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"How do criminals fix a football match? How do you recognise a fixed match? How do you avoid becoming a target of match-fixers? "
These were just some of the questions raised at the first workshop organised by INTERPOL, in partnership with the Football Association of Finland and the Finnish Police, as part of its ten-year initiative with FIFA to tackle match-fixing and corruption in football.
Some 40 players, officials, police and government authorities took part in the two-day event in Helsinki in April, the first in a series which are aimed at raising awareness and understanding of corruption in football, the strategies used by criminals and how to recognise, resist and report match-fixing attempts. One other important aspect of these workshops is to identify good practice and areas for development.
Peter Lundstrom, the Finnish FA's Head of Competitions, said: "I'm sure the workshop raised the common knowledge of integrity issues, and this is exactly what makes it easier to fight illegal betting problems because all stakeholders in the workshop made a commitment to improve their small part of actions on behalf of 'the good guys'. At the workshop, we would have representatives for the sporting side, and at the same table you would have somebody from the police, prosecution services, ministry, foreign guests and the betting industry, and just by talking through case scenarios everybody would learn from each other.
"The workshop was a tremendous opportunity to spread the knowledge about integrity issues, within all sports and not just football, to stakeholders who normally would never otherwise get together at the same table. The workshop focused on very common examples and not just on high-profile cases that have been exposed, and thus the conversations became attached to our national challenges. As most participants were not professionals within the field of neither legal nor illegal betting, the enthusiasm to learn was tangible."
The various role-playing exercises enabled participants to gain a different perspective on the complexities of the problem, and importantly what rules, laws and networks exist to provide support to men and women directly involved in football and for the officers investigating allegations of corruption.
Instructors and speakers from Finland, Italy and FIFA's own Security Division provided an international viewpoint, reinforcing the need to address problems of corruption and match-fixing through transnational co-operation. Representatives from Hungary and Korea Republic also participated as observers.
Jouko Ikonen, a representative of the Finnish police, explained the match-fixing problem in the country: "Helsinki was an ideal place to launch this programme, because during recent years the we have identified match-fixing problems in Finland and started to fight back. More than a year ago, a Singaporean match-fixer was arrested and later convicted along with 11 players in Finland. That was a big enough case to make us realise how worldwide the problem is at the moment. During the investigation we found out that Finnish matches were only a small part of the big picture.
"It is always good and useful to receive new ideas and experiences how to tackle the problem. It was also important to meet and talk together with all parties about the phenomenon and effective actions against it. It gave us excellent possibilities to share information. I am sure that every participant has a common goal to tackle and prevent the match-fixing problem. Nobody can do it alone. Co-operation is the only way."
No region in the world is immune to the risk of one of its countries falling victim to corruption in football.
FIFA Secretary-General, Jerome Valcke was quick to point out the importance of the FIFA-INTERPOL partnership in order to ensure fair play across all levels of the beautiful game.
"As a result of the huge profit associated with illegal gambling, of the vulnerability of players, and of the ease with which matches of all levels are accessible for betting on the internet, corrupting matches or their outcomes has become of interest to groups that do not care about the beauty of our sport. No region in the world is immune to the risk of one of its countries falling victim to corruption in football. It is for these reasons that one year ago, FIFA and INTERPOL entered into a ten-year partnership to tackle corruption in football more aggressively and effectively.
"The FIFA-INTERPOL initiative aims to develop and implement a global training, education and prevention programme with a focus on illegal betting and match-fixing. This workshop that has taken place in Finland is the very first in a long list to come, as FIFA is taking any cases of match-fixing in its member associations extremely seriously; hence our decision to also create a dedicated Security Division within our own organisation to investigate any information that might harm the integrity of our sport."
Since its creation in 2011, INTERPOL's dedicated Integrity in Sport unit, based at the INTERPOL General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France has been developing a number of training, education and prevention strategies.
The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to test-run INTERPOL's new e-learning training course, which is due to go live in June 2012.
With players and officials (referees) most often the target of criminals wanting to manipulate the outcome of a game, the online course has been designed with footballers in mind, focusing on the personal and professional risks of participating in any form of corruption.
Although primarily aimed at footballers, INTERPOL is encouraging all those involved in combating corruption in sport to complete the INTERPOL e-learning programme.
"I believe that the workshop was a success and that the work we performed will help both the participants and the Interpol/FIFA organisers in the process of improving its contents even further," added Lundstrom. "I know for a fact that all participants made a huge personal leap forward in recognising the entire concept of match-fixing, and the ones in each participating organisation who will be working within these issues will often relate to facts and theories presented in the workshop."
The workshops will continue throughout the year. Discussions are ongoing for the organisation, in the course of 2012, of different meetings: a Regional Kick-Off Awareness Workshop in Italy with the objective of bringing together a variety of representatives from European countries, a National Workshop in South Korea, a Regional workshop in the region CAF/COSAFA sub-region, a Regional Workshop in the region CONCACAF/UNCAF sub-region, a Regional Kick-Off Awareness Workshop in AFC region with the objective of bringing together a variety of representatives from Asian countries, and others.
*For more information on the INTERPOL/FIFA initiative and on the activities covered by this project, please visit the dedicated webpage on the INTERPOL website (http://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas/Corruption/Integrity-in-Sport) or contact the INTERPOL Integrity in Sport unit, email: email@example.com


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MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Fabio Fognini lost his serve just twice Friday and defeated Juan Monaco to pull Italy into a 1-1 tie with Argentina in a Davis Cup first-round series.
Carlos Berlocq shook off a first-set loss and gave Argentina the first point of the series with a 4-6, 6-0, 6-2, 6-1 decision over Andreas Seppi. Fognini answered with a 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 win over Monaco.
The winners of Saturday doubles match between Italians Simone Bolelli and Filippo Volandri and Argentines Eduardo Schwank and Horacio Zeballos will give their team an edge going into the Sunday reverse singles.
Sunday's schedule calls for Friday's winners -- Berlocq and Fognini -- to meet in the first match, with Monaco and Seppi set for the fifth match of the best-of-five series.
The winner of a series between Great Britain and the United States takes on the Argentina-Italy victor in the Davis Cup quarterfinals in April.
Berlocq took nearly two-thirds of the points after dropping the first set against Seppi. Seppi was 2-of-3 on break chances in the first set but 0-for-4 after that.
Fognini also dropped his serve twice in the first set but answered with three breaks of his own and then two in each of the second and third sets.

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For today's Family Recipe Friday post, I am sharing my mom's recipes for Sloppy Joes. I will always remember my mom cooking supper in the kitchen, waiting for the hour when my dad would walk through the door. I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we were able to sit down at the dinner table together just about every night. To this day, whenever my brothers and I need some comfort food these sloppy joes are what we ask for!
*Please note: June Cleaver had nothing on my mom! She always looked this great when she was cooking dinner!
Mom's Sloppy Joes
2 lbs. Hamburger
2 cans Chicken Gumbo Soup
Onion2 T. Catsup
1 T. Mustard
1. Brown Hamburger
2. Add soup, onion, catsup, mustard, and simmer for at least 20 minutes.


