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What: Charleston Dorchester Mental Health Center will host a Mental Health Sidewalk Sale. Mental health clients will make a variety of arts and crafts items such as sweetgrass baskets, paintings and jewelry. Sales from the event will go to a private nonprofit called Mental Health Heroes, which provides crisis support and funds to mental health clients and families in the area.
When: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. May 2
Where: Charleston Mental Health Center, 2100 Charlie Hall Blvd.
Price: Free to attend; items priced accordingly
More Info: 852-4100 or www.charlestondorchestermhc.org
What: It is 1819: Beethoven is asked to write a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli. Beethoven is not interested. He becomes obsessed with this "cobbler's patch" and spends the next five years writing not one but 33 variations. Cut to 2007: Dr. Katherine Brandt has been diagnosed with ALS. Yet she is obsessed to uncover why Beethoven is obsessed with writing variations on a mundane waltz. Such are the questions asked in this play.
When: 8 p.m. May 2-4, 9-11, 16-18; 3 p.m. May 12, 19
Where: Threshold Repertory Theatre, 84 Society St.
Price: $20/adults, $15/seniors, $10/students and military ID
More Info: 277-2172 or www.ThresholdRep.org
What: Midtown Productions presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the decades-long relationship between an elderly Southern Jewish woman, Daisy Werthan, and her compassionate African-American chauffeur.
When: 8 p.m. May 2-4; 3 p.m. May 5
Where: Charleston Acting Studio, 915 Folly Road
Price: $20 adults, $18 seniors, $16 students
More Info: 795-2223 or www.midtownproductions.org
What: This temporary cooperative gallery presents many local artists of varied backgrounds working in a diverse array of media and representing a full range of styles. A variety of pieces including paintings, prints, photography and more will be available for sale. The public is invited to a free reception on May 8 from 5-8 p.m. during the Arts Festival Art Walk.
When: Reception 5-8 p.m. May 8; on view 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, through June 1.
Where: The Meeting Place, 1077 E. Montague Ave.
Price: Free
More Info: 740-5854 or http://northcharlestonartsfest.com/art-fine-craft-co-op/
What: Pinewood Prep will host its third annual Consignment Sale in the campus gym. Proceeds will benefit the school. Items for sale may include clothing, lawn goods, furniture, baby goods, sporting gear, housewares and more. The sale is open to the public. Cash and credit cards will be accepted. Sponsorship opportunities are available.
When: 3-8 p.m. May 3 and 7 a.m.-noon May 4
Where: Pinewood Preparatory School, 1114 Orangeburg Road
Price: Free
More Info: 376-0142, ext. 2002 or www.pinewoodprep.com
What: The seven-event IPRA Rodeo will be held.
When: Gates open at 6 p.m., rodeo begins at 8 p.m. May 3 and 4
Where: Double D Arena, 1256 Rodeo Dr.
Price: $18 in advance; $20 at the gate. Two children 10 and under free with one paid adult admission.
More Info: 909-4849 or www.doubledarena.com
What: Computer classes will be offered.
When: 7-9 p.m. Fridays
Where: Midland Park Community Center, 7349 Stall Road
Price: Free
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What: Sea Island Habitat will hold its 13th annual Women Build event. Join more than 200 women to sponsor, build and provide a home for a partner family.
When: 8 a.m. May 4, 6-11
Where: Laurel Oak Grove Community, Laurel Oak Grove
Price: $35 registration fee and $65 individual fundraising goal
More Info: 768-0998, ext. 109 or www.seaislandhabitat.org
What: Join friends and supporters of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Carolina Youth Development Center for Bowl for Kids' Sake 2013.
When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. May 4
Where: Royal Lanes, 106 Central Ave., Goose Creek
More Info: 266-5232 or http://becomeabig.org/bowl-for-kids-sake/
What: Join a Park Ranger for an hour-long tour and explore the tabby ruins of a fort that dates back to 1757. Along the way, you will see how archaeological and historical information is gathered and used to interpret an historic site. Participants will get to handle special historic artifacts that offer insight into the daily lives of the inhabitants of the Colonial village of Dorchester.
When: Saturdays and Sundays, May 4-June 2
Where: Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site, 300 Park Road, Summerville
Price: $5; admission is not included
More Info: 873-1740 or www.southcarolinaparks.com/ products/10003951
What: Have you been inspired to trace your family but aren't quite sure how to begin? Have you found information on the Internet but don't know how to piece that data together? A two-hour class to provide beginners with the foundational skills and tools needed for good genealogy research is being offered.
When: 10 a.m.-noon May 4
Where: Charleston County Public Library, 68 Calhoun St.
Price: Free
More Info: 763-0861, firstname.lastname@example.com
What: Local Charleston independent schools are hosting the third annual Independent School Peace Fair. Event benefits Water Missions International. This year's fair will feature performances by The 3 Dudes and Riley Reinhard from Charlotte; student arts and crafts and baked goods for sale; water games and activities; free Cheerwine; a water buffalo from Charleston Water System; and more.
When: 3-5 p.m. May 4
Where: Ashley Hall Sport Complex, 3289 Plow Ground Road
Price: Free
More Info: 722-4088 or www.ashleyhall.org/is-peace-fair.php
What: Project Rhino Charleston is hosting an event to raise awareness about the African rhino poaching crisis. The affair includes all-you-can-eat South African cuisine, live music, family-friendly activities, alcohol for purchase and information on South Africa's most treasured species. The proceeds will benefit a South African nonprofit that unites anti-poaching units and provincial game reserves to battle poaching.
When: 4-8 p.m. May 4
Where: Project Rhino Charleston, 1213 Fort Lamar Road
Price: $15
More Info: 735-8724 or http://igg.me/at/projectrhino
What: The Charleston Community Band will perform at the North Charleston Arts Festival.
When: 2-3 p.m. May 5
Where: North Charleston Performing Arts Center, 5001 Coliseum Dr.
Price: Free
More Info: 856-0186 or www.charlestoncommunityband.com
What: Palmetto Bronze, an auditioned community handbell group, will perform a free concert, "Classics from Bach to Rock," at North Charleston Arts Festival at Cathedral of Praise, 3790 Ashley Phosphate Road. The concert will feature a variety of musical styles and genres. Selections range from classical arrangements to rock songs and everything in between.
When: 7 p.m. May 5
Where: Cathedral of Praise, 3790 Ashley Phosphate Road
Price: Free
More Info: 708-2784 or www.palmettobronze.com
What: Attend a financial aid workshop to learn how financial aid can help you pay for college. Bring your 2012 federal tax return and W-2 statement, and experts will be on hand to help you fill out the online Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). It is recommended that you submit a FAFSA by June 7 to receive financial aid for fall semester.
When: 6 p.m. May 6
Where: Trident Technical College's Palmer Campus, 66 Columbus St.
Price: Free
More Info: 722-5516 or www.tridenttech.edu
What: Not Fiction Book Discussion features "Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" by Robert K. Massie.
When: 6:30 p.m. May 7
Where: Main Library, 68 Calhoun St.
What: Attend a financial aid workshop to learn how financial aid can help you pay for college. Bring your 2012 federal tax return and W-2 statement, and experts will be on hand to help you fill out the online Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). It is recommended that you submit a FAFSA by June 7 to receive financial aid for fall semester.
When: 6 p.m. May 8
Where: Trident Technical College's Mount Pleasant Campus, 1125 John Dilligard Lane
Price: Free
More Info: 958-5810 or www.tridenttech.edu
What: The Charleston Jewish Community Center invites anyone from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and their families to this discussion about the challenges and rewards of being a Jewish member of the LGBT community.
When: 7 p.m. May 8
Where: Charleston Jewish Community Center, 1645 Wallenberg Blvd.
Price: Free
More Info: 571-6565 or www.charlestonjcc.org
What: Join Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Charleston Fat Blasting Boot Camp for a one-hour Charleston Fat Blasting Boot Camp course followed by a nutritional presentation featuring Kindal Boyle.
When: 6-8 p.m. May 9
Where: Parkshore Park, 1 Windsor Drive
Price: $15
More Info: 388-5968 or www.cff.org/chapters/sc/
To post your events online, go to http://events.post andcourier.com.


