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A $100 million expansion to McCain Foods' potato processing operation in Burley, Idaho, announced in August, has taken another step forward with action by the Burley City Council Monday.
The City Council passed a resolution to begin the process of designating a deteriorated area to form a fourth urban renewal area for the Burley Development Authority (BDA) in the vicinity of McCain's expansion. It also passed a resolution for a finding of fact on the need to establish a new urban renewal area and to designate boundaries for the area, said Melanie Haynes, Burley city clerk.
The city's actions were needed to create a new revenue allocation area for the urban renewal district, which allows BDA to put an incentive package together and the city to compete for McCain's project, said Doug Manning, Burley economic development director.
The BDA will be working with Cassia County to designate money for the project and is waiting on engineering estimates. The money will mostly be used for electrical upgrades and public infrastructure and possibly rail enhancement, he said.
Manning said he doesn't yet know what will qualify in the incentive package or how long it will take to put it together but it was part of negotiations with McCain to expand in the area.
Burley City Administrator Mark Mitton said the process is just beginning but it would take 60 to 90 days after the start of the new year to form a new urban renewal area.
McCain has been talking about an expansion at the plant for the past couple of years, but negotiations with the city began last spring. The company employs more than 500 workers, and the expansion is expected to add another 100 to 130, he said.
"It's a good deal for the whole area, more employees, more opportunity for growers. They've been here a long time, we know them, they do a good job, and we're excited about it," Mitton said.
In August, McCain announced it will invest in a new building and a third production line at its operations just west of Burley. The company expected the new third line to be operational at the end of 2015 and said the original plant, built in the 1960s, would continue production during the expansion.
Frank van Schaayk, McCain's regional president for the Americas, said the expansion is the result of increasing demand for potato products from customers nationwide.
The investment in the Burley plant is due to the area's strong potato grower community, highly capable workforce and tremendous support for the local and state government, he said in August.
The expansion will add a number of employees at the plant, and McCain will buy more potatoes locally when the new production line is operational, plant manager Jeff McCray said in August.
McCain Foods is the leading supplier of frozen potatoes and snack food products for the foodservice market and also supplies retail grocery chains with both McCain and private label potato products.
The matter of a new urban renewal area will go through public hearings and notification to neighbors before it could be approved, Haynes said.


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This is kinda random but I was just curious, you know how the stereotype is that hackers are generally pretty anti-social in person, well how about you HTS?
I have to admit I am generally pretty anti-social. In person I'm usually extremely quite and reserved, just taking stuff in. I do almost everything alone. I dont social network or anything like that, the closest thing is posting stuff to strangers here on HTS. I have very few friends and non of them are very close, or really even know me though. I am generally pretty content to just be alone. I generally hate small talk, especially with random people who I dont know and will probably never see again. Also the social convention of greeting someone and asking how they are doing, I feel is almost always a pointless waste of time.
So hts members are you outspoken, social butterflies or do you think the majority of social interaction is a completely meaningless waste of time?

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The big news overnight was that German investor confidence jumped in December, with the closely watched ZEW economic sentiment index of Germany spiking to 6.9 in December, higher than the -12.0 forecast and the previous reading of -15.7. Combining with the market looking for a very dovish statement from the FOMC, this is a recipe for a bullish day in the equity markets, and that is what we are seeing.
DEC12 E-mini S&P 500 futures are rallying hard this morning right from the open, trading up 9 points within the first hour of trading. This market is well above first and second intraday resistance levels and above our key longer term pivot of 1420. Staying above 1420, we view this market is very biased to the upside. The E-mini Nasdaq actually is the strongest of the U.S. equity indexes, trading up more than 1% already today at around 2680. Our next resistance level on the chart is 2700, and next upside target is 2775.
In grains news, an important USDA report came out this morning at 7:30CST. The U.S. Department of Agriculture lowered its forecast for soybean stocks in the U.S, but raised the prediction for wheat stocks because of lower exports. Wheat futures felt the effect of this key data, trading lower sharply after the report. Wheat futures are down around 12 cents now, and JAN13 soybeans are up almost 5 cents to 1479. There were no changes to the USDA supply and demand forecast for corn.
In currency news, the Aussie dollar remains strong, and we hold our bullish bias. Our next upside target is 1.0575. Now the currency is trading at 1.0502. The New Zealand dollar is on fire this December, rallying from .82 to .8373 just in the first two weeks. Bullish economic data coming from NZ is supporting this upward trend.
We focus more on the Canadian dollar for you today. As of now, the Canadian dollar is trading above our key pivot level of 1.01. The base at .9975 has been a good support area. Our next resistance level is 1.0170, which we don't believe will be that difficult to get through, especially if the FOMC statement is very dovish tomorrow. Our next major target/resistance level is 1.0225. We think the Canadian dollar can get up to this level.
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The Washington Redskins have released TE Sean P. Ryan, CB Marcus McCauley, LB Alvin Bowen and DL Antoine Holmes, according to Redskins.com's Gary Fitzgerald.
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|Redskins | Seven signed to future contracts
Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:40:02 -0800
Adam Caplan, of Scout.com, reports the Washington Redskins have signed free agents RB Anthony Alridge (Redskins), WR Anthony Armstrong (Dolphins), WR James Robinson (Redskins), OT Clint Oldenburg (Vikings), DT J.D. Skolnitsky (Redskins), DT Antoine Holmes (Redskins) and CB Doug Dutch (Redskins) to future contracts.
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|Redskins | Holmes signed to practice squad
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Cindy Boren, of The Washington Post, reports the Washington Redskins signed free-agent DL Antoine Holmes (Cardinals) to their practice squad Tuesday, Dec. 1.
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|Cardinals | Three released
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The Arizona Cardinals released TE Dominique Byrd, FB Jed Collins and DL Antoine Holmes Tuesday, Nov. 24.
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|Cardinals | Holmes signed to practice squad
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The Arizona Cardinals announced Tuesday, Nov. 3, that they have signed free-agent DL Antoine Holmes (Vikings) to their practice squad.
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|Vikings | Roster cut down
Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:22:31 -0700
Judd Zulgad, of The Minneapolis Star Tribune, reports the Minnesota Vikings have released DB Colt Anderson, FB Nehemiah Broughton, DE Martail Burnett, OL Chris Clark, OL Brian Daniels, OL Juan Garcia, DE Otis Grigsby, S DeVon Hall, LB Dave Herron, DT Antoine Holmes, RB Ian Johnson, DT Tremaine Johnson, OL Andy Kemp, CB Marcus McCauley, TE Garrett Mills, WR Nick Moore, TE Jake Nordin, WR Vinny Perretta, OL Drew Radovich, DB Marcus Walker and WR Bobby Williams.