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Please enjoy the release trailer provided in anticipation of the event.
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"Find a job that you love doing and you'll never work another day in your life." A cliché, yes, but nevertheless an apt description of the mind-set of many of the product development engineers at Tenneco Automotive's Ride Control Group (Monroe, MI). Their latest effort is the Monroe "Reflex," a new aftermarket shock absorber that should make an immediate impact in the light truck market this winter. While new aftermarket products are often the result of clever marketing, this technology (yes, it is truly technology) is the result of passionate engineers developing new products to satisfy their toughest customers—themselves.
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Product developers at Tenneco Automotive must posses two qualities. First is a love of cars and all things automotive. Second is the ability to communicate and work as part of a team. From a human resources standpoint, this means that you're apt to find people with large garages working at Tenneco. (One engineer states that he currently owns four cars and has never owned less than two since he was in high school.) From an organizational standpoint this means that there are numerous systems in place to ensure that information flows freely throughout the company.
"There's no question that the way that we work in this company gives us a competitive advantage," says Terry Heffelfinger, chief engineer, Engineering Systems Development Aftermarket Engineering. Tenneco's Ride Control Group is divided between OE and aftermarket applications engineering; however a "Core Engineering" team within OE Engineering is where most of the ingenious new ideas come from (like the Reflex design). Everyone at the Monroe facility uses a common materials testing department, as well as sharing NVH and durability labs. This structure creates plenty of opportunities for communication. In addition, every month both engineering staffs get together for "synergy groups" to swap ideas. At these meetings "we don't care whether it's aftermarket or OE, we're just engineers talking about widgets and what we can do to enhance their characteristics or develop more value," explains Heffelfinger.
Other efforts to promote communication among Tenneco's entire engineering community include an annual international symposium where personnel from all of their global facilities (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and the U.S.) congregate, and a global "best practices" program called "NPIS (New Product Introduction System)." NPIS is a project management tool that helps determine feasibility, risk, capital resource deployment, complexity, manufacturability, and potential impact of any new idea. Tenneco maintains a Lotus Notes database containing relevant information concerning research and development of all projects. This, of course, helps prevent anyone from re-inventing the proverbial wheel.
Even more significant than the corporate structure of communication, however, is an implicit "bring your own ideas" engineering policy, where new concepts precede paperwork. People with good ideas are usually free to explore them and the system allows for good ideas to develop. Heffelfinger explains that "the challenge is deploying human resources to projects to come up with a product."
At the Monroe facility, they consider themselves lucky to have a lot of self-described "car guys" who look at their work as a personal challenge. Case in point, Heffelfinger is a weekend SCCA racer who is currently using the Reflex valve technology in the shocks on his racecar. "I've been fortunate enough to be allowed to experiment and play and try and put something into production," he says, "The great joy for me is to take something from concept into production and watch it roll off the line."
Trials and Tribulations
In the case of the Reflex shock, the concept was a patented new valve design by Karl Kazmirski, manager Adjustable Damping and Springs, and senior technician Charles Tyrell. Core Engineering began working on his idea in Spring 1997. They built take-apart shocks with standard components and machined prototype valves in the on-site machine shop. These prototypes were tuned on a shock dynamometer and then given the all-important vehicle dynamics test to determine if the difference could be felt. (Tenneco has its own in-house training program for its ride engineers to develop sensitivity to vehicle dynamics.)
Once this test was passed, Aftermarket Engineering became involved with the project and engineers from all disciplines began six months of design iterations. Over 500 prototypes were built, taking into account such issues as manufacturability, assembly, materials and durability. Of important note here is that engineers at Tenneco change disciplines regularly to broaden their backgrounds.
In what was perhaps the greatest engineering trial for the technology, it was decided that the valve design would go into limited production. In addition to its Monroe brand, Tenneco also sells high performance truck shocks under the "Rancho" name. In Fall 1998, the Reflex valve actually made its debut in the Rancho RSX-Reflex shock. Since they would be produced in much smaller volumes than the full Monroe Reflex line, this gave the engineering team the chance to pilot the manufacturing process. All the manufacturing issues were thereby solved before gearing up for larger production volumes. Tenneco's Cozad, NE, plant was chosen for the pilot because it was already producing light truck shocks. Given that almost every light truck shock uses the same 1 3/8-inch bore, it was possible to use common tooling, thereby saving time and money.
Materials technology was also an important part of the development process. Rather than using a chrome-plated piston rod as they did in the Rancho shock, Tenneco engineers chose to nitro-carbonize the rod for the Monroe model. This process gives the rod a greater corrosion resistance, as well as being more environmentally sound. The valve itself is made from powdered metal and Tenneco employs its proprietary "Fluon" (a fiberglass-Teflon material) band around the piston.
The Technology
Reflex shocks are twin-tube, nitrogen-charged hydraulic shock absorbers. This, in itself, is not really different than most shocks on production vehicles. However, Reflex shocks have a much stiffer compression resistance, giving a firmer ride, which is ideal for good handling. The caveat with this setup is usually that stiff shocks make for a harsh ride on rough roads. Given that Reflex shocks were originally developed for light trucks, this would appear to be a great contradiction of purpose. Welcome to the challenge faced by most ride-control engineers. How do you combine sports car handling with luxury car comfort? Even worse, how do you do this for a truck?
The solution is a new valve in the Reflex shock that opens and closes by way of a small spring. Under smooth-road driving (which mainly generates cornering and braking loads on the shock), the valve stays closed, keeping the shock stiff, which controls body roll and pitch. But when the vehicle hits a bump, the high compression force on the shock (above 1.5 g) causes the spring to compress, opening the valve in 15 milliseconds and providing more oil flow for a lower resistance. The once-stiff shock becomes much softer, hence the elusive comfortable ride.
As further evidence of the usefulness of this new shock design, Nissan is using the technology in the redesigned 2000 Altima. Tenneco also plans to introduce a passenger-car line of Reflex shocks next year.
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'We welcome today's historic ruling' - reaction as High Court declares abortion law in Northern Ireland breaches EU convention on Human Rights
A landmark legal challenge to relax Northern Ireland's strict abortion laws has been successful.
The challenge was brought by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC), which wants access to legal terminations in cases of rape, incest or fatal foetal abnormality.
Judge Mr Justice Mark Horner told Belfast High Court: "In the circumstances, given this issue is unlikely to be grasped by the legislature in the foreseeable future, and the entitlement of citizens of Northern Ireland to have their Convention rights protected by the courts, I conclude that the Article Eight rights of women in Northern Ireland who are pregnant with fatal foetal abnormalities or who are pregnant as a result of sexual crime are breached by the impugned provisions."
Unlike other parts of the UK, the 1967 Abortion Act does not extend to Northern Ireland where abortions are banned except where the life or mental health of the mother is in danger.
Anyone who performs an illegal termination could be jailed for life.
The high-profile judicial review was heard over three days in July.
The case was taken against the region's Department of Justice (DoJ) which, following a public consultation, had recommended a law change in circumstances of fatal foetal abnormality.
However, the NIHRC said the DoJ had not gone far enough and argued the current law was incompatible with human rights legislation regarding inhuman and degrading treatment, privacy and discrimination.
Judge Horner said without a referendum it was impossible to know how the majority of people viewed abortion and noted there was no political will to change the law.
In cases of fatal foetal abnormality (FFA), the judge concluded the mother's inability to access an abortion was a "gross interference with her personal autonomy".
He said: "In the case of an FFA there is no life to protect. When the foetus leaves the womb, it cannot survive independently. It is doomed. There is no life to protect.
"Therefore, even on a light touch review it can be said to a considerable degree of confidence that it is not proportionate to refuse to provide an exception to the criminal sanctions imposed on the impugned provisions."
The judge also claimed the current law placed a disproportionate burden on victims of sexual crime.
He said: "She has to face all the dangers and problems, emotional or otherwise, of carrying a foetus for which she bears no moral responsibility and is merely a receptacle to carry the child of a rapist and/or a person who has committed incest, or both.
"In doing so the law is enforcing prohibition of abortion against an innocent victim of a crime in a way which completely ignores the personal circumstances of the victim."
Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin, the chief legal adviser to the Stormont Assembly, was given special permission to address the court. He said there was no public appetite for a law change and argued that it would take away the rights of disabled unborn children.
The court also took submissions from legal representatives for Sarah Ewart, a 24-year-old woman who went public about travelling to England for an abortion in 2013 after being told her first child had a severe brain malformation and no chance of survival outside the womb.
Ms Ewart was not present in court but mother Jane Christie sat in the public gallery alongside Grainne Teggart, from Amnesty International, which was also a third party intervener.
Further submissions were admitted from A number of other pro life and pro choice groups including Precious Life and the Catholic clergy.
The lengthy judgment was read out to a packed courtroom over more than two hours.
Judge Horner urged members of the public to read it in its entirety.
"The judgment is for everyone to read, not just those with legal training," he said. "Please read the judgment in full and give it careful consideration before reaching a conclusion."
The NIHRC said legal proceedings had been launched as a last resort.
Speaking outside the court, Les Allamby, chief commissioner described the judgment as "historic".
He said: "We welcome today's landmark ruling.
"In taking this case we sought to change the law so that women and girls in Northern Ireland have the choice of accessing a termination of pregnancy locally in circumstances of fatal foetal abnormalities, rape or incest, without being criminalised for doing so.
"Today's result is historic, and will be welcomed by many of the vulnerable women and girls who have been faced with these situations.
"We are delighted with the result."
However, prominent pro life campaigner Bernadette Smyth expressed disappointment at the result.
She said: "We do not recognise the negative points which were made by the judge today.
"We must protect the rights of the unborn child."
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The Faculty History Project documents faculty members who have been associated with the University of Michigan since 1837, and the history of the University's schools and colleges. This project is part of a larger effort to prepare resources for the University's bicentennial in 2017. Find out more.
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At one point in his touring one-man show, Mike Tyson, the ear-biter, convicted rapist, all-around thug, cocaine user and former heavyweight champion of the world, shows a picture of himself from 1976. He's wearing one of the bomber jackets of the era and his then-unblemished face looks warm, sweet, smart and pretty. In that revealing moment of an entertainment far, far more interesting than you might anticipate, you come to see that despite its macho embrace of organized personal destruction, its nomenclature of knockouts and killers, the world of boxing has only ever been mastered by those who understand the need to blend the masculine and the feminine. Tyson always knew how to hit, of course, but he always was a more natural dancer than most people knew.
Tyson calls his Broadway show, which had the first of two Chicago performances Friday night, "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth" and it is filled with verbiage along the lines of, here I am standing before you, acknowledging my mistakes, turning things around and presenting an honest picture of my life.
But it's not hard to offer up a truth when none of your antagonists around are there to present their sides. Tyson might say he wants to offer no excuses, but, like all of us, he has a version of events in his life that favor himself. He paints himself as a victim of Don King as an explanation of why a man who once had $400 million—yes, $400 million—in his bank account ended up filing for bankruptcy.
He argues, with video evidence, that were it not for a long count from the referee, he would have knocked out James Buster Douglas instead of being the loser. He insists that he did not rape Desiree Washington when she was just 18, and throws in a line about how he was not the first man she had accused of the crime, evidence that, he claimed, the court just would not hear. He argues that his ex-wife Robin Givens was a "tramp" (he said he caught her with Brad Pitt) who remained addicted to sex with Tyson, even when she was unloading to Barbara Walters in one of the most uncomfortable joint interviews in the history of television. He even suggests mitigating circumstances ("he was head-butting me") for that famous chomp on Evander Holyfield's ear, a moment when he jumped the shark, his public turned on the apparent monster it had created and he went, he tells us, from being "the tenth most hated man in America to the first most hated man." True, that.
But at 46, Tyson, clearly, has developed an ability to see this man he once was as a kind of character, a person wholly separate from the man he now has become. And one of the paradoxes, you might say, that gives his autobiographical show such theatrical potency, as compared with the typical booze-drugs-and-dysfunctional-rich-parents childhoods that dominate the genre, is that Tyson really has a tale of interest. I mean, such a life! He was reported to have been arrested 30 times before the age of 12 (that bomber-jacket moment was brief and the detention center became, he says, "just like Cheers, where everybody knows your name"). He has experienced the gutter, fame, fortune, total dominance of a grand old sport, the inside of a prison, humiliation, reconciliation, the loss of his own child, you name it, he's been through it. And there he is, standing before you, wearing the years on his face, a passage of time, a trip to vulnerability that no tattoo can cover.
Tyson is not, in case you were in doubt, a traditional rhetorician. At one point Friday in his two-hour show, he disappeared briefly into the wings and came back sucking an apparent cough-drop, and if there's one thing harder than understanding Tyson, it's understanding Tyson sucking a cough-drop. Several times in the show, you can see him steel himself and revert to chunks of memorized text. But even those moments are strikingly poignant. The director, Spike Lee, has filled this piece with very powerful images on a huge screen—these are not victory-lap reels, but a real picture of a man, a time, a place, a celebrity culture roiling with hypocrisy. Lee lets Tyson be Tyson for the most part, and there is plenty of humor and tall tales in the show, but he also subtlety suggests that Tyson was just the malleable piece of fighting putty that the great trainer Cus D'Amato, and, by extension, boxing, America, needed to vent its own desires, hungers and frustrations. At one point, Tyson talks about the ongoing requirement that he register as a sex-offender at the local police station, where, invariably he says, the police-officers pull out their cameras and fetch their kids for a photo opp. Such is the trump-card of celebrity, although Tyson sees it as proof he is benign. Perhaps it's both.
This show is no doubt making Tyson a lot of money, but it also is costing him something, especially as he recounts the loss of his child. It goes rather deeper than you'd think. Actually, Tyson is rather deeper than you'd think. And he has plenty of energy. He does not sit in a chair and tell stories. He performs his version of the truth. He is getting paid, and paying in return. And one warms to the equality of that equation.
The most haunting image in the show is the picture of Tyson's troubled mother—he tells us it is the only picture he has of her—who, like most of the people in Tyson's life, struggled to express their affection and made a premature exit from the ring. She stares out, a total enigma. Her son, to his great credit and having pulled himself from the very brink, is trying to be otherwise now.
"Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth" can also be seen Saturday night at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St. Call 800-775-2000 or visit Broadwayinchicago.com.