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Chris Hartjes has made made a few comments on his blog about things going on in the online world - two of which pertain to PHP:
- Closures and lambdas coming to PHP - he mentions the addition of lambdas and closures into the next major version of PHP (5.3) and his thoughts on how they've been abused in the past.
- The Framework Jihad:
If you substitute "modularized code with standardized API" for "framework", would that make people feel better? I use frameworks because so much of the infrastructure code is stuff I DO NOT WANT TO WRITE ANY MORE. After 10 years of doing this, it's time I stopped reinventing things. My old motto of "just build it, damnit!"
Check out his post for a bit more complete versions of these thoughts.

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Ammar Shata
Alkhabeer plans IPO worth 30pc of capital
Dubai, December 5, 2012
Alkhabeer Capital, a Saudi Arabia-based investment advisory firm, plans to offer new shares worth about 30 per cent of its capital in an initial public offering (IPO) on the local bourse by early 2014, its chief executive said.
Alkhabeer, in which conglomerate Saudi Binladin Group is a top shareholder, is awaiting the regulatory nod to initiate the IPO process, CEO Ammar Shata said in Dubai.
The Jeddah-based firm, which manages assets worth around $700 million, was formed in 2004 and raised about $210 million in capital from more than 30 shareholders after receiving an investment banking and asset management license from the Saudi regulator, the Capital Market Authority (CMA).
"We are waiting for the signal from the regulator. The plan is to go public by 2014 and a potential listing will not just help us raise new money but also enhance our branding and public image," Shata said on Wednesday.
Alkhabeer is bullish on real estate opportunities in the US and UK, Shata said, adding those investments offer attractive returns for the coming 18 months.
The firm is working with investment management companies in the United States to jointly develop real estate investment trusts (REITs) to tap the opportunity, Shata said.
The firm has already invested $300 million in U.S. real estate so far in 2012, he said, adding it plans to stay away from equity-related investments in the coming year except for some pre-IPO opportunities.
REITs can earn rents on leased properties and also capture the operating income from those facilities by retaining independent management for a fee.
"Real estate income-generating investments in the US and UK is a great investment opportunity in the coming months," he said.
Asked whether the investment firm was looking to Asia and other emerging markets, Shata said: "I think the right opportunity today is in the UK and U.S. ... The reason the Western world is advanced is that they correct their mistakes quickly and they only make mistakes once."
The firm is also staying cash-heavy with about 30 percent of the portfolio in cash, awaiting opportunities created mainly by the Arab spring revolts, the executive said. – Reuters


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Libyans hold up flags that read in Arabic, "There is no god but God" as they rally to listen to National Transitional Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil, in support of imposing Islamic sharia law, in the eastern coastal city of Benghazi, on Oct. 28, 2011.
When mass protests broke out across the Middle East and North Africa earlier this year, pundits and politicians across Europe and North America worried that radical Islamists would hijack the revolutions and impose sharia law across the region.
Now, elections in Tunisia have brought the mildly Islamist Ennahda party to power, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is taking a more active role in post-revolutionary Egypt, and Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the leader of Libya's interim National Transition Council, has announced that the country would adopt sharia as the supreme law of the land. And so the cries of an impeding Islamist takeover of the Middle East have erupted once more in the western press.
But before we give in to our inner Glenn Beck, let's get a few things straight. First of all, the prospect of any of these countries transforming into another Islamic Republic of Iran is almost nil. It should be noted that Ennahda, which models itself after Turkey's enormously successful Justice and Development (AK) Party, has repeatedly said it has no desire to impose sharia-inspired penal codes on Tunisia. Indeed, it is already in talks with liberal and secular parties about forming a coalition government. In Egypt, the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood has certainly increased, but it in no way dominates the political landscape of the country. On the contrary, the Muslim Brotherhood has yet to poll beyond 20 percent in any pre-election survey. In any case, like the Ennahda, the Muslim Brotherhood has also sworn off imposing a conservative interpretation of sharia law, which, according to Egypt's current constitution, is already the basis of the country's laws.
That leaves Libya as the only post-revolutionary country in which the transitional government has explicitly called for implementing sharia. I would venture to say that Jalil's announcement has widespread support across Libya. The country is predominantly Muslim and it can be expected that, given the freedom of an option, the majority of the population will opt for a far greater role for religion in government than what was allowed under Gaddafi. As I have written before in these pages, that is not in and of itself a bad thing.
For generations, the dictatorial regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya violently repressed any hint of religious opposition. With the dictators gone, it is only natural for the proverbial pendulum to swing toward a greater role for religion in society. It will take many years of dialogue and debate, trial and error, for these societies to come to a comfortable accommodation between the religious faith of their majority populations and the necessary requirements for a stable and modern democracy. (Remember, the United States has had a 250-year head start and we are still grappling with the role of religion in our government and society). Those are precisely the kinds of public debates we want people in the region to have.
There is, of course, no room in the modern world for draconian punishments like stoning for adultery and cutting off of hands for theft that one sees in places like Iran or Saudi Arabia. But – and this is what so many in the West, for whom sharia is synonymous with radical fundamentalism, fail to understand – those punishments are not what the vast majority of those who call for sharia have in mind.
As Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman notes in
The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State
, for a great many Muslims living in countries where the law rests upon the whims of a dictator, sharia is merely code for "rule of law." Sharia means that there is something written down and codified that can be relied upon by all citizens as a concrete expression of what is and what is not permissible. Further, for many of these newly free populations, sharia is a less a legal code than it is a form of identity, a means of espousing particular values and norms that were conspicuously absent during the corrupt and inept regimes of their ousted dictators.
For the last four decades Libya has been under the rule of a murderous megalomaniac who deprived the country of any form of a civil society by creating a confusing and ultimately egocentric government. Now that the dictator is no more, Libyans are looking for a common foundation upon which to build a new society. The foundation they are most familiar with is Islam. Can such a foundation ultimately lead to a repressive theocracy? Yes. But it can also lead to a modern constitutional state that protects the rights of its citizens. Libya's choice still lays ahead. But this much seems certain: The people of the new Middle East, having thrown off the yoke of one set of (secular) dictators, do not appear in the mood to replace them with another (religious) set.
Reza Aslan is the author of No god but God and founder of AslanMedia.com, an online journal for news and entertainment about the Middle East. Follow him @RezaAslan and @AslanMedia.