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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:07:58 -0700
The Minnesota Vikings have announced they have signed undrafted free-agent S Colt Anderson (Montana), RB Kahlil Bell (UCLA), DT Antoine Holmes (North Carolina State), DT Tremaine Johnson (Louisiana State), OT Bobby Lepori (Fresno State) and WR Nick Moore (Toledo). Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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The Scottish international returned to the United side for their 4-3 win at Reading on Saturday, after which Sir Alex Ferguson berated his back-line - insisting they would 'get battered' if they continued to play like that. And with the Manchester derby the centrepiece of this week's Super Sunday - Fletcher admits there will need to be some marked improvement before the match at the Etihad Stadium.
"Teams like City will definitely punish any slack defending, so we are going to have to be really on top of our game," said Fletcher.
"It is becoming a concern, although I think, particularly at set-pieces, it is individual mistakes which we can try and sort out.
"Everybody knows that, and sometimes you can really focus in on the bigger games and make sure mistakes don't happen.
"I think we saw last season how important derbies against City are. We lost twice and we lost the league. Those results were a major factor in that.
"So we don't want to give them any advantage, by them winning against us, and I think it is about time we got a result against them."
United could be bolstered by the return of captain Nemanja Vidic this week - which Fletcher admits would be a huge boost.
"He's the club captain and a fantastic defender, so to have somebody like that coming back is always a good sign," he said.
"It's also great that we've got Phil Jones and Chris Smalling fit again, all these things are definitely going to help us.
"We are talking about the defending and we are trying to look at it and put it right. But I think the biggest thing is that we do keep coming back. I know we keep saying that but it is a lot more disastrous when you don't come back."
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Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/...ilebeta_1.htmlMicrosoft Monday released a test version of its next-generation file system, WinFS, well ahead of schedule.
The software giant made the first beta of the new file system available to Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Developer Network subscribers, according to a company spokesman. Developers had not expected to see a test version of WinFS until next year, according to a previous timeline provided by Microsoft.
WinFS will not be a part of the next version of Windows, Windows Vista, when it ships at the end of next year, but will be available to the operating system as an add-on release sometime in 2007 , said Quentin Clark, director of program management for WinFS at Microsoft
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What happened was the state's 38-cent cigarette tax increase went into effect, raising the total tax per pack from $2.24-$2.62.
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Right now, the users of the 3-5 most popular Linux distros have to either search the internet for guides like this one in order to get an idea how to install non-free software, or they have to figure out how to use the distro's package management and how to enable certain repositories. In the case of Ubuntu also exists an easy-to-use utility that will download most of these apps for you and install them. But even in this case, the user must know of its existence and must know how to install it in the first place.
These are major hurdles for new users, even if they sound trivial to most tech-oriented OSNews readers. These hurdles contribute in a big way to some users who try Linux distros to go back to Windows running scared. This is an issue that at least the big-5 distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake) must provide an easy solution to. It is the time to do so!
And that easy solution must work in a similar way to this:
1. Via a GUI app found on the /Administration menu that lists the 10 most wanted proprietary applications and asks the user to check the boxes of the apps he wants to install. Show a license agreement that waives the distro off any legal problems and then download and install the requested software.
2. When a user tries to load an mp3 or a .wmv, have patched your multimedia apps (e.g. Sound Juicer, Rhythmbox, Banshee, XMMS, Totem) to inform the user why they can't play these files and ask if he/she wants to download the codecs. If the user says "yes", show the license agreement that waives the distro from any legal problems and download/install the requested software. If installing the MP3 codec, also install the required Gnome mp3 profile so users can actually rip in MP3 with Sound Juicer.
According to our poll and some good guessing, here is the list of software that distros must work towards easily installing them and make the lives of their NEW users easier. Because when the user goes over this hurdle -- a major hurdle for most --, I believe that most users will actually STAY in the platform rather than running away after the 10-minute geek tour of "that thing called linux". Give them one more reason to stay!
1. System software
- ATi drivers
- nVidia drivers
- WiFi drivers and firmwares
- Other popular drivers
- MS Fonts
2. Multimedia support
- Several libs
- MPlayer codecs
- XineLib
- Real Player
3. Macromedia Flash
4. Sun Java
5. VMWare Player
6. Adobe Acrobat Reader
7. Opera
8. Picasa
9. Skype (and maybe the Gizmo client too)
10. Google Earth
I hope that at least Ubuntu is reading this. As I explained, having these packages scattered on their complicated package manager GUI app under a disabled repository, or the EasyUbuntu script that doesn't come by default, is not good enough. This functionality must be "right in the face" of the user after installing the OS! Make the (newbie) user happy without putting the distro in a legal danger.


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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likes to say he's been an environmentalist all his life. As a young boy, he kept pet snakes and raccoons, bred homing pigeons and pheasants in his backyard and learned to train hawks. He even considered becoming a veterinarian. Today Kennedy is widely recognized as the country's most prominent environmental attorney, working tirelessly to safeguard the environment and public health. He is the founder and director of Pace University's Environmental Litigation Clinic in White Plains, New York; president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, an international coalition of 99 grassroots groups; and senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. The peripatetic Kennedy also crisscrosses North America several times a year, stirring audiences of college students, community groups and elected officials.
His op-ed columns appear regularly in The New York Times and other major newspapers. In 2004, he wrote Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy. The bestselling book fulfilled a lifelong dream: At the age of 10 Kennedy had told his father, then a United States Senator from New York, that he wanted to write a book about pollution. March 2005 brought another literary milestone: his first children's book, St. Francis of Assisi. He is also co-author of The Riverkeepers.
Mike Papantonio is a senior partner of Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner & Proctor, P.A., one of the largest plaintiff's law firms in America, having handled thousands of cases throughout the nation including Asbestos, Breast Implants, Pharmaceutical Drug Litigation, Factory Farming, Securities Fraud, the Florida Tobacco Litigation, and other mass tort cases. "Pap" has received numerous multi-million dollar verdicts on behalf of victims of corporate malfeasance.