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The Daily Life excerpts are from a transcript of a house tour with Rose Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, 1969.
Living Room
When the children were ready for bed and had said their prayers they would come to the living room and play for a little while before we put them to bed....I spent a good deal of time reading to the children...I would make no engagements outside in the evening so that I could be with the children to help them with their school work, to doctor their colds, or to find out what activities they had been interested in during the day.
The piano was a wedding gift and at Christmas, with the tree over there by the south window, I would play and we would all sing Christmas carols. The children did not do too well with their piano lessons. Radio was a new thing then and they said that people wouldn't want to listen to them play when they could hear the same songs on the radio.
The pictures are copies of famous paintings I had studied in the European galleries. It gave me great pleasure to have these copies in my home and I thought it an inspiration for the children to grow up with them.
Master Bedroom
The pictures over the beds are copies of Italian paintings of the Madonna and Child I had seen and liked. My mother and father gave us Irish linen bedspreads, which were hand-embroidered with shamrocks, thistles and other Irish symbols and were great treasures. The photograph on Mr. Kennedy's dresser is of his mother and father. On the far wall are the traditional six month pictures of Joe Jr., Jack, Rosemary and Kathleen. Some people say that all babies look alike but I can tell the difference even at that age.
The christening dress in the corner was given to me by my mother-in-law, who had it made by the Franciscan nuns in East Boston where the family lived. All the children and John Jr., the president's son, have worn this dress. The little Irish bonnet, a gift, is profusely covered with shamrocks. The president was baptized at Saint Aidan's, the neighborhood church. Mothers were confined for three weeks then, and so the celebration was always a small, informal family gathering. I wanted the children christened as soon as possible so I was never present at the ceremony.
There were more toys in here then of course. The president liked steam engines, teddy bears and the usual boys' toys, but especially books of adventure. You couldn't give a sick child a radio or a television set then, to keep him occupied, because there were none in 1917. We spent a lot of time reading and entertaining the children here in this room, particularly when Jack had scarlet fever in 1920.
Guest Room and Boudoir
I used this smaller room as a study. On the desk is one of my wedding invitations and some early photographs of my family. Here I did my correspondence and kept a card file on the children's health. That was a most helpful system. I purchased a card file from the stationers near here and recorded all the important information about each of the children. It helped so much to be able to check back on symptoms of illness, weight, diet and all the important information, such as vaccinations, schick tests, confirmation dates, et cetera. I would recommend this idea to any mother.
Dining Room
We didn't do much formal entertaining here. We preferred to have informal dinners with a few friends. Cocktail parties were not customary in those days. A little wine or champagne was served at weddings and christenings.
We were very happy here and although we did not know about the days ahead, we were enthusiastic and optimistic about the future.
Questions for Reading 2
1. What impressions did you form about what life was like for the Kennedys between 1917 and 1921?
2. What kind of atmosphere or family environment did the Kennedys provide for their children?
3. What items displayed in the house reflected the Kennedy's values and beliefs?
4. What kinds of information did Rose Kennedy record in her card file? Why would keeping a file on each child have been important?