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Services which may be provided include: examinations (head, neck, intra-oral, periodontal, and dental charting), x-ray films, oral prophylaxis (scaling and polishing of the teeth), fluoride and desensitizing treatments, sealants, smoothing and polishing of old restorations (fillings), and simple silver or composite restorations. If x-ray films are taken, you will be given one set of duplicate films at no extra charge. We will explain your particular dental problems and what can be done to resolve them.
It is extremely important for you to realize that we cannot replace your regular dentist. We strongly encourage you to see a private dentist. We do not provide the full scope of dental services and have a limited number of appointment spaces. Therefore, we cannot guarantee provision of all treatment needed by every patient. If any referrals are suggested by our supervising dentist, we request that you inform your regular dentist of this. Such communication will promote overall continuity of care if a dentist is informed about your case and responsible for your total treatment on a regular basis.
Time Commitment
This is a teaching institution and treatment is completed more slowly than in a private dental office. Student work is checked frequently by instructors to ensure acceptable quality. When making appointments, we prefer to schedule you for 3-4 hours. This allows us to accomplish more care in fewer visits. If procedures are not complete at the end of the clinic session, we will schedule another appointment. We ask your understanding and cooperation for the extra time and patience, which may be required, and hope that the special attention and care you receive will compensate.


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Kootali - The Social Networking Software
Kootali is a Social utility that connects with people around you.
Social networking has created new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people, and it now seems that social networking will be an enduring part of everyday life.
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With the awesome features of Kootali, users can easily form a closed network under any category like work place, school, college and many more. Your users can network on the site to make, develop, and keep in touch with friends who focus on politics, religion, pets, sports and so forth.
Kootali allows your users to take an active role in building and contributing to the site content. Members can take part in discussions on hot topics, share articles, photos, and videos. Sharing snapshots and videos is a much better way to express individualism and uniqueness.
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Fastlife necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 332 diseños de 95 diseñadores freelance.
FF / Forever Fast
Started a premium clothing brand that has roots to the automotive community, and has taken off so far.
Originally called "Fast Life" and changed to "Forever Fast" due to trademarking, I'm now looking for a new logo combo.
I had a combination of an "FL" and "Fast Life" logo, so now I need the same thing w/ the new name, "FF" and "Forever Fast".
16-30 Male/Female, party lifestyle, automotive enthusiasts, the young and reckless, those who live with no rules & a premium lifestyle
similar audience to "rogue status", but please stray for replicated their logo style.
- FF / Forever Fast each should be able to stand on their own
- But also look good together (i.e. FF above forever fast font logo)
- This is a premium brand with rough edges
- Optional, incorporate motion into the logo
FF can (and should) be as creative as you can get with still keeping the FF clear.
Please be ORIGINAL, and check out:
(Feel free to view FF's in other industries as well to make sure nothing is close to what you are cooking up).
Forever Fast is more of a text logo, I'm looking for "badass, classy, with a bit of grit"
The design does not necessarily need any automotive accents, unless it is more subliminal in nature. The clothing is for that community but the mainstream as well.
THIS IS FOR CLOTHING. These logos will be used on the online storefront but please realize this is a clothing brand logo - not looking for something with gradients or massive colors. We use a lot of black & white.
Many of the clothing items (see attached) have large text messages "NEVER SLOW DOWN", and need a "signature" logo at the bottom (forever fast) as to look like its signing off on the message.
OLD LOGO: Was decent, but tough to read. it needs some originality to the characters, if a cursive font is used then tweaked a bit. The new mini logo ("FF") is up for whatever you can think of.
Thank you so much!
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There's another ticket mess at a football championship game.
Dozens of fans arrived at the Superdome for the BCS title game between No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama to find their seats have been taken over for auxiliary press seating Monday night.
The top two rows of the upper deck are now an overflow area for the media, with one of the rows covered by tables.
Fans are complaining that they paid $300 for those seats but won't be allowed to use them.
The mix-up is similar to the situation that occurred at last year's Super Bowl in Arlington, Texas, where some temporary seating had not been inspected and couldn't be used.
Some angry fans had to watch the game on televisions in a lounge at Cowboys Stadium.
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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Originally posted on http://www.wheniamher.blogspot.com My Dear Her, I am most anxious and hopeful to become you someday. Your great confidence and impact on your community force me to wonder how and when I will have the pleasure to be just like you; like one of the most influential women in society. Aside from my curiosity in […]
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U.S. woodworkers design a foot-powered lathe for Honduran artisans so they can produce mortars and pestles for sale.
By Don Weber
Pages: 64-67
From the August 2007 issue #163
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Take one 13-tooth bicycle sprocket, a bicycle chain and a heavy spring. Add to that some plumber's floor flanges, a few assorted nuts, Allen screws and wooden parts. And what do you have?
You might not believe it, but that's all you need to make a foot-powered lathe that can turn bowls or spindles.
I developed this machine (with some help and inspiration) to upgrade some spring-pole lathes in rural villages in Honduras. And last year I traveled to Honduras for 12 days to show a dozen villagers how to make the lathe, use it and to help them make tools from car springs (I'm also a blacksmith, you see).
Why would a Welshman who lives in Kentucky go to Honduras to build lathes? Our story starts 14 years ago.
From the August 2007 issue #163
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Small quake rattles central NH
October 10. 2013 10:15PM
CONTOOCOOK — A small earthquake rumbled central New Hampshire Thursday evening, according to observations taken at the Weston Observatory at Boston College.
The observatory reported that a 2.5 to 2.6 magnitude earthquake happened just northwest of Contoocook.
No data was available on the earthquake from the United States Geological Survey's website, which is down due to the partial government shutdown.