Papantonio is listed in the publications, Best Lawyers in America and Leading American Attorney. He is also a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers. Both organizations invite only 500 trial lawyers throughout America to participate as members. Papantonio is also a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates; the American Association for Justice (formerly the ATLA); the Southern Trial Lawyers Association; and the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers; where he served on the Board of Directors for five years. He is a Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer who has authored and co-authored instructional articles on handling complex litigation for trial lawyers.
Sam Seder is a New York based political talk show host. Seder's daily podcast, The Majority Report, airs live at www.majority.fm Seder regularly appears on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, for whom he has substituted as host.
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I can never keep straight what generation we are on — Y? Z? AA? Well, whatever you call the group of young women currently in college, the working world they will enter in a few short years (hopefully) is markedly different from the one Sue Henderson faced as a young woman. For this group, the choices are limitless, and, Sue says, they know it.
Sue is the president of NJCU. When she was in high school, she wanted to be an architect but was dissuaded by the fact that Georgia Tech wasn't really accepting women at the time.
NJCU's female students seem well aware they won't have that problem, she said.
"They have a much freer concept about what they could be, which is a very, very exciting thing," she said.
"And then at the same time," she added, "some of them are unsure about how to do it."
That's why Sue advises young women to develop a support system.
"You need to find smart people to work for, and you need to find good mentors and friends," she said.
That still won't make life easy. Sue said her first boss was tough, always pushing her to work hard and do things she didn't think she could do. He once tasked her with coaching the gymnastics team — even though he knew she had absolutely no gymnastics experience.
Requests like that challenged her, but she realized he was training her to step outside the box and be a leader. (And FYI, she did start coaching and even went on to be a judge at national gymnastics competitions.)
"He really wanted it done right, which I was grateful for, but you had to work hard," she said.
So her advice to young women is to not let anything stand in your way.
"Don't let preconceived notions that people have about expectations keep you from doing something," she said. "I had to learn that you have to keep listening to your gut and your heart, and you've just got to keep on moving."


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A recent McKinsey article talked about the future of retail with eBay, and part of the future was the demise of mobile as a separate strategy - subheaded "Beyond mobile".
As I read it I thought this is actually true with respect to the whole "digital" thing which has reached the point of Boardroom obsession. I've simply replaced "mobile" with "digital and to me this makes sense:
The latest trend has been that digital is very important. I think we're already past the digital tipping point, where digital is increasingly not a meaningful concept. It was only a few years ago that there were no tablets and there weren't any smartphones. Now we're very quickly moving to a world where we just think there will be technology-enabled screens, connected screens, of all sizes.
Some of them may be in a retail location, some of them will be on your wrist, some of them you may hold. I don't know what digital means anymore. Nobody has an electricity department in their company; nobody has an Internet department anymore—although they did a few years ago. I suspect that within 24 months, no one will have a digital strategy. They'll just have an omnichannel, connected-screens strategy.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Oct 2012 19:15 UTC
"We know what Nexus means now. There can no longer be any doubt: a Nexus device is about openness first and foremost. That does not mean Google won't make compromises with the Nexus program. It simply means that Google will only make compromises when it comes to increasing openness. Why? Because Google benefits from open devices as much, or more than you do. Last year the technology sphere was busily discussing whether or not the Verizon Galaxy Nexus was a 'true' Nexus device. This year we have an answer: a Nexus controlled by a carrier is no Nexus. Rather than get in bed with Verizon, Sprint, or AT&T to produce an LTE version of the Nexus 4, we have HSPA+ only. Even the new Nexus 7 with mobile data is limited to this enhanced 3G standard." Interesting take on the whole thing - reeks a bit of finding a reason for a feature deficiency, but it does fit into the available facts.


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I don't see an admission of guilt.
The principal idea in climbing is to climb safe: it is not to follow accepted industry practices in my opinion.
I would say one does not exclude the other, though industry standards are sometimes over safe in a recreational setting.
Maybe they read something on NEClimbs with their cell phone and decided to fling themselves off the top.
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Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the identity of the killer—whom no one saw. A long line had formed for the standing-room-only section of the Woffington Theatre. London's favorite musical comedy of the past two years was finishing its run at the end of t…Read More »
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Like a great, lethal snake, plague creeps through the galaxies. No conscious entity can halt its progress, and life is slowly draining from planet after planet. Only one super-intelligence is capable of preventing cataclysm. To do it, he must penetrate far beyond infinity–to the formless, deathless creature out to …Read More »
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Set partly in Revolutionary Paris, and partly in romantic Cumbria, Judith Paris is the story of the two very different men who love Walpole's most delightful heroine. Daughter of Francis Herries and Mirabell Starr, Judith was described on publication as 'the most delightful of Walpole's heroines'. As impetuous, impu…Read More »
The author's last novel, written during the early years of World War II, was completed just before her death. The action takes place on a single summer's day at a country house, Pointz Hall, in the heart of England. In the garden the villagers are presenting their annual pageant - on this occasion scenes from Englis…Read More »
Timmy Tiptoes and his wife Goody, are two squirrels gathering nuts for the winter and storing them in hollow trees. Wrongly suspected of stealing other squirrel's nuts, Timmy is beaten up and trapped in a woodpecker's hole. Here he meets Chippy Hackee, a small striped chipmunk that tends him with kindness and with w…Read More »
When the American bomber crashed in the jungles of enemy-held Sumatra, the survivors faced the perils of a completely unknown world…and the RAF colonel who had flown with them as observer seemed to compound their danger by going mad—stripping to a loincloth and throwing away his weapons except for his knife. But f…Read More »
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Lucy and Edmund, with their dreadful cousin Eustace, get magically pulled into a painting of a ship at sea. That ship is the Dawn Treader, and on board is Caspian, King of Narnia. He and his companions, including Reepicheep, the valiant warrior mouse, are searching for seven lost lords of Narnia, and their voyage …Read More »
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My homeward course led up a long ascent, Where the road's watery surface, to the top Of that sharp rising, glittered to the moon And bore the semblance of another stream Stealing with silent lapse to join the brook That murmured in the vale. All else was still: No living thing appeared in earth or air, And, save th…Read More »
The heroine of the story, Lou Witt, abandons her sterile marriage and a brittle, cynical post-First World War England. Her sense of alienation is associated with her encounter with a high-spirited stallion, the St Mawr whose name provides the title for this tale. She eventually settles in a remote ranch set high in …Read More »
A wonderful restoration comedy written by the great George Bernard Shaw, the play is set as a discussion on the nature of power and wealth between King Charles II and Isaac Newton, George Fox and Godfrey Kneller. The kings three mistresses intervening along with his queen.