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The only good point was Mr. Hosford's suggestion to discuss the matter with the chamber of commerce. To begin to get an idea of why businesses are pushing the envelope on this issue I would refer the board to the front page article regarding restaurants in The Valley. I think that the chamber of commerce may confirm that this scenario is not limited to eating establishments.
I don't have hard survey facts, but discussions with many of my fellow merchants here have indicated that sales are significantly down from previous years. Whether you choose to believe it or not, we are in an economic slump. Locals are feeling the pinch and have cut spending. The tourists, the life blood of this community, are not here. Businesses are putting up signs and sandwich boards in an attempt to draw in every person they can in a struggle to survive.
The Waitsfield Select Board has a couple of paths to take here. They can work with the chamber and local business to find a creative and mutually beneficial approach, or they can pursue their normal line of enforcement to the death. The latter will likely lead to an explosion of new "closed" and "for sale" signs.
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AQUALORÉE #3About this photograph
A symbiosis of the aquatic world and colour. A study of undiscovered spaces and time which places its mark on the group of photos. The rivers are shaped, the clouds unravelled, the spaces lit and the light favoured. A metamorphosis of our world.Read more Read less
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I came across this problem recently and I wanted to know whether it was a well known NP-complete problem. I checked the library but could not find anything that matched exactly.
Given a directed weighted graph G. Find the minimal weight path of length 'n' in the graph. Which is without setting any specific start node or end node.
This is not my field, so you will pardon me if the solution is trivial.


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The year 2012 will likely be a milestone for Mozilla's Firefox web browser, as the open source group aims to further accelerate web innovation. Among the ways that Mozilla plans on improving Firefox in 2012 is by way of a number of efforts that could make the browser more secure for a greater number of users.
Mozilla makes incremental security updates with each release -- such as the recent Firefox 9 update, which patched several security vulnerabilities. The open source browser vendor also works on making the overall platform more secure, which will be the core focus in 2012.
"Longer term, a lot of the work that we do around core technologies factors in security primitives," Johnathan Nightingale, Director of Firefox Engineering at Mozilla told InternetNews.com. (The term "security primitives" refers to the building blocks used to provide security services in the software application.)
As an example, Nightingale noted that Mozilla configured support for WebGL as a way to address security concerns with cross-domain texture loading. He explained that with WebGL the idea was to utilize a protocol-based solution that can shut down an entire class of vulnerabilities.https://o1.qnsr.com/log/p.gif?;n=203;c=204660766;s=9477;x=7936;f=201812281312070;u=j;z=TIMESTAMP;a=20392931;e=i
"The reality is that the way our JIT engine is built makes it somewhat resilient to JIT Spraying attacks," Nightingale said. "But there is still work we can do on that class of vulnerability to just get it out of the realm of even the theoretical -- and that work is ongoing."
Another approach to browser security, which has already been adopted by Google Chrome, is known as "process sandboxing." With process sandboxing, the idea is to isolate processes in order to reduce the potential risk and attack surface for a given browser process or operation.
"Sandboxing has some real benefits, but it's not a silver bullet," Nightingale said. "It is something that our platform team is looking at really closely."
Nightingale added that Mozilla is trying to find a good way to deliver sandboxing discretely, without the need to re-architect large portion of the Firefox platform. He noted that sandboxing is a security tool that Mozilla definitely sees as being beneficial.
Painless updates equal better security
Another area that Mozilla is looking at for Firefox security is the updating mechanisms for the browser. Currently, Firefox users need to click through dialog boxes and interact with the browser in order to get the latest updates. A pair of efforts now underway will likely improve the process and enable more users to get updates easily with minimal interaction.
One of these efforts focused on making Firefox easier to update is called "hotfix addons."
"What hotfix does is it gives us an extra tool to address issues we see in the field without having to push a brand new update," Nightingale explained. "It lets us push out updates in a targeted way and it lets us deliver a fix to our users without introducing a lot of the current interruption that a full software update involves."
The hotfix feature will give Mozilla a way to patch a vulnerability or fix an important issue without requiring a full build. In some cases, there won't even be a need to restart the browser.
The second effort is the upcoming "silent update" process. Nightingale noted that since the Firefox 4 release in March of 2011, Mozilla has been releasing new browsers every six weeks. That rapid release cycle has involved a certain amount of interruption for users who have to take the time to install the updates. Nightingale stressed that finding a way to apply updates quickly and without interruption will be the single most effective method to keep users safe online.
"What we're building now is a system that is really quite silent," Nightingale said. "If you want to be notified, of course you'll still have that option."
In contrast to a hotfix update, the silent update is a way of eliminating the interruption of entirely replacing an existing version of Firefox with a new version of Firefox.
"Every time we push a full update, we're saying 'Here is a new Firefox executable and a new set of associated libraries that have gone through a lot of development'," Nightingale said.
While Mozilla is working on new ways to eliminate classes of vulnerabilities and updating the browser, Nightingale stressed that building a secure browser is an incremental and iterative process.
"At the end of the day there is a lot of hard work that goes into building a secure product release after release after release," Nightingale said. "Sometimes that means fixing a lot of unglamorous bugs."
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network.