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Exxon Mobil wants to leave its giant oilfield project in southern Iraq, diplomatic sources said, in a move likely to aggravate the country's internal tensions and hamper Baghdad's ambitious energy expansion plans.
The desire of the world's largest publicly traded oil company to quit was due to prospects of slim profits from the estimated $50 billion West Qurna-1 project, the sources said. An exit from the project would contrast with a deal Exxon signed a year ago to explore in Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region, where incentives are better.
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Baghdad deemed the Kurdish deal illegal and promised to punish Exxon by ripping up its contract for West Qurna-1, which has reserves of 8.7 billion barrels.
Executives at the company this week told U.S. State Department officials it was looking to sell its 60 percent stake in the project, diplomats from two Western countries said.
"Exxon is telling Baghdad: 'We are letting you know we're looking to leave,'" one of the diplomats said. "They are shopping around and looking at all the options."
The company declined to comment, as did the U.S. State Department.
The departure of Exxon from southern Iraq now hinges on its ability to find a company willing to buy out its stake in West Qurna-1, industry sources say.
"If they can find the right buyer, they will pull out," said an industry executive. "It's an unusual move for Exxon. They usually don't give up."
Industry sources said Baghdad is keen to replace Exxon with companies from Russia, or even China, to teach Western oil majors a lesson. This could alter the diplomatic and political influences in Iraq but, technologically, Chinese and Russian companies may have less to offer the oil sector.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not comment on Exxon during a speech on energy diplomacy at Georgetown University on Thursday.
But in response to a question about whether Russian companies might dominate in Iraq if the Exxon leaves the project, she was not worried. Russian, American, French and Chinese companies all will be competing in Iraq and will be operating within the economic marketplace the global market place sets, she said.
Clinton praised Iraq's progress in boosting oil output by 900,000 barrels per day since 2010 to 3.2 million bpd today as a "major Iraqi success story helped by the (U.S) Departments of State and Energy".
The State Department added an energy diplomacy office last year which has helped Iraqis identify infrastructure bottlenecks, improve investment plans, and get oil to market, she said.
Exxon, a global oil company based in Texas, was the first to flex its muscles and challenge Baghdad's authority by signing up for exploration deals with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Others, such as Chevron, Total and Russia's Gazprom Neft followed just months ago.
Exxon stock barely budged on the news, indicating there may be more at stake for Iraq, Kurdistan and regional politics than for Exxon shareholders.
The dispute over oil contracts is part of a broader battle between Baghdad and Kurdistan over oil rights, territory and regional autonomy that is straining Iraq's uneasy federal union.
Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has gone so far as to ask U.S. President Barack Obama to force Exxon to pull out of West Qurna, saying its actions are a threat to peace.
While Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Hussain al-Shahristani met Exxon executives in Baghdad this summer and threatened to kick the company out, practical and legal constraints limit Baghdad's scope for action.
West Qurna-1 now pumps about 400,000 barrels per day of Iraq's overall production of just over 3 million bpd.
Shahristani declined to say on Thursday whether Exxon was pulling out but told Reuters in an email that Baghdad was sticking to its line that all contracts signed with the KRG without the approval of the central government were illegal.
"All companies that entered in such contracts were asked to cancel them or pull out," he said. "Exxon Mobil can be contacted about their decision."
Despite Baghdad's tough talk, Exxon Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson said in March the company was committed to expanding output at West Qurna, where it is in charge, as well as exploring in Kurdistan.
And it has been business-as-usual for Exxon at West Qurna-1, which generates a hefty chunk of Iraq's central government revenue.
Exxon, with minority partner Royal Dutch Shell, signed up in early 2010 for the project, which targets output of 2.825 million barrels per day by 2017. By the end of last year, the pair had spent just under $1 billion.
West Qurna-1 is central to Baghdad's plan to more than triple output in the next decade and to rival Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil producer. Iraq now ranks second behind Riyadh in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
But the pace of expansion has been slow. Exxon, like other foreign operators, has complained that infrastructure bottlenecks, payment delays and red tape are hampering progress. Tough terms and slim margins on Iraq's service fee contracts are also drawbacks.
It was that frustration, say oil executives, that led Exxon to move into Kurdistan, which offers more lucrative production sharing contracts and a safer operating environment.
Exxon is now raising its profile in Kurdistan, with drilling set to begin in a few months. A senior Exxon delegation was last week in the region's capital Arbil, where the company is setting up an office, they said.


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Augmented reality (AR) could raise $300 million in global revenue next year, according to Juniper Research. The research firm also found consumer awareness about AR remains low.
Juniper predicted more than 2.5 billion AR apps, mostly games, will be downloaded per year by 2017.
Retailers increasingly see AR as a way to increase consumer engagement, Juniper said, and they can it use it to provide additional product information or for branded virtual games.
However, consumer awareness and lagging technology is a barrier to AR growth, the research firm found. Technology limitations including phone cameras, GPS, digital compasses and markerless tracking means a less-than-optimal consumer experience for AR, Juniper said.
Even some high-end smartphone cameras can lack "sufficient sensitivity to trigger an AR experience unless light conditions were optimal," Juniper said. Poor GPS connections indoors can also undermine AR functionality, it said.
Those problems will likely limit enterprise adoption in the short term, Juniper said.
Interest in augmented reality has appeared to accelerate in recent months. Google-owned Motorola Mobility last month acquired Viewdle, while Nokia launched a City Lens app for its Lumia devices. In addition, last month's insideAR conference in Munich saw a jump in attendance.
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Nobody likes Signup Forms
Even though the gradual engagement meme has been around for a while, and everyone just hates signup forms, they just seem to keep popping up like a bad habit. My site, Newsforwhatyoudo.com was one of the guilty parties. We saw users coming back to the site repeatedly, but not signing up. The percentage that looked at the signup form and then bolted was uncomfortably high. It was time to kill the signup form. This blog post documents how we implemented gradual engagement using Ruby on Rails and restful authentication.
Gradual Engagement Principles
Here are some principles I've gleaned from learning about gradual engagement.
- Make sure the user sees a direct benefit to every sign up step. When you do ask for information, do so only after 1) the site has demonstrated user value, 2) the user has a vested interest in the site, demonstrated by having customized some aspect of its behavior, and 3) you provide a carrot that justifies providing signup information.
- Set reasonable defaults automatically and let the user customize them later. For example, in our original join workflow, Newsforwhatyoudo asked users to add subscriptions and topics as part of the process of joining a group. Instead we now automatically give users the most popular subscriptions and let them change these later.
- Security only when its needed. Forcing a user to establish a username and password up front may be necessary if you're developing a banking site where all the information being displayed to a user is confidential, or the user's actions have financial impact. Most web sites don't have this issue. Even E-commerce sites can let users browse, search, compare and price without any security - its not until the credit card information is required to make a purchase that formal signup is required. For most sites anti-spam is a bigger issue, and there too, anti-spam measures like captchas and email confirmations should be used only after the user does something that requires their use. I emphasize the word "after", because if you wait until after a user has filled out a comment form, then present the confirmation, you're more likely to have the user perform the confirmation because they've committed energy to filling out the comment.
Keeping out the spammers
Here's an example with a "email support" form.
<% form_for :ask_support, :url => {:controller => 'home', :action => 'email_support'} do |f| -%>

<%= label_tag 'Your Email *' %>

<%= f.text_field :email %>

<%= label_tag "Email message *" %>

<%= f.text_area :message %>

<%= render :partial => 'shared/check_for_bots' %>

<button type="submit">send</button>

<% end -%>
The check_for_bots partial is added to any form, link, or button that changes state. This partial looks like this:
<% if @show_captcha && ENV['RAILS_ENV'] != 'test' %>

<%= label_tag "Help us reduce spam by filling in the below" -%>
<%= recaptcha_tags %>

