figure, two-book deal, according to the New York Times.


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December 15 International Tea Day
14th International Tea Day - December 15, 2018
Small Tea Growers
Small Tea Grower (STG) segment accounts for almost 36% of the total tea production (2014) in India. For most, tea is the only source of livelihood. The Tea Board of India defines a Small Tea Grower as a person who has a tea cultiv
Bonded Labour | Brick Kiln Workers
In its worst form, bonded labour practice is an employer-employee relationship that institutionalizes and operationalises through the feudal system of debt and intergenerational bondage. Forced labour is an extension of bondage.
Social Security
Social security in India has been seen as an economic, social and cultural entitlement and not as a right. In fact the provision of social security for some has become the justification for denial to many.
Garment & Leather Workers
A drastic increase in export of manufacturing goods during 1990s made India internationally known as a base for global commodity chains. The sector has mostly migrant workers living in closed community that can't be approached.
Home Based Workers
Home-based workers constitute a huge workforce at the end of the supply chain that is kept invisible by design, to ensure minimum responsibility and maximum profit for the supply chain leaders.
Migrant Labour
So far India has no formal policy on international migration. There are only limited schemes and programmes to safeguard the interests of migrant workers.The only law which is applicable, is the Indian Emigration Act of 1983.
Tea Plantation Workers
There are close to 2 million tea plantation workers, who are fourth/fifth generation indentured workers, predominantly adivasis and dalits and more than 50 per cent women.
Occupational Safety and Health
According to The Hindu Survey (1993), every year 1.8 lakh workers die and 11 crore get injured in occupational accidents. In India, occupational risks are maximum and compensation minimum
Informalisation and Labour Rights
A market-led economy pushes for labour flexibility upsetting traditional employer-employee equations and segmenting labour into formal and informal. The informal workers are deprived of basic labour rights and rendered expendable.