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Orejas de ellos, the things who listen, whispered the superstitious fishermen when the strange occurrences began off the Philippine coast. How else could you explain the sudden disappearance of a vessel beneath a mysterious curtain of foam? The writhings of thousands of maddened fish trapped in a coffin-like area of…Read More »


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The symptoms and signs for children may be even more vague than for adults. Children with sepsis may:
Young children may not want feeds, may repeatedly be sick (vomit) or may not pass any urine and so not have wet nappies.
See also the separate leaflet called Child Sepsis Safety Net .
Sepsis is a medical emergency and treatment needs to be started as soon as possible. Always seek urgent medical advice or get straight to hospital if you think you or someone close to you may have sepsis.
The outlook for sepsis can be good if it is diagnosed and treated early. However, without early treatment, between 10 and 50 people out of 100 will die, depending on the severity of sepsis. Older people tend to fare less well, especially if they have a long-term illness like diabetes or heart disease.
Complications can include:
As with any severe illness which needs intensive treatment in hospital, people recovering from sepsis may experience physical and psychological difficulties and these difficulties may last for several years.
Physical problems may include feeling very tired, muscle weakness, feeling short of breath, chest pains, fluid swelling (oedema), joint pains, poor appetite, disturbed vision, skin numbness or pins and needles, and frequent illness caused by further infections.
Psychological difficulties may include feeling anxious, feeling low or depressed, nightmares, poor sleep, poor concentration and problems with memory.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle will reduce your chances of developing infections that can lead to sepsis. Both smoking and alcohol increase the risk.
If you have a condition which qualifies you for flu and pneumonia immunisation jabs (for example, if you have diabetes or asthma) make sure you take up these options. Children need to be up to date with their vaccinations, particularly Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), group C meningococcus, pneumococcus and mumps.
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Mario Sanchez '21 is an avid and aspiring writer. But he's never shared his work publically—let alone into a microphone at a podium before an audience of 60 people, including faculty members and an award-winning slam poet.Mario Sanchez '21
As winner of the English department's Jean Corrie Poetry Prize, Sanchez dismissed his nerves and allowed himself to fall into the rhythm of his piece, "Poem about a Flower, " at a recent poetry reading and ice cream social to celebrate student poets in Pfenning Alumni Center.
Mario Sanchez '21 and Ryan Branch '21
Renowned poet samsax (who spells his name with all lowercase letters) judged the event, which is open to first-, second-, and third-year students, and selected Sanchez's poem for the top prize and a poem by Ryan Branch '21 as runner-up.Ryan Branch '21
"Writing is usually a private thing to me, and I never really share it," Sanchez says. "One of the lines from this poem just came to me, and I knew I had to write it down. I didn't know where it was coming from or where it was going. To have a person like sam sax tell you that he likes your work gives me a lot of hope for my future."
Sax, winner of The National Poetry Series and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, is an author and two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion whose poems have appeared in BuzzFeed, The New York Times , Poetry Magazine , and other journals, read several of his poems, which explore deeply personal aspects and experiences of his life, such as addiction, cancer, love, sex, and loss.
Though the spotlight was on Sanchez and Branch, who recited their winning entries for the crowd, all students were encouraged to take the mic. Five additional students accepted the invite and shared their poetry. Many students stayed to sit with sax, who participated in an open QA and answered questions about his inspiration and process.
The event, which was organized by Assistant Professor of English Megan Fernandes , precedes the College's H. MacKnight Black Poetry and Literature Prize, which is awarded to a senior. That celebration and reading will occur at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in room 104 of Kirby Hall of Civil Rights.Megan Fernandes
Eastern Europe is projected to shrink dramatically over the next few decades. What's worse, most countries are refusing to consider one solution to slow down the incoming demographic disaster.
The top 10 countries with the fastest shrinking populations are all in Eastern Europe (with a few in Central and Northern Europe), according to UN projections . Bulgaria, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine, Croatia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Poland, Hungary, are estimated to see their population shrink by 15% or more by 2050.
In Bulgaria, the world's fastest shrinking country, the population is expected to drop from 7 million in 2017 to 5.4 million in 2050. In Latvia, the population is estimated to drop from 1.9 million in 2017 to 1.5 million, whilst in Moldova, the population is estimated to shrink from 4 million to 3.2 million.
"Many post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe are heading for a major demographic decline," says Tomas Sobotka, a lead researcher at Wittgenstein Centre , which analysis population dynamics. "And, what's more, many have already experienced massive population declines in the last 25 years," he adds.
At least 11 countries have shrunk by more than 10% in terms of their population size since 1989, Sobotka says, including, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine. Latvia lost over a quarter of its population (27%), Lithuania 23%, Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina 21%. For instance, Bulgarian population contracted from 9 million in 1989 to 7.1 million in 2017. "That's a massive population loss, unprecedented in peace times," he explains.
Sobotka puts this population loss down to three factors—falling fertility rates, massive out-migration and relatively high mortality. "So whereas Western and southern European countries have attracted a lot of immigration which largely offset the effects of low fertility, the East is in a double bind, experiencing both out-migration and low birth rates," he says.
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You can't beat a system you can't understand
"One day you're gonna have kids, and you'll get yours. Just you wait and see." I don't believe I can count the number of times I have heard versions of that old chestnut from various mothers, grandmothers, and other parents I've known over the years, including my own.
As I've said before, my mother should be canonized in her own time for surviving my childhood. Regular readers of this column undoubtedly agree that being my parent would probably give the average person apoplexy. And when I think about the mischief and mayhem caused by my erstwhile friends and me collectively, it's a wonder any of the parents in my neighborhood managed to keep their sanity.
Sometimes, however, I believe our parents overreacted to things we did that were a bit different from the norm. It was probably because there were so many incidents that were, shall we say, questionable, that preceded the last act before they just lost it. Like when Pookie Grossberg's mom called his father at the office and told him they needed to consult a doctor because she thought we were mentally and emotionally disturbed. The incident that sent her over the edge was quite harmless.
Pookie's mom heard voices in their upstairs bathroom behind a closed door. I have no idea why this made her so suspicious. Anyway, she was absolutely convinced we were up to no good, so she burst in to surprise us and catch us in the act, red-handed, at whatever dastardly deed she thought we were doing.