<% elsif ENV['RAILS_ENV'] != 'test' %>
<input type="hidden" name="turing_a" id="turing_a" value="Please do not alter" />
<%= javascript_include_tag 'turing_a' %>
<% end %>
check_for_bots adds a hidden input field to post and put requests. The "turing_a" javascript file runs when the form loads and returns a value in the hidden input field based on how long the user viewed the form before hitting submit. If the length of time is below a threshold or incorrect, we reject the input and instead show a captcha. After that the standard captcha acceptance routine applies. The javascript we use is adapted from Stephen Hill's Javascript Captcha.
// stop bots that cant run js or are too quick to submit the form
// check hidden value for a reasonable interval: interval in seconds
var turingA = function() {
if (document.getElementById("turing_a")) {
a = document.getElementById("turing_a");
if (isNaN(a.value) == true) {
a.value = 0;
} else {
a.value = parseInt(a.value) + 1;
setTimeout("turingA()", 1000);
Back on the server side we need to validate the hidden input field. If validation fails, we render a captcha.
def email_support
@popular_groups = Group.most_popular
raise MissingFields unless params[:ask_support]
@ask_support = AskSupport.new params[:ask_support][:email], params[:ask_support][:message]
raise MightBeBot if !@human
raise MissingFields if @ask_support.email.blank? || @ask_support.message.blank?
"about page",
params[:ask_support][:message] )
flash[:success] = "Got your request, we'll be in touch"
rescue MissingFields
flash[:error] = "Couldn't process your request, make sure both fields are filled in."
render :action => 'about'
rescue MightBeBot
@show_captcha = true
render :action => 'about'
The check_for_bots method is added to any method we need to protect. It sets @human which the caller can check as part of its input validation.
# Used as before filter on POST and PUT actions to determine
# whether the requestor is likely to be human. Requestor needs to be able to execute .js
# and wait at least 4 seconds before submitting the form, or this fails and returns false.
# This method doesn't require the user to do anything, other than have a js capable browser
# Note when testing in rails this method will (and should) always fail.
def check_for_bots
if current_user && current_user.status == 'verified' # already showed captcha and user passed
@human = true
# verify_recaptcha is true if in test mode or success, false if fails.
# verify_recaptcha may only be called once per action and get a valid result!
if params[:recaptcha_challenge_field]
@human = verify_recaptcha
if current_user
self.current_user.status = 'verified' # for other actions set it here.
@verified = true # for NewsC#more there is no current user yet, so tell auto_create_user
# to set status
elsif params[:turing_a].to_i >= 3 # 3 second delay
@human = true
@human = false
Auto creating users
The next part of getting rid of the signup form is to automatically create user objects, sessions, and remember-me cookies. This is what our old signup process did. We encapsulate this process into a method and have it run whenever an un-authenticated user tries to perform an action that requires a user object/session. We are using restful-authentication, and pulling out the relevant lines of code from there and from sessions controller yields this handy method:
# Create user object if doesn't already exist. Set cookie.
def auto_create_user!
user = User.auto_create_user_object # doesn't save to db as handle remember cookie does.
user.status = 'verified' if @verified # user passed captcha, prevents showing captcha again
User.current_user = self.current_user = user # !! now logged in (sets session)
handle_remember_cookie! true # sets cookie and saves user so they can get back after session is over
# cookie set to 5 years.., the above uses @current_user set in previous line.
Note that since the user doesn't have the ability to "log in", you'll want to set your remember-me cookie time span to an appropriately long time. This can be changed in vendor/plugins/restful-authentication/lib/authentication/by_cookie_token.rb Once the user object is auto-created, the user can return to their accounts page and add a login and password if they want to use their account on another computer. We auto-generate a random username for display purposes, letting the user customize that later if they want to.
That's it! The old signup form still works, but is no longer necessary to use all the site's functionality. We've been in production for about two weeks now with zero spam infiltration, but time will tell. If anyone has better ways to do any of this stuff, give some comment love below.