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A quick and delicious way to add some vegetables to your diet. Pistachios were first brought to the Roman Empire from Syria during the reign of Tiberius. Through history, they were considered a refined delicacy worthy of kings and queens (the Queen of Sheba is said to have been a fan!).
I also love the delicate flavor added by celery. It was not until the Middle Ages that celery's use started expanding beyond medicine and into food. Always choose celery that looks crisp and snaps easily, with leaves that are free from yellow or brown patches. Sometimes Also separate the stalks and look for brown or black discoloration, a sign of a condition called "blackheart" that is caused by insects (yikes). If you are storing cut or peeled celery, make sure it's dry, as water can drain some of its many nutrients. The optional touch of soy sauce was inspired by my friend Allaya Fleischer, Kosher Asian chef and writer for Bitayavon magazine.
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- 1/2 pound asparagus
- 2 small/medium carrots
- 2 celery sticks
- 1/4 pound haricot verts or green beans
- 3 spring onions
- 1/3 cup coarsely ground pistachios
- 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- (optional) 2 tablespoons soy sauce
Peel the carrots. If the outside of the celery stalk has fibrous strings, remove them by making a thin cut into one end of the stalk and peeling away the fibers.
Clean and cut the spring onions.
Cut the asparagus, carrots and celery into sticks.
Trim ends and strings off the green beans and cut them into pieces.
Toast the pistachios for one minute in a skillet or wok then set them aside.
Heat the oil in the skillet, then add the spring onions; cook them for about one minute on medium/high heat.
Add the rest of the vegetables and some salt, and cook for about 5 to 7 minutes on medium/high heat, stirring.
If liked, you can add some soy sauce and cook for one more minute (if not, just sprinkle with black pepper).
Add the pistachios and serve.


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Greiner and Pattanayak: The Sequel
In a draft essay, Service Delivery, Resource Allocation and Access to Justice: Greiner and Pattanayak and the Research Imperative, Tony Alfieri, Jeanne Charn, Steve Wizner, and I reflect on Jim Greiner and Cassandra Pattanayak's provocative article reporting the results of a randomized controlled trial evaluating legal assistance to low-income clients at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. (The Greiner and Pattanayak article was the subject of a Concurring Opinions symposium last March.) Studying the outcomes of appeals from initial denials of unemployment insurance benefit claims, Greiner and Pattanayak asked, what difference does legal representation make? Their answer is that "an offer of HLAB representation had no statistically significant effect on the probability that a claimant would prevail, but that the offer did delay the adjudicatory process." That is, not only was an offer of legal assistance immaterial to the case outcome, it may have harmed clients' interests. The Greiner and Pattanayak findings challenge our intuition, experience and deeply-held professional belief that lawyer representation of indigent clients in civil matters is fundamental to the pursuit of justice. Our first reaction is that the study must have fatal conceptual or methodological flaws – the researchers studied the wrong thing in the wrong way. Even when we learn that the study is credible and well designed, we doubt that this kind of research is a worthwhile use of our time or money relative to serving needy clients. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we worry that the published results will only serve as fodder for the decades-long political assault on legal services for the poor. If replicated across venues, however, studies like Greiner and Pattanayak's can tell us a great deal about individual representation, program design and systemic access to justice questions. In fact, we cannot make genuine progress in any of these areas – much less marshal the case for more robust legal aid investments and the right to counsel in some civil cases – without better evidence of when, where and for whom representation makes a difference. Fortunately, developments in law schools, the professions and a growing demand for evidence-driven policymaking provide support, infrastructure and incentive for such research. For these reasons, we urge legal services lawyers and clinical law professors to collaborate in an expansive, empirical research agenda.


text: The site of guitarist David Gilmore: jazz roots and global soul. Get news, Twitter feeds, buy CDs, download tracks, stream music, watch videos, and get tour updates, including gigs with collaborators ranging from Ravi Coltrane to Joss Stone. He has worked with Wayne Shorter (appearing on Mr. Shorter's Grammy Award winning album, High Life (Verve)), Dave Douglas, Muhal Richard Abrams, Sam Rivers, Steve Coleman, Cassandra Wilson, Don Byron, Uri Caine, Randy Brecker, David Sanborn, Ron Blake, Carolyn Leonhart and Christian McBride, among many others. In addition to his significance presence on the international touring scene, Gilmore has also appeared on over 50 recordings, including two of his own as leader. His first CD, Ritualism (2001) received international critical praise and was nominated for the 2001 Debut CD of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association.


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Hi all---my new post is up. You can read it here: A Funeral Story I know that my views towards death are probably not normal, but am curious to know how you all deal with the whole idea.
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"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." Samuel Clemens
In the comments, you and hausdorff summed up the "thank God for everything, good or bad" bullshit perfectly:
"It's the old "heads I win, tails you lose" mentality."
and even if the coin somehow lands on its edge, then it's a miracle!
Thanks Loren. I went back in and fixed it.
The link don't work, RB, but I'll find it.
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Infectious disease experts tell us there is a hidden epidemic of viral liver infections in the United States. The epidemic is hepatitis C, and millions of baby boomers likely have been infected for decades without knowing it.
Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released final recommendations for routine screening of all people born between 1945 and 1965. It is estimated that this group accounts for 75 percent of all hepatitis C infections in the United States.
The basis for this new screening recommendation is threefold. First, the rate of undiagnosed hepatitis C is high, with about 3 million Americans unaware they are infected.
Second, the complications of chronic hepatitis C are significant and potentially life-threatening, such as liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. Finally, newer treatments recently have become available that can provide a cure for the infection.
Also, testing which consists of a one-time blood test is simple and effective in detecting evidence of viral infection.
Hepatitis C is a virus which infects the liver and commonly persists as a chronic infection. Often the infected person is unaware of the disease because symptoms are rare in the early stages.
The danger of hepatitis C is that it produces liver damage, often slowly over time. Through decades, this may lead to permanent liver scarring known as cirrhosis. The liver damage may be accelerated if infection is accompanied by other sources of liver toxicity, such as may result from consumption of alcohol.
Cirrhosis may proceed to liver failure, for which the only effective treatment is liver transplant. Also, people with hepatitis C are at increased risk for liver cancer.
Hepatitis C is primarily transmitted through contact with infected blood. The main risks are injection drug use or having received a blood transfusion or organ transplant prior to 1992, when universal screening of the blood supply was initiated.
According to the CDC, other risk factors include being born to a hepatitis C-infected mother, intranasal drug use, acquiring a tattoo in an unregulated establishment or having been stuck by a needle such as in a health-care occupation.
It is estimated that more than 3 percent of those born between 1945 and 1965 are or have been infected. Hence the recommendation for universal screening in this age group.
Treatment options do exist that can produce a viral cure. In addition to considering medical treatment, people with hepatitis C infection are counseled to maintain a healthy weight, avoid significant alcohol consumption and avoid certain medications (including herbal supplements and over-the-counter medications) that can potentially harm the liver. Infected people should also be vaccinated to prevent other forms of liver infection.
The CDC recommends that people infected with hepatitis C should not donate blood, tissue or semen and should not share appliances that might come into contact with blood such as toothbrushes, razors or nail clippers.
Talk to your doctor to see if you should be tested.
Dr. Matthew A. Clark is a board-certified physician in internal medicine and pediatrics practicing at the Ute Mountain Ute Health Center in Towaoc.