All she found was Pookie, stretched out on the floor using the bathroom scale for a pillow, and Kinky Boswell and I were watching. I cannot imagine why she thought that was odd. She actually accused us of lying when we told her that Pookie was just trying to weigh his head. And that was the truth.
"For this we should be punished?" Pookie asked. "Mom, we were just trying to make a little headway," he pleaded, in a mild attempt to make light of the moment. She was not amused.
Because of Mrs. Grossberg's irrational behavior over such a small act of curiosity, I gave my son, Roman, some slack when I got "the call" at the office when he was not quite 3 years old. If my memory serves me correctly, I be- lieve he managed to push all the furniture in his second-story bedroom to one end of the room - the end with the door. The furniture included his bed, a small chest of drawers, a table, a chair and a toy box. To this day, I have no idea why he did this.
The problem was that the furniture was wedged between the door, which opened into the room, and the opposite wall. The furniture was jammed so tight that the door wouldn't open so much as an inch.
Somehow, he was strong enough to push everything to one end of the room, but he wasn't strong enough to pull anything back so we could open the door. Did I mention that he did this on a day that we had ten inches of snow? No. Apparently, I did not. Well . . . that's when it happened.
The night before, ten inches of the cool white stuff covered everything that wasn't under a roof. I might also mention that blowing snow has a tendency to drift. So - I had to bring an extension ladder up from the basement, carry it through ten- inches of snow and shovel a four- foot drift so I could lean the ladder against a wall and break into a second-story window where his room was located. I was not pleased.
Now, fast forward to last week. I received a frantic phone call from my now-grown son who was watching his children while his wife was out running errands. In the background, I hear giggling and squealing. It seems that Roman walked into his bedroom to find his 4-yearold boy, Kalani, perched atop a sixfoot armoire ready to leap onto the bed. Why? Because he wanted to see if he could fly.
At the same time, Kiana, my adorable little 2-year-old granddaughter was poised at the top of the stairs, ten feet away, on her Big Wheel tricycle. She wanted to see if she could ride down the stairs. Roman was in the middle, unable to reach both children at the same time. So - Kalani jumped, Kiana rode, and Roman freaked. The kids thought it was great fun and emerged unscathed. All my son could say was, "Dad - how did you ever survive parenthood?"
I couldn't help myself. I laughed. I laughed so hard I could not answer him. Finally, after all these years, something made sense in this system that I absolutely cannot understand.


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PEORIA — Cameras and tape recorders will be allowed in Peoria County courtrooms.
Officials with the Supreme Court of Illinois say Friday that the county in the 10th Judicial Circuit will become the 36th in the state to allow the practice. Four other central Illinois counties in the circuit — Marshall, Putnam, Stark and Tazewell — will follow in the next two months bringing that number to 40.
Fourteen circuits participate in the trial program that was launched in January 2012.
Chief Judge Stephen Kouri says the decision to join the program came after months of meetings with judges and the media to make sure "justice is not compromised in any way."


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Arab countries withdraw prize reward for novelist who visited Israel
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Algerian writer Boualem Sansal was due to receive a prize of 15,000 euros. But because of the novelist's visit to Israel in May, the prize's Arab sponsors withdrew the award and "divorced" themselves from a prize they had set up themselves.
A celebrated Algerian novelist was given a top French literary award on Thursday in a ceremony that was marred by the withdrawal of its Arab sponsors.
Boualem Sansal had been due to receive the Editions Gallimard Arabic Novel prize for his book "Rue Darwin" [Darwin Street] earlier in June.
A15,000-euro cheque was to be given by the Paris-based Arab Ambassador's Council, which founded the award in 2008.
But between being nominated and being awarded his prize, Sansal attended the Jerusalem Writers Festival in May – as guest of honour.
Militant Palestinian Islamist group Hamas called it, "an act of treason against the Palestinian people."
By the time the writer was due to receive his prize, the Ambassadors Council had permanently withdrawn its support for the award.
'Unhappy divorce'
The Editions Gallimard jury finally handed Sansal his laureate on Thursday - minus the 15,000 euro prize money - after weeks of deadlock with the ambassadors.
In an open letter announcing his resignation from the jury, Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, director of France Culture radio, called the link between the Hamas statement and the withdrawal of the prize, "a sordid truth".
"Between being nominated for the prize and actually receiving it, Boualem Sansal visited Israel," he wrote. "Hamas immediately issued a statement calling his presence an act of treason against the Palestinians. The reaction of Arab Ambassadors Council was a direct result of this."
French-Lebanese writer and jury member Venus Houry-Ghata said the split between the publishers and the ambassadors was "an unhappy divorce" and accused them of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater."
"The ambassadors have to do what their governments tell them," she told FRANCE 24. "But the jury believes culture, and in this case a novel, should not be restricted by borders or by politics. We will continue with the award in the future."
'A prison of intolerance'
Speaking on France Inter radio on Friday, Sansal said it was "completely unacceptable" that the ambassadors should interfere with their own jury's decision and withdraw from any future association.
Arguing that Arab countries remained locked into a "non-existent" conflict with Israel, he said that those countries, and in particular his native Algeria, had "shut themselves in a prison of intolerance."
"We have to do away with this dictatorial approach," he said. "Yes, there are complicated relations with Israel, but we are not at war with them. And if we really want to help the Palestinians, people like me should be able to visit the country freely."
His words echoed a June 6 interview with news site DNA Algerie: "We have to break this taboo [with Israel] .... I believe we need to go to a different level and that this would be in the interest of the Palestinians."
A spokeswoman for the Arab Ambassadors Council told FRANCE 24 on Friday that Sansal's visit to Israel had forced their hand – but denied the Hamas statement had any bearing on the decision.
"The Ambassadors are subject to the official position of the Arab League which considers itself effectively in a state of war with Israel," said the official, who asked not to be named.
"The council is obliged to follow directives from the Arab League. Every ambassador regrets that this has happened. They would never want to interfere with literature."
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Ray Lopez, a former Holland High School student, described himself as 'a very energetic kid.'
In 2006, he realized that he could take his energy and channel it in a new way at Xtreme MMA gym in Holland.
Shortly after he started practicing MMA fighting, Lopez�s coaches saw hope in the 18-year-old�s skills and competitive drive and helped him convert his energy into success in the ring.
�Ray is one of the leading figures in Holland,� said Andy Jamrog, owner of Xtreme MMA gym.
Lopez is 9-6 in his professional career.�He will fight Brad Burrick (15-11) of Detroit for the TXC light heavyweight title in his upcoming fight on Saturday at Macomb County Music Theater in Mount Clemens.