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1 T olive oil
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Sausage, kale and potato soup
You may have noticed I am trying to eat healthier. You also might have noticed, if you live in the midwest or on the east coast, that it's gotten cold again. And there is a TON of snow outside. Here in Philly we almost never get snow. If we do, it doesn't stick. Right now there is snow that's stuck, which is so exciting for me. I'm a New England girl, I love the snow and the change of seasons and the cold because I know that somewhere out there, spring is plotting its return. What I'm trying to say is that it's soup weather. This is a good one. It's healthy, to balance out all the butterscotch brownies I've been eating. Kale is super good for you. You can add a can of white beans if you want, I've been meaning to but keep just making this soup as it is. It's so good. And cheap. I know you guys all want to eat cheap things.
1 T olive oil
1 T olive oil
1 onion, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 lb sausage, casings removed (I used a mix of sweet and hot Italian, 3 links)
1 t paprika (smokey or hot are extra good)
1 t chili powder (optional)
2 large potatoes, peeled and sliced into thin rounds
6-8 c water
1 t powdered soup seasoning (I used Vegeta) or 1 bouillon cube
1 bunch kale, stemmed and roughly chopped
Heat olive oil in a deep soup pot. Cook onion until starting to soften, then add garlic. Cook a minute, and add sausage, crumbling it into the pot. Cook until sausage is starting to brown, then add paprika and chili powder. Dissolve soup seasoning in water, then add to the soup pot. Stir to get the brown bits off the bottom, then bring to a boil. Add kale, cover, and cook half an hour or so. Taste for salt, you shouldnt need any because the soup seasoning is salty enough. Serve with a sprinkle of pepper, and Parmesan cheese is good on top too.
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While it's true that you can get pregnant from all kinds of sexual positions, there is one that health experts frequently recommend as the way to increase your odds of becoming pregnant, and that's the "missionary" position (male on top) with a "pelvic tilt," says Amy Levine, a New York City–based sex coach, certified sexuality educator and founder of SexEdSolutions.com. "Putting a pillow under the tush can help elevate your pelvis, and create a slide effect—providing an easy path for his swimmers to make their way through your cervix on their journey to your ovum," she says. "Typically, women who try this tend to maximize the ejaculation, since it stays in their body a little longer compared to positions in which you're upright, allowing the semen to drip out of the vagina." And, don't forget to orgasm, says Ava Cadell, a sex educator and founder of Loveology University in Los Angeles. "She is more likely to get pregnant if she climaxes," she says.
2. The Best Position to Help Women Build Confidence in Bed
Maybe you feel insecure in the sack and could use a move that can help you feel more confident and in control? If so, Debby Herbenick, PhD, author of Because It Feels Good: A Woman's Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction, has a suggestion for you. Memorize these three words, she says: you on top. "It can be confidence-building because it physically helps women to be in control," she says. "Make sure to do it your way, though. Woman on top can be done kneeling, squatting, facing forward or facing backward, so show off whatever you or he loves most about your body."
3. The Best Sex Position for Most Female Pleasure
Gals, are you ready for this? Dr. Herbenick says the position that provides the most female pleasure may be a move you've never even tried! It's called the coital alignment technique. "This is a wonderful variation on missionary and one of the few sex positions that has ever been researched and found to be helpful for women who would like to orgasm during sex," she says. "It involves the guy sliding himself forward, with his shoulders past yours, and your pelvic areas grinding and not thrusting so much. This targets more stimulation on a woman's clitoris, making it easier for some women to feel pleasure and possibly orgasm."
4. The Best Position for Long-Lasting Sex
While premature ejaculation is a medical condition that your guy may need to seek treatment for, there are positional tricks you can try to help him increase his staying power. According to Levine, the missionary position (again, guy on top) may be the key to helping your partner last longer. "It can work for him if he has trouble going the distance," she says. "The key is that he's in an easy position to stop and start when his arousal is increasing at a fast rate, and can take it down a notch so he can last longer." Want to vary the missionary position a bit? Try this idea from Cadell. "The 'fox' position is a variation of missionary, in which the woman's legs go all the way up and over her lover's shoulders," she says. "Penetration of the vagina is very deep in this position. She is contained in the boundaries of his body and he can dive totally inside her, maintaining his arousal and lasting longer."
5. The Best Position for Women Who Experience Pain with Intercourse
There are often few quick fixes for intercourse-related pain; however, consider these two ideas that can help improve your intimate experiences. First, be sure to use lots of water-based lubricant, says Dr. Herbenick. Second, if pain is an issue, it's important that you keep the reins, so to speak, in your hands. It's why Dr. Herbenick, and other experts, recommend the woman-on-top position. "It gives the woman more control over taking sex at a pace that is comfortable for her."
6. The Best Sex Position If Your Guy Is Well-Endowed
Looking for more "oh"s than "ouch"s? Here's your move: "The guy lies on his side; she lies perpendicular to him with legs spread as they rest over his body," Dr. Herbenick explains. "This allows her to hold the base of his shaft if she wants to limit his range of motion, and allows her to use pelvic rocks to create an in-and-out sensation." Levine says that women whose partners have "lengthy penises" love this position because "they can control how much of him will penetrate her, and can create pleasurable sensations for both without the cramping and discomfort that can happen when he hits her cervix during intense thrusting."
7. The Best Position for Small Penises
Experts are quick to point out that penis size is a very minor part of a satisfying sex life, yet there are certain positions sex therapists recommend more often when a man has a smaller penis. The best? Woman on top, says Levine. But here's the key: "You need to gyrate on him rather than move up and down, or else he's likely to slip out," she says. "Missionary can also help, with your legs up on his shoulders. This allows him to penetrate you deeper, making the most of his size."
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The Defense Department must make its overall network infrastructure more efficient and interoperable, a top official said Jan. 24.
Streamlining the information architecture across the enterprise is a goal and challenge for DOD, Robert Carey, the department's deputy CIO, said at the Network Enabled Operations Conference in Alexandria, Va. As part of a move to increase efficiencies, DOD must trim nearly 900 data centers while continuing to manage millions of users, he said.
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As a part of the streamlining process, DOD must get a handle on the number of pilot programs created to meet operational demands for deployed forces. One aspect of this process will be saying "no" to many of these programs because they usually cannot connect back to primary DOD networks, he said, adding, "We're going to have to take ourselves into a different place."
Another need is to avoid a glut of software and applications while letting soldiers write their own applications for battlefield uses. However, Carey said the DOD enterprise is not set up to support the widespread use of applications across the services.
Establishing a common IT infrastructure is a major part of DOD's efforts; the department's infrastructure is decentralized and needs reduction, Carey said. One challenge will be to redefine network infrastructure to deliver services to users at the edge of the network. This will provide warfighters with mission effectiveness brought about by increased security and IT efficiencies, he said.
Meanwhile, DOD has been working on developing identity management technologies to allow personnel to access their desktops from anywhere in the department. But although the services are close to such interoperability, Carey said it now only exists in pockets because there is no consistent environment. "We're working towards that smooth transition," he said.
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Sad to say, but the problem is not the duplication of networks and infrastructure. The problem is that the infrastructure and equipment currently available and what was available in the past was not utilized to it's full potential. An example of this is the old system that the Army used in the past that was used in Logistics and in Personnel (based on the Burruoghs B-29 system) instead of utilizing the built in capabilities of the equipment and software, the users resorted to the sneaker net to move information between systems. Then and now most if not all of the capability is there, it is just not used.
Given the type and scope of military operations our armed forces are regularly deployed for globally, do we honestly expect there to be an always-available internet connection for them no matter where they are? Can we truly provide our troops with the infrastructure that is redundant and robust enough to fully implement cloud computing on the battlefield? I'm sure there's many that would have more inside knowledge than I, bu t I can't help but have doubts.
You say it would be best to get rid of DOD network duplication. I disagree with this. If the DOD network were to become centralized in one location and not duplicated, security risk increases. Having duplication and a noncentralized system makes it harder to take down. NOTHING is hacker free. Granted it being split like it is makes a nightmare for access to our own network, it does the same for attacks. Anytime a link or path is established, someone outside could use it. Making this work its not nearly as easy as this article or the previous comment make it seem to be.
It will never happen by consensus. Take IT and telecom away from the services and common-service it DoD-wide. They could probably reduce DoD budget by 1/3 if they got rid of all the duplication- this is as good a place to start as any.
Referring to the Internet cloud as a "consistent computing environment," recklessly dismisses reality. I fear the only thing that will be "redefined" is "success." Please pull your heads out of... the sand... and realize that there are fixed installations CONUS, fixed installations OCONUS, and deployed installations. These three distinctly different categories instantly come to mind. Designing to a one-size-fits-all paradigm is like doing the same thing with military uniforms or vehicles. It's like deciding that all Army aircraft will be Chinooks flown out of Washington D.C.
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Young, talented and never afraid to speak her mind, Avril Lavigne is a pop-rock princess who, despite her efforts, has become an international superstar with her catchy, radio-friendly lyrics and free-spirited lifestyle. She's also not a bad looking Canadian, eh? Born in Nappanee, Ontario, Lavigne began singing at the age of two and quickly gained recognition in regional country music competitions by age ten, performing a duet with country music diva Shania Twain only a few years later. By the time the wild child had hit her teen years, Avril was already busy writing her own songs and playing guitar, but it wasn't until she reached high school that her career would lift off. During her sophomore year at school, Avril began to send in performances to all of the big-time record labels in the U.S. and was shortly signed by Arista Record's CEO Antonio Reid before even recording a demo. After Arista granted the power to write her own songs, Avril signed with Nettwerk Management (whose clients also include Canadian sensations Barenaked Ladies) and immediately released her album Let Go in 2002, which included the chart-topping hit "Complicated" and debuted on Billboard at number eight.
While Avril insisted that her pop-inspired music wasn't a reflection of the real-life punk she claimed to be, she offered a refreshing album that strayed away from the mass-manufactured tunes of teeny-boppers like Britney and Jessica Simpson. Following a public criticism on fellow icon Britney, Avril appeared in an interview with Chart Attack to further discuss her problems with the teen diva's fashion sense and proposed virginity. Clearly drawing numerous comparisons to fellow Canadian rocker Alanis Morissette and recently releasing a sophomore album (Under My Skin) comprised of solid lyrics and a cleaner sound, it will be interesting to see how Avril slowly matures both as a musician and as a celebrity.
Avril Lavigne on the Web
Avril Lavigne at Maxim
Avril Lavigne is at once adorable and downright sexy. Check out her exclusive pics and content at Maxim!
This artist page features a biography, videos and press/premiere photos.
Avril Lavigne.com
The official site of Avril with tour info, downloadable video and music, merchandise and an online journal.
TV Guide: Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne Videos, Interviews and More on TV Guide's Online Video Guide
A-Z Lyrics
Lyrics to Avril's first two CD's and a collection of other songs.
Avril Fans
A site purely devoted to the fans, complete with news updates, CD/concert reviews and a series of FAQ.
MTV.com and VH1.com
The music channels' pages on the already famous Canadian artist, complete with interviews, upcoming TV appearances and ring tones.
All Avril
A small site that offers fans lyrics and four pages of photos.
Celebrity Teaser - Avril Lavigne
News, pics, videos and more from this celebrity blog.
Vision 2004
Another decent fan site with plenty of downloads, a Q&A session and message boards for fans to chat on.
Avril Lavigne on the Radio
Avril's debut album, Let Go, was released in 2002 and became an instant hit. With chart-topping songs like "Complicated" and "Sk8er Boi," Avril climbed to the top of the ranks with her pop-rock sound and anti-Britney image. In 2004, Avril struck back at the skeptical critics with a much more seasoned album, Under My Skin, that has already begun to share the same success as its predecessor. Avril's hit song "Sk8er Boi" has also been optioned into an upcoming film that follows the story of the tune and is set for release in late 2004.
Avril SaysOn her image:
"I have a great body. I could be Britney. I could be better than Britney."
On her songwriting:
"I couldn't go as alternative on this record as I wanted to, but I just didn't want to be bubblegum pop," she says. "I'm happy with the way it turned out. [But] my attitude, my songwriting is constantly always changing. I'm still growing up; I'll be changing."
On being young and famous:
"I like being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself."