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Theo Fleury tell-all book coming
Theo Fleury fans – and you still see some Avs fans with his jersey at games – might be interested in a coming book he "wrote."
It supposedly has lots of juicy stuff, and here's an advance quote he gave to the publisher, Triumph Books:
"I think that people need to understand why. What it was that made me do what I did. I knew I was crazy insane and so did everyone else," Fleury writes. "I didn't hang out on the surface. I would go five, six, seven, eight levels below the streets of New York and party with people I didn't know. Freaks, transvestites, all kinds of shady people. Or I'd be walking home from a game dressed in my custom made suit from Giovanni's in Montreal and I'd stop and buy three or four bottles of wine. Then I'd head for the Chelsea Piers between 23rd Street and the Hudson River and hang with homeless guys around a burn barrel shooting the sh*t. I would ask them how they got there. I've always been interested by that kind of stuff. The Rangers must have been sh**ting bricks."
Should be a fun read, sounds like.
My favorite personal Fleury memory will always be the time he got into it with some Florida Panthers fans at the end of that magical six-point night by Peter Forsberg in 1999 – after the fans were heckling him while the Panthers held a 5-0 lead.
He was hurt and up in the press box with us, and he was really giving it to the Cats' fans. You had to be there, but it was real funny.


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Hello all,
I have seen this come up again in a few different places. I have made comments to some, hopefully nice enough.
I would like to clarify the "typing" "visual spelling" of FREESCO.
As you can all tell, I type it all in CAPS, force of habit I guess. But to the point here ....
Freesco as far as I knew was to be typed like the following
FREESCO, Freesco, freesco
And as far as I knew it was not supposed to be typed like these (or direct variations)
freeSCO, FreeSCO, FREE SCO, Free SCO, FreeSco, freeSco, or any other way that makes the ""SCO"" stand out from the rest of the name.
I was under the impression that FREESCO is one word, not 2 words including the "SCO" as a seperate word (as the verbal description shows , which can be found if searched for).


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LEDS Global Partnership Workshop
From February 27 to March 1, Climate & Energy Director Alexander Ochs will chair a discussion session at the annual global meeting of the Low Emissions Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS-GP) in Pattaya, Thailand. More information to come as it is available.
About the Workshop
The LEDS Global Partnership is convening its second annual global workshop to bring together leading practitioners from countries and international institutions to share lessons and strengthen cooperation on low emission development around the world. The workshop will convene peer learning and collaboration sessions on common topics of interest defined by the African Climate & Development Society, Asia LEDS Partnership and the LAC LEDS regional platform. The workshop will be open to participation by officials and experts from government agencies, international institutions, and technical institutes engaged in low emission and climate resilient development programs.
Workshop Objectives:
- Conduct peer to peer learning and capacity building on specific low emission development topics of common interest to countries from all regions
- Share lessons and innovation on low emission and climate resilient development from country and international programs
- Highlight leadership and advance collaboration across countries and international programs on low emission and climate resilient development
- Review progress and plan future activities of the LEDS Global Partnership together with the African Climate & Development Society, Asia LEDS Partnership and the LAC LEDS regional platform.


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Lisa continually thanks God for this gift He's given her. Her amazing hubby Roger and their precious kids are a great encouragement and support...as well as the many other fabulous folks and fellow photographers who've been an important role in her journey with these calendars.
Ministering to others has been huge in Lisa's daily life. She has chosen two ministries to donate a portion of the funds of these calendars:
Camp Kadesh at Christopher Lake, SK which has been an important part of her family's life, provides a great camp experience to kids every summer;
Compassion is "one of the world's leading child development organizations and partners with the local church in 26 countries to end poverty in the lives of children and their families". Lisa and Roger have become Advocates for Compassion, encouraging others to impact lives by sponsoring a child. Thank you for making an impact on children's lives both here in Saskatchewan and around the world!
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which are masterfully woven on Jacquard looms. Each item is then hand
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These wonderful items can also be used as a tapestry and be hung on the wall.
These throws measure approximately 53" x 70".
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text: Grayling, Michigan was a major player in the logging industry until around 1920. This once thriving metropolis, built on sawdust and woodchips now had only the railroad and a budding trout industry. There were just enough jobs and light industry to support a small local population for those who chose to stay. Among those families who stayed were Liland and Jessie Smock who, in the grips of the great depression raised their family of five children. During those years, Liland found work at a local lumber mill and at a hardwood flooring company and eventually opened his own, 'Smock & Son's Watch Repair'. Among the Smock children was Robert Charles (Bob), born November 23, 1926.


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Once again, members and friends of Slow Food Maumee Valley will celebrate the season with our "Tomato To-mah-to" Slow Supper. This year, it's a pot luck and we're asking you to bring tomatoes or something that goes with tomatoes. We're partnering with Toledo GROWs for this event, which will be held on Sunday August 21st at 3 PM at the Toledo Botanical Garden conference center.
Gazpacho? Caprese? Heirlooms? You decide! Mark your calendar now for this family-friendly event.


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CA Service Catalog is an integral part of a CA Service Management solution which include CA Service Desk Manager and CA IT Asset Manager. Each of these products may be implemented and adopted separately or in combination according to an organization's priorities. They are tightly integrated to support capabilities across the IT service management (ITSM) domain, providing tools to help manage the entire service life-cycle consistently for request, incident, change, asset and service-level management.
Implementation Services for CA Service Catalog Implementation Services assists in deploying a solution which supports request management and which can be enhanced to meet specific needs for automation, integration and collaboration.
By utilizing IT resources and services efficiently, organizations can support initiatives that drive competitive advantage. Conversely, poorly managed resources and services increase costs, impede initiatives and can undermine business and IT management. Underlying problems include:
Implementation Services for CA Service Catalog Implementation Services deploy an ITSM solution which supports request management.
CA Services deploys the solution using a framework of foundation services and optional acceleration services that offers greater flexibility and fosters incremental solution adoption. This modular approach speeds the deployment of core functionality while providing powerful options to extend CA Service Catalog with proven workflows, automation, additional integrations and reporting capabilities for improving IT service request management.
Foundation Services for CA Service Catalog provide a proven framework for implementing CA Service Catalog, enabling core ITSM functions using the product's built-in features.
These services enable the following capabilities for request management:
Acceleration services extend your solution with enhancements for additional automation and integrations, tailored rules for routing requests, multi-tenancy and specialized reports and notification methods.
Service desk request fulfillment: Provides integration between CA Service Catalog and CA Service Desk Manager to support automatically creating IT service desk change orders or requests via the fulfilment workflow process
Visualize service configuration items: Enables viewing CI's which make up a service and performing root cause analysis in the event a service is lost due to CI changes or outages
Asset request fulfilment: Streamlines request fulfillment by automating the process of associating service requests with assets such as hardware managed within the asset portfolio manager
Mobile access: Allows users to browse and search the service catalog and to submit requests from mobile devices
Catalog widgets: Enables CA Service Catalog administrators to work with application administrators to embed service catalog functionality in a portal or HTML page
Multi-tenancy: Configures the solution to manage services separately for individual tenants that operate within a logical group such as a business unit or as clients of a managed service provider


text: At the Metal Gear 25th Anniversary event today, Konami announced that a new game set in the Metal Gearverse will be coming to iOS in the guise of a card game this Autumn/Winter. Powered by the Unity 3D engine and utilising the GREE social gaming platform, Social Ops will see you reliving key moments from past games in the series. At E3 we saw a few examples of card games using GREE, such as the Gangstar spinoff from Gameloft. No doubt the idea of a card game version of Metal Gear will garner quite a few groans from iOS gamers, hoping instead for a fully fledged Metal gear entry on iOS. However, with Kojima Productions handling the planning of the game, well reserve judgement for now. Look out for a teaser trailer to hit soon. Source: andriasang.com


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HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Certain employers that hire new workers in Pennsylvania would get to keep 95 percent of the state income tax withheld from the workers' paychecks under a bill moving quickly through the state House of Representatives.
The bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Kerry Benninghoff was awaiting final action in the chamber Wednesday.
It was designed as an incentive to attract companies from outside the state before it was amended to include in-state companies.
Participating employers would give the state only 5 percent of the income-tax payments for five to 10 years depending on the number and location of the jobs.
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, a liberal think tank, is urging lawmakers to reject the bill because it would be expensive and would duplicate existing job-creation tax credits.