�He�s a tough guy with a lot of history behind him,� Lopez said of�Burrick. �The mindset I�m taking into this fight is to make it my fight, not fall into his game. I want to be humble and in control and look for his mistakes and capitalize on it.�
The event is open to the public and tickets are available at the door. Doors open at 5 p.m. and fights start at 7 p.m.
The fight can also be viewed live online at GXCline.com.
Lopez went 14-6 as an amateur.
In 2009, Lopez decided it was time to step into the professional ring after many of his competitors in the amateur division refused to fight him.
After the transition, Lopez�s success never lingered. In his first professional fight, he beat the No. 1 ranked fighter in Wisconsin in the second round with a guillotine choke.
He went on to fight significant opponents in the MMA world like William Penn, Don Richards and Andrei Arlovski, traveling as far as Hawaii for a chance to fight.
�He�s fought top guys," Jamrog said. "He and Johnny Garcia are probably the two biggest names in fighting. Nobody has anywhere near the record he has and fought the type of people he has.�
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- Program Title: Yan-san to nihon no hitobito [Yan and the Japanese People]
- EASC Code: JY-07
- Series Title: Episode 20 - 21
- Region/Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Subtitles:
- Subject: Language
- Program Type:
- Media Type: DVD & VHS
- Director:
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- Release Date: 1991
- Running Time: 18 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: This is a video teaching resource that presents the adventures in Japan of a young foreigner named Yan in mini-drama form (13 episodes, each about 6 minutes long). Each episode stands on its own, but the same characters reappear and the episodes taken together also show a continuous plot development, making the series enjoyable as a whole. One feature of this set is that it exposes students to natural language use by actively incorporating greetings and other conventional expressions, by having the characters speak at a conversational speed that is normal for Japanese, and so on. Another feature of the set is that it allows students to gain an understanding of Japanese society today through video teaching materials.
Supplementary teaching materials that accompany the tapes include three texts (a teacher's manual in Japanese, another teacher's manual in English, and scenarios in both Japanese and English) and two sound-track tapes. This set is the source for skits used in "Let's Learn Japanese Basic I," a television course presently being broadcast in English-speaking countries.
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If you are interested, please e-mail Beth Miller at BMILLER2 .
The Alumnae/i Relations Office and the Office of Special Events has a student worker position available immediately. Tasks include light clerical duties and general office assistance. The Alumnae/i Office sponsors events and programs geared towards alumnae/i and students. The Office of Special Events plans and implements these events, as well as other major law school events. Applicants must be hard working, diligent, detail oriented and have excellent interpersonal skills.
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Hastings (England)
Hastings [1] is a seaside town in East Sussex, in the South East of England.
Hastings is most famous for the battle that took place there in 1066 between King Harold's English and William the Conqueror's Normans. The town lent its name to the battle...although the battle actually took place in nearby Battle (of all places).
The town grew from its medieval origins into a Victorian seaside resort, and the majority of the towns architecture dates from this period. Today, along with St Leonards on Sea, Hastings forms a fairly large urban area on the south coast of around 100,000 inhabitants.
Nestled between the rugged beauty of the East and West Hills, the town's main attraction is the medieval Old Town, with its narrow passageways, antique shops, boutiques, cafe's and europe's largest beachside fishing fleet. The town also boasts a hill-top castle, two funicular railways, the georgian church of st mary's in the castle, 18th century net shops, and access to Hastings Country Park - a 660 acre area area of woodland glens, beaches and cliff top views. Away from the Old Town, Hastings largely retains the character of a Victorian seaside resort, with seafront squares, grand Victorian facades, elegant parks and a pier. However, the town suffered from the post war decline in the seaside tourist industry in England and while there has been significant recent investment in regenerating the area, parts of the seafront have seen better days.
Get in
By car
Hastings is at the end of the A21, which links the town to the M25 and London. The A27 runs west along the coast to Eastbourne and Brighton, and the A259 runs east to Ashford and Folkestone.
By train
Hastings is at one end of the Hastings Line, which runs through Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks on the way to London Charing Cross. There is also a direct service via Eastbourne to London Victoria, but this takes 2 hours and 7 minutes, compared with 1 hour 30 minutes for the fastest Charing Cross services. There are also services to Ashford and Brighton.
By Plane
The nearest airport is Gatwick Airport. After arriving, take Southern Train at Gatwick Airport Rail Station to the direction of Ore Rail Station directly to Hastings Rail Station. It will take 1:30-1:37.
Get around
Vintage clothes – this place is a bit of a hidden treasure. Lots of vintage clothes shops and brick-a-brack – some are run by people who also have stalls in Portobello road later on in the week. One of them has the flatmate of Peaches Geldof as an assistant at the weekends! Prices range from what you'd expect – £60 for a decent 40's dress, to little treasures – £15 for a vintage Laura Ashley maxi-dress.
Fish and chips - there are hundreds of fish and chip shops. The Blue Dolphin is very popular, and is considered to be one of the best in Britain.
Some very nice traditional pubs down in the Old town. Try the Jenny Lind when it's got local strong cider :-)
In the central city
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Key elements of the Republican establishment insist that Republicans must support amnesty and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in order to make major inroads with Hispanic voters. But an analysis of the Hispanic vote in the last nine presidential elections does not support this claim. It shows, instead, that other considerations help explain how Hispanics vote.
Here is the Republican share of the Hispanic vote in those elections:
1980: 38 percent
1984: 37 percent
1988: 30 percent
1992: 29 percent
1996: 23 percent
2000: 36 percent
2004: 43 percent
2008: 32 percent
2012: 28 percent
During this 32 year period, the total Hispanic vote grew from about 1.5 percent of the electorate to nearly 12 percent.
Immigration (much less amnesty) wasn't a significant issue in most of these elections. When it was, no clear pattern demonstrates its significance as a driver of the Hispanic vote.
In 1986, President Reagan signed an amnesty bill into law. In the next election, his vice president received only 30 percent of the Hispanic vote down from the 37.5 percent Reagan had averaged in the pre-amnesty days.
Less than two months before the 1996 election, President Clinton signed the Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIR). Among other things, IIRIR tried to increase border security and deal more harshly with immigrants found to have entered the country illegally or to have overstayed their visa.