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Adobe on Monday announced the availability of its AIR technologies, which aim to bridge the gap between Web applications and true PC-based software. These types of applications are considered a major stepping stone to the coming era of so-called cloud computing. It's most sophisticated competitor is the recently launched Microsoft Silverlight, which utilizes the company's .NET technologies to provide next-generation interactive experiences on the Web.
"Adobe continues to advance the future of digital experiences by enabling our customers to create highly interactive, expressive applications," says Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch. "This is an exciting time for Adobe, for innovation in software, and for designers and developers who are driving the Web forward."
While both Adobe and Microsoft are trying to bridge the gap between Web applications and desktop applications, their approaches are somewhat different. Microsoft's Silverlight is designed to be accessed from a Web browser, and it provides rich media and Web application capabilities that were previously impossible or at least difficult to achieve on the Web. Adobe, meanwhile, is bringing Web technologies to the desktop with AIR: It is basically a runtime engine that allows Web developers to easily deploy Web applications on the desktop and access them while disconnected from the Internet. (Major players like eBay, NASDAQ, Nickelodeon are using AIR to replicate their Web properties on the desktop.) Both technologies support Windows and the Mac.
AIR and related technologies like the Mozilla Prism project and Google Gears are tackling the biggest barrier to cloud computing: Though Web applications are useful and widely used, they cannot be accessed while offline. These technologies are also trying to bridge the worlds of the local PC and the Web so that, for example, you might be able to use a Web application-based document editor to access document files stored on your PC. Or, you could access a Web-based email solution while offline, and have any new emails or replies synchronized when the machine does get connected.
Adobe has also released a related software development kit (SDK) called Flex that specifically targets AIR solutions. Flex runs on Windows and the Mac and a future version will support Linux as well, Adobe says. Both AIR and Flex are available for free. A full-featured Flex development environment, called Flex Builder, costs $250.


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Manchester police: Homeless man tried 3 robberies
February 10. 2014 8:23PM
MANCHESTER — A city man who tried to rob three West Side stores is being held on $20,000 cash-only bail.
On Monday, Robert Oxley, 31, told a Circuit Court-Manchester District Division judge that he's homeless.
"That's why I did it," Oxley told Judge William Lyons, explaining he was trying to get money so he could get a place to live.
Police said Oxley's first target was Crosstown Variety, 77 Bremer St., about 6 p.m. Friday.
When the Crosstown clerk refused to give the robber money, he said he had a gun and would shoot her. She still refused to hand over any cash and said she was going to call police.
The would-be robber fled, but didn't go too far. His next target was the Bremer Street Food Mart, 218 Bremer St., where the clerk not only refused to hand over money, but also chased the robber out of the store.
Given the two robbery attempts in close proximity and within a brief time span, Manchester Police Officer Tony Battistelli headed to a potential robbery target, Uncle Bob's Market, 435 Kelley St.
As he pulled up, he saw a man matching the description of the robber enter the store and walk to the counter where the clerk was standing.
The clerk at Uncle Bob's was the only one who did as police have advised. When the robber said he had a gun and ordered the clerk to open the cash registers, the clerk did just that. The clerk said the robber then fled with an undetermined amount of cash.
But the robber didn't get far. Battistelli saw him flee the store and gave chase. It took the use of a Taser, but Battistelli was finally able to take Oxley into custody.
In addition to the three felony robbery charges, Oxley was charged with resisting arrest. Because no plea can be entered to a felony in Circuit Court, a probable cause hearing was set for Feb. 24.
There will be a status hearing on the resisting arrest charge that day.