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One of my customers is an industrial plant that was informed it needed to upgrade its cable tray systems and bring them up to the minimum codes and standards. They called me with questions pertaining to cable tray installations. Since these questions are common, I decided to address them in the magazine in the order they were asked.
Is a cable tray considered a raceway, and if not, what section of the Code describes or defines cable tray?
Section 392.2 of the 2008 National Electrical Code (NEC) defines a cable tray as a unit or assembly or sections and associated fittings that form a structural system used to securely fasten or support cables and raceways.
The fine print note (FPN) for Section 300.17 contains a list of wiring methods that is considered part of raceways and these, of course, must comply with more than one section of the Code. A raceway is defined as an enclosed channel of metal or nonmetallic materials designed expressly for holding wires, cables or busbars, with additional functions as outlined in the NEC.
These definitions make it clear that cable trays are meant to be used as a supporting means, while raceways are designed so conductors or cables (where permitted) can be pulled through and enclosed so as to protect from physical damage.
Are Class 1, 2 or 3 circuits permitted to be mixed with power conductors when installed in a cable tray or pulled though raceway?
Without the use of special cables, the general rule does not permit Class 2 or 3 circuits to be installed in the same raceway or cable tray system with power conductors per 725.136(A). When the installation calls for these circuits to be mixed with other conductors, Sections 725.136(B) through (I) and 725.139 through 725.141 must be reviewed and verified to ensure the type of conductors mixed is in compliance.
Class 1 circuits and power circuits are permitted to be mixed together when they are electrically associated, functional and are supplying circuitry to a motor system. Sections 300.3(C)(1) and 725.48(B)(1) address this type of installation in raceways or cable trays.
Does the NEC allow an elevation or direction change without installing a cable tray fitting to complete the transition?
Section 392.6(A) (2008) of the cable tray article permits, under certain conditions of use, to install mechanically discontinuous segments between cable tray runs. Therefore, existing cable tray systems meeting the requirements of 392.6(A) through (J) that have elevation or directional changes comply with the Code and can remain installed.
How should the grounding and bonding of the cable tray be accomplished when they are not connected together with fittings suitable for the purpose of connecting together discontinuous segments of cable tray systems?
Section 392.7(A) and (B) covers the requirements for grounding and bonding together cable tray systems. For example, if a metal cable tray has a minimum cross-sectional area of metal of 1.00 as shown in Table 392.7(B), the metal of the tray during a ground-fault condition has the capacity to trip open a 400-amp overcurrent--protective device. When dealing with discontinuous segments of cable trays, the requirements of 392.7 pertaining to cable tray grounding must be followed.
Note that the requirements for aluminum and nonmetallic cable trays are different than those for metal cable trays.
How should conductors and cables be derated when they are installed in cable tray?
Section 392.11(A)(1) governs the derating requirements for multiconductor cables. The section requires that derating be applied based on the number of current-carrying conductors within the cable and not on the number of multiconductor cables installed in the tray. Single conductors must be derated by the requirements outlined in 392.11(B). Each single conductor installed in cable tray that is considered current-carrying must be derated according to the requirements listed in 392.11(B)(1) and (2). For the allowable ampacities of combinations of multiconductor and single conductor cables, see NEC Section 392.11(C)(1) and (2).
Can cable trays be installed and used in other spaces used for environmental air?
Section 392.4 does not prohibit such use of cable trays where the installation and use are in accordance with 300.22(C) and (D) that deals with wiring methods and equipment installed in such space.
Can conductors and cables be stacked on top of each other in cable trays?
Not necessarily. Before installing conductors and cables on top of each other, the requirements in 392.9 and 392.10 must be reviewed and applied according to these sections.
STALLCUP is the CEO of Grayboy Inc., which develops and authors publications for the electrical industry and specializes in classroom training on the National Electrical Code and other standards, including those from OSHA. Contact him at 817.581.2206.


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The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.80% was up by 0.1% to 3,2456 late in the day, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, -1.83% rose by 0.2%. The Morgan Stanley High-Tech Index US:MSH picked up 0.4%.
Notable gainers included Facebook FB, -0.11% , which was up more than 3%, and Amazon.com AMZN, -1.50%, up nearly 2%
AOL Inc. US:AOL jumped more than 8% after Barclays upgraded the stock to an overweight, or buy, rating. In a note to clients, Barclays analyst Anthony DiClemente also boosted his price target on the shares to $44 from $38, citing his belief of "significant upside" to consensus estimates "as AOL returns to modest revenue growth and continues to streamline its cost structure."
Apple AAPL, -1.46% shares were last down 2.2% to $450.90. Pacific Crest cut its estimates for the company's June quarter, predicting lower sales of the company's larger iPads and "modest" expectations for the iPhone.
"Apple's large cash balance and high customer retention rates should prevent meaningful downside from current levels," wrote analyst Andy Hargreaves in a note to clients. "We do not see catalysts for meaningful upside," he added, maintaining his sector perform rating on the shares.
T-Mobile USA also unveiled plans to finally sell the iPhone beginning next month. But the carrier is tweaking the commonly used subsidy model, offering the device for $580 up front or $99 with an agreement to pay $20 per month for two years.
Google GOOG, -0.71% shares slipped 1.2% to $802.85 after Stifel Nicolaus trimmed its estimates on the search engine giant. In a note, analyst Jordan Rohan said "the possibility of a revenue and earnings miss for [the first quarter of 2013] has not yet been factored into investor psyche."
BlackBerry US:BBRY shares were up more than 2% after a weaker start ahead of the company's fourth fiscal quarter report, slated for Thursday morning. Analyst Pierre Ferragu of Bernstein Research told clients not to worry about reports of a weak launch of the company's Z10 handset in the U.S. last week.
"The U.S. was less than 20% of Blackberry's revenues last quarter, and just 11% of shipments," he wrote. "Blackberry isn't a U.S. story anymore, and we are actually not surprised initial traction for the new platform is limited there."
LogMeIn Inc. LOGM, +0.40% shares fell more than 10% despite a victory in a federal court, where a jury found that the software company's products do not infringe on a patent held by a firm called 101 Communique Laboratory Inc.
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Amid vise-tight security, runners carried the Olympic flame Thursday through the near silent, closed-down center of New Delhi.
This leg of the global torch relay – which returned to Asia Wednesday after tumultuous runs in the West, followed by smooth tours in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East – was especially sensitive. India, home to the world's largest community of exiled Tibetans, has had to balance its democratic tradition of protest and its desire to please its powerful neighbor, a concern that weighs more heavily on the flame's host countries the nearer they are to China.
Fears that Tibetan protesters would disrupt the relay meant it was effectively invisible to the Indian public, who were kept away by a series of security blockades and the closure of surrounding roads.
Indeed, the only people present to cheer the torch were a few hundred obedient schoolchildren, bused in wearing the red T-shirts of an Olympic sponsor, Coca-Cola.
They were heavily outnumbered by police: 15,000 police and military personnel were deployed around the capital on Thursday.
Even the route was truncated. In the days before the event, as fears for the safety of the torch grew, officials from the Indian Olympics Association (IOA) snipped the planned route by one-third.
So instead of running five miles from Old Delhi to India Gate, torchbearers made a speedy run along Rajpath, a broad avenue that runs from India's presidential palace to India Gate.
New Delhi was potentially the most volatile destination for the Olympic torch because it is home to more than 100,000 exiled Tibetans, who fled to India after China crushed an uprising there in 1959.
In recent days, Tibetans from all over the country have gathered in New Delhi, where they have held a series of protests against the games – an attempt to generate anger over a Chinese security crackdown in their homeland that began last month.
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Though would-be onlookers expressed dismay at the tight control surrounding Delhi's torch relay, it did not come as much of a surprise.
India has had to tread a delicate line as it tries to uphold two beliefs: in its strong democratic tradition – of which the right to protest is considered an integral part – and in the importance of diplomatic ties with its giant neighbor China. The two countries are attempting to resolve a border dispute that triggered a war between them in 1965.
India has given sanctuary to floods of Tibetan refugees, among them the Dalai Lama. But on a policy level, it holds that Tibet belongs to China.
Uday Bhaskar, a leading security analyst in New Delhi, says Thursday's combination of public protests and tight security enabled India to uphold both beliefs at once.
"Many Indians support the Free Tibet movement and join in the protests," he says. "The government of India is trying to say, 'There are things we have to do as a state.' And it accepts that citizens can protest within the law; indeed, protesting is an extremely important part of Indian political culture."
The Tibet issue and its centrality to Indo-Sino relations would not die with the Olympics, he says.
Tibet's proximity to India and China would "play into the countries' territorial relationship for a long time to come," says Mr. Bhaskar. "That's why a stable relationship between the two is needed."
Protesters invoke Gandhi
On Wednesday, the eve of the relay, an activist group, the Tibetan Youth Congress, made its second attempt to storm the Chinese Embassy in central New Delhi. About 100 youths ran toward the main gate of the embassy, some in tears, yelling "Free Tibet" and "stop the killing."
Indian police swiftly broke up the protest, arresting several dozen. On Thursday, police say they arrested dozens more protesters through the day.
But the biggest protest passed off peacefully. More than 2,000 people – mostly Tibetans, but also Indians and Westerners – marched from Raj Ghat, where Mahatma Gandhi's ashes are buried, to Jantar Mantar, a hub for political protests. Some carried pictures of Gandhi, an icon of peaceful demonstration; others, the Dalai Lama.
"I'm here because the Chinese occupation of Tibet is wrong," says Sidarth Gandhi, a student from a local high school carrying a "Free Tibet" poster.
At all times, the protesters were accompanied by a phalanx of police armed with batons and guns.
But finding the right balance between securing a safe passage and allowing dissent has not been easy.
Organizers of Delhi's torch relay have been embarrassed by the withdrawal of several public figures from the event. On the eve of the relay, cricket player Sachin Tendulkar – India's biggest sports star – pulled out of the relay. Though he cited an injury for his decision, many understood his withdrawal to signal disapproval of China's security crackdown in Tibet. Last month, Baichung Bhutia, India's national soccer captain, pulled out of the relay for that very reason.
Bollywood star Soha Ali Khan also backed out, citing "very strong personal reasons." And Kiran Bedi, India's first and most famous female police officer, said she would boycott the event because of the "suffocating security" surrounding it.
Last week, the Tibetan government in exile said it did not support efforts to disrupt the Olympics. "The Tibet government and many people of Tibet are not trying to stop the torch," Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of the Tibetan government in exile told reporters in New Delhi. "The Dalai Lama is supporting the Olympics."