Hispanic voters did not punish Clinton in 1996 for signing IIRIR into law. In fact, the Republican share of the Hispanic vote dropped to 23 percent, its lowest during the nine-election period. It should be noted, though, that Clinton had threatened to veto punitive measures that would have barred the children of immigrant children from public schools. Republicans may also have felt some backlash among California's Hispanic voters for supporting Prop 187 two years earlier.
It seems, than, that in the 1996 election Hispanics weren't indignant about the passage of measures to combat illegal immigration, but were offended by measures they saw as purely punitive.
In 2004, President Bush hit a high-water mark with 43 percent of the Hispanic vote. He did so, to my knowledge, without supporting amnesty or other measures for the benefit of illegal immigrants.
In 2008, John McCain, who had sponsored a bill that would have granted amnesty, received only 32 percent of the Hispanic vote. This represents both the median and, roughly, the mean share for Republicans in the last nine races.
Finally, last year Mitt Romney received just 28 percent of the Hispanic vote. Romney had opposed amnesty and had taken a punitive-sounding approach to illegal immigrants during the primary season.
This mixed bag of history hardly supports the notion that the road to success (or less pronounced failure) with Hispanic voters in presidential elections can be found in amnesty. Rather, it suggests that immigration debates and/or legislation are not the key to understanding how Hispanics vote.
What are the keys? The biggest, frankly, is party affiliation. Since 1980, Republicans have nominated all sorts of white male candidates. None has come close to receiving half of the Hispanic vote. Rarely has any received much more than one-third of it.
The point is so obvious that it shouldn't have to be stated. I make note of it only because important elements of the Republican establishment are hell-bent on vastly increasing the size of a vote Republicans never come close to winning.
The second key to how Hispanics have voted is whether an electable incumbent president is running. The two times the Republicans had such an incumbent — 1984 and 2004 — he averaged 40 percent of the Hispanic vote. These two years were the best and third best performances by a Republican presidential candidate.
When the Democrats had an electable incumbent in the race, Republicans were routed among Hispanics. In 1996, their share was 23 percent; in 2012 it was 28 percent.
Each party had one election in which it ran an unelectable incumbent. The Democrats did so with Jimmy Carter in 1980. That year, the Republican received 38 percent of the vote in a three-way race — the second highest of the period.
The Republicans ran an unelectable incumbent, George H.W. Bush, in 1992. He received a 29 percent Hispanic share (albeit in a three-way race).
The six elections that featured an incumbent therefore show that electable incumbents do relatively well with Hispanic voters while their unelectable counterparts do poorly.
Being a minority group member also seems to attract Hispanic voters, although the sample is small. The Republican share in races against Barack Obama, the only minority candidate, averaged around 30 percent. In races against other Democrats, Republicans averaged around 34 percent.
Finally, I would speculate that Republicans fare better with Hispanics when they don't nominate candidates who tend to come as patricians. Our two "patrician" candidates (by my reckoning) — George H.W. Bush and Mitt Romney — failed to surpass 30 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Republicans are better off with Hispanics when they nominate candidates with a common touch, such as Reagan and George W. Bush. And, of course, Republicans are well-advised to reach out to Hispanic voters, as "W" did, and to avoid even the appearance of being punitive.
But the results since 1980 do not suggest that Republicans need to pander by supporting amnesty and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.


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A winner was selected from 212 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
Develop a brand name in which a trademark is available. Stratoshare is an example of the "brand"
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We look forward to utilizing the most creative, memorable and appropriate submission!
The software will be utilized by professional service firms, especially CPA firms. The software will have multiple tools that users can select from, allowing them to customize for their business. Think of a 'container' or a place where "binders" and other information can be accessed from any workstation, anywhere at anytime.
We are developing an exciting new software tool that combines multiple software platforms into a single application. This new software will be created within a Software as a Services model, or one in which software applications are delivered over the Web. The term "cloud computing" is often utilized to describe an environment which allows users to simply access information that is stored on host servers as opposed to having to install and utilize their own local servers.
This new software will revolutionize workflow, time & billing, workpaper preparation, the storage and document management of workpaper files, as well as the secure and confidential transfer of data to/from multiple people. Key advantages will include:
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — As the wrangling over the next head of the European Commission continues, it seems the European Parliament — long considered a harmless rubber stamp — may have outmaneuvered German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other national leaders to tilt the European Union toward greater democracy.
Leaders of the main political groups in the Parliament are now insisting that the government leaders honor the intent of the Lisbon Treaty to take last month's direct elections to the Parliament into account when choosing the new commission president.
Merkel and some of the other government heads — notably British Prime Minister David Cameron — are insisting that this choice remains the prerogative of the national leaders. Cameron in particular wants someone fresh. Read:Weak EU wary of putting another 'damp rag' in top job
The European Parliament, however, must approve the leaders' choice with an absolute majority of its 751 members.
The two main political groupings, which together command that majority, are digging in their heels, insisting that the "winning" candidate from the European Parliament elections be designated president. If the government leaders defy the Parliament, they risk provoking an institutional crisis.
Suggesting that this is an historic turning point for the EU, German commentator Jakob Augstein cited the famous retort of Count Mirabeau on the eve of the French Revolution when emissaries of King Louis XVI demanded that the newly formed National Assembly be dissolved: "Tell those who sent you here that we stand here by the will of the people and we will leave only by the force of the bayonets."
It probably won't come to bayonets in this case. EU leaders are generally deft at muddling through and potential crises often fizzle out in a fog of compromise.
But this time the generally tame Euro-politicians are showing uncharacteristic resolve, with the other groups in Parliament closing ranks behind former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, the leading candidate for the center-right European People's Party, which won the most seats in the late May election.
Martin Schulz, the German president of the current European Parliament, whose Socialists and Democrats group came in second place, declared his support for Juncker. "Many Social Democrats, conservatives and others are ready to voice their trust in a new European Commission led by Jean-Claude Juncker," Schulz told Spiegel Online.
Even Alexis Tsipras, the charismatic Greek opposition politician, who headed the ticket for the far-left grouping in the European Parliament, demanded that EU leaders honor the vote and make Juncker head of the commission.
"It is a moral obligation of the heads of government to put forward the candidate who secured the leading position in the European election," Tsipras said in a statement. "The presentation of any other nominee would have as its effect to discredit the entire recent election, turning it, after the fact, into a charade."
Schulz was reportedly even blunter when told that an initial meeting of EU leaders last week failed to designate Juncker as new president of the commission. "That is a dramatic case of electoral fraud," Spiegel reported him shouting into his mobile phone. "That's making an ass out of the people on a grand scale."