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Bonnie K Hunter is passionate about quilt quilting, focusing mainly on scrap quilts with the simple feeling of "making do". She started her love affair with quilting in a home economics class her senior year of high school in 1980 and has never looked back. Before quilting becaue her full time career, Bonnie was the owner and designer of Needle in a Haystack!! Creating more than 70 patterns for dolls and stuffed animals with a country primitive feel.
Many of her designs were licensed through the Butterick Pattern Company, translated into 7 languages and sold around the globe through fabric stores. But quilting has always been Bonnie's first love. She has been machine quilting since 1989 and professionally long arm quilting for the public since 1995, retiring in 2009 when she no longer had the time due to her teaching, traveling and writing schedule. She has been featured in magazines both for her quilt patterns and articles she has written on scrap management and using that stash to its full potential.
Dedicated to continuing the traditions of quilting, Bonnie enjoys meeting with quilters, teaching workshops and lecturing to quilt guilds all over the world, challenging quilters to break the rules, think outside the box, and find what brings them joy.
When not traveling and teaching, she spends her time piecing scrap quilts, enjoying the peaceful reward of English paper piecing and hand quilting as much as machine work, and loving life in her wooded surroundings in beautiful rural Wallburg, North Carolina, A suburb of Winston-Salem. She and her husband, Dave are the proud parents of two grown sons, Jason, and Jeffrey. They round out their household with Sadie the dog and two cats –Emmy Lou, who loves life inside only, an Chloe who only loves life on the outside—keeping Bonnie company while she designs, quilts and plays happily with her fabric.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Supporters of a strong U.N. treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade on Monday criticized the latest draft for not being tough enough to halt the trade in illicit weapons, which fuel wars and kills thousands of innocent civilians.
Hopes of reaching agreement on what would be a landmark treaty were dashed last July when the United States said it needed more time to consider the proposed accord — a move quickly backed by Russia and China. In December, the U.N. General Assembly decided to hold a final conference and set Thursday as the deadline for reaching agreement on a treaty.
Whether the 193 U.N. member states will be able to reach consensus on a text in the coming days remains to be seen. If not, supporters could go to the General Assembly and put forward a resolution on proposed treaty, which would almost certainly be adopted. But the key would be whether it had the support of the major arms exporters led by the U.S., China, Russia, Britain and France.
Britain's chief negotiator, Ambassador Jo Adamson, said Monday the current draft still needs improvement but "I think we continue to move in the right direction in terms of substance and process."
The Control Arms coalition, which represents about 100 organizations worldwide campaigning for a strong treaty, urged Australian Ambassador Peter Woolcott, who is chairing the negotiations, not to cave in to demands from India and the five permanent U.N. Security Council members, who are also major arms exporters.
"Nearly 120 states called on Mr. Woolcott to deliver a robust treaty at the start of the conference, declaring that a weak treaty was worse than no treaty," said Anna Macdonald, Oxfam's head of arms control. "The new text is not good enough and fails to reflect the demands of the majority of the member states. ... This is not going to save lives."
She stressed that "this treaty must not be drawn by Syria," an opponent of a strong treaty along with others including Iran, Sudan, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela.
The draft treaty under consideration does not control the domestic use of weapons in any country, but it would require all countries to establish national regulations to control the transfer of conventional arms, parts and components and to regulate arms brokers. It would prohibit states that ratify the treaty from transferring conventional weapons if they would violate arms embargoes or if they would promote acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes.
In considering whether to authorize the export of arms, the draft says a country must evaluate whether the weapon would be used to violate international human rights or humanitarian laws or be used by terrorists or organized crime.
Ammunition has been a key issue, with some countries pressing for the same controls on ammunition sales as arms, but the U.S. and others opposed to such tough restrictions.
The latest draft calls for each country that ratifies the treaty to establish regulations for the export of ammunition "fired, launched or delivered" by the weapons covered by the convention.
Eleven Latin American and Caribbean countries in a joint statement Monday said this would leave out important items like hand grenades.
The statement, presented by Ambassador Juan Manuel Gomez Robledo, Mexico's vice minister for multilateral affairs, also criticized restrictions on the scope of the treaty.
The initial text listed a series of conventional arms that the treaty would apply to "at a minimum" such as tanks, large-caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile launchers, and small arms and light weapons. But the latest draft dropped the words "at a minimum," which the 11 countries criticized.
Oxfam's Macdonald said the phrase was eliminated at the request of the United States. The U.S. Mission declined to comment because negotiations are ongoing.
The Latin statement, supported by Germany, also complained that the inclusion of the U.N. Register on Conventional Arms as the basis for countries to define the items subject to regulation "is too restrictive" since it doesn't define small arms and light weapons which "would create a serious loophole in the treaty."
Ted Bromund, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, told AP that in the latest text Woolcott, the conference chair, "has tried to split the difference by giving the treaty supporters tighter criteria on arms transfers, keeping ammunition partly out of the treaty for the U.S., respecting India's commercial ambitions, and adding a little more emphasis on 'unauthorized' possession to please the Arab states."
"By giving everyone something, though, he risks giving everyone a reason to reject a treaty that satisfies no one fully," Bromund said.


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Call it what you want — rust, jitters, heat cramps, brain cramps — but preseason top-10 UCLA did not kick off 2014 looking like a postseason top 10.
If UCLA is still a national contender coming out of Scott Stadium on Saturday, well, so is Rutgers.
Also, scratch Brett Hundley's name from the pre-September list of Heisman Trophy contenders. Replace him with Texas A&M quarterback Kenny Hill.
Or, maybe it's still early?
Luckily, if you bleed powder and blue, they don't hand out playoff bids before Labor Day.
It was all UCLA could do to slither out of Charlottesville with a 28-20 win over Virginia.
It was not a win the Bruins were proud of, but also one they don't have to give back.
"Defense saves the day," now there's a laugh.
What would UCLA's 1998 squad have given for that headline coming out of Miami?
Horrible defense that December day cost the Bruins a shot to play for the first Bowl Championship Series national title.
Saturday, the defense saved any title aspirations by accounting for 21 of UCLA's 28 points.
UCLA's offense was outscored, 20-7, by a Virginia offense no one has compared with Baylor's.
The Bruins' offensive line, down two starters, got worked by Virginia's active defensive front.
UCLA postgame exit interviews had a general theme: It was stuff along the lines of "pardon our dust while your tax dollars are at work," and "don't judge a playbook by its cover."
Or, as offensive tackle Malcolm Bunche really put it, "This is not our best."
Coach Jim Mora, who worked off some season-opening energy by running stadium steps two hours before kickoffs, might have considered sending the offense back out for some postgame "gassers."
He should not have any trouble motivating his team for next week's home opener against Memphis.
We won't really know — maybe for weeks — what UCLA's first win means.
We assumed UCLA was good based on last year's record and the return of Hundley, and that Virginia was bad because the Cavaliers finished 2-10.
Virginia actually looked formidable … especially Jon Tenuta's defense.
"Virginia was by all means a very good team," UCLA tailback Paul Perkins said. "I don't listen to the media, but from what I was hearing we were supposed to blow them out by 21. They are an excellent team and I have the utmost respect for them."
How good is Virginia? Check back after the Cavaliers play at Florida State on Nov. 8.
There was well-intentioned talk this summer about UCLA not wanting to expose Hundley as a featured running back.
All that went out the barn door, though, when Virginia cut the third-quarter lead to 21-17.
Events dictated that Hundley get his entire body involved … or else. You can't win a shot at a national title in Charlottesville, in August, but you can lose one.
With UCLA runners struggling, Hundley provided the offense's only points on a six-yard run with 1:02 left in the third quarter.
It provided an 11-point lead UCLA needed to nurse into the fourth quarter.
"Great players have to make great plays when they need to be made," Mora said of Hundley.
Mora may say that a lot this season.
UCLA hasn't had this kind of preseason exposure in a while, and the Bruins played nervously, like a child at a piano recital.
What should people take from UCLA's opening effort?
"First game," Hundley said. "You can take what you want. We got a 'W.' But there are a lot of things we have to fix."
If the Bruins get things fixed, and continue to win, the Virginia game will be a blip.
Saturday's win won't cost a dime if UCLA goes undefeated and wins the Pac-12 title.
Virginia will be forgotten if UCLA can remember how to beat Oregon.
It doesn't matter this year that Oregon, last year, won at Virginia, 59-10.
UCLA is blessed with a preseason positioning it may not actually deserve. The Bruins play in a blue-chip conference and are already on the selection committee's radar.
With the exception of last year and Florida State, almost every contender in recent history has had to eke out one or two tough wins during the course of a season.
Did you see Auburn play last year?
Go back and look at the final scores of Ohio State's 2002 title season? The Buckeyes finished 14-0.
If you can survive a tough, early game, it can work in your favor.
UCLA might have circumvented a letdown before playing next week against Memphis, one week before Texas.
Good teams grow from near misses, and Mora needs to exploit reels of Virginia bloopers to his advantage.
Mora thought his offense played tight.
"I think we need to kind of calm down and just play the game and not put too much pressure on ourselves," he said.
Despite all that went wrong Saturday, he added, "I'm excited about this football team."
He may be alone after Saturday, but that doesn't mean he's wrong.