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock futures added to gains on Wednesday after St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard gave an upbeat outlook on the economy.
Speaking in New York, Bullard said he sees 3% growth or better in 2014 and that the decline in the unemployment rate signals real job gains.
The economic calendar is otherwise thin. Deere & Co. shares rose in premarket, while Cisco Systems Inc. is the big name in the earnings spotlight after the close.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average US:DJH4 rose 25 points to 15,954, while those for the S&P 500 US:SPH4 added 2.5 points to 1,816.50. Futures for the Nasdaq-100 index US:NDH4 added 9.5 points to 3,622.25.
Ahead of Thursday's retail sales data, the only report on the docket is the federal budget for January at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, so traders will probably spend some of the session reflecting on Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen's testimony to the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, U.S. stocks stretched a winning streak to four days and the Nasdaq turned positive for 2014, after Yellen vowed to keep interest rates low as well as maintain the pace of tapering of bond purchases if the economy continues to improve. Markets posted solid gains, with the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.49% closing up 19.91 points, or 1.1%, to 1,819.75 — its best run over four-straight days of gains since Dec. 23, 2011.
Riskier assets have "been on a roll during the past week, and it seems that memories of January's wobbles are quickly fading. Indeed, if we look at the major equity indexes, the S&P 500 is only about 1.5% away from being flat on the year, after being down by more than 5.5% at one stage in late January. The Stoxx 600 SXXP, +0.29% is now back to being up (+0.4%) on the year," said Jim Reid, strategist at Deutsche Bank.
Chinese data was also underpinning sentiment, after exports jumped 10.6% in January compared with a year earlier. That compares with a 4.3% rise in the previous month and roared past the 2% rise expected by respondents to a Reuters survey and the 0.1% gain seen in a Wall Street Journal poll of economists. Gains for Chinese exports often signal a rise in global demand.
"January's rate of import growth was a seven-month high, and the level of China's imports of crude oil, iron ore and copper all rose to all-time highs for a January ... which is positive news for some of the resource-focused (emerging markets)," added Reid.
Hong Kong saw the strongest gains out of Asia, while Shanghai barely closed positive even in the data's wake. European stocks were rising for a sixth-straight session, while the British pound rose against the dollar after the Bank of England raised its forecast for U.K. economic growth in 2014 to 3.4%, from a prior forecast of 2.8%. The central bank also signalled it won't hike rates until 2015 because there is too much spare capacity in the labor market.
The Chinese data triggered losses for the Aussie dollar against the U.S. dollar AUDUSD, -0.3829%, while gold US:GCH4 paused. Oil CLH24, -50.57% recaptured the $100 mark after a below-expectations rise in crude supplies in data released Tuesday.
Among corporates, Deere DE, -0.23% shares rose nearly 2% in premarket after the heavy machinery maker reported first-quarter earnings, which beat forecasts, according to a consensus survey by FactSet.
Shares of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. DVA, +0.49% rose nearly 6% in premarket after late Tuesday reporting better-than-expected fourth-quarter results and posting an update profit outlook for 2014.
Cisco CSCO, +0.83% is seen posting fiscal second-quarter earnings of 46 cents a share after the close.
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Names, Social Security numbers posted on police log
Littleton police posted private information of more than 100 individuals on its web site, and the chief of the department apologized for the mistake Friday.
Names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers belonging to 104 people were posted between Jan. 14 and 24 on the department's police log.
Chief John Kelly said someone at the department posted the log but forgot to check a box that would remove sensitive information.
"We made two mistakes -- we did not check a box that should have been checked, and we did not check after it went up," he said. "That won't happen again, obviously."
Kelly said the department has posted an abbreviated version of their police lob on their website for about 8 years and this has never happened before.
Authorities have attempted to notify all those affected, including 47 Littleton residents, by hand-delivering letters to their homes.
"I extend my sincere apologies to anyone we have caused discomfort with this error and we will do everything we can to assist those adversely effected by it," Kelly said.
He said that going forward, more than one person will be responsible for posting and checking the log before it goes onto the website.
"It won't be just one individual that will be tasked with this. It will be two. And after the information is put up there, we will log out of the system completely, go back in and view," Kelly said.