Even Juncker, who sometimes seemed less than enthusiastic about the parliamentary vote, has stiffened his stance, saying he has a claim on the job and rejecting the notion that he can be bought off with another position, such as succeeding Herman Van Rompuy as the permanent head of the European Council, the decision-making body of the national leaders.
"I'm not on my knees," Juncker said following the vote last month. "I won the elections."
As to Cameron's loudly voiced opposition to appointing a veteran EU federalist to the top commission post, Juncker said, "I don't care."
Cameron has promised a referendum on Britain's continued membership in the EU by 2017, and a large current of opinion in other countries would be just as happy to see the country — a latecomer to European integration and never really a team player — exit the bloc.
Meanwhile, there are reports that Schulz himself is seeking a seat on the commission, perhaps as a vice president, by virtue of his second-place finish. It would be particularly difficult, however, for Merkel to deprive her Christian Democratic party of the chance to name the German commissioner from its ranks.
A master political tactician, Merkel is rarely outmaneuvered. She has bought time through this month for deciding on a commission president and may yet figure out a way to evade the trap set by the parliamentary leaders.
Juncker, for his part, when he was part of the European Council, willingly went along with the austerity policies set by Merkel and could prove to be equally docile as head of the Brussels bureaucracy.
But the European Parliament is poised to establish a precedent that could reverberate well into the future, for once wresting real power away from EU national leaders.
Also read these stories:
Weak EU wary of putting another 'damp rag' in top job
Europe's continental vote will have local effects
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cairnswk wrote:tnb80, do you have access to chipv's database portal?
I know i have completed many more descriptions etc in there than are completed in your Gallery. Das ScloB, Rail Europe, Jamaica and Forbidden City are a couple i am certain were completed, and i know other mapmakers had completed their's also. Perhaps yopu are still in the process of migrating this over - yes?
No, it was the first thing i tried to do when i started this thing.
Unfortunately I have no way to see it nor to contact chipv...i think that the portal is dead and all the data we put in to it lost.
cairnswk wrote:although i think i had trouble getting one of the complexity ratings to work on Canada, British Isles)
Fixed, thanks for spotting them!
cairnswk wrote:1. i think the images are too big, especially since you can click on them and get the larger version anyways
2. I won't go to the Rating's index again...it takes forever to download all those images - i really think this needs to be re-worked into something more manageable for download bytage and easier access.
As said, it's not done for small monitors. I wanted to implement medium size images because it gives you a real preview of the map, more than a small thumbnail or a dropdown list.
About the gallery Index, you don't need to visit it....I added the button on the gallery map pages exactly for that reason. But I don't understand why take so long to load the images, maybe your connetion is really slow. I've also added a javascript to load the images only when displayed exactly to not slow too much the page.
greenoaks wrote:i think the concept of this is good but have no interest in helping with it as that discourages lack from implementing it
I think that instead this could push lack for the opposite, lately there's too much pessimism around on this site..... Anyway thanks, I'm happy you think it's a good thing.


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So the release date for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is officially July 16th. People who know me will realize that I consider this a momentous event. I'm so addicted to these books it's not funny. I think that if I were a crack addict shaking from withdrawal, and there were two tables in front of me - a dose of the drug on the left-hand table, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on the right - I'd dive to the right without hesitation, and thereafter be so engrossed in the book that I'd completely forget about the drug, not to mention food and drink and sleep (until I finished the book of course). Since my birthday is July 11th, I'm getting a nice birthday present this year. Now to plan my reading regimen for June and July to make sure the first five are maximally fresh in my mind for that date, and investigate the possibility of getting to a midnight opening somewhere...
Another excellent piece of news is that Poland has once again stood up for the democratic process in the European Union and refused to let software patent advocates push their version of legislation through under the radar. Take that, patent pushers - once again, You Forgot Poland! (Yes, I'm the 47,948,368th person to make that joke, but it's still funny)
Finally, a bit of technical good news of interest to probably very few people, but it's been announced that generics in Whidbey will be CLS-compliant. This should make life for IKVM a little more interesting... it becomes far more necessary to have some level of generics support, but perhaps the new CLS restrictions will make the implementation easier. No information yet (that I can find) on whether MS gave any consideration to interoperability with Java generics - I strongly suspect that they didn't. Jeroen may need to pull off another miracle to get the mapping right. I have no doubt he's up to the task.
When faced with a large problem to solve, the only way I am ever
able to successfully tackle it is to break it down into a list of
smaller tasks, and work my way through that list. When the list is
really long, even that seems intractable, and I need to find ways to
break it down further, by identifying a subset of the list to tackle
first, get all of that done, and then work on the rest.
Even though I'm not actively working on the GNU Classpath project
any more (I barely ever did, to be honest - I contributed a few classes
but I think they all got replaced with brand new, better versions) I
figured that it's possible that some of the people who are
working on it might tackle problems the same way I do, and if I could
automate the creation of the list of tasks, it might help them in the
same way it helps me. That's the chain of thought that led to the
creation of japitools.
1. Swing (only swing.text and swing.plaf though)
2. CORBA (the org.omg packages)
3. Imageio (Mostly done, but missing a few bits)
4. Kerberos (one single package missing from javax.security)
Japi results with JacORB included
have been produced which at first led me to believe that good coverage
of the CORBA packages was within easy reach too. After all, those
results have a lot of green on them. But despite JacORB's claim to be
under the LGPL, people kept mentioning license problems so I decided to
investigate, and the results were somewhat depressing. A little perl
script I wrote to identify the license of files in JacORB led to this
The "Unlicensed" files are files that the script couldn't identify an
explicit license in, but the ones marked "(OMG)" seem likely to be
under the OMG license based on other files in the same directories. The
OMG license grants unlimited use and distribution, but does not allow
modification, which renders it non-free and unacceptable for Classpath
and Kaffe. So at least 290 classes and 152 interfaces are under this
unacceptable license, which is small compared to the thousand or so
that are or appear to be under the LGPL, but still pretty large in
absolute terms.
Things got even worse when I correlated these results against a japi
file of the JDK, to get an indication of how many of the problematic
files were part of the public API:
In other words, every single class in the public API is under an unacceptable license. Every single
bit of green in the CORBA packages in those oh-so-encouraging Japi
results is worthless. JacORB may still be very useful to back up the
CORBA packages with some actual implementation, but as far as API
coverage is concerned, it seems we're on our own.


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